Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-07-03
News OF the Day.
"Toshoo the gerry age and body Of the TINES"

The government at Berlin has begun to
initiate that of Louis Napoleon in its censor
ship of the press. The secretary Of the 10
terror of Prussia has accordingly prohibited
the circulation in that kingdom ct two
German parers published in New York
tho Staat. Zqitung ard the Neue Zeit 1.-THE
latter being already defunct;) OF enc rub
lisbed in St Louis, der Anzeiger des IVES
tens: of the Wisconsin Demnkrat, obllshed
in Manitowoc; of the VeIks Zeituoc, of Mich-
iyau; of the Davenport (lowa) Demokrat
aud IF the Chicago Nationa! Demokrat-
What ofense they have committed IS not
!, known.
Dispatches received at the Mexican lega-
tation are silent on the subject Of the Amer-
oau Minister demanding his passports
Such report, however, was current q. the
capital Our government has also received
edvices, but their contents have not yet trans
PRED. Civil proceedings were continued in
Mexico agains, all foreigners who refused to
pay contributions on their property, aud
those who resisted the federal authorities
were ordered to leave the capital. Several
Russians and Germans. together with Amerl'
cans, had sought protection from Minister
Forsyth.
The branch of the C. 4 o. canal on the
east side of the island, extending from Shriv-
ers mill TO the Cumberland Coal and lron
Coup,uy's basin, which is supplied with wa
ter from the race, exhibited sight on Mon
day, which all members of the plscatory art
must deplore. The shores, just at the edge OF
the water, were lined with thousands Of dead
fish, OF all kinds, and the stencil produced
by the blosted and rutrid mass was fearful.
The destruction amongst the tribes was pro-
daced, doubtless, by arresting The flow of wa
ter from the race.
Lieut.. Henry Brooks, the last surviving
officer Of the Kane expedition, came to his
death ia q very sudden manner on Tuesday
evening It appears that while standing by
the Lyceum in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Mr..
Brooks was suddenly taken with fit, and
staggering, fell backwards. His head struck
the pavement with great force, and so violent
was the foil that the skull WAS terribly frac-
tured, indeed completely broken. The un.
fortunate man was taken to the hospital and
died 10 few moments afterwards.
The New York Courier publishes q table
OF Marine losses for the past month, showing
an aggregate of twenty two vessels OF which
FIVE were ships, one bark, five were trigs
ten were schooners, and enc a steamship
The total value of property lost, was eight
hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred
and one dollars AS compared with the
J month OF June 1857, the above shows de-
crease il the value of property lost, Of five
thousand and ninety dollars.
A gentleman of Boston has received pr
vate letter from one Of the most distinguish
cd physicians in France which says that up
on consultation by the leading doctors in
that empire, relative TO the case Of Senator
Sumoer, who is now in Paris, it has been
decided to perform on operation upon bis
back, for the purpose Of producing a counter.
irritation. The operation is that If csuteriz-
alton the burning Of the flesh aud muscle to
the spinal column.
AT the annual meeting of the Association
for the Advancement of Science, held lately
at Boston, it was shown that after all, there
are no dumb beasts Dr. Gibbon read very
interesting paper on the Language Of animals.
tie says that every variety VI animated be-
ing possesses some means, by sounds or signs,
of correspondence, has language, under
stood by it's own kind, and sometimes learned
by others.
Since Saturday last, some thirty cases Of
sun stroke have occurred in New York and
Brooklyn. The hea, is intense everywhere
throughout the country, so far as our exchan-
ges inform US. The thermometer steadily
ranges over 80, ard runs up in many places
tU 90, 81; &c aud %.
Il. W. Newman, esq, the popular priuc-
pal Of the Winchester Female Seminary, con-
templates change Of residence at an early
day. Mr.. n. has been invited to become q
Principal of the Edgefeld Female Collegiate
Institute Of South Carolina, and has accepted
the invitation.
A gentleman who assembled Mount Wiley,
from the White Mountain Notch, in New
Hampshire, few days ago, writes to the
Boston Transcript that be found patches of
snow eighteen inches deep On the top Of the
mountain. This is quite unusual for that
neighbOrhood 30 late IN June.
The insurance on the Monocscy Mills in
Frederick county, Md, destroyed by FIRE
on Tuesday. is said to be as follows: in the
National office, in Baltimore, Sc 600; 10 the
Baltimore Fire Insurance Company 81 900;
and $1,000 in the Montgomery County In
surance Office.
The usual arrangements made by the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad Company, Scr the convenience of
persons visiting Cape May, will go into ope.
ration this morning and continue through
out the season.
The President has designated Mr. JOS. c.
C. Kennedy, the able Superintendent Of the
Seventh Census, to superinteud the digest Of
the returns of manufactures Of that eensas,
for which digest provision was made by act
of the lsst session of Congress.
Oysters, in large Quantities, we're offered
for sell at Salisbury, Nd, on Saturday last,
at about the prices Of shells. Those who
bought them rued their bargain notwith-
standing, for all who ate them became very
sick.
The steamers Water-Witch, Commander
Rodgers, and Arctic, Commander Hartstene,
have been ordered BY the Department from