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oi their rapine and murder, unmolested

 by law unavenged by justice. What pic- ture for civilized community Is there no fault in the police of Arkansas? Has not this neighborhood been eyed and canvass ed with direful suspicion for yearsl Is it not sufficiently polluted and cursed by fraud, base money, and lawless plunderers to awaken the eyes of unayenged justice r. Does not the blood ot the murdered cry long and loud from its crimson ground for revenge Or must 1t be died deeper and deeper with innocent human gore? We are aware of it's being wild uninyiting portion of the territory, remote from the immediately survey of the executive con- trol. But this is no reason why an express police should not ferret out and bring te condign punishment those whose hands are raised against the property and lives of ev- cry honest man. We even hear of threats made by them to burn our town for the part our citizens took year ago in recovering plundered boat from them and securing some of the conspirators, part of whom are still confined Tn our county jail, await ing the slow and uncertain hand of justice.

 The facts stated above remind us of some which came under our own personal cogni- zance in December last. A person from western Virginia, accompanied by a gentle man from Mississippi township in Arkansas county, applied to me, while at Col. Farrel- ly's, near the Post, for advice in similar case. l have forgotten both their names. The man stated that he was put in charge of flat boat, loaded with, think, 6S hogsheads of tobacco. His boat ran Oh a sand bar in the Mississippi, within the bounds of the county of Arlansas-and he was immedi- ately informed by a justice of the peace and others, that he must, according to the laws of the Territory, take out a protest, and have the tobacco sold for the benefit of the under- writers. He did so, and his cargo, worth eightzor ten thousand dollars, was sold for about 350--at auction. Of course there was no necessity of taking out q protest, and the underwriters would not have been liable to the owner. The sale was conducted in some- thing the same manner as the one mentioned in the Recorder.

 l gave the man letter to the justice and others concerned, threatening them with ex- posture and prosecution-but at the same time advised him to get his boat off, if possi- ble without using violence. fought to have mentioned that, before coming to the Post, he offered the purchaser his money again, and demanded the cargo, which was refused. He returned to the place, and two or. three boats from the Ohio passing down. the crews aided him in getting his boat off; and he sail ed down the Mississippi without hindranee. l have good reason to recollect these facts, because the man forgot to do what he parti- cularly promised, viz: send me my fee.