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AID To PROFESSOR WEBSTER'S FAMILY.--A paper has been circulated, during the past week, among the more wealthy of our citizens, to raise the sum of $20,000, to be given to the wife and children of Professor Webster, to provide for them, and place them above want during life.-- The paper is headed by Mrs. George Parkman, wife of the murdered man, with the sum of $500. The subscriptions have already nearly, if not quite, reached the proposed amount. Mr. Andrews, the jailor, says that Dr. Webster, in his opinion, will hold out firm to the last--that he has not eaten so heartily for some time past.-- His family visited him during last week, and remained with him until six o'clock.-- They are not aware of the exact time of the execution, but know the day to be fixed. No persons are allowed to visit him, except his family, and clergymen, for spiritual purposes.--Boston Mail, Aug. 19.