Arkansas intelligencer. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1842-1859, 1844-02-24

the same Tune, ne aus or cOuntenance5 the agi- |
,atlon of the question, be his pre,ext what it may.
1t we have right to our slaves, we have the |
right to hold them in peace and quiet. If the
Constitution guarantees the one, it guarantees the
other; and if it forbds the from being attack
ed, it equally forbids the other. Indeed the one
stands to the other, as means to end, and is so
avowed by the abolitonists; and on the plainest
principles Of morals, if the end be prohibited the
means of effecing it also are. OF the two, | re-
gard the deluded fanatic far less guilty and dam
serous than he, who, for political or party purpo-
ses' ODDS Or countenances him, in what he knows
Is 'r'o.ueS 20 do that, which he acknowledges 10
be ioro'dden oy she Constitution.
Stolen Treasury Notes--rrest of Chas Bo,sford late
70. Fayetteville. Arf Suspicion. of Assass;,o,., g..
U. S. Marshals Office Erirav-.i;naru Charlie.
Mail Robbery and assassination.
At late hour on Wednesday, officers S,MeIv
and Cockefair, by direction OF Sylvanus RapaIje,
ESQ.,. Deputy Marshal, arrested two individuals,
moving IN quite 'the respectable circes,' on a
charge OF passing Treasury notes which had been
| stolen from U. S. Mail. The name of one of
these parsons is Charles Botsrord, formerly of
Fayetteville, Ark, where he had performed the
functions Of civil mag istrate and deputy posmas.
ter. The other is called either Geo. Gaige or
Preserved Gnige, and is well known in Broadway.
These arrests arose out Of the following remark
able facts: In the month of April last the U. S.
Mail bag, which was made up at the town Of Van
Buren,, Ark, and which was sent via Louisville to
ST. Louis, was plundered at Fayetteville. Among
the letters taken were number addressed to mer-
camille houses in New York, which contained en-
closures Of Treasury notes remtta noes from n
Mr.. Campbell, lawyer. who had been making
| collections in that part of tho United States.
Mr.. Campbell on hearing Of the loss of the mail,
Immediately wrote to this and other cities. Civ
ing an account of the notes he had transmitted,
which amounted to the sum of 5000. few
weeks after this affair Mr.. Campbell assassi-
mated, and his body thrown into deep ravine. 1t
is supposed that the assassin way laid him on the
road to his home and shot him with rifle. No
traces have since been obtained to the murderers.
and it was feared that the robbers of the mail
would escape, unit, very recently. A Mr.. Baker,
who keeps brokers' Office in Broadway, sent
some Treasury notes TO another brokers' in Wall
street to be changed. The notes were sen, to
W Washington and returned, having been identified
as some of those stolen from the mail Van Bu
rem, Ark, although the numbers had been very
ingeniously altered to prevent detection.
Baker applied 10 ex.Justico Lownds to SEQ if
any clue could be got to the party who had perpe-
trated this fraud on him, as he was likely to be the
loser, and at length suspicion fell upon Cage, in
consequence Of Baker ing that he had changed
several Treasury notes for him. A watch was
;hereupon Sc: on Gaigo, and it appearing that he
was in frequent communication with Botsford,
who had left Fayetteville shortly after the rob-
berry, both were taken into custody.
Yesterday Gaise was brought for examination,
Barret on the part Of the United States-N Y.
True Sun.
?, Inc above statement contains some naccura.
cIes. The Mail was not robbed at Fayetteville.
as far as we can learn farther than The puroining
of the said Treasury notes; and until the a,o ar.
rest, suspicion sed upon the Post Office in
that town. Admitting that there might be some
connexion between tho robbery and the murder
OF MI. Campbell, yet Mr.. c. was murdered before
It was known that the Treasury notes did not
reach thor destination. A portion of tho above
extract alludes to Treasury notes having been
"sloien from the mail at Van Buren,, Arkansas.
Such mistatemont and wrong illusions might be
expected from quarter, that exhibited such an
ignorance of the Geography Of our country as to
state that the mail went from Van Buren, via Lou
isrUe 10 81. Louis.
Wo see it stated in tho New York American
tina, Mr. Botsford was deputy Postmaster at Van
buren,, Ark, which is an error which we hope
the Editors will correct when they sec this
The Peace Maker.-Capt Stockton's big gun
Is called the peace maker. An exchange speak
ING of its being proved, dscoprscs thus:
"The gun fred off by means Of a slow
match that burned about half minute, during
which the boats containing the officers and rev
nad rowed away some two or three hundred yards
from the vessel to listen to the explosion and wit
ness the effects oft at safe distance. Tho re-.
coil OF the gun, caused bv the explosion of this
immense charge ofpowder, gave the vessel a deep
lurch to the opposite side, and, the gun being
placed near level. the huge two hundred and thir
teen pound ball re-cocheted along the surface of
The sea to worry great distance. touching the wa
ter at twelve different points. at each sending up
perpendicular column of white spray, exhibiting
the appearance of succession of water spouts.
half dozen of which were visible at the same