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From Washington.

Citizens Banished — Public Buildings Undermined — Murder — The Telegraph Line — More Resignations — The Blockade, &c.


The Alexandria Gazette, of Monday, furnishes the following:

‘ Among those of the residents of Washington City who had been forced by the mob to leave the city, is Dr. Aaron Miller, of the Navy-Yard. The Doctor escaped through Maryland, and crossed on the ferry at Alexandria.

It is said among the knowing ones that under the Capitol and all the public buildings, trains of gunpowder are laid, so that in case of a forced abandonment by the Federal troops, they can be blown to immediate destruction.

On yesterday morning a most cold-blooded murder was committed in Washington. A young man, named Cornelius Boyd, prudent in walk and conversation, who has been long known to entertain Southern sentiments, was awakened about 2 o'clock in the morning, by a knock at his door, and upon opening he was fired upon, and died a few minutes after his wife had succeeded in getting him up stairs. The firing continued until a lady living in the same house told the assailants that Boyd was dead. The deceased was a bricklayer by trade.

Mr. Watson, who was some days ago appointed superintendent and supervisor of the Washington telegraph office, has been, by order of President Lincoln, removed. The office is now occupied by soldiers, and no dispatches, except those sent by the Administration, or received from its agents, are permitted to go over the wires.

It is asserted, on tolerable authority, (for nothing now relating to the operations of the Administration is certain, as all its plans are intended as profound secrets,) that all those residents of Washington and Georgetown whose affiliations are with the South, will soon be driven from their homes and firesides.

Majors Robert H. Chilton and John Pemberton, U. S. A., have resigned, and tendered their services to the State of Virginia.

A majority of the members of the 7th Regiment say they did not leave their homes for the purpose of invading the soil of the South, or coercing its people; they simply came to defend the Capital; and because of this expression of opinion, their loyalty to Lincoln's Government is suspicioned, and it has been suggested to the President that he had better keep an eye on their movements, lest they may, in case of an attack on Washington, unite with the South, and turn their guns upon the North.


The following intelligence is from the Washington Star of Saturday, and from other papers published in that beleaguered city. We give it for what it is worth:

‘ On Monday morning there will appear another proclamation of the President, extending the contemplated blockade to the ports of Virginia and North Carolina, but not to those of Maryland. Commodore Stringham is to be officially named in it as the commander of the whole blockading force.

It has been determined by the Government immediately to increase the regular army 25,000 rank and file. Also the navy from 7,000, its present force, to 25,000.

Col. Henry K. Craig, the head of the Ordnance Department, has been relieved, and ordered to other duty. Lieut. Col. James W. Ripley is appointed in his place.

The usual oath was administered to the New York Seventh, on Friday afternoon, at the Capitol, in the Presence of the President and his family, and a large concourse of citizens and soldiers.

There are three hundred and fifty marines now at the barracks here, who have a battalion drill at six o'clock every morning, and a dress parade every afternoon at five o'clock.--We understand that they are to have a target-firing to-morrow.

Col. Corcoran's New York Regiment of Irish Volunteers, the 69th, over fifteen hundred strong, arrived at Annapolis yesterday, and are stationed on the route between Annapolis and the Junction.

The steamers Baltimore and Powhatan returned to the city yesterday morning, from their cruise down the Potomac and in Chesapeake Bay. They report everything quiet along the river, and observed no hostile movements whatever on either shores. A large quantity of shell was taken down on these boats, which was landed at Fort Washington. The Mount Vernon left on a similar cruise yesterday afternoon.

The operations of the Treasury during the last few days have been considerably embarrassed on account of the scarcity of coin. It is supposed that there are now more than eight million of dollars subject to Government draft in the different cities; but owing to the obstruction of the roads by the disunionists, the Secretary of the Treasury has not deemed it advisable to order its transportation hither. The inconvenience will, however, only be temporary

The President has directed the Secretary of War to take possession, in the name of the Government, of the line of railroad from Washington to the Annapolis Junction, and from the Junction to Annapolis; and the accomplished Vice-President of the Great Pennsylvania Central Railroad will superintend it, in connexion with three engineers, and a complete corps of assistants. The President has also directed the Secretary of War to take possession of the line of railroad between Baltimore and York, Pa., known as the Northern Central, and has appointed Thomas T. Power, of Pennsylvania, to superintend it.--These are well-timed and energetic movements, and will be warmly supported by the people.

There are two prisoners now confined in the Capitol building. One of them is a man supposed to be from South Carolina, upon whom an order for one hundred muskets to be obtained from one of their emissaries in the Navy-Yard here, was found. The other, Frederick Cunningham, a resident of this city, was arrested at the Navy-Yard by Company C. He is an avowed Secessionist.

A day or two since it was discovered that a large quantity of bomb-shell, which the Ordnance Department has been engaged in manufacturing for some time past, had been filled with a mixture of sand and saw-dust. It is supposed to have been done by Wm. Thompson, a pyrotechnist, who left the yard a few days since, and enlisted in the Southern army. A man named Ludwig, keeper of the magazine at the Navy-Yard, also left the city a few days since to join the Southern army, and is also supposed to know something concerning the matter.

The Frontier Guard, Lane's company, waited on Mr. Lincoln, Friday afternoon, and, in response to an address tendering their services to the Government, made by Col. Vaughan, Mr. Lincoln replied: ‘"I have desired as sincerely as any man, and I sometimes think more than any other man, that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood. I will not say that all hope has yet gone, but if the alternative is presented, whether the Union is to be broken in fragments, and the liberties of the people lost, or blood be shed, you will probably make the choice, with which I shall not be dissatisfied."’

Three workmen at the Navy-Yard and Arsenal, named Richardson, Banks and Grinder, were arrested on Saturday, charged with being connected with the Secessionists, and confined in the Capitol.

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