Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-06-15

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The PEABODY BUILDINGS IN LoNDON.-Ihe
following account of the buildings erected In
London by means Of the Peabody fund Will IN
terest those who are striving to improve the
homes of the poorer classes In this country,
and will serve as a hint as to the way in which
they should be built:
"Tbe premises at Islington consist OF four
blocks of buildings, comprising in all l55 tene-
ments, accommodating $50 persons, or nearly
t1p hundred families. The whole cost of these
b1fdngs; exclusive of tue sum paid for the
land, amq1GlM to s3l, 500. The principle and
organization in each of these extensive sttuc-
lures is the same. Draiuagc and rentilatlon
have been insured with the utmost possible
care: the instant removal of dust and refuse IS
effected by means of shafts which descend
from every corridor to cellars in the basement,
whence it is carted away; the passages are oil
kept clean, and lighted with gas, without any
cost to the tenants; water from csterns in the
roof is distributed by pipes into every tene-
ment; and there are baths free for all who
desire to use them Laundres, with wringing
machines and drying lofts, are at the service of
every inmate, who is thus relieved from the
Inconvenience of damp vapors in their apart
ments, and the consequent damage to furniture
and bedding.
every living room Or kitchen is abundantly
provided with cupboards, shelving and other
conveniences, and each fireplace includes q
boiler and an oven. But what gratifes the
tenants, perhaps more than any other part Of
the arrangements, are the ample aud airy
spaces which serve as Fairgrounds tor their
children, where they are always under their
mothers eyes, and safe from the risk OF pass
ing carriages and laden carts.
The rent OF these rooms is less than what
rooms of the poorest description cost elsewhere.
In evidence Of their salubrity, it is said that
but FIVE deaths have occurred IN the buildings
since they were opened, 10 February, 1864
There has been but one person removed tor
ousrrelng and disturbing the peace and one
expelled for non payment OF rent. Ihese ex- y!
ceptions, out Of community consisting OF SIX
hundred and eighty persons, speak strongly tor
the self respect and moral principles by which
they are influenced
PUBLIC MONEYS TO PRIVATE CREDIT
The Secretary Of the Treasury has issued a
circular prescribing regulations for the guidance
of collectors, deputy collectors, &c, III which
he positively orders that no public moneys
shall be deposited to the credit OF private
account, but that all agents living in city or
town where there is U. S. depository shall
deposit their receipts therein at the close OF
each days business In cases where there IS
no Government depository convenient they
shall forward funds to the nearest depository,
as soon as the amount of 81, 900 is accumulat-
ed. Deposits to what is known as the col
lectors account are prohibited, and this pro-
hibiton is extended to all repositories and de-
pository banks in the country. Moneys ad,
vanced to disbursing agents must be deposited
to their official credit, and drawn upon only in
that capacity.-Ne'0 York. Times.
The above was substantially the rule OF the
Treasury before the war. The violation has
led to untold losses, as full revelation OF the
accounts of disburslng officers would show, and
has been the means of putting fortunes into
the hands of spectators who coined gold from
the blood of civil strife. Int.
Nor SATISFIED WITH PRoTECTIoN. There
is good deal of human nature in the protec-
tionists; they like butter so we'll that they must
spread their bread on both sides, Thus the
Chicago Tribune says
''The Hon. Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts,,
is a high. minded man. He makes shoyels tor
the American and Austrian markets. He
finds the tariff on steel pinching him, aud he,
too, wants bounty to enable him to furnish
cheap shovels to the Austrians. MIR. Ames Is
protected in the American market bya duty
of forty-fve per cent on his shovels. The
proof that he does not need such protection Is
found in the fact that he exports shovels to
foreign countries in competition with English
manufacturers. Nevertheless, his export trade
is declining, and be is threatened with EXITING
tion by reason of the high tariff on steel. he
proposes, therefore, to get law passed to
compel those who buy his shovels in this cOun-
try at forty-hve per cent more than they are
worth, to pay the sum of torty-fve per cent
additional, so that he may furnish shoveis to
the Austrians at torty-f7e per cent less than
they cost the American farmer The profes-
sional name for this bounty is drawback. -
TIE word bounty does not sound we'll. If the
reader will bear in mind that drawback means
q sum of money taken out Of the treasury,
which has to be made good 10y taxes from
some other source it will aid in forming cor
rect conclusions as to how far drawbacks
should be allowed. y
GERR1r SMITH ON CoNF1sCATIoN.-We re,
marked some time ago that if cou6scaton
should be commenced in the South it would
end in the North. This view of the matter il
taken by Gerrit Smith, who, in letter
just published, says:
''Confscation once entered upon, 1T Will bt
difficult, if not impossible, to set limits to tn