Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-02-29
News of the Day.
"75 sdoao tie psry age andJOdy o the TIMES

"I0 Sh0lc tHe gerry age ana Oody " Hse Timed
The receipts from customs in New York
on the 18th were $4,000; total amount in
the Subtreasury $685., 303. This amount
will be rapidly diminished as the Post Office
drafts mature The steamship Kangaroo,
for Liverpool, took out only 100000 in spe-
ce The California instalment OF nearly
million and a half will restore the specie re-
serve of the Banks. 4 more cheerful as
pect is app parent in business circles.
On Saturday morning, the President OF
the United States was waited upon by Sig
nor Lassara, Minister from Spain, en- grand
costume, and presented with an autograph
letter from the Queen of Spain, announcing
the birth Of a daughter.
The French government, in order to stop
the immense expectation Of silver money
from France, is about to call in and change
this money, in order to diminish the amount
of silver in each piece, and thus render their
metal value less than their recognized value.
Mrs. Mary W. Dale, Of Philadelphia, late
ly deceased, has left to James Baxter, col
ored servant, who has been in the service OF
her late husband Capt. Dale, and herself
for twenty-three years, $1,000, to be PAD 10
him within three months after her death;
she also gives to the said Baxter all her sill
YER plate, furniture, music, &C., tor has own
use, and he is to occupy her house tor three
months after her death, and to receive his
usual wages $500 per month, during that
time, besides his expenses for keeping the
house She also leaves a fund to pay the
board of her old horse Sam" during his
life, and further allows Baxter Sl5 month
for taking care Of the animal.
The friends Of the Christian Sabbath"
held a meeting in New York on Monday,
where eloquent addresses were made by
Rev. Bishop James, of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, and Dr. Hoge of the Presbyte-
rian. The Secretary, Rev. Mr.. Cook, gave
some startling facts; among others that the
liquor traffic prevailed to SO great an extent
that not less than eight thousand retail IL
ouor shops existed in New York.
Filhbuster stock has been badly set back
by reports in n well-informed quarter that
Col. Lee, who has some 600 men between
Fort Clarke and Fort Brown, in Texas, has
been ordered to crush out Cortinas and his
band of outlaws, even if obliged to follow
them into Mexico This action results from
an application of Gen. Houston for protec.
| ton of Amer lean citizens upon the Rio
| Grande.
The will of the late Stephen Whitney, Of
New York, is published. 1t devises his
| whole estate, yariously estimated at from
ten to fifteen millions of dollars to his family
Observing probably, the numerous Lawsuits
growing out Of deviSes to charitable instltu
tions, he has thought 1T best to let his chill
! dren be the dispensers of bounty III theiI
own way, and save costs of litigation.
The Dutch government has swept away
the last vestige of slavery from its East In
dia possessions. On the 10Th Of September
last, the institution ceased to exist. The
government offered an assessed valuation III
money to the owners, many Of whom, how
| ever refused to take it, while others took il
and made it over to the emancipated slaves
4 themselves.
Isthmus intelligence discredits the discred
liable story of wholesale burning of bible;
having occurred at Bogota. There were
bonfires in honor of some public occasion
and one Of the fires when tagging was re
plenished by some enthusiast with an arm
full of books from a neighboring house. The
supposition that the volumes were bibles was
gratuitous.
The will of VIM. E. Burton, the CONNIE
dian, is contested by his first wife, Mrs. Eli
zabeth Loft Burton, of London. 1t is al
| legged that from this lady Mr.. Burton was
never divorced He married her in London
in 1882, and abandoned her and his son the
following year, coming to America. The
son is now distinguished painter, and he
and his mother claim to be the legal heirs
Col Forbes, of the IIarper's Ferry dis
| closures" notoriety, quilted New York fol-
Liverpool in the early part Of November
last. lie left in the ship John Bright IN.
der an assumed name, wearing false beard
and mustache, and otherwise disguised, and
gave out that he was going to Canada.
A servant girl, in the employment Of the
family of Rev, John Cotton Smith. Of New
York, on Sunday night last placed her new
born infant, in a heated furnace in the base
ment story of the house. where it was par
TALLY consumed before it was discovered.
She declares the child was still born.
1t appears that tifty-six houses were con-
sumed in the fire which occurred at Danyille
Ky, on the 22d of February. The princ-
pal business portion of the town was almost
entirely destroyed. The total loss is estima-
ted at $500, 600, Of which about one-half was
insured.
The Newburyport Herald says that the
strike among the shoemakers is not SO ex-
tensive as some of the published statements
would lead one to infer There are more
than forty thousand shoemRaers in Massa-
chusetts, and so far as the Herald can learn,
not ten thousand have struck OF intend to.
The Baltimore Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will assemble
to-day at Winchester, Va, Rev. Bishop Simp-
son. and the Baltimore East Conference on
the same day at LewiSburg, Pa, Rev. BiSh-
OPP Morris in the chair,
The will of Lewis G. Osbourne, of Phila-
delphia. just died, leaves $1,000 to the
American Sunday School Union; $1,000 to
the American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, and 5 900 to the Phila-
delphia Bible Society