Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-23

Mass hEErRs.---A mass meeting wa held 4
Balls Cross Roads about six miles from this city
IN Alexandria county, Virginia, yesterday. Abou
eight hundred persons were present, and the ut
most enthusiasm prevailed throughout 1t being
meeting for the free discussion Of politics pro and
con, several gentlemen addressed the people
Among the speakers were Mr. r. s. Evans and
Captain II. O. Darlington, from this city, and Messrs
Triplett and Gordon, from Alexandra.
We were not present, but learn that Sam was
strongly represented.
PicKrocKrr.--We learn that lady who was at
tending the Sunday School celebration on Monday
had her pocket picked of port-mannaie contain
ing about six dollars.
Persons should not carry money with them into
gatherings of this size
RoBaERY.--Yesterday afternoon four youths be-
| tween IL and is years Of age went into small
grocery store, on Sixth street. near X, and while
the woman In attendance was in the back yard,
robbed the money-drawer of four or five dollars,
and escaped. Such audacity in youths will not 60
long UNPUBLISHED.
POLICE CoURr--Bsfore AoyssH and Birch
Edward Hughes, from New York was lodged at
the guard-house last night. He was the only in
habitant, and reigned supreme and alone.
| N Alexandria Items.
CIRCUIT CoURr--Judys Tyler Presiding. The
following business occupied the court yesterday I:
Markham u.s. Moorehouse. Verdict for plaintiff
i. B. Taylor for plaintiff r. L. Smith and Beach
TOR defendant. Bayris "a. Kephart and Shure.
Verdict for plaintiff. Brent and Kinzer for plain
tiff; A. a. @. Il. Stuart for defendant Three per-
sons were naturalized and became citizens. viii
liam n. Merrick qualified as an attorney and
counsellor at law. Other civil business was trans.
acted Of no public interest.
/ PAINFUL AccIDEST.---Mr John Campbell Of this
place, was thrown out Of his sulky wagon yester-
day evening, near town, breaking his arm and
otherwise injuring him. s,NEs ssg
COUNCIL PRocEEDINGs.--The two Boards con-
yened last evening; the bill for raising the revenue
for the year 1855, amended as previously report
| ed, was passed.
| ARREST AND AcourTrALs--The party, Mrs. Marga-
ret Tatsapaugh, implicated in the murder Of the
infant Of Susannah Tatsapaugh was arrested, and,
with Hetty Bradshaw, the c0ored woman arrested
the other day for the same offence, was examined
before Justice Hunter this morning, and the evil
dence failing to connect them with the murder,
they were both discharged
Hon. Kenneth Rayner, of North Carolina, ad-
dressed the American party Of Richmond, at the
African Church, on Monday night. The audience
was the largest and most enthusiastic ever seen in
Richmond
ALEXANDRIA county is expected to give from
$50 to TOO majority tomorrow for Fournoy. It
gave General Scott about 200 majority.
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r TRUE GENERosIrY.--The Marietta (Ohio) Advo-
| cate says that many farmers In that section have
refused to sell their corn to spectators at 81 40
and have chosen to divide it among their poorer
neighbors, at one dollar per busheL Such
| benevolence deserves to be recorded.
| Ar IT AGAM.--Ex-Pr President Fillmore having
gone to Europe, the Albany Journal is busy abusing
him, behind his back. Manly and magnanimous
Weed!
The CRISIS IN KANsAs.--Personsi IN Boston, who
profess to be well informed Kansas matters, en-
terrain serious apprehensions that there will be an
outbreak and bloodshed to-day, (22d )-the day as
| signed by Governor Reeder for the election of
members of the Territorial Legislature, from the
| contested precincts. The Missourian squatters
were at last accounts in high state Of ferment,
and some of the Kansas settlers had determined
| TO resist their encroachments at all hazards. A
collision seemed inevitable. The Boston Atlas, of
Monday, says:
BY private letters received in this city, we learn
that Mr. Patterson associate editor of the Parkville
Luminary, who, with Mr. Park, left Platte county,
Mo-. under sentence of death, if he should be
found there three weeks after the day of sentence,
was in Buffalo on Saturday. on his way east by way
of New York. and may be expected in this city to-
day or tomorrow. Mr.. Park, It is reported, has
gone 70 Illinois for the RP ssss Ss snSsgr Sf
eroy, Of Kansas is expected to be in this city next
week or the week after. 1t is stated that notwith
standing the Governors proclamation converting
the Legislature, at Pawnee, the persons who claim
seats in that body, have resolved to adjourn imme
diately TO the Shawnee Mission, as Pawnee is
too Fort Riley to justify session there by
| naraana WIN claim IA N yioation of lawn
! THE SEIZURE or GOVERNMENT DEsrArcHEs.--
The package of letters, with tho seal of the De-
partment Of State U. s. A." and directed to the
United States Consul at Paris, which was seized on
board the new steamship Ariel, at New York, on
Saturday, was placed there by the despatch agent
of the Department as had been his custom for sew
eral years on the departure of European steamers.
! The Union Gays
The owners of the steamer were not specially
| instructed in regard TO the bag and no such in
structions were deemed necessary, as il is be-
eved that the instance referred to Is the only one
| in which q steamer has refused to take q bag OF
| government dispatches. We understand that the
/ reason alleged for excluding them from the Ariel
| was that there was no letter from the Department
requesting them to be taken, and that the freight
on the bag had not been paid.
CRossrsa RAILROAD TRAcKs.-The Philadelphia
Ledger TO show the hazard in crossing railroad
tracks, particularly In vehicles, publishes the fol-
lowing:
A railroad car at the ordinary speed Of travel
ing, moves about twice its own length in a second
Of time--about twenty -four feet At this velocity
the locomotive drawing wheels, six feet in dame-
i ter, make four revolutions per second
i III a man with a horse and carriage crossing
a railroad track at the speed Of six miles an hour,
and an express train should be approaching at the
moment, Il would advance towards him two hun.
dred and fifty-seven feet while he was in the act
Of crossing distance barely sufficient TO clear the
horse and vehicle. Should the horse cross the
track at the usual gait of walk, the train would
move towards him, while in the act of crossing
over FIVE hundred feet.