Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-09-16

to each other: the wedding day had been txed
for the 10th Of August; the invitations had
been issued, and much happiness appeared
in store for the parties. On the morning OF
the wedding day the bridegroom died sud
denly from an attack of pneumonla--the
house Of teasting and merriment was CON
yerted into the house of prayer and lamenta-
ton.
There are now due at New York, a large
number Of passenger ships from various ports
of Europe, which have sailed since the md
die and latter part of July. to the middle OF
August Ten from Liverpool two from
London; three from Havre; six from Bremen;
two from Hamburg. and one from Antwerp
total twenty four.
The New York Herald, speaking of the
late franking affair, says: ut Is notorious
that members of Congress are IN the habit
Of sending home by mail their dirty linen
to be washed, and of receiving it back clean
by the same process.
A popular writer says it is not the drink
ing but the getting sober, that is 80 terrible IN
drunkard's life. To this Prentice adds, some
persons, influenced probably by this impor-
tant consideration. seem 70 have deliberately
resolved never to get sober.
Mr.. William S. Worth, has requested the
board Of aldermen in New York, to remove
"Buena Vista" from the Worth Monument,
near Madison square, and to supply the
space with "Fort George Gen. Worth was
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Mr.. Hendricks resignation rs Commits
soner of the General Land Office, takes
place to-day. Nothing has been heard from
Judge Hughes as to his acceptance OF the
office.
Two colorcd sailors have been arrested at
New Orleans for coming there contrary to
the new State law. They have sued out
writ of habeas corpus to test the constitutions
atty of the law.
The President has appointed VIM. +.
Morse, of Nebraska, agent for the Indians
in the Omaha agency, vice VIM. Wilson re-
signed.
The North of Ireland papers TEEN with
reports of proceedings in connection with
the religious movement in Ulster. The et-
forts so far have been remarkable.
Private letters from Tuscany speak of the
alarming illness of Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing, the greatest living poctess of England.
Col. Fauntleroy has left Washington, to
take command Of the military department of
New Mexico.
Twenty-Five cents is to be the price of ad-
mission to the Great Eastern ut Portland.
Reciprocity in Visiting, North and South.
The New York Day Book, in abiding to
the annual influx of Southerners to the
Northern cities, maxi the following sensl-
bic and truthful SUGGESTIONS
when we witness this annual invasion
of our city and section by the Southern peo-
ple the question always presents itself, why
is it that our own citizens do not to great
err extent. reel procate these visits? We have
at the North as large a proportion of plea
sure seekers as will be found in any other
section, vet comparatively few of our people
spend their winters in the South. The al
lurements which genial temperature and
clear sky present, in contrast to lee and snow
and Storm seem to be entirely overlooked.
The South offers inducements for visit in
the winter equal To those held out by tho
North in the summer season. 1t Is true 1t
has no great cosmupolis like New York,
where specimens of everything under the
sun can be seen in reduced compass: but
there is probably no city on the Continent
that will equal in galely and plcasurable ex-
citement--that miniature Pars-New Or
leans, in the winter months.
I'm Charleston. Richmond, Memphis, and
Savannah, reside communities as refined and
cultivated as will be found anywhere. Ma
ture almost outdocs herself in the South.
Through the cotton and sugar fields flows
the most majestic river in the world, the
broad Mississippi. Among the Alleshanies
and Blue Ridge Mountains is scenery both
grand and romantic. In the way OF Won
ders, are the Mammoth Cave and the Ma
tural Bridge. The patriot may visit with
delight such spots Is Mount Vernon, Mon
ticelo, Ashland, the Hermitage, and the
battle fields of Yorktown, Eutaw, Cowpens,
Fort Moultrie, Kings Mountain, and Guil-
ford. The antiquary can find world OF
interest in the quaint old Spanish town OF
st. Augustine. The country is stocked with
game Of the "tallest" kind for the sports
man. The grand old mountains, the forests,
and the savannahs, afford the most exqul-
site studios for the artist. The balmy CHI
mate of Florida and the Carolina coast IN
fuses health and vigor into the exhausted
frame of the northern consumptlve. Above
all, in attractiveness and novelty to northern
eyes, is life on the plantation. study OF
the much abused system OF negro subordI-
nation will not fail to improve the stranger
and eradicate the errors Of false education,
We have seen but few northern people who
have visited the southern plantations who
have not afterwards recanted their Tree
negro" notions -,
IF the people of both sections could be
come better acquainted, very much OF the
present jealousy and misunderstanding
would be done away with. No Southerner
comes among us for the first time, without
feeling his mind expanded and finding some
of the rough edges Of his dislike for Yam
keedom rubbed of. No Northerner, but
crazy fanatic, can 90 into the South and mix
with the people sufficiently to understand
them and their institutions, without dlscov-
erine that TIE "anti-slaverylsm' OF the
North is one of the most outrageous impos-
lures ever preached to deiuded community.
LET there be reciprocity in visiting es-
tablished among our people North, South
East. and West, and depend upon 1t there
will soon be warmer patriotism, stronger
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