AMERICAN ITEMS.

Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 6, 6 July 1866, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

San Francisco papers brought to Sydney by the barque Sorato, supply the following items of intelligence : — The vault in which the remains of Mr. Lincoln lie entombed, at Springfield, was lately opened, and the lid of the casket on which he sleeps raised. His features were scarcely recognisable. Their embalment had failed to preserve them. They were identified as those cf the martyred President, by a committee of the National Monument Association, that they might certify to the actual presence of the body in the casket, in pursuance of a resolution of the directors. The sad ceremony ended, the lid was nailed down, and sealed with the signet of the association. The door of the sepulchre was then closed and sealed with the same signet, to remain undisturbed till they are removed to the national monument. Among the various military organisations existing in the country at the breaking out of the rebellioa (says the Boston Transcript) few can show a nobler record than the New England Guard Battalion. In April, 1861, the battalion numbered 174 men, more than onehalf of whom served as officers during the war. Their rank was divided as follows : — G-enerals, 7 ; colonels, 16 ; lieut.colonels, 5 ; majors, 8 ; captains, 32 ; lieutenants, 22. Total, 90. Donald WKvlj, the distinguished shipbuilder, of East Boston, has lately returned from Europe, where he- thoroughly inspected the iron-clad navies of France and England. He says that our Navy Department has constructed, built, and equipped since 1862, an iron-clad fleet more powerful than all the iron-clad navies of the world combined, and declares the Dunderberg, built by Mr. Webb, in New York city, to be equal to all the French iron-clads, of which we have heard so much praise. A letter from the City of Mexico, recently received by a gentleman in Columbus, Mississippi, contains the following : — Governor Harris, of Tennessee, visited the city in the middle of December, to lay in, a3 he said, his supplies for Christmas. He lookß better than I ever saw him. The same letter speaks of Shelby and Price in glowing terms, and adds : G-overnor Allan tells me that he has his newspaper, the Merican Times, in good condition. It pays expenses, and is increasing in patronage." Aaron Dupee, aged seventy-eight years, for a long time a faithful servant of Henry Clay, died at Ashland, on the 6th inst. He was born in Hanover County, Virginia, and went to Kentucky about the close of the year last century, in the family of the mother of Mr Clay. Aaron was known to all intimate friends of Mr Clay. He was his body-servant up to the time of his death, accompined him to Europe during his diplomatic visit to that country, and was constantly in attendance on him at Washington. In discussing the question of labor at the South, the New Grleans Picayune saya : — " We have a great work of restoration and reorganisation to do, which demands tlie capital, enterprise, and labor of as many people as will come to take part in that work, from what part of the world soever they may hail, will be warmly welcomed. They will have no reason to apprehend hostility, prejudice, or jealousy from any portion of onr population." The Treasury Department, in reply to a resolution of the House, inquiring as to the amount of revenue received from the late rebellious States since the close of the war, have- prepared a statement showing the amount .received into the treasury from the Ist of April, 1865, till the Ist of February, 1866, to have been nearly 25,000,000 dollars, most of which sum was realised from the sale of captured and abandoned property, and from the internal revenue tax on cotton.