Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-04-02
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APRIL 2, 1870

appointed 60 Investigate tHc cuaISeo h"'
~feasance in Office made against MIR. Alfred
Spates, late President OF the &. i y. Canal
Company, during his incumbency OF that OF
foe. The committee submitted a report which
was q vindicatiou Of the honor and integrity OF
MIR. Spates, whose character was involved
This report was unanimously adopted. In the
House Of Delegates ths bill to assign the stock
OF the State and Its management to the pre-
ferred bondholders of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal was passed to a third reading.
The bill to abolish all State inspections after
the lst of January, 1872, was passed., with a
amendment excepting the Wcigher of Live
Stock and the Inspector Of Hay aud Straw.
The Republicans of Washington last night
held a celebration of the adoption Of the 10Th
Amendment. Screnades were given to, and
speeches made by, President Grant, Vice Pres
ident Colfay, Senator Sumner, General Fire.
mont, Secretary Fish, and Secretary Boutwell,.
The President said:
II can assure those present that no consum,
nation since the close of the war affords me
so much pleasure as the ratification OF the
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution by
three. fourtbs of the States of the UGiUN. |
have felt the greatest anxiety ever since L was
called to this house to know that this was to
be secured. 1t looked like the realization OF
the Declaration Of Independence. lApplause.
[ cannot say near 50 much on this subject as L
would like to, not being accustomed to speak
ing, but thank you for your presence this even
ing
Mr.. Morton has introduced a bill in the Sem
ate to punish by fine and imprisonment any
person who shall attempt to hinder from Vot'
ing or control the vote of any one entitled to
vote under the laws of tho United States, at
sny election whatsoever. The bill also provides
for the punishment Of any officer vine shall at.
tempt to prevent the registration of a legal
voter, and, generally, ~enforces the Fifteenth
Amendment.
The report that President Grant intends, al
an early day, to issue a proclamation OF general
amnesty, is coEtradicted. He is, it now said,
not disposed to act in the matter at all. But,
another statement Is, thnt yesterday lat the
Cabinet meeting the President read his pro.
posed message to Congress for the removal Of
disabilities. The message met with the ap-
proval of the members OF the Cabinet"
The N. Y. Tribune says that several OF the
strikes" recently organized in New York
have completely failed, to the great loss and
injury Of those engaged in them. ln these
days of decline in gold, &C., it will not do to
be too seyere.
In the Supreme Court yesterday morning
Chief Justice Chase announced that the Court
had decided to reopen the decision on the legal
tender question, and would hear arguments
again on the second Monday of April, tie lIth
instant.
The Senate yesterday decided hat Ger.
Ames was eligible to his seat as Senator from
Mississippi, and he was sworn, and took his
seat, accordingly.
1t il generally admitted that Senator Lewis
does not make bis case any better by his at
tempted explanation of his speech at the Rad.
icaI caucus in Richmond.
1t is said that Gov. Walker is on a briet visit
to Washington. Judge Underwood left Rich
moud for his home in this place yesterday.
The Richmond State Journal says that mir.
Joseph Segar is still as sound a Republican as
Virginia contains
The 5. Chase Barney case against Harvey
Lindsey, for alleged libel, is again before the
Court in Washington.
|
Ex.Mayor and Ex. Postmaster w. V. Brady,
OF New York. died in that city i few iays
ago.
The official statement OF the Public Debt Of
the y. S. reports q decrease during the month
of March, Of IS, 776, 349,43.
PERIODICALS, PAMPHLETS, &e.-W have 70.
ceived IittelPs Living Age for this week, having
an interesting selection from the British poricdi-
icsls; Every Saturday, published in Boston,
hands )msly illustrator, and containing the first
number of Dickens now story, the Mystery Of
Edwin brood the April number of the Little
Corporal; advance sheets Of the Handy Book
Of Husbandry, by George Z. Waring. jr., and
published by +. 3. Treat u Co., New York |
Remarks on the g nGition of cur Navy and
Mercantile Marine, by a citizen of Philadel-
phia Speeches OF Members OF Congress, &c.
WASHINGTON ITEMs.-Gossip says Senator
and Miss Blanche Butler will be married within
a month.
The local associations of all kinds arc making
preparations to unite at an early day in o grand
in honor OF the ratification of
the fifteenth amendment to the constitution.
The oolored people are arranging to celebrate
he anniversary Of emancipation.
Pnymaster g. 2. Wallach, of this city, mas
been detached from the receiving ship Wanda
ia, at the Portsmouth IN. H.. navy yard, and
to settle his accounts.
SALARIES. The Petersburg Courier thinks
no salaries of the judges are entirely too small.
so do We. But We think also that the Gene.
Assembly is in the condition of the perfor.
ner on the bugle who. after being repeatedly
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