Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-26
PUBLISHED DAILY \ TRI-WEEKLY BY
EDGAR SN0WDEN.
ALEX
THURSDAY MORNING. MAY %, 1859.
The Election II Day.

The Election-To-Day.
The election for Governor, Lieut.. Cover
nor. Attorney General, Representatives in
Congress, and Delegates to the Legislature.
takes place throughout this State to-day.
The polls, in this County, will be opened
at the following places, under the superin-
tendence of Commissioners and Conductors,
as follows:-
First District-At the First Ward House.
B. ii. Lambert, George W. Maxwell, VIM.
Buckingham, Geo. W.. Dearborn, and b.
Wheat, Commissioners-James Fadely, Con
Guctor.
Second District AT the Council Chamber.
I. Kell, VIM. n. Brown, q. Simpson, ii.
Mansfield, and James Entwisle. ST., Com,
missioners-G. W. Nelson, Conductor.
Third District--At the Court House.
James P. Smith, j. W. Hollinsbury, r. f..
Buchanan. James IL. McNeigh, and K.
Hodgkins, Commissioners-G. F. Hugely,
Conductor.
Fourth District-At the house \. W cor
ner of Prince and Alfred streets.-John ii.
Brent, W. W. Harper, b. e. Milburn, }. F.
Dyer. and J. b. Daingerfeld. Commissioners
Vim. Davis, Conductor.
Fifth District-At Balls Cross Roads
j. Il. Johnson. Richard Sothoron, Smith
Minor, j. b. Carson, and Thomas W. Swami,
Commissioners-Noah Drunlmond, Conduc-
tor.
The polls will be opened at 6 o'clock, A.
NJ, and will be continued open, without any
recess. until sun down.
We trust that order, decOrum, and quiet
ness may prevail, and hat when the sun
goes down there may not have occurred Il
single incident, which any one can after
wards regret.
Deposite your votes, and retire immediate
ly from the polls, so as to allow easy access
to all.
Let ereyy Voter attend, and discharge his
duty conscientiously, and according to his
own best judgment.
Mr.. Everett's last Mount Vernon paper, in
the New York Ledger, is on the present con-
dition of affairs in Europe. We do not see
thatit presents any new facts, or interesting
speculations. He thinks the hostile feelings
ofthe Italian states towards one another, will
he a serious drawback to any concerted move
ment in favor of Italian independence"
say nothing of Italian elderly
Mr.. Dejarnette, one of the Democratic can
didates for Congress, in the Richmond Dis
trict. Says:-
In all my discussions with Judge Caskie,
have alluded to the present Administra-
ton as wastefully extravagant and corrupt;
condemned it's abandonment of the prlnci-
pies of the Democratic party: and therefore
could not and would not support 1t.
The minister resident at Rio Janeiro has
notified the Agricultural Bureau of the Uni
ted States Patent Office, that he will forward
some pecks of Brazilian tea seed at an early
onnortunitv. A letter enclosed from a Bra
Gillian t~ca-grower, says that tea-tiourlshes IN
Brazil almost az we'll as in China. 1t Is hes,
suited to valleys, and delights III plentiful
manure.
The Emperor Napoleon arrived at Mar
settles on the 18th inst, and immediately
embarked on board the "Reine Hortense'
where he received the authorities OF the
city. At p. NJ. the steamer left the har
bor. 1t is said in Paris that the EmperoI
expects to lie in Milan by the end OF TIT
month, or beginning of June at latest.
The Ladies of Blissfeld, Michigan, have
organized a lodge of the daughters o
Malta" and are holding their mysterious
meetings two or three evenings in each week
Tie men have thus far failed to ascertain
the object and managers of the new society
though, it is said, they tried their pref
test"
II is rumored that movements are quietly
in progress among some OF our enterpris'Hs
American houses. for chartcring vessels j"
Genoa, and to load them with -four, tobacco
and rum or whiskey, for the use OF the beiii
gcrent forces in Sardinia.
The Austrians are adopting very strins"n
measures to prevent treason and deSer'lol
among their soldiers. They are dong al
the mischief they can, too, to the country II
which military operations are now confined
There is much speculation in the newspa
ners az to the movements of Gen. Walker
It is believed that he is of on some other I'll
clustering expedition-but reports vary a
to his precise objects and intentions
The annual Convention OF the Epise"ra
Church of the Diocese of Maryland Is I'D ses
sion at Baltimore. The subject Of u divlsioi
of the Diocese is to come up.
Carmichael & Co, of Augusta. Georgia
shipped to New York on the 18th instant
forty barrels Of Hour. made Of wheat grown
this year.
The National Medical College of Washing
ton, has chosen DR.. Robert X. Stone, PROBES
~r;, tb,, J,xtifution vice DIR