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. Our market is well supplied with beef, mutton, poultry, vegetables, &c., which are sold at reasonable prices: Beef and mutton sell at 10c a120., chickens 15 a37, geese 50 each, ducks 25a37, eggs 20, butter 31a50, tomatoes and potatoes 12 per peck, apples 37 per peck, peaches (common) $2.50 per bushel, green corn 6 a12 per dozen, sweet potatoes 25a37 per peck, cabbages 4a12 each, cantaloupes 1a5c, (plentiful and very fine,) watermelons 3c a25 Fish are quite plentiful, though principally of the kind known as the spot, second only to the hog fish--price 10a12 for six of fair size. The only case of importance in the Mayors court to-day was that of David A. Fish, charged with feloniously shooting Wm. S. Pepper. Several witnesses were examined, and the prisoner was committed to jail for examination before the Corporation Court. The weapon used is Smith & Wesson's revolver, which drives a slug with great force. No important war news from this quarter. Galeaius.

Who is Mr. Smith? --We see it stated in the Northern papers that a Southerner of the name of Smith has been arrested in N. York, under the belief that he was one of the members of the Provisional Congress, now sitting in Richmond. We are Smith has been arrested in N. York, under the belief that he was one of the members of the Provisional Congress, now sitting in Richmond. We are authorized to state that there are two members of that Congress of the name of Smith--one from Alabama, and one from North Carolina; and that both are now in Richmond, and neither has been in N. York, or absent from their seats. The gentleman underSmith--one from Alabama, and one from North Carolina; and that both are now in Richmond, and neither has been in N. York, or absent from their seats. The gentleman under arrest is a son of Ex-Governor Smith, of Virginia, as we have heretofore informed our readers. abama, and one from North Carolina; and that both are now in Richmond, and neither has been in N. York, or absent from their seats. The gentleman under arrest is a son of Ex-Governor Smith, of Virginia, as we have heretofore informed our readers.

ng vent to their feelings. I have brought with me about four hundred letters from the prisoners and wounded.--Should any of their relatives or friends wish to communicate with them, address their letters, "Prisoner of war, care of General Winder, Richmond," and delivered open at Adams Express office, I have been assured by the General that he will faithfully see them delivered. The same with clothing and money. In concluding this letter, allow me to bear testimony to the uniform kindness to us — wounded and prisoners — by the Confederate authorities; they did all in their power to ameliorate our condition. To Col. Stone, of the Fourth South Carolina Regiment, and Dr. Smith, of the Nineteenth Mississippi, I am under an everlasting debt of gratitude for supplying the wounded in my hospital with food when we were starving, my hospital being. In a wild, unknown to public view. The farmers and soldiers in camp often brought good, substantial tokens of their visits

of horror unequalled by those of the French Revolution. The Administration, therefore, decided, as I have said, not to hang any of the pirates. But within a day or two the question has been again raised in the Cabinet. At least one member of that body is in favor, as he expresses it, of discarding all squeamish nonsense, and of hanging every rebel found in arms against the Government, whether taken on the sea or land! This is undoubtedly the course that ought to be taken, if the Government regards this matter as simply an insurrection. This is the view taken of it by President Lincoln; and he, too, although he deplores the necessity of such dreadful measures, is in favor of such a course as will show to the world that we are in earnest in this matter, and that traitors found in arms against the Government must expect and receive a traitor's doom. Mr. Bates and Mr. Blair both go for extreme measures, regardless of consequences; and Mr. Smith also entertains the same views.

protection to Forts Hamilton and Lafayette, where a large number of prisoners — including the United States troops who were released on their parole by the Secessionists in Texas, and who are suing in the courts for their release — are now kept. The companies, under command of Lieut. Col. Cross, were immediately furnished, and are now encamped near Fort Hamilton. Various items from Washington. We copy the following from the Washington correspondence of the Baltimore Sun: Secretary Smith distinctly promises and declares, in his address to the New York financiers, that the war, which has now assumed gigantic proportions, shall be vigorously prosecuted. The United States Government have never yet seemed to be in earnest in this war. Of late the Government and the whole North have begun to see matters in their true light, and the contest has come to be acknowledged on both sides as one that cannot end except with the complete triumph of one side or the other. Latters fro