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rder for one hundred muskets to be obtained from one of their emissaries in the Navy-Yard here, was found. The other, Frederick Cunningham, a resident of this city, was arrested at the Navy-Yard by Company C. He is an avowed Secessionist. A day or two since it was discovered that a large quantity of bomb-shell, which the Ordnance Department has been engaged in manufacturing for some time past, had been filled with a mixture of sand and saw-dust. It is supposed to have been done by Wm. Thompson, a pyrotechnist, who left the yard a few days since, and enlisted in the Southern army. A man named Ludwig, keeper of the magazine at the Navy-Yard, also left the city a few days since to join the Southern army, and is also supposed to know something concerning the matter. The Frontier Guard, Lane's company, waited on Mr. Lincoln, Friday afternoon, and, in response to an address tendering their services to the Government, made by Col. Vaughan, Mr. Lincoln replied: "I have desired as