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h for robbing an old negro named Martin Smith of fifty dollars. The rogues decoyed the old negro into a sequestered spot last Sunday, under pretence of having some flour to sell him, when William grabbed his money, which he had in his hand, and ran off, while Elijah held him and prevented him from making any outcry. After William had been arrested Elijah came to the old negro and returned him his fifty dollars, and tried to induce him not to prosecute the ease. Edward, slave of Mr. Wm. Winston Jones, was charged with attempting to break into the tailoring establishment of Mr. Gustavus R. Howard, and with shooting at watchman Marcellus Hicks, with intent to kill him.--The negro had several severe wounds on the top of his head, inflicted by Mr. Hicks's club on the night of the attempted burglary.--The circumstances of the case, as they came out in the evidence, may be briefly summed up. On Sunday night a week ago, about two o'clock, some watchmen discovered five negroes in the act