Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-01-28
Railroad Appropriations.


We learn from Richmond, that the COM
mittee ON roads of the Senate have agreed to
report a bill recommending an appropriation
of two and a half millions Of dollars to The
leading lines of Railroads in the state, as
follows:--to the Covington and Ohio Rail
road, S80O,O00 Orange and Alexandra
$500, 000 Alexandria, LoudOun and Hamp-
shire 100000, Manassas Gap 100000,
Norfolk and Petersburg $3.50, 600. York Ris-
or S250,000, Richmond and Danville $780,
900, and Virginia Central 100000.
The tangled web" of KANSAS atfairs-'he
various and conflicting accounts from that
territory-the agitation on the subject con-
tinually kept up through the country by poll
ticiaus-the sectional strife created-all,
everything. conspire to induce an anxious
wish, on the part of the public, that the
"vexed question" should be settled, and that
speedily. 1t seems as if the truth could
never be arrived at, as to the facts of the
case. One day we have accounts represent
ing certain condition of affairs, and the
next an entirely different statement. But,
after all, much Of the controversy and dis
sention arise from failure to look at the
m after practically. and without reference to
parties or politics. If the present situati N
of things be continued to what will it lead?
Everybody now is impatient Tor the Presi-
dents Message, transmitting the Lecompton
Constitution, and for action on the part OF
Congress- There has beeu enough of talking.
Let US add to these few remarks, the follow
ing from the Union, which is headed the
"Truth coming out" and which contains, we
are inclined to think. more Of Truth" than
two-thirds of the Ne,cs We receive by tele-
graph from Kansas:
1--WE have always been of the opinion that
there was more knsvery than honesty in the
agitation of the slavery question, and par
tioularly that branch of 1t which relates to
Kansas. That question has been seized up
on by designing politicians as means by
which they can get into and keep themselves
in power, and not through any love or res
pect for principle. All the recent develop.
ments on this subject have been calculated
to strengthen our convictions in this respect;
and we give below sp extract from the Kan
sas Ledger, free-State paper, which, it
seems to US, ought to convince all who have
ever doubted as to the real cause of the con-
troversy. The Ledger says:
"Niggers ia not the great bone of conten-
ton in Kansas, and those who cry out most
Justify for niger or no niger haV'nt
money enough, as a general thing, to buy
plug of tobacco with The real bone of
contention is power and the spoils; and the
poor niger is made to bend and bow to suit
the purposes of those political demagogues,
that they may ride into power and obtain some
of the spoils --and that's all. The free State
party nor the pro-savery party of Kansas
care nothing about the moral condition OF
the niggers, but they must have text to
preach from, and the poor niger has been
preached in all his aspects throughout our
land"
And upon the admission Of Kansas into
the Union under the Lecompton Constitution,
the same paper says:
LET Congress attend to their own bust
ness, and let US attend to ours. We have
something more to accomplish besides the
admission of Kansas into the Union. We
want railroads, telegraphs, churches, cou-
mon schools, and host of other things OF
minor importance; but, paramount to all
these, are rant peace.
And again: -,
"They 1.-THE people Of Kansas are heartily
sick and tired of this internal niger agita-
ton; they have had surfet of it; 1t Injuries
their business. blasts their prospects, and
keeps up continual strife. Let Kansas be
admitted into the Union somehow or other
and with some kind of a constitution, that
we may have peace"
The Richmond South is making strong OPP
position to what is called the Yrisarri treaty
concluded by the Administration aud the
Minister from Nicaragua, for the settlement
of Central American affairs. 1tdeelares that
the aim of the treaty "is the overthrow OF
Gen. Walker, in order that the prep"nderance
of Southern sentiment on Southern soil shall
yield to the preponderance of Northern seh-
timent, as developed through Aid Societies
and as nropagated by such wrong-doings as