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ITEMS The frigate Congress has not yet been raised as has been reported. The ram Stonewall is fully at the dispo sal of the Government, but owing to the prevalence of the yellow feverat Havana, will not immediately be brought to this country. No more clerkships are to be filled in the Treasury Department, except vacancies permit. The Government will sell at Fortress Monroe, on the third of the month, one hundred and seventy cannon, several brass pieces and some muskets taken from Confederate fortifications. Mr. Elon A. Galusha, of Rochester, was discovered lying in one of the upper surrounding the Central Railroad bridge in that city, Thursday morning last. The head had two bruises upon it, not sufficient to fracture the skull but sufficient to stun and cause a suspension of consciousness. Wm. J. Pickerson, of Winsted, a soldier, is now confined at Fortress Monroe, sentenced to six months imprisonment and forfeiture of ten dollars per month, for calling his superior officer an unmit tigated puppy. As he has passed through twenty battles, with honor, his townsmen are petitioning for his release. The Confederate Gens. Marcus J. Wright, Vaughan, J. A. Smith and Rucker are in Memphis. Drafts of the Memphis Commercial Bank have been dishonored in New York. The work of reconstructing the Mobile and Ohio Railroad is rapidly progressing, and it IS supposed, in a few wee it will be running Total Columbus to Mobile. The rend is now running from Columbus across Great Obion to near Trenton But little delay is necessary to complete the work. Hon, Emerson Ethridge, now confined at Columbus, Kentucky, is suffering from an attack of fever. Rev. C. K. Marshall, of Mississippi, is at Washington to protest against the confiscation of his property, says the Mem phis Balletin. is thought he will not be able to save it. Gov Sharkey, of Mississippi, says the Augu/sta, Ga., Chronicle, has been the long opponent of Jefferson Davis, and missass ciates. He is a fore-minded and hightoned statesman who merits remotion beyond what he has ever tamed. General Meagher made a speech to the Irish imigration society, at St. Paul, on Wednesday evening, in which he took ground in favor of negro suffrage, and warbed bis countrymen to beware oi pperheads. The general has been appointed secretary of Montana territory. The receiving teller of the Phoenix Bank, New York, is a defaulter to the :mount of $50,000. Five million dollars was to be sent to New Orleans this week to pay the troops. A fire in Troy on the 5th destro yed one housand cords of wood belonging to the HudsGn River Railroad Company. 1 e The Republican Convention of Maine 0 Davis. the speedy trial and punishment of n e It IS "eported that a civil war is about t ommencing in Japan. t 8 The organization of the civil govern 0 nent of Richmond has been postponed 0 ptilithe meeting of Congress. th It is again asserted on good authority hat Palmerston will retire before Parlia 16nt meets, and that Glandstone will soline the premiership in favor of Lord Panville. All the colored schools in Richmond re closed. per
