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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-02
A Few Facts About the West.

4 recent tour through portions of Ohio
Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan gave rs en-
larged ideas of their immense productive
ness For interminable distances Smiling
fields of corn" waved before the eye, the
plant being Of most hearty and vigorous
growth. The greatest marvel was where the
hands were found to plant, and till. and reap
the tens Of thousands Of acres of grain that
spread out on every hand, or to supply the
other signs of thrift and industry that every
where met our eyes. The great network Of
railroads and canals and lakes lay there
ready 10 take it 10 market, and visit to
some Of the cities and towns Of the three
States showed very plainly that there was
no lack Of purchasers. AT Cincinnati, TOR
instance there are four large distilleries,
consuming together ten thousand bushels OF
corn daily. At Earnest, two miles from
Cincinnati, are four others of the same ca
pacity. At Lockland, ten miles from Gin
cinnati, are a Touring mill, making two
hundred barrels of -four daily, and two pa
per mills. At Glendale is Touring mill,
capable of producing two hundred barrels
daily. At Hamilton, are two large distllle-
ries, using about five thousand bushels OF
corn per day Here also are four Touring
mills, with a capacity together Of producing
one thousand barrels of aour daily: a large
paper mill; an extensive agricultural lmpie-
ment mandatory, and saw mandatory.
At Beesenburg is one Of the best srst mills
in Ohio. At Middletown, there are four
srist mills, capable Of producing from eight
hundred to thousand barrels of flour daily.
and two large paper mills. At Carlisle, in
the same vicinity, are two or three Touring
mills, and two distilleres, consuming from
four Thousand TO five thousand bushels Of
corn daily. At Miamisburg are one large
Touring mill and large mandatory of
agricultural implements. At Dayton, there
re fya or six large Touring mills and two
or three dstilleries. On the whole line of
the Sandusky and Dayton road are numer
Gus Touring mills and distilleries. From
these few facts, gathered in only one local.
II. the reader can infer the amount Of bust
ness of lis kind, ami die enterprise and AZ
tivity Of the Western people.-h. i. Com
,,errj1f dIrsrtiser
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-02
The Aerial Ship.

Mr.. Lowe, the pronaut, who proposes to
make voyage to Europe in his monster bal,
loon, has published Card. In it he says
Some people may think that am insane,
rash, or seeker after fame; but this is not
the case. have for two years coolly con
sidered the subject, and have provided for
every contingency. intended to make my
first trip across the ocean, entirely u private
undertaking: but finding that the amount OF
expense to be incurred would overtax my
personal means, have been compelled to
announce public exhibition, while prepar-
ing for the voyage. | am confident of sue
cess Tor various reasons:
First have a large balloon, whic,l has
capacity Of 900 cubic feet; therefore
should the envelope be no more perfect than
those which are usually constructed, it will
retain its power for longer period
S.cond-I have devised mechanical appli-
ances for raising and lowering the balloon
while i'll the air, without expenditure OF the
lifting power.
Third have invented an apparatus for
indicating the different currents below, 50
that advantage can be taken Of these currents
should find myself going too far north or
south Should any accident occur, or should
the balloon machinery fail to accomplish its
work, the metallic lie-boat, which will be
suspended below the car, isrigsed with sails,
and will prove sufficiently strong to endure
any sea.
It's true, | would have preferred another
season of the year for undertaking this first
great experiment of transatlantic aerial
navigation, but should this first attempt at
an exploring expedition, rs | term it, not
prove entirely successful. shall not be dis
courased nor deferred from institutins ex-
periments with a view to ascertaining the
cause Of failure and the remedy therefor
shall be supplied with all the phil
osophical apparatus necessary to take
meteorological observations. / aerial nav!ga-
ton is ever perfected, it vii be accomplish
ed by perseverance,, even in the midst of OPP
position and detraction. | am willing to
take the risk, and if can do anything To
add, in however small measure, to the
store of our scientific knowledge, | shall feel
aInply repaid'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-02
News from Washington.

WAsHINGroS, October 3l.-At the last
session of the Senate u resolution was passed
requesting the President to cause the heads
Of the Departments TO submit estimates Tor
the expenses of the Government 10 the next
Congress, upon basis not exceeding nifty
millions annually, exclusively Of the public
debt and the interest thereon, provided the
same can be done without injury To the pub
lie service. Estimates are now In course oil
preparation in accordance with the spirit oil
this resolution; and with view to strict
economy, but it is not at all probable
that the expenditures will be restricted TO such
narrow limit.
Reliable advices state that the Government
of Nicaragua has every disposition to make
with us satisfactory transit arrangements,
and that the only obstacle to this is the Bel
" contract, which, however, has already
failed in some particulars.
No action has been taken by the Govern
ment regarding the aiders and abettors OF the
Harper Ferry conspirators already captur-
ed. Should sufficient evidence against them
be obtained it is supposed the requislts"n Tor
their surrender will be made by Governor
Wise. as in the cases Of Cook and llazlet.
Earnest Clay, esq. of the British Legation
in Mexico, arrived here to-day. and linmedl-
ately sought an interview with Lord Lyons
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-02
The Gulf Stream as a Fertilizing Agent

We read in Once a Week: If we follow
the Gulf Stream across the ocean, We per-
ceive how fully it fulfls the purpose for
which it was designed. Sir Walter Scott
tells Us that the pools in the Orkneys are
never frozen, the effects of the grand hot
water warming apparatus OF far distant
shore being sensibly felt even in these Is
lands, which are situated in latitude nearly
ten degrees further Dorth than the ice bound
coast of Labrador. We all know that III
Great Britain there is an extraordinary dit
ference between the eastern and western
coasts-so great indeed as 10 induce COM
pletely different systems OF agriculture
The Emerald Isle owes her splendid grazing
land 10 the soft west breezes born OF the
Gulf Stream which strike full upon her
shores; the western shores OF England are
robed IN bright green pastures nourished
with the warmth and moisture issuing from
the same tropical source. The dairy pro-
duce of Great Britain has its root and issue
in this stcadfast hot-water river in the ocean,
the limits of which modern science has So
accurately mapped: nay, the torid plump
looks of our people, and the large size Of our
domestic animals. are but effects of that
moist and genial atmosphere which finds its
birthplace in the benefcent Gulf Stream.
And in order 10 bring the effects Of this
extraordinary marine phenomenon closer
home to the stomach of our reader, we may
perhaps be permitted to as, him, how it is
that of late years he has purchased peas,
potatoes, and brocoli SO many weeks before
their season in Covent Garden Market =
Peas III May were once thought 10 be an ex-
srayagance, only allowable to duke. Now
any moderate man may indulge iii them to
his hearts content. Well, these vegetables
are forced-but in dollhouse atmosphere
of natures own contriving Where the
tail Of the British dolphin dips into the At
lantic, there the effects of the Gulf Stream
are most felt; it is bathed with the warm
moist air, heated by the iar-otf Gulf caul.
dron, and we may say, with eXactness, that
the majority Of our early vegetables sold in
the open market are forced in lighthouses in
Cornwall and Portugal, the seaboard of the
more southerly promontory.) by means OF Il
boiler situated beyond the West Indian
Archipelago, the conducting hot-water pipe
OF which runs tor nearly four thousand miles
between the cold walls of the surrounding
ocean. Had the ancients been aware of this
property of the ocean, it would have modi-
fled the representations Of the Pagan Olym-
pus, and we should have been familiar with
the spectacle of-Neptune turned gardener.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-02
Sharp Sayings-by a Democrat.

h,7- There is a warfare on foot against the Pre-
sdent which is scanialous. 1t is not one which
arruigns his policy, but is merely personal.-.Ho-
bile Tribune.
If the President has personal enemies, it
is himself that makes them. If no makes
them by deceving and furnishing his friends
and fawning upon and rewarding his enc
mics, is the Just indignation of those who
are outraged by his treachery and duplicity
to be hushed because he is invested with the
Presidential Office? We can understand
how man may discredit a high office by
disingenousnesss and indirection, but we
are unable to comprehend upon what prlncl-
pie Of moral or political ethics, such an office
is u mantle to cloak or Justify the obliqul-
ties of the man. The Tribune uses the pa
ragraph we have quoted il defence OF the
President against the attack of a imam
named Forney" 1t is not our business to
champion Mr.. Forney. 1t is pertinent to
remark, however, that if he be the base
wretch the Tribune describes him to be on
account of his participation i'll the Forrest
and Jameson affair, 1.-The man named For
ney" was Men the confidential and trusted
friend of the President. For many years
this base man" was Mr. Buchanans m ST
intimate associate and companion, and one
who had devoted his whole lie and all It's
best energies to the promotion OF Mr.. BS.
ambitious schemes. The President must
submit to the rule Of the adase, noscttWr a
SociiS--if Forney was base the President
cherished Il base" friend, and he cuntiii-
ued to cherish Kim until he had reached
the goal of his ambition, and then kicked
the ladder by which he had climbed from
under him. Mr.. Forney accuses Mr.. Buct.
anan of base personal ingratitude and OF
an oblivousness in prosperity OF services ana
acts of friendship rendered while struggling
after that prosperity. Nothing is more like
" to be true than such an accusation. We
know both Mr.. Buchanan and Mr. Forney,
and our knowledge of them leads Us to the
conclusion that in any matter IN which right
and honor are involved and personal magnan-
unity and open dealing are to be exercised
John W. Forney is rs trustworthy as James
Buchanan-.Hobilc Register.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-02
The Traitors.

While some of the abolition and republi-
can journals which formerly endorsed the
actions of the famous Old Brown in
Kansas, now desert him in his failure and
misfortune, call him mailman, and attempt
to wriggle out Of justification Of the liar-
per's Ferry conspiracy, others more bold, of
the ultra stamp, openly defend the motive
and the acts which characterised the bloody
scenes in Virginia. In these sheets, treason
to government. 81 the part Of John Brown
and every one else. is iearlesslv preached and
sancti6ed, with daring that put 70 shame
the sneaking desertion Of Brown by the re.
publican organs, here and elsewhere. which
spirited him on to his traitorous acts.
For example. the Boston Liberutor, the
organ Of the Garrisoniap school, pronounces
his purpose noble one, which "wi!! recsiVe
the plaudits of every manly and generous
heart" Now, what was his purpose2 Was
il not to arm and organize the black popula-
ton Of the South against the white, and
spread rapine and murder throughout the
land? Was it net rebellion against the govern
msnt Of the United States Yet this is
the very purpose which Seward ayowsd in
his Rochester Speech, and which Wilson, and
Ciddings, and Chase, aud Gerrit smith, and
the other leaders of that class, have been all
along fostering by word and material aid
Neip York Herald.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-02
Jsleeraphic Dispatches.

BosToy, Oct. 3l.--The extensive sugar
house on Gooch street, six stories high, oc-
cupied by seth Adams, was burned tins
evening. The loss Oh the stock is $4,000
and on the Building and machinery 1901
There was nearly SGc.GGi Insurance. on the
stock. on the building $1,000. and The maciii-
nerv So 900 Very little Of the stock was saw
ed. not over 200 bbls. sugar being taken out.
Bosro.. Oct. 3l.-Judge Russell, Of the
Superior Court, and George Scno't, esq, left
here this afternoon to take part IN tic de
fence of Captain Brown AMI the other insur-
gent prisoners at Charlestown, Va. IL is
reported, also, that b. T. Butler, the demo
cratic candidate for Governor, has been re-
tanned by Browns friends.
New ORLEANS. Oct. SO portion Of three
squares in the Third Municipality, was de-
stroyed by fire. by which seventy,fnar poor
families are rendered hou-eless. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
I large FIRE is now ~. NJ raging at the
corner 5f Poydras ard Le.ee street.
New ORLEANS, Oct 80 There wag Kill,
Ing frost in various parts of Louisiana End
Mississippi this morning.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-02
Our Public Men.

Occasional" writes to the Philadelphia
Press a sketch of the prominent men in the
struggle for the Speakcrship in Congress IN
1856: most of the leading actors have al
ready retired from the Congressional held.
Howell Cobb is the Secretary OF the Urea
sury: James l.. Orr is at Anderson, South
Carolina; William l.. Aiken is taking care
of his immense estate near Charleston: VII
liam A Richardson, is now residing at Gum
cy, Illinois: Clancy Jones is now doing the
elegant, with his family, as American minis
ter at the court OF Francis Joseph OF Austria;
John Cadwalader is rcposiag in the Judge
ship of the eastern district Of Pennsylvania:
Thomas j. d. Fuller, Of Maine, is occupying
an authorship under the present Admins
tratiun: John Wheeler, the indomitable
Hard" OF New York, is helping on the hight
for Douglas in the Empire State Thomas ).
Bayley and VIM. o. Goode, OF Virginia, have
passed from the scene of humane life: John
Letcher is now Governor Of the same State;
Thomas l.. Clingman, of North Carolina, sits
in the Senate: Preston ). Brooks OF South
Carolina, lies in his tomb: Alexander IL.
Stephens, ofGeorgia, is deyotlng himself to
his profession; John A. Quitman OF Missls-
sippi, sleeps on his plantation near Natchez;
George W. Jones, Of Tennessee, the NeStor
of the House. is in private life; George u.
Dunn and Samuel Brenton of Indiana have
departed this life: Thomas l.. Harris of Hi
nois has also gone to his long home; Henry
NJ. Rice. Delegate from Minnesota in lSJ1,
is now a Senator from the State of Minncso-
tn. and Joseph Lane, is now Il Senator from
the State of Oregon. On the general Oppo-
sition side Nathaniel =. Banks, IT., is the
Governor of Massachusetts: Solomon u. lla-
ven. of New York, is practising law; Henry
NJ. Fuller, Of Pennsylvania, is engaged III
the banking and coal business: Jacob BrOome,
of the same State is practising law: Jonathan
Knight, sleeps in the quiet churchyard ut
Washington, Pa: Joshua X. Giddings, OF
Ohio, has been edged from his stool by a
successful rival Lewis ID. Campbell OF the
same State, has given way to the Democrat
Nallandighanr: Humphrey Marshall, of Ken
lucky, has thrown up his place III disgust:
Felix X. Xollicotler, Of Tennessee, will not
be present and Charles Ready, Of the same
State-an American four years ago-was
defeated a. democratic candidate tor Con
gress ut the late election. OF those who
took part III the great struggle of lo33-56.
there will be in the coming conflict John
Hickman, Thomas b. Florence, William Mil
lard, James H. Campbell, John Covode, and
Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania; Z. NJ.
Pennington. of New Jersey; Thomas ii. Bo-
cock and Henry A Edmondson, of Virginia;
John Sherman and Benjamin Stanton OF
Ohio; Emerson Etheridge Of Tennessee; Will
liam H. English. of Indiana: John ). Phelps
and Samuel Caruthers, of Missouri, and Al
bert Rust, of Arkansas.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-02

CAUGHT Is HIS OwN TRAP once Nv,
ministers Of the gospel were conycrsug on
extemporaneoils preaching.
well" said the old divine, waxing warm
''you are running yourself by writing your
sermuns and reading them of. Your con.
gregation cannot become Interested in your
preaching; and if you were called upon to
preach Unexpectedly, unless you could get
hold Of an old sermon, you would be complete.
ly confused"
The young divine used all his eloquence,
but in vain. to convince the old gentleman
that the written sermon expressed his own
thoughts and feelings, and, il called upon, he
could preach extemporaneously.
AS We are of the same faith" said tho
young minister, suppose you try me next
Sabbath morning. On ascending the pulpit
you can hand me text from any part Of the
Bible, and | will convince you that | can
preach without having looked at the text be-
fore | stood up. Likewise, must be allowed
the same privilege with you, and see who
will make the best Of it.
The idea seemed to delight the old gen.
tleman, and it was Immediately agreed upon.
The following Sabbath, on mounting tho
pulpit, his senior brother handed hima slip
of paper, on which was written: And the ass
opened his mouth and spakc;' from which
he preached a glorious sermon, claiming the
attention of his delighted hearers, and charm
ing his old friend with his eloquencc.
In the afternoon, the young brother, who
was sitting below the pulpit, handed his slip.
After rising and opening the Bible, the ol
man looked sadly around Am not thine
ASST" Pausing few minutes, he ran h,
fingers through his hair, Strengthened ms col.
lar, blew his nose like the last trumpet. ani
read aloud-"Am | not thine asS?' An.
other pause. in which deadly silence reign.
ed After reading the third time-"Am |
not thine assy"-he looked over the pulpit al
his friend, and in doleful voice, said
think | am. ByOhsr."