Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-02-16
News of the Day.
"76 show tie oery age a'ldbody Of The TINES.

Inc CanId re correspondents " VIZ NeOpN"
lican says the Speaker ofthe House OF hep
resentatiyes of New Mexico, introduced a
bill to repeal the law passed at the last SEES
sion of the Assembly, protecting slavery IN
New Mexico and on the next day resolu-
ton was almost unanimously adopted request
ing him TO resign the speakcrshlp, which he
did. He subsequently resigned his seat III
the House and went home. Mr.. Cueliar
was elected speaker in his place, and the bill
in question was referred to select commit
tee. who reported in favor of its rejection,
which was done without dissenting voice
A young man who had taken passage on
Mississippi steamboat from Memphis last
week, was detected with the captains
watch and a valuable Masonic emblem in
pointed Judge Lynch court, which tried
and convicted the offender, and sentenced
him to receive thirty lashes upon his bare
back. The punishment was duly inflicted
and the thief set ashore to plod his weary
way alone.
\ divorce, case is now pending in Chica-
90, in which the defendant, Mrs. Mary W..
Burch, wife of Isaac II. Burch, a well known
banker, is charged with adultery with Mr..
David Stuart. formerly member of Con-
gress from the State of New York. The
principal evidence in the case is the lady's
own confession, a la Sickles, which now,
however, being among her friends in New
York, she retr&cts, averring that it was ex-
torted from her.
A fashionable young lady a few days since
went into store In Norfolk, Va, and after
a thorough examination Of It's contents,
bought a dimes worth of thread, which she
ordered to be sent to her residence, over a
mile distant. The proprietor procured an
express wagon, the driver of which took the
package, backed up to the door, lowered the
tail-board, delivered the package, and col
lected fifteen cents, the usual charge.
The John Brown affair is creating a great
excitement i'll Hayti, and is much comment
ed on by the journals. LIE Progress comes to
US in mourning for the late "hero" Of Har-
per's Ferry. On the Goth of January, mass
was chanted in commemoration "of the
frightful martyrdom of the abolitionist John
Brown by the infamous rufians of the south
ern portion OF the American Union.
A bill is now before the Legislature Of
New York, and will probably be passed, ex-
empting the earnings of married woman
from attachment for the debts of her husband,
and giving her the exclusive control OF her
earnings, as she now has of the property
which she possessed at the time of her mar
riage.
From an English papers correspondence,
we learn that, at Calcutta, at the Governor
Generals ball, a beauty appeared who was
not put out" though apparently on fire. In
countless diminitive bags of gauZe she had
i'm prsoned FIRE flies, and these, tackled on to
her dress, far outshone the diamonds OF the
Oriental ladies.
The riotous proceedings at St. Georges
tPuseyte) Church, East London, reached a
climax on Sunday night, January 29th, when
the altar was threatened with demolition
considerable property destroyed, and the Of
ficials threatened with violence The Coy
eminent had promised its interference.
A gentleman in Cincinnati, named Wig
gins, after forty years Of steady labor, and
the expenditure of a large capital, believes
he has succeeded in planning piece OF me
chansm that will serve not only perpetual
motion, but allow Of its application 70 all
sorts of machinery.
A rich miser in Auburn, n. y, has made
arrangements 10 be buried in Owasco Lake,
beautiful sheet of water near that town.
He has stone co fin made, which takes ten
woke Of oxen to draw it. lie gives man q
good farm for burying him. lie i to take
him to the middle of the lake and sink him.
The old copper cents, red and rusty, are
rapidly disappearing from circulation. AT
the Philadelphia mint, where they are being
redeemed they were received during the
month of January to the value Of -, 9l5;
which is doing well considering that It is q
cent business.
A young lady Miss Stewart, Of Cumber-
land county, Pa was 50 badly scared a
few weeks ago by meeting a will-o-the-wisp,
that she was taken i'll on reaching home
and in short time afterwards died from the
effects of the prostration Of her nervous sys-
tenn, superinduced b. the fright.
The Mayor of Richmond has declared that
hereafter all men convicted before him Of
the brutal conduct Of beating their wives,
will he sentenced to the chain-gang, unless
they can give the best security for future
good conduct.
The portion of the Richmond and Fred
ericksburg Railroad between Fredericksburg
and Aqua Greek IS now being relaid with
the new rail.
The Fredericksburg Herald says:-"lho
farmers in this vicinity are busily engaged
in their spring ploughing. The wheat is not
looking well, though We hear of exceptions.
The Martha Washington Femal; College,
Mt Abingdon, Va, has been opened under the
Presidency Of Rev. VIM. A. Harris, former
President of Lagrange College, Texas.
Tho Omaha Nebraskian thinks itself war
rauted in saying that the goldfelds Of Wes-
tern Nebraska and Kansas. will prove richer
than those of California.
Frauds