Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-02-01
Letter from LOudOun.

OF the Alexanorla ua1e''o'J
LEEsBURG, Va, Jan. 3l.-Please publish
the following table, showing the amount paid
in 1875 by the counties north of the Kappa
hammock, above the amounts paid to them Oh
account of the school fund: Alexandria city
and county, 81, lS6; Fairfax, S2,7S7; Loudoun,
50, O49; Clarke, ) l,947; Frederick, S3,ls2;
Warren, $685.; Rappshannock, Sl,l4S; Eau
ouier, 81, 764; Culpeper, $3.50; Orange, s645;
Madison, Sill. Total loss to Hunton's (Stb)
District, S26,1lS. This is equal to a capital
OF s435, 3OU. Now add Prince William, which
naturally belongs to us-SJ AIS; and take OFT
the following, which receive more than they
pay: Stafford, sl37; Green 1896; and we have
Northern Virginia contributing to the school
fund, an absolute gift Of s27, ll3 each year for
ever. If VIC add Shenandoah and Page, 81 ,O5S
and S2O6. This absolute gift is S2S, 377, rep
resenting a capital of $472, $50, which is twice
the amou 1t necessary to build and equip a lu-
natic asylum. | have no means of knowing
the amount chargcablc to these counties for
criminal expenses, but | do know that there Is
a continual drain of money from this section to
all parts of the State. Thus tide water has
Hampton Normal Institute, near Norfolk; up.
per tide water has the Eastern Lunatic Asy.
lum, head of tide has the State Capitol, south
west Virginia has the Blacksburg College, up
per valley, the Military Institute, middle valley
has the Western Lunatic Asylum, central
Piedmont has the University Of Virginia, and
northern Virginia has nothing, and southside
| has nothing. Now the counties Of the south
| side from Chesterfield up receive from the
school fund more than they pay: Amelia, S79S;
Appomattox, 1904; Buckingham, Sl,436;
Campbell, 81, 24O; Charlotte, 81 09O; Chester
field. 1914; Cumberland, 1929; Dlnwiddie,
$40; Frauklin, So, $40; Halifax, So, $50; Henry.
81 sos; Lunenburg, 81, 500; Nottoway, 1852;
Patrick, 81, 1886; PlttsylvaDia, 81, 2S5; Powhat-
an, STA; Prince Edward, S405. B,ins a total
of Sis, COS. Take off Lyuchburg, 81 $40; Dan
vile, 81. 514; total 81, 1854; and we have the
excess of receipts over taxes Sl2, 1854, repre-
senting a capital Of 1912, 400 contributed BY
northern Virginia to the upper southslde. The
interest on the ether $3.50, 900 this section
contributes to the lower southside and tide
water. Loudoun alone gives away to these
sections every year taxes representing acapltal
of $3.50, ST. How long our people will rest
quiet under this gross oppression | can not say,
but this | firmly believe that Loudoun county
could proftably Offer to the State a site on one
of her health giving hills and cash or bonds to
the amount of $50, 600 for the privilege Of a
new ~lunatic asylum. | think Augusta would
join with Loudoun, and the s1uthside would
be uugenerous if it did not help to do justice
to this section of Virginia. A gap of twenty,
four miles from Round Hill to Winchester fill
ed up would give US railroad or water commu-
%uicatiou with all northern Virginia. Will not
our delegates and Senators move 10 this mat
ter. Fifty thousand 10 Loudoun bonds would
bring more than 500, 900 of peelers. Oae
hundred aud fifty at $3O0,000 per anpun
would disburse in our midst S45, 900 per an,
DUN and cause some of it to stick. | speak
for the interest of Loudouo.
Apropos to Mr.. Gillingham: My recollection
is that men on the railroad in January, 1857,
made 26 days; 10 February, "a; and 10 March
only IT,. The stages met the cars at Manas'
sas 10 the fall, which was very dry, aud when
the SHOW fell it was very cold, aud the travel
threw up the red dirt upon the snow for many
feet on each. side of the road. | thought @.
Gillingham was much older than | am, but
the conceit has been taken out of me several
times lately. 'I'm growing DID," ALIoUIs.