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Last year the post-office at Richmond, Va., paid $2,671, and that at Norfolk $220, over expenses.

Mr. Lincoln received last week from an office-seeker a petition said to be over two miles in length!

Miss Prescott, the popular magazine writer is about to be married to Mr. Richard Spofford, a Boston lawyer.

It is said that the copy-right of ‘"Dixie's Land"’ has given to the author four thousand dollars.

There were fifteen deaths in New York city of small-pox last week.

Thursday, April 4, is the day appointed for prayer and fasting in Massachusetts.

Mrs. President Davis held her first levee in Montgomery, on Wednesday night last.

Dr. Guernsey is now the editor of Harper's Magazine.

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