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The Savannah News notices the death at Darien, Ga., of Mr. W. V. Prentice, from injury received by the explosion of a cannon fired in honor of the surrender of Fort Sumter. The residence of John Taylor, Esq., of Westmoreland county, Va., was burned down last week. The fire is supposed to have been caused by an incendiary. Samuel R. Glen, special correspondent of the New York Herald, was arrested in New Orleans on a dispatch from Mobile, but was shortly released. There was a provision panic in Louisville on Monday, but it turned out that there was upwards of 3,000,000 bbls, of bacon alone in the city. The two unknown dead soldiers, killed at Baltimore, have been identified as Andrew O. Whitney and Luther C. Ladd, both of Lowell, Mass. Captain E. B. Schaffer, formerly of the National Rifles, it is said, is now in Upper Marlboro', Maryland, organizing a Southern company. A letter from a well-informed man in Missouri expresses the confident opinion th
fish and other merchandize destined for the District of Columbia, and by the fact that guns have been planted there and a mile or two below, so as to place such craft at the mercy of those wielding them, unless such protection be constantly at hand to secure them, promptly, entire immunity from such threatened assault. The Star is glad to learn, positively, that there now exists no necessity for this measure, since all the troops at Alexandria have been sent into the interior, under Col. Taylor. A "baseless rumor" is exposed by the same paper: The current newspaper stories, alleging that Mr. Charles J. Faulkner, U. S. Minister to France, had presented Commissioners purporting to represent the oligarchy to the French Government, is wholly without foundation. At latest advices no such Commissioners had made their appearance at Paris, of any other capital. Such is the intelligence received by the Government here. A dispatch from New Orleans states that Major Sib