Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-06-14
News of the Day.
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the Dist, 22d and 23d inst. On the first day.
Professor Warren Dupree. of Wotford Col
lege, South Carolina, will deliver an address
in cemmemoration of the completion of the
endowment fund" Of Randolph Macon.-
In December last it was announced to the
public that this endowment fund had been
raised to 100000. This had been accom-
plished by the laborS of Rev. Henry B..
Cowles, assisted by DIR. WIN. A. Smith.
We find by our western exchanges that
the destructive effects of the late frost have
been much exaggerated. Wheat, potatoes,
corn and fruit have suffered, in places, to
some extent, but not near so seriously as was
at first reported. The frost appears to have
been most severe in northern Ohio, but even
there the farmers are recovering from their
alarm. The growth of the crops, in the dis
tricts visited bv the frost, has been some
what retarded.
1t is a fact worth noting, that every availa-
able vessel belonging to the Navy of the
United States, not at present in commission, is
being fitted out for immediate service. Of
those fitting out, or lately sailed, no less than
TWENTY-FIVE are steamers, to which, if we add
the six already in commission, the result will
show that of our entire steam navy, not one
ship is destined to be unemployed by the LIST
of October.
Roger A. Pryor, esq, will address the
Phoenix and Philomathean Literary Socie-
ties of William and Mary College. Va, on
the 4th of July next. On the same day, adj
dresses will be delivered by Mr.. Frank IL.
Alfriend, of Richmond, Va, orator of the
Philomathean Society, and Mr.. Octavius
Coke, Of Williamsburg, Va, orator OF the
Phoenix Society.
The news brought by the North Briton,
which was telegraphed from New York at
ten minutes before 10 o'clock on Saturday
morning, reached New Orleans at 9 o'clock.
As the difference of time between New York
and New Orleans is ~ffty-tive minutes, the
despatch was five minutes in going seventeen
hundred miles.
Messrs. Magruder 4 Bro. at Union Mills,
Fluvanna, Va, met with a very heavy loss
on Saturday night last. by the burning Of
their store house and all it's contents. The
goods and building were consumed, and not
Stcu I'LL DOOhS dttu BoH'ho s"S '
saved.
Hon. John NJ. Read, Of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania, is talked of in that State
as the Republican candidate for the Presl-
deney. The great vote he polled at the last
election in Pennsylvania is claimed as an evl-
dence that he con unite all the sections IN
his favor.
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1t is understood that Prof. Agassiz will
sail for Europe in the steamer of Wednes-
day next. He is authorized by the trustees
of the new Museum of Comparative Zoology.
to expend SIS, 900 in the purchase ct speci-
mems of palaontology.
As an offset to the late announcement OF
FIVE unsuccessful whaling voyages, the New
Bedford Standard reports the arrival OF three
ships since Thursday, with excellent fares
of bone and oil. They were absent from
three to three and a half years,
The annual session Of the Society of Alum
nj of the University of Virginia will com
mence in the University Chapel, at 4 o'clock,
p. NJ. of the 9th inst. The annual Grafton
will be delivered in tho Public Hall, ut III
o'clock. of Tuesday. the 2sth.
Private advices, in possession of some q
the German merchants of New York, state
that Prussia and all Germany will eventually
;oin Austria in her contest with France.
This, it is stated, is owing TO their Traditional
hatred Of the B~Onapartes.
There was a severe thunder storm. accom-
panied by hail, at Norfolk, on Friday. The
Dsy-Book says:-"We learn that in some
portions of Norfolk county the hail stones
were as large rs pigeon eggs, whilst IN other
places they were about the size OF marbles.
A number of counterfeit quarters have
been put in circulation mt Norfolk. They
are composed Of pewter. are washed with
quicksilver, have mo ring and present
rather too shiny an appearance for the gen
nine.
Muddy Greek Baptist Church, in Powhatan
county, Va, was entirely destroyed by fire on
Friday morning, the Sd inst. 1t was a hand
some new brick ediice, nearly completed,
and cost about 81 800. 1t is thought that 1t
was struck by lightning.
The Forrest divorce case came up iu New
York last week, on a motion for a commits
sion to inquire into Mrs. Sinclair's alleged
misconduct in California. The amount of
alimony to be paid to her by Mr.. Forrest de-
ponds upon the issue involved.
The steamship Quaker City, from New
Orleans via Havana, has arrived at New
York. The island continued healthy
Large numbers of people were leaving tor
the United States.
The New Orleans Picayune thinks hal
the new issue of the re-opsning of the slave
trade. introduced by the late Nicksburg Con-
y~ention, IL destined to divide the South, IN
less speedily put at rest.
About one hundred workmen in New York
have been thrown out of employment. in
consequence of the destruction. by fire, of
the large cabinet factory of John Faulkner,
valued ct $4,000
Robert Mallory, esq, has been nominated
- the Opposition candidate for Congress in
the seventh district in Kentucky, in the
place of Hon. Humphrey Marshall, who de-
dined q reelection.
Prof. Ae.ssiz has received from Brazil a
thst mao s,,res ten feet from the tip