Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-10
Congress.


10 the Senate, yesterday, Mr.. Foutou, of
New York, announced the death of cx. Prcsi-
dent Fillmore Brief eulogies upon the lite
aud character Of Mr.. Fillmore were pronouuce,,
by Mes$rs Fenton and Sherman, alter which
the Senate adjourned.
In the House Of r, representatives. on the usu-
al Monday call Of States, numbvr OF bills and
resolutions were introduced aud referred Mr.
Dawes Of Massachusetts,, then announced the
death of ex. President Fillmore Eul,g"s were
pronounced by Messrs Dawes, Cox, Wood of
New York, and Maynard of Tennessee, aud a
resolution was adopted appointing Committee
Of seven to attend the funeral Of deceased. The
House then adj ourned.
METHODIST CONFERENCE In the B ,lm ire
Annual Conference of the NJ. + Church. in
session in Baltimore, yesterday the committee
on the tract cause report the total collections to
be $597.Sl.
The bishop spoke of the Importance of cate
chzng the children to preserve them from er-
roneous DOCTRINES citing Scotland as an illus
traitor.
Rev. DR.. j. NJ. Reid stated that only S35 900
of the 500, 900 of collections for missionary
penses, &c.
The relations of several ministers, as super
numeraries were continued and others placed iD
the same relation.
The committee on temperance reported in
favor Of all forms of temperance advocacy, pro-
hibitory laws. local option laws 10 the Legiala-
ture, the work of the women 10 the West &C.. i,
giving them all praise. The report Of the
Church Extension Society was adopted. The
collections for the purpose were larger the past
year than ever before.
The amount collected for church extension in
the conference was 81, 54S IS. The sum donat-
ed to different charges was 81 ,5O0. The sum
total of all collections 10 the whole Church III
this country FROM 1866 to 1873 is S496. $40 o.
and amount of the loan fund is $lS6,415.
ICoMMUSIcATED.
tWHERE THERE'S WILL THERE a
WAY. In the general affairs ofliie, this maxm
will prove true 10 ninety-niue cases out of a
hundred. TO Will, or attempt to perform I'M,
possibilities, DO sane man would undertake, but
how many great achievements have been ac
complishcd 10 our day, which fifty years ago
were considered by the great aud learned m;n
of that age utterly impossible of belug accom-
plshed AS soon as there was determined
Will, and the ways and means furnished to
carry out that will, the desired intention and
improvement, was by industry. patience aud
perseverance, finally secured. Au active aud
persistent spirit of enterprise never fails.
Heaven helps those who first help thcm-
selves.
Il was the intellectual and persistent will of
Columbus tina, discovered a new world. Ful
tons will plann ID and completed steamboat,
and if Futon 10 his day, with limited meaus,
could build steamboats, TO navigate the HUDSON
and Ohio rivers, what is there 10 the way OF
improvements and beue6ts which the business
men of Alexandria cou not achieve If each
aud all possessed the same amount OF will and
perseverance.
But in order to reap the advantages Of a
fixed aud powerful will, great care should De
taken that the means to carry out said will,
should find the way aud the ouly chaonel that
leads TO success and general satistactlu6. About
dozen Of our leading citizens and capitalists Il
year ago, "wilIed" to invest their pile" 10
Northern Pacific and st. Joseph and Denver
railroad bonds; and report says abyut $30QO00
was spirited away, never to return, accordlug
to promise.
Now let US make little calculation what
$500 900 would have secured for Alexandria.
1t would have built large ship-yard, which,
if properly managed, would have paid back