Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-03-30
News Of the Day.
u To sAo~ the re,y age a"ddody Of the TINES"

lhe DOston SOm1nerclal bulletin OF the
Goth, states that two applications for char
tiers are now before the Massachusetts Legis-
lature for lines of steamers between Boston
and Southern ports. One BY +. s. Tobey
and others az committee of the Board Of
Trade, and another by Donald Mackay; the
former contemplates line of four steamers
to run between Boston and Charleston. or
Savannah OF both, and the latter to New
Orleans.
The New Orleans Picayune learns that the
Board of Underwriters Of that city have
adopted resolution to permit the vessels
now aground at the bar to break cargo and
send it up to the city in lighters or towboats,
assuming all risks of damage or loss on the
river, so far us the frcights are insured in New
Orleans Offices. They do not, however, at
tempt to bind insurance companies of other
cities or gratuitously assume their risks. A
portion Of the sugar thus obtained has al
ready been dispatched to Cincinnati by the
river route.
Fayette Robinson. esq, who died from the
poisoned coffee at the clearinghouse of Mrs.
Beetham, in New York, Was a member of one
of 1.-The best families of Virginia, and for the
last fifteen years connected with various lite
rary enterprises He was the author of a
history of the Mexican war, and also of sew
eral popular dramas The girl, charged with
perpetrating the borrid deed, is said to have
been instigated thereto because her back wa
ges were not paid by the landladv Mrs.
Beetham, whose death ensued in few hours
after partaking Of the poisoned coffee.
Ex-Governor Robinson, of Kansas, was as
saulted in the streets of Lawrence, h. T., Il
few days since, by Martin F. Conway, who
hit the Governor on the head with cud-
gel. The Governor writes a letter to the
Herald of Freedom, in which he tells how he
retOrted: 81 seized him az soon as | could
overtake him, and was about applying 4
small dose of asphy1ia to his wind apparatus,
which Is an excellent remedy for certain
kinds of MANIA when his brother intertered
and released him."
Piccolomini and Ullman have had quarrel,
resulting in the breaking of the contract be-
tween them. The little prima donna is at
New Orleans, and will continue her concert
tour with most of the members of the opera
company. Mr.. Muzio, being musical con-
ductor and the agent sent over by MIR. Lum-
ley to look out for his interests during Picco-
lomini's engagement, is acting as business
agent.
Twenty-four Breweries in Cincinnati, use
annually four hundred thousand pounds of
hops, and the remainder, about twelve in
number, an aggregate of perhaps one hun
dred thousand pounds. In addition, Gin
cinnati furnishes, perhaps. fifteen hundred
bales, of POO each. to interior towns of Ohio
and Indiana, and yet Ohio does not raise a
single pound of hops.
The New York Ledger of this week con-
tains biography of Bernardin st. Pierre,
the author of Paul and Virginia, which he
wrote himself and presented to Remembrant
Peale, when he sat to that artist for his por-
trait. Mr.. Peale has kept the MS. until
within few few weeks, when he translated
it, and sent it to the Ledger for publication.
A clerk connected with the Boston and
Worcester Railroad has been discovered to
be defaulter for about $1,000. lie is a
young man, lately married to an estimable
young lady, and was supposed to be living
within his salary, which was in the neigh
borhood of $500 per annum.
In accordance with public advertisement
of the Superintendent of the Public Printing
for proposals for Sc lbs. paper, the contract
has been awarded to Messrs James NJ. Will
cox Il Co.. of Philadelphia, at 81 50 per ream,
being less than the award at the letting OF
December last.
The trial of United States Marshal Tyler.
for killing Capt. Jones. of the brig Concord,
at Port Sarnia, C. W.. last fall. was conclud-
ed at Detroit, Goth inst, by the jury render
ing verdict of involuntary manslaughter,
and recommending the prisoner to mercy.
Notes of the bank of Kanawha, Va, of the
denomination of five dollars. have been chan
ged and altered into notes of one hundred dol
lars. The bank never issued any notes of
such denomination. 1T has issued only 50.
$40 and $40 notes,
Several boats arc now loading with camel
coal at the mines on Coal river, Va, which is
destined for Boston. The boats will be tow
ed from the mouth of Kanawha To Pittsburg
then shipped by railroad to Philadelphia
thence by vessel to Boston.
The authorship of the celebrated sermons
on the Harp of Thousand Strings" and
1.-The Spirits of Just men made Perfect is
ascribed to the Rev. Mr.. Lewis, a Methodist
minister stationed at La Grange, Tennessee.
The Boston Atlas and Bee understands
that Mr. Everett intends TO make an addi-
ton to his orption upon Washington, in re-
la,ion to the emancipation of his slaves by
that great End good man, ~
Madame Gazzaniga. the popular prlma
donna, recently widowed by the death of
Count Malerpina, who WAS her husband, has
married Mr.. Abbitas.
Col, Colt, one of the wealthiest men in
New England. tsSlye years ago mortgaged
lathe and some machinery t9 secure debt
of $50.
Senator Pugh, of Ohio, lost an infant
daughter liz death II few days since, at
Washington.
Mr.. Leutze, the artist, is ato... - take up
his residence in Boston.
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