Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-08
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House, AT - . clock, adjourned.
LOCAL ITEMS.
llouE MANrPAcTrRs- learn that
MessrS. {. A. Baldwin \ Co.. wholesale shoe
dealers OF this city are preparing 10 have
manufactured tn iisrdui,Iq, the greater
portion ot the goods IN their line and that
IN future II IS their intention, as far n pos
Slble, Ia furnish their customers with goods
made al homr, IN preference to those manu-
featured al The North They have already
engaged the services of several workmcu,
and are having sample articles made up. II
all our whoresale houses would follow tie
example SIT by Messrs. Is \ Co., and if our
people would learn 10 look To their own
markets Tor supplies, We would soon see and
feel the beneficial effects, and our cities
would grow and prosper like all places
where manufacturing interests receive pro
per encouragement. We have everything
here ut home. ARD within our immediate
featuring, and with II proper impetus and
encouragement from our own people, it
would succeed, and put Alexandrla where
she should be. among the large and prosper
Gus cities Of the country. We hope soon to
have the pleasure Of chronicling other cases
similar to the one on which this paragraph
is based
The CASE OF TEMrEsT.-The examination
of Tempest, originally fixed for yesterday
morning, was postponed at the request of the
prisoner until Saturday morning next, to
enable him to obtain evidence whereby to
relieve himself Of the suspicion, which from
his recent movements has justly attached to
him. Tempest was visited in Jail yesterday,
by Justices Price and Buckingham, and ex-
pressed his sense Of their kindness in post
pOning the examination He said that al
though the time was short, he hoped to be
able to show ON the examination, such facts
Is would fully release him from suspicion of
completely with the 'Iarper's Ferry affair
1t is said that Cook has recently sent 10
some of the Justices of this county. a dis
crption Of Rsalf, Browns Secretary of State,
which corresponds in some. but differs in
other particulars with the personal appear
ance Of Tempest. Cook describes Realf's
hair as black. Tempest's hair is very light.
1t is now believed that tho prisoner is the
runaway son of respectable English parents,
and that his name is Fiuney.
FREE NEGROES REGISTERED. During the
eleven months closing with the month OF No
vember, twenty four free negroes have been
registered according to law in the clerks
office Of this county. OF these negroes, twenty
were born free, the remaining four have
been emancipated by the last will and tesla
mcnt of their late owners. Sixteen of those
registered ace females. The whole number
of free negroes in this county, according to
the latest returns OF the commissioner of the
revenue, filed at the clerks office, is four hun
dred and twenty-one
A Fatal CasuALTr.-On Friday last two
young men, accompanied by boy ton or
twelve years of age, were out cunning, near
Buckland Prince William County They
separated, and one of the young men, Enos
Coran, told the boy to 60 and tell the other
young man 10 meet him at certain place.
The boy started TO do as requested. leaving
Coram sitting on the fence, but had gone but
short distance, when no heard the report
If a gun, and on hooking round saw Coram
stomach, and heard him exclaim my God,
| am shot" 4 party went III search Of the
body, aud discovered smoke near fence.
and found young Coram dead, his clothes
nearly burned off him and much of his
body quite brown and hard. The charge
Of the gun had entered i'll the region of the
stomach, and from the size of the wound the
gun must have been es,ed against him,
the powder setting fire to his clothing. Ii
is thought the breaking Of rail under his
feet as he sat on the fence, caused him To
fall, producing \ jar, causing the gun t" dis
charge.
RFLEugx's FAIR The Fair for the bene-
tit of the Alexandria Ritemen opens at
their Armory American liall) to-nlght.-
The tables have been we'll arranged and the
Hall most beautifully decorated. The at
fractions will be numerous Esputa's brass
band will il, IN attendance during the even
ing. and the Fair will b. opened with dress
parade by the company. sight that Will oil
itself attract large crowd.
Tux WEATHER. Yesterday morning there
was bright prospect for clear weather but
clouds soon o,crspr"ad tina heavens again
4 About the mldlroi the day il raInri hard
and continued L. rain until near o'clock NJ
night. when severe hail storm -rt IN which
continued frr more than an hour. The night
was most di-agrr"able.
/ SAILING OF STEAMER.-rhe steamer Mt.
Vernon, Captain Smith. for New York, sail