Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-19
News OF the Day.
"7oslop the rery age and body ofMe TINES.

as may be required to procure their traospor-
tution on such DAYS as the Collins Inc may
tail to take them from New York, The sum
of $26l 900 is appropriated Tor the transpor-
tation OF the mails from New York to New
Orleans. Char lesion, Savannah, Havre aud
Chacres, and back; :32S,350 between San
Franscisco, Cal, and Olympia; S22, 400 for
the mails on Puget's Sound; $4,000 from
New York to llsvre, via Southampton to
Cuwes; $4,000 between Charleston and
Havana; SlO0, GOO across the lsthmus.
|, is stated that 10 respect to the unfortu-
nate Tehauntepec controversy, the President
mas determined to examine the subject him
self and decide upon the merits of the case
with strict impartiality. Arrangements have
been recently entered into by this govern
ment with certain parties, looking to the ex-
pediting Of the California mails, via the 18th
mus of Tehauntepec; but another party pro-
tests that the honor of contracting lies with
them by virtue Of right acquired from Mex
leo.
Public anxiety is now beginning to as.
sumo some degree Of intensity in regard to
the success of the vessels engaged in laying
the Atlantic Geographic cable. If they left
on the l0:h, as expected, then they are about
this time separating in mid one east
and the other west, and ten days more Will
solve the problem Ii would be gratifying
incident of two great nations if the electric
current could be made to announce trlum-
plant result on the 4th of July.
The United States sloOp-of-war Portsmouth,
A. II. Foote, commander, arrived at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, on the 18th, trom
Java, having been on the voyage seventy
nine DAYS. She has visited the open ports of
China also, Japan, Batavia, Siam, and SInga-
pore, aud been absent from this country two
years and one month. She brings home MIR.
George W Reed, recently of the Legation to
Chin,. The commander reports fourteen
deaths.
The citizens of Springfield, Illinois, have
voted 10 public meeting to accept the propO-
sails of two gentlemen Of Cincinnati to estab-
ish a mill in Springfield, for the manufac-
ture Of sugar aud molasSes from the Chinese
sugar cane. The requisite machinery is
ready, and the enterprise will be undertaken
at once. Fifty acres of cane are 10 be plar-
ted this year, and if successful, more will be
added 10 future Refined sugar-cane molas-
ses now sells in Cincinnati at eighty cents.
per gallon.
The Memphis, Tennessee, Bulletin says
that gentleman Of that city, who recently
visited Petersburg, Va, informs it, that many
substantial aud wealthy business men Of Pc
70 al
there during the present summer with view
Of locating and engaging 10 business IN Mean
phis. He also learns that several of the msr-
chants of Savannah contemplate the same
thing.
A section in the naval appropriation bill
passed by Congress declares that it shall be
lawful to enlist boys for service in the United
States marine corps, with the consent OF their
parents or guardians, not being under eleven
nor over seventeen years Of age, to serve
until they shall arrive at the age Of u years
The steamships Washington and Hermann,
of the Bremen line, with all their furniture,
tableware, mirrors, Sc, were sold at auction,
at New York, on Thursday, for $4,000
These fine steamships were built ten years
since at cost Of half million Of dollars
each.
There is said to be an organized gang OF
swudling land brokers IN Northern Iowa
and Southern Minnesota, who rob the emf
grants By selling them counterfeit titles to
lands. In Iowa there are already detected
sales Of lapd TO the amount OF SlOO,OUO, un-
der these fictitious titles.
The French Gazette Medical states that
charco al has been accidentally discovered to
DO cure for burns. BY laying piece OF
charcoal on the burn, the pain subsidies at
once. By leaving it on Tor an hour the wound
| will be- healed. 1t is certainly worth trial
A lady 10 New York having bought some
clans on Saturday, her little son, SIX years
of age, ran his tongue into one to get the
;uice; the clam shut, and nearly cut the little
shaver's tongue IF before his mother could
free its hold.
An article originating with the Buffalo
Republic, and copied into the eastern press
relative to disease similar to the National
Hotel disease at Washington, at one OF the
principal hotels in Chicago, is without ioun'
da,iOn in truth
The New York papers record 10 less than
three suicides in that city on Friday last
Hippolite Grippon, a Frenchman. took arsenic
Henry S6llmsn, German, shot himself with
a revolver, and Charles Harper, also Ger
man, hung himself in his apartment
The storms of rain which visited the South
and West last week and the early part OIL
this, appear to have swept over the greater
part of New Eogland. The foods at the
West have been very destructive both OF lie
and property.
The Cumberland Telegraph states that the
man Bazell, who was arrested on suspicion
of murder, has been discharged, as no muir
der has been committed. The same paper
states that taxation in Cumberland has peer
reduced from SOC. to 40e. on the Sloo.
Mrs. Keller, wife Of Joel Keller, residing
about two miles south of Middletown, Fred
erick county. Nd, died suddenly, 10 convu
sions, caused by her terror OF the coming
storm which swept over that region on ias'
Friday week.
The wife of Rev. j. Ii. Wingfeld, pastor o.
Trinity Church, at Portsmouth, Va. was taKer
ill on Monday morning, while attending t'
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