Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-05-11


the party, does great wrong. The leaders OF
tho ultra Radical party are striving desperately
to regain their lost supremacy; they are at work
again. to use the colored people as cats paws,
to place them in power. Let Conservatives
band and work together. and all will be we'll. y
The President has appointed the following
as the Board of Visitors to West Point for
1870: Rev. DR.. Newman, pastor of the Metro
potau NJ. f. Church; Rev. Dr.. Sears, Agent
Peabody Southern Educational Fund.- Nlr.
l.. G. Sloan, ex-member OF Congress from WIS
cousin; Judge Thomas Settle, North Carolina;
Colonel John NJ. Brown, Kentucky; Prot.
Charles A. Young, Dartmouth College, New
Hampshire; and Vice Admiral Porter.
At the meeting of the Methodist Episcopal
South General Conference at Memphis, yester-
day, the proper committees recommended ad-
hesion to the present discipline and the adop'
lion of the action of the last Conference in rela'
ton to separate organization OF the colored
churches. This, probably, will pass. a petit
ton from Mobile asks for more stringent pro-
$685. dancing, &C., &c.
A swinder representing himself as steward
Of the steamer William Lawrence, OF the Baltl-
more line, purchased yesterday. 10 Boston, car.
peting, glassware, liquors and furniture, pay
ing in checks purporting to bs signed by the
purser and receiving back il each case ba
10 1io,nCarad
on the arrival of large supplies on the steamer
dock. including five pianos.
10 San Francisco, Col. Ilough has published
a card denying tho charge that Gen. Thomas
offered his services, in writing, to Virginia,
and that at the beginning OF the war lie was
strong Southern in his icolings. 1t il
quite certain, at least, that almost everybody
before, during, and since the war, believed,
that, at first, Gen. Thomas was strong South
ern man.
Victor Hugo writes letter to Gen. Clu5e.
ret in New York, in which be says ~ love
America as a tatherlahd. The great republic
Ct Washington and of John Brown is glory 10
civilization. Thus much for Victor Hugo
Washington was the greatest, purest, noblest
man of our country. John Brown was tanat
ical rufian and murderer, without redeeming
quality.
Reports from most of the counties Of Mary
land and Virginia, as to the present condition
of the wheat crop. have been received at the
Agricultural Department. Fhe appearance OF
the wheat has much improved since the lst of
April, when it was thin and the general tenor
of the returns is now favorable.
It is stated that nearly all OF the Pennsylva-
MIA delegation in the House are willing that the
Tariff bill be recommitted to the Ways and
Means Committee. judging OF her delegations
by this showing, there seems no logger any
doubt Of the fate of the Tariff bill. 1t cannot
become law at this session.
The subcommittee on the Dscline OF Amer
lean Commerce has agreed to report the bill
introduced by General e. z. Washburne, which
lines and the incorporation Of Jour companies,
allowing subsidy of seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to each company.
There was desultory debate, at the evening
session Of the Senate, yesterday, IN relation 10
the removal of the capital. It was only dis
cussion, however 1t was brought about by
proposition to build new ctfiEoe for the State
Department.
Parla, Marseilles. Bordeaux, and Toulouse,
in France, voted against the plebiscitum. by
large majoritica But the rural districts" and
some of tho large cities. went strongly for the
Emperor's plan.
The decision 10 tho Mcfarland case is ano.
ther proof, that in this country man cannot
be convicted ofmurder, for killing one who has
disboaored his wife, or sister, OF daughter.
We received, yesterday, by telegraph, a long
account of the prize fight between Mace and
Allen, near New Orleans. We, also, have 3
sraste basket, along side of our desk.
The expectant friends OF Cuba, St. Do
mingo, St. Thomas, &C., stand waiting patient
ly for something 10 turn up which will en-
able them to ''realize.
Vilemain, perpetual Secretary OF the French
Academy, died in Paris yesterday.
LEONARD SCOTT & Co., New York, have
promptly republished the april number of the
London Quarterly Review, which has m at
tractive table of contents. as follows Tho
English Bible; Lanfrey' Napoleon; the Church
in Wales; Sir Charles Eastlake and the Eng
lish School of Painting tho Education Of the
People; Mr.. Froude's Queen Elizabeth an
mails of an Eventful Life Government dealing
withIrish crime. Those of the articles We have
yet found time to read are Interesting. The pub