Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-15
NEWS OF the Day.
"T0shoso the Gerry age and body Of the TINES

There are most alarming reports current
in Paris as to general rising of the Christian
not merely on the frontiers OF Al
bania, bot throughout Seryis, Bosnia. Ihes-
sally. Macedonia. Roumelia--ln TACT, through
all European Turkey. Whether Russia Is
trying q desperate stroke, or whether 1t be
the spontaneous impulse of loug-compresse ed
impotence Of Ottoman rule, time alone will
tell.
The appropriation which has just passed
Congress, of $4,000 for printing fifty more
volumes of American State Papers, we hope
my confer substantial benefit on Gales & Sea-
ton, the veteran and respect editors of the
National Intelligeneer.
Intelligence has been received of another
accident on the Lafayette and Indianapolis
Railroad, by which the engineer and fire.
man were killed, but no passengers serious
ly hurt. Particulars have not come to hand,
but it is known that heavy floods had &C.
Cured, and some of the bridges had been
swept away.
Some of the testimony given in New York
in the Cancemi case, has produced great ex'
element in court, and serves to invest the
case with additional mystery. The principal
witness for the prosecution, the man who
saw the pistol fred by which Anderson was
killed, aud who positively Identifies Cancemi
as the man who fired it, stated that since the
previous trial an attempt had been made tc
"settle with him." as be expressed it; 10 9th
er words, to buy off his testimony by the pay
ment of large sum of money, and to induce
him to 90 10 California. The witness point
ed out, as the parties who had approached
him with these offers, the prisoners counsel
Mr.. Blankman, and a MIR. Cristadoro, who
takes a great interest for the prisoner, and
also one of the jurors, a MIR. Muller.
The New York Tribune Of the 10Th inst
speaking of the recent murders and other
outrages in southern Kansas, says that "the
only one of the whole party (Hamilton's.
who refused to participate in the murders
was Brockett." This refers, we believe, tc
MIR. W. B. Brockett, formerly of this place,
and should be regarded as decisive evidence
in his favor, coming from that source.
In thorougbly removing the earth at the
burial place of Ethan Allen, in Burlington
Vt, last Tuesday, for laying the foundation
of the proposed monument, the bones Of
Ethan Allen were found directly beneath the
place of the old tombstone. They were
boxed up and re-interred beneath the foun'
dation.
The trial Of Simpkins mate of the "kezi
ah," implica ted in the late kidnapping tran
sactions OF Petersburg, on Friday, resulted in
hung jury. The jury were given in charge
of the sheriff in the hope that they might
agree upon verdict. The defence of the
10 ate is that be knew nothing of the fact thai
the negroes were fugitives.
Many of the Farmers on South River, In
Albemarle county, are hauling their Flour
to Scottsville in wagons-the price of trans
portation by Railroad being too high. The
Farmers thus save the cost of transportation
and bring back return load of plaster, DC.
at cheaper rates than if forwarded by Rail
road.
The fortieth session Of the New Church
General Convention, commenced at the New
Jerusalem Church in Boston, on Wednesday
and will continue FIVE days. Seventy-thret
delegates were present from the Illinois,
Maine, Massach usetts, Maryland, Northern
Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania Assc
Citations, and General Society OF Ohio.
Capon Springs, Hampshire county, Va
during the current season is to be under the
mana cement Of Mr.. f. d. Willard, whose
eute rprise and skill in the conduct of large
public house is we'll known to all of Wash
in gton, and to those who frequently soJourr
there.
On Il single round trip the receipts from
passengers alone, on the Virginia and Ten
n essee Railroad, amounted to fraction less
than eleven hundred dollars. On Friday
night last the number of through passengers
amounted to forty.fye, showing steady In
crease of travel over the road.
AtCundia the Greeks have risen against the
authorities on the pretext that the tax for ex'
emption from military service was unjust
The tranquility of the Island was threatened,
but reintorcemepts arrived and peace was re-
stored.
Mr.. Melville, of Miss, has sent from
thirteen small counties of that State So 9l
for the Mount Vernon fund. Mr.. Gregor, Of
Miss. has RENTED $7S9, and 1851 have been
added from Alabama.
Commander Overton Carr, I. S. n, has
been ordered to duty at the Philadelphia
hayward on the 1st Of July, proximo, to re,
lieye Comwapder S. 5. Lee.
The Rev. Julius Z. Grammer, OF Washing
ton. D. c., has accepted a call from the YES
try of St. Peters P. E. church of Smyrna
Del, to become their pastor.
Travis, the pistol.sbooter, is teaching his
art to the ladies of Lexington, Ky. This Is
a new feature, but most dangerous prece-
dent.
Postmaster Fowler, of New York, has dis
played his gallantry by appointing female
clerk to attend the window in the PosI-ofice,
at which ladies apply for letters.
The United States Agricultural Society Will
hold its annual fair this year at Richmond,
Va, during the last week in October.
MIA. Hall of Washington, d. e., predicts
The failure of the Atlantic ocean telegraph.
Appropriations by Congress.
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