Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-07-07
News OF the Day.
"To sAow tie cesy age and body Of the TINES.

The Texas Boundary Commission was at
Fort Cobb at last accounts. The I. 5. Com
missioners insist on running the line from
the point affixed by Capt. Marcy. The Tex
as Commissioner protest against this action,
on the ground that the line was now ez-par-
te Trouble has also arisen IN reference TO
what fork of Red River constitutes the boun-
dairy. Texas claims the North Fork, while
the United States claim Prairie Dog river,
known as the boundary. The Commission
was in fine health,
1t is understood that the government is
considering measures whereby the Calilor-
MIA mails may be transported by naval steam
ers. As the weight OF Pacific mail matter is
a ton and half for each day OF the year, the
idea Of its transportation across the CONT
nent by land seems impossible. 1t is said
that the Panama Railroad Company and the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company will coop
crate with the government steamers between
New York and Panama.
A terrible accident through the agency of
crinoline occurred lately in one Of the En-
glish ports on board of the Royal Albert
While the decks were thronged with visitors,
the dress of a lady, in passing one OF the sig
nal guns, caught the percussion hammer
and brought it over upon the fuse. The gun,
which was loaded with blank cartridge,
went off, and one Of the crew, standing in
front Of the gun had his arm blown oil close
to the shoulder.
On the fourth instant Mr.. Henry Mercier
was introduced to the President and deliver
ed his credentials as envoy extraordinary
and minister plenip otcntiary Of his Majesty
the Emperor of the French to this Govern
mont The date of this presentation could
not fail to call up interesting associations,
which we are not surprised to learn, were hap
PLY alluded to by the President in the re-
marks which he made on the occasion.
We regret to announce the death Of Mrs.
Jane Z. Hicks, wife of Governor Hicks of
of Nd. She died at the Government House
in Annapolis ON Tuesday morning, after a
painful and lingering illness, in the 10th
year of her age. The Annapolis Gazette
says that Mrs. Hicks was Il most estmablc
lady, aud greatly beloved by all who knew
her modest worth.
Judge Campbell, of the Supreme Court,
delivered on Saturday, in Mobile, IN elabo-
rate opinion in the case of the United States
against r. II. Horne, under an Indictment
for violation of the act against the African
slave trade, ordering that process issue to
the Marshals of the State Of Mississippi, as
well as 10 the Marshal of the Alabama
district, for the arrest of the accused
Intelligence has been received from Rut-
land, Vermont, which states that G. J. North,
special mail agent, had arrested john
Whtcomb, charged with robbng the United
States and Canada mails while under his
charge at the depot of the Rutland railroad.
Ten bags are missing. 1t is believed that
there will be little difficulty in tracing the
robbery to Whitcomb.
Western papers have frequent notices Of
the progress of the wheat harvest, in which
farmers are now actively engaged, in the
southern parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
The yield everywhere is spoken Of as very
abundant-the best that has been realized
for several years. Corn is represented as
looking very promising, except that in some
places drouth has retarded its growth.
When the body of Mrs $. H. Williams,
Of Memphis, one of the victims Of the steam
err Ben Lewis disaster. was recovered, it was
found that it had been robbed Of a consider;t-
BILE amount of iewelry, and one ofthe fingers
had been much lacerated by the fruitless eff
forts of the murderous pirates to get of a
plain gold ring which fitted very closely.
The Orphans Court of ST. Mary's county,
Md, has designated Miss Nina Isabella Tay-
lor, daughter Of William NJ. Taylor. of St.
lnigoes district, as the party to Ell Joy the
privilege of free scholarship in the Baltimore
Female College Cor the ensuing scholastic
year. Each county Of the State is entitled
to one scholarship.
In New York q child three or four years
old took from shelf small bottle contain
inc nitric acid and swallowed the poison
His screams attracted the attention of his
mother, and on reaching the room she found
him running about in great agony. Not
withstandng the early administrations of Il
physician. the child died in about six hours.
No rain has fallen in New Mexico this
year, and the crops are almost entirely des-
troyed. There has never heen such scar
city of provisions and forage i'll that country
as at present Corn is selling at almost any
price asked. Troops from Utah are expect
ed about the last Of July.
Four children were accidentally poisoned
at New York on Monday evening last
Whilst playing in the street they found a bot
tie partly filled with blue ink, which they
| filled with water aud drank. Soon after
wards they were all seized with vomiting,
and early on Tuesday two of them died.
\ splendid gold-mcunted cane has just
been finished at Calls in exquisite style, and
of Mount Vernon wood, inscribed as follows:
"The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Rights-and tho
Union" from Mis>issppians to Caleb Co>li-
ing-prcScnted July fourth, l5G0.'
We learn from Key West that Judge Mar
yin, on hu1eay co.puS, has discharged from
arrest the foreign scamen on the recent.
" captured SLAYER. The American portion
are still III custody, under the act Of Com
gress of 1920.
An election was held in Leavenworth couu-
~, Kansas on the I'd instant on the issuing
of bonds to the amount of Sl50,0Oo to the
Leavenworth and Cameron Railroad Compa-
ny. The returns indicate large majority
for the subscription.
Henry Ten Eycis, esq: Of Cn@enoyia, n.