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ington Correspondence of the New York Herald, 10th. One House of the Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill loaning $300,000 of State bonds, to the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company. During the progress of a ladies fair at Library Hall, Petersburg, on Tuesday night, Mr. George Woody was badly shot in the neck by a pistol which was being carelessly handled by a young man named Leath. At last accounts the bullet had not been extracted. It is difficult to imagine why a young man "or any other man" should be handling a pistol at a ladies' fair. DISTRESSING SUICIDE.-The Lynchburg News learns that a Mr. Cheatwood, from Lewis county, W. Va., committed suicide at Ronsack's in Roanoke county, on Monday morning last, by cutting his throat from ear to ear, death ensuing almost instantly. The deceased was on a visit to his brother, who has resided for a great while at Bonsack's, and whom he had not seen for twenty years. He was a man of family, and separation from them is believed to have been the cause of his self-destruction. NEW ORLEANS BANKS.-We observe that the old banks of New Orleans are making great progress in the work of reconstruction. Three New Orleans banks have never reduced their capitals; the Southern Bank never suspended specie payments; the Union Bank and the Crescent City are expected to resume business at an early day. The Bank of Louisiana, the leading bank in the State, is still some distance in the back ground, but arrangements for its re-establishments are expected. BEAU HICKMAN.-Colonel Hickman authorizes us to deny that he is a native of North Carolina. Like. Henry Clay and Patrick Henry, he was born at the Slashes of Hanover. The Colonel says that it is preposterous for a State that produces nothing but tar and turpentiue to claim the parentage of the greatest financier of theage. North Carolina can tnrn out Badgers, Grahams, and Clingmans, but never a Hickman.Star.