Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-03-03
News of the Day.
"76 shop the very age andbody Of The TIMES

The loss Of life by disasters at sea last
month was very heavy, numbering about
200 souls. Thirty EIGHT persons were lost
with the steamer Northern, 5.with the schoon-
ers Frank Day and Eliza Jane, about 20
were on board the missing vessels Dlriso,
North Wind, and E)vira, and the balance
calculating the passengers at about 6o)
were lost with the steamship Hungarian.
Despite all our peculiar advantages OF close
proximity to Mexico, and the abundance OF
all those natural products in the United
States which ought to enter so largely into
an extensive trade with that country, we de-
rive absolutely only the most trivial advan-
/ tage from this trade, while the great bulk
| goes to Europe, and mostly to England
| So also with Central America and with
/ Cuba.
The Mexican Treaty meets with much OPP
position in the u S. Senate, particularly that
clause which authorizes the landing of the
| U. 5. troops, to enforce the unobstructed pas
sage over the transit routes. The four NH
lions to be paid Mexico, is also receiving
little investigation.
n TdlUST CURIOUS CaSt hdo uGOldCN A1oS
week in Urbana, Ohio. The plaintiff, Jane
Brush, alleged that she was the wife of one
| Reed Brush, an Incorporate man, and that
the defendant, Peter Lawson, though cognl-
zant of the habits of her husband, sold him
pint of whiskey on the 29th Of April last,
in violation of law, with which he became
intoxicated, and in his drunken fury chop
ped OFF the left foot Of the plaintiff. In com
pensation for this, she asked damages in the
sum of $4,000. The jury gave verdict of
$4,000 damages.
At recent session of the Alabama NJ. E)
Conference, resolutions were passed, and a
committee appointed to secure a suitable
monument to be erected over the grave OF the
late Mr.. Mafitt For twenty-five years,
every part Of our country was visited by the
eccentric but gifted preacher, and, though at
no period possessing the entire confidence OF
his denomination, yet his extraordinary elo-
uuence never failed to secure him the largest
audiences of any preacher of his day.
The circumstances attending the death,
by violence, of one of the crew Of the United
States sloop-of-war Brooklyn, in November,
are the subject of an investigation now pro-
ceeding at Tompkinsville, Staten Island
The inquiry, which began yesterday, has
already ELECTED evidence Enthusiastically IN
culpatng Cooper, the ships Corporal, and
Ray, Sergeant of Marines. The latter
has been arrested.
During the gale of the 22d ult., the gable
end of the Luthern church at West Brook
field, Ohio, was forced in and the roof car
| red off. At the time a service was being
held, the congregation numbering between
three and four hundred. Fifteen persons
were injured, four having fractured limbs.
We see by the latest dispatches from the
scene of the Massachusetts shoemakerS war,
that large number OF the young women en-
gagged in the business have joinedin the strike.
They assail the bosses in style which re-
minds one of the amiable females who partl-
cipated in the first French revolution.
The Board of Directors have placed Mr..
Jas. Bowen in charge of the Great Eastern,
since the lamented death Of Captain Iiarri-
SOD. Mr. Bowen has been master mariner
for upwards of twenty years, and has beside
passed the Board Of Trade as master and
master extra.
Deacon Dickerman, of Mt, Carmel, Conn,
who sued his pastor for libel, has recovered
one cent damages; which carries one cent
cost The case was on trial for about three
! weeks, and the Jury were out week before
bringing in their verdict.
The present is the proper time for plant
ing shade trees, and housekeepers and pro-
perty holders, who would contribute to the
public comfort in summer, should embrace
the opportunity to plant upon their side
walks one or more trees Of approved species.
Speaker Pennington has appointed the
Hon. Mr. English, OF Indiana, Mr. Stanton,
of Ohio, and Mr.. Gartrel, Of Georgia, re-
gents of the Smithsonian Institute on the
part of the House Of Representatives.
The inquest in the case Of Grace Heenan,
in New York, the servant girl charged with
burning her newborn infant, resulted III an
acquttal of the accused it being proved that
the child was still-born.
A new effort is being made to place Joseph
Smith, Jr., at the head Of the Mormon
Church. A delegation Of Mormons from
Salt Lake was recently at NauyoO, to that
end
Ii the present disposabe military force
should be found insufficient to protect the
frontier of the Rio Grande, the President
WILL it is said, bring the subject to the At
tention of Congress III a special message.
A fight occurred at the restaurant Of Mr.
Hicks, at Culpeper court house, on the I'D
ultimo, in which two men were very serious
ly wounded The matter is in the hands Of
the law.
The number of American vessels mot in
GLIDING river or lake craft reported during
the last month as totally lost Or missing, was
So, valued at $4,000.
The Cincinnati papers record the death
of a young but erring girl, and the arrest Of
two men, one physician, charged with pro
ducing her demise.
Several copies Of Surgeons sermons,
rasping slavery, were recently burnt in the
public square at Montgomery, Alabama.
Thos. Fisher and John +. Scruggs were
appointed by the late Opposition Convention,
electors for Fauquier County