Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-03-24
News OF the Day.
"1oshov the rery age and body efMe TINES

either directly or indirectly in connection
with the operations of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal, will be pleased to learn that the
retiring board of directors did, before the
close of their labors, and in obedience to the
petition of a large number Of persons doing
business upon the canal-captains of boats
and others-pass a resolution prohibiting the
running of boats on the Sabbath day; and
from and after this, all lock-keepers will be
required to keep them uocks) closed on Sun
day.
According to recent statements in Con.
gress, Uncle Sam is by far the largest pub.
Usher Of books not only in the United States
but in the world. The subject has been re-
gently debated in the Senate, andfrom that de-
bate we learn that large as Uncle Sam is as q
Printer, he is larger yet as a Book Binder
The cost Of binding alone since July 1856, is
six times as much as the whole cost of paper,
printing and binding for the year 1917. The
bill for printing and binding for the year
last past has been over a million and q half
of dollars.
The U. S. steamship Powhatan, the flag
ship of the East India squadron, Captain
Pearson, arrived at St. Helena on the 9th Of
January, in twenty-one days passage from
Madeira. The passage was a smooth one,
and the officers and crew were in fine health.
The vessel was to sail for the Cape OF Good
Hope in few days. Longwood, the former
residence of Napoleon, is now used as a sta
BILE, and the island has a dreary and uneultl-
waited appearance.
The President of the Northwestern Virgin
ia Railroad has addressed a letter to the City
Council of Baltimore, declaring the inability
of the Company to pay its Indebtedness to
the city for interest on its bonds during the
present yesr, and judging from its prospects
as presented in a detailed statement, it will
probably be some years before any reliefto
the tax payers of the city may be expected
from that quarter.
Miss Juliana May does not appear to have
succeeded in opera. The Philadelphia pa
pers generally speak of her appearance there
on Saturday evening, in the part of Amina,
as a tfasco. The North American, however,
says: 1--WE do not relinqnish the hope OF
seeing her yet q popular operate artistic,
though it is evident she must undergo severe
training before any fresh attempt in public"
A correspondent at Rio Janeiro writing
on the 2S,h Of January says: "The receipts
of coffee from the interior GRE largely on the
increase, with a decided downward tendency
in prices. The sickness among the shipping
which is usually brought on by the lmpru-
dent indulgence of sailors in fruits, drinks,
and other excuses, is rapidly decreasing
This country is quiet"
During the last few days, there has been a
very large discharge of employees in the
Gosport Navy Yard, numbering between one
hundred and fifty and two hundred. The
discharged were mostly employed N the ma
sonry departments, and as laborers In the de-
partment in which the appropriations by the
Government had run out.
A Wheeling lGtter-writer says:-"The
past winter has been one long to be remem-
bered Oh account of the "revivals of religion
that have pervaded oil the churches in this
section of the country. Nothing equal to 1t
has been known in this region of the coun-
try, even by the Oldest members OF our
churches"
The bill authorizing the importation into
Louisiana of $500 Africans, after passing
the House of Representatives of that State,
with little or no opposition, has been rejected
in the Senate at tho close Of a most violent
end exciting debate, by a majority of two.
The measure is, therefore, for the present,
essentially defunct.
The Cecil Nd, Wbig says the old Presby-
terrain church, at the Head of Christiana, was
burnt to the ground on Sunday the 18th, the
fire catching between the ceiling and root
while the stoves were being lighted in tho
morning. 1t was q venerable old structure,
having been erected in l75O.
A circular has been issued for signatures,
calling a convention of the eight counties,
On the Eastern Shore of Maryland, to take
into consideration the defeat Of the Eastern
Shore Railroad bill, in the late Legislature.
1t is proposed that the convention be held at
Eas.on, on the 2Sth and Goth of April next.
De BOWS Press ~says:-'The Philadelphia
Press lie in error in regard to the condition
of Thomas Washington Smith. He is at
this moment in our service, and has been Tor
several weeks, and in every respect gives EVIL,
| denos Of an entire restoration OF mental sna
physical bealtb."
Dispatches have been received at the War
Department from Camp Scott. army CT Utah.
The Information communicated by them is
said to be of no special importance. The
army was in good condition, the health Of
the soldiers good, and everything going on
satisfactorily.
The Washington Union publishes a very
interesting letter from the Hon. Rcverdy John
son. addressed to the mass meeting OF the ci-
~ of Baltimore, in which be expresses bis ap,'
MEDIATION of the Kansas policy of the -,d'
ministration, and argues the subject OF con
siderable length and with much ability
A German shoemaker, named Francis
Rancho, has, together with his wife, been or
rested at New Orleans for most atroc'ons
cruelty to a slave boy, which resulted in bis
death. The evidence showed the untortu'
nate creature had been the victim OF the
meat inhunan barbarities. When Rancho
was arrested he was making preparations iof