Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-07
News Of the Day.
"To shop the rery age and body Of the TINES.

COutiuueu pfdSc III l1uioFo, ohu Soo0 S1otS
in this country. Some produce is going
abroad, though at low prices, and the ship.
ment Of gold from this country to Europe will
be arrested. The cotton and other manutac-
turers in New England are doing remarka-
bly, well.
The coal trains on the Northern Central
Railway, says the Harrisburg Patriot, are
now being run to the full capacity OF the
power of the company to haul them. Dur
ing the month Just terminated, one OF the
freight engines hauled between Dauphin ana
Sunbury six thousand and forty-flve coal
cars, the half of which were loaded for the
Baltimore and Southern markets.
A strong tendency towards the weekly
newspaper has developed itself in London
The new world inaugurated the new literary
fashion-the old world follows suit. We
used to derive the cut of our garments from
France, and our literary ideas from England.
Now, New York sets the fashions in clothes
and America points the way in serial pub
LEGATIONS to London.
All the efforts of Sir Moses Monteflore and
the deputies of the British Jews, having prov
ed Intellectual in obtaining the restoration of
the child Mortara to its parents, committee
of gentlemen on behalf of British Citizens
have drawn up protest which has been prl-
vately circulated and extensively signed, and
a copy forwarded to the. French Ambassador.
The displacement of Capt. Meigs from the
superintendency of the Capitol extension was
occasioned, mainly, by the want of cordial
agreement between his views and those OF the
War Department. rather than from the old
controversy between him and the architect,
Mr. Walters, which, the public is aware, has
been going on for several years.
DR.. Bennett complains that his wife, whose
petitions for divorce created such a stir at
New Haven some months since, is about to
remove with his chilren to place some y
600 miles distant. Mrs. Bennett declares
that it won't hurt his feelings much, rs he
never has visited them since the separation
of the parents.
The racing sports of this season have gain
ed much esteem in favor of the Ashland tract
as the best and most central and accommodate
ing in the South. 1t is even reported that,
after having tested its merits as race
course, a Northern Company desires to pur-
chase it, and will pay fifty thousand dollars,
if it can bought for that sum.
A late Utah paper mentions the arrival of
company of European saints, who came in
ffty-six wagons, and numbered about four
hundred souls, mostly from Scandinavia
There were six deaths and three births on
their journey Of three months through the
country.
Mr.. Alexander Worrell, present Superin-
tendent of the Seaboard and Roanoke Rail-
road, will accept the SUPPLEMENTARY of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad, to which
post he has been appointed by the Directory.
Mr.. Campbell's resignation takes effect on
the 18th instant.
The last Vera Cruz mail brings to us COM
munications, which have recently passed be-
tween the governments of Yucatan and Cam
peachy, touching "a new and disgraceiul
branch Of commerce, the shipment of Indians
and mestizos from the peninsula to the lia-
vana."
The Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance
Company have declared a dividend of 10 per
cent for the last six months. and added to
their surplus s,000-making total after
the dividend of 100000. Sales have been
made by e. W. Purcell 4 Co., at 81, dividend
off.
The Cumberland Civilian says: Geo. IL.
Drake, who was arrested few weeks ago.
for the killing of Benedict NJ. Athey, in
1926, underwent a trial bsfcr the Allegany
County Circuit Court, last week, and was ac-
quilted.
A young and beautiful girl, daughter of a
wealthy merchant of Albany, has become
strongly and strangely addicted to drink,
and one day last week was found nearly dead
drunk in the street.
The Staunton Nindicator says:-A little
son of Mr.. Madison Doom, of this place was
20 severely burnt on Saturday last, from his
clothes taking fire, that he died from the Ell
fects thereof, in u few hours.
The Free Lovers have emigrated from
California. and purchased from the San Sal
VauOr UOVernnent tTitCt VI iahu VI s"ii0
50, 900 acres of good arabic land. ut twelve
and half cents per acre, for $3.50.
The British journals are urging again the
Importance of sending out another expedi-
ton to the Arctic regions, with the hope OF
finding some of the survivors of the lost ex-
plorer, Sir John Franklin.
Mr.. Corwin 10 continuing in New York
the effort which he commenced N Ohio OF
combating the ''heresies of republicanlsm
lie will not, it is said. consent to be candi-
date for the speakership Of the House.
Awhile woman named Watts, living in
fredericksburg was shockingly burned on
Sunday night week. from the effects Of which
she died on Wednesday.
A negro girl about six years of age, be-
longing to Capt. Gabriel Long, near Spotsyl-
vania G. H., was kicked on the head by
colt. last week, causing her death.
Bishop Bedell, lately appointed to the Epis-
copal Diocese of Ohio, preached the first ser
mon within the limits of his new field, at
GAINESVILLE, on Sunday week.
The Shreveport (La.) Gazette has an
account Of the lynching Of white man
who was arrested in New Orleans for steal
inc negroes. and was taken to Shreveport.