Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-07-07
News of the Day.
"75 sAop the rery age and body fhe TINES

of work on the Shaft of the Mon
urnent in Washington. They have address
ed. .hrnugh their energetic and courteous
John Carroll Brent esq. circulars
"a the corporations and literary and benevolent
institutions Of the several States, INVOKING
their earnest and active cooperation
MIR. Wise, the pronaut, has entire conf
dence in the success of the balloon under
taking, and expresses q determination to
make another experimental voyage "a soon
~ the balloon can he repaired. He has no
doubt that a voyage can be made by her 10
Europe in one fourth the time that it ~ now
made by the steamers.
Chesapeake Female College" located
about one mile from Old Point Comfort was
sold at public auction last Saturday for
$50. BOO Robert H. Vaughan, esq. OF the
county Of Elizabeth City. was the purchaser.
MIR. Vaughan has bought it with the inten-
ton Of offering it to the Baptists Of Virginia
ut what it cost him, though it has been said
he NAV realize 81, 900 advance i'll very short
time The property cost originally from
So 900 to $4,000 more than he gave.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin, Sentinel says
that some idea may be formed of the extent
t. which wheat gambling is carried on. when
il is known that for some weeks past the re-
ported sales have generally ranged from 4o,-
600 to 81, 900 bushels each day, while the re-
ceipts seldom reach 1000 bushels. Some
OF the largest operators never III reality own
u bushel Of wheat.
Messrs. n. P. Willis, the poet and editor:
Bayard Taylor, the traveller, Commander
VI. F. Maury, Of the National Observatory;
Hon. John 2. Kennedy, John X. Thompson,
editor OF the Southern Literary Messenger,
aud Judge Warren, of Boston, returned to
Baltimore on Saturday, from weeks ex-
animation of the line of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad.
The dead letter office received and opened
during the last quarter, 1858 dead letters
containing 1920 II. 1t is believed that
the recent instructions Ia postmasters upon
the subject of dead letters, will have the
effect t. diminish the number OF such letters,
IA far "a any agency Of the Department can
compass such change.
We have intelligence If the death OF the
Hon. James Burnside, presiding Judge OF
the 25th judicial district OF Pennsylvania
on Friday evening, by being thrown from hlt
carriage. Judge Burnside was about ~
wears of age. and was son of the late Hon
Thomas Burnside of the Supreme Court OF
Pennsylvania.
1t will crafty the friends of the late DR.
| ii. V. d. Johns to know that the very elo
ouent discourse on his life and character
delivered in May last by the Rev. Joseph l.
| Smith, has met with such extensive sale that
a second edition has heen called for. This
edition has now been published with an az
pendix.
Carl Frederick Schweitzer, Of Baltimore
charged with higamy was again before thu
MAYOR of Richmond on Saturday, and con
fronted by the most conclusive evidence o.
guilt. His first wife, at whose instance ht
was locked up appeared, and after exhibiting
her marriage certificate. establishing III
genuness and proving herself to be one I"
| the persons alluded to therein, showed by
witnesses in attendance that she had lived
with the prisoner and been recognized b!
him az his wife, within twelve months las
past. The second wife also appeared. claim
ed Carl as her husband. and proved her mar
riage to him in May last.
Patrick Cosgrove. alias Cocroach, died II
New York on the Mi ht Of the lst inst. from
the effects of stab received in tight II
Fulton street, about six months ago. he re
| fused to divulge the name OF the person ~h'
inflicted the stab. thinking he would recover
and then nhict summary vengeance h'
was one of the most notorious ruthans thai
ever infested the city
Pat llearn, Il prominent character in the
sporting circles Of Canada and the United
States. died suddenly in New York, on Sun
day night His disease was congestion Of
the brain. lie is said TO have borne an hon
orablr character in his peculiar pursuits
and to have died worth halt million OF dol
lars.
The st. Clairsyille (Ill.) Gazette says tina
a vein of antimony, two feet thick and al
most eolid has been discovered two miles
from ST. Evansville Anthony is one o
the ingredients of type metal-worth about
forty cents pound it has been sup
posed that it was only TO be found IN Ter
many.
The Navy Department is in receipt of des
patches from Captain Farragut, Of the UNI
ted States sloop-ofwar Brooklyn, of Vera
Cruz. There was no Mexican news of inter
est. Minister McLane was still on shore
The Brooklyn expected to leave for Pensacola
in few days.
We understand that notes purpnrting tC
he of the Bank of Weston, Virginia, have re-
Gently been put in circulation. They are OF
the denomination of five dollars. The Wig
nette represents man feeding swine, and
there is also on it a portrait of Henry Clay
They are entirely unlike the genuine.
The committee of the Alumni of Burling
ton College t. whom was referred the sub
iect Of monument to the memory Of Bsh
op Doane, have resolved to devote the fund
entrusted to their charge to the erection OF a
memorial chapel for the college.
The Havana correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier, under date of the 10Th, writes
that the yellow fever is making some pro-
gress among the shipping there Thus tar
we hear nothing Of this disease ut New Or
leans. or anywhere else in that region
A Texas correspondent asserts that that