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Year: 1860

AN ACT amending the first and second sections
Of an act in relation to Licenses and Taxes OH
the same, passed 18th of May, 1857.


Be 1t e"acted Ly the city Council q Aisrandria,
That the first and second sections OF the above re-
cited act, be amended ana re-cnacted to read
as follows


SECTION |. That all licenses for carrying on
any business or profession for which license is
required by the Laws Of this Corporation shall ex-
pire on the first day of June, and that all such Ii
censes shall be obtained from the Mayor of the
City, who shall before granting the same, require
from every person firm applying therefor, GER
ticate from the Collector OF the Ward in which
such person or firm transacts business, setting
forth the amount of the tax en- such License, and
that the same has been paid to such Collector.


SEC. = 1t shall be the duty of the Clerk of the
Common Council Immediately on receiving the re-
turns of the Assessors for amy Ward to deliver to
the Collector Of Taxes for such Ward, bills for the
taxes or licenses to persons and firms trnnsactlng
business in such Ward, and the said Collectors
shall Immediately proceed to collect The same from
the person OF firms chargeable herewith for which
collection they shall be entitled TO and receive one
and half per cent. on the amount thereof. The
said Clerk shall also deliver to the Mayor list OF
the bills so delivered to him by the Collectors, and
should any such bill remain unpaid in the hands
of the Collectors for fifteen days after the first day





ported to the Mayor, who shall proceed against
the party or parties i'll default, in accordance
with the provisions of the third section of this act
SEC =. Aud be it further enacted, That any
person who shall carry on, or attempt TO carry on
any such business without first obtaining IL Ii
ccnse therefor. shall forfeit and pay double the
amount chargeable for license for such business
or profession One half OF which shall 80 the in
former, and the other half shall be for the use ot
the Corporation, which amount shall be recovera-
ble with costs, in the name of the City Council Of
Alexandria,


re- We call the attention Of License Tax Pay
erS to the above law, and We would respectfully
suggest, ~ we have so short time in which 10
call you will confer a favor by paying on demand,
aS we have to make our returns to the Mayor by
the 18th Of this month. WESLEY AVERY,


Collector Of lSt and 4th Wards.


JOHN A. FIELD,
ie S--dtd Collector OF 2nd and 3rd Wards.
Year: 1860

MoNuMENrs.-Tombs are the clothes of
the dead; grave is but a plain suit, and a
rich monument is one embroidered. Tombs
ought in some sort to be proportioned, not to
the wealth, but to the deserts of the party
Inferred. The shortest, plainest, and truest
epitaphs are the best When o passenger
sees chronicle written on tomb, he takes
it in trust some great man lies there, without
taking pains to examine who it is. | also
say the plainest, for, except the sense lie
above ground, few will trouble themselves
to dig for it. Lastly, it must be true, not
as in some monuments, where the red veins
in the marble may seem to blush at the
falsehood written On it. Ho was q witty
man who taught stone to speak, but he
was wicked man that taught it first to lie.


A good memory is the best monument;
others are subject to casualty and time; and
we know that the pyramids themselves.
dotting with age, have forgotten the power
of their founders Let us be careful to pro-
vide rest for our souls, and our bodies will
provide rest for themselves.-T Fuller.
Year: 1860

TOR.
We miss thee at the morning hour
When buds and orbs unclose,
And when the sunlight calls the foger
To waken from repose;
For, like the warbling of bird,


When early day-bsam fall,
Thy soft, sweet voice, was often heard
The brightest of us all.
We miss thee when we gather round
The social hearth ut night;
Where olden memories abound,


Or hopes where all unite,
In pleasant chat of years to come,
The years our fancies frame;
All Mon hast now another home,
Tho not another name.
And can it be My heart is gono


Far from the things of yore,
All, no methinks thou still must own
What was 80 dear before.
Thou wcpt to leave the old home, where
Thou had'st been loved SO long;
Dark was that eve, and damp the air,
F. Though gay the bridal throng.


r
But Memory has some brilliant coils
A few of them are ours
And in the tuircst Of thcn dwells
The dream of youthful hours.
The flower, the book, the window scat,
Will bring US to thy mind,
For in the world thou wilt not meet
What thou hast left behind.
Lovely and loved, the bridal star
1t was that sealed thy fate
Thou hast another home-but ali
Our own, how desolate
May we not wish thee back again,
Fen for the young ones sake
Alas such wishes would be vain,
Although the heart should break.
God keep and bless thee, loved one,
And crown thy life with peace and joy,
Bring us at last TO dwell with his own blessed son,
In that bright land where there is no alloy.
May 1860. X. Y. Z.
Year: 1860

One great secret of domestic enjoyment
has been too much overlooked-that of bring
ing our wants down to our circumstances.
instead of toiling to bring our circumstances
Up TO our wants,
Year: 1860

ACIDULoUs AND UNREMrrrING HUsBANps.-" II
is very good thing to have good husband, y
said Mrs. Partington, though the chance of
getting one is as uncertain a lottery ticket at
a religious fair Now there's Mr.. Bess who is in
Calforny is a husband worth having, for he was
always acidulous to please his wife when he was
at home and has been unremitting ever since he
went away. There's as much difference between
people. gracious me, as there is between any
body +"
Year: 1860

THERE is to be a desperate and determined
opposition 10 Gwn, even within the ranks of his
own wing of the party. Senator Latham, who,
IL was supposed, had been captured by the crafty
oid angler, is most bitterly opposed to him. and
isdJures his friends by their love for their party
oy their regard for the good name of California
nt Washington and their interest in its prosperity
az home TO spare no effort to prevent the re-elec
no non e OF one VINO has done so much to disgrace
The State abroad and damage her at home He
makes no pretensions of friendship for him. and
though Gwin sought by every means in his power
70 convey the idea here among Lathams friends
.hat they have been on the best of terms, vet the
junior Senator utterly repudiates any such afili
ation.-S. r. Times
Year: 1860

The unmarried woman, says an exchange,
who can read this without indignation, ought
to be married


Let every wife be persuaded that there are
two ways Of governing family. The first is
by the expression of that will which belongs
to force; the second to the power of miIdness,
to which every strength will yield. One is
the power of the husband; a wife should never
employ any other arms than those of gentle
ness. When a woman accustoms herself to say
"I win, !" she deserves to lose her empire.


Avoid contradicting your husband. When
we smell a rose it is to Undue the sweets of
odor; we look for everything amiable in woman
Whoever is often contradicted feels insensibly
an aversion for the person who contradicts,
which gains strength by time, and whatever
be her good qualities, is not easily destroyed.
Occupy yourself only with household affairs,
wait till your husband con6des to you those of
higher Importance, and do not read lectures to
and practice virtue yourself to make him
love it.


Command his attention by being always kind
TO him never exact anything, and you will
attain much; appear always fattered by the
little he does for you, which will excite him to
do more.


All men are vain; never wound his vanity,
not even in the most trifing instances A wife
may have more sense than her husband, but
she should never seem to know it.


When man gives wrong counsel, never feel
that he has done so, but lead him by degrees
to what is rational, with mildness and gentle
ness when he is convinced, leave him to the
merit of having found out what is just and
reasonable.


When a husband is out of temper, behave
obligingly to him if he is abusive, never re-
tort, and never prevail over him to humble
him.


Choose well your friends, have but few, and
be careful of following their advice in all mat
ters.


Cherish neatness without luxury, and pleas
ure without excess; dress with taste. particu-
larly with mOdesty; vary in the fashion of your
dress, especially as regards colors 1t gives a
change to the ideas, and recalls pleasing recol-
lections. Such things may appear trifing but
they have more Importance than is imagined


Never be curious to pry into your husband s
concerns, but obtain his confidence. Always
preserve economy, avoid being out of temper,
and be careful never to scold; by this means he
will find his house pleasanter than any other


Seem always to obtain information from
him, especially before company, though you
may pass yourself for a simpleton.
Never forget that wife owes all her import
anee to that of her husband. Leave him en-
tirely master of his own actions, to 20 or come
whenever he thinks fit. A wife ought TO make
her company amiable to her husband, that be
will not be able to exist without it. then he will
not seek for pleasure abroad, if she does not
partake of it with him.
Year: 1860

INCREASE OF Tolls ON THE CHESAPEAKE AMI
OHIO CANAL.-The Cumberland Civilian says
Upon the most reliable authority, we an
nOunce that the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is
now in good navigable condition its entire
length. that there is a large force engaged
upon Dam No. 4, and that the gap on the Vir-
ginia side will be entirely closed up in eight
or ten days, and the dam finished at the time
contracted. The new Board Of Directors took
possession of the canal on the first of May


shortly thereafter the Board of Public Works
suggested to them the propriety Of raising the
tolls which the canal directors promptly re-
fused to do. The Board Of Directors are tc
meet again on the 18th of August, at Berkeley
Springs. On the 18th Of August the Board OF
Public Works are to meet at the same place


We have understood that the Board Of Public
Works have determined that the tolls shall be
raised, and rumor has it that four members of
said board have signed a written agreement to
insist upon this policy and if the direct tors
shall refuse, to turn them out and to appoint
others in their place. 1t is also stated that the
said Board of Public Works have, in a written
communication, informed the Directors of the
Canal, that they will take the responsibility
as the guardians Of the interest of the State,
and that the tolls must be raised at their next
meeting. The object Of their raising the toll
is to turn the coal trade to the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. We learn that paper is going
the TO unds receiving the signatures of leading
citizens, making call for public meeting to
be held in this city on the 10th of August, for
the purpose of taking into consideration mea-
sures to prevent an increase Of tolls upon the
canal. This call has our hearty concurrence,
and We hope the meeting will be an imposing
one, and will adopt such measures as will tend
to impress the Canal Directors and the Board
of Public Works with the fatal and ruinous
effect that will follow such an ill advised policy
as that of the raising of toll on the canal.
Year: 1860

SELLING OFF


- AT COST!


In order to decrease my stock have determined
TO close out the balance of nv SUMNER CLOTH
ING at cost All in want of Summer Clothing are
respectfully invited to call at No. $50 Seventh St,
opposite Post Office, and see the great reduction in
Summer Clothing. jy l2-Im
Year: 1860

REV. HENRY GRATTAN GUINNEss.-Says the Pitts
burg Despatch The Rev. Henry Grattan GUM
ness breaches every evening this week at the First
Presbyterian Church. Opinion is divided as to his
merits as pulpit orator. Our own opinion is that
he aims at no rhetorical effects, is deeply impressed
with the importance of his mission, and is thor
oughy in earnest in everything he says. He has
singulary musical and effective voice, and great
deal of action, which is the result of the intense
feeling which he manifests while expounGing the
truth. He is by no means a deep, but rather an
earnest thinker and not at all original His power
lies in his earnestness.
Year: 1860

AN INSANE MAN AND WIFE ON A JoURNEY.-O On
Friday last, Barney Mcmahon, with his wife and
two children, arrived at Buffalo from the West.
The man and woman exhibited unmiStakable symp-
toms of insanity. The man placed in the In
sane Asylum, and the woman and her two children
in the Poor House. On the way out the woman
handed her husband about SO in change, which he
threw away. She afterwards handed him razor.
In the course of the night he nearly tore his throat
to pieces with piece of sheet iron, and his wife
jumped out of thirdstory window of the Poor
HouSe in the morning
Year: 1860

RECEIPTS OF CoTToN.-The receipts of cotton at
Southern ports are falling off, usual at this
son, but still they keep in advance of the cores
pOnding receipts of last year. The total receipts,
up to the day Of sailing of the last Cunard steamer,
l27 900 bales, against 1870 900 to same date
last year, and 1854 900 to date of 1858. The
cotton which remains behind is generally poor in
quality and full of dirt that it is being shipped
at merely nominal prices Many planters are will
ing TO accept advance of three cents pound;
but the advices from Liverpool are that they have
already received more dirt than is wanted in that
market. The carelessness with which much Of the
cotton was picked last season is doing great
deal of injury to the trade and the planting in
Year: 1860

We recently heard remarkable and
touching story of a little boy. the son OF
a gentleman in an adjoining county.
HIS age is twelve or thirteen. He is an
interesting, promising lad One day
during the past winter he failed to rise
in the morning as early as usual At
length bis father went into the room
where he lay, and asked him why he did
not get up? He said it seemed dark
yet, and he was waiting for daylight.
His father retired, but the boy did not
make his appearance for some time he
returned and said second time, NY
son, why don't YOU get up % He re-
piled, +" Father, is it daylight ," /" Yes,
long ago." Then, father" the little
fellow said, 81 am blind" And so it
was. His sight was gone.


In short time his father took him to
Nashville, to get the benefit of the medi
cal profession there. but none of the ply
scians could do anything for him, and
happily made no experiment on his eyes.
Some ladies in family of his fathers
acquaintance sought to cheer him in his
atillction, and one night proposed to take
him to the opera that he might hear the
music and singing. He went, and was
delighted. In the course OF the perfor-
nance, all at once he leaped up, threw
his arms around his fathers neck, and
screamed with extacy. "Oh father, |
can see l can see ?" His sight had
instantly returned. And since then he
has retained it in full vigor, except that
under excitement there is sometimes a
transient dimness of vision The case
is one of remarkable and singular char
acter.- Presbyterian.
Year: 1860

The following beautiful poem, by Robert
Southwell, who was born in 1860 and executed
at Tyburn in 595, is, in compactness of thought
and felicity of expression, hardly equalled by
any similar production within our knowledge
1t is perfect mosaic of maxims, and, with
very slight alteration, would bear cutting W
into lines, every one of which would serve as
an apothegm =


The Topped tree in time may grow again


Most naked plants renew both fruit and flow
The sorriest wight may find release from pain
The driest soil suck in the moist ming show
Times go by turns, and chances change by


course,


From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.
The Sea of Fortune doth not ever flow


She draws her favors to the lowest ebb
Her tides have equal times to come and go;


Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest


web;


No Joy so great but runneth to an end,
No hap so hard but may in time amend.
Not always full of leaf, nor ever Spring;


No endless night, nor yet eternal day
The saddest birds a reason find to sing


The roughest storm calm may soon allay.
Thus with succeeding terms God tempereth all
That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.
A chance may win that by mischance was lost
The net that holds not great, takes little fish
In some things all, in all things none are cross


ed
Few all things need, but none have all they


wish.


Unmingled joys here to no man befal -
Who least, hath some who most, hath never


all
Year: 1860

The great principle that undelles the
organization OF the Republican party is
violent, irreconeiIable eternal warfare
upon the institution of American Slavery,
with a view TO lis ultimate extinction
throughout the land. Sir, confess the
object of the legislation l contemplate is
to PUT DOWN this outside interfer
enee Il IS 10 rePress tie " hrePressiNs
coaRict'


SO said Senator Douglas last winter,
when pleading in the United States Sen
ate for his sedition law So far from re-
pressing the irrepressible conflict. how
ever, it broke out in his own party, and
repressed him Chicago Jour.
Year: 1860

DIFFERENT MopEs oF SALurArtoN.- -
OF all the different modes of saIu-
tation in various countries, ! think
there " none so graceful an that
which prevails here. AZ New
Guinea The fashion is certainly pic
turcsque, tor they place upon their
hands the leaves of trees AZ sym
bols Of peace aud friendship. An
Ethiopian takes the robe Of another
aud ties IL about his own waist,
leaving his friend partially naked.
Sometimes IL Is usual for persons
TO place themselves naked before
those whom they salute as n sign
Of humility. This custom was put
in practice before Sir Joseph Banks
when he received the visit Of the
two 0iaheitan females. The in.
habitants Of the Phillips pine Is
lands take The hand or foot Of him
they salute, and gently rub their
face with il, which is, at all events
more agreeable than the salute of
the baplandcrs, who have habit
Of rubbing noscs applying their
own probosois with some degree
Of force 10 that Of the person they
desire to salute. The salute with
which you are greeted in Syria is
at once most graceful and fatter
ing the hand is raised with a
quick but graceful motion to the
heart, to the lips and TO the head,
to intimate that the person so salu.
ting is willing to serve you, to
think for you, to speak for you, and
to act for you.
Year: 1860

~ Il is beautiful saying Of
somebody that, "Gratitude is the mu.
sic Of the heart when its chords are
swept by the gentle breeze of kind.
ness" Many Learts, however, might
as we'll be strung with bed-cords for
any music of gratitude that ever
comes from them.
Year: 1860

MORE Destructive FrRGs-By some acci-
dent, on Wednesday evening last, says the
Independent, the dry grass and chapparel on
the southwest slope Of Bear Mountain took
FIRE. The flames soon spread to the summit
and down among the fine old oaks, fallen
timber and dry vegetation lining the north
eastern side of the mountain, which at night
fall was all ablaze. BY nine o'clock the
scene as viewed from San Andreas was strange
and imposing. The fire extended along the
steep slope for three or four miles-its line
assuming the most fantastic shapes, the dark
ness of the moonless night making the vol.
ume of heated smoke and flame show with
intense brightness. The grass must have
been all consumed, thus destroying several
thousand acres of fair pasture, and doubtless
a good deal of valuable timber.
Year: 1860

News from Oregon state than an express
had come into the Dalles from Major Steen's
command, and reported skirmsh with the
Indians, in which some five of the savages
were made TO bite the dust.
Year: 1860

The Republican journals, from the 5. F.
Timea to the Marysyi!|e Appeal, have been
charging upon the supporters of Douglas and
johnson, that in the fight which they are
now making for the maintainance of the
Union and the principles upon which the
Uuien was established, they are ignoring the
question of the morality of slavery. Than
this charge better argument for the deyo-
tiou of the supporters Of Douglas to the
principles of the Constitution could hardly be
found BY the Constitution itself this ques-
ton is ignored.


Not one word is to be found in that iustru
meut upon the morality of slavery. The
trainers Of the Constitution left the question
where it rightfully belongs, to the judgment
and conscience of those who as Shareholders
AMI citizens Of slayeholding States, were and
are directly, and under our system of
government, alone interested in it.


The subject was not passed over ipadvert-
emily The immortality Of slavery was urged
as powerfully, but perhaps more honestly and
intellgently, in the Convention which framed
the Constitution as it has been since present
ed. 1t was then solemnly and deliberately
agreed and determined that all questions
arising, whether upon the policy or morality
Of slavery should be left for solution to the
several States in the exercise of their soyer.
eighty


The power thus left in the citizens of the
States accompanies them wherever the Con-
stitution extends whether in State or Terri
tory. Upon such solemn compact, there
arises another question of morality higher by
far than any that can be raised upon any
subject determined in it. We mean that
principle of faith and honor which requires
men to abide by their solemnly pledged
agreements. 1t is the very foundation of all
governments and q violation of it is revolu-
ton. But the abstract, naked question OF
slavery-the question whether man has a
right to enslave another because he is able to
do so-has no practical application to any
condition Of things existing in the country
The presentation of it and the arguments
upon it 10y the Republicans is unwise, dan
gerous to the country, and, as experience has
abundantly demonstrated even destructive o.
the very object they propose to accomplish
The eloquent Trades Of Sumner have theil
inevitable results in the bolder but not more
wicked raids of John Brown.


The advocacy and application of principle
and sentiments to the production of sucl
direful effects we consider sinful, and with
out presuming to question the honesty, We
confess ourselves unable to understand tn,
morality of those who advocate them.
Year: 1860

IN CAMPO SEoo.-A few nights since a
Breekinridge meeting took place in Campo
Seeo' Calaveras county. Ex,Judge Terry
was present, but instead of being called upon
to speak he was kept silent by three groans
from he assembly.
Year: 1860

MORE DIGGINGs IN OREGoN.-A CORES.
pondent of the British Colonist writing from
the Rock Creek mines in Oregon, saws that
new and rich diggings have been discoved on
creek which lies Immediately on the road
leading from Fort Hope, and which was
travelled over recently by the Boundary
Survey. Mr. Meigs. citizen of the Dalles
came in, recently, bringing with him about
fifty ounces of dust. and returned immediate.
ly with large stock of goods and provisions.
Price, Miller Il Co. are about TO remove all
their goods at Dalles and Fort Colville to
Rock Creek, as business has become so extern
slve at the latter place as to warrant them in
so doing. Small trains are daily leaving the
Dalles for the mines, and all reports speak
favorably of the prospect.