Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-10-23
a. Fl. eE. Stuart Oh iic Gurreuc7.

Mr. a. J.. II, Stuart, II lcu:Y 10 card C
the StauDtoH Spectator, requesting Lin 10 R|vt
biz views ca the currency qua"t"7, "!tcs q
Letter, ia which he says:
"Wo arc suffering every day ;r5Ea h ,.a:rc.iit
that has beer brought UPON cur STATE By hcr
refusal to meet her just obisaIIoDs. |! to this
we now add the evils If 2 ti:Si!vH3$ $ aGd GG
} graded currency, no man can i1rot"it Tia tT:I.
which must eDsua.
TIE people cannot have forGo;tcG th,ir &.
pereuca 10 regard 10 Confederate money. 10
they want TO repeat the experiment il ;h:t
KIDD Of currency? | (arcg ror. Bat Il thay do
tbeu let them give cluntcraraa 70 lie greek
back taliacy, and food the c2ua;ry ;siIh te
notes CT itrespor s!bio State hai.l.a nh!cA vii!
not pass fifty miles from their place oi ls:uc.
Bad as the Confederate money wGs, The Coz
rcGcratc Coner:Es, even uGdcr The pressure Ui
d great civil war, never dared 70 make HoD!eG.
crate uctcs legal tender. N3bO!y vas Do.
PEELED to receive thcm unless he chose 10 do so.
But the avowed purpose OF The erccu!aei;
party IS, not ouly to dilute the currency uuiii
lis real vaIna will not be mere than twenty
or twenLy.Gv c2nts il The dollar, bat also
to compel everybody TO receive !: &c i
it we're worth dollar The il ns lee Of this
must be obvious &c every one. 1t is rcput ia-
ton disguised uaGrc 2 very fimsy Vel.
~ dcbaseG AID i!1clua:lng currency nay suit
tho purposes Of i0soivc2: dct!or:, u irgkcrs
shavers and others WIG deal 10 money AID
make large profits by tbtr t.aiiic, bIs it viii
not suit steady going farmers and real men OF
business AID the laDoItcg mar. When the
farmer sells bis wheat or corn, or the Eaboring
man does his days work he wants the price Ct
his grain or the wages OF his labor, 10 gold or
silver dollars, or 10 notes which lie can, ut his
pleasure, convert into gold aEd slivc! uoi!ar9. 1"
Mr.. CoRCoRAN INsULTED. The Washing
ton correspondent Of the Baltimore Gazattc
says:
"Dr. j. Z. Blake, OF TIC Wa>Ilustnn M.
lional Monument Society, has addrcsscda let
ter to the President, making complaints against
Col. Thomas t. Casey, Commissioner Of Pub
lie Buildings and Grounds, OF conduct uaEe
coming 40 officer and gentleman. Il is re-
ported that Mr.. W. ". Corcorau, CT the joint
commission Appointed by Congress to complete
the monument, Will also prefer similar charges.
Mr.. Corcnrsn claims that tho colonel yesterday,
on the public Streets used the most ungeEtlo-
manly language toward hin in consequence Of
his refusing to approve Of the appointment of an
CT army officer and friend OF tho colonel ss lore
man st the monument, ut salary O. 5 SO9 por
annum, Mr.. Corcoran contcndlng that the funds
appropriated were for the COM lc.on Of the
monument and not for paying exorhi.an! sal.r-
should BIO paid 81 per day, which dl2p!castd
Colonel Casey.
So CALLED SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS ---i'ltc
New York Herald says:
''Sonebcdy with good loud voice ought 10
get up on high stump and tell the people
OF tho South what democrat is. Is a Wild
infatlonist ike Voorhees, a democrat? Ii 50,
General Gordon, Of Georgia, and Genera! Nor
gap. Of ALBANIA, aud. for the time bting, MIR.
Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, arc good enough
democrats. But if Senator Bayafd and Senator
Lamar and MIR. Scheicher Of Texas, aad Mr..
Gibson, of Louisiana, are democrats, as We
have always supposed, then these other gen.
tlemen belong somewhere else. They ought to
ioin the ereenback party or set up q little party
Of their OVID.
A HUSBANDS REMoRsE-Williain B.
Cooper, nephew Of the distinguished author,
]. Fcnimorc Cooper. committed suicide q few
days since in New Utrecht, l.. l., by taking
poison. 10 one Of his pockets was found 4
paper signed by Cooper, saying life was burden
to him; that he had been "ropcd into Z GRIM
nal intatuation Tor woman, and asserting that
bis wife, who recently died quite suddenly, was
poisoned by party whose name is withheld.
who had two accessories, all of whom are said
TO be women residing 10 Brooklyn. N. 7.
Cooper claims that he did nothing to cause his
1ife's death except neglect
It,. IL (t-,,
disease will overcome the baby and then it il
hat DR.. Bulls Blby Spuo p:Cvcs its worth
~ cosqucrlug the disease. Price % cents G
bottle.
Your friend Your ruIse and Dealhanl' i |