Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-06-08
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sion of Congress. This will afford ample
time to the Legislatures which only meet
biennially, as we'll as the others, TO district
their several States. The thirty-seventh
Congress being the fifth under the present
apportionment, the next apportionment will
not, by the law of 1850, 90 into effect until
the thirty ighth Congress, the term of which
commences March 4th, 1868.
The latest London papers say that Han
cock, the jeweler, Of that city has just fin
ished two splendid silver belts, fac SMILES
of the Champions bolt Of England. The
presentation Of these belts will take place at
| the Cremorne Gardens. Tickets are to be
half a guinea and five shillings. or $40
and Sl2j Il piece, and even at that price
there will be thirty thousand people pre-
| sent.
Quite number Of persons in Washington
county, Nd, have set their slaves free prcvi-
Gus to the lst day of June, when the law OF
the last Legislature prohibiting manumis-
sions unless the negroes leave the State,
went into effect. The Hagerstown Herald
says that .the absconding, maaumission and
sales to the South of slaves here, within re-
cent years, greatly reduced their number in
! this county,"
The New York Post very justly says OF
our iron horses: Not only have we driven
the British completely cut of the home mar
ket, but for several years we exported loco
motives to England, until the manufacturers
of that country adopted American ideas III
the construction Of their machines. We
have contended successfully with foreign
ers in other countries-on the banks OF the
Nile and the plateaus Of South America.
Seven of the swans presented by the city
of Hamburg to the city of New York, were
found dead in the lake Of the Central Park
on Wednesday afternoon, and ii is supposed
| they were poisoned. The other five could
not be found up to late hour last night,
but it is inferred they were hidden away IN
the bushes Oil the margin OF the lake, and
would be found.
The announcements of the death Of the
Hon Samuel ID. ingham, Of Pennsylvania,
president Jackson's first Secretary Of the
Treasury brings to mind the fact that his
death was prematurely announced some
twenty years ago, and he had an opportunl-
ty of reading what the newspaper scribes
had to say of him. Some of them forgot the
maxim, mot to speak i'll Of the dead"
Some few weeks ago it was announced in
the Trenton True Democrat; that the Tren-
ton Locomotive Works had secured the con-
tract for erecting large iron bridge across a
Southern river, amounting to Slo0OCO. y
party of English spectators have since I'M
derbid them, and the bridge will be made IN
England, of English iron.
Mr. Henry Dexter, an eminent American
sculptor, has just flushed, a bust of Gov
rnor Wise, of Virginia, and is receiving much
attention in consequence OF his having near
" completed models Of the busts Of the Coy
errors of the several States for lS59-'G0, of
which he has just inishcdthe thirtieth.
Mr.. Rarey, the horsc-tamer, has obtain
ed the gold medal Of the London Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. for
his system Of horse-breaking. lie had a
bad mshap At Oxford, when a colt broke
away with him, got among the people in the
seats, and injured several persons.
At meeting Of the New Jersey Trans
portation Company, the remarkable fact was
stated that, of thirty three millions people
| transported over the line in the last twenty-
five years, dating from its opening, not a SIN
| gle life has been lost.
No less than seven steamers left New
York on Saturday for various destinations.
Among these were two for Europe-the
Adriatic and Edinburg!I--which carried
over dozen ministers Of the Gospel on tours
| Of pleasure or of business.
Recently a native woman, while bathing
in river, near Clay Ashland, Liberia, was
seized and carried away by an alligator
This is the third time within six years that
persons have been destroyed on this river by
| these terociouS animals.
A letter from Fort Buchanan, New Mcxi-
co, dated March 18th, gives an interesting
account of the recovery from the Indians OF
beautiful Mexican child, ten years of age,
by Captain r. S. Ewell, first dragons, Uni
| ted States army.
The Seventh Regiment in New York will
encamp on the fifth Of July at the Rich
mond Club ground on Staten Island The
camp ground IS an elevated plateau near the
sea, about three fourths OF ii mile in circunl-
| ference.
The Circuit Court Of Talbot county, Md,
! has upset the will of the late ex Governor
| Stevens. Ills property will therefore be d.
vided between his daughter, Mrs. James,
| and the children Of his son, Edwin j. Ste
rens.
The Philadelphia Ledger says there has
Just been detected dangerous altered len
dollar note 1t purports to be Of the Citi-
zens' Bank, Midd!etown, Del, but IS really
altered from the genuine tSos OF the same
! bank.
The Rev. Charles Kingsley wei! known
in this country by his works Of fiction, has
been appointed to fiji the Chair Of Modern
History at Cambridge England, rendered
vacant by the death Of Sir James Stephens.
The Chicago Divorce Case, Burch VS..
Burch, which excites great interest, partic-
ularly in the " est as the parties named in
il are all of high standing there, is now in
course Of publication in the Chicago papers.
The expedition to The North Pole, by DR..
Hayes, will s2il in about : fortnight. The
sum necessary to furnish his outfit has been
obtained. Tie crew will consiSt Of fifteen
men