Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-13

Marriage Notices and Obituaries exceeding hye nes will
An communications OF personal character will be charg
ID for at advertisement rates.
All must be accompanied by the names OF
the rejected be returned
2 WHEREABOUTS OF Ex-C CONFEDERATE GEN
EaALs.-A letter to the Houston Telegraph
states that Maj. Gen. J. "a. Walker, of Walk
er's old division, is at Versailles Woodford
county, Ky. Hewrites, in private letter
IL have brought out from England full set
of steam agricultural implements, and design
during the coming season cultivating a farm Of
s5me few hundred acres with them" General
NJ. JEFF Thompson, now in New Orleans, will
return North, and continue to solicit capitalists
to take stock in company In New Orleans
which was organized last spring for the purpose
oflghtening vessels over. the bar at the mouth
of the Mississippi river by means Of camels.--.
Gen. Hindman Is president OF the Iron .Moun-i
tain railroad, in Missouri. Gen. Marmadukei
is engaged In the commission and forwarding
business in st. Louis. Gen. Forrest is at his
home in Memphis. Gen, Magruder is at pres
in New York. Gen. Wigfall is in London,
Benjamin., who is practising law. Gen. b.
Kirby Smith is at the head Of an institution Of
learning in Kentucky, which is under the con-
troll of the GEpiscopalians. Gen. Buckner is the
president of the Commercial Insurance Com
pany in New Orleans Gen. Bragg is at the
head Of the city water works of New Orleans
Gen. Pagan is practising his profession (law)
in Little Rock. s Gen. Hawthorn is in the Bra
ziian army, with the rank Of Colonel. Gen.
Joe Johnston has resigned his position as pres,
ident of o railroad company, and is at present
travelling in the North and East. Gen Beau
regard IS still president Of the New Orleans and
Jackson railroad; headquarters in New Orleans.
Gen Dick Taylor is making money with his
canal contract ia New Orleans Gems. Writ and
Dan Adams are also engaged in business In
New Orleans So are about fifteen other Maj.
and Brig Confederate Geus., including Maury,
Wheeler, &c, Gen. Shelby is in or near St.
Louis. III, 5i;sra5 5,.a.s.,..t..j e IL 20 a..s
q HuNN1cUrr's BAND. The. pious Hunni-
cutt is endeavoring to bring the Convention to
the support Of blacks who have lost their stu-
ations, upon the ground that their political
opinions don t suit their employers Premis-
ing that every employer is ''master Of the stu
alton gon his own premises this proposition
opens the way to fraud and imposition of the
crosses kind. 81 Every lazy rascal who wont
work, and wants rations, would say that he
was discharged tor his opinions, and would de-
mand that he should be allowed to fasten him
self, like leech, upon the public treasury. A
commissary departm ent OF the hugest dlmen-
sions would be necessary to maintain, such
good-for,nothing wretches. An army of them
would be soon quartered upon the State, who
would do nothing but eat, and riot, and read
the New Nation! We may easily see to what
length dissimulation and fraud would be
carried. Had all the negroes who promised to
vote the Conservative ticket 1t the late election
in this city, or who said they had 20 voted,
fulfilled their promise or told the truth, there
would have been at least i've hundred negro
Conservative votes. Whereas there were only
twenty twol Thus would the number really
discharged by their employers for voting tor
the yretches who were elected from this city
be magnl6ed byzlying blacks. Rich. Dispatch.
UNDERGROUND RIVER IN ONO. 1T is gen.
orally known that there exists, about mile.
west OF Fremont, remarkable underground
stream, With swift current, and no outlet
above the surface OF the ground this side OF
Lake Erie. 1t was discovered several years
ago on q farm north of the Four Mile House,
now owned by. Widow Shelter, by o man who
was returning from a days chopplng IN the
woods. In walking over slightly sunken
place he noticed hollow sound and turning
struck the ground with his axe. The axe
broke throug h and disappeared and never has
been heard from since. Further Investigators
showed q rock about six feet below the surface,
With creyice foot or more wide, in which
water could be seen several feet below By
tracing its course further down and breaking
throug gh the crust the same phenomenon ap;;
peared again, and by dropping piece OF wood
Or other floating substance In the upper aper'
ture, it was soon seen to pass the lower one,
showing a strong current A lead and line, let
down to the depth of seventy feet, found no
bottom. The supply Of water Is only slightly
affected by drought, and q pump set up in one :
of the places above mentioned, has furnished
the purest water to the whole neighborhood
during the late dry season. It's certainly
quite remarkable stream: --fTenaont Ohao)
Journal. !. q 80 III: ~ gl h.aaj 2,
kscR1pr1oNs FOR SCHOOL HoUsEs'-W hen
Mr.. sTbaddeus Stevens bill providing system
Of public education for children in the District,
irrespective ofclsss OF color, was introduced, 1t
vas referred without reading, but now that 1t
is printed, attention is sawak ned3in Congress
to some of its fanatical features, which are
quite" humorsome."' One section torlnstaoce,
provides that the 'sschoo controllers shall cause
to be inscribed in large .capltalsloVer the MAN
entrance Of every SCHOOL, lhouse, q and In some