Hung.
--About two weeks since, the
Southern papers contained an account of the arrest, in
Mobile Bay, of five men, who, from indications apparent, had attempted to embark in a boat for New Orleans.
Letters from suspected
Unionists in
Mobile were found on them, addressed to
Butler and other Federal officials in New Orleans; maps of
Mobile and plans of its defences, files of the city newspapers, lots of gold, and an assortment of both.
Federal and Confederate Treasury scrip; also, several flags, one of which represented the
United States flag on one side and the
Confederate flag on the reverse.
Other evidences of intended treachery were found, and the whole party, though they protested they were only on a fishing excursion, were conveyed to
Mobile, and safely locked up as spies.
Among the men on board the boat was
Dr. Marius Louis Rossvalley, well known in this city.
Intelligence was received yesterday at
General Winder's office, by a gentleman direct from
Mobile, that Rossvalley had been hung there a few days ago; but whether by military authority or the populace acting as a vigilance committee, we did not learn.
The
Doctor hailed from New Orleans, where he had a wife and several children.
After that city was taken by the
Federal he expressed great anxiety to get them away, and finally left this city, giving up employment he had under the
Government, in order, as he said, to effect the desired object.
Nothing more was heard of him until news arrived, first of his arrest, and secondly of his execution.
It will be remembered that in consequence of information laid against Rossvalley by members of the Washington artillery, that he was arrested here more than a year ago as a suspicious character, and detained in prison several months.--During that time he was put in the same place with
Congressman Ely, and the latter redoubtable personage, in his book simetime since given to the world, devotes a chapter or two to Rossvalley, for whom he seemed to entertain no very great respect.
It was after the exodus of
Ely that the
Doctor regained his liberty, and was for sometime employed here in some service for the
Government.--It was through his instrumentality that several well-known citizens of
Richmond and
Henrico were incarcerated in Castle Godwin, for real or supposed disloyalty, all of whom have since been discharged.
Doctor Rossvalley always had a plenty of money, and we suppose the gold and notes found in the boat when he was arrested, belonged to him.
