Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-31
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
40 shoe the rcry age and body Of the Times.

Legislature for the purpose of ratiiylng the
Fifteenth Amendment. \ mcmoria! 10 'Hc
people and Congress was also adop,cu' Il"
which it is claimed that frauds were perpe'lI'
cd in the latecanvaSS, and protesting against ''''
validity Of the election.
The tobacco warehouse Of H. NJ poison' IN
Cincinnati, has been seized by the Collector OF
the First Ohio District on the charge OF the
proprietor using counterfeit stamps Inc night
aItrr The seizure was made the sale was open
oil tbr limited States seal was broken, and 1t
| is supposed il anything was there which would
tend 10 prove fraudulent or criminal transac-
| tons it was removed.
| Yesterday about 800 men from the coal
regions north and south of Scranton arrived at
that place, to prevent the employees OF the
Delaware, Lackawana and Western Railroad
| Company from continuing at work. No forcl-
bic action has yet been taken. The Mayor has
| called upon the citizens to protect the miners,
and considerable excitement exists.
1t is anticipated that the President will this
week make an appointment to the mission at
| China, in place of Mr.. Howard who declines.
| The persons whose names are prominently
mentioned for the place arc General I. Nj.
| Dodge, Congressman, and at present con-
nected with the Union Pacific Railway, and
| ex- CONGRESSMAN John ID. Baldwin, Of Massa-
chuSetts.
On Sunday night co lorcd boy named John
Pratt, aged twelve years, whist sitting IN
wagon at a tavern on the Rcisterstowa road,
nine miles from Baltimore, was shot IN the
head No provocation whatever was given
The boy died last night after great suffering.
! His murlpror Is still Mt large.
The Havana Diario, in its semi-monthly re-
view Of the Cuban situation, regrets its inabll-
| ity to give Aattcrng accounts Of tho suppress
SION OF the rebellion, but rciterates that the
| Spaniards are completely in the asccndancy IN
seven Jurisdictions OF the Eastern and Central
| Departments.
y report comes from Tennessee that tie
Regulators are acting very wickcdly. They
| drive the negroes away from their work, some
| times whipping them, but generally threat
| ening.
Jacob X. Bear, IT, S. Express agent and
telegraph operator at Brownsville, Nebraska,
| has absconded with $4,000 belonging to the
! express company.
The merchants Of Quebec have agreed to
second Weir's scheme for she expectation Of
\ =
portaton will begin October lst.
The Erie and New York Central Railroad
Companies yesterday increased their rates of
| freight from that city to Chicago, Cincinnati,
| Louisville and st. Louis.
General Clarke, of Texas, is in Washington,
and says the complexion Of the political parties
| in that State is pretty much rs it was IN Nlr-
gnia and Tennessee.
Dr. T.. T, HUDSON, formerly OF Richmond,
Va, committed suicide in Baltimore yesterday
| by taking cyauitc OF potassium. He was de-
| pressed on account of failure in business.
Yesterday the golfers OF the PLmnix Iron
Works, Pt~aixvilc, Pa, exploded, killing a
number oi workmcn and seriously woundng
others.
Secretary Boutwell, is not expected to return
to Washington before the middle OF Sep
TENDER.
There were one hundred and twenty seven
| deaths in Baltimore during the past week.
Prof. Northrop, of Massachusetts, has been
elected President of the University OF Alabara.
FALSE FACTS AND BAD LoGIC.-Gen. How
arr has written ~ icttcr 60 explain the slow pro-
gress which tho coored people have mace il
| the acquisition of letters. Among othcr rca-
sons We find the following:
Long scrvile submission had 50 dwar!cd the
intellect of the masses of tEe cuored people
that the desire for knowledge, for montHl or
moral improvement had So far ceased 10 exist,
t4gt the successful inauguration Of amy system
o. general education became at least profile
matjCal ut least it mus, be attended with un-
rernittinG patience and Labor
This Implies that the intellect. of the blacks
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courtrv. This is something new t. us. All
the humane IDEAS and civilized habits they now
BOSSES We're acquired hcra while in State of
slavery and from their white masters. Ihis,
we believe, is tho fact. never before contested,
and still nc0ntestib.c. While I'll of US, for our
owa saies rs well Us theirs, may wish that free
| dom aud enlightenment may elevate them in
| the scale of being, We cannot disguise from
| ourselves the conviction that such result Is
vet an unsolvcd problem. The race have new.
er vet been found in state OF civilization and
freedom. Where thcy have been brought in
contact with whites, 0nd with liberty, have had
fair chance of self Improvement, us IN the
West India Islands, their progress has been far
from encouraging. In fact, persons who have
visited those regions have expressed the opinion
that but for tho infusion OF whites among them,
they would, ere this, have iapsed into their ORR
ginal barbarism.
Another reason assigned by General Howard
for the failure of his efforts in this hchsli is thus
| expressed
Another serious embarrassment which bcset
US was the great tendency of the colored people
to fursaSo the rural districts and flock TO large
cities and the larger towns. This was no doubt
in great III essure owing 10 the feeling of inso-
curity in remaining at their former homes. To
so great an extent did this prevail that had TO
resort To the most energetic measures to induce
them TO leave tho cities for farms and ,planta-
tions, where their labor was needed and whore
they could earn = livelihood
The insecurity of their homes had nothing 90
do with their focking to the cities, and General
RS referring to it argues mis- Ignorance of ne
GRO nature. They all have an invcterate love
of town life They Sro naturally gregsrious.-
They are fond of tho noise the sights and the
hubbub of cities. If they could make both
ends meet, all of them would make towns their
abode. Many of them, as the General found
out, would seek the towns without means Of
Subsistence, and in spite of the certainty of SUIT
fering, # not of s.arvston.-Rich Uhig.
FISH TRAPs.-A short time since, lot OF
fish traps in the falls OF tic James river, were
levied on and sold by the High Constable for