Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-20

"T sho~ the rery age and body ofthe TINES.


The overland mail. with California dates
t, the 25th ult.. has arrived. Senators Gwin
and Broderick were mastering their forces for
the ensuing political campaign. There will
he two democratic tickets In the held-Le-
compton and anti-Lecompton. The State
democratic convention will be held at Sacra-
mento. June ID.
The recent negotiations in New York for
the discontinuance of the existing injurious
competition between the principal railroad
companies, has fallen through. The New
York Central refuses to allow the Southern
roads the advantages Of their geographical
position, and declares an intention to carry
freight from New York to any common point
West, as cheap IA they do from Philadelphia
or Baltimore The war. therefore, goes on.
The Postmaster General has under consid-
Grafton the propriety Of adopting in the pre-
paration Of stamped envelopes, new style,
Just coming into use. These envelopes are
SO prepared that black lines on the inside
of the back Of tho envelope, and invisible
from without, become patent on the front
when the envelope is pressed, and serve as
ruled lines to guide the superscripton.
On Wednesday, as the o'clock morning
express train from Buffalo to New York, was
passing the crossing one mile west of Jordan,
a COW sprang on to the track between the
engine and baggage car, throwing of the
bag gage and three passenger cars. Thomas
S. Clifford, Conductor, was instantly killed.
and fifteen TO twenty injured, three OF them
it is feared. fatally,
At the Newmarket (England) course. on
Thursday, April %. Mr.. r. Ten Broeck's
Prioress, in match with Count Batthyany's
Olympus, won, hard held" by ten lengths.
The betting opened at G to on Prioress,
and closed at to 2 on her. In the next
race for the subscription plate of fifty SOW
ereigns, Mr.. Ten Broeck's Orlando came in
second.
The ship Pomona, from Liverpool for New
York, an account of the loss of which has
already been given, had on board, when she
left Liverpool, 1913 passengers, namely: IL
married males and &c married females, l4o
single males and lG4 single females, 81
childen between the ages of and IL, and :
infants Of all these only three were saved
A letter from Fort Kearney, dated the
9th inst, says that large numbers OF the
Pixies Peak emigrants are returning in
droves. Nine hundred wagons passed the
fort in week The emigrants are extreme
ly destitute, and are selling their wagons,
horses and outfits for almost nothing.
The report that Mr.. McLane has already
negotiated treaties with President Juarez for
the security of the Tehauntepec and other
transit routes across Mexico, is premature;
but instructions relative to negotiation OF
that character have no doubt, been given, or
will at a proper time.
The steamer Martha Putnam, from Gin
cinnati, hound to st. Louis, and heavily la
den, was coming out of the Falls at Louis
vile, on Wednesday, when she stove hole
in her bow She was towed ashore, where
she sunk in seven feet water. The boat was
not insured.
The Agricultural Bureau of the Patent Of
fee is in receipt of intelligence announc-
ing the shipment of nine cases of tea seed
from Hong Kong. These seed will arrive
towards the close of this month, and the
Bureau will then have enough seeed to pro-
duce 100000 tea plants.
The Isthmus correspondent of the New
York Times confirms previous report that
abe Congress of Nicaragua had refused to
ratify the grant Of land made to NJ. Belly by
President Martinez and his Ministers, where
at the President, Ministers, and NJ. b., are
in great tribulation.
The first instalment (Slo0,O0o) of the
debt, as ascertained and adjusted in the trea-
ty recently concluded by Hon. W. b. Reed.
with the Chinese Government. due by that
Government to certain American citizens,
has been already received
The State Department has received infor-
nation that the official copy of the Cass-
Herran treaty ratified by the United States,
has not been lost in the Magdalena river, as
was enormously reported by the last Aspln-
wall steamer.
On the I'd instant the French and English
sauadrons, which have been for some time
past anchored near the city Of Vera Cruz,
dispersed, and returned to their respective
stations in the Gulf Of Mexico and the West
Indies.
The steamer Niagara sailed on Wednes-
day, for Europe, with about $500, 900 in gold
bars. Among her passengers are Hon. Ru-
fus Choate and son. Mrs. Fanny kemble
and daughter, and Joseph Proctor, the ira
gedian.
r. b. Jordan was assassinated at San
Address, Texas, on Sunday, the 18th ult.-
He had seduced the daughter of a widow
lady and continued to live with her in disre-
gard of the many warnings he had received
from the community in which he lived.
The ST. Joseph's Gazette publishes re-
port of a serious difficulty between the IN
habitants of Aurora and Denver city, result
ing in the burning of both towns. Local
rivalry is said to have been the cause of the
difficulty. The report needs confirmation.
Dispatches from Washington state that
serious charges have been preferred against
Captain Van Vliet, who expended nearly
$4,000, 900 in the purchase of mules and
stock for the Utah Expedition. A court
mar tial will probably be ordered.
Advices from Tahiti of the ODD of March
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