Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-03-12
News of the Day.
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Time is beginning to develop many painful
incidents connected with the loss of the
steamer Hungarian Arrivals from Europe
bring tidings of persons who sailed IN the
| Inflated vessel amongst them newly mar
ried people, who sailed with fine breezeS and
high hopes. As remarked by the Toronto
Globe, young and old, strong and feeble,
were hurried to the same grave. The brave
/ heart and stout arm Of first officer Hardy,
who at great risk rescued forty-eight persons
/ from water-logged vessel last winter, were
| of no more avail in that awful scene than
the weakest of the ladies under his care"
The Secretary of War has communicated
to the House, in compliance with resolu-
ton, the report of the Art Commission, who
recommended the appropriation Of Sl67 900,
to lie expended for statuary and pictures tor
the adUrnment Of the capital. They suggest
that preference be given to American art
lists, the embellishments to be OF purely
national character and in this connection
they do not speak in complimentary terms
of the ancient subjects chosen for the paint
ings on the walls of the committee rooms.
The New York Commercial states as an evil
dence of the popularity of the Central Park in
New York, as place of resort even in the
coolest days in winter, that there was ska
ting forty-fv days out OF the sxty-three to
February 9th: that the least number Of Wis
itors to the skating pond in one day was one
hundred, the largest number christmas
was estimated at one hundred thousand, the
average number ON skating days was twelve
thousand and the aggregate number during
the season was FIVE hundred and forty thou
sand.
At Cincinnati, on Wednesday, an Irish
man named Patrick McEugh, approached
his wife whilst she was at a friends house,
placed his arm around her neck and cut her
throat with a razor The stroke was given
with SO much power as to cut away even a
part of the vertebrae The woman died al
most instantly. MclIugh had recently been
liberated from the Penitentiary where he
had served a sentence for a deadly assault
upon his wife.
The Brock Railway bill, after apparently
passing safely through the ordeal Of the
Maryland House of Delegates, on Thursday
night was on its third reading on Friday
defeated by vote of ayes 80, nays 80. \
motion to reconsider, was carried, and the
bill remains in position to be again called
up. The Free negro bill Invested of all its
obnoxious provisions, was passed by the
House.
The women of Lynn and its vicinity who
are engaged in sewing and binding shoes,
having Joined their husbands, brothers. and
friends in strike for higher wages, had
their demonstration on Wednesday, despite
q driving snowstorm, which set in between
eight and nine o'clock in the morning, and
had not ceased when the exercises finished
in the afternoon.
The Australian, the largest propeller il
the world is hourly expected to arrive at the
Cunard dock, Jersey City. She was built
for the Australian mail packet service, and
for a short time was used as SUCH but she has
been lately bought by the Cunard Company
for their service, and it is expected she will
make regular trips in future between New
York and Liverpool.
An Indian and a white man recently ska
ted sixty miles on a wager in Wisconsin,
The Indian won the race in a few minutes
less than ten hours, and did not seen to sut-
fer from the exertion. The white man was
over eleven hours making the distance and
in few hours after he had pulled of his
skates his limbs swelled to monStrous size,
and he was disabled for several days.
A Port au Prince, liayti, paper has the
following:-"W regret of having received
from Gonaives letter giving information
that Mr.. Gerdol pastor of that place, has
formally refused TO celebrate the memorial
services Of the much-honored John Brown,
the priest saying that this saint was but 4
slave-thiet"
The Secretary Of War has contracted with
Mr.. John L. Connolly, Of Baltimore to fur
nish one hundred monolithic marble columns
for the capitol extension. They are to be
wrought from his quarry near Baltimore, and
fifteen hundred and fifty dollars is said to be
the sum to be paid for each.
Mr.. Van Wyck made an offensive anti
slavery speech in Congress on Wednesday.
He spoke contemptuously of Southern cour-
age Mr.. Davis of Mississippi said Mr.. Van
Wyck could test Southern courage if would
leave the limits Of the District OF Columbia
for Il short time.
The friends of the American Tract Socie
ty will be pleased to learn that it is in q
very prosperous condition. In the Virginia
Agency, embracing Maryland District Of
Columbia, Virginia, and North Carolina,
there are nearly one hundred colporteurs.
A French philosopher has just proved, by
procession OF the equinoxes that one-half Of
this globe was really overwhelmed with
flood about thirteen thousand years ago, and
that the other half will experience similar
deluge in about nine thousand years more.
Ex-President Pierce has been offered the
command Of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery corps Of Boston for this year,
and the company intend visiting New York.
sometime during the coming summer. The
"ionoraheS" elect captain every year.
The bill which recently passed the Mary
land House Of Delegates to amend the code,
in order more effectually to suppress lotter-
les in Maryland, has also passed the Senate,
and is now law. The provisions Of this
act are of very stringent character.
y male child was born in Standfeld, Mas
sachusetts lately, healthy and well formed
with "a well defined pair Of soft. silky whis-
kers, stretching from ear to ear" The child
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