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ca* * S FXC£, ~*Quite a number of M MI ® ame U P for adjudication this morning. and' °H tbem Were f ° r diHorder, y conduct, all came from the use of intoxicating r <nks. A number of business licenses were panted, and other business disposed of. Cniox Fim CoiiPANv.-Th7 Union Fire V"wpany met at Relief Hall last night, and atter some preliminary business, elected tbe blowing officers:-J. Lewis Coles, Fore »an; George Chase, Assistant Foreman; •W. Burdick, Secretary; E. B. Cooper, treasurer; John M. Ramsey and John H. nomas Clark, Steward; _ m ' V; Unship and Wm. S. Crosby, Audi iam'ii nf 08 " JV ! COueD ' Ge ° r « e Burr andßen jattm, Chase, Investigating Committee. - Ihe meetmg, after having been addressed by Messrs. Coles and Birrell, adjourned. The Washington National Republican of this morning announces, apparently by au tbority, that Mr. Cameron has resigned the" office of Secretary of War of the U. States, and has been nominated as Minister to Rus sia, and that Mr. Stanton, for a short time Attorney General under Mr. Buchanan's administration, has been nominated to the beuate as Secretary of War. Snow.—Last night a heavy snow storm be gun and continued until about 10 o'clock this morning, when the sun made its appear anoe. Snow is lying upon levels to the depth of two inches. . River M,vaj,i NT s.-The river, notwith standing the cold, is now little obstructed with ice. A few vessels have passed up from below, and several U. S. transports have brought down provision from Wash ington. The U. S. Navy Department has received dispatches giving an account of tho capture and destruction of two vessels from Nassau ». P, attempting to run the blockade of the coast of South Carolina-both, we believe heretofore reported in the newspapers. A writer in the Norfolk Day Book com plains of the license extended sometimes to officers in the Confederate army-of the ar rest of persons for light causes, and of tbe stringent regulations concerning furloughs He asks for a " reform " in these particulara. The value of landed property ia increasing j in several quarters of Ireland. j The transportation of army stores and j provisions from Baltimore to Washington i has been immense for some days. j The Philadelphia Ledger says that the U. j 8. Treasury Department has made a mistake j in the coupons to tbe 7.30 treasury notes, by which holders of notes of the fifty million §, Feb. 19th, will receive $15,000 less than r due, and the holders, Aug. 19th, will ire $15,000 more than their due. leever's anti-alavery escapades in Wash ►u are said to be condemned there by all conservative men—his lecture and his ser mou. One of his reported doctrines is— N that, as far as slavery is concerned, Union men have no more rights than Secessionists." The Philadelphia News says that several persons " have been arrested in Alexandria on suspicion of being engaged in the attempt I to set fire to the Mansion House hospital." Nothing whatever, we believe, has been heard of this in Alexandria. | A correspondent of the Newburyport Her aid writing from Rockville, Md., says tbat Uncle Tom," the hero of Mrs. Stowe's fa mous cabin romance, was owned in Rock *ille, and that a part of his family are still owned there, by one of the ladies, who ac knowledges herself to be a Secessionist and C admirer of Jeff. Davis. The celebrated tragedian, Edwin Forrest, s just completed a most successful engage ment at the Academy of Music, in Philadel phia. Prairie hens, from the Western praries, ▼ia New York, have recently been for sale in the Alexandria market, at $1.50 per pair. No buyers. The Washington letters to the N. Y. p a . pers speak of th« ' 'dreadful state of the roads in Virginia." j An accident to Mr. 11. English of New York, at Willard's Hotel some days since when he fell and broke his leg, has resulted' fatally. The leg was nmputated soon after the accident, but under the prostrating effects Mr. E. yesterday expired. The U. S. House of Representatives has passed the civil appropriation bill with the clause to continue the coast survey. The two hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the first Presbyterian church on the Amorican continent was last week celebrated in the old Presbyterian edifice in Jamaica, L. 1., which was built in 1818, on the foundation of its predecessor, erected in 1693. The church was established in 1G62. I One of the contemplated financial mea sures for the relief of government was brought forward in the U. S. Senate yester day. It is a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one hundred millions i of dollars in treasury notes, to run for five I years, bearing an interest of 7 3-10 per ct I on all notes of $100 and over, and those of less denominations to be exchanged in I amounts of $100 for the large bills, the in (terest on tbe entire amount to be secured by 5 a direct tax of ten millions of dollars mum. c Associated Banks have proposed |h a special Committee a scheme of fi which neither finds favor with Mr. nor with the Congressional Coin re are two Lanes in the U. S. Senate from Indiana, the other from Kansas: I t has his seat contested by Mr. Stan- Jayhawkers of Kansas and Missouri called from their leader, Jennison! wuo was popularly known as a "Gay , Yorker." * | Much anxiety exist, in Washington, in ' consequence of the prevalence and spread of I the small pox there. I The new (or Union) Baltimore Corn Ex* I change commences business to-day. , The "economy of printing" is Btron „ ly recommended in the newspapers-that is paying one dollar for an advertisement sal i Bure to « am th « advertiser four dollars. j | The reported arrival of the Pensacola at Annapolis i« doubted by the Baltimore American-which paper thinks that her dee- i tmation is elsewhere. It is now said that Geo. Sigel's resigna tion will not be received-but that he will be requested to remain in the U. S. service. There is a report, we do not know on what foundation, coming in a letter from St Louis, dated the 9th inst., that a fight had taken place near Springfield, Missouri be- i I tween four regiments of Federal troops, sup- j | posed to have been commanded by Colonel' I Carr, and a superior force of Confederates I forming part of the army of (Jen. Price -! I From six to eight hundred of the Federal troops were either killed or wounded, and the remainder taken prisoners. The tele-1 graphic dispatches from Missouri, make no ! mention of any such fight. On the 12th instant, a book bindery and printing establishment in New York on < llTooT Btreet ' WM bUrDed dOWn -' IOBB ' The railroad between Strasburg and Win- Ker is being laid. eNew York World says:—"Some «f ■adical friends of Postmaster-General l Blair have urged him to resign to escape the I odium of the "pro-slavery policy" and pro longed delays of the Administration; but it is understood that he declines on the ground that the iraportu-iities referred to arise from an ignorance of facts which it is at present [ impossible to enlighten; and it is affirmed j that he retains tbe confidence of Senators I K mg. Wade, and other radicals in Congress, ! who are in a position to know the true posi tion of affairs." The latest death of any importance in the English literary world was that of Mr. Ar thur Hughblond. He was favorably but not widely known, both as a poet and a transla- Com. Nutt, of Manchester, N. H is un doubtedly the smallest dwarf in the' world and the showmen have been attempting to' mal each other in the way of big offers and every kmd of inducement to obtain the pri- v "ege of showing this remarkable little man to the public. Barnurn has lately gone "> Manchester, and, with his usual success will probably take the tiny commodore by I «torm, and como back in triumph with the |<iwarf under his arm. I The voters of Genoa township, Delaware county Ohio, without reference to party have held a public meeting, and.do P !ed a .petition to tbe Ohio Legislature, praying the j passage of a law prohibiting negroes from emigrating into, settling or holding property ,« the State, and also asking, if the act be constitutional; that the negroes now in Ohio Bemoved beyond the limits of the State. Jc last letter in the London Times from les is dated December 14th at which the eruption of Mount Vesuvius had 'y subsided. Speaking of it _ destruc . tive ravages, as witnessed at his l aßt vißit the writer says: "Torre del Greco had be quake" P ° mFeii Waß after Ule earth " In N. Y. on Saturday, there was slightly improved feeling consequent upon the de aline in exchange and gold. A disposition I to anticipate the action of Congress in the I matter of the tariff, gives rise to speculative transactions, and prices fluctuate hourly - In breadstuffs, there was an increased de mand for wheat for export, and a steadiness in flour and rye. Provisions are going for ward in large quantities. The U. S. Senate, yesterd.y, refused to take up th e bil , for compenßating ownerß of the British vessel, Perthshire, for an ille , Kal detention by the blading fUef Mr j Hale remarking tbat enough had been done I tor Great Britain for the present. | By an arrival at New York from Nassau ,we Jearn that on the 29th ult. the British j ah» P -of-war Conqueror, 101 guns, «truck on I a sunken rock on the east side of Rum Key and when last heard from the rock had pierced five feet through her bottom. The frigate Bull Dog had gone to her assistance! Gen. Meigs has preferred charges against Capt. Reuben P. Hatch, Assistant Quarter master of Volunteers. He i. accused of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gen tleman , n having last December, at Chica go, paid for 50,000 feet of lumber at the ex cessive and exorbitant rate ofslo a thousand although he knew that a charge of fraud in the matter was pending against oae Wilcox I hlB clerk and agent at the time. I The N. Y. Tribune says that not one sin jgle white inhabitant of South Carolina has j closed with the profers made by Gen. Sher- UhTw h,S pr ° claiDation ' wben he landed on Gen. Burnside is a native of Indiana, a | graduate of West Point, and about 37 years of age. , The N. Y. Albion thinks that the British I mudT r K,UaJdO haß Pr ° babljr gone to B «" | Mr. Tennyson has written an inaugura-1 ! tion ode for the coming exhibition in Eng-1 land. It has been set to music by Mr I j Sterndale Bennett. Mr. Weed writes from Paris tbat the last tetter Prince Albert ever wrote was one at iuest of the Queen, " to soften the des -0 Lord Lyons " (?) bishop Hughes has had an interview a French Imperial family, but, it is I und the Emperor very "non-com iccount of there being a number of n families at the hotels in Montreal, mtrue. •awes, in the U. S. House of Repre es, made a furious onslaught, yester »n the expenditures and contracts of rnment, denouncing them as ruin declaring that it costs two millions s every day to support the U. States the field. He said that this state of uld not be continued much longer, lat "faith without works waadeud." The shipments of coal to North Am eric during last month from the various ports ' ' Great Britain amounted to 17,909 tons, bain* an increase of 2,503 tons over tho correspon ding month of last year. It is stated, in the Washington letters pub j lished in the N. Y. Times, that some of the | in the regiments round Washington have been charging the soldiers from 6 to 15 percent, discount on treasury notes The discount in New York has declined. | The N. Y. Herald says -.-" A difficulty is , presented as to the disposition of all the cav alry regiments accepted in the service. The commanding general asked for twenty-seven regiments, and the whole number accepted and authorized to be raised is seventy-three This is forty-six more thau Gen. McClellan wants or knows how to dispose of. This ex cess will cost the government about forty six millions of needless expense." Great activity continues to prevail at the Brooklyn navy-yard. The purchased ship , Onward went into commission on Saturday. At the first board in New York, yester day, there was another tumble in stock prices. Much impatience will bo felt until we learn how the news of the release of Mason and Shdell was received in Europe The dispatches in relation to this case were pub liahed on Saturday, the 28th ult, the day on (whicuthe steamships City of Washington Teutonia and Jura sailed for their destina tions. Allowing eleven days for their pas sage out, we may expect to have return ad vices by the steamer Glasgow, which was to sail from Liverpool on the Bth, or by a steam er that would leave on the 9th, for Portland. If disappointed in this, the news could not fad to come out in tbe Europa and Bavaria which sail from England on the 11th inst' So we shall not remain in suspense after about the 21st. The London .News says that the building •or the International Exhibition of 1862 is now entirely roofed in, and the greater par, of the flooring of the southern courts haa been laid down. The offices are in a great state of forwardness, and ihe eastern doma rises rapidly in its tall columns. The quantity of anthracite coal sent to market last year from tbe different mines in Pennsylvania, was 7,955,206 tons; while in , 1860 the quantity was 8,040,053 tons; show ing a falling off the past year of 494 847 tons. ' ~ WAR NEWS. | Most of the vessels composing the Burn s.de expedition left Old Point on Sunday for their destination, but where that ia at the writing of this paragraph is not known.- Some say Norfolk, some Wilmington, N C some Yorktown, some Pamlico Sound, some a point farther South. Gen. Jackson, with his force augmented, according to report, to eighteen thousand has again appeared before tbe town of ll an cock, Md He reached the Virginia ch or e opposite that place on Saturday, but up to the trme of our latest dispatches tbe town had not been attacked. It i 8 stated that Jackson's army, before their first appearance at Hancock, had visited the town offia h n Morgan county, Va., where they encounter edaforee o f fi ?o hundred Federal sold 8 who repulsed them twice, but at last, when an attempt was made by the Confederals to Advices from Cumberland, received via | Wheeling state tbat Federal troops are Z gaged in throwing up entrenchments onVat terson's creek, eight miles east of the city I A Confederate force is reported seme fifteen i miles distant. uueen , I-*--*!- - ... d i3 „ o L o it»uh d &r u •X tI " ■ $0 Office, on Monday fTvk %tt the P °»» NOTES, two tens am/ 7h 4 TREAB URY will be paid if tf, ZLj-,1 i fiVeS> Fiv ° d °»»™ «ett. Office. House '>» »' «*- LOUIS LEITENBEKuer