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r with the people of that State, Similar representations have been made on the part of the people of the 8th Congressional District of Virginia, known as the Harper's Ferry District, composed of the counties of Hampshire, Page, Warren, Clarke, Berkeley, Jefferson, Frederick, Morgan, and Loudoun. Numerous letters have been received here by the Marshal of the District of Columbia, a native of that section, and other prominent residents of Washington, complaining bitterly of the failure of Gov. Pierpoint to order an election. There was a time when it might have been held with comparative safety, and the Union sentiment of the district been freely represented. The responsibility for the Fredericksburg disaster — report of the Congressional Committee on the War. [From the N. Y. Herald, 26 h.] The report of the Congressional Committee on the War fixes the responsibility for the disaster at Fredericksburg beyond the shadow of a doubt. When Gen. Burnsides white-watching letter to Ge