Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-12-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

At the National Tobacco EXCHANGE banquet
in Richmond On Tuesday, Gov. Walker made
specch advocating reform in the revenue /
We stated that he was dsily, in the rtceip: Ct
letters asking why Virginia could not pay the |
Interest on her debt. He thought that SO soon
as the operous burden CT Federal taSation was
lifted from her shoulders she would be able 10
pay tic interest promptly. -.-.....-..
The Richmond city Council has abolished
,he Office Of Messenger to the Council (thcrety
cnttinr Isaac H. Hunter coIured adritt). AIT!
created the Office OF JaDitor Of the City Hall,
10 which place. at a salary Of 5 900 year,
Mr.. 3. +. August was elected.
In tho Court Of Appeals on Tuesday, Bever,
" against Walden Decree of the Circuit
Court of Fauquar reversed. Judge Christian
delivered the opinion oil the coGrt
Thare was 4 Slight la! OF Stow st Echmand
Oh Wednesday,.
TOO MANY OFFICERS. Before The waF we
had only some thirty officers III this county
We have now about Two hundred. Our present
form Of State Government is highly otjectlou-
able ia this particular. The sooner ne ge. back
to, or GEAR he ante belium form OF government,
the better Tor tic people. People are taxed
t. death IN this State 20 iattcn an army q
ofiica- holders. What it takes 10 pay our otlce
holders and furnish their steaIingS Tor three
years, would detray the cznenscs Of a co"vc9
lion, Dpwa with tho piundetiDg and awiEd-
ling system. -GneaJrir Independent.
Our Greenbrier contemporary heads lev
ci' on that s..hi2c; and what II truo OF vest
Virginia 10 equally 50 OF old Virginia. We
have too many officers, and too many clceti"rs,
and sc hope to sec u convention called in this
State, and the constitution remodcl'fd at the
earliest practicable moment. -LoHdoun Hr
TOf.
WAsn1HGToN ITEMS Fred. Douglass, c)l.
orCd, is spoken OF as the Radical candidate, at
the next election, Tor Mayor OF the city.
\ submarine cable has bcen laid across the
:Anacostia river, connecting the fire aud po;ico
telegraph alarm Of the city with the 1nsane
Asylum.
MIR. s. L. Starkie. clerk in the sixth audi
tor 5 office, was attacked IN the upper END OIL
the third ward by three colored men, who
knocked him down and rifad his pockets Ct
$50
In Consequences OF t1c change Of grade in
Fifteenth street. The National Metropolitan
Bank, known AS tho old Bark CT the Mctrcpo-
liS, is undergoing extensive alterations, which
will give the front of the bulldog quito new
appearance
". ". Corcorau is rapdly recovering from
his recent injuries lie was able to be at his
office to day.
JUDGE BOND, U. S. Circuit Judge, cane
hcrn ass summer, it was said, at the Instance
OF Gov. Holden. TO invcstigate the burgln case
After keeping Bursin IN all Tor TWO or three
months, lie released him on Monday night last
without letting the sheriff or the Counsel Tor
the prosecution known of it, unit! after the phi
soner had lett and got beyond the boun1s OF
the State. On "Wednesday at 3 O'Clock his
Honor delivered his OPTION in the Burgln case,
in which The partisan feeling 0! the JudG': Is
as visible as it is in his conduct in secretly re.
leasing him. -Ra7>i0h Sentinel.
GENERAL AMNESTY. Some o! the Presl
GcGt' ;; friends express concern that ne Gio not
meet their views and Recommend general am
ncsty Il is supposed he has tccn Thoroughly
Influenced BIZ Texas and Georgia Radicals, Who
uau. nothing OF ia, kidd until after the cleo
ton jn those States. No les; than three b!!!S
ioY general alnnes!: have been prepared. ~
trcn4 RaGicais say the election OF arcc, Us.
Senator !:GrI North Lar0iaa. has damaged the
,r;sp:c.S ct auJusS:y -0,h". But all tnis ii
iut ge-:iecause Vance or ~ Vance, those VINO
are opposed 10 amnesty vii! continue their
opposition.
Prosecutions hicssrs. Win. II. Jarvis,
James Deator, =. &. Hatcher, and Irwin +.
Hoag, Of Petersburg, have been arrested (thc
first two for the second timc) on the charge OF
violating tic enforcement act.
It is time this persecution was stoppcu.-
Let the General Assembly pass n" punish
ing BIZ tina and imprisonment every man csc.
ccrn:i in q c.,Iseicss arrest and persecution ot
orr nucpc. The thing would suNn be stopped.
The enforcement act is 81 clearly unconstitu
ilo1al that it deserves on;y to be 'iespised.--
Richmond Dispatch.
COMMUNICATED.
observe that You frequently call attention
10 tho gTcst Importance OF oar citiZtns patron
!Zng their own merchants, and whenever 1t IS
possible. making their purchases IN A!exan-
dria An impartial trial would satisfy ali, that
all articles eau DO purchased here rs lo| Hs II
eDy nf.tbe adjacent cities. Our dealers require
encoura:clnent to cnabla them to keep large
stocks By buying az home We are helping
OFT ucighbors- and there is no truth tnurc
frequently realized than that N hcipIog oar
friends We are indirectly helping ourselves.
NATIVE.
COMMUNICATED.
| would like to ask the Superintendent Of
Po:ica, Why il is, that certain owners OF dwell
iings on klog street, eau obstIuct the sidewalk
with impunity. in the face OF u prohbltory
law, while others doing the same thing are
fioed under that law ? and why these same par.
ties arc permitted to hang out their wares lie
yond The limit prescribed b. law, thus shutting
out from view other men s places Of business,
and yet to put horse post 10 front OF my door