MOBILE, February Is.
B A N DIT tt.
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America has been deficient in materials on
which to found narratives of highway robbery
and murder. Our country is thus far happily
without criminals like the banditt of Italy, or the
highwaymen who infested the highways and
by-ways of England, century or two ago. 1t
must be acknowledged, however, that in the
new States, combinations Of marauders are occa-
sionally discovered, whose deeds for a time
equal in atrocity, anything perpetrated on the
old continent These reflections have arisen on
learning the circumstances which led to several
arrests by the indelatgable police of Mobile on
Saturday last. Thus runs the evidence Of a
white man, which, by the bye, we do not place
the most implicit confidence in. While in search
of some horses that had strayed from drove
of his, about sixty miles from Mobile, he was
met by four armed negro men, who, as he says,
compelled him to 90 with them for about week.
During this time they plundcred man of three
hundred dollars and rifle, and made visit to
a house where they contemplated at first to mur-
der all the inmates, but the attachment of two OF
the negroes to two black girls about the house,
caused the rascals to delay it. This house is
situated near eight mile creek During his stay
with the gang, the white man was told by the
negroes, that they had shot an Indian; he has
seen also the skeleton of a white man, and be.


lieves they killed a negro who had joined them


for a time, but afterwards tried to 90 to his


master.


| The leader of the gang is named Alfred, ant


the second in command, Colonel. Both ar,


desperate villains, and have been six months o


more in the woods. The other negroes art


named Andrew and Henry, and belonged tt
| Mr.. Malone. The arrest of these fellows wa


made on Saturday evening by the police of Mo
bile, In consequence of the white man tellin.


where they were and what they had been do


ing. The officers found the negroes well armed


with rifles, pistols and large knives Chronicle