Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-03-15
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
TUESDAY, MARCH Is. 1870.

Gov. Bowie, of Nd, has sent a message to
the Legislature of that State, relative to the
c. & O. Canal, in which he recommends that
the management of this great work be placed
beyond political control: that the President
and Directors be selected from Individual
stockholders of the work, who are to receive
no COMPENSATION, and that q Superintendent
be appointed at a salary of $4,000 to $4,000
per apuum. The Governor denounces the past
management of the Canal and the vast accu-
mutation OF debt. He says the interest 10 arrear
and unpaid amounts to more than the prlnolpal
and the total bonded debt of the Company:
principaland interest have reached the enorm.
ous sum of four millions two hundred thousand
dollars. while the claims of the State have
grown by the non-payment OF dividends on her
preferred stock and interest on her mortguage
debts, to nearly twenty million of dollars
The failure of the Albert Life Insurance
Company last August in England, with the
twsnty-four other Offices it had absorbed. In,
volvipg no less than $40, 900, 600, for which 1t
scarcely had any assets, promises to lead to tee
passage Of an act by the British Parliament
which will protect the policy-holder, in a great
measure, The facts brought forward 10 the
discussion of the bill show the enormous proper
tons which the life insurance business in Eng
land has assumed. Indeed insurance business
of all kinds has much increased in England
and the United States. within the last lew
years.
The Richmond Wing remarks upon the un-
equal distribution of the national banking capt.
tai and the utter inadequacy to our business
necessities of that share Of it that has fallen to
the Southern States. In. these commercial
DAYS money is to communities what bread and
meat and water are to..individuals. LII is de-
sired that the Southern and. Western States
shall prosper, the inequalities to which they are
subjected ought as speedily as possible to be re-
medied.
The bill of Senator Sumner, introduced IN
the Senate yesterday. to provide Tor the return
to specie payments next January, sent gold
down to ILL in New York. Subsequently there
was a recovery, however, to ll24, and the
market closed unsettled at ll2 bid. The mar
ket generally is disturbed, and there seems to be
a disposition on all sides TO suspend operations,
to see what will be the course OF legislation in
Congress.
The Baltimore Gazette says that Of all the
institutions that were ever established to plague
and harass and perplex a patient people, the
Department of Internal Revenue at Washing
ton, if not the most cruel, is without doubt
among the most irritating and tormenllng,
owing to the orders, DEGREES, &c., perplexlng,
contradictory, and e~xaoting, which emanate
from the commissioners which have been ap-
pointed to the head of that department Of the
Government.
The movements of men formerly secession
lists, "or following the fortunes of the South"
towards going over to the ultra Radical party,
are mildly called, by the Richmond State Jour-
nal, wishing to place themselves IN harmony
with this great Government, and with the par.
ty which represents its national and progressive
spirit" This is sugar coating q pill, or wrap
ping up dose OF jalap in a preserved peach
A large meeting in Baltimore was held last
evening, at which addresses were made by S.
NJ. Janney, Benjamin Hallowell, and two
chiefs Of the Cherokee nation. in relation to
improving the condition OF the Indians. The
speakers all recommended a peace policy, and
condemned the aggressions that were often
made upon the rights and interests Ct the Red
Men.
There is q law, passed by Congress in 1858,
which Furnishes by fine and Imprisonment any
person giving or Offering a bride to a member
of Congress or other office ofthe United States.
with a view to influence his,performance of an
official function, and forever disqualifes the
bribed person from holding places Of honor,
trust or profit under the federal government.
Dispatches from Hong Kong announce that
tho Captain of the Bombay, which ran down
the Oneida, has been suspended, not on &c
count of the collision. but because he neglected
to inform himself of the seriousness of the dam
ago that had been entailed, and because he
took no measures to preserve the lives of the
drowning crew.
The difficulties in the anthracite coal regions
seem to be reaching o crisis, especially 10 the
SchuylkiIl region. Trade there has very near
~ reached a stand still, while in the Lebigh and
other regions north it is progressing moderately
to the great prejudice of the trade in the
Schuvlkill region.
Lewis Kennedy, a colored man, the murder
er of Mrs. Stewart. and John Baker, in New