Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-11-30
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log OF an axle OF the tender to the locomotive
o! the up tain on the Virginia Central Raj
road, On Sunday, the train on the Orange aud
Alexandra Railroad awaited the arrival of
the Centra! train at GordonsviIle, for several
hours, thus causing delay IN its arrival
at this place, until about s O'clock, p NJ
Toe non.arrval of the cars until SO late On
hour, caused some Anxiety to DC felt here, and
large crowd had gathered ut the Depot
when the train got III.
HE CHE,APEAKE AND ONO CANAL during
the past week has been quite busy. Boats
to the lumber OF eighty-seven have arrived
at the Georgetown Collection Office; Of which
fifteen brought -four, wheat, ezra, limestone,
and wood, and the remaining seyen.y-two
were freighted with coal, bringing in all about
o,2UO tons. The canal Is reported III perfect
naVigatie order throughout. Oh Saturday
last The arrival OF Coal-Uoats was very large,
aud 1t is hoped that ali the boats now down
viii be erabled to make one more round trip,
~ Tor the Winter.--Nat. Int.
WANroN ACT OF CRUILrY--A fine watch.
dog belonging to a gentleman residing ut the
upper end of Prince street, and very highly
priced ty the family, was shot on Saturday
night, by two youths, who went to tue fence
aid calling the dog, shot him without provo
cation. Such acts OF weuton cruelty ought
not to 90 UNPUBLISHED.
DIsrURB.NCE.--A crowd Of negro boys and
men assembled at tue corner, near tho Arr.
can Church, on Washington street. on Sun
day night, and annoyed the citizens residing
ia the neigh borhood very much, by shoutiugs,
discharging pistols, &c.
SNow.--It showed last Saturday night
from about { o'clock to II. But the snow
melted as soon as it fell. This is the third
fill of snow We have had this winter.
FIRE--An old one story frame house at
the corner of Patrick aud Gibbon streets. te-
onging to James and I. J. Cary, Ct Baltimore,
WIS destroyed by fire on Sunday morning.,
about II O'Clock.
The Washington correspondent Of the Bal
timore sun says:--"'rbe Commissioner of
Public Buildings has caused the Potomac
bridge to be put in better condition for travel
than for some years past. To render it per-
manently So along the entire line, would re-
qure an appropriation of go, 600"
MILLs's EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF WASHING
The plaster cast Of this statue, ordered
OF Mr.. Clarke Mills by the Congress Of the
United States, is in the main finished and
so set up as TO enable much Of tie effect Of
tsc work in its fully ompletoi condition TO
be now seen and appreciated. Tie point Ia
Washlngton's military career hIch has been
chosen for illustration, or we ought Father T.
say for close representation, 10 that moment
ia the battle Of PRINCETON when tie whole
success Of the day turned solely upon the
General himself, when he sal upon bis noble
but terrified charger the moral and physical
ms!ewe; sht that Tilted the nearly baiancei
scale and brought t. the American cause u
glorious preponderance.
The contract under which this work was
undertaken contemp!ates pedestal Tor tine
statue mainly simiiar 70 that OF The jackson
statue 10 Lafayette square; but there seems
to be hope that ope much more elaborate
will yet b. permitted by Congress, whereon
It will lie possible to have cast IL four pa'a :
lie! ranges eu Ulema;ic devices descriptive oi
Anorca, in its original and savage state, at
the era of early European discovery, during
the colonial period, and, lastly, at the Revo-
lutonary epoch; the whole concluding III AID
crowned By the victorious Washington, as
the en,blen e trumr baat America.
We understand that the most probable To-
cali;y FIR this statue will be at the lnterscc-
ton Of Massachusetts and New York ave-
puee, Oh the spot now occupied by tue " JEsi!-
ern Liberties Market-house. Every thing Is
ready for the commencement q The Casting,
wnich can tie begun aud completed within
two mouths .--Ndt Int.