Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-01-20
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20. 1870.

. The New York Tribune continues in its
advice to Congress to act speedily and Justly on
the Virginia bill. 1t asks How long shall
this causeless delay continue? Its only posi-
BILE result will be to make yet more ungraclous
an action that isalready inevitable. Why not
have done ?" In another place it says I'VE
hope, when the vote on Virginia comes to be
taken--if that good time is to arrive during
this generation-that Senator Henry Wilson
will vote as he believes right-not necessarily
IS bis colleague believes right. The country is
waiting, heart sick Of this weary debate, this
blind, fatuous holding back against the inevi-
o. table. It wants Virginia admitted-wants it
done without any needless humiiations or az
gravating exactions-wants it done at once y
The directors Of the Cumberland Coal Com.
pany and the directors of the Consolidation
Coal Company met in New York city, on Tues
day,to confirm the terms of consolidation which
had been agreed upon by the committees OF
the twoicompanies The NY Post says, ''thc
thare capital of each of these companies is S.
100000. Each company puts into the common
stock all its property (railroad, &C. and prvl-
leges, with the exception Of the iron furnaces
of each. The consolidation will 20 into effect
On March lst, 1870. Negotiations are now
pending with the Borden Mining Company,
the American Coal Company and Hampshire
and Baltimore Coal Company, looking to con-
solidation of interests with the Cumberland and
the Consolidation.
It is reported that in an interview yesterday
with Attorney General Hoar that gentleman
said: IF the Senate does not act on my
nomination, the President will not send to that
body the name of any other gentleman for that
place, or for the judgeship made vacant by the
death of Mr. Stanton" Gas understand it,
the committee have reported the matter, with
out recommendation, and it is expected by the
President and myself that q vote will be had,
either confirming or rejecting the nomination.
Ifrejected, another nomination will be made at
once" In conclusion, he said 81 have no
idea of resigning my position in the Cabinet;
;fI Ann not confirmed for the Judgeship re-
main at the earnest request of the President. .
The report of the late Government Agent at
Alaska, details the real cost of the Territory
and states what income can be expected to be
derived from the seal fisheries and other sour
ces. The report confirms all that has been said
regarding the immense price which has been
paid for territory that at present is worth al
most nothing in comparison to its cost. With
regard to the question, What shall be done
with Alaskan" the agent says, it might not
be the worst policy, as financial measure, to
abandon the Territory at present, or until somo
possible change for the better shall take place;
but for political reasons. this course would not
be advisable
Philadelphia papers argue that if the pre-.
sent mild weather continues, Pennsylvania coal
will soon become drug in the market. They
say that dealers laid in immense supplies in
anticipation Of a hard winter, and these deal
ers must expect to soon be embraced in the
'crippled list unless they abandon their COM
binstions for keeping up prices and stop grind
Jog the faces Of the poor. Coal, says the In
quirer, is more than double the price it was
before the war, and this notwithstanding the
fact that new mines are constantly opened and
worked to degree sufficient to fully supply
the increased demand.
SO remarkable is the case of the man in
Maine, (who~ during the late war served in the
s4th Pa Regiment, and was placed on the
pension rol,) who has declined the pension on
the ground that ne can make his own living,
that the neY ,,,,ors boua talon If nm second
tlme' aD'. are again publishing it in all dircc-
tons One thing will be observed. lie served
y. the 94th, not the sSth formerly we'll known
in Alexandria!
In the Maryland Senate yesterday memorials
were presented from holders of the construc-
ton and repair bonds of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, regarding the indebted
ness of the Company to them, and asking Tor
settlement Of the question as to priority be-
tween their lien and that of the State Of Mary
land, so that they may obtain the amount due
them.
In New York. yesterday evening, very
large mass-meeting in favor of Cuban indepen-
denee was held at the Cooper Institute. Many
of the most prominent citizens were on the
platform. Horace Greeley presided and made
a speech favoring belligercnt rights to Cuba.
He also announced that Gerrit Smith had con-
tributed S, 1000 to the cause Of Cuba.
The British Consul at New York denies the
story, "going the rounds, " that he has received
and paid to Miss Gray, Of Fort Edward, N.Y.,
an instalment Of legacy Of $40, 900, 600, lately
left to her by the father of her former lover in
Eogland-nor does he know Of or believe,
that any such legacy was lett to her. Here is
another burst up in an English legacy y
It said that Gen. Butler announces that