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To THg EDITOR OF TINE HERALD-


SirA number Of the Mobile Daily Advertiser of the
9h OF July has just been placed in hands IRON which
copy the following extract from the New York
pondent OF that journal -


There is current that the murderer Of Ceriss
has been discovered You remember he was shot in
Leonard street about dark evening Mrs. Cotton
was arrested the killer, and after long examination
discharged although the public generally believed her
guilty she had been seduced by him and deserted IL
themselves Of them has made disclosures in
lation to the affair which will lead to the detection OF the
murderer Cotton and C,rliss wsre both gamblers"


should be culpably remiss in my duty to myself as
we as to the memsry Of sssassnated brother to per
NIT the last clause OF this vile calumny to before the
public unrented That he almost in the shine
OF day IN crowded and populous vicinity basely mur
dered-that every effort made to trace the assassin
as Tar as private inquiry could reachtha the then con-
stituted authorities reluctantly nterered and cruelty
admit of a moments reflection. They speak for them.
selves-n the absence Of all reward, in the insulting
apathy oil him whose duty 1t to silt the matter
to the very bottom But for the paid correspondent Of
Journal however remote its existence obscnTe its
character to permit the gossip OF hearess community
associate the name of Corls tn that of Cotton both
gamblers -inferrng from thence that the fate of the
former was natural consequence-is than a
viving mother and family patiently endure. there
FORE as his brother deny the fact As man, defy the
proof OF the assertion appeal to the then Mayor 81 Mo-
bile when his character there invdously assaled
how he honoraby acquitted him of such unfonnded
impeachment And to his friends in this city can with
equal confidence appeal To every citizen Of New York
he has been known and respece land though the laxty
Is not far distant when truth will sway and justice
triumph In conclusion, repeat, and defy any proof to
the contrary that the murdered Cors was no gambler.


am, &C., R. r. CORLIS.