Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-24
News OF tho Day.
"Tosho,O the gerry age and body Of the TINES"

The yellow fever is beginning to create
some alarm in the vicinity Of the New York
quarantine. The Post says there appears to
be disposition on the part of the health au-
thorities to conceal the existence OF the DIS
ease en- Staten Island, thus laying the toun'
dation for an unnecessary panic. 0y ana oy:
A number Of cases have occurred outside Vi
the quarantine walls and one case has been
brou ght from there to New York.
At the recent agricultural show held at
Chester England, a number OF agents were
present making purchases of cattle to export
Tor breeding purposes. Two Durham bulls,
for whic, high price was paid, were bought
for shinmeat 10 Adelaide. MIR. Sandtord
Howard, editor of the Boston Cult!vator, mas
purchased twelve head of Ayrshire cattle
for the Massachusetts, Agricultural Associa'
ton; he has also twelve head more oil tue
same breed ready for shipment. Some spien-
did Southdown rams, purchased IRON Mr.
Jonas Webb OF Cambridge, are consigned 70
Colonel Morris, of New York.
The Boonsboro' Odd Fellow says trc-
mendous and destructive hail storm passed
over o portion of country iow miles OF Fred
erick city, on the afternoon of the 18th inst.
Hail fell the size OF q hens egg. The corn
fields presented sad spectacle; nothing be-
log left but the naked stock, the ears and
blades being swept entirely of.
A novel feature iu the telegraph ce!ebra.
ton at Syracuse was the array of fifteen huge
locomotives of the Central Railroad. with
their bells ringing, and blazing lamps, rang
ed on the track, in the heart of the city, all
gaily decorated, and at intervals making the
very weikiu ring with the shril screams OF
their brszen whistles.
Tae Galveston Civilian of the 18th instant
SAWS that a letter has been received from Mr..
A C. Love, stating that a grand Conanche
Council was 10 session a short time since,
above the great Salt Plains on the Arkansas;
that P4-ha-u-ka Was making powerful et'
| fort to combine all the COmanches against
Texas.
Extensive preparations are making 10 New
York for a national convention Of Germans
10 that city, to be composed OF delegates
from the various German emigration socie-
ties throughout the Union--the object being
10 urge the exactment Uf laws for the better
protection of cmigrants.
The United States mail steamer Star of the
West, Captain Gray, With about 5Oo passen'
gers, aad the Granada, Captain Bergman,
with some 400 do, sailed from New York on
Friday afternoon, for Aspinwall. The steam
ship uernaon, Capt. Carendy, also sailed
on Saturday for San Francisco and Fraser
River, with nearly 600 passengers.
| L, is stated that Cincinnati, containing over
two hundred thousand inhabitants, and do
ing larger business than any other West
ern city, has only $4,000 Of Banking CAPT
tai, under the name Of tic Commercial Bank
The banking business is, therefore, done by
private bankers, whose entire capital, a.
sworn 70, is only 81 ,GjS ll9.
Paul Juneau, son OF Solomon Juneau. the
FRS, white man that settled 10 Milwaukee,
was accidentally shot and killed at HORIZON
Wisconsin,, on Friday, by boy with whom
he bad been shooting at mark. lie was
member of the Legislature, and leaves vile
ard children.
Lieut. Habersham, in bis letters from
China to the Philadelphia Ledger, asserts
that the Mississippi River, which we call the
Father of Waters" is not to be compared
to the Yangtse kiarg River, to which be az
plies the name of Mother of Waters"
The Harrisburg Telegraph learns from an
extra issued by on. OF the York papers that
the lower portion of that county was visited
on Thursday evening last, by one of the hea'
West rain storms known in that section tor
eighteen years past.
The wool-srowers of Steuben county, New
York, are to hold a meeting at Bath on the
24.b, today to take measures for the pro-
faction Of their Interests in Congress, and
thew recommend that State Convention be
held with the same object in view.
A great fire has occurred at Antwerp
which destroyed the Exchange, with Its mag
nifcent bronze cupola, arcades and the Tri'
buusl of Commerce. The chambers of the
Syndic, with the city archives, are complete
ly destroyed.
A monster camp meeting was held at Port
chester, New York, last week, at which "Aw,
full Gardner" the converted pugilist. was
present, actively engaged in exhorting the
! people to turn from the error OF their
ways"
Geo. p. Blevins died few days since near
Selma, Ala, from Injuries received by being
thrown from a buggy. lie is said to have
been one of the finest classical SCHOLARS 10
the South.
Neu EreiKhI Tariff Agreed Upon.