Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-04-22
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We mentioned yesterday that the Japan
csc minister to ratify the treaty recently
made with the United States, accompanied
by a large suite, il expected at Washington
in June next. The L. :. steamers Mlssis-
Sippi and Powhatan, have gone to leddo to
take them on board. when they will sail to
San Francisco. and by the Panama route to
New York. and thence by railroad t" Wash
ington. On both sides Of the continent they
are to be received with honor.
BY the statistics of Insanity in New York,
it is found that commercial revulsions have a
good deal to do with its increase. Those
who lost their reason from business perpleX-
tiles and loss offortune. were in greater num-
Der during the panic of 1878, than in any
of the preceding six years. Political revolu-
tons, also, increase the number of the IN
sane. French physicians state that the re-
~volution of 1893, and subsequent commissions,
largely increased the number Of insane pa
tents.
A. y. Montgomery, esq. of Lynchbnrg,
has recently been engaged in a survey of the
lands along the line of the y. f. and S.
W. Alabama Railroad, and has made a Re
port in favor of the practicability of manu-
featuring the iron for the road from the album
dant supply of ore within reach. We gather
from the report that the Railroad will dc"el-
op probably the largest iron interest in the
United States, which must add largely to the
wealth and Importance OF Alabama.
The Commencement exercises of the Win
chester Medical College. took place on Fri
day evening last, in the presence of II large
audience. DIR. Boyd conducted the religious
part of the ceremonies and delivered, with an
appropriate address, the diplomas 10 the gra-
duating class, of which there were eight
Professor J. p. Smith delivered the valedic-
tory, which was a production of fine taste and
decided merit.
Negro man Dick. slave Of DR.. Gunton, and
negro man Clarence, slave Of Mrs. f. NJ.
Bowie, found guilty of burning a barn on
the farm of DR.. Gunton, in Spalding's Dit
trict, Prince Georges County, Md. have been
seyerallv sentenced to the penitentiary, for
the term of twelve years. Dick was valued
at the sum of 81 300, and Clarence NJ 81 ,2oo,
which sums the owners will receive from tn"
county.
After the lecture Of Mr.. Everett, on the
18th instant, at the University of North Car
DINA, thetwo literary societies Of that instltu'
ton, each gave him one hundred and fifty
dollars for the cause he advocates. This sum
with that given to Mr.. ii. W. Miller on the
22d Of February, makes $3.50 which the 375
students of the University have given for the
purchase Of Mt. Vernon, within two months.
A letter from Vienna, in the Brussels "ln-
dependence states that the death of the
Young Princess Windischgratz was caused
by an excessive use of chloroform, to which
the unfortunate lady, while suffering acutely
from nervous headache, had recourse. We
recorded q similar catastrophe two or three
DAYS ago, as having taken place in New
York.
Last week, in the Crawford Ind. Circuit
Court, four brothers. named Prater, were
sentenced to the penitentiary for two years
each for horse stealing. Another brother,
indicted for..the same offence, died in jail: A
fifth brother has been indicted. but ia still at
large. The father and still another son are
also under indictment.
The British steam sloop-of:war Curacao.
which arrived at Annapolis roads on the
night of the 9th instant, with Lord Lyons.
the new British minister, let again for Eng.
land, on Tuesday evening. having on board
Lord Napier, late British minister, and Lady
Napier.
The brother Of Governor Zamora. Of Vera
! Cruz, has committed suicide on acc unit Of
supposed financial difficulties: but after his
death it was ascertained that he had made a
mistake of Sl00,0 600 against himself in max
ing up his balance sheet.
There lisa man in Philadelphia. who owns
two good brick houses and n feed store, and
has Il. 900 invested in stocks, I'll of which he
has accumulated solely by the business Of
catching rats. which he sells 10 the proprir-
tors of 'rat pits
In Buffalo. on Monday, a man. during a
quarrel with his wife, threw 4 stick Of fire
wood at her, which. instead Of inJuring her,
struck an infant. four months old, which
was in her arms, ON the head, killing 1t III
stantly.
A negro man belonging to Col Sanford |.
Ramey, of Loudoun county, last week became
refractory. and made an assault on his man.
ager, Mr.. Hope. Mr.. II. repulsed the scamp
by shooting him in the leg. The wound,
though painful, is not serious.
The Prince of Wales continues to be an OBJ
iect of much interest and very free comment,
in England, not only as respects his present
~soiourn at Rome, and its possible result. but
also in regard to his immediate future, on OBJ
tanning his majority.
With the exception of Virginia. which
! will hold its election on the Goth of May.
there will be no more State elections held
until August. when the States of Alabama.
Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri. North Caro-
lima, and Texas will elect.
The Newark Advertiser Of Monday even
ing. ~says:-"Thc friends of Bishop Doane
will be glad to learn that his physicians pro-
nounce his symptoms much more favorable
this morning, and that he has passed the
point of danger"
George W. Porter, q student at Yale Col
lege. from Enfield. has been arrested tor
.Ion ror;a,y of articles heinz found in