Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-28
NEWS of thu Dry.

f1oShoT ne Gerry dgeuhd BODY o. tic INES,
Under the warm suns of the last fev dave,
the prospects of the crops have much i'm
proved. In the cooler ATTITUDES, rust has
been arrested and where crops are farther
advanced, the harves, has already comne nc
ed or is near at hand The exceedingly ca
prictSas and variable weather of the last
Spring. makes it impossible to describe in
general terms the condition of the growing
crops, with reference to the country at large.
I Even where observation is restricted to sim
gle State, local circumstances produce great
diversity.
Hon. ]. II. Gray, of St. Johns, IN. B. who
was appointed umpire to decide cases of dis
pute between the British and American Com
missoners for defining the fishing boundaries
on the shores of the United States and the
Provinces, has recently given his decision in
several cases submitted to him. Mr.. Gray
- decided in favor Of the lines claimed by
~ British Commissioner for defining the
mouths of the Buctouche and Miramichi
rivers.
Tie Common Council of Richmond, have
appropriated the sum of $4,000 to meet the
expense Of entertaining the Seventh Regi-
ment Of New York, on their expected visit,
as the guard Of honor to the remains Of Ex-
President Monroe. The Regiment, we learn,
will probably be quartered at the Exchange
Hotel and Ballard House. and dinner will
be served for them under the fine row Of lin
dens, near the Governors House, on the
Capitol Square.
Adams Express Company has provided an
arrangement for the convenience of VISITORS
at all Of the Virginia Springs, which will
enable them to command the transfer to and
from themselves Of anything portable they
may desire, from any part Of the United
States, by the quickest means of travel and
the least delay. The arrangements include
the charge and transfer of baggage without
any trouble to the owners.
Notwithstanding the liberal offers made by
the French Emperor to Prof. Agassiz, he has
determined, it is now said, to remain in
America. |. is not true that be is going to
France to take the EnperOr's offer into con-
sideratiou lie does not feel able to leave
his engrossing studies even long enough to
make a visit TO his aged mothor in Switzer-
land.
The Common Council OF Louisville has es-
tablshed paid fire department, consisting
of three steam engines and two hand en-
eioes The chief engineer is to receive 81, :
$50, assistant chief $3.50, chief engineer Of
each steam engine $3.50, the firenen, host
lers, Sc, $40G; each foreman Of the two hand
engines, $780, who ia also to act as warden,
and twenty men to each hand engine, who
are to receive 500 psr annum, their services
to be required oDl in case of FIRE.
At Milford (Mass.) boy at work in one
of the shoe shops 10 that place recently found
in an old mail bag, which the proprietor of
the shop had purchased to work into shoes, q
letter which had been mailed at an Office in
Tennessee and directed to another place in
the same State, and which contained four
fifty dollar bills, twenty, ten, five and a
three-in all S238. This firm has purchased
several thousands of these worn out mail bags
and several other letters have been found in
them.
They are tanning an elephants hide at
Cincinnati. it was purchased by currier
in Wisconsin, where the animal, which be.
longed to a menagerie, died. The freight to
Cincinnati, cost So Ii is an immense hide,
so bulky that the tanners handle it with
great difficulty. 1t is nearly two inches
thick, and full year and half will be re-
quired to tan it thoroughly. 1t will be Gu
riosity when thoroughly tanned and seasoned.
The American Telegraph Company, own
ers Of Hughes Printing Telegraph instru-
ments, have opened the first section between
New York and Philadelphia, and have deter
mined to reduce the price. The line is TO
be extended to New Orleans by way of the
principal citsa.
Judge Perkins of the supreme court Of In
diana, having decided that it is constitution
al to tax the people for the building OF school
houses, but Unconstitutional to impose taxes
for the support of schools, the public schools
Of the State have suspended operations, turn
inc loose some thirty thousand children.
The steamship Indian Empire, daily ez-
pected at Halifax, with six days later news
than the Persia, is the pioneer of proposed
line of steamers to run regularly from Gal
way.
The planters in the vicinity Of Danyille,
| Virginia, state that there is most satlstac-
tory stand of tobacco, and the prospect ut
present looks to a heavy crop. The crop
pitched is said to be large one.
The Texas papers contains glowing &C
counts Of the grain crops in that Stale. The
prospect was, that there would be the largest
Weld of corn ever known. The weather was
favorable.
The New York Times states that person
named Young, called upon to testify IN
ease now progressing at the City Hall, swore
"be was sc years old, that he was born in
Albany, could rot read writing, had never
read the Lords Prayer, though be could read
little, and did not know what the Lords
PRAYER was; that be bad never read chap.
| ter in the Bbls, though he bad once held the
sacred volume in his hands. lie had no par
,icular occupation, gsmbled generally for a
living, and had once bitten off mans ear
in fight"
At the election in Warren county, OHIO, in
1856, Jesse Beckley,a colored man, offered
his vote, but the judges refused to receive it,
upon the ground that he was not "a citizen
Of tho United States" according TO the mean
10 M, ri Nnrurnsa Subsequently,