Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-04-13
TLRGTNIA NENS.


Judge Meredith has been holding term OF
the Westmoreland Circuit Court fer Judge
Critcher, who could not sit 10 Eumber OF
cases IN which he had been formerly retained
as counsel. The criminal docket was not
called, as all the prisoners awaiting trial, four
in plumber, had effected their escape by taking
I'D the floor of the Jail and cutting their way
through the brick wall .E..
Rev. VIM. W. Green has beea appointed
a District Vice President in the New Order Of
the friends Of Temperance His District
will be known as the Fredericksburg District,
No. IS, and consist of the counties OF Spotsyl-
vania, Caroline, Orange, Stafford and PRICE
William
Mr. F. McCrarken, land agent, has sold the
farm belonging to Mr.. john K. Berry, some
four miles from Fredericksburg, land known as
the Watt tract to Mr.. Abraham Bruce, of
New York, for $2.600-S2 900 cash. The
farm contains $50 acres
The season has furnished some OF !he largest
herring On record The Poton,a> has furnished
Uue - lJufN5 i "tlSht, AZ! i'~ i'"II''''
mock recently, ,wc, one Of with weighed over
two pounds, tie either, one and v-haIf roUads
The house OF iIr. Il. ". Adams, i'll Frede-
ricksburg, was entered On Monday night last,
and his bureau drawer robbed Of small box
containing about 1860 aal soa.e valuable
papers.
We regret to announce tho sudden death OF
another of Spotsylvania' S OLD aud valued cti-
zsns in the person Of Mr.. James K. 'loIladay'
Fredericksburg Herald.
CASE OF DR.. MUDD, OF MARYLAND. i he
Baltimore Gazette publislIe:; 4 statement ollgi
nay made in August, 1865, written for the
Marlboro Gazette, IN Prince Georges county,
Md, (but rot then published in that paper,)
BY James L. Henry, Of that county, and sub
seqnentiy sworn to, before Justice OF the
Peace, in december, 1866, to the effect that,
in August, 1868, an old acquaintance Of his
Zone of III" highest in rank, in the Military
Coanii<s;on which tried Mrs. Surratt, Dr..
MUD, ana others, On the charge Of being I'M
plica;t1 in the lIincoIn assassination conspra.
Cyl told him (Henry) that,
1.-The Court never believed that DR.. Mudd
knew anything about Booth Designs Booth
made him tool az he had done with others,
DIR. Mudd Was ne victim OF his own tlmldlty.
Had he ack lodged to the soldiers whom he
saw in search Of Booth 1.-THE day otter the as
sassina,ion( that Booth had got his leg set IT
his house and went off, and had he, like Il man,
come out and said he knew Booth, instead of
fatty denying it to the Court, he would have
bad il tic trouble More Of similar ruTport
was tair:, but the points are included III the
abcre. As 7 do not know Dr. Mudd Or any OF
his relatives, it will be plain, l hope, that this
statement IS made solely with the view that it
my be acceptable to some Of his friends.
TIE affidavit to this statement further says,
thar lie officer alluded to was General David
Hunter. Ylio vas the President Of the Militia
~ t'u."lnisAiop referred 10, and with whom
rhis Ill ~: has been acquainted Tor many years,
having l., Gu fellow officers in the army.
Iji:s is very singular affair. We only give
it as !. appears Ii seems 20 strange that
doubts viii &c entertained about it, at least for
the present.
WAsH1SGT0N ITEMS y yesterday morning
a daring burglary was perpctrated at !he house
OF Mr. McGhan, the victim being Hon Richard
Yates, Senator from Illinois. The burglars
effected an nntraoce by getting Iuto he back
yard and raising ladder They got into the
second story window Of Mr.. Yates room,
where that gentleman was asleep. They
carried off MR. Y ates' vest with his pocket book
in,
watch and chain valued al $780, aud passing
into an adjoining room they rihed the pockets
Of Mr.. Yates secretary Of small amount Of
money
George Y. Leonard, who Was arrested on
suspicion Of appropratlug to ms own use 100,
which had hcen entrusted to him by Andrew
Potter Tor delivery at the express Office, made
a coniss*:o7 Of bis guiIt, acknowledging that
be had sect tG money the his own home. The
money will be returned to Potter to-day.
Yesterday mIorGing The Japanese troupe,
accompanied by their interpreter, visited the
Capitol, and spent several hours III inspecting
the building, paintings, AMI statuary. They
visited the Senate Chamber, and were intro
duccd to 4 number OF the Senators, and after
wards took seats in the cutlery, and were at
tentiyc spectators to the sc2G-, before them
The children we're highly delighted vi the
privilege o. walking upon m#rin'e liars, and n
fact, The vi ou t.oupc laid as,d: t!r;r >Audal,
as they ,,a>>, q through the various halls.
The Board Of Directors ct the ncw .iiasonic
Temple have a'io! To-! The pan submitted H.
NIessrs Gus aud X mer'.ueter. The
building committee has be, directed TO pro-
ceed at once to secure the removal Of the
building at the corner Of Ninth and I Streets
where the temple is to be erected 1t Is cx-
about the first OF May.-Nnt. INT.
DEBATE IN THE SENATE.--In the debate in
the Senate, yesterday. in relation to adjourn
mcnt, "a reference to the Connecticut election
as an endorsement OF Mr.. Johnson's policy led
the discussion Of the question Of the result in
that State, and he causes thereof. Mr. Dixon