Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-12-24
Telegraphtc Dispatches.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. Ill ne Paclhc Rai-
road Convention assembled here yesterday,
in pursuance of adjournment. General Rich
ardson offered resolution requiring the
stockholders present to register the amount
OF stock represented, so as to show what was
the majority CT shares required to decide
questions. a heated discussion arose rela.
tive to the fraudulent stock. Mr.. Chiffon
made statement on the authority Of Mr.
Lawreson, which was replied to by MIR.
Foulkes, Col. Post, also, replied to MIR.
Archer's charges, and read the balance
sheet, showing the liabilities for etock, after
deducting the donations, to be but 81. 6OO,-
GOO. Col. Post bad over $500. 900 worth,
that the Northern friends Of the road sur
rendered freely After the discussion, the
explanations made had greatly strengthened
the confidence of the New Orleans stockbOl-
ders, disarmed their suspicious, and harmo-
ny was restored.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 22.--Gen. Cass, in a
letter to Capt. Levy, Of this city, dated Mou'
day last, willis. giving his reasons tor With
holding an authoritative censure by this gov
erumeut of the proceedings at Bologna in the
case of the boy Mortara, says as an lndiVid
ual he has no hesitation in expressing bis
surprise and regret at the deplorable occur
renee in the Papal States, and that it is diff.
cult to conceive how such an act Of injus-
tice could take place in the middle OF the
nineteenth century. and in the heart of Eu.
rope. lie says the judgment Of the world
will condemn it.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2l.--Tbe steamboat Au.
bvey met with an accident few miles above
ST. Louis last night, causing the loss OF four
or five lives. The boat ran on the wreck OF
sunken steamer, causing the steam pipe
connecting with the mud receiver to burst.
A panic ensued among the passengers, who,
rushing ca masse into the yawl, upset 1t, by
which several were drowned.
Toronto, Dec. 2l-Ths government ir-
spector has ordered the stoppage of the
Northern Railway as unsafe for passengers;
but freight trains, with q passenger coach
attached, continue to be run OF reduced
speed. Considerable excitement exists about
the matter.
New YORK, Dec. 22.-The Washington
correspondent of the Post says there is rea-
son to believe that two more vessels have
left or are about leaving the country with
fllibusters, and the President has taken mea-
sures to stop them.
New YORK, Dec. % Gov. King express
ses himself as decidedly 10 favor of the re
moval of quarantine to Orchard Shoal, be.
low the N4rrows. TIL. government engineer
has reported in favor of it.
S2MERyILLE, n. j., Dec. 2l.--Cornelius IL.
Vanderveer, a respectable citizen OF this
place, was instantly killed today, BY being
run over by two trains Of cars on the New
Jersey Central Railroad.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2l.--Tbe Kansas City
Telegraph line, extending from this city to
Leavenworth, was opened for business to-
day.
Ex-Governor Foote and tho President.
Hon. Henry S. Foote has recently address
sed letter to the citizens of Jackson, Miss,
which contains the following paragraph:
"It is a little to be feared that Black Re.
publican strength is again to be increased
to some extent by what is to occur IN the
next week or two; for Senator Davis tells US
in the speech already quoted from, that the
President will persevere during the coming
session of Congress in the course marked
out last winter, and declares that be is as.
sured that Mr.. Buchanan will net shrink
hairs breadth from the position he has ia.
ken, but will take another step in advance
Gracious Heaven. what does this mean 2
What further pledge has been dragged from
a panic.stricken President, the execution OF
which, apparently at the instance and under
the command Of Southern men, Is still more
Ia lower the moral attitude OF the South
among her brethren of the North, render her
institutions undeservedly odious, break down
still more fatally the strength OF the Demo
cratic party in the free States, which has so
long stood as an impregnable rampant a.
gainst Abolition hostility, aud criminaliy
facilitate TIE election of an Abolition Pres!'
dent in 1860; thus sdording certain Union
ba,ers in the South plausible pretext to
break up the Confederacy? We shall learn
all in a week or two more. | am inclined,
meanwhile. TO think that he can do nothing
wore or more mischievous than those things
be has done already; for can scarcely una
gine greater enormities than the attempting
to force through Congress the Lecompton,
bill--the defeat by executive patronage OF
the Cri,tenden amendment-the notorious
massage Of the English bill BY the same dis
creditable means--the indecent public re-
ioicipps over the accomplishment of this
hight handed fraud, at the White House 1t
seif--the corrupt and anti-republlcan inter
ference in tho Illinois election fer the pur'
pose of crushing Douglas,--the open employ
meot of the executive official patronage IN
connection with Black Republicanism, IN
order to secure the election of Black he
publican Senator. These criminal misdeed'
Of the President, none of which can be de-
MED, it would certainly DO difficult to sur
pass but those who direct bis conduct are
not vet ontent, and the trembling President
must still take one other step 10 advance !:
"BAR IT A LETTLE LONGER, BILL. There
were some rather rich scenes in the late Con
ven.ion held in Petersburg, which have not ye
tran spired On the m,rning of the tirst day
during the stormy session, when everybody
wanted to be heard and 10 one seemed as
posed to lister, gentleman from AlbemarIe
who had made several Intellectual attempts t
gallo a hearing, at length planted bimsel
frmly on the platform, and swore he wouI'
atand there until it thundered but what hi