tin $*mt* '?%Bt SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 12. nn M ?!? Iiwin ?!? ??!>?!?iif aw-?rur?nr~i????tr^r?? We trust the effort now being made to re plenish the Treasury of the Orphan Asylum way be successful, as this is one of the oldest and most popular charades ever started in ?*? T ( | 4 ?<* ? this city. Bi^ore tne war a sufficient amount was generally subscribed at the k 'Annual Meet ing" for its .support, but as many of the most liberal supporters of the institution are out of the city, the ladies in charge are much embar rassed to get along. The Ward Committees, we have no doubt, will be successful, and we bespeak for them in advance, the support of our citizens. The steamer Cumberland, captured off Mo bile by the U. S. gunboat I>e Soto, is said to be a splendid vessel with a luxurious cabin and fault'ess machinery. The hull is iron, of extra thickness, and she is a fine sea boat. Her cabin sky-lights are emblazoned with the arms of the EaiI of Enlington. Among the regulations adopted for the gov ernment o*" the "contrabands" on the Arling ton estate, is the following: "Visitors are much annoyed by irivolous complaints made by inmates of the village, generally lor the purpose of exciting sympathy and soliciting alms. This practice mast cease." Among the graduates of Jefferson College, Philadelphia, who received the degree of Doc tor of Medicine, at the annual commencement on Thursday evening last, was Mr. Theodore C>. Tfwt, ov/u kjL JuL. XKTey .f# cca . Af tliw oity ?team >m i. The Washington Chronicle of this morning says: ''ft yesterday became necessary to am putate a .ieg of denator Hicks, of Maryland, as a ust expedient for saving his life. His disease is erysipelas, from which mortification was about to ensue. Kilpatrick's cavalry conmand, which reach ed the Peninsula after the recent raid towards Richmond, is arriving at this place in trans ports, on its way back to the Army of the Po tomac. _ A boat containing ten persons was swamped yesterday, in passing from Fort Morris to Kicker's Island, in New York harbor, and five of the passengers drownedo Capt. James Gay, of this place, was arrest ed a day or two ago, whilst in his boat, some miles below this place, and carried to Wash ington. Gen. Grant, it is said, was to leave Wash ington yesterday, for the West, The Wash ton Star reports him as wearied with the "show business.'' Three or four Shad have been brought to market this week. Herring were selling this morning for 8 cts. a piece ! This will soon be over. There was lightning and thunder, last night, before the rain of the previous two days clear ed All is quiet at Chattanooga, Gen. Palmer's Federal lines, it is said, embrace Chichamauga battle grouni, Ringgoid, Taylor'* and White Oak liidges to Cleveland Gap. Negro Troops?Jail Delivery.?.On Tuesday a large body of negro _ soldiers, from j the late camp at Benedict, reached this place, and remained all night?taking possession of the Court House. They were accompanied by a considerable number of runaways, chiefly women and children. Before leaving, a yquad entered the county jail, and released twenty one prisoners-?leaving only one white man in confinement. Of these, eleven were confined for criminal ofenees, awaiting the action of the grand jury in April. One was under convic tion for arson, and awaiting sentence. The others were for various of her offences, such us larceny, &c.?Marlborough (Md.) Prince Geor gian. ? I I mgjfmm ? II Another skirmish is reported between a de tachment of General Sullivan's cavalry and some of Moseby's troopers. The fight took place near Snickersville, Loudoun county, and the Confederates are represented to have been superior in point of numbers. The Federal troops appear to have retreated after having lost several of their men, but how many is not stated. i From the latest Southern papers, we learn that on Saturday, the 5th instant, Hu Tie's brigade of Confederate cavalry attacked the Federal troops that were stationed twelve miles beyond Ring-gold, and drove from their position towards Chattanooga. A special tele gram Atlanta, Ga., under date of the 7th inst., states that all of of Sherman's troops had crossed the Big Black River. They burned nothing at Canton, but destroyed many houses and also provisions wherever found. They carried off some few civilians and a large num ber ef negroes. The Jackson and New Or leans Railroad was again in running order to within a few miles of Canton. The Jbeuucu dtoirn Md. ijrazette says:?"Dap. ing the past few days one thousand slaves have stampeded from various sections of this county, and quite a number of free negroes, we iearn, nave joined them. Men, women and children have been taken, and the "loyal" and "disloyal" have alike been sufferers. These negroes have been taken off in steamers and are carried, it is stated, to Fortress Monroe." The ratifications of the treaty between the United States and Gteat Britain for the final settlement of the clamis of the Hudson Bay Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies, have just been exchanged. All questions with res pect to the possessory rights and claims of those Companies, and of any other British subject in Oregon and Washington Territory, are to be settled by the transfer of those rights and claims to the Government of the United States for an adequate money consideration. Captain Allen of the steamtug Lizzie reports that the U. S. Consul at Nassua refused to assist him in supplying his vessel, in the Fed eral service, with coal, and that when threat ened by two schooners he took no pains to shield the tug from capture. The Lizzie escaped in the night and arrived in due course at Key West. It is reported on the authority of the cap- j tain of the U. S. gunboat De Soto that a Con federate privateer bark rigged steamer is cruis- j iog to the westward of:' Havana. j The Commander of the U. S. revenue cutter Miami has been ordered not to proceed to St, John's for the Chesapeake prisoners. Among the Federal prisoners recently re leased from Libby prison, is Major White, elec ted a Sta^e Senator of Pennsylvania, Yesterday evening, about six o'clock"^ ! dier nameii James Scotten, cf Coffloan* t 4th regiment, Delaware Volunteers 5,5^ dered, in the tunnel, under Wilkes'street.'?! i twoen Fairfax and Water v ' - 1'lg ,v I stabbed in the back or the neck five . I cut severing tire jugular and -salting a m?i erable incision in the windpipe, and one eniP^ ling the spinal colurcn. from the effects'4 which he died in a few uionxru* as M';. t. J " '1 - ?? 1 . rj f I v Wood, who was near and was attracted bv r) groans, quickly repaired to the spot but ur,r,Q reaching it found life extinct. Seotten it fe said, entered the tunnel at about the inn-, above mentioned, in company wiili anorh&r soldier, John KasV, of Company G, T2?] regi ment Mew York Volunteers has been arrested upon suspicion of havingcommittea the crime, and lodged in jail to await an examination, The body of the murdered nwn was taken to the Washington street Hospital (Fiallowoih building) where a post mortem exaiuination was held by Surgeons Bentley, Elliott and Caruthers, the evidence to be used before the Coroners Inquest which will be held to mor row morning at 9 o'clock, a preliminary inqui sition, only having been held this morning by W. L. .Venn, acting coroner, Scot ten had yesterday received four months pay, but had only a small amount of money about liini at the time, ..uga&KB^i ? The Fish Benches, in the market were rented, at auction, this morning, lor one year from the ]5th inst. as follows:?"Bench No, 1, to John Travis, for $10; Bench No, 2, to John Travis, for $31; Bench .No, 3, to John Travis, lor ?99 ; Bench No, 4, to John Travers, for $180; Bench No. 5, to Chapman Hall, lor $250 "; Bench No. 6, to JuVm Horse* man, for $225.50; Bench No. 7, to m. John son, for $206 ; Bench No. 8, to Henry Jenkins, for $131; Bench No. 9, to Iiobert V? iliiauis, for $15 ; Bench No. 10, to Charles Elhou, lor $30; Bench No. 11, to Frederick Studds. tor $81; Bench No. 12, to Frederick 8tudd?,ior $1.4; Bench No. 13, to Robert Williams loi $51?total amount, $13,23.50. U. s. District Court.?This Court met -- is morning but adjourned without transacting any business of importance to the public 1 be cause of the U. S. vs. Dr. 0. Fairfax, iss been taken up, and some testimony taken, but "? a^ion had- -^bie case is to be argued br j Hr, Lradley for the defendant. I j?AREIEIj7 DojiiVn h t'le- "lstanfc ft the iletro L ' h .Ute ' In, Washington, by the Key. J' v\-' i. ' 1^i" JObKl'R (J. H li I - *"? ASTOSW : ^Cl 11 Itiiiio, by Friends' ceremony. a* I l,.nttei u?ce.ot the bride's rather, in Leuduufi I county Virginia, WILLIAM stiuJSXAiiEU ' ^ ANN JAjNNUY, daughter or I Samuel M. Jannej. ' - "piuV FLOUiCF?ED. " ^^ ? i^LorP mi-v' and bupernn 1;000 bushels line Middling irown Stutff' y. v? ' Corn und (Mts received, ano tor sale by OA V 1' & KAK.UO>'. iiiii 12?if corner of Prince unci Koyai ^ J3AC0JS AND LAED. 10 ,A ? ^ '?ncl tierces of IIA3I fV SHOULDERS and BREAST P1EC& J-^ard and Juried Beef, for sale by L>:-i V Y HAlLU0\r nili 12?tf corner of Prince and iioyal