A Diary of American Events.

January 8.—David O. Dodd, charged with being a rebel spy, was executed this afternoon, in front of St. John’s College, at Little Rock, Arkansas.—General John Morgan held a reception at Richmond, Va. Judge Moore, of Kentucky, in a speech on the occasion, spoke of the worth of General Morgan, and the great credit with which he had served his country. He was now receiving the grateful testimony of the mother of States. He said that Morgan and other Kentuckians who were battling for the liberties of the South, would not sheathe their swords until her liberty was achieved. Despite the thraldom in which Kentucky was held, the muster-rolls of the army showed that forty-nine thousand of her sons had joined their fortunes with ours, and this, despite the fact that the heel of the tyrant was on her neck. He knew the sentiment of the people there—they would be found with the South. The Yankees have desolated her homes and murdered her people. Kentucky never will join her fortunes with the Northern Government.”—The rebel blockade-runner Dare, while attempting to run into the harbor of Wilmington, N. C, was chased ashore and destroyed.—(Doc. 65.)