Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-09-22
News Of the Day.
ITO show the very age and body Of the TINES.

II was otdtcu ~ u uIcCliuS VI viz -A'''Sy
Dock Board, held in Liverpool on the lst in
slant, that ''thc Cunard Company were about
building pa,ldle-whcel vessel of great size.
Whenever the Great Eastern's trial trip
should have come off. and the result was
known, then large paddle-whecl steamship,
larger than the Persia, would be built. AT
this time they were building eight large
ships. including the one large one to which
he had Just referred, and seven of them were
intended for the Liverpool trade"
The Liverpool Times says it has the best
authority for stating that the prospects of
emigration to the United States are most
promising" and that an active movement
for some months is anticipated. The latest
emigration statistics show that while there is
a falling off in the Irish emigration, the
number of English and Scotch emigrants is
largely increased.
The heavy rains of last week caused con-
siderable damage in Frederick city, Nd, by
the overflow of CAROLS Creek. Several
houses were inundated, and Messrs. John
Loats and Gideon Bantz, tanners, suffered
considerably, by having their watts flooded
and tan bark damaged. Their joint loss is
estimated at $1,000 or $1,000.
The earthquake at Norcia, little town of
Central Italy, near Spoleto, has proved sadly
disastrous. Sixty-nine dead bodies have
been recovered, and it is estimated that two
hundred lives were lost. a slight shock has
also been felt in the city of Rome, near the
Vatican and St. Peters.
The private letters by the Persia, as was
anticipated, speak of better ceiling in re-
gard to American affairs, manifesting itself
in the share market, prices Of railroad stock
advancing considerably.
One of the most attractive places in the
vicinity Of New York, to the sight-seeker, says
a New York correspondent of the Mobile Adj
vertiser, is Greenwood Cemetery. This GEM
etery contains the grave OF Dixon IL. Lewis
For more than ten years there has been no
monument or stone 10 point out to the viSi-
tor this tomb. But within the last week or
two some of the relatives of Mr.. Lewis have
caused o monument to be erected over 1t
This monument consists Of massive obclsk
Of gray granite, apparently about twenty-five
feet in height.
A writer in New York paper states that
in the event of the reversal Of his sentence
Bishop Onderdonk has solemnly pledged
himself, in q written document in the hands
of DR.. Hawks, and Immediately to take ri-
feet, to assign to Bishop Potter the exercise
and administration Of the powers and author
ity appertaining to the Office of Diocesan. and
furthermore expressing his full purpose not
to perform Episcopal functions in the Diocese
without the consent Of Bishop Potter.
Ellenyille Ulster county, New York, ap-
pears to have been Il iayorite resort for the
largest mastodons, when those animals lived
and moved upon the earth On Friday, II
fossil trunk, eleven feet long, and two and n
half feet round at the largest end was taken
from the swamp at Ellenville, Ulster county,
owned by Mr.. John McEllone. About u
year ago bones were dug out of the same
swamp, larger i'll their dimensions than any
found previously in the county.
Judge Littleiohn, Of Michigan, accompanl-
ed BY Attorney Standish, left Nowaygo for
Traverse, on the goth of August. The dis
lance is 90 miles, through the woods-not a
single habitation intervening. They took
three days provision with them. When
about half way they lost the trail" and
themselves; and were six days in the woods
before they found their way back to the place
from whence they started.
Mrs. Cunningham, of Burdcl reputation,
lives next door to the poet and editor Mr..
Bryant, in an expensive brown stone house,
on F. 10th street, New York. Whereat Mr..
Bryant is excessively indignant. All his
efforts to get her out are unavaillng, rs she
pays her rent to the day.
On Monday week, fire ragged to fearful
extent on the plains of Chatham, Mich, and
it is estimated that at the time the fire oc-
Cured, there were upwards of three hundred
stacks of hay put up, each stack containing,
on an average, some fourteen tons, oil OF
which were destroyed.
We learn from the Fayetteville Observer,
that the Wing Executive Committee, appoint
ed by the Wing members Of the last Lcgisla-
ture of North Carolina, will meet in Raleigh
on the oath inst, to fix upon the time and
place for the meeting of the Wing State Con-
yention.
King George Circuit Court, Judge Cole
man presiding, met on Tuesday last, at III
o'clock, A. NJ, and sat exactly two hours and
half. By 4 o'clock. p. NJ, of the same
day, Judge, Lawyers. Juries, Sheriff, Clerk,
and Suitors, had oil departed for their
homes.
Mrs. Burton died in Baltimore county,
Nd, on the 18th inst, at the advanced age
of &c years. She was buried on the same
farm on which she was born, and never lived
out Of the county, and through her long life
never employed a physician.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
at Mankato, Minnesota, says that the sports
men are having lively times this Fall, game
being very abundant--prairie chickens,
ducks, and geese are shot by the hundred.
Messrs. Alexander & Gibbs have contract
ed for the erection Of Tobacco factory, in
Fredericksburg, on the lot opposite the depot,
formerly occupied by Slaughter cotton fac
tory.
The Senate of Massachusetts,, on Monday,
passed a resolution, which was unanimously
concurred in by the House, inviting Hon.
Edward Everett to repeat his Grafton on
Daniel Webster, on the Capitol grounds.
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