The Fairfield Herald

Robbery in the Citadel.--A daring robbery was committed sometime during Saturday night at the military stronghold, the Citadel. It appears that some person or persons entered General Glitz's office, and carried away from there the iron safe in which money and other valuable papers were generally kept. The thief or thieves must have been well acquainted with the premises. The safe which weighed some two hundred pounds, was taken from the general's office on the second floor. In an unoccupied room on the ground floor, and there it was broken open with a cannon ball, and the contents abstracted.

Usually there was a goodly amount of greenbacks in this safe, but on this occasion the enterprising robber was only rewarded for his pains with $875, and some checks of about the same amount, payment of which, of course, has been stopped. One of the privates of the garrison has been arrested on suspicion of being implicated. The wonder is, that where a military guard is constantly on active duty, that an iron safe could be removed, and that by a circuitous staircase, and afterwards broken open on the premises in the manner described without the guard on duty hearing the noise.

Charleston Mercury.