Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-04-15
News OF tho Day.

The last wish of Col Benton was that Con.
gross would make an appropriation for tie
purchase of bis works, which be desired
might be distributed among the members of
both Houses, and also among the public Ii
braries of the country. His last paragraph
note is one complimeuting Henry Clay,
which is appended to the deceased's account
of the Compromise struggle of 1850, and to
which period the work is completed.
The proposalsjust issued by the Secretary
of the Treasury for new issue Of five mil
lions Treasury notes, to meet the disburse-
ments of the Deficiency bill, will probably be
taken at 44(G5 ger cent. interest The bids
are to be sent in by the 10th of May next. For
the present issue the demand is active at
New York. at 20(G30c. discount for the 3 per
cents, and per cent premium on the per
cents.
The starch manufacturers are in trouble,
and despond of business success. Where,
in times past, they found ready sale for their
manufactures, the article is now drug
This change is attributed to the general use
Of crinoline aud the hoops-starch being no
longer necessary to produce expansion.
A Paris letter states that Capt. Comstock,
Of the Baltic, was in that city, and in daily
conference with the directors Of the new
Transatlantic French Steam Company in re-
gard to the sale of the Collins Steamers
The Frenchmen are DESTROYS to buy, but want
them too cheap.
At Seneca, n. T., Priscilla Hartrauft has
recovered 81 200 damages from j. NJ. Cham
berlain, for breach of promise of marriage.
The plaintiff is forty.f1ur and the defendant
forty-nne years of age, and the courtship
com menced when the lady was eighteen
years old, and the defendant has been mar
ried twice.
The receipts into the United States Trea-
sury are each week half million less than
the expenditures. This disparity, it is like
ly, will continue, and unless there be re-
vivsl in importations to yield revenue TO the
Government in the way Of duties, it will, in
all probability, grow greater.
From an article in the London Times we
learn the progress that is making in fitting
the Leviathan for sea. The cost of complet-
ing her fittings is estimated at S5OO,OOO and
the time four months, or to the end OF July.
The "Stuyvesaot Pear Tree" which stands
on the corner of Third avenue and Tblr-
teepth street, New York, is again in bud
1t was planted in l647, two hundred and
eleven years ago.
The United States steamer Water Witch
sailed on Tuesday, from Washington for
Boston, via Norfolk and New York, with a
full cargo of ammunition, which she will dis
tribute at those stations.
The season for maple sugar is now about
closing. The crop this year is not so large
as that of last year, but in some particular
neighborhoods of Allegheny county. Mary
land, a considerable quantity has been made,
The Southern Presbyterian n. S. Synod,
which has been iD session at Knoxville,
Tenn essee, has taken measures to effect a
union with the Old School General Assem-
bly,.
Chinese coolies are arriving at Havana, in
great numbers. In one week 5000 were
landed. They command twenty-five ounces
head, as there is steady demand for their
services.
An Italian in Chicago, worth 500, goo, who
also owns FIVE houses on Milwaukee Avenue,
has seven or eight girls in his employ, beg
ging and stealing.
Wm. Burnett, drunken man, killed his
own sister, Sarah Burnett, last week, in
Rutherford county, Tennessee, by striking her
with o club.
A fire at Louisville, on Thursday night
last, destroyed large quantity of cured
meat, the property of MIR. j. G. Gunkle.
We see it stated that Alex. c. Bullitt, Of
Louisville, recently purchased Italian sculp-
ture to the amount Of $50 900.
The London Times gives an encouraging
account of the progress Of the Atlantic ,c!e-
graph enterprise.
II is said that Southern Indiana is full Of
pigeons. There are millions of them dsrken-
ing the air and covering the woods.
MIR. Bolton, who was charged with the
murder Of McMullen, has been acquitted, in
Memphis, Tenn.
The mountains about Wilkesbarre, Pa.,)
have been on fire for a week or more, des-
troying an immense amount of timber.