Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-10-20
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TIE OkANGE ALEXANDRIA RAILROAD Com
PANY.-The Stockholders of the Orange &
Alexandria Railroad Company, will con veoe,
in general meeting, this morning, at IL o.
clock, at the Office of the Company. Il is ex.
pected that there will lie full attendance Of
the Stockholders, and the proceedings of the
meeting will no doubt prove interesting.
The BRAZIL TRADE Rec LLEcrIoNs.-We
hope, in his late letter, Governor Wise does
not mean to ignore Alexandria, when he men.
tons Virginia bottoms, in connection With the
Brazil trade.
We are not certain that the trade to Brazil
was opened to foreign nations as carly as the
year 1908. We believe the King and Court
Of Portugal removed from Lisbon to Rio ia
metro about the year lS07-though the Nor.
folk Herald may be right in its recollection
O. tie date Of 1908, as the commencement of
the Norfolk trade. There was quite large
Brazil and the La Plata, also, Immediately
after the war with Great Britain There are
now, at least, six gentlemen, who were super
cargoes engaged in that trade, living in or
near Alexandria. None of them can repcm.
Der any Brazil trade from Alexandria before
the war. But shortly after, among others,
the ships Diana and America, belonging to
the firm of John & Thomas Vowel, also the
ship Thomas.
The firm Of Mordecai Miller & Son had
two briggs, the Benefactor and the Dave,
and, perhaps, the ship Young Hero, which
traded directly to Rio. Then, little later,
the briggs Resolution, Frederick, Meteor, n u
ma, aud Sea Horse; the schooners Dash,
Triton, Elizabeth, and others, the names Of
which are not remembered, mostly owned BY
the firm of James s. Joshua Harper; the
briggs Earl and Arrow, owned by John Nc
Cobb and John Ii. Miller. These were the
regular traders. There were, besides, ves-
sells occasionally chartered in the same trade.
Thomas II. Rowland also had vessel or
two in the trade.
The returns were mostly in hides, sugar,
and coffee, fron Rio; from Santos, sugar /;
from Pcruam buco, sugar; from Bahia, hides.
Now and then, voyage was made from
Baenos Ayres, With jerked beef, to Havana.
the Ii Plata down to Para, which is on the
Para River, branch of tho Amazon, the
mouth Of which is about % miles south Of
the line.
We remember the Rose in Bloom, schooner
belonging 10 NJ. Miller 6 ~, which brought
in return cargo of barrel of sugar for a
barrel OF -four, from Pernambuco. Voyages
then, too, were got up with great dispatch.
The Saa Horse, Capt. Luckett, arrived here
on Friday in May. She was caulked, loa-
ded, ard sailed in eight days, on voyage TO
Rio Grande, in 32o south latitude. One Of
our cid subscribers, Capt. Luckett being sick,
was the supercargo. Chronometers we're not
tacn in general use, and the time of year not
being favorable, she had a passage of eighty
d,ys. Her cargo Of -four, which cost about
.ur dollars and quarter, was scid tor fifteen
and three quarters cash, in silver, clearing
to-, vessel and cargo. From r Q Ggande, she
carried q cargo of ierked beef to Havana,
aad thence, With sugar, cctf,e, &c, home
Later, there was the Remittance, then the
Daniel Ii. Miller, belonging to the lrwins !;
the Arion, belonging to Samuel Ii. Janney,
g., and the Lconidas, to VIM. ii. Miller.
The last named vessel was about to sail for
Brazil when news arrived from Portugal,
w. ere civil war was il progress, that Don
Miguel was be, eiging Lisbon by land, aud
had all the wind mills which surrounded the
city in his possession, causing great scar
CITY Of -four. The Lecrdas cleared for Lis.
hon which she reached after q bos;erouS
massage. Two other American vessels star
tel On the same voyage, one from Baltimore
the other from Boston, but the Alexandria
vessel was first at Lisbon; thence TO Pernan-
b,co ST. Salvador, and home. She sailed
abou; the fist Monday in December, 1893.
ARRANGEMENTS were made by our friend, the
supercnrgo, to get the Presidents Mpssase
sent down by the steamer Columbia to P,ncy
Point, where she stopped to land Mr.. Mutt
all. the plot-thc amo who was pilot Of the
Cbesaneakc 10 1907 who lived near tie
Point. Some passenger " ere found nai'iug
Tor the steamer, to get to Washington; among
them light-baircd, good looking. slender
Young gentleman, who, the prnrlc there sail,
was a ujem Der of Congress. Oar tleni, the
suner,argo, got the message of the Presldcnr,
and the member read 1t. 1t vas the one IN
which Old Hickory asked Congress for pea r
I, make reprisals on French commerce. Oar
freud, who was then warm Clay " h'g bad
a pretty long Conversation with the member,
whom he found to lie II ickson man, opposed
to Ciav, CalFouo, Van Buren,, and especially,
Dick Ihnsoo. lie thought the member a
promising young man, and the most honest
Jackson man whom he had seen up to that
time. Ga his return from Brazil, he stopy ed
again at Piney Point for pilot. and asked
the name of the gentleman who had made
such an impression, and found bis name t.
be Henry A. Wise. lie has since made some
noise in the world. Our friend voted for bin
for Governor, and hopes he may long live o
benefit our good old mother, in toe way OF
education, commerce, and manufactures, and
,b., he will ALWAYS count on Alexandria as a