Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-08-15
Much i'll will had for some time existed be-

Mr. Quinn, of Castalian Springs, Sumner
county, Tennessee, and on the 3lst ult., 4
child of the former having been beaten by
one of the Quinn's children, Mr.. Wynne went
to the house of Quinn with gun, and called
on the latter TO come out. Wynne's wife
seized her husband and endeavored 10 take
him away, when Quinn fired twice on him,
inhicting wounds that caused his death in Il
few hours.
In New York on Sunday, Patnell Callahan,
a young man about twenty years of age
while under the influence of liquor attempt
ed to commit suicide, by stabbing himself
with common table knife. He will die
from his injuries. Callahan states that he
had been on IL spree, and that while seated
with some companions in his boarding house,
conversation took place in regard to cour-
age, and that he snatched up the knife and
stabbed himself in the stomach, TO show
that he was not Il coward.
James S. Slaughter, who has obtained
some celebrity as the person to whom Hon.
VIM. L. Yancey addressed his famous 'scur-
let letter about 'precipitatng the Cotton
States into revolution" died suddenly at
Atlanta, Ga, on the 10th inst. His death
was the result of laudanum. taken to relieve
the effect of intoxication. He was a man of
talent, and in 1856 was editor of the Alaba-
ma Press.
The \. York correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier says that ''L0ra Montez is ne-
Their out of town nor dead. She is, however,
still here very sick. Although her life was
recently despaired of, she is now better but
her permanent recovery is not looked for.
The seeds OF consumption are so firmly root
ed that she will never be able entirely to
remove them"
The Augusta (Ga.) Dispatch states that a
negro boy who killed white man, was
burnt at the stake at Station No H. on the
South Western railroad on Friday last
| Twelve persons took him from the Sheriff 5
custody, giving bonds Tor his re delivery, af-
ter which they tried. sentenced and cXecut-
ed the murderer, returning his ashes to the
officer.
An English gentleman writes TO his friend
| in Canada that the Prince of Wales is Il good
hunter. ale rides most fear!eSsly and deS,
| paratey at anything, and | am pleased to
| think that there is not IA sovereign in Europe,
| or President in either South or North
America. who could line with him across Il
| stiHv enclosed country. That's the sort of
stuff, in my mind, that Kings are made off,
There is among the inhabitants of the
! Twenty fourth Ward of Philadelphia. man,
| ii wears old who is a native of East Rohum
! Persia, and who is Il believer in the Moham-
! medan religion. lie is familiar with all the
! Oriental aud European languages. He is
now engaged i'll making mathematical III
| Struments.
! Governor Seward of New York, arrived at
! Bangor, on Saturday morning by tho steam
rr " rbstrr, and was received on the wharf
! by crowds of citizens He was waited on At
| the Bangor House in the afternoon by the
| Wide Awakr> and IN unusual crowd. He
| spoke rw minutes.
The steamer Mount Vernon. from New
| York. reports that the schooner Arrna,
Capt, Foster, from Norfolk for New York.
with Il cargo oi grain, has gone ashore ten
miles north Of Clingotcagur. The Mount
! Vernon took of the wife and sen al the
! captain.
In New Orleans, on Sunday, 4 row Of
buildings on Royal street, extending from
Custom House street to Bicnvile and ocru~
| pied by furniture, liquor. and piano stores
was destroyed hv fire The loss amounted
to SIT, 900, which is mostly insured.
Montreal has set Il good example, having
! made small contribution for the aid Of the
suffering people Of Syria which they pro-
mise to increase. One gentleman "l New
York has contributed 800, and another in
Boston has rendered 81 900.
Col. Srhwarzwaedcr, OF the New York
fifth regiment. has given one hundred dol
lars to the drum corps of his command 10
enable them TO challenge all the other drum
corps of the Union. They are going OH i
drumming tour soon, Il la /"Hurr.
The government expedition under Col.
Lander has met with serious trouble from
the Pahutes Indians in Honey Lake Valley.
Several whites have been killed IA the con-
hcts. The expedition had observed the lth
of July as a holiday.
Clarence J. Prentice, second son of George
D. Prentice, Of the Louisville Journal, was
married at the American Legation in Paris,
on the l4th of July last, IL MadcmolSeIlc
Amilie, second daughter of Henri de Ealken-
stein, of Strasbourg.
Captain Thomas Walker, Of Boston, cap
tain of ship Ariel, has been made Il Knight of
the Tower and the Sword by the Portuguese
monarch, for his galantry i'll reScung the
officers and crew Of a Portuguese vessel.
Lerdo Tejada writes that the Constitution
al government has received reliable intcll-
gence that Spain is fitting out an expedition
to give moral support to Miramon's third
expedition against Vera Cruz.
a treason-league, called League Of Free
dom" has been formed by sympathzers of
Booth, in Ripon. Wisconsin, the ayowcd OBJ
jcct being to prevent his arrest By the United
States lnarShals.
The Prince of Wales left Charluttctown,
on Monday. The whole fleet of six vessels
will 90 to Quebec. but only the three smallest
will 90 to Montreal. The Prince will visit
Bermuda after he goes to New York.
The (Wilkes') New York Spirit of the
Times says that a report which has lately
been in circulation to the effect that Mr.. Ten
Brpprk had sold 'muirp to a sporting f.ar-