The Arkansas advocate., 1830-07-07

fnefclai intercourse, our political con- tests, and which have for so long peril cd embittered our legislative debates, in the Hall ei Congress, where, at least, such feelings should never predomi- nate.-N. Orleans Cour.
 .ale1ondraa, June l9.
 Collin .N. Graham, the person adver- tised in the two last Nos. of this paper, as the murderer of Mir. Ogsbury. depu- ty sherii1'in Natclitoches, we arc grati- fled to learn, was promptly pursued, and apprehended about 5O miles over the Sabine. He is safely lodged in prison, to await his trial at the fall tern, of the the District Court--notwlthstanding the profound dstonishmens he is said to have expressed, that the suspicion of hav- ing done so diabolicaladeed should light on hsae.
 It has been gravelF asserted by 8 resident in that country (Col. Wallace,) that Texas is not retreat for fugitives from justice, nor Austin's colony one in which they can identify themselves with the population. There are few men who would not say the same, in refer ence to the country in which they live, and where their leintercst lies. But if the the assertion of Col. ". be cor rect, why is it, we would ask, that all such gentry endeavor to make their way thithera In opposition to his state- ments 2 formidable array of facts (stub- born things) might easily be adduced-- but here it would be the work of super erogation. These remarks arise from no feeling hostile to the prosperity of that Colony-we have no motive for misrepresentation--hut we think it proper to place unsuspecting men on their guard, before they settle in the midst ofa community, so large a portion of whom have left the United States in obedience to Natures first law.--Ga=.
 The Salem Mtuder.-We are inform ed by, as We think, good authority, that the Salem Committee of vigilance late ly took letter from the Post Office in that place, directed to suspicious per- son in the vicinity of Salem. The pur- port of which was advice to keep dark, &c. during the trial of the persons ap- prehended-and closed with request to send the writer $s2255o $s2255o, it being his share of certain prize money, and threatening, in case of neglect to blow them up. The Committee wrote an answer, enclosing small sum of mo- ney-but previous to putting the letter in the office despatched two men to watch the persons who should take it out.
 They arrived one day before the let ter, and when the person called for it, the Post Master observed he wished to hc certain that that the ie letter was delivered to the right person, as it probably, from its appearance, contained money. lie replied that is my name, and l expect q letter to day from Salem containing mo- ney. The letter was accordingly de- hvered and the man immediately taken charge of by an officer. The man who declared himself the rightful owner of the letter lives in Belfast. His name is Palmer. He has, we understand, been once in the State Prison.
 We learn that he made some dis closure such as he could show them the hatchet with which the first fatal blow was inflicted on Mir. White; and that the dirks had been melted up. He is now in Jail and the persons vino arrest. ed him have returned to Massachusetts to obtain request of our executive to take the prisoner to Salem.
 A prize of some value to the finders was discovered a few days since, on the farm of the Rev. Thomas Kennery, l near White Post, by his slaves, while engaged in blowing rocks. ltwas $240 worth of gold, in joes, half joes, and quarters. The farm was formerly the residence of lord Fairfax, and the gold was doubtless deposited by some of his l family in the place where if was found It is remarkably pure, Of a very ancient mould, and is not in the slightest degree oxydized for corroded) by its long con hnement in the earth. Many of the pieces are clipped and plugged; that is, parts had been cut of, by which the weight was reduced below the standard. and the same quantity afterwards in- serted elsewhere in the coin to restore | the weipht. in consenuancp If .a law <,