Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-09-08
News of the Day.
"76 shop tie rery age and body Of the TINES.

Hon. John j. Crittenden, of Kentucky, is
in Minnesota. At st. Paul he was serena.
ded last week, and responded in speech, in
which he claimed Kentucky as a Western
State and saved the Union" He started
for Lake Minnetonka, where he and his
party intend to try camp life, fishing, hunt.
ing and sailing They will then make q
tour of Southern Minnesota.
The Salem Mass Register says, the Web
ster statue in front of the State House, will
be inaugurated on the afternoon Of the 18th
ofSeptember. Mayor Lincoln, representing
the city, will place it in the custody of the
State, Gov. Banks receiving it. Brief ad'
dresses will be delivered, and MIR. Everett
will then pronounce his Grafton on Webster.
A serious ARRAY took place on Monday
between the officers and crew of the ship
Mayfower, lying at Brooklyn. During the
melee Charles Neybold, one of the sailors
was MORALLY wounded in the back with a
marlinespike in the hands of James kirwin,
third mate of the ship. Neybold was taken
to the city hospital, where he is still alive,
but no hopes are entertained of his recovery.
Kirwin was arrested, as also ten of the sailors
for assault upon their officers.
The new suspension bridge now in course
of erection over the Ohio, at Wheeling, will
have span Of over one thousand feet. 1t
will be composed of four new cables, two on
each side, each cable being seven and three
eighths inches in diameter, and containing
sixteen hundred and eighty strands Of wire,
making single strand of 9,273, 600 feet, or
seventeen hundred and forty-fve miles in
length. The estimated cost of finishing and
completing the whole structure is S37, 600.
Rev. w. A. Bartlett, of the Tabernacle,
in New York, after brief sojourn in the
Franconia region OF the White Mountains,
assumed his pulpit, when he discovered the
text Bring We now of the fish which ye
have caught" which was quite appropriate,
inasmuch as the last Sabbath previous to
his departure it is said, he preached upon
the words 81 go u fishing"
Last Thursday night the police of Chica-
60, ILL.,, made descent upon gambling
den, said to be kept by Walter Winchester,
and succeeded in capturing sixteen of the
fraternity, most of whom were from distant
cities, New York, Buffalo, st. Louis, &C.
A large amount of gambling tools was also
captured.
The cornerstone of st. Peters (Catholic)
Church in Brooklyn, N. Y, was laid on
Tuesday afternoon in the presence Of TWEEN
ty thousand spectators. The site will oc-
cupy fourteen lots at the corner of Hicks and
Warren streets, Brooklyn. Bishop Lough-
lin, assisted by six clergymen, officiated.
The Rev. DR.. Rowland, of the Park Pres
byterian church, Newark, n. j., died at Bos-
ton on Sunday, in the 56th year of his age.
DR.. Rowland was the son Of the Rev. Henry
Rowland of Windsor, Conn. lie graduated
at Yale College. and was at one time pastor
of church at Fayetteville, North Carolina.
The United States storeship Supply, Com
mander Henry Walker, left the navy yard,
New York, on Saturday, and proceeded to
quarantine, where she anchored. She is
bound to Loando, coast of Africa, for the
purpose OF establishing new store depot for
the use of the squadron.
The New Orleans Bulletin objects to being
mentioned with the New York Herald, as an
advocate of General Houston's pretentions
for the Presidency. 1t has no appetite for
President-making, and don't like the COM
pany in which it is placed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Byrnes, female physi-
clan in New York, has been arrested, TO-.
gether with her assistant Mary Smith, for
alleged malpractice in the case of woman
named Mary G.. Bisher, who died at her e.
tablishment on Saturday evening.
Madam Anna Bishop, who appeared here
some FIVE or seven years ago in opera and
concert has returned to this country, where
she intends again appearing in opera and
concert, looking as beautiful "a ever, and
report says in better voice than before.
Mrs. Harriet Porter, well known public
spiritual medium, died on Sunday, in New
York, of consumption. She had for several
months suffered from that disease, and it is
believed that it was brought on by her fire.
quently going into the trance state.
The man who crossed the Genessee river,
at Port Genesee. on Friday, on rope, fell
ingloriously into the river on his first trial
He made second attempt and managed to
cross and return in safety.
The Fredericksburg News says-W. M.
Mitchell, esq.,, has sold his tract of land, ssl
acres, ner Col Morgan's Gold Mine, to Mr..
Uhler, of Baltimore, at S74 an acre and SlO,-
900 worth Of gold, when found.
On Tuesday, John Stauter, an aged, veal
thy and we'll known citizen of Baltimore,
committed suicide by hanging himself in
his chamber to his bed post, with clothes
line.
The Raleigh IN. CO. standard says that
Rev. F. L. Hawks, D. D., has declined the
Professorship of History recently rendered
him bv the Trustees of the University of
North Carolina.
The citizens of Natchez are discussing the
advantages of a railroad connecting the Mis-
sissippi river at that point with the New
Orleans, jackson, and great Northern rail-
road.
The whole value of stamps and stamped
envelopes in the hands of the public, un-
cancelled at the date of the auditing of the
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