Geo. M. Hiss, Treasurer of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore, has absconded with $30,000 of the company's money. His character heretofore was "irreproachable."
Twenty pickpockets, who had stolen, in the aggregate, two thousand five hundred dollars, were arrested in Buffalo, New York, during Lincoln's visit there.
Wm. M. Browne, Esq., formerly of the Washington Constitution, has become associated in the publication of the Jackson Mississippian.
Clarence G. Keats, nephew of John Keats, the English poet, died in Evansville, Indians, recently, of consumption, in his thirtieth year.
The next House of Representatives in Congress will be reduced in number 33 members, by the States which have seceded.
The battalion of Baltimore City Guards has tendered an escort to President Buchanan, on his route from Washington to Wheatland.
Major A. H. Bowman, of the corps of engineers, has been appointed superintendent of the West Point Military Academy.
Mrs F. A. Tradewell was burned to death in Columbia, S. C., Monday night, by her dress taking fire.
Donations of $2,600 have been sent to the South Carolina Government, of which $500 was contributed by a lady.
The U. S. store bark Release, Lieut. Cowdy, and J. M. Frailey, arrived at New York, Wednesday, in 39 days from Gibraltar.
Among the graduates at Georgetown College, D. C., are Chas. Allen, of Va., and W. H. Gardner, of North Carolina.
There occurred in London, during 1860, 1,241 fires, 116 firings of chimneys, and 69 false alarms of fire.
Helper, the "Impending Crisis" man, had an audience of twenty-three to hear him lecture at Dayton, Ohio, Monday night.
Sunday travel has commenced on all the Middlesex, Mass., horse-railways.
Mrs. Senator Douglas paid her respects to Mrs. Lincoln on Monday.
President Lincoln dined with Henry Winter Davis on Monday.
