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More arrests — Origin of the Hatteras expedition. New York, Aug. 29. --Wm. Patrick, a Wall street broker, was sent to Fort Lafayette today. Ellis B. Schnabel was also sent to Fort Lafayette by a Connecticut Marshal, charged with preaching secession, advocating peace, and other treasonable doctrines. David Wilmot, author of the Wilmot Proviso, is reported to be dying from a cancer in the stomach. The Commercial to-day says that the Captain of a Maine vessel, captured by a privateer in Mayo, had escaped, and brought valuable information regarding the fortifications at Hatteras Inlet. The same paper says: "Doubtless are this he has guided a naval expedition there, which will operate in the reduction of the batteries."