The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-05-12
EXAMINATION OF A MAIL RoBBER.-

| EXAMINATION OF A MAIL RoBBER.-
Yesterday afternoon Peter Montgomery,
a negro, was examined before James Nc
Kinley, U. S. Commissioner. The evil
dence of the prosecution was afforded by
Mr.. Cramp--a district attorney from
Lansing, the place where the robbery
was committed. His testimony showed
that Montgomery and white man nam
ed Faulkner had gone to the post office,
bored through the door. opened it, and
stole three mail bags, which they soon
after opened in Faulkner's saloon. The
booty amounted to So bill and some 81
worth of stamps. The men sunk the
bags under the ice near the spot Mont
gomery was arrested some three DAYS af-
forwards, but Faulkner had made his es-
cape.
Col. Richard appeared for the U. S.,
and Mr.. Adams for the defense.
He was bound over in the sum of
$500 to appear at the next term of the
U. S. Court and in default of which he
was committed to jail.-Erpress & Her.
aid. -. .a
Mr.. S. S. Crandall, of Wiptersett, has
returned from his Pixies Peak expedi-
ton, and he gave very unfavorable
account of the elephant he saw. As
soon as he returned to the frontier, some
iof the enterprising papers published
what purported to be letters from him,
giving flattering accounts of the mines.
thnnnh hn xynr1 ,,f co,1
letters. He reports, also, that man
who, after five months digging in the
mines, laid up ten dollars worth Of gold
dust, and brought it to Council Bluffs,
the merchants and others of the town
spread the report that the man had
brought back fire thousand dollars aoorth
Of gold dust. The Madasonian endorses
Mr.. Crandall as man whose statement is
perfectly reliable. ~ ~
The Cabinet has now under advise
ment an important question as to the
boundary line between the United States
and the British North American posses
sions as fixed by the treaty of 1916
The matter in dispute is concerning the
possession of certain islands situated in
the Gulf of Georgia, which islands are
claimed by both Governments. The
Commissioners who were appointed
to settle the boundary line have disagree
ed on this point, and hence the matter is
now the subject of direct negotiation be-
tween the English and American Cabin
cts. The President is clearly of opinion
that these islands belong to the United
States. One of them. San Juan, is the
key to the Gulf Of Georgia.
The Waverly (Bremer county )Repu6-
lican of the Sd inst, states that Mrs. Mary
G. Hurlburt was drowned in the river at
that place while returning from church
on the evening Of the 25th ult Quite
number of persons had reached the river
bank, and in their anxiety to cross over
loaded the skiff. When the boat had
nearly reached the opposite shore it filed
and sunk to the bottom, leaving the pas
sengers, eight in number, adrift in the
rapid current. ye
AccIDENT.-A son of Mr.. Crockwell,
former editor of the Anamosa Eureka,
was killed one day last week by the aoci-
dental discharge of, a shot gun in the
hands Of another boy. They were out
duck shooting at the time. The boy was
aged some eight or ten years. The en-
tire upper portion of his skull was blown
off.
DEFINITION OF A REPuBLIcAN.--Cran-
dali, of the Urbana Union, defines Re
publican TO be man "who fears the
Lord, and can write a legble hand with
outrunning his tongue out" The editor
Of "Wcbster's Unabridged" will please
take note Of this,