Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-21
NEWS or THE DA !.
10 stow the vey age and Jody Of he times

10 Sjtosc the veIy age and Jody Of The t09es
The United States Treasurer is engaged III
discussing the rewards for the arrest OF the
assassination conspirators Over $40, 900 have
already been paid out The claim agents have
been greatly disappointed III not being allowed
to have hand III collecting the various claims
upon this fund, as the Treasurer SO arranged
matters US to preclude the necessity Of claim
ants engaging assistance in order to procure
the amounts awarded them.
The Richmond papers OF yesterday contain
the following notice: AN Executive Com
mittcc has been appointed ~ arrange rreIlml-
narics fora Bazaar, to be held in Richmond,
in February next, for the benefit Of the Holly
wood Memorial Association. The cooperation
Of all persons, not only in our city, but !ncVery
county Of Cur State, and in every part OF the
South, is earnestly desired.
Now that it has been proved that telegraph
ING across the Atlantic ocean is practical, az
rangements are being made in New York to
connect Europe by second cable, The route
to be taken by this line is via Bermuda and
the Azores, thcrcc to Lisbon, 4 distance OF
| about tWcnty-one hundred miles.
Seven steamers lying at the port OF Liver,
pool, standing in the name Of Messrs Frazer,
Trenholm e. Co., and which, it is alleged, were
the property OF the Confederate Government
at the close CT The war have been seized under
an Admiralty warran; at the suit Of the Gov
crnmcut Of the u. S.
The amount Of counterfeit money now in
circulation in the South may be estimated from
ihe fact that in package containing s., 500 IN
fractional currency which was received at the
Treasury yesterday countcriets amounting to
$2O3 were detected
Richmond has, perhaps, more notarlcs Tor
| lis population, than any city in America. -
Since the LIST of April, 1865. there has Been
commissioned by Governor PicrpoiDt. for the
city Of Richmond alone, one hundred and nine
teen Notarics Public.
\ schooner loaded with petroleum blew up
ut Jersey city, on Sunday. Three persons were
killed. Total losses, 81, 600 00
Some fifty or sixty persons attended the first
meeting Of the Labor Convention, at Balti-
more yesterday.
i fire at Chicago yesterday, destroyed a
tobacco warehouse, and other property, valued
ut $500, 900.
Honolulu advccs to July % report the
death Of princess who is an aunt Of Queen
| Emma.
The first bale of new cotton arrived in New
York yesterday, from New Orleans.
LiulID ELoQuENCE Paul Denton, i MetEl
olist preacher in Texas, advertised 4 barbecue,
with better liquor than usually furnished
When the people had assembled, 4 desperate
in the crowd cried out mr. Paul Denton
your reverence has lied. You promised usnot
onlr = good barbecue but better liquor -
Where is the lquor?' There" answered
the Missionary in tones Of thunder and point
ing his motioncs3 finger at the matchless double
spring gushing up in two strong columns, with
sound like shout Of joy, from the bosom Of
the earth. '"Ihcre,'' he repeated, with look
terrible as lightning while his enemy actually
trcmbled on his tcct,) there is the Liquor
which God, the Eternal, brcWs tor his child
rem
mot in toe simmcring still, over smoky
fires, cooked with poisonous gases, and sur
rounded with the stencil Of sickenlug odors anC
rank corruption, doth your father in HcaVcr
prepare the precious essence OF life, the pure
cold water but in the green glade and grassy
dell, where the red deer wanders, and the chic
loves to pIay-there God brews it; and down
| Law 1,u,n bn 1cnpnSt vol|nvS whore thf
rills sing and high upon the tall mountain
TOPS. where the storm clouds brood, and TIT
thunder clouds crash and always far out OF
the wide, wide sea, where the hurricane howl
music, and the big waves roar the chorus
swecpirg the march Of God--it is there b,
brcws If, that beverage 81 life--health giving
water
can everywhere 1t IS thing OF bcaut.
cleaning in the dew drop, singing in the sum
MGR rain, shining in the ice gem, till the tree
Ill seem turned to the living jewels sprcadin!
Q golden veil over the setting sun, or q Whit
gau2c around the midnight moon, sporting II
the cataract sleeping in the glaZier, dancin!
in the hail shower, folding its bright snow cur
tain softly about the wintry world and wcay
ing the many col0red iris, that seraph zone Q
the sEy-Whosc warp IS rain drops OF earth
whose wool is the sunbeam of heaven, al
checked over with celestial flowers, by the mis-
tic hand of refraction. Still always it is beau
titul-that blessed life water No poison bub
bles on its brink no madness or murder; n
, blood stains its liquid glass; pale widows AM
starving orphans find no tears in Its depths, n
drunkord's shrieking ghost from the gray
cursing in words Of eternal despair-Speak out
my friend would you exchange 1t Tor the de
I mons drink, alcohol?'