Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-19
NUT amount TO a fun worthy the coniide-
ration ofeyery one who TILES himfelf
AN AMERICAN.

Never was there pub!ilhed document that
gives fuch an official record of prcAigacy Of
manners. The numbers ofisgifimate births
isI7, s66 the number OF iltgitimateb births
is ,q7e. So that the number of The lat
ter deicriptionis little lefs than fourth OF
the whole! The number of marriages IS
1850; divorces, 748, or about fifth.
Its reedlrfs toeommeat on fuch fate
of Society. Morality is poiioned IN is
very fource the domefic fate is aboiilh-
ed !. the fchool of all the virtues, all the
relations, charities of life, is deRroyed
FROM THE BesroN cENTINEL.
Mr.. Ragsl,
ANY mac, who has attentlvely OBJ
ferved the fate and coaduet of parties in
this country for eight years paf, matt have
heen truck with the numberlefs miIrepre-
fentations and falfehoods by which the ia
collins have deceived portion of the peo-
pie, and blinded them TO their true inter
efts. Bnt never, until the preleni admin
ftratior, have we feen anattorney general,
an influential member of congreis, and O.
theirs high in authority, guilty. Of direct
Measurements and fat equisocations. A
party iupported by fuch means, maa be
bad indeed.
| read with aaoni(hment the concluion
ola report on the fubjett of Naval oeitss,'
sc. which was prefented &c Congress on
the 18th day of April, by Dr.. michel,
chairman OF The committee 10 whom was
referred that part Of the Prefident's mef-
fage, which related TO this object. The
committee fay, that 10000 dollars and
oz Cents had been expended preyiou, to
the 4th Of March, 1901, 10 purchafing ma
Wy yards and improving them without any
law authorizing the pugchaie or appropri-
ating the money.
Now / think aatement Of facts will
convince any candid, liberal man that the
pa9 administration had the powerto make
the expenditures, and that a much larger
fun might have been legally expended in.
the fame way.
When Congrefs frf ordered the build
ing of frigates, no law paaed authorizing
the hire Of Navy Yards yet feyeral yards
was hired becaufe it was conldereo, and
juRly conGdered as incidental to TIE order
TO build and we find that Congrefs in.
leyeral laws, as far back as March 18th,
I7eS, appropriated money for falaries OF
navy fore keepers, and rents OF the yards.
BY law paAsd March I'd, 1899, two
fums are appropriated for the contingencies
sftbe May, oneof $4,000, and another
of one million four thouiand five hundred
dollars; by another law paaed May 10,
1900, Copsrefs appropriated for ccntin-
CERT expences of the navy, including ex-
pence of navy fore at Philadelphia, and
for making good Deficiencies in former ap-
preparations, and for like expences at Bof-
ton, Newport, sc. $4,000 dollars.
Now by theie laws the Secretary ofthe
Navy, under the Preddent, had the diff
poiai of large fum Of money, and he tho't
il cheaper TO buy Navy Yards at Portf-
mouth, and other places, than to hire them
at great expence, particularly as flores
were neceGary, which were erected at the
colt of the government. Great inconve-
-nience and even injury have arifen, from
buildings being put on lands of individu-
ais. In this town, for inltance, the flores
belong to government, and the yard is
private property.
In doing this the government acted as
prudence dictated, and no honeA man car
deny, but what the appropriations for ge-
neral contingencies covered the expencc
Az that tine farther addition TO our ma
val force was ordered, and the only quei
ton was, whether The public would be mof
benefited by hiring lands of individuals
- ,.L;cb A,ras mu1 have been ereffed