William Balson, a magistrate in Scottsborough, Georgia, having refused to go into the military service, was last week shot by the arresting officer, and died on the following day. Captain Joseph Pearce, naval constructor at Charleston, South Carolina, died on the 20th instant. He was a native of Baltimore, and had constructed several iron-clads for the Confederacy. The English fashionable put false tails on their horses now, as the ladies wear Alexandria ringlets. Nets for their narratives are spoken of also for some of the "prancers. " The cars on the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad are now running regularly from Bristol to Jonesboro' three times a week. Marzetti, the Ravel pantomimist, whose grotesque but natural performance of the ape will be remembered by many, died in New York a few days since. Dr. R. D. Arnold was elected Mayor of Savannah on Monday, the 10th instant. He had no opposition. Mrs. General Lander, nee Miss Jane M. Davenport, the actress, will shortly resume the practice of her profession. Gottschalk, the pianist, has been made a Knight of the Order of Charles the Third by the Queen of Spain.
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