Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-06-29
Il sTs Of the Day.
"1o show the gerry age and body Of The TINES.

Ine postmaster UeNeFal has ueLelulleu
not to enter into any contract for carrying
the California mails via the Isthmus, which
shall stipulate for any payment for such ser
vice other than by hostages, as the law pro,
vides. All letters will go by the overland
routes, the principal one being that of But
terfeld, whose contract is for carrying let
ters alone. As newspapers and congressman
al franked documents cannot 90 by that
route, they can only reach the Pacific coast
by being sent as freight.
The calamity off Absecom, n. j., by which
the United States steamer Walker was sunk,
and the lives of her officers and crew placed
in imminent peril, was not so appalling IN
its results as was at first anticipated. Ac-
cording to the Philadelphia Pennsylvania
several sailors and one woman, who have
been missing, were rescued last Thursday
by Capt, Hudson of the schooner Il. q. Por-
ter. They were in two boats ten miles dis
tant from Absccom and in IL suffering con-
dition.
A letter in the New York Times, dated Rio
de Janeiro, May 30th says: 1.-The principal
event of interest here to the American trade
is the failure Of Senior Leite de Castro, the
largest -four dealer in the place, which oc-
Cured few days since. His liabilities ex-
cecd six hundred thousand dollars, and un-
derstand that the creditors will lose quite
fifty per cent in the settling up Of the es-
tate"
The Gloucester Mass Telegraph notices
the appearance in great numbers orthc gol-
den robin The song Of this bird is spoken
of as much sweeter than that OF the old ia
miliar robin redhreast, and his plumage is
much brighter. In other respects he much
resembles that bird. The increase is ut
tributable to a decrease in the disposition
to interfere with the birds among both old
and young.
An act has passed directing that when
any person shall endorse on any letter his or
her name and place Of residence, as writer
thereof, the same remunlng uncailed for, for
thirty DAYS, or the time the writer may dl-
| rect, shall be returned by mail to said wrl-
ter, and the same are not TO he treated rs
dead or advertised till they shall remain at
the postoihce Of the writer one quarter
Agriculturists through the country are
alarmed at the rapid increase OF obnoxious
weeds, which until recently We're unknown
in America The weeds are brought over III
the straw used in packing crockcry crates,
and in the soil around fruit trees. shrubs,
and plants.
The Newport (R, IL News has the follow
lug chilly item to comfort those who have
engaged houses at Newport for the watering
season.-"There was on this Island, in Mid
dletown, Thursday morning, at four o'clock,
a Snose Storm This is doing pretty well tor
the tsrent9.f:St 81 Jn"c."
John Harley, noted thieI, Wa discover,
ed Oh " Wednesday, robbing store IN Cam
bridgeport Mass, and Offering resistance, re
ceived TWO pistol shots, breaking an arm and
damaging his Jaw. Harley drew dirk
knife and dangerously stabbed officer Laugh
cry, when he wa4 finally arrested.
Preparations have been cominenced in
New York, for Il somewhat brilliant ceebra-
ton of the 18th OF july The Common Coun-
ell have appropriated 81, 800 for pyrotecil-
MICS, and 81 900 towards getting up rcgat-
ia on the bay.
In fracas at the Poteet House, at llar-
rodsburg, June %, n young man, named
Miller, was shot through the body by the
clerk of the hotel, named Brown. Miller
will probably die. Several shots were fired
by other parties, but without effect.
The number Of American travellers Jour
neying in Syria aid Palestine this year is
quite unparalleled. Nearly twenty left Bel
rout on the 9th April, having completed the
tour of the Holy Land, and there are said 10
be more than fifty in the interior.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railway Company have made their
usual summer arrangements with the Phlla-
delphia steamboats, for the conveyance OF
Baltimore visitors to Cape May during the
bathing season.
\ cargo Of sugar, the first imported, was
recently received in New York, from Cam
pcachy, lucatan. 1t is pronounced "a good
strong article, fully equal TO Cuban in the
hardness Of its crystals, when refined"
The Fourth Of July will be well ce!ebra-
ted at Bladensburg, Nd The ladies Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will hold a fes
tiyal i company Of cavalry organized at
Vansville contemplate visit.
Ex-president Van Buren, is spending
few days at Willow Brook, Cayusa county
\. Y, the beautiful country seat Of Ex-GoV-
ernor Enos T. Throop. His health is said
to be excellent
The latest California mails received ut
New Orleans announce that one OF the ia
panese. left sick in the San Francisco l!ospi
ta by the Candinmarrah, has since died and
been buried.
Application, the Pottsville Journal says,
has been made to this region to furnish sew
eral thousand tons Of anthracite coal to 20
to japan to supply steamers at different sta
lions
Crops are represented AS looking spien'ld-
ly in every part OF Minnesota. Rye's very
forward and in fine condition. The crop Of
winter wheat will be mach better than was
expected.
At the grand Japanese ball in New York,
on Monday night, large number Of pick
pockets managed TO get in and without detec,
ton succeeded in taking a considerable
amount Of plumber.
Several Of the crew Of the steamer Fen
Lewis, arrived at St. Louis, jane u. The