Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-01-31
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Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
RICHMOND, Jan. 29, 1876.

Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
RICHMOND, Jan. 90. 1876.
1.-The press is mighty and will prevail says
Shakcspear or Gen. Bagwell, l forget which.
The wisdom of this remark has been shown to-
day. The resolution of MIR. t. Spicer Curlett
expelling the editor of the Evening Journal
from the House was to-day recoDsidered and
laid on the table, which is equivalent to voting
it down. Ex-Gov. Smith spoke long and ear
nestly in favor of the resolution. The fact is
there is life in the old land yet, and the old
Governor has DOT forgotten that the Journal
said his speeches cost the State five hundred
dollars a day, or in other words, that be talked
FIVE hundred dollars. worth aud the State paid
the bill. | am inclined to believe that both
ex-Goyernors agree with their former contem-
porary who thauked God that there were no
free schools or newspapers in Virginia
Ex.Gov. Smith has all the vitality and Vigor
Of bis early years, and when be returns home
his constituents can DOT say to him as Will De
said to some, "Where have you been for the
last three months?'
The last number of the London Graphic has
a fine cut Of Valentines recumbeut figure of
Lee, and also a neat and highly compliment
airy notice of the sculptor.
The attempt to repeal the charter of the
Southern Association for the benefit OF widows
and orphans" meets With some opposition.
| The association is lottery which has two
| drawings daily. Itsopponents allegc that very
little Of the money benefits the Southern Wild
ows and orphans, and that the dallylottery has
| a peroicious effect upon the growing youth 10
| this city. The matter was before the Com.
mlttee on Propositions aud Grievances this
morning Dir. Thomas Braude, the we'll known
| broker here, appeared and spoke 10 favor of
repeating the charter Of the institution, urging
that it was running the morals OF young men
here. Ex-Gov. Wise is the president of the
association, and followed Mr.. Brande in oppo:
sition to repeating the charter. He denounced
Mr.. Brandc in the harshest terms, saying that
he "belonged to that class OF money mongers
who are scarcely tolerated by society, and
whose whole object was money. lie SAID
Mr.. Brande was a member'of the church after
| the style of those men who look around and
cUdcaVOr to see which cnurcn Will pay pest LOT
them to Join. He also called Mr.. Brande "a
whiteucd scpulchre and Thanked God that he
(Gov. Wise) had never become so degraded as
to make bis living by the course followed by
such men, He said he was himself a mass OF
purifying sores aud full! of wounds, but at the
last day he would be as whole by the side OF
such a whitened sepu!chre as Mr.. Brande.
Both gentlemen are old men with snow white
hair, and this blow on the part of Gov. Wise
caused much sensation and amusement IN both
houses to-day.
The chairman of the House Committee to
investigate the case Of Judge Stevens is Mr..
Massey, Of Albemarle. Mr.. Massey is a retir-
cd munster, and it is suggested that he will
have very little idea Of how to examine into
such matters as games OF cards. This is no
committee on contested elections.
That House bill Tor returning penltentlary
%convicts to their bones alter their discharge
from that institution is a good one, and | am
glad to learn that it will probably pass. As 1t
is now the poor devil OF a convict is turned out
in the world without a cent oil money and often
without a friend in the neignborhood. he
may desire to reform but there is every induce
ment for him to resort to the devices that
brought him to the peDitentlary.
| will not say that the Senate committee In
the Knight Johnson cast will report Monday,
for they have been reporting tor so long a time
that we arc growing tired OF It.
Very dull here to-day. STR0NGBoW.