Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-06-01
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE l, 1870.

sl0nerS OF ELECTION tnls mornlDG SaVe ccIl!A-
Gates of election to Fl. K ElIyson as Mayor,
and the rest of the Conservative city ticket.
The Republicans will contest the election be-
fore the Court" Another Richmond dispatch
says:-''The Conservative candidates nave
held meeting and declined to accept the
Offices for which they have received certificates
ifit shall appear on legal investigation that
their election depends on throwing out tho vote
Of precinct from which the ballot box was
stolen They invite their opponents to contest
the election before the Courts, and declare the
belief that such evidence of fraud and irregu-
lsrity exists as will give the Conservative tick
at the legal returns. We are truly sorry that
such state of things should exist. ltcan only
make mischief.
The bill reported by Mr.. Sumner, from the
Committee on Foreign Relations, tc the Sen
ate, to incorporate the Pacific Submarine Fee-
graph Company, OF which Cyrus ~. Field and
associates are the cOrporators, places the capt.
tai stock at $lO,OOO,O0O in gold. The design
is to establish telegraphic communication be-
tween the u. S., China, Japan, the Hawaiian
Islands, &c. The Secretary of the Navy is to
detail vessels 10 assist in laying the cables. The
u. 9. is to pay to the Company $500, 900 10
gold annually for twenty years, and is to be en-
titled to send messages to that amount over
the lines. 1t is also provided for the U. S. at
any time taking possession of the lines by pay
ing fair value thereof
The President yesterday sent to the Senate
The additional Article on the San Domingo
treaty, extending the time for ratification to
July lst. A dispatch from Washington says
that "the Government has received official IL
formation that first class European Power,
possessing only few seaports, has offered to
the Dominican Government two millions of
dollars for the Bay of SANTANA in case the treaty
now pending between the United States ard
that Government is not ratified by the Sen
ate This looks very much as il the report
is circulated to help through the desired an
pexstion.
The Springfield Republican hopes that the
present plap, and nM other projects tor printing
the proceedings Of Congress- IN cxtenso, (ln-
Guiding all the speeches) will be voted dowa;
but as long as human nature has such a weak
ness for seeing itself in print it is almost
useless to wish or work for any reform. If the
Globe only printed the actual proceedings Of
Congress it would not be quite 50 bad but
everybody knows that acres of i: have been
occupied by speeches that never wele delivered
and which will never be read BY any one except
the proof reader.
For the first time since the adoption Of the
new rule in the Senate several Indian treaties
were yesterday considered in open, and not In
secret session. They were all rejected. At the
evening session the Senate overruled the Presi
dents veto OF the Rollin White Pistol Patent
bill. In the House of Representatives, the
bill relative to the revival Of American Com
merce, was referred back to the Committee on
that subject The bill for the reduction Of in
ternal taxation was considered. !
A hack, on its way to depot in Boston the |
other day, became mixed up in funeral pro
cession. Coming to a spot where two ways |
met, the head of the procession turned one wsy, |
the hack another; the carriages in the rear |
followed the latter, and the deluded drivers no
ticed not their error until they were quite nigh |
the depot. This is but another illustration OF |
Davy Crocket's maxim, that people should
first know that they are right-then 90 ahead. |
A proceeding before the Grand Jury, in |
Richmond, is going on, (about which there are
many rumors, connected with the settlement |
Of an estate of a foreigner. Mr.. Chahoon' 5 |
name has been mixed up with the matter, but |
bis friends believe that his connection with the
affair can be explained satisfactorily, and that
If there was any fraud in trumpine up q claim
against the dead mans estate, he knew moth
log oft !!
During he past week Charlcstown, West
Va. has been visited by Mr. Henry Crow, who
left that place and moved to Ohio thirty eight
yesrs ago. Mr.. G. is DOW seventy.three years
Of age, and this is his first visit to the place Of
his nativity since bis emigration to the West
Thirty eight years! How many sad changes
have taken place in that time!
1t is thought by many that the bill which re-
Gently passed the Senate, creating the District {
Of Columbia into territory, will pass tb:.
House and become law before the adourn.
ment of Congress.
A young lady: 10 Harrisburg, P.., who was
bitten BY small dog, about nine weeks ago,
dieI on Friday last, from bydrophobia
Everybody anticipates that this will be "a
great fruit year. in Virginia. The orchsrds all
look we'll.
Episcopal HIGH SCHOOL AT HowARD.-
In the annual report OF Bishop Johns, to the
Episcopal Convention at Wheeling, he says
REV. Mr.. Gardner. principal of the High
School at Howard, having regained bis health