Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-03-30

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sou and S;rc.hcr. VI. +. Church Sou til.
The wheat crop in this section Of the county
is looking very well, considering the hard win
TER exccpt where it was sown broadcast
Long feed is very scarce in this ncighbor-
hood, consequently stock is looking quite thin.
Sercra! deaths have occurred in this neigh
l,orhnc,l in the last two Or three months b.
IMuIGrArloN -Commodure Maury. has r.
Gently received letter from a gentleman in
ENGLAND. which We give below Is a cheering
indication that the move Of population and
capital has fairly set in towards this Common
wealth, by which they are needed as the dews
and raios are hy a fire. Scorched prairie, The
writer Is Il gentleman who has engaged 10 the
business Of promoting emigration from the
British Isles. and his statements will be re-
ccived with general satisfaction. His letter
Is as follows :-Nmt1M Ftraiuian.
.lmrric,m Chnn,t,7~. - Fanghom Pine"
Rcqcnt ST.. Ln"tirm, February 18th, 1872. J
TO Prof Maury, Military Institute: Lcxlng-
ton, Va.
Lfouored Sir have read with much inter
est your letter to the editor Of the South, dated
December 18th, ISL, respecting the prepara-
ton of joint report for giving truthful ac-
count of the several States of the South. and
trust you will kindly excuse the liberty | take
in expressing my qualification at you proposals,
assuring you that shall watch with lively in
tcrcSt the progress Of the measures YOU have
recommended.
| have interested myself during the last
eighteen mouths. at the suggestion OF four OF
my brothers who reside inN irginia, in forward
ing emigrants from England aud Scotland to
settle on lands chiefly in the Piedmont district,
and have introduced l7G purchasers to vendors
OF lands in Virginia. Last week gentleman
called on me for my list Of properties on offer,
and invested 100000 sterling. principally In
Charlotte, Appomattox and Prince Edward
counties On Monday last Il farmer from
Bucks was a purchaser Of lands amounting to
large party by the Allen Line to Norfolk to
prospect for lands, and BY the 18th and 18th
of March | shall have TWO more companies
ready to start. The tide of emigration for Eir,,
ginia has fairly set in, and am overwhelmed
with correspondence from my clients IN all
parts. The necessity for correct information
about Virginia and the Immediately adjacent
States is pressing in this country. am inces-
sanity asked by my correspondents for intorma-
ton respecting the soil. climate, rainfall. tenn
pest earthquakes, malaria and for detailed IN
formation on various commercial, agricultural
and manufacturing matters which sometimes
feel little difficulty about, and should really
be glad Of supply Of copies of the report ynu
recommend to he prepared.
THE ARMS INvESTIGATToN.-The Marquis
de Chambrun yesterday concluded his testl.
mony before the committee appointed by the
L. s. Senate to investigate the charges OF I'M
lawful sales of arms to the French in the recent
war with Germany He related the circum
stances Of his connection with the matter. The
French authorities through NJ. Victor Place,
then Consul General at New York contracted
in 1871 for quantity OF arms Ito be made in
United States arSenas, and to be delivered
shortly after the agreement was made. The
contract. which, of course, called for good SER
viceable arms. Of which France was then in
urgent need. was entered into by Gambctta
with certain parties in France, and NJ. Place
was expected to see that it was properly full
filled. When the arms were delivered, many Of
them were found to be unservicablc, and the
French Government estimated that it had been
detrauded to the amount OF a million and
half of dollars. NJ. Place was at once removed
from Office, and placed on trial for alleged com
plicity in the affair." The Marquis de Cham
brun, who sustained intimate relations Of
friendship with Place, entered into an investl
CATION of the circumstances of the purchases
by the latter to obtain evidence In his behalf
VI. Chambrun soon became convinced that
Place had been made the tool and scape-goat
of interested parties. The most prominent of
these persons 10 this country he declares were
Mr.. G. X. Garrison, who had agreed to furnish
the arms, and General Ingalls,, who, he states,
ssdeclared to members of the French Legation
that he had influence enough to make the
ordnance Office fulfill its contract with the
Remingtons. : Baltimore Gn=ette.
DEATH. Mr. James Fl. Saunders, young
mau living near Foncswood, Wcstmoreland
county, met with sudden and horrible death
on the morning of the 24th instant. lie was
complaining al breakfast. and, without eating
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