Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-02-21
News Of tho Day.
"7o shoao tile gery age and body Of the TIMES.

from San Francisco to the afternoon of the
2Sth. A movement was on foot to change
the capitol of the State to San Francisco.
Mr.. Weller denounces the scheme to elect a
successor to Mr.. Gwin this winter, and 1t
would probably be abandoned. Two vessels
had sailed from San Francisco Tor Japan.
The San Francisco markets were rather IN
active.
The steamer IIabana with Havana advl-
ces of the 18th, has arrived. Business at
Havana was dull-Sugar firm at 93(99i
reals; stock 10000 boxes, against 6o,ooo
boxes same time last year. Freights were
dull.
Intelligence from Brownsville to the 9th
says that important unpublished disclosures
have been made as to the completely Of the
Mexican authorities with Cortlnas, which, 1T
is believed, will decide the war.
The ship Union, from New York for New
Orleans, was totally wrecked on Gingerbread
Shoals on the I'd inst The cargo was most
ly saved in damaged state. The crew and
| thirteen passengers were saved and taken to
| Nassau. The wreckers stripped and burn
ed the hull The ship Ashland, of Boston,
for New Orleans, with cargo of ice, was
| wrecked on the I'd inst, on Little Isaac $
Island The wreckers saved the rigging and
sails The crew were saved.
AT Charleston, S. c., Feb. Is, the United
States Court assessed damages on Captain
Church, master of the ship VIM. Patton, OF
| $500, with the costs of the suit. This was
an action to recover the penalty on a bond
under the act of 1903, requiring the masters
Of vessels before obtaining q clearance, to de-
liver to the collector 4 certified copy OF the
crew list, and bring back or account for all
persons comprising the crew.
The Planet Venus, on clear evenings,
now forms beautiful object in the western
sky. She was very brilliant last evening,
and, to the unassisted vision, almost at her
maximum in apparent magnitude. Judging
| by nothing more precise than the length OF
| the interval between sunset and the setting
of this lovely next neighbor to our duller
| sphere, she must be near her greatest eastern
| elevation.
An extensive movement as we have alrea-
| dy noticed has been made among the Journey
men shoemakers of the principal shoe man
ufacturiny towns of Massachusetts,, in favor
Of a general strike for higher wages. The
present scale of prices they declare utterly
| inadequate to their necessities. Only ten
out of more than one thousand had refused
| to strike.
The bill for the expulsion of the free color
ed population from Mississippi which passed
the House of Representatives of that State,
was defeated in the Senate. Gov. Pettus
has appointed Peter B. Stark, commissioner
| to Virginia, in pursuance of the resolutions
| on federal relations, adopted by the Leglsla-
ture. The Legislature adjourned sine die on
the 18th inst.
The Paraguayan commissioner has met
with cordial reception from the executive
officers of our government. After the formal
exchange of the ratihcations OF the Bowlln
treaty this week, he will enter upon his du-
ties under the special convention for the set
Element of the indemnity due to the Hopkins
Company.
A boy named Henry D. Kunkle. tele-
graph operator, at Monroeville, Ohio, has
been arrested, and confessed to having robbed
the mail ut that place, almost every day dur
ing the past year. Nearly bushel oil
letters were found in an out house, rltled OF
their contents.
Since 1913 there has been produced in the
United States over five hundred million dol
lars worth of gold. We are now producing
(says the Journal Of Commerce) gold and
silver, within the territorial limits OF the
United States, at the rate of over sixty mil
lions per annum.
Those who have closely scrutinized the
subject, say the members of the House of
Representatives are almost equally divided
ON the question OF the ranking privilege, and
the preponderance of feeling is against its
abolition.
The Spanish brig Victoria, from Carde-
mas, bound to Baltimore with a cargo of mo-
lasses, went ashore at Wicomico, Chesapeake
bay, on the 18th, bilged and filled with wa
ter. Assistance has been sent down from
Norfolk.
At Brantiord, Conn, Feb. Is, the manu-
factories of Squire Il Parsons, and Grilley 4
1 STkilS, were uestIoSeu ny AiC. I4uSo vi
Squire & Parsons $40, 600, and of Grilley 4
Perkins $4,000. Insurance $4,000, and
$1,000.
The great Mobile harbor bill has passed
the Alabama Senate, having previously
passed the House. 1t assumes minimum
depth of fifteen feet from the bar to the
wharf
The Lake Shore express train, while run
ming slowly near Cleveland, Ohio, was run
into by Il locomotive from behind. The pas
senger ears were badly broken, but no seri-
Gus injury to the inmates is reported.
At Cincinnati, Feb. IS, FIRE occurred in
the liquor establishment Of c. A. Bassing,
No. SO Broadway, damaging the building to
the extent of $4,000. The loss is mostly
covered by insurance.
Miss Susan f. White, daughter of Mr..
Thomas n. White, of Bristol, Il. L., died in
that town on the 18th inst, from the result
of injuries by fall on the ice while skating
some weeks since.
Our French journals announce the death
of Count Serrurier, Grand Officer Of the LC
gion of Honor former Peer of France, and
mt one time French Minister to the United
States.
The friends Of protection are confident that