Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-15

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sion for the stability of Democratic govern
ment in these States, Notwithstanding ): ).
Preston, Of South Carolina, puts his unwieldy
person in the Presidential chair OF trea-
sonable gathering; Bayard brays; Wood,
the swindler of New York, parades his Dead
Rabbits, or Houmas and Oregon war claims.
Sldell-from his dark hiding place FORCES
plots and schemes for his satellites to put in
operation for his advantage" This is very
wrong and harsh.
The address Of the seeding delegates
from Charleston has been signed by many
Of the Southern members, and will be pub
lshed ia few DAYS. 1t will urge the Con-
vention to adopt the report of the Platform
Committee and then make the nomination.
The Southern embcrs-that is the extrem-
ists-deem the proposition for the secession
lists to return to the Baltimore Convention, as
humiating and impracticable. They say it
could only be excused on the ground that
the Douglas factions of the seeding States
would fill the vacancies in the Convention
An attempt was made on Thursday to
throw train on the New Haven Rail road
from the track \ tie was placed on the
rails about t lies this side of New Haven.
The engine struck the tie, but it and the
train were uninjured Mr.. Pierce. division
master, who was at work near the spot had
noticed two suspicious looking boys pass the
place short time previous. lie pursued and
succeeded in arresting them. They confess
ed that they put the tie on the track, and are
now in custody.
a., ~, oEtb nf Nnuoo, Lnr Inst man
named Jacob IIorner was detected in the act
of placing heavy cross ties upon the track OF
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, near
Cameron, with the design of throwing off the
western express train. lie was arrested
and lodged in Jail, and last week his trial
came off in the Circuit Court Of Marshall
co., Va. sitting at Moundsvile. The evil
dence being positive against him, he was
convicted, and sentenced to the penltcntlary
for three years.
The funeral service of the late S. G. Good
rich, peter Parley) took place on Satur-
day morning, ut st. Bartholomew Church.
New York. Rcv. Samuel Cooke, ID. ID was
the officiating Clergyman, assisted by the Gu
rate of the parish. The attendance was
large, and included many persons of literary
and social distinction. Among the pall-bcar-
ers were the Hon. Geo Folsom, late United
States Minister to the Hague Henry T..
Tuckcrmnn the poet, and Charles f. Gould
esq.
The New York Times correspondent wri
ting from Bridgetown, Barbados, on the 10th
ult., notices the passage by the Legislature
of al act authorizing Il loan for the new
Water Works Company. As the citizens of
Bridgetown have hitherto been obliged to
rely on rain water they anticipate the com
pletion OF the works in question with much
anxiety.
4 Democratic meeting was held at Allan
ia (Ga.) on Saturday. The postmaster de-
Tended the seressonists from the Convention
ut Charleston, and denounced Judge Doug
las us Il traitor to the Democracy and the
South. B. G.. lancey, esq, made Il long
speech of similar character. The other side
of the question was defended by Col. Gas
kel The meeting adjourned for week.
Our New York country exchanges all con
tain brief editorials headed, "Prepare for
the Census" 4 woman in lIerkimer county
has done So She presented her husband
with two fine boys and a girl. Country edi-
tors had better devise some less sensational
heading for their paragraphs.
The Government steamer Mohawk, with
the barque Wildtire, is below New Orleans
awaiting orders. The WildIirc was captur
ed on the coast of Cuba, and has five hum
dred Africans on board. The capture caus-
ed great excitement at Havana.
OF the civil war in Mexico, there is no
late news of any Importance to report. Both
parties preserve merely an armed, defiant
inactivity, being too exhausted in the inn
portant item of the sncws Of war, to under
take active operations.
At Scranton, Pa, May -, one hundred
guns were fired upon the recci pit of the news
of the passage of the Tariff bill in the House.
A meeting was called for Monday evening
and preparations made for grand demon
stration.
The Democrats at Newburyport declare
TINT 'if Douglas is overslaughed at Balti-
more, they will be ready to walk over to the
Black Republicans and light his swindlers and
political assassins to the death" This is
very wrong and harsh.
Lager Beer, is manufactured to the extent
of $4,000 barrels annually in the Eastern
District of Brooklyn. There are eighteen
brewerics constantly engaged in producing
this beer, and the demand is annually in
creasing.
r.. p. Flouken, of Pennsylvania, and L.
Randolph Hardin, of Georgia, have been APP
pointed and confirmed as Associate Justices
of Utah, in place Of the two Judges recently
resigned.
The New York produce exchange, have de-
termned to build on their proposed site,
bounded by Pearl, Moore, Water and White
hall streets. Sl75 900, the whole capital, has
been subscribed
After protractcd drought, a fine rain set in
at Charleston, S. c., Wednesday night, and
continued on Thursday. Ia many sections
of Virginia, the crops have been damaged by
heavy rains.
We have accounts Of heavy freshets in
different sections of Pennsylvania, and con-
siderable damage has been done to the grow
| ing crops. Much lumber on the SuSquehan-
ma has been washed away.
Within few days. Tufts College, in Mas