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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-06-04
DOUND HILL BOARDING HOUSE.

will open Il BOARDING HOUSE about
the 18th Of June 1870 at Round Hill, Loudoun
county, Va. for the purpose Of entertaining
ruodated. Ny establishment is on the pike
running--fron Leesburg to Winchester, twelve
miles west OF Leesburg. Public conveyance up
to the door Persons wanting board, will ad-
dress the undersigned. B. WRIGHT.
Round Hill, Loudoun co., Va. my l2-eo3m
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-06-04

Fox SALE:
A lot oi fine CARRIAGES and BUGG1ES,
just arrived from Wilmington, Del, and now
On exhibition at the depository CT K. f. Pretty
man. Parties in want OF carriages will find my
prices b+iow those Of Baltimore or Washington.
iel-hl2 c. P. FELTON,.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-06-04

The INDIANs--A correspondent of the New
York Tribune, speaking Of the Indians at their
hotel says 1.-The little rcd headed porter or
clerk of the hotel was at one time taken for
pea,.ance soon dispcled that impression when
Red Cloud stood forth on the balcony. A
colo red boy inquired if Dem whar de colored
people from Alexandria dat was carried up
heah to vote Ior Bowon.' This allusion to the
contest going on in Washington be-
tween Bowen and Emery, i'll which it is charg.
ed the Bowen faction is registering voters
from Alexandria, elected much laughter in the
crowd, which evidently did not please the
Sioux"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-06-04

Each article entering into the composlon OF
the Vegetator
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25
WOvdYs NOUS md PHR0NESLS.

That elegant scholar and man of the world
Mr.. "Carl Benson" who throws light on eaci
and every one of the innumerable subjects
which he discusses in the weekly and monthly
periodicals, has taken the trouble to elucidate
the sex-and-sufffage business in way that
must command the admiration of the com
monalty. There is one point, however, to
which we fear he has not given sufficient
study, even though his language in regard to
it is much more clear and precise than his
arguments upon some other points. 1t is where
he states the real difficulty in the way OF Woman
Suffrage, thus:
" 1t il not that woman has not enough, or that
sho cannot yet epiSe enough or that she has not the
precise combination OF and epiSteme requisite to
form sophia, since for purpose nothing 80 high az
sophia is needed it ia rather that she lacks hronssis"
Now we do not like to differ from proposition
of this kind but we are compelled to say it is
not sustained by experience, observation,
philosophy, or history. Some people will
perhaps feel obliged to him for not absolutely
denying that woman may have nous enough,
and may be able to episteme enough, to reach
the sophia necessary for suffrage; but we
maintain that in denying woman the possession
of phronesis, he is guilty OF an outrage TOR
which, we trust, he may be properly punished.
What. we demand, would woman be without
phronesis9 Where should we look for it, in
this dolorous world, if not in the soul of
womanf What would her nous be worth
without it Why should she take the trouble
to episteme in its abseDce7 What would even
sophia avail her, if pIrOneSis were beyond her
graspf Without it existence would be
intolerable, and it would be easy to
show that Nature had been guilty OF cruelty.
But we also maintain that, beside merit
ing apprehension for saying that woman lacks
the phrOneSis which she has, in fact, always
possessed and illustrated, Mr.. "Carl Benson" !"
deserves castigatiOn for the way in which,
under pretense of crediting woman with GER
tain powers and characteristics, he charges her
with possessing that nous, and that ability to
eDisteme. if not that sophia, which nearly
all women hold in contempt. He doubtless
thought he could do this sort OF thing with
safety. He probably fancied that nobody would
ever find out what he was about. But he has
already learned, and he will likely have the
Opportunity of learning still better hereafter,
that no man can trife with a subject OF this
kind without danger.
We call upon the SOrosis and all the other
Womans Clubs to take up this question at
once. II is not talk that is needed about 1t,
but action. "Carl Benson" himself should be
brought out, and compelled to furnish the
ground on which he has had the audacity to
allege that woman lacks phroneSiS, while he
charges her with nous.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25

The Fenian situation threatens fight to-
day. The force on the Canadian line above
st. Adams is hardly less than five or six hund-
red well-armed men, with three or four thou
sand Others within few hours ride, and NOV
ing to join the fray. The intention seems to
have been to cross the line into Canada East,
moving direct upon St. Armand during last
night. If this was done conflict may ensue
to-day. considerable force of regular troops
was sent from Montreal to ST. Armand yester-
day, and is due there this morning. The Presi-
dent has issued a proclamation against the Fe-
nian enterprises, but no action appears to have
been taken by the Commanders on the border
further than the statoning Of vessel to pro-
tect the Welland Canal.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25
TIE MEXICAN SMUGGLERS.

If we had not long ago ceased to wonder at
any exhibition of folly, or inconsistency, or
rascality, on the part of persons connected
with the Mexican Government, we should be
fairly amazed at the facts which the Select
Committee on Retrenchment have brought to
light in their investigation of the smuggling
frauds along the Mexican and Texas border.
1t is not that Juarez has been doing profit
able business by outwitting the United States
customs officers. TO Government which
treats brigandage as an ordinary incident
of politics. theft as an exigency of public
life, and assassination as one of inevitable
Inconvenience of office, rObbing the revenue
of friendly nation is but trifle indeed
We should have been quite prepared for
that we should have been quite prepared
to find that the Mexican President swindled
us with all his might at the very moment
when he was protesting the profoundest regard
and gratitude and striking hands with us in an
elaborate Customs Convention. The marvel of
this new disclosure is not that the Mexcans
are rOgues, but that in their passion for i'm
position they have not even been able to re-
frain from cheating themselves. For, see what
they have done. If there was any one thing
clear in Mexican politics, it was that Mexican
independence hung upon the issue of our civil
war. The success of the Rebellion meant the
permanence of the French occupation. The
abortive alliance between Napoleon and the
Rebel Government was no secret, and it was
the downfall of the Confcderacy which over
threw the throne of Maximilian. Yet, if the
witnesses in this investigation have told the
truth, Juarez was conspiIator against the
power which alone saved him from de-
struction, and for the sake of a few dishonest
dollars he supplied his most dangerous enc.
mics with the means of making war not only
upon his best friends, but indirectly upon him
self. In this operation Mexican rascality seems
to have reached its zenith. Francis Latham.
who was the Confederate Revenue Collector at
Brownsville during the war, is reported az
testfying substantially as follows:
During the late the Confcderatesimported all the
and munitions they wanted from Mexico under the
Juarcz government. Governor Vidaurri gave permits
continually 10 send saltpecr sulphur and lead OF which
his state mined good DEAL and received cotton In pay
ment. had conversation with President Juarez on
this subject at my own house, aud also at his palace.
do not know that rcc0lcct the particulars OF these
conversations, but it was In company with other gentle
men. The first time saw him myself and about ten
nih"r ""r-"nS called ON hln ~ deDutaoA uo gsosiyed
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25

That the outraged Consul at Santiago de
Cuba is rascal and that the Spaniards have
five ships, five guns, and five men to our one
in the waters of the West Indies, are not suf-
fcient excuse for any failure on the part of
the Government to demand reparation for the
insult II is enough to know that there were
such insults offered to warrant the Government
in sending its demands. Gen. Garfield'O state
ments in the House yesterday in regard to the
character of Mr.. Phillips for truthfulness
and honesty may well cast suspicion on his
statements. But the facts of the murder OF
Weyth and Speakman year ago are and have
long been established. The evidence that they
were not in Cuba for hostile purposes is very
strong. The execution of these men has never
been explained by the Spanish authorities
and as far as the public know, no explanation
has ever been demanded. This is all wrong
The Government should not hesitate to ask
explanation. If unsatisfactory, it should at once
demand reparation. If denied, it should be
enforced. There will be no lack OF ships and
men to back up such demand when positively
made
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25

ways has not only reported adversely to
this consolidation but has proposed to au-
thorzo an entirely new line, to be called
the Texas Pacific Railroad, with branches and
connections; and the bill makes large land
grants. But tho new line has certain gravely
Objectionable features to which we wish to
direct the special attention of the Gulf States
delegations in Congress. Texas, in the ilrst
place, can give no aid to the new road, De-
cause her land grants are vested IN the oiu
line. The Senate Committee claims otherwise'
we are aware, but these grants have oeeh
repeatedly declared valid by the lexaS Lcsisla-
ture, before, during, and since the Wdr. Inv
burden of proof cOnClusively shows Via' .ho
right to make grants to other roads over the
same route has not reverted, as the Committee
claim. to the State of Texas. AT any rate,
sucb right if claimed, will be contested, ana
the first stop of any new company "iilch Jon
gress may charter will carry it deep INTO liti-
cation. and cripple and rctard both enterprises,
for years.
Further, the proposed line is not such one
"a the South needs. It's eastern terminus VIII
be New w-Orleans on the Gulf, instead OF some
Southern port on the Atlantic. 1t ls not 10
be uniform in gauge with the roads OF the
Southern system, which, without exception, are
five feet wide, while the Texas Pacific road
gauge is fixed by the bill at feet 81 inches.
The evident design of all this is to build up New
Orleans by compelling the breaking of freight
Sin bulk" at that terminus, and will please
none but the Senators from Louisiana and
Arkansas The Memphis and FL Paso road, on
the other hand, connects at the former city
with the Southern system, and has unbroken
and direct communication with the Atlantic
coast through the heart of the Southern States.
These facts should teach Congress the need of
changing the grade of the Texas Pacific road,
OF of defeating the bill altogether. Other facts
which we have cited in this and previous artl-
cles urge, with equal force, the economy and
importance of encouraging the partly finished
Southern Transcontinental Road" The bill
favoring the latter road is still pending in tho
Senate, and we hope is soon to be passed.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25

ia very cordially We had good deal OF talk about tho
present situation He very anxious to get Vidaurr
out OF there so he could get the money That Vda
ri was collecting and finally he made him leave lie ex
ressed desire that peace should very soon occur, or
course but he very glad to get the moneys ana nc
i.s,ed think two decrees very favorable, allow
ing cotton to pass know that occasion he issued
decree whereby cotton allowed to pass at any hour
of the day OF night at the time speak of Juarcz was
i'm sympathy with the Confederate Government at this
interview which had with view to get him TO
make some concessions the Confederacy he expressed
tho greatest desire to do 40, and think he issued de-
cree aerward nstructng his Secretary OF state ana
Secretary War who with him. allowing goods TO
go out and In"
There seems to be other evidence in abund-
ance to the same effect indeed Che ofiense or
President Juarez appears to admit OF neither
denial nor excuse. Unquestionably it gives us
a Just claim against Mexico for damages, and
we trust our Government will lose no time IN
making the proper representations at the capt.
tai of our neighbor republic. OF course in the
present chaotic condition of that country an
immediate satisfaction of our claims can hardly
be expected but we had better get our case
into court at once, even if we do not immedi-
ately press for judgment. 1t is an affair of
such gross ingratitude and such shameful du
plicity that we ought to make an instant and
emphatic expression of our sentiments.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25
MARGARET FULLER.

II was 4 notable coincidence that while the
Woman Suffrage Association of New-England
was discussing last Monday in Boston the de-
gradation of the sex and denouncing the brute
force which keeps woman from rising to the
nobler life, in another room in the same city a
company of cultivated persons should have
met to celebrate the birthday of an American
woman whose story is a refutatiOn of the
angry and discOntented reformers. Twenty
years of this fast-living, fast-fOrgetting age
have passed since Margaret Fuller died, yet 1t Is
not hard to believe, as we read the report OF
tho Boston celebration, that her influence Is
almost as powerful to-day as it was in the
brightest hours of her life Men who have
won fame and success are proud to tell how
much they owe to this extraordinary woman
scholars, poets, philosophers confess themselves
her humble pupils. The glory of such a mem
ory is a standing reprOach to the needless and
noisy clique who grOan over an imaginary
slavery of which Margaret Fuller at least was
never conscious and cry for opportunities of
action which she became great without.
Of course the sisterhood will ask us what
kind of justice is that which gives the ballot
to an illiterate labOrer and denies it to Mar
garet Fuler7 But the question is not whether
Margaret Fuller was fit TO vote-individually
of course she was-but whether in the mil
lennium of domestic discord and universal in
version for which Miss Anthony is labOring,
Margaret Fullers would ever be possible. 1t
was in the charm of her private life, in the
tenderness which beautiied her personal inter-
course, in her domestic influence, so tender
o,,l OF on thot hpr
lovingly attributed to her all that was best in
themselves, and finally in the unselfsh devo-
ton of her later years, that we find the highest
glory of Margaret Fuller OSsoli. When the
home is destroyed, and our wives and sisters
are at the caucus, or the club, or the court
house-there will be no place for women such
as these, and on the principle of natural selec-
ton the species must soon become extinct.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25
1etu'2lork Daily Gribm'ts,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1870.

terrible calamity reported from the Indian ocean,
a ships crew having been starved to death. =- An
entire family has been murdered near London. 80
Till has introduced in the Corps Legisat reducing
tie members salaries. 60 EsparterO will accept the
spanish throne if the COrtes will elect him. - Russia
has demanded the extraditon Of fugitive from switzer
land. == Rel announces that the Manitoba bill does
not settle the Red River trouble.
In the Senate yesterday the Legislative Appropriation
bi debated. The report Of the Conference Commit
tee on the Fifteenth Amendment bill presented and
a vote will be taken to-day. =- In the House, bill
was introduced reducing taxation. The bin reviying the
navigation interests considered at length and
ton ordering the main question negatved-si to 9s
The Diplomatic Appropriation bill was passed.
The Fenians are ocking from all parts Of the country
toward the Canadian frontier, where collision is
sylvania Hospital have adopted plan for the admission
of women to the clinical lectures. = 1t showing
In Maine Yesterday ==== storm in Iowa has damaged
the Crops Out of a group OF seven men struck by
lightning in Illinois, killed and five linjured.
fire is devastating the timber lands near Calais,
HE.
Judge Brady will give decision to-day on the applica-
ton for a stay Of proceedings to prevent John Foley
acting as Supervisor. - The Harlem Sunday-Schools
anniversary was held yesterday =- Mr.. Weston has
begun his walk of 100 miles in % hours The third
National Pedestrian Congress held on the CaptOne
grounds BROOKLYN =- The African NJ. L. Conference
+ still in session in Brooklyn Gold l132 llil, l4s
Thermometer, 6l, 70, 50.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25
CONCERNING THE ELECTION.

The final canvass Of the votes at the late
Judicial election was to have been reported
yesterday, but as yet the complete returns are
rare and isolated, while the estimates which
some of the papers have been publishing are
shown by each official return, as it comes in, to
be ludicrously wide of the mark. Two or three
things, however, are so plain already that no
array of official returns can make them much
palmer. Not half the legal voters of either
party went to the polls The Democrats who
were entitled to vote in this city averaged, on
the general count, two to three ballots apiece.
Less interest was taken in the election OF our
most important Judiciary than is usual in the
choice of town constables and members OF
Col. Fisk, jr.'s Legislature.
Of course we have infinite chatter as to the
causes of all this and the remedy. The Re
publican party is dead of corruption, cry the
repeating Democrats who were lately threat
ening to fight each other to the bitter end for
their own fragrant dishonesty. The party has
no leader, scream the mouthpieces of the little
factions whose real grievance is that 1t
does MT follow their leadership. 1t is just
as well that it should be defeated murmur
cynical outsiders, as they reckon the damage
did the party throughout the Country. The
Administration has no policy, and OF course
it is defeated, clamOr the politicians whose
claims for Office have not yet been recognized
at Washington.
Without seeking now to sift from all this
chaff the little grains of truth it undoubtedly
contains, let us content ourselves with the
two lessons which the election most fOrcibly
inculcates If we succeed in learning them
thoroughly, wei may not have been
defeated wholly in vain. Some other
means must be devised for arOusing popular
interest in the welfare of our imperiled Judi
ciary, if we are to continue the choice of
Judges by popular vote. Congressional aid
must be secured to prevent the organized fraud
now called an election in New-YOrk City, if
popular elections in any case are to be re-
deemed from contempt, and popular govern
ment on Manhattan Island saved from being
failure. For the first of these, perhaps,
we can wait. For the second we appeal now
to Congress. Let it guarantee us the repub-
lican government, which, under the rule of
Tammany, is fast disappearing from this
city. We assure our friends i'll Con-
grcss that the need is imperative; and
that the question: so far as we are
concerned in NewYork, is not one OF
the ascendency of the Republican party, but
of the continuance of republican institutions
To-day we have great hopes that the two
Houses may agree upon a bill for preserving
the purity of the ballot-box; if not, we beg
Congressman to see to it that the delay be not
final or fatal. For the rest, we have
only to say that the Republican party of New
York is not disorganized, and is able to-day
with an election law that shall prevent repeat
ing and ticket that calls out our voters, to
carry the State
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25

We have before had occasion to commend
the energy and spirit with which the new Com
misSioners of Docks and Piers have gone at
their important work. We observe further
that they are advertising for plans by archi-
tects for the new docks which are to be built.
These, when submitted, will doubtless add
something to the Committees knowledge on
the subject, but it will be very unwise in them
to act upon any plan without the ad-
vice and suggestion of an engineer.
The Commissioners of Parks have
wisely employed a competent architect.
1t is far more important that slaliul and
practical engineer should have direction of the
work of building the docks of this city What
system is likely to prove the best the Com
missiOners can doubtless determine for them
selves; and where they shall be located they
can also decide. But the details OF building
them can only be safely intruSted to an en-
gincer. A survey Of our river front to begin
with, is Necessary. No existing survey gives
accurate statements If the depth of water ana
of mud. or the toDc of the tidal flow Ihese
it is of the greatest importance TO know ueioro
ost;rot;n,, the cost or deciding the character
Of the docks. We do not doubt that the sug-
eestion we make has already occurred 70 inc
commissioners. We make it nevertheless lu
the hone that the early selection oi an
oineer will not be overlooked.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25
a mneements, fettures, etc., abie epenins.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC.-Italian Opera: III iro'a-
toyaS MS Clara Louise Kellogg GsHEangA ETC. .
BooTH's THRATER, Twenty -third-st' ara oiA'h
sye-dP Goose" Lost Ashore Sohn ''nsS 8,
FIFTH AVENUE THEArER'-" Inc OOodNa'urou
FRENCH THEATER.-" The Corsican Brothers. -
Fechter. 8,
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-thlrd-st ana
Eishth-ave- Twelve Temptations -
NIBIo's GARDEN" Forty Thieves" 10 oDnge
Benson" LJis Thompson TrouNc
OLYMPIC THEATER.-Mrs. James a: OatesS bur-
80 2 and &: The Fair with the Blonde Wig
WAIIACK's THEATER Broadway and lhrteenth-st.
-" Americans IN Paris" " Trying IL On"
WooD's MUSEUM AND MENAGERE - Day and
Evening: The Witches OF Neslork'
ASSOCIATION Hall, Twenty -thiTd-st. and Fourth
aye-Re itatoa: Nj g. V. ProudioOt Mr. W. II. Pope
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.-TheodOre ThOmass Pop
ular Concert
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Twenty-third-st.
and Fourth aye.-Por.y-6nh Annual Exhibition.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-25
THE CONTESTED SUPERVISORSHIP.

Last November, Mr. John Foley was elected
or rather directed to be appointed Supervisor
in the place of Henry Smith. Mr.. Smith was
candidate for reelection, but the votes cast
for him were of no force, since he was by a
special statute forbidden to be candi-
date for any elective office. He was
Police Commissioner, and the Leg1s-
lature. with view of keeping the Police out
of politics, passed this stringent law. The next
highest vote TO that for Mr.. Smith was
for Mr. Foley. Naturally the Board of Super
visors Smith being member to canvass his
own vOte) saw nothing wrong in the violation
of State law, and rushed in their fellow
member for the new term
Finding protest in that quarter of no avail,
Mr.. Foley went into Court, and, after much
difficulty, got hearing. OF course there
could be but one result. The vote for Smith
was illegal; the Office must go to Foley.
After trying the petitioners patience
by needless delays and petty annoy
ances, Judge Ingraham decided that
Mr.. Foley was entitled to the office, but as it
was soon to expire an intimatiOn was given
that it was not worth while to take it; in
fact, the Judge deemed it inexpedient to put
Foley in possession. But Mr.. Foley thought
otherwise, and has been endeavoring by man.
damus to get his rightful place Here
again he is met by bubbles and delays, and
finally by q petition from Smith for stay of
proceedings, with the design of still further
delay by bringing the case for review before
the General Term. Argument on this point
was heard yesterday, and Judge Brady promises
a decision this morning.
The tenacity with which the Tammany man
ayers hold every vantage ground is well shown
in this case. Their ally, Mr.. Police Com
missioner Smith, is not legal Super
visor every act of his in the Board
since the expiration of his last term is un-
lawful, yet all the power of Tweed and
Company is exerted to keep linn there for
the five weeks that yet remain before the
Board goes out of existence. Are they afraid
that Mr.. Foley might, in one short month, un-
cover the records of their wholesale plunder-
ing of the tax-payers7