The Arkansas advocate., 1835-08-07

tnlS DoQndGfY, aud II IS as u}lluStlIiilpfs 10 oyefstep 1t in the case of gamblers as any
 other class of fine community. There $
 no people more highninded and intelligent
 than are the MississipPians and we doubt
 not that there will be a great reaction of
 public opinion even there upon this subject,
 and that they will in all future time account this an unfortunate spot of blood and yio-
 lence upon their otherwise high and chixal-
 rous national character.
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 Wo find in the s.iclssbarg Register of July
 9th, the following account Of the occurrences in that place. Nc fnd1t stated that t vas prepared by an eye witness-and t ist6efe. fore. no doubts intended f9r ] defence. Ne therefore publish t entire.
 Our cKy has for some days past been the theatre of the most novel and starting scenes, that we have ever witnessed.- While we regret that the necessity for such scenes should heHe existed, we are proud of. the public spirit ard indignation against of lenders displayed by the citizens, and con- gfattIlate them on haying at length banished
 
 ces and daring oafages have long poison. cd the springs oE morality, and interrupted the relations of society. For years past, Professional Gamblers, destitute ofall sense ofmoral obligations -unconnected with SO ciety by any Of is ordinary ties, and intent. oBly on the qualification of their avariee. have made Yieksbnrg their place Of rendes- vous -and in the very bosom of our socie-. ty, boldly plotted their vile and lawless machinations. Here, as every where else. the laws of the country were found wholly intellectual for the punishment of these in- diylduais. and emboldened by inpunity, their numbers and their crimes, have daily continued to multiply. Every species of transpression followed in tlseir train. They supported a large number ofHppling houses to which they would decoy tho youthful and unsuspecting, and after stripping them of their possessions, send them forth into the world the ready and desperate Instruments of vice. Our streets were ever resounding mith the echoes of their drunken and ob- scene mirth, and no citizen was secure from thelr villany. Frequently, in armed bodies, they have disturbed the good order of public assemblages, in5nlted our citizens. and defied our civil authorities. Thus had they continued to grow boder in their wick edness, and more formidable in their num- Der, until the saturday, 4lh of July, Gnst.1 when our citizens had assembled toge- ,her with the corps of Nicksburg Folun- teers, at barbecue, 10 celebrate the day by the usual festivities. After dinner. and dn- ring the delivery of the toasts, one of the officers attempted to enforce order and si- lence at the table, when one of these gam- biers whose name Is Cahler, who had mpu- dently thrust himself into the company, in suited the officer and struck one of the citi- 1 zens. Indignation immediately rose high, and 1t was only by the interference of the commandant that he was saved frominstan- taneous punishment. He was, however, permitted to retire. and the company disper sed. The military corps proceeded to the public square of the city, and were there engaged in their exercises when informa- ton was received that Cabler was coming up, armed and resolved 10 kill one of the Volunteers who had been most active in ey- polling him from the table. Knowing his | desperate charaeter-two of tho corps in- ! stantly stepped forward aud arrested him.
 < loaded pistol, large knife, and dag ger were found on his person, all of which he had procured since he separated from the company To liberate him, would l have been to devote several of the most re- spectable members of the company to his and to proceed against him at law, would have been mere mockery, inas- much as not having had the opportunity of his design, no adequate pun ishment could have been inflicted on him. Consequently it was determined 10 take him into the woods and lynch hin-- which