The New Hampshire Gazette

From the True American.

Mob Justice.—Information was received from Vicksburg yesterday, by the arrival of the steamboat Scotland, that a serious act of mobocracy took place on the 6th inst. in the town mentioned. It appears that a den of gamblers existed in that place which had become obnoxious to the citizens. On the Fourth of July the gamblers were refused permission to participate in the celebration, whereupon they became insolent, and notice was given to them by the citizens to leave the place. This they disregarded, and remained. Two of them, in consequence, were taken, and made to go through the ceremony of tarring and feathering, so well known and so often practiced in the west. These two left the place, but the others, five in number, armed themselves, and made a fortress of their establishment, to which the citizens repaired, and after having forced the doors, rushed in. Dr. Bodley, the first person who entered, received eleven balls through his body and fell dead instantly. The death of the Doctor excited the people to the highest degree of wrath; and, having seized the gamblers, they lost no time in hanging the whole five, who remained suspended twenty four hours. Perhaps justice was done to them. It is reported that they had several times before escaped legal justice.