Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-02-22
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADV AIRY % 1888


Mr.. Edward Beyrer IA graduate of the
Dusseldorf Accademy,) hasfnished his Illus
trations of the Old Dominion. The last
part contains views of the little Scwcll Noun
tain. James river canal, Natural Bridge
Peaks Of Otter, Roanoke Red Sulphur
Springs, Red Sweet Springs and Warm
Springs. There is also handsome embe-
NAUTICAL title-page, with views of Mount Yer
non and Monticello. The complete work
will be an ornament for any parlor or library.
The Boston Post says :-"All the 'distin-
guished strangers, the 42d lIighlanders, Mr..
Charles Dickens, Mr.. Spurgeon, Queen Vic
toria, Kossuth, Montalembert and Others
have concluded to remain where they are for
the season. Nobody is coming to the United
States not a furriner, not a He'll and man.
and nary patriot-except MIR. Smith y Brien,
the recent reports to the contrary notwth-
standing. We shall have to look up il do
nestle hero"
At a meeting held in Portsmouth, Va, on
Wednesday last, resolutions were adopted
appointing fifty citizens from each ward to
cooperate with the Mayor and police in
guarding the city against incendiaries, ex-
pressive of determination to ferret the
house-burners out and asserting that while
they have every confidence in the Mayor and
police, the powers vested in them are too
limited to accomplish the desired end.
The steamship Black Warrior from Ha-
vana on the 18th, went aground on the Goth.
on the Rockaway, while in charge of the pilot.
Her passengers and mails arrived mt New
York the same night in the pilot boat. The
steamer is reported to be tight. The Black
Warrior brought S20S. 900 in specie on
freight, and a valuable cargo. Three steam
tugs went to her assistance.
NJ. Felix Belly announces in the Paris
journals that his organization of the Nicara-
qua Canal Company is completed; that the
money necessary is secured; thata vessel has
been freighted to carry out the engineering
material, and that this vessel, with himself,
part of the engineers and clerks-sixty
persons in all-will sail from lIavrc for Grey
town in three weeks.
A South Carolinian, who thinks it best to
let Cuba alone, proposes Through the Charles
ton Mercury to cut a ship canal through the
peninsula of Florida, and thus, by making
a great island for ourselves, create a second
Cuba, which shall hereafter command the
Gulf of Mexico, and forever neutralize the
Spanish isle as strategic point. When
that is done we shan't need Cuba, he thinks.
An elderly woman went to n Cincinnati
justice recently, to inquire the best method of
divorcing her daughter from man whom the
parents objected to, as an unfit person. The
reason of the mothers desire to have the
twain divided was that the husband had
promised her q new dress when he married
the daughter, and on the contamination of
the event had withheld gift.
The Committee on Pensions of the Senate
have given an effectual quictus to the bill
which passed the House, providing for the
officers and soldiers of the war of 1912. Mr..
Claws report is elaborate and supported by
the views of the Pension Office. So that
cause of apprehended depletion of the Treas
ury may be considered out of the way.
There is nothing sufficiently authentic from
the Paraguay expedition to justify any opln-
ion as to its probable results. The Buenos
Ayres papers express hope for a pacific re-
suit, but think the warlike Accomplishments
of our Commissioner may render doubtful
even his entry into the Paraguayan territory.
In that event, the only alternative is war.
The Legislature of Illinois is about to ad-
iourn without accomplishing anything. The
democrats have majority in both branches
of that body. They insist on re-apportion-
ing the State, in order to throw Senator
Trumbull out of his seat, to which the re-
publicans will not submit, and between the
two, business is blocked.
The report of the New York State Engl-
neer shows that there are in that State two
hundred and fifty-fve railroad corporations.
The amount Of capital stock is over ninety
one million of dollars. There were only
twenty passengers killed on all the roads du-
ring the past year, and one hundred and for
ty-two wounded.
The Tariff bill of Mr.. Morrill,, Of Maine.
it is understood, will be reported to the House
of Representatives. The bill imposes duty
of eight cents per pound upon wool, and
eighteen cents per pound duty on wooden
cloth, in addition to the ad rolorem duty OF
fifteen, twenty, or twenty-five cents per yard
We have already mentioned that slave OF
DR.. Mccormick, T. s. army, had been abduc'
tod, but subsequently arrested in San Fran
cisco. Later accounts state that the doctor
gave the slave his choice, either Of slavery or
freedom, and that he accepted the latter and
left his master.
1t is stated that the ice at Prairie du Chem,
on the Mississippi, was last week twenty-siS
inches thick, and covered with snow about
six inches deep, with fairprospect that the
river above will remain closed till the middle
sc Anvil