Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-17
IT, ,1e ed;tor ofLle Alexandria Gazette

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Ion motion of Mr.. Suttle, the communion
rtion was referred to q special committee of
;: four. and Messrs. Sutte and Agnew named
.ss the committee on the part OF the board"
Attention is called to the above extract from
proceedings of City Council on Friday last.
From this application of Mr.. Johnston, Sec
reta1y OF the Company, who has the credit OF
engineering the charter OF this company through
the Legislature, it may reasonably be inferred,
that the ne,U Fredericksburg Company are at
least doubtful Of having Inherited the right,
under the grant Of the Act of the City Courcl'
passed 18th Feb'y, 1866.
It is to be hoped the Committee OF the City
Council Just appointed will examine carefully
into al! the facts connected with the grants
under this Ac., which they of course will refer
r. and ado ut a course by which the companies
now using our thoroughtares shall be required
TO nav for this privilege In former cOmmunl.
cations in the Gazette, the UNDERSIGNED EN-.
deayorcd to show that the Fredericksburg
Company had forfeited its right by non use as
we'll as by the forfeiture of its charter to the
State. That the Washington, Alexandra d
Georgetown Railroad Company to whom the
privilege was granted by this act having been
declared BY the Courts $50 understand ~ as
having no LEGAL existence, the grant Was void,
and the Alexandria 4 Washington (Frcnch's
road) had no right TO the US. OF ST.. Asaph
street, further south than Princess street.
Counsel learned in the law have so vo!uh~
tarly expressed to the writer, that lis argu-
ment was at least sound, it not unansUerabc.
Ii the City Councii will at once act decided
ly aud firmly in this, il il believed that Gil
these panies (who are foreign corporations
and use our streets Tor their own profit and not
for our good) will rather than ll-k an action at
law consent 10 pay the Corporation a rca-oha-
bic compensation for our streets.
The writer rcicratcs what he has said before
that it is not TO shut out any Railroads, nor Is
| it an idle attempt to dam up trade 10 this ely:
| but to Compel oil roads tina: Use uur streets 10
! pay for that privilege, az they are compelled
by law to pay private pr0prlctorS FOR tie use q
| land occupied in the same way,
The writer has cn1eavored to sur up his
| friends and neiehbors as we'll as the late Clty
Council acting under military appointment, 10
| the importance OF creating a revenue II thl5
way, until he almost dcspar5 OF successful
result even now uGder mere ausp!cous circum
| stances.
| When it is remembered that our taxes Oh
real and personal estate, with the largest dis
count Tor prompt payment, Is equal to one dol
lar and fifty cents on the hundred do"ars
assessed, and that under the net for rails
ing revenue as passed by the late Council,
| we arc driving from our MIDST, gentlemen who
have settled amongst US, by al enormous tax
! Of eight and one third per cent, on Incomes
| derived from outside sources, it Is surely IN
cumbcnt upon our present City Cou.cl, elected
| ~ the people, to add 10 the revenue lew
| thousand dollars from these Companies who
have fixed themselves upon Us permanently
and who cannot flee 10 other communities lie
the gentlemen referred to, 70 avoI On"r-
Gus personal taxation here. Admitting that
Sc, COO per annum could be derived from this
source, and that should say Was The mini
mum-it would be equal TO an iocreasc on the
| assessment OF $4UO, OOO.
II improvements in Que year could ne made
in the shape Of our buildings, &c. II this
amount (S400 000) would il not be hailed As Il
harbiuger of better times, and induce . nope
OF Iessenipg taxation 10 times 10 come.
So far as taxation is conc2rned, the effect #
this tax or bonus from Railroads. is, in fact,
| the same, M"T'~'3'
Will none of my brethren OF the quill join
in this righteous struggle for our rights and
give me their countenaDcs by an approval OF
my efforts. am sure i! is the private opinion
OF many-let me beg it to be publicly cx
pressed. .;,.
Mosy DISTRESSING ACCIDENT-Oa Flida,
last horrible accident, caused by tie cxpls-
sion of kerosene oil, occurred to two Young
girls, aged about Is and IS respectively, the
daue htcrs of Mr.. Edward Heiser, rc:i1irg
several miles west oil ChurchviiIc. in Augusta
county. The oltcr members Ct II c :.ni:y
were absent At the time. ard The Hccli..m; e
Cured while kindiing fir ~n!l ,elc>rn", the
flames communicating TO the can. he aft
righted girls, with their clothes ahlaz,, ran io
| l.
lance OF half a mile, upon reaching which they
literally burned off OF them. Everything in
human power was done for the sufferers, but it
failed TO save the lives OF these unior innate girls
| Death put an end TO their sutfe1iDgs - lie
elder, Leti!a. dying on Friday afternoon, and
the younger, Amanda, LINGERING until the az
ternoou Of Saturday. The elder, alone, was
burnt by the explosion and the flames wclc
Communicated TO the younger while trying 10
save her sister. The younger, alter proceeding
some distance in the direction in which they
ran. her clothes being almost if not wholly
burnt from her body, returned to the house
and procured dress, which she carried 10 her
hands TO Mr.. Lightner's while the cider bore
tho entire distance the only member Of the
family present when tic accident occurred, a
child IS months Cd, and her first words on
reaching Mr.. LIS, where also Was her father,
throwing her arms about her fathers neck,
wcro "We're burned 10 death, but we have
saved the baby" The child escaped without
injury. - Stanton Spectator.
The Richmond Jouraa, the Radical organ
Of that city, describes the man that should be
nominated f,r Congress from that district as
follows
The man we send should, in Tie first place,
be gentleman Of Retirement and good sense,
of name and character at hcmc, and CT suifi
cient reputation abroad to make lis influence
| felt. He ought to be thoroughly acquainted
with our wants, and be 10 full sympathy with
| tbs entire population He should lie above
| all selfish aims, and distinguished for the
troadest aud most liberal views on the grcaE
| political and s1cial question OF the day-a
thorough going Republican. in whom both the
the people and the patty could have faith
and, above all, bold and fearless F.; for 10 true