Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-08
ALEXANDRIA.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST s

WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST s.
In Kentucky, On Monday, an election took
,Iace for local officers, and clerk Of the Court
Of APP ais, who is chosen by general ticket.
Messrs Duvali and Hobson were the candl
dates and both supporters Of President John
:on. Mr. Duvall, however, was charged with
recession procIivities. while Mr.. Hobson was
.l;imea as a conservative Union man Up 10
les: uight the following returns had been re-
LEVIED At louisville. Duvall beats Hobson
600 10 lis cigy, and about 500 in the county.
Reports from the country ipdicateDuvall's ma
j3.itv in the State will be from 90 900 to 10000.
There seems to be general misunderstood
-ag in regard to the bounty bill passed By Con-
,;ress the last day Of the session, which grants
800 extra bounty to three-year soldiers and
$50 to two-year men. By tie passage Of the
Dill, members Of Congress secured an increase
E their own pay from $4,000 70 $4,000 per
uuum, beginning with the first Monday Of
December last This large increase Of salary
hey have already received But when are
he soldiers and seamen to be paid? and who
e to receive the increased bounty? are ques-
lens not easily answered
The Richmond Times thinks that book on
Bubbles would be full Of interest. It would
appropriately describe all those cases Of melan-
aholy enthusiasm which have from time to
line led mankind By dazzling decisions to ruin
ind disaster. Gigantic schemes Of great and
sudden fortune hot With all the feyo7s Of spec-
alation, have, both in this country and Eng
sand, within the last century, enriched 4 few
lucky gamblers, while the great majority OF
persons, decoyed into Investments, have been
:,pped, sEinded and ruined
The unfortunate holders Of stocks in bogus
oil companies are beginning to ''realizc." In
New York, on Saturday, well-known auction
aer sold 99,S60 shares Of the stock of the Reno
Oil and Land Company, for ten thousand dol
lars the lot. an average Of little less than ten
cents share Railroad stocks 10 the oil region
seem also to be in bad way, for at tho same
5ale 1858 shares Of the Reno Oil Greek and
Pithole Railway Conpan's stock were disposed
offor s., 500 the lot-about fifty cents share.
The Ny. Tribune says: "Congress did gery
1n#ise, selfish, cowardly, unprinciplo2 ect, in
increasing its own pay at the close Of the late
ssssion. It was very mean performance, and we
hope to see it repealed at the next session. It
sill be, if shc people will only take the matter
in hand end ask every candidate Cor the next
Congress, Sir, will you vote to put the pay Of
members back to $4,000 per annum, and have
all mileage charged by the most direct mail
route %
The Norfolk Eirgi2ian says The man who
aiIl frame and carry into operation wise sys-
lem Of pubo education, will DO more for |ir
gina than he who best represents her Ia the
Senate Of the United States. The man who
develops the commercial resources Of Virginia
and fills her harbors with the commerce to which
:hcy are entitled by nature, will better merit the
applause of the people than he who again Sc
cures for the Commonwealth the honor Of fur
aishng President
The London Journals Of the oath and 18th Of
July gives tall particulars Of the Reform Riots
in Hyde Park, / ndon. The origin 0! the distur-
oaoce, was gu order issued on the 18th ultimo
D. Sir Richard Nayne, Commissioner Of Police
- L1uGoo. t,Ib;Gding ne use Of Hyde Park
10: ulas5 uiect!n., called by the Reform
Leagur, which order was defed by the officers
Of c,.> 1~sGGe vino insisted upon the right of
the 11c ~: % meet IN q Iuilic park
The New Yo-k News, in speaking Of the
pbila;iel phi. Contention. says - Let the del,
esntes from the North and from the South en-
>eg the Convention SIS equals, allies sDd friends,
bound to each other hy~a common interest: and
seeking BY united effort TO escape common
>.nger. And it should be understood thar the
Southern delegates have nc need 60 appear i!
me Convention IS 'suitors.
Carlo Luigi Farini whose death is announced
il despatch from Europe was an Italian po
,tical writer OF some distinction. He vas born
"a the Papal States, October %, 1922, and
studied medicine in Bologna, but while yet
young man became involved in revolutionary
projects and was several times hsnisbed from
he Pspal States.
It is officially announced by the Correspond
ing Secretary Of the National Union Executive
Committee, il Washington, that nearly ali tbs
sailroad companies in the country have agreed
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