Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-09-22

Canada, and the sooner the better. Alas!
Canada, that you should have excited the ire of
B. T. Butler.
The L7nch5urs Republican says:-"No
personal considerations should be allowed to
enter into contest, which will be narrowed
down between Conservative candidate and
one put forward by the Radical party. 10 re-
fuse to support the former is to give aid to the
latter, and this is position which We hardly
think any OF our Conservative fricads would
like to occupy. The true course is, that while
you may have your personal preference, you
will submit to the decision of the nominating
convention, demanding united support tor
your candidate it he should be presented, and
in turn according like support to the noml-
nee if he should not be your choice. This
is no time for divisions among ourselves
We presume that after the reported explicit
declaration of Gen. Grant, about political ct
fairs ia Missouri, in which he explicitly con
dcmns the walker movement in Virginia,
there will be no longer any backing and fill
ing" among some few of the Conservatives,
who have been so straight in their course to-
wards Gen. Graut as to rather lean over. "
The President has an ultra Radical Cabinet,
and is the head of the Radical party, and con-
duets Radical administration, and is himself
an ultra Radical.
a writer in the lastLeyingt onGaze ttc, speak
ing of the value of Railroads to an agricultur-
al community says: ut was but the other
day saw in an oE;cial document Of the Vir-
GINA and Tennessee Railroad, that in twenty
two Counties along the line OF that road, the
land had increased in value over twenty-five
millions of dollars in six years while the road
was under con struc,ion, or eighty-seveu per
ct. as shown by the State assessments. And SO
the value of land has increased all a|oog the
lines OF all the Railroads in the State.
DR.. G. II. Peters, director of the LltchGeld
Observatory OF Hamilton College, announces
the discovery of another planet, the ll2th of
the asteroids The discovery was Eade Tues
day morning. On Wednesday morning the
position Of the planet was established, viz: Is
degrees and 2S minutes of right ascension, and
10 degrees and Is minutes of north declina
ton. The brightness is that Of fixed star Of
the | tn magnitude. 1t is named lphigena.
Jos. To:son, captain, and EAjah Dunn,
mate, OF the oyster schooner Mary, have
been arrested in Baltimore on the charge Of as.
sautiug and beating Philip Coleman, colored,
-
Mary, in the basin, and also with causing the
death by drowning Of Eli Hollis, colorcd by
forcing him to jump overload from the vessel.
Both mcp,it is further alleged, were kidnapped
and taken on board the schooner.
The Italian troops have entered Rome, and
taken possession Of the city. What is to follow
We shall soon see. The loss Of his temporal
power, will not however, affect the eccieslastl'
cal functions of The Pope whether he remains
on Rome, or removes to some other place. The
pontifcatc of Plus the Ninth, has been most
event lul one, in every respect. The seizure of
his capital nay produce additional ''coDpli'
cations" in European affairs.
The Richmond Dispatch says; "Commo-
dorc Maury, in his letter to the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad Celebration Committee, pre-
diets that as necessary sequenc, of the con.
soldation doctrines established by the result
OF the late war 10 this country, Congress will
soon control the railroads.
1t is thought that Judge Critcher will be the
candidate for Congress, from the
Westmoreand district. King George, West
morclaud, and some other counties have de-
cIared in his favor.
1t will he seen that the publishers in New
Y ork, of the reprints of the British Periodicals,
offer liberal terms 10 the subscribers to those
valuable periodicals.
The Raleigh IN. o. Standard, edited by 10,
". Hodcp. son of Gov. Holden, has been sus
pended for the present, because OF "busincss
complications.
President Grant denies the statements Of
Fisk about furnishing him and his friends free
tickets on his steamboat lines, and paying part
OF Gel. Grants subscription to CHARITY, &c.
The Baltimore and Bremen line Of steamers
will az once resume their trips-thc Berlin
leaving Baltimore on Wednesday next for
Bremen.
COMMERCIAL CoNvENT1ON,-Th Governor
has appointed the following gentlemen from
the Congressional Districts Of the State as dele
gates to the Southern Commercial Convention
which meets at Cincinnati Ootober 9TH lst
District, w, w. Walker. of Westmoreand
21; Col. J, ". Hinton, of Norfolk Sd. Thorn
as Branch, of Richmond; 4th, Col. W, w.
Wood, Of Halifax &. II. ; 9TH, Prof. Chas.-
Martin, Of Hampton Sidney 9th, John G.
10 Iler. OF Harrisonburg 7th, Col. John S.
Mosoy, OF Warrenton; Sth, Coloncl Rob
Trigg, of ChristiaDsburg ; and delegate from
I hn Statn Mt larrn Col N II MnSSia Of nha.