Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-05-15
News OF tho Day
"7o sho,o the pery age and body ofhe TINES

A letter from Madrid, dated 2lst ult.. says:
1.-THE declarations Of the ministry have re-
moved the disquietude which was oocasioned
by the telegram, of design of the Uuited
States to declare war on Spain. There is
no foundation for the stories that Spain con.
tributed to the fall Of ComonfOrt. or had the
least idea of attempting to convert the Mexl-
can Republic into a monarchy for Spanish
Prince"
The Cass Irisarri treaty is not yet before the
Senate. 1t has been considered by the Cab
met, bot no official copy of the ratified treaty
has, it is said, been received. One story is
that it was stolen on the way, and another Is
that President Martinez has refused to sign
it, though it has been ratified by the Nicars-
guam Congress. 1t is expected by the next
packet, now due.
Late advices from Port Plats, ION the Sd, J
state that the Dominican Feet was besieging
that place. The American schooner Wing
Of the Wind ran the blockade, and bad seven
shots fired at her. The feet, on the lst tirsd
a few shots into the towo, and tue fire was
returned from the shore.
The British screw-steamship Saladin, Cap
tain Middleton, arrived at New York on
Wednesday, 10 ten days from Kingston, ia
maioa. She is bound to Liverpool. and put
into that port to land sixty one Of the crew
and officers belonging to the United States
steam-frigste Susquehanna, who, being sick
with yellow fever. were sent ashore from that
vessel at Kingston. Ga the 18th OF April,
the men were all discharged from the hos
pital, cured, and by the ooh all the officers
were discharged.
At the public sitting Of the Geographical
Society of Paris, on the Goth ultimo, the
great anoual prize for the most important
geographical discovery in 1855, was awarded
to the American navigator, DR.. Kane; the
reporter paid warm tribute to the memory
of the deceased navigator.
The report in reference to the injury to the
cotton crop by the recent frosts, proves to be
utterly unfounded. 1t was never in a more
promising condition; and SC with reference to
the other crops peculiar to Southern latl-
tude.
Captain Charles r. Webb, of Stamford,
Connecticut, who, with the aid of a green
boy who had never before been to sea, uavi
gated the yacht "Charter Oak" twenty-five
feet long. from New York to Liverpool, is
now buildings yacht forty-f9ur feet keel, and
sixteen feet beam, with which be intends to
visit the Isle of Wight, ST. Petersburg, and
some French port, to let the crowned heads
of Europe see what Yankee can do.
The annual Episcopal Convention of G cor
gia assembled in Savannah on the 9th inst.
The Bishops report refers to the project for
building a Southern Episcopal College, I'M
der the patronage Of the Church, which is
designed to rival anything in this country 10
it's capacity and usefulness. The location
selected is Sewanee, Tennessee, and no work
is to be commenced until $500, 900 is collect
ed, only the interest of which is to be expen-
ded; the principal to be retained by the trea-
surer of each State.
The schooner Star OF the North cleared on
tho 18th at Detroit, with cargo for Liver
pool, being a second clearance from Detroit
for that port this season. The schooner Col
onel Cook sailed this week, to be followed
during the present month by six others. all
loaded With slaves and lam Der, for Liverpool
direct.
Owing to the infrm state of Bishop Pot
ter's health, and the unerous duties of an &C.
slesiastical jurisdiction so extensive as that
Of the diocese of Pennsylvania, he has re-
comm ended, 80 VIC are informed. the cleo
ton of an Assistant Bishop, agreeably to
canon OF the Episcopal Church, providing
for suoh case.
An enterprising citizen Of Canastota, New
York, is ornamenting that village by setting
out maple trees along the streets. lie has
also set apart three acres Of his farm for a
village park. Such man is public bene-
factor as well as Il judieious improver of the
value of his own property.
Eighteen respectable" citizens of Miami
town, Ohio, undertook to lynch one Benjamin
Coleman, for harboring counterfeiters. MIR.
Coleman stood on his rights, brought them
up before the Common Pleas, and they
were fined 500 each and costs. Served
them right.
Lot NJ. Morrill,, the Black Republican
Governor OF Maine, has been convicted of ap-
propriating the literary labors of Rev. E. Ii.
Chaplin, ard issuing the same as part of a
Proclamation appointing day Of public fas.
ting and prayer, to be kept by the people of
that Commonwealth.
The Rev. Henry Wood, chaplain in the
United States navy, writing from St. Helena,
saws that in the room where Napoleon died
there is now d threshing machine in opera.
ton, and stalls for the horses that move it, in
bis bed chamber.
Mr.. Rarey, the American horse tanner, is
said to he realizing splendid fortune in
Great Britain. After a most successful
course of tuition in Liverpool. be is now in
Dublin, where large humber If subscri-
b,rs are taking lessons at $50 and $40 each.
The steamer Delta, laid up at Algers,
Louisiana, was burned to the waters edge on
the 18th. She was valued at Sc 900. aud 10
sured for $4,000. TIE Delta was owned by
her commander. Captain Joseph Ford, and
her clerk George Washington.
Arrivals at St. Louis from Santa Fe bring
intelligence of the death Of Mr.. Preston
Dab ubo vas wounded in an affrsy with