•-'140:!?;%.*14-= - ' •-•-• • mrls, calm 7 7 ;MONDAY MORNING, JAY 27; 11Z7. .isr-firetarAL 'Are)? VP-TILE News of the City and Neighborhood. • .Tai ; ' LAST AcT.—Te las tl act In the drama is • . performed: ..• --", 11'..1n the Court of Oyer and !Terminer before Judges •'.' .- -. 7 . ' - . ll lrChtris - Adami - and Park : -.- • ''•:' , Afteis o'clock - on Saturday morning court was — , . - iitierned.• ;Hach a crowd as filled the lobbies, walks, • sad bartm the last days Aft. the trial of the three *;•-.PidlIttnxjStewirt, Fife and Charlotte Jones was now •.. s4Stitt present when those persons were brought in -t -. • entplaced in the dock to listen to the opinion of the ••; 'Matt on.the argaments for a new trial and in arrest -...oft:Jintigmient, the principal points of which arc gave --•••` at the time they were submitted, - and nice if those •"`"';:alittstasebr should not prerail, to hear the Pentane , ; of-the JAW , ' Indeed the anxiety to ice the prisoners • " abeiSerlta bameie eager then ever before as they - walked in`with apparent indifference -and took tho • seat which they have now probably occupied for the - ' last.time. Stewart earlier, a solemn face. Ho h. •`, grown quite sallow since we fi rst saw him, either .frota;aortfinem en t out of the ntnlighor from men lasi anguish or both. lie wears now t promise of ~;,.a henry black goatee which also adds the pale smarms* of his face.. lie is by no m us a bad ...... ~.."-'l•o4lsing man ; probably Gall or Spurt:helm might .--...fteidint.tha !entitled narrow head a preponderance . • ' ' , '4lf brain batted the ear, bat to those who are not ' - 'adepts in the seirmko of Phrenology. which we aro bap . ..,:.-..f-tOadd we are notOtewartia as good looking man ; • ::,•' . *Sim.: 10udress is neat and evidently he • ..- cure of. hIS person as far as external cleardi . • IS QoCenta,... 'MIS only tokens of nervousness ' we °beiricd duting the whole trial and op to t at ... - , scene wore the avidity with-which he chewed libaeco Fife sat next is Stewart in the lock. ' Hie cheer . ' - fullace,; his - Middy cheek, his open countenance. 'riots of anything but murder so foul add diabolical „ail, ' the testimony fixes, upon him almost beyond - the -; 4p „ oiteltility Of a doubt. Ile looked around the court . ~ sehns,:irith - apparent unconcern, and then, •as if • Z.; hiurlajjairised at some conclusion in the premises, width we, proper to suggest to hie partner whisper , ' A SOS! Stewart', ear. One could not have t ' hooght it f :' , t.eintitde . lite could bo so unmoved at such an awful ; . 'memo, ' .•... •.,4 Charlotte Jones looked and appeared just as she . I bastions throughout the whole. - Oeeasionally rev '-'- siring her face with her fan oi handkerchief, as if to 4. 'induce abides that she 'to — weeping; but we have never tt se o r ..aot.seall is tear on her fatit.;. -We cusped that she is ' tuvreu.splible to those impressions which would weigh . s -- ' ,, lleltilitesiudiing fame upon one In ilitain there remain ; t,„ .. ....._ - iatitirtnnett of. conscience. or a 'sense of obligation i anWlitspsusibility . in•the eight of the Great Being in i whosepresenettall thiS awful deed of bland was en -,,,soted alp4.moZoati itiffei, has' traced through all their 4 '.. 'tortuous paths thethread of crime to the door of We E •o t ' t- murderers. Both she -jinni Fife were neatly and plainly . dressed. - , In -the midst. of a breathless silence, Judge relure •..preeeeded to review the arguments of the counsel fur . the defence, sweeping away one alter the other ilk: iI I.;.'11011iI01111 they had taken bah in favor of a IS .- ~ us , trial. and in arrest of judgment- Ills remarks it.P i • - . 'llie. found in our columns. This being done and both • requests being denied, the last and most solemn duty .., -of all remained namely to declare upon them the -'. ' : , serrrucc. • ..z. '' Which the Judge then proceeded to do by saying: • ''''''IRESIIIIV FIFE, eland Up: Have you anything to ..... say why sentence of death should not be parsed SpOIS ''.your'.- t - * -' Fife answered in a clear and distinct voice—" I `,:-.."... aims Coy." . - .... - „;,..;:;...',..Aftei t which the Judge did in a low tone aud with . .,:ialnfutonsetion pronounce upon him— :•-lit•;:1;:,11bat-yait be takei hence to the place from whence t ,- - . iitsaciittat- tither, and thence to the place of execo t „ , ,..2.-.thistuind that you there be hanged by the neck until .... yaw aredead, and may God have mercy on your ' ....MONROE STZWAIIT, stand up: Mare yon anything to say why.sentamco of death should not be passed upon '• •••• sys.strlhave. •• lam innocent of the . charge. ?Tent's[ seen thermions living ordeal and had neat '. Ing to do with the murder in any way whatever. He continued standing as if. to say morn, but kept when ityras evident that ho had finished his l'':,listseligatitid : The a - edge Tn . :weeded in the same words ..S.,iiiidirith:,thyeamo, solemnity as•beforo to pronounce :. - slittinee - tipoin the unhappy criminal. • - ,•'•:.egastsgrrre Songs was then- called upon to stand, „up and sly: if anything she had to say, why een ''' twit:e'er death should"-not also be pronounced upon She appeared perfoetly cool and collected, but • . spoke . trt avery low tone meantimo toying with her could not hoar distinctly, at the reporters' tible r lalitt did say, but this we heard repeated: - :— .That she was told that if she confessed she would 7.40513:Ude a iiitnees for the commonwealth, that she made the confession before the Mayor because she Aliened so, etc. : :Tilten'slsilsati ceased the judge pr.:AL.:led once ;acre and for the hut time to repeat the words of the ',sante:tee, which eh* beard without blenching or chap - ging countenance and then the High Sheriff took back again to the place of their coofloconont: .=:':.:the : _vaaferowd over ',bow the stillness of death had :%Tflirtstidod„, dispersed, the ordinary business of the tri. .. , ,buital before which this imte of life and death bad 1 il: , -licatt , deritied was resumed, and tko neon! of this I COUttllo far as these. beings are concerned VMS closed p.. itfyan, _ - . • COUNT Cle OTER AND TETlNTSen.—Deforn Judges -s rlfeehsre, Adams and Parke. CHARGE or Jamie sectene. Howard, on behatt of Henry Fife and Char .lotto Jones, file reasons in arrest of judgement and .for a new. trial. NilliTL Flenniken and Hershel, on behalf of Mon • •soolitewart„-files reasons in arrest of judgement and • - fararnew trial. :•;i,.••:'4:lltring the argument of these reasons Mr7Howard ' - :'••:feithrerfnew reasons in surest of judgement. . • Isbell proceed to arrange and classify, in natural all the reasons assigned by all the counsel, and dispoie of the reasons to arrest of judgment, of those for a new trial. s . .Y — The first and only reason in arrest of indgernent ::•-•*:...-WS;dl . feed by the counsel of Stewart, and the second ."'•:?:111 arreat filed by the counsel for Fife and. Charlotte are identical; the reason is : 4 7= First and Second " That the verdict of the jury rendered against the three prisoners jointly and ..., severally, as it should have been." • counsel for Stewart says this reason is their ''sasshiiellance. This reason assumes a fart which ...may Cr may not be tree. To sustain this assump : Von offset,'or legal inference from it, no reason is . ..;• - • . ;•fgiven,and aid a single authority produced. ';'•:'.. - i:r . ..Donbtless when counsel filed this reason in ar awsapfjudgereent, their minds were dwelling on the 'r•clavi'WhiCh applies to separate ernteute• on joint rec- Op this point authority is abundant; but the ;:, - piiiilititifipre assumed, viz that on a joint trial and ••••• ••iyielet conviction for. the same identical offence there —should- be separate verdicts, is neither sustained by ealaceinor supported by anthority. TheiJudge after citing authorities concluded on this point as follosra: • In the prrsent case the testimony bore on all and on each alike, and left, no room for this : , ..,t)-COeszti to isezeise discretion. Third :reason: °The verdict of the jury .was for and ',should have been so recorded.tl - &sensel here assetnes a fact which has no ex ,; itteeiee, this reason was passed over In silence Counsel who made it, and not referred to in ••`S; - • , 01,he argument, wo presume it is abandoned. The "Asir: Could not render, nor the-court receive such a r•''.wisediet, for the act of 22d of April, 179 d, directs that thi4nrj shall Ascertain in their verdict the degree of reaseard.' Because the prisoners ore all , etrarged as principals, And are all charged e. acres - aeries in the sameindietment." fbirmeson amounts to not6ing. They ere not se whored in the seine count in the indictment. There idosen separate conntd and here such chugs 11 ;'''':',Ii•theaubject.matter Oa separate count. • . The new memo in arresrofjudgment flied dining anntipustent; are three in number, and are as fol. "'" -- . . ... - :Pint— , 'Becauseit appears that the Grand jurors 'MI6 ft - word the bill, returned said indictment en their etas and affirmatione." - - • •••• • Senotid--"Beeause the indictment does not show *pen Deface that the Grand jurors who affirmed, were conscientiously opposed to taking on oath." . •- ffltial- o Beestuse . the Sheriff did not make a re ....turn to the rewire as to bow he executed the writ." Ifcoorts will treat with gravity, in Pennsylvania, :- ..ronsensimeh -; as there, the speedy effect will be to air ,altatethe law of homicide, and takefrdm society the - _spreteetton of the lainit would wrest the shield from .7 ligig.ionecent and whet the armassine knife: it would ~ irve immunity to murder; each man would be hie own ivenger, and the rifle and the revolver would :.-hocnine the law of the land. • `'The Judge here proceeded at.._ some length in '.'reeteWing ' the fads and citing authorities in , •estpliert of the position the Cotirt bad taken at the - • roltalintion•of the trial a few days ago. Ile finished • '• - .olitrestby Stating that the reasous which were filed .-.• ' ltifiGgiist - of judgement on behalf of Henry Fife, ~..-. A fogoeStewurt and Charlotte Jones are overruled ,q:ky, tie.Coark. ',-The,,lndge then proceeded to consider the reasons iled:under a motion for • new trier: Buie! First; ".In overruling the motion of Stew . .-Juvg - siriumel fora separate trial, and admitting the ... :• - i•oidibegient; of Charlotte Jones as evidence' against ',banally, the eifect "of which, though not intended, 111 04 t Fl u , ! . P ei " rt i • 'e -• • • )• •4:!?..,f ..•:••rii • elitds ease the names were 'imppressed, and the giel•regiester council, wee cautioned • ny the sitifitollire jammer -tiny a AG:gat, never,' card --- ;4407ki..te ,- tiot to be influenced by they knew ~,:-•':...;,1/ismoidand..Third. These rebtollB ere predicated ,•:',,',49tailihiehaige of the Court, making it incumbent .' .. --'-- : f . ...„lfilgewitst to oactoint," fur his whereabouts on the 1-- - -i_siektorffie Ihltirder, after be left his bed and the '."' . „,' 7, Alt* . 0;1 . 10 s aid nothing *bent the "plea of aLibi," :211611Init DO enth Owns that blown .to the - law. - .:.lfeertliandl!iltbf The.memoryof coated is here ' iiittenat...::Ainortho Court had delivered Its written .' -;': 4 .- t ° the:Jeri, It addressed them verbally thus: ' • 7 - .',.„ ~,.,;_. . ,-You will now retire to the jury room .. . 11„,. .. your verdict. The comforts hith .,..,, ,:ci A ",,,,,, r 4 for the last two weeks, will be 4,7 1 Z . __, '`......'. ease like this, • has no , 7,1,•:-;-. o idleg l iyW.,Z L 7°7?' 9 .! ° P° a ! 4l ntiliU.s.ttrilk:as in P .: : ,.. k r g ,litrbea.. 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' e. ::+stu rU y t' leasen ne ;•nr . 'iturne . , r"ft .,g, r 7i e ; :rsnalii,itad..4ureie"th2",thth".e f nad °7 b - r t34rdaL 31 ant"' .-..: - • ooi71 :: ----- hThe7ori7ti: the . • Imrchasing site nadbuildinftng Ito-vital for the t 'falsely . actuate hintielL :' The great "' m a nsone, held • meeii a ..hzatted ure , id .. c .„ r. the ~..f...60. tru llg ,, Mayi j'a aica s., i , i i, _ gat the Beard of Trade ile•tutts, .. . le it eoriebernese -- ...,..44.p. J one r ".74Esq., was called to the chiir and Wm. ThaJudgethen Went on to show that her confes- 1 letty.,..lakewell o ffe: P re i' ser t ler re o r t " ").* ,, • . aloe was corroborated In the fullest Menner - by- the 1 farm on Intwauthority to th Bom. ft r i r u ar -".: , testimony of the witnettees. IR speaking_ •etill•fur- more eligible niiias.a.,,, i,`:. - --- i - • -... a.Ser. if : ; thee of this confeision the learned judge-said : • 2nd. Expreming a grams-. sprit tent tin, Feld the Perhaps this confession' might bo accorited,for the services of the philanthropist 4 g.E..%__ fl ' h l!e o ne . I and explained in a manner simple-and natural : for cause of humanity and a hope th at she mai' &Va.". , iI that confession which in terms disregards the gallon., her exertions in behalf of the benne in Western Fen: and brat, death baits face, may possibly be forced sylvania. out by the stern and iniperiouldemandsof truth and . The resolutions the substance of which we have nature, without any persuasion or agency of man.— given, were adopted. " Murder will out." She was in possession of the We learn that Miss Dix has visited the site al ! fearful secret. Tho human hearty,,never made to he ready purchased on the Inlonengabela and COCISLUdng l ' the residence of such a hideous tenant. The recrefshe of 164 acre,. read i 1,,,, ,he bloke if a l aaat i aa ' co wl .possessed may, like en evil spirit. hare possessed I be chosen o here a railroad is open it would be better. her. The blood of her emelt., and the brains of her 1 The farm on the Ohio near Sewickley, which we men aunt, might well be a horror and a terment to her.-- I 'bitted a few days ainee, has been visited but no per- She couldco not look for sympathy or assistance to ; ehase b. been made. Them is a fine place up the heav earth.. The terrible truth might rise in ! Allegheny. through which the ruitrond runs. her breast , enroll in her throat , and demand disclosure 1 on which it an, unfailing spring of tenter. This the She was already enveloped in the fatal wel, of eirl Board' ha+ Loh -d at. Plano place is yet fixed. cumstanees. Ifer image wax the focus of ten j upon. It was deemed proper that the consent of thousitod horning eyes, emery motion, gesture, word i eontributors shuold he obtainer, before proceeding to • and act of hers, for months Past. were undergoing I dispose of the lot already purehasiol. awl hay :moth. rigi.i scrutiny, nail were the theme of a thousand er. That consent is new l dleno, the tongues; ten thousand ears erect caught every 'this. new site will be Speedilyo btaine d as algal op per, .d. her garntents were dyed with ca.,, imrtunity offers to sell the old one. The partills in -1 parricidal bleed. 'She - thigh( well fancy or believ e forested had so perfect a renew,' upon the judgment her very thoughts were audible. The terror of her of Mir., Iris in tido, matter us to be guided altunt.t situation, without more molire, - was enough to entirely by her advice. Tide I+ a compliment to her betray the discretion, break down the courage, con. no less Narked than deserved. She hks been j quer the prudence, and abash the bronco front of ! largely instrumental in proentring the establishment the boldest man. ~ I of nineteen insane Asylums in the United States. Under circumstances and sum...lint/140 terrible j lier itifleetnee lin+ not been toinfined to this country. as these, her fatal secret might very naturally string. ' In the roust rice of Europe eke has labored in the gle and come forth, despite all effort to suppre.s same gent work, and not witlmet effort En, uUI it, and in the absence of all agency excepl its -inn. Rome eine succeeded in getting a dmm tin. f rom One The next reason is: " That the Court charged the I Pope i n h e l m & of on e Insane. Ev r . i t , ilarri.burg 1 jury that the case was one of murder in the first de- ell o visited n man trim was not notoriously liberal. gree." and did not leave him until One had hi, cheek in her The Cann jury " I did not tell the ju whnt the card' pocket for $lOO9 for the Asylum in that city. filer intS• but itharged them under the act of 22,1 of April. i influeuee one the side of the unfortunate insane in Cr 1792 murder committed in the perpetration or to. i wide as the world, yea, it will lie felt throughout tempt to:perpetrate burglary or robbery was murder 1 eternity. in the first degree. ! Miss Dix i, Oh present In Philadelphia, hut will The other reasons nrged were of miner importance I lie I mre in a fosr Joy, tin aid- l'Y b" ...noel and disposed of in a few sentences t and concluded . and advice, in settling the s question, now , pending by raying that the reasons filled on behalf of Char- before the Board of Managers. tette Jones Henry Fife, and Monroe Stewart, for a • I new teal, ore overrated. By the Court. ; -The Court has now a few remarks to make 'which am the offspring of the evidence. . A ;Ir. Ro, of Lancaster; Pa„ lute obtained tette; paten !nn a newly discovered process for Preserving green coml. It consists in removing •An aged man, without an enemy in the world, in ! the pith front the cub while yet green, and then his own house, is made the victim of a butehurly murder for mere-pay. It was a root, calculating, I drying the ear. It is staled that this prevents Money making murder. It was the weighing of so ],the accumulation of mould, and renders rile work Many pieces of silver against so many enures of lof preparing the corn very trivial. I 'urn thee blood. This murder was hatched in Hickory and I preserve' is said to retain all its peenlinr sweet matured in McKeesport. The first .suggestion came nes t . from Charlotte Jones. It was a murder in pursuance ,of a conspiracy to rob and murder. It erns her •ug.- gestion: she knew where the money was. line well known voice gained unsuspecting admission. She struck no fatal blow, but when her aged relative. quivering in death. clung to her pers.in fie. pity and protection. It was then and there she was revered with blood, She hoe confessed; no has Stewart, so hoe Fit , . No comment has been made in Stewart's nod Fife', confession; the testimony proves it. Fife has eon t ' ~,,,, 0 a reckless disregard of his own life, and nenees certain: or contingent. There are it of confession than incliner the Mayer. . . . . - tcwart has confessed, with the natural manner of running and guilt detected and exposed. Ilutelti. son proves it. Stewart told truly where ileorge Wilson'e money wt. hid. Independent of this the cireumstantial evidence in this case is infinitely stronger that: positive proof can be, against nll three. 1 Examine it all over, and over nod over again . Mewl. vary and unite it, its clear. harmonious whole defies all- tests, banishes all doubts, challenges reretiny. Considering the enormous nmount of the testitumo, its exquisite symmetry is most remarkable. I: mo n ., as does the machinery of a chronometer, awl 1. mit , BS true. Each and every ear of testimony converges to one focus: 'that foeus is the prisoners. and its blended intensity consumes them with the rod recent of guilt upon their garments. An inqnirer might ask, how dries it happen that such a volume of evidence, flowing nn from mere than sixty sources, moves in harmony more luau the sidrial system than a human production The plain answer in, it don't happen at all. The eve I Gad was on them, aid His ftn-er traced the ea ides,. This makes all clear; Ilk worls are perfeet. I No trial can ever I.e hail mein of :hie cast: in Ali, gheny county, hec!auso no jury can I.e mopanelle.l. unless they are ignorant of the alpitsiloet. or deaf and blind. The shock of this morder has Girdled thronett the arteries of every either who halloyet to sow oor ears to hear. It has made I • very household r. It is incumbent on courts and juries. it is demand,' of the late, that whitc-heirod innocence in the cent. try, without baits or bars, without Mayor or without near iteightiors or gas-light, should sleep to their bells , in pence—when the honest labor of the day is done, without having their brains spatter.. I j over their own floor: 'or their owe hearth-tone painted red with their own heart's blood. doyen I asunder by the assassin's dagger, as has been liter I ally clone here. I had intended to allude to the testimony for the prisoners. I almost regret. tar the sake of the . prisoners, that it was before the Wiry. Meg. Marshal. Cha - rloate's sister, in ~ f ll. .11.,' sentence, proved what it Jo on the prosteuti ot n c .e. than nue hundred miles of trovul, owl the witue,c to canstol”ll. Another sister of hem, brought 'corn i.id Washington county, with frigid apathy, anti n ticmcanor cold no death, in one short paragraph, o like a gleam of lightning in n stormy night, di--1.• FM at a glimpse vague nod undetined images full oo: • horror, fall of idgitifiesnem fall of inkr..nee. fertile in antecedents. fertile in consortium.. thr tall, - ., effect of which W 411.4 dil.stee. The court indantly interposed, and earnestly ehargrd the jury to bauldi from their minds unit memories all iiniints.oon, hot testimony had left, and adding as it wan the duty of the Court to do tttlentlemen, you hare nit test ' swum to try who murdered Mr, White," Such was mho material and tcrture of the del,. to. • Defence there was none. DISTILC,ING ACCIIIENT.—.)n Saturday forenoon a painful accident occurred on Prue street ineiff,ll Pitt and Hay. The horse of Dr. Brooks when eta,: ing in front of the residence of Dr. Allison in t locality ahove mentioned. took fright and dashed f / rionaly down Penn. In his course he ran against a woman named Mrs. Peters from Beaver who trot thrown with great violenee against a• firs plug. by striking which a (carrot wound W. inflicted on il.c head. The woman being now upon the ground ihr terrified horse either trampled mum her or in his one, struggles to arise kicked her inn such a manner a to ernshand mangle one of her leg.. inn Irighald manner. A coupleof ladies who were walking near by appear to have been the only persons mar to render assistance which they did as speedily as pos. Bible ; dragging the unfortunate woman from tine wreck ofthe carriage and the feet of the horse a Inch was now prostrate upon the ground. be. Itlike who chanced to he in the vicinity came up and did all be could to alfevinte the pain of the mangled ao. man. At this present writing. it appears very doubtful whether or not she Will recover She ans taken to the retidrnee of Mr. Fowler on the corner of Penn and Hay where every attention that was pos. siblo was paid to her. The horse in him terror and (curial struggles by some means broke his leg end otherwise an injured himself that it teas foram' advisable to kilt him aud i v w accordingly taken to the hank t.l the .111eglieny I.y Duquesne Way and shot. —We learned on Saturday evening after writ ing the above that Mrs. Peters had been unconcious up to the hour of dark and lon lit, le hope was entertained of her recovery, A con sultation of-physicians was held hot to what conclusion they arrived we did not learn. She was removed to the house of her son-in-law in Allegheny City. :firs. P. is quite an aged lady and had been here to attend market. Welearned that the only blow she received was from the end of the shaft which struck her in the back of the head and probably fractured her skull. P. S. Mrs. Peters died at eleven o'clock on Sul , u day sight, at the house, of her non-in-law vn San dusky street„Atlegheny city. EDITOR! liartiTE--Geleflemen :—The great dis parity between the railroad routes in the different States is truly amusing sometime's. In reading a neighboring paper recently, our attention was di. meted to a notice irt the editorial department. speak ing in very commendatory terms of the close connec tions their roads make along the Canada line, in a distance of 75 miles run from one principal ' , ration to another, and in conclusion adds : "It is truly grab. tying that we hare each exeolleut conductors," he. On our groat Pertn*.i. Central Railroad, in a dis tance of 357 miles, to our own certain knowledge, conductors_figmbrifila. Jorkoon and Croce, gen tlemen that stand "A" No. I, as efficient and aceompliAe,l officers, Lore made close connections a tholvand times, not varying one minute one way or the other, from rehedafe time in the shore distance. • • This certainly is a strong inducement for western passenger., going cast, to connect at Chicago, it possible, with the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne ‘4. C. H.R., which makes its connections at this city with the Penn'a Central Road. The faeilities and advantages possessed by these excellent routes are certainly great inducements for the western merchants and general travelling public to come this way, as they will fiod every thing to their especial advantage and comfort peculiarly agreeable. T. Motno UN/ON CENETEM—We would direct the attention of our renders to an advertisement in another column, setting forth the condition of this beautiful cemetery. As will be seen, there 'is a large proportion of its eligible lots, at va rious prices,. still for sale, and the financial con dition of the company is an enviable one—there being some $4,000 on hand.--_ . r.144M ,WeAteard a stranger renitiettfesterd a y, speaking of our cemeterieslhat they compared favorably with any he had ever seen in other cities We think our cemeteries much the pret tiest we have seen, as to location, extent and improvement- • s. Ws have 'receiv cordial invitation to be present, to- evening, at a grand banquet to be given at the new hotel, The lin iron House, at New Brighton. Messrs. Bradford, Critchlew, Cooper, Sterling, Edgar and Cuih herteee are the CoMMittee of Arrangements.— (We shall be there.) • ----- "Wave indebted to the Harpers' of New York for a voltusi;lneidniuNo. 207 in their Library of Select Novels„