Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-02-18

$40 sho.o tie rery age and body Of the TIMES

phine, and was adopted by her and the great
Napoleon as their daughter. her maiden
! name was Mile. Stephanie Tacher de la ia
| gerie; but after her adoption by Napoleon
! she took the name Of Beauharnais. In tins
way she became the sister, by adoption, Of
Hortense, and the aunt of the Emperor Ma
| poleon III.
Gov Hicks has sent a message TO thu
Maryland House of Delegates, in reply TO IT.
| inquiry as to the mission of the Secretary o.
! State to Washington, to congratulate Mr.
Pennington ON his election as Speaker. The
Governor contests the right of the House K
make the inquiry, and without repeating the
| public denial OF the rumor which he mas
made in private, very politely yet PLAINLY
points out the improperly Of the action o.
1 the House, founded AS it was upon mere
! newspaper rumor. The course OF the House
in making the inquiry, is now pretty gener
ally condemned.
A large meeting Of the Roman Catholics
of Louisville, Kentucky, was held in tha
city on Monday last. An address to the
| Pope was adopted, with series OF resolu
tons which declare that though it is no ar
ticle of Catholic faith that the Pope shall
possess and exercise temporal dominion over
| certain definite territories, yet they deem
it eminently proper OH the part ot American
I Catholics. to unite with their brethren
| throughout the world in protesting against
| all attempts, whetherby governments or IN
dividuals, to invade the rights, spiritual OF
temporal, Of the Holy See"
\ ~. Il
| $40 gold piece, most dangerous counterfeit
which had been detected at the United States
Sub Treasury, having been paid out by the
Metropolitan Bank Of that city. The coin
stood all the tests of weight. sound, circum
ference and thickness. On being cutin two
ii was found that !; genuine coin had been
split edgewise, both halves being quite thin
then filed with some whitish metal, and re-
milled.
| G.. w kimball, the United States consul
at St. Helena. has obtained one of the origi
nal stones from the tomb of Napoleon |, as
a contribution to the National Monument al
Washington. 1t was put on board the I. 5
steamer Mystic, which left st. Heleua Jan
| 4th, for the coast Of Africa, and would prob
| Relief, bound home Louis Napoleon, the
present Emperor of France, gave his consent
to the removal Of the stone TO Washington
| The Democratic Legislative caucus held
at Annapolis, Md, on Thursday night ad
| iourned without effecting a choice. Hon
| Alfred Pearce, the present Senator, ant
Hon. Edward Long, of Somerset county, a
present q member of the House of Delegates
and aWhig member of Congress from 1915
to Al, We the leading contestants. The
| struggle was warm one, and its result a
present is very doubtful
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Times says:-"Senator Bright, after
two days consideration, has named the
committee to arrange the Charleston Plat
form, viz Green, Fitch, Bigler, Gwin and
Chestnut, each of whom spoke in caucus il
| favor of Mr. Davis resolution. The object
ofthe Committee was to confer and harmonic
the several propositions, but the gentlemen
named are all on the same side"
The MormonS in Utah have gold coin OF
their own making, purporting to represent
five dollars, but really worth only four and
half The commanding officer at Camp
Floyd, learning that large amount of this
money was about to be put in circulation in
Fairfield, has issued general order warning
the soldiers of this fact, and advising them
not to take it at all.
The editor of the Southern Confederacy,
the paper in which the "black list" of "abo-
lition firms" is published, catches it without
mercy from the Northern press, the Demo
cratic journals being. if possible, the most
severe in the denunciation of his means OF
settling the affairs of the nation, and putting
money in his pocket.
The steamer Arago, from llavre, at New
York yesterday, brings probably the richest
cargo that was ever received by single yes
sel---the total value being estimated at three
millions of dolars-fully two-thirds OF which
consist of dry goods and French and Ger
man knick-naeks.
Mr.. Meminger arrived safely in Charles
ton on Friday week. lie expressed him
self rs completely oYerp0wered by the IN
Vulnerable delicate attentions and marks OF
respect paid 10 South Carolina in the person
of her Commissioner, during his sojourn ut
Richmond.
Afidavits have been filed at the Post Of
flee Department, sustaining serious charges
against the Postmaster at Harerhiil, MaSsa-
chusetts. which are to be investigated at
once Other Massachusetts Postmasters are
accused of completely with lottery-ticket
sellers
In the New York State Senate on Thurs
day, petition of Richard NJ. Hoe and sew
eral hundred other citizens of New York,
asking that Southerners travelling with
slaves as attendants may be permitted to
remain in the State for nine months, was
presented.
Judge Douglas, in response to II note from
Fernando Wood, denies the truth of the
newspaper statement that the latter. when
the former was in New York, pledged his
entire delegation to the Senator from Hi
nois, in the Charleston Convention.
A good deal of indignation has been excl
ted at Jersey City by alleged outrases at the
New York Bay Cemetery, such as disturb
ing the graves, budding the bodies promis,
cuously into a pine box, and taking oil the
expensive collins to sell again.
4 beautiful l.Ge-size marble statue of
Washington, prepared by the great sculptor,