On Saturday, the 4^th of May, at 9 o�clock in the evening, about fifty boatmen who had arrived that evening, at Franklin, (Missouri) in boats, to take supplies for the Council Bluffs, attacked the jail, and would probably have demolished it soon but for the interposition of the inhabitants.  Seventeen of the gang were immediately taken and confined in the jail, the others dispersed & could not be found.
They were kept there until morning, and then liberated on the payment of a fine.  No person was confined in the jail at the time, and it appears to have been a mere act of wantonness. � N.Y. paper

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