New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-12-28
Great Post Office Robbery.

We were early Yesterday morning apPrised OF
great Post Office Robbery just detected, but
appraised in manner which imposed on US an
obligation to silence Since then, however, a
friend just from Albany has given us fuller ac-
count of the facts, under no restrictions, and we
cannot perceive that the ends Of Justice are to
be subserved by Withholding them from the pup
lic-so we give the whole story.
For some time past, money letters which
should have reached this City from the North
have been missing. We have been apprlsed OF
loss after loss, which we attributed to the Rud-
san Mail Robbery, until they became so numer-
Gus and so recent as to bar that supposltlon,-
These losses have been reported to the Post Of
fee, und appeared to centre on the Albany Of
fee Inquiry was there made, and it was dis
covered that Clerk named Bacon, young
man of % most respectfully connected. who was
often left alone in the Office while the other
Clerks were at dinner, was IN the habit Of gam
bling in Lottery Tickets beyond his honest means
OF payment. He was watched, facts bore strongly
against him, until on Sunday last Postmaster
WATSON invited him to his house, and there
boldly charged him with the robbery. He denied
it stouty until facts were brought home to
him which he could not evade or explain, and at
length he confessed himself the villain He
gave up package of undrawn Lottery Tickets,
with ten dollars in money, and, opening his pr-
vate desk, produced some seventy or eighty
money letters which he had stolen from the
Mails, some Of which he had robbed, as he had
occasion for the money, while others were still
unriflcd. (Among them were three containing
$50, $50 and $40 respectively, which belonged
to The Tribune, only one OF which had yet been
missed by u.s. He says that these are all he
has taken, but we place no reliance on his word
Tho friends Of his family, we learn, have come
forward to make up the loss so far as ascertaned,
out he Is, nevertheless, in jail at Albany. We
are informed that he has not been long in the
Office, having been appointed by the new Post
master, has ever borne fair character, and was
m good standing as Il member Of one of the
Churches We look for farther developments.
Gy Senator BUCHANAN, Of Pennsylvania, de-
clines being longer candidate for the Loco
Presidential nomination. This is wise decision
He lets himself down rather more gently than he
did his friend Wilkins rs candidate for Speaker.
u Mr.. JAMES MITCHELL, recently from this
City, has been appointed Master in Chancery at
Nantucket, Mass. Business entrusted to him
from this City Will be properly attended to.
IL The Political Abolition Convention lately
hold I1T-I<.
CT ADAMS as 'recrean, to the cause OF Human
Liberty ! He mus, feel bad about it.
HARPER's PlcroRlAL BIDLe.-A superbly illus
trated edition of the Sacred Scriptures-the De-
signs by CHAPMAN the Engraving by ADAMS
has been commenced by the Harpers, and the
first number is now on our table. We had heard
It's praise from lips of wisest censure,' but the
reality surpasses our expectations. Mr.. Chap
mans eminence as designer is acknowledged,
while the great talents of Mr.. Adams have for
wears been exclusively devoted to the embellish-
n,cnt of this work The letter-press is large and
beautiful and the paper On winch we usually
faill would do credit to English bibliosraphy.-
The Engravings in the whole Bible will number
sirteen hundred, and, in addition 10 the So
deemed Apocryphal as we'll as Canonical Scrip
lures there will be Concordance, varied read
ings and centre-notes-the whole forming a most
complete and splendid edition of the Word. The
numbers are IS cents each, and will probably ex-
tend to fifty.
MrRDER.--ln alteration took place IN New-Or-
loans on the 18th INST between two colored butch
ers, named Pierre La Tencresse and Fayel, when
the latter, being armed with dagger struck his
adversary several times, until he fell dead al his