Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-01-28
News of the Day.

1t is true that the second instalment for the
purchase of Fort Smelling. the sale of which
excited so much comment last session, has not
been paid. 1t was due in July but owing
to various causes, and perhaps materially to
the agitation in Congress, the property was
tors failed in the object oftheir combination.
Parties who claim to be well informed, assert
that abundant security is possessed by the
Government for the iulflment of the contract.
An interesting correspondence has taken
place in China between the American mis-
sionaries on the one part. and the L. 5. Com
missioner to China, Hon. VIM. B. Reed. on
the other. The missionaries acknowledge
with gratitude and high consideration, his
successful efforts in behalf of our common
Christianity. by procuring the insertion in
the treaty of a clause which provides for Il
full liberation Of the Christian religion
throughout that vast empire.
Gen. Paez landed at Cumana on the 18th
ultimo, somewhat improved in health. The
crew of the t. S. steamer Atlanta carried the
General to his house. an honor which the peo-
pie of Cumana wished to enjoy themselves
He arrived at Porto Cabelo on the 4th inst,
direct from Cumana, and left the next day
for Nalentia, still unable to walk.
AdviceS from Superintendent Ncighbors,
dated January 10th, confirm the account of
the murder of a party Of friendly Indians, by
a party of white men, near the Brazos agcn-
cy. on the 9th ult. Mr.. Neighbors dcs-
cribes this deed as one Of the most Improve
ked and atrocious Of which he had ever
heard
AT Leavenworth, Kansas, January %, a
second attempt, resulting in success, was
made to rescue the alleged fugitive slave
Charley, alias Peter Fisher. The door of the
room in which he was confined was cut down
and the rescuing party left the city with the
fugitive. The excitement was high, and 4
party had gone in pursuit.
1t would seem from the accounts that ex
tensve gold fields have been found in Ne
braska. not in Kansas, rs some of the papers
have claimed Mr.. John A. Parker. Jr., at
present Register Of the Land office at Omaha,
has specimens of the gold taken from the
mines in Nebraska. which are said to be much
finer than the gold of California or Australia.
The Newburyport Herald is Of the opin-
ion that the repeal of the fishing bounties, as
it is now proposed by Congress to do, will
result in the entire destruction of the Ameri-
can cod fishery. as it thinks We shall then be
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ty-paying nations.
Almost ingenious Instrumental Telegraph
ing, has been invented by DIR. $. X. Jackson,
of Leesburg. This instrument has been pro-
nouncedby scientific gentlemen of the North.
familiar with tclegraphing. L decided i'm
provement on all instruments of similar
character.
The practice of taking down sermons in
shorthand notes had reached such a height
in Frankfort that the CCnsistories both Of the
Calvinistic and the Lutheran bodies have
thought it necessary to prohibit 1t for the
future. "The church. says the ordinance,
'.is not lecture room, but q house of pray
err"
VIM A. Cooke, esq, has sent thirty copies
of his Constitutional History Of the United
States" to Mr. Everett, as q donation to the
Mount Vernon fund. Mr.. Cooke invites the
various authors in the United States to join
him in this mode of weaving 4 literary
wreaths to deck the tomb of the father Of
his country"
The celebrated trotting horse Blue Dick,
died in Philadelphia on Sunday evening"
His death resulted from the effects of injuries
received on Tuesday last, by coming in con-
tact with furniture car. lie was splen-
did specimen of his race, and his skeleton
will be preserved in the museum Of the Amer
lean Veterinary College.
Mr.. Jonathan Gillespie, a worthy and re-
spected citizen of Prince Georges county,
Nd, much esteemed for his many excellen-
cies of character, died on Tuesday last, in
the Baltimore Infrmary, whittier he had been
carried for medical treatment.
1t appears from the New Orleans Picayunc
that Thomas Connery. who was arrested there
on the 10Th inst, for killing his brother John,
in Baltimore, was pointed out on the street to
Lieut.. Dryden, of the police, by Mr.. Alexan-
der f. Kalkman, Baltimorean.
The ship Louisa, Capt. Montague, was lost
on the LIST inst, on the Isle of Pines. She
was bound from Marseilles for New Orleans,
having left the former place on the 4th of
November 1t is reported that all on board
the unfortunate vessel were rescued.
The cost of the coast survey for the thir-
teen years ending with 1856 was So, = 10000;
and for half of the year 1857 S2jS, 900, max
ing a total, added to the facilities furnished
by the navy, of 4,247 900.
Eliazer +. Backus, esq, formerly and for
many years engaged in the publishing and
book trade at Albany, n. Y, died on Sa-
turday last, in Philadelphia, whittier he re-
moved about twenty years ago.
A company boring for coal, near Newcas-
tie, Pa, have reached depth of l65 feet,
and are now going through a stratum of
sandstone rock They are determined to 60
200 OF 225 feet before giving it up.
At Honesdale, Pa. Jan. p, young man
named George W. Wilson committed suicide
by shooting himself with pistol. The rea-
son assigned for the act is disappointment in
love.