Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-03-24
pUBIIsHgD DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY BY
4 EDGAR sNOWDEN.
ALEXANDRIA,:
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH "a, 1860.
News Of tho Day.
"7b sso,o the cery age and body o tas TIMES"

condition. The japanese evade the faithful
observance of the most important OF the
treaty stipulations, or meet them with
passive resistance. He adds that he is un-
wearied in his efforts to convince the govern
ment of the dangerous course it is pursu-
ing, and until its eyes are open to the perlls
it incurs by its present course, no change tor
the better can be looked for,
Covode's Investigating Committee have
authorized Mr.. Hoffman, Sergeant-at-Arms,
TO seed TO Chicago for Mr.. Ike Cook, late Post
Master of that city. 1t is supposed to be for
the purpose of finding out whether the Ad-
ministration or any Of its officers have used
money or other improper influences TO carry
elections in the State of Illinois. Cook has
professed to know an immense deal OF the
proceedings of Mr.. Buchanan and his subor-
dinates, and the Committee propose to fiod
ont, il possible, if his statements are true.
The Committee on Ways and Means will
soon be ready to report the Deficiency and
Post Office Appropriation bills. The total
amount appropriated by the bill for the next
fiscal year, will be about S45 ,OOO,0 900, to
which may be added the permanent appro-
priations 5000, 900; and the estimated bal
ance on hand on the Both of June next. OF
uuexpsnded appropriations. will be $4,000
000-making total subject to control du-
ring the year Of S65, 100000.
The Charleston Courier, in an article upon
the subject Of the expected rush to the ap-
preaching convention. says; During the
presence of that promscuous crowd, the pri-
vate doors of Charleston will never have been
so tightly shut and carefully guarded as then.
She will confer more watching than hospi-
tality upon the 'camp-followers, who have
come to swarm at the assembling of a nation
nj convention"
1t has lately been the custom OF such OF
the negroes, of Philadelphia, as possess the
requisite cash and frugalty, to purchase
land in the near by city of Camden, \. j.,
and to build and settle in that place The
disgust of the citizens thereat, however, has
now become so great that it seems their re-
preventative in the States Senate has pre-
scented to that body petition praying for
law prohibiting all further negro emigration.
Mr.. F. w. Lohouse, residing in Buffalo,
returned home on Sunday evening last,
with his family, after days absence, and
leaving them on the sidewalk. he proceeded
up stairs for the purpose OF striking light.
Although he perceived a strong smell OF gas,
he thoughtlessiy ignited match, when an
explosion Immediately followed. Windows,
furniture, &C., were strewn in fragments
through the street and about the premises.
and Mr.. Toulouse was Frustrated, his hair
burnt of, and his face blackened as from the
effects of gunpowder.
The famous Breach of Promise Case for
100000 has been working along with
slow monotouy. st. Louis keeps her inter
est in il we'll up, and the seventh day found
the court room densely crowded. The fair
plaintiff was present, attired in deep black,
and heavily yelled; the defendant was also
on the spot, preserving, one OF the papers
says, "a wonderful placidity of countenance."
One of the witnesses, a domestic named Re-
becca Lehman, grew stubborn, and refused
TO testify until threatened with jail.
The New Orleans Bulletin says:-'We
propose that our capitalists take prompt mea-
sures to erect shoe manufactures during the
spring and summer, and engage such OF
those Massachusetts, and New Hampshire
strikers as may wish to come here at fair wa
ges, agreed upon beforehand, to commenced the
shoe manufacturing business in Louisiana,
somewhere in the vicinity of New Orleans,
IN the fall"
A correspondent of the Richmond Wing,
in Boston, well.informed of political move
ments in his State, writes that there are al
ready over three hundred and fifty National
Union organizations in Massachusetts,; and
that the Constitutional Union movement is
taking rapid and earnest hold of the hearts
and judgments ofthe people of the Northern
States. E
John Lathrop Motley, of Boston, author
Of the History of the Rise of the Dutch Re-
public" has been chosen Corresponding
Member of the French Institute, in the de-
partment known as the academic des Sciea-
ces Morales ct Politques, and in the place
made vacant by the lamented death of Mr..
Prescott. {
Potatoes have experienced great fall
within the last two weeks, and are now sell
ling through Burlington county, n. j., at
from 80, to 81 cents per bushel, and it is
thought that prices will rule still lower, as
there is q large stock on hand, and no signs
of rot.
We see it stated that the friends of Cap
tain Brennan, concerning whose wife we
copied paragraph from the New York
Tribune" regard the statement made in it
that she has been seen in Florence-as
false and ibellous.
1t has been determined that the chaplains
in the British army shall hereafter wear
uniform black frock coat with standing
COLLAR, and the royal arms in gold thread on
either sido the front laced with black silk,
ana the sleeves frogged.
An application for divorce is before the
Pennsylvania legislature, grounded on the
allegation that the wife habitually purloined
the husbands goods and conveyed them to
her relations.
Ia the United States Senate on Thursday,
the Homestead bill was reported back, with
al amendment substituting the Senate bill
on the same subject.
The contumacious Hyatt. it is said, is pre-
pairing an address to the American people
Then the American people are sure to be
bored.
Accounts of the condition OF the growing
wheat crop continue contradictory. The re-
nifty will not likely prove rs bad as the re-