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TETEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Conc yc..ioua, Proceedings.

WAsHrxgroS, April T.-SESATE.-The mo-
ton to reconsider the vote on the admission
Of Colorado came mp, but no vote was reached.
Mr.. Sumner opposed the motion for the same
reasons he had presented originally-namely
the insufficient population and the TACT OF Inc
Constitution containing the word " white.
The bill for the relief of certain naval con-
tractors was discussed.
HorsE.-The House was engaged in the dis
cussion of the bill for the increase of the regu-
lar army. The section retaining ten regiments
of veteran reserves was passed. A motion to
repeal the ct authorizing negro regiments was
lost The pending amendment is on making
no discrimination among the officers on &C
COMMIT Of color.
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HAllFAx, April lG.--Nota single case OF SICK
At,~ occurred among the cabin passengers on
board the steamer England, which had so
many cases OF cholera among the CROWDED
etcrguge and deck passengers.
GpyEENoK rrIKroIST ANON" THE RADICALS.
I0rncy SAYS the eminent patriot Governor
frrpOint, of Virginia, "boldly declares the
Presidents policy 10 be 4 failure
The negro celebration in Washington was
o.lnonrd until tomorrow iIhursday) on ac-
count Of the rain.
ErroysrKrcTIoxs-Iti is stated that the Joint
Committee on reconstruction VIII meet on
saturday 20 make up their final report.
There has been a terrible explosion IN san
francisco Several persons were killed, and
many horribly wounded.
4 destructive fire ut Port an Prince, Hayt,
IHrCn lglh DESTROYED fifteen squares ana
most Of the public buildings and archives.
General Scott arrived yesterday at New
York, from Havana in the steamer TnldlhS
star.
Letters 10 the Methodist Conference report
that Bishop Soule is dying.
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Nr.po TrKrrLEycE IN NORFOLK CorSrr.-
4 negro crew offensive 10 Mr.. James Carr at
Derp Greek, Norfolk county, Il few days since
and menacng Mr.. Carr he knocked him down
with door bar Mr.. Logan Hurst, delegate
from the county 10 the Legislature ana q
t,nristrata ordered his arrest He was ar
rested but the negroes threatening TO burn
every house;n Deep Creek if he was not set al
liberty, it was deemed prudent TO release
him in view of the large force OF negroes.
pnt tho whites beat up for recruits, and Were
soon enabled to rearrest him and take nm 10
Norfolk, where the Freedmen's Bureau turned
him over 10 the civil courts, and he was put
in Portsmouth Jail.
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prohibit free negroes from keeping tipping sa-
looms or billiard saloons. In the Criminal
Court today, several Of these cases were
brought up by Attorney-G eneral Wail'ce.
The counsel for the defence, General Chambers
amt Mr.. Sale, pleaded the Civil Rights law III
;,b@tcmcut contending that all were on an
equal footing. Judge Hunter reserved his
opinion until tomorrow. 1t Is thought Il test
may toe made of one of these cases.
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JrpoE UNDERwooD.- This Judge IN a
card to the Nttio"W AteHigencer, gives the pur-
mort of n recent decision Of his as follows;
MY opinion simply was, that the late peace
proclamation did not pretend to revoke me
previous proclamation OF President Lincoln
susppuding in certain cases the witt III the
states lately in instruction, and stated that
the peace proclamation did not include TEXAS,
and that il had not and was not intended 10
have so broad and general an application rs
the petitioner supposed, ana therefore rel"Seo
TO grant his prayer.
JOINS {. UNDERWOOD.
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E,uiau> in England and Ireland.

European news TO the 18th instant states thar
.lous Frnlan riots prevailed i'll Bradford,
Ll-laud, in which the Queen WAS denounced,
and the English residents had 10 lock them
selves indoors for safety. Several arrests We're
made. Nine national schoolmaStorS have been
.rrr- ted in Cork and il is thought that the
number elsewhere i very large. The Amcrl-
yau Consul al Cork had an interview with
>a.ur American Fenians in the Cork county
Jai. The probability is they will be sent home
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CoSrRAsr.--An unknown woman, too poor
~ nav The Toll on the regular bridge 1T Troy,
NJ " ottempted to cross the open railroad
bridge, and, growing dizzy, fell, and was
drowned. 4 little boy, supposed to be hei
child, was found crying for his mother thai
evening Too poor To pay toll, ana peiishoo
in hearing of men who own millions
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ciriL RIGHrs LAW Is BALTIMokk-lh ne
Antcytcoit Of Tuesday enumerates three CASES
Of negro exclusion from civil privileges. II
oUt Of them but we may infer that IL Is the
opinion that IL should or will One OF thehi
y the refusal TO allow II negro 10 sit among tue
white passengers in the York Road cars an
other refusal 10 sell a ticket 10 Il negro at tue
Holiday Street Theatre and the third, the
refusal 10 sell negro drink Of liquor NJ u
house on Eastern and Can ton avenue.
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InIsuMEy vs.. NEGRoEs.-A few days since,
two or three negroes were employed as ostiers
in the Cambridge Horse Railroad stables, near
Rostou Massachusetts. lrishmen and boys
had been previously employed. Indignant at
The introduction of the negroes, they struck
whereupcn the proprietors sent to boston ior
more negroes and in Il little while the stables
were supplied with darkeys 80 the negro ge's
lie better in that case.
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PHILADELPHIA, April IT, General Meade
and staff left here for Passport, Maine, to-day
His mission is supposed to be in connection
with the Fenian movement.
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Rock SALT-It is said that the purest ana
most important natural deposit OF rock sait III
tho world i that found on the Louisiana coast,
Al a place called Petite Ause Islands The
property has been purchased by Z. A. weed.
of New Orleans, and Hawkes., Pratt Co, oil
New York. The bed, extending over an I'M
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NEW YORK, April F.-Cotton has de-
clining tendency-sales !, 100 bales at31c. Flour
active, and lo02jc. better Southern hrmer
Mt 80. J0M$lj.7j. Wheat has advanced 3atc
Corn has an advancing tendency. Pork heavy
Lard quiet. Whisky dull ut S2269s2.27
Sugar steady. Coffee dull Naval stores
quiet FreightS declining. Gold, l25's.
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Wt-ulHaroS. April l6.-The Secretary OF the
Treasury has extended the privilege of re
WORKING or notwithstanding old and damaged
tobacco, with the payment Of duties only upon
the increased weight, to all parties now
engaged in the business, and having such
stool. on hand. till the lSt of May next: but no
tobacco produced on or after the 18th Apill
instant j 10 be included.
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Arrest of Supposed Accomplice i'm the Phila
deIphia Murders.

IoSDox, c. w, April 1.-THE suppose
accomplice in the seven-fold Philadelphi
murder has been arres ted here. He gave hi
name as Charles McCutchen. When arrested
he turned pale and nearly tainted
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MATRIMoSIAL FURRY AMoHG FREEDMEN
The Freedmen's Bureau oil NashEllle' 1enu.,
;s.nad an order for the marriage of all colored
persons living in Illicit intercourse, under pain
of fine and Imprisonment. 1t occasioned
great stir. Many marriages were the conse-
9uence, attended with much complaint OF the
license fee Of the clerk.
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LOUISVILLE, April lG.-The notorious muir
dr!rrs. Terrill and Withers We're rescued from
Spencer Jail on Friday morning by II party Oh
seven disguised ana armed men, who threat
cucI the life of the iaior on his refusal to an
!g., rl,. cells
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Ii" Sickness OIL Beard the Emigrant ship Eng
land Pronounced Asiatic Cholera.

New YORK, April lG.-The acting collector
has received dispatch from Consul Jackson,
dated Halifax, to-day, saying That the citS
PHYSICIANS on board the cmgrant ship Eng
Lr.a. after further development of the disease
and further consultation last evening, concur
in prUuouncin- IL Asiatic cholera.
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Arrest of n Fenian-Mrs. Jefferson Davis.

lFFFNT "'"''''|7'"
ToRoSTo, April l7.-Another Fenian ARES
was made yesterday-a man named "eish
He was sent forward for trial.
The examination of Fenian prisoners began
to-day 1t is thought the probable result VII
he the committal of all of them for trial at the
next assiZes.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is in Montreal.
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QrtqE At EASE IL THE GALLERY The MIS-.
siasIppi Ltdr1, published at Columbus, Miss,
regrets that, s'in permitting our eyes W wander
about the church n few Sunday evenings ago,
and CHANGING 10 glance ceilingwafd, we saw
several pairs Of boots pgotruding over the
gallery
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RaItimorp Markets,

BALTIMORE, April l7.-Flour inactive; high
grades firm. Wheat scarce and tending up
ward. Corn tirmer and active; white, Soc. ;
yellow, soc. Oats firm at 6006lc. Provisions
steady. Sugar duh. Coffee firm. Whisky
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The Philadelphia Murder.

PHILADELPHIA, April lG.--The coroner Jury
for the nycstigation OF the murder OF the
Drr~iug family have found Il verdict charging
Antoine Prohst now under arrest, with the
murder Of the entire eight persons.
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INSURANCE COMPANIES.


Under A LIBERAL CHARTER
~ from the General Assembly Of Virginia,
passed February %, 1886,
THE INSURANCE
AND
SAVINGS COMPANY OF VIRGINIA
is organizcd with an
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL OF ~, ooo,o 900.
Principal office at Richmond.
OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY:
DANIEL j. HARTs0OK, President.
DAVID J. BURR, Secretary.
b. c. WHERRY, JR., Assistant Secretary.
DIRECTORS:
DANIEL J. HARTsooK, A. Y. STOKES,
JOHN ESDERs, DAVID CrRRIE,
w. II. IsAACs, GEORGE ). PALMER,
w e. PAINE, W. q. TAYLOR,
JOSEPH +. CLAGErr, JoHSC. WILLIAMS,
SAMUEL c. TARDY, J. b. DAVIS.
This Company Is now prepared to make lNsU-
RANCE and issue POLICIES upon FIRE and MA
RINE RISKS on the most ADVANTAGEOUS
TERMS, and offers all the inducements connected
with HOME INSTITUTION OF UND0UBTED
ABILITY AND SAFETY. The business capacity
OF the Directors is well known throughout the
State the condition of the Company can at all
times be ascertaincd and any accumulation of
profits will constitute fund for the benefit of the
community which pays the premiums.
Office on Main street, between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth over the United States Telegraph office.
ap lin
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A CHALK MINE IN NORTH CAROLINA. MI
Marberry, of Davidson county, North caro-
linn has discovered a chalk mine, very rich,
ON his land near the Mineral Springs.
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Mr.. s. NJ. DRINKER,

Mr.. S. NJ. DRINKER,
so we'll known in connection with the Stationery
business in the city of Richmond, is with u.s. and
will be pleased to see his friends.
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T BUMGARDNE R'S OLD RYE
O. WHISKY-Afera suspension Of my Distlle.
nv for four years and upwards, have, within the
last few months resumed business, but have yet
sent To market but TEN BARRELS OF MY WHISKY,
which, think, without doubt, as good as ever
made in my life, and most assuredy as pure AZ IL
quor can be produced from the best OF grain. ~
Ms agents are JAMES L. LlPSCOMB co,
Franklin street, between Thirteenth and Four
an AMI iI-l CT "'' JAMES BUMGARDNER.
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APER w 4 r + Ii 0 u S f
RICHMOND, VA,
MAIN STREET, NORTH SIDE,
RETWEEy NINTH AND TENTH STREETS.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.

Ell
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
ROBINS JON & F Al f NKS
have on hand, and are daily receiving,
PAPERS:
Wrapping, Mailing, News, Book, Writing, Re-
cord. Legal, Sermon, Engros,ing, Copying, Ira
cling. Drawing, Oiled, Tissue, Gold, Silver, Color
ed. Bristol Boards, Fancy, Card, &c, &c.
BLANK BOOKS:
Lcdgers, Journals, Day Books, Cash Books, Re-
ccipt Books, Bank Books, Drafts, Checks, Copy
Books, &c, &c. ,r,,,,,.re
Jute, Hemp, Cotton, Seine, &c, &c.
INKS:
Printing, Writing, Copying, Red, Blue, &c, &c
Writing Books, States, Waters, Sealing Wax
Mucilagr, Crayons Inkstand~ Copying Presses,
Letter Books, Portfolios, Brushes, Pens, Pencils
ErlserS, Rules, Memorandum Books, Time Books,
Wallets, and everything in the Stationery line
Ches, Boards Chess Men, Backgammon Boards
Cards, Envelopes Rubber Goods, and variety Of
small wares.
Bankers, Merchants, Lawyers, Clergymcn Pub
fishers, Teachers, Printers, Public Officers, and
others will find everything wanted in quantity,
quality, and price.
Paper of any size, kind, quality, and quantity
we can furnish to order or have made at short no.
tice.
PAPER BAGS-a large stock.
Being Agents of Paper Mills, Envelope, Paper
Bag, Ink, and Blank Book Makers, and buying
from first hands, we can compete with the jobbers
north or south.
CASH PAID FOR
COTTON AND LINEN RAGS,
HEMP AND MANILA STOCK,
OLD NEWSPAPERS,
PAMPHLETS,
BOOKS,
and all kinds of
PAPER STOCK.
Mr.. s. NJ. DRINKER,
so we'll known in connection with the Stationery
business in the city of Richmond, is with us, and
will be pleased to see his friends.
Z. T. ROBINSON, S FAIRBANKS,
Of Richmond. Of Florida.
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COAL AND WOOD.

DEMBERTON Il CREW, dealers In
COAL AND WOOD, office Seyenteent nth street,
between Cary and Dock. Best RED and WHITE
ASH ANTHRACITE COAL. for CRATES, stoves, And
foundry use GLOVER HILL LUMP and re
RAGE COAL: OAK and PINE WOOD. NH la-ts
NEW COAL AND WOOD YARD,
CORNER OF SEVENTH AND CANAL
STREETS. ANTHRACITE and MIDLOTHlAN
'oNA anu "o'D w BLOOD & PENDLETON.
N.B-Oriers promptly filed de It's
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-nr arrests have been made.
/ ArER-A NEGRO KILLED.

en- Monday night the tremen kept guard
over the city. During the night, II negro,
dressed in the rc-alia Of some secret society,
.au down the street, ana was shot and killed
wi ty.. near the OIL Iyiailti9lt sltiCe.
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Being Agents of Paper Mills, Envelope, Paper
Bag, Ink, and Blank Book Makers, and buying
from first hands, We can compete with the jobbers
north or south.
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II EROSENE OIL, only eighty-tive
n cents per gallon, for sale by
WILLIAM A. M0UNTCASTLE,
NH n ON No ls6 Broad street
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A. E,opENENT-A STORY OF A FAITH
rss Wrrr.-Four or five years ago, or at
least before the tocsin of the late war had
hecn sounded, Mr.. William ii. Gentry, a
well. TODD fshdealcr in our city, took to
himself a pretty young wife. The match
was purely love one, and happiness of
course cnsued. This state of affairs con-
tinued through all the exciting times of
the war and through months of separation.
At length the war ended; the warrior re-
turned TO his spouse, and was as happy as
the days were long. All how little things
destroy our happiness in this life, as we shall
show in our story. Our warrior, after
his return, resumed his business, and
found it necessary to hire q boy to
open oysters. He obtained the ser
vices of young man named Clayton for
this purpose. And now we have reached
in our narrative the destroyer of de-
voted husbands happiness. Yes, as strange
as it may seem, this oysterboy, hired to
open oysters at fifty cents barrel, gained
the affections of his employers wife-the
wife of a man who had placed her in in
dependence, and who loved her dearly.
Scarcely had "our bruised arms been
hung up for monuments " ere this insig-
niiicant creature came to bring unhappi-
ness and misery to q once happy couple.
The husband had been told repeatedly that
his wife was taithlesS, but in the greatness
of his love for her he would not listen to
any such tales, but continued to caress
and pet her as much as ever. But to the
denouement. On Sunday night Mr.. Gen.
try returned home and found his wife
and Clayton absent. He found also that
his ready funds, about one hundred and
fifty dollars in gold and fifty dollars in sill
yer, were also missing. Upon inquiry, he
learned that Clayton and his wife had left
together the evening before. Scarcely Gre
diting his own senses, the miserable man
went Immediately to Petersburg after the
clippers. In the mean time his brother
had heard that they had gone to Hungary
station in hack, with the intention OF
taking the morning train for Washington.
In company with friend, he took the cars,
and upon reaching Hungary station say
the guilty parties trying to stop the train.
They jumped from the cars as they passed,
seized Clayton, and upon searching him
found forty dollars in gold upon him. They
brought the two down upon the accommo-
dation train, and let them go upon reach
ing the city. Clayton's father was killed
in Tennessee while engaged in similar
affair. Up to the last accounts the parties
had not been rcarrestcd.
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THANKS TO THE LADIES OF RICHMOND.
We are requested by the ladies of the
lakewood Memorial Association to publish
the following vote of thanks:
"To the kind and patriotic ladies who
sent flowers on the 10th instant to adorn
the graves of our slumbering heroes, we
tender our heartfelt thanks and most
earnest gratitude. Especially do we return
our thanks to Mrs. Steenbock, who, by
combined industry, energy, and pure taste,
procured and forwarded to us no less than
twenty-four bouquets ofrare and beautiful
flowers.
"Could your charitable deedsb knownto
the sisters, wives, and mothers OF those
whose graves you aided in adjoining, then,
as each flowers aromatic breath was watt
ed on the breeze, your names, through
their prayers, would be made to echo
throughout the eternal courts of Heaven.
With darkened horrors shook the conscious wood,
Moaned the sad gales, the rivers hushed their
And Beauty's goddess, bending DER their bier,
Breathed the soft sigh and poured the tender
A wreath of roses was DER each hillock laid,
Nv the gentle hand of mother, wife, or maid, -
Now, beauteous ones, the spirits OF the dead VIII
rise, a.,
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CLEANSE THE BLOOD.-With cor
~ rupt, di>ordered, or vitiated Blood you arc
sick all over. II may burst out In Pimpies, u
sores, or i'm rome active disease, or II may MeiIoy
But Bssp SSe Shs Your blood
Is impure. AYERS SARSAPARiLLA purges S oas
these impurities and stimulates the organs % n.o
Polling disease Hence 1t rapidly cures variety
of complains which are caused by imPgrity OF the
seh as ssr9fos p BoeSe.
Salt Rhenn, Seald Head, Ring Worm, Cancer o.
TsmS Sore
Whites, stsrility, also sypnitiisha or p,sessSs
Try AYERS sARsApARiLLA and Ss see ie ss y0s
the blood and cures these disorders. 49,, r.,.,.d
During late years the public have been ngsco
sy sasf iSq ons
Contain Ii,sie. any; sarsapariIl., but often no
appointment has followed the use OF the various
extracts of Sarsaparila which food the market,
until the name itself has become Hn .ny a
pound 'sarsaparilIs," and intend 70 supply such
a remedy shall rescue the name from the losd OF
obloquy which rests upon It. we think We h 9,r.
sistible by the ordinary run Of the diseases y =
Intended Ia cure We can only assure the sex
that we offer them the best Alternative when W
ieye il is by far the most eectusl purifier Of the
blood ys. d;ssEsssa * sPXSisSsSy 80 universally
known TO snrpsss every other remedy for the cure
Of Coughs. Colds, Influenza, Hoarseness, Group,
Bronchitis, lncipient Consumption, and foI tns
of the disease that liz useless here to recount the
evidence Of its virtues. The world xn9ws Gasm.
Prepared by Lowell 4; H Hs..ss hhGUs
and sold by PURCELL, LADD CO., DrIsgiss'
Richmond, Va. mn so-1u
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DESPERATE AFFRAY.-IcStcrday morn
inc an atfray took place on Clay street, be-
tween First and Second, which resulted
painfully, if not seriously, to both parties
engaged. From what we can learn, the
origin of the affair was somewhat III tins
manner: Mr.. William S. Phillips, one of
the parties, Superintendent of the Poor
house, having been inSultcd or injured Ill
some way by negro woman serving with
A Mr.. John e. Moss, the other party i'll the
aiirav, went 10 the house OF the latter, and,
in the presence of MoSS'S wife, uttered in
vectivcS against the woman which the
former took as diSreSpectful and insulting
to herself Moss was informed OF the
matter, and declared his determination to
punish Phillips. Yesterday morning the
parties met, as we have above mentioned,
and Moss made use of very insulting OK
preston towards Phillips; whereupon the
latter struck him with stick which he had
in his hand. Moss seized the stick and
wrcnched it out of his hand. He then APP
piled it severely to Phillips about the head
| and body. Whilst he was doing this, Phil
lips took his pocket knife out and inflicted
a very. severe wound in his adycrsary'S
side near the heart. Moss, before he had
been weakened by loss OF blood, threw
Phillips upon the ground and beat him
until he was nearly inScnSblc.
The case was soon afterwards reported
, to the authorities, and warrants issued for
the arrest of the parties, but their condi-
ton was such that they could not be re-
moved.
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The Posi- OFFICE AFFRAY.-Wc publish
ed on Friday last very brief account OF
all ARRAY at the post-office between young
man of Richmond and clerk in the post
office. At the time of the occurrence we
were unable to get impartial particulars,
SO we deferred taking more than a passing
notice of it until the matter should be
brought before the authorities. On Satur-
day, Gordon, the clerk who was cut in the
affair, got out warrant for the arrest OF
young Martin, who inflicted the cut. On
yesterday he was arraigned for examina-
ton before His Honor Joseph Mayo. Mr..
Marmaduke Johnson appeared as counsel
for the defence. The evidence for the pro-
secution was opened.
John 7. Gordon, post-office clerk, sworn,
stated that on Thursday last he was in
formed by Mr.. Lewis, fellow-clerE, that
a party of young men were in wait at the
door OF the post -office to attack him. He
advised him to get out of the back way; to
which Lewis replied that it would be Of no
use, for they would be watching for him.
They then determined to 60 out in a party.
Three or four of the clerks started out, and
as they reached the gate, young Martin
made the remark, "Here he comes now"
As soon as the party reached the pavement,
Martin made an advance on Lewis. Kerr,
another one of the clerks, interfered. Mar
tin passed Kerr and got at Lewis again. Wit
ness then interfered, and saw Martin draw
something from his pocket. After the af-
fair was over, he found that he was stabbed
in two places on the left arm. He was not
aware that he had struck Martin, or that