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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05
MiSSiSSippi.

WAsuINGToN, February a.--Tho protest TO BIO
presented when the vote Of Mississippi is opened
WIS completed to-day, and it is the only ono
known thus lar Directing to tho single return
from state under tho provisions OF tho act to
regulate the count. Tho protest rcctes that the
new registration law OF Mississippi requires
additional qualification and an oath for voters in
violation OF the state constitution, whilo tho
present acting Governor is usurpcr illegally
thrust into office and nouinslly only State
Senator, and that tho certificate given to the
Democratic electors is worthless.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

The radicals arc now endcavorlng to offset
the well founded democratic objections to JUS
tice MilIcr's membership OF the electoral COM
mission in consequence Of his extreme radical
views upon the question be is to help to decide,
as expressed iu his interview with the CORES.
pondcnt of Chicago newspaper, by assert
ing that he had previously written letters IN
which he had expressed equally as strong views
in favor of Mr.. Tildcu' inauguration.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

The silver currcacy now in use Is great I'M
provemcnt upon the dirty and ragged bits OF
paper that preceded it, but It's value is by no
means increased by the knowledge that great
deal OF it is spurious. and that the counterfeit
10y has beca SO we'll done that it is almost I'M
possible to tell the good from the bad.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

The London papers notice the ciansn.> ..
dissatisfaction in the late German cl.cli,a.
and say they are deeGi7 iiscoutasing 10 IL.
friends Of the Empire. Bismarck will sill. Ia.
able to command majority, but only b. sEig
mauuCe 7rug.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05
MARRIED..

On Wednesday morning, January 3lst, 1877,
by Rev. Theodore Reed, Rector Of Christ's
Church. at the residence Of her parents, in
Loudoun county, Va, JNO. Nj. err, Of Lees
burg, and ORKA VIRGINIA PRESTON,
eldcs! daughter of Geo. W. Preston. esq.
On Tuesday, Janusry Soth, 1877, at St. Paups
lei r. EVANS, Of this city, to HATTIE G.
CRUMP, Of FsirGnx county.-[Lynchburg pa
pers pIenss CODY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

It is reported in Washington that an effort
will be made to change the law providing for
the meeting of Congress, so that the new Con.
press can assemble on the 4th of March.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

Flour is unchangoI, with = hE"; supply
hand. Wheat has declined An! ~ ~. &"
highest price paid to-day; offerings 81 ~ ','-.
els, with sales at l45 for white anI Hal g.
red. Receipla Of Corn amounted % lG"i III"
els, which sold Mt Is, 81 and 81 Ter hNr'
SmalI lots OF Eye ard Oats brought Il "nI
respectively. Country produce generally q
weak and lower.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

Among the items Of the appropriation bill
that passed tho IT, S. House OF Representa-
tives, last Saturday, were those fixing the SAL
ary OF the President at S50,000 and that OF
the members oi Congress at $1,000 10 peo-
pic who manage to support large families 90
$1,000, such salaries seem excessive, but those
who axe to receive them dent think 50, for the
luxurious mode Of lie established at Washing
ton by the radical rugs, who got their money
easily and spent it protusely, makes living there
more expensive than 10 any city in the country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

Thieves ere nc respectors of persons. They
broke uto the meat house OF Judge 6. ".
Lewis, Of Wesmoreland couoty, Virginia, a
tea Fights ago. and carried off its entire con-
tents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

A correspondent of the Rockingham Regis
ter dominates Col. Robert johnson, Of Harris
burg, for Governor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

Das- The regular meeting of tho Hydraulion
Steam Fire Engine Co. will be aed on Tues
revision Of the roll will take plsce, ell members
arc expected to bs present.
2 joan LANEoE, Secretary.
NEW GQODSi NEW GOODS
~ Monday, Feb. ), 1877.
We are receiving and opening great many
Domestic Goods to-day in anticipation of an sd.
vsncing market Al! styles Of heavy goods are
advancing in prices, but we havo been fortunate
in making purchases at about old figures
Country morch4nts arc specially invited to
call. d. +. BRASHEAR, 109 King st.,
fcb5 Alexandria, Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

MIR. Sherman, who vouched for the honesty
of Gov. Wells, Of louisiana, 10 the Senate,
few days ago, is DOW said to stand seriously 10
need of somebody 10 vouch for his own right
to the reputation Of being al honest man, as
an aveugiug Nemesis is on his track, collecting
proof of his connection with the fraudulent
army contracts by which he amassed the large
fortune of which he is now possessed. But the
Senator is not abashed, as he thinks bis char
acter as good as that Of any Of the managers OF
his party, and so he talks to the interViewers'
and says that if the electoral commission goes
behind the returns, the debate will last until
the 18th Of March, and that the President OF the
Senate will be President.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05
Louisiana.

New YORK, Feb. 5.-rho Worlds New
Orleans special says The Wclls-West letter
was deposited by Maddox with Jack Wharton,
Assistant Adiutabt Gene raj, under Kellogg,
and appointed by him Clerk the Shaw SUP
posititious Superior Civil Court. 1t WAS pre-
served with scrupulous fidelity by Wharton,
who probably did not know its contents. Last
Tuesday Maddox le!egraphed to Wharton to
send the latter TO No. III Fourteenth street,
Washington. 1t must be remarked that the
letter was sealed in an envelope, addressed to
Maddox. Wharton Immediately sent the pack
age in response 10 Maddox S telegram. On the
18th ult. Wells sent for Il. j. Barrett, mem
Der of the Legislature from Rapiles, and told
him he had determined to make statement 10
Gov. Nichols for the benefit Of the people Of
Louisiana, and suggested B. J. Kennedy as an
agent of communication with Gov. Nichols.
Barrett and Kennedy then had an interview
with Wells, and the latter reiterated bis desire.
He said that he wanted to make full state.
ment to Gov. Nichols, detailing the TACT that
he had taken 10 matters affecting the grayest
interests Of the people Of Louisiana, but that
before making the confession he would exact 4
pledge, that he would not be prosecuted; that
no harm would befal him; that he would be
protected in person and property: and, that his
confession would be accepted as such reparation
for whatever he might confess to have done
that he would retain his standing among his
fellowmeD; and, that, in short, he might be as
a citizen, as if nothing touching the matter I'm.
der consideration had been placed upon record.
An interview was arranged to take place at
Mr.. KeuDedy's rooms on Sunday, the I4th
Gov. Wells. however, sent note, saying that
be could not come, because he had to leave the
city, but would return in few days and ar.
range for another meeting. % that evening
Wells LET; for Washington. At this time Geo.
W. Carter, now in Washington, called on Gov.
Nichols at the requesthe said of Wells and ip-
formed the Governor that if any effort were
made to conciliate Wells, and q formal request
were made he (Wolls) would cause recanvass
and compilation of the votes, dwould change
all the results; that he had ample ground Tor
this in the testimony taken before the House
Committee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

GEN. HUNToN.-A communication in the
Washington Union says:
1t is not e1travsgant to say that very rcspec-
table fraction of the American people finds itself
compelled to accept, us HobsOn's choice, tho de-
vice By means of which our political troubles
are now in process of Adjustment but it is some
consolation to Virgnian 20 reszs that tho old
Commonwealth is not likely to sutfor through
any fault or failure Of her representative on the
Electoral Commission. General Hunton has
earned the confidence with which his colleagues
have so repeatedly honored him by consistent
advocacy of what he believed to be right by
industrious fidelity to his duties, and by clear,
fearless, manly common sense. His selection rs
q national referee in these parlous times is Ger.
tsinly most complimentary recognition Of the
place he has won in public opinion, and gives
assurance that, whatever disappointment may
await the section he represents, weshal at least
have no occasion to blush.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

Four weeks from to-day General Grant will
leave the White uousc. During the eight
years he has occupied it he has done more to
lower the honor and dignity Of the Office he
Ellis, and brought more discredlt upon repuo'l'
can Institutions than all his predecessors
whether Intentionally or not it is impossible Tor
US to say, but, not, his reputation for common
s.uso must suffer. The country experiences
great relief at the prospcc; OF his speedy retire
mcnt to private life. and one evidence OF that
relief Is manifested by the renewed hopcluness
of the prosperity OF the nation, and the cousc'
oucnt advance in value Of its paper currency.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05

The Comptroller of the Currency, IN order to
''be displayed as mucl. as possible, has done
what the President dared not debut tools
press 10 where angles fear TO tread-namely, to
'recogpize" Packard as Governor OF LOUISIANA
and for that purpose has addressed him letter
iuclosiug the draft Of bill providing tor the
collection and publication OF the reports oil
State banks, which he trusts nc will place IN
the hands OF some influential member OF the
Legislature Tor the purpose of having 1t enacted
as a State law. The Comptroller is as fond OF
notoriety as Madam Zulu, and as bold In seek
inc il, bat does ut possess even her merits.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05
/ EY 'i'rlcmrhnM.

new YORK, FEB. 0.--G0iI 100: !" l"o.. M.
ey 345 for call loans. Government ''':.T ~.
advancing.
BALTIMORE. Fcby. o.-VIrg!ni. -, deer.
Il; VIrginiaa. consoiidHled. G1s; 60. =! se?','
Cotton dull and weak; midd!ng T.. H..
dull; Howard street ana Western >i'..
IS IS; do Extra GaSG 80; do. Family az. ~. -.
City Mills Super 75sS5 -; do. E&;r.. "a; =
do. Rio brands 7osSS do. FANNY - voc.
quiet and easier; No. = Western W,At"' T.
1906 No. = Chicago Spring lioAl T.: f@h'"
l53sl51; Maryland rcd prime l1,'s!"o TO- 49,.
Der lGO; do. white lJOal5D. Corh--Ao"'"' J..
fairly active and firm; Western quc: and ., ,s 80
Southern white 5Gs57 DO. yellow 1I:"9. w.,
ern mixed spot 6G3a5G!; March 1S. APf'. !. .,
steamer 52aj2s Oats dull and a.cady >o.....'.' d.
primo Do; Western white 4lar i.Jn non''H
steady at 10a72. Clover Seed active AL ','
good to prime 10 2jsSlj ~ Hsy-@I"cn 49,.
and fairly active; other kinds dHlI Ms'i''...
and Penna prime l5aSl6 80. ProT@I"'- g..
and heavy. Pork SIT 20. Bacon--""., r.. .'.'
73a7ic; clear rib sides lOal0!c; h.in! '''.
Lard-reiined HALF. Butter dull and >: ~
Western good to prime DAD; Wr-!"F@ nae 49,
28 Coffee nominally steady; Rio caro- LIZ '..
Z0i ;jobbing 11!s22 Sugar actI:c ~! s'' .'
III. Whiskey dull 1T 81 OBJ.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-05
PUBLISHED DAILY AND RlWEEh Lf i
EDGAR SNOwDEN-
ALEXANDRIA, MONDAY. FEB. 5.

The Louisiana fraud is becoming more ana
more apparent as the day for the announce
ment OF the result of the Presidential election
approaches There is now attalnabe evidence
to prove that as late as the middle OF last
month the president OF The returning board OF
that State, dissatisfied with the treatment he
had received at the hands of his radical friends,
OF fearing just such developments as have been
made, determined to make clean breast OF
all he had done, and for that purpose had gone
50 far as to make an appointment with GOV.
Nichols, which he only failed to keep 10 con-
sequence Of telegram calling him to WASH
ipgtoD, where such Influences were emp1oscu
as were sufficient to induce him to change bis
mind with regard 10 his proposed contessloa'
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18
SMYRNA, DEL. WEDNESDAY, AFTERNOON JULY lS 1877.

of whatever may be the saving of an eXper-
iment at our risk, which breaks up long
established usage.
4. You disclaim any intention to "co-
cree" Your representatives and our COM
mittee state the contrary. You speak of
perhaps offering more inducements
another year. Shade of Motley, heard you
ever a word more misapplied? Does it not
afford a fit parallel to the sardonic Duke Of
Alba persuading your pet Dutchmen by
fire and sword to become good Catholics.
The rate as per ukasc (Ide letter. to
Boston is an advance of eleven dollars per
car. Your inducements next year may make
it $40, and SO persuade us to do as you
wish.
5. We will pass as you do.
TO conclude We present the following
list of grievances for redress
You discriminate against your natural
customers, the grower of the inland penin-
sula, by giving lower and special rates to
dwellers upon the water courses; also by
making rates disproportioned in every
sense to distance of transportation. You
permit las we hold you to the responsible
ty of dictatorship debouching our peaches
where you please) determinations in favor
Of watercarried peaches from Philadelphia
to interior points, allowing the speculatol
nearly 40 per cent. advantage over your
grower.
You have put the principal part Of youl
Delaware State tax upon the grower
You havo made him pay your lawyer
fees and legal expenses in defending your
company against the State suit decided il
the Supreme Court in 1873. You have
put upon him the costs of the suit, ant
damages rendered against you, for a viola
ton of your obligation as common
carrier, decided against you at Dover
1868.
At time whom you crush all opposition
TO reduction of your expenses, you charg
US at least equal rates for less service, an,
a positive advance over old rates to som
distant points. Do you expect men to b
inactive under all such circumstances?
living is to be ekcd out. Notes mature
, bonds and mortgages forcclose. Sir,
there is such a thing as a constitutional
destructive law possible, for the curbing {
railroads, and the Supreme Court has $
said, the course of your company is not
f little suggestive to men so imposed upon
we
Cow. FRHT. RATES PEACH Growers.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18
A HOUSEKEEPER'S TRAGEDY.

One day as wandered, heard a complaining,
And saw poor woman the picture of gloom;
She gared at the mud on her doorstep twas raining
And this was her wall as she welded the broom
Oh Life is a toll and love is a trouble,
And beauty will fade and riches will flee,
And pleasures they dwindle and prices they double,
And nothing is what could wish it to be.
There's too much of warrimcnt goes to o bonnet
There's too much of ironing goes to a shirt;
There's nothing that pays forhe time youwaste omit;
There's is nothing that lasts but trouble and dirt
In March it is mud; it's slush in December;
The midsummer breczcs arc loaded with dust:
In fall the leaves litter; in muggy September
The wallpaper rotS and the candlcsticks rust.
There are worms in the cherries, and slugs in the
roses,
And ants in the sugar, and mice in the pics
The rubbish of spiders no mortal suppsscs
And ravaging reaches and damaging flies.
It's sweeping at six and dustng at seven
It's victuals at eight and dishes at nine;
It's pOtting and panning from ten to eleven
We scarce break our fast till we plan how to dine.
With grease and with CRIME from corner to centre,
Forever at war and forever alert.
No rest for a day lest the enemy enter-
spend my whole life in a struggle with dirt.
Last night in my dream, was stationed forever
On little bare isle in the midst of the sea;
Ny one change of life, with q ceaseless endcavor
To sweep Off the waves they sweep over me.
Alas Twas no dream-again behold it.
yield; am helpless my fate TO avert"
She rolled down her sleeves her apron she folded;
Then lay down and died and was buried i'll dirt
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18

A new method for making looking,
glasses has been put in practice at St.
Louis. Mercury is not used. The details
of the method arc not wholly given to tho
public, but it is said that a solution con-
tanning nitrate of silver, copper, and some
other ingredients is noated over the glass,
and when the solution settles and dries-a
matter of few minutes-the work is COM
plete. Looking glasses made thus, with
photographs in them, have been exhibited
at st. Louis. The results of the new
process are said to be excellent, great clear.
ness of reflection being attained. The new
looking glasses will endure far moro heat
than ordinary ones, without injury.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18

PRESIDENTS DEGREEs.--A Boston cores
pondent says it is the custom of Harvard
College, and always has been, to give the
degree of LII. D. to any President who
will take the trouble to come to Cambridge
on commencement day--but it was
bestowed on Mr.. Hayes with more warmth
than on most of the Presidents since John
Quincy Adams. Gen. Jackson's doctorate
was a joke for years, and the college
avoided giving one to Andrew johnson.
Young Mr.. Hayes, who graduated from the
law school, is said to be youth of excel.
lent character and fair talents.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18

Married WOMEN AND BUILDING Ass0cIA-
TIoN LoANs.-The Supreme Court Of Penn
sylvania has rendered decision in the case
Of Wolbach and wife against the Lch;.h
Building Association. 1t declares that in
all cases where married women deal with
the associations the mortgage is good only
for the actual amount loaned and legal
interest. A logical consequence seems to
be that if the money loaned has not been
actually used to buy or improve her sep.
arate real estate, but has been used to raise
money to pay her husbands debts, or for
other purposes, it is void altogether.
This will, no doubt, seriously affect the
vast investments made by building associa.
tions on the credit of mortgages given by
married women, and will prove grave
matter for such associations. OF late years
it has been q very common practice for men
to hold their property in their wives names,
and, when dcsirous Of loan, to Join with
thev wies in the mortgage, contrary to the
law as ii now appears. The effect of this
decision will certainly be seen in litigation
consequent upon suits on mortgages given
by married women, and q total refusal by
tho associations to make future loans on
any terms.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18
Days Gone By in the South.

Old plantation days are passed away, for
ever. Ny principles now lead me to abhor
slavery and rejoice in its abolition Yet
sometimes in the midst of the heat and
toll of the struggle for eXistancc the
thought involuntarily steals over me that
we have seen better days. | think of the
wild rides after the fox and deer; the loll-
ing, the book, the delicious nap on the
balcony, in the summer house, or on the
rustic seat on the lawn; Of the long sit.
tlngs at meals, and the after-dinncr cigar; of
thepolished groups in easy but vivacious con-
versation in the parlor of the chivaric devo.
ton to beautiful women; of the pleasant
evening drives; of the visits to the planta-
ton, with its long, broad expansc of waving
green, dotted here and there with groups
OF industrious slaves; of the long rows of
negro cabins with little pickaninnes playing
about them of the old we'll with its beam
and pole for drawing, and Of the women
with pals of water on their heads; of the
wild old field airs ringing out from the
cabins at night; of the "Christmas gif',
Massa," breaking your slumbers on the
holiday morn; of the gay devices for fool.
ing the dignifed old darkies on the first OF
April; Of the faithful old nurse who
brought you through infancy, under whose
humble roof you delighted to partako of an
occasional meal; of the fattering, foot
scraping, clownish, knowing rascal to whom
you tossed silver piece when be brought
up your boots; of the little darkies who
scrambled for the rind after you had
eaten your watermelon on the piazza in the
afternoon-and, "As fond recollection pre-
sents them to view," 1 feel the intrusive
swelling of the tear of regret. And so it i:
with every Southerner; tears rise in hi,
heart and gather to his eyes as he think.
of the days that are no more. The South
erners of old used to be perhaps the hap
piest of men. There was nothing to dis
turb them, nothing to do, nothing the,
wished done that others were not at hanC
to do. Happiness was not only the
beings end and aim, but its enoymen
their one occupation. Now the cares o
life, the struggle for living, weigh then
down. 1t often strikes me, as l think o
the intense enjoyment of the olden time
that perhaps just as the strongest force il
physics is evolved from the greatest con
sumption of material SO il is ordaine,
in human affairs that the most exqusit
| haDDiOacq cboll ha foun1ad ~, Al - =. 49,
misery of others.-ANantic Monthly.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18

The Southern Presbyterian Assembly, at
its recent session in New Orleans, resolved
to prosecute with energy the scheme of
establishing a seminary for the education
of colored ministers, at Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The Reformed (Dutch) Church co-operates
with the Southern Presbyterian in this
work
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18

A Chicago paper says: "As an illustra-
ton of the hard times, we will state that
our rival over the way recently offered to
make his devil present Of the entire
establishment; but the boy declined, saying
he'd rather work for two dollars a week
than run in debt thousand dollars
year."
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18

GRANT MEETS AN OLD ENEMY.-A Con-
federate Colonel was introduced to Gen.
Grant at a reception in London. This
gentleman, having taken Grants hand, re-
marked: General, it is long time since
we met" "Havo l met you before?"
asked Grant, scrutinizing the Virginian's
face. "Yes,' was the reply, "and under
very different circumstances from these.
1t will be Is years on the Sd of July next"
Grants eyes ranged around the room, then
over the ceiling, and then they came back
Illuminated by memory, and he exclaimed:
Vicksburg!" "That was the place sir"
said the Colonel; son the nights met you,
and stood by Pcmberton when he sur
rendered"
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18

"Some confounded idiot has put the pen
where can't find it!" growled man tho
other day, as he searched about tho desk.
"Ah! UNI! thought so!' he exclaimed,
in lower key, as he took the article from
behind his ear.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18

A Northern tribe believe that Beelzebub
walks the earth in the form of woman.
And now and then you will find man in
this country who believes so too, and that
he has married that woman.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18

"Man thinks of the sorrow" observed
the lamented Bulwer Lytton, "woman of
the consolation" After domestic un-
pleasantness it is always she who does him
up in liniment or rubs him down in arnica.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-18

A GENUS IN OBscURITY.-Thc announce
ment that Yale College had conferred the
degree of A. N. upon Artemas Martin, of
Erie, Pa, set the qudnuncs of that town to
inquiring if such person really dwelt
there. Mr.. Martin was finally discovered
to be a market gardener living on farm
near the city Of Erie, through the streets of
which he sells vegetables twice a week.
Besides his occupation as a farmer it was
found that he was a regular contributor to
some Of the best known foreign and Ameri-
can educational publications-among them
the Educational Times Of London, England.
At his modest homo is valuable mathe-
matical library of several hundred volumes.
He is a bachelor Of - and sclf-cducatcd.