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2 thousand dollars each, whe in fact Mr. Batley de. | that been described, is a purpose which, sane fo Me, Wo. TL. Russell eight hundred ant seventy | Successfully hidden, was none Png oe i and ef. ouly. One of the other two is ageounted for by the cor- | cent, and bas given unity and vitality to the schemes i between Mr. Fiteb and Mr, Bailey, alrevdy | now partially exposed. referred ©, The reason why the remaiping ‘MR. RATLEN’S CONYRSSION, ane is = embraced in the austract aad As @ part of the evidence adduced is found a commuai- was included im the published = list, as ‘dated December 2, 1860, ad- covou trom Sir, Bailey, dressed to the Hon, SAzob Thompson, Secretary of the | Interior, coptaining a statement that a portion of the j bonds constituting the Indian Trast Fond, amounting to $870 000, were no longer in his possession.’ This eonfes- sion was on the 13th of December placed in the bands of Mr. Wagner, with the request that it should be delivered ‘plained by the evidence of Mr. Heury Beard, the fatvs folcustodian of the bonds noder Secretary Mc ela. Mr. Beard esys:—‘In the advertisement elght huvdr «l and seventy-one bonds were embracet. [he {noia nend banded to Mr. Fitch, as stated, was not em rrace | Boccurred in this way. {t needed only oné hun t-e | #u | Secretary directed us to include «lithe I44,as at that tame some oacertainty was felt whether there might Bot be more than 870 roirsing. The advertisement was prepared ip haste, and before the full investigation by | Lamond, Mr, Williamson aud myself was cou To avoid the inconveniense of referring t> B,” your committee wit! stave tnat ninety nive of these boncs were issued by the State of Missori ‘ub 1 and iron Mountain Ruaitroad. nwety by the same State for the Hannibal aud 8 seph road, ope hundred and thirty for the North M ifiy-one for the Missouri Paciiic r by the State of North Carolina, dated J hondred and four by the same State, one hundred and nineteen by the -y, 1857; forty 56; we by the teen by the same State, dated (x the State of Tennessee, dated same State, dated Janvary, 1854; State, dated January, 1836; Wen by ihe same movth Mr. Batley addressed a note to Mr. Waguer, reqvesting that the note previously committed ve him (sir, Wagner) ehould be given to the Secretary of the In- Vericr immediately upon his retorn from North Oarotina. Mr, Thompson arrived op the afternoon of the 224 of fle. cembern, 4 UMM) STATES SENATOR THE MEDIUM THROUGH WaKeH THE UD IS DISCLOSED. Oo the evening of that day the asceptences is- sued by the War Departrsent ani the receipes given for Ube bends by Mr, Russell were handed to Mr. Thomson, ut the office of the President, in the executive masion, by the Hon. HM Rice, United States seuator from Minnesota. doearler intimation of the abvetraction had reachod Mr. Thompson, Your committee, not designing to examine Mr. Batley as a witmess, canged a subpreme to be served i | upon Mr."Tiee 10 appear before them. He declined to obey it. The Chairman then addrersed bira a note, ex- planing that he bad been iuadverteatly summoned, ant politely requested bis avtendance, To this ho replied That he would answer any q mm that might be pro- forty. (hree Tennessve bonds to complete the eight hiudre | | to the Secretary of the Interior tive day the expi- and seventy missing, but our office book or list of bonds, | Tation of his term of office, or, ae Mr, Wagner understood as prepared by Mr. Batley, indicated 144 as missing, The | Motive days before the 4th of March. On the 20th of the i} dated July, 1857 ame State, dated tate, dated Ocvw April, 1 ar five by the y the same Jaunary, 1865; seventy-hve by the same si pounded to him in writing. Seeing that he stood January , 1867 80 pertinacionsiy on bis privilege as a Septtor, Some aiftitu’ty securred in it was not thought consistent with the duty Norte Caroina bends. reve of the committee or dignity of the iionse to press they beh! bonds where nambers corresponded | any further inquiries, ueless the Hovse shall so order. web those given mm ihe printed bist; atid, as | Had the origival intention of withholding from tho se ther bad been held by themselves or by those from 1} Koowledge of ive fraud until within «few days whom tccy obtninet them long before tt nthe late | or the dthof March been carried out, the confusion fnet- Fir Department were abstracted, they infecradt that tbe | dent (oa change of aiininistrative officers woul have Bet was sneorrect. The solution of the cithoulty or ois. | prevented prompt investigation, aud deprived Me. Thomp- understanding may be found m this: —Dhe State of North | sono: the means of imme Chua sesned bonds to ald in varions enterprises, an y were divided into classer es hearing nt dare, yet haviog a nigh, the d with then : nid not be ide ‘to separate classes, des ganted vy aiff) Seems 10 have boon vo Cause Yor Simi rence to the bonds issue! by other states showing on 1 the boad sitely in his custody, and had caused its presen’ the Second auditor, Sir. Puller. That officer refus approve it, tor dhe reawon twas the coupon ac signed to be a check on it, did not accompany tt perhaps, to this ret Te that may iu part be aitribated is, WS MEIWEEN MR. RUSEIT. AND xR. omatury. | the earjy disclosure of the frand) M. Russell is the head of the house of Ruasei, | |i will be observed, that while Mr. dell, a item wi y known os contractors is J. a Dece 1860, aud o wtb the War Departmeat for tranuporting araay 9 D of bone fixes the mon 2 ‘ever tbe Western outhwestern piains. Mr. Russel! | time at which . the stated 19 the committee thut he hae beard ia New York | testimony of Mr. wey were not % such O tly | all delivered at that three hur who bai been im that city tw sell | cred and thirty-three w to ben and Florida, latter for Mr. be Lih of Be. sequent Yolee, a Seoator (vom that Sts asked from he cate or Mr. Bailey only sat re the auswer “He could not that he is om he received bis information, be x usually resorted to jo eneh cases—viz. yemember.” The pext beard of Mr. Russe y explination that’ can be given of this noticeae repaucy i The Bupposition Chit the sCatement wis oily perpared op the Gay it was given ty Mr. Wagar, ep los way from York to Washington, im company | and the day the last bonds wore given to Me. Rusaeli, with Luke Lea, Fsq., « banker of the latter city. Mr. | and dated wrougtully “December 1,’ to allay aay suxpt Lew was formeny Commissioner of Indian Murs, ane ts | clon that might be excited if it were seen Uhat the date of the abstraction was identical with the date of the ised by the War Depart- oar 2 think, of a yartrer of Mr, Russe! in the Banking ousigess at Peavenworth, Kansae, In a conversation that en: between them Mr. Russell mae koowa to Mv. Ler uit embarroesed circumstances, and acket if he (Mfr. Lea) «id pet know of some one that could assist bim «Mr Rnsset), Mr, Lea answered im tuo uegative, He states in his testimony that Mr. Russe.t sugsested that he haa beard of a of Bailes or Burley, fast veceptance which was snent, for the purpose, as waking up 4 detivite amount © bouds was made jor, he applied him- soover with whom thay ¥ hat proceedings might be institaved tor taeir recovery, Hoses Kelly, Eeq., bi caiet atcbed to and acked bis triend if be » Me. Lea was | New York, and be there caused writs of injunction wo again compelled to ative reply, bat st be Ferved pon a few parties in whose possessioa he had Mat be knew aanan U » name of Baile reason & believe some of the bonds to be. But, w Mr. Russell said he supj the was the roan of whom | tainiog this mode of obtaining the desired information | the raaterial statements therein contained are wholly in- correct. It is pot true, as he alleges, “that he was uot pened ty law to refuse to testify to fact” within the scope of our inquiries. Neither te Py 4 “that be ‘Was required to testify.”” He teatiied of his own free will, aud was not ‘‘compelied,”’ a8 declared by the title of the act, ‘to discover testi ’” nor was he ‘ro- quired,” as expressed in the body of the law, to give evidence, Your committee, therefore, while the: constrained to consider the course sel) as a confersion of bis moral guilt, do not Jeem it within their province to anticipate or prejudge a question of law which may arise ic iegsi prosecutions, THE ACCEPTANCES PSOED HY THE SRORETARY OF WAR. When the imiquitous act perpetrated by one of the Subordinate ofticers of the Interior Department, in the abstraction of bonds, was made known, it was dis covered at the Fame time that acceptances unauthorized by law, and deceptive and fraudulent in their character, had been issued by the Seeretary of War in favor of Megere, Russell, Majors & Waddell. As a portion of these are inseparably connected with the biatory of the bond embezzlement, it is proposed Grst to inquire into their issue. ted by Mr. Rugeel) that on theday he made bis last application for securities, Mr. Bailey agreed to fur- nish them on the condition that there shoula be deposit- ed witb him, in their place, the seceptapers of Governor Floyd, as Secrewry of War. Mr. Rue rel, it would appear, bad then on band seven biiu- dred and thirty. tive thousand dollars of acceptances, Seventy-two thousand of which were wogonditional, and the balance conditional aud payable out of tie © ir. nings of Russell, Majors & Waddell tor 1861. (Cops of the acceptances will be found embaced in the testimony of the Hon. Jaco» Thompson.) The amount of the bors he received on that and various ovexsions was aight hundred and seventy, or e'ght hundred and seventy thon sanddollars, Yberewas therefore nothing to make vp the requisite sum of securities—one hundred aad tiicty-fve Uhousand collars; and we accordingly Hud that there acceptance, bearing date the 13th, for thar pr amount, When it is remembered that that was the date »: Use last delivery of bods, and of the reseipt therefor, tha interer ce seers unavoidable thac the accep'acce iseued to make up an asceriaice? deficiency, and that \% was anticipated that it would go iato the possession of an Mr. Builey. There are other fueta that should ve stated in {his conection. — Mr. Hi tixes the probable evrnings of gs firm for the year ts6t 00,060 to $600,000; while Cep'aia Van Vi e $488 000 tor 1800, and Geueral says in bir testimony Wat for the pr be about what they were iu 1860, w: inciuding © payment made in Washiogton of Jittie more Lien $59,000. The evnartio: ceptanees given to Mr. Raley amount ty $793,000, ur mom sum that could Have , Majors & Waddell 6 stimates of the d for the previo 10 were the 6 tof ly ce wher with & expect that # & Wadiell ® return have receive’. ur Committ could rest. “here, and could jusotiet f that there are no other outstanding no farther demands would be mule ‘vsnre Congrees it conneetivg with these -edings, they would deem tis an oo graiuiationx to the House. But, uaforty y, there are trans vtions of a similar character, but agnitude, that eretary of Wae cowmeucs the Same Une wrote to va ing their purenase disesint. One 0: from Colone: Urtakart, Chief Clerk of + sq , Presislent of the Bank of the Repobbe, will be found stimony taken in New York, copies ame subject, optaued from the War Lepartmeu', accompany this report. Mr. F P. Jumea, of New York city, testiled before the expressing the be Labiticce, and th Ye was ia kearch. It ie very evident from Mr, Levsex- | to be both slow and unsatisfactory, Mr. Thompsou | committee that Mr. Soutter, to whom refereuce sanination that be was both an artfoland an anwilling | gdvised* that your commitiee sou! hold some | has been alreacy made, fart to hia upon an occisiog witness. He had to be pressed with great pertiaicity to | of sts seesions in the city ow York, Being desirous | thet be bad a dratt for $15,000, and with jt a Jetter trom imduce him to dis at he Kaew athena bu | of expediting the tavestigation, aw? of avoiding theheavy | the Secretary of War, stating that be bad iestied, or was BH OWETS Wore LO posed with 4 pense that would be incident to the summanig ot a | abou we, acceptances in favor of Rugsel!, Majors & eal reroarks, designed to reliew ve number of witnesses from thut city. Waddell; but that st no time shonld he issue those ae. wy. that your comnii concerred in the pre y of this | ceptances to excre one-half of the amount which he "and frauk- to notice the absene having asked for and votained Jeave that they might revse to find in they believed the public interest required, they peo. He was compel however, to say that led, at conviderabie personal inconvenwnce, to. New Mr. Rue that Mr. Bailey was in | yok. a to asdist hin; that he had no stocks or HOW TIHE HONDS WERE DIPOSKD OF, meney, avd was “as poor as anybody.” Before sepa Prem the the testiaouy there procored it was appa- rating, Mr, Russell, coemming still to beliove that aid | rent that the bonds bad been dispozed of by Mr. Russell might be obtaived in the quarter indicated, requested | and his agent, and U nesell did mot have tt ia his Mr. Les to see Mr. Bailey ja regard to the matter. Mr. | power wo restore A lenited ouml were Lea complied with tus reqne traced tuto the y m of certain ind'videwis ana cor , and stated to Mr. Bailey Pueve!l bad said unless assistance was reactered, ptances of Governor Floyd would pe would be compr ire from a's, how New York city $1,000 rp $ Merchants’ Benevolent Assoriation (witness Hector Morrison), Missouri and Greenleaf, for secount of ¢ W. Purcell Me he pave be imbinaten & Co, Riebmond, Va. (witness U. A. Meigs), the stocks he bad inh Mitgourss, *s ‘ sees 10,000 Trust Fund. Mr. C. G —— Mitehell, Scher any, N. ¥., from ove to Mr. Bailey, and in wh t placed h three, Flare bot mentioned (Meigs witmess)... 2,000 " our commintes | —_ ere, Haydensville, aes, one to three, are pleased to bay) with fall and honorable frankwess, | state not given (Meigs wi'nets) fen 2,000 be jearned from Mr. Bailey that Mr. Lea did mention | Jy on them. © would naturally interred from th y familiar with the bi thet Mr. Bailey b Tea tion bet w And, in fe kuew that Mr. i character (Wd. He » Batti wpson & ¢ rithmg the Indian fr ees). A ie canketes 10,090 him; that be bad | w nian &Co., New York exty (Coleman Suit, Chieago pelt wimmess) 21,009 He also states tha! | Thee. cwai tuunore (Wen. Vicki wy 10 009 | Secretary of the Interior of tbe transactions | pp, ¢ r, Baltimore (W. Pisoer witness)... 2000 | , and thet he exacted the most solemn CB Abie Balt ime: 1 | his two friends Coat his name shold | Townehe known in copneetion with the | jowar bis precautions have not availed to | Lew entire excmption from respons bility 1 | the actions your c 1 not invrod business aflerd bro CORDECT OL bave inquired into, to Mr. Russ them a pice pereoue did mee aay the Total . w other bouds proceedings, and be and y | examinanon of ony your commitiee desig: uy of thar month. ‘Th Depart | pated iwo of their t Chaicman aud the Hoa, meet, & y Floyii's most Col. V. R. | Sir, Thomas, to ¢ tOnid, Rsq , United Drinkard, was the m m whom the intro to ‘ rict Auorney for tue Distriet of Commmbia, in Vor took place On that dey they had their drat inter tion of the bon?s and the logal Department E at olives 118 own evidence. sed that Drinkard, as showa | sell should Bailey with the be- ent BUSINESS MAN p BCAROR, Koto pro | An Gnyorlart anes, Mr. Jerome B. Simpron, who wnld onized ANY | be found in New York, wre expertet coult not be obtain. vid R private | ed? He had « in that city ae the confidentiaa business interview in t ca nt, aad — ayenr of Ruel, Maj rsd Waddell, and kone wae be- Within a few hours thereatter Mr. Batley de'ivered to Mr. laered, all the detaits of their business lransacli ma with the Rese! $150,000 o at the room of the latter per- — yavernment awl of the aetraction wy’ the bonds. The mont son ju Washington city, aud on tbe same evening recipi- Gctive and diligent search fur him proved umaeiting. ent returned with them to New York. Mr. Rassotl | none of his acuvaimuners remember io have seen him since states that be left with Mr. Bailey the note of Rus glu; tiv day fulloring Mr. Russril’s arrest, ondas no trace | aell, Majors & Waddeil in their stend as security. of him has von dascovered, 0. 18 evident that he ahromded Nimoy these ope hundred and itty bonis were | Cp comonale self tn acoid the respmaibility of his acts, | Meeouris, and the balance sell 4028 | and an ay fe bofore the conmmitive or the enurts. not recollect, at first, whether or nNTy Cou R. KCSSREL HEPORE PIKE COMMITTEE. ! pons were on the bonds, bu subsequently the In view of this circumstance, and of the retired Poon advmwe given by the District tormey, aud n to Mr. as he (Batley) | unver the belief that unless a fall statement wan positive in his request to beve them resurned. ‘The @ be obtained from some one immediately | | with Une transaction, no satastactory report | could be mado “of the facts in relation to tue wait fraud,” | ae wes required by the resolution of the House, it was Duvle that the bonds would be demaaded Or inquired lor. determines rd Mr. Russell an opportauity of ap According W the gsiavement oF Mr. Russell, there Was peuring before the rommittee. Previous to his appesr- | no f.rtber correspoudence er comrounication between it hao been decided to leave {* optional with him- Mr. Bailey and bunsel! unt! the September followiug. to anrwer or not, as he might elect. This parpose | hat Lime he returned to Washington for the purpose lainly appear frem the fopowing extract from the obtaining others, An | wae helt with Me. Ba of the proceedinga, page 9S coupons haviag Been akon ff, the bonds were after wards dined a TI 1 was, of Course, to couceat U hand it was not p-o- us were ov At key, the reeult of which w thet three bansred Monvay, Jan. 14, 1861. and cighty-seven donde, dition t Wm. H. Russell appeared. | Ure, token, wi The Chairtoan—Mr, Russell, yo nsel have dowbt- ue ¢ DE Gay lere upprived you of your rights. You are under a crimi- Beoretary Flex". 1° proviling for the bal prosecut nd I deem it my duty to state to you ae ooeplances viously delivered, 801 | that the committee do not propose to require you to which «ere ¢ been lyporbecuted, were | gnewer any question®. If you choore voluntarily to do | aeepigned a8 the ree ng farther as | 8 you can, but If you do not prefer to do it, as indicated | Im tie, o4 ip the first instan.e, to You, yeu can withhold your answer. Majore & Waddell wis leftoe eeourity. Mr. B HY DOR SOT IKK TO PaCk THE MOSIC, AYP PRRPARES To MAKE Vhat at thie conference Mr. Bailey firet informed tin A WHITTEN STATRATRN, ya e bonds in bis p sion be | to the ladwe | Sfp, Russell—T am anxious to make a full statement in wat fund. It wax the agreemeat that the boads first | regard to the Je, Lelaim to dean honest man, and take ebould be returned within tanya, bat at the prefer to mike out a statement of the whole wecond interview the time war the ath of | “4 writing, and have spread it March, 1861. In O-ober Mr. Tt ext the Sout length en your record. 1 that as a Carolina and Florida bouds, nd fromthe = committee. 1 am under a 2fty in nom baviog # 1 that he on | criminal prosecut ¢ thigk (due to me that { should bouts wore substita- | be permitted to m fall statement, although 1 do not wagotinse them, avd North Carolin’ ted io their stead, Mr. Ruewell agein aypewed in Weab- | fear che result of the criminal prosecution. If the com. wgton in December following, aud, oo the grontls | mittee preter the statement made verbally, { will make eo successfatiy relied upoa before, he peo. | cm that way, bat I ehould like to make one in weiting. tection of the War Departmvat from disgrace and |" yp, Russell wae then aworn, bot after a fow quemtions the bende =—oprevioutiy = take = from sserilo’, | had been proposed, he again exprerset a desire to submit ne wos enadlel to obtain from Mr. fariey | ritten statement, leave was again cronted., On ubree hupdred and thirty-three bonds as an atditional ad | the 18th of December be was again bafore the committee, Vance, wnaking the entire number abstracted eight bun- | gna presented a statement (which will be found anong ved and seventy, From the bonds obtaine! o. the s the accompanying papers herewith submitted) prepared, «rnd apd third occasions already referred to, \t is evideo! | gs he stateg, by his altorneys, “the night after he asked | te Jannary coupons were cut Off as a preca: ‘loa aguinst 1 pertniesien” oF the committe detection. Nine Tennessee cou belouging to Other | yy. RresntL CORNERED—MR ARK PME TO CONSULT Mis Ddonds than those sbatracted, were returned by Mr. Rus } COUNWE, weil, doubtless because tho abstracted vonds bad parsed | Various interrogatories were proposed, which were beyond bis reach. ® | promptly nd freely ouswered, ul when asked, “Did ‘The traneaction jase referred to appear® to bave clored the hueinces relations oF Lhese LWO PersOos, #0 far, at least, em they related to the abs reaction of bon is. Lae oer, duvet 4 or indtvectly, give (0 any person any con- sideration or mole W any person any present, for services rendered (0 wea cmnected weh youre busines with the War Wh AILEY 'S MOTIVES POR TAKING THK BONDS. Departaent— Mr, Russell de tine! to respond before con Why dr. Bailey mvstracted the bonds is a question 0 | Ling wich Wie counsel which yo. F committe can present no satisfactory anew Upon this suggestion the examioation was at once As He avd Mr. Mossel were onire etcangers previous to | avepended. On the 23d of Docemnber be again he War Deprriment, wether the odlics- | appeared, and was reminded of what had been sud to Lip ROF Lhe Boggestions of kindly fvelings | hit op @ previous Cecasion, and more fully admonished seem to have prompted the act. Mr. Ruswoi! jasiate that | that be was uot required to answer any questions. He BO money of OLber valuat raion ever pessed | Was also advised that bis examinetion would bo watved to Mr. Bailey, or. inc Ne joned fo | if he desired it, in whole or in part, avd that if he so their interviewer, Mr. Pa Sthit statement ja | elected, bis evidence already given would be expungod. ‘various commenication which bave reached your com- | The act of Congress, approved January 24, 1857, entitled myttee, 31 ie not asoerta'ned either that cms | an bet more effectually t0 enforce the atwoudance of audcenly into the posession of any in | witnesses on the sommone of ether honse of Congress, amounts + and to compel them to discorer testimony,” was then money. od per ACCONDs Was kept With Mesure. 3 | 4 C0., of Wasbiagion ety, aud Mr. Tigzs tection the, | shown to Mr. Russell, and after ft he requented Detween July, Abe the 13h of December bie depots in. | Turther timo 10 ndviae with Bis Cort Beforo leaving oly over former ones, bul amounted in tt wrenved i 40 HOt oor than flve or eix thowkand dobas © | the committes room, however, he stated, in reply to a sump taalarge eugts be in ae rome, | fugetiom, that he understood tive stators, aad that ie bad vt i 0 sseseion | been expla ned to his previously to bis appears: boee ralary wae but $2.000 per annum, ant! tore toe committee On the ‘oun Mr. Rusgel) presented prbing a family. Yet it would nor of iteaif | to the comin tee « paper prepared, Ne states, a an enmetannys & ground Jor grave suspicion, or afford & clue | antwer to the question thet had been proposed 20 the discovery of the purposes of the abstrastor. Mr. | to him,ane requested that it should ‘pon. the rther | furnished by tie departinent | acceptances (o the amount of $310,000 were returned to tne | to | and the aggregate i® $6,197,295 Paley, bie conversations With various witnesses, gays | record. Ro left it w thet bie Nesp wae co protect the charactor of Governor | vestions were Dropoet. Tus Teairentaane tbougt bot Foye, sive hinn from the dishonor and revireinout | propony belonging w the record of our proceedings, ts from the gt Yeas woald be necesmarily iacident (othe | transmitted to tho House tor its iaspeetion cn one oF proves very of ihe acceptances Which had been | accompanying papers. On examination it will e found Shegally spr of Jingse?!, re de Waddell. | to be, not an wnnwer to the question that had been asked Whether Was the ‘role motire of thie | as introductory to more important ones, but an elaborate eonduct to the House to determine. Your com- | effort made by Mr. Rossel, with technical adroitnesa and mine owe) ‘aloed to ~sprens the convic- | legal acomen, to avail himself of the not of Congress be- Moa chat belied tis events that Dave bean mnde con. | fore referred to, and (0 interpose 4.38 w thield berwocn episern, ond veweED the exterior of (Ng tracerctions " bimeelf and the gonrequences of hin deeds. Neeriy *) knew, of his own knowledge, was actually due to the parties for services already portormet. Mr, sontier, on bem called upon to produce this communication, siys that he nad ev impression, and jhe supposed it was de. rived from a letier of Mr. Floyd, that the War Depart ment fesuied aeceptances to the extent onty of ono-hs! uf the amount thst wonkd become due to Russell, Majors & Waddeit, on work in process ot exeoution. Althoug 4D examination o€ the letters received by th: bank apd his own private leters farled to bring to light such @ communication a& he had expected to tind, Mr. Sourter does uot chsage bis opinion, but conclues that it was derived trom the staze- Toene of some person whose name he cannot now iveall. These tetters wd representations ace important, as ehows aus adopted by Secretary of War to get the ine t8ued into circulation. MORE TIAN $6,000,000 oF ACCRITANERS ISSUED. Tn relation to the acceptances issued uncon- Aitionally by the lave Seoretary of War, your committee "eer it their duty State all the facts they have been abie to discover as fully as porsible, ‘they amount in the age-eg the enormn vs sum of $6,179. Add thereto tine conditioned acespt- ! ances which have already been torewa back upon t Me. Bailey, aud the as Dwed ‘uprn date Tt appears therefcom that government through the ay sump total i8 $6,997,395. Thi yoelation. Mr. Russell, however, claitas we returned Oniy $200,000 as $250,000 He Larcher stater that the acceptances which Le did return were those: which hod matured in biz own pocket, and could no therefore, be negotiated. but this asvertiun is posit contradicted by the endorsements on the returned scoop: tances, and by the tertimon k nthe War Department. From tb manner iu which business Ueman nud the late Ubot it was the ' optances at the department, or at his home, or at whatever plece he happened to be, aod otver considerations, it is a mat ter of gieat uncertainty whether or not the $840,000 should be deducted from the sum heretoiore state}. The probability is that when the acceptances we-e returned ty Gov. Floyd by Mr. Russell he xccepted others at the sae time for the same amount, of which there was no registry made. It is deemed safest to procord up the suppesition that the acceptances made in the place of those returned were registered. Upon this hypothesis the $540 060 murt be deducted from $679,595 of nacon- ditional acceptances made and registered in the War De- partment. ‘ihis would kave of them, #0 far as is shown by the records of that department, culation Add to this amoant $7! acceptances received by Mr. Bailey in Hien of the bonds, Here, then, contining the Statement to the records of the War Department, is & deficit of $6,137,395 vo fall upon the holders of these ac ceptances or be aesumed in some way by the government. WHAT WAS DONS WIPH THE ACORPTANCES The evidence showa that the acceptances have been sold. iw various parts of the United States, wherever a bank or ‘vate individual could be induced to purchase, Inasmuch, owever, a8 the amount of these thet bave beon traced directly into the nauds of present holders constitutes but a small fraction of the enm etili unaccounted for, and as ownere are daily tiling additional claims at the War Department, it 6 aeemea unnecessary W give a detailed statement of the discovered acceptances, or to make other mention of them than to refer tw the papers relating thereto presénted by the War Department, ant to the general evidence. It is proper, however, to remark in thts connection, thet while your committee do not deem it aecervary ty’ ev eaid details, the data in the War Mepartment tir. toinimutm Amount of outstanding acceptances ku that department at $1,445,000. JURTHER TIGHT ON 0). FLOYD'S PROCRRDENGS Mr. Richard f&. Irvin, the faithfal and intelicst clerk, to whom reference has been where in this report, eays 10 his evidence: of course, be other outstanding acceptan ss, whereabouts of which the department ha: ledge.’ There will also be found embraced in his evi dence given upon being callet before the committee on the Gth inst.,alotter midressed vy R.A. Barnes, f2q., President of the Took of the State of Missourn, under date of January 24, 1861, 10 the Hon. Joseph Hit, Ser retary of War, which is of faterest and will throw light upon the ecnduet of Governor Floyd's proceedioys and asersanucer in regerd to the acceptances. Mr. Irvin still further testified to the Pt of other letters by the War Department, since the papers furnished to the com- mittee vy that departn tor similar to Mr. Barnes’. thie ora © inquiry ts evidently protific, and could be pursued to a great iengtia, if nevessity required of time would permit. Mik. RUSSRILS RETIMATEE To avoid all appearance of unfairness, your committee considers it proper togive Mr. Roawell’s estimate of the Amount of sc-eptances issved, as get forth in the follow- ing extract from his testimeny — Question, Stave es nearly as you can, of your own koowledge and recoliection, the amount of acceptances of Governor Floyd sbown by that (his) account to have been used by you. A. I have got but an idea about it; it wae very large, J cannot teil how large: [ believe it Cxceeds £3,000 060 ’ @. Does it not exceed $4,000,000? A. I do not recol- lect. Q. Does it not exceed $5,000,000? 4 at! an impression on my part. Q. Con you state that you have not reestved hi ne- coptances to ab atnount exceeding $6,000 000° 4. } don't think f have. Q. How much less than $6,000,000 can you aay was the smounty A [will not fix the amount, I know it was very Iargo, | know it was millions, Q. Will you fix any amount short of six miliione which you can poy covers it’ A. 100 not thing it reaches four Millions. * . * Q. Cau you state to the commitiee within a balf mil- tow of dollars the amount of the acceptances of Governor Floyd which you have paid? A, No, #ir, | cannot; we have certainly paid upwards of $3,000,090. and probably $3,200,000, ane canceled them or retiredthem. Q. Does €!,00,000 cover the amount? A.J cannot Ray positively. rs Cap yeu reme x sam which you can be positicn docs cover the amount? A. Lan sure we have paid $2,000,L00 Q. Are fh sure you have paid and cancelled $3,000,000? A. Weil, iam pretty contident in my own mint that we y @ Can you state any amount lar, ‘ov are contident in your own mi a No, sir. ‘ +0 ) Did you pay and eancel Governor Pioyd’s ascent cone to an amount hasger at (he outside ites goteneen Will cover the eum: } ata vory T judge pot; it ia than thet which ‘war paid and cancel. i g i i jits i ned If credence isto be given to amount of acceptances still ont But Mr, Rosella stave nents are Mi dt tinfactory, and be inenan of the comnie of ius bevtoebe, axa 3 § z i 3 Fi 38, Ps z< 5 i i such incapacity to make an exbiit of his affairs, that your have considered it much safer to base their conclusion upon the records furnished by the War Department. These records are themselves oa character too peculiar to be passed without commen’. YROULIAR RECORDS IN THR WAR DEPARTMENT. by vetepenee to the testimony of Mr. Irvin, & ler! the War Department, it will be sro that be kept a reguwtry of acceptances: on loose pieces of paper only, as they wore reported to bim from time to time, asd no ott entry was made. He states, too, that tuere was no re- gistration of the $798,000 of condivional acceptance which fel! into Mr. Batley’s bands, and that iamediat after the discovery of the abstraction of the ponds: Floyd went to his office and directed bia ( enter on order of cancellation of thage acceptances, which he did upon a ep of paper, as Lo bad entered the dates aid amoucts of others chat’ had been iss The acceptances beg in the bands of the Hon. facob Thowpeou, having been placed there by Mr. Bailey ta lieu of the abstracted bende, an Order of caucellanion at euch order agaist the govern ment. on held by other parties the order wo 'y futile, for if legatiy MENT TO RUSS ppears trom the it while these acer two the ammount of miftions of « Waddell were regularly receiving services performed thy money from the governme 2 age the payments made to — the the years 1968, 4559 and 1860 and “a large ‘portion of this pad by the proper officer at Leavenworth City, Kansne, Gov Floya admted in his evidence that eve ptance je “raw agwinet unearned in mex,” and was them (the contraciers) “the f Yet there has not been discov: ution that be made any inquiry abo ene rue’ bimeelt Lo sve that they were, Pphod to the accept i my of Gen, Jobnten, oF ny the Third Aaditor of a det statement presenied to the coma amounts of the earnings apa payments wi) 1 appear, !¢ would, perhaps, be sufficient to say upoo this 1. Rugecit ackuowledges that tere is Row bow em due bie ten for curreut earmugs, bub wos 008 desirable to remove all uncerts 2 this oo and te ascertain positty ther Huseell, Majors & Waddell had ev nitedd claita u paid by that department, ani! y correaponden saccordngly bad with the present Secretary of War, the flon. Joeeub Holt, who referred the letter of the com oGencral J, K, Johnson, Quartermaster Geueral, uel J. P. taylor, Acting Commissary of Gecvral tence. It will be seen from their replics buat no is hos ever been made or allowed. Gemorat 4. gon, bowerer, states that there ie an accoagt unonath to $27.70 47 Still suspended, which the late + ected to be re haced by adisaliow: 6 the sum due thew oo 6 urrent easuings. to be P28,730 4 hich must be deducted $15,060 for a duplie ste ‘Vhis amount was ase by telexeaphti worth, at which place the aecounts of Re Waddell are Kept; and g!though Jude other earnings in New not be largely creased, The farts, ° therefore, are chat Hussell Mojors & Waddell aot oniy absorved a!) the sums earned by them under their omteacrs, avd sold all the bonds they received from Mr. 6 also raived very large sums of money upon ances ifened by the Secretary of War. COMMENTS ON GOV, FLOYD'S The information thus plainly preseated seems to ¢ yoavd that come mention should be made of the co: nication of the late Secretary of War, the Hou, Ju Floyd, addressed to the House, and by the House refe togour Committee. — In his letter occurs this passag «Within the four years since Lhave presided over this depart.cert, not a doliar, | believe, has been lost to the governinent. by embezzlement or theft, and withio that time sixty millions of doliars have been disbursed. system of acministration, no line of poticy eauid, 2 vaink, reach better results. No system of accountapility coutd be more pertect.” It py the best “resuits” are onderstood fo be the depletion of the pubtic treasury ard’ the debasement of public virtue, the approval of the vicious aud the opprobrium of the go0:!; if by “the moet perfect system of ecovuntabiinty” is method of transicting business that promises to negligence, and affords the moet vainavie fe na incentives to fraud, thea, indeed, may the 3eul, ny xico, f not rn may inte Secretary bave reason to gpeak with coufident seif- praises of his om of administration” and * jive of policy.” Whether: not his assertion that thee bas deen no “embezzlement” or “theft” in his depiriment js true, iS a question that wilt roan be decided ta the courts. ‘The reckiessners of his official con iact, pis inut- tention, aud his igunrance of toe detads of ny have vern alreagy ebown, and wii stend ont in au greater distine ness on examination of the contradictions and obscurities of his testimony. Your comantiee wilt therefore leave judgment to be pronounced by the House and by the country, but will Present a8 a valuable coming tw @ correst conclusion @ brief abstr lertimony of the Hoo. J. i’. Benjamin, Unied Siates Senator from Lovisiana:— IMPORTANT TESTIMONY OF SENATOR REIAMIN Mr. Benjunin, whe promptiy appeares at the req of the committee, aad Lestified with commendabl courteous frankness, ew York, ana bis apinie anoceptances issued py Russeli, Majore & Wardell. It was w Jetur that there “ @rafts,”’ as they were thea ca‘led, ‘were offered for negotiation with the agsurance that they Were issued with the approbation of the President end Attorney General Mr. Benjamia visitet the 2 dent and suvmitted the inquiry to kim. The President replied (Lat be knew noth.ng about the matter; that they bad bern ie2ued w.thont any knowiedge of his; that he the legality ¢ did not kuow by virwe of what Inw they were iesued, but that he (Mr. Benjamin) migat rely that “if Gov. Floyd bad jssnet them he bad jesued them properly, and that he bad b u ter apply him (Gov. Floyd) to ascertain by virtue of whi w he was acting. Io pursuance of this suggestion, Mr. Perjamin called on Governor Floyd, aud ws informed by hum thet the matter had not been submitted to tae Attor- ‘eneral, a was Stated; that the drafts were issued in Pursuance of a long established custom of the ol that he was not aware of any law actually axthorizing their issue, that he would inquire into it; that the traias for weneportation which they had contrasted to send from St. Louis to Utah had actually starved on their way; that the payments were to be male, nnder the contract, in instalments, as the trains arrived at diferent points, apd that having received mteiligence of the actual de- parture of the trains he had accepted in advance of thelr arrivale at the intermedinte point, having a certaiaty that they would arrive. ‘1 suggested to him,”” Mr. Ben- min, “that I thought be was acting impr iy —that W any aecident should happen vo those trains by attacks by Indians or any other cause, and they should fail to arrive, it would be impossible for him to pay the accepiances upon intelligence of that fact, and that that would give good reason jor complaints and investigations which would be injurious to hin, and l urged bum to discontinue the practice. Two days afer- words J revived a note from him informing me thus he was obliged for the frank statement 1 had made to hin, anal that, npon refiection, he had deermancd Urat he would accept 3 GOVERNOR FLOYD CONTINURS HIS OLD WANTR, Tt has been shown that, contrary to the assertion of Gover nor Floyd, no practice of ixuing acceptances lid e railed in the War Department previous tv Rimmseis, Coad hn iscned hene accept » ane 5 { eferew alent: , tur ory me > * have proceeded ti £ sat > reuinspection, even if be jy discoutiane his previons policy. 1 apy however, that, — supposing the uote io Sir. Benjamin, before’ referred to, to have beon written a year ago, there have been issued by Go vernor Floyd since that time acceptances to the amount of $2,163 000, viz: in April, $40,000; in fh ag 000; Fane, $366 000; July, $95,000; Auguet, $235,000; Sep- tember, $125,000; October, $270,000, To this amount mast be added the $798,000 of wucodditional acceptances, of which there is try, and the grand total ‘s as above stated. Having boi b's error and its probable consequences distinctly pried out, having expressed hie intention to refs: roan’ the commiseion of similar nets, he et) poy 1 his former course, aud actually issue: ar : £ $155,000 at a date 80 lave as the 1th of (oc sto, Whetber this mani- feat contempt vf » lasebedience of law ant viow- tion of @ solemn prom: a be reconciled with purity of private motives and (aithfulvess to public trusts, is for the House to determine, 1t is the opinion of your com mittee that they cannot. XRCOMMEND ATION® FOR NEW LROISLATION, Your committce have now reported, as far as ascer- tained, aii the material facts connected with thy abstras- tion of bonde from the Interior Department, and with a feries of transactions unprecedented in their charactor sue remarkable for alternate exhibitions of fraud and folly. , the results of the examination they bay made, they submit @ bill tw provide for the more orrtain and effectual punishment of crimes such as those that bave been brought to their notice, and aiso amenda- tory of the second section of the act of Congress ved January 24, 1867, entitled “An act more effectually to en- ttendance of witaesses on the summons of either boure of Congress, and to compe! them to disoloae testimony. beg leave to fi ie that the to demand some further legisiation in rega’ dian Trunt Puna, as a measure of obvious justice and hu- manity to the Indians. All of-which is respectfully snbmitted ou bebalf of the committee. JN. MORRIS, Chairman, Preenvany, 1861. COURT CHAMBERS, BUCREME Refore Hon. Judge Barnard, the question of Central Park extension, ren: The motion for ® retaxzation ust be granted. I am npable to find apy Pay 4 Leda on Clerk toact aa « Leger 4 the purpose ving & proper: exam(nati , Ihave determined to refer the matter to J-bo Fx, 9.—The Court in its decivion »pon the costs of the and re opsnion By A. eecker, Son & Ov. ‘The Fifth Ward Musoum Hotel, *. w. corner West a Franklin et., 26x84 ...... . 825.000 tom the #, w. comer Weet Brond and Resch oe fh and 18. 1K0T Bend BAR... ...19,200 Briere brick a ere ant 10h Gwhb ELalo) 6 @. Cor. Bowed aod wt. A 13 baL0Qagy 198 2.34,500 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1861. aaa —— ice Int«lisgemec, SpoonsG Arey Iv Hk Pane. — wpper end of the dark, ip the reighborboed of ihe brown stone court house, was ‘be scene of a ively aflray yerterday forenoon, be- tween Jobu Kerrigan, of the Croton Acquednet Depart wept op ene tide, and Fatty Weleh, preprietar of a ariak ‘wg ealoon, op the order. Pistols were used on both: * Dot bone of the balls took efleet atter two roaute had deen fred, policeman Cowan, of (he >x'h Net, Ome up and escorted the parties to the Tombs. her uf the | principals were willitg to enter a comp ant. Dewever, | and £0 the matter was diemumeed by the mayssteue The fracar grow out of a difieurty ata bell on Friday nigat, ov which occasion Welen i# maid to have been the aggres. sor, Forry Tuorsasp Dou Or Diamoxps Sa’ A Lveky Discovery —About eleven 0's Moudiy ight, ag private watchin sn Cavanagh was passing thy Maiden lane, he noticed that the Window sbad Meerre. Henle Brothers’ premises, No. 26, @ Bol low ered a6 usual. Suspecting that there miyht ip the store, he called policemen troy aod M the “econd|precinct, to the spot, and calied their atimution tothe tact. Atver some deliberation, t was agree they should procure a key to the outer door the premises. Upon ascending to the third foor the o- ficers found the door of Heule Brothers? offive tiraly » cured irom within. Not kauwung how to tvapee, they bent the watchman tw the propriv'ors’ house, resolving inranwhile to Keep a strict guara ou the premises wnt) bis return, Troy took his postin pear the office door, wh'le McDonough aciet ua seo upon the sidew Scarcely lit the poli their positions when the office voor flew npen ani out rushed two men intent op making ibeii tows sutins. Ove of the feliows, named Charles Crooks, was seimed upon the ivetant by officer Troy. Toe otner burglar, pamed George Turner, mode his w2y down atuirs, bub here Mc street door upon him stepiag tae vrornptiy eon wet i was foum ta opough pub a stop to his ge The prisoners v ducted to the Second wird station hon the uenel macaer. & watch, S100 1 revolver pad a lot of and ott instruments... Upon Mosirs ¥ ottice the offi ad that the burglars bad made extensive preerations On the floor they od for iron, a screwdriver, pair of neppers, 4) koxes oF powder, acoil of fuse, a biowp powder in‘o the sufe,aniatie. Tho safe h found an tren the other worth of dismonds. dill, with two bus, one for plereing: + moved from its \sual position, by the wall, and the burgiars were eagaged on the work of driking when they eo! aod captured, a3 previnisly stated. The prisoners, on being brought befor: ‘Yombs, yeaterday, stated that Uhey to the premises about hulfypast six both Englishwen, avd pot ovee 25 age They exprersed great regret at having been disturbed as & mt ment when they thought all was see, an? the dle mond were withiu reach of their grasp, aad assured the Kelly, at the ao entranes sk. ‘They are magistrate that if they had been leit ane for an hour or s0 Jonger, ‘Le copients of the safe, ivelnding ihe £10, 000 worth of diamonde, wouln have been there, Justice ed for tr Kelly committed the act $2,000 dul. » cach in defanit of Personal Inteltigenc GN. Shaw, and C.A. Dorr, of Boston; Misses Jolia anc Margwet Evans, of Philadelphia, are stopping at the Clarenien Motel. Major FP. Doege and wife, of Washington: G. Dishicl, of Memphis: Gamevell, Soutn Carolina. S. With, Adams. of Rye, ave stopping at the Gov Cc Capt.Dawson, of the United states Arwy; W. F. w, Baltimore; A,B. James, Ogdensburg; Ospood Brodley aud family, of Massa nvsrtts, are stopping at the Ascor House, MM. Sloat, of Vermont; Samuel M. Rainebeck, of New Ww labama; M Baliwin, of Norw shoil, of Waterbury, Conn., are Latas ge House sopping at th Robert Ould and W. W, Capt. Robinson and Frauk Hoger, of the United Staves Corcoran, of Washingten; W. Thomas, of London, 0. W.; T. D. Archbald, of sydney, and J. J.’Moneil, of Newburg, are stoppiag at the Brevoort Honse. F. C. Clark aud C. EF Smith, of Philadelobia; Henry Bryant and E. Kent Boston; |. HH. Huntington, of J. Migcaw, of Connecticut, and I ZO, ave stopping at the Everett House, A. A. Paton, of Hatifax; F. Toft and G. P. Osborn, of ‘op; A. F. Harvey and W, T. Carrington, of Vie givie; R. D. Slevin aud &. Wider, 0: wuicky,and T. C, Lewis and wile, oF Philadelphia, are stopping ut the St. Nicholas Hotel. Rey. W. G. Anderson, of Cape Towa, C. G. H ton, J. Hartshorn end J. H. White, of Bosto of Rocbester; U. J. Bowen, of Chicago; M Cincionati; © C. €: SN, t evur! ; are stopping at the Fifth Avenue Mo W. W. MeOreery, U.S. A., John ney v Mores McDonald av‘ Hon W. K Kimbell, Maryland; S. U. Kumsom, A.C M. Penungton, J. 8. Covrad, 4. J. Foard, XK. 0. Tyler and G, 8. Hartenf, U.S. A.: Ton. W. B. Preston, Virginia, Hon. A. R. Bonghter, Hon. J. K. Robison, Penn aylva: Judge Allen, Massachusetts; Commander Ward, VU. S.N., me in Washington. tered at Mesars. Sherbette, Kane & Co 's, janvary t4:—Mr. J. A. J. Natie, New York: Heary and lady, Phitadelphia; Wm. E. Baler and lady, . in aod lady, Philadelphia; J. 8. Pare ridge aud Jamily, A. Van Bergen, New York orge J. Ruende)l, San Fravciseo; Theodore Heard, Boston, C. W. Rover aud lady, U. 8. A.; H.C. Southwick and lady, New York; Wm. F. Rocloseen, Cincinnati; Dr. P. Ruesetl, Dr. Chas. Phelps, New York; E. f. Sambulini, /’hiladet- phia; R. M. Prat jew York. Tho President elect was born on the 12th of February, 1809, and was therefore tifty two yours of age yerterday. Jt is not the intention of General Cass to leave Wash ington before the 6th of March, being determined to seo President Lincoln inangurated. He says it ia Ube last ceremony of tbe kind he shall probably ever see. Jobn McKinney, late Treasurer of Michigan, ehurged with the embezzlement of moneys of the state. was rested at Lansing, on Monday, and held in $26,000 Rizances to appear for examination. Pe en te NTS FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Turspay, Feb. 12—6 P, M. The following is a comparative statement of the exports (exclusive of specie) from New York to foreign ports for the week and since January 1:— 1859. 1860. 1861. Total for the week. . $1,028 482 1,404,754 2,664,873 Previously reported. 4,749,918 7,378,490 = 13,432,094 Since January 1...$6,778,400 8,750,284 16,000,007 The continued excess over last year—still about 100 per cent—accounts, in part, for the condition of the foreign exchange market, Such a move- mentof produce from this port to Europ: has taken place since last September ia without pre- cedent, and the firmness of the foreign markets in the face of the large receipts from here is equally unparalleled. We recommend exporters to be cautious; England cannot go on forever taking two and a half millions of produce per week from New York, to soy nothing of ihe exports from Poston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile and New Orleans, without a tremendous fal! in prices some day. The collapse in foreign exchange ia the event of the day. This afternoon the best bankers’ bills were sold at 10414, and first rate mercantile bills sold at all kinds of rates, from 103 to 104. Some very good bills could not be sold at all. Yet there is very little exchange in the market, and a slight increase of demand would soon put up the rate. The indications are, we regret to say, that we are on the eve of another dead lock in the foreign ex- change market, caused by the vast disproportion between our imports and our exports, Our foreign importers owe so little to Europe, and there is so much difficulty in raising money on mercantile paper, especially jobbers’, that the wheels of the commercial marhine threaten once more—as carly in December last—to come to a stand still through the excess of the conntry’s wealth. The remedy must be more purchases of bills by onr foreign bankers, with orders for returns in specie. At the present rate of exchange, after allowing for freight, insurance, commissions and long interest, there is a very handsome profit till remaining on the importation of gold from Europe. How the collapse in foreign exchange will suit our Eu- ropean friends is a topic of much anxious speon- Jation. It will, in all probability, take them una- wares; and, coupled with the advices of the probable enactment, of the Morrill tariff, must, one would suppose, lead to a good deal of embarrass- ment. The stock market was strong to-day, and prices advanced al) round. Severa! members of the board pre advieod by thoir political friends at Washing- ton that the pending difficnlty will be adjusted be- fore Many days elapse; and asin that event it is natural to «uppove thatthe abundance of money, the low prices of stocks and the large raitway traffic in the West would lead to a revival of specu- Jation on the Stock Exchange, the knowing ones weem to be buying in advance. Thus we have to report to-day an advance of 3 per cent in [linois Central, 2% in Galena, 2 in Erie, 24 Rock Islan’, 2 in Michigan Central, 2 in Hudson and 2 in Toledo, All there roads are earning a good deal of money; on some of them—as, for instance, the Mlinois Central—the traffic is enormous. In the month of January that road moved 70,01 tons of freight. Hiad +t not been for ihe prosent orisia the stock wou'd probably have been far above par- State stock were a!) better to-day. Tetnevsces advanced 1), ty on the news of the triampia of the Union party a) the ele nginias }, and Missorris 32,. some State ks and govern- wents hove cowe fem Europe for sale; but, as @ eenere) y it is contrary t experience to expect Exroyeans to sell their Amerivan stocks in consequence of the decline. Europeans a | riably sell on a yising and hoy on a fall- } ing market. hig afternoon the market wae | strong. and stocks closed firm, th being the quotation: a 88; Virgini Missouri's, 16 ere Gay a on, 34a lb * beriand Coal eferved, 7% w 8%: Pacific M 8: York Central, 741, 4943 Erie, om, 1624 at a 80; New Madson Riv ferred, 4 417,845 Bai leading, higan Michigan Southern and 22; do. guaranteed, 3 4 0, 7235 o Cleveland and Po- : Chicago and Rock Island, 58% a 4p >, Burlington and Quiney, 7174 a 72. The following was the business of the Sub-Trea- $51.920 00 Fey customs. Payments. Polance.... It is probable that the trial of ex-Secretary wing out of the iega? issee develope the most astounding frauds ever brought to light in this couniry. Mr. Floye issued suout six millions of dollars worth of these eptances, which were sold in this and other markets at very high rates of interest. Some of the 4 es are said to lave found their way to Lurope, What becaine of them ultimately we shal! not probably know until the trial takes place. Seme, doubtless, were duly met and paid outef the appropriations made by Congress. It is alleged that others were paid ont of the pro- ceeds of the bonds stolen from the Interior De partment; anda large portion ave still believed to be afloat in the hands of innocent parties. The form of the acceptances was such that no prudent business man would have been likely to bay them; sill, from the fact that over six millions are said to have been put in circulation, it is clear that néta few capitalists were deluded by the hi sounding title of the Secretary of War, The trial will take a high rank among our canses celebres. The Secority Fire Insurasce Company has de clored its nsna) semi-annual interest dividend of three and a half per cent, payable on demand. The steamer Arizona, from Bra. with $122,000 in specie, arrived at New Orleans yesterday. The Chicago Tribune, under date of Friday evening, remarks:—- Exchange opened freely to each oiber, 3 ing exchange roore ing, w the afternoon » 625 and the mark: for the day bas t po change in the general mi Business is moving along quietly, with abundance of Drews in the hands of bankers to discount all the logiti mate paper that offers, At New Orleans, on Monday evening, February: 4, exchange was quoted as follows :— ‘The counter rate for checks on New York uniform at 14 discount. Outside drawers sold at %, ™ 34 disoonnt down to % aX discount, Double Al thirty days sight sold at 7,214 mt; sixty days sight at 2 discount. Sterling—Clear at 105, und otlered very freely at from that t9 1054;, with esles at 103%, 2 10534. Hills with dochments attached at 104, aud other saias at 10237 8106 and 10344. The rate on Paris. ditect, 6.40 a 6 3734. The etatements of the Philadelphia banks for the- past two weeks compare as follo Feb.4. Feb. I. «+ $11,807,586 11,807,415 Ine. $280 Love... + 25,801,982 25 450,231 Dec. 354,70» Specie. ++ 4,538,054 4,747,185 Inc, 209/131 hue from other banks, 2,104,849 1,992 828 Dec. 112,521 Due to other banks... 2 699,627 21454,700 Dec. 44.927 Deporits. 15,296,458 15,049,488 Dec. 146,015. Cirenlavion..... 2,778,318 2,525,002 Ine. $7,634 The Michigan Sonthern road earned the first week in February :— Capital stock 1861 929,555 87 1860. at 00 oaunnt Ten The Galena road carved in the first week of February :— eee 1860 Increase. The Cleveland and Toledo week gives :— 1661 1860, d for the same $18 O54 16 Ost - sree $1,378 The receipts and shipnieots of flour, grain, live stock, provisions, &c., by all the railroads leading out of this city during the past weck were as fol- lows :— Increase... Shipped. Flour, bbis.. 21,064 Wheat, busbels 18,348 1,936 w Rye, bushels, Barley, bushels. TB. Pork, bie... ° Cut meats, Ibs. Live bogs, bumber Dreseed hogs, numver. Beet cattle, number ‘The total receipts of to 100,248, ogamst 37,780 bbls. during the corresponding time in 1800; of wheat, 694,665 bushels, agninst 252,244 bushels im 1860; of corn, 772,835 bushels, against 071,- 979 bushels in 1860; of hogs, live and ireased, 142,423, against 49,786 in 1860; of beef cattic, 10,851, against 6585 in 1860. Stock Exchange. Tersvay, Fob. 12, 1861, 500 she Har RR pf. 40 1209 a>. ~o 800 Reading “a 250 av, 50 44 wo. db DO 4545 s+ TU 126 Mich Cem RR... 561 1/000 Missouri 6... 66 50, do, #20 100 a0... 88 66 300 1000 MC Spe listed. 98 100 6000 Mich So2mb. 64 400 6000 Chi&NW let m. 40 P WO... DOO 2000 Michsosinf dds 75 350 Mich 80 & NT RR 1000 Gal&Chi let m. 9555 160 Miso & Nigs.sk@ 83 1000 Gal&Chizdmbe, 92 290 J0CO OBAQRSpedae, 9944 5 shs Bk of NAm.. 97 1@ Metropolitan sk. 105 160 Harlem RR . 180 Crovcccess TON ‘0 50 Mil & Miss KR... 12 6 Clev, Col & Cin RR 100 Clove & Pitta RR. 176 Pacific M 88 Co... 50 do. #30 360 Gal & Chic RR... 460 do, 810 50 do, sees 600 Cleve & Tol RR.. 650 an r 200 a do. 200 do. 70 Chic & Xi 100 do, 200 do 160 do. © aio, 750 do. 100 49. £0 do. 200 Chi, Bur & Q RR. BOARD. 6) sbawiCen RR. bIO 50 90-6 DIO 0 Mi S & Nila Re, a MO. ceee TO 86 ChiareQuin RR 16000 N Carona 6a 7 100 MISOKNT gu’d eth f00 i eMRR bids, 85), 20 wv 8000 MOS polmoird 9 6000 Han &SiJoeRh 4000 dO... 80ehe Bapk of Com, 4 Harlem Railroad, 90 ee DAO 20 Hudeon Riv RR. 100 Harlem RK pref., y 00. CITY COMMERCIAL REPORT, Turspay, Feb, 12-6 P.M. Asim —The markot wae rtendy nnd prices uedbanged, while the sales etabraced small Tots of pots at 6 1160, and of pearls wt 64. Brranerems — Fiovr—The market was heavy and easier