Daily national Democrat., 1859-03-29
Atlantic Items by the Late Overland
Mail.

The Cincinnati Gazette, of ,2Sth February,
says;
AT a late hour last night, we learned the
following details of n most singular affair
which occurred near Cunminville, same four
or five miles from Cincinnati, on Saturday
night, 26th March. 1t appears that person
whose name isnot given us, entered the
burying ground of that place, and removed
II dead body FROM grave, which he paceI
in sack. In making his exi: from the yard,
it was Necessary to scale high board fence,
which the resurrectionist evidently found
difficult in accomplishing with the burden
with which he was encumbered In orde:,
therefore, to give himself free use OF his
hands and arms he placed the cord attached
to the mouth Of the sack around his shoulder
and climbed to the TOP of the fence, whence
he must have fallen off, leaving the corpse on
the opposite side. The result was that the
cord was drawn up around his neck, and he
was found yesterday morning, having been
chOked to death by the weight of the corpse
on the opposite side of the fence The story
seems an incredible one but we are informed
that, startling as it is, it is nevertheless true
PiccoIomni replied to Il serenade lately, at
Troy, New York F." Shentemen, am mooch
obligee for dis complimentz | am veer
poore speak AngliSh, unit feels shleepy,"
Utica, New York. Feb. 28th-The Theatre
in this city was destroyed by fire last night,
involving loss Of $4,000.
NEW ORLEANS, March lst-The English
and French fleets at Vera Cruz appear hos.
tile to Juaras. 1t is reported that they are
intercepting his reinforcements and favoring
Miramon. Miramon threatens to sack the
city The French and English fleets have
been appealed to for pro ection, which they
refused to grant 1t is not thought, howev-
er, that the fleets will openly participate in
the attack on the city.
Numbers of the sufferers by the late explo-
sion of the steamer Princess are dying from
their injuries The whole of the forward
part of the boat was blown to pieces
A Washington correspondent of the Ohio
State Journal writes that: " for four mortal
hours Douglas and Davis fought like human
tigers and the tone, gestures, manners and
matters of both were violent and sometimes
insulting" This alludes to the debate in the
Senate on the 23d of February.
The Washington correspondent of the
United States Gazette says that the President
intends performing some extraordinary antics
at the close of the short session in the way of
appointments
The Fulton, which intended to do such ter
rible execution in Paraguan waters with her
large II inch gun, finds, on getting to Mon
teviedo, that she has no carriage on which
to put that tremendous piece of ordnance.
and consultation has been held touching
the propriety of sending the Water Witch
up the Ascension in her place.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune,
writing from Gratiot county, Michigan, un.
der date Of February 10th, says
Everybody here is destitute; we actually
hear of families that have had to subsist on
Eastwood buds; that, when the weather is
suitable, they go into the woods and browse,
and when too cold for that, they have the
small limbs of the Eastwood taken to the
house to feed out If we should be reduced
to that extremity, we should have to take
the browse to the house, for our children are
not clothed sufficiently warm to drive them
to the woods, as most of them are efuot-
ed. bare headed and halfcloshed any way.
SUICIDE Y esterday morning it was dis
covered that William ii. Parker, of Califor-
nii, aged forty three years, who had been
staying at the National Hotel for some time
past. committed suicide in his room the night
before 10y taking morphine. A spoon was
found near him, having traces of the deadly
drug upon it, and there were PARTICLES of il
on his mustache, a Coroners inquest was
held Yesterday, and n verdict of suicide by
taking poison during fit Of temporary in.
sanity was returned
The deceased leaves un interesting daugh
ter, Agnes, aged seventeen. The poor girl
is in the deepest distress. hut many friends
surround her, who are leaving nothing un-
doue to console her in her atfiiction- " ash.