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as the plate was a new one, which he had never seen before. Riddell said he bought the notes in Liberty, at 10 per cent. Conversed socially with him about half an hour, finding that he knew many acquaintances of witness' in Liberty, Riddell represented himself to be of the house of Bullitt & Smith, Louisville, Ky. Left his card, which indicated that he was an attorney at law in Louisville. Witness afterwards took the notes to Mr. Mead, at the Bank of the Commonwealth, to Mr. Pairo and to Mr. Maury, who pronounced them counterfeit.--Subsequently went to the Exchange Hotel, but not finding Riddel, sent for an officer. E. H. Chalkley, Police Officer, testified to the circumstances of the arrest of the prisoners, while they were setting their bills at the Exchange Hotel. They seemed surprised. Took them to their room, where witness searched Riddell, and Mr. Seal searched Chilton. Found on Riddell $95 in good money, but no counterfeit notes. Prisoner said he got the money, which

ns to frenzy before now. A simple proposition to light a city with gas has had to work its way by the mere force of gravity for years. It is a subject of congratulation that the plan of Col. Shaffner stands at least a fair chance of being tried. The causes of the failure to lay a telegraph which should act, in one line, between this country and Europe, begins to be better understood. The deep sea soundings created the impression that the bed of the ocean was almost a level plain.-- Capt. Maury, we believe, as well as other men of science, entertained this opinion.-- That it is entirely erroneous, has since been suspected, and we believe proved. The bottom of the ocean is as irregular as the surface of the earth. It has its hills, its mountains, its vallies, its gullies, its ravines, and its inequalities of every description. The Atlantic cable was laid on the theory that it was a dead level. Being anything else, of course the enterprise was bound to fail, from causes entire

Resignation of Commodore Maury. The resignation of such an officer as Maury will carry moral weight in favor of the Southern cause throughout the civilized world.--There is no American as widelMaury will carry moral weight in favor of the Southern cause throughout the civilized world.--There is no American as widely known in Europe. Wherever science has shed a ray of light on the globe, there the name of Maury is as familiar as a household word. Kings and Courts, philosophers and statesmen, have vied with eaMaury is as familiar as a household word. Kings and Courts, philosophers and statesmen, have vied with each other in showering honors upon his head. The extraordinary and beneficent labors of Maury, for the commerce of the world, have associated his name in the minds of mankind with all that is truly gMaury, for the commerce of the world, have associated his name in the minds of mankind with all that is truly great and good. The adhesion of such a man to the Southern cause will cause men abroad to reflect, and will exert infinitely more influence than would that of Scott. Europe is crowded with military marcely known outside the limits of our own country, and even then only as a soldier; but wherever the sea rolls a wave, Maury is known and reverenced as a great light, and a benefactor of his race.

n Beauregard. "$3,000 for the Head of the traitor, Lieut. Maury. "Lieut. Maury's Treachery.--A Washington letter sLieut. Maury's Treachery.--A Washington letter says evidences of Lieut. Maury's treachery are daily apparent. The meanest of them yet discovered is, that he removed buoys Lieut. Maury's treachery are daily apparent. The meanest of them yet discovered is, that he removed buoys from Kettle Bottom Shoals, leaving the Administration to find it out as best they could. The same writer says Maury will noMaury will not be allowed to resign but that his leaving as he did will be considered an actual desertion of a post of duty. On the day ont does not exist. The mass of unfinished work left by Lieut. Maury at the Observatory is enormous, but under the capable mst being chased away." "The meanest traitor yet is Lieut. Maury, who played the hypocrite to within an hour of his leavt. One word in regard to the infamous assault upon Lieut. Maury. It is simply false that he left a mass of unfinished we nor the Lincoln Administration can impair the fame of Lieut. Maury any more than they can extinguish the stars where he ha

More resignation — Capture. St. Louis, June 12. --A Santa Fe letter says that Capt. Maury, of Virginia, Capts. Lindsay and Stephens, and Major Sibley, H. S. A., have resigned. It is also intimated that Col. Grayson and Major Reynolds will soon follow. The Arisoca Times says that the Texsas have seized a heavy armed train on its way to the forts.

ngress this session, and thinks that the guarantees demanded by the South, to be of any avail, must be granted by a Constitutional Convention of all the States. One thing is equally certain now to us all, North as well as South--that something must be done which will put a final stop to these quadrennial crises. Can that something be done? I think not; but wise men say it can and will be done. We shall see. Let me commend to your attention a letter written in November last by Lieut, Maury to Bishop Orey, of Tennessee, which appeared in the Memphis Bulletin of last Sunday. It is true alike to the Union and the South, is full of matter which ought to be known to the people of both sections, and its publication in Richmond at this time would, I think, do much good. An intelligent Baltimorean told me on the cars that New York men had assured him that a continuance of the crisis for a month longer would bankrupt every merchant in the country. In Baltimore, the Union feeling

A St. Petersburg letter says the decree emancipating the Russian peasants has been signed by the Emperor Alexander, and that it is to be promulgated on the 1st of January. Rev. Charles B. Dana, D. D., late Rector of Christ Church, in Alexandria, Va., has accepted a call to the rectorship of a Church in Por. Gibson, Miss. T. D. Jones, the sculptor, has been commissioned to make a bust of the President elect for the Republicans of Cincinnati. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Natches has ordered a public three days' devotion, in view of the political crisis. Steene Anderson de Bills, formerly Minister from Denmark to the United States, died at Copenhagen on the 28th ult. Lieut., Maury, U. S. Navy, lately delivered an address before the Royal Geographized Society in London.

From Washington. Washington, Jan. 9. --The War Department is in possession of information that the Governor of South Carolina has forbidden the United States Sub-Traasurer at Charleston from paying the drafts of the Paymaster in favor of Major Anderson and his command, and that the Sub-Treasurer has refused accordingly. Commander Maury says that the long passage of the U. S. sloop Levant does not, in his judgment, justify the supposition of her loss. He gives reasons for his belief. It is denied by gentlemen very intimately related to the Administration, that recruits to Fort Sumter were ordered without the previous sanction of the President. It is further asserted that the subject was discussed in the Cabinet, and the Acting Secretary of War, as well as some other members of the Cabinet, clearly understood that it was the wish of the President that recruits should at once be sent there.

hen it was first proposed in the National Assembly to substitute decapitation for hanging, for capital offences, the Abbe Maury objected, because he feared it might familiarize the people with the sight of blood; arguing the most deplorable consequerst being readily assented to, a long debate ensued on the second--to substitute decapitation for hanging — when the Abbe Maury made the objection to which we have alluded. On the second day of the debate, Guillotin, after having represented hanginane one, and he had not the most distant conception of what would result. Nor, indeed, did any one else, except the Abbe Maury, and he in a very imperfect degree. The propositions of Guillotin, indeed, seem to have met with little favor, although nd that their names were not to be exposed. This repugnance offers a strong commentary upon the remarks of the able Abbe Maury, before alluded to. So powerful, in March, 1792, was the prejudice, that it was difficult to get anybody to have any conc