Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-03-06
News of the Day.
"70 sAov the gerry age and body Of the TINES.

favorable advices from England. The stock
of American provisions and breadstutfs was
light, but prices ruled low.
In some of the western counties OF Penn
sylvania the people are in state OF rebel
lion against the taxes laid to pay the inter
est on bonds issued to railroads. In Wash
ington county, we see, the house OF an lndl-
vidual was levied on by an officer and adver'
tised for sale; when the people held a meet
ing, passed strong anti-tax resolutions, and
denounced in advance any man who should
bid on the house The day Of sale came,
and sure enough, though a crowd collected,
there was no one to bid on the property,
which was according y returned to its owner
A case is under investigation, saysthe De
troit Advertiser of the 25th, in the police
court of that city, involving the right Of a
man TO take back the presents he has made
girl when she says she won't have HIM,
and is getting ready to marry somebody else.
4 young man who had disposed Of about
seventy-fve dollars worth Of jewelry IN this
way, during a three years ceurtship, Is on
! trial for larceny, in invading the ladys bed
room and Selling the property, when he had
| discovered it was to adorn another mans
wife.
Portions Of the public are still needless Of
the awful warnings daily given as to *
plosive substances for light. Here i an
other example:-"A fire occurred on Thurs
day evening in the frame dwelling corner Of
Bloomingdale road and Ninetieth street, oc-
cupied by Mr.. Plock and family, caused BY
camphene lamp exploding while Mrs.
Plock was filling it with one Of the wickS
lighted Mrs Plock was seriously burnt
Before the flames were eXtinguShed the fur
niture was damaged $500. No insurance.
Napoleon the Third seems DESTROYS 81
emulating the fame Of Henri ". in his skill
in planting. Chestnut trees are making their
appearance in all portions OF Paris. The
Conseryatoire deS Arts ct Meters, the square
| in the Marche des lnnocents, the Place du
| Louvre, the BoulevardS, from the Madeleine
to the Bastilie, attest the Emperor's energy;
4 and now the south side Of the Champs Eyly-
sees is to follow the example set it by the
north, in the variety Of its trees and gardens.
Among the most conspicuous Of the Dele
gates to the late Democratic Convention in
Richmond, was the debonair and courtly Fay
cite McMullen. On his way home, the sPlr-
| it of the Convention being still in his bones,
| the chevalier encountered one OF "the elgh-
teen million" Of the North, when as related
| by the man Of the North, highly exciting
| scene occurred, in which the Ex-Governor
| figured extensively.
The Grand Trunk Railway Company has.
within the last ten days, made contracts 70
carry freight from Cincinnati to Liverpool,
distance of 3 $50 miles at the rate 81 cigh-
| ty cents per one hundred pounds, equal
I to fuur-tenths Of a cent per ton mile,
or to the carrying barrel ot flour the entire
length Of the New York Central road Tor l..
cents.
According to correspondents On the Alri-
can cost the slave trade is furnishing extern
sively notwithstanding the presence OF large
force of United States and British vessels 81
war. 1t is said the vessels now engaged on
the African coast in this traffic may, to mum
bered by dozens and that the larger part Of
them are owned by Americans, and have re-
gular custom-house clearances.
DR.. |. |. Hayes, Surgeon Of the Name
Arctic Expedition, hopes to be ready for 4
start in the month Of May next, for another
voyage to the North Pole. DR.. Hayes has
already raised the $4,000, onehalf Of the
necessary sum, from the generous contribu
tons Of his personal friends, and hopes e
secure the rest from the liberal public II
large.
From a paper read ~ Professor George
Cook, before the Geographical and Statisti-
cal Society. it is stated a fact beyond
doubt that the seacoast ot New Jersey i sub
siding at the rate Of about two tcet every
hundred years This progress need hardly
alarm the present aud next succeeding gen
Grafton.
4 Minden la planter, returning from
the North via Montgomery, Ala, with So, 600
in cash, was taken in and done brown by
fellow ut Montgomery, who persuaded him
that it was unsafe 70 carry the cash about,
and 50 succeeded in accommodating him with
bills on New Orleans When the planter
got there he found the bills were torgerleS.
The Eastern Shore Railroad Appropriation
bill has finally passed the Maryland Legs
lature The bill providing for an Increase
in the stakeholder directory Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, was again lost Tor want
Of constitutional majority, but the vote re-
considered.
Some Of the Republican papers are find
ing fault with Senator Stewards late speech,
making the objection that his phrases "cap-
tai States" and Labor States" are milk and