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uld make it from a Cabinet Minister. As a specimen of the correspondence which these F. F. V.'s carried on their persons, we extract the following memorandum of a visit to "Southern friends" in New York, from a letter to Mrs. Peyton, of Gordonsville: "--Sister, who returned from New York last week found that our cause has more friends there than she had imagined. The feeling against this Government is very strong, so much so that they expect to have bloodshed in their streets before Christmas." Suicide of an officer in Washington. Major Wm. W. Russell, Paymaster of the U. S. Marine Corps, committed suicide in Washington on the 4th inst. The Start says: An inquest developed the fact that he had inflicted upon himself two wounds--one with a small sword in the side, the intention evidently having been to reach the heart; it struck, however, below it. He then took a pistol and fired it, the ball entering the head at the right temple, passing through the head, and lo