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re news. The Sun, of the 28th, contains the following: Rev. Joshua Wells, the oldest clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died on Saturday last, at the residence of Mr. Wm. Fite, in Baltimore county, in the 98th year of his ages Mr. W. was a native of Maryland, born, in 1764, and in early life connected himself with the Methodist Church. He was contemporary with Wesley, Asbury, Whitefield, Coke, and other pioneers of that denomination, having become an itinerant preacher in 1788. Yesterday afternoon Maj. Gilbian, Lieuts. Wm H. Ward, Wm. Shaw, and W. B. Wise, all of whom had been confined as prisoners of war in Fort Warren, left by the Georgeanna for Old Point, on route for the South. A large police force was at the wharf when the steamer left. From Alexandria, Va. The correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, under date of the 27th, gives the following news from Alexandria: A new Union paper, started at Alexandria, says the Methodist Episcopal Church