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NUMBER 143. UNE 5, 1862. Major Wilder Dwight, of the Second Massachuseits, who was taken prisoner in Banks's retreat, was held in Winchester a short time, then released on parole, and given the liberty of the town. He says he was well treated, and with great respect even by officers and men, and SO he says were all the other Union prisoners that he saw or heard of. He says the enemy released all the Union surgeons immediately-on the sole condition that they should report at Washington and use their influence to have all surgeons on both sides regarded as neutral. Dunham Kellogg & Ives of Hartford, have a large trout factory in operation in Glastenbury, Conn., where trout are hatched by artificial means. The number now in the pond is between 40,000 and 50,000 and rapidly increasing. When the stock reaches the number of half a million, they estimate a yield of 50,000 pounds per annum. The steamer Elm City arrived at Washington, yesterday morning early. with a number of wounded soldiers from battle before Richmond, but who were not removed until afternoon, on account of the rain. There are four hundred and fifty-one in all, most of whom were wounded in the battle on Saturday. They are in charge of Dr. Griscom, of New York, of the Sanitary Commission. One of the tobacco houses belonging to Wm. Worthington, in Aquasco district, Md., filled with tobacco, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night last, The tobacco from all the other houses had been removed to this house for packing, and M. W. lost all his crop, valued at some $3,000. It was the work of an incendiary, The Nashville Despatch states that on Saturday last one of the soldiers, or rather a teamster, attached to one of the Ohio regiments, and who has been confined at the hospital for a few days with measles, was discovered to be a woman. She hails from the vicinity of Galliapolis, Ohio, and first joined the regular army, when her sex: was discovered, and she was rejected. She was then employed as a house servant, and then was engaged as a teamster to an Ohio regiment. She is represented as about eighteen years old, and made rather a handsome boy. At the London International Exhibition, in the American department, there are sixty-four American exhibitors mentioned in the first edition of the official catalogue--and there are several who are not mentioned-yet of them perhaps not six are present or represented. The common council of Brooklyn, New York, have adopted an ordinance prohibiting the storage within the city limits of any crude petroleum or earth oil, except twenty barrels in an open shed for the purpose of manufacture. There was a run upon the Girard Bank, in on Wednesdav. but the notes