Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-08-21
IOutlOum Delegates.

a! to" township meetings, held III L"ud"un
county on Saturday. delegates to the Congress
sioDal Convention, to be held 10 this city on
the 10Th, we're appopoiDt'
LresL~y Delegates, f. V. White, + G.
Cautman, Matthew Harrison Josephus Carr,
IL. .. Clngcn. AItcruatrs, Jos i. Norris }.
+. Divine. Henry Eeatou, l.. NJ. Shumate,
G.orgc NJ. Grayson
-Iou"t Gilmd-DcIegateS, II. Clay Chamb-
lin. Thomas 4. Taylor, james McDauiel. Hen
son Simpson. Alieruaies, i. b. James, I'hos.
Monroe, John Mead, Lewis Helwr
JeGcrSon delegates, William Matthew, j.
M,rt. kllgour, &. B. Mcrcer and John +.
Shueey. AIteruates, j. NJ. kilgour, Wm. Us
burn, N, + Heaton, aud George l. Moore:
Broad Bun -Delegatse, Charles L. MaDkin,
Robert BentIy, aud j. G. Coleman.
IHercer-John A. Carter, delegate; r. &.
Lit'le;on, alternate, Douglass Tyler, delegate;
IL. Il. Fr.zicr. alternate; Hamilton Rogers,
delegate; j. NJ. McVeigh, alternate: \. Is.
Moore, delegate; n. Berkeley, alternate; b. 2.
holland, delegate; L. NJ Carter, alternate.
TEMPLE BAR.-Not the Magazine, with
which so many readers are familiar. but the
awkward, ug y reality, once built to protec! the
modern Templars, is about to fall iu ruin. It,,
TOO, is victim of sort of subtcrraueau re-
form. lu excavatlug the place Tor the iOunda-
ton OF the new Law Courts, the Soil on which
stood the ancient Bar" was looseued. aud we
see that it has been sinking for some time, and
the cap-stone OF the arch, trembling in its
place, great hole is visible, and daylight can
be seen through it. Ii oEce it tumbcS down
it might never be rebuilt; for. as one Of the
English journals says, rebuilt relics are not
worth much, and so this historical ediice,
like 50 many OF the material works Of man 5
hand, passes away. The other day it was
Northumberland House. with its traditions
and lis lion, whose stone tail 50 many simple
minded wayiarers have gazcd on 10 see it
wag Aud now il is Temple Bar. Nor does
| it seem to Us 1T all important, even in a
| sentimental point of view, certainly not 10
au aesthetic one,l that it should be kept
up. Strange aud CHASTITY associations lngcr
round those shaprless stones, of which few
OF The millions who daily pass uuder it ever
think, but which history eulbams. 1t is
not so very old after all. 1t was built, say
the local chronicles, in 1872, 10 the Merry
Monarch s. reign. about the time Of the set
tcmcnt Of New Jersey, and when the Pur-
tans were fighting King Philip, and 10 doubt
it was iuaugurated with all the pomp OF those
| iestlval-losing days. John Milton was living
hard by, poor aud blind, and on the edge OF
lille. The llabeas corpus act was not born. The
restored Stuarls ielt sure on their throne, for
themselves aud their posterlty, as did James L.
when, half u century before, he came from
Scotland Now mark the contrast. IS years roll
by. ami her sight was seen at Temple Bar
Not ouy had the S:uar, dynasty passed away
utterly and absolutely, but on the top of the
arch Which Charles |. had so joyouSy raised
were to be seen, BY such as had the courage
TO lok up, the pale aud bloody heads of re
bels' who had dared to take up arms for the
cause they thought right, and paid the penalty
of those cruel tipes. The heads OF Lnvat aud
kimarnock and their companions rotted on the
spikes of Temple Bar. There are those, how
ever, who would be sorry to part with this, the
last prlm relic of other days, and these suggest
! that il be removed and reconstructed, to form
hereafter the entrance to Temple Gardens. =
Buhtnore Gu2ette.
LARGE LAND SALE. Captain Thomas L.
Parish has sold part Of his farm upward, Of
loo acres to Mr.. Brennan, for 500 per acre.
Mr.. Brennan is The person who bought Scarf
ton, the elegant estate of Judge Alexander
Rives for which he paid S45 OUO lie after
wards bought the ad loinug farm of George {.
Umohun,ro, several hundred acres, Tor ST..
900, and last week added the above purchase
which also a1joiuS the Carlton tract, but is de-
tachcd from Captain Farish's main tract by
the public road. These OUTLAWS Of money, ag-