Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-16
EXANDRTA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1863
The name of New Caledonia has been

The name of New Caledonia has been
changed by the British government in the
bill for the establishment of colonial gov
eminent for that Territory, to British Column
bia. The first name was given in compii'
ment to the settlers, who werc chiefly Scotch.
They have adopted the new name IN COM
memoration Ct the great dscoSerer OF the
continent, hut distinguish it from the Column,
bia in the United States by tho addition OF
British.
In consequence Of the apprehension Of Ia
mine among the miners on Fraser river 1t
is in contemplation by the Hudson's Bay
Company to remove the restrictions to the
free navigation Of that stream. Two Amer
can vessels had already had permission ac-
corded to them to ascend it, and 1t was e4-
pected that the navigation would be declared
free to all. That step, however, had not been
definitively taken at the last accounts.
Senator Trumbull has taken the stump in
Illinois, for the Republican" party. lie late
ly made q speech, which has created consid-
able attention. The New York Herald says:
"His Custom House statistics, ere very curious
and remarkable, and suggestive of an i'm
mense batch of spoils and lobby jobs, which
spoilsmen and lobby jobbers of Congress, un'
til they need general pruning down."
tha Madame
Champagneux at her residence in Paris, at
the age of seventy seven. This lady was the
only child of the celebrated Madame Roland,
one of the brave women who persisted on the
scafold during the French revolution, the
commencement of which she hailed with
rapture, and the horrors, of which she una.
vailiogly deplored. Ter memoirs are among
the most interesting of that period.
One &C the most curious phenomena OF
modern times is the extraordinary increase
10 the consumption Of tobacco. The Genie
Industrial says that it cannot account for the
advance in France, where it has indeed been
enormous For while in 1880 the value OF
tobacco consumed was about Sl3. 100000 IN
1910 j, had increased to SO 100000 in 1880
to S24 900 900, and in 1857 to nearly $780,
100000.
The report of the Board of Ordnance off,
cers, who superintendent the recent trial of
recch,loadipg carbines at West Point, has
just been published. 1t appears that none
Of the various arms presented, met the entire
appreciation of the Board, but that the Burn
eide model proved the least Objectionable
MIR. Colt seems to have been left entirely 10
the background.
The Fredericksburg Recorder says:--"1n
1850 the whole debt of the corporation was
only twenty-five thousand dollars. Eleven
thousand Of which was due the Virginia
Bank and the residue the Farmers Bank
Now it amounts in round numbers to the in.
significant sum Of two hundred and fifty
Thousand dollars"
4 letter from an officer on board the Mis-
sissippi, published in the Hong Kong Regis
ter, says that it was the intention Of Lord
Elgin, the English Commander, to push 90
at once to Pekin, and only in that city to ne
gotiate with the Chinese. lie has sent down
for reinforcements, but the Register has not
the least idea where they are to come from.
The success of the Atlantic cable will en-
courage the establishment of other lines, with
more or less submarine wires, to other por-
tons of the globe. Among these is the pro-
posed route from Key West Fla to Havana;
| thence to Yucatan across to Tehuantepec,
and down to Panama. and ultimately to San
Francisco.
The million and half of specie brought
| BY the Star Of the West, from California, will
| be handsome addition to the reserves Of the
| New York Banks, and more than balance all
the shipments of the last two weeks.
The editor of the Fredericksburg News,
who is at the White Sulphur Springs, gives,
on the whole, favorable account of that
watering place, this season.
The Richmond South says, that so far from
the coming year being one of abundance,
throughout the country, there will be short
crops of nearly oil the staple productions.
We have received the September number of
Harper's Magazine, from Mr.. Geo. E. French.
This number is in no respect inferior to its
predecessors.
The Union says that "the vexed question
Of Slavery had little or nothing to do with
the result of the recent vote in Kansas"
The Telegraph Retoieings.
In an article on this subject, the n. Y. Post
remarks:
$50 much nonsense has been written, spo-
La. n.d .nlnnrn rhnd ahnnt tho cnnfe IN Mated