Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-10-11
News OF the Day.
" 7osho,O the oery age and body Of the TINES

dock, or niue days ana twenty -tulcc nnurs
from sandy Hook to Bai BdOy. Tue City
Vt Baltimore lett New York at noon on the
9th of September, and for two days encnun.
tered dense fog. which delayed her consider
ably, but from llth to l9.h. for eight success
sive days, she averaged the extraordinary
speed OF three hundred miles per day, and
has made without question the shortest pas
sage ever made across the Atlantic by any
screw steamer.
The dead letter branch OF the General Post
office has just closed another quarters work.
Daring the three months which terminated
on the Goth aitimo there were found 2, 30
letters which contained money, amounting III
the aggregate to So ,92l 80 For the quar-.
ter closed 30ih June last, there were received
1919 letters aud 81, 49S 50, 10 mOnev.--
For toe quart"T ending SOFA March > AZ
letters and Sl3 457 Is III money. Quarter
cl I.ed 3l.t December, . $50 letters and
Sl3,36l 80 in cash. Toiai III the year,
cash has been restored to the original owners.
Over ninc-tenths Of the whole amount OF
- l02 letters and SCI 239 - III money
Humboldt has celebrated bis ninet!eth
birthday. An English correspondent, WITT
ing from Berlin says, that never did con-
queror receive congratulations from so many
| persons and such great distances, as the
pos,-boy bad to carry Oh Tuesday morning
| to the Weli-known house IN the OraEsienbur-
ger s;rasse. Those who have been fortunate
enough to Ell y peep ct the fifth vciumo OF
Kusmus, which Is still under his hands, as
sert that neither in style nCr contents dves
it, in the least, yield 20 the four Volumes
| which preceded it. Hum6odt himself, Is
said TO be Of opinion that he will die mex!
spring.
Ex-presiient Van Buren, arrived in Oswc-
20 just st the close Of the terrible storm OF
Friday, and was told that the notei which be
selected had Just been struck BY lightning in
seven places. Il thinx," said BE-, that's the
house for M. II won't come again" The
sasacious statesman shovel his usual eau
ton The ex President, after vi-ltIng the
State fair, went to see his old friend, Gl7ern-
or Throop, who has his h0WI 90 the banks OF
the Owasco. They are happier men than
when every morning aroused them to the
cares and clan0r Of the political! strife.
f. Felice Foresti, an Italian exile, we'll
known TO our citizens as the patriotic cC-sui'
ferer with Sivio Pclco in the Dungeons OF
Austria. where he spent tScnty years OF his
! life, aud vino received from tae President an
aupJin,ment acceptable 70 all parties, that Ui
| Cousul - Ganoa, died recently at that port.
More than tse Thousand persons are said t
have been present a. this funeral, among
| them were the Ofigers and crew OF the tHited
| States irigste Wabash,
The fredericksburg Herald saw" g
| understand that some vile wretch placed
heavy sill across the railroad track On Wee
ncsday night, between the house where the
| watch lives. and the bridge over Haze!
Run. The passenger tram from Rehmonf
came along after 10 o'clock At hight ard ran
| ageins. the obstruction, but fortunately was
no, thrown IF The embar kneut - hlsh
and the result !pigh, have beca disastrous -
property, limb ard HE"
Private aGviccs received from the United
States ship Savannah, now lying at Grey
town, state that ma!sdy similar to that
which br, Ike out Oh board the United States
steamship So quoharra, Dad Appeared "W"n2
| the crew, and that several deaths had acGa!
red in consequence. The commander Of the
| Savannah bad deemed !. advisable to put to
sea for shor. time, aad will remain until
| the health CT the crew improves.
The Com missioner to Paraguay having re-
ceived his Instructions and lett Tor New
York, and the orders for Commodore Shu-
brick being nearly completed, 1t is highly
probable that that gallant ofheer Will leave
Washington to-day, and on reaching Ne"
York proceed Immediately to sea.
A gentleman by the name of j. l. BROOKS,
died at the residence Of a friend in Rtnkin
county, Mississippi, few days ago, under
very painful circumstances. IL went troin
| Mobile to be married. but "as seized with t"e
yellow fever, and iusiaad of reaching ;he IL :
mental altar, found an untimely grave.
joseph W. Caldwell, esq, editor of the
WythosilIe Telegraph, has been appointed
Clerk Of the Urited States Court for The
Western District OF Virginia, il place Of
| Thomas l. Moore, esq, who has recently
been elected Clerk of Harrison County Court
| Reliance, celebrated racer, whose pertoF-
maoces on the tor! eicitcd the "dmlratio" o.!
the sporting community nearly twenty years
since died at the stables # his owner, b. U.
Harris, ESQ, in 81. Mary connt7, Md, u
(ew DAYS ago. lie was 10 biz % year.
The New York Post says the Collins steam
er Atlantic has heen sold to the California,
| New York and European Steamship Compa'
nv. and will be ru. on the Inc Immediately,
for San Francisco AID Fraser River direct,
via Nicaragua.
Brevet Surgeon Benajah Ticknor, [. ). \ ;
died On the 2O:h ut, at Anr Avbor, Mich. The
deceased was u native of Vermont, aad en-
tered the service 10 1914. At the time OF his
dscease he was in the lit year of bis age.
Martha Morgan, charged With the murder
Of Alexander Alen, ia JJanson county. y
c.. is to be tried in Raleigh this week
The prisoner is quite young, and unusually
! handsome.
The President has moved in from the Mil
itary ASYLUM, aud bias taken up bis resi-
dence fer ,he winter at the government Man
sion, in Washington.
Miss Virginia Mason, sister OF Judge >.
T. Mascn, the Collector at Baltimore, d!ei
Suddenly, It u4gerstOwn, Mi, on Monday
I last, # apoplcxy.