Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-06-24
THOSE TREASURY NOTES,

reason TO expect, 90 far as concerned, the per
got, on whom suspicion was at fret attempted
TO be tht1Wn,it Ia with no small degree of era.
t~Ifitatioh That we copy from The pieayune o
The 10th, the following information. The
mystery is now solved, and loo willing doubts
h~arbored by 4atne before, ars ~liHpelIai forever
No room for further FLANDERS on The honest,
upright character IL left to malicious enemies
" base political foes. That character appears
before them pure and intact, and the ]ealutnny
eaat upon It, falls of without leaving spot OF
stain.
But during The interval required 10 produce
this result, the position Of the Collector Of The
Port Of New Orleans l,as not been tie most
agreeable IN the world. While l|nborinn IN
teptittinEiy to detect The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ing rs much, OF more, for The public good than
for ls o,Ft-hn was eotflpalle,l 10 listen IA
silence to ifnptltatiofts Of The most unpleasant
character. and to forbid even liH friends tic
qualification Of defending hin ~hHaiftst the In.
siiio,is plan pursued 10 blast and ruin his re-
p%ntatint'. relying implicitly on the f%eUtitiitla
Of I,s own Condiet and a full discharge Of his
duty, be left all to The haaafd Of dutettinr The
eHIprjts, This a' fret appeared no easy mat
tor. Their work had been done zn dark ", 81
t%nrtnois had been The ways through, which
they had accomplished tileir evil ends, that a
tlan MIGHT almost as well have Rlaketi Ills
reputation on catrtinra thclto - ~lattetn as oI,
catching them. Yet through The mttst indie.
l~ntigable exerIiafis. and III the ,nidsi Of l,azt,
and Calling insinudtioitr, MI. Morgan hhs
succeeded, aid that triulnphantly. lie has
the warlnest congratulations of his friends on
the result.
1t Is but due 10 a young gentleman Of high
worth, a native Of the parish Of East Baton
Roige-Mf. Thonas-n " that the Col
lertpt received the mo4t essential ad from
his vigorous and i%uditiotis exerliots. Mr..
Thomas foll6wed Halliday up the river, ferret
ed him out in hIs s%kilkihg places, and not.
withstanding his strenuous e~itirts 10 ESCAPE.
brought him safely 10 New Orleans.
~ nm Wt 4 HhHhHe " ING l9hi)
THr TREASURY NorE KoHfth Y~4--Iohn M.
Hfeedlove, one of the persons engaged III The
robbefy Of the Treasury Notes from the Gus.
tom House of This city, and now in HE iHii III
the Second Municipality, yesterday made n
full and unsolicited confession Of the whole
affair, lie duplicates Halliday, directly, but
aays nothing Of any other Of the individuals
charged With being ~accoinpliens.
IN bis confession, Bree,lloye states that he
took the notes, but was frat induced to think
Of the robbery and make the attempt by Hal
liday, who said that lie could extract the ink
Of tie canceIling from The notes, go that they
would pass without Suspicion on The closest
Inspection. lie first took two 1900 notes and
gave them TO Halliday, as all experiment on
the hest day Halliday returned him one of
LIZ notes with The ink entirely extfncted,
keeping The otliat az his share IN HE business.
These two notes were exchanged wttilnft
difficulty, and il Waa then agreed That Breed
love should take Tho others. Accordingly he
watched fer some layn Ia soc when tho pack
age should be made mp. and whom il was rpale
~. with other bundles, 10 be mailed for
W aelltigtnti, hn took oteasinfi, when the
book keeper lott his drsk for a moment, 10
pocket the package, and Immediately sought
for Halliday. tpwlhtn he gave II, meeting hltn
IN the bar.toom Of The Merchants Esehenee.
Aiier thts some time passed before Halliday
gave him any Of The notes with The extraction
made. Halliday said, when be tavr Breed
love the second note, that he l1ad spoiled
several OF them in the process Of extraction.
From time TO time, during The lapse III several
tiafF, slndtF OF Tho notes, numbering about
len altogether, were thus received by Breed
l,t, EI,titI1D- n1t,.a,, .zH...f !- IT, a 4.
ruined several III trying to take out the ink.
Breedlore wHH Whit ID known rs The Duty
Bond clerk In The Custom House. and was
the only ono Of tho persons said 10 be con.
eefitnd IN this bHHo transaction who vas ON
played there.
"PFiNetrtFg NOT mtE."=~Wo find the fol
lowing announcement nj The head Of ono Of
our exchange papers
FOR PRESIDENT,
the ranfidat chosen BY the Democratic national
eoapeHtiah,z
That iss any body the devil may send Van
Bnron OF John Tyler, John Jones or the Boy
Jones, al honest man or 0 seape.gallgws. n
WtBo maltor d fool, a whig. loco or abolition.
lat, Swartont or Nick Biddie. tho log treaa,i-
rhr OF Mississippi, or tho murderer of Ellen
ieWet 7 What admirable devotion 10 rood
principles! willing at any moment to entruat
those prlneiplcsto tho gilast scamps tho earth
aflard5'a Good principles, though IN llom.
selves Interchangeable, require good Keepers
for IN The Hands Of bad. or inca,sbIo mon
they frequently become l~fo8vory worst poaai.
bic engines. The operation Of bad principles
avowed by bad tnen, we may guard againat
but the pervcrsto1 Of good principles IN the
hands Of bad men, ~ that agaitst which wo
have no protection.
But a moro gross error than il embraced in
thls popular phrase Of principles, moi men,
could hardly bd imagined. The milk, but not
he eow--tlie water but not the fonntain--
.he tree but not tho fruit, would be equally
correct making. Without a pure fountain
cannot have pure water,aaid without good
men, good principles will not DO deyeIoped.
The good men are whit we want, men who
vii uphold and be guided by good principles.
We have always bad, and still have, any
OF good principles in this country,
mt we have long had, and still have, d wo-
nlly bad government. Without the men, the
principles are helpless, nothing, the MS iinertie
# moralsthrough whiclrno good labor can Be
ccotnplished, Men! nlen arc what We
Rant--good mon, honest mon, sensible and !
uallicd mon neither youraknave or yonr I