Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-12-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"7o shoe the uery age and holy Of the Times.

ITO shoe the rery age anu Oo'ty 0f me 1nseS
Yesterday the trial of Mrs. Wharton at An
napos obtained renewed interest from the
fact of the defence having commenced the ex-
animation of their witnesses The first witness
examined was Mr. Cleary, Of the firm Of Lati
mer Il Cleary, auctioncers, Washlnrton who
testified as to his interview with Gen. ketchum
aud Mr.. Carusi in his office on the 18th OF
June last. The two colured women, who were
Mrs Whartons servants IN 'lune ana July
last, were then examined.
In the u. S. Court at Columbia, S. G., yes
terday Mr.. Stanberry moved for new trial
in the case OF Mitchell, on the ground that the
Ku-klux conspiracy eliminated March e, 1870,
and was sought to be punished under the law
enacted April 20, 1871. lie also moved an ar
rest of Judgment Oh the ground OF uncunstltu-
tionality of Ku klux acts The case Of Brown
and Miller, alleged ku klnx, were taken up,
and Brown pleaded guilty.
Burglars sometimes meet with most uneX-
pected receptions, and the dangers Of their
trade are not small The body Of ''BiIly'
Healey, noted burglar, was yesterday found
in the brass foundry of Geo /. Parker, in New
York. with load of shot from Il gun trap in
his side. He had met his death while rngag-
ed in a burglary.
President Grant yesterday received a dis
patch from Covington, stating that his father,
Mr.. Jesse r. Grant. is recovering from his
sickness, and is cpnsile. ed Ly his physicians 10
DO out OF danger.
Cardinal Amat di San Fiilipo Esorso, Bish-
% of Palestine and Vice Chancellor of the
Church. is dead. He was elected to
the CardinaIate in 1887, and died Yesterday at
the ripe old are of IS years.
The Washington Patriot has long account
ment against Gen. Grant. for s. 01O. (balance
due since Mexican war Il settlement OF which
has not yet been obtained.
The extensive property of the New York
Printing Company recently seized by the Sher-
If, and bought by the Ocean Bunk on pro-
tested note for $lO9, 800 81, will be >"ld At pub
lie auction next Friday, january ;.
VIM. a. Whitaker, postmaster at Bowling
Green, Wood county, Ohio has been arrested,
charged with cmbezzling uonry-ordcr funds.
He was held III 81 500 bail to answer the
charge.
At the sale Of a large amount Of anthracite
coal at New York yesterday, prices were from
five to twenty cents per ton less than u month
ago.
On Sunday evening the residence Of j. c.
Ward. in jacksonville. six miles from Cincin-
natl, was entered by burglars, who distracted
from trunk $50 in bank notes.
Mr.. James l.. IIackeft the veteran actor,
10 lying dangerously i'll ut his residence AZ ia
uaica Long Island.
One of the New York city banks has been
swndled out Of s40,0UD in the purchase OF
forged business paper III open market.
All trains on the Central Pacific Railroad
east Of Sacramento are running on time. The
damage to the road by the storm Was slight
CARPET BAGGEKS 1t seems to be THE
style" to affect to believe that this term Of just
opprobrium is applied in the Sourh t" all North
ern men who visit the Southern States. 10 mat
ter whether they go in the pursuit Of legitimate
enterprise, or whether having left their c"un-
try for their country good, they go to other
lauds for the goods Of other people. like unto
; those who accompanied licentnus English
monarch from Germany TO England, and, be-
coming alarmed by the angry dt mun>tratlons Of
the popuIace around their carriage, exclaimed.
my dear peoples, we couc here TOR all your
goots.' 1t would have been quite as Just to
confound all the Germans. of high and low de-
gree who have ever visited England, with these
female carpet baggcrS, as to pretend that the
Southland the North. too, vide, the New
York Tribune )-aupes that term alike to
respectable Northern men who settle within
Southern borders and to the birds of prey from
the lends of the earth who have followed the
battle to feast upou the carcases which it has
left. Before the wal, the phrase carpet Dagger
; was never heard of, yet before the war many
Northern men had settled in the South, though
perhaps not as many, according 10 the census
reports, as of Southern men who had settled in
the North Such Northern men as Berrien. OF
Georgia. were sent to the United States Senate.
S. 5. PreutisS, of Mississippi elected to Congress.
and made popular idols. In every department
Of Southern enterprise which a Northern man
entered he was valued according to his person
al worth, neither more nor less, and As fair 4
field was given to him as to any other man.
But, since the war. t,rO classes OF Northern
men have gone to the South, one Industrious
. farmers, merchants, and the like--votng and
expressing their honest opinions in politics.
aud taking their Legitimate part, as other clt
zens, and these have been everywhere treated
lust as the same class was before the war But
f there has been another and quite different
set, to whom the term ''carnct-bagger has been
applied, and in sense that every honest man
understands. This class consists Of mere adrcn-
turerS, who have gone to the South to get the
Offices aud, at the same time. the money of
the people; to tasten. like leeches, on the blood
vessels of the body polite, and never to drop
off except from repletion: and instead of add
, ing to the productive industry of the people, to
consume and squander the fruits OF that indus
try without even as much as making an effort
to render any return. II is to these who, Ike
the lemans of the English king referred to-
come for all the goots' Of the people, that
the term carpet dagger has been justly applied
The spasmodic efforts they make to get rid Of
the obloquy. by seeking to contound honorable
Northern men with themselves, is about as
senseless as to represent Christopher Columbus
and Capt Kidd as alike carpet baggers. -
Ball. Sun.