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Trial of General Mercer for Shooting Union Soldiers.—The court martial t>f Briga dier-General Hugh W. Mercer, at Savannah, for the alleged murder of seven Union sol diers, which has been going on since the 16th instant, seems to excite very little local inter est. It appears that the soldiers General Mer cer is charged with shooting were originally prisoners of war, taken from the Union forces. They were released from the Southern pri