Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-01-21

Of his speech said that the Railroad Company
had assumed to become the master instead OF
the creature Of the State, and that it must be
made to understand its legal and moral oblga'
tons He denied that the Nevada decision
was at nj! analogous to the question in this
State, and desired direct issue between the
State and Company JudgeMerrick ended by or
icring resolution directing the Attorney Ten
eral of the State to institute proceedings to as
certain whether the charter oil the company
ought not to be vacated and annullcd. The speech
and resolutions created an intense SENSATION
and tue latter were made the special order for
Wednesday next.
There appears to be now but slim chance
for gathering ice in this latitude for the Ice
houses though we have known the river to
freeze over in the month Of February, and
an ic, crop mag yet be gathered before Spring
The Boston Journal says that lin the year
1853 the bulk of the ice crop in the vicinity OF
Boston was secured in the latter part OF the
month of March. Some years before trcsn
Pond did not freeze till into April. The pre-
sent weather does not discourage the Northern
ice dealers, as there are some seventy days
ahead wherein the thermometer may go sew
eral degrees below Zero There arc less than
five thousand tons of old ice on marlborough
to keen up the retail! demand for less than two
months
Gen. Sherman has not yet received any ohcia
adviccs from Gen. Ames as to the election o.
L. S. Senators in Mississippi, nor as to the
passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. lilo sale
Yesterday that he expected to receive the rcsig
nation of General Ames, as Col. and Brevet
Brigader Gen. OF the Army, when he received
the other iuformation; that is. if Gen. Ames
had been elected Senator and had accepted
But Senator kellogg received dispatch from
Mississippi yesterday stating that H. S.Revels
q colorcd man. has been elected United States
Senator for the the unexpired term, Governor
Alcorn for the short term, and Gen. Ames Tor
the long term.
A dispatch of yesterday from jackson, MIS-
sissippi, gives the information that ii. 5. Res
ley, q colorcd man, has been elected u. s.
Senator for the unexpired term. In the Civil
revolution that is now going on in this country
this is the first instance OF a c0l0red man being
elected to either house OF Congress. For aught
We know he may be much better man than
many white men who occupy seats in the
Senate and House of Representatives.
1t is rumored that if, ia the contested cleo
tion eases now before the Committee on EIec
lions OF the House Of Representatives, decIs'
ions arc made 10 favor Of the Radical appll'
cants, irrespective Of the testimony and OF law
and Justice, the two Democratic members oil
the Committed will withdraw from the com
mittec in open House. This will do no good.
Better hold on, if it is only to let the country
see to what length,, these people will 20.
We have mentioned the death OF Judge
Thos. Kutfu. which occurred at Hillsboro, N
g., on the 18TH He was born 10 Virginia.
November, l7S7. lie graduated at Princeton
in 1906. aud read law with Judge May, il
Petersburg. Va, in whose Office, as law stu
dent, was Gen Winfield Scott He subsequent
~ became n distinguished lawyer and Judge
A correspondent Of the New York Tribune
writing from Washington. says that be saw Ia
bound copies of the Congressional Globe lying
10 the National HOTEL ready for mailing, undtl
the frank of an NC. Each book weighed ovcl
four pounds, and the postage on them, II paid
to the government, would amount TO over ORG
hundred and fifteen dollars.
A telegram announces the death at Clermont,
N. H., on Tuesday evening, Carleton Chase,
Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, at the
age of &C. He was q relative of Chief Justice
Chase, and was one OF the most distinguished
divines in New England. He was consccrated
bishop in Philadelphia in 1874
We believe it is generally conceded that nc
Legislative committee" or any other kind oil
committee, from Virginia, is likely to have
another interview with Gen. Butler, In
hurry-or to give him "pledges" and "proml'
ses."
The Norfolk Virginian advises the Radical
leaders who arc just now on the rampage, that
there is truth in the saying, that what goes
up" as they have gone up, must como down
And that will certainly be the case, in their
case.
The Richmond State Journal says that Mr..
Binrham's resolution, admitting Virginia un-
condtioDally, cannot now carry majority, in
either House of Congress.
It is said that the remains Of the late Mr..