Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-04-27
News of the Day.
TO shoe the rc'y age o"dbody Of the TINES

GOrce. Three French steam war vessels
were in the harbor. The Dale departed on
the 10th of March for Porto Praya. The
Ulcers and crew were in tolerable health
The Dale was twenty-fuur days making the
voyage from Monrovia to Goree, only 900
miles; certainly, All ocean for steam, and not
canvas.
The Bank of Tennessee. the Planters Bank.
and the Union Bank of Nashville, have mott
fled the Postmaster General that they will
discount the drafts issued by the department
To the contractors for their service in Tcnncs-
see. until such time as Congress may be
enabled to make the necessary appropriations
to pay for the service, which it is presumed
will be by the lst of January next.
Lord Lyons, the new British minister. has
thus Ear made a very favorable impression on
Washington society. lie is established at
the late residence of his predecessor, having
relieved him of q three years lease and pur-
chased his whole furniture. Count Sartiges
i. about closing his establishment upon
a leave OF absence in Europe.
u. ii. Craig, agent of the Associated Press
in New York city, is said 70 have amassed a
fortune Of upwards ofSl00,00 in his ten OF
twelve years residence in the metropolis
He has acquired this 10y sending advertise
ments, as items of news over the lines. thus
having them inserted in papers free of cost.
So says the Baltimore Exchange.
Mr.. John b. Gilmer. who committed sui
eide, in Washington, on Monday, was the
editor of the charlottesville Exponent" and
about thirty years of age. There were n"
indications of over-indulgence, nor could any
one present comprehend why the lamented
young man should have chosen so dreadful u
death.
The shad lives hut y single year. 1t is
Matched in the early summer-descends the
streams as soon as large e~nough-teeds and
iatteus in the winter at the mouth of the
stream-ascends in the spring to deposit It's
spawn-descends to die at the bottom of the
ocean. Is this SOP
A curious case has Just transpired at Mon
t~icello, Mo. Two boys were arrested for
stealing a $40 gold piece. The one who did
not steal it was put upon trial first, and the
other chap was used as a witness, and his IN
noceuce was established. The other boy
was then placed On trial, when the one just
acquitted came forward and swOre that he
had stolen the money himself.
A Chinese passenger, wrecked on the st.
Paul and rescued by the steamer Styx, has
arrived at Sydney and given an alleged ac-
count Of the massacre of his fellow passengers
on Russell Island. He says the cannibals
would select four or five Chinese daily, kill
them, roast the flesh, and eat it.
The Louisville Journal says: THE editor
Of the Freeport Republican says that the tu-
sitive-slave law may be the law Of the land,
but isn't the law of heaven. Well, let him
obey the law of the land while he is in the
l~and-he'n have nothing 70 Ito but to obey
the law Of heaven when he gets there
There is Il new featured the Oberlin res
cue trials at Cleaveland. The two Kentucky
witnesses, Jennings and Mitchell, called by
the prosecution, have been arrested by the
sheriff of l. rain county, on a charge ot KID
mapping John, the fugitive, tor whose escape
the rescuers are being tried.
Antioch College, in Ohio, was sold at pub
lie auction, in Cincinnati, last week, for S4O,-
600. The purchaser was an agent of Mr..
Francis 4. Palmer, Of New York. AT
ter the sale, however, the College was trans
ferred to it's former owners, free from debt,
and will he Immediately re-organized.
An Enl!'sh missionary, DR.. Mcgowan,
long resident at Shanghae, China, has re-
Gently undertaken a mission to Nagasaki,
Japan, taking with him tracts and copies
of the Scriptures, in Chinese. for distribution,
and Bibles in English and Dutch for the use
of the native interpreters.
During his travels, Alexander Dumas says
he became the guest of beautiful princess,
an oriental pearl, who asked him for sonnet,
not a word Of which did she understand, and
in return gave Dumas Il magnificent neck
| lace. which he understood perfectly well!
The American Republican party in Mas
sachusetts, the party embracing Gov. Banks,
Henry Wilson. and Arson Burlingame'
but excluding Gov. Gardner and his Amcri-
cun friends. appears to be showing signs ot a
rupture which may become serious.
Prof. \. ID. Bache. the superintendent OF
the U. s. Coast Survey. al present in Charles
ton. $. c.. is on his annual tour of Inspection
of the progress of the different parties now
in the field between Cape Fear anu st. join 5.
Elw. ii. Stevens. esq, Of llarrisonburg'
has been appointed to the chair of Ancient
Languages in Beaufort College, South Caro-
lima. Mr.. Stevens is IA talented graduate OF
the University of Virginia.
Mr.. Bonner announces that he has enSa-
ped Mr.. Charles Dickens 10 write IL tale cx-
! pressly for the New York Ledger. Dickens
! saws he could not withstand Banners ot-
fers. and has commenced the story.
j. X. S. Bond, editor and proprietor of,he
Mendoza Ill.) Press. has been elected over
seer Of the poor. lie says his long experience
in the printing business gives him the most
admirable qualification for that othre.
An association Of the vine-growers has
been chartered in Missouri, the members OF
which propose TO encourage by their own
example, the planting Of the grape in that
State.
1t ia reported that the steamer 81. Nlcii"-
las. from st. Louis for New Orleans, exploded
,..r U,I,r, in the lover Mississippi, and