Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-07-19
NeWR OF the UaY.
u Toshou the Gerry age and body Of the TINES"

IL Toshow the Gerry age and body Of the TINES"
The advices from Sagua la Grande, in re-
ference to the deadly character of the yellow
fever at that pert, have increased the vigl-
lance Of the New York health ofacers, and
the quarantine regulations are to be rigidly
enforced.
The following statistics of London are
sad commentary upon the boasted phlan-
thropy of Christian England In London
there are above 100000 drunkards, 100 1000
persons living in open proH'gacy, 2O,OOO
proiessed beggars, 10000 gamblers, and s..
900 receivers Of stolen goods, besides 10000
children who are living 10 open restitution
and sin.
Previous to leaving Boston, on Tuesday.
the Turkish Admiral addressed letters Of
thanks and farewell to the President of the
United States; Mr.. Cass, Secretary Of State;
and Mr.. Toucey, Secretary of the Navy. lie
also paid farewell visits to his Excelency
Governor Banks, bis Honor the Mayor OF
Boston, and to the navy-yard at Charlestown,
The company for the construction Of the
railroad between Nitheroby and Campos,
near Rio, has been formally authorized and
incorporated, and the fret instalment on the
subscriptions called for. The contract would
probably be awarded to the American engl-
neers who had undertaken part of the Pedro
Segundo railway.
A dreadful affair occurred in Anderson
county, Kentucky, on Thursday last. AT a
picnic three brothers named Miller, excited
by liquor, got into quarrel. Three or four
men interfered to prevent violence and pre-
serve peace when the brothers turned on
them and killed two. The Millers we're ar
rested and confined in Jail in Lawrenceburg.
The London commercial correspondent Of
the Liverpool Mercury, writing on the 23d
ult., says "the scheme of raising the addi-
tionsl sum of E220, 900 for the finishing of
the Leviathan is said to have failed, and it is
supposed that some other plan will have to
be tried"
A writer in the New York Journal Of
Commerce suggests the word "electrograph"
as substitute for photographic despatch" and
Telegram" The latter means only CON-
munication by signals as far as can be seen,
while the former literally signifies writing
by lightning.
Capt Ingraham, Of the brig Maria, OF
Bristol, r. l., reports that yellow fever and
black vomit ragged feariully at Sagua la
Grande on the 30th uf June. Some vessels
lost from three to seven hands. and over
twenty sail had been visited fatally.
In Baltimore, between nine and ten O..
clock on Thursday night, difficulty occur,
red at house in Vine street, near Fremont,
which resulted in the killing Of Thomas d.
Burnbam, BY a man by the name OF William
G. Ford.
Letters from Dunkirk, Scotland, state that
the drought lie extraordinary in that quarter
There will soon be no water anywhere
Cisterns, wells, bitches, meadows, rivulets
are all dry. The aspect of the country IL
desolate.
Last week, the Canadian Government an
noupced to Parliament that general reduc'
ton of salaries had been resolved upon, COM
mencing with those Of the Ministers of the
Grown, and extending to the whole body oil
Government employees.
Louis Ran, of Cincinnati, a German, was
caught by band on some machinery he was
adjusting, and drawn several times through
| a narrow place-so narrow as only to pass
him with bis bones crushed. He was OF
course instantly killed.
After q ss The, laotiuS four or f'o wooks,
the miners of the Hudson and Delaware Ca
al Company, resumed work on last Monday,
at the same wages they were receiving when
they left off.
The Hon. James NJ. Buchanan, Of Balti,
more, United States Minister to Denmark,
ADD family of six persons, sailed from New
York, on Friday, in the steamship Borussia,
for South ampton.
The Tampa Peninsular Of the 10th instant
reports that Capt. Mcneil succeeded in OBJ
tanning talk with the chief of the Tallahas'
sees on the 7th, and the prospects were favo,
rable to removal.
The crops in England continue to promise
bountiful harvest. The wheat harvest has
commenced in the south of France, in the
neighborhood of Vaucluse, and the crop is
expected to yield very abundan'ly.
Gen. Concha has complained to his Gov
eminent Of the English insults in Cuba
1t is stated that Spain will demand an ex,
PLANTATION from England concerning certain
insulting speeches delivered in Parliament.
We are gratifed to learn tina. the health
of Gen. Quitman has undergone an improve
ment, slight, but perceptble.
There are busy times at the hayward,
Brooklyn. The number Of workmen en-
ployed is about 1000.
A lady had her pocket picked of eight
HUNDRED dollars in the New Haven cars, on
Monday last.
1t 10 rumorsd that President Buchanan
will pass through New York, sometime in
September, on q visit to Massachusetts,.
Hews from the Calf,