New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-12
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WASHINGTON. Tuesday. Guy H. ises
AN IMMORAL POET.
A an illustration Of the result OF q EiHpie
difference Of opinion IL may be stated that the ecce
trio poet Walt Whitman. was relieved from his posi-
tou In the Interior Department under the order
dscharging immoral persons his "Leav 60 Of Grass
being produced as evidence Of bis immortality. Welt
now occupies desk in the Attorney Generals office.
MAMMOTH REMAINS.
The petrified bones of mammoth animals have
recently been found in large numbers near Yorktown
in tho York River. Immense ribs four inches in di.
aneter and sections OF spinal vertebrae ten uches In
diameter are among the specimens recently brought TO
Fortress Monroe by excursionsts to the poiut men
toned.
THR FREEDMEN IN TENNESSHE.
Maior.Gen. Howard has received a report
from c. B. Fisk Assistant Commander Of the Bureau
of Freedmen aud Refugees at Nashville. Tenn. LIE
says that the insoence and Ill treatment from the re-
turning Rebel soldiers has very much to do with tho
reluctance with which the coored people continue their
labor on the plantations Many Of the returned Rebels
told openly Of the of Slavery
Federal bayonets withdrawn cause Of great
dissatisfaction among the blacks. and causes them In
Union troops.
To the Associated Press
WASHINGTON Tuesday. July IL. 1855.
THE EAST GULF SQUADRON.
Several vessels lately attached to the East Gull
we're sold at Key West on the 2sth %, June
Among them the notorious yacht "Wandercr" The
Squadron is rapidly being reduced to small compile
meDt.
REBELS RELEASED. D.
| During the last week there were released
from prison stations one lieutenant. "a non.commis
stoned officers and $40 privates making total OF those
discharged by President johnson OF 33sl There are
now none but sick ones left
| Ex-GOv LETCHBR RELEASED.
! Ex.Goy. John Letcber was released from tho
Old Capitol Prison last night by direction Of PreSi.
dent Johnson upon the condition OF going Immediately
TO bis home In Virginia. and he gave bis parole to re.
main there, subject to the order Of the President
| APPOINTMENTS.
Major John A. Bolles has received the ap.
poin .uent of Solicitor and Naval Judge-Adyocaso.
General of the Navy Department and Secretary Wees
has appointed Surgeon Phineas j. H0rwtz as Chief OF
the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery OF the Navy DE.
partmept TX Brig Gen. James Kernan OF New YORK
was yesterday appointed United States Consul at Chin
KiaDg, China.
| THE HARRIS TRIAL
An additional number of intensely loving
letters were read in the Mary Har is trial today ara
also several dated September. 1865. signed j. +.
Greenwood. the latter requesting her as friend 70
meet him al q disrepurable house in Chicago. Miss
Deyin in whose the accused was clerk testified
10 the Grazing effect the base proposition had on the
mind of Miss Harris as well the circumstances
which induced the belief that burroughs whom Miss
| Harris killed. was the author Of the letter.
PATENTS ISSUED.
One hundred and twenty-three patents were
issued today by the Commissioner Of Patents.