is the commander of the post, obtained a clue which may lead to the
discovery of the miscreants.

It seems that a carter, who has been going back and forth to West Point
for a very long time, carrying packages and supplies, is the suspected
person.

He has lately taken to lingering around the post until after dark.

The sentries have stated that on several occasions it was quite late
when he drove past them.

He always gave a good excuse for his delay, and being a well-known
character at the Point, he was allowed to pass.

Colonel Ernst thinks that the cannon have been carried off one by one by
this man, and sold to some junk-dealer as old metal.

It is supposed that he must have had some accomplices to help him lift
the cannon into his cart, and that he carefully steadied them so that
they would not rumble and betray him, covered them up with tarpaulin,
and drove out with them, under the very nose of the sentry, returning to
fetch another at the next favorable opportunity.

Word has been sent to every junk-dealer, in hopes of finding the
Monterey cannon before it has been put into the melting-pot.

GENIE H. ROSENFELD.