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THE NEWS. Gold opened in New York this morning at 1433/8. and had declined to 14334 up to noon. Cotton is reported quiet, but prices steady. Grant having refused to issue guns to the Maryland militia, Governor Swann has purchased a battery of 12-pound Napoleon guns. The preliminaries are being arranged in Washington for the trial of ex-President Davis at the November term of the Richmond Circuit Court. President Johnson has intimated that his final stand against Congress will be to resist the right of that body to suspend him during his trial, if impeached. Three inches of snow fell in New Hampshire yesterday. A favorable dispatch has been received at Washington regarding the health of Pensacola. The fever at that point is rapidly subsiding. Sixty-seven deaths from the epidemic were reported in New Orleans yesterday. The funeral of Gen. Sterling Price, in St. Louis yesterday. was one of the largest ever witnessed in that city. The races over the Laclede course commeneed yesterday. Jonesboro, Pat Maloy and Plantagenet were the winning horses, The city authorities of Nashville have determined not to vaeate their offices in favor of the recently elected Radicals and a conflict is again feared with the militia. The National Bank at Whitestown, N. Y., has failed for $130,000. Callicotti the alleged fraudulent revenue collector, has waived an examination. Rev. Dr. Johngton, one of the ablest Old School Presbyterian divincs of New York, died in that city yesterday. Sheridan is being lionized to-day by the Radicals of Brooklyn and New York city. Jefferson Davis reached Toronto yesterday, and was received with great enthusiasm. It is reported that Hon. John Rose is to be Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada. and Hon. Hilliard Cameron President of the Senate. The Treasury receipts of San Francisco for the past ten days have been over a million dollars. The Radicals of Virginia claim that they will have at least sixty out of the one hundred and fifty-five delegate to be elected to the State Convention, A dispatch from Oregon states that Lieutenant Small, 1st United States cavalry, fought and defeated a band of Snake Indians near Lake Albert. The same band had lately defeated General Cook's friendly Indians, After the first charge the Snakes made for 2 swamp, but the troops dismounted and fought waist deep in water. Twenty-six warriors with their chief were killed, and fifteen were taken prisoners. None of the soldiers were hurt.