Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-31
News Of the Day.
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The city taxes in New York city the pre-
sent year will be from ten to eleven millions
Of dollars. The population of the city num-
| beers nearly II million, and this tax averages
something over ten dollars head for each
man. woman and child. The number Of
emigrants arrived during the week, was :
139, making the whole number landed there
since December last 1000. or au increase of
/ l.6l0 over the number landed during the
corresponding period last year.
There we're sent on Tuesday over the wires
of the Atlantic and Ohio telegraph (Morse)
lines, extending between Philadelphia and
Pittsburg, FIVE hundred and seventy-eight
private dispatches, over five thousand words
Of news for the Associated Press, and an en-
tire cop, of the Presidents Message. contain
ing over fifteen thousand words, to the Pitts
burg Post, and all during the regular bust
ness hours Of the day. The Presidents
Message was transmitted, on two wires in
five hours and fifteen minutes.
A few days since member Of New
York importing house, came to Cincinnati on
business. and stopped with mercantile
friend. Friday night he visited gambling
hell, and before leaving, deposited about
three thousand dollars with voracious
tiger" kept in the institution. Feeling we'll
satisfied that it would not "ope its ponder
ous and marble jaws" and the deposit was
permanent one, lie became 80 affected by
his loss that he returned to his lodgings at
an early hour yesterday morning and swal-
,al e II
ately his condition was discovered soon after,
and by the timely aid Of q physician, his life
was saved.
On Sunday morning promising young
man, named Jacob S. Sounder, was drowned
while skating on the Schuylkill, some dis
lance above Philadelphia He was student
Of Yale College, and was in his twenty first
year. He had come home for the holidays,
and was spending the time at the residence
Of his relatives AT the time Of his death he
was skating and broke through the ice. There
being no one with him except some small
buys he was drowned.
In the Supreme Court, New York, Edward
Hughes has recovered three thousand dollars
from Michael Green for the loss Of his little
daughter, who was killed by the falling Of a
rock through the roof of his house. Green
was blasting rocks in the neighborhood,
aud fragment thrown up, fell upon the roof
and descended to the basement, striking the
child upon the head.
The New York papers are poking fun at
Gov. Wise for installing the white and black
eagles Of France and Austria represented
in late number Of London Punch as fight
ing in the air, while the British lion was
looking on in watchful attitnde for the
North and South of this country "haying
round;" with Great Britain as grati6ed
spectator.
"Old Billy" who has carried the Charles
ton Courier since its existence. has died in
Charleston, s. C. He always wrote his own
addresses, which made up in honesty what
they lacked in poetry, and for years has been
faithful attendant at the Jewish Synagogue
on the day Of Atonement. making his ap-
pearance On these occasions in ruthed
shirt.
The President, in his Message, has very
little, if anything, to say in regard to the
Mormons; but the Secretary Of War, in his
report accompanying the Message, furnishes
a most deploraLle picture Of Mormondom.-
He gives up the Saints in despair, and threa-
tens to leave them without the protection Of
the army.
The agricultural productions Of California
are becoming very large. According to re-
cent statistics gathered in the several coun-
ties. the State has raised this year about A.
000,00 bushels Of wheat and more than
5000. 900 bushels of barley; there arc 4, OOO,-
900 grapevnes growing, all of which will
be in bearing in two years.
When the Arago ARRIVED at New York;
left. the weather in England was very cold
for the season. During the first part Of the
Arago's passage, the weather was moderate;
during the latter, there were violent westerly
gales, storms, snow and severe cold weather,
the ship being for the greater part Of the
tune covered with ice.
Skating is all the rage in New York and
Boston. In the former city, tho unprece-
denied number of six thousand pairs of
skates have been disposed Of this fall; and in
Boston the supply has become 80 limited that
they have risen nearly FIVE hundred per cent.
in value.
Teneriffe advices of December lst mention
the landing there by u French vessel, Of q
man representing himself as Capt. George
Walker, of the American schr. William. Ii
is probable that he is the captain of the
SLAYER Wanderer, who was left in the lurch
by his mate.
1t is stated that Col. Drake. of Titusville,
Pa, is now pumping oil from his spring, at
the rate Of nearly barrel an hour for TWEEN
ty-fuur hours in the day, and sometimes that
amount is far exceeded. The net profits of
this one spring are estimated at over $40, 900
per month.
From every direction We have accounts OF
cold weather. Tuesday was the coolest day
Of the season in the region Of Boston. In the
more exposed part Of the city, The mercury
went below zero. The ice is about 10 inches
thick upon most Of the ponds.
Rev Andrew d. Hepburn, Of Harrisonburg,
Va, has been elected Professor of Rhetoric,
Logic, and Metaphysics, and Rev. Z. L.
Deems, Of Wilson, y. c. Professor Of His
tory and Execution i'll the University Of North
| Carolina.
Private VIM. Thcs. Guard, of the Clarke
County (Va,) Guards, the sentinel who shot
at Cook, is to be presented By the citizens Of