Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-04-04

OF JeWeiry by one OF the clerks, VIII" lmmedl-
ately absconded to Europe, taking with him
the proceeds of the robbery. The clerk is a
nephew Of Mr.. Hermann, and is named Ger
son Cohen. The fugitive was followed 30
England by his late employer, and tracked
to Hull. From there Mr.. Hermann traced
him to London. and from London to liam
burg. where the fugitive was arrested. and
recovered The police of Hamburg for
warded the accused to Liverpool, where he
was put on board the Kangaroo, and for
warded to the United State, iii charge of his
uncle.
Col Chas F. M. Garnett of Va, engineer
in chief and w. S. Ellison, esq, superinten-
dent of the Don Pedro Cd Railroad, in Bra
iii, have, it is stated, been dismissed for po-
litical reasons 1t appears that two Of the
directors of the road were bitter enemies OF
the two Americans, and being men OF great
influence, promised three candidates for the
Congress of Brazil To- secure their election II
they could succeed in ousting Messrs. Gar
nett and Ellison. Subsequently the three
candidates managed To have themselves cho-
bargain. A former English contractor on the
road is said to have been ut the bottom Of the
affair
Great excitement has been produced in
Greece by the arbitrary and Illegal manner
in which Alexander Soutza, a celebrated
patriotic poet has been sentenced to five
years imprisonment for having, in pamph
let entitled 1.-The Wanderer," pointed out
the systematic violation Of the constitution
practsed under the influence of the Queen
more particularly with regard to the cleo
tons. As soon aS the result of III" trial
was known. multitude assembled III the
streets of Athens. and threatened rcv0iu
tionary movement. The Government immr-
diately ordered out the troops, and Athens
had all the appearance of q city in IL state Of
siege.
An interesting discovery has been acct
dentally made in the grounds Of Dorchester
Castle. in England. At the depth of four
feet Roman tesselated pavcmen; was found;
one corner had been destroyed. The bcauli-
full centre was fortunately unchanged and
entire, "a well as the remaining portion Of
the pavement, together with the threshold
The pavement itself, now measuring ten feet
FIVE and half inches by six feet two inches,
was transferred to the chapel If the cstab-
lishmcnt, and placed within the commu-
Mon rails 4 small coin of Constantine
the Great, was found among the rubbish up
on it.
A draft for $685., the amount contribu-
ted to the Mount Vernon Fund by six Com
panies and band of the 2nd Infantry. sta
toned at Fort Randall Nebraska, has been
received by Hon. Edward Everett. Mr.. Ey-
erett is expected to pronounce his Frank
lin" Grafton in Richmond. Va, on Friday.
Sth of April, at the invitation of tn" Young
Mems Christian Association, for the benefit
of the Orphan Societies and other charities.
Afterwards he will deliver the Washing
ton" Grafton at four places i'll North Caro-
lima, and will then return to Virginia, to
meet engagements at Lynchburg and Staun-
ton.
The New York Herald says: The mer-
chants of Albany have opened war upon
the old copper cents-the greatest nuisance
in the currency of the country. They are
worth their weight in copper, and that is all,
and the sooner we are rid of them the better
will everybody be pleased. In the South
and Southwest, a bushel ofcopper cents woui"
not purchase bushel of corn. The people
of those localities will not look at them, eX-
cept in the way of curiosity Away with
them. They are dirty things and IN injury
to the cyesight,'
The Altoona Pa Tribune states that
couple of boys of that place INDUCED in a
game of gullotinc, one day last week, which
came near proving fatal to one Of them. One
of tho lads placed his neck upon a block,
and the other picked up an axe and played
the part of executioner. Fortunately the
victim struggled sufficient to remove his neck
from the block, but the descending axe
caught two of his fingers, one of which WAS
entirely and the other partially cut off, We
should think it will be some time before t!iat
boy plays that game again.
Here is Yorkshire paragraph, showing
that the grotesque ignorance recorded by
Charlotte Bronte and Mrs. Gaskill, has not
vet vanished:-"The Doncaster Gazette has
been voted oat of the various news rooms at
Thorne, and copy of it carried round that
town on gibbet, in the midst of a torchlight
procession, headed by drum and fife band,
and publicly burned in the market place, for
having stated that that place was one of the
worst educated towns in the West Riding of
Yorkshire"
There are unfavorable accounts from the
Sandwich Islands, concerning the brig Morn
ing Star, the missionary packet lately built
by contributions Of the Sunday School chill
dren in the Atlantic States. The Honolulu
Commercial Advertiser, says she has put into
that port for repairs. Not only were the
timbers so rotten that they could be easily
picked to pieces with the fingers, but the
whole stern was most curious combination
of patchwork made up Of the refuse odds
and ends of q ship-yard.
The editor of the Fredericksburg Herald
has seen monster tooth, which was picked
up on a farm in SpOtsyvania, some FIVE miles
from town, which weighed over three pounds.
1t was over three inches crOss-wisr in the Jaw,
and some four or five inches from front to
back, though as a portion of it was broken
off it may have been half as large again that
way. 1t had FIVE large prongs indicatn. its
roots. The tooth was partially petrltied.-
The monster that bore it must have belonged
to the primitive ages.
A letter from an officer Of the t. 5. steam
frigate Powhstan, dated at Hong Kong, JAN