Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-24
News OF the Day.
"Toshos0 the gerry age and body Of the TINES

"ToshoD the osry age and body Of the TINES"
The yellow fever is beginning to create
some alarm in the vicinity Of the New York
quarantine. The Post says there appears to
be disposition on the part of the health au-
thorities to conceal the existence oil the dis
ease en- Staten Island, thus laying the toun'
datiou for an unnecessary panic, by and oy:
A number of cases have occurred outside of
the quarantine walls and one case mas Deeh
brought from there to New IoIk.
| At the recent agricultural show held at
Chester England, a number OF agents were
present making purchases of cattle to export
for breeding purposes. Two Durham bulls.
| for which high price was paid, were Dough.
for shinmeat 10 Adelaide. Mr.. Sanford
| Howard, editor of the Boston Cultlvator, has
purchased twelve head Of Ayrshire cattle
| for the Massachusetts, Agricultural Assoeia'
| ton; he has also twelve head more ol TUG
same breed ready for shipment. Some spien-
| did Sou,hdown rams, purchased from Mr.
Jonas Webb of Cambridge, are consigned 70
/ Colonel Morris, of New York.
| The Boonsboro' Odd Fellow says trc-
mendous and destructive hail storm passed
over portion of country few miles OF Fred
erick CITY, on the afternoon of the 18th inst.
Hail fell the size Of hens egg. The corn
fields presented sad spectacle; nothing be-
Jog left but the naked stock, the ears and
blades being swept entirely off.
A novel feature in the telegraph ce!ebra'
ton at Syracuse was the array of fifteen huge
locomotives of the Central Railroad, with
their bells ringing, and blazing lamps, rang
ed on the track, in the heart OF the city, all
gaily decorated, and Mt intervals making the
very wekiu ring with the shrlil screams OF
their brszen whistles.
Tue Galveston Civilian of the 18th instant
saws that letter has been received from Mr.
A. C. Love, stating that q grand Comanc5e
Council was in session a short time since,
above the great Salt Plains on the Arkansas;
that Pa-ha-u-ka Was making powerful ell
fort to combine all the COmanches against
Texas.
Extensive preparations are making 10 New
York for national convention OF Germans
10 that city, to be composed OF delegates
from the various German emigration socie'
ties throughou the Union--the object being
70 urge the enactment Uf laws Tor the better
protection of emigraots.
The United States mail steamer Star OF the
West, Captain Gray, with about SUI passen'
gers. and the Granada, Captain Bergman,
with some 400 d., sailed from New York on
Friday afternoon, for Aspnwall. The steam
ship Hermann, Capt. Cavendy, also sailed
on Saturday for San Francisco and Fraser
River. with nearly 600 passengers.
1t is stated that Cincinoati, containing over
two hundred thousand inhabitants, and do
ins larger business than any other West
ern city, has only $4,000 of Banking CAPT
tai. under the name of The Commercial B.uk
The banking business is, therefore, done cJ
private bankers, whose entire capital, a.
sworn TO, is only 81 Cos ll9.
Paul Juneau, son Of Solomon Juneau. the
first white man that settled in Milwaukee,
was accidentally shot and killed at HORIZON
Wisconsin, on Friday, by boy with whom
he bad been shooting at mark. lie was
member of the Legislature, and leaves wife
and children.
Lieut.. Habersham, in bis letters from
China to the Philadelphia Ledger, asserts
that the Mississippi River, which we call the
Father of Waters" is not to be compared
to the Yaugtse Kiarg River, to which be az
plies the name of Mother of Waters"
The Harrisburg Telegraph learns from an
extra issued by one OF the York papers that
the lower portion of that county was visited
on Thursday evening last, by one of the hes'
West rain storms known in that section tor
eighteen years past.
The wool-srowers of Steuben county, New
York, are to hold meeting at Bath on the
24,b, to-day to take measures for the pro-
lection Of their Interests in Congress, and
thew recommend that State Convection 6e
held with the same object in view.
A great fire has occurred at Antwerp
ch destroyed the Exchange, with its mag
nifcent bronze cupola, arcades, and the Tri
buusl of Commerce. The chambers of the
Syndic, with the city archives, are complete
ly destroyed.
A monster camp meeting was held at Port
chester, New York, last week, at which "Aw
full Gardner" the converted pugilist, wa:
present, actively engaged in exhorting th'
people to turn from the error OF tbeil
ways"
Geo. p. Bevins died few days since neal
Selma, Ala, from injuries received by being
thrown from buggy. lie is said to have
been one of the finest classical scholars IN
the South.
New Freight Tariffs Agreed Upon.
An important meeting of railway operators
was held at Cincinnati on Friday. All the
principal railway companies whose lines ra