The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Secretary Chase has issued orders to obtain name, age, length of service, occupation and nativity of each officer in his department.--Secretary Smith has done the same thing.

Mr. Rhett, of South Carolina, has lost two children by scarlet fever, since the meeting of the Southern Congress, of which he is a member.

Wm. H. Russell, the well-known correspondent of the London Times, will, it is said, come to this country to describe men and things at the present juncture.

Mrs. Elizabeth Fudge died in Washington county, Va., on the 9th inst., leaving 100 grand children and nearly fifty great-grand-children.

John R. Branner, of Knoxville, has been elected President of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad.

A house of ill-fame, in Wythville, Va., known as "Fort Sumter," was demolished by the citizens of that place last week.

The woolen factory of Bailey & Bowman, in Frederick county, Va., was burnt on the 7th inst. Loss $3,000.

D. M. Warren, the author of several well-known educational works, died in Baltimore on the 9th inst.

Peachy R. Gilmer, a prominent citizen of Montgomery, Ala., died on the 13th inst. He was a native of Virginia.

The small-pox is prevalent in Jersey City.--Fifteen cases have resulted fatally.

Temperance Hall, in South Nashville, Tenn., was destroyed by fire a few days since.

A recruiting office for the Confederate States army, is about to be opened in Washington.

Sir Charles Fellowes has bequeathed the watch of Milton to the British Museum.

Jno. W. Leonard, editor of the Masonic Signal, died at Atlanta, Ga., on the 14th inst.

The California Senate has endorsed the Crittenden resolutions.

Geo. W. Helm was drowned in Harrison county, Va., on the 3d inst.