Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-04-26
ALEXANDRIA:

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TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL %, 1859.
News from Utah to March IL, brings in
formation that the weather was the severcst
ever known in the Territory, tremendous
snow storms having occurred in the South
Pass; that four or five thousand persons will
leave for the States this spring; and that Il
collision had occurred at Provo between the
Mormons and the troops stationed there by
Judge Cradelbaugh to protect the | ). Court.
The act of the Judge, in ordering mp troops 10
his support. has created Il bitter feeling
among the Mormons.
The Consultation says The first fruits
of the Paraguay arrangement have Just
reached the United States. \ draft for ten
thousand dollars, minus the difference oi'
exchange, has been received at the Depart
mcnt of State, as an decentralization IL the
family of the seaman who was killed on board
the Water Witch" in February, lS1j, by Il
shot from the P~araguayan fort, when that
steamer was on her way to explore the Pa
rama river"
We learn from the Navy Department. at
Washington, that four vessels have been as
signed for duty on the coast Of Africa: the
steamships San Jacinto II guns, and Mohi-
can, 6 guns; and the sloopS-of-war Constella-
ton and Portsmouth, each rated at 22 guns;
total IS guns. Captain William lnman has
been ordered to command the squadron
We rejoice in the substitution Of steam for
sailing vessels in the African waters.
Among the enactmentS by the Legislature
of New York, at its late session, was Il bill al
lowing an increase in the rates allowed BY
law for the advertisement Of legal notices.
The Governor has signed the bill, and II is
now the law. 1t has been too much the
practice of legislative bodies 10 crowd down
the printer, and we checriully record a
step in the right direction by the Legislature
Of New York.
BY a late law of the Medical Society OF
Virginia the delegates to the National -Asso-
citation are appointed by the Executive Com
mittee Of the Society. The object Of the
change is to allow time to notify delegates
at a distance of their appointment. The
American Medical Association will meet at
Louisville, Ky, on the first Tuesday Ill May
next.
The Wytheville Telegraph publishes "A
long letter from Mr.. William NJ. Tredway,
a candidate for the Board of Public Works,
defining his position upon various questions
of internal improvement. Mr.. Trcdway de-
clares himself in favor of the Cumberland
Gap Railroad. and the extension OF the Dan
vile Railroad to a junction with the Virgin
ia & Tennessee.
The past Winter in England has been
one of the mildest on record. Since the be-
ginning of November. there was scarcely a
frost until the first Of April, when there was
a heavy snow. The change, however, was
transitory, and the next three DAYS were
characterized by n degree Of warmth greater
than has ever been known 1T thus period o'
the year.
The Cincinnati Price Current is informed
by a letter from Jackson, Tennessee, that the
peaches were completely killed in that part
of the State by the trOsL5 of the 10Th ana
18th inst. The weather. on the whole, al
Cincinnati has been most untdyorahie 1"f
vegetation, and also well calculated to hinder
the spring work of the agrlcnIturlSt. y
large amount of rain fell.
The Presbytery of Potomac held n session
last week at Jamestown, Montgomery COUNTY
Maryland. Rev. P. DGurlsy, of Washington
was chosen moderator, and Rev. b. +. bettin-
ger and Mr.. W. l.. Walter appointed de!ess'sS
10 represent the Presbytery in III" general
assembly Of the Presbyterians at ~lhdianaPo-
lis, next month.
Mr.. :. ". Thrift, an old citizen OF Nor
folk, Va. who had been afflicted with SICK
ness since last November, on Nedn"sdSy
NIGHT last. swallowed a doRa of laudanum.
from the effects of which he died on Thurs
day.
Lord Campbell has amused his l"isHr"
hours. by writing q little book, to prove that
it was likely Shakespeare was at som" time
of his life, a lawyers clerk. and obtained Il
considerable knowledge Of the forms, terms
Sc, used in Courts of Law.
III. T. Douglas 4 Brothers, Of Zanes>'iI''
Ohio, having invented and patented a Scr
cho Sugar Cane Mill aud Sugar Apparatus,
for making sugar and syrnp- from tn" >or-
gho cane, are now largely engaged III that
business.
Rev. W. W. Arnett, pastor Oh fhlai''ei
rarish protestant Episcopall church al
Cumberland, Maryland, died on the list
inst. He had but recently returned from Il
visit to Cuba.
Mr.. NJ. W. ID. Moreton Dyer. recently al-
pointed British Consul for Baltimore, died at
his residence in that city, on Saturday after
noon, after a somewhat protracted illness.
which terminated in dropsy.