Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-07-28
News % the DAY.


have heeo received: The News is still pI C.
lishec at fillmore City, Utah territory. 1t
gives me President preelap stivo to the
HnrmOns, and the va Gus uny orders, hni
without comment The usus belligerent tone
bas giseL place II pseibs one the Saints
are exhorted to obedience, and e aat strsss I'd
laid upon TIA merit Of their sac ices. The
Morrons seen to have serted down quiet. :
at Fnlmoro where they were planting trees
and preparing for a De: lament residence -
A curious narrative is gwen in the Nsws,
purporting to he a descr Upton of a sign % the
I heavens. On the Goth of May, at 4. NJ, u
meteor in the shape Y. sword, with lhs noint
awards the east hung over Salt Lake =.
The Saints were I'D pressed b the rdenome'
| mon.
The gold discoveries "a Frazer river e
likely to give some employ ment to large
numb Der of vessels at New York, which for &c
many months have been doing little or moth.
ing. Among the recent charters arc the ship
Northern Chief, to take coal to San Francis
C" at SLIGO per TOD; ship Buena Vista. from
| Baltimore TO San Francisco, coal So; ship
| Ed. Sherman 10 London. -four q. I'd; lark
T. Gushing, to Buenos Ayes, lumber Il; a
bark 400 tons. from Malaga to New York,
81 ,s00; brig, $50 tons, same voyage, on prl'
sate terms; bark, 800 tons, from Machias,
lumber to Canary Islands, 1894 months voy-
age, $500 per mouth; brig from Machas
to Point Petre, Quad, lumber 81. Two otu.
er ehips, the Great Republic aud E. Stanley,
have also been chartered to take coa to San
Francisco.
A monument is to be erected to The Pill
grim Fathers at Piymouth-eost from $780,
900 to 100000. twill be built of granite,
1873 feet high, 80 feet at the base, with sit
ting figures from 80 to 10 feet high. 1t is to
be completed in twelve years from August,
1856. Thirty-six Thousand dollars have been
subscribed, Principally in Massachusetts, -
The society for building the monument have
purchased all the estates INN ediately around
the veritable rock and also a site for the
monument embracing ten acres Of land.
Affairs in St. Domingo are just now, it is
stated, attracting the earnest attention of the
administration. Santana, who has recently
been restored to power there after the defeat
of Baez, is q white man, and it is understood
is anxious to send q white man as minister
to Washington, provided the United States
will recognize his government and otherwise
extend Influence and encouragement for his
support.
The people of Drummond7iile, Canada,
on the banks of the Niagara river, below the
falls, are very much excited in relation to
| the eucroachments Of the river upon the
land. The banks are constantly caving in
and the Reporter, published at that place, in
recen. issue, declares that twenty years
morc-at the rate the bank is W be. %
washed away-and almost every mesfeaJ
will be in the Niagara river.
The Rev. Mr.. Elliott, of the Congregf 'iou'
al Church in Stamford, Conn, has been lis
missed, for endeavoring to get work done
on the Sabbath temper-visit
ing improper places Of amusemeni--and
preaching old sermons" Mr.. Elliott explains
these charges-he called upon milliDer or
Sunday evening, to say his wife must have
her bonnet in season for the early Monday
train for New York; be parted cot lie oil
fighting boys in the street-and when enc
used profane language to him, gently be Ie :
his ears; that he once visited hlblo's to see
the RaSel family, and never preached an ID
sermon which he had not been requested TO-
The brig George c. Ackerly will sail from
New York on next Saturday, for the West
Coast of Africa-thus furnishing direct OF
portuuity of sending to the Liberisn Rep bic
aud to the African squadron. The q. G. Ac.
kerry is tine brig of some three hundred
tons, and is the pioneer vessel OF the "Liberian
line" tJ run between New York and MonrC-
via.
A destructive storm of rain passed over
several farms near Warren, Albemsri coun-
ty, Va, on Wednesday afternoon last caus-
ing considerable damage The Scottsvile
Register says the storm extended into Buck
ingham, where many farmers sustained 81 !.
GUS losses. Mr.. Geo Booker lost his entire
| tobacco crop which was valued at about
$4,000.
Coal at the mines in Pennsylvania is at
the low est price it can be, and ireights are
down also. The Miners Journal proposes
that the wealthy Of the cities can benefit the
poor by purchasing their coal now, which
will increase the quantity in the market to
something like the required supply, and so
keep the prices down through the winter to
their poorer neighbors.
On the 9th of June, Rev. DR.. Smell, senior
pastor Of the First Congregational church in
North Brookfeld, Mass, preached discourse
appropriate to the day, as the sixtieth aunt,
versary Of bis settlement. lie is now in his
sighty.fourtb year, and has lived to see oil
the church over which be was settled in his
youth s*eptaway By death.
The eeverest storm ever known at LeaSer-
worth, Kansas Territory, occurred there on
the plight Of the 18th inst. The rain poured
in torrents, and the lightning was terrific.
The flag staff Of the military post was struck,
and Tell With loud crash. All the bridges
10 the negbborhocd have been carried away.
A notorious character named Fowler late
" threatened the lives Of six Of the citizens
of Brsnbsm, Washington. county Texas, who
armed themselves to the teeth, attacked him,
and shot him literally to pieces.
At Mobile. July 26, fire destroyed Kel
ly's stables, Franklin Hall, and Opal Saloon,
all of which were fully insured, The new
granite custom house was damaged BY tho
intense heat.
E,.prasident Tvler ia in Norfolk Va Ex.