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wAsHrNoToS, Wednesday, July IS, 1860.
NAVAL MATTERS.
Com. McCauley has been ordered to take com
mand Of the Norfolk Navy Yard on the 1st Of Au-
gust Lieut.. Truxton has been ordered TO the
Philadelphia ya;d. The Brooklyn, now at Pc 80.
cola, has been telegraphed to proceed to Hampton
Roads to take on board ard carry to Chiriqui tho
Commission for the survey Of the Isthmus at that
point, authorized By recent act of Congress
Surgeon billiard has been detached from the PhiIa-
delpbia yard, to take effect on the lat Of August.
Surgeon Green is ordered in his place. Lieut..
Cusbman, who was recently tried BY Court
Martial in Boston, was found guilty and sentenced
to be dismissed. The Court, however, recon-
mended hun to Executive clemency. The Prssi.
dent has approved the finding aud sentence, but
has modified the sentence to suspension without
pay for twelve months.
SEEDS FROM SYRIA.
The Patent Office is in the receipt Of vey
large and fine assortment of seeds and cuttings
from Syria, at the very moderate expense Of
81 ,0OO They were collected by the Rev. DR.. Bar
clay, Missionary there. There are varieties Of
wheat, barley, grape cuttings, olives, sciOns Of
fruits, vegetable products, and useful plants. The
scions, cuttings, &C., will be seat to the propagat
ing houses for experiment AID increase, and no
distribution of the remainder will be MADE before
the Fall. Among the interesting plaots is the
lessaban, from which it is said the crown Of thors
was plated. 1t is very ornamental, and makes
excellent hedges. There are also seeds Of
melons, squashes, camels' food, dates, walnut
equal to the English, and probably well adapted 10
the Southern or Middle States. The seed Of the
mais tree, which is esteemed a. medicinal or pro.
phyactic, were procured from the inclosure Of the
Temple of Solomon.
The next Patent Office report is to contain di.
rections as to the proper manner of sowing seeds
as it is known that many of the failures to repro.
duce from the seeds distributed by the Patent
Office arise from ignorance of the proper methods
to procuring termination.
GOVERNMENT BoOKBINDING.
l hear that the bookbndiDg of the Government
at this point has been given to Mr.. Browne, editor
of The Constitution.
THE HEALTH OF MRS. HOLT.
Gov Wicklife of Kentucky, formerly PostInas-
ter. General, is here with his son ex-Gov. Wick
life of Louisiana. They are in attendance upon
Mrs Holt, daughter of the former, and wife Of
the Postmaster General, who is very seriously III.
MR.. wICKLIFFE FOR DOUGLAS.
The ex- Postmaster General is very determined
in bis support of Judge Douglas, and intends max
ing several speeches in his behalf on bis return to
Kentucky. ..............
MR. DOUGLAS IN KENTUCKY.
The Breckenridge men here begin to show signs
of apprehension as to the result in Kentucky. The
advices are decidedly bad.
WAsHIsGTos, Wednesday, July Is, 1860.
The Postmaster c. neral has ordered a weekly mail
from St. Joseph &c Julesburg in order to accommodate
the weekly mail between Julesburg aud Denver City.
for the benefit Of the Pixies Peak miners, and also
weekly mail between Pacerville and the Washoe
liver mines on the route TO Salt Lake. The service
up to this time has been only semi -uonthly.
No Injunction has been obtained by any party re-
sirainiDg Mr.. Pangborn from drawing money due on
account of the House printing. The hearing on the
preliminary motion is postponed till Saturday.
1t is asserted by those who have made particular in
quiry on the subject that the secret organization VIII h
recently excited fears of boodshed in the Cherokee
country is to say the least, political and similar to
what was comm only known in the States " % " the
kn0w-NotnlDQ party -cOn1neu 10 pure'DloOdco IN.
dians
Our Government has been watching with some inter.
est the events in that nation particularly those grow
ing out of the agitation of the Slavery question any
outbreak in that connection might involve the whites
residing in that part of the country in the
No immediate danger is now, however, spprehended
The UniieO States Indian Agent having by this time
reached the valuable Cherokee reservation, he viii
take immediate measures for the expulsion of the white
intruders.
Judge Greenwood, the Commissioner of Indian AZ
DAYS for the Pike Peak country Ii 1851, treaty
or arrangement was made with the Arapahoes and
Cheyeppes hich while il fixed the limits within which
these Indians might hunt, did not acknowledge their
title the land But, owing 10 the extenrIou Of whl.e
population they bave been seriously curaled 10 their
supplies Fl ON tie chase. In view Of this and the fact
that they are friendly Indians, Congress, at the late
session. appropriated $5 900 for presents (which are
being forwarded ana to defray the expenses Of hold
ing council with them, regarding their future welfare
The Commissioners former Wis to among va ious
tribes Of Indians having been productive Of highly ber
e6cial results it is believed that the one now con-
templattd will have favorable effect and that, In
accordance with the earnest desire of the Arapahoes
and Cbeyepnes these will be secured in Il pose ssou
of permanent homes and Induced TO change their pres
ent mode of Obtaining precarious subsistence.
Breckinridee and Lane Meeting.
DETROIT, Mich, Wednesday, July % 1861
me- citing of the friepds of Breckenridge and Lane
all the hello In this city day.