Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-01-31
News Of the Day.
"To sho,c the rery age and body cfhe TIMES.

| islaturc in attendance. Gov. Cummings
message is described as brefand pointed
The weather had been very severe. The
mercury stood at IS degrees below zero for
| four consecutive days. The Presidents mes
sage arrived at Salt Lake in eleven days
An entirely practicable pass through the
Sierra Nevada, which shortens the distance
to the Pacific materially, had been discovered.
The bills introduced by Mr.. Stephens, of
Ca, proposing the establishment Of Terrific
rial governments for Dacotah, Jefferson, and
Arizona, were on his own notice and not re-
ports from the Committee on Territories,
though they are the same identically with
those agreed to in committee, excepting the
name of the Platte region country, which is
called by him Jefferson" instead of the
one adopted by the committee, to wit: "To-
host
The force of the contract division of the
Post.of6ce Department, is now actively en-
gagged in preparations for the spring lettings
of mail service. Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida-about
300 routes form the regular section of this
season; besides which nearly 700 "miscella-
neous" routes in every State and Territory.
under recent acts of Congress, will be dis
posed of.
The tariff question has become so perplex-
ing that it will be of difficult solution, at least
during the brief remainder of this session.
We have plan representing the views of the
President, and another which is said to carry
out the views of the Treasury, and third
which meets the views of the protectors, and
fourth which is the do nothing plan, and is
the most likely to succeed.
1t appears that the mails from Washington
for the North are detained in Philadelphia
and New York an unreasonable length of
time The Post Office Department say they
cannot remedy the evil without further au-
thority, and the railroad companies acknowl-
edge that the complaints are true and that
they are willing to make any changes the
Department may suggest.
The Costa Rican Congress, in extraordina-
ry session on the ID, ratified the Belly treaty
with slight notifications. Gen. Lamar's
manifesto in Nicaragua had created some
sensation throughout Central America, while
the conduct of Mr.. Buchanan toward the fill
busters was fully appreciated.
1t appears from the Treasurer's statement,
that on the Oath inst, the net Treasury bal
ance was 81, 98,022.G0. Amountof receipts
for the previous week, 81, 249, 05l 81: drafts
paid, 1894, 1865; drafts issued, SGS7 ,2S1; in
crease 1851, 1921.
The Foreign Missionary Society of the Re-
formed Dutch Church have resolved to estab-
lish mission in Japan, and have appointed
as a pioneer in the work, Rev. S. d. Brown,
of Owasco, n. Y, formerly for eight years a
missionary in China.
The Haggis pudding is the Scotchman's
favorte dish. 1t is made of the entrails of
sheep or lamb, chopped, with fine herbs and
suet, highly seasoned with lecks and spices,
and boiled in the nav.
The Hudson IN. ~ Railroads. now using
thirteen oal-burning engines, with semi-bitu-
minous coal, at very large gain over wood.
The whole locomotive force of the road, it is
expected, will, during the present year, be
changed to coal-burners.
The Spanish wags suggest that monu-
ment ought to be erected to the President of
the United States in the centre of the Prado.
at Madrid, as he is the first man that has
been able to unite the people for thousand
years.
The Boston Herald gives theparticulars of
two men who have recently left that city,
having lost heavily by gambling and the pur-
chase of lottery tickets.-One has lost proper
ty of about 81, 900, and the other is minus
a property of about $4,000.
The farmers of Wisconsin, who mortgaged
their farms to the various railroads, have for
med league to resist the foreclosures of the
mortgages. Some 1000 or 1900 persons be-
long to the league, bound together by secret
oaths, having signs, grips and passwords.
The schooner Brilliant, from Campeachy,
brings advices from Yucatan to the 18th inst.
The liberal party, having triumphed, offer
an amnesty to the Indians. Those not ac-
cepting its terms are TO be shot, or banished
for ten years
Mr.. John Rumble died in Caroline county
Nd, on the 10Th inst, in the S5th year of
his age, He had six children, thirty-four
grand children, and thirty-four great grand
children.
Dates from Valparaiso to the 10th, and Cal
lao to the Goth ultimo have been received
Another revolution was progressingin Chill,
and there was prospect that the existing
Government would be overthrown.
At the annual meeting of the Massachu
sets Anti-Slavery Society, resolutions were
adopted expressing unfaltering faith in the
ultimate triumph of the cause of abolitionism,
but indicating no new plan.
The Spiritualist's Register for 1859 puts
the total of believers in the United States at
l ,2S4 900. 1t also gives the names and ad
dresses of $40 public speakers and 23S pro-
fessional mediums
The tariff bill of Mr.. Phelps, of Missouri,
fully meets the views of Secretary Cobb,
who believes that it will yield more revenue
and be less protective than the tariff of 1857.
1t appears from recently received official
dispatches that the Cooie trade to Havana is
conducted principally at Macoa, and escapes
the jurisdiction of that colony.