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riated $10,000 for war purposes, and promised $10,000 more, if needed. The Government Soup House has suspended. Lincoln will entertain no more applications for civil office at present. The New York Sun cannot credit Lord John Russell's "stupid admission" concerning letters of marque. W. H. Heiss, long connected with the Southern line of telegraph as superintendent, has resigned. J. Ross Snowden has been appointed Prothonotary of the Supreme Court in Philadelphia, vice Robert Tyler, resigned. The New York Express "don't like to have that British fleet on our sea-coast at this time, at all!" The foreign vessels, Volant and Tyrus, in Hampton Roads, consigned to Norfolk, have sailed for New York. The ship North Carolina, from Havre for Norfolk, is detained off Fortress Monroe. They are making percussion caps in Macon, Georgia. J. M. Allen, an enterprising merchant of Columbia, S. C., died on the 14th inst. It is stated that the Great Easte
Howitzers spiked. Fort Kearney, May 13. --Capt. Tyler, of the Second Dragoons, commanding at this post, fearing that a rich might take and turn against the garrison the ten twelve-pounder howitzers in his possession, spiked them on the evening of the 10th. He had received orders to remove the pieces to Fort Leavenworth, out thought it unsafe to do so in the distracted state of the country. Threats had been made to take them from him.