Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-09-09

bloody ARRAY took place in jackson Square,
between large number of Irish laborers and
others, living in the tenement houses of that
locality. During the riot knives and other
deadly weapons were used with terrible effect;
one George Beatty was stabbed twice in the
head, once in the neck. and four times in the
breast and abdomen. The wound in the alb
domen is Of dangerous character. Owen
Clark, another of the rioters, received three
ugly stabs in the head and face. James
Kennedy and others, were more or less cut
and bruised. The police succeeded in arrest
ing ten of the rioters, when peace was restor'
ed.
Charles ". Banks, of Trumbull, Connect-
cut, died at Meriden, Ct, on Sunday, from
bayonet wound received at Hartford. On the
occasion of the reception of Gov. Seymour in
that city, last week, the military was drawn
up around the speakers stand. The crowd
pressed upon them and refused to yield the
ground, and a bayonet charge was made by
one Of the companies. Banks was sitting In
a wagon, and it is stated that it was impossl-
BILE for him to get out of the reach OF the
bayonets IN time to save himself.
The democratic convention of Prince Geor-
ges county, Nd, which met at Upper MARI
boro' on Saturday last, nominated the follow
ING ticket:-For States Attorney-Edw. w.
Belt SherifF-Dane Il. Dyer. House Of
Delegates-Ethan A. Jones, Richard Woot-
ton, Z. Pliny BRYAN. Orphans Court-Wm.
b. Hill. VIM. II. Baker, Basil Il. Duckett.-
Commissioners of Tax-Rchard \. Darnall,
Richard B. Mullikin, Thomas III. Osborne,
r. w. G. Baden, James p. Kerby. For Sur
veyor-Nicholas Snowden.
On Wednesday woman was charged at
the Newport police-ollce, England, with
walking about in male attire. The deten-
dant who wore seaman's clothes in her APP
pear ance, gait, and gesture seemed every
inch sailor, and in boldness Of conduct
presented striking contrast to the quiet
looking seaman. her husband, who stood be-
side her. 1t seems that for the last ten
wears she has scorncI her proper clothing,
and devoted herself 10 incessant toll.
Sometime ago, Captain Stone made full
statement to our government of the circum-
stances attending the expulsion of himself
and other Americans from Sonora. This act
of Governor Peschiera being cleary vio!atve
of the provisions of our treaty with Mexico,
proper measures have been taken for the pro-
lection Of United States citizens in that quar-
ter and instructions are now on the way for
the purpose.
Narcssa B. Coffin, of Nantucket well
known Minister of the Society Of Friends,
was in Beverly, Mass, on the 25th ult. She
had Just returned from Vermont and Upper
New York, where she had been engaged in
visiting prisons, houses Of bad repute, and
aims houses, preaching the Gospel to the IN
mates, sometimes with great usefulness,
many of the outcasts Of society seeming
glad to hear of IL Saviour.
The West African Herald states that on
account of the high price of black monkey
SKINS in England, there was most outrage
Gus competition for them in Western Afri-
ca; skins which in 1856 could have been OBJ
tanned at the rate of ~ or - for 4 dollar,
now being eagerly bought up at shilling
zach, and in some cases even more.