I notice, under head of special telegram from New-York, in your paper of today, an article in regard to the estate of Rachel Ostrom. It has many errors in it. I propose to correct a few of them.

It is true that James W. Gazlay in the fore part of the present century was engaged to be married to miss Rachel Ostrom, of Poughkeepsie, in the State of New-York. Mr. J. W. Gazlay desired to marry her and move West. The mother of Miss Ostrom would not go West, and Miss Ostrom would not leave her mother. J. W. Gazlay came West and located at Cincinnati, Ohio, and afterward went back to New-York, but could not induce Miss Ostrom to come to the West, and shortly afterward he married Martha Randall, of New-York, who came to this city with him. By that marriage J. W. Gazlay had one child —Hulda, married to Thornton A. Mills, a Presbyterian clergyman of this city.

After the death of Mr. Gazlay’s first wife he married Rebecca, daughter of Elmore Williams, by whom he had three children. One of them died in its infancy. William Elmore Gazlay, another child, died after age in Florida. Allen W. Gazlay, a child, is living and doing well in the western part of the city, and J. W. Gazlay is not dead yet, but is living with his son, and is in remarkably good health and preservation for a man of his age. J. W. Gazlay never was imprisoned for contempt of Court. He said at one time to the Court, then composed of three Judges, of which the father of our worthy Mayor was one of the number, that it was a Demerara team, composed of two mules and a jackass, which remark he made in the heat of an argument, and himself and the Judges were always personal friends, and it had nothing whatever to do with his election to Congress.

In about the year 1822, Wm. Henry Harrison was a candidate for Congress in the Cincinnati District; the mechanics and working men thought that Gen. Harrison was a representative of the Virginia aristocracy, known then as the F.F.V.’s, and desired to run a candidate of their own, and appointed a committee to select a candidate, of which Mr. Bromwell, then a wire-weaver, was the Chairman. Mr. Gazlay consented to run, without any expectation on his part of the part of the Committee that he would be elected. He declined to be a candidate a second time. He and Gen. Harrison were always warm personal and political friends, and in 1840 Mr. Gazlay canvassed two States for the election of Gen. Harrison to the Presidency.

The Cincinnati Commercial announces the death of James W. Gazlay, who for more than sixty years has been a resident of that city. He was born in this City, July 23, 1784, and in 1823 was elected to the Eighteenth Congress, defeating Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison. But his fate as a popular man in his district was decided by his first important vote. Gen. Lafayette had arrived in the United States early in 1825, the guest of the nation. He was introduced to each House of Congress, and it was in the House of Representatives that the effective speech of reception was made by that eloquent speaker, Henry Clay. A joint committee reported a resolution of honor and remuneration to Lafayette for his distinguished services in the American Revolution. It proposed awarding him $200,000 and a township of land, to be selected from the unsold lands of the Government, under the direction of the President. Mr. Gazley rose and moved to strike out $200,000 and insert $100,000. Although Niles’ Register deemed the voting for the large sum right, it made a point to honor the “firmness” of those who voted in the negative when they failed to make the proposed amendment. Mr. Gazley’s negative vote cost him his seat, which was warmly contested, and Gen. Findlay, a popular man, succeeded by less than twenty-five votes. After his defeat for congress by Gen. Findlay he commenced the publication in Cincinnati of a weekly newspaper, the Western Tiller, the first number of which was on the 1st of August, 1826. He brought some enterprise to its conduct, and often illustrated it with wood engravings. The paper was continued by Wm. J. Ferris, who afterward became connected with the Cincinnati Gazette.