Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-02-16

ExGov. LErcHER, in letter to the editor
of the Fredericksburg News, expressing his
condemnation of the new movement tine
only effect of which, he thinks, will be to dis
tract and divide the Conservative party OF VIZ
ginia-says:
1T is neither new movement, nor 'Nlr
einia movement. The movement originatec
| apprehend. in the State OF New OK ana
was broached in our State in the month OF
Sentemher last by New York gentleman OF
considerable distinction ii. Day.
Mr. Latcher says that MIR. Day visited lex
iueton in September last and proposed the
subject to him and Others He ADDS:
'For reasons which | then assigned some
what at length, declined to have any partlcl
patton in such movement. After | had de-
cned, he then stated that he had conveTsed
with others, two of whom are on this Com
mittee of Nine who declined the proposition
for substantially the same reasons that | had
given, and that he would return home, greatly
disappointed 10 the object OF his visit. At that
time, so far as | know, our people were united
utterly opposed to ASKING Congress to I'M
pose negro suffrage, upon the country, with
or without the qualification ct universal am
nesty.'
they're COMING. -Within the last two
days there have been upward OF twenty gentle
men in Norfolk with the object OF investing in
lands in the neighboring counties They are
from the States of New \ ork, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Delaware,
and also from Germany.
These "prospecters' are all pleased with the
country. whose capabilities they acknowledge
to be unrvaed, and we know that their report
| will induce many others to come this way who
will without doubt be as much pleased as them
selves with a region that is without It's equal
| on the American continent, az lar 2s natural
| advantages are concerned.
The present generation will see all the coun-
ties around Norfolk one great cxpanse OF small
garden farms, each producing more money
each season than one ten times ITS size in the
| good old times" This seaboard is 80 be The
| richest portion of Virginia, aud indeed one OF
| the very wealthiest regions in the Union,
We hail the advent o! new settlers who will
bring to our city and the surrounding couates
| their energy and capital. The more we have
| of them the better They need not lear to
come to country in which every good citizen
| is welcomed, no matter from what portion OF
the Union he halls -N0rt0M J0uradL
ANOTHER "AFFAIR. Dispatches from
Washington report the following:
"a servant of the Russian Minister in July
1862. has testified during the examination CT
w. w. Corcoran's claim by the Senate Com
mittee that at dinner party given at the Rus
sian Legation, Senator Blyard said he would
give $40 600 to any o0c who would assasSlnae
Mr.. Lincolo, and Mr.. Corcoran added that be
would give ten times that sum. The Commit
tee summoned old man D,hner, who was then
butler to the Russian Minister to corroborate
the testimony of the witness. But Dohner has
thus lar refused to testify, claiming privileges
on the ground that he was then employed at
the French legation He has been excused
until Wednesday next, when he will have to
testify or be brought before the Senate tor con
tempt
No one who knows Senator Bayard or Mr..
Corcoran attach any credit to this reported evil
dence. Mr.. Dohner, who is referred to, was
steward to Mr.. Bodisco while the latter repre-
scented the Russian Government at Washington.
OFFICIAL LETTERS In the Senate yester.
day, Mr. Morton, and ia the House Of Repre-
seDtatives Mr.. Wilson, from the joint select
committee, reported the fulfillment OF their
mission to notify the President and Vice Pres
ident elect OF their election, anil submitted the
following written reply from Gen. Grant:
"Gentlemen-Pleas notify the two houses of
Congress OF my acceptance OF the important
trust which YOU have Just notified me ot-my
election as President of the United States
and say to them that it will be my endeavor
that they, and those who elected me, shall have
no cause to regret their action"
Also, the following from Mr. CollaX
"Gentlemen- Please convey to the two hou. IS
of Congress my acceptance Ct the office to
which have been elected by the people of the
United States and assure them that shall en-
deavor to prove worthy Of this mark Of conf
dence by fidelity to principle and duty.
The replies were ordered to ba spread upon
the journals of both houses.
THE REMAINS OF BOOTH Sc. The remains
Of John Wilkes Booth were exhumed al an
early hour last evening from heir resting place
in the Arsenal grounds, permission to remove
the same having been granted By the President
to Mr. Weaver, Il prominent undertaken OF
Baltimore An order was issued to that effect,
and similar order was given TO Atzerodt s
brother to remove his (Atzerodts 81 remains.
On Saturday afternoon last Rev. j. aughn
Lewis of ST. Johns (Episcopal) Church, made
application to President johnson, in behalf of
the mother and sister Of David +. Herold, tor
Herolds remains, and the order was given.
The remains were buried next day.
Payne's body will soon be applied for, and
no doubt delivered up. and the remains OF
Wirz, will be left alone in the solitary trench
in the grounds OF the arsenal.
MYSTERY thickens around the case Of Miss
Maria Stinneke of Baltimore maiden lady,
seventy years of age, who died suddenly, some
days ago, while on visit to Carlisle, Pennsy!
vania One will made by her, and offered for
probate, left about $50, 600, her entire fortune,
to benevolent and educational purposes. \
subsequent will, in the handwriting of a young
German physician, about six months in this
country, who was her physician in Carlisle,
and to whom, it is rumored, she had become
engaged to be married, was also offered for
probate in Baltimore, willing all her property |