Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-28
LOCAL NEWS.
WEDNESDAY y EVENING, AUGUST %

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WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST %.
THr CoLoRED PAUpERs The Committee
=, tho Poor Of the City Council, the Overseers
oftbe Poor, and the Mayor Of the city, met,
bz appointment, at the Mayors Office, yester-
dsv evening, for the purpose Of consulting as
- the best method to be adopted, in reference
- the recent order of Gen. Scho6eld, concern
mo coored paupers.. After consultation it was
determined to wait upon Col. Lee, Chief of the
Ereedmen's Bureau in this place, and ascertain
II. views on the subject The members of the
Roard Of Oyerseers, and the Committee, ac-
oomnanied by the Mayor, accordingly called
unon Col. Lee, who received them very cordii-
ollv and with whom they had full and free
;ntercbange of views, in reference to the mat
tor Innder consideration, the result OF which was
uorv satisfactory, and leads to the belief that
no serious difficulty need be apprehended,
without coming to any definite conclusion,
zvb;ch could not then be arrived at, it was un-
aorstood that a recommendation should be
made to the City Council, requesting that
body to provide, as far as possible, for the
wants Of the destitute of the colored, as
well as Of the white portion Of the population,
the hope being confidently entertained that
the last order issued from the headquarters OF
this military district requiring all coored va
Grants to be returned to their respective locall-
ties from whence they Aocked to the cities since
the war, will be strictly carried out, thus re-
]ieying the cities, at once of a very heavy bur
den. and one which our already heavily taxed
ueopIe, could not otherwise endure, and which
would render the necessary support impossible.
COL Lee expressed himself willing and ready
to do all in his power to assist the civil author
tiles, and fully approaching the pecuniary con-
ltion of our community, will, by every means
at his disposal, aid in relieving the city of any
additional expense for this object. Rations
are now daily furnished to about two hundred
adults, besides children, but under the last Or
der this number, it is expected, will be very
materially reduced, and upon careful investi-
CATION, it is thought, that many of those re-
naming will not come under the head of desti-
tute, and thus the increase in the pauper
population, proper, will be comparatively light,
l. -.
Cash BUSINESS. --The great error of pub
fishers of newspapers in the days before the
war was the expansion Of the credit system, as
applied to themselves, to an extent which was
absolutely ruinous We have an illustration
in our own case. We sued nobody; we dunned
nobody. If people paid US what they owed
u.s. we'll and good. If they did not, or would
not, it was the same. We had to pay every
body one-half, or more of our debtors, never
paid u.s. The consequence was, that when the
war came on, We had more than 500, 900 due
u.s. on our books. and of this large sum,
hardly anything has been paid US since the
war It became then, absolutely necessary,
when the war closed, and we took a new start,
that we should do strictly CASH BUSINESS,
and that, as we had to pay, IN cash, for every
thing connected with the publishing of the
paper, those who owed US, should pay us, also,
in cash. The public, as general rule, are not
aware, or do not consider that the publishing
Of daily paper, is a most erpensaue work re-
curing capital income, and weekly outlay
Of money, beyond that requisite for the con-
Quoting of almost any other business. And
every item of this expenditure -hauds-Wages
paper, ink, type, presses, salaries, collecting
news fuel, gas, water, and the thousand incl
dental Expenses to be paid for IN cash.
erery ceek There is no credit for us for any of
these indespensables We have not enumer
ated the half of them Now, in this view Ct
the case, it will readily be seen, that every
dollar that We earn and every right thinking
and just man will admit that we earn it, by
devotion and attention to our business not re-
CURED in any other calling or profession :
should be paid US promptly or in other
words that we should do cash business. There
is not subscriber to, nor an advertiser, in the
Gazette, who does not get the full value of his
subscription or advertisement returned to him
and frequently hundred times over. 1t is
right, then; it is just and fair, that we who
bear "the heat and burthen Of the day. who
work and toll honestly and faithfully for the
public, should be compensated literally and
promptly for our work, and that the compen-
sation should be given freely and cheerfully.
ACCIDENT y esterday morning, in Wash
ington, DR.. Bigelow, residing in this place, at
tempted to jump on the train of cars coming
to Alexandria, as it passed on to the railroad
bridge at The foot Of Maryland avenue, but
missed his footing, and holding on to the rail
way of the cars, was dragged some two hundred