Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-21

| pass, but be was 40 innocent man, very wrong
fully accused, aud when all the facts came to
light he was completely vindicated. Men do
queer things, and It's to be hoped Mr. Hall
will make enough to justify him 10 abandon
ing such au honorable profession as that of the
| law.
Although number Of years q resident of
this city had lever visited one of the old
haun,s of this Metropolis uuti invited by
Southern friend to lunch with him at odd
Toms" where amid the cob webs of century
we partook OF as good roast beet as ever was
served. This old place is 90 the north side of
Thames street, between New Church and
and Temple streets, and but step from old
Trinity Church. Ii was 10 times past the re-
sort of macy distinguished men-Dickens,
Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant,
and others, we're frequent visitors. Garibaldi
when candle maker 90 Staten Island often
luncbed there, and Louis Napoleon when So
journe1 at Hoboken, often spent hours in this
quaint old place, where the genius of dingi-
cess, cob-webs and SCOT, regns supreme, and
this place now, almost forgotten by the pres
ent New Yorker, was most favored resort
1t the walls ccu'd but talk what tales they
could tell.
Weddings are numerous. On one day lately
three took place in one OF our churches
With the exception of ball al Delmonico' s
on Wednesday we hear of no gaiety. Our
people don't feel 10 the humor for mirth when
SO many of their friends are 10 trouble, maoy
not knowing where they are to get enough to
pay for bread Still It's the world all over.
one half laugh while the other half mourn,
| Business is still very dull. May the Ceuten-
NAL bring us some good. ORMoND.
| solutions.
The current resolutions which Senator Nc.
Donald, of Indiana will offer 10 the Seoate at.
ter the holiday recess as substitute for those
recently submitted by Senator Morton, and of
which he has given notice, have not yet been
perfected, and therefore could not be present
ed to day. The following is rough draft OF
them, containing the substance thereof, though
tie phraseology may be changed somewhat be.
fore their presentation to the Senate
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Rep
resentatlves concurring, That the people of the
United States constitute patton and are one
people 10 the manner only, and 10 the extent
the amendment thereto
and achieved their independence, and the Fed
eral Constitution was formed aud adopted by
the several States formerly comprising the
COME eracy, and called the United States of
America, the chlef purpose Of which Was to
form more perfect union, establish Justice,
Insure domestic tranquility and provide Tor the
common defeuce, anu the powers not delegat.
ed by 1t to the United States nor prohibited
by 1t to the States, were reserved to the States
!. respectively and to the people.
Resolved, That as the States were at the
time OF the formation and adoption of the Fed
eraI Constitution each sovereign, free and to-
dependent, except in so far only as such SOW
erclgnty had been expressly delegated to the
Congress by the Articles of Confederation, the
rights reserved to the States and 10 the people
in the formation of the Federal Government
were sovereign rights, which cannot be i'm pair
ed without usurpatlon, and the ouly safe rule
by which TO administer the Federal Govern
ment with respect to the rights of the States
and the people is strict construction of the
Federal Constitution and the amendments
thereto, and the assumption Of no doubtful
y power.
| Resolved, That 10 the formation of the Fed
eral Government it was the clear design TO
leave each State, and the people thereof, SOW
erelgD as to all matters of local or domestic
concern, and to confer upon the Federal Gov
ernment sovereign powers as to such matters
as might affect the general welfare of all the
States, or as might be necessary to secure do.
nestle tranquility, which powers are defined 10
the Federal Constitution and its amendmeots.
The people of the Uuited States, therefore,
from the nature and character of their Gov.
ernments, State and National, and from their
relation to each, are not national unity" in
the ordinary sense Of that term.
Resolved, That it being the design to make
the Government formed under the Fedora
Constitution perpetual, the right of any State
or any number Of States to secede from the
Uoloo was not reserved, and so far as such
right has been claimed to exist, it should be
deemed forever settled against it by the results
of the late civil war
Q. u o. CANAL.-A letter from Cumber