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The SECRETARY OF WAR left the City on Monday last, with his family, for De- troit.

 The SECRETARY OF STATE set out a week or two ago for Georgia, via New York.

 The quidnuncs will probably find from these departures some cofroboration of the rnmors from this city which have ap- peared in number of the Northern news papers.-.Nat. Intel.

 PENNSYLVANIA LoAN.-T The loan of $959,6o0, authorised by an act of the last session of the Legislature, and for which proposals were received at the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth until the 9th inst, was taken by ELIHU CHAN CERY, Esq, for the Bank oG Pennsylvania, at one hundred and tloeiUe doiidrs and tavo cents for every one hundred dollars of stock. The Messrs, PHILLIPS bid Sill 74.

 SLAVERY IT MIssoURI.- Several of the leading Missouri papers are advocating the gradual emancipation of slaves in that State. They propose that the convention which has been called for the purpose of re-mo- delllng the constitution, shall provide, that ali such blacks as may be born before a given time shall be slaves for life; that those born after a certain period shall be slaves for given number of years and that those born after a period more remote shall be free at birth. They place the question entirely upon grounds of expedl- ency.

 Florida. election for a Delegate to represent Florida in the next Congress of the United States, took place on the 4th. It IS believed that it will be closely contested between Col. White and Col. Gadsden-the other candidates are Col. Nattall and Maj. Wyatt.

 The whole line of the Ohio Canal is now open from Cleveland to Portsmouth.

 Rather Taeatricol.-A Baltimore paper says: "An Indian of the Cherokee nation will be at the Bible meeting this evening, and will siag hymn in bis native lan- guage, which will be interpreted by Mir. Jones, Missionary. MT. Sutton, Mis- sionary from India, will also be present, and fake part in the exercises.

 The London Morning Herald has the following singular version of the story of the Jackson Figure Head: "The Constitution being in dock at Boston, the Government ordered carving ot the person of Gen. Jackson to be placed as her figure head. Some rigid patriots considered this as an indication that the constitution of the States was 10 be held as personified in the person of the Pre- sident. A man conceiying the idea ol turning this jealousy of the Bostonans 10 his own account, contrived to get to tbe frigate in the night, and severed the head ot Gen, Jackson from the body, and after. wards exhibited 1t as a curiosity at dollar piecem

 In Louisiana, up the Red River. there lies a mass of meteoric iron. weighing about l700 pounds. Meteoric iron IS mal- leable, which distinguishes it from all iron found lp its native state in the mines of the globe. Iron ore, on being hammered turns into powder. Meteoric iron aiso contains small portion of nickel, which IS never found in our native iron.