Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-06-15
Congress.


Committees report GU the bill to wind up the
affairs of the Freedmen's Bank was concurred
ia, The TRANSPORTATION Committee made an
upfavorable report Oh the House bill for ship
canal at the mouth of the Mississl ppi, accom-
| named with provision for the appointment
| by the President of Board of Engineers to
survey the river and decide upon the pest
method for the improvement OF Its navigation
The House bill for compelling the Pacific rail-
roads to pay their debts to the Government
was passed. The House announced by message
| its rejection of the Currency bill reported by
the Committee, und, after some dscuss'on' q
new committee was ordered. Mr. Eimunos
and Judge Thurman spoke OF It as being q
waste of time aud labor to go over the hnauclai
business again. and wanted to have 1t dropped
for the session, but they were uverruled.
In the House of Representatives the Senate
amendments to the bill repeating moletes were
nonconcurred in, and Conference Committee
was ordered. The Currency bill Was rejected
by vote of los to 1885, aud new committee
APPOINTED. The Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill was taken Up, aud MIR. Coburu moved that
| the amount for the continuation OF work at
present 90 the new department buildings at
| Washington should be cut down to $50, OOO. A
collcouy arose on this poiDt, in which Mr.
Spccr limited that Mr. Platt was interested III
the stone contract, which insinuation Mr.. Ptatt
repcllcd Mr. Coburn's motion was rejected,
bat subsequently $4,000 was fixed as the SUM-
The appropriation for furniture Tor buildings
under the control of the Treasury Department
was cut down to $l5O,OOO. Another amend,
ment strikes down the whole system OF Civil
Service Reform by rep"aiing the law tor the
appointment of the Commission, III place Oi
which it was provided that appointments 10
the Government employ shall be made from
Congressional districts, aud that preference
shall always be given to honorably discharged
soldiers and sailors, or the widows OF those de-
ceased.
THE PETERSBURG OUTRAGE.-The Balti-
more American (Rcpublican) says: "Platt and
StowcI a couple of Republican Congressman
from Virginia, have maliciously raised fool
,sh and unnecessary alarm at Washington that
Government officials 10 Petersburg are IN dan
ger because Of the arrest by Federal authority
of State election officers on the charge OF vio-
lating the enforcement law. They have strlveu
| to make it appear that the safety OF the Gov
ernncnt officials required the presence Of Uuit.
| ed States troops, and endcavored to have them
ordered out. United States Marshal Ramsdell
was in Petersburg on Saturday, and saw no
reason why the troops should be brought there.
As the question Of employing them IS lett to
his discretion, it may be presumed that Flat
aud Stowell will not be gratlicd 10 their expec'
tations Of getting up riot, IN when they
might represent their friends as being assault
ed by the rebels.
The Petersburg Index says: ut is said that
even the defeated candidates on the Radical
ticket were willing Saturday to forward dis
patch to President Grant at Washington, set
ting forth that there was no violence nor dlsor
der here, and that no occasion existed tor the
presence of Federal troops" :
The Richmond Wing says: :" The trial OF
the arrested Petersburgiaus resulted as was an
ticipated Not ia particle of evidence was ad
duced to 90 to show any attempt at fraud up
on the part Of the judges of election or any ell
fort made to intimldate voter.
The Petersburg correspondent of the Rich.
mond Dispatch writes of the persons who 10
stigated the arrests of the judges: The men
believed to have instigated the whole outrage
are of VIGOROUSLY infamous character
FAUoUIER COUNTY ITEMS = From the
Warreuton Iudex. The Commencement ex-
ercses at Bethel Academy will commence on
the Oath Judge Thomas Smith will deliver
the annual address. The orators of the Wash
ington Society are NJ. S. Pitts, medallst, D.
E. Mason and j. A. Strayer. The orators OF
the Lee Society are W. B. Settle, medalls', }.
p. Crawford and L. ( Tavener. The Wash
ingtcn essayist is j; r + lmonds medai!st
The Lee essayist is Z f. Walden, medalist
The yaledictorian of the Washington Society
is A. B. George Of the Lee Society j. G.
Weedou. Rev. J. c. Scott of Warrenton will
deliver the vaiedlctory SERMON to the two So
cieties and the Young Mems Christian Associa
ton Oh the 2lst.
H. Z. Bayiy's mare, "Bee of Fauquier, "
won the balf-mile- and-repeat race al Manassas,
on the 9Th, over Lady Love-" owned by +.
". O4key On the 9th Mr. BayIy's mare
was beaten in closely contested mile-heat by
wv ashington Buy" owned by Bergdorf Il
Bro
The trains on the Warreuton Branch, will
hereafter connect with the Southern Saturday
evening South bound train from Washington
and Alexandria, and also with the North bound
Monday morning train from points West and
South of GordousVille.
A camp meeting, under the joint control OF
Warrentou Station and Piedmont Circuit, Bal
timore Conference, will be held az the Eau
quicr White Sulphur Springs, about the mid
die or august.
Mr. Joseph Black wells house near Bethel
has lately been stoned at night. On one occa
sion window pape Was shivered by pistol
shot The perpetrators are known, but the
evidence to warrant conviction is not com plete.
THE F. O. & G. R. R-A meeting of dele
gates from the counties Of Spotsyivaus, Orange,
Madison, Green and Albemarle, and from Fred !
ericksburg and Charlottesville, was held iu
Charlottesville on Friday last, to consult upon
the best means of com pleting the Frcdericks-
burg, Orange and Charlottesville Railroad. B.
j. Barbour, Of Orange, was chosen chairman,
and Messrs. W al!ace Of Orange, and Goodrich,
of Fredericksburg, secretaries. Resolutions
were adopted, looking to the appointment of
committees to ascertain the feeling of the citi |
zens of the several counties through which the
road would pass, the amount necessary to com
plete it, &c and report at a meeting to be |