The National Republican

Attempt At A Sharp Trick.—We were amused yesterday at hearing a clerk in the Treasury Department relate, substantially, the following: A colored man called, a day or two since, at the Second Auditor's office, and made application for his son's bounty, who, he said, had served in the army and had "died of strangulation." The clerk, whose duty it is to attend to these cases, referred to the record of the regiment named, and there ascertained that the son in question had actually died of strangulation, being hanged for murder, per sentence of a court-martial. It is needless to say that no bounty was granted.