Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-07-25
News Of the Day.
To sho,c the pery age n'ibody Of the TIMES.

peror to Austria, will suspend, for the time,
the plans of kossuth and his Magyar asso-
ciutes. Though it is stated in our foreign
adyices that kossuth had inundated llunga-
ry with copies OF proclamation, calling ON
the llungarlans To rise against the House ol
llapshurg, correspondent at the London
Star declares, i'll the most positive manner
that kossuth has not ISSUED any proclama-
ton to the Hungarian uaton.
The slight indisposition which has attack
cd Prince Jerome, has been the cause of the
greatest uneasiness at the ruileries, France.
The engagement of his grandson, Bunaparte
Patterson, aud the exposure of his regiment
ut Solierin", is said t" have given him t.
shock which ut his advanced age is always
disquieting The arrival of jerome Bona
parte from Baltimore. has given people much
to talk about Us regards the probability of
some fixed position being offered Ia the
members Of that branch Of the BonaInrte
family.
Commodore Lavalette writes on tn. Goth
June nit. from Oh board the steam frgate
Wabash. at Trieste, that he is about To- sail
southwark, as there are neither American
vessels nor merchants ut Venice. aud ut
Trieste no American citizen but our CONSUL.
Latterly there have been but two American
vessels at Trieste. The presence of the Wa
bash and Macedonian ut Civita Ncchia and
at Naples since the beginningul the Italian
war, is held to have been advantageous to
American interests.
The morning after the allied occupation
of Milan, several Journals which had been
suppressed by the Austrian Government, re-
appeared. One had been suppressed five
years, and, in the last number, had promised
the conclusion" of a story in the next
True to promise, the next. after il five years
interval, took up the story where it had left
of, and concluded it.
A letter from Rome, July ID, to the Lon
don Post, says IL lcuru that Cardinal An
tonelli has consented to make the rcparation
demanded for the losses sustained at Peru
gia by Mr.. Perkins and his family. The
United States Minister Mr.. Stockton, hay
ing ~ far succeeded, left Rome tor IA tour
on Monday last"
The British mail steamer Alma, which
left Alden. June llth, with some three hun
dred and twenty people on board, WAS
wrecked at three o'clock the following morn
Although all the passengers rscaped to land,
it was not without great difficulty.
Thackeray receives Sl,Tjo n month for
the next thirty two months, for his r"nIrihu
tons to the new monthly magazine Of Smith,
Elder X Co., London. lie is to write two
stories Of sixteen parts each, succeeding
each other, and has the sum named Tor each
and every part.
Great satisfaction is expressed at the sue
cesstul trip OF the ship-ot-war General Admi-
raj, built by Mr.. Webb, Of New York, for
the Russian Government. She crossed the
ocean, bringing up at Chrrh"urg, i'll eleven
and half days.
Accounts from Naples state that the vol
cano of Vesuvius MAS in an active state of
eruption A river of lava, flaming from the
crater, was already three miles long, and Was
destroying orchards and vineyards.
Business in California is depressed, and
two heavy failures have taken place. Prices
of the leading goods were tending downward.
Money WAS easy and mining news good.
The grain harvest Was abundant.
NJ. Theirs is residing in Belgium, near
Brussels, collecting materials for an account
of the battle of Waterloo, which will ap-
pear in the next number of the "C.nSuate
and Empire"
A camp meeting for Berkeley Circuit will
be held in a large aud pleasant grow" (ownel
conformity 10y Messrs. Pitzer aud Gladien)
near Arden, ami about Il! miles from Mar
tin-burg, commencing ON Friday, August
10Th.
There are 1, 0O0, 600 scholars and ljO,oon
teachers in the public schools of the United
States There is one scholar to every five
free persons. In Great Britain, there is one
scholar to every eight persons. In France,
one to every ten.
New corn meal has been ground out ut the
mills of John Farrur, 1t miles from Mil
lelgeville, Ga, from what is styled the Bal
tmore corn" The meal is said to he of tx
cellent quality.
MIR. Barringer has formally declined the
Central American Mission. The opinion is
entertained that all the pending questions
in that quarter can be adjusted by proper
ly qualified representative.
Two failures are reported in New York,
namely: Burt & Johnson. dealers i'll West
ern produce, Broad street. and llnffman Il
Stevens. -four merchants. of Front street.
The liabilities in both cases are heavy.
The IIanslord Farm, in Stafford County.
C ,ntaining three hundred and eighty eight
acres, WAS sold ut Stafford C"nrt House. on
by ". Il. Mason. Commissioner,
o. 20 per acre.
The old King of Sweden died at Stockholm
ON the 9Th inst He is succeeded by his
SON, who has been Prince Regent for some
years.
The dispatches from Minister McLane
present no strikinsly interesting facts in ad-
dition to the newspaper accounts OF Mexican
Affairs already published.
At the White Hall Gold Mine in Sp"tsyl-
vania, they have adopted the California
mode of washing down the hills by means
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