The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-08
OUR ALEXANDRIA CORRESPONDENCE.
ALEXANDRIA, TUESDAY EVENING"


.....a.. -.. April I, 1857.
The schooner Ann d.. Captain Markham, arrived from
New York Sunday with assorted cargo, among
which 600 barrels cement for the government She
will proceed to Washington (Riey's wharf, tomorrow,
and to Georgetown on Saturday.
Alexandria, Washington, and Georgetown consgnees
mixed rs per manifest Evans & Thompson r. II. Miller
& Co.. Ashley Wood R. S. Miller Sops Charles Rooms,
Captain NJ. c. Meigs, smoot Uhler, George Thomas
Parker, Knox Bro1 Joseph Basslea L. G. Mead Henry
Cook, ]. NJ Stewart English Ricketts,, II. l.. Simpson,
John Ogden, j. Galioer, e. G. Somers Samuel Bacon &
Co, VIM P. Drury, Campbell Coyle, VIM. Kuoch, J. Fl.
Shekill Gibson Reese Jno P. Dennis, Martin Roch
ford Maysou Boyd, C. T. Parker co." Charles Mason,
De Bevoise, j. Darby Il Son. Commandant United States
navy-yard, j. McGregor. , .
The schooner Chief Captain Trader, arrived from New
York Sunday with $50 tons Peruvian gusno for Fowe
4 Co. ..E
The schooner Arlington, Captain Murch, arrived from
New York yesterday with assorted cargo. She will
proceed to Georgetown Thursday without touching at
Washington. ,.',..,..n. .
Alexandria consignees Ashley l. Wood, Flemmng 4
Douglass, Marshall & Ward, J. 7. Evans. d. G. Mead Eng
lish Ricketts, G. 7. Sute 4 Co., Washington Co, Nc
Weigh & Chamberlain.
Georgetown assignees: Kennedy h Pugb, c. Gauter,
Howell Il Stribblug NJ. Q. Harvey, Murray Semmes, A
g. Seaman, c. Wendell, S. Rederp J. W. Thompson 4
Bro, H. Parry, Arney a Shinp Hyde q Davidson Eng
lish h Son, J. NJ Belt, G. s. Fowler Co.
The schooner General Worth, Captain Dobbns will sail
for Baltimore on Thursday morning with wheat and
slaves for Fimbey's Mills, from Lewis Mckenzie.
No further arrivals have transped the canal Except
considerable quantities Of blue rock from the Little Falls
quarree for the Alexandria, London and Hampshire rail-
road What few empty boats there this end of the
canal have mostly departed for the mines. Loaded coal
boats expected here by the 18Th instant The
operations of the canal important feature in the bust
Of Alexandria aud may of the citizens anxiously
awaiting their commencement s.t.a.#.
The operations OF the corn exchange yesterday were
follows Flour, sales. Wheat no white offered red
good, ST. 80; inferior, ST. 20 Rye, 50 cents. Oats 40
cents. Corn, white, 1000 bushels aAoat 81 cent? No
transactions to-day. .a
The yesterday expected materially dimin-
shed the supply of fish to-day However the reappear-
of fair weather has kept the prices about the
Shad $l3 to $ls so. Herring So So ST Marys oysters
| 20 cents per bushel, s.l.aa. $50 ..a. aN.a4 al.f
The passengers on the Alexandria and Orange railroad
of whom there the usual goodlookng arrival to-day
report extension Of the cold snap throughout the Old
Dominion. .. ..--. -s.
The Pioneer Mills Of Aexandrs situated in the lower
part of the wharng and belonging stock company,
for which Mr.. VIM. Fowe the superintendent are new
and well built being probably unsurpassed in solid beauty
of exterior architecture and exquisite style aud finish of
terror machinery and furniture by any establishment
the kind in tho United States Their capacity is twelve
of large French burr stones and when n operation
they daily from three to FIVE thousand bushels
wheat and out from six TO eight hundred barrels of
-four These mills have been stopped since January last
for the OF grain and will remain so until after the
wheat harvest when they expected resume operations
again, everything being ready, TO kndng the fires and
throwing the machinery into gear Thus is another inn
portant feature Of the business of Alexandria temporarily
suspended and its operatives thrown out OF their regular
employment r.' H, YIRGINIUS.