Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-07
immigration to Virginia.


The following important action vas taken by
the State Board of Immigration GU Saturday.
We only have tbespace to call attention to 1t.
The subject is vital one TO US all. Not only
our prosperity, but our safety ard very polltl-
cal existence depends upon the importing OF
white immigrants:
Alta meeting of the State Board of lnm,gra-
ton, held the I'd day Of Noyem6 Der, 1921 ~ sne
Capitol in the city OF Richmond, the 4ollo"'Hs
resolutions were passed. :.
Resolved, That an earnest appeal pc ana -
hereby made to the public and the railroad all nd
manufacturing companies to subscribe ?lu,oCC
| for tho purpose of developing the operations OF
the European and Domestic Agency OF d dnin W.
grafton, created by this Board on the 9th OF
August last, under the authority of the act OF
General Assembly. passed March 3, 1866.
Resolved, That the Commissioners of this
Board and its European and Domestic Agents
| General w. 81. Richardson's the commissi .ner
Den. e. Tochman and Hon. B. Johnson Bar
| bour are European agents, and General D. H.
| Imboden and Col. Roger j. Page are Domestic
apents) are requested and authorized to canvass,
Jointly and severaly, the counties III whlch
| the immigrants from abroad are most nceoea,
and to solicit and receive subscriptions to RAISE
| the above named sum of money, either at the
| public meetings, should calling them be re-
auired, or from the individual citizens and cor
porations that are disposed to lend ASSISTANCE 10
| carry into effect the immigration scheme ADOPT
| ed bv this Board which is intended to redeem
| the Commonwe from its PROSTATE condition
I-maters and political; provided, that no au,
| thority i. conferred on said commissioner ana
agents by which pecuniary responsibility
could be fixed upon the State or this Board
| Resolved That the list of subscriptions be
| filed in the office of the Commissioner of lmmI-
grafton, and that the subscriptions when col
! iected be deposited in the bank Of Lancaster q
| Co., to the credit Of the Commissioner OF I'M
| migration, to be expended under the direction
of this Board for the purposes stated in the frst
VIM Ii. MCFARLAND.
By the Board Of immigration.
VIM. q. RICHARDSON,
Nov 1867 Commissioner.
GOLDEN INK. We have received from DR..
James A. Nash, Of Magnolia, Pike county,
Miss, letter written in four different kinds of
ink. One Of the specimens is certainly worthy OF
more than passing notice The portion Of the
letter written with this ink has the appearance
of having been written with golden, fluid and
presents most beautiful appearance Let the
reader imagine that letter written with the
ordinary black ink be suddenly dashed with
gold dust, which adheres only to the letters,
and he will have some idea of the singularly
| brilliant effect of this chemical writing t1uld.
| DR.. Nash accidentally discovered these inks
while making chemical washes tor the cure OF
cancer Ifis inks can also be used by printers
| and sigh painters The cO!ors arc permanent,
| and from the samples before Us we have no
| hesitation in expressing the belief that DIR.
Nash has made most useful and important
discovery. O. Pic.
LoUDoUN County The death of Henry
| A. Ball, esq, which occurred at "Templc
fall" his residence in this county, on Monday
morning last, was received by this community
with much surprise and sorrow. MIR. b. was
stricken with heart disease, and died before
medical aid could reach him. He was in the
5Sth year o! his agr.
| At meeting held in this town on Saturday
last, for the purpose, r. S. Cox, &. ?. holland,
and John NJ. Orr, esq, were appointed to
represent LoudOun county at the conference
soon to be held, between the corporations OF
| Washington and Georgetown, and the Board
| of Directors OF the A., J.. & II. Railroad
| Company, in regard to the proposed Branch
| Railroad 10 the Dis riot -LOuClOun mirror.
The TOBACCO FACTORIES Of this place have
nearly all been closed for the season, the manu-
| facturers having worked out their stocks. In q
| week from to day, We suppose there will not be
| one in operation. The business this year has
| been very heavy, and large number OF opera
| tivcs, mostly colorcd men have been employed
| in these factories, who are now without any
thing t. do With their usual improvidcnt
HABITS, they have saved nothing from their
liberal wages, and now winter finds them with
neither money food nor employment. What
will they do?-DanviNe Register.
u. S. TROOPS. The Richmond Wing of
yesterday states that five companies Of the 29th
infantry have been assigned to Washington,
where they will go into winter quarters. The
reason given for this change is that comforta-
bly, barracks cannot be provided tor them at
their posts in Virginia without considerable ex-
pensc, and that there are quarters for their &C
commodaton in Washington. Three Of the
companies have been stationed at Lynchburg,
one at Yorktown: and one at Libby prison, Ric-
hmond.
CoLoRED PAupERs of the negro paupers
in the Freedmen S Bureau Hospital only five
will remain in Fredericksburg. The rest will
be sent where they came from-that is, five to
Spo,tsylvauia, two to Caroline, three to Stat
ford, and one to tauquler. AS soon as thcy
found the United States government would not
support them any longer, one woman of Caro-.
line and one man Of Stafford walked off on their
own hook One who had no feet has also dis
appeared !-FIederickSburg Ne1cS.
Dan Rice, the great Snowman, has given up
the saw-dust business, and retired to private
life. In his farewell address, delivered at
Pittsburg on the Sd inst, he said: He had
made more money than the six richest show
men living, and had given away in founding
and supporting public charities and succoring
the poor, wounded, sick and oppressed, mil
lion and a half of dollars
The Yelverton case, in England ruined Maj.
Yelverton and rendered his wife poor, besides
draining the resources of many friends of both.