Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-09-03
News Of the Day.
"To show the rery age and body Of the TINE.


Cullen, the president of the Reading Railroad
Company, has consented to enter into an ar
rangemeut by which in few days through
passenger and freight trains will be running
over his Lebanon Valley Branch, and East
Pennsylvania Railroad, from Jersey city and
Elizabethport to all the points in the West
and Southwest. This is new route and
certainly very important oneto New York.
A fire at Brooklyn, n. V, on Wednesday,
destroyed the cordage factory of Lawrence
& Waterbury. The works were making up
an average of $50 bales of Manila week,
besides Russia and Kentucky hemp. BY
this fire over 80 men, boys and girls are
thrown out of employment. The loss Is es-
t.mated at from $4,000 to SlOO,OOO, on
which there is an insurance of about 60 per
cent. The fire originated from spontaneous
combustion.
A letter in the Richmond Dispatch from
Lynchburg, Va, says:-"There are FIVE to-
bacco warehouses in this city, in which are
stored two thousand five hundred hogsheads
of tobacco, weighing in the aggregate up
wards of two million five hundred thousand
pounds! In addition to this, there are large
quantities of loose tobacco piled in the diff
ferent warehouses, which would make quite
an accession to the above aggregate"
The Department Of State has received in
formation that, through the exertions of our
minister at Rome, Mr.. Stockton, the Roman
government has paid TO Mr.. Perkins and his
party three thousand three hundred dollars
in full compensation for the injuries they
suffered from the soldiers during the re-
cent commotion at Perugia. Mr.. Perkins il
fully satisfied with the arrangement.
Ex-Mayor Wood, Of New York, has au-
thorized the New York News to state emf
phatcaly to all concerned that MIR. Wood,
if he lives, will be the Democratic candidate
for Mayor of New York, next December"
and to add that there is no compromise, and
that could induce him to swervc from this
purpose.
Lately, an English lawyer succeeded in
proving his innocence of II crime for which
he had been sent to the penal settlement,
publicly whipped, and kept for some time
in chains He spent S5U,IWO in litigation,
in proving himself the victim of foul con-
spiracy. aud has been awarded by Parla-
ment, S25, 900 rs L settlement of the matter.
Rather tardy and cruel justice.
Two little children, Alice and Mary Welsh,
aged respectively nine and twelve years, ar
rived at Hannibal, Missouri, day or two
ago, having accomplished the whole journey
from Ireland. without any other protection
than their helplessness and their own brave
hearts. Their father had preceded them by
Il year or more.
The famous Empire Club" of New
York, which did so much to help elect "Polk
and Dallas" but which has been out Of ex-
istence the few years past, is re-galvanized.
Captain Rynders is not to be com mander, az
of yore, but James Irving, esq, gentleman
not unknown to fame, in pugilistic as well
as political circles.
A Baltimore bully, giving the euphonious
name Spruel, has got himself into trouble at
Norfolk, by entering a public house, and,
BIZ way of amusement, knocking down the
inmates and smashing things generally
lie was, however, promptly arrested, and IN
default Of $500 bail, committed by Mayor
Ferguson to Jail.
A fast young widow giving her name as
Isabella White, on Monday night figured in
the front seats of the dress circle at Wal
lacks Theatre, in New York, as gay rep
resentative of the opposite sex, for which
she was reprimanded by the mayor-havlng
spent the intervening time in cell IN the
Fourteenth ward station house. She pro-
missed never to do so again.
The New York Herald learns that the
mammoth steamer Great Eastern has been
chartered by Mr.. Lever, and is expected to
leave Galway about the middle OF the present
month for New York. She will call oft ST..
Johns, to land dispatches, mails and passen-
gers.
A man named Mulholland has been ar
rested in New York, on suspicion of being
concerned in the murder of the late Mike
Walsh He was seen to follow MIR. Walsh
on the night Of the murder. and in few
DAYS thereafter went to Kansas, from whence
he has just returned.
A full company of young Creole Zouaves
is now drilling in New Orleans, under lieu
tenant who served throughout the Crimean
war. 1t is styled the first company OF
Chasseurs Pied, de la Louisiune. The drill
is very severe, including gymnastlc as well as
military exercises.
F. p. Brigham, the wife poisoner in Nor
walk, has gone to Cuba, and the case has
been continued by Judge McCurdy to the
next term of the Supreme Court, to give
Bricham's uncle-who is responsible for his
appearance in $1,000 bonds-time to get
him again into custody if possible.
An attempt is being made at the Liver
pool Hibernian Schools to instruct the
girls in that most important OF female du-
ties, domestic cookery, and we are glad to
learn from the annual report Just issued
that the experiment is successful.
Our exchanges from the East and from
the West, from points as far north as To-
ronto. as far west as Cincinnati and Louis
Vile. contain more or less glowing descrip-
tons of the aurora borealis, or magnetic
storm, Of Sunday night.
Ex-President Tyler gave reception to
his friends last week, and Villa Margaret
! 5000 oll po;nt ,ros tbrnnged Mr. Justice