Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-22
News OF the Day.
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Mr.. La Sere, of New Orleans, having
mpleted his arrangements for transport
ing the mails from that city to the Pacific
across the isthnus of Tehsuntepec, has gone
on to New York to shape the details by which
bis line is 20 connect upon the other side
with the steamers from and 10 New York, via
Panama.
Ii vas Stated q short time az, that the new
silver coinage for Canada might be expected
from Eogand almost Immediately. a pri-
vate letter from London, however, says that,
although some correspondence has taken
place between the Governor General and the
Master Of the Mint, up to the ooh May, no
definite Instructions had been gwen or any
thing decided upon
There was hunger" demonstration al Buff
falo on Monday last Nearly a thousand
laboring men marched to the City Hall, and
Mayor lockwood addressed them. lie said
tho waits of the unemployed would receive
the attention of the authorities, and be had
no doubt they would all soon find work.
This seemed to satisfy the crowd, whish
then dispersed, with three cheers for the
Mayor.
The chaplain service Of Congress Of the
past session was performed lat their own re-
quest) by more than thirty different cler-
gymen residing in the District Of Columbia,
with no more failures Ia coming TO the time
Of opening the sessions than formerly oc-
Cured with tho two elected char !aiUs.--
Congress being In session more than SIX
months. it embraced within the time twenty
seven Sabbath days. On twouty-six OF them
public worship was conducted IN the large
rev hall Of the Capitol, with an attendance
Of mem bers o! Congress, cltizena, and stran-
gers varying in nunb beers from one hundred
to two thousand.
Ga the night OF Thursday, the Ssh inst,
Professor Louis Ba chr, while on his way TO
the Scott House, Pttsburg, was knocked
down. The police set to work and their IN
vestigatiOns led them to arrest one james
Mckee, an Individual not unknown to the
police Professor Baehr continued to i'm
prove until last Sunday evening, when he re-
lapsed. lie declined slowly until Friday al
ploy Of William Gaehle i Co, piano manu-
facturers, of Baltimore. aoi WIS engaged as
a travelling agent t. dispose Of the pianos.
The Portsmouth Transcript states there
will be required for the boilers of the new
sloop-oi-war Richmond, now being built at
that maynard, fifty.two tons Of sheet iron
and four thousand pounds of rivets, and 4!
expresses the hope that some southern mana-
featuring establishment will bid Tor AID sup
ply the materials wanted.
Railway accidents, as we'll as fires, are
much less frequent in Europe than in the
United States, aud when they do occur are
looked upon with great deal more concern.
la the matter Of fires, there is but little wood
used in the construction Of buildings In Ed
rope, which will account to great extent tor
this; but railway accidents ought to be as
Fare here as there.
William Danenburg, who, it will be remom-
bered, was few weeks since compelled to
leave Norfolk, suspected to have been i'm
plcated in kidnapping affair in that city,
snd reported TO be a part owner OF the
schooner "Keziab," has addressed long
commu nication to the citizens Of Norfolk III
which be asserts his entire innocence Of the
charges preferred against him in the most
forcIble manner.
The Dowager Countess of Efughan, at
the age of eighty, has recently married a
Scripture reader at Brighton, aged thirty
The Countess possesses very large yearly
income, and her son is one of the peers OF
England.
Au umbrella has been manufactured in
Connecticut called the lending umbrella"
1t is made of brown paper and willow
twigs, Intended exclusively to accommodate
friend
Gen. Almonie, Mexican Minsterto France,
is daily expected at Paris, and he Is said
to be authorized to make full settlement Of
the Mexico-Spanish difficulties.
A hail storm passed over the Bean settle.
ment, in Hardy county. Va, on Saturday