Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-04-27
ETTER FROM RICHMOND.


Gates has passed the Senate bill fixing the
times for holding the corporation courts. AS
heforc stated this bill fixes the second Monday
in each month for holding the Corporation
Court of Alexandria, and permits transfer to
its docket of cases reldiDg in the County
Court between residents of the city. The pas,
sage of this bill will enable Judge Lowe to
hold the first term of his new court OF the
second Monday OF next month and Will obVlate
Tho inrther necessity of the County Court.
The Legislature has gone to work in good
earnest with general business, the judges, with
The exception of two, having been elected.
The bill to prevent the sacrifice OF personal
property-a relief measure-Was considered 10
the Senate to day, end proposition to extend
the credit on sales to one and two years. voted
down by decided majority. The time on
which sales shall be made was then fixed at
twelve months and tho bill thus amended was
recommittcd but may probably pass in day or
two.
The House Joint resolution asking Congress
to extend the provisions of the Bank rupt act
ia reference to the fifty per ct. clause, was re-
reported from the judiciary Committee with
recommendation that it pass.
A bill for the protection of merchants and
| factors, was also reported.
A bill to Incorporate the Piedmont and 70
tomac Railroad company with substitute, was
reported.
The Committee on Courts Of Justice was
discharged from the consideration OF resoiu
| ton ipquiring whether towns having less than
5000 inhabitants can have Hastings Court,
| in being considered inexpedlent to lcgislatc
upon the subject at this time.
| ho n.
eral registration, providing that the reaistra
! ton books of cities, when completed, shall DC
placed 10 the hands of the clerks OF Hastings
| Courts for safe keeping, was introduced by Mr..
SnoTden and passed. The bill was also turth
or amended so as to allow but three day notice
of the time for commencing registration, IN,
stead otteo, as in some COUNTIES, the law could
NOT have been complied with in this respect.
| A bill to regulate insurance business and 10
surance agencies in the State, was referred.
| A bill to amend the law in regard TO the
nublic roads, and to adapt them to tine town
ship system was amended and postponed
| A bill to change the name Of the town OF
"Fairfax" to Culpeper, and to provide pe"
| charter for the same, was reported from the
| Committee on General Laws.
| A bill to incorporate the Catholic Beneficial
| Society of Alexandria was introduced and read
a second time. -,
| A bill to amend and re. cnac: an act entitled
an act to promote immigration into the State
| Of Virginia, was referred.
In the House of Delegates resolution was
adopted instructing the committee on boun-
darics to inquire into the status OF the coun,
| ties of Green brier Monroe, POcahontas and
| Mercer, over which the State OF West Virgl
MIA claims and exercises jurisdiction, and report
| whether or not the claims of the said State OF
| West Virginia to said counties is valid.
| The Committee on Courts OF Justice were
| instructed TO icquirc into the expedlency OF
reappcrtioning the State into Congressional
| districts.
4 bin was introduced md referred approprl'
| aticg 81 600 to assist in the removal OF the
| Confederate dead from Gettysburg to Holly,
| wood Cemetery.
| The bill to provide fjr general election was
considered until the hour OF adjournment.
| The Committee OF Courts OF Justice or the
Senate having mad uGder consideration rcso-
luton inuuirng whether the Mayors of cities
| that in their opinion the constitution does not
prohibit Mayor from exercising judicial func
| tons, if the authority is confined by Legislative
enactment, and it is understood that bill TO
| this effect will be introduced in day or two.
| Mrs. Matilda f. Joslyn Gage, Advisory
! Counsel for New York in the Nationl Women
Suffrage Association. has been granted per
| mission to lecture in the Hall Of the House OF
| Delegates
1t is understood that bill will soon be re
ported in the House for aboshing all compui-
sorry inspection, in accordance with the express.
ed wishes OF the Governor on this subject and
the earnest d,sire OF a large number Ot mcr-
chants and others Interested
The reported "intcrvicw' with Gen. Pickett.
who it vas stated in the papers had sailed for
Egypt, is pronounced, by the General, wholly
without foundation. The reporter was either
imroscd upon by some one who passed hlnset
off f)rtho Genera, Or he made the story out OF
the whole CLOTH His may friends are pleased
to know that tie General has not gone TO
Egypt, ard has no desire to quit his native
State.
"YoUR POLAND Pr remember, when our
army started Tor Washington, on the Bull
Run campaign. that Mr.. VIM. II. Russell, Of
the London Times, wrote to me a letter,
whereof the stiog was this question Nv hat
wliyou do with your Poland after you have
conquered it?' The answer that ros, to my
mind was, II truss that We shall berate our
Poles u Horace Greeley Fifteenth amend
mcnt speech.
But "our Poles nave not Decn llOcratcd
The United States government has treated
The South nearly as Russia treated Poland.
By one cncroachment after another she is
seeking to deprive it of all its nationality and
absorb it into itself. Indeed, this is the
threat and determination of the conquerers.
They have always declared it to be their in-
tention not to permit those people to partci
pate 10 the affairs of the government until
they have become thoroughly inbucd with
Northern ideas, Northern habits and the
Offices occupied by Northern, men. Alas for
poor Poland Our Poland.-ParkersJuy
Gazette.
The B. & o. R. r. Co.'S. proposition to
Commissioner DelaDo for ompromise in the
case Of the amount due by the company to tho
government for taxes, g., having been reject
ed, auother offer OF compromise was made by
the company, which was to pay $4,000 to
the Government as the 5 per cent. tax on the
s., 2OO,0 surplus earnings of the company,
nhiob op,nunt theu had uspd IN adding n