Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-03
News OF the Day.
sho,o the uery age and body Of the TINES.

The FIVE new Territories, which the House
committee on territories propose to organize,
contain respectively the following number
of inhabitants: Chippewa, from eight to ten
thousand; Nevada, about the same number;
Dakota, eight thousand; Pixies Peak, fifteen
to twenty thousand; Arizona, six to elght
thousand. Each of these bills contain the
following proviso: Provided that, neverthe-
less, slavery has no legal existence In said
Territory, and nothing herein contained
shall be construed to authorize or prevent It's
existence therein. These measures will come
up for consideration early next week.
At Danville, Pa, May l, Andrew Nc
Gently stabbed and instantly killed Thomas
Shaveland. McGenty wentin Shaveland's
house with bottle Of liquor, and wanted
him to drink. Shaveland refused and order
ed McGenty to leave. He went out, but soon
returned with knife, and committed the
murder without uttering word Shaveland
died in three minutes The murderer was
captured aud lodged in prison. The crowd
was prevented from lynching the prisoner.
The Baltimore correspondent of the New
York Times, writes that the Opposition party
of Maryland, will stand by and support the
nomination of the Baltimore National Con-
vention. This is fully determined upon,
though it be sustaining third party, to the
ultimate success of the Democracy. lie fur
Their says that John Bell, of Tennessee, and
Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, are nam
es most in favor with the Union party Of this
city and State"
Several years since a man named John
Cain, killed Richard Singleton, for the
seduction of his daughter Mary, in Cincin-
natl The daughter has since become an
abandoned character and last Monday night
was married to a negro by the name of Win
ston, over 70 years Of age, the keeper of an
eating and drinking house of a very low or
der. The girl was about 20 years of age.
In this country the mortality of children
is increasing with terrible rapidity. In Bos-
ton, the per centage of deaths of children
under 10, doubled from 1880 to 1859. In
New York, the deaths of children to each
100000 inhabitants, have been more than
trebled since 1910.
Starvation stares the residents Of Middle
Tennessee in the face. The editor of the
Nashville Christian Advocate complains that
ne has to pay forty cents pound for all the
butter used in his family, and thought him
self particularly fortunate the other day in
getting lack fish" for half dollar.
The man Wade, whose operations in
swindling persons in this country, by pro-
Tossing to have discovered legacies left them
in England, and who directed answers to be
addressed, with enclosures, to bennington,
| England, has had the attention Of the Lon
don police called to him.
Welearn from the Baltimore Clipper, that
the friends of Bolts have engaged Carroll
Hall in that city for their headquarters dur
ing the session of the Convention at which :,
it is stated their levees will commence on
the 9Th of May"
A Charleston dispatch says:-"Great con-
fusion attended the departure of the South
ern delegates from the Convention. The de-
legates, forgetful of all the proprieties of the
place, and the solemnity of the crisis, boot
ed and shouted in dealening uproar."
Two fugitive slaves were arrested at New
York, May |, and after examination before
Commissioner Belts, were ordered to be sent
back to their owner, at Liberty, Maryland.
They are now on their way there. No dis
turbance occurred.
On Monday afternoon about FIVE o'clock a
building in the rear of Willow Hail. Orange
N. j., was destroyed by fire, and woman
and three children persisted in the t1ames.-
Another child was so badly burned that it
died shortly after being rescued
We have now reliable information that all
the lines of railroad diverging North, South,
or West from Baltimore, have made agree
ments to carry delegates to and from the
Convention of the ninth Of May, at half
fares.
Stone, the lawyer who killed himself with
strychnine, last Thursday morning, at Ply
mouth, leaves quite large amount of fOrg-
ed paper--from $4,000 to $4,000 in
amount, it is thought. The names of the
suretes on his paper are all forged.
1t is remarked that at no former time in
the history of this country, were the people
of the United States 50 fully and proftably
employed as at present. Industry is every
where we'll rewarded.
Charles Lee Armour, who msrepresented
Frederick at the Black Republican Conven
tion held in Baltimore last week, was burnt
in cfhgy by citizens Of Frederick city, on
Saturday night
Noble Towner, esq, U. S. Consul at Bar
BADGES, died at Brdgetown, on March 3lst,
of Inflammation of the bowels. He was in
tered on Monday, April lst, with military
and civic honors.
The French Catholic Missionary Society
are about establishing missions among the
Indians on Eancouver's and Queen Char
lotte's Island.
Five hundred and ninety four Mormons
arrived in New York, on Tuesday, in the
ship Underwater, Captain Roberts, from
Liverpool.
A fire at Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio,
on Monday, consumed most of the business
part of the town. The particulars are not
known. The loss is heavy.
A new red coloring matter, called fuch-
sine, has been produced, which is quite equal
in splendor to cochineal. 1t is already in
use to considerable extent.
Marshal Valiant has sent to the French
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