Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-02-01
News of the Day.
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success, to cut down the naval appropriations
by excluding various large items-such as
repairs, work at navy-yards, DC. But pro-
.jects are entertained by Congress, with the
advice of the President that may render ne
cessary large expenditures.
A long report in the London Times was re-
Gently telegraphed from Manchester to Lon
don by young girls, at the average rate Of
Twenty-Five words a minute, and with hard
ly an error in the whole. Good work; but
how do they keep the telegraph secrets?
1t is stated that over El.0OO.O00 has been
expended on the now slumberlng Atlantic
cable, a large portion of which came out of
the pockets of American stockholders, who,
of course, must bear proportionate share Of
! the loss.
! A party from Western Missouri, have re-
turned from Kansas, having captured seve-
raj runaway negroes, and arrested DR.. Day
and his son, who are charged with aiding
in their escape The latter is now in Jail ut
Platte city. Summary punishment having
been threatened there is some talk of a de-
monstration in their favor.
A pocket-book was found in Boston, Mas
sachusetts, last week, containing $1,000 in
money, and 81 800 in notes The finder APP
proprated part of the ready, and display
ed the remainder freely He made no effort
to find the owner. not even advertising, and
was arrested for fraudulently retaining pos
session of the money.
Benjamin F. Butler, after deyising the
bulk of his property to his children, and APP
pointing his son as executor, refers the latter
to memorandum of charitable and friendly
bequests-not incorporated in the will-to
avoid publicity. Thus a practiscd lawyer
was obliged to modify his last testament to
keep his donations from the newspapers.
The New Orleans True Delta of the Goth
ult., says that checks to the amount ofSl 800
were presented at the Citizens Bank for pay
ment, but detected as torgeries. They bore
the name and endorsement of well-knOwn
firms. The checks, it adds, were negotiated
in Louisville, and sent down there for collec-
ton.
The city Of Keokuk Iowa, has issued 4
circular to its creditors, in which it states its
inability to pay the interest upon its debt.
The debt amounts TO Sl,l50,000, of which
$500, 900 was issued TO various Railroads.
ItS assets amount to $3.50, 1000, of which
S650000is Railroad stock, and SlI5.OOO UNI
paid taxes of 1857 and 1858.
Parlors have been fitted up in the basement
of Rev. DR.. Aikens Church at Cleveland,
Ohio, with piano, sofas, &C., and social
gatherings are held in them for the promo
ton of better acquaintance and more init
mate sympathy among the members Of the
Church and congregation.
The Tifin (Ohio) Tribune states that on
Sunday morning of last week. a lady named
Phillips, travelling agent Of the American
SUNDAY School Union. addressed the Sunday
Schools of that place in its behalf, and in the
afternoon occupied the pulpit of the NJ. f.
Church.
The California State Register for 1850, fur
nishes the following figures as the popula,
ton of that State: Americans, @65,@l5
French, 5000; English, 1000; Irish, TO-,
600: Germans, 10000: Mexicans, $1,000; va,
rous. $1,000; Chinese. $4,000; negroes, 3
600; Indians, 65,000-Total, $500
1t is stated that the work on the Union
railroad. to connect the Northwestern Nir-
ginia and Marietta and Cincinnati railroads.
is steadily progressing. The rails for the
whole have been procured, and money To
complete the most of the graduation and ma
sonry.
All New York was lately skating on the lake
in the Central Park. 1t is said 100000 pee
ple have visited it since the lst of January.
The ladies quite astonish "the natives III
their propensties but it puzzles them t" put
on their skates without seat to sit on, or
even rug to break off the icy GOODNESS.
Felix Coste has Just received 81 900 dam
ages from the city of St. Louis for injury
done to 1900 barrels of lager beer belonging
to him. The city, it appears, attempted to
cut through an embankment, in doing which
cave containing the beer was seriously over,
flowed and the "lagar" ruined.
The German astronomers have taken the
position that the heat of the earth is gradual
" diminishing and it's general temperature
therefore becoming lower; and some Of our
American astronomers, we believe concur in
their opinion.
Col. Lockridge announces in the New Or
leans Delta that his Arizona and Northern
Mexico Expedition will start about the LIST
of next March. He disavows all conncxion
with the New York emigration movement to
Central America and Mexico.
Boston is n cool place, certainly: but the
coolest thing there, is medicine vender in
that city who asks publishers of newspapers
in the United States and elsewhere" to copy
an advertisement Of his wares "editorially,
and then take their pay in medicine!
The snow is now four and half to five
feet deep through the White Mountain dis
tricts, n. H., where the thermometer during
the late cold snap ranged from twenty-tour
to forty degrees below zero.
The value of food consumed in New York
last year is estimated at Sl2.0OO,OOO, and
the number of the various quadrupeds eaten
were: beevcs, l,374; cows, lO,l2S; veal
1865; swine, 55l 40.
Six thousand five hundred barrels Of -four