Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-04-30
state Licenses.

We copy from the Richmond Dispatch the
annexed article which just at this tune may re
interesting:
The law requires all persons who intendfcon'
tlnulng business after the lst OF May TO secure
their licenses before that day.
We give the rates OF assessments on Whlch
the license TAX is blsed OF the leading kinds oil
business
Merchants pay a specific tax Of $780, and an
additional tax on sales; it under 1: 900 S. tax;
between 81 600 and s., 900, $40 fax; between
s. 900 and $4,000, SD tax; between So, 900 and
81 900, 500 tax; between 5 600 and S,S0OO,
$50 tax; between SIS, 900 and $4,000, SIS tax;
between SD 900 and SIS, 900; 500, tax; be-
tween SIS, 900 and $4,000, $40 tax; between
S2j, 000 and So, GEO, $S5 tax; if 335, 900 and
not over $50, 600, 800 tax; and If over $50,
600, the tax is IS for every $4,000 excess
over that sum.
Commission Merchants. Specific tax of SO
and per ct, on amount of commissions.
Liquor Merchants. Specific tax of 800 tor
selling by Wholesale for retail, $40; and such
additional tax on sales as are paid by merchants.
Junk Dealers. "A specific tax OF $50.
Land Agents-Specifc tax OF $50, and .
per cent. on excess of commissions over 5000.
General Auctioneers Specific tax OF $50,
and 81 additional tax for every 900 inhabi-
tants over 5000, and tax on sales OF one
fourth Of one per ct.
Real Estate Auctonccrs Specific tax OF
$50, additional tax same as that of genera
auctioncers.
Physicians and L1wyers Specific tax of S.;
and . per ct. on all cash receipts over $500,
Hotel Keepers. Specific tax of $50. and s
per CT on the yearly rent of building, and
yearly value of the furniture.
THE Tune OF DIXIE The Memphis
Post tells this story Of Dixie:
Sin the first place, the song and chorus Of
Dixie was composed aud arranged by Dan
Emmett, member of a travelling minstrel par
ty, who. while at Mobile in the winter of S47-
IS, heard some co!ored, laborcrs singing on the
levec while loading steamboat with cotton.
The thought struck Dan that with little
song and walk round which generally winds
up negro Minstrel concert Dan arranged it
and produced it. It became success, and was
sung and played all over the country by all the
bands.
in the spring of 1851 Mrs. John Wood
came TO New Orleans to play IN engag ement
at the Varieties Theatre. During the time
she appeared 10 Brougham's burlesque of Po-
cahontas. At the first rehearsal OF the piece
everything went well ill near the close of the
second act; Tom McDonough (now agent for
the Lefingwells,) the prompter, got up Znu.
ave march and drill by twenty-five Ladders, led
by Susan Denim. Everything ran smo 9th,
but the music for the march could not be liked
upon. Carlo Patti was leader of the orche stra
and he tried several marches, but none sui ted
McDonough-one was too slow, another was
too tame, another not enough spirit. At
length Patti struck up the air Of Dixie.
That will do, Patti-the very thing SAID
Tom, and Dixie was played, and the mar CHI
gone through with, and the chorus by all tive
characters. At night it received q double en-
core, and Pceahontas had run and from
that time out the streets and parlors rang with
Dixie. The war broke cut that spring, and
the military bands took it up, and Dixie be-
came to the South what the Marseliaise Hymn
was to the French. And that's how Dixie
became the popular war song of the South"
THE TOTAL ECLIPSE of the sun on the 18th
oil August next is the only one that will be vi
sible in North America during the present cen
tury. The centre of the line OF totally will
pass through Springfield, Illinois. and near
Des Moines, Iowa. Both of these stations
as well as many others, will be occupied by |
coast survey parties Congress las appropra
ted $1,000 to defray the expense OF observation.
Professor WinIock, director of Harvard Obser.
vatory, is making arrangements for viewing tn,
eclipse and noting its features ct Shelbyvilk :.
The observation will last betwe en-
two and three minutes.