Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-11-01
: ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER

LEX ANDlR'IA GAZETTE Ia, | l['.|!! an A y
The next session Of the Legislature OF Vlr-
ginia will, it is thought, be.a very important
one and should be especially devoted TO the
practical. interests Of the people, as connected
with agriculture, Commerce manufactures nut
and internal Improvements. 70 restore the
state, and to increase its prosperity, should be
ttheefort of, every citizen, Z.
Gen. Joseph 3. Johnston vas yesterday
elected President OF the National Express
Company.
81. q. John Mitchell arrived in Richmond lat
evening. @
The Board Of Visitorsof the Virginia Mil
itary5Institute have recently organized new
department of instruction, embracing practical
astronomy, geology, metorology and physical
geography, and Captain John ~. Brooke,
late &c the navy, has been called to this new
chair.
+ As locomotive on the Raleigh and CASTOR
Railroad, Va, exploded on Saturday last,
instantly killing two persons
Z An army correspondent Of the Chicago Tri-
bune, a Republican paper, complains Of the
conduct of the 9Th Illinois cavalry In depreda-
/ ting upon citizens Of Alabama The writer,
who belongs to the command in question, says
that the officers have reaped a rich harvest.
+ The Lemon crop in Sicily is Sadto be affec
| ted BY a desease among the lemon trees.
European journals are having fun oyera
s'high falutin speech SAID to have been made
I by John3P. Hale, Minister to Spain, on being
introduced to the Queen.
The National Intelligencer newspaper. OF
Washington city, entered upon the sixty fifth
year Of its existence yesterday. s
The. Solicitor Of the Treasury has issued
instructions as to rewards which shall be given
to persons who may aid in detecting, arresting,
or conyicting eounterfeiters Of United States
| notes or bonds.
The most touchingly painful case resulting
from the fatal explosion on board the steamer
Est. John, at New York, on Sunday, Was the
deaths Of Mr.. and Mrs Lyons, newly mar
ried couple, who had not been united III the
bonds Of matrimony more that four days.
They were both to be buried from the same
church in which they had been married on
Thursday last
I Several ladies Of Baltimore, are making ar
aranments to supply, as tar as they can, the ne
cessities of the people of South Carolina who
live Ia some Of the districts trayersed b., Gen
Sherman S army.
If it possible, Miss, that you don't know
the names of some Of your best friends?
inquired gentleman OF lady. Certainly, >
she replied, Il don know what my own name
will be year hence
The belle of williamsburg, New lork, was
married Tuesday evening. The rush was very
great, and two or three hours before the time
appointed tor the ceremony, the street was
com pletely blocked w., and upon the opening
OF the church, the crowd rush in, clamberlpg
over the tops OF the peWs, and climbing IN at
windows, so that considerable injury was done
to the church, and most OF the invited guests
crowded out
Atlanta is at present the scene of an i'm
mense amount Of business enterprise ard
industry. An old citizen OF the place says
that at least five hundred new structures Of
various sorts and sizes are going I'D n 1he
city
Some few weeks since, several i. S. officers
called on Gov Vance, at his farm near AshgltIe,
n. c., when his wife excused, him stating that
he had gone to the mill. He had been poughlng
and doing other farm work ever since the sur
render. What an example to the young men
of the South,
GOLD
New York, November l.-Gold, 1855.