, 1865-06-09

That artInl old political dodger, Duff Green,
TUNED mp at Washington the other day to be
recc instructed Attorney General Speed told
him that he was one Of those excepted IN the
last proclamation Of amnesty, whcreupon he
addressed petition for pardon to President
johnson, lcser9ing the right to express his
opinions on emancipation aud negro suc-
frage.
heads IN scarchof wives-one aged nine
ty, the other twenty-cnoush TO excite
all the German princes to madness.
Two crowns to be hadi The nos
SCISSOR Of one Of these Is the BaTu,ian King.
and 1t Ia whispered that King George Of
Greece has laid his heart and crown at the
fest Of falr Gscc!an OF ancient lineage and
high degree.
About one hundred names Of meritoriors
officers from the staff and line have been sent
in for appointments in the regular army from
the 14th Corps alone.
Sir John Hetschel states for tho benefit
Of those who discuss The subject of popula-
ton, war, rcstilencc, famine, that the num-
bcr Of human beings living at the end Of the
single pair, doubling at each genera loa (say
in thirty years., ard allowing for eacl
man, woman and child an average space Of
four feet IN height and ono hundred feet
square, wocld form . yerllcle co1uuu, having
tor is base tho whole surface Of the earth
md sea spread out into plane, and for its
height three Thousand six hundred aud se7-
earth. The number Of human Btruta thus
piled one on the other would amount to 4C0,-
i90, ,oU0, ,O0O,0O0.
The last Of the light-tlraft Monitors, the
Cohoes, has been successfully launched at
Grcenpoint, N. 7. Her capacity Is registered
guns. Length Of vessel, 22aa5 feet; breadth,
a5 feet; depth Of hold, II feet It will i,e:
remembered that the Cohocs was one Of
class Of twenty vessels whose original design
the Navy Department WIS compelled to alter.
Five we're altered into torpedo boats, having
NO tuEIet, nnd the remaining fifteen, of which
the Cohoes is one, had their decks raised
twenty-five Inches, beside minor attentions.
The cost Of alteration into the f1re torpedo
vessels was from 5000 to SEQ, 600 each,
while the cost Of alteration, in raising decks,
&c., Of the remaining fifteen was from $780,
GOO to S100, GOO each.
- The Government having found 1t neces-
saTy to impress into the service about one
hundred aud fifty boats to transport the
Army Of the Tennessee from Wheeling to
Louisville, the packet lues on the Ohio
RiTer have been very much delanged
thereby.
The Internal Revenue bureau Is being
removed fom thu Treasury building to new
building opposite, erected last year by s1r.
Kiggs, the banker, and leased to the Gov
ernment 1t Is understood for 81, 900 year.
- The first arrests have been made in New
York city OF bill-postcrs, under an act Of the
last Legislature. for placarains advertise
ments on the curb stones and lamp posts.
During the night OF the 1st inst, four
persons came to the house Of the rebel GEN
eral J. Warren GsIgsty, in Lincoln County,
five miles south frum Uanville, KY, and took
him out to hang him. The soldiers stationed
at Dany!lle were, however, sent for, and had
gone out 10 protect the family aud arrest the
assai'ants. Col. Gtigsby WIS With Morgan In
md was made o Brigadier General. lie was
rebel Provost Marshal Of Boyle md Lincoln
counties during the reign Of Bragg IN the
State, and In that capacity ulade himself
odious.
The Mobile i Ohio Railroad ia now Ia
tiails weekly now run to the LITTER place
foin Mobile. Daily ttains run from Mobile
to Oko1ona. The military authosiues haze
turned over to the directors the control Of
the property ofthe corporation. The repair
ing Of the road is hejag pressed forward as
rapidly as circumstances Will admit, aud the
whole line to Columbus Will be mt in run
ming o:der within the shortest possible time.
= = meeting Of thc coTporatofs Of the st.
Louis, Vandalia and Terre Haute railroad
company Is to be held at Tandalia on Thurs
day, the 18th, to hear reports from the stock
commissioners along the iinc, and take such
steps toTards permanent organization as
mny be deemed adyi+ablc. Reports as far as
heard from are favorable to an carly coustruc-
ton Of this Important road. The town of
Tandalta has just voted to subscribe 81, 600
stock, with only nine dissenting Yates. Bend
county, ILL.,, and her citizens have taken near
ly s15O,000 stock, and other counties On the
line Lid fair to do as we'll.
Joseph c. Lane, formerly Colonel Of the
102a New York Volunteers, has gous to Ari
zona aR the representative Of considerable
capital, and proposes to work mines fur pax.
tics, leaving The ownership in tbs hands Of
the prospec1cr.
Governor B:own Of Georgia. mikes the in
qui,y: "Wnere Is Toomhs!" IIe says that
himself, Stephens and Toomb5 alned together
at Stephens house, two days before be was
arrested, and at that dinner they discussed
the novelty OF "the sltuatlon," aud he and
Stephens agreed that 1t would be unlnan15,
and probably also futile, to flee, but resolved
to remain at their homes and meet their fate,
whateyer It might BE-. Toombs differed from
them, and told them that be WAS going to
run, and should take the lower roads next
day,