Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-11-13

of the City Council last night. For othcial pro-
ceedings see another column.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
A bare quorum appeared in the Board Of
Aldermen, and with the exception OF resolu-
ton offered by Judge Underwood, looking to
removal of the Naval Academy from Annapolis,
Md, to this city, the revival of work at the
Portsmouth Navy Yard, and an appropriation
by Congress for the completion Of the james
River and KanaWha Canal, the business was
more of private character
The resolution empowering the committee to
procure suitable furniture for the chambers of
the Council, 10 the new market house building,
passed by the Common Council, was passed by
the Board.
The petition of the Messrs. Wheat and Mr.
Lambert, for areduction OF taxes on Wheat's
Mill, was referred. ~
The action of the Common Council, in refer
ring the resolution in reference to the expenses
of making map of the city; declaring it the
duty Of the physicians OF the poor to attend
the inmates Of the Jail; directing The Committee
On Public Property to enquire into the expense
Of 900 feet of hose for the hand engines; bill
of Mr.. John Blggett of $l9l55 for meat fur
nished the Aims House, was concurred in.
Bills of J. +. McGraw A. j, Fleming, j.
VI. johnson, Geo. i. Simpson, and Mrs.Jen-
uiags. were ordered to be paid
4 resolution increasing the par OF the ply
sicians attending small pox patients from 81 to
81 visit, was adopted. -,
An application for street crossing on the
north side of Washington sire et at the inter
section Of Queen, was referred.
Judge Underwood said that in as much as
the government had been of late, and was now,
making threc-fourths of its expenditures north
of the Potomac, he thought that it was right
and proper that Virginia should have a share
Before the war large quantity of ship
building had been done at the Gosport Navy
Yard, but DOW there was scarcely any work
done there, and he was anxious that the bust.
ness of Norfolk should be revived. He would
further favor an appropriation on the part, OF
Congress- to the James River aud ,kanawha Co
nal for the completion Of that great work to the
Ohio, whereby such great advantages would be
given Richmond and other portions ofthc State,
and he was confident that not only could O num-
Der of members of Congress be Induced to give
their support to such proposition, but that
the President himself, he thought would be
favorable But his main object was to induce
| Congress to romove from It's present location,
at Annapolis, the Naval Academy, and locate
that institution here. He knew it would be
agreeable to the principals and scholars, aud
| thought it due to Virginia that it should be
| located here. where there were many more adj
vantagcs than at Annapolis, Virginia, he said,
! paid very large proportion OF the Internal
revenue Of the South, indeed Of the whole
country, for as the principal receipts OF the In
ternal Revenue were from liquor and tobacco,
and as Virginia was the great tobacco producing
State, as consequence, the amount OF the tax
collected within her bounds was very great
about one-twenty-ftth Of the whole revenue,
and it was for this reason that he thought the
expenditures should be 10 proportion to the re-
CENTS, and doubted not u similar view would
be entertained by members of Congress, with
several of whom he had already conversed, and
who acquiesced in his views on the subject.
lie concluded by offering a resolution for the
appointment of two members of the Board OF
| Aldermen and four of the Common Council,
TO confer with Congress- and, If possible, pro-
cure the removal OF the Naval Academy from
Annapolis to Alexandria
MIR. French, while heartily concurring in the
views expressed by Judge Underwood, sug-
gested, that in order not to array the State OF
Maryland against the project, the resolution
be made broader, and to comprehend IN It's
scope the other propositions suggested by the
mover especially in reference to the James
River and Kanawha Canal.
Judge Underwood accepted the suggestions,
and amended his resolution so as to provide Tor
the appointment of committee to petition
Congress for an appropriation to the James
River and kanawha Canal; the revival of bust
ness at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and at the
other public WORKS in the State, so that the
expenditures may be in fair proportion to
the revenues collected from the State.
The resolution as thus amended, was passed
unanimously, and the Chair appointed Mcssrs.
Underwood and French committee on the
part of this Board.
The resolution, heretofore passed by the
Common Council, giving to the Columbia En-
CINE Company the metal of the old town bell,
was passed.
The Board then concurred in the action of
the Common Council in reference to sundry
bills referred by that body, among them one
to grade PeDdleton street, near the corner OF
St. Asaph, provided the cost does not exceed
$500, so as to allow Mr. j. ". Baggett to erect
a new house there, and reducing the assess;
ment of the foundry property, at the corner OF
Wilks and Pitt st,eets, from $4,000 to $500,
and then, at $50, having no further business be-
fore it, adjourned.
COMMON COUNCIL.
The attendance upon the Board last night
was small at the time the Board was called to
order but soon increased until nearly every seat
was filed a full census of spectators footed
up two.
A report of the committee on the petition of
j. w. Baggett in favor of granting bis prayer
for grading portion of Pendeton street COM
ing up,
necessary, not only, to enable the petitioner to
build his house but also to preserve the new
grades of Pitt and Oronoko streets from being
injured by water. ;,
Mr. Portner said the whole expense would
not exceed 800. The report was approved.
The question Of purchasing curling and flag
giug from Washington to the amount of $4,000
coming up,
Mr. Hopkins did not see where the $4,000
was to come from. Hc was certain that the
amounts already appropriated would be $4,000
or $40 900 in excess Of the amount provided for
hv the Finance Committee