Liberty Paper At Washington, D. C.

in n capital trial pending before all the judgosof the StJpreme Coijrt now sitting nt Salem. James Powers, who was indicted for rape on Hannah. Welsb, was to bave been tried on Tlvursday fbr his life, and the jürors tvere sürrnnoived, and the coui-t ready, having assigned a day especially for Ihe trial. In this stnge of the case, the pr'osecutiiig officer announced thot bn had snddenly heen deprived of the mout material vilness for the prosecution, without whose testimony he could nol hope for a convtcrtion; that this witness 'as the girl upon whom the offence was commiited, and íhat he had lost hec testimony by lier going to ihe jail and marry. ing th-e prlsoner ihat morning, and now being his wife, she could not testify against him.