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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-06-20

There is furious quarrel going on in the
Richmond Congressional district between the
two factions Of the Radical party.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-06-20

Col. Charles Marshall's life of Gen. Lee. it is
expected. will soon be ready to 90 in the hands
of the publisher.
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Washing ton, my q
DRY COINS.
lust OPENED FROM NEW YORK.

1 OO / OI - L hoM IN T. w 1Ohh.
A lot of Summer Silks, beautiful steel shades.
Rich Stri ped Grenadines.
japanese Poplins.
Cream Striped Grenadines.
er Suckers, Percales, Bordered Jaconets,
Lawns of all kinds, Bishop Lawns, cheap Black
ilk for Under dresses, Black Grenadines in
great variety, Black pacas, Nainsook Mus
linS IRISH Linens and S>heetings, Pillar Linens,
English Grapes very handsome Black Grena-
dine ShawIs with borders Black Grenadine, two
yards wide; also u great variety o. Domestic
Goods, Cassimeres, Drills, &c.
my 20 / M STEWART
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We have opened and offer for sale to the
citizens of Alexandria and the public generally,
at our ncw y fitted up store room, corner of King
and Pitt streets, one of the largest and most
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS, Sc.
ever offered in this market. Our stock has been
selected with u view to suit the wants and tastes
of the entire community, embracing, Us it does.
goods of every variety of sly and fabric, and at
all prices. We ask an examination of our
stock. Respectfully,
ap8 100 cor. King and Pitt sts.
Salesmen-Eli II. Janney, Edwin T. Ashby,
NJ. g. Grasty w. A. Lane L. Stuart Ashby.
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Scribner's Mouthly Magazine for July, has
been received. 1t has many interesting articles,
and is Illustrated with several handsome en-
cravings
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COMMERCIAL.

ALEXANDRIA MARKET, June 20-The mar
ket for Wheat is unchanged receipts continue
light, with fairrequest for prime and choice
samples offerings of 100 bushels red with sales
of very good ut $50. Corn is in fair receipt,
with the market ut yesterdays figures OFFERINGS
Of Zoo bushels Western white and 50 of South
ern do, with sales of lots of each ut g.. offerings
of 1900 bushels Western.yelow but no sales re-
ported. Rye is nomitally 95a1OO Oats are I'M
changed.
HUKT off .iEEG.i..>55f:zt, JUNE 20.
Sun rose. 4"4 Moon SETS. ....... 34
Sun sets....... rs
80 ARRIVED.
Steamer Express, Nickle, Baltimore, to Jos
Broders s. Co.
Steamers Virginia and Enterprise, Aqua
Creek, lumber to w \ Smout.
5chr Freddie l. Porter, Small Providence,
by J Agncw.
Schr WIN Allen, J,rsey City, to American
Coal Co.
Steamer Lady of the Lake, Partridge, Nor
folk, by + A Red. Among her freight wtre
Schr n IL Benedict, New Haven, by Amerl-
can Coal Go.
MEMORANDA.
Sohrs NJ 4 Wharton, hence ut Norwich 18TH
Schrs Louisa Bliss, NJ A Franklin, and Four
Sisters, from Bo ton, for this port, at Vineyard
Haven l1th.
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Auousto O.. Nnvamhpr
DR.. TUFTS HAIR Dye ats like magic. JIG

In- BUTCHERS LIGHTNING FLY-KILLER
sweeps them off and clears the house speedily
Try t-Sold by dealer everywhere. ap29-eo2m
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Letter from Loudoun County.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette |
HAMILTON June IS, lS72.-The gloomy
prospect for wheat crop, together with the
scarcity of money, has induced our farmers to
avail themselves of the recent act of the LegiS
lature, for the reaSsesSment of lands, and they
are filing the court with applications. If this
feeling extends to other sections in the same
proportion as In this, it must very materially
reduce the taxes in this county. 1t is an ill
wind that blows nobody good" and the wind
fills the lawyers pockets if nothing more. |
think the action OF the Legislature very short
sighted as this policy of partial reassessment
can only result iu making the burden of TAXA
ton very unequal A good many will rot resort
to the courts and the lands were all assessed
upon the same basis.
The granary of Joseph Nichols, near Phil
mont, was broken into last night, and grain
cradle in complete order for work, extracted
therefrom. As Mr. N. had just ground the
scythe preparatory for harvest, it would seem
the thief was we'll acquainted with the prem
Uses. The farmers generally, will begin har-
vest in week OF ten days if the weather keeps
favorable MARTIN.
THE PAToIs OF THE BoTANlsTs. Says the
Times notice of the flowers at the Crystal
Palace: The specimens of sarracenia drum
modalia, of the imantopylium unuiatum, of
the cyanophylium magpifcum, of the sarrace-
MIA drummondihuvia, and Of the sphacrogyne
latifoia call for distinct notice And they
shall not call in vain, and the distinct notice
Punch gives them is that they are sesquipedal-
ian kusses. We Shall have the really lovely
flowers, the fairies of the old creation, crying
out for new titles next. Who remembers. or
rather who forgetS Barry Cornwal's weaver's
song. lis better to sing than grieye p
Come show us the rose with its hundred dyes,
The lilly without blot,
The violet, deep as your true loves eyes,
And the little torget-me-uot."
Are we to have this re, written in the follow
ing fashion:
The Rosa observation-disclosures come show US,
The Llum spepalsalbis white,
With the Viola ranuuculifoia endow US.
And the wee Myosotis paustris height
London Punch.
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TOLLY WARDEN PIPES, NOHUMBUG.

a few more left with red boots on
A No. CHEWING TOBACCO, al tastes
suited % boxes on draught all the time.
Peoples Luxury, light pressed, seven years
Old Us, Sweet, Monitor Navy. L Something
Extra Brigh. Navy and other brands.
A lot of ba | tobacco on hand, it not as repre-
scented, will take it ba k and ask no questions.
Fitty-thre. t53) brands of smoking from Lone
Jack to Not for joe
Bagleys Michigan, Solace Sunny Side Cen
fury, Morning Glory and other brands fine cut
Chewing.
CIGARS, all qualities. My ct. Cigars some
say are the cheapest in the city. Gail, try them,
and let lie know ifit is So liza man can get
the worth of his money in Tobacco he can get it,
wholesale or retail, from
JOHN Il. FIELD,
lie l4-2w No II King street.
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AT the Indian Office, in Washington, ycster
day, a report (which needs cou6rlnation) Was
current that an agent of the Navajles hal been
murdered by u party Of lItes.
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(tya.A.IL CO.NWERGE.
- 49,. sas==g - - -
ARRIV AIS.

ARRIVALS.
Boats John S Fox James Hoy, NJ Sandtord,
Henry keney, John O Brien and D A Lowe, to
American Coal Co; boats e w Adams and Jack
Topper, to New Central Co; hoat Jas March, to
Hampshire i Baltimore Coal Co; boat + Kilt
well, for plaster
DEPARTURES.
Boats II Miller, J Vandervoort, Fl Fisk, E
R;zer, w J Boothe, Thos HAssett, f kiLtwell,
with rs tons pla,ter) Thos Stackpole and & n
Madure for Cum berland.
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The Editorial excursion had reached Mia
CARA Yesterday.
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loEA NEW GOODS,
ROBT, l.. WOODS.

KUBT, i, WOODS.
Ladies' Cooed Bordered Handkerchief;
handkerchief in every sly lie and quality Cor
sets, Bustles, Tucked Skirts, Corded Sklrting,
Hosiery, Gloves, Hair Nets, Dress Buttons, Lace
Trimmings, Cambria Edging, Insertings, &c.
with a full supply of new goods.
my 30 No. 81 King street.
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SPECIAL .SOTxCES.

5nt7- WHAT THE WEAK NEED.-Why do the
dcbiitated and feeble dread the summer? 1T Is
because heat is an cxhuusting element and they
are not in condition to bear the new drain
upon their languid systems, which they think
must necessarily commence with the warm
weather. But cannot this evil be obviated?
Most inIlita lily it can. What these weakliogs
need-n fact, VIII t nine-tcnths of need ut
this season-is an accession of physical vgpr,
and this d sideratum can be secured, with abso-
lutte certainty, by a course of the might est yet
mildeSt Of ali vegctaD tonics, Hostctter's Stom-
uch Buffers.
Thousands of men of business, mechanics and
professional men, break down, partially or
wholly, under their summer labors, simply be-
cause they have neg ected to reinforce the pow
crs of nature in this way. To pc sons who use
the celebrated invgoran and corrective reyu-
arlv in hot weather, the exhaustion which ex-
cessve heat is apt to prodnce under other cir
curnstunccs Is unknown. They are not troubled
with na',scn, their appctltrs are good their di-
ge>ticn exec lent and their hab to body all that
can be desired. This for twenty years has been
the uniform testimony Of all who have taken the
Bitter as a summer tonic and Alternative. Its
efficacy is lue to the csre and scrupulous fdell-
ty to the Leachin"s of expc imcntal science, With
which its medicinal mgr dicnts have been Gull
ed from the vegetable kingdom, the admirable
proportions in which they are combined and the
UNEQUAL led purity of its stimulatve basis. je II
ny BEYOND a DOUBT More diseases are
the result of the arrangement Of the Liver than
from any other cause. When that organ is di-
seased every part of the system sympathzcs
with it, ~ d general prostration and decline is
tn, re ut. TIE brst, safst md speeGesL rene
dy FOR Liver Complaint and all the disea es that
follow is TUFTS Vegetable Liver Pills; they are
peculiarly adapted to eli ate of the South.
They are sold By Dru gists everywhere.
Augusta, Ga, November |, 1863.
DR.. WIN. H. Tutt: Sir--For several years
past | have been subject to bilious attacks. and
always was firm believer that there was no
remedy for the complaint but mercury, until
abou n year and half ago, IS an experiment, l
tried your Vegetable Liver Pills, and was agree
ably surprised to find that they accomplished
all the results, and more beside of Blue Mass
or Culo.ncl, without any Of their bad effects. L
was always ali unbeliever in patent medicines,
but Gun say this for your PilIs-that, since |
c mmrnccd using them, have not taken II par
tcio of mercury in amy shape, and l cons der
this fact All important enc, and one that those
who ure in the habit of taking mercury for bll
ious disease can properly ppreciate. ! corr
daily recommend them MS the best Liver Medi-
cine ever introduced. Yours etc.
+. II. GRAY, 249 Broad st.
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I)LASTER!
PLASTER

DLASTER! PLASTER!
PLASTER!
Cargoes to arrive per schooners Edwin Reed,
Hu tie G. Dow and Sophie Kraug for sale al
market rates by lie 14] W. a. SMOOT.
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The Boston Musical Jubilee proceeds with
entire success.
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MOURNING GOODS
Nl JUST RECEIVED.
We beg to mention the following:
Bombazinc, Tarnese,
% MuuseIaine, Mereno Cashmere,
Grenadine and one piece very superior s-4
Shawl Grenadne
A iull line Of CORTLAND & Co.'S Crepe Wells,
long and short; Love Wells, sc.
We Can offer attractions in Crepe Wells.
e 10 J. NJ STE WART.
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WIHEELWRlGHT AND BLACKSMITH
w SHOP.
Having !ucceeded my father in business, re-
spcctfuliy inform the public that am now pre-
wright and Blacksmith line ut as cheap rates as
can be done elsewhere.
j w. ATKINSON, Jr.,
lie s I'm Cor Prince & Com. Sta, Alex, Va.
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NOTICE TO GAS CONSUM Frs.
Bills for the quarter ending June 18th are now
ready for delivery All bills paid on or before
the 1st Of July will be at the rate Of So per thou
sand cubic feet; if not paid by the time stated
above 10 per cent will be added.
je 14-1w [Sent.l J. ROXBURY, Sup't
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-07-27
Anecdotes of Public Men.

Congressional habits and manners
have changed with the times, and the
change is marvellous. In fact, social
life at the Nations Capital has itself been
revolutionized. If you look down from
the galleries of the two Houses, or step
into the old Senate Chamber, now the
Suprme Court room, you will see how
thorough is the revolution. Colored
men in Congress, colored men before the
highest judicial tribunal, also colored
men in the local courts. deliberate and
practice without insult or interruption.
In 1859, a white man could not safely
advocate ordinary justice to blak man.
lie was subject TO lnconceivable obloquy,
not alone in the Legislatures, Out in so,
ciety. Nothing but ilustrous service
or great moral courage secured decent
liberation To such an offender. The
Southern leaders were models of polite
ness till their peculiar institution was
touched. Then the mask was dropped,
and arrogance expelled all courtesy.
Nobody who did not agree with them
was invited To their houses, and, as they
controlled the Administration, of what
ever party, the few anti slavery men
had to live among themselves. Now,
all is changed. Men meet together and
discuss politices like philosophers. Gu
To one OF Fernando's great parties, and
you find people Of al opinions. Look in
upon one of Charles Summers uneJualed
dinners, and you see him surrounded
by Democrats like Thurman, of Ohio,
and Casserly, of California. Call on
brave Ben. Butler at one of his recep.
tions, and note among his guests many
whom ne has most steadily antagonized
When Thaddeus Stephens lived, bls most
intimate companions at whist and euchre
was the venerable John Law, the dlstn-
guished Democrat from the indianapolis
district. But in nothing is the change
more marked than in the manners of the
two Houses. First, is the evident alb
sence of public dissipation-that fright.
tul source of evil during the old slave
regime. You do not see men, infiamed
by bad whiskey, seeking quarrels with
their associates. The night is no longer
made hideous by personal alterations.
The bowie-knife, the pistol, the bludgeon,
lie buried in the grave with secession
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WHOLE NUMBER 1l77.

what turbulent with agitations about
Duties and Rights, it may be merely the
turbulence caused by affluent food,
which swelling the steam of progress
cause IL to run and roar with torrent
speed and torrent voice as il approaches
the ocean of perfection. The thought
and deed ot the educated Christian wo-
man have now hopeful scope. Woman's
steadtast faith and gentle patience have
supreme opportunity now, in various
and vigilant ministries for the cure of i'll
and the attainment of good.
go forth, Graduates; our hearts 90
with you. BE brave women. Your
banners are bright to-day; your arinors
shine; your steps are firm. In years
you may come back, as soldiers from
glorious campaigns, with tattered flags,
dented armor, and steps faltering with
WEAKNESS or languid with wounds; but
those days shall be better than these, be-
cause life vigiantly expe nded for good
cause is won, not wasted. 1t gains more
than it gives.
If word Of counsel might be blend.
ed with orr welcome, let it be this
Choose n cause worthy of you and give
yourselves to it. Let it be cause kim
dred with that which Jesus Christ came
into the world to achieve. Then, how
ever severe its demands or lowly its du-
ties, accept them gladly. A selfish life
is disgraceful Ambition for notoriety
is ahject and absurd. 1t has witbered
into intnitesimal littleness many silly
men and women but life freely devoted,
Obscurely or openly, to the glory of God
and the good of men, is fruitful both of
influence and honor.
You graduate now into the great
school Of lite. You are to be both schol-
ars and teachers henceforth. You are
10 gain and give comfort, intelligence
and vinue. May your lives be potent
to diminish the evil and augment the
good; and when you graduate from
this rugged school of discipline into the
immortal honor, may Christ, the Great
Teacher, welcome you to the sovereignty
of victorious pIety and may he confer
upon you all The everlasting honorable
diploma, certifying to the applauding as
sembly OF saints, ''She hath done what
she could"
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Enough's Enough.

1t was the Fourth of July. Next door
to us lived II little boy, say eight years
old; and think | never saw any one
hoy who had so many things to make a
noise with on the Fourth of July. He
had six boxes of shooting crackers; pile
after pile of torpedoes; rs many as fifty
double. headers or chasers; two or three
little iron cracker-pistols and torpedo
jutes; and for the evening, dozen
rockets and any number OF pin-whesls,
blue lights, Roman Candles and such.
His father must have spent at least sixty
dollars to make his little boy happy.
Well, the day began early. The boy
had scarcely slept, he was SO excited.
Up he jumped at the first gun from the
fort, hurried on his clothes, forgot to
wash himself or to comb his hair, lighted
his punk, suatched ont pack OF crack
ers aud halfpirt of iorpedoes, and be-
gan his pop, pop, in the back yard. Fired
one at time, his crackers would have
kept him busy day or two. But be.
fore breakfast time he had got into a
crazy hurry, and would dance and yell
round whole pack going off at once.
BY nine o'clock he had moved into the
street, with his ammunition piled on the
front doorstep, while twenty poor boys
gathered round TO see and hear the rich
little maniac. How he rushed up aud
down those steps How red his face and
shiny, as he began to sweat. How he
touched 'em off, without waiting to hear
or time TO enjoy. BY halt-past ten, he
had burned 'em all up, ending off with a
whole box at once. aud smashing bun
Bile of a hundred torpedoes at throw
He was a sweaty, grlmy, crazy little flu
ry.
And now his fun was all gone until af
ter dark So he fretted and whined, aud
got whipped twice that day. He teased.
They let him send up his rockets and
burn his Roman candles during the early
twilight, while the day was bright, and
then put him abed sick. And l think
that M all New York, there was not one
boy so poor and ragged but enjoyed
more that day, than this little crazy pet,
who had burned up at least sixty dollars
worth of pop and fizz. ~ tell you, I'D
like TO have sixty dollars worth OF
Fourth Of July I'd have fun /" ! hear
some of the boys saying. Yes, remem-
ber, when was about eleven years old,
and off at school, they used to give me
just one piece OF pie for dessert after din
ner. 1t tasted so good, and was gone so
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Independent in all things.
ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, JULY q, 1872.

and State rights. There are lively
disputes, Of course; Butler aud Sunset
Cox indulge in an occasional passage
Schurz and Carpenter exchange repartee
and now aud then Mr.. Voorhees, flies his
eagles with angry and fervid declama-
ton; but there are no hostile messages,
no clandestine consultations, no sum
monses to Bladensburg or Canada. The
shots that are fired are hurtless; the
swords are air-drawn; the fierce charges
exploded in truItless investigations.
a coIorcd member is listened TO by re.
specttul houses, and sileut, il not respon-
sive, auditors aud the EXTREMIST Demo
crAt, even from the South, yields hear
ing TO man like Benjamin Sterling Tur-
ner, the Representative in Congress
from Selma, Ala, who was born slave
aud is now freeman. How wonderful
is the decay Of pr,judices that seemed
to be eternal! Is this the Capitol in
which Sumner fell under the blows of
Brooks? :? From which John Quincy
Adams was sought to be expelled for
words spoken in debate? In which
TnOmbs thundered, kett flashed, and
WIgfall threatened
And, as turn from this profound les
son, and look over the fair city as it
stretches before me from the west win
dOws or the Congressional Library-in
which notice colored men and women
reading in the quiet alcoves-I find 9th
er and even better manners. Cars tray
ersing streets as clean as those of Paris
in her best days and carrying both races
without protest, even from the delicate
eX-rebel ladies who are coming TO us on
their silken wings, ready TO sell guns or
carry claims, as opportunity offers; the
same schools for the education of black
and white; colleges tor the education OF
the freedmen; great savings bank, in
which the millions Of former slaves are
boarded and increased and, above all,
free press, that prints words and dis
tributes Thoughts which, three years ago,
would have raised a mob, aud swung the
writer to the lamp-post in front of his
burning dwelling. And this. social,
political and intellectual revolution is
vindicated by results which, like the
glorious works of nature, give joy to all
and real sorrow to none The flowers
and verdure If early spring, th1t blrom
and grow all around It's, are not more
truly the proofs Of the providence OF
God than all these changed manners a,
the Nations Capital.-John W. E1,7aey
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SELECT POETRY.
The Baby over the Way.
by WASHINGTON GLADDE

BY WARRINGTON GLADDEN.
There is the window over the way
That was lit by babys face by day;
But the shutters are closed, and at the door
The doctors gig for an hour has stood
And they tell us-ihe little gossips four
Who bring us the news of the neighbor-
hood
That the doctor is coming every day
To see the baby over the way.
The terrible scarlet scourge has come,
And brother and sister are sent from home;
Each day they come TO the gate TO hear
From the mothers lips how the baby is,
And the face is blanching with trouble and
fear
That drops from the window mournful
kiss;
For, in spite of the skill of doctor and nurse,
The baby over the way grows worse.
When the midnight bushes the city's noise
We hear the cry of II feeble voice,
And know that the room where the light
burns low
Holds hearts that watch for the morning
light;
What lne day shall bring. If they could but
know,
They would cling to the lingering hours OF
night;
For hearts will break with the breaking day
When the long watch closes over the way.
The baby over the way is dad,
And the mourners will not be comforted.
o. desolatc ones no strangers voice
May break you silence, tor words are cheap
But your griefs we tell by our tenderest joys
Our four little gossips are fast asleep;
Would it tighten your burdens If you knew
That here in the dark we are crying with you !
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-07-27

THE REsT-CURE - Exercise can
kill as well as cure. To be taken advan-
tageously, it should be done with judg-
ment. Sometimes particular part OF
the body needs exercise, but the whole
body is too week to give it; in such a
case only the part needing it should
have it. But there is one rnle which is
applicable to all-never 90 against the
instincts. Many persons have hurried
themselves into the grave by endeavor-
ing to " keep up" when they ought TO
be abed aud they do "kerp up" too,
tor so long Il time that when they do
take 70 their beds, their strength is SO
completely exhausted, that the system
has no power TO rise, and they fall into n
typhoid condition, and all is lost.
When anything serious is the matter
with domestic animals, they court quie-
tude and perfect rest. Sometimes we
feel indisposed to exercise from sheer
laziness IN all loose conditions of the
bowels, debility, an instructive desire to
sit down and stay there is universal in
most of such cases quietude is cnrr.
But there is one safe rule for all under
all circumstances if every step you take
is with an effort, do not take another
go to bed if you feel the better for a
walk, then walk on; but stop short OF
great iatig gae.-Dr. w. ". HaN