Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-04-22
BY Ye.,erday Even,ng,s Mails.

DALE VI OOlIHSlDE hAiLhoap D'
Bonds CT the Southern Railroad Company to
the amount of Sll, 900. were sold by the city
on Yesterday to Thos. Skipwitb. esq, OF Hal
flax Va, at the rate oil SoS 81 per share. a
special meeting Of the Council, was caileo'
Yesterday afternoon, and an ordnance pass
ed, upon the motion of the chairman OF the
finance committee, guaranteeing IN future
the city's security on these and all otner
Southside railroad bonds that may be dis
posed Of The original value OF S)uthside
Railroad bonds held by the city amounted to
SITS, 900; there remains now only 3,5OO--
TACT which speaks we'll for the efficiency
and tact of the Finance Committee Peters,
burg Express.
THE WHEAT CRop.-From all parts of the
country We have the most favorable accounts
of the condition Of the growing wheat. The
farmers Of this county unanimously declare
that they have never known better pros
pect for fine crop. The four chief enemies
of the wheat in this region are the tiy, JOINT
worm, chinch bug and rust, but the wheat Is
too far advanced to suffer much injury from
any Of these causes, and with tolerably tar
weather from now till harvest we shall have
q WELD Of unprecedented abundance.
SUDDEN DEATH Mrs. Ella Snowden,
wife of DR.. A. Nj. Snowden, of Greeobrier
county, died very suddenly on Sunday last
She was sitting in her room. apparently IN
the enjoyment of good health, when she re-
marked to her husband that she felt unwell.
She arose and went to her bed for repose,
and had been lying there about five minutes,
when her husband went TO her for the pur-
pose of examining her pulse, and found that
the vital spark had fed! Mrs. Snowden was
a native of Maryland, aud had only been mar
ried short time.
COMPLIMENTARY RESOLUTIONS --We were
shown yesterday, the complimentary resoiu'
tons to Lieut. RJbt B. Pegram, of the U.
S. n, passed by the Legislature OF Virginia,
on the 9th of April, 1858, for gallant ser7i-
ces, in the Chinese Seas. The resolutions
were copied on parchment in beautiful style,
and handsomely bound. Capt. Wm. Nun
ford wss to have lett here yesterday after
noon to convey the document to Lieut.. Peg
ram.-Rich. Disp.
SALE OF FINE CATTLE.-Several OF the
finest lots of cattle in the State were sold 10
this market a day or too ago, by Maj Wal
ker, of Augusta. There were one hundred
and FIVE heads in three lots, averaging nearly
| 600 lbs. gross, two thirds of all having been
bous by our enterprising citizen, Mr.. John
Lindsey, of the Old Market. Severalot the
years cid lot average upward Of 2,OOO lbs.
gross.
SMALL Pox AT PORT WALTHALL.-The
Petersburg Irtelligencer says that this die
ease has made it's appearance in quite tor
midable manner at Port Walthall, on the
Anpomattox. Some ten or twelve cases are
now under treatment, and others are aEtici-
mated. Mayor TUwnes of Petersburg, has
deemed it prudent to summon the Council
together to adopt preventive measures.
ACQUITTED. S. Martin, charged with
stabbiug Lucien Bass. was tried before the
Circuit Court, yesterday, and acquitted
Rich. Dip.
The Norfolk papers notice the death OF
Jack, a slave to MIR. Ward, from the disease
Of wealth, known as govt. His funeral was
attended by about 1000 colored persons.