Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-01-31
MIX ANDRA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1859

At the Madeline, in Paris, on Christmas
Eve the well-known Able Bautan preached
in the evening, and as he is one Of the most
eloquent pull pit orators, as well as one OF the
most learned thcologians of France, Il very
large congregation assembled to hear him.
Ascending the pulpit, he gave forth NJ text,
but after a pause cried in sonOrous voice,
a Saviour is born unto u.s." He then re-
peated the cry and then said: "My brethren
why do YOU not receive that glad udings
with an Halleluiah?" Thcreupon the whole
congregation stood up and cried 'Hallelu-
jah!' After which he proceeded to deliver
his sermon.
Joanna Murphy, one of the servant girls
in the employ Of the Gouldy family, in New
York, at the time of the attempted butchery
of the family by young Gouldy, had an opera
ton performed on her last week, at the City
Hospital. She was discharged from the Hos
pitaf as cured about Il month ago; a few days
since. having IL relapse, she was again admit
ted. a number of detached fragments OF
the skull, which pressed upon the brain, and
which produced the relapse, were removed.
1t is believed that she will now entirely re-
cover.
On Tuesday evening last, as the Sheriff OF
Cattaragus county N. y was conveying
prisoner to Auburn, the man sprang from
the train near Pittsburg, when going at full
speed His legs were shacklcd, and as he
struck the ground he turned Il complete som
erset backward, striking his head upon one OF
the timbers in cattle-guard, over which the
! car happened to be passing at the moment,
and fell upon his face lifeless.
The emigration Of respectable Chinese to
the gold fields of California and Australia APP
pears to be about 10000 per annum. Many
of them return again, and American vessels
receive good share of passage money. But
this trade so far as California is concerned,
will hereafter be cut off, for by law, the mas
ter of a vessel is subject to a fine Ot SOOO,
for every Chinese brought by him into that
State.
On Wednesday night the police of Boston
visited Tammany Hall, in Portland street,
and broke up cock fight in progress be-
tween parties Of New York and Boston, for
! five hundred dollars a side. Several Of the
principals to the match were arrested, and
about two hundred spectators scattered IN
haste The eight persons arrested have been
| held to bail in 5000 each for examination
at a future day.
! The whole Southern Press are complain
ing of the failures and irregularities of the
mails. The New Orleans and Mobile papers
are particularly savage, and insist that the
| fault should be corrected at once. SO far
as the New Orleans and Mobile papers are
concerned, we have the same complaint to
make.
| Two "camphene" accidents have recently
occurred, one at Buffalo and one at Syracuse.
In the former three persons were severely
burned. The lamp exploded while held in
| the ordinary way by IL lady. In the SYRIA
cuse case the accident, from which death
must ensue, occurred by careleSsly attempt
ing to light fire from a camphenc can.
During the past year Lynn, has manufac-
tured more than l6, 100000, pairs Of shoes
The shoe business of Massachusetts is valued
at $40, O0OO year. and onc-half the shoes
made in that State are manufactured in Lynn:
so the thriving city Of Lynn annually manu-
features 800, 100000 worth of shoes.
Arizona has suddenly become the Mecca
of aspiring spectators. The late discove-
ries of silver deposits Of startling richness.
and even of the old furnaces Of the Spanish
mines, have given wild impetus to enter
prize in the direction Of the Gulf of Cali
fornia.