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Northern News.

Through the attention of a friend we have been favored with a Baltimore American, of the 7th inst. There is nothing in it of particular importance, as the date has been anticipated. Under the head of ‘"The News,"’ the American speaks of the lines around Richmond and notices the wounding of General Johnston and other Generals, upon the statements of deserters. From Memphis, it says, late news confirms the capture of Fort Pillow and the advance upon the city. The U. S. transport Philadelphia, from Pensacola, arrived at New York the 6th. The Federal troops still occupied Pensacola and the place was being fortified. Martial law had been declared. The Navy-Yard is entirely destroyed, including the fine Naval Hospital and the private dwellings. Private letters from New Orleans speak of the scarcity of provisions in that city as of the most alarming character.--‘"Ladies of Northern birth of the highest respectability,"’ says the American, ‘"had applied to the officers of Gen. Butler for food, stating they were entirely out of provisions and without the means to purchase at the exorbitant rates demanded."’ The suffering in the city is represented as considerable. The order of Gen. Butler in regard to the women of the city is claimed to be an absolute necessity. Gen. Butler was preparing to make a movement of an important character.

The Government has taken possession of all the flour mills in the Valley of the Shenandoah, together with the grain and flour on hand. The Washington Star says that a camp of instruction for fifty thousand troops is to be formed near Annapolis, Md., under the superintendence of Major-General Wool. In the United States Senate Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, introduced a resolution in relation to the formation of negro regiments by Gen. Hunter. Mr. Sumner introduced a resolution calling upon the President to revoke the appointment of Mr. Stanley as Military Governor of North Carolina. The tax bill was then taken up, and a debate ensued on a motion to reconsider the vote, by which a tax of two dollars was laid upon persons claimed as slaves. The motion was reconsidered and the original tax bill passed. Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, was the only dissentient. Two hundred and forty-one prisoners, captured by McClellan in the battle of Chickahominy, arrived at Fortress Monroe on Sunday.

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