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GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY BOSTON AND VICINITY. The amount thus far expended by Massachusetts for war purposes is about $325,000. The treasurer has borrowed, chiefly, from the Boston banks, $700,000, to repay which the first issue of scrip will be received at par. It is stated that the banks are preparing to take the whole loan of $3,000,000 at par. Corporal Oaks, one of the gallant band un. der command of Major Anderson at Fort Sumter, a Boston boy of German parentage, was serenaded at his lodgings in Canton street, Monday evening. His present station is Fort Hamilton. Two or three hundred boxes of strawberries, the first of the season, have been received from Virginia. They are several weeks behind the usual time, and retail at seventy cents a box. Some fifty or sixty gamblers were 'sur. prised" and arrested, Monday evening, at a notorious gaming house, No. 15 Brattle street, Boston. They were locked up for the night, and the next morning fined $3 and costs each. MIDDLESEX COUNTY. The Mariborough Rifles, organized in 1822, have recently elected Orderly Sergeant Pope commander by a unanimous vote. It is expected they will receive immediate orders to proceed to the seat of war, where they will be attached to Maj. Devens' Rifle Battalion. ESSEX COUNTY. A son of Joseph Farley, of Ipswich, was accidentally killed, Monday evening, on the Eastern Railroad, near the Ipswich station. He attempted to leave the cars while they were in motion, and fell under the wheels. NORFOLK COUNTY. In South Dedham. Saturday evening, a men named Jones had both hands blown off by the premature discharge of a cannon with which a party of citizens were firing a salute complimentary to the Dedham Volunteers. A shooting affray occurred in Roxbury, Monday evening, between a young man named Geo. Stevenson, and a German named Kepler, the latter firing upon Stevenson, inflicting wounds which are thought to be fatal. MISCELLANEOUS. The suspension of the Bank of the Capitol, Albany, caused a desperate panie among the savings depositors, who made a fierce run on the Albany Savings Bank. Among the first to press forward was an inveterate street beggar, whose savings have been drawn from the benevolent people on whom she imposes. Isaac Jacobs, a dealer in Catawba brandy, has been arrested in Cincinnati, on the charge of treason. The evidence against him is conclusive that he had been in the habit of purf chasing and transmitting weapons to Jeff. Davis and his fellow conspirators. Hon. S. F. Worcester, now on the bench of the Ohio court of common pleas, has been nominated to succeed Hon John Sherman on the floor of the house of representatives. Hon. Aaron Harlan is the republican nominee in Tom Corwin's district.