Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1835-02-18

the fearless and independent manner in which
you defended your political principles IN your
address to the people, and the devotion ana
zeal you manifested for the laboring class, l,
| being one of that denomination, now request
MIR. Snowden to announce you as candidate,
so that no doubt may longer remain upon the
minds of the people, and hope, Sir, that you
| will not demur to the annunciation. 1t may be
Justly said that you are the first man IN virginia
that has given impulse to the Working Mems
cause, and you are worthy of our gratitude:
and may brighter day yet dawn upon your
| fame is the PRAYER of A VOTER.
Prince William Co., TIa, Feb II, 1885.
| THE GENrLEMAN-TH CHRIsTIAN.-Some twen-
| ty-eight years bygone, first heard oil the since
| far celebrated Lorenzo Dow. 1t was the town
| OF Wheeling, and the narrator was gentleman
| from the vicinity of Nashville in Tennessee
| An auditory of ten or dozen, all as uniformed
| of Lorenzo Dow as myself, listened to him. he
narrated some of LorenZo'S eccentrlcltes, IN
personal appearance and manner, and he espe-
cially gave the heads of discourse he had then
recently heard from the preacher, in which he
| took, by way Of text 'he Gentleman and the
Christian was then a young man, and for
| chilly impressed with much of what was narrat-
ed. though persuaded il was more the sentiments
| of the narrator than of the preacher.
About two months afterwards, journeying
| from Morgantown, Virginia, TO Washington,
Pennsylvania, learned on the way that Loren
20 Dow was to preach on the evening OF the day
| at Washington. pushed my horse and made
Washington at early candle light. ! was told
preaching had commenced, and FASTENED to the
| court house The instant the preachers voice
struck my ear, perceived he was repeating MS
! discourse upon the text of the gentleman ana
| The christian The versimiIitude could not be
mista ken, for the heads of that discourse, as mar
rated at Wheeling had sunk deep into my mind
ID Al tent
coming from the lips of Lorenzo Dow himself
He described the gentleman-he belonged 10
| no class of society eXcluSively-he consututeo
one of no exclusive clasS-his characteristics
were disregard of self-respeCt and kindness
| for others-he was no pragmatc babler-no CID
morer to be heard in company-not one whose
mouth was always open, his ears always closed
| He was man whose first consideration was
| for the comfort of Understanding himself sec
ondary in every thing. He could not De selnsn
| he was inately generous-he would do, ana
| he would suter-he never eXacted-he never le-
membered he had done service, Tor he never
| felt tina, his service was of value to be remem-
bered. His humility was as conspicuous as his
| kindness But he was not all things to all men,
though he was in all things and TO all men
| gentleman. He never submitted to base COM
| pliances but he never avoided or refused cl-
Whites, that softened the prejudices or precon-
| ceived opinions of those with whom he was
| brought into contact He maintained that men
of tbis description were to be found in all classes,
and through every grade Of society, from the
lowest to the most elevated. And this, he said,
was the true character Of the christian.
| He pursued the parallel in the history OF the
| Saviour His conformity to the iofmalities OF
the Jewish church-his associations with puDll
cans and snners-his controversies with the
doctors Of the temple-his association with poor
| 6shermen-his humiliation and death. lie con-
! tinued the parallel in the character and conduct
of st. Paul, and he concluded by an appeal 10
the auditory, if the true gentleman and the true
christian were not of near kindred. II not one
and the same character, the rule OF lie OF pom
| being, in the main, that of the Saviour's princ'
nal Injunction, &C. do unto others as you Mould they
should do unto you.-Cincinndtt Gazette
CorToN CANvAss-A late number Of the Uni
ted States Telegraph contains communlca-
ton from Mr.. Pinckney member of the House
| of Representatives from Charleston, on the use
| of Cotton Canvass in our Navy. The remarks
| of Mr. Pinckney and the information he commu-
nicates appear to be conclusive as to the SUPERB
! ority of this home produced and home-manuiac-
tured material over Russia duck. Several years
ago experiments were made in the W.. Squad
| ron, then under the command ct Com Elliot, LOT
the purpose oftestng the strength and eftlcacy OF
the cotton canvass. These experiments result
| ed so fayorably that the Secretary OF the Navy
upon the earnest Recommendation o! tne omceIs
of the squadron, ordered it to be SUBSTITUTED IN
some of the vessels Of the navy designed TO ope-
rate within the tropics or IN the temperate iati-
tudes. Since that period other experiments
have been made which prove, says Mr.. Pinck-
ney, that the cotton fabric may, be advantage :.
ousiy employed, without regard to climate; 1T
| is no longer disputed or denied, think, that II
costs less, is much stronger, much more dura-
BILE, holds the wind better, and is'less liable to
chafe."
AS to the propriety of providing by law for
clothing the seamen of orr navy In cotton ma
nufacture, Mr.. P. adduces the opinion OF many
of our naval officers that it is far preferable
to the linen now in use. tbs pronounced to
he a much better absorbent and therefore bet
ter adapted to warm climates In confirmation
of this. il may be stated that cotton is universal
| w ,,sed in the East Indies, not by the natives
only but by the wealthiest Europeans ofCalcut-
ta who carry out from England their scores of
| cotton shirts-Bditimore American.
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