Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-31
News Of the Day.
"7o sho~ the rery age and body Of the TIMES.

OTeSon anu asnlnStOn lerrltOry military
department, that General Harvey has order
ed detachment of United States troops to
take possession of the island of San Juan
and establish there military post. The
right Of ownership to this and other islands
is in dispute between the British and the
American governments. Gen. Harvey, it is
to be presumed, acts under instructions from
the administration.
Col. Fremont (says the Mariposa Gazette
is at last to some extent, out of trouble, as
we are happy to know. He has settled his
principal matters of difficulty and is out of
the hands of the Sabeans and pawn-breaking
capitalists. He has means to 90 on with his
improvements, and will build Il new quartz
mill upon the MERGED river, for which he has
ample water-powcr. His mills now run
ming are yielding very handsomely, as we
are informed.
1t is the custom for many parents to take
their entire family to camp-mecting, and to
prevent confusion, the little people nave
tickets pinned to their dresses, with the
number of the tent they occupy written
thereon. At the recent camp-meeting at
Martha's Vineyard, a bright little lad was
was ticketed thus: Tent No. lido not
give this boy any candy
As the Great Eastern" steamship is an
nounced to sail in October, unusual interest
deep. If the calculation that she can make
twenty miles an hour be correct, then she
will pass over the 2,736 miles of wave in six
or eight days. She can carry several thou
sand passengers, and will no doubt be crow
ded TO her fullest capacity.
The Clarksburg Register says: I'VE are
informed that the notes struck for the
bank of Weston, never passed into the hands
of the cashier and directors, but were re-
tanned by the President Mr.. Fuller, who
was entrusted with them to take to the bank
and by him put in circulation. The CON
duet of this model bank officer is severely
censured by the people of Weston.
The late rains have extended over large
portion of New England, and greatly revi-
we'd vegetation. The corn crop, it is stated,
will he good one unless there should be
hard frost during the first week in Septem-
Der. In Western New York the fall crops
have also been greatly benefited Copious
rains have lately fallen also i'll most of the
Southern States.
Commodore Charles Stewart, the senior
captain of the American navy, and one Of
the most ilustrious of its commanders, has
returned from his European tour. The ven
cradle captain, with all the weight of eighty
wears upon his brow, looks as active and ~
brave as when he trod the decks of tho Old
Constitution, nearly fifty years ago.
VIM. l.. Morgan, of Pottsville, Warren
county, Indiana. says that seed from the but
end of an ear of corn will ripen its product
all at the same time, and some three weeks
earlier than seed from the little end of the
same ear. lie recommends farmers always
to break their seed corn ears III two i'll the
middle, and Use the ends only for seed.
A rumor prevailed in Philadelphia on
Monday evening to the effect that the United
States frigate Congress, which sailed on the
18th instant, had gone down with all on board.
1t seems to have originated ut the Navy Yard
but it was impossible to trace it to any def
nate reliable source. The rumor caused much
anxiety among the friends of the crew.
The handsomest dining-room floor in the
United States has recently been laid at the
ladies' ordinary at the American House,
Boston. 1t is an inlaid mosaic floor, COM
posed of 5000 pieces of wood of four differ
ent growths-mahogany rosewood, black
walnut and white oak, artistically arranged
in magnificent figures.
The magnetic telegraph has been extern
ded to Atchison, on the Missouri river, and
is still on its way westward. From the Pa
ciGc side the work is extending to Salt Lake
city. 1t will probably not be very long be-
fore the two will be made to unite, and give
complete Geographic connection from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
1t appears, from the official reports by
Professors Torrey and Chiffon, that the bad
taste of the Croton water is caused by the
presence of minute aquatic green plant,
which is perfectly harmless. The whole
someness of the water has not been impaired
in the least.
As yet not a single authenticated case of
yellow fever has occurred in New Orleans.
The Delta says-"We doubt if it can be
said of any previous summer for the last for.
ty years. that the twentieth of August has
arrived without a single symptom OF the
presence of this pestilence."
The New Orleans Delta says that Bob
Harlan, the colored man who accompanied
Mr.. Ten Brock to England, and is one of
the best race managers in the United States,
won $50. 900 on the recent successes of the
American horses.
A private letter announces the arrival ut
FaYal, July Is, ofthe bark Azore, Capt. Parke,
from Boston, with tho contributions of our
citizens for the destitute of the Azorc Islands.
The arrival was hailed with lively demon
STATIONS of gratitude.
4 man by the name Of Downs, having
been run over by a fire engine at Nashville,
Tenn, while on the way to a fire, was SO
Injured that he instituted n suit and recuv-
cred 81, 900 damages. The money not hav-
ing been paid, the engine and apparatus
have been levied on.
Mrs. Catherine Sammis, mother-ln-law OF
the late Mike Walsh, died on Sunday, from
the effects of burns accidentally received on
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