Rhode Island Republican

AUGUSTA, January 27.

Last evening was committed to gaol in this place, William Fuller, the Western post rider, charged with robbing the mail of the United States. With the particulars of the transaction, we are not at present fully acquainted. It appears that the rider was observed on the road travelling towards Augusta with the mail behind him, and with the remnants of several letters in his hand, which he appeared to be destroying. Several parts of letters and post bills and one letter were found in the road, and the covering of a mail directed 'Augusta'—these circumstances induced the post master at Columbia Court House, when the rider arrived at his office, to arrest him, when he confessed that a small hole had been worn in the mail portmanteau, through which he contrived to get a packet or mail of letters, that out of one of the letters directed to Petersburg, Virginia, he took 75 dollars, and out of another directed to a Mr. Knodes, in Savannah, he took 200 dollars—the money he pocketed, and destroyed all the letters in that packet: 220 dollars of the money were found upon him—these are all the particulars at present within our knowledge.