Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-09
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1870

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terings from other quarters, evidently rather
startle some of tho Radical managers. and the
devoted political friends of the administration
According to these articles, there is dissatis-
faction and disappointment, and there is nc
hesitation in expressing this, by severe com,
ments. We notice, therefore, that efforts have
been commenced, to stop any further divisions,
and to quiet the agitation excited by such
structures, by endeavoring to obtain at this time
manifestations 10 favor Of tho nomination Of
Gen. GRAFT for tho next Presidential term,
and to make it appear that Radical opposition
to him will be hopeless. Our present opinion
is that the nomination Of Gen. Grant as the
Radical candidate will be, as his first Domina-
ton was, matter Of necessity, for bis party.
To make change, now, it is feared, would
cause disruption '-however much it may
be desired by some the Radical politicians.
TO select another man, where there are SO
many aspirants, would be dangerous. Wheth'
er this consideration will produce any effect
upon the dissentients to who We have referred
Ut how long they will continue their present
censures and complaints, remains to be seen.
The State Journal quotes the recent homi-
eide 10 this place, committed by desperate
named Boswell. az the Legitimate fruit CT the
teachings Of those who declare on all occasions
that it is 10 crime ID kill colored person." We
lsVer heard OF sane man, in this State. who
.vowed, or held such an opinion. We believe
the white citizena If this State uphold the
legal lights Of the coored people, just as they
30 their own and have az much regard for
their safety and protection as DO the citiz us Of
any other State. No such teachings AZ are
referred to, wonld be countenaneed here
II is believed that the United States will
ship more wheat to foreign markets this fail
than j.: has done for several years It should
be remembered that notwithstanding the yield
ia France averages but about fifteen bushels 10
The acre. that country exports annually largely
to England. This season, however, France will
have to draw both upon the Engiisl. and
American markets. Itappears that France too
soon congratulated itself on tn: end I'll the
drought The recent rains, the cable informs us,
were light and only temporary.
la addition to the large fires at Manchester,
y. H., and Millerton, CAL. mentioned 10 a
paragraph under the head Of News CT the
Day there were destructive fires yesterday al
St Louis, where freight warehouse OF the
81. Louis and Fandala ard Illinois Central
railroad, and a lumber yard, were burned at
Pit,sburg, where large oil works were destroyed;
and at Rockville, Canada, where The machine
shops of the Rockville and Ottawa Railroad
were consumed.
The Senate Committee which thoroughly in
veAtigated the charges against Mr. Clapp, Con
gressional Printer, and heard great amount OF
testimony in relation to the management OF the
Government Printing Office, has prepared re.
port upon the subject, which completely exone
rates MIR. Clapp from all the charges, not one
Of which, in the opinion of the committee, has
been sustained by the testimony.
A meeting was held in Norfolk Yesterday
toconsider the proposed subscription of 81 ,0O0,.
900 to the Norfolk and Great Western Railroad.
The proposition was strongly endorsed. The
meeting was addressed ty several gentlemen ;
also by the now famous DR.. Bayne. OF Norfolk
who has figured largely, OF late. as politician
A large meeting has been held 10 San Fran
cisco, to protest against the introduction of aoy
more Chinese laborcrs. A census marshal
says that counting them as population, Cali
fornia is entitled 10 another Congressman.
Several hundred of them have left for Georgia
Among the freight received in Savannah,
July 3D. from Florida, we're three thousand six
hundred watermelons, all 10 splendid condition.
the majority OF which were placed upon the
market and sold at prices ranging from thirty
i've dollars to eghty-fve dollars per hundred,
The colored cadet at West Point, in a pub
lished letter, complains of his i'll treatment by
the white cadets. who, he says, snub him in
every possible manner, with an intention to get
him to resigo which he seems half inclined
to do.
1t is reported that President Mcguire, of
Georgetown College, ID. c., will this year be
Transferred to some other field Of labor, and
that another faculty will be ordered to the IN
sttutiOn between this and the 10th.
Sealed proposals for the exclusive right to
take seals on the Islands of st. Paul and St.
George, Alaska will he received by the Score.
tsry of the Treasury until noon on the 10th
July.
The President and his family are to spend
tue summer at Long Branch, leaving Wash
;opton on the 10Th or 10Th. The President
will come to Washington of and on, during the
summer, it is said.
Under the new currency Act Virginia will be
s,t;tlsd n an addiii0nal circulation OF 81 9l5,