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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-02

Andrew J. Byrd, eco, Sheriff of High
land county, died at his residence in Monte
rsy, on the 18th nit, Of Typoid Fever.
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The Sex Of Eggs.

According to Monsieur Genin, a French
savant, the sex OF eggs can be distinguished
All eggs containing the germ of males have
wrinkles on their smaller end, while female
eggs are equally smooth at both extremities
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TO- FOR THE CAMP MEETING -
IL NoTlCE.-Ail persons wishing to attend
the Camp Meeting, 10 he held near Warrenton.
commencing the 3rd OF September, and wishing
to engage BOARD, will please call and leave
their Mares in time, as ! am making prepare.
tons 10 Board large number of persons. Call
on the subscriber, al the Empire House, upper
end OF King street.
aug 2-eo3t JAMES H. NADDUX.
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CEYMOUR'S GU NO AND ~.
- DRILL am now ready TO s'fFG..T
mour's celebrated Guano and "De4' '' a..
Those who want will please send !" IT, w. ,.,r
ders early. or may not be able to ,GPpp.inF
orders. DRAYTON Il. Mh'', l.
Agricultural Warehouse, No ~ ''
jy 81
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INSURANCE COMPANY
CASH CAPITAL 100000.

ASSETS JULY !. 1875. s7CG.l37.
ys,ugFF .EOTpTHs Of ,he not, nroGts If this
| d;,,4,l ,n,,,II,. 70 hoIIor,
~ i,s nol,r,c: az named IN their circuIars 10 he
had a, m. otEca ot tho Subscriber
F,rst ,pnn,l div;,ion to noI,cv holders declar.
cd Tulv O 1887. 3al per ca,t
second 4, decIared IuIv = ISIS 40 per cent
Script for which wtIi be- issued to policy hold
ers entitled TO particlpate in the profits. on the
10th dav of August. and ON the same day six
ner cent interest will be maid upon the scTip of
1887
Tboso ,y,o ,visb insurance IN q, safe and nro.
f.ahie conn,ny vii DO wsII 70 examins his
benefits extended 10 Georgetown, Alexandria
Maryland, and Virginia }. 1: LtM -,
492 Seventh street washington
Washington aug <--'o<"
TIARRHlEA CORDIAL AND CHOLERA
REMEDY is a speedy and effica.
cIou, remedy for Dyseptarv. DIartbra Cholera
Morbus. Asiatic Cholera. Summer COMPLAINT
Collie, FIatuency. &c.
Alter an etectuaI trial of several wears. we
can safely say there is No remedy nresent.d r.
the pubIic so decidedly energetic and curative
for the diseases mentioned. a. this commanded
as if is of substances celebrated Tor their p,c,I.
liar efficacy.
Extract from letter received from Rev. w.
g. EggIeston:
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10y The GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.
pkOEI AIlON -Infnrma atom hau

10y THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.
ID A PROCLAMATION Information hav-
ipg been received by the Executive, that JAS.
TRAMMEL alias JAMES SOUTHARD, and
JAMES SMITH, escaped on Sunday night, the
| sth INST, from the jail OF the County of Alex
andrIa, while confined therein under charge OF
| burglary and robbery, and are now going at
large therefore, do hereby offer reward OF
| 800 TO any person who shall arrest either the
said James Trdmmel alias James Southland, or
the SAID James Smith, and deliver either into
the Jail OF SAID county OF Alexandria, and do
moreover require all officers OF this Common.
wealth, civil and military, and request the peo.
PIE generally TO use their best exertions to pro-
cure the arrest OF the said escaped prisoners
that they may be brought to Justice
>--o Given under my hand as Governor and
l. under the Less Seal OF the Common
w wealth. al Richmol j, this 2Sth day
OF July, 1888
HENRY A. WISE.
BY the Governor.
GEORGE W. MUSFoRD,
Secretary OF the Commonwealth
James TTammel alias James Southland is five
feet, SIX or eight inches high, dark hair and dark
complexion, thick lips aud good teeth He 10
about 20 or y years old.
James Smith Is slender 8 feet inches high,
brown hair and light eyes, oval face, prominent
mouth, shows his teeth when ne talks, and is
about Z Years old. aug Pit
4 tlTY HOTEL, CORNER or ROYAL AND CANE.
" Ron STREETS .8erandria, Ua--The under.
Signed respectfully invite their friends and the
travelling pubic generally, 10 make the CITY
HOl FL their stopping place while in Alexan-
drla, with the assurance that 10 pains, trouble,
or expense will be spared by the PROPRIETOR
and ms genilemaaly and accommodating ASSIS-
IANIS IN their efforts To- secure the comfort
and pleasure OF their guests
This HOTEL has been thoroughly repaired,
and neatly aud comfortably furnished through.
out, and from lis well known location in the
business part 81 the city, visitors on business or
Otherwise, will consult their comfort and con-
venience, by making il their home during their
stay.
The SERVANTS are polite and attentive and
the TABLE will be amply supplied with every
thing Tor the Inner man. the city market
Affords
WHALEY'S OMNIBUSES, with polite Dri.
veIs and Porters, will attend at the Depots and
Wharves, upon the arrival and departure of the
Cars and Boats, to convey passengers to and
from the House.
The Stage. Tor Winchester, via Leesburg,
and for Upperv!ile, have their office at this
House, where persons wishing 10 take seats for
either OF the above or intermediate places, will
please leave their names.
SAMUEL HEFLEBOWER, Proprietor.
J. J. ROBERTS, Assistant.
T. Travellers and citizens are informed that
by leaving their names at the office OF the City
Hotel, they Will always be certain Of being
conveyed or their journey in proper time, that
being the Office for Whaley's Omnibus Line.
&aug dim
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"ANTED.-A situation as IHa0" A..
w in a private family, b. oaLs y,r
qualified to teach the Ancient and hyIs," -.
guages, Mathematics, aud the usual ~
branches, and who has had some eHPr''s"''
teaching. q,
Good references can be given. address .
Y, Spotsylvania Court House, Va.
Jy l2-w3w
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I lST OF LETTERS remaining N tas Pe:
IL Office, at Alexandria, Va, on the 3l,,iag
OF July, 1858. Persons calling for LetenG
this list, will please say they are advertised
Brown, Catharine Miss Bryan, pliny
Burt, Amos Buracker, : 4
Bradshaw, f BransmaD, john
Bloxon, Levi Bennett, Francis
Beale, Joshua Beall, Washington
Baxter, WIN p (PiloD Barry, Robert
C.
Cronk, Charles Clevenger, Jas Mrs
Collins, William L Coleman, Samuel
Coleman,J A Cooke, PhInea, J
Chatterton, John Chrismond, Tho,
Chafer, S Crosby, Amelia MIS-
ID
Donaldson, Geo w Dixon, Henry l.
Daw, Mary F Mrs DAVIS, Ellzabr,a Wa
Davis Alberta Miss Denney Caroline Mis-
+
Frask, Robert VI
u
GreenIeaf, H Capt Grayson, Thos ,coIa
Gowell, Samuel Gale, Dewitt {
H
Hughes, John o Hohensteln, vi"
HeichieIdt, Martha Mrs Hammsrsay Wm
Hays, Jeremiah Hlego, Henry
HUH, Frederick Hammond, EIizabe'n Mis-
Harvey Carson n McknIgnt
Inman, Michael Capt Isenbury, Geo "
johnson, Sarah
X ..,xa5
Kinser, Chas F Capt Kaufman, NJ
Kelley, John ID Kelley, Charles Cap
King, Alexander
Nc
McEwer, Julia A Mss .SlcGinnety, Rose
McEwing, Samuel McKluzie, Chas )
Mekran; James
Morgan, S r Mrs Mount, u b
Monroe, James II Minor, Mr.
Mason, Martha Markham, John Cap.
Major, Mrs
Pollard, Smith K Co Padgett. Vim II
Perry, Carrie VI Miss
Rudd, Richard W Rowls, William
Rodgers, Nh Ryley CO
Staples, A Capt Solomon, MARY r vi"
Smith, Levinia Mrs Smith, Ellen. Nh
Snowden, r A Skinner, Thomas
Skipper, Mary Ann Mss
L
Tompkins, Sarah Mrs Taylor, John h
Tolllver, John Tallaieno Henry
Thomas & Grigsby, (Auomry')
yogdes, Sarah Mrs-2
W
Windsor, Francis A Wilson, Jane,
Wicks, S $ Capt Whittier kanGoii'
Watson, John w White, Henry
Wallace, John !
aug Pit L. W. hSHbl. r"
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nOUGLAS Il SHERWOOD'S AtJ's.'' =
~ Bustle Skirts; plain and figure ~ r. I,
Muslins, In great variety; LavliIa, Moa" '' p,
Bage, and Madonna Cloths tor lfs''".',
Dresses; Thread, Bobbin, Cambria. >"r'' - ..
Valcenes Edging.; super undress,d Ir.sa '..' ",.
Linen and Cotton Sheetings, Of the Dr., MAJ
Silk and Cotton Frnge.; Black SIX N.'',
s pieces Black Gro De RhIne Silks t''''''
and for sale at prices TO srt the il:ne,, .;
aug 2 TAYLOR Il hit ! 'nI''
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GOAL EXPECTED WHITE AND RED
" ASH ANTHRACITE EGG COAL; also,
extra size Cracked WHITE ASH EGG, for Fur.
nsces, a best qualities. Please send in your or.
ders. aug 2-dlwl WISE 4 co.
Fairfax News and Wauenton Wing copyl
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J. J. KUbEkIS, Assistant.
IL Travellers and citizens are informed that
by leaving their names at the office OF the City
Hotel, they Will always be certain Of being
conveyed or their journey in proper time, that
being the Office for Whaley's Omnibus Line
&aug dim
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-30

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS AND Ex.GovERN-
RR BOUTWELL, FOR CoNeREss.-The Springfield
Republican says:
THAT there should be any doubt of the selee.
ton of Mr.. Adams, under the circumstances, is a
discredit to the Republican voters OF the (third)
district. They ought to join spontaneously in
calling him from his retirement to the public SER
vice. and consider themselves quite as fortunate
in the possessiun of such a representative, as
he in having such a constituency. No other
district in the State has man so worthy the
name of statesman as Mr.. Adams. There are
more skillful and useful politicians, more popular
orators and leaders, but none of them have man
Of so thorough and well digested knowledge of
our political history, and so able to apply the
great principles of the government and the pre-
cedents Of its history to the current legislation of
the present time. Akin to him in quality of
mind and character, though Of a different life and
temperament, is Gov. Boutwell, and if the peo-
pie of the two districts in which they respectively
reside have the intelligence, and self respect, and
pride, which are ever the boast of citizens of Mas.
sachusetts. they will brush away the scrub politi.
clans and industrious seekers after Congressional
honors, who there, as in other districts, are en-
deavoring to bargain and bully their way to their
possession, and place these men forward, as their
representatives, to distinguish their districts
above all others, honor the State and serve high
purpose in the government of the country"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-30

MANNY's MOVING MACHINES, WITH ONE
HoRsE-The reputation of Manny's two horse
moving machines having become permanently
established throughout the country, the enter
prising proprietor of the patent in New England
Nh John P. Adriance of this city, has turned his
attention to the subject of manufacturing a one
horse mower, Mhich will meet the wants of the
smaller farmers who do not keep span, and who
may not wish to incur the expense of the two
horse machine.
trial of one of the one horse machines was
made Wednesday.upon land of Hon. Stephen Sal
isbury, in this city, which was perfect success,
The machine was drawn by single horse, with
apparent ease, and cut a swarth of heavy grass
three feet and four inches wide, at the rate of
three iourths of acre an hour as neatly as
could be could be done by any process whatever
AS the one horse machines can be manufactured
and sold at considerable less expense, and as their
work is not inferior, although little less rapid,
we judge that there will be large sale for them
hereafter, now that it has been so plainly demon
strated that the principle Of the Nanny machine
may be applied to machines of so light draft, and
give perfect satisfaction to every farmer.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-30

EMANCIPATION IN THE WEST INDIEs.-Rev.
Mr.. Bleby, an English Methodist missionary in
the West Indies where he has labored for TWEEN.
ty seven years, is lecturing in Boston. His ties.
timony as to the results of emancipation differs
widely from that of pro slavery men who have Wis.
tied the islands
He had been asked many times, how does
emancipation work For ten years. it operated
with unqualified success, and then it was hinder.
ed by the free trade action Of Great Britain. by
which the free colonies were thrown into unequal
competition with the slave-owning producers in
Cuba and Brazil. Some planters were ruined,
and some estates were thrown out of cultivation,
but they are rising out of 1t In Bar BADGES
emancipation has been completely successful.
Real property no worth more than at any pre-
vious time in its history. There is scarcely a
yard Of earth not under cultivation. The Grimm.
al statistics will compare favoTably with those Of
any part OF the world The churches and schools
are crowded. He had a membership of 1900
persons under his charge. which had agreed to
raise $4,000 the coming year for church and school
purposes. The seven hundred children in the
schools would compare favOrably with those Of
the common schools of England or America. In
Jamaica the prime minister, the head of the
stipendiary magistrates, the second Judge of the
supreme court, the most eminent physician and
oculist, and some Of the most influential members
OF the legislative assembly, have black skins and
woolly heads. He believed the blacks to be as
capable Of intellectual culture as the whites, and
as appreciative Of the virtues and graces which
adorn every condition of life"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-30

EXTRACT FROM WEBsTER.-We give, below,
another extract from the great speech of Daniel
Webster, which was suppressed by Edward Ever
EFT in the edition of Websters speeches, edited by
him. In this, just rebuke is administered to
those who are prone to charge the evil conse-
quences of ungodly measures upon those who OPP
pose them. There never has been stronger case
OF this uniarness, than the antislaverY agitation
has ELECTED. The doughfaces. and upholders of
slavery OF every stripe, have been unceasing in
their endeavors to throw the responsibility for all
the evils of that foul system upon those who OPP
posed its existence and extension. We commend
to their attention the pungent remarks Of Mr..
Webster, in the following extract
"When we ask, sir, for the causes of these dis
appointments, we are told that they are owing to
the opposition. All the evils which affict
the country are imputed to opposition. This i,
the fashionable doctrine, both here and else
where 1t is said to be owing to opposition that
the war became necessary and owing to oppo-
sition also that it has been prosecuted with no
better success.
This, sir, is no new strain. 1t has been sung
a thousand times. 1t is the constant tune of eve.
~ weak or wicked administration. What minis.
ter ever yet acknowledged that the evils which
fell on his country were the necessary consequen
ces OF his own incapacity, his own folly, or his
own corruption What possessor of political
power ever yet failed to charge the msohefs re-
sulting from his own measures, upon those who
had uniformly opposed those measures The
people Of the United States may well rememb
the administration of Lord North. He lost Amer
lea to his country. Yet he could find pretences
for throwing the odium upon his opponents. He
could throw it upon those who had forewarned
him Of consequences from the first, and who had
opposed him. at every stage of his disastrous pol
icy, with all the force of truth, and reason, and
talent. 1t was not his own weakness. his own
ambition, his own love of arbitrary power, which
disafected the colonies. It was not the Tea
Act, the Stamp Act, or the Boston Port Bill, that
severed the empire of Britain. Oh. no lit was
owing to fault of the administration. 1t the
work of opposition. 1t was the impairment bold
ness of Chatham, the idle defamation of Fox,
and the unreasonable sarcasm Of Barre These
men, and men like them, would not join the min
lister in his American war. They would not give
the name and character of wisdom to that which
they believed to be the extreme OF folly. Thsy
would not pronounce those measures Just and
honorable, which their principles led them TO de
test. They declared the ministers war to be wan
ton. They foresaw its end, and pointed it out
plainly both to the minister and to the country.
He pronounced the opposition to be selfish and
factious He persisted in his course, and the re-
suit is in history"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-30

REPORTED MASSACRE ON THE PLAINs.-Mr.
Peter Johnson. of Jackson county, Missouri,
who lately arrived at Coloma, California,
from the Plains, reports that nineteen persons
out of a party of twenty. one who started
from Salt Lake for California after the arrival
of Gov. Cumming in Utah, were soon after
massacred by band of Pah Utah Indians,
or, as he believes, white men disguised as In
dians. The attack was made when the party
were encamped for the night, and all asleep.
Mr.. Johnson and John Lyttle alone saved
themselves by hiding among the rocks. John
son says the party left Independence, Missou-
ri, on the 25th of June, 1867, in Col. Gilpin' s
train. and were detained at Salt Lake by
Brigham Young Until after the arrival of Gov.
Cumming, when they were allowed to depart.
His reason for thinking that the muIderers of
the party were white men, is that before
leaving Salt Lake, Brigham Young in effect
told Col. Gilpn that not one of his company
should ever reach California, and in fact that
no emgrants should come through, until the
United States should make restitution to
them for what they had suffered, and allowed
them to live in peace The narrative of john
son, however, as given in the Coloma Repu5-
IicGn, does notappear probable.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-30

"THE OLD LOG CABIN."-The mansion house
of the late President Harrison, situated at North
Bend on the Ohio River, some fifteen miles be.
low Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 18th. 1t was occupied by Col
William H. Taylor (who married daughter OF
Gen. Harrison) and family, who barely escaped
with their lives, in only their night clothes 1t
is supposed that the portraits Of Gen. Harrison
and his widow, valuable papers left by the old
veteran, and relics, preserved with care by the
family, were destroyed.
We saw this mansion about a year since. 1t
had the appearance of the residence of farmer
in comfortable circumstances, but lacked new
coat Of paint. Itwas two-story frame house
but it was said that appendage to it in the
was constructed Of logs-a circumstance which
first gave rise to the sneer Of Gen. Harrison's op
ponents. in 1910, that he lived in " log cabin,
and drank "hard cider"-a sneer which his
friends took up and turned to good account in the
course Of the campaign.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-30

SUPPOSED FATAL POISONING OF A WIFE.
The frog Times of July o. says that great
excitement exists at Bennington, near that
city, in consequence of the supposed poison
ing by a farmer named Nathaniel Spafford. of
his wife, child, and servant girl. Il appears
that on the morning of the Goth, Spafford rose
at an early hour, built fire, and made the
coffee for breakfast, refusing the aid of his
wife. At breakfast he declined to partake of
the coffee, saying that it affected his nervous
system. All who did partake were soon suf-
fering from symptoms OF poison. At last &C.
counts the wife was in dying condition, ard
her ante mortem deposition had been taken.
An apothecary in the neighborhood testifes
TO having SOLD Spaford a quantity of corro-
slve sublimate for killing bed bugs, though
he lives in a new house, in which there are
no bugs. He is farmer in good clrcum-
stances, thirty five years of age. With re.
gard to the motive, it is stated that he has
been for some time past paying attentions to
a young woman at Salisbury that those at
tentions have been of an equivocal character,
aud suspicion is thus induced that he want.
ed to get his wife out of the way. If he did,
he certainly went to work in very bungling
manner to do it. He has been arrested.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-30

The AUeUsT BLEcToNs.-The annual cleo
tons in Missouri, Kentucky, Texas, Arkansas,
and Alabama, occur on Monday next, August 2 /;
the election in Tennessee takes place on Thurs.
day, the 9Th; and that in North Carolina on
Thursday, the 18th. These elections cover one
Governor, nine members of the Both Congress,
and one member of the 18th, to fill vacancy
aud a variety Of minor State and local officers,
with Legislatures in several of the states-the
Legislature of Arkansas to choose Senator for
the full term from the Attn of March next, and the
Legislature of North Carolina to fill the two un-
expired years of Mr.. Reid's term, now held by
Mr., Clingman under Apo intment of the Govern.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-30

The "Dalles," a word which occurs
SO frequently in the news from Oregon, is
a name given to a narrow passage OIL the Co.
lumbia river, some fifty miles above the Cas-
cades, where the stream passes between i'm
mense walls of basaltic rock, only three hun
dred feet asunder. The name, which is pro.
nounced as if written dolls, means 'slabs,"
and was given, doubtless, by the early French
trappers, as descriptive OF the remarkable
masses OF basalt which are not dissimilar TO
nag stones set upon end, and cemented to
gether.
A letter from the celebrated naturalist
and traveller Tschudi, to the AHeqeaoine
lettuag, announces the death, in May last.
(date not mentioned of Anne Bonpland, the
early friend and fellow traveller OF Alexan-
der Won Humboldt, in the eighty sixth year
OF his age. He died at San Boria, ANAL
town in Brazil, near the Uruguaydn frontier.
where he bad resided since 1881.
Rev. Mr.. Spring of East Hartford
whose house was burned down some weeks
ago. now occupies new building which COST
$4,000, which sum, with enough mora N
supply the loss Of his library, was subscribed
by his friends.
IT is estimated that $4,000 worth of
whortleberries will be sent this season from
Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington, and Camden
counties, New Jersey, to the New York and
Philadelphia markets.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-30

The VALUATION AND TAXES OF SPRING.
FIELD FOR lS5S.-The assessors have comple-
ted their labors for this year, and the result
shows the total valuation of all the property
in the city to be $S, 1881, l40 made up Of
$6,702,O40 real estate, and $2,679, 100 per
sonal property. This is $l77 $50 less than the
valuation of last year. In real estate there is
an increase of $65,700, but the valuation Of
personal property has fallen off S243. $50.
The number of polls now is $3.50 against
S,7l0 last year, falling off of 1870. The
poll tax this year is So head, against ~ 90
last year. The amount assessed on property
for city purposes is a little more than last
year. but the great reduction in the State tax
reduces the rate of taxation from so 90 per
$1,000 to So so. There are l7S persons and
firms who pay taxes on $4,000 and over.
Inc highest individual tax is SLIGO 50, and
this is Chester w. Chspin's. SprinqfeId Re.
Dubticin,