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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
R.I,uiana nIeetIngs, &c.

Correspondence ofhe Richmond Dispatch.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Aug. l2.-The AL
bemarle Baptist Association have today
closed their Goth annual session, at Mt. Ed.
Church, in the neighborhood OF North Gar
den. There were in attendance large del
egation from several counties, and the inter-
est of the citizens generally was enlisted in
the meetings. Rev. Messrs. PoiDdexter, Bit
ting, Dickinson, Francis, Long and Haynes,
Editor Sands, and Gen. John II. Cooke, were
recognised as visiting brethren, aud invited
to seats.
Rev. T. w. Roberts preached the introduc-
tory sermon. From the letters which were
read from the churches, it appears that du-
ring the past year there have been 48O per-
sons baptized, IN aking the present number Of
commandments 400. Two new churches were
received into the body. Rev. j. A. Broadus
WAS elected Moderator; Prof j. Hart Clerk,
and j. Alexander, esq.,, editor Jeffersonian,
Treasurer.
% Wednesday, large mass meeting was
Cooke presided Addresses were delivered
by the Rev. Mcssrs. Dickinson, Taylor Broa-
dus, and others; after which, over 500 were
contributed by the congregation. The follow,
ing is the amount of work which has been OF,
fected during the year, by the OOlporteurs who
have labored in this Association: Visited 2lIO
families, with 726 Of whom they prayed,
found 90 destitute of the Bible, and II desti
tute of all religious books except the Bible;
preached AZ sermons; gave away $65 worth
of books, and sold 1852 worth.
Revs. A. NJ. Poindexter, G. G. Biting, g.
B. Taylor, j. A. Broadus and others, preach
ed. One hundred dollars were raised fol
State missions. Reports on Foreign missions,
Sunday Schools, Bible operations, and sever.
al other subjects, were read and advocated
in able and earnest addresses. 1t is due tc
the people Of the neighborhood to say that
they furnished the best Of entertainment fol
| thu larn crnud which met from day TO day
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
The Appraisement at Rockville, Md.

Several days of last week were occupied
by the parties to the appraisement of the
claim Of the Great Falls Manufacturing
Company to damages prospective for the
abstraction Of the sixty-seven millions Of
gallons of water Of the Potomac to be drawn
of BY the Washington Aqueduct, as well
as for part of Conn's island, at the Falls,
and part of the bed of the stream. 1t is
thought this business will occupy several
days more, the attorneys and agents of the
claimants being quite numerous. They COM
prise gentlemen Of the legal professions,
ranking among the most able and distin-
guished in this region of the Union, as
follows: Messrs. Bowie, Bouic, and kilgour,
of Rockville; Ex-Governor Lowe, OF Freder-
lex city; r. X. Scott Jno. S. PendIeton,
Love, and Strotber, of Virginia and r. S.
Chiffon, of Washington. % the part Of
the Government Messrs. Brewer, Of Rockville
Robert Ould and Hugh Caperton of George
town, and +. G. Darlington, of Washington
are engaged. Some very interesting ques-
tons have arisen. involving in part the
fundamental principles Of the law as to the
public right to the use of a flowing river
and the rights of riparian proprietors, ard
III pdEt tue eAtcul VI tho pV"'io VI u Spoi
ter from the State Of Virginia to confer title
to the stream and bed Of the Potomac
The jury to whom the matter of inquisition
is entrusted consists Of seventeen Of whom
twelve must agree before an inqusition can
be found. 1t has been ascertained that the
water TO be supplied to the aqueduct will
constitute only about one-tcnth of tho con-
tents OF the river at it's lowest stage, or
only about cne-hundredth when at its usu-
oil full height.-Nat Int.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17

aUourt News".-Important Details
On Saturday last, President Buchanan
arrived at the Relay House, or Washington
Junction as it is more properly called. en-
route for Washington city. There was ru-
NOR abroad that be was to arrive, and the
visitors had consequently grouped about the
house when the train came along. We soon
perceiyed the President coming from the
cars to the platform, looking hearty, but
thoroughly travel soiled, smiling and cheer
ful. By his side, and evidently Offering with
gentlemanly Difference the courtesy Of atten-
ton, was rather rough looking individual,
whom we took for conductor or brakesman
the gentleman will excuse our laundering
in such matter-but upon inquiry We were
informed was Sir William Gore Ousely.
On passing into the bar.room the President
threw off his coat and bis white neck
cloth, carelessly pitching them over chair,
opened his shirt collar, and tucked up his
sleeves for wash, convenences for this
purpose being in the apartment. AT the
time, however, both basins were occupied by
two young men, neither Of whom seemed to
be aware that the President was about. de
waited patiently some time, when some one
spoke and invited him up stairs. lie declin-
ed, however, quietly remarking that he
would "wait for his turn" And as soon as
the basins were vacated, he "took bis turn"
in a jolly good wash in the public bar-room.
This done, he seemed rather perplexed about
the arrangement of his neckcloth, and seem
ed likely to tie bis nose and mouth up in it.
Somebody just then offered assistance, and
the President was briefly equipped.
At about this time person who bad come
into the room, sung out pretty near to him,
Look here, thought the old Pres. was to
be here to-day" The speech was cut
short by nudge, while momentary conf
col expression passed over the face OF that
same "old Pres" A cigar was banded to
him by friend; he took good satisfying
drink of-not "old rye" which b, is said to
affect, when prime--but ice-water, had bare
ly fired up bis cigar, when the bell rung, and
"all aboard" summoned the Chief Magistrate
of the United States to bis seat in the cars,
and away they went to Washington. -Bak.
| San.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
A Well Mixed Race.

There is now in Rochester, New York, a
man aged one hundred and six years, whose
ancestry, together with his own progeny,
will exhibit one of the strangest mixtures Of
races ever heard of. His name is John
Shenandoah O'Brien, and be was born in
Boston, 1852. His father was an lrisbman,
and bis mother 40 Indian of the ONEIDA tribe.
When twelve years old he was sent to France,
and there educated as physician. He re-
turned to America and served in the revolu-
tionary war; afterwards he went back to
France and there married the daughter Of
the Emperor of Morocco, by whom he had
eight children; with her be lived in the Uni.
ted States for some time. lie then married
an American woman, descended from the
Teutonic line, and after her death married q
negress who was fifty years younger than
himself, and by whom he had four children.
In bis children are united the blood of the
Celts, the Teutons, the African, and the
North American Indian.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
Editorial Conventions.

Editorial conventions are very much in
vogue with country editors everywhere, and
they are ali pretty much Of the same charac-
ter-that is to say, general Notifications at
some ones expense besides tber own, great
deal of eating, great deal more drinking,
and no business at all. Editorial ''cOnven.
tons" are humbugs; they ought to be demon,
mated, in plain language, editorial sprees.-
The New Jersey editors were Oh one last week
at Paterson, which lasted tSo days, and from
the report it would appear that the gastrono-
mic feats performed there were extraordinary
The Jerseymen 90 in for the thing with good
will. They have four editorial fro!ics in the
year.-N Y Herald.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
The Airin Town and Country.

R. Angus Smith, an English gentleman
who has for several years devoted attention
to the condition of the air Of towns, com
muncates to the London Athenaum the
result of some of his experiments Tor ascer
tanning the amount of organic matter contain
ed in the air Of various localities. The pro
cess by which this is accomplished consists
10 finding how much Of a solution of perman
ganate Of soda will decomposed by tue amount
Of air. The process occupies about half az
hour. Mr.. Smith states that be finds as much
difference between the back streets of town
and the air of billy district in the North Of
Lancash as from l to %. In other words,
there was found in the air of a close court y
times more matter capable of decomposing
the solution then there was found in tree
hilly district.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
The Great Works at Cherbourg.

All Franco has been unusually excited on
the occasion of the Inauguration OF the dock
Napoleon III. at Cherbourg; and the feeling
has extended to Great Britain. although the
cause for the excitement 10 England is en-
tirely the opposite of that which influences 1t
10 France.
Under every government since the time OF
Louis &lV-whether monarchical, imperial,
republican or revolutionary-the same idea
has prevailed; and from 1889, when the COM
mercial port was formed and the quays built
and two moles constructed, down to 1858,
when the great inner basin, now called the
dock Napoleon I'LL, is inaugurated, the
works have been carried on with greater or
less persistency. And now Cherbourg stands
military port of the first order, at once a
menace to it's neighbor and ally across the
Channel, and defence on that eide from any
warlike descent upon its Channel coast
The entire cost of the breakwater amounts to
$l3 400 600, and of the dock Napoleon Ill.
to S3,200,O00. 1t is defended by numerous
forts, constructed at immense expense.
Forty-fve years ago. in this same month OF
August, tho outer port was inaugurated 10
the presence of the Empress Maria Louisa,
the second wife of Napoleon |. And now, on
the 7th Of this month, the Queen of Eng land
the head Of the nation against which this
port of Cherbourg is an object of offence and
defence--assists at the grand .tete whereby the
dock Napoleon III. is inaugurated; and the
Empress Eugene, the wife Of Napoleon ILL.,,
is probably by her side.-N T. Herald.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
Tho Bloun,.pe R,vIere Affair.

4 Slight MIStake.-Some Of our cotcm-
poraries, 10 writing of this curious romance
seem to think the object Of the Zouave is
to marry the subject Of his alteration, Miss
Blount. This is mistake. The young
lady asserts unqualifedly that they were
lawfully married before they made the tour
to New York, and had lived as man and
wife for weeks before the separation. The
secret of his pertinacity, then is simply to
hold Oh to the prize already won. The
fact of his having another wife now living
in the State Of Pennsylvania, seems to be
in the present status of the case, the only
family obstacle to his success.
By the way, we learn the romantic Cap.
tain grew quite chivalrous on the eve OF
his departure from Savannah. He rem marked
on board the steamer that fighting was
simply pastime with him, and if any gen.
tleman desired to be amused in that way
be was always ready to accommodate him
after breakfast hours, as he was generally
at leisure the remainder Of the day. lie
would lie over till the next steamer to oblge
a beligereDt-meeth him half way, or rather
than be nice about it, 60 the whole dis
lance himself Verify the Zouave is trump
-Savannah Rep.
"Count" De Riviere has arrived at New
York, and the papers of that city have q
long story which they pronounce "new de-
velopements." 1t contains very little, bow.
ever beyond what we stated some days age
that the difficulty with Col. Blount had
been settled by the withdrawal Of the sui,
instituted by the latter against the Count v
The latter, it is now stated, is to have the
privilege to correspond with Miss Blount
through her mother.-BaR. Sun.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
The Queens Message.

The public has been wondering why the
message from the Queen of England TO Pres
ident Buchanan has not been transmitted Dy
this time through the Atlantic cable. A
week has now expired since both ends OF 1t
have been landed, and we have the assurance
tba. signals have been constantly received at
the Newfoundland station from Valensa Bay,
showing that the electric current Is perfect
The reason is explained in cur despatch
from Trinity Bay published this morning.
All the arrangements for working the lioe
are confded exclusively to Professor White
house, the electrician of the company, and
his assistants, and they have not yet been
able to get the Queens message through the
cable; and judging from the experiments
made at Keyham, they will not succeed IN
reaching any satisfactory result with the pre-
sent instruments in use. We were told that
the message and reply Of the President were
to have been Immediately transmitted, aud
then the line was to have remained some
weeks in the hands of the electricians for e1,
detrimental studies. The failure to send the
message is significant.
1t is probable that the recording instru'
ments of the English electrician have failed
to give ineligible results, and we may have
nothing through the Atlantic cable until they
are laid aside by the company. The instru'
ment invented by Mr.. Hughes is the only one
sufficiently delicate to record message
through the cable faithfully, and though il
has been rejected thus far by the company, il
will probably have to be adopted. A fort
night or more may yet pass by before this
can be accomplished, as Mr.. Hughes is in
England, but not at Valentia Bay, and one
of his instruments will have to be sent from
here to Newfoundland and attached there.
The parties here who are interested should
communicate by the steamer which sails to-
day for Europe with the directors in Eng
land, SO that the proper steps may be taken
at an early day.--N. \. Herald.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17

Attic dinner given to Mr.. Crittenden, al
Versailles, KY, it is stated that Mr.. Leslie
Coombs said that Hon. Mr.. Thompson oil
KY, chad been entrapped by the Lecompton
party, and that, although he had voted with
them, be had spplauded the course Of Mr..
Crittenden upon tho question. Gen Coombs
authoritatively stated the fact, that Mr.. Thomp,
son announced in w ashingson that he had been
deceived in regard to this matter, and that
although he had pledged himself to 60 for LIE.
compton, and redeemed the pledge, be did i,
in the same spirit be would pay a debt when
he bad been cheated at cards."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
Ex.President Tyler.
A letter from Old Point, Va, says:

A letter from Old Point, Va, says:
"E1-President Tyler, having purchased q
farm only two miles from the hotel, spends
most of his time here in social communication
With the guests, all of whom express for him
the highest consideration. The old gentle.
man eschews politics, and devotes his atten-
ton to agriculture. not scientifically, but &C.
oordipg to the old Virginia principle of max
Jog ali you can this year, and letting the next
take care of itself His family attend reli.
gious worship at the chapel within the fort,
where Mrs. Tyler has her own pew. John
Tyler is now in his Goth year, but looks as
young as when be occupied the Presidential
chair, and is quite as jocular and full OF fun.
He expresses the greatest confidence in pos,
terity doing his administration justice, and
says that time and reflection but safety him
the more with every act of his official life, not
Que of " hich would be now change had bethe
mower"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
The Dysentery In Pendeiton.

By letter from Franklin, dated the Sth
inst. We learn that this disease is still pre-.
vailiDg to an alarming extent in that County.
1t says-Mrs. Cyrus Hopkins died on the 9th,
MIR. Jacob Haltermsn, on the 7tb, Miss
Amanda Blewitt and child of Mr.. Michael
Skiles were buried on the 4th. Mr.. John
Lough and Mrs. Siple are lying very low and
not expected to recover.
The disease also continues to prevail very
badly 90 Cabin Run and its tributaries, in this
County. Since our last number We hear Of
one family losing three children and snoth.
or tWo.-Romney Int.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
Grand Military and Civic Barbecue at
ShenhsrdstoMn Va.

Shepherdstown, va.
As has previously been announced, our
citizens, uniting with the "Hamtramck
Guards" have determined to hold q Grand
Military and Civic Barbecue at "Morgan's
Spring." near this place, on Thursday, the
2nd of September.
Preparations are being made on the most
extensive and liberal scale, and from our
knowledge of the character of the energetic
and efficient Committee of Arrangements,
we are confident that the dinner prepared
for the occasion, together with every thing
connected herewith, will be of the most ex-
celent character, and that success must at
tend them.
The Committee of Invitation have sent
pressing invitations to twelve Military Com
psnies, viz:
G Gon,l1s0'a''' Cumberland, Md.
Potomac GUARDS, Williamsport, Nd.
United Guards,
Independents, Frederick, Md.
Junior Defenders,
M Mt. Tsrnou Guards, Alexandria Va.
Morgan Continentals, Winchester, Va.
Js5srson G Cadet. charlestown, Va.
Cadets, Martinsburg, Va.
Invitations have also been cent to Gov.
Wise, Senators Mason and Hunter, Hon. G.
j. Faulkner, Hon. Anthony Kennedy, Hon.
III. Winter Davis, and Hon. VIM. Lucas; Col.
Yates of the State Senate, Messrs. Hawks
and Osborne, of the Legislature, Andrew
Hunter, and A. r. Boteler, esqs., AdJutant
Gen. Richardson, the Field Officers, ex-Colo-
nels of the Regiment, and numbers of other
prominent gentlemen from the Military and
Citizens, both of Maryland and Virginia; and
we are authorized to extend general invita-
ton to our brethren Of the Press.
OF those who accept their Invitations,
both companies and individuals, our readers
shall be duly apprised.
John Randolph Tucker, esq, Attorney
General of Virginia, has been invited to de-
liver an address upon the occasion, and We
but echo the universal sentiment when We
express the earnest hope that he may be in-
duced to favor US by an acceptance. MIR.
fuckers chaste and beautiful style, together
With hi, great ability, have rendered him,
deservedly, one OF the most popular orators
of our State, and very great will be the dis
appointment should be be unable to graft
| fy Us.
Capt. Y. NJ. Butler has been rendered the
command of the Battalion for the occasion,
which be has kindly accepted. He is an
efficient and able officer and better selec-
ton could not possibly have been made
The Programme he may adopt will be pub
| lished 10 due .iHe.
COMMITTEE or ARRANGEMENTs.--Mess
Wm. A. Morgan, V. Marmaduke, Henry T.
Cameron, Joseph Stonebraker, John K.
Hawn, and John NJ. Ernst.
COMMITTEE OF INVITATION V.
! NJ. Butler, Lieut. +. c. Lee, Sergeant John
II. little, and John S. Pierce-ShepherdS'
| torn ReqiSEr.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17

Our dispatches from the South announce
the prevalence Of the yellow fever in an cpl
demic form at New Orleans, and also the oc
curence of several cases at Charleston. Al
New Orleans the deaths by the disease fol
the week ending on the llth numbered l4C
and during the forty eight hours ending on
Thursday last, there were eighty deaths.-
The New Orleans papers have 80 far conten'
ded that the disease was not epidemic, but
its fatality seems to contradict this favorable
supposition.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17

The Bufalonians arc still delighted with
the experiments by steam on canals. Last
week the steam canal boat "Sternbergh,
with her cargo of eight hundred barrels Of
salt on board, made her trip out Of Buffalo,
on Lake Erie, with large number of pas.
sengers. She made the whole fourteen miles
in two hours, lacking two minutes. One Of
tho papers describes the influence already
visible in general business, and says it is
becoming something as of old, and gene
raj cheerfulness pervades commercial cir
cles." This shows what small causes pro-
duce great effects.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
L.rYe.r,s E1pendItures.

We have an Official statement from the
Treasury Department, signed by +. Bigger,
Register, as to the expenditures of the Gov
eminent for the closing quarter Of the last
fiscal year lending June 80, 1852 The to-
tai amount is 800, 730,57052. Taking this
as an average for each quarter, the total ex-
penses of the last year would be about S9l :
100000. Mr.. Crittenden's estimate of $780,
100000 for this period was censured by the
Administration organs as gross eIaggera-
ton. But the more the facts are looked into,
the more the unbounded extravaganza Of the
Government sppears.-LHnchburg Firg.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
Fire at the nIInol. srat. Prison.

ALTON, ILL.,. Aug. l4-At about eight o.
clock last evening, FIRE broke out in the work
shops of the state prison, two of which, with
the dining hall of the prison chapel, hospi-
tai, and three other buildings, were consum-
ed. A large amount of fnisbed work was
also destroyed. Three fremen were injured,
but not dangerously. Several attempts to
escape were made by the prisoners; none,
however. succeeded The loss is estimated
at $50, 900, and is fully covered by insurance
in Eastern Offices. The origin Of the fire is
unknown.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17

Mr.. Thomas Smith. who resides in the
immediate vicinity of Richmond, Va. has a
ANAL field of cotton which is considered a
curiosity by all who have seen it. 1t differs
but little in appearance from the ordinary
kind, except 10 color, which is as deicstely
crimson as a maiden's blush. Not only is
the stock of this of gorgeous hue, but the
leaves, also, the vividness Of color fading,
however, as it approached the margin of the
leaf, into purplish green. This lie not the
effect of disease, or CT any extraneous cir-
cumstance connected with its culture, but q
popularity in the plant itself, every stock
possessing the same rich and healthful glow,
and as thrifty as any cotton in the country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17
Agricultural Prospects in England.

Our reports from all quarters, north, south,
east and west, speak Of the promise of the
harvest as something splendid and prodi-
gious. We do not hear Of failure in the
wheat crop in any direction. Already the
sickle is at work in many districts, and with
few weeks of fine weather the stackysrds
will be filled with an amount of golden
grain such as they have seldom held, and the
land blessed with plentiful supply of home
growth rarely seen and rarely surpassed
Liverpool Times Of July 81.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17

It 10 stated that the Bank of Tennessee re-
sumsd the payment Of specie on the 7th inst
All ths. leading banks in the State are now
in state of resumption, and furnishing ex-
change on oil the principal cities OF the
Onion at reasonable rates.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17

The Nswbern IN. C.) Daily Progress Of
the 18th instant says that "Hon John W.
Ellis, the governor elect. was united in mar
riage to Miss Mary Mckinley, daughter of
tho late John P. Dawes, last evening at
Christs church. in this place, Rev. Il. j.
Haughton officiating. We learn that the
distinguished bridegroom, accompanied by
his happy bride and few friends, will leave
in special train this afternoon for Colds
boro', and thence to tho Virginia springs"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-17

Hon. Bedford Brown, who was a mem
Der of the United States Senate during
nearly the entire administrations of Presi'
dents Jackson and Van Boren, has just been
elected member of the North Carolina State
Senate, from Caswell county. Mr.. B. was
but lately resident Of Fauquier County, in
this State