Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-01-10

| Correspondence OF the Alexandria UaZette J
LEEsBURG, Va, Jan. S.-The Sth Of Janu-
airy has passed and not a single fire cracker has
been exploded in honor of the day which saw
ed Southern city from the ravagcs usual up
on capture by assault, and made Gen. Jack
sou President. The same city is now governed
in the interest of class Of people whose doml-
nation will be equally as destructive Of prop
erty aud civilization.
When [ was little boy Lafayette came to
| Leesburg, having stayed the night before at
the residence of President Monroe. La coming
to Leesburg on the day OF his reception he was
10 carriage with Monroe, John Quincy Adams
and Richard H. Henderson. he subject of
conversation was the condition aud future OF
the negro race Lafayette argued that all the
States north of South Caroliua would III time
get rid OF their negro population and that the
States south of North Carolina would become
negro republic under the protection of the
United States. Other parties argued that the
negro was Inferior to the white mao, and would
always remain 10 subordnation to him. My
recuIlectiou of the conversation, as told to met
when | was boy, perhaps Is years ago, is that
Mr.. Adams did not agree with Lafayette, but
| may be mistaken.
The annexation of Texas, the Introduction OF
railroads with locomotives, our late civil war,
the tacity Of INSTRUMENTATION, have all
combined to modify these yatIcluatlons, or
rather their results, hut does 1t hot look as II
the negro race were concentrating In MISSISSIPPI
nj and Louisiana, Southern Alabama, South
ern Georgia and Florida, tor this Or some other
purpose, which time alone will reveal! Gan
il be that, in the providence OF God they arc
there assembled TO be placed 10 training Tor
self government, while in contact With the
whites only III His time to move Gu masSe upon
the West Iudies, when pressed too closely by
the teeming crowd Ut whites, increased us 1t,
will be not only by its own natural increase,
out by the multtudinous shoals of the cauca-
sian race surging from the old world 70 the
new?
1t is understood that Mr. Adams kept a
diary. 1t has always been any desire to look
into it at that date I'D Monday, August, 1928, J
so as to ascertain whether the conversation did
take place, or whether | dreamed about ii
ethereIeepiug or waking. Has this diary ever
seen printer ink?
Our waters were so high on Wednesday that
the mail TO the Southwestern part OF the county
could not be carried, and the roads are IN the
condition Of the one in Michigan, about which
remedy.
LINES ABOUT A MICHIGAN ROAD.
This road is not passable,
Not even jackassable.
Ii you wish to travel 1t
Turn out and gravel 1t.
1t has always been source of wonder to me
that people would consent to be taxed forever
to pile up dirt in spring to be pulled down in
wiuter when dollar or dollar aud half an
acre expended in gravel and broken stone would
give them good road all the time. The Ohio
law is for the County Commissioners to decide
that certain road shall be gravelled, provided
the right Of way for the best route is furnished
by parties along the route free of cost. They
then tax lands for the first mile back 81 per
acre. u mile so cents; Sd mile Is cents, aud
the road is a free turnpike. This tax may be
five years. a gentleman living in this town,
who has recently been to Ohio, says that he
travelled l6 miles 10 II hours, aud that one
horse hauls cord of wood. 10 Musk ugum
and other counties the law authorizes the COM
| missioners to build these roads, pay for them
with the proceeds of bonds, and pay the inter
est and sinking fund to redeem these bonds
from TOLLS the gates being let to the highest
bidder, and the tolls secured by bond aud Sc
curity and paid quarterly One half the road
levy capitalized would in ten years give net
work of turDpikes in Loudoun county that
would add perhaps % per cent to the value of
the lands; say au increase of $2500,O 900 for an
outlay Of $500, 1000, and men and women when
they drove into town or to church could come
in preseutable guise. Can not law be franz
ed for Fairfax or Loudouu, or some other
county, as an experiment in this direction
ALIQUIS.
The ALTITUDE Of the highest point in the
world where railways are now in operation is at
Apazaco, on the Vera Cruz and Mexican Rail
way, 7,47S feet above the level of the sea. The
next highest is on Central Pacific. 10 the New
adj. range, IL II feet above the level OF the sea.
The third is the Araquapa, an important city
in Peru, 1000 feet above the level of the sea,
and, under the Peruvian Railway system, the
work is to be continued, aud is expected to
reach double that altitude-at the breath-1ak-