Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-12-30
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 80 1863.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 80. 1863.
Reports in Washington state that the Cuban
Junta and other Cubans residents IN New
York appear to have provoked supreme dis
gust in Secretary Fish. who, in conversation
last night on Cuban affairs, and the mischief
done by false reports sent from Washington as
to change of policy on the part OF the Ad'
ministratiou, remarked that the future tor
Cuba was unpromisiug, and he added warmly:
Suppose eight or ten thousand Of the leading
aud wealthy Southerners had congregated In
London and Paris in 1861, and passed the
time in talking, what would the French and
English have thought and said? They
1.-THE Southerners) were N earnest and re-
NAMED at home and fought. But not so the
Cubans.
The New York World says that ut now
transpires that the meal tub OF bill provii-
ing for the payment in gold OF the interest on
the State bonds, which recently passed the
South Carolina Legislature, contained very
biz cat" These bonds, the World adds, are
largest holders are Gov. Scott and Messrs.
Kemper and Marsh, all msgnates in South
Carolina and ali carpet baggers from Ohio.
who bought them at prices ranging from 10 to
90 cents on dollar 1t is significant circum
stance that when the bill was first voted upon
il was rejected by nearly two thirds majority,
but on the next day it was passed by nearly
the same majority. A remarkable change.
The Washington correspondent OF the Bal
more Sun says: "rhe opponents of the adj
mission of Virginia have not gained much
Roadway during the recess. Judge Underwood
was in this city yesterday, and says that while
there is much that, as radical, he cannot APP
prove in the present reconstruction OF Viz
ginia, he nevertheless favOrs her admission as
soon a. Congress reassembles. lie does not
see that the State is to be much benefited by
any further delay The times are so dull and
wages so low in Virginia that the colored peo
pie are going southwark and he estimates
that in short time the State will lose nearly
twenty thousand OF this class OF It's population.
The New York Post says: 1T seems
rather an anomaly for the Postofiice Depart
ment to charge special fee for registering let
ters, aud, where such are lost to repu1iate all
liability. Simple people have generally i'm
agined that q registered letter was perfectly
safe If not, why the fee? 1t appears, how
ever, that the charge is Tor extra care only,
and that stray letters may be searched for
Arc We, then, to draw the inference that the
ordinary mail is avowedly unsafe This whole
matter needs revision.
10 an article intended to show that there Is
no danger of financial panic, and that the
tall iu the premium for gold tends to Increase
the profits OF importers instead OF causing
great loss to them, the New York Tribune
nevertheless admits that they must manage
their affairs more closely, limit their busines,
10 3 cash system, and observe more rigid econo
my. Among other signs Of the times it men
tons decided tall in rents among dry goods
stores on the principle streets in New York.
Reports from Washington vary az to the
time when Virginia will be admitted by
Congress. Some say about the 18th of Janua-
ry, Others about the Isl OF February Nobody
seems to know, certainly, on what terms and
conditions the admission is to take place. 1t
will be seen that the seeding wing" of the
Radical party, propose that the Legislature shall
meet without the test oath being required,
elect State officers, &c., and agaja submit their
10 thn J.>I
There is a movement on loot, to be develop
ed as soon Is Texas is admitted into the Union,
to create two new States. There are two bills
now before the House Reconstruction Com
mittee Tor that purpose. One OF these pro
-, 90 assssh that portion OF Texas lying
West anu south OF the Colorado river ~, -
all 1t the State Of Lincoln, aud an other DO
yides tor the States of Houston, Lincoln and
Texas, to be carved out of the boundaries of
the present State.
There are numerous third rate men seeking
to be advertised ny prominent candidates"
Tor the position OF Justice of the Supreme
Court, or Attorney General. Their names got
into paragraphs sent from Washington, much
to the astonishmcnt and amusement of the
people of their several communities, where
their legal attainments had not been discover
ed or heard of until the news was carried
through Washington dispatches.
On New Years Day, next Saturday, there
will be the usual Levee at the President
House, in Washington, commencing at l2}
o clock, and closing at . clock. The foreign
ministers are to be received first The mem
bers OF the Cabinet have had an understanding
with each other, and will commence their re-
aeptions at o'clock and close at 8 O'Clock -
They have all agreed to have temperance re.
ceptiOns.
Over six hundred emigrants arrived at the
port OF galveston last week, nearly all from
foreign countries; but most OF them are COM
ing through by land, and are settling up the
State OF Texas from the Sabine to the Rio
Grande.
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