Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-27
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The letter is thenceiorwari maln!| d'V4'eG
To reconciliation Of President Ga!t' acts anc
utterapces ia the line OF inc called Sjulhs!a
policy. MIR. Chandler says. among ether
things: "As the policy OF the democratic parry
was to be carried out at the South, Southern
Con(ederaIc General, Mr.. d. Nj. Key, demo
crat who had opposed Hayes action and In The
Senate denounced lis title as fraudulent was
Amounted Postmaeicr General, and commenceo
the distribution of the Southern postothces TO
rebel democrats The negro murdercrs OF
Hamburg ard E!lcnton had been lodlctIdln tEe
| Federal courts OF South Carolina, but the great
and good Hampton appealed tor thc!f release,
| and it was accorded by the PRESIDENT III 'c'Iel
| of May H. granting general amnesty ~ neElo
murdcrers as political offenders. 10 make in'.
munity more certain, the policy OF appointing
| "a district ait, r1cy5 and marshals meu agreea
HE to the white people of the SoutE-:hht H.
democrats-was determined upon. Inc ap'
nointmcot of Northrop az District Attorney
ior South Carolina and Waldron as Marshal Tor
Tennessee arc referred to, and txfendcu CON
ment on that of Fitz Simmons as Marsha! Ior
| Georeia in place OF Smyihc, a competent anu
| honest republican, which was coLilrmed ny inc
| democratic Senators votes and the vote u!
| Stanley Matthews alone.
Senator GcrIon's Ic.tcr to w. A. Huff on
this subject is also reviewed at length. Mr..
| ChanI!c,, IN tho concluding portion or hls al
dress, uses the following IaOgulge:-
'In view of these lamcntabIc lac!s It Is INC
duty of true republicans to take prompt ana
courageous action. Silence is a crime; atp'llcs
cncc and inaction arc political death. Can the
republican party Of heroic achleVmcntsc be
bound 10 an administration which Is not lfGe
agent, but is bound by bargain to GencralS
Gordon, L. Q. z. Lunar, Wade Hampton anu
other Southern democrats now IN high oiliec
only through the blood of murdered repuo!i-
cans2 Does not every voter 10 the land kno"
that Hayes and Packard were elected slmuita
neously and held by tho same title, aod that
when Hayes abandoned and trampled dtWo
| Packard he put an irrcrievable stain upon his
own title? The republican party has lived
| long, and survived many assaults and many
| trcasons ouly because 1t has been party found
cd an high principles, animated by lolty sontl-
meDts, couragcousy acting up to noble conv;c
tons. Ift now dsgraces It's record and ca
dorscs or fails to repudiatc the Hayessurrender,
its voters will leave it by thousands, and Its
DAYS arc numbered. 1t will die deserved and
unhonored death.
Four MONTHS SCHOOLS AND OTHER CoUN.
TY MATTERS -We notice that, at recent
meeting in Alexandria county, Mr. Il. IL, Wind
sor advocated the restriction OF school session
| to four months. We ere little surprised as
this, for, though that gentleman Is bachelor,
and, therefore, stands 10 no personal need OF
schools, he is, by no means, crusty one. ana
we had thought his genial counenance would
have been irradiatcd with smiles, the whole ten
months, as he saw the little boys and glIlS,
white and black, vending their way to scheo!
with happy faces. We Irust the noble yuuOg
ones who frequent the little school house at
Fort Albany, have not been fretting him toto
bad hum0r (or we are sure he spoke hastily
when he advocated so short school term) by
stealing his apples and turDips, as some of their
brethren OF more advanced age doubtless do his
pigs and chickeus they have, let him ap.
ply to their teacher, aud We think The evil will
BE- corrected, and the issue of the ten months
schooling be a greater security lur pg pco5 and
hen roosts IN the next generation.
rS SSerkHn n speaking, however, Mr. " Indsor
months sessions were adopted no State money
could be applied to the support OF the schools,
and that it Is the very fact that tho scsSloLS arc
ten months long which has enabled the people
OF Alexandra equity TO dispense, entirely, With
private schCo.s, and 50 has rendered them the
best cOutcutcd with the school system OF any
in the Commonwealth. If the Sessions lasted
but four or five months, not only would tic
children be apt to forget 10 the seven or eight
months vacations what they had learned 10
them, but the teaching would be much iofcror
to that which they get at present The salaries
average, say forty dollars month; now, what
sort of teachers could b. had Tor a hundred and
sixty or even two hundred dollars year p
Alexandria county, oEc; ilitcratc, has tasted OF
the touotain Of knowledge; her young people
are all growing up intelligent and we'll educated
for their posts in life, and We arc sure her
school system will never be destroyed because
it cost a little money TO keep 1t up.
As to the removal Of the county scat, We do
not think it will be accomplished. BY reason
Of the speed and chcapncss Of public convey.
ance, Alexandria is more accessible to the CHI
zens of both tho lower and upper ends Of the
county than Arlington, and though the people
there may have some axes to grind, VIC do not
think the rest OF the inhabitants will furnish
the grindstoncs. 1t is true that they are heavily
taxed to keep up a big court house for which
they have 10 need; 80 they would bc-and
little more so-if they had q court house and
Jail Ct their own at Arlington. Their true rem.
edy is to arrange with the city. as tho Supcrin
tendent Of Schools suggested year or two ago,
fer the use of the city court house and proper
fire proof accommodations for their records near
it, iu return fur the occupancy Of the old court
house by the city for public school purposes.
If they want US to extend our limits so as to
iucludo them, We arc ready to do Sd, but we
fear they will not relish share of our big debt
to pay; 50 the best thing they can do IS to let
our boys have the big court house for their
schools, and 90 into partnership with US again
in the court business as they did 50 long and
with 80 little complaint.
The Eastern War.
TIE Servians under General LascEjaolo and
Denitzki, have occupied L,skovatz and kulz
hum!je aud captured quantity Of cattle and
provisions. A special from Alexinaz reports
that 10000 Servians with l20 guns arc Invest
iug Nlsch.