The Rhode Islander

A man named Dawley has been prowling about the streets since the breaking up of "Gen. D'Wolf's encampment." This Dawley was one of the men who refused to give up the guns last Wednesday, and who joined the company in the entrenchment, and remained to the last.

On Friday evening, at 9 o'clock, as Mr. Philip Thomas was going from Cumberland Hill to his residence, about a mile distant, he was met by this Dawley, who jumped from his wagon and seized the horse of Mr. T. by his head, and held him so strongly, that Mr. T. could not urge him forward. Being near his residence, he shouted for help, and was fortunately heard by his son and his hired man, who came to his assistance; but D. escaped. Mr. T. immediately applied to Amos Cooke, Jr., (an officer at Cumberland Hill,) who sent a man on horseback in pursuit, and as soon as possible followed himself;—the man overtook him about three miles distant. The villain immediately sprang from his wagon and drew a bayonet on him, and demanded, "What is your business?—if you don't tell me, I have got pistols too." Cooke arrived soon after, and they succeeded in arresting him. He was taken before a justice and committed to jail, and was shortly after arrested on another warrant for an attack on Mr. Otis Cooke, and ordered to recognize in the sum of $300, for want of which he was committed to take his trial.

Prov. Journal.