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Switzerland. The Registrar of the district in which the chateau of Arenenburg is situated, has returned in the list of Swiss citizens "Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, temporarily absent." The Greenville Enterprise announces the death of Capt. H. Lee Thruston, a promising young lawyer of that district. Captain Thruston was a graduate of the Military Schools of our State, and was a member of the Military Commission appointed under the Act of the Legislature in 1858. For many years he commanded the Butler Guards at Greenville. The New York World states that arrangements have been made in that city for the building of several gun boats for the South, and that others already finished Joel E. Matthews, have been bargained for. of Dallas county, Ala., has offered the services of two hundred negroes to the Governor of Alabama. In addition to this, the same gentleman deposited in the bank of Mobile, on the 23d of January, $15,000 to the credit of Alabama for State defence. The citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, have determined to present to the present Congress the "Montgomery Insurance Building"- large house of some twenty or more rooms-for the several Executive Departments of this Confederacy under the Provisional Government. A correspondent of the Pensacola Observer writes that there are two old soldiers in camp at Warrington Navy Yard-one belonging to an Alabama company, "who is seventy years old, and who challenges competition for the performance of duty and endurange generally with any one within twenty years of his age." The other-a member of the Lowndes Southrons, of Mississippi-is seventy two years old, and offers a challenge to any one within twenty years of his age, to run, jump or wrestle, and if he is an enemy to the South, to fight him a mortal combat. Commodore Duncan N. Ingraham, South Carolina Navy, has received a summons from Government to repair to Montgomery, doubtless with a view of obtainining his valuable aid in the organization of the Navy The Savannah for the Confederate States. Republican, of February 13th, contains an admirable editorial on lengthening the terms of office-holders. It recommends the extension of the Presidential term to ten or eight years, and the final retirement of that official, on a pension. Mechanics out of employment are rapidly withdrawing their deposits from the Savings Bank in New York City. For several days the run has averaged ten thousand dollars a day. Some Manchester houses have adopted the most sensible way of solving the Cotton supply question, by sending a special agent to South Carolina for examination and inquiries. The New York Tribune gives us this pleasant information: The country will be glad to learn that much activity prevails at the Navy Yards, and that several additional vessels will soon be ready for service, and will be employed in recovering the forts, custom-houses, arsenals, and Mr. other property of the United States. Willard, of Troy, N. Y., is in Washington with a mammoth petition from the women of the country, to be presented to Congress, asking a setThe tlement of the national difficulties. Texas State Convention has passed an ordinance favoring the speedy formation of a Southern Confederacy. The Convention has also elected seven delegates to the Southern Congress.