Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-04-12
News Of the Day.
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ITlnluhl uates u lHc -flH TeDTudTy III
form us of the breaking out of yellow fever
at that place. This fearful disease was thin
ming the ranks of the troops who had been
encamped to secure a pure air and better
ventilation than the barracks afforded. Fe-
yer was prevailing at ST. Vincent, and deaths
had occurred in some of the families of the
respectable portion of the community.
Capt. W. r. Henry writes to Galveston
paper in justification of himself and his as
sociates against the recent proclamation of
Gen. Twiggs, ordering the arrest of parties
who might pass the military posts. Mr..
Henry avows that there is an expedition on
foot intended to capture runaway slaves Of
Texas who have taken shelter in Mexico,
and that he is the head Of that enterprise
He says that respectable citizens of Texas
have joined him, and appeals to the public
to know IF it has come to this. that we are
to be governed by United States bayonets?"
MIR. Henry abuses Gen. Twiggs.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal
says that some of the young men engaged
at the Overland Mail station on the Utah
route, are making themselves very comforta
BILE building houses of cedar, erecting ice
houses and filling them, gardening, hunting
buffaloes and preserving the meat. \ few
days since one of them sent in an order for
some agricultural implements, flower seeds,
rifles, and copy of Webster fnobridged'-
The last-named article will certainly be a
novelty among the butfalocs and kioway In
dams.
A curious phenomenon was observed du-
ring the recent volcanic eruption at the
Sandwich Islands. a correspondent of a
California paper says: '.Once while standing
on rock with several others, perhaps two
hundred feet from the stream, loud, ringing
noise was heard, a. if the rock had been
struck BY an immense sledgr hammer
We started, not knowing but Pclo was under
and after us, but soon found our alarm
groundless, though the noise was probably
caused BY the liquid lava running under the
ground, and suddenly filling upa cave be-
meath us"
The Louisville Journal said of Picco-
lomini that las true lover Of the grape new
er dilutes his wine, she never mixes anything
with the pure purple poetry Of the drinking
song" The Boston Post evidently does not
understand the drift of this remark, and its
comment is: Perhaps not; but we can swear
to her making uncommon quick work OF
very large pot Of porter which kind pa
rent held for her just after the song, at the
wings"
The Nashville Union states that man
named James r. Tarlton, has just completed
his fifth term in the Tennessee penitentiary,
having passed twenty-three of the last twen-
ty-seven years of his life, in that institution.
He is now about sixty years of age. The
crime of which he was convicted was, in eve
~ instance, larceny; and he confesses that he
was guilty every time but the last. His old
est son, who is treading in the same footsteps
as--or rather going ahead Of his father,
was, few months since sentenced TO the same
prison for twenty-one years.
On Tuesday night last, while the jailor
of the Ross County Jail, in Chillicothe, was
in attendance at wedding, leaving only
servant girl to guard the building, man
wearing mask entered it and pointed a is-
tol at her breast, and demanded the keys OF the
cells. The terrified girl delivered them to
him, and he forthwith proceeded to liberate
Cadwallader Wallace, who was awaiting mis-
trial for murder, and two other prisoners, all
of whom escaped.
Henry Miller, of Berks county, Pa, lost
within the last week or two, eleven head of
horned CATTLE by malignant disease, very
unusual in that part Of the country, but pre-
valent in the West. 1t commences with
fever, which lasts from five to nine hours,
and then is followed by chill. which con-
tinues from four to six hours. After this
quick modification ensues, and the cattle
The Columbus Geo Enquirer announces
the death, on the 3lst ultimo, of the Hon.
Hopkins Holsey, in the Goth year of his age,
and saws: "The deceased had nj times filled
large space in the political history of Geor-
cia. He had been q representative in Con-
cress and had executed other important
public trusts with ability and credit. But
his influence was greatest as an editor
The washerwomen of Holland and Belgi-
um, so provsrbially clean, and who got up
their linen so beautifully white, use refined
borax as washing powder instead of soda,
in the proportion of a large handful of borax
powder to about ten gallons of boiling water.
They save in soap nearly One-half. All the
large washing establishments adopt the same
mode.
Rev. DR.. Nose. D. Hoge, of Richmond,
Va, has declined call to the First Dutch
Reformed Church, in New York. AS very
strong ipducement to Mr.. H.. salary So
600 per annum was offered, with the free use
Of parsonage the annual rent OF which IS
50, 900 year, and furnished at an expense
of $4,000.
The San Francisco Herald Of March 9. re-
ceiyed by the Overland mail, announces the
death of the Hon. VIM. Walter Hawks, son
of the Rev. DR.. Hawks, of New York, who
has for some wears been one of the most
gifted, eioqlsnt, and popular public men OF
California.
Last Saturday, we learn froHt the Wa
bash Ind.) Intelligencer, man named
Vim. jog vas convicted of burning his own
child 10 death, and sentenced 10 eighteen
years confinement in the pepit"ntiary. The
principal witness against him was his ht'io
daughter Nancy. .
Mr.. Wendell's retirement as proprietor OF