The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-08
From, the Chicago Tribune Of Dec an
SINGILLAE DISCON ERN OF ENTENSINE NJ 4

From, the Chicago Tribune If Dec an
SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF EXTENSIVE MAIL
R0BBERIES.
TRAIN BOY STEALS Sll, 900 FROM THE UNITED STATES
MAIL BAGS.
For some times past, at intervals, our Postmaster
and his assistants have been aware of an impOrtan
and serious leak in the transmission Of important
mails sent from the Chicago pOst.office, and they
have been on the lookout, though puzzled at the
outset by the blindness of the scent.
clue and discovery just gained on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroads, lets much light
on the mystery, in the singular and unsupported
direction of a train newsboy and water-carrier,
who has written his name high on the list of mail
depredators by the actual larceny of letters and
valuable mail matter, in value exceeding the sum
of elereR thousand dollars.
The history of The detection, arrest and the dis
cOyerics resulting, is as follows: On the night ex-
press train on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad, due here yesterday morning, when TWEEN
ty-tive miles distant from the city, the baggage
master. Mr. Sadd, passed through his car, where
the mails were piled and on which the train boy.
Hudson, as was his custom, making his bed, he
saw some letters scattered on the floor. Suspectng
all was not right, Mr.. Sadd went into forward
car, lighted his lamp and mentioned his discovery
to the brakeman; both returned to the baggage
car but the letters gone, as well as the boy.
Hudson was found in the saloon of the foremost
passenger car and was taken into custody and ex-
amined by the conductor and baggage master. On
his person were found three letters one addressed
to Col. J. n. Morris, Washington, d. c., one to
Henry Kellogg, Hartford, Conn. (both unopened),
and one to Samuel H. Pearce (opened) destination
unknown, the envelope having been destroyed.
partial examination of Hudson was had yester-
day before u. s. Commissioner Hoyne, which was
continued until p. NJ. today the prisoner having
made confession as to portion Of the offence
charged against him. He is now in jail.
The youth gives his name, and has passed as
William II. Hudson, about eighteen years old, fill
ed the position as train boy on this train in the ca
pacitics familiar to the travelling public in the sale
OF newspapers, fruits, etc, and supplying passen
gers with water and it seems has thus epioyed IA
cilities which he has literally improved, for rob
bling the mails, and that, too, in manner wender-
fully well calculated to screen himself from suspi-
cion, for though mail matter was missed on this
very route, no one thought of the train bow
On the night of September 10th the mail bag
sent from Chicago to Quincy arrived at its destina-
ton in due time, but with its entire contents alb
stracted. Every effort was made by the depart
ment to discover the manner in which the robbery
h nd hnnn nia"tad Init vvilhnnt ITniil this
arrest of young Hudson it had been enveloped in
mystery.
Upon opening his trunks, which were in posses
sion of the G. b. d @. Railroad Company, a large
amount of mail matter found
Total amount in drafts and notes, ST., 32l.T3, not
including the value of the land warrants. There
remained seventy-fve additional letters, some con-
tanning valuable packages, deeds, receipts &c. &C.,
not included in the above.
The remainder of the matter consists of letters
from all parts of the northwest, which will in due
caution having been taken by Assistant Postmaster
Armstrong to secure such areSult.
Col. Hammond, Supt. of the G. b. & Q. Railroad
and Mr.. Town, Assistant Superintendent, are en-
titled TO commentator for their well directed eff
forts to bring the offender TO Justice.
The Chicago POst-onice has been very much be.
wildered by repeated depredations committed upon
important mails for some time past, and they think
now such difficulties will suddenly become less fire.
quent in occurrence, account of the arrest ofso
liberal an operator Young Hudson,
ENGLISH VIEW OF THE ELECTION OF LrvcoLx.-We
know not that the friends of the Negro have much
more to expect from the new President. His pow
ers are very limited, and will be confined within
space much narrower than their strictly legal ex-
tent by the same necessity which has made Mr.
Buchanan abstain from any attempt on Cuba, and
tolerate the anarchy and even aggression of Qnhap
py Mexico. For the safety of the Union itself we
confess we have no fear. OF course, it will take
some time before men can cO5l down from the blus-
ter which has been so prOfusey used for election
eering purposes to the language of moderation and
truth. Some men have said these things so often
that they are ashamed to show how little they be-
heTe them, and some often that they have really
learnt to believe them themselves. But when the
cooler heads of the South begin to consider how
imaginary is the injury which they have sustained
how vast are the interests involved, how heavy
would be the cost, how considerable the danger of
disunion, and how impossible it would be for the
Southern States to maintain in the face OF the
world the strong position they now hold as mem
bers Of the great American COnlederacy, we sus-
pect that the South will think better of it, and turn
its activity into the more practical channel of pro-
viding Mr.. Lincoln with Democratic successor in
l86i.-London Times, Nor. 20.
Gov. SEWARD on THE MEssAGE.-Senator Seward
has the credit of a humorous estimate of the mes
sage, made in reply to a friend who had asked his
opinion of that document The DISTINGUISHED New