Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-10-07
Tribute 20 Virgins.

Ex-Governor Il. B. Vaucc, 10 his coottibu
tons to the Norfolk Landmark, pays the fol-
lowing tribute to Virginia:
1t has seemed to me that as your leading
stock was, in Virginia, English, and ours in
North Carolina was Scotch Irish, the difference
between the people of the two States has, tc
some extent parteken of the sam" characterize.
les which dividethe people + England and Scot.
land. The difference is doubtless not SO well
marked, owing to many cause:-tne large ad.
mixture of strange blood for onc-tu. it is OF
much the same nature As to this difference
quote again from dugh Miller in his First
Impressions of England and lis People,
Nothing" says he, Tin the English character
so strklngly impressed nue. IS It's immense ex.
tent of range across the intellectual scale. Ii
res en- bles those musical Instruments Of great
compass, such as the pianoior.e aud tine harpsi.
cord, that sweep over the entire ganut, from TT
lowest to the highest whereas, the intellectual
character Of the Scotch, like instruments OF Il
narrower range, such ~ the harp and the vic
lin, lies more in the middle OF the scale. By at
least one gree it docs not rise So high by sew
eral degrees i does not sink 80 low There il
al order OF English mind to which Scotland mas
| lot attained our first men stand in the second
rank not foot breaoth behind the foremost OF
England's second rank men; but there is u front
rank of British Intellect in which there stands no
ScolcLman. = Scotland has produced no
short of The sta. ure of the giant Avon OF Mil.
ton we have not even representative. Bacon
is us exclusively unique as Milton and Ms exclu-
sively English" But altogether he claims that
the great mass OF his countrymen occupy n
higher intellectual level, and are wider awake
than the great mass Of the English.
These compal isons will hold good in part when
sprlled to the people of those States. here
is certainly cluster of great FiTyinian names
IN which no North Caroiinlan stands AM in
which, in fact, few Americans Stand, in arms
and craftsmanship. Virginia is decidedly more
En- glish, and yet our Scotch blood has it is fair
to say, fully maintained its average in the dc
partments wherein it has been excellcd, and in
others--lsw and oratory for instancc-it has
been ever fully abreast with any. In fact, it
furnishes, all things considered the best middle
class in the world. Other races smong our own
people excel the Scotch IRISH in one or more
special departments, rs before alluded to, but in
the aggregation Of qualities which go TO make up
American citizenship they have no super. ors.
PROPOSED COUNCIL OF GOVERNORS. "A
special dispatch to the New York Herald says
at conference Saturday between Governors
Leslie, Of keetucky, aud Blown, of Tennessee
Mr.. Watterson, of the Louisville Courier J our
nal, and'J. Stoddard johnson, Of Frankfort
KY, being also present, it was agreed, and is
suggested, that there be con!ereuce of the
Governors Of all Democratic States, North and
South. toga'her with representative Democrat
c citizens of influence from States not Demo
cratic or possibly Of Governors of all the States
irrespective of party, with view to calm,
earnest and patriotic discussion of the broader
questions of couhict between State and Federal
Jurisdiction.
INA PERILOUs SITUATION One day last
week Mrs. Richard Jones, who resides III this
county, lett her little iuiant sitting alone in the
house for a few minutes; on returning, TO her
utmost surprise and horror, she observed a
black snake. about four feet long, partly coied
around the BODY of the infant, aud instantly
she grabbed the snake about the middle Of the
body and throwing it violently against the
floor, stunned his snakeship, and before it had
time to recover, Mrs. Jones had procured a
stick and Killed il = ErelerlcL.sL urn Mir