Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-02
CURRENCY QUESTION
Alexandria,

hOpertS, one OF the correspondents of the
Washington Capital, has been here lately, and
gives the following account of her trip 10 last
Sundays issue Of that paper She was evi
IDENTITY in bad huuor when she wrote it, and
should have postponed her visit until the
vapors we're dissipated, for she is an excellent
writer, and her articles usually are conceived
10 the best spirit:
| Alexandria may be a handsome place and
40 arlsocralc place, but truth compu!s me to
state that at first view it is not cxhilaratluy,
and anything worse than the odor of the first
lev squares cannot be imagined. However, We
reached our destination aud entered the house
where George used to repose his weary limbs.
1t is really curiosity. Il is old aud looks as
IT 1t was ashamed OF standing so long, and
would fall down on slight provocation. La fact,
l did not know but what the proyocation had
arrived with me, BY the way my friend skipped
around aud pulled off stray splinters and loose
pieces Of mortar | tried to get I'D some
kind of sentiment, but not with much sue
cess, and | sat down to a nice little lunch
with very unSeDtlmeUtal appetite enioylng
the bright, happy faces Of the present day
| opposite me, much more than sentimental
repinng after people who died ages before /
was born and who we're much better off, as
they knew nothing about DeIanos, third terms,
Holly Tree luuch-rooms, aud women's rights
conventions and other evils of the present day.
so let others talk sentiment, while became
practical add eat good square meal and then
We started Tor walk through the city and to
the church where the Father of our Country"
attended. The walk through the place couyuc-
ed me that any one who said We Americans
rushed things or were a fast set of people, had
DeVer visited Alexandria, or he would
never have made such a statement If he
did, he would be tit Candidate for the Pres
ldency or ana other Office where unacy was not
considered an objection.
"fhey put down track and run a line Of
street Cars, but as every Que stood on the
curostone aud look ed at the cars as they went by
aud then walked to their destination,
the thing did not prove bonanza, and the
day l was there they We're busy taking the
track up.
The thing l enjoyed most was the company
of 40 old gentleman who was one of the 'od
est inhabitants of the place and people. |
don't mind hearing of old-time people and
places if am not asked to weep over them
life is too short TOR that. lu walkiug to the
church my peace of mlud Was somewhat dis
turbed by the rougnDeSs Of the pavement loose
cob5le stones and bricks setting themselves up
in way not at all consistent with my ideas OF
well-regulated pavement or street, and ex-
tremey detrimental to the welfare of a buoion
| have, which has always been an obstacle to
my pilgrims progress 10 life. | said to the
gentleman with me what blessing board OF
public works would be TO them, aud Was pro-
ceedlug with great eoquence to demonstrate
what incalculabte beueht such an institution
would be, when my GRAFTON Was stopped by the
horr.h ID look on his aged couuteuance, aud 10
choking voice he told me that they had
one OF those things there" aud the common
council dlsbanded, and all the way to The church
be was proving to me what untold misery they
had escaped by sending the board ktiug.
The church has been the scene Of many an
interesting event. and is sacred edlice 10 two
senses of the word. sat down 10 silence aud
reverence 10 George Washngton's pew, and so
| did in Gen. Lees, tor the same reason. They
were both soldiers, aud curiousy enough both
rebels; for it is not SO many years ago that the
proudest title an American could claim was rebel.
My heart, which does not respond to the spreau
eagle speeches and cheap John cry of patriot
ism so much 10 Vogue--whieh only means 80
many dollars or so much galn-always has
tender feeling towards soldier. Born of