Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-04-06
News or tho Day.
'JoShop he cery age and body Of the TINES"

BY the first Of May another constitution
will be sent from Kansas for the acceptance
of Congress. This is the instrument which
has been framed OF Minueola, under an act
of the recent Territorial legislature. with
the fatality which accompanies all the acts
of public bodies in Kansas, this constitution
was framed under circumstances Of disputed
legality.
A Paris correspondent Of the New York
Journal of Commerce says: "a gorgeous
embassy FROM Japan is expected; after visit
ing our capital London, and perhaps Vienna,
these princes and other grandees OF the Mo; :
golian race will cross the Atlantic, to learn
what the United States are, and what Re
public means. They are quite as worthy of
an elaborate welcome as the Turkish Admi-
raj, about whose mission and advent there
has been in Congress aod Common Councils
fuss, which excites some smiles on both
sides of the British Channel"
By private advices from Montevideo, un-
der date Of Feb. 3, we learn that the distur-
Dances which have recently agitated that
country have been effectually suppressed,
and that the present government Is establish
ed on much more secure and permanent
basis than heretofore. No further distur-
Dances need be anticipated, as the Govern
ueut is now 10 position to effectually quell
any attempted insurrection.
A diabolical attempt to take life occurred
at Cincinnati, on Friday last, by which Prior
P. Lee, the engineer of the Cinci matt Type
Foundry, was severely injured. MIR. Lee was
alone in the cellar, and had Just commenced
clearing out the rubbish underneath a work
bench used for the manufacture of type
boxes, when an explosion took place by
which he was forcibly Frustrated, and on re-
covering himself found that he was bleeding
profusely from the abdomen, and that his left
hand was badly shattered. His clothes were
also on fire. Finding he could not extlL-
guish the flames he rushed up stairs and one
Of the workmen dashed a pail full of water
over him. An examination Of the baseme nt
showed that the explosion had been caused
by a torpedo apparatus, manufactured from
piece of gas pipe about eight inches In
length, and an inch in diameter.
Two very extraordinary and mysterious
murders were revealed 10 New York, last
week, the perpetrators in each case being un-
known. In one case Charles Samuels, a
Young man residing at No. 235 Adams street,
Brooklyn, was the victim. lie was stabbed
to the heart ard then thrown into the East
river, with large stone attached to his body.
The other case is equally horrible. The mu-
tilated remains of an unknown man were
found packed up in a whiskey barrel by
the freight agent of the Hudson River Rail
road Company, at the foot Of Canal street.
The barrel had been sent on to the city via
the Great Western and New York Central
Railroads, and was directed to w. L. Jen-
nings, No. lJ5 Leonard street; but 1t was as
certained that there was neither such an IN
dividual nor such a number in that 5treet.
1t will be remembered that quite serious
excitement took place at Goldsborougb, n.
c., some months ago growing out of an attray
in which DIR. Davis, man named Odenhei-
mer and others figured. Last week the par
ties were tried and found guilty. DR.. Davis
Was fined sos; Chas. Spath fined $50 and
imprisoned one month, and Odenheimer
fined sos and imprisoned five months. DR..
Davis refused to prosecute chs case, and al
ter Spath wag sentenced, interceded IN bis
behalf, and secured the remission OF the hne.
An April fool hoax was perpetrated IN
Baltimore, through the announcement that
lawful Gardner" the converted pugllst,
would conduct prayer meeting at Temper
ance Temple. Hundreds CT persons visited
the place, and discovered that they had been
fooled.
Letters from La Plata and Rio Janelro
via England, report the yellow fever raging
severely among the ships crews. An Eng
lish yessel-ol-war after suffering dreadfully
vas evacuated by the thirty men who were
spared. Several other ships Of all nations
we're evacuated.
The repairs to the Seaboard and Roanoke
railroad bridge over Smiths creek, few
miles above Suffolk, Va, were completed on
Wednesday, and the connection between
Portsmouth and Weldon is again complete.
1t is rumored that Al!sop, the English fu-
pitiye. has arrived here, with the purpose OF
ascertaining what the views OF Government
are on his extraditiop, it demanded.
The House Military Committee have
agreed to the Senate's amendments to the
Volunteer bill, and it will accordingly pass.