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HERE AND THERE. COLUMBIA, S. C,, March 15.-The jury in the case of the six children on trial here for the murder of a negro youth returned a verdict of not guilty, and the children were restored to their parents. POTTSVILLE, Pa., March 15.-Martin Bergen, a Molly Maguire and one of the alleged murderers of Patrick Burna, arrived here this morning from Canada, in charge of Pinkerton's de tectives. Burns was mine clerk, and was shot and instantly killed at Tuscarora, April 15, 1870, it is supposed, by members of the Molly Maguire society. BOSTON, March 15.-A run on the Five Cents Savings bank here is in progress. It is rumored the institution will enforce the sixty days notice. It is one of the largest savings banks in the state. There is no reason at present to doubt its soundness. The state detectives made a raid yesterday on the town of Shutesbury, in this state, where they arrested a number of men living in open polygamy. They are held for trial in the superior criminal court for Franklin county. It is alleged many others will be arrested for the same offense, an attempt evidently having been made to establish a Morgan settlement of Tewksbury. FORTRESS MONROE, March 18.-Hons. R. H. Bland, George W.Adams, George C. Cabell, John F. Kelly and John Goode, members of congress, are here. READING, PA., March 18.-A writ of habeas corpus in favor of the officers of the dime savings bank, which has suspended, was refused, the culprite held in forty thousand dollars ball. BOSTON, March 18 -Bank Examiner Needham states that the actual loss to the Lichmer bank, at East Cambridge, by the robbery last Saturday was $3,038, leaving a surplus of $113,000 balance. The loss falls upon the presIdent and outside parties. The run on thesavings banks to-day continues, but the excitement has greatly diminished. The crowd at the five cents savings bank is about one hundred. At the Provident and Suffolk savings banks few depositors are calling for their money. The Hyde Park savings bank is enforcing the sixty days rule on all sums over twenty-five dollars.