Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-04
News or tho Day.
"7oshotc the rery age and body Of the TIMES.


ITO shotc the rery age and body Of the TINES"
The President, it is stated, is unreserved in
the opinion that England will disavow the
outrages in the Gulf, fully and promptly
and asserts that the relations between tue
two countries were never established Oh
more friendly footing, and cannot be dis
turbed.
The Savannah Georgian states that IN con-
sequence of dullness in trade and the want
Of wholesome speculation in Savannah, a
number Of trst-class firms in that city will
this year close their business, TO reopen IN
other cities.
1t is reported that Eugland and France
have succeeded in obtaining the control of
the transit route, through their agents in
Central America.
Mr.. Pearcs has introduced joint reso!u-
ton into the Senate authorizing the President
to cause the equestrian Statue of George
Washington, contracted for with Clark Mills,
to be placed in the grounds north of the ES-
ecut;ye Mansion, and that be be also author
lied to remove the statue of Thomas Jefferson
to such other place in the public grounds as
be shall think suitable. Passed.
The fredericksburg Recorder says:-"The
incessant rains Of the last few weeks have
injured the wheat in this section to very
great extent, preventing the perfect filling
Of the head, and very much impsiring the
quality of the grain. 10 addition to this,
we hear of very serious ravages OF the joint
worm on several crops in the Rappahan-
mock Nalley--which, together with the de-
structive workings Of the hai!-stones, will
greatly diminish the yield in that section.
The promise. in the early spring, OF q most
ABUNDANT crop, is sadly marred by these
uDtoward causes.
We learn that the building occupied by
the Savings Bank at Manchester, Carroll
county, 10 Nd, was entered by burglars on
Monday night and $50 stolen. Entrance 10
to the office was effected, it is supposed, by
means Of false keys, but access was not gain
ed to the safe, and The above sum was gath
cred from the drawers, So.
Theaunual examination of the Cadets OF the
West Point Military Academy, is now in pro-
gress before the board of visiters appointed
by the President. Lieutenant General Scott
is present. There are twenty.seyen grad
yates.
The Senate resolutions authorizingthe pay
men, to the widow of Lieut.. Herndon, (whc
persisted 10 command of the steamer Contra
Americana of three years full pay, being
about s. 900, has passed the House OF Repre-
seDtatives.
DR.. Frederick Dorsey, of Hagerstown, Md.
and ono of the oldest physicians in the Uni
ted States, is lying ill. He is over 80 years
of age, and has practised medicine upward
of 60 years
There are in the United States one hun
dred aud seventy four Railroads, of which
twenty-five are in progress Of construction. -
Fifty eight only of this number pay divl
dends from "A to % per cent. per annum.
On the l5tu inst, the District Court, com
posed of the Hon. R. C. L. Moncure of tn
Court of Appeals, and District Judges Tyler
Coleman, Meredith, Clopton and Pitts, vii
meet 10 fredericksburg.
Judge Grain has appointed Samuel B
Hance, esq, Auditor OF the Circuit Court TO
Prince Georges County, Md, in the place o
John Contee Mullikin, esq deceased.
The June Term of the Equity Court TO
Prince Georges County, Md, will be hell
in Marlboro, on Monday, the l4th instant.
The majority against the Convention, il
Prince Georges County, Md, was 1874.