Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-07-15
News Of the Day.
"7b .hop the uery age and body Of the TINES


tested with spirit equally determined.
Our readers in this quarter remember the
visit of the Seventh Regiment of New York
to Richmond last summer. 1t is reported
that the accomplished commander. Colonel
Abram Duryee. has rendered his resignation;
and that, should he not be induced ~ change
his mind, the choice of his successor will
probably lie between Col Marshall Lefferts
and Capt Shumwsy. of the 9Th company
The United States Bureau Of Indian Al
fairs ia in receipt Of intelligence from Utah
of date June 10th. Superintendent Eorney
writes that he has recovered another OF the
children saved from the Mountain Meadows
massacre, thus making seventeen children
now in his charge. He is unable to inform
the Denartment when the children will start
for the East.
The great New England Trade Sale at
auction commenced in Boston yesterday
The programme for the day embraces boots
and shoes, glassware and carriages. Mer-
chants are present from every State in the
Union; the hotels are crowded. A steam
DOhI tXcuThtOu uON VIC hutboi, ouu os"c'
social Inequalities, were rendered to strsng-
ers by the city authorities.
At Baltimore. Oh Tuesday evening" about
eight o'clock, young man named VIM. W.
Taylor, was brutality murdered ON the pave
ment at the corner of Henrietta and Light
streets, by two men named George Burke
and Thomas Eaton. Eaton was arrested
about one hour after the occurrence, and
Capt. Woods, with number of men, are
engaged in searching for Burke. Burke
and Eaton are both members of the Tiger
Club" Taylor was from Accomac County,
Virginia, where his parents reside tie
was twenty-six years of age, and shoema-
ker by trade After he was shot he was
carried to his boarding house, where he died
in u few minutes.
At the Fourth of July celebration in Iron
ton, Missouri, Capt John Hall, one Of Ma
rion's men, was present. He ia native of
North Carolina, and will be ~ years Of age
on the 2lst Of September next. He supports
himself by making brooms and baskets, ana
has never received pension. Though he
fought calamity during the Revolutionary
war, and distinguished himself at the battle
of Guilford Court House, N. c., March 18th,
1881, where he was lieutenant OF q COM
pany.
The hail storm which passed over por-
ton of Spaldings and Piscataway districts,
in Prince Georges County, Md, on We'd
nesday week, followed Tinker's Run for
some distance, and passed through Piscata-
| ~, rharIos Ennnfv The
wheat crop of Mr.. VIM. Lyles, (of Thos.
which had been felled, was almost entirely
destroyed-poultry in large numbers was
killed, and the crops generally greatly
damaged.
The Convention Of Young Mems Chris
tian Associations, commenced its session al
Troy. on Wednesday, 18th inst, at P. NJ
1t was expected that delegates representing
at least twenty States of the Union would be
present, and there were already represents
tiyes from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and
Dublin Associations. Richmond, Va, sends
nineteen delegates. Other large cities viii
send delegations,
As Chairman of the State Central Commit
tee of the Pennsylvania Douglas Democracy
Forney has just issued long address, IN
which he arraigns the Administration for it
sins of omission and commission and deal'
MANY severe blows upon the National De
moracy." He calls these Douglas Democrats
the State Rights Democracy of Pennsylvania
DR.. VIM. 5. Woodside, whose failing health
has, for some time past, prepared his friends
for fatal result, died ON Wednesday morn
ing at his residence in Baltimore. DIR. W
was, for many years, connected with tht
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad-st one time
as Master of Transportation, and both be
fore and after his retirement from that posi-
ton, rs Paymaster.
Hon. Thomas Corwin (says the Cincin
natl Commercially was serenaded at TIT
American House, Indianapolis. on Wednes
dsy night, aud made speech an hour II
length. lie disavoved his cOnnexion will
any party, and appealed to his hearers to eman
cipate themselves from party tr"mmels.
The Wisconsin Methodist Conference hal
expelled Rev. j. w. Wood. for what they
called scriptural adultery, which consists in
marrying a second wife while the first is liv
ing, from which he was legally divorced, bu
not for the reason for which the Bible allow
divorce.
Williams, the man who chased W.
Land in the woods, was charged on Saturday
BY some workmen on the kempsville Canal
with Intentionally allowing his prisoner t.
run away, and denying the accusation IL
strong language, he was attacked and Sc
verely beaten.
James Banker, of Philadelphia, arrived a
Harrisburg, Pa. yesterday. bringing witt
him his little daughter, aged ten years, who
was placed in the State Lunatic Asylum.
The child was very intelligent one, but it,
close application to study threw it into tits
and resulted in destroying the mind.
The Young Mems Christian Association
for Loudoun County" recently established
in Leesburg, Va. is prospecting. The Asso
citation was addressed on Monday evening
last, by the Rev John Landstreet, of the NJ
L. Church.
BALTIMORE AND OHIo RAILRoAD.-At TIT
regular monthly meeting Of the Board hele
on Wednesday, the following report wa
Al 81 h.