Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-18
In announcing the death of Mr.. Henry j.
Mason, of Maryland, the Lavaca, Texas

In announcing the death of Mr.. Henry j.
Mason, of Maryland, the Lavaca, (Texasa
Herald says: AT an early day he entered as
a midshipman in the Navy Of the Republic
of Texas, in which capacity he served in the
sanguinary struggle of his adopted country
for liberty, with courage and gallantry, and
his conduct won for him the highest encomi-
ums of the brave commanders under whom
he served in the glorious cause. After being
honorably discharged from the service. he
located with his family in the city of New
Orleans, where he remained until the year
1853, when he returned to Texas"
Since the discovery Of gold in California,
a large trade in oranges has sprung up be-
tween that country and the Society Islands.
About five million oranges are annually ex-
ported for which about s. so per thousand is
paid, delivered on board ship. The fruit
grows luxuriantly in every direction. The
natives formerly made an intoxicating liquor
called orange rum, from it. The orange sea-
son commences in February and ends in
September, during which time the trees may
be seen at once in the various stages Of bios
soming green and half yellow, and ripe
fruit.
DR.. S. q. Howe, the Boston abolitlonist,
whose name has recently been brought pro-
mnently before the public in John Browns
and Col Forbes correspondence, has writ
ten letter to the Boston Atlas, in which he
intimates that he will initiate the example
of his friend Fred. Douglas, and 60 abroad
for sympathy and safety.
An Abolitionist, calling himself I. A.
Salvo, was taken up ut Bamberg, South Cart
Ina, on the 10th inst, for being too free in
the expression of his opinions, and his head
feathers applied to him: he was then TO de on
a rail beyond the limits Of the village.
Florida and Louisiana have less eleva-
ton above the sea than any of the other States
of the Union. A considerable portion of
Louisiana is less than hundred feet above
tide water and no part Of the State has an
elevation of more than FIVE hundred feet
above the sea.
A legal controversy, now in progress in
Cincinnati, has developed banking church.
IL Is the herman Lutheran SnuTcu On Elm
street. above Twelfth The deposits reached
$50 ,0O0 when the Treasurer got his accounts
30 mixed up that nobody knows what became
of the money.
A train of returned Peakers at st. Joseph,
brought with them large quantity Of butfa-
10 meat, jerked and green. 1t sold readily
at ind 10 cents per pound. They say
that buffalo is very plentiful on the Plains
this season, and that thousands had been
slaughtered.
Gov. Hicks, of Maryland, has ordered the
sheriff Of Washington County, to arrest all
suspicious characters who may be found
along the Pennsylvania line, or the Potomac
river. The sheriff has ordered five hundred
men to hold themselves in readiness to obey
his summons.
A man in Kalamazoo is training an elk
to trot on the race course The elk has al
ready trotted against horse fora purse of
seven hundred dollars, winning the prize by
long distance.
The amount of wheat now accommodating
on the Upper Mississippi for the steamboats,
t. take down the river before navi cation
closes, is immensely large.