Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-05-12


burg Washingtonian and Mirror, and the Con
yention adjourned. -r
HEr. EveritGs Address. l.,.'
A numerous and intelligent audience, com
posed OF merchants, bankers, capitalists, bus
iness men, and citizens generally, assembled
at the Hall of the House of Delegates, in Rich
mond, Friday evening, to hear an address from
Mr.. John Evcritt, of London, delivered upon
the invitation of the Chamber of Commerce OF
that city. Mr.. Everitt is a prominent business
man, the chairman of several railways, and the
representative of between twenty and thirty
banks and bankers OF Great Britain. His mis-
sion to this country is to inform himself as to
its advantages as field for the Investment OF
the large amount of unemployed capital he rep
resents. He has been an Industrious traveller
since he entered the South, as well as close
and critical observer. He had come among Us
with many doubts and misgivings, but all had
been dispelled He had seen and mingled with
our people in business and social life, and he
was not only pleased but delighted with the
high traits of character they everywhere dis
played. He said they are cruelty and Infamous
ly slandered. He said that wherever he had
been in the South he had been amazed at the
greatness OF our physical capabilities, the fer
tility of our lands, the vastness and variety OF
our mines and mineral resources, our naVlgable
waters and the extent oflour timber, water
power, &c. ! &c. . He said that nothing i'm
pressed him more deeply than the discovery
that the thirteen Southern States, which, be-
fore the war, contributed more agricultural
production to the commerce jof the world than
any other country, had employed buttwo mil,
lions Of .laborers of all kinds, and went on to
show what those States would be capable OF
doing if they were densey Inhabited, the lands
all under rcultiVatlon,r commerce qulckened
and extended, r direct trade established and
mechanical and manufacturing industry setln
motion.oo, It rswould, he said,c +, be q mine
of wealth land an empire Of unrlya1ed
resources and power, such . land. as the
sun never shonc upon. He compared it with
his own little but grand island, an island not
greater in territorial extent than the smallest
of the Southern States, but densely populated,
with every capacity improved, every resource
developed, every advantage utilized, every
acre under cultivation, and every industry In
successful operation said that-we-have
advantages not possessed by England-not only
a better and more extended natural soil, COW
ering nexhaustible mines and mineral de-
posts, hut ali conceivable elements of wealth.
England was indebted to her commerce for her
prosperity and greatness, while We can have
the same commerce and lmmcasuraby more
production to feed it. He said our two great
needs are increased production and an un-
broken and harmonious railroad connection to
our Virginia seaboard, and that the great aim
Of the Southern people should be to establish
this railroad system, and that no riva iries or
siealousies should be allowed to interfere with
it. He said if we increase our production and
make "a railway system that shall be homoge-
neous and harmonious, and that shall point DR.
rectly to the Virginia seaboard and connect it
with all the fields Of Southern and Western
production, we will at once realize and grasp
direct trade-that great Want-that lndlspen-
sable necessity. He said that to effect all this
it was necessary to get the better class of i'm
migrants to come among us and settle upon
and work our lands. That class in Great
Britain, he said, can be procured FIVE will
take the proper measures to- place ourselves
in communication with them and with those
who represent them. He said it is necessary
to this end that our most substantial, infuen-
tial and respectable men shall take up the sub
gjeee, act in harmony and on business principles,
organize an enlarged syste m of immigration.
policy adapted to the necessities Of the case,
and so adjusted in all its parts as to suit both
our landholders and the, immigrant classes
Rich TVhig. - L9ots no @:
{. FAUoU1ER CoUNTY.-The ladies Of the Eau
quicr Memorial Association, have determined
upon the 31st Of May or lst Of. June as.the
day for the annual floral offering to the Confed5
crate dead in, Warrenton cemetery They pre-
pose also fair and concert at August Court,
for the Confederate monument. ed4lie- p
Gov Smith, spoke to the people at Brents
vile. on last Monday Although rising seventy
years of age, herode from Warrenton there
and back again the same day, (forty odd miles,
exhibiting "a most com mendable zeal in the
Conservative cause. 's- s,+ 80 ~
The dedication of the Warrenton Baptist
church took place last Sunday, the Rev. DE-.
Fuller officiating morning and night Lis ser
mons we're listened to by large and crowded
congregations : Warreaton Lnder.
The following resolution, In relation to those
citizens from other countries, or other States,
who have settled in Virginia, and express their
determination to stand by the white people of
the State in their present struggle, was unani-
mously passed by the ConseiVati9e oonVeAtioh
at Richmond:
''Resozved, That this Convention takes pleas
ure in acknowledging the grateful! sense IN
which we receive this assurance OF the cooper
alton of those who have cast their lot among
us, and have thereby identified themselves with
us AS they are by nature identified in race and
civilization
Extraordinary heat prevailed in San Fran.
cisco, yesterday. Ea ID