Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-06
ALEXANDRIA,:
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1859.
News Of the Day.
"7a show the uery age and body Of the TINES.

Railroad, in the vicinity of Greensburg. Ii
appears that the ballast train was in service
as usual, and that while on its way east, and
within short distance Of Greensburg, the
locomotive exploded with u tremendous re.
port. killing three mon and shattering the
engine to pieces. John Dobbs, the engi-
neer, and Mr.. Woods, the conductor, were
killed instantly. and Joseph Speelman, EN-
gagged as a fireman on the train, injured to
an extent that he died in few minutes
The engine, as we have stated, was blown
to pieces. and so great was the force of the ex-
plosion, that parts of it were sent whirlng
in the air hundreds Of feet from the scene of
the disaster.
The New Orleans Picayune of the Goth
ult., says:-"The ship Rebecca, Capt. Will
liam Carter, left Government wharf yester-
day. direct for Liberia having on board for
ty-twO negroes belonging to the McDonogh
estate. They 60 provided with money,
clothes. household implements and agricul-
tural instruments of every description. A
physician on board will look to their health
during the voyage, and when they land the
Liberia Emigration Society will take charge
to establish themselves"
A great effort 10 being made to render
Cuba cotton producing island. Planters
in almost every section of the island have
been led to devote attention to the cultivation
of cotton. by the promises Of aid-should it
be required-of foreign (English) capital I;
and the Government has decreed that the
Joint Stock Cotton-growing Company shall
be allowed to import the gins and other ma
chinery requisite for preparing cotton for
market, free of duty.
Letters received by the North Briton
speak Of numerous disasters to British wha-
iers in the Arctic seas. number of steam
ers and sailing vessels having been totally
lost in the ice. A despatch from Peterhead,
England, April 18th, announces the ar
rival at that port of the whaling ship Mar
wal Deuchars, from Greenland. which re-
ports the total loss Of FIVE ships 1.-TWO of them
steamers) while employed in the fisheries in
the Arctic seas.
Prof. N. c. Morse, Of Louisville, recently
took fifty acres of land in West Tennessee
for debt, at $40 per acre. On examination,
he found that it contained vast quantities of
lead, the rocks beneath the soil being lead
ore. A thorough test shows pure lead ore
to the value of Sc per cent, and associated
with sulphate of baryta, equally valuable as
the lead ORE Since the discovery Profess
sor NJ. has refused 81, 600 per acre for the
land.
On Sunday last, a young woman named
Purcell, residing near Martinsburg, Va,
left her residence and repaired to the house
of Mr.. George Pine, for the purpose Of
running away and getting married. She
was pursued by her uncle, Mr. Mordecal
Purcell, and her two brothers, when an az
iray ensued in which Mr.. Pine was knocked
dowr with club, and Dir. Mordecai Pur-
cell wounded by shot from Pines revo-
YER.
The prospects of the wheat crop through
out Central and Eastern Ohio, were never,
it is said, more promising than they are at
this time. The Wheeling Intelligencer has
been informed by Mr.. Garrett, President Of
the Baltimore and Ohio road, that the peo-
pie everywhere he has been, are Jubilant
with the expectation of an abundant har-
vest.
The papers bring us accounts of horn
bic killing of daughter by father at
village near Troy, New York, committed on
Sunday last. The fathers age is sixty, the
girls nineteen. From the statements made
the old man was probably insane, not caus-
ed, it is thought, by intemperance. The al
fair is a very shocking one nevertheless.
A child of Capt. James A. Ridgaway, re-
siding in Hopkins Neck, Talbot county
Md, on Tuesday last, got out OF bed early
in the morning, unobserved by his parents
and went down stairs, where there was a
fire. On going down soon after. Mr.. Ridga-
way found the child burnt to death, in u most
shocking manner.
The passes at the mouth Of the Mississippi
are now freely navigable to the largest class
of vessels that come to New Orleans. There
is an abundance of water. and all the vessels
that were outward or inward bound, and
we're detained Mt the bar. have got free and
started for their various destinations some
time since.
Cincinnati used to be called PorkOpolis.
1t has become spiritualized. 1t is now the
City of Romantic Reporters. No journalist
thinks of believing one out Of ten of the sto-
ries narrated in some Of the newspapers
there. The transition from pork to romance
has been very sudden.
Seeretier, the late antagonist Of Phelan, in
the billiard match at Detroit, has challenged
the latter to play new match for $4,000,
within ninety days. A forfeit of 81. 900 has
been forwarded from Detroit to New York,
and it is proposed that the match be played
there. .......
James Fouzer was tried and acquitted in
San Francisco, on the eth ult., of the charge
of murder, in having killed VIM. Deerie.-
The latter, a man Of family, (ssys writer
in the New York Times,) seduced Fouzer's
daughter, girl Of Is years.
The necessary arrangements having been
made, the Engineer of the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad, on Monday last. COM
the work of locating the road, begin
ming on the south side of the Patapsco river,
a few miles from Baltimore. ....
The President has selected the Hon. A.
B. Greenwood, Of Arkansas, to fill the place
Of Commissioner Of Indian Affairs-vacated
a short time since by the resignation of the
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