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Show gi:m:ual. .Monument for Le. Hichmond, -I. A meeting of ex-Confederate ex-Confederate soldiers was held here last night, with reference to the Lee monument. monu-ment. Among those present were General Early, of Virginia; General Gordon, of Georgia; Col. Marshal, Chief of Staff of General Lee, and others. Jefferson Davis presided and related many retuinesiences uf General Gen-eral Lee. Another Sietmtr .tltitftliif;. New York, 1. The non-arrival of the William and Guion steamer, Idaho, now 13 days out from Liverpool, Liver-pool, for this port, suggests the gravest fears of a possible disaster to that vessel. Among her passengers were fifty French Canadians, a nur'in of the lately dibarded papal ainiy. ami the majority of them representatives of the best Canadian families. F it le zzlc infill , Washington, D. ('., 1. Paymaster Jas. S. Girard. of the navy, was arrested ar-rested in New York yesterd iy, and is now confined at the Navy Yard in this citv, charged with the rink : ment of about three thousand dollars "f government funds. The uise of pay-i pay-i master 1.kwood. now in confin'-mr n: i on a siui lar charge, will probably be ; brought to trial thi-. .tlc. 11 1-fiii 1-fiii ii Js are movim for his release on e I writ of ei'..M curpuf. on the ground ! that he was illegally arre-ted. |