Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-06-16

DAYS and SATGRDlIN, at Sir Dolic,s pc,
Gnnunn.
The GENTILEs IN UTAu-Mr James
Brooks Of the New York Express who is
making an overland trip 70 the Pacific, and
paper, has in the Express Of Friday an inter
esting description of his visit to Utah. and OF
the saints and saintcsSes with whom he atten-
dcd worship in the temple. The women, he
says. are neither pretty nor fashionable Oc-
casionaIly there Is seen 4 coquettlsh cap. nick
named bonnet silks if not SatinS, also in
trudc but the great mass Of the women bring
their hats and robes from their mothers and
great grandmothers, and the result Is head
gear representative Of Swedc. OF Scot. of Celt,
OF Yankee, the patterns, perhaps of ten genera
tions behind, with scoots Of Quaker formation
aud umbrellas of Italian conception. Mr..
Brooks had the satisfaction Of hearing ser
mon from Brigham who is described as Il good
looking man, now Of seventy years. resembling
much Tom Benton, the Missouri Senator, in
his latter days. Mr.. Brooks speaks of him as
Il man of all sorts Of ability whctheras preach
rr, prophet. governor, .anker farmer and rail
road builder, but it appears he Is not much
longer 20 have undisputed religion, dominion.
The E pscopalians have planted a church in
his capital The Roman Catholics are already
there The Methodists are about to invade
Utah with one of their prodigious camp-mect-
ingS, assembling Methodists there from the
Missouri, at Onaha, to San Francisco, on the
Pacific They threaten to capture Brigham
and alI his hosts Brigham, generously or
tauntngly offered thcm his huge new taberna-
Gle, holding 1900 people, with It's galleries,
new, and the big organ, perhaps the biggest
in the world. to be thrown in, lur their great
love feast but they declined the taiut. or the
taunt, and they turn up in tents. in the open
fields, under cloudless sky. The grasShop-
pers, which have hitherto been greater enemies
of the Molmons than the Gentiles, are being
devoured by the gulls, so that Utah is likely
to be freed FROM the pest.-Baltimorc ,S,tn.
Mr.. TooMBs, OF GA.-The New York Tli-
hunc's correspondent travelling in the South
having interviewed Mr.. Tooubs, Of Georgia,
gives to that paper resume OF his opinions,
which our readers know are as extreme as they
can be. They are exceedingly piquant, too,
and make up the most Interesting letter the
correspondent has yet written. MIR. Toombs
must have been very frank, indeed. The cor
respondent thought him Il little rough. consid-
ering that he 1.-THE correspondent had no. as
sailed him But Notwithstanding this, Mr.
Toombs invited him to his house to tea, where
he was treated with an elegant, graceful and
bountiful hospitality that surprised him, while
Mr.. Toombs, he says, Instead OF the bitter
political partisan Eecame the genial host. and
talked in the most entertaining manner OF his
travels abroad, Of his residence i'll Paris, Of
English politics and statesmen, etc. Had the
correspondent understood Southern character
this would not have surprised him. In his so
cial and domestic relations Mr. Toombs is a
true southerner; 4 very different man from
Ben Wade for instance. Mr.. Toombs is a
'fre-eater, and will so live and die but his
ultraism is 50 well understood that 1t don [ in
yolve tho South. h.-Riclmoad Dispatch.
\ SINGULAR OPERATION The Whining
ton IN. c. journal says: "A very skiIul and
successful medical opcration-that OF the trans
fusion of blood from a lamb toa human body y
was performed in this city on last Friday after
noon by Drs j. T. King andJ. L. Winants, The
subject was a colored NAH, an inmate OF the
CITY Hospital, who has been suffering Tor some
time past and who had lately seemed in danger
Of death from mere exhaustion. hen lalI
upon the table he was too weak to talk, and
anpearcd to have but few hours Of lite left IN
him. When his vein was opened but one drop
Of blood fell from it, The carotid artery OF
the lau,b was opened and the blood was forced
from thence, by the palpi,ation fthc animal :
heart, through small glass tube into the pa-
tents cephalic vein. In this way about eight
ounces Of blood was conveyed from the lamb tC
the mau. The operation was entirely satlsac-
tory in its results, and the patient Is now DONG
very well.
MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS --DurnG
the progress Of a divorce case tried IN tnclnna'
ii few days ago, some disclosures were lna9s
which must be highly interesting to any foolish
ybo bop oil themselves
be led into correspondence with strangers
through the Introductory medium of newspa-
per advertisements. 1t appeared that the de-
tendant in this case, who was accused OF lnh-
delity and desertion, had advertised III the
Waverly Magazine for correspondence with
Young ladies between seventeen and twenty
wears of age with view to matrlmony, de
scribipc himself as Il gentleman Of ample for
tune, and large box ofetters and photographs
ofvounc women who had answered his adver
tisement was produced in the court room
These were examined with great interest b. the
Jury reporters, and others, and it's very prop
able that some Of the letters may be published
for the amusement otthe pubic. 1t wasSnoWl
that in one instance ut least, the rascal hat
nroceeded so far as to contract an engagement
ofmarriage with young woman OF respectable
family who had answered his advertisement
although he had wife aud child living at the
time, How many more such cases there Were
cannot be known. If girls belong ing to respect
able families will be SO iuexcuSably foolish 4:
TO enter into correspondence with men of whom
thew know nothing except from the description
they give of themselves in advertisements, the.
must not except much sympathy
A Curious CUsroM-In the burgher soce
ty of CASTLE Epiphany, eve is devoted & 70 1 curl
,ogetber s in house agreed upon. They, taxi
mettoes t,ns Of gilded paper aud write on each thu
name Of some one OF the company. The nam
Of the ladies are thrown into one urn, and tho<
# the the cavaliers into another, and they ar
& draWn vHs out ut's by pairs These couples are thu
condemned by fortune to intimacy during tn tn
year The gentleman is always to De at at g. IN IN