Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-17


said to be about to proceed, via Europe, to
the East Indies, for the purpose of rcstock.
ing his mcnagerie The Natural History
Department of the Scientific Convention will
be sratiied to learn that he will direct his
attention to the capture of two specimens OF
the pachydcrmatous mammae. one OF which
is white, and the other of dark mud color.
Non-scientiic persOns-if any such there be
may he averse to learn that the speclme ms
above aliu led to, consist of white elephant
and hippopotamu,.
A St. Petersburg correspondent, writing
on the 18th of July, states that the people
there were greatly and disagreeahly sur
p~ised at the announcement of the treaty of
V llairanca. Napoleon's popular ity which
had stood very high in the city. W as Oh the
wane. ~ the inhabita thought that Aus
tria had not been sufficiently humiliated.- -
1t was said. however, that the Car did not
share in the feeling, a previous I" the treaty
day, IN active correspondence had been kept
up between his Cabinet and the Russian
Ministers in Paris and Vienna.
One of the editors OF the New York Com
mcrcial recently visited the prison at Sing
Sing. lie writes that the curiosity of the
female prison is the prison child. This is a
beautiful boy about two years old, born nprl-
son ola convict mother, vino WAS sent there for
passing counterfeit money. lie is the pet
of the establishment, and the admiration of
every visitor \ short time since wealthy
southern lady offered To adopt it as her own,
but the mother would not part with It, She
has three more years To serve aS Il convict.
The Overland Friend OF China i'll IN ar
ticle referring to the great rebellion III Chi
ma, remarks that there was no very clear
evidence that it would succeed, or no great
certainty that the government would be able
To subdue it. A letter from one of the pro.
vinces, in partial possession of the rebels,
states that the insurgents We're publishing
the Bible or certain parts of it, dem"llSf-
ing idols or certain Budhistic images, open
ing schools, &c. 1t is said, however, that
the insurgents have imhibed gross errors.
During the session of the Baptist ASSocia-
ton, in Middlehurg, Va, Mr.. W. S. Ryland,
son of Rev. DR.. Ryland, was ordained to the
work of the ministry, in the presence Of
5000 persons, in beautiful grove. The
charge tn the young minister was delivered
by his father, and a most touching and pow
erlul one it was. Amid all the hundreds of
spectators, there was scarcely dry eye.
Mr.. Ryland will become pastor OF the church
in Winchester.
The clergy of Ohio, says the Brooklyn Ea-
gle, have taken up the trade of politics, and
have Just held convention, and called upon
all anti-slavery people to meet and delibcr-
ate and pray" and agitate against the evil.
The experience of their brethren who have
huurished ON the hastings ought to have
been sufficient to deter these reverend gentry
from following bad example.
The twenty anniversary of the aboli-
ton of slavery in the British Colonies was
celebrated in London by public meeting
at the Music Hall, Store street, Bedford
square, over which Lord Brougham presi-
ded, and made speech, in which he re-lte-
rated all his former opinions in favor OF
abolition.
The Petersburg (Va.) Express says that
Snowman pitched his tent in that town,
Thursday, and absorbed some ten cent pieces
in showing zebra, which proved to be a
mule painted. Under threats of lynch law,
the zebra man left protesting, however, that
he had been deceived in the purchase.
New York city is full Of people, many of
them visitors from out of town, and who more
than make up for the number Of citizens who
have taken country lodgings, and who num-
Der, all told, good many thousand people.
The large Hotels Of the city are reapnS
rich harvest.