Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-05-06
News OF the Day.
"T0 shov the uery age and body Of tie TINES


House Of Representatives, to lay on the table
the report from the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, recomm ending the immediate abroga-
ton Of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty was
not regarded as test question, as both its
friends and opponents want an opportunity
for discussion.
In nineteen days after signing the govern
ment contract for all the horses that the gov
ernment wants during the year 1858,
Messrs. L. p Sanger, John Frink, ThOs.
Dyer, and j. W. Singletou--all llllnoisans-
bought and paid for seventeen hundred hor-
SEES. without one cent of government funds,
and had them all collected and delivered at
Fort Leavenworth.
Should there be no "let up" in the fnan'
cial world this summer, it is estimated that
above i've hundred thousand dollars will be
expended in Vincennes, Ind, between the
first of May and the first of December, for
buildings and improvements. A half mil
lion of dollars to be scattered among the
brick makers, lumbermen, carpenters aud
mechanics.
Colonel Arago, brother of the latefamed
astronomer, who has been thirty years in the
Mexican servi,e, has been conveyed to Vera
Cruz a prisoner, and thrown into San Juan
de Ulloa. His offence has been that he was
detected in treaty with Echeagaray, 10 the
interests Of Zuoaga, to deliver over the castle
of Perote, OF which he (Arago) has been the
governor for many years.
Isaac Holcombe, of Fuyette county, GeOr-
gia, has been arrested by the officers OF the
Pension Bureau, and in default Of bail COM
mitted to Jail to await his trial for the COM
mission OF frauds in obtaining revolutionary
pensions. Tue Pension Office has received
official information of the conviction of James
r. Buchanan, of Arkansas, who was arrested
some months since by its order, for forgery
and other frauds in obtaining bounty-land
warrants.
Saturday last the first Of May, was "mov-
ing" day in New York, as usual, and it is
believed there were more changes of resi-
dence 10 that city and Brooklyn than have
occurred for many years. A large proper
ton Of houses are now standing empty. and
rents have fallen on the East river side of
the city. about % per cent. Ia Brook YIN
alone there are some two hundred houses
without tenants.
MesSrs. Dupont & Co., of Louisville, after
boring to the depth OF LOO feet--the last
600 through solid rock--have succeeded in
finding water of temperature about ten de.
grees warmer than the atmosphere, and
strongly impregnsted with salt or alum. 1t
is to be analysed
Captain Ives, Of Lauderdale county, Miss,
has recently fallen heir to fortune Of two
millions Of dollars by the death Of an Eng
lish rela tive. lie was an Old sailor; and it is
added, as piece Of serviceatle information
to marrying young men, that be has on y two
children, both charming daughters.
The latest Texas papers speak of the de-
vastations committed by grasshoppers. In
many places entire corn fields have been laid
waste, there not being left q blade or stalk
Of any thing green. The corn, which had
grown FIVE or six inches high, has been utter
ly destroyed.
The San Jose Tribune estimates the popu-
laton of California at 597, 900. The est
mate is based upon the returns of the local
assessors. OF this population, $50 $50 are
Americans, 800 Chinese, $1,000 French,
$1,000 Mexicans. 10000 Irish, 1000 Eng
lisb, aud about GOO colored persons.
A dozen kentuckians arrived in Cincinna-
ii on Friday last, equipped with rifles and
ether fighting materials ready, and immed-
ately took passage for St. Louis, from whence
they intend proceeding to the Utah country,
with the expectation of being 10 at the COM
mencement Of hostilities.
Tuckerman, the mail robber, has been SEN
fenced to be imprisoned, and kept at hard
labor in the State Prison for the space Of 81
years. During the address of the Judge the
prisoner shook convulsivcly, and appeared
TO feel his sentence as much rs ii he had
been condemned to death.
Hon. Humphrey Marshall intends to in
troduce a resolution for the organization Of a
camel battalion, on the principle OF the camel
batteries employed in the East. If authori-
zed, an effort will be made to have the men
armed with the formidable new gun invented
by MIR. G. Lee, of Cincinnati.
1t is curious circumstance, says writer
in Blackwood, that every Englshman thinks
th at he can do two things, and is never con-
WINGED of his error until he tries. One is
that he can write for newspaper aud the
other is that be can swim.
The Democracy of New York fred q sa-
lutte Of one hundred and twelve guns in the
Park, as an expression Of their exultation
over the passage of the Kansas bill in Con.
gress -one gun for each vote cast for the bill
in the House.
The last society spoken ofin California is
the "Pay Nothings." 1t is said to be alarm
ingly prosperous. The password is "lend
me dollar" the response, "broke." 1t is
but branch, however. The original socie-
ty has long fourished in the Atlantic States.
At Plymouth church, Brooklyn, on Sun
day, there were one hundred and Lightweight
new members received. THIS is Henry
Ward Beecher's church, and in noticing its
progress he eaid that a revival of religion
was not abnormal, bu. based on natural laws.
The project Of bridge across the East
River from New York to BROOKLYN is agitated.