Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1850-10-17

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that 4 number Of mail bags and pouch
es. cut open aud riHcd, had been found
by Lewis Rementer and Thos Cald-
well on their farms in the Deighbor-
hood of Broad and Piimc siSes,,.-
Preyiou. to this, howc.ef Mr.. John z.
Re &, one orihe clerks in the post
Office, had been informed Of III" occur :
renee. through message from the
Baltimore railroad depot. and had gone
down to the premises Of the above
named to recover the pouches, and as
much Of their contents a. had been
discovered. When he arrived there he
found Mess Remenier and Caldwell
had collected the scattered remains Of
the plundsred mails, and taken them TO
their respective houses. from which
they were subsequently removed to the
postoffice.
A single glance sufficed TO show
that the stolen pouches were some Of
the most important in the great South
ern aud Southwestern mails, which left
this city on Saturday night, a, half past
10 O'Clock, for the South. Those
known to be robbed are the pouches
from New York city to Richmond, Va.
Raleigh, N. c., and Wheeling, Va,
the last containing the mail, for Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, Except the Lake
counties,) ennessee, Kentucky. Ar
kansas. Missouri, aud the Southwest
generally. These generally contain
large remittances Of bank notes, as
well as checks, drafts, &C., the cash be-
ing made up by the brokers in the At
lantic cities, and sent home for re-
demption. Nothing is yet known of
the amount Of money stolen, but it
must be very large.
One letter alone from Carpenter g.
vermilyea, New York, to J. W. Maui
~, Richmond Va, covered a remit
tance of s740, The number Of letters,
packages, &c. opened in search Of mo
ney and other valuab.es was enough to
fill a barrel. These had all been care
fully inspected. Checks, drafts, Sc,
we're thrown aside as unavailable-in-
deed, SO observing were the robbers in
this regard, that finely executed fac
simile Of a $50 note was left behind in
the pile Of refuse matter. A number
Of boxes containing cotton wadding in.
dicated that a considerable quantity of
jewelry was carried of, while book.
marks, love-gifts, keepsakes, and other
articles were scattered about in profu
sion.
The robbers carried OH their opera
tons partly behind board fence
which concealed them from any OBJ
serva,ion from Mr.. Rementer's house,
and partly in clump Of alders in the
vicinity; and Judging from some traces
left behind, they mus, have done their
work with refreshing GOODNESS and
ease.
The robbery was in all probability
perpetralcd at Broad and Prime streets
near the place where the rifed pouch
es were found, as that locality affords
peculiar facilities for such attempts,
and no person at all was in sight Of
the mail a. that point. The r.Hroad
there turns short curve, around
which the cars arc obliged to move
with slackened speed.
The driver and brakeman were in
front Of the baggage car, to which the
mail car, was attached, while the mail
agent, Mr.. Anderson, was in the pas
senger car. several hundred yards be-
hind, snd ou, Of sight. The mail CAT
was then left a, the mercy Of any one
bold enough to force it. All the rob-
bers had to do was to provide them
selves with a key to the company's
locks, jump on behind, open the door.
throw ou, as many pouches as they
could, before the cars got under full
headway again, and then jump off and
dispose OF them. And this is doubt
less the way in which it was done.
The Philadelphia postmaster has Of
fered a reward Of one thousand dollars
for the depredators.
Mr.. Anderson was the mail agent
on the train, when the robbery occur
red. No information in relation to
the robbery had been received from
the South up to late hour last even.
ing. il is most probable that the a.
gent, conductors. and other officers