Alexandria Gazette

A young man named Wm. Oury, son of Augustus Oury, Esq. Post Master at Abingdon, Va. was arrested and committed to prison, a few days since, for embezzling letters from the Post Office, and abstracting their contents. The felony was first detected by the father, who accidentally found a purloined draft in a pocket of one of his son's vests, and immediately took measures to have his son arrested. The sympathies of the citizens for the aged and respectable father of the culprit, were, however, so strong, that they provided means for the escape of young Oury; but he seemed himself to be perfectly indifferent, and travelled so slowly and so carelessly, that he was retaken and carried to prison. He is only about nineteen or twenty years of age.