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 force the Secretary of the Treasury to change his policy of selling gold. This produced slight stringency.
 Wm T.. Smithson, an eX-banker' oi NC" York, has brought suit against ex-Secretary stanton, for false Imprisonment, having been kept in Fort Lafayette several months Tn lsoJ, and then released, there being no ground for his detention. Afterwards he was re- arrest ed, tried as spy by q court martial, and sentenced to five years Imprisonment in the Albany Penitentiary, where he remained one year. He was released by order of President | Lincoln. His property, meanwhile, was seized and disposed of, and his family turned out ot doors. He alleges that the letters used for | his conviction were forgeries. The right of Congress to pass immunity acts shielding offi- cers for such arrests is question to be deci- ded.
 4 terrific rainstorm visited Western North Carolina recently, causing destructive fresh cts, which destroyed q great deal of property.
 James Weaver, a citizen of Texas, has been tried and found guilty of murder, by mili- tary court, which court, we are told, passed sentence of death upon him. President Grant has approved the finding of the court, and directed that Weaver be executed September %. Now, the man Weaver, may be guilty, and ought, probably, to be hung, but it looks little strange that, in time of profound peace, military court should be allowed to try and convict citizen of an offence against the civil law, yet the Reconstruction Laws of Congress clothe the military with power to try, condemn, imprison and hang citizens, in certain States of the Union. The members of the Grand Army of the Republic have, it is said, prepared long list of clerks, messengers, etc, whose removal . they are about to demand of the Treasury $ Department, in order to make room for mem bers of the order This action of the Grand r Army created considerable excitement among ' Department officials.
 3 James Coey has been appointed Postmaster at San Francisco.
 James Watson Webb, U. $. ex- Minister to Brazil, has returned home. Before leaving Brazil, he quarrelled with the Government of e that country in regard to the settlement of - an old claim for damages held by our Govern r ment. His course, in demanding his passports, :. and leaving the country, is endorsed by the if authorities at Washington. q At Franklin, Virginia, June g, a white man named Holland shot and killed negro l. Holland was arrested. The negroes attacked l. the sheriff's posse and were driven off
 Admiral Porter has ordered Hoff to ress, $ the seizure of any American vessels not ac x tually engaged in landing troops and muni e tions in Cuba.
 V Mir. Conant has been appointed to fill Ray - mond's place on the New York Iiiaes. Y Registration in Virginia indicates heavy le increase of the white vote over the black. L. w. P lowry who recently married Ami, K Surratt, has been discharged from the pos of Hospital Steward, by order of the Secre K tary of War!
 K Lieut. Colonel R. Jones, Assistant Inspec
 tor General, has been assigned to the Pacific
 Major Vim. Clinton has been appointed
 Agent for some tribe of Indians on this coast
 Fort Scott, Kansas, despatch. of Jun,
 24, says: "Four hundred Indians drove tn
 laborers from the railroad"
 The bridge across the Missouri river. a
 Kansas City, is opened ere this.
 The Los Angeles California;, Daily Nsr'
 of June 2S, contains the following:
 WASHINGTON, JUNE 26th - Borie has re
 signed the Secretaryship of the Navy Geo
 M. Robinson, of New Jersey, formely Attor
 ney General of that State, has been aDpoin
 ted in bis place, and was sworn in at noon to
 day. Several additional clerks were dismiss
 ed from the Treasury Department to-day.
 The Times Washington special says tn
 National intelligencer was suspended to-da
 for tine first time in 69 years-cause finan
 cial embarrassment owing to loss of Govern
 ment patronage.
 The President has selected Cogswells fu
 length portrait of Lincoln to be hung up i
 the White House
 The political contest in Virginia increase
 in excitement. Both parties have arrange
 for a number of meetings before the election
 Registration closed yesterday. SALT LAKE CITY, June 2Gth. An excur sion party from Chicago, consisting of Hor
 W. B. Ogden, John J. Blair, Judge Gator Perry II. Smith Henry M. Smith. of the Chi cago Daily Republican, Horace White. mar aging editor of the Chicago Daily Tribun, and twenty others, ladies and gentlemen, wi start from here for San Francisco on Monda morning. Ex-Secretary Seward, who preceC ed them to Salt Lake, will accompany thel from this place to California. At the primary election which occurred i San Francisco last Friday, Mayor McCoppin friends won.