Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-01-29
News Of the Day.
"7o sho1o the re,y age and body Of the TINES.

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Among the propositions debated on Wed.
nesday, in the House Committee of Ways
and Means, with view to the realization OF
an adequate income, was suggestion from
Mr.. Crawford to the effect,-that the Trea,
sury Note Bill of last session be continued
in force for two years; and if it he then a.
certained that the present tariff will not
yield sufficient revenue for the support OF
government, that the system Of direct taxa,
ton be substituted for the existing impost
arrangement. This movement contempates
a reduction of the expenditures TO q level
with the income, and the ultimate Inaugural
ton of a permanent system of free-trade!
1t is said that Mr.. Phelps, of Missouri, will
very shortly report a bill to increase the rev.
enue, &C., in which the duty on iron and
spices will be fixed ut 80 per centum. and on
liquors at 80 per centum. &c, so az to in
crease the revenue from customs to the ex-
tent of S6,000,00O The bill is also expect
ed to embrace authority to reissue treasury
notes or to make Il new loan to the extent of
500, 000, 900.
AT the Presidents reception on Tuesday
evening the marine band performed charm
ing piece, which elected the admiration of
all present 1t was a new national song,
entitled "God save our President" This
patriotic air, is from the pen of Francis De
IIaes Janvier, and the music was composed
by Professor Benkerk.
Iii said that there has been already paid
into the United States Treasury, in Wash
ington and in New York city, nearly one-ffth
of the new loan, although hardly sufficient
time has elapsed for the successful bidders at
a distance to be notified, officially, of the ac-
ceptance Of their bids.
The paragraph now going the rounds of
the press, attributing to Mrs. Kemble re-
marks of an ungracious character, addressed
to the committee of ladies from the Mount
| Vernon Association, who solicited from this
honored and accomplished gentlewoman &
series of Shaksperian readings, is without
foundation.
The storeship Eddystone of the Paraguay
expedition, went to sea from New York yes
terday. Among other things she carries out
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which would seem to indicate that little
land fighting is not considered impossible
She has also on board large amount of
stores, provisions, mails &c.
1t appears from the official report that
there are 1873 salaried Consuls, whose sala-
ries amount, for the year 1857, to S2jl ,544,
and the fees returned by them to nearly
Sill 900, leaving deficiency of $4,000 to
be paid from the Treasury There are about
go Consular officers paid by fees only.
Mr.. Preston, counsel for Peter Corrie, has
filed in the Baltimore County Court, a long
and in some respects a very extraordinary
motion for new trial of the case. Various
grounds are asserted for the motion, in which
the alleged conduct of one Of the jurors
figures conspicuously.
Bob Butt, the slave undertaken, of Ports
mouth Va, left Philadelphia for home on
Thursday. His attempt to raise sufficient
amount of money to purchase freedom for
himself and family proved unsuccessful
The legislators at Harrisburg contributed
freely, and quite sum was thus collected.
Charles Lever, the novelist, is appointed
British vice consul at Spezzia, celebrated for
three things: faultless climate, beautiful
women, and the gallantry which furnished
from Its small means sixteen vessels anu
two fire-shlps to the ureeK navy during the
| late revolution.
Little Mary Marsh, OF the Marsh Troupe
was so seriously burnt at Macon, Georgia
on the 9th inst, while performing before
an audience, that the physician despalrs OF
| her recovery, Mrs. Marsh and Miss Ge0r-
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