Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-23

Messrs Hall & Rucklc in New York, caused
the prupretors TO keep up strict watct
OH the premises in order to discover the per
pctrItor. On Saturday morning, between
D and q o'clock, wlIlc the officers were SIT
ting in IL wagon laden with cabbaScs, II
front Of the store, disguised rs market gar
deners, they observed II man come out with
IL carpet bag well filled, and took HIM int
custody They found in his bag opium
pills and other drugs 10 the value OF soo-
The prisoner proved to be the bo"k-keepri
al the finn. Seeing that escape was hope
less. he majc4, lull confession oi his guilt
and said tn II he had ben engaged IN rob
Llng his employer for more than year, as
sisted hy two other men in the same estab
lIshmeut.
Two murders have been commItte II
Ulster county. New York. \ daugh er Z"
James Eandervoort of Lloyd, was ensasel
AT the house uf Mr.. Aibrrtsnn i'll making I
snroud for the body OF his wife. when heI
father came IN and commanded her 10 <,
home. threatening her with personal INJURY
if she refused. Young Albcrts"n lntcriered
to rea on with him. The two got into u
quarrel, in the course UI which Alberts"l
WAS stabbed in the breast. lie expired
shortly alter the wound was inflicted. Van
derroort has since been arrested. and In non
in the Kingston jail. On Sunday, MAI
named Cunningham. WAS murdered by three
brnihers.
An extraordinary scene WAS witnessed al
Portland, Me, on the l1th inst; that of the
police entering the house Ut IL citizen. and
breaking open his private iron safe on Sus
plriun that it contained liquors, The build
IN where this occurred was the Exchang,
Coffee llpusc, the proprietor, Jesse Anu's.
The city marshal, notwithstanding Mr.. y.
protested against this violent Intrusion upon
his premises. after considerable hard labor
forced open the sale, found nine bottles oi
liquor, and bore them of III triumph u the
police utfice.
A South Carolni,n WAS .windled in Phil.,
delphia out Of $50, on Thursday night, in
front of hotel OH Chestnut street. lie WAS
addressed bya yenteelly dressed man, and
while c"nyersins, another came up and spoke
u the South CurOllnlan uew acquaintance
rs AN old friend, and asked him To cash u
draft Tor $500 ona Baltimore house. He had
not the money about him, unlcss the gentle.
man from South Carolina would loan him
$50 for II few moments. The result Wa, III
usual-the draft proved Ia he worthless, and
the rugues escaped with their booty.
On the last of July. an elderly man left n
bautiiul and interesting young lad ut
Williamsport. Pa. as being too i'll 10 20
further in the cars. He deposited money
Tor her expenses and left her The Young
lady died OH the lith INST, and il was ascrr-
tanned by II coroner inquest, that she had
been betrayed under Il promise ui marriage,
and that her death was caused by Il cruel
operation for abortion, performed by ply
>Iclan in IN adjoining State, ut the inSIl1a-
ton of an lmhuman uncle.
At Northumberland, Pa. August 20, the
ticket office OF the Northern Central Railway
and store of Mr.. Elliot, were discover
ed to be on fire. the building was burn
ed down, together with all the tickets OF
the company aud the books OF Mr.. Mr.. FL
lott. The ticket office was in room ad-
joining MIR. Elliott's store. The cause Of the
lire is unknown The loss on the building
is about $500. Note and book accounts OF
Mr.. Elliott to the value of 1900 or S4,OaO
were destroyed.
The New York Canal tolls have bcca ia!
ling off to al alarming extent. For the
second week in August they onl y amount to
S41 ,4jG, Il decrease of $l6. 43l from the
Ill, Of
Auditor Benton has addressed long letter
to one of the Canal Commissioners in rcler-
ence 10 the canal debt and the best means oi
meeting it. lie dcprecilrs the idea ot II
sale Of the canals to corporation, rs WAS
the case in Pennsy lvana.
Aud yet another warning i'll regard to
burning fluid! In New York, last week, Il
man named Peter . Neill u hand on board
the sloop Hope, attempted to til Il lighted
fluid lamp, in the cabin of the ,l""P, when
the lamp exploited, set fire To the cabin
furniture and also IT, the clothing 81 q ArIli's
vile whn WAS confined to her bed 10y SICK
less. Mrs. UNcill was taken To- the New
YORK Hospital, and is reported to be very
seriously burnt.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says:-"A very
reprehensible practice prevails among some
banking houses in this city and elsewhere.
We mean the stamping of the name and
business Of the firm Oh bank notes which
pass through their hands. y moments COLI
slIeratiou will show the danger I" the credit
Of houses indu ging III the practice, and We
wish To suggest that such BANKERS may rem
der themselves liable for counterfeit notes,
by the imitation Of their stamp by counter
letters"
On Thursday night last IL bloody aifray &C.
CURED mt Cincinnati, III which live persons
were stabbed, ,,nc Of them it is feared fatally
The affair occurred in the lager beer snlo"n
Of Phillip Dig, and was occaslnncd by II par.
ty of ruwdle. They first raised row aud
when the proprietor and his has keepers al
tempted to put them ont, they drew their
knives and cut right aud left. Dig was i'll
jured very seriously and is thought beyond
recovery.
Mr.. Powell, whose picture of the Discov-
cry of the Mississippi by De Soto, ad"rns the
rutundn uf the Capitol at Washington, has
been commissioned 10y the State OF OHIO L"
paint the Battle OF Lake Erie tor the CarI-
tol Of that State. Mr. Powell was III Prove
Ieuce, on the lst. to visit DR.. Parsons, tn"
last SUR, wing commissioned "fhc"r attached
to the iag ship Oh that day.
The case of Julia f.. Clark against Alvin