Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-03-15
News of the Day.
"76 saop tie Gerry age and body Of the TINES.

"7b shoUthe Gerry age and body Of the TIMES"
Mr.. MorrelPs tariff and loan bill will pro-
badly pass the House. The vote upon the
suspension of the rules to take it up, showed
large majority for it, though not two-thlrds,
How the Senate will receive and treat these
measures is to be seen. 1t may be said, how
ever, that the tariff policy is that OF Presl-
dent Buchanan, and that loan is much more
democratic, though perhaps less popular,
than the issue and reissue of treasury notes,
as a temporary expedent TO defer the pay
ment of debts The loan proposed by Mr..
MorrelPs bill is twenty millions.
Hyatt, committed by the United States
Senate to the Jail of the District of Columbia,
occupies large room in the southeast cor
ner Of the Jail, formerly occupied by Major
| French, the government defaulter. 1t has
been furnished with furniture by his friends,
and he will be supplied with food and other
comforts, so that he will suffer only from
want of exercise He is quite poorin health.
lie will probably apply for writ of habeas
corpus, which will bring the case before the
Supreme Court.
A number of gentleman, recently address
ed Gen. p B. Starke, the Commissioner of
Mississippi, asking him to address the citi-
zens Of Virginia, assembled in Richmond,
on the subject Of the Southern Conference.
Gen. Starke waited until he got the response
of Virginia, and that, he thinks, was Of
such a character as "to preclude the fitness
and propriety of addressing the citizens Of
Virginia" in the manner proposed.
The great object of sight-seers at present
in New York, is the African Gorilla, a won
derful animal, supposed to be a link between
the ourang-outang and the negro. It's only
of late that the public journals have devoted
much attention to the Gorilla-to his charac-
ter and habits, to his extraordinary strength
and dextcrity, and above all, TO his astoniSh-
ing intelligence.
! The Adriatic, one of the famous Collins
| line of steamers, is announced shortly to be
once more engaged in active service on the
Atlantic ocean, and ply between New York
and France. The enormous and steady IN
crease of our commercial relations with
France, has fully tasked the capacity of the
one American steamship line, and the Adri-
attic will figure rather as a companion than
as a rival Of the Fulton and the Arago.
Lieut. Spots, of the U. S. ship Cyane, has
been found not guilty of all charges prefer
red by Com. Lockwood, but Lieut.. Mozart
ney has been found guilty and ordered
home. Lieuts. Meade and Field, Of the Sara
nae, are to be court martialed for personal
encounter between themselves A court Of
inquiry is being held at Panama on Com.
Lockwood, of the l, S. ship Cyane.
The Annapolis, Nd Republican says
Friday last, the ar I. Bagwell," a vessel
hailing from Philadelphia, was captured by
the Sheriff of this county, onthe Chesapeake,
under the charge Of dredging for oysters IN
violation of law The boat, at the time OF
its capture, had been riAed Of its paper"
and deserted by its crew, but contained
about three hundred bushels Of oysters.
Rev. DR.. A. P. Peabody, just nominated
as Plummer Professor of Harvard College,
graduated at that institution at an earlier
age than any other of its alumni lie was
of the class of 1926, and at the time had just
reached his fifteenth year. Hon. Edward
| Everett was also youthful graduate being
only seventeen years old.
The SteubenyiIle (Ohio) Herald says that
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad has recent
ly contracted for its coal at SO cents per ton.
The Hudson River railroad pays $3.50 per
| ton for the same article, which is estimated
to be twice as cheap as wood. The New
York Central railroad uses wood, for which
| it pays 81 per cord.
The ST. Louis Republican says that the
/ Pa,,hl;con Convention held in that eity an
Saturday, was perhaps the sublimest tizzle
ever known in the State Of Missouri. Mea-
gre in number, inconsiderable III point OF
the influence of the men who composed II,
wanting in anything like enthusiasm, and
divided in sentiment
1t is stated that the value Of property sub
ect to taxation in California, IS over $780,
| 0O0, COO 1t is assessed at Sl3l, 600, OOO.-
Considering the age of this young member
of the confederacy, it must be acknowledged
that she is in fair way to become wealthy,
The citizens Of New York are much excl
ted on account of the sudden passage through
the Senate of that State, Of what is termed
the "Gridiron Railway Bill, 70 establish
several new railways in New York city.
The Charleston Mercury says that the
present unusually high prices, are induced
by parties who are already specializing for
the large increase Of table supplies required
during the Democratic National Convention.
The tobacco crop raised in York county,
Pa, this season, it Is estimated, will amount
to not less than four hundred thousand
pounds.
Letters from Calcutta to January IL, re-
ceiyed at the Boston Merchants Exchange,
state that freights continue to improve.
John Coyode is the treasurer of the ADO
lition Executive Congressional Committee.
Virginia News.
The first few hogsheads Of tobacco sent
from Charleston, in Kanawha county, to