Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-17
News Of the Day.
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4 letter from Sevastopol, dated September
9th, to the Boston Courier, contains the
following: Early in August the heavens
were hung in black by clouds of locusts,
which, after floating over the city, settled in
masses three feet and more in thickness.
upon Holland garden, on the north side of
the city, covering all the trees. bushes, and
fruit, and by their weight breaking the
boughs of every tree on the estate except the
Willows and strewing the ground with at
least fifty cant loads Of wood.
A new plank has been added of late to
the Republican platform, the object of which
seems to be to engage the sympathes of the
negrophilists for the free people of color, as
well as for those held to service As the
free blacks cannot enjoy, anywhere in the
free States, the advantages of equal social
condition with the whites, it is proposed to
coonize them i'll some portion of America,
out of the present limits of the United
States, where they can be under such pro-
lection rs this government may be willing or
able to afford them.
In Leghorn, on the It'll ultimo, remarka-
bic scene took place For the first time the
Jews of that city offered up prayer for
Christian prince, and invoked the blessing Of
Heaven upon Victor Emmanuel, King of
Sardinia. The prayer was recited by Sgnor
Roberto Funaro. At the first word the three
thousand Jews present, with the exception OF
a few old men, rose to their feet. and remained
standing until the close Of the prayer, TO which
they all responded with an overwhelming
amen"
Grisi and Mario were obliged, after two
attempts to sing in Madrid to throw up
their engagement and leave the city. The
first evening they were driven from the stage
by Kisses and wells and other demonstrations
which made it impossible for them to pro-
coed. Grisi made an appeal to the public in
the papers the following day, but second
attempt to sing met with no better success.
A Paris letter writer ascribes the demonstra-
ton to feeling against Mario, whose first
wife was Spanish heiress, whom he deser-
ted, after he had squanGered her fortune,
causing her to die broken hearted.
Adissipated young man named Francis Gil.
bert, committed suicide in Pittsburg Pa, last
Saturday. lie was &c years of age; the son
of wealthy and respectable druggist of Phil
adelphia, head of the firm Of Gilbert d Co.
He had studied medicine. took diploma at
the Pennsylvania College Of Medicine. and
occupied the position of assistant surgeon in
the Eastern Pennsylvania Hospital for one
year.
That municipal corporation in these Uni
tod States in these times, should be COM
PEELED to advertise for some person to accept
an office is incredible. Yet it is a fact
The people of Glendale. Ohio, are In that
condition We copy the following advertise
ent:-"WANTED-ln Glendale, an active,
industrious, sober man, Of judicious temper
and strong body, to act as marshal. Pay,
four hundred dollars year and fees
The annual report of the Board of Direc-
tors Of the Virginia Central Railroad Com
pany has just been published. The gross
receipts this year are $685., 405: last year,
S687 ,03S.07; increase, sos, 36693. Expen-
ses Of administration last year, $500 O56.O3;
this year. $3.50, 70S.0l; decrease, $50 ,34S.U2.
The increased revenue and diminished ex-
penses make practical improvement equal
to SS5,7l4.95.
As an evidence Of the abandoned charact
or of the men who were engaged in Browns
lawless enterprise, says the Winchester Re-
publican) mulatto woman belonging to Col.
Lewis w. Washington was taken prisoner,
and whilst the party were about starting In
his carriage for IIarper's Ferry, Stevens
one of Browns right hand officers, linger-
ed behind, and offered violence to her person.
Through the energy of the American con-
sular authorities at Beirut, the perpetrators
of the outrage upon the Dickinson (Amerl-
can) family have at last been brought to JUS
tice. Four of the accused have been i'm
prsoned for life, and the dead body of the
fifth aud principal criminal had been brought
into Beirut.
In the trial of the gipseys at Prince Will
liam Court on Tuesday week, for robbing
Mr.. 7. Holmes, the man-Nelson Cooper
was his name,-was acquitted. His wife
was put on bail with security at $3.50. She
deposited the sum with her security, and
left.
Gov Brown, of Georgia, says in his late
message to the Legislature, that the State
has derived the past year S420,0 900 nett pro-
fits from the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
Notwithstanding expensive repairs made
upon it. He estimates the road to have cost
the State 81. AL 900.
On Thursday night last, the house owned
by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Compa-
ny, but occupied by Mr.. j. ID. Wells and
family, in Frederick, Maryland, was attack
ed by a party Of men disguised, who used
axes and crowbars, the family driven out.
and the house totally demolished.
A public meeting at Pittsylvania c. H., on
the 5th inst, declared in favor of railroad
from Danville to Lynchburg, and invited
the counties particularly interested to meet
in Convention at Plttsylvania c. II. on the
22d instant.
Gen. Tom Thumb will be % years old in
January next. lie resides in Bridgeport,
Conn, where he owns fine house on the
main street, valued at over $50 900 He drives
pony which he says will travel mile in
three minutes.
The dread of French invasion" is evil
IDENTIFY gaining strength and intensity in Eng
land. The organization Of Rife Corps is