Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-26
News of the Day.
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the attention of merchants to the Importance
of the trade with Brazil, and to the active
steps now taken by England to secure it.
That journal says that recently one OF the
Royal Mail Line Of steamers from Rio de
Janeiro via Lisbon to Southampton, had no
less than three hundred passengers, while
the return freight list of the last steamer
from Southampton to Brazil, amounted to
more than $4,000. In addition to this,
sailing vessels engaged in the Brazilian trade
are prospecting.
Mr.. Wendell, has again appeared before
the Covode Committee, and testified that
while the President or Cabinet did not spe-
officially direct him to apply money to carry
the Lecompton bill through the House, his
intercourse with them at that time fully JUS
tilted the Inference that he was to be bene-
flied by the expenditure. Otherwise he
would not have appropriated $50, 600 or S40,-
900 Of his own money. The expectation
was that he would receive remunerating pat
ronage, which was subsequently realized IN
part.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Bulletin, writing April 18th, gives a gloomy
view Of the condition of affairs in the Washoe
region. Owing to the severity of the winter
and the scarcity of hay, large numbers of
cattle had died, and were continuing to die
at the date of writing, at which time snow
storms were prevalent. Nearly one-halt of
the stock of the whole region had persisted,
and farming opera would be greatly Grip
Piled IN consequence.
The presiding officer of the House of Rep
resentatives of Sardinia, has presented to
Speaker Pennington, for that of the United
States, thirty-two volumes of the proceed
ings of the Sandman Congress and execu-
tive documents. The charge d'ahairs, in
making the communication, expresses the
hope that their contents may prove lnteres-
ting, and shares the amicable feelings which
actuated his fellow countrymen.
During the trip of the steamer B. L.
Hodge, last week, from Shreveport to New
Orleans, a deformed dwarf named B. l..
Heath, said to be from Virginia, and school
master by profession, made an unprovoked
attack, with a knife, on the passengers in
the night when they were asleep, killing
Charles NJ. Forb and R. }. Lyle, of Tennes-
see, and wounding another. 1t is supposed
he is insane.
Mr.. J. B. Green, whose exploits in diving,
with or without submarine armor, arc among
the wonders of this age, is now in Philadel
phia, sadly crippled man, his lower limbs
having become paralyzed in his extraordi-
nary labors to recover the iron safe OF the
steamer Atlantic in Lake Erie. He will
probably never again be able to return to
the business to which he had devoted the en-
ergies of his life.
1t very much amuses the japanese med-
cal men to hear themselves called doctors"
When Commander Lee, opened the door Of
their room few days ago and pointed to
those entirely shaved headed gentlemen who
were looking over their effects which were
scattered all over the floor beds and boxes,
and said, "These are the doctors," they
laug hed and repeated doctors" as lift struck
them as being something very funny.
In Philadelphia, on Tuesday, a policeman
named VIM. Kochesperger died from sim
gular cause TO increase his muscular
strength he was in the habit ofpractising
with dumb-bels at the house, while
off duty. On Monday he was thus engaged,
when from too violent exercise he inflicted
an internal injury. The next day he died
from the effects of it.
The Providence Journal says that young
lady, who is of course poetical, and who has
just returned from Europe in the Adriatic,
describes the engines of the steamer as ''two
of the politest monsters that ever issued
from Pandemonium; happy family, dan
cling the eternal Lancers with grace and
ease, and without boisterous noise or pre-
tence'
At late term of the Scott county Miss
Circuit Court, man named Mathew Jor
don was found guilty Of betting dime with
q minor, and sentenced to paya fine OF $500
and be confined in the county Jail for three
months. He was indicted for betting with Il
minor knowing him to be such, and had he
been convicted on that charge he would have
gone to the penitentiary for two years.
Affairs at the Brooklyn navy yard now
wear Il gloomy appearance. In consequence
of the appropriation being exhausted, of the
twelve hundred workmen only the small
force of two hundred and fifty have been re-
tanned. This occasions great distress, as
these men depended for their daily bread on
their employment.
A teamster named Thomas Downing. on
Tuesday last at Troy, n. Y, seized hold of
the tongue of one of his horses for the pur-
pose of making him draw, and i'll the at
tempt pulled nearly the entire tongue out of
the animal The brutal act created a gener-
al sensation of horror, though the human
brute was permitted to escape UNPUBLISHED.
Extensive and liberal preparations are be-
ing made in Philadelphia for the reception
of the japanese Embassy. Major General
Patterson will call out the entire military
force of the city, and invitations are to be ex-
tended to the military of the surrounding
counties to take part in the pageant.
AS the ship w. F. Storer, Capt. Trask,
for Liverpool, was about getting under weigh
from the North river, New York, on Wed
nesday, mutiny occurred among the sea-
men, which resulted in the death of the
steward and serious injury of three sailors.
The Charleston Mercury" says: I'VE
understand that about fifteen negroes have
boon MISSING since the adjournment of the