Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-09
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
LOCAL ITE MS.

CHESAPEAKE AND ONO CANAL.-Duriug
two of the latter days of last week the Canal
Board was in session in the City Hall here.
Their business was in great part routine,
and in the provision Of funds for the Use Of
the several divisions. Amongst other things
il WAS determined. IN view of the great Use
now made BY mills, &c.. of the water power
on the Georgetown section, and of the ex-
pectation of additional manufacturing estab-
jisbments To be undertaken on the same SEE
ton, to elevate and extend the present dam
which nuw feeds the Georgetown level, 80 AZ
10 give it about four inches of water more
than heretofore Ii is estimated that the ad.
ditional water rents will pay for the i'm
pruyement.--Ndf.M Int.
Rev. Thomas Mciiee Methodist Minis
ter, attached to the Baltimore Conference,
died suddenly yesterday i'll the ears, whilst
ha VA. OH his way from Warrenton to this
place, intending 10 20 to Baltimore. HIS
remains were taken buck to Warreuton.
Tall CoRN.-We SAW yesterday stalk Of
corn. of the ordinary variety, which meaSur-
ell about sixteen feet. 1t was grown by MIR.
lIammersIey, on his farm Lythem Hall,
ub,ut three miles from this place, In Fairfax
county and he thinks his crop would aver
a.,. about fourteen feet III height.
4 drunken man yesterday morning, ran
to the end Of Janney'S wharf, and desperate,
IL Jumped rs far cut in the river AS he could;
but the temperature of the water having Il
SOLDERING effect, he swan, until picked up by
a boat. and returned wiser mau.'
An immense crowd was at Arlington
Springs yesterday. at a Pie Me given by the
St. Nincrnt'> Orphan Asylum, III Washing
ton.
The Columbia Springs, in this county,
were formally opened Yesterday.
Complaints of the want of rain. in the
surrounding country, still reach us.
RowpYISM IN WASmINGToN.--Satur
night and Sunday morning were remarkable
for the vigorous etfioreScence of that spirit of
rowdyism which, like snothered fire, will
every now and then break out in spite of all
efforts at repression There were two serl-
Gus disturbances in different and distant
parts of the city, but happily no respectable
person WAS concerned rs actor or sufferer in
either. The first outbreak took place about
an hour before midnight in low house on
Third street south, and apparently for no
other reason than the pure love # riot and
lighting. Ii resulted in the stabblng "t
three men, James Moran, John McDevltt,
and one Hobbies, the last 80 badly IN the
lungs that his lite is deemed to be IN great
danger He and McDevitt were taken Ia
the lntirmary, where they now remain
The person who stabbed them is supposed
to be- a man one of whose sundry aliases Is
VIM. Emmanuel He, together with Geo.
W. Yeates and John Lawrence, were, after
examination at the Guard house yesterday
morning committed IL lall, III default OF
bail, Tor trial al the next term nt the Grimm
nal Court Henry Miller. Silas Lewis, Geo.
Jones and Richard Davidson were held Oh
security also for trial.
The second disturbance had its locality on
Grow Ill.," on 6tl, street, about NJ aud
streets north, and its time between and ,
clock, on Sunday luorning. The parties
who figured i'll this were Edward Hum
phreys, Charles Walter. William Sullivan,
and Ernest Bergman: the last two ot whom
were committed for trial and the former tw"
held under security. The injured man III
this case is one Clancy, whose share i'll the
fray was perhaps not inconsderable. He Is
also in the lntirmary. stabbed in the back
in two places, it is believed by his own dirk.
Other arrests of parties connected with these
affairs will probably be made; us 1t was, the
attention OF large number of the police was
closely occupied during Saturday night and
Sunday morning till daylight. Thus already,
50 soon after the close OF term of the Court,
the d,turbers OF peace and order have b"en
at work to provide it with unwelc"me work
Tor the next term Nat. Int.
ArcIpENT.-On Saturday afternoon, as the
quarter To four o'clock train Ia Baltimore was
passing under the bridge at the intersection OF
Second and sts., Il man named Hutchinson,
II passenger, lncautiously thrust his head out
of an open cur window, and il came IN con
tact with one of the abutmentS and received
a violent blow on the forehead, which rem
dered the man insensihle. His wound WAS
SUPPOSED to be very serious, and much con
Germ is felt by his friends NJ to his condition.