Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-31
News of the Day.
"To show the re,y age and body o the TIMES. .

The New York Express Of Monday says:
1--WE have conversed with a number of mi
ners, who returned in the steamer Saturday
night, and all concur in saying that the
richness of the Washoe Valley, and other
| localities in Utah. has been vastly overated.
| One gentleman told Us that he had inspected
carefully the whole locality, and that he did
not believe there was a single claim that
would pay for the working, with the excep-
ton of the Virginia silver mine. Many of
the ''claims" in this region, which have been
! sold in California the last winter at such
enormous prices, were at the 10th OF April,
| full eli ght feet under the snow and not one
out OF twenty was retrospective"
The Paris correspondent of the London
Herald says an ominous correspondence has
commenced between the cabinets OF London
and Paris Respecting this, he says mat
ters seldom wore u more critical aspect, ana
asserts that France, Russia, Austria and
Spain are leagued together. The Paris COR
respondent of the London Times refers to
the same subject. Mrs. Seys, wife of the
Rev. John Seys, formerly of Baltimore, has
opened a school in Monrovia for the gratul-
tous education of poor children. She had
100 scholars. and was assisted by the Rev.
Mr.. Thompson, Of the NJ. +. Church, lately
from the United States.
\ prize fight for 800 side between
George King, 3f New York, and jim Woods,
of Boston, was prevented by the vigilance OF
the New York police, who, getting wind of
the contest, arrested King early in the morn
| ing as he was on his way to the scene OF the
fght-"The cloisters," a spot on the Hud-
son river opposite lonkers. About 20O
spectators. however, found their way to the
spot, and King failing to appear within the
stipulated time, Woods claimed the stakes,
but they We're not given up.
The New York Evening Post says that
among the recent distinguished arrivals from
Europe, there are few that will be welcomed
with greater delight and prove more pro-
ductive of innocent pleasure, than the twelve
swans brought to our shores by the Bavaria
on Friday night They are the gift of the
city of Hamburg to the municipal authorl-
ties of New York, and were sent with a
special view to placing them in the Central
Park.
The German May festival Of Whit-Mon-
day was celebrated in New York and vicinl-
tv. The Spngerbunds, the Turnverein, the
| German Military and Social Societies, turned
out in full force, and enjoyed themselves
highly at Jones Wood, Hamilton Park, Con
RAIDS Park aud at various other suburban
| localities. The celebration was quite gene
ral--no less than twenty thousand persons
having visited Jones Wood alone.
DR.. +. W. Lord, who died suddenly i'll
New York u few days ago, on his return
from the Chicago convention, was formerly
for two years professor of mathematics IN
Washington College, had charge for three
years of an academy in the city OF Balti
more and devoted himself for several years
in Baltimore to the study Of medicine. Mr..
Lord was member Of Congress from 1917
to 1919 from the Brook yn district.
The young lady about whom the love
troubles Of the young Prince Of Wales have
begun, and which have led according to ru-
NOR to his visit to the North American colo
MES, is the Lady Caroline Nillers, daugh
of the Earl of Jersey, and grand daughter OF
| the late Sir Robert Peel, Of whom the Coun-
tess Of Jersey was the eldest daughter. She
| is very young, not over seventeen; the Prince
not nineteen until November next.
! Rev DR.. Cummings delivered q lecture
lately, in which he referred to the taunt in
| the columns Of Punch, that, notwlthstand-
| inc his belief that the world was TO come
to an eud in 1867, he recently renewed the
lease of a cottage for fifty years. The speak
thnr "a
substantially. but the answer to 1t was that
belief in his Interpretation OF prophecy
should not override common sense.
The cattle disease now raging in Eastern
Massachusetts, prevailed in England from
l744 to 1855. In Nottinghamshire 10000
head of cattle died in six moths, in Chesh-
ire 10000. During the third year Of the
disease .cl35 900 were paid out of the pub
lie treasury as a recOmpense for slaughtered
cattle. In 1857. in tnrty-three villages IN
Holland, l4,OoO head of cattle died or were
killed.
Theodore Parker who died in Europe re-
Gently, was for many years the pastor OF the
FIRST Unitarian Church of Boston, and his
celebrity as IL pulpit orator, and as Il scholar,
was almost WUflu-Wlte. uc Elllei eiioilS vi
his life were devoted to the discussion OF
matters of political character, and in that
way he became !: noted preacher OF Adolf
ton doctrines.
The particulars Of case Of protracted
wandering and hunger, accustomed by beng
lost in the woods, are published in the De-
troit Free Press. They relate to the wander
ing Of MIR Emil Schoher for nine days in
the wilderness Of Northern Michigan, with
out food save such roots and barkS as could
be found at this season OF the year.
The Cincinnati Enquirer learns that the
business of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
thus far indicates an aggregate Of some
$50 ,OO0 for the month, which will be q
large increase over the receipts for the cor
responding period last year. The road Is
doing IN immense freight and passenger
traffic.
We learn from the New York Herald, that
a delegation of artists is buSily lobbying in
Washington, to obtain the passage Of law
having duty OF one dollar an inch in length
and breadth upon all paintings, and a cor
responding duty upon all cnsravings to be
hereafter imported from abroad.
The Canada Great Western Railway Com
pany are building a state carriage for the
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