From Baltimore.
Baltimore, December 9.
--Daniel W. Lawrence, of the Thirty-ninth Illinois regiment, formerly a New York lawyer, jumped overboard from a steamer in the Chesapeake yesterday, and was drowned.
On Wednesday night, John Clement, a member of the First regiment New York Mounted Rifles, fell overboard from the steamer Decatur, in the Chesapeake, and was drowned.
Manager Ford, of Holliday and Front street Theatres, proposes benefits at both houses soon, to aid in erecting a monument to the memory of Edgar A. Poe.
The scholars of the Baltimore public schools are raising handsome donations for the same purpose.
Robberies around the outskirts of Baltimore and throughout Maryland are increasing alarmingly. 