Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-06-23
News Of the Day.
"7b showthe gerry age and body Of the TINES

"76 shoWthe rery age dndbody Of the TINES
The refusal of certain Virginia postuas-
tiers to send returns of elections to the Sec
rotary Of State, without prepayment of post,
age. has led to IA correspondence with the Post
Office Department, and the offending post
masters are directed to forward the packa-
ges, charging the proper amount Of postage,
hut not to insist upon prepayment. This Is
a precedent for coming elections.
The Nashville Patriot states that Henry
Wright esq, of Lexington, Tenn, died re-
Gently, at the hospital near that city, where
he had been removed from the Lunatic Asy-
lum MIR. Wright WAS arrested last winter,
charged with forging land warrants. The
enormity Of the charge, preying upon mind
conscious of innocence, unseated his reason,
and he was sent to the Lunatc Asylum
Death has interviewed before his mental NAL
ady could be healed, and his innocence eS-
tahlished in II court of justice.
No less than TOO convicts were placed in the
new State prison, at San Quentin. California;
and Oh the night Of May Dist, fourteen of the
most desperate and hardened OF them effected
their escape. The mortar in the partition walls
between the cells was not quite dry, and they
found but little difficulty in picking the bricks
out. They descended into the blacksmith =
shop, and then completed their preparations
for scaling the outer wall, which they success
fully accomplished by means of plank.
A singular duel took place in Montreal
last week. One of the City Councillors was
accosted in the street by Il stranger, who
told him he was no gentleman. The Goun-
cllor offered to prove that he was, at ten pa
ces. The stranger had weapons; they got
into carriage, rode to a suitable spot, and
the stranger was wounded. The Councillor
had to use his spectacles, being man Of
advanced age. He has no idea who his an
tagonist was. Both non compos, no doubt.
The proportion of clergymen to the popu-
lation of the United States is as to S63.-
New Hampshire takes the lead in support
ing preachers as she has one to every 400
persons. Connecticut comes next, with one
to every 526 persons. All the New England
States support one clergyman to less than
600 persons. New York has one to every
1872.
In the Suprme Court, at East Cambridge,
on Monday, Miriam Y. Heeth was brought
up for sentence 1t will he remembered that
she, with her brother, were convicted in June
last of murder in the second degree, having
killed their father, Joshua Heeth, at Dracut
in January, 1858. She was sentenced To
Imprisonment for life in the house of correc-
ton.
1t appears that the late Baron Won Hum
boldt, naturally apprehensive of the inus-
tice which too often follows the decease of
illustrious men--who are no sooner dead
than their private letters and garbled por-
tons Of their writings are, from vanity or
cupidity, given to the public-lett a dying
request to protect his memory from such In
discretions.
The peach crop, everybody will be glad to
learn, will be first rate one, to all appear
ance. The Smyrna (Delaware) Times, OF
recent date, says: 1T is now apparent, as
the season advances that the peach crop has
not been injured as much as was at first an
ticipated. In some localities the crop has
been benefited rather than injured"
Mr. George Terry, OF Leeds, England,
who in 1899, became Grand Master OF the
Odd Fellows and Treasurer for fifty lodge"
in the Leeds District and Chairman and
Treasurer of the Widows and Orphans, has
absconded lately, having become defaulter
to the extent Of from twenty to twenty-five
thousand dollars.
Major Ben McCulloch, late United States
Marshal of Texas, upon settling up his ac-
counts with the Government, found due HIM
SIS. O6 more than he claimed. During the
several wears he was in office, he disbursed
Sl60. 900 for the Government, and collected,
under executions and judgments, about hall
"a million more.
Postmaster-Genera Holt expresses his de-
termination to investigate fully the charges
Of fraud upon, and abuses in his Department.
Instructions have been given to the agents
throughout the country for this purpose.
A telegraphic dispatch from Boston states
that the new ship Nelly Southland, (of Ricl-
mond Me-, from St. John, n. B., for Pen
arth Roads, was totally lost on the 18th i'll
stant on Grand Menan. Crew saved.
Madame Willis, ian astrologist," or fortune
teller, has been arrested in Pittsburg, charg-
ed with cheating and defrauding various
credulous persons
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