Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-08-06
NEWS or THE DAY.
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some distance to the right hand, under luil
speed, making for bay-head on the oppo-
site side of the track, considerable distance
ahead. The fleet animal put forth all It's
energies to gain the desired point. and the
engineer may have poked up the fire little
for it was about SO good and so good with
the iron horse and his nimble-footed compe-
titor. Finally the point of crossing sought
by the animal was about to be reached, ana
it made one desperate leap to cross the track
in advance, but the locomotive struck It.
breaking three legs and thus rendering 1t an
easy prize"
The New Orleans Picayune says:-"lhe
summer of 1860 will long be remembered, as
par excellence, the hot summer. We need
not recapitulate our daily record OF the last
two months, by way of showing how hot 1t
has been. Our contemporaries OF the press,
in the North, South, East and West, are
making similar reports In Charleston the
Courier says the time past i'll the history OF
that city recorded on the memory OF the most
aged inhabitant, affords the record OF no
SMELL of hot weather worthy to be compared
to the present, either for intensity or length
of duration. This unparalleled heat began
there on the 2Sth Of June, and since then
has been sustained with scarcely any abate-
ment."
At meeting of the members of Bethel
Society, St. Mary's Circuit, held on the list
of July, to consider the action of the late
General Conference on the subject OF sla-
very DIR Bunting was chosen Chairman, and
George r. Cooke, Secretary. Among other
things, the following resolutions were adopt
ed Resolved, That the time has come for
a separation of the Baltimore Conference
from the Jurisdiction of the General Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
That we have undated confidence in the
fidelity of the Baltimore Conference to its
pledges, and will cordially adhere to its ju-
risdiction, if independent of that of the
aforesaid General Conference.
At the county convention lately held in
St. Mary's county, Md, to appoint delegates
to the State Breckenridge convention, Oscar
Miles, ESQ.,, State Senator from said county,
made an address. In the course of his re-
marks, Mr.. Miles reflected somewhat severe
" upon the action of John F. Dent, esq,
former Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Mr.. Dent interrupted him by saying that he
would hold him Mr.. Miles, personally res
ponsible, out of the convention, for his re-
marks, and it is stated that meeting Mr..
Miles soon afterwards, he attacked him, dur
ing which Mr. Miles, it is said, was very
roughly handled. The affair has created
considerable sensation.
The Hartford Times tells story Of a
young man who came down to New York to
see the big ship. After an absence of two
or three days, he returned to his happy home
in Hartford. On being asked his opinion of
the Great Eastern, he declared, with very
naughty oath, his firm conviction that there
was no such ship that the Great Eastern was
a myth, and New York swindle. The on
ly momento he preserved of his visit to the
Empire City was miniature warmlng-pan,
fashioned of brass, which he called Il watch,
and which he obtained by exchanging gold
lever and paying respectable "boot." The
Young man is satisfied with his trip.
\ villainous Seoundrel who had committed
a larceny, near Eiwood, Nebraska Territory,
recently, was caught by the Vigilance Com
nittee of that place, who, to alarm and pun
ish the criminal hung him by the neck I'M
till he was nearly strangled, when they
lowered him. Fancying that his end was
near, the terrified rogue, upon recovering his
power of speech, confessed that several muir
ders had been committed by him, and that
he was engaged in the Mountain Meadow
massacre about two years since. lie was
handed over to the authorities.
jacob Forney, late superintendent of In
dams in Utah, it seems was ordered not to
draw upon appropriations for the fiscal year
ending June Both, 1860, without previously
furnishing estimates. Not having complied
with this direction, his drafts upon the trea-
sury, to the amount Of SCI, 900 or 5000,
have not been honored. Moreover, it Is
charged against him that, in his purchases
of mules stores, etc, very much less was
really paid than appears upon the face of the
receipts. His accounts are now In course OF
rigid investigation at the Indian bureau.
We understand from the Shelby (Ky.)
News that q suit has been instituted in the
Shelby Circuit Court involving the question
of slavery in the northwestern territory, as
affected by the ordinance of 1877. The
plaintiff asserts that his master became a
permanent FcSlueilI vi anu tOuh llit
plaintiff to that State, and there kept him
during the period of his residence therein.
The plaintiff claims that by virtue of the or
dinance of 1877 and the Constitution and
laws of Illinois, this residence liberated him
from slavery.
The Alleganian, a paper published in the
village Of Wellsville, n. Y, and which has
heretofore been in the interests Of Mr.. Doug
las, has recently changed hands, being pur-
chased by widow lady in that place. Some
parties, fearful that it would hereafter be
published as a Breckenridge paper, resolved
to destroy the press, and on Tuesday night
it was broken into by some rutfans, and a
portion of the type, leads and rules were
taken out and thrown into the GeneSee river
The gold deposits at the United States mint
in Philadelphia, for the month of July,
amounted to S97 ,04O; the silver deposits and
purchases of silver to Sl4, Isl; and the cents
of old issue in exchange for the nickel, s.
6S5-making total Of deposits OF - l5,9o'.
The coinage for the same time was-ln gold
Sl0l.975, wholly in double and halt eagles:
in silver SS7 COO and in new cents. $4,000.
The whole value Of the coinage is 500, $50, and
the whole number OF pieces coined ,99S,e3o
The Philadeiphians who went down to
Cape May to see the Great Eastern, on board
the steamer John 4. Warner, consider that