Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-01-19

''pay' the inventors, or enable them to peck
ct government money Indeed, many OF the
persons engaged in these schemes for bleeding
the Treasury, DO not know what is constitu'
tional or what is not being the most ignorant
as we'll as the most impudent OF mem Their
pretentions would be aughable, if they were
not often enabled by collision with accOmpll-
ces to effect their designs.
The Richmond State Journal says there was
q Conference between the Committee OF the
Richmond Conference and the Radical Com
mittee, in Washington, last week, and propo-
sitions for ''compromise" discussed, but no def
mite terms of settlement agreed on, Mr.. Rye,
it is said, was to submit the ultimatum of the
the two committees.
There is rumor that Intelligence has
reached Washington from an authentic source
that the Spanish government is faVorably In
cned to transfer the island of Cuba to the
United States, and that the terms suggested
are such as would probably meet with favor
approve of tie purchase or annex alton OF
Cuba" We do not believe this rumor
Mr. Jenckes, in his lecture at New York on
Saturday night, stated that from his ''own
careful examination during the last four years
the Government had been deirauded in the
public service hundred millions Of dollars
year, and that Commissioner Wells makes the
sum still greater What picture does
this present
Accompanying the message of the President
sent to the Senate, yesterday, in relation to
the Amnesty Proclamation were copies of pro-
carnations of amnesty and pardon issued dur
ing their administrations by Presidents Wash
ington, Adams, Madison, and Lincoln. The
last named issued several
1t is said that there appears to be general
desire among Radical members Of Congress to
take action at once upon the amendment to the
Constitution regulating suffrage A Wash
ington dispatch says there can be no question
as to its passage by both Houses Of Congress-
uC MEETINGS VI Ill lue ISHt OOuECulIOuS az
pear to be transferred from Rochester and n.
York, to Washington. 1t is now thought that
the ''soil" of the latterplace will be found con-
genial to the growth of all ultrraisms in poll-
tics, religion, &C.
Advices from Jamaica state that at party
given to some exiled Cubans, recently, the
American Consul, Gregg, made speech
strongly favoring the annexation of Cuba to the
United States, proposition which was loudly
appauded.
The Washington Chronicle compliments
highly "Mr. Roger A. Pryor, Mr.. W. W.
Boyce, and Gen. Longstreet," for the manner
in which they have borne themselves, since
they were made the objects of the generosity
Of their conquerors" y!
On all hands the Radical leaders are oppoS-
ing the removal of disabilities from citizens
of this State, unless they make personal appi
cation for the same, have "loil' endorsers, and
are recommended by the estate Radical Com
mittee -
The Richmond Wing comedies that the new
movement" is not a representation of the
wishes of the State Then why was it made
or what right have those engaged in it, to
make it?
The Baltimore City Council yesterday, by
q unanimous vote in both branches, passed res
olutions rendering the inequalities OF Balti-
more to Gen. Grant, on his expected visit to
that city.
The National Library at the Capitol in
Washington, the Congress Library, contains
about one hundred and seventy four thousand
volumes, exclusive of nearly as many pamphlets
and maps.
CoTToN Crop OF '6S.-We are told the crop
just gathered will command for the country as
much foreign exchange as any planted since
Whitney invented the cotton gin. The fact is.
cotton still "gr eat" He was dethroned by his
own subjects, but his golden sceptrewill, in the
end, triumph over all obstacles, and assert his |
royal perogatiyes on all the marts of the world |
Had the Confederate authorities, at the COM
mencement of the late deplorable civil war,
taken all the cotton then at the South, for
which the planters would have been willing to
accept eight cents per pound In Confederate
bonds, aud shipped it to Europe, the issue Of
that war might have been indefinitely post |
poned, If not entirely changed. Be this as it |
may, the cotton fields of the South are your |
true 'Eldorado," and now the objection of |
slavery is removed, it is Southwark the tide of |
Immigration must now take its way.-THJI