Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-26
Letter from Leesburg.


Boss, for two generations prominent business
man in Leesburg, died last night, in the 10th
year of his age. He was born in York, Penn
sylvania, and was removed with his fathers
family to Leesburg at the age Of two years. An
excellent salesman but an extravagant buyer, he
was not successful in business, and failed three
times within the last forty five years, but was
esteemed an upright man. Within the last
six months we have lost by death eight OF our
Oldest citizeos, John Janney, James Garrison,
Charles Douglas, L. j. Steadman, Edgar Jar
Wis, r. NJ Bentley, G. F. Fadcey and S. VI.
Boss. Four of them had reached - years the
others from As 10 81. Nine growD persons have
died with seven months from Loudoun to y orth
street., on the east side of King street, space
of three blocks. Mr.. Boss was the ouly man
in business in 1927, who has continued in bust
ness all the time to this date, at the same place.
And of those who were then in business only SIX
survive Mr. Boss, in lS49, insured his life in
the Mutual OF New York, aud kept it up till
| 1862. After the war the company compromised
with HIN by giving him paid up policy Of
5000 for his policy. then worth 81, 800, and
this policy has been Il source of income OF about
$3.50 per annum for five or six years.
We have had delightful change in tho
weather within forty. eight hours; it being now
exceedingly pleasant after the swcltering heat
OF the last mouth
Our corn crops are generally good some ex
ceedingly bad
The re assessment will be over to-day, and
the evidence develops some very bad Judgment
in the assessors, or the witnesses and multi
tudes are against the assessor. Would II not
be we'll ncst time to get the Board of Supervl-
sors to nominate to the County Court two Or
three persons from each election district III the
county, from which selection might be made
OF one man to assess all the realty In his pre-
cinct; all the assessors IN the township TO he a
board of revision among themselves and the
books SO revised to be submitted, consolidated
into township books to the Board Of Supcrvl
scrs, who would decide all cases that might br,
objected to by the land owners; The property in
Incorporated towns to be assessed by town as
SCISSOR, as country people Seem to know abso.
luteiy nothing of the value of town property.
| Hurry is expensive and time should be given
for appea Is. say for four weeks cnnscculvely, Ia
which the Supervisors would meet III the Court
House for that purpose. The last plan Was a
decided failure in some parts OF this county. |
am happy to say but eleven application have
| been made from Broad Run Township, covering
II 100 acres, and but four from Mercer, cover
ing G3 0u0 acres, and not many from LeeSburg
township, covering HOOD. The malu rush has
been from Lovettsviile, aud Jefferson, and Mt.
Gilead but particularly from the first aud last
named. ALlQUEs.
PoslTloN OF GEN WIsE.-General Henry
A. Wise has written letter to Gen. Early, FROM
which heLynchburg Virginian has been request
ed to publish the following statement Of his pc.
siton in reference to the candidates for the Presl-
dency and the proposed convention at Louis
Vile He says:
Yours of Yesterday Just received by nc gives
me great satisfaction All of your card relating
to myself endorse Indeed, it would have sur
prised me if you had said you understood me
to favor the election Of Grant in any contingent
cy; for my published letter to Col. Mosby was
express that | would not support either Grant or
Greeley, and especially e<chewed preference
for either, or to choose between them and SO
advised the people, In fact i'm plored them
to stand proudly aloof from the choice OF
evils :
The statement in the N. Y. World, under
! the head of Political Notes, is as false in re-
spect to me as it is 10 respect to yourself: have
said and published distinctly that | cannot sup
port either Grant or Greeley Greeley or Grant
,oithom being a renegnde to my arm Jdith and
feelings or being hypocrite towut'S the Juth
and }trAings of Others will be neither, and
will do nothing to defame a cause for which
fought and was ready to die. | call God II wit
ness that was earnest and honest in eSpousng
the Confederate cause: for if was not, | was a
base traitor to my own State aud her people, and
foul murderer ofthe comrades whom led to
battle aud to death. The force during the war,
and the oppression on the one side and
the serrile submission on the other, since
| the war, could not cnange my CONVICTIONS
or my faith, and give up neither, but they
are both intensified rather than diminish
ed by what have experienced and witnessed
in the events Of the last seven years. | agree
with you 10 respect to the PROPOSED Louisville
Convention 1t eau have no hope, OF course, of
the election Of Democrat, and the only con
struction as to its motive will be that tits or
was intended to divide the opposition to
Grant"
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY ITEMS. i From
the Manassas Gazette, There was consider
able excitement at Manassas on Saturday, up
on the receipt of the intelligence Of the arrest
of Jas F. Clark, 10 Fredericksburg. 1t was
reported that he would be brought up on the
| tram anu rye CIONu dSSCuplcd dl 'iie uopo.'
and 50 much indignation was expressed that it
was feared that summary punishment would
be melted out to him. He did not come, how
| ever
\ number Of claimants before the Southern
Claims Commission from this county have re-
Gently received their money through the hands
of their attorney, Geo. Round. of this place
The new barn Of Hr. Henry Dane, in DUN
fries Township, was struck by lightning during
last week, and burned to the ground with all
of this years crops which had been stored
therein.
Preparations are being made to hold a Con
sentative mass meeting at Manassas sometime
during the month of September. The meet
ing will be held in the woods where the camp
meeting was held. \ number of prominent
speakers have signi6cd their willingness to ad-
| dress the meeting.
a Joint discussion of the comparative merits
of Grant and Greeley for the Presidency has
been arranged to take place at Manassas on
Saturday, August 3lSt at clock, D. H., at