Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-09-30

another visit in November to make some in
Vcstmchts.
The ,lstileries about Richmond, it is estl-
mated, are manufacturing about 1000 gallons
Of whiskey per day The demand IS IN ad-
vance Of the supply.
On Saturday consignment Of 1000 pounds
of dried fruit was received at Norfolk from
North Carolina.
Tobacco, fodder, and buckWheat have been
considerably injured by frost in Montgomery
Floyd and Carroll counties.
SETTLERS FROM THE NORTH. We copy the
following from the New Orleans Picayune -
"Ata times, respectable, just and reasonable
Northerners have never failed 10 meet with
cordial greetings and cheerful and liberal vel
come when they came among us, with the IN
tention Of Joining our community and thereai-
ter entering into the clements OF It's COMPOST
ton. 10 this assertion thousands OF Northern
| men are ready as witnesses. There is no part
| of our Southland, no Matter how sequestered
| it may be, that does not count among It's IN
babitasts such men in all the walks Of lite ; at
the bar. in the pulpit, in the banks, workshops,
stores, manufactures, in medicine, IN theology,
in colleges and schools; and in very many, IN
| stances they have attained TO the mos exalted
and Influential positions In their respective
caliiDgs or to high political station by the
| voices cf our native population. Ihls was but
The natural result Of personal merit, OF prop
er regard for popular opinions and institutions,
and Of manifestations OF capacity and integrity.
Such ;aen, we repeat. are scattered all over our
! land living il the most entire harmony with
those whom it suits the malignant temper, or
the political plans Of those who now rule North
crn sentiment and policy to represent as
aNi-barIiarous, cruel and prejudlced people.
We arn ever willing to receive such lmml--
grants as constitute this lest named class OF
| Nortberneis. and to cheer them onward upon
| their nat! in lie, no matter how humble 1t may
be. Here they will find the road to honestly
| acquired success and independence open TO
! them. We want their energy, enterprise, III
! dustry and skill, to aid in bringing into full
play the great natural advantages Of our much
! favored land. Let them come, then, and they
! will never have fair cause to regret doing so,
| fer it is in their power to do what other honest
! irc.i meaning, uprlg men have accomplished
il the same arena before them.
! But NC do not want the ''ottsc0uElng5 OF
| Northern society, Of the carpet. bag order We
| don't want Pars0n COnWays and Newmans, or
the army of pilfercrs and outcasts who come,
carpet-bag in hand, to rob us OF our substance,
and then when the field shall be exhausted,
leave it, to exercise their calling. IN new one
This class Of people are entirely out OF place
among Us, and had far better stay away.
DEAN MILMAN, whose recent dea th, in Lon
don, at the aye Of IT years, we have already
announced, was an historian Of celebrity, and
some of his works are valuable. In 1915, he
wrote the tragedy of Fazio, which still retains
its place on the stage; and in duo succession
published the following works; Sonar, Lord OF
books in 1918; Fall of Jerusalem, a dramatic
poem, in 1920; Anna Boleyn, the Martyr of
Antioch, and Belshazzar, in 1921. About this
time he was appointed Professor Of Poetry in
che University of Oxford, He published an
octave volume Of sermons as the hampton
Lectures in 1927; and two years afterwards IS
sued his celebrated History Of the Jews, ID
three volumes In 1910 he gave to the press a
collection of his poems, followed by the Ills
tory of Christianity from the birth Of Christ
to the abolition Of PaganiSm in the Roman
Empire Fifteen years afterwards he published
his History Of Latin Christianity" a continue
ton of the former, and more elaborate work.
He also issued an illustrated edition of Gibbon'
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. lie
was also frequent contributor to the Quarterly
Review. la lS49 he was promoted to the Of
fee Of Dean OF St. Pauls, and held that place
till bis death.
RUST IN WHEAT The inquiry into the ma
ture and causes of the red rust, by the commits
sion appointed for the purpose by the Cover
nor of South Australia, has elicited vast
fund Of information from the collected reports
OF eight hundred agrcuItursts and, although
the statements are IN many respects very con-
Trajectory, the committee was enabled from
them to obtain general results, which, while
they showed the fa!lacy Of the opinions advan-
ccd, established the fact that no condition OF
soil or climate is free from its ra7ages, Tor will
any precautions taken by the farmer. prevent
these The rust-spores, says DR.. Mueckee,
"are located and spread over the whole world;
neither ocean nor mountain will stop them.
They do not commence to grow and multiply
until they meet the circumstances favorable to
Tia cir existence and nourishment."
Leonard Scott & Co., New York, have re.
published the September number of the North
British Review. Contents Las Casas; the Greek
Poets; Education Of the Imbecile; Zwingle;