The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Lewis F. Harris, Esq., late President of the Bank of Savannah, died in Cincinnati on the 30th June. He had been in a declining condition for some time, and was absent to recruit his health.

Our Southern exchanges assert that a large number of the old African Zouaves of the French service, and officers, who come to organize battalions on that and the Turco and Chasseur d'afrique principle, sailed from Paris for New Orleans some time ago.

Small notes are about to be issued in Charleston, S. C. Small change, scarce already, will then disappear almost entirely, as has been the case in Virginia.

The editor of the Canton (Ga.) Mountaineer has been shown a counterfeit $20 bill of the Bank of Hamburg, S. C. It was exceedingly well executed.

Col. J. L. Orr's regiment has been accepted by the Confederate Government, and will be got ready at an early day for service in Virginia.

First class whiskey is selling at Cincinnati for eleven cents per gallon. In Richmond it sells for fifteen cents per glass, to those who are green enough to pay it.

Hon. Robert M. Patton is doing noble work for the Confederate loan in North Alabama. He feels confident that that end of the State will subscribe one million of dollars.

Capt. Tom Hale, a resident of Huntsville, Ala., for forty-five years, died there on the 26th ult. He was a soldier under Jackson in 1812.

John W. Brownfield has been elected Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions at Charleston, S. C.