Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1861-01-28
MISCELLANEOUS READLNG.
CHARLES CARROLL.

La the year 1926, ssysa writer in the
Washington Union, after all save one OF the
band OF patriots, w47ose signatures are b"rre
on the Declaration Of Independence: had de-
scended to the tomb, and the venerable Car
roll alone remained among the living the
government of the city Of New York. depu-
ted committee to wait on the illustricus
survivor, and obtain from him. for deposit
in the public hall of the city, copy of the
Declaration Of l776, graced and anthentica.
ted anew with his sign manual. The aged
patriot yielded to the request, and affixed
with his own hand to a copy of the instru-
ment the grateful, solemn, and pious supple
mental declaration which follows:
"Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings
which, through Jesus Christ our Lord, he has con-
ferred on my beloved country in ber- emancipa-
tion, and on permitting me, under circumstances
of mercy, to live to the age Of eighty years,
and to survive the fftieth year of American Inde-
pendence, adopted by Congress on the 4th of
July. 1776, which 1 originally subscribed ON the
I'd day of August Of the same year, and of which
/ AIN now the last surviving signer, do hereby
recommend to the present and future generations
the principles of that important document as the
best inheritance their ancestros could bequeath to
them, and pray that the civil and religious liber-
ties they have secured to my country may be per-
petuated to remotest posterity, and extended to
the whole family of man.
CuAs. CARROLL, OF Csrrollton.
August 2, 1926. - :. .sag -t., ..a@. a.:..
FROM RoaE.-On New Years day the
Pope received the French officers. General
Goyon made no political allusion. The Pope
approved Of the expeditions to Syria and
China. He also said that in defending Gaeta
the French fleet serves q just and holy cause.
The Pope avoided making any other ppliti-
cal aluson, and said nothing concerning the
Emperor Napoleon. ;..5 :. -as-. 81. ?" f--5.'
A letter from Rome dated Christmas day
says: a> ...2 .ssn..e es:7 G...: L~
''This morning iu the baslica of St. Peters the
usual hi gh mass was celebrated, the Pope oficiat
ing. The ceremony acquired unusual interest
from the belief which many entertain that this
il the last Christmas day that will thus be cele-
bratcd in ST. Peters by d sovereign poutif Mass
over, the Pope was carried out of the church in
his portable throne according to custom, preceded
by the cardinals, bishops, and all his court, his
triple on his head, before the two great fans
of ostrich feathers, set with the eyes of peacocks
feathers, symbolical of the vigilance required of
his Holiness and also Of the supposed fact that
the eyes of all men are fixed upon him. Hardly
ever than at the present moment did tho
symbol indicate the truth, especially as regards
the vigilance necessary in his present most diff
cult position. For the first time on an occasion
of this kind, the Papal Zouaves (Franco Belgians)
were on duty among the troops, forming the dou-
bic limo through which the Pope was carried. -
"TH1RTY-S1x THIRTY."-The. reader who
II curious to know exactly where runs this
oft-mentioned line, will get clear idea Oh
it by taking the map and tracing it as
follows:-It commences at the point on the
Atlantic coast where the dividing line be-
tween Virginia and North Carolina COM
mences: passes along the line dividing those
States; along the line between Tennessee
and Kentucky; along the line between the
States of Missouri and Arkansas; and thence
through the territory of the Cherokee Ma
tion, through New Mexico, striking the
eastern boundary Of the State of California
a short distance South Of the middle, strik-
ing the Pacific short distance South of
Monterey Bay. On the South Of that line
there are about 100000 square miles of ter
ritory; including Indian Reservations, while
on the North there are about 1900, 900 square
miles