Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-03-18
News Of the Day.
10 sho~ the rc'y age and body ofMe TINES.

Should the late success of the Liberals over
Miramon's forces he followed by similar re-
suits in future engagements, says the New
York Journal Of Commerce, the aspect of
Mexican affairs will not unlikely be so chan
ged, that Mr. McI.ane, our Minister to that
country, will feel authorized to recognize the
Juarez government, and treat with it, as the
government dc .trcto Of Mexico.
The joint resolutions passed by Congress,
at the suggestion of Gen. Bowie, OH the sub
.ject of the Tobacco trade with foreign ma
tons, have been already taken up by the
President, with a view to carrying out their
provisions.
At the last meeting of the Richmond city
council, Mr.. Haskins, from the committee on
the James River Improvement, presented a
report asking an appropriation of $4,000 to
remove the bar in James river. The report
was laid over.
Mrs. Gov Brown and family are making ar
rangement to leave Washington at as early
day as practicable, and they will return,
in the course of few days, to their home in
Tennessee They will carry with them the
warm regards and kind wishes of all.
A man named j. y. RUSSELL cooper by
occupation. committed suicide in his own
house, in Boston, by shooting himself through
the heart with Il duelling pistol. Mr.. Rus
sell owned the house in which he lived,
and rented two or three tenements there
in to families Of mechanics. lie has lately
had some trouble with some of his tenants,
and his wife had some words with him in re-
gard to those difficulties. He declared, dur
ing their conversation, that he should never
again have any difficulty with any person in
that house, and he assembled to the back attic
and shot himself.
The nearest approach to realizing the idea
of emusic for the million, is the invention of
the "Calliope," which is adapted to steam
boats and locomotives, and transforms the
harsh signals of those useful motors into
pleasing airs and popular tunes. One of
these instruments will be placed upon the
steamboat Mary, running across the Della
ware, and will continue to play for the
amusement of those attracted by the novel
ty. The music can be given as soft as that
from musical box, or loud enough to be
heard two miles.
James ii. Bates killed his son. John Bates
near Fulton, Tenn, on Monday night, March
eth. a dispute arose between father and
son about some cards, which a younger broth
er was playing with. the father saying he did
not allow such in his house, when the young
man left the house, followed by the father,
who told him not to return or he would stick
his knife in him. The son returned, having
no idea his father would use the knife, when
his father stabbed him through the left breast,
causing instant death.
The Spencer Owen county, Ind Journal
learns that on Saturday week two little boys,
aged respectively two and four years, sons of
Mr.. 4. Goodwin of Green county, got to
quarreling US to which one should have pos
session of an axe. After short scutHe the
elder one succeeded in getting the axe, and
Immediately struck his little brother on the
head killing him almost instantly.
The Frederick Examiner says the citizens
of that place are literally contributing to-
wards the fund to secure the holding of the
next Maryland State Agricultural Fair there.
The county society meets ON tho 10Th instant,
when it is expected, they will reportin favor
of the proposition of the State Society.
At the Commencement of the Jefferson
Medical College, in Philadelphia, on Tues
day, $50 young men received the degree Of
Doctor of Medicine This is the largest
class, with a single exception, that has ever
graduated from Jefferson College.
The Wilmington(N. c. journal states that
a man who processes to be weather wise,
gives it as his opinion that there will be no
rain during the whole month of May. lie
says the same thing occurred during the year
1859, and again in 1889.
William Curran, the nephew Of John
Philpot Curran, the intrepid Irish advocate
and brilliant orator of seventy years and
more ago, is now eating the bitter bread of
pauper in the workhouse OF kanturk, Ire
land.
The Detroit Free Press says that an attempt
was made in that city. few evenings since,
to set fire to large frame building in which
between four and FIVE hundred persons were
taking part in ball.
The "Clasissa lIarlowe head-dress' IL the
latest invention of French coiffeur. 1t is
formed of corn-Aags and jasmine bells, feath.
ers, ribbon. and tortoise-shell comb, and
looks like book.
The Grand Jury in the case of the bark
Julia Dean. suspected of being SLAYER
ignored the bill of indictment on the 18th inst.
in Norfolk
4 precocious youngster. nineteen years
old, named ODonnell, is on trial in st. Louis,
for being married to three wives at the same
time.
The President of the Baltimore and Poto-
mac Railroad has called meeting Of the Dl-
rectors of the Company. in the City of Bal
timore. on Tuesday. the 9th of April next.
The Democrats of Culpeper County will
have an adjourned meeting ofthe party ut
March Court-next Monday.
A Frightful Scene.
A frightful scene might have been wit
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