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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-09-08

We 10 not know or near ul any WaSte vi
water in the Alexandria Canal.
MAYORS OFFICE -LJttie Smith, colored
for disordcrly conduct, was fined and discharged
Robert johnson, colored for stealing a watch
from Lewis Dorsey, also colOred, was commit
ted to jail for three months
Jerry Mcdonald, for disorderly conduct, was
dismissed with reprlmand. ...... ..,
NlGHT REPORT Might clear anl cool. -
There were no disturbances in amy quarter oi
the city and no arrests after ten clock. Two
dodgers and two prisoners were 1t the station
house. A colored festival WAS iii progress at
Shiloh Church, upper end of Prince street, but
everything passed off quietly.
pRowNED.-A one-eycd colnrcI Man, nam
ed Love Scott, hand on board the stern
wheel steamer Enterprise, accidentally fell
overheard, ON Wednesday evening, at hemouth
of Occouuan bay and was drowned. lie was
standing on the side Of the boat, working at
pump, such as is used in pumping out eel
lars, and the valve of the pump breaking as he
was pulling up the piston, he fell backwards
into the river. The steamer was stopped ut
once, and small boat sent to his relief. and it
had almost reached him when he sank out OF
sight
MIssINu.- small colored boy named Car
ter Brookes, whose name was once familiar i'll
the police reports, in connection with minor
offences, and for whose cobbing by order ct the
Mayor, an action at law was, upon one occasion,
brought against the latter, made his escape
from the work house last spring, and has never
been heard from definitely since. 1t Is report
ed that he has been seen near CatlettS Sta ton
on the O., \. e. NJ. r. r., but if 50, how he
reached there is a mystery
WESTWARD, Ho The father of one OF the
four boys who left here some time since to seek
their fortunes in the west has received letter
his three companions are doing we'll and making
their way slowly but surely to the west
AUCTION SALES. See fourth page of daily
Gazette for advertisements Of sales OF valuable
property, to take place tomorrow, at auction
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aug FIN
DAPPAHANNOCK MALE ACADEMY,
IL Washington Va.
The session Of this Academy commences on
the 10Th of September and closes on the 10th of
juno, 1872.
Students will be prepared for the University
Of Virginia and other Colleges, or for the buSl-
ness pursuits of life.
Terms: Tuition $50; one half payable in nd
vance, and the remainder on the lst of February
The whole cost Of board and tuition will not c1-
coed 500 for the session of nine months.
For further information apply for circulars to
Mr. Jno e. Lane, or to Mr.. NJ. Miller, Wash
ington Va, or to the Principal, care Col. &. r.
Barksdalo, Richmond Va.
c. II. BARKSDALE, A. NJ,
U. Of Va, Principal
Washington, Rapp. CO., aug 9-eo6w
TPIS COPAL HI q II SCHOOL,
~ Fairfax county, Virginia.
The 18th Annual Session begins SEPTEM-
BIER 9th, 1871, and ends June 26th, 1872.
Terms: $3.50 per session.
Catalogues sent on application to l.. NJ.
BLACKBOARD, NJ. A, Principal, Lock Box
l3, Alexandria, Va.
9sD- Residents Of Alexandria supplied at En-
twiso's Bookstore, lU3 King street au Ut
BELLE AYa aAXEN yjrf fMsT1rUTE'
Tho 18th Annual Session will commence Sep
TENDER %, 1871.
For Circulars, containing particulars, address
Mss E. B. CARRIER, or
jy 3l-uo;}n Miss A. l.. TEBBS, box ILL.,.
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A LEXANDRIA ACADEMY.

Having procured tho Friends Meeting House,
corner Of Wolfe and st. Asaph streets the four
teenth annual session of this School will COM
mence there on Monday, September 4th.
The school house is large and we'll ventilated,
and the grounds all that could lie desired for
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AUCTION SALES. fourth page of daily
Gazette for advertisements OF sales OF valuable
property, to take place tomorrow; at auction
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-09-08

T FoCETu WARD RADlCALS.---A general turn
out of all the radicals in this city is expected
at the meeting to be held tonight at the color
cd Odd Fellows Hall in the Fourth Ward
1t is announced that L. S. ScnatorJ. f. Lewis
will be present and make speech, but il is
said by the knowing ones that the Senator 5
iondncss for his colorcd parlizans IS not great
enough to induce him to leave the delights OF
Rawley Springs mere y for the purpose Of COM
ing here to address tLem. 1t is undcrstood
however, that MIR. Lewis Mckenzie will make
Il speech.
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MISS MARK will receive her pupils on
INl Monday, September 18th Competent
teachers will be en- ployed to meet the wants OF
tho School. Terms as usual for instruction in
English Music and Languages at Professors
charges. Particulars given upon application t"
the Principal, at pa King street, between Co.
lumbus and Alfred. aug A-colm
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The next annual session of this School will
commence on the third "Wednesday in Sept.
Terms $40, $3.50 or SIS per quarter, ar
cordng to the age or advancement of the pupil
payable in advance.
aug S-2awlml CHARLES l.. POWELL.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-10

HORSES IN SUMMER.-Farn work during
the hot summer months requires only the
lightest harness. Wooden collars are now used
with great comfort to the horse. In the city of
New York the harness worn by the street rail
road horses is as scant rs is consistent with the
work they have to perform. No breeching is
used, and the hip-tapes are dispensed with.
Teams may often be seen plowing in the hot
DAYS of July and August in the same harness
they wore during the winter. This is unneces-
sary nay some times it amounts to positive
cruelty. Remove every superauous strap,
take away the back-strap crupper-band and let
the air circulate freely around the body. At
night when work is over, wash the sweat from
the legs and thighs of the horse a dash of wa
ter on his aanks would be grateful to him. Let
his stable be airy and clean, with bed clean
straw.
Kindness to these serviceablc animals is the
truest economy. Besides, we feel better when
our horses are made comfortable; the sensation
is akin to that derived from the doing of be-
nevolent action. Sensitive man cannot see
horse sweating under and CALLED by a heavy
harness during the intense heat of summers
day, without sympathy and pity, nor can he re-
tire to rest with an easy conscience, knowing
that his faithful servants in the stable are i'm
properly cared for and suffering. "The righteous
man recardeth the life of his beast"
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THE POWER OF ARTILLERY.-The recent
conflict between the French and Prussians has
been decided-like all modern conflicts arenow
more by the power of artillery than by mere
hand -to-hand engagement. New inventions in
the instruments of warfare have placed mere
physical strength altogether in the minority.
It used to be the boast that the British soldier
was superior in the matter of a bayonet charge
to any other soldier in the world. Now, how
ever, times are altered. The result of victory
depend only on the power of the artillery
collectively. Yet this leads us to an old rehec-
tion-namcy, whether the men of the present
day arc equal or inferior in statue to the war
riors of ancient time. The generally accepted
belief is that the men of the present day arc
quite as stout and stalwart as they were in the
old historic ages long gone by. Even at Lord
Erlintoun's famous tournament, not few of the
Knights had some difficulty in finding armor
large enough to wear. And going even farther
back, if we take the Egyptian mummy cases in
the British Museum, few of them would con-
tain an average sized Englishman. So much
for antiquity. The Romans and Greeks of old
were shorter, lighter race than the Gauls,
from whom the first sprang, and shrank in
time. The sentries suffocatcd at Pompcii are
quite as short as the smallest French linesman,
without the broad, we'll set look SO often OBJ
scrvablo in the latter sturdy little race. We
venture to think that brigade of our British
"guard" would have made short work of even
the picked men of Roman legion.-Once q
Week.
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Congressional Orators Of tho Past.

How we'll remember some of the orators OF
other days-the men Of the generation succeed
ing Andrew jackson The South always pre-
dominatedin fascinating and plausible rhetoric.
Winter Davis, of Maryland, was at once iogi-
clan and declaimer. His sharp tenor voice,
his incisive sentences and ready wit, his fine
figure, we're admirably reinforced by acute rea-
soning powers and admirable legal training
A rare specimen of the same qualities was j..
P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, now a practitioner
before the queens bench in London. His pref
ty, Jewish face, his liquid tones, and easy enun-
citation, contrasted well with his skill and his
accuracy as student Pierre Soule, senator
from the same State was different, yet as pc
cular type His swarthy complexion, black,
flashing eyes, and Frenchified dress and speech,
made him one of the attractions of the Senate
He is now in his grave, after strangely event
full and novel career He was an artificial man,
brilliant in repartec, yet subject to fits of mel
neutrality-suspicious. yet reserved, proud but
polite-in one word, such g contradiction as
Victor Hugo, with a vast fund of knowledge
and deposit of vanity which was never ex-
hausted. He was ready-made secessionist
when the rebellion came, and yet his light
shone feebly in that dark conspiracy. Virgin
ia always had supply of good speakers
Thomas H. Bailey, with his gold spectacles and
ambrosial locks, and his southern idiom, q COM
pound of the negro and the scholar; Charles
James Faulkner, with his pleasant smile, dandy
dress and Towering phrases; James NJ Mason,
with his Dombey diction and pompous pre-
tence; r. M. T. Hunter, with his quiet and
careful conservatism; Roger A. Prior, with his
impetuous and dazzling temperament-these
were all first-class speakers, though as distant
as their own faces. The noisiest man in the
immediate ante-war Congress was George S.
Houston, of Alabama; the most quarrelsome
was Keitt, of South Carolina; the best tenn
pered, Orr of the same State; the most acrid,
George w. Jones of Tennessee; the jolliest
Senator Jere Clemens of Alabama; the most
superciious, Senator Slidel of Louisiana; the
most genial, Senator Anthony Kennedy of Ma
land and the boldest and coarsest, Wigfall
of Texas Breckenridge was in many respects
a true orator, and seemed to copy much from
Clay and Crittenden. Jefferson Davis was al
ways capital dialectician, not strong in argu-
ment, but always stern in convictions. Ham
mond of South Carolina had good presence
and persuasive tone, but was not great man.
Toombs of Georgia was the stormy petrol, Of
ten grand as declaimor, and always intoler-
ant, dogmatic, and extreme. He was as vlo-
lent in 1850, when he was Unionist, as he
was in 1860, when he became secessionist.-
j. W. Forney.
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CorroN SEED OIL-Which a few years ago
was comparatively unknown, is rapidly becom-
ing an article of commerce. By itself its uses
are limited, but when mixed with other oils it
acquires all their properties and answers all
purposes for which they are used. Mixed with
Whale oil it is used for burning, and reduces
the price of the original commodity. With
linseed oil it is used for mixing painters colors,
and with lard oil it becomes a lubricator. 1t is
also used upon the table as dressing for salad,
in place of olive oil, but those W ho use it sell
dom know it.. For several years before this ar
ticle became known to commerce, large quantl-
ties of it were shipped to France in a crude
state There it was refined and sent back to
this market, whore it found ready sale as OIL
i've oil. Now, however, it is sold openly, and
the part intended for home consumption is re-
fined in this city. The finest and purest cotton
seed oil comes from Providcnce.-NcV YORK
Bulletin.
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DEATH OF Hon. JOHN SLIDELL-A brief
cable despatch from London announces the
death of Hon. John Slidell, at the age Of
seventy-eight years. 1t has been Just three
months since the death of Hon. James NJ. Ma.
son, with whose name that of Mr.: SlideH will
always be associated. Mr.. Slidell was a native
of New York, but removing, to New Orleans in
early life, he there identified himself with the
South, and attained great distinction at the bar.
He was appointed United States District At
torney for Louisiana under President Jackson,
was frequently elected to the Legislature, and
was Representative in Congress from lS43 to
1915. He was then sent by President Polk as
Minister to Mexico to negotiate the settlement
of questions then in dispute, but his mission
proving fruitless, he returned early in 1916. In
1858 he was chosen United States Senator,
which position ne held up to the breaking out
of the late war. On retiring from that body,
he predicted, in memorable speech, the ruin
of American commerce in case war was forced
upon the South. In the fall of 1861 he was
despatched by the Confederate Government as
Commissioner to France, together with Mr..
Mason, who was appointed in the same capacity,
to England. Sailing from Charleston, they ran
the blockade, and embarked at Havana on the
English steamer Trent. This vessel was
boarded at sea by Capt. Wilkes, of the United
States steamer San Jacinto, who arrested both
commissioners and their secretaries, and they
were placed in confinement at Fort Warren,
Boston harbor. On the demand of the British
Government, however, they were soon after re-
leased and permitted to depart for Europe.
Since the close of the war Mr.. Slidell has re-
sided principally abroad sss4
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and degrade them with negro rule. That is
with them, perhaps, the real and most serious
difficulty. 1t is question of race, and which,
as the government of South Carolina is now
administered, and as sustained by Federal
power, threatens the grarest consequences.
The white mechanic and laborer, when he
finds the worst criminal protected and pardon
ed, the law an engine of persecution, political
power abused in order to oppress him with ne.
gro domination and to outrage his wife and
children, will resist, be the sacrifice what it
may. He may be uneducated and plain, but
he is still American and proud of his race.
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Greeurille District Conference.

The members of this body convened in Wall
halla July q, 1871. Walhalla is the county
town of Oconee, and Is beautifully situated
but few miles from the foot of the mountain.
The houses are built along straight and wide
street, which begins at the depot and reaches
to the western limits Of Walhalla On this
street are three villages-West Union, Midway
and Walhalla. If one end could be tackled
down and the other wound round it, three
places would be thrown into one, and the whole
made more convenient.
Not being able to obtain the services of q
Bishop, the Rev. R: P: Franks, Presiding Ell
discharged its duties with the ease and dignity
of an experienced Episcopos. Fifty three del-
egates answered to their Names Rev. W. A.
Hodges was elected Secretary. The reports
from the charges showed the church to be in
good condition in some sections, and a gradual
improvement in all respects throughout the
District. The usual committees having been
raised, the discussions elected by their reports
were interesting, earnest and calculated to do
good.
Among the visitors present, were DR.. Shipp,
President of Woford College; Rev. VIM.
Martin, Agent for Washington Street Church,
and Rev. E. A. Bolles, Agent of the American
Bible Society. They faithfully represented
their several interests.
The election for delegates to the Annual
Conference resulted as follows: R. S. Hill,
II. NJ Prince, Rev. T. B. Mauldin, L. B. AUS
tin. Reserves S. G. Clyde, G.. W. Anderson,
DR.. c. L. Gallard, R. w. Simpson.
The Methodist Church in this town is
small and an inferior building. A beautiful
lot, situated about the centre of the longstreet,
will soon be secured, on which the congregation
purposes to erect large and handsome church.
Public worship with US was confined to two
places-the Court House and the Methodist
Church. The members of the Conference were
Hospitality entertained by part of the popu-
lation. The services of the church were well
attended, the preaching was earnest and to the
point, and the results are good. Ten professed
to find peace in believing, ten applied for
church membership, and such was the interest
that the services were protracted.
Sunday was a day of special privilege and
blessing. A delightful meeting for prayer and
conversation on personal religion was held in
the Court House at 9 o'clock q. m. DR.. Shipp
preached an eloquent and searching sermon on
the witness of the Spirit, at II, In the same
place.. A large and cheering Sunday school
meeting was held in the afternoon. Rev. Will
liam Martin preached at night.-Christian
NeiqHbor.
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money, and few beggars are worthy objects OF
charity" .,
'T suppose you got down at the cross roads 2"
says the elder brother.
dyes. and went through the woods. Ishould
have been home sooner If had not lost my
aLost your way (" says his mother, alarmed !;
"my boy, you should not have left the path at
dusk" 81,
ooh, ma" says the little midshipman, with
SMILE "you're always thinking we are In dan.
ger. IF you could see me sometimes sitting at
the iib-boom end, or across the main top-mast.
cross-tree, you aOould be frightened. But what
danger can there be in a wood 2"
"WeH, my boy" she answers, ri don't wish
to be oyer-anxious, and make my children un-
comfortable by my fears. What did you stray
from the path for3"
"Only to catch little owl, mamma; but l
didn't catch her, after all. I got roll down
from bank and caught my jacket on thorn
bush, which was rather unlucky. All three
large holes see in my sleeve. And so scram-
bled up again and got into the path, and asked
at the cottage for some beer. What a long
time the woman kept me to be sure. thought
it would never come, But very soon after Mr.
D. drove up in his gig; and he broughtme
on to the gate"
"And so, this account OF your adventures
being broug ght to close" his father says, I'VE
discover that there was no adventures to tell"
''No, papa, nothing happened, nothing par
ticular, mean."
Nothing particular. If they could have
known, they would have thought lightly in
comparison of the dangers of the jib-boom's
end and the main-top-mast-cross-trees. But
they did not know, any more than we do, OF the
dangers that hourly beset us.
Some few dangers we are aware OF, and we 90
what we can to provide against them; but tor
the greater portion our eyes behold we cannot
see. We walk securely under His guidance,
without whom mot sparrow falleth to the
ground :" and when we have had escapes that
the angels have admired at, we come and say,
perhaps, that nothing has happened least
nothing particular.
It is not we'll that our minds should be much
exercised about these hidden dangers, since
thew are so. and so great that no human art or
foresight can prevent them. But it is very we'll
that we should reflect constantly on the loving
Providence which watches every footstep OF a
track always balancing on time and eter-
nity: and that such reflections should make
US happy and afraid-afraid of trusting our
souls too much to any earthly guide or security
happy from the knowledge that there is One
with whom we may trust them wholly, and with
whom the very hairs of our head are all num-
bered
Without such trust how can we rest or be at
peace; but with it we may say with the Psal-
mist, 'I will both lay me down in peace, and
sleep, for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in
safety |"
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G,n1s BnwARE.-Girls beware of transien

GIRLS BEwARE.-Girls beware of transient
Young men, Never suffer the addresses of
stranger. Reeollect that one good Farmers
boy, or industrious Mechanic, is worth all the
floating 1ops in the world The allurements of
dandy Jack, with shoe brush over his up
per lip, gold chain around his neck. walk
ing-stick in his paw, cent cigar IN his mouth,
less though fancy skull never can ond make otbts the
counsel m and the society of brothers and sisters;
their affections last, while that of such young
man is lost in the decline of honey moon.
This is true.
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DIsREpUTABLE BUSINESS theangry cx-
citement and passion of war, it is not surprising
that men should disregard the amenities Of life
and commit acts generally which they would
not perform in peace. 1t was to be expected,
for example, that after Napoleon's downfall,
the enraged French people should seize with
avidity upon all his private documents and cor
respondence, and spread them before the world.
The right of overhauling and publishing the
official papers of the yanquished Is generally
conceded to the victor.
There are, however, no circumstances which
will Justify one person in eliciting information
from another under the promise of secrecy, or
on his honor as gentleman, and then putting
such information in print. Alexander ID. Ste
phens announces that his viows on the situa-
ton, published few days since, were commu-
nicated to correspondent, who had paid his
respects to him, enjoyed his hospitality, and
promised that whatever was said should be re-
rarded as strictly confidential. If this charge
be true-and it has not yet been refuted-then
the correspondent in question, whoever he may
be, has forfeited his right to be considered as
gentleman or to be admitted into the presence
of gentlemen. :.
The modern interviewer brings disgrace up
on journalism, and those newspapers which
employ him, or give him a quasi recognition,
compromise both themselves and the profession.
BY how much the press will conform to the
rules and customs prevailing among gentlemen,
by SO much will it increase its influence
When, on the contrary, it ceases to be honora-
bic, and plays that part of the eavesdropper
and the spy, it must expect to receive no more
respect or consideration than do these odious
representatives of humility.
What our political journals particularly re-
ouire at this time, is that nice sense of honor
and and appreciation of propriety which led Dc
Tocouevville to write, in his Democracy in
America" of Interviews" held with distin,
guishcd Americans: GAIL these confidential
communications were recorded by ME as re.
received them; but they will never go beyond.
my portfolio Ipreler to weaken the effect of
nv statements than to add my name to the list
of travellers who repay by modification and
embarrassment the generous hospitality, they
have received" This language should be
framed and suspended in every reporters room.
Hearth and Home.