Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-02

Going into 4 village at night, with the lights
cleaning on each side of the street, in some
houses they will be in the basement and no.
where else and in others in the attic and no
where else, and in others in some middle cham
bcr but in no house will every window CLEAN
from top to bottom. So is it with mems fac
ultlcs. Most OF them are III darkness. Que
shines here and another there; but there is no
man whose soul is luminous throughout.
There is no greater cause of melancholy than
idcnesS; no better cure than business Better
to do to no end hau do nothing.
He that coveteth other mems goods he often
iozcth his own. In time past there was dog
which went over bridge and held in his
,uuuth piece Of flesh, and as he passed over
the bridge he beheld the shadow of his own
self, aud of his piece of flesh within the water,
and he, thinking that it had been another
piece of flesh, forthwith thought to have
taken it, and as he opened his mouth the flesh
iel uto the water, and thus he lost it. Right
so il is with many an one; for when they think
to rob another, they lose that they have Of
their own.-Esop Fables, 1858.
4 church under the influence of veneration,
merely, is court house; and the Judge sits
there, aud cold officers are standing by him,
and men are waiting to receive their sentence
Gods Church is Gods house; and Gods house
is our hOme and Christian S home ought to
be bright, cheerful, and happy.
Public sentiment signifies the common march
Of good mems thoughts. 1t should be but
road marked plain, that men may know the
way to travel but instead Of this, public Senti
ment is employed sometimes as bribe to stop
free thinking; as an intimidation to check free
acting: as bauble to base appropriateness; or
as threatened fools cap with which to terrify
it. The virtues which public sentiment drills
into towards, may be Of great benefit to society,
but Of little credit to the men upon whom they
are dragooned.
We ought to buoy for ourselves in our course,
as we buoy harbor. Off this shoal black
buoy floats, and says to those who sail by as
plainly as if it spoke iu all languages keep
to the right here;' and over against it floats
another, and says-'keep to the LETT here.
Now in life's ocean, wherever we know the
quick sands are, wherever We have once been
stranded, let us sink the buoy and anchor of
memory, and keep to the right or the left, as
the shoal may be.
AS ships meet at sea, a moment together,
when words of greeting must be spoken, and
then away upon the deep, so men meet IN this
world aud think we should cross no mans
path without hailing him, and, if he needs,
giving him supplies.
Honor yourself, and you will be honored !;
despise yourself, and you will be desplsed.
The best of friends are those who stimulate
each other to good
There is a tradition related by Fabricius,
that when Noah planted the vine, Satan at
tended and sacrificed sheep, lion. an ape
aud SOW. These animals were to symbol e
the gradations of Drunkenness When 10 n
begins to drink he is meek aud ignorant as the
lamb; then he becomes bold as the lion; his
courage is soou transformed into the foolishness
of the ape; and at last he walloWs iu the nlire
like the SOW.
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind
of men, who, by an overweening set-respect,
relieve others from the duty Of respecting tn, m
at ALL
THE EAST RIVER IN. W BRIDGE.-Work
on the Brooklyn tower of the East River
Bridge is at present advancing, under the labor
of two gangs of men, as rapidly as stone can
be procured. Already it has been carried up
above the roadway, which is ll9 feet and 4
inches above high water, while 45 additional
feet are sunk below this mark. Above the
roadway it is to be carried up IN three piers
for IS feet and ahalf, at which altitude will be-
gin the spring of two Gothic arches, each 35
feet and + inches high. The apex of each
arch, therefore, will be III feet above the level
Of the roadway.
From the top of the arches the tower is car
ricd up in a solid mass. Thirty-fve feet above
the arches are the points where the cables
cross, one passing through each OF the outer
edges and two through the tower in line with
the central pier. The height of this part is
two hundred and sixty-cight feet and two
inches above the level of high water: Above
this, again, is parapet, so that the whole
height of the tower above high water mark
six inches. ..t..
At present about four hundred cubic yards
OF stone are laid ou an average, every two
and-a-halt days. 1t is estimated that about
five years labor will be required to finish the
entire work The manufacture of the cables
cannot be begun until the the towers and an
chorages are fully completed, and this difficult
process, which is liable to be greatly retarded
by unfavorable weather, will require one year
at least
Ofthc four cables, each will be about sixteen
inches in diameter, made up OF wires only one
eighth of an inch in diameter, OF which there
will be about six hundred IN cable, each
nearly three-quarters OF mule III length.
The wires will be continuous amode OF splicing
being employed which will render the power to
withstand tensile strain equal througnou9t,;;
The anchor plates at the ends OF the cables Will
weigh twenty three tons apiece.
The total weight Of the iron wire IN the
bridge will be $4,000 tons, while there Will De
10000 cubic yards of masonry 10 both towers
and T., 900 in both anchorages. The strength
of the cables will be sufficient to support SIX
times the weight of the bridge and all the
weight that can ever come upon 1t.
1t was designed to begin work on the anchor
ages this fall, but in consequence of difficulty
in obtaining possession of the sites, with various
other drawbacks, it is doubtful whether this
nan of the work will be begun before next