Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-04-27
News Of the Day.
"7o saow the pery age and body Of the TINE


firms the statement published in the New
Orleans Picayune, in relation to the efforts
made by the English Government to bring
the contending parties in Mexico to settle
ment Captain Aldham, commanding Off
Ger of the British vessels of war at Vera Cruz,
addressed letter on the oath ult., to Presi-
dent Juarez, congratulating him on the glo-
| rious resistance the city offered to Mirsmon,
and renewing the efforts made before in the
| name of the English government for the es-
tablishment of peace in that distracted coun-
try.
| As said, the first legislative step on the
subject which has been privately discussed
during the past six months, Mr.. Morris, OF
H., will urge the passage of q jointresolution
appointing Mr.. Orr, of South Carolina, Gen.
| Doniphan, of Missouri, and Gov. Wood, OF
| Illinois, commissioners TO negotiate with the
Mormons for the sale of their possessions, on
the express condition that they move within
| a reasonable time from the limits and luris-
| diction of the United States. The commits
sioners to make their report to the President
by the next session of Congress.
Thetreaty made by the Government of the
United States, with the Tonawanda band of
Seneca Indians, in New York, on the 9Th of
| November 1857, is the first and only treaty
| ever made with the Indians where their ORR
ginal rights to the soil have been protected;
| and where the surrounding white population,
| and the officers of the State Government have
| united in asking the Federal authorities to
| permit them to remain on the lands of their
| fathers.
A Nashville paper says:-"In consequence
| OF the scarcity of beef in this section of
| country, some of our butchers have been COM
| PEELED to resort to the st. Louis market for
| supplies, and are now receiving the article
regularly Greens and cabbage from Ken
| lucky, hominy and butter from Ohio, and
beef from Missouri. This is q terrible state
Of affairs, and it is Notifying to make the
announcement"
The Pittsburg Dispatch says: The OIL
fever is said to be subsiding very rapidly in
the region up the Allegheny where it first
| broke out 1t is stated that some of the wells
| that yielded most abundantly have entirely
| "gin out" pumped clear and clean of olea-
! ginous wealth 1t is also whispered that
| many claims are in the market, or offered In
| partnership, on considerably lower terms
than formerly.
The Supreme Court Of Georgia has decided
that "a negotiable promissory note, trenfer-
red as a collateral security, is not subject. in
| the hands Of the holder, to sets off or de-
mands by the maker against the payee, and
| this whether the note be endorsed before or
| after maturity, when the demand does not
| grow out of the original consideration OF the
note"
The city of Davenport Iowa, has two in
terest notes, amounting to $1,000, to meet in
| the coming two weeks. There is one dollar
In the treasury and no prospect OF any more
soon. The Democrat and News make the
| following obvious remarks on this state OF
| thugs There is one thing certain; we have
either to raise s. 900 in the next two weeks
or go to protest"
The copy of Mr.. Carlyle's two new volumes
of the life of Frederick the Great is now IN the
| hands of his publishers, but it will be con-
siderable time vet before the work reaches
| the public. CARLYLE corrects, re-corrects, al
tiers and punctuates, 50 scrupuiously, that
| printers and publishers grumbe, and the
public grow impatient.
A miller in Brown County, Ohio, having
missed some aour, put arsenic in another lot
in order to find out where it went. The re-
suit was that a family of twelve persons,
named Story, were poisoned, the mother of
the family having stolen it. A cold bath
would do that miller good.
Mr.. Walker is gathering documentary ey-
idence from his Kansas papers, to substanti-
ate his charges against the Cabinet, of COM
plicity in the connection of the Lecompton
Constitution. He will vindicate the truth of
history, let the responsibility fall on whom
it may.
Eighteen whalers have arrived at New Bed
ford the present season with 10, 44O barrels
of sperm, Al ,063 barrels of whale, and 1872
$50 pounds of bone. The aggregate Of this
oil and bone, at the current prices, would be
about million and a half Of dollars, says
the Boston Post.
The total vote of Connecticut, reaches the
unprecedented number of 1885, and Gov.
Seymour is only beaten by 53l. There
are but ten scattering votes of Governor III
the State. All the State officers on the Re
publican ticket squeeze in" by the same
small majorities.
In New York, the other evening, a lodge
of Free Masons were about initiating new
member with all due solemnity, when Detec
tive Wilson, who is a member of the lodge,
took the candidate into custody. He is an
expert pickpocket.
Dispatches from Narrowsburg, report
good freshet in the Delaware. A large num-
Der of RATS have reached that point. There
are many RATS above aud below Easton
awaiting a rise.
Railroad officials state that large amounts
Of bills on the Clinton Bank at Westernport,
Nd a broken concern, are being forced up
on the unwary, and it is believed that still
larger amounts have been sent to the West.
An arrival from Port au Prince, Hayti,
states that the John Brown subscription con-
tinued consisting chiefly of sacks of coffee
The amounts received are estimated al $780,
000 Business was good.
At Norfolk April %, the Spanish war
steamer Petronelia, nine days from Havana,
arrived. All we'll She will take the Span
ish Minister TO Mexico