Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-03-02
News of the Day.
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of industry. Commerce has manliestly IN
creased. With few exceptions, among some
Of the native clans, peace predomlnates-
Our foreign relations may be regarded as
tranquil. The agricultural interest OF the
Republic is making encouraging progress
Nothing definite has transpired as to the
whereabouts or fate of Hon. 5. d. North
way, of Norfolk, Conn, whose mysterious
under suspicious circumstan-
ces, from the Metropolitan Hotel, New York,
has occasioned some talk; but the detectives
who were commissioned to work up the case,
intimate that the gentleman has gone to
Kansas, for certain reasons, which, however
consoling to those who were afraid he was
murdered, are not likely to be appreciated
by his creditors.
J. Buchanan Cross, whose name has been
somewhat prominent of late in the public
journals, as connected with certain iorgerles
on the Consolidation Bank, at Philadelphia,
was tried on Tuesday i'll the Quarter Ses-
sions, on one Indictment, and acquitted
There are other indictments connected with
the same transaction, pending against him,
and the Court refused to release him on his
own recognizance, to appear and answer, but
ordered that he should give bail III twenty
five hundred dollars.
Thursday afternoon, says the Troy Wing,
crowd of boys were snow-balling each 9th
er on South street, when one Of their number,
dipping his hand into bank Of snow, was
astoniShed at touching human face. lie
alarmed his companions, and an inVestiga-
ton revealed the body of n man lying in the
snow. 1t was recognized as being that Of a
tailor named Frederick Keis, who lived III
that vicinity, and had been missing since
Saturday. The deceased was man given
to drink.
One of the most unique of recent inven-
tons is a cane, which is also a lantern-a
stout, elegant walking stick, and brilliant
steady light The lantern is set in the body
of the cane about six inches from Its top,
and so as not to distiSure its proportions Of
beauty, and can be lit ut pleasure by pulling
the cane apart, or borne along dead, when
the cane without close observation, i IN.
distnguishable from an ordinary arge-sized
walking stick.
According to the San Francisco Bulletin,
the steamer Saginaw, recently built at the
navy ward ut Mare Island, is likely to prove
as complete n failure as the Narragansett
constructed at Charlestown The Saginaw
is the first war vessel built on the Pacific
coast for this Government, and the Calitur
mans were anxious that she should be an
honor to them.
Rumors having been circulated to the cf
feet that the speaker of the Tennessee sen
ate, Hon. T. W. Newman, Of Franklin coun.
ty, had been discovered to be involved N
transactions to defraud the Government BY
means of forged land claims, that gentleman
has resigned his position and it is stated,
started for Washington to demand lull n
vestigation.
An American, a son Of a gentleman IN
Boston, has recently been appointed organiSt
of St. Paul's Covent Garden, London. There
were fifty applications for the place, and il
was awarded to the gentleman III question,
after a trial of the merits Of all the competl-
tors. This is probably the first instance in
which an American has received such al ap,
pointment.
The annual conference Of the Methodist
Protestant Church, for the Maryland dis
triet, will begin on Wednesday, the l4th
inst. 1t will be held in Baltimore. The
conference extends over the whole Of the
State Of Maryland, the District Of Columbia,
Delaware, and the Eastern Shore 81 NIr-
ginia.
Two English vessels Of war undertook
lately 10 capture the Paraguayan war steam
er Tacuari, as she was leaving the port y
Buenos Ayres, but she escaped and returned
to anchor. The attempted capture Of the
vessel was intended as reprisal on Para
quay to satisfy the claims Of Eng land against
her.
The sloop Of war John Adams, after hay
ing been hove down and completed her re-
pairs, sailed from Rio on the 9TH inst, for
China. Her commander, Murray Mason,
was invalided home and Lieut.. Edward a.
Barrett ordered by the flag officer to the act
ing command.
1t is rumored in England that upon the
conclusion Of her present engagement, which
ends during the ensuing month, Mile. Pic
colomini will leave the stage Ii Is said that
she does 50 in accordance with the scliclta,
tons Of her family and friends
A court martial has been appointed to
meet at Fort Leavenworth on the 9Th March
next, or az soon thereafter as practicable,
for the trial of Lieut. c. d. Bailey, second
cavalry, and such other prisoners as may be
brought before il.
The whole number of matriculants in the
medical department Of the University Of
Pennsylvania, at the present session, is 528
of whom there are II from Maryland, :
from the District Of Columbia, b from lir-
GINA, and II from aorth CAROLINA.
Mention has been made Of the recent dis
covery Of quicksilver mine at IIealdsburg,
in Napa county, California The discovery
is attracting much attention in California, in
consequence of the suspension Of operations
at the New Almaden mines.
I. T. Nelson, esq, Of Clarke county, sold
last week twenty-three beautiful Cotswold
sheep Their average weight was $50 to
200 lbs.
Baltimore Annual Conference n. E Church.
WINCHESTER, Va, Feb. 29.-The Annual
Conference ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church