Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-11

mailman would for either forfeit his engag ements
and imperil his professional reputation. Under
these circumstances, 4 waited only the termina-T
ton of your late struggle to explain that, fetter
ed as am at this moment it is impossible for
me to undertake any enterprise which would
have the effect of Withdrawing me from duties
/ am pledged to fulfill s.;
The result is not, perhaps, what either you orr
desired, as it will occasion, disappo ointment to-
many; butit is unavoidable, and the less to be
regretted, since a contest wherein one of the
combalants must fight under disadvantages so
manifest as those should have to contend
against, after many years retirement from prac-
teal chess with my attention absorbed and brain
oYertayed be more important pursuits, could
never be accounted fair trial of skill. I have
the honor to be, Yours &c.
81. Sg4uNToN.
TaE GREAT BANK RoBBEaY.-- and in the
Delaware County Gazette the following parton
lars relative to the robbery ofsthe Delhi Bank
last Sunday evening, heretofore notieed4iH our
telegraph column, 70
Onopening the Delaware Bank Of this village
on Monday morning,it was found that the lock
to the inner door. of the vant could not be un.
locked, and a smith was sent for, who had to
cut the heads off the bolts before. ftcould De
opened. When access was obtained, the vault
was found empty. The robbers had by false
keys entered the Banking room from the rear!
moved tile wood box, and sawed hole through
the floor, and then crawled under the hoorsome Z
ten feet to the side of and under the door of
the vault, then undermined the stone work so
as to gain an entrance Taking all they wanted,
they returned the same way, after slipping nail
in the lock in such a manner as TO prevent the
bolts from moving. 0ncoming out they care
fully replaced the boards sawed Iout,I and put
the wood boxinlits proper place-notithe least
suspicion was excited until the vault door was
opened. About $3s, 900 is lnissing- ,000!of5
which is in the bills of the bank, So OOO.n gold
aud silver, and the balance in other money
$4,000 of the bills of the bank are mutillted;
and were laid by for the purposepff returning
.totthe Bank Department 1t was one of the
iboldcst and most successful obbeEiesever per-
petrated.
The Bank offers reward Of $4,000 for the !
recovery of the money and the detection Of the
thief or thieves. The business of the; Bank will
not be interrupted in consequence of. this rob
berry. s4s s. -;..siss. ~ ~ 4,
IS Terrible MAssAokE1 IN Mexico The Browns
vile Flag of the 2Tth ult;, has the following in
reference TO the reported massacre Of 400 of
syidanrris men, taken prisoners by Cen Miram-
on in the late engagement. before San Luisa
In.the engagement between the reactionistss
forces and thoseof Vidaurii, 400 of the latter
men were captured blythe former, Yho,s aftepI
their most valuable equipments, ordered his
second in command to take them froul his
and do with them US he thong BIT fE This in
human wretch, who well knew ~ hat would senl
sue from such course, placed them inolthes
hands of his soldiery, who were Just then in a.
ibeastly state of intoxlcatlon. They immediate
ly fell uponsth captiyes, who were entirely de-
4fenceless, and a horrible massacre followed. at
the end Of the terrible scene, he lifetess bodies
of four hundred human beings were fonpdaf