Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-04-21

or . convention shall be called to frame a on its admisibity, &c.
sutution preparatory to admission into the .luo nd =.
Union. appears to have attracted hut little lnuu, ooIv ,hrse oononla,s sms
h''ee IN Una. ie."'"s' we" HUI" '' graphs Of the sgners of the Decar
han$s nerala" ash hot M"r N NV NV. e "% m Independence. These belong to r
s saarss.s estimated at nearly or Mite twen. Sprague, of Albany, Rev. Dr. Rallies
ty thousand; in other words. no more than crpool. aud Il South Carolina gentle
one lin four o the qualified iectrs tn They we're completed by a curious
trouble to o to the pas" a Q neT s %hSa good luck. Some years since, each
is probable that the people have voted by a gsrla" M lacked 1s s%m ne 'H RE ;n ssT Vim
majority in favor ola Convention. Nowhere Ms e {" . re t%unI dn n ma tn ,es om
The New York correspondent of the Ma three receipts Of bills signed by this
tonal Inteligencr says:-"Some Of the NV a'a lu"..H at" u Pg nr.nnan ND D."
papers and politicians are feEciating them Dr. RaBes has his in a beautfuii
selve and the Secretary Of the Treasury on volume. and values Htalmost as he VI
the apparent prospect that the revenue from famous kohrnoor.
imports will in the absence Of any demand The Baltimore Exchange, speakin
ron me rst omce pepm par m "s um%m asseverations of their innocence, fire
.ssson NJ CONGRESS-. but thew seem to for made by convicted criminals, whilst
yet that a postponement of a debt is but an scaHild, says-"Onehalf of the CT
increase oftouble The next y@E will bring who are executed, die protesting the
forward it's own wants want but with NJ certain cen~. Some are led to this step by
The Superintendent of the Public Print to acknowledge the justice of their
ing has awarded to 4. r. Jewett, esq., of some T .! j sense sens" sI nra au q W
Buffalo, New York, the contract for engra- orinion Of surviving relatives and fri
wing the drawings for the Patent Office Re Others again, ares imulatedto such
psE' ss ISIS is, at sh sa' t Pc. contract pass fss sh IS S%e 9. a which, hSi at a t one s@d "a " on s"H ~ S%i
work in the Report Of the preceding iy yearI 'uaNy e1onsuhn.
sever hundred and sixty dollars on the same Vi rruas " an. s~ aw rA sr %~ = =
-" r..s the report that a woman, named
Ia Aer'uIui" Du"" been brumly murdered by her husba
States Patent Office are in receipt of a letter ~~hc. IS ,ho .;tzon. o.-.r,o
announcing the loss of eighteen barrels of "s',lom~ u,sheI ttbo house,
King Philip corn intended for seed. The 49, ~hono, .o ,arort us+ ,e
corn as shPPe p IRON n nhoh ~m. '% wreck .1 and the appearance Of the woma
nea Newport The office is consequently !" PORTION portion Of her face, bore unmi
unable. fol the present to supply any appt signs Of violence, presenting a brui
A letter from Fairfax County, says y arrs'e' ano P@0. ~ SAT- Keep"
1--WE have the most favorable accounts of Peter Romer, esq, a much esteem
the prospects of Mr. Thomas in Fauqmer, wealthy citizen Of Weseheter Count
Orange, Culpeper, and Spdsyvania. In York. committed suicide recently, by
F.uouer, his friends confidently claim 100 his throat with a razor. Whilst fee
majority. A very encouraging sign is the stock from the hay now Mr.. Rome
support promised him by som Democrats, not the ground, facurng his skull IN
only in those, but in ether counties in the wise seriously injurng himself A
district -- razor in the temporary absence of
The importation Of yellow fever cases at and daughter. and went into a gu
New York from Rio, has begun earlier than where he cut his throat lac e
usual Besides those cases entoueda few miued this az! DEAN M Il m % nave nave
days since, bark S. W Porter, which arrived f III '' "'
s N SG On O. , isee s1 lSf's March. SSs o. These he st srs On the 9Th of February, in return
ANAL things in their way, but they create a nv kindnesses of the inhabitants
great alarm among the Staten islanders' enis, the officers of the american p
Tho Commission which has been appoint squadron concluded Ito give them
ed by the Emperor ofJapan toe1change rat ball on board {" "e na'n' "a"
idcations of the new treaty with the United ship was beautifully ue''fa m' -" !" p
States, is already en- route for this country a splenaaa apPear aI ne ~ "
~ IT. -L.. = ,o N.v the province nt only honored the b
Of H the United States has been detached from his m ps,sn'F r. ~ r1 asnasnsau MS ~ %Hi
the Powhaan steamer, and will act as the much to the entertainment. The
to the Japanese mission. enarsted At about daylight every
A correspondent of the Richmond Enqur Pearing delighted .nart mr nS d"
rsr, under date of Orange c. H., April H. -
says "Sims is no longer a candidate fol a The controversy as @ the authorsh
i st in s the ,h n's sss s' TO D'' sEa.sif. Fl The Con- W. Es sssSf.S d. on ' ir the ss s"sp pa ra s re-
grssnonai contest TaAng. sa n.. I ha.. y new contribution in a letter on the
e"0fu Will 'ai, "e - N in the Caledonian Mercury from NJ
The Newark IN. j. Mercury says, 1.-The Page. Abiding to the report that
MANY friends of the Right Rev. Bishop Combe a the author OF the So n h :,
Doane will regret to learn that he is ying at u"d' snra r hercby aGm-and Il
Burlington dangerously sick. and that ears Of this affirmation lie before me fnA
Rev. Mr.. Johns, in Baltimore, still lies very o44ha ot Mr. Mr Robert Chambers is the
Lord Napier family, and Mr.. Erskine, Natural History Of Creation.
atache of the British Legation, left Wash The careo of the steamer Bahim
ing.on, on Monday afternoon, for Annapolis Gently raised and carried to Bati
where they will embark on the tn &C. cur cs"s On IL now nearly all taken out, but there
rec tl sun S4H a. oorEa1 farewell of Lord very little of it that will be OF any
Napier. some Z" tue w w" Nv ~
1t If reported ma" e Tic" n""" quantity of cigars ares ALE destroyed
steamer, Grand Admiral, will sail from e" the fruit, though there are some
York in May OF June next, and that her bull oranges which look as though utS
der, Mr. VIM. II. Webb, will visit Europe ut gooa. As 500" mm u 1 ss will be-
that time, to personally deliver the ship eo and II 10 runrosed the cost for th
the Russian government. rom her raising will be comparative
MI. Tahmadge, general suPer""" 4 duel took place last Wednesda
the New York police force, has rendered his inc nj New Orleans, between Mr.
resignation, which the commissioners of pe I;nscorh Of the firm of Wilson. L
lice accepted at nee, Is eApe: :u.a. i i / Co, of that city, and Mr.. Samuel
E1thni MaTen y" u p.p ~. ynnolntment of the firm of ". S. Donnel & Co.,
'P'" that CITY. The weapons used W
~. ,,Eoo If Cincinnati have been di@ INNS loaded with ball, distance fort
- j, h-,, in n suh persons After three shots were exchanged,
To- o arrest M oHns damage done say the killing Of
"a hey shall find with concealed weapons umdsT 90. ,razinr in ,e line of Oh
This order is given by the Mayor under the I;nscomb,so bullets, the parties
law Of the last Legislature, and which took cranI.
effect or the first Of the present month. >L..,
The Norfolk Day Book says the fruit crop of success to erect an Obsersatm!
in that region promises to be large, having new park in New York. tits also
suffered no damage from frost The frost, to erect a tower either at Sandy
in this section, has not been hurful as a. some convenient point, with a e.
at first supposed. - arm 50 connected by telegraph wires
n. rvo-o.,sl o,tn oueri in the New York Observatory that precisely a n"@
Ledger, is On the Financial Distress OF 1891 shant ~ ne. o. is the cantainso of We
which comes TO INT ""aus"h ""' "" Gtt their chr0nomeers, md thus, Of
n4l Aus of the Distress wast heoverwhelm' Mt 1901 each day after tell their long
ine DEBT of the country. -.:.~:ona e L.
- A Nebraska paper says that Slavery IS al bas a description of n banquet gv
-..av established in the Pixies Peak region Grand saloon of the new liohlde l.