The national Republican., 1861-03-11
sbuf4dihg did not know who johnson was, es. IN.
til afterwards !; did not hear the order given for


til afterwards !; did not hear the order given for
the crowd TO move away there was much hal.
looingj the parties in the middle Of the street
left about ten minutes after he got there.
Upon the conclusion of the testimony ofthis
witness, the court adjourned until ii o'clock
this morning.
BOARD OF ExAMIHERs.--The board Of nfIi.
GERS, composed of Captain Ringgold and Com.
mnnders Davis and Maury, have been appoint.
ed by the Secretary of the Navy, in pursuance
of the recent naval appropriation act, to ex.
anime the data for charts Of the surveying ex.
pedition under Captain Ringgold, Commanders
Page and Rogers, and Lieutenant Brook, and
to report If they are such as to justify their
publication.
CouRT MARrIAL.-A naval court martial has
been ordered, and will meet to. morrow, the 18th
instant, for the investigation of certain charges
against Commodor Armstrong, United States
navy. The presiding judge will be Commodore
Charles Stewart, and the judge advocate, Allen
A. B. Magruder.
FULLY CoMMrrrED.-R. W. Clapp, whose
arrest we noticed few days since, was brought
out on Saturday before Justice Dom, to an.
swer the charge of obtaining money from the
banking house of Lewis johnson and Com.
pany, Of this city. Mr.. Delay, of New York,
appeared as counsel for Mr.. Clapp, and Mr..
W. D. Davidge for Lewis johnson L Co.
Mr.. l.. j. Davis, of the firm of johnson aud
| Company, testified that on the oath of January
last defendant presented at their banking house
paper purporting to be certificate of de
posit for $4,926.2O, drawn in favor of Mr.. G.
by the Bank of Tarrytown, New York, and on
his having been identified by citizen as r.
W. Capp, the money was paid to him. The
certificate was then sent to New York, but re-
turned protested, there being no such bank
then in existence, it having failed in November
last. After the certificate had been returned,
he went on to New York in company with De.
tective Allen in search of Clapp, but was not
able to find him, he having gone TO some Of the
Western States. The papers requisite to se-
cure his arrest were then left with Officer Daw.
son, who arrested him on his return about q
week since. s.s o.
Detectives Dawson of New York, and Allen Of
this city, testified 10 the admissions Of the pris.
oner, and to statements of parties in New York,
also concerned.
A man named H. M. True was placed on the
stand by the defence, and testified that Messrs.
Rumsey Il Co., who were represented to be the
owners Of the Bank Of Tarrytown, had given
him some ten or twelve blank certificates,
and signed them, in exchange for blank note Of
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these certificates, which he supposed may have
been given to Mr.. Clapp. By his testimony he
showed that he was the concocter of o system
Of viainy for defraudiHg the community. He
(True) was Immediately ordered into the Gus.
tody OF Officer Allen, by whom he was taken to
Jail, after making repeated attempts to escape.
Clapp and True were each committed for
trial, in default of $4,000 security.
ALMOST SERIOUS AcclDENr.-At the the.
atre on Friday night, during the dancing Of the
the dress of Mrs. Bland caught fire from the
footlights, and being of very light material,
blazed to a considerable height. Mr.. F. G.
Bangs happily had the presence of mind to
seize the burning dress in his hands and smoth.
er the flames in its folds. A seconds hesita.
ton would have been fatal, as the lady must
have been enveloped in the flames.
A SHOCKING srcur.-On Friday last, notice
was left at the Office of Justice Barnaclo, that
there was dead child left at the corner OF
Fourth and K streets, in the fourth ward, re.
quiring the attention Of the police. Officers
went to the house, and found the child, an in.
!. iant some eight or nine months old, lying dead
in bed, and a woman, named Flynn, said to
be the mother, lying by its side, in state Of
!; beastly intoxication. An officer promptly at
l tended to the removal Of the child to the Asy.
lum, when it was buried in the Corporation
burial ground.
b. ATTEMPTED HIGnwAY RoBBERY-At a late
, hour on Saturday night as Colonel Harris's
3 coachman was passing in the neighborhood o
D the marine barracks, he was attacked by two
3 ruffians, who knocked him down, and proceed
/, ed to search him. A young man. however
!. coming in sight, they made off, wthou. get
ting the sixty dollars which the coachman had
in his pocket.
' CENTRAL GUARDHoUsE. - Before Justic.
: Thompson.-Henry Shut, drunk and disor
=, derly; workhouse thirty days.
y Rebecca Lawrence, free negress, drunk and
: disorderly; workhouse thirty days.
John White and John Lahy, vagrancy
workhouse sixty days.
. James Thompson, free negro, failing to regis
= = ter; fine and costs, $l05s.
= Before Justice Donn.--Mat. O'Brien, soldier
y !, drunk and disorderly fine and costs, $3.l5.
"" Henry Allen, slave, same charge II stripes
!, MARRIED.
PALMER-DAvIs. On the 7th instant, b,
J. tho Pay NJ Mor,,lau M, Wul;ou, n Doi