the Ist of September for a niece of mine to wait on the young lady whom I was to marry. Returned to Richmond and found Mr. McCoy at the restaurant as usual. On the day that I was shot, the 22d of September, I went to Chesterfield Courthouse; returned between fi and 7 o'clock in the evening, and fonnd the place shut up. Thought probable that Mrs. Ould was out attending to some business, and