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ting their resources. There are three thousand troops at this point. Maryland has no troops to resist an advance of Virginians. A Union man living in Maryland, who is vouched for as entirely reliable, says he was at Harper's Ferry on Friday night, and saw sixteen Indians in one squad, but did not see more. He says small pox is known to exist among the troops at Harper's Ferry, but to what extent it prevails is not known. From a characteristic letter, dated For trees Monroe, May 14, published in the New York Herald, we copy the following : The planting of the six-pounder on the bridge yesterday was the signal for an immediate and precipitate evacuation of the village of Hampton by all the women and children, and two old guns, all that could be raised in the neighborhood, were planted by the Secessionists on a bridge leading into their village, about a mile from our advanced picket. There are three companies of infantry and one of dragoons, it is said, at Hampton.