Receiving stolen Brandy.
--On Friday last, between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, a negro follow named Burwell, employed by Martin Phillips as a driver, was seen to drive up to the lumber-house door of Messrs. Wm. B. Jones & Co., on 15th street, roll a barrel of liquor into his wagon and drive off. The transaction was so bold and daring that those who saw him suspected no wrong, and made no effort to stop him. Some few hours after, Mr. E. L. Brown, one of the , on returning to the store, missed a barrel of apple brandy, containing 33 ½ gallons, and valued at $1,239.50, which he had sold Mr. A. Lockwood, and on making inquiries of the porters and clerks, discovered that none of them knew what had become of it. Extending his inquiries in the neighborhood, he learned that a barrel had been carried away in a spring wagon, and getting a description of the horse and driver, procured police assistance and started in pursuit. At a late hour in the afternoon the party came upon Burwell, and charging him with the theft, he admitted that he had hauled the barrel away, but that he had been employed to do so by two strange negroes, each of whom had given him fifty cents for his services.--The officers then took Burwell into custody, and required him to point out to them the house at which he had delivered the barrel. He took them down the north side of Main street till getting between 21st and 22d, when he stopped at Allen Nunnally's door, but afterwards said it was the next tenement. Mr. Brown procured a search warrant and searched the premises named by the negro, without finding anything. By the persuasion of the officers, Mr. B. then got a warrant for Nunnally's place, and at half-past 9 o'clock searched it. In the yard, on a pile of wood, they discovered the staves and headings of a liquor barrel, then redolent with the rums of "apple-jack," and on two of which were private marks, by which Mr. Brown recognized them. They next entered Nunnally's kitchen, and there found a barrel just filled with apple brandy, containing 32½ gallons, and a runlet consulting about one gallon more, making the exact quantity for which they were in search. Satisfied that they had found the stolen liquor, they next took steps for the arrest of Nunnelly, who was present and exhibited great uneasiness when they were searching his neighbor's house, but who had gone home. Repairing to Church Hill, his family residence, they took him into custody, and on Saturday morning both he and the negro were examined before the Recorder. Nunnelly was sent on to a called Court next Thursday, and refused ball. The negro was sent on to the Husting- Court.
