Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-11-01
ALEX ANDRIA.
THURSDAY, EVENING, NOVEMBER 1.
TypoeRApH1ea1, ERRoRs We doubt no

TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. We doubt not,
that three-fourths of the readers Of newspa-
per, lay the blame of every error of the types
that they may see in it, upon the editor. We
beg to disabuse them of any such erroneous
opinion. It is fastening another burthen upon
the editor, when be, already, in all conscience,
has enough on his shoulders. As a general
correc.ly-and he does not indite, as far as the
coocation of words is concerned nonsense.
(There are exceptions to this rule, We giant
but they are exceptions Now, therefore,
when a reader finds word mis-spelt, or a SEN
tence not according to the rules Of Murray, or
one thing stated when precisely the opposite is
evidently meant, CIR any vicious or intolerable
blunder committed, he will please, in the great
majority of cases, not attribute the faults 10
theeditor. Humanum esterrare we know;
and he may, occasionally, commit lbs slips of
the pen But it will be remembered that his
writings, and his selections, have first to go
through the hands of the printer, who is the
compositor, then Of the proof reader, and then
Of the proof colrector-and we assure him,
that the corrector often inadvertently makes
bad worse, and exaggerates theev he is bound
to see@"put to rights. We speak thus for
the whole fraternity. No educated reader is
half as much shocked, halt as much concerned,
Or, often, half as much mortified, at the blum
ders and errors he finds in bis newspaper, as is
the editor who prepared the article containing
the mistakes for the printer, and dismissed
it from his desk, in the full confidence that it
would appear as he wrote it, or as the copy"
demanded. But, after all let him consider the
thousands Of little pieces of metal required to
be put together to make the newspaper; the
haste in which the printer has to perform his
work; the liability to mistakes in Setting up
the manuscripts of bad writers--bad, in more
senses than one-frequently-an the difficulty
often Of actually reading what is before him,
to soldify into types, and he will only wonder,
annoying as typographical mistakes are, that
there are really comparatively so few of them,
and Of these, most of them apparent, easily I'M
derstood, and easily to be seen, how they oc-
cured.
SPORTS OF YoUTH.-A writer in the last
number of Blackwood's Magazine says, that
the development of muscular education, is
beginning to attracta good deal Of attention. -
and that, "the gospel Of athletics has been
preached very energetically, ard its missiona
ries may point to very considerable results in
all quarters, whatever may be their weight, for
good Or evil" The remark is made concerning
England-but the same may be said, in this
country Witness the "base BALI epidemic
Young men aoM have their sports and amuse.
ments, and the more healthful they arc, the
better. It is better for them to play Lase
ball, than to practice" at bar rooms 1t is
better to be excited at a game Of "athlet-
ics,' than at game of cards. 1t is better for
them to play at base ball than at loo or whist
It is better for them to return to their homes
wearied with the open sports Of the field than
to seek their dwellings, overcome with the
miserable potations of strong drink. There
fore it is, that we heartily approve Of all the
manly exercises of young men, which will wean
them from the bottle and the table. They
may err in the too great display they make of
their sport, in the newspapers, but the results
are all for good and Lot for evil.
NATIONAL EXPRESS COMPANY At the
meeting of the stockholders OF the National
Express Company, in Richmond, On Tuesday, |
in addition to the election of new Directors,
&C., as reported in yesterday Gazette, areport
and resolutions were adopted, making call on
II l.1J r.. ~, |
their subscriptions to 80 per cent. and for ap-
plying to the Legislature for power to CONSOLE |
date the stock at 30 per cent. Duriny the pro-
ceedings communication was read from the
committee who had gone to New York to cons
fer with the Merchants Union Express Com |
pany, in which it was stated that that company !
declined to take the proposed stock Of the Ma |
tional Express and Transportation Company
The operations of the company are to cease
until money is raised by the new call to carry it
on, but confidence is expressed that by very en-
ergetic and economical management the COM
pany may yet be successful.
WHAT TEE EFFECT WILL BE.-Ihe National |
Inteligencer says:-As soon as negro suffrage |
is established, # it operates as the Radicals |
desire it, to consolidate the blacks in an opposing
mass to the present white race two States,
Mississippi and South Carolina, will at once
pass into the hands of the negroes. In other
States many counties will pass into their
hands When this takes place, especially if |
The blacks are urged on by crazy fanatics-and
there is never likey to be apy deficiency OF
them-therc will be charming time through
out the South.
VIOLENT THREATs.-A special dispatch |
from New York, to the Washington Chronicle
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