Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-08

the usual rate charged for washing. 1t APP
pears that about four years ago. an inventive
genius, supposed to be II single man, took out
u patent tor shirt collars made o paper and
muslin for the use Of travellers and old
bachelors. A factory was started III New
! York, but only continued Il short time, when
IL gentleman Of Philadelphia, some two years
since, bought the exclusive right, aud com
menced the manufacture ot the collars In a
large building near FaiImount, and at the
present time, it is said, about fifty hands are
employed IN the work, using up, hy means
Of steam-power, three tons OF paper per
mouth, aud producing $4,000 collars COM
prislng the stand ups, ch"kers, Byr"ns, D.
Orsays, &c, weekly.
Virginia Stewart died OH Thursday morn
ing, at the New York Hospital. Just 10 days
after she was shot. 4 minute post mortem
examination was made upon the remains,
when the ball was found near the opening Of
the wound, i'll the lett hemisphere ut the
brain. great many persons visited the
deceased as she lay in the deadh house. The
funeral took place from st. Peters Church.
Upon learning the Tact ut Virginia Stewards
death, Mcdonald, who killed her, Is SAID Ia
have expressed great sorrow, and become
much detected thereafter.
The famous tight-rope dancer, Bl"ndin,
has declined the proposition of Greenwood, OF
the New York Museum Ia walk from the top
of that institution across Broadway to the
Astor House and back again. Oh Il tisht-rope.
1t is extensively rumured, however. that he
! has under consideration" the inducements
offered him to walk along II rope stretched
from Trinity Church spire 10 st. Paul's
steeple, a distance OF a quarter Of II mile at
an average height of two hundred feet from
the earth.
In the Memphis Criminal Court, Matthew
Mcdowell, who had been on trial three
weeks for the murder of W. ii. johnson, was
found guilty of murder in the second degree,
and sentenced to ten years Imprisonment in
the penitentiary. The murder Of johnson
was committed about twelve years ago, aud
nothing was known OF the perpetratur until
Mcdowell confessed the crime, which led 10
the prosecution. 1t appear, that he boosted
of the deed, under the impression that No
steps would he taken to bring HIM to justice.
In various parts of New York the grass
hoppers seem to he plaguing the farmers
almost as injuriously as the locusts did the
fertile fields of Egypt. The hay fields III
OnOndagu county have been seriously dam
aged, in consequence Of the swarnls Of grass
hoppers and the vermin are now destroying
the grain fields, more especially the oats
They bite of the little fibre which holds the
oat, and the ground is literally covered with
oats.
A colored man, William Braxton, manu-
mitted by the last will and testament Of
Elijah Greenwel, deceased of Hampshire
county, Va, and who has been enjoying the
blessing Of freedom among the aboltI"nlsts
of PENNSYLVANIA, until he has become hear
tily tired Of the blessing, latterly returned
to Virginia. and has petitioned the County
Court of Hampshire to permit him to be
come the slave of MIR. Samuel House, OF that
county.
The "crisis" in the affairs of the New
York Erie Railroad Company, is the appoint
ment of Receiver A friendly application
was made to the Supreme Court of New York.
for the appointment of Receiver under the
18th mortgage The application has been
granted, and MIR. James Brown, Of Brown 4
Bros, and Mr.. J. Bancroft Davis ths trus-
tees of that mortgage, will be called upon to
act, if necessary.
10 South Carolina there is no divorce after
marriage wed for life must he the fact in
law when an instance of divorce has never
been known there 1t has been authorita-
lively settled that no judicial tribunal in the
State has authority to declare decree OF d.
vorce for any cause whatever. If the power
exists at all, it is in the Legislature, which
has hitherto never thought proper to exercise
the power.
The cricket match at Toronto, in Canada,
which commenced last Thursday morning,
between Canadians and Americans, had
drawn upwards of FIVE thousand persons to
the ground The Americans had maintain
ed themselves with credit, and the interest
was increasing. Still greater crowds were
| expected before the termination OF the game.
Philadelphia had furnished one Of the finest
cricketers in the country.
At Port Chester, on the New York and
New Haven railroad, a foot-bridge gave way,
and was precipitated some fifteen or twenty
feet to the waer-course below, carrying
among its ruins quite number Of bystan-
ders A lad named Arnold attending school
in the town, was So badly injured III the back
and on the head, that his recovery was deem
ed impossible Three or four others OF the
towns people were likewise severely injured.
The London Post announced that MIR.
Choate had reached Liverpool in safety, and
accompanied the statement with memoir
Of the distinguished American. Known
that he was expected, and seeing the arrival
of the steamship "n which he WAS known to
have secured passage the Post came t" the
conclusion that it mi ght get ahead OF ITS
contemporaries 10y Introducing 50 eminent Il
man to the British public!
The President Of the United States and
other notnbilties of Washington, are expect
ed to arrive in Annapolis Tomorrow, to be
present at the marriage of James Buchanan
Henry, nephew Of the President. and the
daughter of Col Joseph ii. Nicholson, "i
ANNAPOLIS. Mr. Henry was, until Recently,
the Private Secretary of the President. but
is now practising law in the city OF New
York.
The New Bedford Standard is happy to
observe an improvement in business. There