Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — A Magnificent Haul of Plunder. [ARTICLE]

A Magnificent Haul of Plunder.

The following extraordinary statement, given in the Bombay r Pelegraph, has been before briefly noticed: “It is stated in a letter from Banda that General Whitlock’s column have made a large “haul” from the rebels. A company ol the Madras Forty-third Native Infantry, attached to the colmun, found one hundred and forty car-loads of gold b r icks and nuggets, and forty laces of rupees, and more was expected to be discovered. Beside this large amount of treasure, an immense, quantity of jewels has been found. These are supposed to have been the jewels belonging to .the I’eish.wa’s family, which, fifty years ago, mysteriously disappeared from Pocriah, and were supposed to be in possession of Scindia or Holka. It is believed that they were stolen by Bajee Row’s brother, the adopted father of the present Narrein Row, who is now a prisoner. The treasure and jewelry found are said to he of the value of nine crores of rupees, or nine millions sterling.” The last news of the Neiiu Sahib was that he had crossed the G-ogra, and was reported to have sold his famous ruby, valued by the natives at one million dollars, for one thousand pounds sterling. 0/7’A notorious fellow named William Webster was conmiitted to Bangor jail last Saturday, for an assault, in default of payment of a tine of $2.64. On Wednesday, Iris fellow-prisoners, in the exercise of a commendable judgment on their part, considering him too mean a rascal for them to. “bed and board with,” paid his fine with wooden meat-skewers of their own manufacture, and turned him out again among the world’s people.