Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-21
News Of the Day.
"7o shoT the very age aud body Of the TINES.

Sunday morning. On examining the body
II was found that decomposition had COM
menced, and that the face and neck were
disculored. The process of embalmng the
body was gone through, and yesterday the
deterioration had been removed The iuner-
al services were to have taken place yester-
day at the residence of Samuel L. Harris,
esq, and not at the Reformed Dutch church,
as previously announced. Rev. DR.. Porter,
the pastor Of this church had consented 10
preach the funeral discourse in his church,
but ON Friday the Consistory met and resell
ed that it would be Inconsistent with the
interests Of the Church 10 allow the body Of
Cook to be brought into the church, and 50
informed the relatives.
The Baltimore Patriot says:-"We learn
it is the intention of the Messrs Winans to
cut their steamer transversely in the middle,
and insert Il cylindrical tube Of the length OF
one hundred and twenty feet, and if her
speed is not retarded thereby, they may
insert another tube Of the same length
Their object is to ascertain the maximum
length that tube Of Ii feet diameter
will bear, with the maximum resistance
OF the water to the whole bulk, when
propelled by given power. In the
change now contemplated, the propeller will
be thrown one hundred and twenty feet
from the centre, where it now is, and 1t will
remain to he seen what effect this will have
upon her speed.
Considerable excitement has been created
in Detroit by the mysterious disappearance
Of a gentleman of that city, and all endea-
vors 10 obtain traces of his fate have proved
of no avail. A gentleman from Disco, Ma
comb county, one from Pontiac, Oakland
county, and a fourth from st. Clair, III the
same State, who have been to Detroit on busl-
ness, have disappeared in the same manner,
and the presumption is that they have been
iuully dealt with as no clue to their where
abouts can be discovered. Que of the mum
hundred dollars.
The artist Church, during his late expe
dition to the North for the purpose Of sketch
ing icebergs, discovered in the possession OF
a Dutch family in Nova Scotia, an old Ger
man clock which was made by Muyghens
somewhere about the year lG40. 1t has,
since his return. been repaired and put in
running order. by matchmaker in Hart
ford, and, though it has not run for more
than halt century. 1t is now keeping good
time, and may last another twocenturies.
The Virginia INVASION has been dramatzed
by County Constable Little, Of Washington
who. as is well known to many Washington
ians. varies his official duties, occasionally,
by donning the sock and buskln, and not
untrequently performs in his own pieces. :
lie takes the part oi "OSsawatomle Brown
in his new play, which, for want of thcatrl.
cal facilities in Washington, he brought out
in Alexandria.
At the Temple Emmanuel of the Reformed
Jews, in New York last week, young lady
abiured Christianity, and made n public pro-
tession Of Judaism, III the presence oil large
congregation. She has recently married II
Jew and made the change in her religion
to please her husband. Several of her re-
atives were present and appeared to be derI-
ly affected.
A Washington dispatch to the New York
Times says:--"Mr. Giddings, gentleman
from Texas, who is now stopping at the Ma
tional Hotel, was surprised yesterday ut the
from him by force while he was making u
visit at Niagara Falls, last July. The S'rs
gives deplorable account Of her ilI-trcai-
ment by the Canadian free negroes
Many mail contractors in Washington, pur
pose holding meeting in relation to their
interests, connected with the Postoihce De
partment. Unless appropriations be made
before the LIST January t" meet the liabilities
of the government for this service very
large amount Of its paper. 1t Is said, Will 90
to protest.
The London Times Of the Doth of Noyem-
Der, notices fair demand for money, the gen
eral rate continuing ut two and hall per
cent. 1t is thought that the bids Tor the
three million Treasury notes invited by Be
cretary Cobb, will not be at u less rate than
five and three-quarters to six per cent.
Fully three-fourths of the accidents on our
city railways are caused by attempts to get
ON or off the front platform while the ears
are in motion. This assertion, We believe,
could be fully verified il an actual state
ment of the causes of all accidents could be
prepared.
The express from Denver city reports
the mercury there down to II degrees be.
low zero. On the 9th inst. several men on
their return from the mines We're frozen to
death, and a number of mules lost from the
extreme cold.
The Astor House in New York has hosted
large flag, lin honor of the great mass
meeting on Monday evening" on which is
displayed the glorious sentiment Of Daniel
Webster" Liberty and Onion, now and for
ever, one and inseperable."
James llawerth, president of the Califnr.
MIA Stage Company, states that he is pre-
pared tn enter into contract with the gov
eminent To run daily mail between Sacra-
mento City and st. Louis for 81 100000 per
annum making the trip in fourteen days.
There are in the United States forty
eight Roman Catholic archhisiops and
bishops, two mitred abbots, and two thousand
two hundred and twenty-three secular and
religious priests.
Some fellow. having been pardoned out ct
the Tennessee State Prison. prints IN the
Nashville papers his thanks to the lall"r for
having taken good care Of him while IN, aud
to the Governor for letting him out.
Rev. Arthur cleveland Coke, d. d., of
Grace Church, Baltimore. has been called