Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-04-25
News of the Day.
"q5 sao,e the Gerry age and body Of the TINES.

sistlDg OF 81 delegates, representing III pai
ties of the territory, met at Tucson on the
I'd instant, and organized by electing James
A. Lucas, chairman. constitution ana
schedule to remain in force till Congress
shall organize territorial government, was
unanimously adopted, after which the terri.
torial officers headed by L. ). Owlngs, OF
Mesilla. for Governor, Igralio Orrantia, Tor
Lieut.. Governor, and three district Judges
were elected, and provision made Tor call
ing out the militia for the protection OF lie
and property, and w. G. Wordsworth ap-
pointed Major General Resolutions were
also passed endorsing the administration Oh
James Buchanan.
Attorney General Black intends prosecut-
inc Mr.. Schnahel on the charge OF perjury,
growing out of his testimony before the 20
yode Committee His friends say he admit
ted the existence of the Presidents letter as
recently published, but denied the existence
of one of the character the witness described
in the course of conversation. 1t is further
stated that Judge black, acting BY the al
vice of his friends, has made no reply TO
Gov. Walker. but in note addressed to
Walkers friend, Senator Brown, on Satur-
day, delivered by Secretary Thompson, he
denied the existence Of any reason why
Gov. Walker should request him TO 20 out
of the District TO receive a hostile message,
even if he were not conscientiously opposed
to that mode of adjusting differences.
The bark Mendi sailed from New York
last week for Monrovia, taking as passen-
gers Rev. NJ. NJ. Clark, wife and son, and
two licentiates, one Of the Baptist and the
other of the Methodist church Mr.. CLARK
goes out as missionary. Tho MendI Is
owned by Liberia merchants, and IL run as
regular packet between New York ana
Monrovia. In few weeks q fine little
steamer, the Seth Grosvenor," built by the
New York Colonization Society, as mail
packet, to connect the Liberian coast settle
ments, will leave for Liberia.
Tom Marshall, of Kentucky, has been lee
turing for the last year or two in various
cities of the West, and has more recently
been in Buffalo. He has met. however,
very poor success The Advertiser says
that the tickets to his lectures could not be
given away. The trouble with him is that
he is perpetually drunk. Those who remem-
Der hearing him some years ago, will recol-
lect him as one Of the most brilliant and
effective Of orators.
Among the private soldiers of the Compa-
nv of United States Artillery now stationed
at Old Point Comfort, is young and highly
educated Louisianian, who, in the ardor OF
his patriotism, and desire for adventure, en-
listed for FIVE years, just previous to the COM
pany's departure for Brownsville to repel the
raid Of Cortinas. The first flush of excite
ment over, the new recruit became dlSen-
chanted of his military romance.
A new thermometer has been invented by
NJ Victor Beaumont, which is said to be far
superior to the mercurial thermometer. 1t
consists Of strip of steel and one Of brass
soldered together, and bent in the form of a
segment Of a circle Brass is affected twice
as much as steel by the temperature, and
hence by graduating the movements at the
end of the compound strip, the variations OF
temperature are recorded
A business firm in Utica, New York, last
week, in improving the front of their store,
put in couple of plate-glass windows, val
ued at 500 each A little girl, after max
ing some purchases, hastily started to leave
the store, and, installing one of the win
dows for an outlet, rushed against it, shiv-
ering the glass into innumerable fragments.
In her fright she ran away, but soon return
ed to beg of the merchant not to harm her.
John Iverson was recently arrested and
imprisoned at the South, for aggravated po-
lygamy; he had thirteen wives. The daugh-
ter of the iailor whose hospitality this insa-
table poly gamist was enjoying while await
ing trial, believed him innocent, pitied him,
loved him, opened the prison doors, fled with
him, and became his fourteenth wife.
The New York Tribune tells tale of
Republican dog" who is sent regularly to
a newsstand for the morning papers. 1t
says that he curls his tale contemptuously at
the Times, but is greatly elated, when the
Tribune is placed in his mouth. This only
proves that he is logged deyotee of party.
A fire occurred in Kenosha, Wis, on Sun
day, which destroyed almost the entire bu-
siness portion of that place. All the build
ings on both sides of Main street, south of
the City Hall to the Park, together with a
number Of dwellings on Wisconsin street,
were destroyed.
Father McCabe, Catholic priest of Du-
buque, Iowa, was lately brutality assaulted
by an Irishman named James Naughton, of
Nashville, Tenn. There was difficulty
about the purchase of some land and Naugh-
ton beat the priest so badly with a club that
ne left his victim for dead
On the arrival Of the widow of the late
Hon. Beverly l.. Clark, United States minis
ter to Guatemala at New York last week,
her female slave eloped with the colored
steward Of the steamer Ariel. Mrs. c. was
compelled to proceed South without her.
The deiaulting agent of the Sons of Malta,
who ran off with $4,000 of the funds of GER
tain lodges in Ohio, has been found 10 prison
in New Orleans. A tride less than eight
thousand dollars OF the money has been paid
back.
We learn from Topeka that Deputy United
States Marshal Arms was shot dead by a
prominent citizen of that place, named Rit-
chic, whom Arms was endeavoring to arrest
on an old charge Of robbing the post Office.
No particulars are received.
Joseph l.. Ball, a magistrate and man Of
wealth, Of Jefferson county, Ohio, has been
arrested charged with being one of gang
of couuterfeiters, whom be protected by the
corrupt use of his Office