Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-03-16
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MILEAGE Mileage is very troublesome
question especially your constructive mile
aoep' Strange, too, that it should be, since
rbe question is always decided the same way
+; t., for constructive mileage. Our 0wn
House of Delegates, the other day, when the
nocstion was first up between two reports, one
for and the other against mileage for the extra
session, under the pressure of the ayes and
noes voted decidedly against The mileage A
shrcwd tactician cpntrived the reference to the
Committee of Courts of Justice, who reported
that mileage for the extra session was legal.
The report was read--nobody said word
the Speaker put the question, and it passed,
like rifle shell through screen OF illusion
trhe voice Of the author Of the minority report,
Mr. Waddell, alone being audibly given In the
negative In twenty minutes afterwards,
possibly forty geallcnen had their mileage
MANY years ago, great tempest arose on
the subject of constructive mileage in the u.
). Senate. One day the Senate had taken a
recess, and it was nearly time to assemble
again. A few members were already in the
Chamber. Senator Badger, Of North Carolina,
was earnestly engaged in argument with some
Of them near the aisle, and Mr.. Webster
entered AS he passed the group. he joeosely
remarked: "Ah, Badger, still talking
you are always talking, Badger What
are you talking about 2 Mr. Badger, who
was man Of great sincerity and integrity,
as we'll as ability, and had 4 very high
regard for Mr.. Webster replied Mr.. Web
ster, am endeavoring to convince these gen
tlemen tt at constructive mileage is legal. -
"Ah, Badger, replied the great eSpounder
you needn't trouble yourself; there is one
argument that will settle that question without
more words ''What isthat, Mr.. Webster?'
inquired Mr. B. when the great senator, with
an air of humorous insinuatlon, in which he
could not be excelled, Significantly patted his
pocket The North Carolina senator, little
touched by this humorous treatment of his
very serious opinions, remarked with much
emphasis: ''But, Mr. Webster, [ am in
earnest, and beeve my opioion OF the law is
correct Don't you intend to draw your mile
age?" "No, Badger, no; | intend to do
nohing of the KIDD; and pausing moment,
looking most quizzicaliy at his North Carolina
friend, he added: Il have already drawn II!
A spectator of the scene described it years ago
as having been the most iucomparably humor-
Gus be ever witnessed II kept the senator's In
good humor for at least day.
Mr.. Websters argument was one OF the
strongest he ever made, and is as good now
a. it was then. Mileage forever er!-hlchn'ond
Dispatch.
BUYING AND SELLING GRAIN BY THE Cen
TAI.-The "cental, or system OF buying and
selling grain by the 100 pounds, which is now
in general use in the West and in few East
en- cities, is likely to create some confusion IN
the quotations. bu' in order that buyers and
sellers may avoid error, we give rule by which
they can make their own calculations: The
standard weight Of wheat per bushel is sixty
pounds; corn and rye fhy-six pounds oats
thirty-two pounds; barley, forty-eight pounds
The price per bushe being given, to find the
price per centa multiply ,he price per busbcl
py one hundred, and divide by the number of
pounds in bushel. For instance, at 81 5Oper
bushel for wheat, what is the price per GENITAL!
-l50xl00 -l5, 0OOx50-$2 50-which IS the
price per GENITAL. Again, the price per GENITAL
being given. to 6ud the price per bushel multi
ply the price per Genital by. the number of
pounds,in bushe and divide BY one hundred.
Example: At 50 so per cental what IS the
price per bushel Of sixty pounds z-250z6O-
l50oOxl00-Sl SO the price per bushel.-
Baltimore ,Sam
AN Op1NIoN.-The New York Herald 3
proposition to run Generals Grant and Lee tor
the Presidency and Vice Presidency, next year,
has elected some uncomphnlentary comments.
As Bennett never felt any other than pecu-
mary resentment at insult, he coolly publishes
one of these, as follows:
PHILADELPHIA, March 9, 1867.
D. G. Bennett, Esq:
Dear Sir-You require every once and while
somebody to talk plainly to you, and in this
connection | am constrained to say that you
made id fool of yourself BY proposing, in
todays Herald to rln Generals Grant and
Lee. on the same ticket Tor the Presidency and
Vice Presidency in 1868.
WATERFALLS PLAYED OUT-A letter from
New York says the outcry In some OF the Eng
hsh journals against chignons is having very
marked effect upon that article in that market.
ihe ladies' are beginning very generally to
throw it aside, and it was observed that at the
opera last evening but few were worn IN the
more fashionable of the boxes. There are
places In New York where thousands OF dol,
lars are invested in the manufacture of them,
and the panic that has been started about the
,pedculi'' threatens to quite ruin the trade -
Lynch. Neacs
A merchant in Belfast, had at one time in
his employ an freshman possessed Of a good
deal more zeal than knowledge. His employer
gave him the key of his postofhce box one
morning with directions to go to the post
once and get the contents of forty Pat van
Ilshed, but presently came back with pockets:
hat, and hands filled with miscel llaneous col
scton of letters, &c, and the explanation, u
TIoudn,t open forty boxes, sir, but opened all
lCOuld. and here thew be =,