Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-05-22
News OF tho Day.
"1oshow the perry age and body Of the TINES.

The accounts BY telegraph from the West,
represent that the movement of freight is
very much checked, and the receipts of seve-
raj OF the railroads will be materially affect
ed 10 consequence. The rails in some parts
are under water, and considerable damage
has been done. These injuries, however. do
not touch the western connections of the Bal.
tlmore and OHIO Railroad, all Of which are
In good working condition.
News of the admission of the State OF Min
nesota reached ST. Paul on the 18th instant,
by telegraph from Washington. The news
created a thrill of joy in the community Of
st. Paul. Everybody, says the Pioneer and
Democrat. was in congratulatory mood.
The State government would be put into
operation as soon as official information bad
been received that the President had signed
the bill.
The repeated outrages on our vessels, by
British cruisers, has induced Lieut.. w. D.
Porter, late Of the U. S. navy, to suggest to
the New York merchants TO employ a pilot
boat, armed with long nlne-inch shell gun,
to convoy their vessels from the coast of Gu.
ba. He volunteers his services and pledges
himself to return the fire of the British
steamer Styx.
An imi ortant meeting of railroad presi-
dents has recently taken place in Nashville,
on the subject, Of al overland California
mail from Washington to New Orleans. The
meeting appointed r committee of its men,
bers to proceed to Washington and to wait
upon the President and Postmaster General
on the subject Of their enterprise.
A Paris Journal states that proposition
to demolish and rebuild the Imperial Palace
Of the Tuileries, has been seriously consid
cred. Only one-half of the palace would be
destroyed at first; the other half would re-
main until the first had been rebuilt. The
present etifice is not in harmony with the
grandeur Of the Louvre"
The rational debt of Great Britain, caused
BY the accumulated expenses Of foreign wars
and former DEFICIENCIES between receipts and
payments, is, in round numbers, GS0O, 0OO,.
000; the interest Of which, and expense Of
management, &C.. annually amounts to about
G2S, 100000, and has to be provided for out
Of the receipts for the year.
Mr.. Simmons, Of r. l., has prepared
bill proposing home, instead Of foreign valu-
alton, which be intends to advocate 10 the Sem
ate, and the adoption of which, tits said, would
tend to uniformity in the rate of duties paid
in each port, aud to the increase Of the reSen-
ue by the suppression of frauds.
The aspect of our relations with Mexico,
New Granada and Nicaragua, together with
other nations, will favor the adoption Of tho
Joint resolutions introduced by Senator Gwin
tor enabling the President more effectually
to secure our interests and obtain reparatlon
for injuries.
Col. Kane arrived at Fort Lsayenworth on
the 18th, accompanied by Able Gilbert
The latter states that Brigham Young has
abdicatsd. Gov. Cumming, at latest dates.
was thirty miles from Salt Lake City. A
deputation of fifty Mormons were sent to
meet him.
Thomas J. Lee, esq, of Maryland, late a
captain in the corps Of United States Topo.
graphical Engineers, has been appointed by
the Governor commissioner on the part Of
MARYLAND to retracs and mark the boundary
lines between the States of Maryland and
Virginia.
In the British House Of Commons, the
bill abolisbing the property qualification tor
mem bers of Parliament has been passed to
a second reading, amidst great cheering
The question is regarded as 90 important one
in Parliamentary reform, aud meets with
Government support.
The results attending the plan of sending
frendless children to the West, which has
been pursued for some years past by several
benevolent societies in New York, has in'
duced the managers of the Philadelphia
House of Refuge to follow the example, and
within two months, seventy boys and ten
girls have been sent to illinois and Iowa,
with the consent of the children, and also OF
their parents, or nearest of kin.
The remains OF VIM. Henry Herbert,
("Frank Forester" " we're inferred in Mount
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark. n. j., on Mon
day afternoon, without religious services, the
rules of the Episcopal church fortidding the
esding the ritual over suicide.
Richard Willing. one Of the oldest repre-
sentatives of one of the oldest and most dis
tinguished families in Philadelphia, died on
Tuesday morning, at his residence, corner
of Thirdstre and York court. Mr.. Will
ling was 10 his SO year.
Rufus Cboate, Jr, has been admitted to
the Massachusetts, bar. He is talented,
learned and eloquent true chip Of the old
block, and sure to keep up the honors Of the
name. The senior Choate is not yet fifty
eight.
The bill admitting Oregon into the Union,
it is believed, will encounter but little opposi-
ton in the House, and before the close of
the session, the Union will number thirty
three States.
The Conference of the Methodist Epsco
pal Church, recently held in Monrovis, re-
solved to establish paper in Liberia for the
benefit Of their church and the country; it is
to be called the Liberia Christian Advocate.
Stephen Otis died at Brighton, N. Y,
on Tuesday. He was during hiS life the con-
tractor for the construction of large num-
Der of railroads in the United States. includ-
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