Castle Godwin.
--This popular institution continues to increase and multiply in point of population, and bids fair soon to rival a number of similar places of deposit in the number of its inmates.
The quarters provided for the parties arrested by the military authorities are very comfortable, and no doubt many of them fare better in the hands of the
Government than they would if left to their own guidance and control.
The military police in going their rounds on Saturday night found two soldiers, named
Robert Johnson and
Patrick Kennedy, in
Tyler's alley, near Hughes's Row, on 17th street, engaged in the rather strange diversion of pulling down a wooden shanty, inhabited by a man and his wife.
On being escoated and asked to explain the nature of the proceeding, they said that one of their friends had been stabbed and killed in the house, and they were determined, by pulling down the house, to prevent the possibility of damage to any one else.
They had previously assured the inmates that they designed no harm to them.
When told they must stop, (they had already broken down one side of the house and were in the act of removing some of the rafters,) they grew indignant, and one of them,
Patrick Kennedy, drew a five-shooler and threatened instant annihilation to any one who should interfere.
Of course they were captured, though offering all the resistance they could to the proceeding.
Besides a number of soldiers arrested on Saturday for offences growing out of a too free indulgence in liquor, two citizens, named
Geo. Frost and
Jno. Hancock, were arrested on suspicion of disloyalty.
It is understood that they had refused to take the cath of allegiance, which was regarded.
vation of hostility to the Confed member of persons, to whom suspicion attacked, were required on Saturday to remove them or take the consequences.
