Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-02-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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Epidemic cholera is spreading throughout
India at very alarming rate. The disease is
| reported to have originally shown itself
among the pilgrims who have arrived at Pun
| derpore to worship at the shrine OF the god
| Eithoba. 1t is represented to be of the most
violent form.
There are sixty-four places Of public amuse-
ment in I4ondou besides the Italian Opera
House, the Crystal Palace and Cremorne Gar
dens OF these sixty-tour places OF anluse-
ment, thirty ght are theatres and twenty-slx
are music halls.
The charges against Mr.. Cralner the = resi-
dents brother-in-law, who is nominated rs
minister to Denmark, are that he had acted
disgracefully when Il consul abroad heretofore.
which charges the committee was Investigate
ing.
The Five Million Memorial Fund. TO
commemorate the reunion of the Presbyterian
| Church, has reached So, 0OO, 600 which sum has
been chiefly contributed by the poorer churches
Of that organization.
The American Colonization Societys emf
grant ship Golconda arrived rs Monruvia De
cenber BID. All we'll emigrants and crew.
The recent overflow of the fiber has caused
great distress in the Jewish quarter Of the city
of Rome.
FISH CULTURE Committee on, the
Chesapeake and it's tributaries have prepared
Il report, to be presented to the House of Dele
gates, calling the attention Of the General AS
scmbly to the Importance to fish culture or
the artificial breeding Of fish. The report
says: The annual upward migration Of
| fish has been entirely stopped in many OF
our most important rivers by the building of
dams which entirely obstruct their passage, and
the accumulation of mud above the dams is
rapidly destroying such fish rs are not hi gra-
| tory in their habits The necessary consequent
&C is that the day is not far distant when We
may certainly look forward to an almost total
depletion of this cheap and formerly abundant
source OF subsistence in the fresh water streams
of the Statc-a calamity all the more lcplora-
BILE from the fact that il will be chiefly felt by
the poorer classes TO cite notable instance {:
Within the memory of men now living, James
river, from its mouth to the confluence OF the
Jackson and Cowpasture, yielded each return.
ing spring to the people living near its banks.
an abundant supply of fresh shad Of the most
delicious variety : and yet to-day, by reason OF
the dams Of the James river and kanawha
Canal not Il single one ofthesc fish is caught
above tide-water in that stream.
Your committee are deeply impressed with
the importance nay, the urgent necessity Of
adopting some adequate measure for remedy
ing this wide -spread and severely felt evil
They would suggest the double remedy of pro-
viding for the upward passage Of the migratory
fish, such as the shad. the bass and the eel.
! by fsh-ways over the dams. and the replenish-
ing of all the fresh water streams of the State
by the artificial propagation Of fish, and by de-
posting in them varieties Of fresh water fish
obtained from other and more favored streams.
We feel convinced that our many mountain
streams, rivers and bays, can be filled ut very
small expense with the choicest varieties of
fish, thereby greatly reducing the cost ofliving
and adding to the comforts of all classes Of our
people; r, r 49,, ., ,,
tries in Europe, as we'll as in our own Northern
States, the subject Of fish culture and the. re-
plenisllng Of depleted streams, has received
the attention commensurate::with its importance,
the people of Virginia, with but few exceptions
have slept on in most unblissful ignorance of
the fact that their fresh-water streams have
been gradually losing all their fnny inhabitants,
and of the not less important fact that there is
cheap and easy mode Of counteracting the
evil Many of the States approaching the
importance of the subject, have appointed COM
missioners of fisheries, and are constructing
fsh-ways over impossible dams The New
England States, by concerted legislation, have
joint commission which, it is said, gives hope
of speedy restoration of shad and salmon to
their streams.
Your committee, therefore, would respect
fully recommend thata small sum be appro-
priated and placed in the hands of the Gov
ernor of the Commonwealth who shall be au-
thorized to appoint two suitable commissioners
to carry out, under his Instructions this impol-
tant measure. ....