Alexandria gazette

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Crystal Palace was lighted up last night in

honor of the occasion.

T. F. Meagher is going to California in

November. Ho intends to reside there per

manently.

Mr. llackett, you will observe, has reduced

the price of admission to the opera to h>r

the parquette, and >1 for the circle, but I

fear, even at these rates, it will he a loosing

concern.

“Haiti Time#.”

A few days ago we referred to a statement

showing that in only six months a lew of the

Rank* in this State had called in two mil

lions and a half of their circulation. It would

have been more appropriate, however, t"

have said that this amount was /m-m/ hr.< l

upon the Ranks, than that it was "called in"

by them. It was no voluntary movement on

their part. These hanks being conveniently

located for supplying the great drain <*i spe

cie which goes by every steamer to Europe

to pay off the immense balance of trade

against this country caused by excessive im

portation, every note of theirs that falls into

the hands of brokers is immediately returned

upon them and the specie demanded for it

and till this debt is paid, such must he the

pressure on the Ranks that they will he com

pelled in self-defence to limit their is>ucs.

and be the involuntary instruments of pro

ducing a scarcity of money and raising tin*

cry of "hard times.” Rut the prospect of

paving off this great debt, which has been so

recklessly brought upon the country, is any

thing but cheering at present. From the

fact that Europe is so well supplied with

breadstuff's of her own production, it may bo

inferred that she will require but a small

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Alexandria gazette. (1854). Alexandria, D.C., 1854-10-07. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025007/1854-10-07/ed-1/?sp=2

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Alexandria gazette, 1854-10-07.