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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
Il Minister FORSYTH on the President.

Mr.. Forsyth, editor of the Mobile Register,
late Minister to Mexico, in reply To a very
cavalier attack upon him in the columns OF
the Pennsylvanian-the home organ of Mr..
Buchanan-treats his readers to the follow
ing Photographic sketch of the man whom
the Southern Democrats insisted it was al
most treason to the South TO vote against:
IF these papers are determined to keep
up the war upon Mr.. F., to cover up the
doublc-dealing and treachery Of their mas
ter, we are equally determined in defending
Mr.. FORSYTH, to let the Democracy Of Ala
bama know who and what Mr.. Buchanan is:
ar ~insinccre. crafty and cold-blooded old
man, who without sympathies for his kind,
repels the ~sympathies Of othcrs-who cares
ses his enemies and bctrays his fricnds--who
loves darkness rather than light, and crook
ed paths better than straight ones-a man
who does not know how 10 treat Il gentle
man, because he has not the Unborn feeling
of onc-who crouches before the strong,
while he is Il tyrant over his interiors, IN
which class he ranks his Cabinet and the
officers of the Government. rs well a the
domestics of his household man whom
one cannot love and il is impossible to trust.
This is the man who, in IN evil hour was
toisted upon the Cincinnati Convention, rs
the Standard-bearer Of the great, truc-heart-
ed and generous Democratic people OF tins
country. The Virginia and Louisiana dele
CATIONS in that body are responsible Tor THIS
deed. We have the consolation in remcm-
herring that. in common with the mass oil
Southern Democrats. in that Convention we
opposed this nomination. aS one mot lit 10
be made" lie has proved the opinion. and
stands now the most unpopular and untruSt-
ell President who has ever occupied the seat
of Washington. and he has made his own
bed"
Where's our friend Jim Stallworth. the
Administration candidate for Congress IN
this District-has he no spear t. WELD "r
bow to bend in behalro Of his illuStriouS patron,
! who was SO anxious for his denomination
hy the party here Has Mr.. Buchanan,
like poor Tray, no friends that nobody speaks
in praise of. where 50 many condemn him?
Our ncighbor charges the nomination OF
Mr.. Buchanan upon the Virginia and
Louisiana delegations, and takes credit to
himself for opposing his nomination. n one
not fit to be made" But did not the editor
of the Register support that nomination with
might and main," and if 1t was mot fit Ia
be made" was it tit to be sustained after 1t
was made?
We wonder how such of our Wing friends
as cast their votes for Mr.. Buchanan in
1876, relish the pen and ink portrait given
so forcibly above, by Il bold and experienced
artist. one of the chiefs Of the Democracy
MI,J, 1J.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
Commanders of the Belligsrsnt Armies.

1t is the general opinion of many persons
in Europe, that neither in the Franco-Sardi-
MAN nor the Austrian army are there many
great generals. During the impending con-
tlict, however, the men of the hour are like
~ to make their appearance. AT present,
the Austrian army is believed to have some
advantage in this particular.
First of all in the French army is the En-
pcror Napoleon himself, who takes the SUI
premc command. His only practical knowl-
edge Of soldering consists in his attempts
on Strasburg and Boulognc, which failed
lie has, however, written several warllke
works, which are able and well spoken OF.
Whether he will shine in the field as he has
undoubtedly lone as Il diplomatist, remains
t. be seen, and in the meantime, may be
very lcgitimatcly doubted.
The next in order is Marshal paraguay
d'IIillicrs, who is between 63 and CT years
old, noted for his horror Of repubiicanlsm.-
lie succeeded Oudinct i'll command OF the
army Of invasion, to put down the Roman
Republic in 1919. He displaced Changar-
nicr. in the command of Paris, on the 10th
Of January. 1851, which was the beginning
of the coup d etat. 49,.
';lUTDDtGl u Sdlu u bt il'lN VI u IOish
elan than Il general. He is 81 years of age.
He is well known for his torturous policy,
during the e~vrntful period when Louis Ma
poleon was laying his plans to secure the
Dictatorship Of France: Mt one time oppO,
sing the Prince President, and finally aid
ing him in his plans with all the zeal in his
W Cunrobcrt behaved bravely in Afri-
"a, and ON the death of Marshal st. Arnaud,
at the commencement of the Crimean cam
paign, he succeeded To the command of the
army in the Crimca. lie is very popu,
lar with the soldiers, who call him ''father."
Marshal Pelissier, Duke Of Malakoff, is
well known for his doings at Sebastopol, and
for the bravery he exhibited in stormins
the fortress whence he takes his title. Sc
also are Mel and Macmahon, but they are
not thought much Of for generalship.
On the side Of the Austrians, Baron Hess
is spoken Of as really a first rate commander,
He was born in 1919, and has been i'll the
staff of the Italian army since 1899, conse,
q%uently he knows every inch Of the country
lie is highly spoken Of in connection with
he war Of 1913, when he acted as tho chlei
counsellor of Radetzki, who acknowledged
on every occasion, publicly and officially, his
indebtedness to Hess.-N. Y. Express.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
The Lost Man Found.

A few days since, w noted the sudden
and mysterious disappearance, III II ten.
porary arrangement Of mind, of Mr.. VII.
liam 4 Hall, Il well known cotton broker
of Mobile. All will be g%ratited 10 learn
that the lost man has bee found, and after
one Of the strangest episodes OF human life,
is now alive and apparently restored to rca.
son, among his friends again. The Mercury
thus relates the facts, stranger than fiction
about 6 o'clock Sunday morning, Mr.
Hall came to Il house in the neighborhooi Of
the dry dock. occupied by persons who were
acquainted with him. lie was in IA sad plight
and could with difficulty drag himself along.
His clothes were soiled with mud and torn
by brush and bramble. His boots were also
bursted, and his hat-anew one when he went
away--battered and bruised. His face ami
hands were sore and swollen from exposure,
and the bite of mosquitoes. The people #
the house took him in and cared for him KIND.
". Some %stimulants were administered AMI
some food, and IL comfortable bed placed AZ
his disposal, and word sent to his friends.
Mr.. Hall has been absent eleven days,
during which time he has not probably tas.
ted food. lie has proba bly, been all the
time in the swamp south Of the city, some
where between the dry dock and the light
house.
Yesterday morning he was quite rational.
and could give but this account of himself.
lie had been sick, and came into town on
the Sd inst. to transact some business. That
night he slept in his office, and got up the
next morning feeling badly, but went out u
attend to the business he had on hand. The
last he remembers he was on the corner near
Cox, Brainard & Co.'S Office. when he WAS
attacked with dizziness and blindness. Then
il seemed something was after him Ia hurt
him, and be ran down Front street toward
Mathews Press, since which he remembers
nothing until he seemed to wake up, a. from
n sleep, yesterday morning about sunrise.
When he came to CONSCIOUSNESS, he found
himself lying in aswamp without having any
knowledge of where he was. In trying u
find his way out, he came into the road that
runs through the swamp from the dock 10 the
bay shore below the lighthouse. and 80 came
out to the house we have designated. He
had no notion of the length of time he had
been thus unconscious. He asked the day
of the month, and upon being told, was first
made aware of it. The advertisement his
friends had put in the papers was shown him.
which he read with deep emotion and tear
full eyes.
1t is IL wonderful providence that Mr.. Hall
has survived throughout these gloomy eleven
days in Il deep, damp, dismal swamp, where
he has undoubtedly all the time been, with.
out food or shelter. 1t will he remembered
that there have been rain aud storm while
he WINS thu exposed."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
Austrian Barbarities.

The depredations committed by Austria in
Piedmont are now (says the Pays explain
ed. They are razzias executed, not for the
Immediate wants of the army, but in order to
fiji the storehouses of Lombardy. Every day
long files of wagons laden with hay, veg"ta-
bles, grain and provisions of all kinds, are
seen passing by Novara and Vigevano for the
left bank of the TicinO. The Austrians liter
ally strip the PiedmOntese provinces and car
nv off their booty to a place of safety. This
m of making waris that of the ancient
barbarians, or rather it is that of an army
without money. The Austrians cannot pay
for what they take. If they were to plumber
in Lombardy they would run the risk of an
instruction of the peasantry. They there
fore 60 into Piedmont and make a clean
sweep of everything they can find. They do
this with q rigor and a cruelty which has
created a melancholy and profound sensation
in Europe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
Letter from Loudoun.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
MlDDLEBuRG, May 27.-The utmost order
prevailed during election day. No appear,
ance of intemperance. Everything was char
isteristic of the high standard of morals for
which this community is proverbial. Col.
Rogers, and the Messrs. Carriers vote, speak
for their popularity here.
The healthful influence of the previous
nights rain, is very evident on the face OF
vegetation this morning.
Alex. r. B%oteler, esq, has kindly consent
ed to deliver an address here on the 4th OF
July. The Lyceum give a dinner upon the
occasion, the proceeds to be applied towards
the purchase of a library.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
a Story that Needs Confirmation.

The Buffalo Advertiser tells of two chaps
in that city. who recently resolved to give
up smoking. They decided to taper OFT,
limiting the first days consumption to three
the second to two, and the third to one cigar
One gentleman, however, thought that
he had been hasty, but determined to keep
his bond, as a bran new tile was the penalty
for overstepping the prescribed limits and
also to get as much smoke as possible dur,
ing the tapering off process. So he procured
a cigar maker to make him three cigars,
each twelve inches long, for the first days
use, two of eighteen inches long for the
second, and one of thirty six inches long for
the third day. That last one is a little ex-
%travagant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
The Wings of Virginia.

The Whigs--gallant and true-hearted
Whigs--in all portions of our broad and beau
titul Commonwealth, are struggling to be
free. That struggle, continued for thirty years,
has never yet been crowned with success
but it is still kept up with as high aheart and
Us dauntless a spirit, as ever animated knight
ofold in the unequal lists! And it will con,
tinue to be kept up, even though we should
be again overwhelmed by the power of num-
bers. They may conquer the Wings of Eir-
ginia as they have often done before-BuT
Tury CAN NEVER srBDuE rHEN.-Lynchbu'y
Iir1inian.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

The Paper Aaring the largest Grcu'ot'o"-
The Paper of Tobacco:
Paper for the Roughs-Sand Paper.
Paper containing many fine P"i"ts-The
Paper of Needles.
Ruled Pdper-The French Press:
The Paper that is .fnH otRoTS--Ihe Paper
Of Pins. u
A ~Spiiyitualist's Rape-(W)rapping Pa
per. r..,
Papers illustrated miM CMts-Editorial
Exchanges. .,,.u
Dyaring Paper-The Dentists bill.
The .tfarorite paper on Railroads-Carpef
paper.
4 Taking Paper-SheriH's Warrant.
Tile Paper that most resembles the Reader
-('Tis yon) Papsr.-Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
A Singular Prophecy.

The following curious paragraph is iron!
the Cologne correspondent Of the ContInrn'
tai Review; "We may now afford TO smile
at the singular prophecy Of the WestphallnV
shepherd who lived some hundred and my
years ago, and who predicted Il terrible tH'
ropean war, in the course Of which the Turks
should cool the feet Of their horses IN the
Rhine" These things-thus runs the tra'
dition-were to come to pass when carriages
ran without horses, and the Prussian soldiers
were dressed like the soldiers who crucihed
Christ. Carriages do run without horses
and the silhouette of IA Prussian soldier in
his tunic and helmet, is in all respects that
of a Roman legionary. But the superstI-
tious who ~speculated on this singular pro
phecy, could never reconcile with it the de-
cline Of the Turkish power and the manifest
improbability of the Sultan's troops carrying
the standard of the Prophet to the banks Of
the Rhine. They forget that France has Al
gerine regiments of Spahis and Zouaves,
and hat many of them are as good Mussul-
mans as eyer walked in the streets Of STAN
boul.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
The Nebraska Gold Mines" a Humbug.

ST.. Louis, May 25.-Mr. James Magin-
mis- of Lockport. n. Y, who has just return
ed from the Plains, publishes statement in
the Democrat of this morning, pronouncing
the Kansas gold mines the most stupendous
humbug ever perpetrated upon the Ameri,
can people, which was gotten up by land
Spectators, and sustained by parties inter
ested in the frontier towns, and merchants
who had heavy stocks of goods on hand;
Mr.. Maginnis's statement is supported by
another from Mr.. Van Ness of jackson,
Mich, who positively asserts that after hav
ing prospected throughout the whole coun-
try, and visited the digging claims, he ascer-
tanned that no man ever made more than
twenty cents a day, or found dirt yielding
more than one cent q pan.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

The Charleston Mercury, organ Of the ex-
treme States Rights wing Of the South Car
DINA Democracy, we observe, always pitches
its disunion tunc highest just previous to the
assembling of the National Convention to
nominate a Prcsident,-as if for the purpose
Of admonishing in advance the doctors Of the
Democratic Party, that unless due respect be
paid to the tastes and %prejudices of the Pal
metto State, there will be trouble in the
IN Just now the editor beats the tat too
with a vigor which seems to argue a deter
mination to be heard and needed. The
Southern people are informed that the Fed
eral Government is a failure. 1t has be-
come sectionalized, and sis no longer Il free
Government within restrictions and limita-
tons established by the Constitution. It's a
despotism-the despotism ola Northern sec.
tional majority, without any constitutional
limitations on its power" The Constitution
is dead, and the two sections of the Union
are verging towards each other in deadly
conflict" So says the Mercury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

Pmch, in noticing the accident to the Prin'
cess V~ollkonska, in the Bots de B~oulogne, by
reason Of the preposterous size of her dress,
and which nearly caused the loss of her life,
says, these accidents are 80 numerous and 80
fatal from this cause, that every lady who
wears crinolinc may be said to be dressed
to DEATH" it means she wears crinollne.-
The watch spring petticoat" is advertised;
and we shall soon get back 20 clicked
stockings.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
Age Of Sheep for Mutton.

A late English writer, remarking on this
subject, says:
"A sheer to be in high order for the palate
Of the epicure, should not be killed earlier
than when FIVE years old, ut which age the
mutton will be rich and succulent, of a dark
color, and full Of the richest gravy; whereas
if only two years old, it is tiabby, pale and
hayorless."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

Gov. Smith is reelected to Congress from
this district. The friends of MIR. Thomas,
generally, believed that Mr.. 7. would be
elected, by a majority of from one to three
hundred; the friends Of Gov, Smith. general
ly, that Gov. S. would be elected by a MAORI
ty of from six hundred to a thousand, or
more. The contest has been animated and
the majority comparatiyelY small.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
Further from Mexico.

NRw ORLEANS, May 27.-By late advices
from Mexico we learn that the cabinet OF
Miramon have issued a decree restoring San
ia Anna to all the rights, titles, &c, formerly
possessed by him, and inviting him to return
Immediately by way of Tampico, where Gen.
Woll is marching to meet him.
The leading liberalist generals at Vera Cruz
have had a consultation rs to what course they
will pursue in the future.
Rebollado, the former governor OF Lower
California, was shot by Coronado at Mazat-
Ian.
Marques entered Morelia on the 2Sth, and
levied a forced loan. lie then retired and
the liberals re-occupied the place.
The Miramon and Zuloaga quarrel contin-
ues, and the latter is anxious to regain the
Presidency. lie is backed in his endeayors
by Otway, the British minister, while Mira
mon is sustained by Gabriac.
Zuloago has taken refuge at the residence
of Otway, to avoid Miramon's violence.
U. S. ships Brooklyn and Saratoga were at
Vera Cruz 10Th inst.
The Steamer Philadelphia is below, from
Havana, the oath inst. She brings later Mex
lean adyices.
The Miramon cabinet in Mexico has issu-
ed a circular stating that it meant no disre-
spect to the American government in with
drawing from Mr.. Black and other consuls
their exequators. Peaceful Americans can
remain in the country. Mr.. Black was at
the capital, by desire of Mr.. McLane, who
sent him a new %exequator.
In Northern Mexico, Huazua, the liberal,
had six thousand men gathering at San Luis
Potosi, and intends marching to join Alvarez
and Degollado.
The French gulf squadron was at Tampico.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

NATURAL RIGurS OF MEN, women AND
CuILDREN.-Punch gives the following ex-
ccllent advice:
Every man shouldkcep the wolf from the
door, and his mother-in-law too, if he can.
Every woman has a right to he any age she
~pleases, for if she should state her real
age no one would believe her. Every one
has n right to wear a moustache who can
Every woman who makes a pudding, has a
perfect right to believe that she makes a bet
ter pudding than any other woman III the
world. Every man who carves has a decided
right to think of himself, by putting a few
of the best bits aside. Every mother has n
right to think her child is the ''prettiest little
baby in the world" and it would be the great
est folly to deny her this right, for she would
be sure to take it. Every young lady has a
right to faint when she plcases if her lover
is by her side to catch her. Every fool has
a right to be on the best terms with himself.
and that man is n greater fool who differs
with him about those terms. Every child
who makes "a noise has a right to be turned
out Of the room; and supposing you have not
the right, You are perfectly justified, if its
parents are absent, in usurpIng 1t"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

The presidents Of the several railroad com
panies whose lines extend from Weldon to
Charleston, together with the president OF
the Fernandina Railroad Company, are now
in Washington, on business relative to the
great Southern mail, their object being to
enter into arrangements with the Postofhce
Department, for transporting it more expedl,,
tiously, especially between New Orleans and
Now York, avoiding the failures which are
now so frequent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

Tho great Wing triumph in Petersburg is
a subject of rejoicing with the Wings
The Democrats have, it is said, lost a large
amount of money in bets upon this election
The practice of betting upon elections is
every way to be deprecated. 1t leads to
many evils.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30
PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-wEEKLY BY
EDGAR SNOWDEN.
ALEXANDRIA:
.IcNnIu unnN1Nn NAY 2n 1910

We have Utah dates to the 9th instant
Superintendent Forney had arrived at Fort
Fillmore with the sixteen children who sur
vived the Mountain Meadow massacre
The death of Lieutenant Potts is announced,
There was no further disturbance among the
MOrmons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

MONTGOMERY BLAIR, EsQ.-1t seems by a
circular recently issued 10y the Ohio State
Central Republican party committee, that
Montgomery Blair, esq, is an active mem
Der Of their political organization. 1t APP
pears from that circular that a Republican
party committee consisting Of Messrs. +. 7.
Blair, Geo. NJ. Weston, and Montgomery
Blair, are now engaged in the preparation,
in Washington, of a canvass document, that
is, according to the aforesaid State commit
tees anticipation, to demolish the Democra-
tic party throughout the land Wash. Star.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

Professor Morris, of William and Mary
College, Va, has been in New York recently,
where he received liberal subscriptions in aid
Of the purchase of a new library for William
and Mary College.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

T. B. Peterson & Co., Philadelphia, have
issued as one of their weekly series OF the
Waverly Novels, the Bride of Lammermoor.
Accompanying it, is a beautiful steel por-
trait of Sir Walter Scott.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

We have Turks Island dates to April 80.
The salt market had been unusually dull,
only one vessel loading for the United States.
The weather he'd looked threatening, and a
little rain had fallen, but not enough to
damage the salt that was ready to rake
No change in price worthy of note since last
quotations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

A New York paper states that the Holy
Alliance signalized its birth by %strangling
the republics of Genoa and Venice. The
Holy Alliance was formed in the autumn of
1915, the parties to it being Austria, Prus-
STA and Russia. The republic of Venice was
destroyed by France in 1877; and Genoa was
a part of Napoleon's empire, and it was to
the English that that city surrendered in
1914, and who were to blame for its disap-
pointment in not being restored to indepen-
dence. Venice and Genoa were among the
spoils parcelled out at Vienna. but neither
had had o national existence for years pre-
vious to that date, and Venice had belonged
to both Austria and France, changing mas
tiers with the changing fortunes of war
They were finally disposed of months before
the Holy Alliance was formed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

The post-oHice known as "Occupacia." be-
tween Loretto and Loyds, in the upper part
of Essex county, Va, has been discontinued
for the present, as no person in that neighbor-
hood is willing to attend to the duties OF
postmaster.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-30

1t appears from information received at
the Navy Department that the seaman
Michael Conroy, who leaped out of the gun
deck port while undergoing punishment on
board the steamer Atlanta, of the Paraguay
expedition, and was drowned in the river
Parana, did sowhilst intoxicated. His head
had not not been shaved, as some newspaper
reports assert, and the confinement to which
he was subjected was in punishment OF disc
bedience to orders, and disrespect to the lst
lieutenant.