Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-06-02
News Of the Day.
TO show the very age and body Of the TINES,

report on the condition OF the dlherent Navy
Yards, met in Washington, yesterday. where
they will proceed to inspect, critically, the
Washington Yard, having completed their
inspection of those north Of that point. This
commission consists of Captain Gregory,
President; Captain Van Brunt, COmman-
ders Poor and Tucker, and Lieutenant ID. d.
Porter.
At a meeting of the New York Health
Commissioners. on Monday, the arrival Of
several vessels from yellow fever ports was
reported, and necessary directions given as
to the conditions on which they must come
up to the city. Some uneasiness was crea'
ted by the announcement of the Health Off,
Ger at Quarantine, that a vessel, 1.-THE Jose,
phine,) had arrived from Rio Janeiro, having
had a great deal of sickness on board, prov,
ing fatal to the captain and five Of the crew
The late Baron de Humboldt bequeathed
to his domestic, Seiffert, who had lived with
him 33 years, all his immense library, all
his furniture, and all his articles Of value,
with the exception of a few which he charges
him to present to certain persons. His man
uscripts, however, are not comprised in the
donation, and among them is one of a geo
graphical work Of greater extent than any
hitherto published. The domestic is his tes'
tamentary executor. The money in hand al
the time of the Baron's decease was under
500 thalers.
Three blocks of marble, tributes in stone
to the memory of Washington, from the isles
of Greece, have been stored recently in the
lapidarium of the Washington National
Monument. One Of them is from the gov
eminent and commune of the islands of Paros
and Matos, in the Grecian Archipelago
Another is from the national government OF
Greece. and the third, a stone from the Tenn.
pie of E%senlapino. at Paros, vas presented
by the officers of the United States frigate
Saranac.
The Old School General Assembly, of the
Presbyterian Church, in session at lndianap'
oils, has received, and partially considered
the report of the Committee appointed by
the Assembly of 1857, to revise the Book OF
Discipline. The report suggests some radi
cal changes in the discipline of the Church:
among others, permitting the withdrawal OF
communicates who desire to sever their con-
nection with the Church, without mourning
censure therefor.
There is another effort making, as we
learn by the New York Express, to settle
the difficulty with the four trunk Railroad
lines to the West, thus far, however, as 1t
states, without success, from the fact that
Al Cs~r l~aa ~aF,a fn Shlf them
selves out from New York business by alb,
surd concessions, which it is not necessary
to make, to keep a large and profitable traffic,
with or without the consent of the New York
Central.
On the 18th ult., the dwelling of A. W.
Parker, in Giles county, Tenn, was destroy
ed by fire, and three of his daughters-one
aged between Is and l6 years, another be-
tween II and l3 years, and the youngest
aged about I years-perished IN the m
The oldest and the youngest were entirely
consumed; the other was rescued from the
flames by the father, though so badly burn
ed that she died in about 28 hours.
The New Orleans Delta thinks it an alb
surdity to call the custom house in that city
new" which though still incomplete. was
commenced thirteen years ago, and the
building of which has survived the original
architect, the Engineer who constructed Its
foundation, the Governor of Louisiana, who
laid the corner stone, the Collector ofthe Por'
who aided in the same. and ut least three adj
ministrations of the Federal Government.
On Tuesday morning last, at Foster Swans
dry goods store, on Fulton street, near Sands
Brooklyn, a woman vigorously applied
cowhide to Mr.. Swan. Mr.. Swan accused
her of attempting to steal a piece of CLOTH
She denied the charge but it was reiterated
The next morning she appeared, armed witt
a formidable cowhide, and proceeded to bust
ness. Mr.. S. retreated.
In searching the house Of Bishop johnson
charged with murder, at Salt Lake. Utah
the United States officials were not able tc
discover the bishop, but found therein ms
ten wives! Four of these wives are sisters
and the bishops own nieces, and he has, be
aides these, two sisters out of one family
and also a mother and her daughter.
Secretary Cass, in reply to a letter from
naturalized French citizen of Memphis, Ten
nessee, says, it is understood that the French
government claims military service from al
natives of France who may he found within
its jurisdiction. Naturalization in this coun
try, will not exempt a party from that CLAIM
should he voluntarily repair to France.
In Pontotoc county, Miss, a man named
Holiday waylaid and shot L. +. d. Rob
erts, a planter, while he was going to church
q few DAYS ago. The whole neighborhoo(
thereupon pursued Holiday, and having
captured him, tried and hung him. This
the third case of lynching that has occurre'
in that county within two years.
The Fredericksburg Herald, of "Wednesday
says:-"A very heavy storm of wind, rain
and we fear hail, visited the county of Stat
ford Yesterday afternoon. The edge of tn
olond that passed over fredericksburg lie
fall a small quantity of hail, but so little as q
pass unobserved by many"
In the death of Gideon Scull, OF Phlla
delphia, which is announced in the papers o
that city, the commercial community o
which he was a member, has lost one of it
most ripht-mindsd, useful, and enterprisinl
merchants, and society generally. a brigh
example of social and moral worth.
DR. Francis j. Mettauer, q we'll known