Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-07-31

"Toshop the gerry age and body efthe TINES"


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News Of the Day.
"Toshop the gerry age and body Of the lines.
The Empire City brings information from
Havana that the trade 10 coolies Is still car
ried on. Twelve hundred Of these unfortu.
nate beings had been recently landed from the
Chilean, Peruvian, Spanish, and Bremen YES
sells already reported at Havana. The ships
had lost two hundred and eighty-elsh ut OF
these from natural causes and suicides IN
transitu.
The news from the Pacific in relation TO
the deposits of guano, which Commodore
Mervipe could not find, are favorable. A
cargo of 400 tons has been landed at the
Saodwich Islands, and ship has been dis
patch,d to lay down proper moorings at the
Island.
Now that the Secretary Of War has return
ed, it is supposed that the wagon road e1pe-
dition (under the superintendent Of Lit.
Beale) from Fort Smith to Albuquerque, and
thence beyond to the Colorado Of the West,
will be organized. The camels yet remain
ing in Texas will be placed under his charge,
and his views in respect to the personnel of
the expedition will, Of course, be mainly
consulted.
A letter to the New York Tribune, from
Mount Was bing.on, n. H., July a, says
This morning We found the thermometer at
80 degrees, and the mountain top white with
snow. The pools of water among the rocks
were crusted NTH ice. DR.. G., \.
C and myself mounted the roof of the
Tip Top, and saluted with snow-bails our
party as they came out to see the sun rise.
Our California contemporaries indulge 10
great variety of photography in printing
the title of Fraser river. como giving it as
Frazer's, others rs Fraziers, others as Fra
ser's. The correct mode is Eraser" and the
word should not be used in the possessive
case. The river was named after it's disco
verer, a gentleman now residing in Canada.
Lord Richard Grosvenor, Lord Henry
Cavendish, and the Hon. Mr.. Ashley left St.
Anthony, Minnesota, on Tuesday, the Goth
inst, on buffalo hunt in the wilds of Daco-
tab. They vent with the same great party
which Mohammed Pschs, the Turkish ad-
miral, was to have accompanied. They will
be absent in the wilderness some Elk weeks.
A company of about twenty-five persons
will leave Milwaukee this week for Fraser
river, via st. Paul. A company is about to
leave Pawtucket, r. l., and in New York
CITY, at meeting oil Germans on Wednesday
night, fifty signed pledge to 20. Small
parties are forming in other sections Of the
country for the same destination.
At Kingston, Jamaica, on the 10th OF Ju-
ly, there was loud cry for laboring hands.
The immigration commissioners had appro-
propriated 500 900 20 promote the introduc-
ton of East Indians, and like sum for the
bringing over of Chinese. Twenty-Five dol
lars bonus is offered for the landing of atree
African apprentice.
The commencement exercises at Yale Col
lege (Conneoticut) began this week. The
candidates for graduation number one hun
dred, of which twenty-five are from Connec-
ticut, and seventy-eight from twenty other
States and Territories of the Union, and two
from foreign countries.
H.G. Davis connected with the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, as their agent at Pied
mont, in consequence of receiving the ap-
pointment Of President Of the Savings Bank
ct that place, has felt it to be bis duty to re-
sign. The road has lost one of its very best
agents.
Among the patents isseud for the week
ending July q. are, one to George S. Bishop,
Of Washington. D. c., for improvement in
coupling for railroad cars; one to Louis
Brauer, of Washington, for improved omni
bus register; and one to Ellysou VERIFY, of
Washington, for an improved batter machine
On the 18th instant, the last sad and SOL
emn rites of sepulture were performed by the
citizens of Adams county. Mississi ppi. inclu.
ding, of course, the city of Matches, over the
remains of the late lsmented hero and states
man, Gen. John A. Qritman.
The Secretary of the Navy has advertised
for proposals for steam machinery for the
screw propeller sloops of war to be construc-
ted at the United States navy-yards Of Ports
mouth, n. H., Boston, New York, Pniladel-
phia, Gosport and Pensacola.
Some English farmers have discarded the
ordinary scythes in their moving this year,
for an implement in all respects the same,
except that it is fifteen inches shorter 1t is
stated that the result is saving of one-third
in the labor.
The Academy at Lyons. France, has offer
ed prize Of l,200f. for the best work on the
means of opening fresh sources of labor to
females, and of placing the wages OF women
on level with those of men, where equality
of service is rendered.
The Chsrlestown Free Press says:-"Wo
have authority for saying tina. the Barbecue
in Clarke, was not either intended as Faux
per or anti-Faulkner Barbecue, but as an old
fashioned one at which all parties could en-
joy themselves"
Bradford Allen, the eminent manufactur-
ing jeweler, in Providence, r. l., who died
on Sunday last, fell victim to malignant
erysipelas and pneumonia, induced by TAX
ing q cold bath while his blood was very much
heated.
A writer in the National Inteligencer, sug-
gests the idea of erecting monument Of
bro NE, to the Hon. Edward Everett, on the
rrem;ses at Mount Vernon, as a memorial