Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-08-14
NEVIS OF THE DAY.
"7o show the gerry age undbody Of the TIHE'

The excitement in Texas, growing out of
the threatened instruction Of slaves, contln-
ues undated 4 letter from Dallas, in that
State. says: Three negro men, the leaders
In the insurrectionary plot, were executed
at this place on Tuesday evening. One OF
them, Pat Jennings, was the man who APP
piled the torch to the town of Dallas, ana
one of the most prominent Of those WI"
were engaged in the work. sam smith
another, and preacher-was u hardened old
scoundrel; and the third, old Cato, has al
ways borne Il bad character III this county.
They were taken out of jail, escorted to the
place of execution by the military, and III
the presence OF IA large concuurse OF people
expiated their crimes as justice demanded
They betrayed no discomposure in view OF
the awful fate before them. Put positively
refused to say anything, and died with as
much Indifference as if he had been about
his ordinary occupation.
Blondin, the celebrated tight-rope perfor-
mer, met with serious accidents few nights
ago during his exhibition at Chlllcothe,
Ohio. The Cincinnati Gazette says: "At-
ter dusk he gave performance Of trnndllng
a wheelbarrow across Il rope. and to make
the feat more terrific he encirced himself
in blaze of fireworks, which were ignited
simultaneously with his starting. Before
he had accomplished half his task, one OF
the pieces prematurely exploded and set fire
to his clothing. The peril OF his situation
could not be seen by the thousands OF specta-
tors below, in consequence of the continued
emissions of sparks, and the adventurous
Blondin had nothing to do but to walk the
rope and suffer the torture Of being slowly
roasted. Having accomplished the distance,
he, by his own efforts, succeeded in ext'n-
gushing the flames but not before his back
was very badly burned"
The agitation created by Lord Brougham's
statistic fact" still continues. \ tart letter
from Prof. Lougstreet, a member OF the
Statistical Congress" from the United
States, takes up and resents Lord Broug-
hams fling. The letter, with explanations
from its author, appears IN the Charleston
Courier On account of the insult to the
United States through their minister, Mr..
Dallas, Longstrect declined taking his seat
in the Congress, and even Stunned such CT
Whites as might have been offered to him as
a member, and which were, probably, extern
ded to DR.. Delaney, the Canadian negro
member. DR.. Longstreet take special no
tice of the fact that Lord Brougham congrat-
ulated Mr. Dallas not upon the presence oi
Il black or coored man, but Of a 'negro," III
order to give the more point to his sarcasm.
The treasurer of Amherst College has
lately received from Mr. Daniel Sears, OF
Boston, heretofore liberal benefactor of the
college, small and carefully sealed box,
with the in Instruction that it is not to be open
ed for one hundred years, on pain of IL for
fixture Of the gift which it contains. Spec
ulatiou is ut fault as to the contents and the
reasons for the accompanying condition.
The shrewdeSt guess is that the box holds
deeds of real estate in Boston, now under
lease for one hundred years, but then to be
transferred to the college But let Us he pa
tent till 1860, and then we shall all know.
1t is said that severe Indian fight took
place three weeks since, on the Solomon,
about 100 miles above Fort Riley, in which
about 800 Pottowstamies and DelawarcS
were killed The dead were all scalpcd, and
supposed the other party to be Cheyenues,
Sc, who were known to have been in that
vicinity at that time. The murdered Indians
are supposed to be party of some three or
four hundred Pottowatamies, half breeds
and Deawares, that went from this vicinity
short time previous to the rumored battle,
for the purpose of hunting buffalo.
The overland mails bring Denver City nd
vices of August 4t!. The trial OF Wood, for
attempting to kill the editor of the Rocky
Mountain News, had been closed. The jury
stood one for and eleven against acquIttal.
The case was then referred to the people,
who voted to send Wood out Of Denver.
Comparatively tow citizens were present.
Wood had left the place. The result was
altogether unexpected to the community and
caused great indignation. The mining news
is unimportant.
Oar exchanges inform us that the late
LIGHT rains have extended generally over this
State and throughout Virginia and North
Carolina, revlrlng the corn crop ami all other
vegetation dropping from the effects OF the
long continued drought. The accounts from
Texas and Louisiana are, however, very dis
couraging. All our Maine exchanges are
complaining bitterly Of the drought. 1t has
been very severe in that region Al OIdtown
all the saws have been stopped
The Brownsville ('TexaS) Flag processes to
have news from Mexico. General Mira
mon, it states, had been summoned To cou-
ference with the French and English Am
bassadors. The result of their interview
had not TRANSFERRED 1t was. however, well
understood that the views Of the Amhassa-
doris were hostile to the designs Of the Juarez
faction, and that they would do all Ill their
power to thwart it.
Paris "Fashions" for August tell us that
striped dresses are much in vogue Of late, no
longer the old style of horizontal stripes, but
almost universally perpendicular ones, which
produce Il pleasing effect on dresses with
hounces, as they thus blend more gracefully
with the ensemble of the robe. BOnnets are
less pretentious in their decoration: fewer
flowers are worm and those somewhat neg
lgently.
Fully five thousand people gathered upon
the bank of the river at Cincinnati, on Fri
day, to witness the feat of Dan Rcc's ele-
nhant, Lalla Rookh, swimming from the
Kentucky to the Ohio shore. On the first
attempt. several skitfs ladened with people
accompanied the elephant. but when Il hun
dred feet from the shore, Miss Lalla crinccd