river. The height of the water on the shoals j is eight inches, and rising. Chaplain John Lawrence has been appoint ed by General Fisk, judge advocate to try cases of misdemeanor in which freedmen were implicated. A notice was served on Mayor Brown of his assuming that duty. This order is approved by the citixens generally, as the municipal authorities of this city make a re quisite for officers to arrest people on suspi cion of drunkenness, aud negroes on all real