Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-06-20
Letter from Loudoun County.

| Correspondence Of the Aierund1ia Gazette.
LEESBuRG, VA, June l8.--Our County
Court adjourned on Saturday evening" after
laborious session of six days. The whole
number of ttheables in the county was as
certaincd to lie $500 for the year 1859, and
the estimated State revenue for this year,
| s. ,321 81. The road expenses were est-
mated at so ,4G4.51, which were provided
| for by a levy Of - cents on each titheable,
which produced 81 $780, and = per cent on
the State revenue, which produced So, jI4.5T.
This is pretty heavy tax, but the roads have
been so much improved, and the burdens are
! 50 well spread over the community, as not
to press heavily on any one person, who is
unable to bear them. The whole sum levied
for other purposes than roads, was 81 40,
which is to be raised by 4 levy Of Sl775 on
each tytheable, making the whole county
levy on each tytheable $3.50 against 80 40
last year. 1t is five cents higher than it has
been during the last "A years.
Some Of the more prominent items in the
County levy, | will place as we'll as | can
under their appropriate heads, beginning
with the administration of justice, as fol-
lows Pay Of Justices, SOP Of which Gen.
Asa Rogers, the excellent presiding Justice
gets SlOj, showing that he has faithfully sat
us such - days; one other gets SD. This is
my old friend Edward lIammet, of the Court
House district, who is always obliging
enough to take the place of any justice who
may be called home for any reason. James
| lleatOn receives go, and B. +. Taylor SD
These are both excellent Justices, and as
they live Il considerable distance from the
Court House, and attend at much inconve-
nience to themselves, it shows a commenda-
bic attention to the public business. Thos.
| LittletOn. the excellent JailOr of the county,
receives S2122.92; Il great part is for atten
| ton and expenses in regard to 4 case of 4
violent lunatic John Norris, for repairs
! of Court House, and a new kitchen at the
jail. S420,&3 VIM. B. Lynch S63 so, and B.
+. Shectz $3.50. for printing. Jurors paid
by the Sheritts: Tavenner, S24.4G; Francis,
$50. go: Summers, Sl26.S2: llixson $685.
81, and Gibson, S2Sl.97-in all for jurors,
S90l. l6. &. 3. TebbS, Commonwealth At
tOrney, $500. Sheriff. for public services,
S15. Clerk, for same, 800. Stationery for
the two Courts, 500. These sums embrace
some items that are partly chargeable to the
road fund, but | have omitted some small
items which would probably quite balance
| them. Therefore, | suppose the admins
tration Of justice has cost the people of Lou
doun about S295O.-i3, a rather expensive
luxury, counting the costs paid by the par
ties themselves. Some of the other more
important items levied for, are q. *. Fox,
Commissioners of the Revenue. SS0.S6 Jonah
Tayenner, do S16.15, and L. NJ. Wrenn,
S225. Damages and costs attending the open
ing of the roads, 81 ,9G2T 10 and for the Over
seers Of the Poor s., 2O3.71.
The amount levied for them last year, was
S493l.lG. The increase this year is about
$50. Ten years ago, the number of tithea-
bleS was 800, and the levy for county pur-
poses was 81 cents on each. Deducting the
amount levied for the poor, and for roads,
which were then distinct matters, the levy
this year would be about 95 cents to each
tithcable.
y fine rain on Saturday has helped the
Wheat in this neighborhood, which had a
good deal Of red rust. With that exception,
the crop between this place and the Point of
Rocks is very fine. The crop of Mr.. A. NJ.
Chichester, about miles north of this place
is exceedingly promising.
IN old bachelor friend of mine calls for
some notice Of the marriage licenses. am
sorry his example has had such blishting
effect in the matrimonial line, as to make nv
report very mcagre one. There were only
five marriage licenses issued during the
month Of May, and so far in June, there is
only one. lie had better do his duty; but
perhaps he thinks with a still older bachelor
friend, who has been waiting probably sixty
years, that Njs yea, he has only the choice
of refusing, and that the ladies (may they
never grow old have the right to do the
asking. lie had better look out, for he is
rs safe on that ground as am.
The corn and grass crops are very promis-
ing. ALIQuIS.
sfuR SALE OR RENT.--The we'll known Fish
4 ing Shore on Tho Potomac, called GREEN
WAY, in Charles County, Maryland, Immediately
opposite the White House. Said Shore has been
ished for the last twcnty-siX years by Corbin
Cooley, esq, and the late J. T. Sullivan Tn con-
sequence of the recent death of the Inst named
gentleman, the Shore is now forsale or rent. The