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Charge of felony.
--Yesterday morning a young man named Peter H. Morgan, a resident of Maryland, was arraigned before the Mayor to answer the charge of having in his possession promissory notes of the value of $4,100, and trying to dispose of t he agency of a moneyed firm in Richmond.
These notes were given to Mr. Farr, a blockade runner, to collect.
Getting to Maryland, after visiting New York and securing the payment of Bell & Co's notes, and failing to collect the other two, though due roceeds of the sale of the goods he had brought on for Farr.
He also said he had the notes — that Captain Dickinson, of Maryland, had stolen the latter bag, and that he (Morgan) had gotten possession of the notes.
So much for the facts.
Morgan proved a good character by those who had known him in Maryland.
The counsel for the prisoner raised the question, that if the notes had been stolen, of which there was no proof, no theft could have been committed, inasmuch as the Federal and Confed