Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-22
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den the murderer of his wife will be exc
cuted on the 2Sth of June next. He will be
hung in the il-yard, an enclosed space which
will measure about one hundred feet either
way. This small area will preclude the
possibility of d large number assembling
near the scaffOld, but if the same plan is fol-
lowed as in previous executions, available
spots for Witnessing the hanging may be
gained on many of the surrounding bull
| dngs. He has never intimated an lnten-
| ton of making a confession nor has he SAID
that ''if he hung, others would have to hang
with him." Neither has he made any AT
tempt to commit suicide. In the condition
in which he is kept, ironed by day and
night, and Waterman in his cell with him
all the time, such an attempt would be GER
tain to prove abortlye.
BY the arrival of the Aspinwall steamer of
May | |, we have later dates from South and
Central America. On the 22d ult. Peru
was visited by an earthquake of unusual VI
oence. The first shock lasted 50 seconds,
and during the - hours succeeding there
were FRUSTRATED and in some localities the
trees were twisted up by the roots. In Ii
ma alone, the property destroyed was estl-
mated at 81 100000. Callao Chorrillos, and
others Of the neighborins towns suffered Sc
verely. The alarm Of the people at these
commissions was excessive, and at the time
the steamer which brought this intelligence
to Panama LEFT, they were parading the streets
with their priests, Offering up petitions that
further disaster might be averted.
Dates from Bogota are to April 81. Con-
gress was still in session, and displayed a
determination to enforce the election law,
| though the attempt should result in blood
shed. General Herran was using every ex-
ertion to preserve peace, but it was feared
that his exertons would be counterbalanced
by those of his father-inlaw, General Nor
guerra. The statement that General Jones,
United States Minister to New Granada, had
countenanced the recent burning of Bibles
at Bogota, was authorltatively contradcted
by Rev. Samuel NJ. Sharpe, missionary of
the Presbyterian Church.
Galignani describes an extraordinary con-
trivance for transmitting sound to very large
distances, which has just been presented to
| the Acadamy of Sciences by the Able Labor
de. As the action of the electric fluid NAV
be transmitted to any distance, sit follows,'
says Gallgnani, that if properly modified
and improved, the apparatus we have descrlb-
ed may enable persons in Paris to hear Il
tune played in London, or even ut St. Peters
burg"
King Victor Emmanuel was received at
Bologna on the first of May with the liveliest
| enthusiasm. The municipal authorities the
next day took him to the Cathedral OF St. Pc
tronius to hear grand Te Dcum, and in the
evening he met four thousand five hundred
| people at a grand ball. Four hundred Of the
principal lady inhabitants of the city seized
the opportunity to sing before the King 4
hymn of welcome, composed expressly for
the occasion.
Horace Greeley is made all manner of
fun of in Chicago, where crowds gather
round him as they do about the hatless
Prophet, and call on him to Speak" After
while they get him at it, and then they make
all sorts of fun of him. On Tuesday they got
him well under way, when one of them PIN
ned paper on his coattail, inscribed, "FOr
Seacard" He moved among the crowd and
amid jeers for an hour or two, with this
sign pinned to his clothes, all the time cleo
tioneering against Seward
Alexander Dumas had left Paris at last
accounts for Marseiles, to start on his voy-
age on his little steam-yacht Monte Crsto.
lie takes with him five companions, one a
professed photographer, three compositors,
a pressman and press SO that the records OF
his voyages will be printed almost as fast az
they are written. The trip will last fifteen
months, and NJ. Dumas expects to write and
print two volumes per month.
Gibbs L. Elliott, deceased, Of Charleston,
IS c. left in his will 800 to the Ladies
Mount Vernon Association. This, we be-
lieye, is the first bequest to that interesting
Association, and, although the sum is not
large, it is honorable to the memory OF the
deceased gentleman, and the feeling that
dictated it is in keeping with the patriotic
sentiments which have always distinguished
his family.
1t is said in Boston, that the many re-
cent robberies, including tho heavy one
three weeks since of Grant & Co.'S store, on
Washington street, are charged on the police
of the city, and three of the corps have been
arrested. 1t is rumored that several others
are implicated A rigid investigation will
be instituted by the Mayor and other city
functionaries.
The Hartford Times says in that region
the promise Of fruit was never more album
dant. The trees are laden down with bios
SONS, even the Oldest and most churlish
peach trees breaking out into Il youthful
bloom. The apple orchards have not for
years past hung so full of pink and white
clouds of blossoms.
At Pittsburg on the 10Th inst, Sylvester
G. Lander, convicted of uttering forged pa
pers for the purpose of buying stock in the
Monogahela Bank at Mckeesport, has been
sentenced to pay fine of $500, and serve
an imprisonment of three years in the peni-
Tertiary.
The challenge offered by the Chicago
Zouave Cadets to drill against any company
in the United States, has been accepted by
the New Orleans Zouave Company, and the
contest will take place in st. Louis about the
middle of June ensuing.
The advices from Costa Rica extended to
the 2ud instant Jose Maria Montealegre
had been elected President, with Francisco
Montcalcgre and Vicente Aguilar as substi-
.,.o, 4 IA nr ut E'y- prp IL