Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-26
Through the instrumentali,y of II. II.

tation company has been formed for the trade
of the Sounds and tributaries of North Caro-
lima, by the Albemarlc and Chesapeake ga
nal. About the first of October, three
steamers and several barges, numbering T.
500 tons, will lie put upon the line between
Norfolk city and the various shipping points
ON Pimlico and Albemarle Sounds. At Nor
folk produce will be re-shpped by new pack
ct lines to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York, Boston, &c.
On Tuesday evening, two men named
Willis and Atkins, were arrested in New
York, charged with circulating new coun-
terfeit so notes on the Naraganset Bank OF
Rhode Island, and the Bank Of Commerce,
of Baltimore. The bill on the latter bank
is described as well executed. The yignette
is a ship under full sail, with female head
on right and male head on lett. 1t Is
signed james W. Num-" President; Geo.
Miller, Cashier.
The Gloucester Mass Telegraph says
that an unusual case of sickness is now in
the hands of DR.. Haskell. of Rockport. A
boy, about five years of age, son OF MIR.
Eben knowlton, has contracted the disease
of CHAMBERS by climbing in the stall here
horse affected with the disease had been
kept. although it was not known at the time
that the horse was affected Cases OF this
kind are very rare, and most generally have
proved fatal.
The Memphis Argus says that copy of
the Petersburg, (Ea.) lntellisencer OF 1916,
has lately been brought to light. 1t con-
tans the report of dinner given in Nash
vile, Tennessee, to Col. Aaron Burr. Late
Vice President of the United States" Gen.
Jackson was present, and gave is sentl-
ment, millions for defence, not one cent
for tribute" Col Burr having retired
from the room" toast was proposed IN his
honor by Gen. Ovcrton.
The Martinsburg Gazette says:--"Our
town within the last few days has been flooded
with counterfeits--an particularly with
counterfeit coin-that which represents the
gold dollar is 80 well executed that it requires
some discrimination to distinguish it from
the genuine coin A man by the name of
Porter, who halls from Sharpsburg Md, was
arrested on Monday last, ON charge Of
passing counterfeit money, and Is now III
Jail awaiting further trial.
The late Col. Thorn, of New York, in his
will, makes his widow, Mrs. Jane Mary
Thorn, executrix, and his son, Eugene
Thorn, and Mr.. John B. Stevens, executors.
His real estate, &c, is valued at u million OF
dollars, all of which goes to the family and
near relatives No charitable requests are
made, and the only bequest out Of the family
is 900 to Timothy Doyle, the head waiter
Of the testator.
A letter from Raleigh, North Carolina,
dated August 10Th, says that about noon on
that day q son of the Hon. Kenneth Rayner,
u fine, promising youth, about thirteen years
old, was hunting with shotgun, in com
pany with his brother, several years youn-
ger than himself The gun went of acct
dentally, the whole load passing through
the head of the elder, and producing instant
DEATH
The first white child born in Cincinnati
is, and has for long time, been citizen
of Pittsfeld, III. Mrs. Nancy Heath was
born at Columbia, now known as Cincinna-
ii, on the first day of January, lI9l. She
often heard her father say that she was the
first white child born there, and that the
guns of the fort were fired, drums beat, and
. general rejoicing had over the event.
The Grand Commander of the Lodge Of
Malta, in Water1liet n. y, has received an
official notice of the expulsion of the Hon.
ID. f. Sickles from the order. 1t is said
that the gravest charge preferred against
Sckles, and which led to his expulsion, was
the killing of Key, who, at the time Of his
death, was the c. X. }. 4. of the Washing
ton Lodge.
A young man named John Henry klmball
was recently arrested in San Francisco on
charge of vagrancy. In 1850 (says the Atlas
of the oath ultimo) this same man, now lying
in the city prison as All idle yagabond, was
possessed of property valued at s2oVooo, the
owner of real estate, houses lands. and mer-
chandise in the city, and quartz lead IN
Nolcanovillc which yielded richly.
The proposed new State, to be called JET
ferson, will contain an area of l29 Cos square
miles, within the following boundary lines
and distances From p to rs degrees north
lattude-4I7 miles. From l02 10 ITO de-
grees west longitude on the south line-3229
and one-ffth miles. From lO2 to ITO de
grees ON the north line-3lO miles aud
fraction. Area, l29, 6GS square miles.
The London Medical Times sounds out
the unwelcome note that the Cholera has
again made its appearance in England. 1t
has been transmitted, rs usual, from Ham
burg. The quarantine surgeon has been
empowered to board Hamburg vessels Mt
Gravesend, and to remove all suspicious
cases to the Drcadnought. Similar ihstruc-
tons have been sent to other ports.
The preparations for the Fair OF the Ma
tional Agricultural Society at Chicago, IN
September, are progressing upon large
scale-45 acres being inclosed, and IA cat
tie pens to be built, and 22S pens for SWINE
and sheep, which, with the ten buildings to
be erected, it is estimated will take seven or
eight hundred thousand feet of lumber
The Atlanta Intelligencer learns from
COMPTROLLER Thweatt, that the digcsts OF one
hundred and twelve counties i'll Georgia, re-
turned to his Office show an increase OF the
taxable property Of the State, for the past
year, of fifty millions Of dollars, IN the