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nterfeiting larceny &c., and kidnapping — the last being detined as the taking and carrying away a free person by force and deception. The provisions of the treaty are not applied in any manner to any crime or offence of a purely political character, nor do they embrace the return of fugitive slaves. The Secretary of War to-day ordered that all applications for passes and permits for persons or property within the lines of the United States forces, shall hereafter be made to Brigadier- General Wadsworth, Military Governor of the District of Columbia, and be subject to such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. The following order has just been issued from the War Department: "The Secretary of War is of the opinion that the act to prevent and punish frand on the part of officers en ted with the making of contracts on the part of the Government, approved June 2d, 1862, applied only to such contracts as, under the laws and regulations in force at the time of its passa