THE TRIAL OF CLOUGH.
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Copy of iett to the Editor o the Phicdeiphio Es. tsligencer. dated Mount Holly.

 The trial of the unfortunate Clough has commenc. ed. The examination ofthe witnesses is progressing while write, and at every word which falls from ther lips the hopes ofthe prisoner ebb away q

 The excitement produced is universal and intense. The Court House is crowded to suffocaton. Doors, windows, the bar, and the bench is filled with an excited auditory The galleries are crowded scih La- asss A-young and gentle creatures, who from some perverson of their wayward natures. crowd with an unnatural appetite to driHk in the details ofdeath and witness the peDdency of the balance in which the life of a.feow being weighed. The futtering of feath. CTS and flowers the waving Ofns, and the exchange of mods and becks aud wrealhed smiles" would d. most persuade tho spectator that tt Q gala-day, and this the festiva But as the eye runs over the denee crowd one figure catches and enchaine the at tenton, and informs the mind ol the fatal business of the hour. The unfortunate Cough sits in the bar.- His pale face his hand, aud his breast swells with repeated sighs. He is object of compassion. His form is rather above the ordinary height. slight ieectual and handsome, but is shadowed with asse~ were and naughty melancholy. His thick hair is brushed smoothly from his forehead and exhibits a and bearing no trace of grovelng or unworthy pas. sion. His eye though cold and heavy, is fraugh, with melancholy meaning; and when at iimes raised from with quick and troubled glance, n which shame, fer TOT and despair fearIlly mingled. His cheek is now pale, sunkem and salow; and his whole counte. nance thin, and bearing the vessge off wasting grief

 

 the workings ofa morbid sensibility, of suspicion jealousy, and that sorrow which makes the meat it leeds oR--which coajures up the phaniasma of a dis 0ased imagination, and then becomes ila victim.

 1t is not surprising that the case should produce ex. citemens. It is romantic and melancholy tn all it's particulars. The deceased was known 10 many, and esteemed by all who knew her. She was lively, en. gazing, accomplished, and amiabls. Her personal beauty attracted the admiration and hes esiimable character secured the affections, of many of the most respectable young gentlemen in her vicinity. She kaAs AAAHN aunsMI AAsaAk al. were several sutors for her hand. The mos, impas- stoned was the unfortunate Ciough. It Is said that there had been between them several "genile pas. sagesi" that she had accepted from him gold fortunate and fatal gin-her hus6ond's dix. Theda reserve and lofty passions ot Cough's nature made him to his rivals an object of mingled fear. envy and the object of his love. either repel the affections he sought ar aliena.e the fidelity which had been plight- ca to him. It ia indeed said by her friends that she