Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-17

ALEXANDRIA,:
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY IL, 1859.
The WAR IN EUROPE has commenced
See the accounts in to-day's paper As was
expected, the Austrians have the advantage
nj the commencement of the contest. They
will not keep it long, it il thought
England is preparing, in case she should be
drawn into the matter, and Prussia is get
ting all things ready for her part in the
game.
Professor Dennison Olmsted, LID, ex-
pred at his residence at New Haven Conn
on the morning of the 18th instant, aged
sixty eight years. He graduated at Yale
College in 1873, was elected Professor OF
Chemistry in North Carolina i'll 1873, and
served ten years, (when there ne made a
geological survey of that State, the first
State survey made in this country, and IN
ls25 he was elected Professor of Mathema-
ties and Natural Philosophy in Yale College.
which place he filled at the time OF his
death.
DIR. William Sawyer died at his residence
in Boston, last week. He was horn in Bos-
ton, and was in his day physician of con-
siderable eminence, but for the past few
wears has been confined to his house and bed
by his intirmities He had reached his
eighty-ninth year, and was the Oldest living
graduate of Harvard University, having
graduated in 1888. By his death Hon.
Josiah Quincy, Senior. of the Class of 1870,
becomes the Oldest living graduate. Of the
Glass of 1896 four only are now living.
The little steamer Hunter Woods. which
has been running between Norfolk and
Portsmouth, Va, has been sold to the Balt-
more and Petersburg Steamboat Company.
for the sum of So. 900. or one-halfof her cost
five or six wears ago She is intended to ply
between City Point and Petersburg, for the
transportation of freight from the bay steam
ers, whose tonnage will not permit their 60
ing up the Appomattox.
Commodore Lawrence Kearney has been
detached from his position as Chairman OF
the Lighthouse Board, and Commodore Shu-
brick appointed in his stead. Com. Kearney
has been fifty two years in the service. His
exterpation of piracy in the Grecian Archl-
pelago and in the West India seas, and his
able service in negotiating the China treaty
in 1892 have established for him the highest
naval reputation.
Mr.. Russell, of the London Times, is at
Marseilles, on his way home from India to
England. A telegraph from Printing House
square, reached him at Marseilles, with re-
quest to turn his steps, not to London, but to
Lombardy His reply is understood to have
been that, for the present, he preferred the
banks Of the Thames to the banks OF the II
emo.
The New Orleans True Delta of May 9Th
says: I'VE are panied to learn that the wife
of the Hon. Pierre Soule died at a late hour
last night, at his residence on Rampant
street. Beloved, widely known, and, like
Spencer's ideal, making sunshine in sha-
DIV place. her loss will be deeply felt by
all who knew her."
The Boston Daily Advertiser advocates the
organization of a National Board of Trade as
a department of the General Government, to
perform part of those duties relative to
commercial subjects which now devolve
upon the Treasury Department, or are but
partially discharged by various local assocla-
tons.
The Cumberland Telegraph Of Saturday,
has notice inviting general meeting OF
the creditors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal Company, at the Fountain Hotel, in the
city of Baltimore, on the 9th day of the pre-
sent month, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
A case was tried in the U. S. Court ut
Pittsburg, last week. in which j. f. Curtis
sued Butler county. Pa, to recover interest
on bonds issued by said county to the North
western railroad company. A jury gave a
verdict of $672 for the plaintiff.
A private difficulty between Com. Chaun-
cey of the U. S. n, and his brother-in-law
Mr.. IIillsburg, about family matters. has
got into the newspapers. and libel suit it
is said has been commenced against Com. c.
by Mr.. H., in consequence of letter writ
ten to the latter gentleman.
Much desire is expressed in this section Of
the State, to hear speech from Mr.. Preston,
the Wing candidate for Attorney General
lie is said to he one of the ablest and most ell
no,ont u,op I'm tho State
The air balloon in which Mr. Mountain
proposes to try an cereal voyage from Amer,
lea to Europe is fast nearing complexion
1t is in process Of construction at Lansing
burgh, near Troy, in New York.
A fight occurred in the suburbs of Baitl'
more on Saturday night last, between the
Tigers" and the "Eubolts," in which there
,yos considerable nistol shOotinp and four