The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-10-05
GEN O. HINTON.

We see that il is finally resolved 10 detain this
/ ldyidual in the Jail of Los Angeles County,
California. until the proper warrant for his re-
maval 10 Ohio for trial arrives.
His life is the old story Extravaganza, play
and debauehery brought pecuniary embarras-
ment, and resort 10 crime was the desperate
venture I, make il good We knew him in his
PALMER dav, when he was accounted wealthy
and honorable. lie put up splendid Hotel IN
Delaware, Ohio, where he lived, was high in
every body $ confidence, his. word good for
thou sands, and his influence in the Wing party
Of the greatest weight. With ciaract be
yend the slightes, shade oil suspicion. AND re-
putcdly with great wealth, he was ranked among
the frs, mcn in central Ohio. After he vas ap.
pointed Mail agent, these rob6eries of the Cow
ment mails began 10 cnur. But people world
as readily have suspected an angel as Gen.
Hinton. No thought Of any dishonesty on his
part crossed the mind of the Government. So
far from suspeciing him, the Department aciu-
ally instructed him when to place packages re-
sembling enclosures of money in the mail, and
gave the various Postmasteys directions IN what
manner TO assist him in watching them along
the line. During the whole Of this time, he
was busy in rifiing the mails at every oppor,uni-
IT, There is net ,ubt but that he secured
large amounts Of money, which all went the
usual way,-at The gambling table. The Gov
eminent ofg:cials were sorcly puzzled, but con-
tinued to place the utmost confidence in him.
He afterwards said that the thought OF them
always made him laugh as he opened fat mail
bag. But pay day came at last, Suspicion
can not sleep for ever, and il began to occur to
the Government that even General Ohio Hin
ton, high as he was in the Wing party, wealthy
and respc ctable as he might be, might possibly,
by some mistake or other, have something to do
personally in these robberes. Packages were
deposited for him in his turn, and he was detec
ted. lie was forthwith arrested, but the shock
to the public mind was too grea, TO be suddenly
overcome. He was yet entirely loo respectable
10 be put in the common Jail. He was there
fore confined in one of the parlors Of the Neil
over him. 1t was not to be supposed that 30
respectable man would attempt to escape
The guards accordingly, after various glasses Of
wine with this most respectable gentleman, said
their prayers and went to sleep. General Ohio
Hinton, the most respectable and responsible
individual, and most accomplished gentleman OF
central Ohio, then rose gently up, and without
waiting for some of his clothes, walked to the
door, slipped out, turning the key on the outside
leaving his gentlemanly guards fast inside
Pursuit was made as soon as possible, but it wa.
of no avail. The General then tried on diff
ferent sort of lifethe life that, sooner or later
comes to crime. He lay by during the day ane
travelled by night. Not daring to show himsel
he was compelled to live on roots and berries
| Some ten or fourteen days he drew his daily
| breath in fear and pain. but at length reached
Cleveland, half starved, his clothes in rags an.
| filth, and his feet cut to pieces. He could en-
dure it no longer, but gave himself up to tn,
officers of justice at Cleveland who could hardly
recognize in the miserable, squaid, object befor'
them, the once accomplished General Hinton
There was no longer any doubt in the public
mind of his guilt On the preliminary exami
nation his bail was set at, we think, $l5 ,00l
which he managed to give, after which he left
and was heard Of no more until he suddenly
turned up in California. Since this transaction
ne has lived most miserable existence. Witt
the continual. dread which forever haunts crime
he has fed mp and down the shores Of the Pacif,
from Oregon 10 the Isthmus, an outcast and
vsgsbond on the earth, passing in disguise an,
under ieigned names, until at last the day o
final reckoning has arrived, and once more h
is the tenant of q jail
There is a deeper moral to be learned from hi,
career than from any work of fiction however
| ingeniously wrought. II is the stern truth, thai
vice and crime bring their own inevitable pun
ishment, and that though the eternal justice
which governs all the transactions of life may
seem to sleep for time, yet tLat sooner or later
it entails On the despisc of its laws heritage
Of misery and infamy.