Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-22


depoaitarirs will be reduced al least one half.
There will b. number OF change, aud some
now acting AS deposilaries be discontinued.
At the Commercial Convention at Memphis,
Senator Fowler, OF Tennessee, in the course OF
n speech he made, SAID the greatest captain in
the country had aail there was gold enough
10 the West to pay the national debt, and the
railroads ACROSS the continent Were the key to
unlock that strong box but he MIR. Fowler
DISAGREED with that individual, and lh0usht
the cotton of the South was worth more than
all the gold in the Rocky Mountains. He said
the national debt was eating up not only the
products Of the poor, but the capital OF the
country; and il this thing continued, ruin was
inevitable. The Southern slope was entitled
to Pacific railroad line, aud he thought their
effort to secure one would succeed at The next
session OF Congress
The Norfolk Nireinian calls 10 mind that
sometime ago Raleigh ~. Daniel, Chairman OF
the Conservative State Committee, estimated
the increased taxation to fall upon the state,
under the proposed increase Of State and
county officers, at the enormous sum Of 80,
0OO,O 600, or more than enough to pay three
years interest on the Stales vast debt. This
may be an over estimate but no doubt there
is an approximation, and that there will be an
enormous expenditure AMI corresponding
| taxation.
The jeff. and Joe Davis plantation, thirty
| miles below Nicksburg, is leased by an old
| black man at $4,000 a year. lie hires 100
| hands to work it, Not white man is to be
| seen about the place The whole plantation
| of several thousand acres is planted in cotton,
which appears very promising. and iiom this
one plantation cotton enough will be produced
| to run mill in Lowell for weeks.
Rev. John l.. Johnson proposes to publish
a memorial volume, containing biographical
sketches Of the Alumni Of the University OF
Virginia, who lost then lives III the late war.
The work will, doubtless, be- one of much inter
est As Mr. j. is an accomplished scholar, and
very competent to do full justice to the subject,
and il is hored that his book will meet with
the success its merits will doubtless deserve.
The proposed State Constitution, even with
the dislranchisemcnt aud test oath clauses
stricken out, says the Richmond Enquirer, is
bad enough; aud it it should come upon us, let
us, at least endeavor to provide some shelter
against the storm something to cover Us un-
til we can get another. And how is that to be
done? BY the Legislature,
The State Central Executive Committee
have appointed p IL. AYTETr, = eanvasser Tor
the State, N opposition to the election OF Wells
as Governor, and, also, IA opposition to the
two clauses of the proposed Constitution, IN
which a separate vote is allowed. MIR y. Is A
gentleman OF talents and ability.
Ii - noticed that there seems Ia Er \ renew
ci onicry in some Ut the leading radical iourn
| ais IN regard 10 crime IN the South, which
| is coniecturel to he raised ior the purpose 81
furnishing pretcZte inr stu further interference
| If the federal government IN the Santhern
| State.
The rfc1dent Yesterday settled the tiFht-
hour law question hv j.. uing proclamation
| dechratoty If the effect oi the law OF Congo
upon WAGES oi Government employees, which
| Is simply that the law makes eight hour4 a
day wok instead OF ten, without affecting
| the rate OF WAGES.
There are now about tour hundred caveats
and over seven hundred applications for patents
on vcloepedes. The models are on exhibition
10 the examiner loom at tho patent office,
and comprise all imaginable designs Of veloci-
pcde9 containing from one to eight wheel.
1t is announced that the President will prob
ably appoint Mr. Garlic, Of West Virginia,
Minister to Stockholm, it appearing that he
was once confirmed by the Senate, and recon
siderCd on technical motion.
Committees of Conference have been ap-
pointed by the Ola School ami New School
PRESBYTERIAN General Assemblies sitting in
New York, on the subject of 4 re union OF the
churches,
Com. Charles Stewart McCauley died at his
| residence in Washington yesterday. The Com
| modorc was a native OF Philadelphia, and en-
tered the navy as midshipman at the age OF
| thirteen.
COMMUNICATED.
Surrcon ara sold nv tho oillars and