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The Democrat. E. R. RIOSSIT,..............EDITOR OFFICE--CORNER OF SECOND & JACKSON STS. Official Journal of the Parish Our Agents. Thomas McTntyre,.......New Orleans J. Curtis Waldo,......... " " S. M. Pettengill & Co.,.....New York Gen. P. Rowell & Co.,..... " Rowell & Chesman,.....St. Louis, Mo ALEXANDRIA, LA. Wednesday, - - August 15, 1877. ITUITUITIOU W.1 A"TE D A S GOVERNESS IN A PRIVATE FAMILY BY A LADY WELL QUALIFIED by LONG EXPERI ENCE. APPLY AT TIITS OFFICE. Improvements. Building and repairing are the or der of the day in Alexandria, and at present every carpenter of the Town is busily employed. William Rexer has already built one wing of Colonel McGinnis' large and new Stable, and has torn down the old one, fronting on Jackson Street, at once to be re placed by a two-story one, fifty feet wide and seventy feet deep. When completed this will be the largest and most commodious Stable ever built in Alexandria. We note also that Julius Levin, the live, go ahead man of onr Town, has launched his energies also in the Livery Stable line, has contracted with Joseph Bouillotte to build him, on the old Anna Washington lot, a two story stable, 50 by 60 feet, to be complete in all its fixtures, and that the frame of this building will be ready for raising at the end of this week. As these works go on, our old neighbor of the Second Ward, David Lehman, is having built, by carpen ters from Pineville, a fine and sub stantial frame dwel ing. It is situa ted on the Synagogue Square, be tween it and Mr. Lehman's Store, and when completed will be one of the most desirable tenemants in the Second Ward. -TnHE Board of School Directors held their regular meeting on Tues day the 7th, and selected the school teachers for the next session com mencing the 1st of September. We have not been furnished with a list thereof, but from rumor learn that for the Alexandria Schools the fol lowing have been appointed, Jas. R. Waters and Mrs. Canfield for the white boys and girls, Mrs. Grayson for the colored girls, and A. J. Grin stead, colored, for the colored boys. In Pineville John L. Walker, Mrs. Armstrong, and H. J. Wright, col ored, have been retained. -MONDAY now-a-days is truly blue Monday to us in the way of news. Our big mail, the most impor tant one to us, for the past fourteen weeks twineth regularly with the woodbines 48 hours at the mouth, and to add to our blues, our Bart. Able twineth with the Algiers wood bines, and her substitute though a good one, can't reach here before night. Thus our usually lively Mon day has been turned to one of tor tures, watching for mails and boats to drive us back to contentment. -EDWARD REED, the unfortunate young negro man, who has been con victed of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged, is yet lingering in our Parish Jail, await ing the pleasure of the Governor in his case. It is now more than three months since this conviction, and yet Governor Nicholls, on his own say so, has notyet made up his mind in the case. -Two more feet of a decline, and old Red will be at its lowest water mark. Both Falls are now visible hauling over them is now the order of the day, and fo.r feet scant now marks the heave of the lead on the bar below Town. Freights as yet, remain at card rates, but from pres ent indications the doubling process may be looked for very soon. -TaB first bale of this year's cot tox was taken down on the Texas on her last trip. Like the first bale of last year it came from the place of Charlie Pearson on Cane River. -Tnz cotton in many places is opening tolerably lively, and by the commencement of next week there will be fair picking for the trash -Tas Board of School Directors propose improving the two Public School-bouses, and have an adver tisement in to-day's DEMocAT ask ing for proposals. -No rain all of the past week- days yet tolerably hot, but the i inlhts are roow cool and pleasant, . THE SOUTHERN STATES. Now that the control of the South ern States is in the hands of their own people, white and black, it is for them to define their position with respect to the States North and West. The conditions are all favorable for the South to regain her lost prestige, and if she does not shortly retrieve her fallen fortunes and exert her ante bellum influence in National af fairs it will be the fault of her peo ple. Like the great West we depend almost entirely upon agricultural pursuits for our wealth, while we have substantial advantages of soil and climate. Our labor with proper management can be made much supe rior to that of the West, and is adap ted by nature to the work we have to do. With the Northern and Eastern States and their mines and manufac tories, we can have no other rivalry than that of the profits of separate industries and of intellect. We can now start pretty nearly equal financially with both the other sections, putting the value of our rich and inexhausible lands as a set off to the bonds held by the Eastern capitalists, and in a few years with prudence, energy and economy we will find ourselves able to buy bonds as well as they. Indeed, our surplus cash which we were wont to spend for ne roes and more land, will most probably he invested in that way, af ter all necessary and profitable im provements have been made at home. The first and most important step in that direction is to keep the money we make at home by patronizing home industries of every kind. It is the solemn duty of every Southern man to buy at the South everything he can and to get from the North on ly those things that are not to be had in the South. There are in ope ration already enough unanufactories to supply the Southern demand for cotton factories, and we are rapidly increasing our facilities for working woolen goods. Every dollar spent at home for these and other things made in the South is so much to I wards building up our resources and will prove a profitable investment in the end, while a dollar spent in the North helps it at our expense. Another source of revenue to the North in former times was the mon ey spent by the people of the South traveling North in the Summer. We have at home comfortable summer rescrts which should be patronized by the Southern people, and we are glad to see among the lists published that the Virginia Springs, Point Clear and other Southern places are figuring prominently. It is true that imany Northern people come South in the Winter and spend their money with us. We are glad to have them do so, but that is only giving us a little of their surplus cash, while we take from our substance to go North. After awhile it may be that we can afford to spend our spare cash as we please, but until the South is again what she was we can't afford to do it. Of late years the North has made rapid progress in educational facili ties and many of the States have al most perfect systems of public edu cation. We have spent and are pay ing now more for that purpose than they, but the results with us have been far from satisfactomy, and this is a matter in which we must not be surpassed by the North. Money will do for some things and money exerts a powerful influence in -the world, but the motive power of gov ernment, the force that controls all things and makes even money sub servient to itself, is intellect. Mon ey is good but brains are better. We used to have both the money andi brains, and while the misfortunes we have had is a more than sufficient excuse for our want of the former, nothing short of demagoguery could account for any falling ott of the lat ter. We are proud t3 say that so far from there being any noticeable deficiency of intellect in the South, our public men are sustaining our reputation. We have no fears for the present and only desire to give a warning for the future. Thegenera tion of Southern boys now going to school ought to know and to feel that they are working not only for themselves but for their native South, and this thought ought to urge them to make the best use of their time. The South can and ought to be a power in the land, and the prospect is encouraging that a few years will find her with a power ful voice in the affairs of the government. -OLD John, the good old colored Patriarch of the Baptist Church, was out in tolerable force with his faithful ones on Sunday, and had a dip! Some of the bad ones here as sert that he was out of time, and turned out in opposition to the Methodist Camp Meeting, which war raging across the river. We hardly believe this, but surmise that old John, like some other corporate body, had a called meeting forced on him, hence the excuse of his being out of time and with a small -.tlendant'e. THE CORPORATION." Many comments lately have been hurled at the present Town Council for some laxity in their affairs, and not beig equal to any of the previous Councils of our Town, and whilst we don't agree with most of these com plainers, still we don't feel specially called upon to defend them, for this is a courtesy the majority can't this hot weather expect of us. Our cor respondent again hauls them over the coals, and if that majority need a defence we will accord it to them to their hearts' contents in our columns, and have only to add here that the members of the Fifth and Second Wards are in no way to blame for these statements of looseness and mismanagement, and would gladly stop all these little indiscretions if they had one more vote in the Coun cil. This much we feel forced to state, and will now pile on the figures to show that it will be impossible, without a radical change, and that at once, to meet the 1st of October with a clean record, as the new law requires. In round figures up to the 1st of August 1877, the Corporation owes at this time ..............$850 00 Constable's Salary and percen tage for August and Septem ber ................$200 00 Mayor's Salary .............. 100 00 Secretary's Salary.......... 25 00 Custodians Fire Companies.... 50 00 Hose Carriage ................ 95 00 $1320 00 Probable income for August and September: Whlarfages ...................$100 00 Rents .................. 138 00 Bridge Tax................... 50 00 ,icenses .. ............ ... 150 00 Real Estate Tax.............. 500 00 $938 00 So here it will be perceived and figured, without spending a dollar in work on the streets and bridges, there is a clear deficit of three hun dred and eighty-two dollars. Should not these figures, which we have long been throwing up to the Council, cause them to pause and reflect, and now acknowledge the patent fact that the majority have managed "loose ly," counted their dimes before they were in hand, and are in a financial muddle really hard to bear. Again, not only useless work has been done, and too high prices paid for it, but it has been done all in two Wards, entirely ignoring the existence of the 1st, 2nd and 5th Wards of the Town. And certainly this majority should know that September is the real month for work on the streets, and that it must be done in the slighted Wards in this month, and that it is expected and must be done. But again looms up the fact, where is the money to come from to pay for this work? This, as an Editor, we can't exactly answer, but as the member f om the classic Second, we assert that it must be put in fix for early Fall, and our constituency urge it, demand it, and we shall be their humble, but earnest instrument in seeing that it is done. Our advice to the Councilmen, is to at once meet, meet in the true spirit of concord and amenity, let past by-gones be forgotten, accord to o:ie and all, good and proper mo tives and let us strive to put the old Corporation, where she has always stood on a par basis, until the un fortunate "loose" and careless and extravagarnt management of the pre. sent majority has near foundered the good old ship. Do this, gentlemen of the Board, do it with the guid unce of your worthy and well mean ing Mayor, and the word of your old est member for it, matters can be righted and the Corporation will be financially afloat on the 1st of Octo ber next. -THAT fine, though extravagantly paid for Town belfry, was completed last week by Jack Goulden, the pain ter, and now shows for itself. No fault whatever, can be found with it in All respects, save and except the prices charged for the work, and that charge don't stand against the pain ter. His job is an excellent one, ex ecuted in good taste, and he wasjust allowed half enough for his work. The painters seemed to have been singled out as the victims of this Corporation job, but here in Alexan dria we have good and true ones, and they seem willing to bear this slight. All Jack Goulden asks is a fair and paying chance, and he will insure all work entrusted to him. -WE were mistaken in our last issue, in announcing that we had a Telephone in the Second Ward. The occupants of private houses, ag grieved by the public grinding of this machine, have taken us to task, and bitterly complain and declare, that we have given it a misnomer and suggest the more (as they say) appropriate one of "Gallery Saw Mill". If the name be suggestive of the queer nohe and screeching con fusion given out, we most congratu. late our neighbors in the fitness of the name. If the engineer must grind in the name of Euterpe, let him grind in private. -SHERIFF Robinson conveyed J. B. McCoy to Baton Rouge, on the last. trip of the Texas. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, LA.,4 August 11, 1877. DEAR DEMOCRAT I see by your last that you are complaining of hot days and nights in Town, and I am not disposed to doubt the veracity of your statement. It brings out the "natural cussed ness&' of a fellow's character just to think how hot you all are and how cool we are out here in the pine woods. We have warm days, it is true, but our nights are delightfully cool after bed time, and even dtring the hottest time of our days we enjoy a cool and refreshing breeze that robs August of all terrors and makes us bless the pinewoods. THE B'HOYS. A large delegation of the boys from Town came out on Tuesday last, and they have enlivened us up considerably. As they will perhaps not be bashful at seeing their names in print, and as they have been on their good behavior so far, I put them down in my list of distinguish ed visitors to this fashionable resort, and here they are: Rev. M. Klein, Dr. J. Geiger, Prof. Hess, Colonel Crawly, Hon. Jonas Rosenthal, Major General Henry Heyman alias Wolf, of the Bashi Bazouks, and Judge Ja cob Well. They are staying with Mr. Bethel, at Capt. Welch's place across the Creek, and have up to this time had a gay time. Dr. Geiger cnught 16 trout before breakfast yes terday and didn't half try. Judge Well went fishing for Rev. Mr. Klein and caught him in the finger. He landed his fish but the fish objected to being fingered so roughly and de klein-ed to be caught any more. General Heyman, of the Bashi Ba zouks, went foraging and got lost. I found him standing on the bridge across the Creek and he didn't know which end of the road carried him home. I was over to dine with them yesterday and had a very fine dinner -judging by the price I paid for it. I was trying to learn how to play a little game the boys call "Jack pot," the principal feature of which is that the more you put up the less you take up. "A little learning" will go a long ways with me and I don't think I care to know how to play Jack-pot any way. We had a gay ride over to the Springs in an ox cart with the Bashi Bazouk as dri ver. Before I take any more such pleasure rides I'll have my life in sured for $10.000. CLEAR CREEK FISHING. Our genial Tax Collector, District Attorney, Mr. Charles AI. Flower and Mr. McBridge came out on Thursday and brought tidings of the fishing in Clear Creek which makes that Creek a formidable rival of Big and Trout Creeks. They found Dr. Fish and Mr. Fred Seip just return ing to their camp on Big Creek from a trip over to Clear Creek, and they tell me thant they had so many trout in their buggy that they had to ride with their feet banging outside. That's a whopper, but as I have the word of the Tax Collector for it, and Tax Collectors and Lawyers always tell the truth, I am b-, und to believe it. Dr. Fish he says had caught twenty odd, and they both together had forty odd fine trout. I had just caught nineteen trout at one sitting, and fifteen of them out of one hole without moving, and I thought that was pretty good fishing. I have got a photograph of mine and have that advantge over them. I can show the counterfeit presentment of my nineteen trout and I had them scien tifically arranged so that I can add to numbers and size to suit the ne cessity of beating anybody el e's Fish story; and now that I come to think about it I believe that there were twenty-eight trout on my string. One of them I think would have weighed seven pounds if I had weighed it, but as I did not I am willing to allow a pound, and I won't claim over six pounds. I wouldn't lie for one pound anyhow. They told me also of another big crowd which had just got to Big Creek as they had finished their fish dinner with Dr. Fish and Maj. Seip, and I am glad to see that while they quarrel with your correspondent for saying there are no large trout be low the bridge, they are all camping aBhove the bridge-but I had forgot ten that I had taken all that back. A LITTLE TRICK. Our handsome and jovial Collec tor of Taxes is tile owner of a trick box which has afforded us considera ble amusement. As I was walking down to the Spring yesterday after noon I met a procession of eight of the boys each with a bottle under his arm and enquired the meaning of it. It meant that they had just won a gallon of the ardent on their "little trick." He generally refuses to win anything more valuable, though the victims frequently want to bet any amount. It is a little thing, but it beats the "heathen Chinee" all hol low. It consists of a pile of nickels, two dice and a tin can about the length of the finger, with a small hole in the top. Hie piles the nick els, puts a die with the one on top, and then covers the whole with the tin case. He goes to get a straw and while he is gone his confederate removes the die and puts the box in its place. He returns with a straw and proposes to turn it around three times through the lid and turn up the six spot. The bystanders have seen the die taken out, and they bite like a big trout at a live perch. When he takes the cover off, the die is not only there, but the six spot is turned up. I don't know anything more about it, but it is the best trick I ever saw. HUNTING AND FISHING. We are now having all the sport we could wish in both hunting and fishing. The deer are plentiful and since the first of the month we have had venison added to our market. Indeed they are so thick that I did hear of one which a party was after that ran against a tree and broke his neck. Our former Parish Judge was one of the party, and of course I can not doubt it, but as it was on the 31st of July, perhaps there was some thing peculiar about the day that made the deer behave so singularly at that particular time. The fishing in Trout Creek is now as good as the most fastidious could wish. I saw a man stand at one place and catch seventy-eight out of one hole, just as fast as he could pos sibly bait his hook and pull them out. They were biting just as well when his bait gave out as they were when he commenced. Seventy-eight perch and seven trout on one string was a pretty lot of fish, and I thought what a treat they would be to you if you could have had them sent to you by telegraph all fluttering as they were. However, if I sent them by the Merchants' U. T. line they wouldn't have fluttered much by the time you get them. I am too mod est to tell you the name of the fisher man, and leave that for you to guess We are right now at the height of the season for this year as to compa ny, though the fishing will probably be still better after a while Yours truly, TOBIAS. A FEW DOZEN OLD RYE SEVEN YEARS OLD-ParcE $1.50 PER BOTTLE. FOR SALE BY HENRY ST. JOHN. EXTRA MAIL SERVICE.-The Post Office Departmeirt has awarded to the Pool Line a weekly mail service by river, from New Orleans to Shreveport, supplying all the way river offices. It will commence on next Wednesday, thus giving us four mails a week. This is the service that Captain Sinnott tried hard to get for us more than four months since, and left petitions here for sig nature, but received no encourage ment. It could not be beaten out of the thick skulls of our too knowing ones, that this extra service would interfere with the land route, hence they refused to affix their signatures. Well, we have it now anyhow, and like Captain Sinnott argued it will add to our mail facilities, instead of injuring them. We hope now that these smarties will dry up, and score one more for the indefatigable com mander of the Bart. Able. "HOPE DEFERRED MAKES THE HEART SiCK."-Who among us of adult life does not know it? We see the evidence every day; not confined to city, town or village life, but on the plains, savannahs and pasture lands of the country. Anxious faces meet us on the inland water routes, in the cars, on legislative floors and in the busy hives of industry. We hear the sigh, note the sallowness, see the restlessness, and observe the languor of the dyspeptic. If you wish to avoid the evils which indi gestion brings, and hope to become like a tree of life, use the celebrated HoME STOIACH BITTERS. -THE river news reporter of the Daily City Item, of New Orleans, says that the Onachita Belle, when the season opens, will be placed as a regular Tuesday packet between New Orleans and Grand Ecore. But the reporter fails to state the very thing we should like to know, that is, who is to place her in this trade. The Ouachita Belle is a fine side-wheel steamboat, and would be a fine con sort to our Bart. Able, but again we want to be posted under what colors she is to sail. -THE colored Methodists of the Parish and Town have been luxuria ting under the blissful influences of a glorious, old time Camp Meeting, just over the way in the cool hills of the Pinewoods. We are glad to note that it has been a satisfactory and prolonged revival, and the faithful expect much spiritual good to flow from it. -THE finest, largest and juicest peaches we have seen this year, were presented to us by our vis a-vie mer. chant, V. Girard, and they were grown from a volunteer tree in his yard. DEATH OF HENRY L. iADAZ. FROM a short item in a late New Orleans Times we regret to learn of the death of Henry L. Radaz, of San Antonio, Texas, in the 52d year of his age. The deceased was a native of this Town, and descended of par ents who were the earliest pioneers to this Town. His parents emigrat ed here from France in 1817 and re sided here till 1849, whence they moved to San Antonio, Texas. The decessed was a good, upright and correct man, one of the best "raised boys" of old Alexandria, and in his new home, now his last resting place on earth, acted always so well and honestly, as to cast no blur on his family escutcheon. In all the attri butes, which go to, make up a man, he was as near right and perfect as falls to the ordinary lot of man. We knew him, we knew him well, we knew him from his infancy and can truthfully assert that he was always a good, kind hearted, considerate boy, and died a good, honest man, loving husband, and doting father, and we pay him thb last, feeble, just tribute with a heart lacerated by the remembrance of our good days to gether, and hope the great Ruler above has forgiven him as we feel he merits it. Since writing the above we have received the San Antonio Herald, of the 2nd inst., and find the following tribute to the memory of our deceas ed friend and kinsman: One by ope thie oldest and most be loved citizens pass from the stage of action. Suddenly, and to the aston ishment of the whole community, came the announcement of the death of Henry L. Radaz, a man in the vigor of life, and whose age and robust ap pearance indicated many years yet in store for him of unalloyed enjoyment. Henry L. Radaz was born at .Mlexan dria, La., April 29, 1825, and came to San Antonio May, 1849. Ever engaged actively in the duties of good citizen ship; he was Postmaster of San Anto nio from 1858 to 1861, and Deputy District Clerk from 1874 to the day of his death. As in the social circle, gen erally so in the inner and domestic circle, his relations were of the happi est. Though he has not lived to be pressed beneath the weight of years, with silvered locks and tottering step yielding as the matured schock to the scythe of time, though taken in the robust stature of manhood, and mov ing with elastic and buoyant step among us, yet his example will not be lost to us. His devotion to business, his great amenity of manner, the fidel ity with which lie discharged the varied and onerous duties of the many important offices he held, will always commend his memory to his many friends and acquaintances, and will be trensured 1w them. His funercal services were held at the C(athedral of San Fernando this morn ing at 9 o'clock, and from thencs the funeral cortege, which was very long, and composed of the best citizens of San Antonio, moved to the C itholic Cemetery, where his remains were committed to the grave. -A literary geunleman wis ping to be undisturbed one day, instructed his Irish servant to admit no one, and if any should inquire for himn to give hit, aIn equlivocal answer. Nighit camine, aind the gentleman proceeded to inteiro gate Pat as to his visitors. "Did any one call?" "Yes, sir, wan gentleman." "What did he say?" "LHe axed was yer honor in." "Well, what did you tell him?" "Sure I gave him a quivi kle answer, jist." "How was that?" "I axed him was his grand-mother a monkeyV"-[Exchange. -FRox a French paper: A young wife lost her aged husband a few months ago, after hie had lain helpless with paralysis for eight mruontns. Yes terday she appeared at the Mairie to announce her intention of marrying her cousin. "I beg your pardon, mad ame," says the clerk, "but the law is peremptory in forbidding a widow to remarry till ten months after her lhus band's death." "But those eight months of paralysis--don't you take them into consideration 1' -THE Packet Texas, in place of the Bart. Able, reached Town after midnight Monday, having been de tained some seven hours on the bar below Town. Captain Ben. Kay is Master now in place of Captain Sin nott, gone to some watering place to rest and cool off. We received from her a scant package of New Orleans papers. She goes down to-morrow morning early. -THE Pool-liner, Bonnie Lee, has changed her days and now leaves New Orleans every alternate Wed nesday. As she passed up on Satur day, one of our printers was handed a file of New Orleans papers, on ask ing for them. Of course we are thankful, in these steamboat stingy days, for such a favor, and fully ap preciate it. -AN old hard up sinner long hunting a job, said to a friend, "if thingse keep on this way much longer I'll get a job, and one that will keep me, too" The friend, listening attentively, asked, "what is that?"' The answer came, "Why, I'll die, and I'd like to see any dog-goned tramp beat me out of that job." -REMEMBER tax payers that you have until the 5th of September, in which time you must pay George O. Watts an official visit at the Court House, and see if your property is correctly assessed. --H. H. HONORE, the father-in-law of Fred. Grant, a reputed millionaire of Chicago, has gone into bankrupt cy, his debts exceeding $2,000,000. -THE DemOCrats of Virginia have nominated Hn. M. W. HRliday for CTorernor, COMMJIUNICATION. Mr Editor : In my last communication I bhua4 occasion to mention particularly t. F looseness of the management of t" ' Town afairs by the present Board, Councilmen,or rather by the major. ity that rule with almost a tyrant'' sway, and before my communication. appeared in print, "more proof stared me in the face that I was partially right in taking up the pen in behalf of the taxpayers of the Town..a,. Again, and as briefly as I can, I ask :-. your valuable space for my second epistle. The regular monthly meeting of the Council takes place the first Tuesday of every month, and had been adjourned regularly to Tues day, the 7th inst., and of course those having business with them looked to that day for the meeting, but'for once they were mysteriously disappointed, and they have to wait this new fan gled mystery to have approved their dues. To the majority, and that majority is a bare one, it was whis. pered and nodded by the power be. hind the throne, early Monday 'mor. ning that the regular meeting of the Council, for this occasion, would be forestalled and held in advance, and accordingly the willed edict of t's . power that guides the doings of the Council, the extra so called meeting was held. On assembling it was found that the member from the 5th Ward was absent, and had not been notified, and the member from the 2d Ward, though present, had re ceived a notice indirectly. Right here, Mr. Editor, comes in my charge of looseness, nay criminal irregulari. ty, and I assert illegal meeting. On organizing the question was ventur ed why this called meeting a few: hours ahead of the regular monthly meeting, and the quidk and polite' answer came from a rising member,. that he had business of importance, had to leave Town in the morning and had asked for this meeting. This settled that point and the meet. ing went oh through all the regular business-of the meeting. Premising my further charge with again pro. nouncing this called meeting irrego lar, illegal and entirely unnecessary, I will state that the member with the important business never left; Town and has been here ever since, so that excuse falls to the ground and only makes the meeting still more ridiculous. It is true that the:_,. member from my Ward and the efll. cient Town Marshal left early next morning for the Sulphur Springs, and some people here are candid enough to think that there was the milk in the cocoa-nut. Be this at it may, the reason given for the called meeting turned out incorrect, and. here again comes in child's play. And now, Mr. Editor, I learn frota a gBol source, that but two solid, jthings loomed up before that extra - ordinary meeting, which was a bill to be approved for building the Bel- fry, and a motion made and second ed that the salry of the Secretary and Comptroller, (which is only one hundred dollars per annum,) be re- duced to nothing, that is, as explain. ed by the mover, that the Secretary. work for nothing, as the Councilmes ii do. I could comment much, Mr. : Editor, on this motion and the mo. : tives which guided and seconded it, but I forbear for poor frail humani. ty's sake, and as it was withdrawn, :i reluctantly perhaps, let it pass onlyi to be remembered as, another proof of the mismanagement in the Coun-. cl, which has caused my first amd this communication. And now, Mr. Editor, to close, I = do so with my last indictment against the most extraordinary and really ii extravagant price paid for the corm pletion of the Belfry and the mannuert it was effected, In the first placee tbe building of it was taken by one of the members of the Council appoint ed as a Committee to attend to it,:: and the price charged certainly an aristocratic ore, and that job never was let out, though the Committee,> were specially particular to ask bids for the painting, the least work of all, and gave out the tinning slaps without soliciting bids. Mind you, I do not Impugn the motives of the Committee, but I state facts as relia bly related to me, and state them to prove my oft repeated assertion of looseness, unnecessary and very par tial work, and horrid management in financial affairs, and an extravagant waste of the people's money in sala ries. I must, however, come to a seriously reflecting Ofinish, and with this wind up, I trust the taxpayers will keep cool when I state that the completion of the new Belfry will sum up in round figures the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, sand well should the denizens of Alexand ria boast of it, though it is bplieved to be out of price fully one hundred dollars by TanHR WARD TaXPAYRE. ROGERS' ENGLISH TABLE. and POCKET CUTLERY. LADIES' SCISSORS and OTHER FINE GOODS KEPT BY HENR X ST. JOTIE.