The Massachusetts Legislature has passed resolutions enlogizing Lieut. Col. Merritt, Adjutant Stearne, and other men of Massachusetts, who fell at the battle of Newbern.
Three hundred privates and forty-eight officers, captured in the battle at Post Ridge, arrived in St. Louis on the 23d inst. So says a Northern paper.
Wm. F. O'Daniel cut his throat in Wilmington, Del. a few days ago, while laboring under mental aberration, caused by financial difficulties.
The city of Berlin is about to have built four Turner halls, of which the cost will be about 600,000 thalers.
The great steamship Vanderbilt is being converted into an iron-clad ship, and the Ocean Queen into a steam-ram, at New York.
Benton's large woolen factory in Bethie Pa. was consumed by fire a few days Loss $10,000.
