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Death from snake Bite. --A correspondent of the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal, of the 14th inst., writing from Rockfish, Duplin county, says that on Saturday evening last while maddying the water in a small pond for fish, Mr. Franklin J. Dempsey was bitten by a snake and died in about 40 hours afterwards. A sporting man named Matcus Cicero Stanley was arrested in New York on Wednesday night, by the order of Secretary Seward, on a charge of treason. He was sent to Fort Lafayatte. Mr. Scott Jones, a member of Col. Ashby's cavalry, was shot on Monday week, says the Charlestown (Va.) Free Press, by one of the Federal plunderers at Harper's Ferry. He will recover. Lucifer matches are now being made in Charleston, S. C.
t Capt. John Henderson, captain of the "Home (cavalry) Guard," was shot by one of his soldiers named Miller, on Sunday last. The shot was an intentional one, but we have not learned the cause for the commission of the act. Miller has been sent to Winchester and placed in the hands of the civil authorities. The extent of the wound, and the result of injury, cannot at present be known. The ball entered the right shoulder and passed through. Yankee frigates off Fort Macon. The Wilmington (N. C.) Journal, of Sept. 14th, says a letter had been received in that city from the camp of the 7th Regiment N. C. State troops now stationed at Fort Macon, under date of the 12th inst., which says that two large steam frigates have been lying off the camp for several days past, and on the 11th a large vessel was seen within long range of the shore; but on the morning of the 12th she up anchor and steamed off out of range, sending back a parting shot which fell in the water some distance fro