Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-04-18

T1cE-The following incident was told and
permission given to publish it for the first
time, in the Mystic Star: 1T occurred dur
ing the days of Wings and Democrats, in the
lifetime aud services of Chief Justice Marshall
In those days party politics ran high, and Of
ten times engendered strife, and produced
very bitter feelings Men would frequently
forget obligations, and allow their passions to
enter and govern them. instead Of governing
their passions. 1t was at one of these periods
that the two distinguished individuals met in
Louisville whose names Stanl at the head OF
this article.
They entered into the" controversy Of their
respectve ideas of political economy and govern
mental jurisprudence, with all the power of
their glaut inteects They both were we'll
skilled in debate both were out spoken, and
meant what they said. They We're positive
and representative men:
At one OF their exchange, conversational,
oihaud discussions, they started to attend the
Lodge. On the way thither, they fired their
nf each party. Without the least hesitation or
couivocation whatever, they hurled their iu-
vcctiveS till they came to the door of the Ma
sonic Hail. There they stopped and looked at
each other in the face. They stood in that po
sition some little time. Finally one reached
out bis hand to the other-it was grasped, and
they turned directly away from the hall, arm
in arm. They walked number Of squares,
and uttered not word to each other returned
TO the hall and we're announced at the door.
Both walked in and took seat with the broth
ers and never afterward did they allow them
selves to talk together on politics. They lived
aud loved each other as brothers 10 all after
lite They conquered their passions, and cuI-
tiyated spirit Of Masonic tolerance.
SINGULAR WHIsKEy PnENoMENA.-The
La Crosse wis., Democrat tells the follow
ing
1t appears that Mr.. Fifcld has been troubled
with fearful cold which settled Oh his lungs,
aud his friends held consultation and decided
to give the gallant sergeant an old-tashloned
sweat. He was wrapped in blanket aud
placed upon a cane-seat chair, aud about a
pint Of whiskey put under the char, and
match touched to the whiSkey.
1t is evident that too much confidence had
been placed in the fact that Madison whiskey
was never before known to hurn but, slngu
lar as it may seem, this particular whiskey did
burn, and Mr.. Fifeld, with his well known as
tuteuess discovered the fact soon as any
body Without stopping to argue with hls
friends as to the singular phenomena, Alr. F1held
arose as one man, and with his hand on his
heart thanked the audience Tor the warm aud
genial manner in which he had been receiv.
ed, kicked the chair over, and jumped up:
He jumped we'll but it is said that if the
ceiling had been higher, he would have in.
creased his leap at least eight feet. On his re-
turn to earth his elocutionary powers were
brought into requislton, and ne made speech
that for bstcring sarcasm and burning patho<
has never had its equal in the annals OF leglsla
tive experience.
Dr. Woocott was telegraphed for from Mil
wa,lkce, aud came by special train, but gave II
:,S his opinion that amputation would not bt
necessary. The party with whom Mr. Flhelc
boards, the telegraph Informs us has RAISED
the price OF Sans board three dollars week
because it is necessary to set the tabl', Tor hln
on the mantel-piece.
RAppAuANNocK VALLEY Corn CRop. :
The yield of corn along the Rappahannock las
fall has been largely 10 excess Of any crop since
the war \ single commission house in this
place, Messrs Hart l. Hayes, has shipped this
spring one hundred and thirty thousand
bushels from between Fredericksburg and Port
Royal Mr. A. NJ. Boulware raised on the
'Belvidcre' and Prospect Hill estates 5000
bushels Captain VIM Taylor Smith has de-
livered twenty-three hundred barrels, his crop
averaging the grand yield Of eleven and hall
barrels per acre. Lawrence Taliaferro has sold
from the Hayfeld' estate, 5000 bushels, and
has reserved probably thousand bushels.
George Turner's crop was about 5000 bushels.
CaroIinus Turner's about 5000 bushels. John
+. Goudin has delivered $500 bushels, Olive,
Watson, 5000. VIM. H. Strother, 3,40O, r.
II. Turner, $500, j. 3. Gray, 5000, W. G.
Pratt, 1000 The list might be extended
largely with the names of others who produced
from fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred
bushels but the figures we have given indicate
what was done in the way OF growing corn 10
the Valley of the Rappahannock last fall. There
are thousands of acres of land for sale from
fredericksburg to the Chesapeake Bay, along
the river No quarter of the world offers
stronger inducements to those seeking homes,
or to capital looking for secure and profitable
Investment. Fredericksburg Hc,u|d
The GREAT WALL OF CHINA-Mr Seward,
speaking of the great wall of China, which he
examined during his late trip to the east, says:
The Chinese have been for at least two OF
three thousand years wall-making people. IL
would bankrupt New York or Paris to build
the walls of the city of Pekin. The great wall
of China is the wall of the world 1t is forty
feet high. The lower thirty feet IS OF heWn
limestone or granite. Two modern carriages
may pass each other upon the summit. 1t has
aparapet throughout its whole length, with
convenient stair cases, buttresSes and garrison
houses at every quarter of mile. and it runs
not by cutting down hills and raising valleys
but over the uneven crests of the mountains
aud down through their gorges, distance OF q
thousand miles Admiral Rodgers and cal,
cnlatea that it would cost more now to build
the great wall of Chiua through its extent { o.
one thousand miles, than it has cost to ouio
the ffty-ive thousand miles of railroad III the
United States. What commentary 1t is upon
the ephemeral range of the human intellect te
see this great utilitarian enterprise, so neces
sary aud effective TWO thousand years ago, no"
not merely useless but an incumbrauce aud al
obstruction