Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-08-05
GACGEiRnisS.

tS-'~@ 'iAN u3oUHiSu hOlliC VI III f1agne mas
been perperating the most unparalleled rascali-
ties in the south and west, has at length been
"caged' for SIX years. His last crime was higalny:
having married respectable widow in Cincinnati,
and, few weeks afteward, an interesting girl
at Paducah, Ky. 1t has since been ascertained
that be is no Other than tho yturUuS Jesse runE
rau Elliot Quantrill--a nsme familiar in the an
nails of crime. He has graduated at several pen
ltentiaries, and is said to be the most thorough,
accomplished villain in the country. From the
lowest depths of british crime, to the most com
pllcated and daring schemes of villainy-in all
the regular gradations from these extremes, he
was equally at home. He has spent most of his
life in prison. A few years ago, he made his es-
cape from prison IN Mississippi. From thence
he went to Cincinnati, where he bought UP some
steamboats, without dollar, went to the house
of certain Judge, fogged the Judge entered into
some great Mercantile speculation, and crossed
into Kentuckl-all in one day At another time,
he went to Philadelphia, and alarmed all the
stage companies, by representing himself as a
! wealthy contractor, sending agents all over the
state to buy horses for opposition lines OF stages
and declaring he would break up the old lines.
The old companies were about to pay him $780,
| 000 TO desiSt, when he was detected Of forgery,
and was forced to leave before he could get the
money. And another time he robbed post
Office in Maryland, where he only realized Sl2.
His life was an exemplifcation of mental ability
without moral restraint.
o. Three houses were destroyed and eight per-
sons killed, July IT, by slide of rocks at Cape
Diamond. Two more slides subsequently &C.
cured, which crushed other houses and some
additional lives were lost,
GT' A horrible mortality occurred on board the
British ship Lady Montague, on the passage from
China to Callao, with 500 passengers. Sickness
and fever ragged, the water and provisions became
putrid, and their suiIerings were truly frightful.
Many jumped overheard, and by the time the ship
reached Callao, 274 had persisted.
u An old lady, named Mrs. M'Elroy, is now
living in Philadelphia, who is 109 years old She
does all her house work, waits upon her youngest
daughter, 81 years of age, who has been blind fol
three years. and attends store in the front 1oom
She married in 1870, when l6 years old, aud is
the mother Of seven children, three of whom are
dead. She distinctly recollects Gen. Washington
and several scenes of the revolution. She wa
: born at Allentown, Pa, and her father, Ger
man, lived to be 107 years old.
" The Norfolk Beacon states that Revolu
tionary soldier, named James NJ Donald was founC
recently, asleep in the street, and taken to tn,
station house. The old hero said he lived il
West Cambridge, Mass, and had been to Wash
ington, from which place to Philadelphia, Gen
Scott paid his fare.
" The Achilli trial has produced great cX
citement i'll England recently, and the result prove
that villalny does not go unpunished, even whel
courts of law favor the criminal. DR.. Achilii
an apostate from Roman Catholicism, and tai
ented and violent opponent of Popery, wa
, charged by DR.. Newman, who is an apostate fron
/ PrOtestantism, with many acts of RIGHTEOUSNESS
g debachery and seduction Achlli instituted
suit for libel. Abundant evidence of the trut
e of the charges was brought before the court, ye
setting aside all this, the court govea verdict tina
t Newman was guilty of publishing libel, thereb
q declaring Achilli innocent. Now mark the sc
9 quel Public opinion has branded Achill as a vii
= lain. His chapel in London is closed for want {
: worshippers And in the language of a cotem
/ porary che Stands unmasked as a sensual, hypc
critical beast, whose trade in piety will no longC
y serve his turn. Henceforth he must wander, wit
the brand of Cain upon his brow, or seek in OF
D security and repentance, shelter from publ
u scorn.'
u The Mexican and Indian robbers, who al
the authors of the late massacres along the Ri
Grande, have been arrested by party of Mex
can citizens, under Trinidad Flores, chief alcalt
- of Reynosa. The robbers. when arrested, exhil
tied full, written authority for all these depredi
tons, from Gen. Avalos, commander-in- chief
r the Mexican forces. Mr.. Waddell, the America
q consul, as soon as he can procure all the fac
IS and documents, will leave for Washington, to ID
them before the government.
j. GT The New Orleans papers contain accoun
q of most fendish outrage recently perpetratt
I, upon the dead bodies of the unfortunate victr
of the steamer St. James The bodies was riff
e. of watches, money, rings, ear-drops, and eve
S. thing of any value whatever, and horribly NUT
g lated. The captain and crew of a suspicion
looking fishing schooner, had been arrested {
''' suspicion. A pocket book, supposed to ha
u been pirated from one of the bodies was found
the possession of the captain.
~ The Episcopal Diocese of New jersey h
o acquitted Bishop Doane Of the charges broug
against him by the bishops of Ohio, Virginia, al
I'd Maine, and appointed committee to rcmonstra
4. with these three reverend prelates against pr
ceeding further in the matter
81 Bl-Late advices from Texas state that Carava
I'd will again attack the city of Matamoras, and pre-
Pl arations are making to give him warm recepto
- The cholera has made its appearance the Qua
IS. aloupe river and created considerable alarm, 7
crops in Texas are remarkably fine. The India
10 are very troublesome on the Western frontier.
ne " The St. Louis papers of the 18th Of Ju
ed contain the 3s0th coroners inquest for the pre-
70 ent year.
/. ~ ~ Some spectators in Cincinnati have Ii
Us out new city, in Belpre township, Washingt
- county, opposite Parkersburg. Price of lots
present, 90 cents foot.
GJe The Ironton Register is urging upon
re citizens of that place the Importance Of establ
- ing boot and shoe factory, as "the hope Of I1t
ton is ito manuhctpres"