Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-21
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER q.
THE NEXT MOVE.

Grant seems to have excited considerable inter-
est among the ministers of the various denom-
nations but to have gone up ike rocket and
down like its stick among the mass of the peo-
pie. They know that any effort to bring Church
and State into any other relations than that
both shall continue as our fathers decreed they
should be, and as they are now. united only in
the good citizen, who votes as he chooses and
worships God according to the dictates of his
own conscience, but 10 their public aspects sep
arate as the air and the light-both good
within their own sphere, and neither competent
to take the others place. Too deep 10 the hearts
of the people have these principles impressed
themselves to be ever efaced. Nothing is left
the agitators, then, but to kinde their old fires
of sectional distrust and hatred, and they will
move boldly toto the old business as soon as the
holidays are over. Grants special message on
Southern affairs will reach Congress 10 January,
and then the tales that harrow up the soul will
be told 10 the report Of Mr.. Morton's commit
tee 90 affairs in Mississippi. 1t will be all in
vain The people have grown wise by the
bitter experiences of the recent past, and they
seek peace, with opportunity to do lite's work
aud get living wages; not that peace which
Grant has 81 often promised, but which they
have found to be the peace that vuItures give
to lambs, but true ''peace to men Of good will. F."
Senator Boutwell's bill Ito increase the eff.
cheney of the navy and to promote the mari
time interests of the United States proposes
system Of bouuties 90 ship building, as fol-
lows: The Secretary of the Treasury is to Of
fer bounty of not more than eight dollars per
ton. to be paid each year tor period Of five
years, for the construction in the United States
of iron steamships of not less than one thou
sand tons each, nor exceeding five hundred
Thousand tons 10 the aggregate, and not
more than one hundred thousand tons to be
authorized in any one year, the said ships
to be employed exclusively in the foreign
trade. Proposals are 10 be received and pref.
ereuce given the first year for fifty thousand
tonnage on the Atlantic coast, twenty-five
thousand upon the great Lakes and Missis
sippi river, and twenty FIVE thousand on the
Pacific coast The vessels are to be con-
structed on models approved by the Navy
Department, and the Government is to have
the right to purchase or employ them up
on appraisement Of disnteresed commits
sion. The bill also provides for the payment OF
bouDties Oh vessels hereafter launched, as fol-
lows: Six dollars per ton for sailing vessels OF
four hundred tons and upwards, employed 10
the foreign trade and between the Atlantic and
Pacific ports Of the United States, and four
dollars per ton for sailing vessels of not less
than two hundred tons burthen authorized to
engage not more than three months per year
10 the coasting trade; provided that if YES
sells of the TWO last named descriptions are
afterwards enrolled for the coasting trade
the bountles shall be refunded to the
Government, less ten per cent. per year.
A bounty of four dollars per ton for the period
Of five years is provided for vessels employed
10 the cod or mackere fishery not less than
four months each year. All vessels en-
poyed in the foreign trade or the fisheries
may purchase supplies 10 bond, without pay
mont of duties. The bill finally provides that
vessels hereafter built by the Navy Depart
ment for open sea service shall not exceed one
thousand tons each.