Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-09
News Of the Day.
"To show the gerry age and body Of the TINES.

"To show the gerry age and body Of the TIMES"
Private advices from Fort Chadbourne,
Texas, to April u, state that the Indians
in that vicinity have cut Oft the mountain
pass mail station on the Buttertield overland
route, killing three men and two boys, steal
ing mules and Strengthening the cattle OF the
company. Captain Wallace, commandment at
Chadbourne, sent his men out twenty-five
miles to the station, to bury the dead ana
take charge of the effects, until the employees
of the company should arrive. Captain Wal
lace represents the recent outrages on the
part OF the Indians on this route as unusual
ly daring.
Four companies of infantry, three ofcaval-
ry, and three of artillery, comprising about
1000 men, will remain at Camp Floyd to
keep the Mormons in subsection. Notwth-
standing the fears of Governor Cummings, 1t
is believed this force will be sufficient. Gen.
johnson, who is now at New Orleans, will
shortly arrive in Washington, when the de-
partment will have the benefit of his advice
in the matter. There will be u force of 81
900 men on the Mexican frontier this Sum
mer, without the aid of volunteers. Recent
advices indicate the necessity OF greater NUM-
bers on the Overland Mail route.
AT Philadelphia, May 7, B. D. Stetson's
Tattersall stables, on Filbert street, below
Thirteenth, were entirely destroyed by fire,
and twenty-eight horses were burnt One
was valued at 81 500, and another at 81 900
All were of valuable stock. The adjoining
buildings were partially burnt. Loss esti-
mated at S25 900; insured for only $780,
The origin of the fire was accidental.
The late Legislature of Massachusetts
passed an act whereby "any person who
shall wifuly send to the publishers of any
newspaper, for the purpose of publication, a
fraudulent notice of the birth OF a child, or
of the marriage of any parties, or of the
death of any person, shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars"
The thirtieth Conference of the Mormon
Church has been celebrated by four days
preaching, and testfying in favor Of Mormon
| ism, and was the occasion OF much rejoicing
among the Saints. Delegates from the most
distant settlements were present, and the
| Church was said to be in more hourlShlng
condition at present, than at any period du-
ing its existence.
Robert j. Walker will shortly appear
again before the Covode Committee in con-
nection with Kansas affairs The object is
| to ascertain what members of the Cabinet
are implicated in the connection OF the lie.
compton constitution. Georg ia and MiSsls-
sippi being the States referred to in the Pre-
| sident's letter as troublesome, their represen-
tatives are suspected.
The difficulty between the Federal and
Probate courts in Utah still continued, and
the most reckless men in the Territory were
released from the imprisonment to which they
had been sentenced, by writs of habeas cor
pus emanating from Judge Eckels. The
| army, it was thought, would soon take It's
departure from Camp Floyd.
The British Standard gives a list of one
hundred and twenty-five members of the
from the Established Church to the Roman
Catholic Church. Thy consist of two arch
deacons, eighty-tour other clergymen, and
hirty-nine laymen.
The steamship jamestown, which arrived
at New York on Sunday afternoon from
Richmond, &C., brought on the tw" colored
boys who were offered for sale in Hampton
Roads by Capt. Brayley. of the British
schooner Alice Rodgers. They were given
in charge of the British Consul.
Fred Douglas paper, which las been in
the weekly way for some time, has had a
touch of paralysis and is hereafter to APP
pear only once month.
If possible, the feeling between the Doug
las and anti-Doug las men, is more embittered
than before the Charleston Convention.