Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-10
News Of the Day.
To shoW the rery age and badly Of the TINES.

10 shoo the rery age dndbody OF the TINES
At meeting Of the members of the State
Agricultural Society held in Petersburg, on
Wednesday, it was resolved "that COM
mittee Of five be appointed by the President
of this meeting to memorabilia the General
Assembly of Virginia to pass law requir-
ing the Commissioners of the Revenue to
take annually the agricultural statistics of
the Commonwealth"
Those timd folks whom Father Miller and
his followers have frightened by proclaiming
that the end Of all things is at hand. may
now calm their fears, for scientific French
philosopher-M. Victor Meunjet-has just
discovered that this old world of ours is not
to be destroyed until six thousand and
two hundred years have rolled away. The
Millerites may safely hang up their 'ascen-
sion robes"
DIR. Hayes, who accompanied the lament
ed Kane to the Arctic region in 1853, pro-
poses to undertake another expedition in the
same direction, through Baffin's Bay and
Smiths Sound, for the purpose Of navigat-
ing, if possible, the open Polar Sea which
Dr. Kane discovered lying north Of the high
est latitude reached by him in 1855.
II is stated that Mr.. Jarrett, the democratic
candidate for Comptroller of the Treasury Of
| Maryland, has determined to contest the
seat of the Hon. VIM. III. Purnell, immedi
ately on the assembling of the Legislature,
on the ground that the election OF the latter
was effected through fraud and violence in
Baltimore.
The Independent Democrat of Charles
town, Jefferson County, Va, says:-A wo-
man by the name of Mrs Il. b. Spring, ac-
companied by her son, mailing from Eagles.
wood, New Jersey, arrived here on Saturday
last, and requested the privilege of being
allowed to act as the nurse to Brown and his
confederates in prison. The request was
very properly denied by the sheriff, he be-
ing of the opinion that the health of Brown
Il Co. was sufficiently cared for ut the pre-
sent for all practical purposes.
Mr.. Ten Brock has lately been unlucky
on the English turf. Three of his horses
took part i'll as many races on the Cambridge
shire day of the Newmarket meeting. Po-
mona came in sixth at the first race; Prioress
was fourth in the race for the Cambridge
shire stakes, and Starke was fourth in an
other race. in which five horses ran.
A golden eagle was killed last week on
the Lower St. Lawrence, and brought to
Quebec, which was shot while endeavorng
to carry off child about three years of age.
This is the only bird in America that will
attack the human species. They breed in
the North, following ut this season the birds
and animals that seek milder climate.
One of Daboll's air whistles has lately
been put upon the lighthouse at New Lon
don. 1t is blown by condensed air instead
of steam, blasts being given four times a
minute in tcggy weather. The apparatus Is
worked by one Of Ericsson calurc engines,
and the whole expense for fuel is only one
cent per hour
The recent lIarpers Ferry affair has call
ed out letter from General Wool, in which
he comments upon the folly Of leaving the
armores without military protection. He
considers such neglect AZ little less than an
invitation to evil disposed persons to supply
themselves with United States arms.
A correspondent of the Boston Traveller
says that Louis Napoleon, it is rnmored, has
recently had another and most violent at
tack of that nervous dsarrangement which
has been SO frequently spoken Of, and which,
it is feared, will, sooner or later, make HIM
confirmed maniac.
The appropriation for carrying on the Artc-
sian Well at Columbus, Ohio has been ex-
hausted, and the work has stopped nntnlsh-
ed. The we'll is already two thousand three
hundred and forty feet deep, being four feet
deeper than the deepest well of the kind
heretofore existing in the world
The Free Lovers have emigrated from Cal
ifornia to San Salvador, where they have
purchased tract of some fifty thousand
acres of good arabic land at twelve and a
half cents per acre. Here they expect TO
disseminate their disgusting practices unmo-
Tested.
James NJ. Matthews, esq, of Tappahan-
mock, was thrown from his buggy on Mon
day week as he was returning from Middle
sex Court lie was injured painfully but
not dangerously.
The salary of the Clerk Of the House of
Delegates of Virginia, is $1,000 per annum
There are said to be several candidates for
the post.
A man has arrested and confined in Jail
in Lynchburg, suspected of having had
something to do with Browns schemes. He
gives his name as Edward Mafit.
Hon. j. Holt, Postmaster General, has re-
turned to Washington from his recent visit
to Charleston, S, g., and resumed the official
duties Of his position.
Yesterday numerous German associations
in every part of our country, celebrated the
centenary of the birth Of Schiller, the great
est Of German poets.
Prison Etiquette,