Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-02

THE San DOMINGO TREATY. Tho protoco
which was arranged in September last by Pres
ident Baez and Gen. Babcook, and which was
to have formed the basis Of the treaty which
followed. has excited considerable attention.
The clause in which General Grant "promises
privately to use all his influence in order that
the idea OF annexing the Dominican Republic
to the u. S. may acquire such degree of pop.
ularity among members Of Congress as will be
necessary for its accomplishment and in which
he offers to make no communication to that
body on the subject until no shall bo certain
that it will be approved by a msjority," is un.
favoraby interpreted in connection with the
influence which ho has endeavored to exercise
with Congress in favor of the purchase of St.
Domingo. 1t is, however, alleged in his be-
half that the so called protocol was drawn up
by the St. Domingo chief, BaeZ, himself; the
propositions were exclusively his; the ideas and
language Of the clause above quoted, promising
Gen. Grants Influence, were those of Baez, not
of Gen. Grant; the document itself was sim
le private paper for the information of the
President ard Secretary of State; it does nor
bear the official signature of either Babcock or
BacZ. and when it was laid before the Presi-
dent be Immediately rejected its propositions.
1t will be observed that ono OF the agreements
Of Gen. Grant, alleged in the above document,
is to send no communication to Congress until
he Is certain 1t shall b. approved by that body.
Yet lie did send in his communication to Con
grc!s when, as results have shown, so far from
certainty there was not much probability oil
such result. Baltimore San.
\ SALUTARY VERDICT Julius H. Hart
well, a financial king pin of Boston, market
manipulation whose operations have been on
colossal scale, including Wall and State streets
in their ramitcalions, Was sentenced by a
main five years in the Lenox Jail. Neither
wealth, nor family, nor social position. oor
financial prestige mitigated the sentence
Eminent counsel pleaded in vain that he had
previously borne good character. Judge Lo
well was infexible. and brought the full force
.! the law to bear upon the author Of the
State street Irregularities We he'll this YER
dict as an ausplcious omen. 1t means that
Boston, at least is determined TO regard and
punish crime as such, that reckless financiers
und smugglers cannot carry on their high hand
ed operatlons under the very shadow OF her
courts and snap their hngers ct tho authorities.
1t means that one Judge at least is determined
TO call things by their right names, and not to
regard downright rascality as shrewdness and
sharp practice merely. This severe punish
ment will unquestionably have salutary effect
10 our Wall street circles, where men have
criminal punishment being administered for
financial Irregularities i. Com.
Col. PICKETT VS. Col. FoRNEY. Col.
Pickett is out 10 caustic letter 70 Col. Forney,
in reply to an article published by the latter 10
Saturdays Chronicle. The postscript to Col.
Pckett's letter contains the following alluslon
10 Gen. Butler -
"P. ST. do not wish to take any liber ties
with the name of Gen. B. F. Butler, but he
told me in the committee room that he had
been a member of the "Order of the Lone
the same statement in the House of Represen
tatVcs. Now, we all know that Order repre-
sented the quintessence of flibusterism. Its
business was to organize those expeditions. As
member of that Order, Gen. Butler was an
accessory before tho fact, and dpartceps crtmlnls,
according to all the rules of law and logic.
Ergo, you call that gentleman pirate, robber
and murderer. j. H. P"
a Lively FALL.-A Kentucky paper tells
the following AT the Planters house, the
other night, one of the guests sat down in a
third story window to cool off, and falling
asleep, fell out. In his descent of sixty feet he
went through the roof Of woodshcd,. badly
shatterlng the whole structure, alighted on
/ porch, the floor OF which he broke and rolling
over, knocked over and badly twisted tin gut.
ter pipe. The police on that beat heard the
noise, ard thinking that safe had been blown
open rushed to the spot, when they found the
gentleman rubbing his eyes and yawning as if
he had just awoke from a refreshing sleep.
tie invited tho officers to take drink, and al
Ter putting about tour ounces OF old Bourbon
down his gullet, he retired to rest for the
night-this time to his bed Tn c next mora
my he appeared at the breakfast table as if
nothing had occurred, paid his bill after break
last, ard took his departure
A USEFUL TABLE-To aid farmers iu arriv-
J ing at accuracy in asocrtalulDg the amount OF
land in different fields under cultivation, the fol-
4 loving table is given by an agricultural cotem-
s porary: yards wide by 9GS yards long con-
j talns one acre: 10 yards wide by 4S4 yard 8
3 long contains ono acre; 20 yards wide by PAP
Il yards long contains one acre 40 yards wide by
III yards long contains one acre lG0 yards
u VIDE by 46i yards long contains one aero 22O
s ieet Wide by lGS feet long contains one acre;
u | III teet vide by 39G feet loug contains one
y acre tO fect wide by 72G feet long contains
& one acre.
ii ENGLISH HoUNDs.-Capt. VIM Ashton, Of
Lancaster, Eagland, who has purchased the
d farm OF DR.. Payne near Greenwich, 10 this
q county, brought over with him sixteen gen.
j nine fox hounds from the best Kennels in
q England. Since their arrival, the pack ha $
Il increased to %. They arc pronounced by iud
ID kes to be the finest animals of the kind 10
& this country.--R. Hm. 4adrocate.
81 Capt. Tom Leathcrs, of the steamboat
81 Natchez, has been trying the experiment of
u annlm'annEE time aud space by running his
81 craft from New Orleans to St. Louis in three
sd days twenty, one hours and fifty eight minutes.
81 It seems that in 1914 the steamboat ]. NJ.
M Mh'tG made the same trip in three days twenty
S8 lhrce hours and nine minutes Captain Leath.
s,S, It IS now supposed, is the champion of t he
B Mississippi.
IA From the first annpo r,nor. NJ .L. Ni,o;,