Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-23
The Paris Exhibition.
GParis Cor. London Daily Telegraph.

The Paris Exhibition
Paris Cor. London Daily Telegraph
At the coming Exhibition all the French
Crown Jewels are to be displayed and, as
rad, but scarcely credit, are to be kept in a
Kind Of gigantic jewel. case in the middle Of the
GARDEN. This case is SO arranged that, upon
pressing spring, it sinks into the ground =
fTnVards Of three hundred bales and packages
haze arrived at HAVE from New York for this
ever,reeurring Universal Exhibition. They
contain, among other objects, complete sets OF
ambulances for the wounded in battle, with all
their provision OF instruments and surgical and
MEDICAL appliances; also the materials for
furnishing military hospitals, such as were in
use during the late war These will be, just
now, very interesting to the excited mind of
Europe-a state Of mind which has nightmares
Of ornaments and dreams daily Of breecll-
leaders. Dear mel If all that is promised
comes to the Exhibition, and we see it and
study it all, how clever We shall be Also there
is to be, hear, another display. The Eng
lish "P. R. is to be represented, and the
leading boxers what is 4 leading boxer?-
are coming over to astonsh the weak minds Of
the international public. [ wonder what the
Paris public will think of Messrs. Mace, Goss
and others?
.Apropos of the Exhibition and its times and
people, do not think you will ever get over
the luggage examination. Cigars will be
brought to Paris, and quite ght, too, for those
here are very bad. | am looking, of course,
from a luxurious point de rue Books will be
smugged into london and | confess that
Macau!ay's History of England" at about Is.
3D. is tempting: butI do not see how these
International transactions can he conducted
Without what you call "a loss 10 the revenue. "
THE CITIES The New York Tribune la
ments "a grand mistake the accumulation of
helpless people in every great city. .
Speaking generally, cities should be resorted
to only by the able, the skiltu, the efficient.
If yCu know how to do the work OF three or
four average men, and are sure OF i chance to
demonstrate it, you may get on in city; but
if you can do but one mans work; the heavy
cost Of living in city will soon deyour you.
A single person ofayerage capacity may, while
in the flush of youth and healthful vlgor, get
on here as a journsyman, laborer, cook or
chambermad; but let such a one marry and
have children and he or she is on the high
road to pauper's grave. Rents and iood will
be higher here, at least while almost every
body prefers to live in city; and the constant
iuhux of youth and energy tends to crowd out
the burdened and the tagging. In this boil
ing, breaking surf, only strong or dexterous
swimmers can reasonably hope to live; yet
here is Just where the halt and the lame love
to congregate Let any cne evince chronic
incapacity to make his wsy in the country, and
bis relatives and friends are pretsy certain to
ship him off to seek his fortune in city.
The legons of incapat!cs thus piled upon
this emporium exceed all belief. There are
H. hara
today, who, if they had been placed in the
garden of Eden when Adam was, would have
soon starved to death there for want OF some
one to pluck the fruit and put 1t into their
mouths.
SCARCITY OF LABOR. The cry continues to
come from the surrounding counties OF the great
and increasing scarcity OF labor. The spring is
upon u.s. and yet there are many, 1t not ma
jorty of our farmers, who have not succeeded
in hiring enough hands TO work their farms
aud some have hired none at all. The city is
filed with idle negro men, but 1t IS folly to ask
them to 60 to the country They prefer to live
as best they may in the city, rather than
to enjoy competence earned by the sweat of
honest toll. A gentleman who wanted only
TWO hands, told US yesterday that he had ap-
preached no less than fifty different negroes on
Monday and offered them SO per month,
payable monthly, with ra,ions and quarters, but
they positively refused to accept his PROPOSE
ton, and he did not contract with single one
We see no remedy for this state of affairs un-
less it be found in : vagrant law, and We think
that the Legislature has not done it's duty to
the State, and to the negroes themselves, IN
failing to re-enact the law set aside by Terry
last winter 1t is not too late to take this
matter up now, and we hope it will be done
The negro, as we'll as the white man, should
De forced to earn what he eats. --L9Wch6nTY
Neics. ..-
IRISH EMIGRAT1oN.--The Virgioia Senate
Yesterday passed local bill to incorporate the
lflSh Emigrant Aid Society OF Virginia 1t
Constitutes certain citizens named therein and
such other Iersons as may hereafter be asso-
GATED with them, body corporate, with the
Oolect OF affording aid and information 10 emil
grants, and generally to promote their welfare
The society is empowered to take, by purchase
or gift aud hold, by lease or rental, and rent
out or lease, mortgage, sell, transfer or convey
real and personal estate to an amount not ex-
ceedlng at any one time one hundred thousand
dollars. The control and disposal Of the funds,
property and estate, and the direction and man
aHcment of the concerns of the society, includ-
lug the framing of constitution, bylaws rules
ieSaIatlOnS: not inconsistent Wltu tlle cou-
SS'tution and laws of this State or Of the United
etates, are to be vested in president, vice
president, secretary and treasurer, and nine
other persons. to be designated the executive
committee. The act takes effect as soon as
"passes the House of Delegates. .-Rlch. Fc.
story is told of soldier, who about one
hundred and fifty years ago, was frozen in 81
oefa. The last expression he made was, 1T
Sex He then froze as stiff as marble In
tle summer of 1860 some French physicians
Itound him, after having lain frozen for one
asaaored as, and fifty years. They gradually thaw-
ea him, and upon animation being restored. he
ooneuded bis sentence with 'ceedingly cold !"
DUCK GAUNTLETs FOR BOYS, Just re-
ceiyed and for sale by ~,
az. }@ WITMER 81 SLAYMAKER,