Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-02-07
News Of the Day.
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House of Representatives have referred the
Oregon and Washington war debt claims to
the Auditor of the Treasury, to compute
them on the same basis that the government
paid for supplies for the regulars during the
Indian hostilities in 1855 and SO. and to re-
port the amounts to the next Congress.
A steamboat arrived few days ago at
New Orleans, from the Red River, with a
large party of gentlemen and ladies from
the northwestern parishes of Louisiana. who
are visiting the city for pleasure and amuse-
ment. Among them are eight widows, whose
aggregate wealth amounts to five millions of
dollars One of the said ladies il the owner
of six hundred slaves, and the others make
a crop of three thousand bales of cotton.
A man named Arnold. graduate Of the
Michigan University, and Il man Of fine at
tainments and good connections, was arrest
ed at Omaha. n. r. on a charge of horse
stealing While confined in Il room. under
charge of an officer, he broke up q tumbler
and pane of glass from the window, and
swallowed the fragments. This not proluc-
| ing death a. soon as he desired. he hung him
self with small cord to the bed-post.
1t is stated that at least 4 900 persons were
out on the ice on the river at New Haven,
Conn. on Tuesday last. The skaters enjoyed
a perfect carnival There was a skating race
for SlO side, during the day, and the winner
made his mile in less than three minutes. In
the afternoon a military company put on their
4 al ,toS and porolnl an tl,a ha,Ial hu a
| band of music.
On Sunday last were performed the funeral
rites of Mrs. Tacy Gray, a lady who had
passed, by four months, the great age of one
hundred years. She died At the house Of her
daughter, in Shipper street, Philadelphia,
and up to three days previous 10 her decease,
was in the enjoyment of most remarkable
health.
We are sorry to learn from the Cleveland
Herald that Judge McLean's health is evil
IDENTIFY again giving way. On his return to
the capitol he was for few days enabled to
vigorously prosecute his duties, but by last
accounts he WIS not able to attend the sit
tings of the Supreme Court, and it was said
he would soon return to Cincinnati.
Ex-President Fillmore is at the Delevan
House in Albany. The Statesman says that
he has entirely recovered the use of his eyes
and that there are no traces Of the severe at
tack which last Summer 80 far impaired his
| sight as to make il necessary Tor him to fore
90 reading, even the current news and gossip
of the day.
A subscription paper is in circulation in
Louisville, Ky, for the purpose of procuring
a statue of Henry Clay, by Hart, to be placed
in the rotunda of the courthouse. The sta
tue will cost 5000. The work on the Clay
Monument. at Lexington, is stopped for want
of funds.
The late Judah Touro, the benevolent He
brew, among many other philanthropic be-
quests, left to the city of New Orleans the
sum of $s0, 900 for the building of an aims
house-a place of refuge and shelter for the
destitute of that city. The erection OF Il
building is soon to be commenced.
We learn, with much regret, of the death
of the Hon. $. W. Parker, of Indiana. He
died on the LIST instant. of pneumonia. after
a short illness. lie was extensively known
as one of the old Wing leaders, in the palmy
days OF that party
Over two thousand shares of the capital
stock having been subscribed, the Eastern
Shore Railroad company is to be organized at
Princess Ann, Nd, on the ODD inst. The road
to be built by the company is TO connect with
the Delaware railroad at the Maryland line.
Baltimore Is talking OF an Academy OF
Music as necessary to the amusem'n's OF t''at
city Baltimore is increasing in wealth and
in business. and finds the convenicnces of
metropolitan greatness 'hd'spehsaD'''
fev. BISHOP burns VINO lett 'h'S '"""'r!
for Africa, in the packet ship Mary Caroline
Stevens. has arrived ut Sierra Leone, on his
way to Monrovia, and writes from that place
on the 10th of December. lie is we'll
Highly hattering accounts of the Kansas
gold mines continue to he received a rich
quartz vein had been discovered at Ralston's
Fork. ~ miles from Aurava, and shot gold
abounds in several localities.
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