A correspondent of the Greenbrier Independent, writing from Big Clear Creek, Greenbier county, under date of the 20th instant, says. "We had quite a row on Mill Creek Mountain. A United States officer came on the mountain on the 18th and summoned Joe Zopp, Joe Smith,Claut Zopp and Marsh (Allen) McClung as a guard, to take Ben Manning, at the Persinger Place, about five miles down the river. They captured him after a hard struggle. They fired two shots at him; then he surrendered. They started with him to Fayetteville jail." The correspondent adds: 'Since writing the above, the guard in the Ben Manninng case have returned They got him as far as Sewell Station; there he escaped. There is a reward of two hundred dollars for him for felony. Manning is a hard case.

The distressing drouth which has prevailed in Greenbrier county for a long time has been ended by a copious shower of rain.

The Greenbrier Independent says that last week a fire broke out in the mountains in the neighborhood of Rennicks Valley, in Greenbrier county, and did much damage to the farmers in that section. For the past few days the fires have been burning in this county until the horizen presents an appearance like Virginia and some of the other States did during the great rebelion.

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