Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-06-04
News of the Day.
"1o saosc the gerry age and body Of the TIgEs.

mas written from LONDON 10 cenatof MaSoi,
declining to come over and testify before the
Senate Committee Itseems Mr.. Mason had
guaranteed his personal safety, and also Of
fered him an inducement, as Forbes writes:
LASTLY, respecting the pecuniary compen-
sation offered me, should | return and give
evidence, beg to inform the United States
Senate and It's Select Committee, that al
though the corrupt, repudIatlng and specu-
lating American humanitarians have brought
me into extreme financial difficulties, | an
not for sale"
A definite programme Of the future move
ments of the Japanese Embassy, is at last
announced. They will leave Washington
on Tuesday, the 9Th inst, remaining IN
Baltimore until the succeeding day. Then
proceed to Philadelphia, remaining there
until the llth From Philadel phia they go
to Niagara Falls, thence to Boston, and
thence to New York. They are expected to
arrive in the latter city about the Goth instant,
and will remain there until the steam frigate
Niagara is prepared to sail with them iorJa
pan, via Cape Horn.
The United States, Zouave Cadets of Chi
cago, propose to make a tour of the United
States, leaving that city about the Goth inst.
They will visit the following cities. Detroit
Buffalo, Rochester, Utica, Syracuse, Alba
nv, Troy, Boston, Providence, Hartford,
New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Washington, pittsburg, Cincinnati
tt, Lexington, Louisville, st. Louis and
Springfield The Cadets are the holders Of a
prize banner, awarded by the u. S. Agricul-
tural Society for perfection of drill.
Mrs. Marie Post, of Patterson, n. j., died
last Sunday at the age Of one hundred and
six years She was born in that neiShbor-
hood in 1854, and at the age of twenty-five
married Capt Post an officer In the Amerl-
can army, with whom she lived till lS47,
when he died, aged ninetyseven years.
Forty Of her descendants, including several
great great grandchildr and u daughter
eighty-one years old, attended Mrs. Posts
| funeral.
Letters received from Hcenan. by the
Arabia, state that himself, Mr. Wilkes, edi-
tor of Wilkes Spirit of the Times, and Billy
Mulligan, will be in New York in the Afri-
ca due on Wednesday or Thursday. He
makes no allusion to the reports that Savers
was to accompany him, for the purpose of
giving exhibitions in this country, but men
tons that a few would be given in London
and other cities of England, for the joint ben
eft of Sayers and himself.
A gentlemen from Havana, in the steamer
Quaker City, states that he saw and had an
agreeable interview with ex-Postmaster
Fowler on the day the steamer left. They
rode out together, and visited the American
Consul, Mr.. F. being 10th, at first, to call
upon that functionary, but finally yielding
to the solicitation of his friend. Mr.. Fowler
was we'll, but lacked his usual vivacity. He
made no illusions in reference to his future
movements.
The rejection Of the Mexican treaty by
the Senate was rather unexpected. 1t APP
pears that its strength with the democratic
members had been ovcrrated, and that they
would have rejected it had it been left to
them alone Mr.. Simmons amendments
were acceptable to the President and Senior
Mata, the Mexican minister, but the Senate
rejected them. The treaty was roughly
| handled by number Of southern senators.
The barque George Henry, Capt. so.
Buddington, and the schr. Amaret, tender
to the George Henry, formerly the Rescue,
of the Grinnell expedition, sailed from New
London Conn, on Tuesday. The George
Henry conveys G. f. Hall and Cud-la. aah,
his Esouimaux guide with the boat, s!edgc
| and outfits to the Arctic ocean to obtain adj
ditional particulars relating to the fate Of Sir
John Franklin.
The japanese kept within their hotel all
day on Tuesday last, engaged principally in
making up their programme for their COM
ing procedure eastward. They will leave
Washington probably about Wednesday,
and will stay day in Baltimore, and about
FIVE days in New York. How long they
will stay in Philadelphia, does not seem to
| have been determined on.
The Forrest divorce case is still alive, and
to all appearances will never receive It's
quietus. Judge Moncrictl granted the APP
pication Of Mr. FORESTS counsel TO be per-
mitted to give undertakings (upon appeal to
the general term from the order fixing ali
mony,) with more than two suretics, upon
payment of SO and costs; III all other res
poets the application was denied.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Pittsburg on Friday, Judge McCandlcss
delivered an elaborate opinion in the case Of
David Pollock. a citizen Of Chic, against
the county of Lawrence, directing that an
attachment be issued against the county
commissioners for refusing to submit to an
execution upon Judgment obtained for i'll
tcrcst on railroad bonds.
The amount in the treasury subject to
draft at the close Of last week was s., 800
900. The actual cash receipts from customs
Mt New York were half million Of dollars
less for April of this year than for the cor
responding month of last year, and are
three-fourths Of million less for May Of
this year than for the same month III 1899.
The forty-sixth anniversary Of the Ameri-
can Tract Society was held in Boston, on
Thursday Ex-Governor Briggs presided
The expenditures of the year were SG1 900;
the receipts GS,000. The meeting was har-
monious The prospects of the society arc
considered most hattering. Gov. Briggs
was reelected president.
The Senate committee on printing will re-
port in favor Of the House bill for the cstab-
lishment of O. government printing Office,
and the prospect is that it will pass the SEN
ate. This mode of executing the public
printing has been repeatedly before Congress