Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-06-13
News of the Day.
To saow tile vsry age and body Of the TINES"

The Supreme Court of Maryland, or as 1t
is more properly termed the Court OF APP
peals, at Annapolis, has recently decided an
difficulty in the way of iinanciering. It's
substance annuls the intrinsic value OF GER
tain stock certificates issued by the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company, which
have heretofore been hypothecated by par
ties holding them, as collatcrals, on which
to raise money or procure loans. Large
loans, it is said, have been procured on these
certificates The decision revalues not only
certificates of the Company above named,
but similar issues OF any other company
or corporation throughout Maryland. The
same legal principle may likewise extend to
other States, as regards elementary law.
A case affecting railroad passengers has
recently been decided by the Supreme Court
of Massachusetts. A passenger was pro-
perly put out Of the cars on the Boston and
Worcester Road, for refusing to pay his fare.
By the aid of his brother the person elected
Immediately got on to the same train, and
offered to pay his fare, but was again put
out. The case was tried, and the jury
found that the first eectment was justitiable,
but the second was not so, and gave damages.
But the Supreme Court set aside the verdict,
and decided that the party had no right to
re-enter the cars in the same train from which
he had been lawfully elected, and the con-
ductor was justified in again expclhng him
after his re-entry.
The gap in the Mississippi railroad is fin
ished, and the connection through to New
Orleans is now complete. The time be-
tween New Orleans and Baltimore by this
route will be about Is hours. BY the COM
pletion of this link, there is now contlnu-
Gus railroad from Bangor Maine, to New Or
leans, except three short fcrrles-at hudson
river, Susquchanna and the Potomac rivers
This vast chain of railways is composed OF
eighteen independent roads, costing in the agg-
ercgatc, for 2,344 miles of road, 1891 ,0S4
or nearly one-tenth of the whole railway
system in the United States, of which 1896
miles are used in this continuous line.
The Steamship Great Eastern is expected
at New York on Sunday or Monday next
A New York letter says:-''Thc arrival of
the monster will be appropriately celebrated
by salvo of artillery at Fort Diamond
Governors Island, and other places between
the Battery and the Narrows. AS soon rs the
ship is signaled fleet of excursion and
other steamers will proceed down the bay to
meet her. and escort her up to the city,
One of fanderbilt's ocean steamships, and
perhaps one of the Collins boats, will join
the squadron"
The following officers of the National Di-
vision Sons Of Temperance, have been cleo
ted for the ensuing two years Most Wor-
: thy Patriarch, Dir. Sias l.. Conait, Of New
Jersey; Associate, Thos. J. Evans; Scribe,
DR.. T. A. Tickart, of Pennsylvania; Treasu-
rer, Robert NJ Foust, Of Pennsylvania;
Chaplain Peter g. McGregor, Of Nova SEQ
tia; Conductor, Nathaniel Constable, Of Mis-
souri,; Sentinel, John II. Batty, of Indiana.
Nashville, Tenn, was unanimously chosen as
the locality for the annual session Of lSGl.
cold Adams" whose many mishapa in
connection with the wild beasts Of Calilor-
MIA were recounted in Il paragraph We pub
lished the other day, has met with another
accident in his menagerie at New York.
Last week, when exhibiting his black bear
seized him by one OF his legs, biting it Ell
tirely through, and, raising him from the
ground, threw him distance Of five or SIX
feet. The trappcr's dog sprang at the ami
NAL, and after : severe contest, assisted by
Adams, the monster was srbdued.
! The dethroned Italian Princes seem de-
sirous ci fixing their residences on the Dor
ders of Lake Constance. The Grand Duke
Leopold has selected the villa heuchtenburg;
his son. the Grand Duke Ferdinand, is to
occupy the villa smgca, belonging to Prince
Leopold Of Bayaria tie Dt!chnSS OF Parma
has hired princely mansion at Kreu1lingen,
near Constance: whilst the Duke Of Modena
is about to set out for Hungary where he
owns considerable property
Although the reception Of the Japanese
in Philadelphia was q very brilliant affair,
several incidents occurred. it Is said, of not
q very creditahle character 10 the parties
wEo partici pated in them. \ letter writer
SAYS the post disgusting and brutal Ian
guage was pnspar>nsly used by the crowd
while the procession Was pas.n@:: over the
route This was especially the case i'll t...2
lower portion Of the city where the rougrs
most do congregate."
The prospect Of M adIournmeIs d Con
ercss on the 18th instant is at present not
/ ttattcrlnT, tnOC9n cHOFtS arc Dclii9 Sleil"-
ouslr made to that end. Many of the
friends Ct the Pacific railroad' bill are not
withoat houc ti.;lt the session will be extend
ed; III WHICH event tnc bill will again be
prcsscd-its chances OF passage haTing been
considerably strengthened by the un!cn CT
the central with the southern route.
T. the township Of Williams, near Lon
don, c. W, Il me- snecies Of grub, nearly re-
scmbling the black grub, l. destroying near
" all the green crops in the township, lpr
principally spring wheat, oats and barley
and its Gestruot;rc powers are mainly con-
Ened to uplands The i;.rrl2rs are already
cutting down large quantities OF tic grain
attacked by the grubs, for fodder for the cat
tie.
\ letter from St. Petersburg of the 10Th
SAYS: "Ihc last bit Of ice has now quilted
the Neva, which once more in summer blue
ness elides onward to Cronstadt. The nari-
CATION is entirely open, and the dco" "so1~do
o. the capital are quitting the hot and dusty
city-tho6e :yho have the means, to the con
tinent, those who nave not, to the islands.
Hon. Rcvegdy Johnson received . compll-
mcntary serenade at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
IN Sew York, on Saturday evening. 1t was
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