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g and passing Confederate Treasury notes. The prisoner was led to the bar of the court by Marshal J. F. Wiley, for sentence, when Mr. John H. Gilmer, counsel for the defence, moved for a new trial, which motion was argued at length by Mr. P. H. Aylett, District Attorney, and Mr. Gilmer, and resulted in the overruling of the motion by the Judge. Nothing then being offered in delay of judgment, the court pronounced sentence that the prisoner be taken to the usual place of execution, on the 9th of next May, and hung by the neck until dead. The scene in the court-room was an impressive one. The solemnity of the occasion seemed to be realized in all its force by the Judge and all who were present. The sentence was clothed in dignified yet pathetic language — the enormity of the crime set forth, and the awful sentence of death dwelt upon as an overpowering appeal to prepare for it. This is, we believe, the first time that such a sentence for such an offence has ever been pronounced. S