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Latest from the North.

Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 15.
--The Virginian has Northern dates of the 6th. Butler has been placed in charge of all Confederate prisoners in the United States, and it is said there will be thirty thousand at Point Look out Md., within three weeks.

The Federal Government adheres to its purpose that no exchange shall take place except through Butler. The Philadelphia Inquirer says we imagine the rebel authorities are now heartily ashamed of the ridiculous pretence of outlawry which they made the cause of suspending the exchange, on the just plan of man for man, commenced by Butler.

Archbishop Hughes is dead. Great honors were being paid his remains in New York. His funeral was to take place last Thursday.

A majority of both Houses of Congress, it is said, are in favor of removing the capital from Washington, to some point, Northward, and the change is about being seriously discussed.

A special to the Cincinnati Commercial says that a delegation of prominent citizens of Arkansas had arrived there, en route to Washington, to arrange for Arkansas to resume her position in the Union.

Wilson has introduced in the Senate his new enrollment bill. It only exempts those physicians who are disabled, and the President, Judges of Courts of Justice, heads of Executive Departments, and Governors of States. It receives as substitutes those only not liable to draft. As the bill does not exempt Senators and Representatives it will likely have a rough time getting through.

The Governor of Ohio, in his annual message, says the number of troops raised in that State since the beginning of the war, amounts to 200,671. He attributes the escape of Gen. Morgan to negligence, from a misunderstanding between the civil and military officers of the penitentiary in their respective duties.

Washington papers say there is no fear of a raid on Charlestown and Martinsburg, as it is believed the rebels cannot muster cavalry enough to make an advance in the Valley.

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