Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-06-01
News Of the Day.
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promise We'll, out tney are much Iurtner au-
vanced than usual.
The United States steam frigate Minnesota
has arrived at Boston from China. She
touched at the Cape of Good Hope. All is
reported we'll on board of her. She brings the
crew of the American barque Claremont, on
a charge of mutiny, sent home for trial by
the United States Consul at the Cape.
From Texas, by the steamer Fashion, at
Mobile, were twenty-one camels, eight Of
them belonging to B. NJ. Woolsey, esq, of
Dallas county. The other thirteen are offer
ed for sale in Mobile. They are very gentle,
says the Tribune, cost very little in their
keeping, and easily carry two bales of cot
ton on their backs, at the rate of twenty-five
miles a day, over a road which would be i'm
passible to a wagon.
In New York, on Thursday, over 600 per-
sons, mostly young ladies, were confirmed
and partook of their first communion, at the
Sixteenth street Roman Catholic church,
The catechumens, dressed in white and en-
veloped in long white wells, marched in pro-
cession to the church from the convent in
Sixteenth street. An immense crowd gath
cred to see them pass. The sacrament of
confirmation was administered by the Bish-
CD Of Puobla, Mexico, now an exile in the
city of New York.
The War Department has just received n
communication from w. S. Clark, B~rigadier
General of California, dated Los Angeles,
May 2. 1859, informing it of the complete
success of Lieut.. Col. Hoffman's United
United States Colorado Expedition, and adds
that the troops engaged on the expedition,
with the exception of two companies, were
then in march for economical stations on the
sea-board.
In the Protestant Episcopal Convention,
Philadelphia, the principal subject of discus
sion, on Friday, was the consideration of the
resolutions offered by the committee of six
teen, providing for the dissolution Of the Adj
vancement and Diocesan Missionary Boards,
and the formation of a new organization;
which we're adopted. The result was a tri-
umph of the High Church party!
The examination of Edward Jackson, in
New York, for the alleged attempt to rob the
U. S. mail agent, on the 18th ult, near Port
Jarvis, Pa, was concluded on Friday. The
principal witness was Adam Keck, the mail
agent, who detailed the particulars of the at
tempt to Supply him with chloroform, and
of the fight which took place in the mail car.
The prisoner was fully identified.
The "Arizonian," published in Tubac,
Arizona, contains an account of the proceed
ings ola public meeting in Arizona City, ex-
pressing strong disapprobation cfthe course of
Congress towards that Territory, end urgent
ly requesting the cooperation of the inhabi-
tants generally in establishing and main
tanning a government independent of the
United States.
In the Tennessee gubernatorial canvass,
Col. Netherland, the Opposition candidate,
recently gave a quietus to his competitors
doleful whine about negroes" and slavery
agitation" by stating, that all the Abolition
candidates for the Presidency have been ia
ken from the ranks of the Democratic party!
Van Buren,, Fremont, Birney. all sprung
from the Democracy.
On Thursday evening last, the household
of Mr.. Robert Stuart, at Newberry. n. c.,
consisting of four white persons and six ne
groes, were poisoned with arsenic. mixed
with their food by the cook, q mulatto girl
She confessed the deed, and charged a young
white man named Saunders, with furnishing
her the poison.
Another old soldier has departed. Patrick
Miles one of the gallant men who fought
bravely and lost a leg at the battle Of Mon
terey, whilst on a visit from the Soldiers
Homo to Georgetown, on Monday, was taken
suddenly i'll and died. He had served Is
years in the army, and was receiving a pen
sion.
The West Tennessee Wing notices the ar
rest of James Rigdon Irwin. suspected OF be-
ing concerned in the murder of the cashier
of the bank at Jackson, Tenn, last February.
lie was arrested in Tishomingo county,
Miss, where he had been living as n laborer
in a mill, since the Odd of February. lie Is
to be taken to Jackson for trial.
The city passenger railways in Philadel-
phia are furnishing employment for the law
yers. The Green and Coates Streets Passen-
ger Railway, the West Philadelphia Passen-
ger Railway, and the Walnut and Chestnut
Streets Passenger Railway Companies, were
all before Court on Saturday last.
The Hungarians, of New York, have at
length spoken out, and declared for the side
they prefer in the great strife that is impend-
ing in Southern Europe. They take tho
side of the Italius, and invoke the bless
ing of Heaven on the efforts to rid Italy of
the Austrian yoke.
The President has decided upon purchas-
ing the lot now occupied by the First Presby-
terrain Church and parsonage, at the north
west corner of Fayette and North streets, as
the site Of the new United States Court
House to be erected by the government, in
Baltimore.
The President. accompanied by Secretary
Thompson. left Washington on Monday
afternoon in the 3 o'clock train, on a
visit to North Carolina. He went to Balti.
more and took steamboat for Norfolk. and
from thence TO Weldon. He will be absent
about eight days.
Spiritualism seems to be making its way
among the Mormons. Elder Pratt, in a late
discourse on the efficacy of prayer, maintain
ed that future r~etribution consists in being
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