, 1859-11-17

The gang of tbieves and prostitutes with
which Richmond has been Infested for some
weeks, and Of whose Operations We gave m
account few days ago, has been broken up,
70 ne S5oad AZ says, b the citizens, who haze
that duty. On Inst Wednesday evening some
OF the '.Rsgulatofs" encountered ten of the
gang with couple Of women with them, thraah-
"a the men severely, and took one Of the wo-
men, put rope round her waist, and said they
would hang her if she didn't tell who struck old
Mr. More. she protested her innocence, and
ge1ous class of Williams who hare been operat-
ing about the place IN robberies. horse thefts
and other outrases seem to have escuped the
power Of the Regulators.
on Inst FRIDAY night, the Broad Are says,
couple OF men we're attacked By gang Of these
Villains on the Newport Pike, and one Of them
knocked senseless with stone; the other
caught up an axe and fought 70 desperately
that he scattered his assai1ants, and came back
TO Richmond for the police to help with the
wounded man. When he returned with po-
lice officer the wounded man was gone, having
recovered so far Us to get to neighborlng oil
MILL Lafayette has been swearing the horns"
- the worst infested with thieves and scoun~
dre's of any city in the Suite, for long time,
but she will have to yield the dishonor to Rich
rnond, we fancy.
Thedif6cu!ty between Catholic priest, o 'Fiah-
eF'y, and Nr- corbett, in Lafayette, which " e
noticed Inst week as growing cut Of the e1com-
munication Of Ar. O'Connez, had its first ori-
g!!n1 Rs follows, as we learn from the Crawfords-
vllle Journal: OConner was tenant of Prof
T"ining, and when his child died, the Profess
sor 7isited him and prayed in the house, and
made 13 so,1e consol.ng. remarks to the parents.
While thus engaged. Slr. U'F1ahe.ty came to the
vent away, and would not attend the funeral at
aA* Mr; Iwin'ng, hearing that he was angry,
went to him and explained that 5fr. O'Conner
had nothing to 10 With his being in the house,
that It was mere friendly vsit to hls tenant,
and apparently satisfied the priest. But the
next Sunday, Wien 0'Conner and his family
went to church, they we're e1comuuncated and
ordered to leaFe the house. They refused. The
priest ordered them to he pnt out but the cou.
| gregatiou refused. Then lie undertook himself
The work Of dragging them out, but failed, and
dismissed the meeting. This is the Journal :
statement.
The Valparaiso hpuJzic1n gives IN account Of
strange adventure of Mr. Edminsser, Of that
county tPor,er). He lad bought farm Of Mr..
= D- Rose, drawn $I,3ju out Of Bank to paY
for it. tad On "Wednesday uornin. Of week BE-
| fore lest. started with his money across large
pra1r!e marsh, 10 Mr. Roses to pay him. That
was tue last heard Of him, and it was supposed
be had been murdered and robbed IN the marsh.
1t was burned over. but no slzps ofthe missing
man were found. On Monday Of last week he
returned, accompanied By his brother, and said
| that he had been attacked: hen about half way
oyer the marsh BY four men in disguise, two Of
whom he knocked down, but was prostrated By
the others, and be knew nothing from thst mo-
meat till he found himself iu bed at his fathers.
in the southern end Of the State His brother
says he came home bare-headed, e.footed,
without a cent, and insane. How he should
have wandered from the extreme north Of the
State to the south, and returned, in the time
from Wednesday till Mondsy, is little queer
to the R*pu1lican, as it may we'll be.