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Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.the meeting at Norfolk. Norfolk, Va.,Dec. 21st. There was a meeting of the citizens at Ashland Hall last night, in response to a call issued by the Mayor at the request of many citizens. Mayor Lamb, on taking the Chair, stated the object of the meeting to be, to consider the present alarming state of our political affairs and the propriety of calling a State Convention. He trusted that their deliberations would conduce to the welfare of the whole country. Resolutions were drafted by a committee of six, selected equally from each party. With the exception of the last, they were unanimously adopted. The following is a summary of them: They consider 1st. That the preservation of the Union is the first duty of Virginia and Virginians. 2d. That the stability of the Government demands a final settlement of all questions between the North and South, in which settlement they will ask no more than right, nor submit to anyth
Baltimore, Dec. 21. --Cl'd. schr. Problem, Richmond; Mary Frances, Norfolk. Dec. 22--Cl'd, steamer Belvidere, Richmond. Havana, Dec. 14.-- Arr'd, brig Herald, Norfolk. Newport, Dec. 20.--Arr'd, schr. Chas. Thomas, Provincetown for Norfolk. Philadelphia, Dec. 21.--Arr'd, steamship Virginia, Richmond. New York, Dec. 22.--Cl'd, steamship Roanoke, Richmond; schrs. Senator, Norfolk; Marshall, Richmond. Arr'd, schr. Banquet, Suffolk, Va. Baltimore, Dec. 21. --Cl'd. schr. Problem, Richmond; Mary Frances, Norfolk. Dec. 22--Cl'd, steamer Belvidere, Richmond. Havana, Dec. 14.-- Arr'd, brig Herald, Norfolk. Newport, Dec. 20.--Arr'd, schr. Chas. Thomas, Provincetown for Norfolk. Philadelphia, Dec. 21.--Arr'd, steamship Virginia, Richmond. New York, Dec. 22.--Cl'd, steamship Roanoke, Richmond; schrs. Senator, Norfolk; Marshall, Richmond. Arr'd, schr. Banquet, Suffolk, Va.
Fire at Adams, N. Y. Adams, N. Y.,Dec. 21. --A fire broke out in this place early yesterday morning, which consumed nearly one half of the business portion of the town. Twelve buildings were burned, and property to the amount of fifty thousand dollars destroyed, of which about twenty-five thousand is covered by insurance. The fire originated in Stearns & Webster's dry goods store, from a chimney that had burnt out during the evening. A snow plough, propelled by two locomotives, engaged in clearing the track of the Watertown and Rome Railroad of snow, ran off the track near this place yesterday morning, smashing the plough into fragments and severely injuring five or six persons employed thereon.
The Reaction in Massachusetts. Boston, Dec. 21. --Wendell Phillips spoke in the Town Hall at Waterton this evening, and was hissed by the audience, but the police prevented any further demonstration of opposition. He said he spoke for Gov. Andrew, and Andrew would not sign a bill repealing the Personal Liberty Law. Hand-bills were posted around the town calling upon the people not to let Phillips speak.
Three days later from Europe.$600,000 in specie on Freight. St. Johns, N. F.,Dec. 21. --The steamship Fulton, from Southampton on the 12th inst., arrived off Cape Race at 5 o'clock this morning, where she was intercepted by the news yacht of the Associated Press. Her advices are three days later than those received by the Persia, at New York. The steamship Canada, from Boston, arrived at Liverpool on the 9th inst. The steamship City of Baltimore, from New York, arrived at Queens London Stock Market American Railway Securities were flat. Latest news. Southampton, Wednesday, Dec. 12 --The City of Manchester sailed to-day from Liverpool for New York, with about $38,000 in specie. Still later. St. Johns, Dec. 21 --The steamship City of Manchester, from Liverpool on the 10th inst., has arrived. The political news is unimportant. Commercial. Cotton — Sales on Wednesday of 10,000 bales, of which speculators and exporters took 3,000 bales, t
lower — moderate business-Chief and Rock Island 61 3/8 Illinois Central shares 66; Michigan So, 32½; New York Central 70 5/6; Hudson River R. R. 45¼; Canton 15; Missouri 6's 70. Cotton firm-sales of 2,000 bales--uplands middling 10¼ @10 ⅞c. Flour 10 lower — State 10 lower: Ohio $5.30@5.40, Southern $5.10@5.55. Wheat 1@3 lower. Corn 2 lower — sales of 63,000 bushels — mixed 66@67 Provisions dull Spirits of Turpentine firm at 33 @35 Rosin steady. Baltimore Cattle Market. Baltimore, Dec. 21--There was a fair receipt of beef cattle at market yesterday, the offerings at the scales amounting to 950 head. Of this number 250 were driven to Philadelphia. 75 were left over unsold and the remaining 625 head were taken by Baltimore butchers at prices ranging from $2.50 to $4 and averaging $3.37 ½ per 100 lbs. gross. The cattle received were generally superior in quality to those received last week. Hogs were in good supply to-day, and sales were made to packers at $6@$6.50,