Latest from the North.
probable capture of Springfield, Missouri. Fredericksburg, Jan. 12.
--The New York Herald, of the 9th, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, of the 11th inst, were received to-day.
Gen. Brown, commanding at Springfield, Missouri, telegraphs Gen. Curtis that the rebels under Gens. Marmaduke and Burrbridge attacked the town on the 8th.
The rebels forced the stockade on Thursday afternoon, when the telegraphic communication ceased, and was still interrupted on the 9th.
Springfield has large amounts of army stores, arms, and ammunition.
Gen. Brown's left shoulder was shattered, and amputation ws resorted to.--He was being rapidly reinforced, but too late.
Fifteen four horse teams and thirty men were captured a few miles north of Springfield.
The Federals represent their force at 2,000, and two pieces of artillery.
A dispatch from St. Louis, 9th, says the opinion strongly prevails that Springfield has been captured.
A dispatch from Nashville, 9th, says Rosecrans has issued an order that all captured rebel officers be confined until President Davis's recent order is revoked; the rebel prisoners to subsist on army supplies; food contributed by friends to be confiscated for hospital use, and a repetition of contributions to be considered a criminal offence.
A dispatch from New York, 10th, says the steamer Warrior, from New Orleans, reports that Banks is concentrating forces at Baton Rouge to attack Port Hudson; that the rebels have 12,000 men and 30 guns at Port Hudson, and earthworks twelve miles in extent.
The Capitol at Baton Rouge was destroyed by fire recently, with many thousand valuable books and papers.
Loss $70,000.
Gen. Dix telegraphs General Hallack, that a party of cavalry from Yorktown landed at West Point on the night of the 7th, captured a large amount of property at the depot, the rolling stock at the White House, and burnt a steamer and several sloops. (!)
The train in which Butler was moving to Boston, on the 10th, collided with another, but he escaped uninjured.
[A man born to be hanged will never be killed by an accident.]
The steamer St. Louis had sailed from San Francisco with three hundred thousand dollars for New York, and five hundred and eighty thousand dollars for England.
W. A. Richardson has been nominated for United States Senator from Illinois.
A dispatch from Memphis, dated the 9th, say McClernand supercedes Shorman.
The ship George Griswold sailed from New York Friday, with forty thousand dollars' worth of provisions and sixty-eight thousand dollars in money for the suffering operatives in England.
The Washington Chronicle says the election of Seymour was an act of rank treason, and gave aid and comfort to Jeff. Davis, that the men who nominated him are traitors, and all, with their leader, guilty of treason.
The Herald says telegraphic communication between Memphis and Vicksburg is complete.
The Herald says that it is rumored that the Administration will accept Burnside's resignation as soon as his successor can be selected, and the appointment of McClellan.
It says Burnside urges it. The radicals urge Hooker, who will probably he selected.
In Congress, notice was given of a bill to aid Western Virginia in the extinguishment of slavery, Mr. Collamer introduced a bill authorizing any person, summarily arrested, to institute suits for damages.
Gold, in New York, on the 9th, rose to 138, closing at 137½ Exchange advanced to 151 and 150.
