Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-09

hre and. consumed. I'm Ouuuay tllc StaolC VI
the Union Hotel was; set on ire, and tour
and straw burned up.
The Radical State Executive Committee, at
at meeting yesterday, resolved to call a Con
yention, to meet on the first "Wednesday IN
May, to nominate candidates for the State
Offices: = : q = ~ > - q" : ~ % 80 =
There is temperance movement in. Staun-
ton and Harrsonburg, and numbers are joining
the temperance societIesin both places,
AN EXAMPLE. The Charlottesville Wooden
Factory is located at the confluence of Moore S
creek and the;Riyanna river, just where the old
factory stood which. was burnt by Sherldans
men in 1865. c& f.,.1 ., ~..g.5.......... .....,
Not vet three years ago, when the Southern
people we're rendered by the disasters of the
war, destitute of nearly every earthly posses
sion, and almost readytto give up IN hopeless
despair, and when 90 many OF the young men
of our land sought places in country stores or
city business, Mr.. FL. Clay Marchant went to
work like man, and, by strict economy, per-
severing industry, business judgment and un-
swerving integrity, has laid the sure foundation
of fortune and character that should command
the respect of all who would dignity labor and
applaud true merit.
When the war ended, in 1865, Mr.. Mar
chants only possessions were the site OF the
old factory, and about 81 900 worth of cotton.
What should he do? Where was be to obtain
a support for himself and his family? He did
not hesitate moment as to what he should do.
He took his thousand dollars, put up the mercst
shed of a mill house, and put into it pair of
ohopping stones and a carding machine. Night
and day he kept them running, unalded, but
hopeful ever. He made money, and saved it
until he had enough to erect the large and well
built stone and brick wooden factory building,
which now stands where the old one stood be-
fore the. war. We dare say that Mafchant
himself can hardly tell you how he carried the
enterprise to successful end. But there it is,
complete and just ready to start, with every
cent of it's cost paid down. Nor is that all
Such man as Il. Clay Marchant has proven
himself to be does not pass unnotlced by the
best business men of his community, who are
always willing to help those VIII are determined
to help themselves His factory building and
his own character were ample guarantees; OF
future success friends became interested in
him; Northern nachine-shops and Northern
capitalists preferred him material aid and
friendly ADVICE, Those liberal and celebrated
machiDists, Furbush & Gaze, of Philadelphia,
Sent to him the best machinery their shops
could turn out; and j. II. HASKELL esq, of
Baltimore, supplied all the findings neces-
sary for the factory, upon as long time as Mr.
Ma1chant desired = Charlottesville Ctron.
RAILROAD MATTERS From an article in
the U. S. Railroad and Mining Register dis
cussing.the subject of railroad communications
between the Atlantic cities and the West, we
extract the following: Xxi. a.. ~. 49,. -.
Notwithstanding that the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad has stimulated Baltimore into
the most rapid growth and the largest size
among Chesapeake citics-a result due wholly
to the representation of Virginia in the mat
ter of her long ago projected but fceby prose
cuted COMMUNICATIONS with the Ohio valley
a new and vigorous policy on the part Of Vir-
GINA will hereafter advance both Richmond
and Alexandria 1.-THE latter considered in con-
junction with Washington in a ratio Of increase
which, 10 long race through indefinite time
will enable them to surpass and overshadoW
all other cities of the Chesapeake the same
way and from the same cause that enabled the
State of New York to exchange rank with the
State Of Virginia. a.. ..-..~......
Without the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
Baltimore would nothave outgrown Alexandria
and Richmond, since the natural advantages Of
Alexandra and Richmond for the concentra-
ton of commerce and manufactures are mani
festly superior to the natural advantages pos
sessed by Baltimore. And inasmuch as Balti-
more is Enthusiastically the result Of artificial
communications. the effect of commercial en-
terprse, not the product of geographical situa
ton, it follows that, without railroad facilities
no seaport city can command interior trade,
whatever may be lis natural resources and sur
roundings. ,.1,.s rag q. .es;s, g. D ~:
z Virginia must push forward her line into the
West, and Virginia must make combinations
and connections at tide water else will the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which has an
:ticipated Virginia in the West, also, occupy her
great valley southwest to Salem, and there tap
the Knoxville and Memphis route, to turn its
current into channel which will avoid Rich
.mond, Alexandra and Washington in order
that-it may ebb and flow uninterrupted, to and
from Baltimore. --~
POLAND The people of the South take a
mournfulintere in everything pertaining to
the unhappy fate of Poland under the perse-
cutions of Russia, that notable ally of the u.