Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-05
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
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MISCELLANEOUS. ITEMS.


MISCELLANEOUS, ITEMS.
A distillery has been seized in Brooklyn witt
$780, 900 worth Of whiskcy ii
The passengers OF tho steamer Tennessee,
whose loss was announced Thursday last, have
to New York. ...a9 s. d. -u.A a.3
The New Orleans fremen are in Philade..
phia, receiving much attention from their
brethren of that city.
Dispatches from Washington mention q
number Of changes in postofices in Maryland,
Virginia and Pennsylvania. +
Fifty lottery dealers in New York were 10:
dicted last week for not giving bonds for the
payment of the tax on gross receipts
Rev. DIR. Milo Mahan, of Baltimore, has
been elected Professor of Systematic Divinity
in the Episcopal General Theological Seminary
Of New York. ..'
Three canal boats werc abandoned in the
storm on Lake Ontario last week. Anxiety is
felt for thoir crews. A tug has gone from Os.
wego in search.
The Erie Railroad suit against the Wander.
blit road, icr $4,000, 900, was argued in Judge
Barnard's court, New York, last week. The
Judge will give decision this week
The unfavorable accounts published about
the prospects OF crops in Kansas are pro-
nounccd to be false. Both as to quantity aud
quality they are better than ever before
a man named Charles b. Conklin has been
arrested in Albany, New York, charged with
being engaged in the robbery of the Merchants
Union Express Company, i'll August last.
a rather, thinly attended mass meeting of
workincmen was held al Tompkins Square,
New York, on Thursday last, to express
their objections to the introduction of Coolic
labor.
a steamboat race, which was causing much
excitement and heavy betting, was in progress
at late accounts from Memphis and Natchez,
on the Mississippi river. We shall next hear
OF some terrible steamboat disaster.
At Fort Union, New Mexico, on Saturday,
there was a terrible storm Of hail. wind and
lightning. Hailstoncs as large as walnuts fell
for an hour Parties from the neighboring
country report the corn crop destroyed.
The Methodist of last week says:-"Wc learn
by cable despatch received j unc "a from Dr.
Hurst, that the German and Switzerland Con.
ference, which met at Carlsruhc on the a3J Of
June, has cast all its votcs-39-for Lay
Delegation.
The very general belief that feather bed il
certain protection from lightning, receives
direct retntution iu a circumstance which trans.
pircd in Greenfield, Connecticut, few days
ago, where the lightning struck and set fire to
feather bed on which several rersons were
lying. :
CROPS IN VIRGINIA. Hague p O., West
morcland County, Va. June II, 1870. Cor
make arellabto estimate of unharvestod crops
is at all times difficult, but especially in such
seasons ss the present. Tho wheat crop, for
the breadth Of land sowcd, promises large
yield. Straw is very abundant, but have no
doubt sanguinc farmers will DO greatly disap-
pointed at threshine timo. Few, believe
expect anything like full crop. All tho
diseases incident to very wet seasons prevail
ed extensively, and doubt whether single
crop in Eastern Virginia was entirely exempt
from them. A gentleman who has recently
passed through Loudouu county reports that
portion OF the wheat was not worth reap
ing. 10 estimate the crop of Eastern Vir-
gina it ls necessary to know something Of
the present deporabe condition of our agri-
culture Scarcely farm in O hundred is
cultivated entirely By its proprietor. Nearly
I'll the large farms on tho rivers arc In the
hands OF freedmen, who buy no fertilizers
SOW no wheat do no draining or manurinc,
and exc out miserable cxistonoe and pay
inadequate rents out OF the scaut proceeds OF
such very poor crops Ut corn as can be had
w:thout manure or proper tillagc | know
no large farm on the Potomac that is ouItivat-
ed entirely by its proprietor. Yet in the few
cases in which intelligent gentlemen have been
able to command capital TO cultivate their own
farms, agriculture was never more productive,
or the farms more rapidly improved We
have passed through tho ravages ofa four
years, war, and tho still more desolating effeots
nt a iour years quasi peac, We arc in little
better condition than wcrc tho highly cultivat
ed provinces Of the Roman Empire, which
had been improved to the highest extent UNI
der the patronage OF Augustus and M;econaa
and the teachings of Virgil, after they had
baru ravaged by the Northern barbarians.
Historians inform US that many Of the rich
est provinces were abandoned to Wild beasts,
being covered with water aud grown up with
shrubbery. Some portions OF our dear old
Virginia are reduced nearly to this condition.
The only hone for us is the return of our ma
tive population, who have the intelligence and
energy, with tho aid of the blacks, who iur-
nisll an abundant supply of tho best laborers,
to orenovate our agriculture, and to make Viz
gina really rich and great finer field was
never presented to young men Of rural tastes
and little capital
tlt the corn crop it Is too early to speak
1hls crop Is always good Oh rich land, pro
perry cultivated but the best seasons fail to
produce good crops under tho wrctchcd oul-
uVatlon now common. Oats are promising,
anl lrulls and garden crops abundant. Yours