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h General Sherman, there are others who are convinced, if not of its entire truth, that there must be something in it. Gold has fallen in consequence; and the fall would be greater were it not for the scary Louisville dispatches announcing the advance of Hood towards Kentucky. Remarkable Plot in New York — all the hotels fired. A great deal of excitement was caused in New York on Saturday by some incendiaries setting fire to all the principal hotels. The New York Tribune says that Barnum's, the Astor House, Metropolitan, etc., were all fired between 8 and 11 P. M. by rags, saturated with phosphorus, placed in different rooms. No clue to the cause of this wholesale arson had been obtained, though several arrests had been made. From the Valley. A dispatch from the Valley, dated the 21st, says: Early has gone out of the Valley. Merritt's and Devin's divisions of cavalry, which lately started on a reconnaissance up the Valley, have sent back a courier to headqua