Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-02-15
News of the Day.
"T0 sAow he rery age and body o the TINES

ing important offices:-Having emigrated
from Ohio to California, he was in 1862 cleo
ted Representative in Congress from that
State. Failing in 4 reelection, he WAS APP
pointed by President Pierce collector Of Gus
toms at San Francisco, which post he has oc-
cupied for three years. Two years after his
retirement he was elected, in September last,
Governor Of California, and Immediately
thereafter as United States Senator in place
of Broderick
A most important project, Is now agitat;ng
New Orleans. This is no other than direct
steam communication with Liverpool. 1t Is
proposed to establish Company with cash
| capital Of 100000 in twenty thousand
| shares of sel0 each directors to be chosen
on both sides the water. A fleet Of six iron
screw steamships of 1900 tons each, will
inaugurate the good work" The Liver
| pool agent is pushing the matter forward,
I and there exists but little doubt of q hearty
cooperation on the part of our great impor-
| ting and exporting houses. One-halt the
stock has already been taken in England,
and one steamship is now being built.
| Ii has been ascertained that from the 10Th
to the 25th November last, between SOU, 900
and $500. 600 in counterfeit notes of $50 and
500, on the Bank Of Philadelphia, were sue
cessfully put into circulation in the States
of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee Miss!s-
sippi, Alabama, Louisiana, aud Missouri,
being exchanged for genuine money, mostly
Missouri currency This is the largest and
most successful yillany of the kind on record,
and il must have been concocted and CON
sumated by quite u number of persons. On
" one of them, named Bacorde, has yet been
detected
Lord Sinclair is the Oldest member of the
peerage Of the United Kingdom, having been
born in 1868; and, which is stranger still,
he has held the honors of the peerage for no
less than eighty-four years-a period, we be-
lieve, without precedent. His lordship is
no longer member Of the House of Peers,
having ceased to hold a Scotch representative
peerage at the late general election. The
oldest members Of the House of Lords are
Lord Lyndhurst and the Earls of Stair and
Guilford, who were born in lII2.
The bridge across the Mississippi river at
Clinton, Iowa, is completed, and ears passed
over il on the 18th of January 1t is sub
stantial structure, costing about 100000, ex.
| tending from the eastern shore of the river
| to an island, the main channel being un'
| bridged, and the cars crossing by large
steam ferry-boat. Some of the papers seem
to anticipate the final extension of the bridge
across the whole breadth Of the river, but il
is understood such is not the present inten'
| ton.
1t seems probable that there will be at
least two Arctic expeditions fitted out at an
early day. DR.. Hayes-so well known
from the circumstances of his connection
with Kane's second expediton--!s under.
stood TO be making his arrangements for an
expedition from this country. Besides this,
| in England, Mr. William Parker Snow, who
is already known in connection with Arctic
matters. is preparing an expedition.
| The death of Burton, the comedian, has
caused great sorrow in artistic and literary
circles. lie was more prosperous in world
" sense than many members of the precarl'
Gus profession he followed The Herald
states that his property in Hudson street is
| valued at $50, 900; ''Glen Cove" estate, Sl4O,.
900; the theatre in Chambers street, S2ld,'
| 900.
The Maine House of Representatives has
q sort of Daughter of the Regiment" in the
person of a woman in bloomer costume, who
daily takes her seat in the area of the House
with as much regularity and punctuality as
the Speaker himself She is now serving
out her third term, and sh ows as much In
terest in the doings Of the body as many OF
Its members.
A man named Francisco Javior Lao,
only twenty-three years of age, was recently
executed at Havana, and before his death
confessed to having committed twenty-three
murders, besides innumerable robberies. lie
made the confession after taking laudanum
with the view of perpetrating suicide, but
having recovered was executed.
John Bowen was executed at Whining
ton, Del, on Friday last, for the muir.
der of John w. Dowlin, in August last. lie
died protesting repentance, acknowledged he
committed the deed whilst supplied with
LIQUOR, and his last words were caution to
'his friends and associates to beware oflager
beer saloons and strong drink"
The New York House of Assembly has de-
cided, by large vote, that the property
qualification of negro man as a voter, shall
be abolished This test was Il subject Of dis
pute as far back as 1921, and Mr.. Van Blu
rem was often censured for his support of
free negro suffrage. 1t was one OF the strong
est items used against him in 1910,
Mr.. Walter Dickson, who was the head OF
the family injured at Jafa, in January, 1858,
by number Of brutal rutianS, died at Eiar-
ward, Mass on the Dist ult. He received
several blows from club, sword, &c, and
as he was about GO years of age, the violence
perhaps shortened his life.
1t has been stated that the Rhode Island
Exchange Bank at Greenwich, had failed, on
account Of lis cashier proving to be de
faulter. ID. C.. Kenyon Is said 10 bo the de-
iaulting officer and has made full confeS-
sion 10 Mr. Robbins, the cashier OF the
Merchants Bank of Providence.
1t is reported from Washington that the
United States troops with the exception OF
small number. will be withdrawn from
Utah and dispersed through New Mexico
and Arizona, within range of the posts be-
tween FL Paso and Fort Yuma.
The Kansas Territorial Legislature have
1921 : l:ll ,rnb;hit;nr 10 verx, - tha tarri