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ALEXANDRIA AND VICINITY.-The Gazette of yes'erday evening says: Two well-dressed young men, who gave their names as John Delaney and D. Jacobs, who were making purchases on King street, between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday night, were arrested on Fairfax street, near the watch-house, by officers Walsh and Aubinoe, as suspicious characters. They quietly accompanied the officers up King street until they reached the intersection of Royal and King, near which they broke away from their captors and ran, Jacobs taking down Royal street and escaping; but Delaney, who ran up King street, and turned down Pitt, was not 80 fortunate, for the hue and ery being raised, be was pursued by a number of persons, one of whom, Mr. Pat. Hays, soon overtook him, and, on being searched at the watch house, he was found to be encased in two suits of clothing, and to have spurious money in his possession. Messrs. Arnold & Field, Samuel Lindheimer, C. C. Berry, Jos. Brager and Simon Waterman found that they had each been the recipient of a counterfeit ten dollar United States bank note, and two of them recognized Delaney as the man from whom these notes had been received. Delaney has bee n committed to jail for examination. The Journal of this morning says: Deputy U.S. Marsbal Duncan, arrived from Winchester, Virginia, Saturday night, having in charge $100,000 11 gold and greenbacks, part of the assets of the Bank of the Valley, which were placed in the vaults of one of the Washington banks to await the result of a suit brought by the Merchants Bank of Baltimore the Valley Bank, now pending before Jhugg Underwood's Court, at Richmond. In the suit the Court appointed Mr. Hamilton G. Fant, receiver, to wind up the affairs of the Winchester concern. Its assets were stated at one million. We presume the sum named above would cover all of its present available funds. The paragraph which has appeared in both of the Alexandria papers to the effect that Moses Beach, of this city, conductor ofa material train on the Orange, Alex. andria and Manassas Gap Railroad, met his death last week. at Front Royal, by being struck on the head with a piece of wood during an altercation with a laborer, named Arrington, is an error to the extent it associates Mr. A.'s name with the unfortunate affair. Mr. Eli Scott Arrington was with Capt. Beach as a friend on that occasion. The dead body found at Marbias' Point, on the Potomac, just before the Inte freeze, and buried there, was that of a black man, and not of the missing soldier from Fort Foot, as some thought. The Hon. Fayette McMullen, ex-Governor and ex-M U. of Virginia, was in the city yesterday on business, and paid bis respects to Judge Underwood during his stay. The large swamp opposite Hunting Creek was on fire yesterday, and death was threat. ened to every creeping insect within its limits. The body of a newly born infant was found in Emerson's marsh, near Hunting Creek, south of West End, on Saturday. Christmas ove at Neabasco, Prince William county, was celebrated by a big shooting match for turkies, after which a general fight onsued.
