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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-13
THE VIRGINIA LAND COMPANY

;
INCORPORATED ACCORDING TO THE
-o,>,9 LAWS OF VIRGINIA,
with authority to own 25 OO0acres of land; Cap
ita Stock not less thsn S., CO., or more n.a than
500 900, in shares of Sl0o each, for the p9rpose
of buying and selling Land to-, and lncucing
Immigrants in to the State of Virginia. .,,.
Land Owners, Capitalists, g. are bn inyltea to to
money OF land, which will with cur organizs-
ton prove profitable, facilitate immigration! to-
and the settlement of q large area of uncultlva,;
tod lands in the State. The books are opened
for subscription at the office of the Company
-0'' -" W. 81. MARBURY,
O.. ....-.s 1,s g... CHS Secretary and Treasurer.
...r JOHN S. BARBOUR, Prest
T. A. Brewis, ... ........
" G.. T. Suttle :' '.
/ G.. c. Wedderburn,
II. B. Sweeny, Directors.
|. J. W Burke, '.0
Andrew Jameson,
Julius Dienelt,
j. 81. Barker. ocI - -
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FOR THE NEW YORK CARRIAGE MAN
UFACTORY.
Has lust received q full assortment Of
CHILDRENS CARRIAGES,
which will be sold at retail at q small advance
on factory prices, and at wholesale in quantities
of or moro at manufacturers rates, cost OF
transportation added. Can furnish 80 patterns
of the most improved styles, from s. to 2;io.
drawings OF any style furnished upon applcs-
tion. lhal o.
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si<JEi~Ji;a GROCERIES.
1893 s. SPRING TRADE. 10hS
1861.
1868.
NEW GooDsl NEW GooDsl NEW GooDsl
AVERY & DAVIDSON,

AVERY & DAVIDSON,
226, KING STREET, COR OF ALFRED,
Announce that they have just made large ad-
ditions to their stock of choice
FAMILY GROCERIES,
g @ WINES AND LIQUORS,
and are prepared to offer full and we'll select
cd stock Of goods, consisting in part OF
3 hhds. Cuba, Porto Rico and Vacuum Pan
Sugars, ,,.a,a
'3'' Sugars
IS sacks Rio, Laguyra, Ceylon and Java
Coffoes.i 1. -- -
3 hhds. George s. jenkins Sugar cured
Sides, Shoulders and Breasts.
tierces George & jenkins 'Marylend'
Hams ....,
s tiorces Western Leaf Lard.
25 bbls. Family, Extra, Superfne ard Fine
Flour.
10 boxes choice Factory Cheese.
so boxes Babbitt's Stearine, Eayenson's and
Gunpowder, Imperial, English Breakfast,
Oolong and Japan Tea. .-..o,.
Sardines, &C., &C., Brooms, Buckets Baskets,
Tubs Mats &C., together with a choice as
9'l " '' Wv WINES AND LIQUORS.
Bakers celebrated pure Eye n'.Iyhomtpson1n IT
''Zeigler," Family Nectar and other brands
Brandy, Gin, Blackberry Brandy, Port. Ma;
deira and Sherry Wines, &c., all Of which will
be sold at prices which cannot fail to please.
AVERY 81 DAVIDSON,
mar 2S-lm 226, King ST., cor. Alfred.
VIM, E. BRoOKES. CHAS. s. TAYLOR, JH.
DROOKES s. TAYLOR,
DEALERS IN
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES,,
Cor Pitt and Prince streets,
..... .-. ALEXANDRIA, VA.
Country Produce taken in Elk change. ....
mar 10-tf
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GPRING GOODS.

Just received at TUBMAN'S, ~,
) SPRING STYLES OF WALLPAPERS,
new and beautiful patterns of Stamped, Gold,
Glazed and Onglazed Papers for Halls, Par
lors, Chambers, Dining Rooms, &c; new pat
terms Window Shades in all colors, at prices
that cannot fail to please. Call and see. .1
A. NJ. TUBMAN,
mar 3l-lm 129, King st.
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+ R1cHMoND, w, March 10. 1868,
This elegant establishment is open to accom-
mediation of the public. The building is one OF
THE FINEST IN THE CITY,
and for STYLE, convenience and beauty of ar
rsngement is acknowledged to be superior.
ITS FURNITURE
is new and complete, and for cleanliness 1t IS
proverDial.
The subscriber, after more than twenty years
experience in the business, thinks ho risks
nothing in saying that this Hotel shall, in every
respect, be
EQUAL TO ANY IN THE SOUTH,
and asks the patronage Of his friends and , the
public generally. JOHN ?. BALAAkD,
Proprietor.
mar 19-tf
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LIVERPOOL AND LONDON
AND GLOBE INSURANCE CO.,
MERCHANT TAILORS.
\ RNOLD s. FIELD,
MERCHANT TAILORS,


Al MERCHANT TAILORS,
.. No. SO, King st.,
Keep s large stock Of CLOTHS, CASSl-
MERES LIN EMS, VESTlNGS and best blue
CLOTHS and DOESKINS, Qight and dark
colors) always on hand; white SILK VEST
INGS, all of which we will make to order very
low. Call and examine our stock.
In our GENTS FURNISHING DEPART
MENT you will find the latest styles.
We furnish WHITE SHIRIS as cheap as
can be bought BY retail in Philadelphia at the
manufacturers, warranted to fit and wear well
We are manufacturers Agents for RICH, /
ARDS PATENT COMBINED PAPER
COLLAR and BOSOM, q new thing Just intro
dueed. Retail dealers can be supplied as cheap
BY Us as at the factory. Come in and look at
Roual street .-" feb 15-tf
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Directors.
pOULTERER'S FRIEND.

1 ~,
'>s<.a A CERTAIN CURE FOR
! tGAPES AND OTHER DISEASES LIN /.
! CHICKENS AND TURKEYS. .
A Certain Preventive of Chicken Cholera;
! Will prevent disease in all kinds OF fowl, and
promote an increase of fat. Read the tolioWlng
-. -l.t Jefferson Frederick CO., MGr
~ 4..e,. .r - 80 July 22d, 1867.
Messrs. Clotworthy & Co.:
Gents-The wonderful cures which have been
made by your Poulterers' Friend cannot fall to
interest all who raise poultry. A gentleman OF
this village has been experimenting on chickens
with the gapes He tried your Poulterers,
Friend according to the directions, and it h had
the desired effect in removing the worm, etfec-
tually relieving the chicken at once; Since
then then I have had many calls for it, and j: has
been used extensively with the same result; 1t
is OF incalculable value to al who raise poultry.
Respectfully. ..' A. SPENCER.
Price 25c per package.
h1epSisoo lpcIoTWORTY # & CO., Baltimore.
Also, RAT KILLER, HORSE AND CAL
TIE POWDERS--the best in use.
For sale by .JANNEY & CO.. 145, King St.
And ,H E.S. LEADBEATER & co. r
nov 16-6m - E&,. = f eti
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MEDICAL.
ORE LOCK HOSPITAL.

AS A REFUGE FROM
QUACKERY.
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,.-m, Of subsoription-Invariably in Adv
TERMS OF ADVERTISING:

TERMS OF ADVERTISING:
m, sauare eight nes dollar for tho first insertion
S twepty-ve cents for each subsequent one Liberal
..1 Farms made with yearly advertisers. -,
Notices and Obituaries exceeding five lines Will
be charged for. - -
All of personal character will be ctarG
, Al for at advertisement rates. ....-. -
All COMMUNICATIONS be accompanied by the names Of
e authors rejected cannot be returned
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WILLIAM E. ATWELL,

FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
No l61 King St, next Milburn's Drug Store,
Would announce to his friends and the public
tn he is again prepared to attend to all orders
for work in his line, in his usually satisfactory
atvla .....-. mar 16--tf
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10n NEW STORE. 10
: " HOUSEKEEPERS EMPORIUM.

HOUSEKEEPERS' EMPORIUM.
The attention of housekeepcrs is most respect
fuIlv called to largo and well selected STOCK o1
HOUSEKEEPING ARTICLES, =,
of all descriptions, which will be sold at small
advance on cost price: ,. e
Housekcepers will find NJ sIs9Ttment G!rm M Gt
and BLOCK Tin. Plain and PIanished Tin and
Tinned Iron Ware, Fine Table Cutlery, (Rog-
ers' and other celebrated manutactureS) fine
Silver Plated Table Ware (warranted) Brushos
and Feather Busters of all descriptions, Door
Mats, and all other articles usually found IN g
frst-class establishment. A call IS mo;I res
pectfully solicited. 8. =: ~ bM An.
next door to D. Appich's Confectionery
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ALEXANDRIA VA. MONDAY EVENING APRIL l3 1863
CABINET FURNITURE, &c.

.- ESTABLISHED 1923.
STEPHEN A. GREEN. JAS. f. GREEN. ,&SssaaSH.
.TREEN & BRO, Ill" E43H
VI Manufacturers of HiIiE
PARLOR, DINING ROOM. Hill
CH AM B E r, HALL, OFFICE, eEtaIas
SCHOOL and CHURCH Es5A
FURNITURE, c@z
Corner cf Prince and Fairfax sts, 3. :
ALEXANDRIA,, VA. ~
Mas- Furniture at wholesale and retail.
Also dealers in Cabinet Makers and Uphol-
sterers' Materials. ,r
fuckers and Wright's celebrated SPRING
BEDS always on hand. teo lily
VIZ NJ H. MUIR,
Manufacturer ard Dealer in
4LL KINDS OF CABINET FURNlTURE,
Chairs, Mattresses, Looking Glasses, &c.
.l COR. KING g. ST. AsAPu STs.,
oct 22-tf ALEXANDRIA,. VA3
j. W. NAILS. TEos. R1sHIELL. II. F. HooGE
flames ". MALLS s; CO.,
Dealers in
HARDWARE, GLASS, OILS, PAINTS,
FELT, PITCH, LAMPS, TIN WARE,
CEMENT, G. PLASTER, LIME,
BRUSHES. &C., &c,
Manufacturers of DOORS, SASH FRAMES,
BLINDS, MOULDINGS, AND
. . BRACKETS,
Factory, cor Queen and Fairfax streets.
Store, lS7, King st., ALEXANDRIA, VA.
jan 9-tf
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-12-04
WISH HAD CAPITAL.

So we heard a great strapping young man
exclaim the other day in an Office. We did
want to give him a peiceo Of our mind SO bad;
and We just write to him. You want cap
ital do you? And suppose you had what
son call capital what would you do with it ?
You want capital? Haven't you hands and
brains, and don't you call them capital?
What more capital did Cox give any body?
"0h, but they are not money, you say.
But they are more than money, and no
body can take them from you. Don't you
know how to use them? IF you don't its
time you were learning. Take hold of the
first ploR, or hoe, or jack plane, or broad
axe that you can find, and gotowork. Your
capital viii soon yield a large interest. Ay,
but there's the rub! You don't want to
work; you want credit, that you may play
gentleman and speculate and end by play
ing vagabond.
Or you want plantation with plenty Of
hirelings upon it to do the work, while you
run over the country and dissipate; or want
some rich girl who may be foolish enough
to take you for your good looks, that she
may support you.
Shame on you mani Go to work with
the capital you have, and you'll soon make
interest enough upon it to give you as much
money as you want and make you feel ike a
man. IF you want to make money orcan' t
make money on what capital YOU have, you
could not make it if you had million Of
dollars in money. Ifyou don't know how
to use bone and muscle and brains You
would not know how to use gold. IF you
let the capital you have lie idle, and waste
and rust out, it would be the same with you
if you had goldi youwould only know how
to waste it.
Then don't stand about idle, a great help
less child waiting for somebody to come in
and feed you, but 60 to work Take the
first work you can find no matter what it is,
so that you may do it we'll Yes, whatever
you undertake do it well; always DO your
best. IF you manage'th the capital you already
have, you will soon have plenty more to
manage; bat if you can't or won't manage
the capital God has given you, you viii
never have any other to manage. Do you
hear that young man
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-12-04
FIFTEEN FOLLIES.

First-To think that the more man eats
the fatter and stronger he viii become.
Second-To believe that the more hours
children study at school the faster they
learn.
Tbird-To conclude that if exercise is
good for the health, the more violent and
exhausting it is the more good is done.
Fourth-To imagine that every hour
taken from sleep is an hour gained.
Fifth-To act on the presumption that
the smallest room in the house Is large
enough to sleep in.
Sixth-To argue that whatever remedy
causes one to feel Immediately better is
good for the system, without regard to
more Interior effects The soothing syr-
up, for example, does not stop the cough
of children, and does arrest diarrhea, only
to cause, little later, alarming commissions,
or the more fatal inflammation Of the brain,
or water on the brain, at least, always
portraits the disease.
Seventh-To commit an act which is felt
in itself to be prejudicial, hoping that
somehow or other it may be done in your
case with impunity.
Eighth-To advise another to take a
remedy which you have not tried on your
self or without making special inquiry
whether all the conditions are alike.
Ninth-To eat without an appetite, Of
continue to eat after it has been satisfied
merely to crafty the taste.
Tenth-To eat hearty supper for th'
pleasure experienced during the brief tint
it is passing down the throat, at the szpens'
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-12-04
co TO SLEEP EARLY.


Many children, instead Of being plump
aud fresh as peach, are as withered aud
wrinkled as last year 5 apples, because they
do not sleep enough Some physicians
think that the bones grew only during sleep
This 1 cannot say, certainly; but do know
that those lite folks who sit up late at
nights are usually nervous, weak, small, and
sickly. The reason you need more sleep
than your parents is because you have to
grow, and they do not. They can use up
the food they eat in thinking, talking, and
working, while you should save some Of
yours for growing. You ought to sleep a
great deal; if you do not, you willin activity
consume all you eat, and have none, or not
enough TO grow with. Very few smart
children excel, or even equal, other people
when they grow up. Why is this 2 Because
their heads, if not their bodies, are kept too
busy: 50 that they cannot sleep, rest, and
grow strong in body and brain. Now, when
your mother says, Susie or Georgia. or
whatever your name msg be, it is time to
20 to bed do not worry her by begging to sit
up ''iust little longer" But hurry off TO
your chamber, remembering that you have
a great deal of sleeping and growing to dc
to make you healthy, happy, useful mar
or woman.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-12-04
ODD LAND.

There is genuine wit in the following des-
cription Of Holland, taken from Hans
Brinker, or the Silver Skates" 1t is a lit
lie piece Of DEMONSTRATION worthy Of Irving
or any Of our best writer's:
Holland is one Of the queerest countries
under the sun. Il should be called Odd
and, or Contrary land, for in nearly every
thing it is different from other parts Of the
world.
In the first place large portion Of the
country is lower than the level Of the sea.
Great dykes, or bulwarks, have been cree
ted at heavy cost Of money and labor to
keep the ocean where it belongs. On GER
tain parts of the coast it sometimes leans
with all its weight against the land, and it
is as much as the poor country can DO to
stand the pressure Sometimes the dykes
give way, or spring leak, and the most
disastrous results ensue. They are high
and wide, and the tops of some of them are
covered with buildings and trees, They
have even fine public roads upon them, from
which horses may look down upon wayside
cottages. Often the keels Of floating ships
are higher than the roofs of the dwellings.
The stork, Gathering to her young on the
housepeak, may feel that her nest is lifted
far out Of danger, but the eroaking frog in
neigbboring bulrushes is nearer the stars
than she Wa'erbugs dart backward and
forward o7er the heads of the chimney
swallows; aud willow trees seem dropping
with shame because they cannot reach as
high as tie reeds Eear by bitches, canals,
ponds, rivers and lakes are every where to
be seen. High, but not dry, they shine 10
The sunlight, catching nearly all the hustle
and the business, quite scorning the tame
fields stretching, damp, beside them. One is
tembted to ask (which is Hollaud-the
shores or the water p The very ycrdure
that should be confined to the land has
made mistake and settled upon the fish
ponds. In fact, the entire country is kind
ofsaturated sponge, or, as the poet Butler
called it,
9. 4 land that rides at anchor and is moor d,
Ia which they do not live, but 60 aboard. "
Persons are born, to live and die, and even
have their gardens on canal boats. Farm
houses, with roofs like great slouehed hats
pulled over their eyes, stand on wooden legs
with tucked up sort of air, as if to say,
"We intend to keep dry if we can. Even
the horses wear wide stool on each hoof to
lift them out of the mire In short, the
landscape everywhere suggests paradise
for ducks 1t is glorious country III sum
mer for bare-footed girls and boys. Such
wadiugs! Such mimic ship sailing Such
rowing, fishing and swimming Only
think Of chain of puddIes where one can
launch chip boats all day long, and never
make return trip! But enough. A full
recital would set all Young America rush
ing in body toward the Zuyder Zee
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-12-04

Richard Grant White has an article in
the December number of The Galaxy upon
Mr. Greeley's Autobiography, in which he
says:
Horace Greeley has grown wonderfully,
even since We who are his juniors, aud who
yet are mature men, have known him
through his writings; and the mass of his
readers have grown with him. Like some
schoolmasters, be has kept only a lesson
ahead Of his scholars, learning to-day what
he taught tomorrow. But do not all teach
ers so? The difference between any Of
them and him is that he has printed his
daily exercise, and called it The New
York Tribune Hence what are called
the vagaries and the vacilations of that
paper They are merely the visible self
recorded efforts of a man who tries now
this, now that mode of attaining ore end;
and who says on one day, 1 have found the
way, come walk with me in it, and on
another, No, this is the road, follow; and
who is followed
Mr. Greeley tells story Of himself that
is full of significance. One day at Cha
mounix bis wife undertook with her child
reu to reach the Glacier des Boissons, which
he says seemed hardly a mile from the
hotel She lost her way, and was obliged
to hire a peasant woman to pilot her back
to the hotel, and carry one of the tagged
out children. Mr. Greeley laughed at her,
and volunteered to lead the party the next
morning straight up to the glacier so that
they might put their hands on it. . But >"
he says, on trying it, failed miserably
This Is not the only dazzling point that has
seemed to him hardly mile of, aud to
which he has offered to lead people-wo-
men and children-so that they might put
their hands on il to morrow, and on trying
it has failed miserably. In which he IS but
ike all the rest of US; the wise, ike you,
reader, and the foolish, ike-one who shall
be nameless. But We do not make our ef-
forts, as well as our promises in print, on
paper, which, before the ink Is well dried,
is under the eyes of fifty thousand readers
Horace Greeley, however he may have
failed to do all that he sought to do, has
come nearer to the attainment Of his pur-
pose than most reformers do during their
lives. The country owes him muchi and
one of its debts it viii ere long acknowl-
edge-does in some sort now acknowledge.
For if it be to him in great measure that
we owe the agitation which produced the
4. late rebellion, and if in the course of that
/ great commotion he offered, once or twice,
/ to lead US whittier we and he wished to so,
and failed miserably, yet to him We owe,
in at least as great a measure, the develop
ment of that spirit which resisted secession
as well as slavery, and IN the end, under
more practical guidance than his, left US
citizens ola great, free, and united country,
/ Tgenty-Gye years ago the popular strength
and spirit which carried the Government
safely through our tremendous political
eouvulsion was as lacking as the moral
frmness that withstood the spread oi
slavery; and the growth Of the former, nc
less than that of the latter, among the far
mers and the artisans of the Free States, j:
largely due to the teaching and the IN.
fuenee Of Horace Greeley.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-12-04
ANEcDorE or wHITEFIELD.

When Mr. Whitefeld was preaching on
one occasion at Plymouth, he lodged with
Mr.. Kiusman, minister of the town. Af-
ter breakfast on Monday, he said to bis
friend. "Come, let US visit some Of your
poor people. 1t is not enough that we Ia
Dor in the pulpit; we must endeagor to be
useful out of il" On entering the dwell
ings of the afflicted poor, he administered to
their temporal as spiritual wants. Mr..
Kinsman, knowing the low state of his
finances, was surprised at his liberality, and
suggested that he thought he had been too
bountitul. Mr.. Whitefeld, with some de-
gree of smartness, replied; it ia not enough
Young man, to pray, and put on serious
face. True religion, and undefled, IS this
to visit the widow and the fatherless IN
their affiiction, and to supply their wants.
Nv stock. it is true, is nearly exhausted; but
God. whom | serve, and whose saints we
have assisted, viii, l doubt not, soon give
me a supply" His hopes were not dlsap-
pointed. A stranger called on him in the
evening, who addressed him thus with
great pleasure have heard you preach; you
are on journey, as well as myself, and
travelling is expensive Do me the honor to
accept this, at the same time presenting
him with FIVE guineas. Returning to tue
family, Mr.. Whitefeld, smiling, held out
the money in his hand, saying. There,
young man, God has speedily repaid what
bestowed. Let this IN future, teach you
not 10 withhold what it is IN the power oi
your hand to give. The gentleman to whom
l was called is a perfect stranger TO me; hii
only business was to give me the sum you
saa -
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-12-04
Of whole night Of disturbed sleep, and a

of a whole night Of disturbed sleep, and a
weary waking in the morning.
Eleyenth-To remove portion Of the
clothing Immediately after exercise, when
the most stupid drayman in New York
knows that if he does not put cover on his
horse the moment he ceases work ia winter,
he will lose him in few days By pneumo-
MIA.
Tselfh-To contend that because the
dirtiest children in the street, or in the high
way, are hearty aud healthy therefore it is
healthy to be dirty forgetting that contin
uous exposure to the pure outdoor air in
joyous, uhrestrained activities, is such a
powerful agency for health, that those who
live thus are well, in spite Of rags and filth.
Thirtecnth-To presume TO repeat later
in life, without injury, the indiscretions,
exposures, and intemperances which IN the
flush Of youth were practiced with impunity.
kourteenth-To believe that warm air is
necessarily impure, or that pure, cold air IS
necessarily more healthy than the confined
air Of close and crowded vehicles the latter,
at the most, can only cause fainting and
nausea, while entering conveyance after
walking briskly, lowering a window, thus,
while still, being exposed to a draft viii
give a cold infalIibly, or an attack ofpIeurisy
or pneumonia which will cause weeks and
months of suffering, if not actual death
within four days.
Fifteenth-To remember the Sabbath
day by working harder and later on
Saturday than on any other day in the
week, with view to sleep late the next
morning, and staying at home all day to
rest. conscience being quieted by the plea Of
not feeling very well.-HaPs Journal Of
Health.