Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-01-28
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
FRIDAY. JANUARY :%. 1870

FRIDAY: JAM hEl -. iS'u
j VIRGINIA. Gov. Walker has issued lis
Proclamation convening the Legislature 1T the
capitol, in Richmond. on the %ih 81! February
next.
A dispatch from Richmond, slated yesterday
says Gen. CANDY to day, issued Al order
that all military commissions acting under the
reconstruction laws, cease and all citizen pElS
oners be turndd over 10 the State courts; that
all citizen prisoners undergoing the sentence ct
a military commission shall serve out such SEN
tence unless released by United States court,
and that all civil officers appointed, under the
provisional government shall vacate when their
successors are elected or appointed under the
new constitution. John j.. Maryc, jr., OF
Fredericksburg, was to day appointed Lieu
tenant Governor by Governor Walker to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the election of Mr. Lewis
to the Senate"
Gov. Walker, who has been acting as Pro-
visionsl Governor Of the State since Septen-
Der last, under appointment of Gen. Candy,
was yesterday, sworn in as Governor OF the
State, by virtue Of is election by the people
on the 9th OF July last. The oath OF Office
was administered to him by Judge WilouGh
by, of..the Court of Appeals, who was his class
mate at Union Colege,in New York.
We are RECALLED now, in some quarters, by
the cry of Good bye, Old Virginia. Hurra for
New Virginia 1.-THE New Era has comc'---
''al hail tos the New Era Odd Virginia
done with" &C., &c. These cries are uttered
sometimes for taunt or derision-somctime in
jest-sometimes in unconsdered desire for
novelty and change. We say, too in sadness
and sorrow of heart, Good bye, Old Virginia"
the grandest, truest, noblest, best Common
wealth that ever existed on the carth-with
all it's faults and faiings. Farewell to it We
ne'er shall see its like again, VIC fear, in this
country And, this we say, who are as 1evo
ted friends to real, honest material 'grogrcss"
and advancement, as the lonlest acclaimcrs Tor
Ne1c Virginia
Mr. Dawes, in the House Of Representatives,
in an able Speech yesterday, replied to Mr..
Butler criticisms on his former speech, and
proceeded to show that ::ll the estimates Of the
Departments were eytravagant. lie reiterated
his former statements declared that they were
made on correct information, aud that he &C
ted with good purpose in making his speech.
Mr.. Dawes asserted that President Grant
agreed with him that the Estimate: were en-.
tirey too high The ultra Radicals ar" quite
incensed at the course 81 Mr.. baue9-bnt the
people Of the country, ontsian 81 party, ap
plaud hs Independence.
Yesterday orders were issued ir0m the Navy
Department to suspend all work at the various
yards that is now being done for the bureau Of
construction and steam engineering. This or
der will probably throw ont Ct employment
about eight hundred man in the New York,
Boston and Philadelphia yards, while but few
mechanics will be affected by it in Washington,
~ the bureau named has but small amount
Of work on hand there The work upon the
steamcrkansas is all that will be stopped there.
The cause OF the order is the scarcity CT IuGas
to the credit of the bureau, and the department
is prohibited by law from drawing uron ether
funds.
At the recent Anti Slavery Society meeting
10 Boston, Wendell Phillips broke loose upon
Horace Greeley, and said ''he would like to
strip Greeley and put him oat upon 4 prairie
and say to him, Root hog, or di2, and leave
him there to work out his own mnnhnni ou his
fsvoritc theory. lie said what was needed
was not soldiers in the South, tut man in
Washington. Place such l man ~ Ben. But
Ter in the White Ho,l~a ami The coon would
come down lie also abused Senator Trum
bull. Mr.. Greeley and Mr.. Trumbu ought TO
feel compimentc1.
The Richmond State journal speaks wisely
and properly to tic colored people in Rich
mond. who are disposed 10 he ractinus and to
make trouble. 1t :ella them, that rs the State
is now State, under civil government, their
efforts to get up ease: for Congress- will be
iruitlesS, and their acts will only recoi upon
their own heads. The peace of the State must
be kept at all hazards, and rowdyism put down,
want justice, 60 to the courts; but dont attempt
to take the law in your own hands"
MIR. George Ftzhugh, of Caroline Go. Va,
judging from his articles in Lippincott's Meg
azine, has received new light in the science Of
Sociology. lie ought to get cut . new edition
Of his book on that subject The following is
q specimen: "rhc white race, everywhere and
at all times, have been Disseminated ,rapacious,
accumulativc, selfish, avaracious,
and over reaching" But We do |
not wonder. With all extremists, the pcndu-
um swings, after while, as far in one direc
ton, as it did in precisely the other direction. |
A letter from q subscriber in Warren county, |
Va, says There is no ,tiOIcnq over the
admission of the State, with the conditions
ocal i,,k 4 Il q 81