Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-07-13
News OF the Day.
"7osAov the rery age and body Of the TINES

'7oshov the rery age and body fthe TINES"
At the late meeting of the Royal Geo.
graphical Society in London, the President,
Sir Roderick Murchison, stated that the re-
port Of DR.. Riuk's paper Oh DR.. Kane's dis
coveries published in the European Times
and extensively copied in this country was
garbled and inaccurate. DIR. Rink question.
ed not DR.. ksne's honesty, nor any OF his
ascertained discoveries, bot only his theory
of the open Polar Sea, assumed to be kept
open by branch of the Gulf Stream, and
supposed to have been discovered by Morton,
the steward, and Hans the Greenander, and
threw great doubt on the accuracy OF the
statements made by Morton and Hans.
The friends of Ex-President Pierce will be
glad to learn that, by late arrival by ship
from Madeira, tidings have been received
from him. His own health was perfect
The health of bis excellent wife had been
improved by her sojCurn In the island, but
the causes of her sickness were not removed.
They were to leave Madeira on the first OF
Juoe, for Lisbon; thence, avoiding the larger
European cities, for Fevay, in Switzerland,
where they will spend the summer.
A scene enacted in the n. Y. Court of Cen
eral Sessions, 90 Friday, was, as the old wo-
men say, "as good as a play" One Multi
gan was placed at the Bar, for an assault
and battery" on Mr.. Webb, Of the San Fran
cisco Vigilance Committee, at the Metropoli-
tan HuteI. His counsel moved to postpone
tho trial till September. Judge Russell re-
fused the motion, and the Recorder was
about to try Mulligan, while Judge Russell
tried the petty cases in another room, when
Mulligan placed Aladdin's magical ring on
bis finger and became invisible. lie had
modestly Withdrawn himself from the crowd,
ed Court, where he was 'tbe observed OF all
observers" Everybody was surprised, ex'
cept Judge Russell, who remained as cool as
the temperature Fahrenheit at $50 in the
shsde) would permit. Mulligan's bail was
forfeited, and the Recorder issued bench
warran. for his .e-arrest.
The destruction of the steamer Galena, al
Red Wing, on tie Upper Mississippi, on the
morning Of the lst inst, the loss OF five valu
able lives, aud sevensy-6ve thousand dollars
worth Of property, could all have been pre-
vented, had one single bucket Of water been
at hand and used when the fire was hrst dis
covered; but before it could be obtained the
fire had spread over the entire right-hano
side of the boat, thus cutting of the use Of
the stairway.
Such is the poisoned and filthy state OF the
Thames, OF London, that the fish are sicken
ed, and become so helpless that they can be
taken out with the haods. On being placed
10 pure water they revive. An officer o.
health writes to the Times that the aspect
and oder Of an open sewer is not so offensive
or unhealthy as the Thames, for the reason
that there is a constant agitation and whip
ping up Of its filthy contents by steamboats,
lie proposes that the traffic between the
bridges by steamboats, be stopped entirely
and their proprietors compensated.
The returns Of the two writs of habeas cor
pus on Capt de Riviere and John Huncke
the proprietor of the Napoleon Hotel, for the
custody Of Mrs. and Miss Blount. wai
brought up, in New York, on Friday, before
Judge Ogden, OF the Superior Court, Hudson
county, New Jersey. De RiViere having sud
denly disappeared, be was declared non est
and the time for tie return in his case was
extended to Monday morning at 9 O'Clock
lie appears to be precious scamp.
Nine. Ristori is playing at London in Ra
chefs great characters of Ph@ire and Adrien
ne Lscouvreur. 1t appears to be the gene
raj opinion of the best critics that she is fsr
Inferior to Rachel. She daguerreotypes bn'
man passion and agony after the manner OF
the realists. The News calls her acting a
wax-work exhibition. perfect in its way, but
the very negation of art.
On Saturday, the Goth ult., a young man
and woman, who were to DO married the fol-
lowing Monday, went out in the woods near
Newago, Michigan, and sat down on log
Meanwhile, cockney sportsman, who was out
after deer, seeing the futter of the lady's
dress, fred aud shot her through the body,
causing her death in three hours.
John Morrssey, the pugilist. thinks that
Canada is the only place where fight could
take place without interruption. In pub
lished card, be says: 81 once fought in the
States for one thousand dollars side, and 1t
cost me eighteen hundred dollars to save my
self from the State prison"
California, like Missouri, will soon rival
Ohio in the product of native wine. There
is one 6rm in San Francisco which produced
last wear two hundred thousand bottles of
champagne from their own vineyard IN Los
Angeles.
A Telescope Comet has been discovered
at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, by Mr.. Hen
~ NJ. Parkhurst. His observations of it,,
are communicated to the National Observa-