Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-05-21

DISTRICT Of Il ne lnueDteuness
of the District, as set forth in the Report OF the
Investigating Committee to Congress-, Is, tor
the debts under the old Corporation, S4.38l,-
297. 81, and for the indebtedness created under
the new government. 24.S5O.DOD, (uulssued
bonds inclnded.) Thus the total indebtedness
of the District is stated at 50 23l,2yl.3I. lhe
debt of the District by the act of Congress Is
limited to ten millions, and the tax, which is
now Sl.7O on the hundred. to 81. The new
assessment gives us 800. 00O,O 900 in real estate,
and 2 1000, 900, in personal estate; VI
the four million loan, the board OF Public
Works have actually expended two million,
but nearly oue-third of this sum is to be assess,
ed upon the property improved, and VIII re-
place to that extent the moneys already expen,,
dea. so that little over one million dollars OF
| the four millions have been used Georgetown
Courier.
Ex-Gov. HENRY A. WISE has been making
q speech at Matthews Courthouse. Here Is
what a correspondent of a Norfolk journal has
to say about it:
He then pitched into Horace Greeley. He
was eycoriated, accommodated, and then eX-
nurgated by prouounciug that terrible %senteuce
-anathema maranatha. Those who know the
! General will not fail to see that this was his
favorite role. and he could perform this act In
tbe comedy as Kernble did Falstaff, without
%stufing. While the acting was superb, the
sentiment was very feebly endorsed, as the
thinking part of this community fee! there Is a
choice even between Grant and Greeley, and 1t
is quite apparent that it must be one or the
other. The Gov. says, with his hand in a vice,
and compelled to choose, he would take Grant
because he is a fool"
PRospEcrlSG.-AmoDg a number of North
ern gentlemen who have recently visited our
CITY with a view to invest their surplus capital
and establish manufactures here, is Mr.. John
Nugent. an extensive morocco manufacturer, OF
Newark. N. j. Mr.. Nugent was accompanied
by his two nieces, who are the guests of Mr..
John Bryant, the enterprisiDg sunlac dealer OF
the city, whs is now trying the experiment OF
producing a goat skin suitable for the manu-
f~acture of morocco, which is likely to prove
successful. Mr.. Nugcnt, and the firm ne is
connected with, command a capital OF S3,OOO,-
600. He was favorably impressed with all he saw
of Richmond, and proposes to return at an early
day to select a location on which to build a lac
tory for his business. -Rich. Eng.
EPISCOPAL CouSCIL. This Council, at Nor.
folk. adopted IA new canon on FestrieS. The
chief points of difference between the new and
the old canon are these 1t allows all persons
of the age Of lwenty-one who are COMMITMENTS
or regular contributors to the charges of the
parish to vote for vestrymen, not combining it
to pew-holders, who may, indeed, if not regu-
lar contributors, be denied it. 1t allows the
vestry of parishes which include several
churches to be made up of vestrymen elected
iu part by each congregation voting separately.
and it requires churh wardeDs to be
cautS.
COFFEE. The active speculative movement
in coffee that has been going on for some two
weeks, reached its highest point Oh Saturday,
| sales having been made Of about $4,000 bags
Rio at prices fully three cents per pound high
err than when the law was passed by Congress
removing the duty after the LIST of July next.
1t should be noticed that the coffee sold at
present remains in bond, and it is not likely
that any considerable portion of it will be with
drawn or will 90 into consumption previous to
that date. The duty is equal to about three
and a quarter cents per pound.