Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-17

Yosr lofty spirit bears this, and your patristism
submits to take as pay nine thousand dollars a
year, and zine thousand more as an outfit. for an
Office of ceremonies and etiquette! You cannot
even speak French, more than nous uerrDns, nous
Uerrons; so that it will only be dumb show, with
your cooked hat under your arm, and your sword
at your side; all, all for that horrid ..autocat,"
His Imperial Majesty of all the Russians!
Once more l protest 1 will write a farce, cal
ling it '.Roanoke in Siberia" You shall be seen
in full costume, with bag and wig, and shorts, as
well as sword. SALTIKOFF.
Jackson and Reform.-.4noher DefauHer!-
Letters received in town, by last nights West
ern mail, inform US that C.. WEIRIcn, the lately
appointed Jackson Postmaster of Claysville. Penn.
had just been apprehended at Wheeling, Va.
and that he is there confined in the goal for the
trifing offence of having p%urloined $1,000 from a
letter which had been mailed in his Office. for a
merchant in Baltimore. Adyices had been re-
ceived that the remittance had not come 70 hand,
and suspicion having rested upon the gentleman,
he was pursued and apprehended at the latter
place. The whole amount was fortunately found
paper, and identified. SO much for Mr.. Bar
iNs Vs. HI 4 W.
The following additional particulars we gather
from the Wheeling Gazette of saturday last:
Mail Robbery.-On Saturday last, Mr.. Nj.
Wilson, of Wheeling, put a letter into the Post
Office, directed to Pittsburg, containing one
thousand dollars; the letter reached is place Of
destination, but the money had been p%urloined
and some scraps Of paper MISUNDERSTANDING
these a Washington ~way-bill, with the top, and
the Postmaster's name at the bottom, torn Oft.
and a piece of coarse paper with the word
" Washington scrubbed on it, evidently put in
TO the letter for the purpose of exciting a suspi-
cion against the Washington Post Office, and to
screen the thief-but il often happens with rosues
that the very means they take to avert suspicion,
fix it on them, and lead to their detection. Such
was the case in this instance. In comparing the
writing on the scraps with the wa bills from dit
ferent post Offices, it was found that the color Of
the ink. and the appearance OF SOM figures. cor
responded exactly with the ink and figures on
the ClayscM way-bills. On Wednesday last.
Immediately after this discovery, Christian HE
rich, the Post Master of that place, made his APP
pearance in Wheeling, he was apprehended on
suspicion. searched, and the money found in one
of hi, pockets. He was lodged iu Jail, and will
be sent to Pittsburg for trial.
Mr.. Eichbaum. the Post Master of Pittsburgh,
was here, and is entitled to great credit for his
assistance in detecting the thief. He overhau)ed
the Claysvi!le Post Office and found 5000, sup
posed to have been purloined from another letter.
Mr.. Werlich is one of Gen. Jackson's rsf5rm-
ed Post Masters. We do not contend that in
all cases where a Post Master acts dishonesty,
that any of the odium ought to attach to the gov
ernment-But where a man who had been long
tried aud was knOWn TO b. honest, is turned out,
in order to bestow the office on another in pay
ment for services rendered in .the Presidential
contest, and he proves unworthy, 1t gives cause
for some dissatisfaction. Werlich was generally
considered an honest man, is quite wealthy, and
it might have been supposed that he was above
temptation.
&NSS
HoVr.-The Halifax Press has renewed its
COMPLAINT that some barrels of -four from The Unit
ell Stltes age deficient in weight, and advises pur-
chaser to have them all weighed.