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ned what were then regarded as bogus passports. Being brought back to this city, they implicated two men named Head and Wolfe, from whom they stated they had procured the passes.--Head is the keeper of a livery stable and furnished transportation facilities as far as the Potomac, in the neighborhood of which they were arrested. On the information of these parties Head and Wolfe were both arrested and lodged in Castle Thunder, where they remained until Friday last. On that day Head sent a note to Capt. McCubbin, Chief of Detectives, in which he stated that he desired to furnish information as to the means by which he came in possession of the passports. Being taken before Gen. Winder be made oath that he got them from Lt. S. O. Kirk, Chief of the Passport Office, and that he paid that officer over $200 for them. On the strength of this statement Lt. K. was arrested on Saturday, but paroled until this morning, when a further hearing of the case will be had at Gen. Winder's office.
The Passport Affair. --The examination of the case of Lieut. S. O. Kirk, who was arrested on Saturday on the charge of selling, passports, resulted in his being sent on to a Court-Martial. Until his trial comes on, he is on parole at his quarters in this city.
Acquired. --Lieut. S. O. Kirk, former chief of the passport office, and who has been under arrest for sometime past on the charge of malicanance in that department, has recently had a trial by court-martial and been acquitted. It is not yet known whether Lieut. K. will be reinstated in the same position from which he had been removed.