Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-01-21
News Of the Day.
"T show the very age and body cfhe TIMES

tinues in Utah, and, like the rest of mankind,
the Saints ''are marrying and giving in mar
riage" and attending to all the claims of 40
cietv and existence. The weather had been
excessively cold, and further reports of its
dreadful effects are made in the .Nrws.
A slip from the Provincetown, Cape Cod,
Banner, gives the following melancholy intel
ligence:-"We are at last reluctantly com
PEELED to admit that there is little or no hope
that the three missing 'Bankcrs'-the Noun
tain Wave, James Porter and Palestine-oi
this place, will ever return. They must have
toundered III the severe gales of October and
November, "a otherwise something would
have been heard from them ere this. BY this
disaster half n dozen families in ProvinretOwn
are berelt of husbands and fathers. In one
vessel there We're three brothers by the name
Of kilburn. In all. some twenty-four per-
sons are supposed to be lost, belonging III va
rious parts of the country"
An association, styling itself the General
Workingmen's Union. is in session in New
York. What nationality takes the most in
terest in the movement may he inferred from
the names of the delegates. New York is
represented by Feibel, Pfister, llaman, Hecr-
brand, Harvelhm and f.. kapp: Caristadt by
Qeininger; Williamsburg by Pctz; Philadel-
phia by Reuter-: Cleveland by Rodenbender;
Chicago by Kittel: Boston by Brand and DR..
Douai, and Louisville by Roedel. The dele
gates saw they labor to elect a President of
the United States pledged TO carry out their
principles,
About 5 o'clock on the night Of the Sth in
slant, the jail at Omaha was entered by Il
party of fifteen or twenty men, who took
therefrom two prisoners, and. after having
conveyed them some eight miles from the
town, hung them in their shackles. These
victims to popular vengeance were from
Harrison county, in Iowa. The name OF one
was Braden. and IF the other Daley. They
were charged with demonstrating.
With one exception, the European gaming
establishments are said to have had Il most
prosperous season. and havedistributed enor-
nous dividends. The Wicsbadcn Bank, in
spite Of the heavy contributions which it Is
forced to pay to the town, has paida dividend
VI ~ per tlll Il Hat WI JIM w. ~ -
Notwithstanding loss of SOO,O00 francs which
inaugurated the season.
Capt. Mckinley. formerly the editor of the
Holmes county Ohio Farmer, and more re-
Gently a captain in the Mexican war, died
suddenly ut Otscgo Oh the Saturday before
New Years. He had contracted habits Of
intemperance in Mexico. and at Otsego, hay
ing met with congenial friends. he sat dow
to play at cards with them. and fell dead with
the cards in his hand.
BY way Of New Orleans, we learn that on
the 3lst Of December, the iunta popular in
the City of Mexico, formed of a great major
ity of the conservatives and the clergy, estab-
lished n progrume governmental. which pro-
claims the inyiolability of corporation pro-
pcrtv. and protests against the alienation or
mortgage Of national territory.
1t is mentioned to to the credit of John
Bard, who resides at Anandale. in the town
ofRed Hook. in Duchess county, New York,
Il gentleman of large wealth, and also Of large
heart, that in six years he has expended over
sixty thousand dollars in erecting and sup
porting chapel schools, night schools, and
clcryymen, and in other kindred work.
The English papers announce the death Of
that learned scholar and philologist. the vcnc-
rable John Williams, Archdcacon of Cardi-
gan, which took place after Il longand severe
illness. Archdeacon Williams was for %
years Rector of the Edinburgh Academy.
and his success as Il teacher was proved by
the eminencc Of his pupils.
In a speech in New York. the other even
ing. Rev. Mr.. Scuddcr. the lIindostan mis-.
s%ionary, said that the home Of the American
Pantheists was in India. PantheiSm is the
belief of the llindoo. and he could point tothe
original San>crit stanzas from which those
celebrated ones. entitled "Bratma, by Elm
crSon were taken.
The nett proceeds Of the late Festival ut the
Academy of Music in New York, for the
benefit Of the Mount Vernon Association, are
returned at twelve hundred dollars. Miss
Laura kecne has paid over six hundred dol
lars, the proceeds ofthc representation ut her
theatre OF Cur American Cousin
The Henderson Min Democrat says that
MANY of the Sioux Indians in that State
have adopted the habits and customs of civil
lied white men and become very respectable
Indians, This gratifying chang + has been
brought about through the efforts OF the ln-
dian agent.
The Sncz end Alexandria Railroad is now
open in its entirp length from Alexandria.
on the Mediterranean Sea. to Suez. Oh the
Red Sea. The distance between the two
seas is about the same IA from London To
Manchester.
An extra from Inlay & Bicknell'> Bank
Note Reporter states that they have detected
lately an entirely new counterfeit, purportine
to be a s. note issued by the Union Bank
of Reading, Pu. 1t is unlike the genuine,
and may therefore be- easily detected.
Hiram Kctchum, esq. the newly elected
President of the New York Wing General
Committee, at its last meeting, delivered an
address. IL which hp laid io"n the platform
Of new political organization, to be on the
basis ofthe old Wing party.
Senator Hunter. of Virginia, does not Ec,i-
tate to say that if the thirty millions asked
for Cuba should be voted. hc did not know
where the money was 10 come from, a. there
was none in the Treasury.
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