Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-04-14


the Cabinet today.
No dispatches of importance have come to
hand ct the Executive mansion from New Or
leans this morDiog.
1t is positively stated 10 high official circles
that the Presidents policy 10 regard to Lousl
ana will not be different from the policy lie has
already adopted concerning South Carolina.
There is considered to be authoritative Dior
nation that the troops will DOT be allowed to
support either of the rival governments Of Lou
isiana, and that their withdrawal from New
Orleans may be confidently expected at an
carly day.
AT THE PRESIDENTS HOUSE.
A number Of persons had audience with
President Hayes to day, bat 10 delegation from
Virginia.
The Police Board Of Mashinutou were adj
mtted to an audience about clock, 10 which
the pending inGrogii0 10 relation to that Board
vas talked over.
\ woman FROM the North. Tho had be2n be-
fore the President tt urge her c!alma tor
place aud been disappointed, mad, the house
ring with lamentations over her diaaHp3iat-
ment, declaring that she had III nlran3 to pay
her board or 10 leave the city, and that some,
thing must be done for her. Her Tears and
oulcry attracted but little attention from the
dozens OF callers 10 the auto room.
a PATRIOTIC OFFER.
The Postmaster General has al offer by tclc-
graph from q New \ ork patriot to take an
Office at $1,000 per aunum, aud give 81 900
OF it to the poor. lie says ~ i guarantee Of
good faith The 5 900 may b. reserved nuI Of
his salary.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A delegation of the Society of Friends from
LoulOuu county visited the President ycstcr-
day in company with Co.. hlosby and Coz.
Brady, OF Norfolk After au iptrOluctioa by
Col. Mostly, they told Mr.. Hayes they were
in entire sympathy with his Southern policy,
and trusted he would be firm 10 executing it.
They assured him OF their support, though
they had not heretofore been able to support
the republican paytyia Virginia because OF the
character of the men controlling it. They had
no personal favors to ask, but hoped lie would
realize the wisdom Of recognizing the oallvc
republicans OF Virginia.
There will be an Immediate reduction Of the
| force of employees in the Burea OF Printing
and Engraving OF the Treasury Department.
aud with this exception there will be no other
changes, either appointments, removals or pro
motions. until the lst OF May.
Col. D. N. Chamberlin, u. S. Special Agent
| Internal Revenue, Vermont carpet Dagger,
has been discharged by Secretary Sherman.
| Thus the carpet baggers 20
At \ CALICO PARITY Blauc, the resi-
dcoce of Mrs. NJ. M. Marshall, is snugly ncs-
lied under the Little Cober' nountain, q
spur of the Blue Ridge, 10 upper Fauquier,
and there, on tho night of the 9Th inst, [ at
tended calico party Not tie least pleasant
moments were those passed 10 getting there
the ride through the mellow spring evening.
The guests began 10 arrive about dark, and, by
| hsi.past eight, the ball was 10 motion. Ii we
were previously possessed Of any doubts that
calico is made for women, they have been Dow
| aud finally set at rest; and We arc also c0nTlDO
ed that the American woman is an artlst-the
| highest development of geDlus-WhGu the task
before her is to make herself look pretty and
| bcwitcblHg. No matter how cODvcutl0GaiIy
poor aud mean the material may belt will under
the delft fingers of the girl going to Il party Be .
robe lit 10 grace Cleopatra or Mary Queen OF
Scots Such, at least, was the idea that ii ash
cd across our mind when, at Mt. Blaze, We
| first glanced into the dancing rooms aud saw
the groups Of fair women, each and all look
| ing
All well, new? mind
Since. to picture their beauty, no words | can
| lind.
The men (sa7c a lew stad Old felloHsl as well
| as the ladies' wore calico, but II was not quite
SO becoming to masculine beauty, and the sight
OF gawky adolescence 10 pea. grcan aud lemon
| color, and flaming red aud sky blu, etc., was
amusing, ii it wasn't pretty.
Ehnrn il macmillan vim :. inrunt II;lDnrl Ot all
| else mundane save the work 10 hand, in Firgin
| ia dance, even Of the 'propcrest' kind; but,
| when you clothc that spirit ia calico, when you
do not letter it with carleton trains and illusion
scartfi, or smother ii in still silks and brotades
| III word when y1u do not force the Virgin
! ia girl to thi1k more of her dress than Of her
| lun,-then you see dancing, aud quite c)n-
vinced are We that Terpsichore, from her nook
| 10 EIysium, smiled-as only goddess can
sniIe-upon her dcvotees at Mt Blauc,
Oh, how they went ct it
and how they kept it up
mo sleep till morne,"
was the motto; and, the only pause was 5uW
one, for the thoughtful hostess had prepared a
dainty supper, to which all did ampla justice.
With renewed vgor the dance went 90; and
ere the odd Virginia Reef was finished, the
first faint blush oil dawn was seen beyond the
hills. Then, with the crescent Of the waning
moon hanging low in the east, and The nilsiS OF
morning on the mountain tops, and the orient
atlamc with the banners Of the sun, came the
rc.mount, and the gay cavalcadh swept at 4
rafting caatrc down the road, hOmeward.
There were merry adicux, by The way, from the
glad young hearts Of the jewellers.
But, reader, dear (lGr, why should dnythtng
be written unless We eau point moral,
livery rose has its thorn''-l rode q mule.
And yet. again, "Eyery thorn has lis rose -
HeJe role JeSalc me
Markham, Va, April 10, 1871.
There was thorough panic on the Paris
boursc shortly after the opening to-day, in con.
senuence OF the War.like aspect