The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1865, Page 8

8 OUR NATONIL FINANCES, The New Secretary of the Treasury. HUGH McCULLOCH. HIS FINANCIAL VIEWS. The Effect ot an Inflated Currency. GOVERNMENTS SHOULD NOT BE BANKERS, The Dangers of a Country Like Ours Issuing Paper Money, SPECIE PAYMENTS NECESSARY. THE NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM. UNIFORM INTEREST AND USURY, &e., &., &e, Ithaving now become pretty well settled that Mr. Hugh McCulloch, the present Comptroller of the Cur- reucy, will become the head of the Finance Department of the government after the 4th of March next, we give some extracts from his reports, speeches and letters, in erder to show his position and sentiments in regard to the financial situation of the country, These extracts will also serve to foreshadow his policy and future course. In his report of November 28, 1863, he speaks thus of the NATIONAL CURRENCY ACT. 1 arrency act, although admirable in its Mending f =, i8 not altogether symmetrical in its arrangement, vor clear, if it is even consistent in all of its Provis.ons. eotfully suggest, therefore, that the act be carefully revised; that those’ parts of it that reier t be placed in juxtaposition, and that it 1 of ¢ rtain obseuritics and apparent inconsist trender some of its provisions of difficult con- A eo much importance as this, which A by «0 many people, and is to be the banking institutions, should be m thodical in ils arrongem nt, clear in language, and co prebensive and consivient in its provisions. In these Fespects the national currency act is somewhat defective. Sections relating to the same ject are scattered throughout the 2 Words of different significance are sometimes used as if they were convertible. Many pas- gazes are ambiguous in language, if they do not contain §ncons.stent provisions. (OF ACERS OF BANKS, IXSTZAD OF STOCKHOLDERS, OUGHT TO BE HELD RUXPONSISLE. Inr‘ead of the liability of the stockholders, many of whom have little voice in the management of their danke, would suggest that section 12 be so amended ‘that the failure of a nutional bank be declared prima fae fraudulent, and that the officers and directors under ove administration euch insolWwency shall occur be wad. persvnuliy liable for the debts of the bauk, and be P.nished criminally, uniess it shall appear, upon investi- gation, that its affairs were honesty adininistered, UMPORM KATIE OF INTEREST, The expediency of making the rate of interest uniform throughout the country is mantiest. The objection to Rational lesisiation upon this subject is that the States ar: suppored to have the exelusive right to regulate the fnterest upon loans of money. It is true that the power to regulute thre rates of intercst at which money shall be Joaned has always been exercised (except im the ease of the United States Bank) by the States; also true that the laws upén this subject in the @ifferent States have been various and changable. There are scarvely teu States in the Union whose interest laws are oxactly alike. Few things have been more embar- Taesing to the trade between the different sections of the eountry, and none have been more prolific of litigation aud conilicting judicial ns, than the different and frequently changing !eg slation of the States in fixing the value of the ure of mouey, Whatever opinions may have heretofore obtained upon the subject, there are now ‘very fow ‘ntelligent business men of the country, who have watched the effect upon trade and exchanges of the @iforts of the States to establish by law the rates of interest, who are not agreed in the epinion that the regulation of commerce between eo Stites cannot be perfectly accomplished with- the establishment of a uniform rate of int-rest roughoul the Union. The commerce of the country fgnores Stste boundaries, and Congress has the excli- sive right of rerulating it. Congress ought, th -refore, t have the incideutal power of preventing the States from emburrassing commercial intercourse between the sople of tho Suucs, which is done to no littie extent, by Enetr xing diferent rates of interest upoi maouey.” 1¢ euch power exists in Congress it ought to be exercised. Jo my judgment it is demanded both by considerations of public policy and public convenience. But whatever opinions muy bo entertained in regard to the general futhority of Congrese to regulate the rate of interest ‘upon loaus of money, there can be but little question of power (o regulate the rate which shall be charged by the banks through which # nationui circulation is to be fasued, and which are organized under 4 national law. ‘Unless it possesses tis power the national government must divide with the States the eontrol of the aflaire of Danks created to carry out its rightful, acknowledged aud mecossary functions Ax the law new stands banks in New York and Michigan can charge seven per cent on theirJoans, while those of New England and most other States are restricted to six; and Siate laws can be so framed as to attract capital to be invested in nations Danks Wo largely into particular or to prevent @eob an investiwent of it in such states altogether, charter of so vsurY. After recommending that the penalty for usury be a forfeiture of the interest instead of a forfeiture of the @edt, on which more than the legal rate is taken, and ‘that the banks in the large commercial cities be oved $m certain contingencies from all penalties for usury, Mr. McCulloch says:— NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1985. Poston, &e., from all penalties for usury, whenever i€ ehall be thought that te interests will be pro- motod thereby. rus maar WOE Cr 60 Lad The juciviows use of the power possessed by the of Pacinnd of chasing, by. on ane the rate of in- terest, excessive and the creation of a foreign to be by shipments of coin, has queully prevented Saancial cnses in Great Britain. same power, Fw arey 4 and resolutely wielded by the banks of New York as a unit, in havo saved mumions se the United States, years before national banks will now held by the State banks in that clty, bat have it in due time; and when this is th tory restrictions should prevent them from the beneiit of the country, ERPECT OF “AN INFLATED CURRENCY. is apparently the Ts It is frequently the case that mone} most plenty when there ia the least of it in cireulation, and the scarcest when it has attained the highest point, before @ financial crisis, An increase of the circulaing medium inflates pri require an increa:ed circula'ion, 40 they up-n cach other; and there appears to be no currency, no matter how vast the volume may be, until a collapse takes place, and what was supposed t be ral ts shown to be without a substantial foundation. The following extracts are from Mr. McCulloch’s last report, which he made in November, 1864:— GOVERNMENTS SHOULD NOT BE BANKERS. Governments should not be bankers. None has ex- isted which could be safely trusted with the privilege of permanently deauing its Own notes as money. Under popular institutions Ii ‘no more corrupting prwer eculd be lod in pos gn ent, more preity, ‘and free elections. Give to « party dominant in jegislative and executive branches of the government the authority of issuing paper money for the purpose of fur- nishing the country with its carrency, subject as it would be to no restraint but‘its own. ure, and What guarantee would there be that this authority would be honestly and judiciously used? If there were no risk in the prepara- tion of the notes, and checks were led to make fraudulent issues an impossibility, the power of issuing government apoor as a circulating medium is too danger- ous a one to be conferred upon any party, except under ex- traordinary cireutustances. _ ’ Pr “APER 3 Now, what ts needed in a.paper circulating medium is that it should be convertible into coin; that it should be sufficient in amount to answer the purposes of legitimate business; that it should not, on the one hand, ty being overissuetd, encourage extravagance and speculation, and give an artificial and unreliable value to proper'y; nor, on the other hand, by being reduced below the proper stan- dard, interrupt business and unsettle values. It should be supplied to just the extent of the demands of a healthy trade, It should be increas.d as the regular bu: of the country may require its increase, and be diminished as the pr. per demand for it is diminished. BANK ISSUES. ‘an : _ pementes, sak beaks of kapha Pape furnished ind of circulation. notes, with few i hats teen acti belo cia ee Gon a eae Jor coin, and inconvertible when there was. They have, ‘too generally, been issued for the exclusive benefit of the bankers, and’not for the convenience of the public, and they have encouraged speculation, when their true mis- sion was to facilitate trade. It has been the bane of a bank note circulation that it has been expanded by the avarice of the bankers, and contracted by the distrust that overissues have created, GOVERNMENT 188UR8, Now, this objection to a bank note circulation applies with much greater force to government issues, There is always inducement enough for banks to keep up a full circulation, and against excessive issues there are the re- tions of law and the liability to redeem. Govern- ent notes, In the issue thereof, would be regulated only by the necessities of the government cr the inereats of tle party in prwer. At one timo they might be in- creased altogether beyond the needs of commerce and trade, thereby enhancing prices and inducing speculation; at another, they might be so reduced a8 to embarrass business and pre- cipitate financial disasters, They would be incomparally worse in this rexpect than a bonke nole currency, because the power that should control circulation would be the power that furnishes it. Supplied by an authority not in sym- pathy with trade, they would not be accommodated to the requirements of trade, They might be the full volume when there was the least demand fora full culation, and the most contracted when there wi healthy demand for an increase, They would eventually become an undesirable circulation, because the id bi vhich the redemption of them would be a dangerous circuletion, be they would be under the control of political partie unrelia'/e circulation, because, having no connection with traie and commerce, they would not be regulated by their necessities, TUS EVYECT OF A PLETHORA OF MONEY. When money is plenty, and fortunes are being rapidly acquired, the country is always ina feverish and un- healthy ‘state. This is expec ally true at the present tume, “The enormous expenditures of the government, and the great advances in prices since the commence: ment of thewar, have made many persona suddenl: rich, and, upon ‘fortunes suddenty acquired, have fol- lowed reckless expeditures, extravagance, waste. Specn- lation 1s taking the place of sober and persev indus- try, and thousands are deluded with the notion that the wealth of the nation is being increased by the increase of its indebtedness. THK COMPTROLLER HAS FRARS POR THE NATIONAL RANKS, The inaug ‘ration of a new system of banking, under such circunstances, is peculiarly hazardous, and I have been, from the tine of my app sintment, more apprehen- sive that too many banks would be organized than that the system would not be suificiently attractive to induce capitalists to become connected with it. ‘The government is the great borrower. Its « bligations compose a large portton of the discount line of the banks, which are making large profits on government securities at little apparent risk, and the danger is that the national bank- ing system, with all its restrictions, may, during the s pension of specie payments, and continuance of war, add to the plethora of paper money; and that, when the war is over, the banks, deprived of the existi means of investment in government obligations, and flading no legitimate use for their capitals, may be tempted to use them in encou operations that will eventually prove to be as unprot le to themselves: ‘as they will be injurious to the country. For the double purpose, therefore, of keeping down the national circula- tion as far as it has seemed possible to do it, consistently with the establishment of the system throughout the country, and preventing an increase of banking capital, that might hereafter be instrumental in keeping up the inflation and retarding the resumption of specie pay- ments, or prove anprotitable to its owners, I have felt it to be my duty to diseourage, in many instances, the organization of new banks, and in more instances to refuse my sanction to the increase of the capital of those already organized. In doing so I may seem to have exer- cived a power not warranted by the act; but if not sus- tained by its letter, have been by its spirit, and I am willing to let the future decide as to the correctness or incorrectness of my course, COMING COLLAPSE, The expenditures of the government have created a reat expansion of curren dof prices. There would Five undoubtedly boen an expausion, in a less degree it je true, but still an expansion, if the war had been car. ried on upon a specte basis. "Prices of all the necessa- ries of life as well as luxuries, and of everything which nment must purchase in the prosecation of the war, ar usly high, and the penalty is yet to be paid; flaiion, in inereased taxation and the Tuin which must overwhelm the thousands who beheve, fot upon the belief, that the apparent prosperity of intry is real, and is not to be interrupted. Fortu- the countey be if the war ean be closed and the g Few questions have been more frequently and tho- Pouchly discussed, or in relation to which there beer ference of opinion b Bave viewed it from dis ef one who bas lived tal is abundant gnd no w : will, of course, be very different fr has lived (jn Minnesota or California, and noticed th which have resulted from tho high rates which Bas commanded in thon States, MONEY AND ITS VALUE. Notwithstanding the fact that money ia the standard of | value, it is not free from the operations of the great regu- Jatiny law of supply and deinand, Where money ws abundant sis cheap, where scarce it is dear; and no vyitlaiwn has tren able to control the fect of this general law. There is no ne. oessity for usury lwo in most gf the States at the present time, becauce money is abunddht and lenders are plenty, and borrowers are searce, Whon the war is over, and Darinoss gous back again to its accustomed channels, and the disbursements of the government are lary tailed, borrowers will be plenty and lenders scarce. Gause usury laws are not needed now, it does not fo Shat they will ot be req A at no very distant doce it follow, because legislation has not able absoluiely to regulate the value ws: of money, and becwse all usury Inwe are frequently evaded, that, the , these laws | gre inefficacious and unwive. Usury laws, no matter how much they have becn evaded, have had t «tof preventing, to some extent, excessive ct on loans Of mouey, | There ts scarcely a banker of money londer fm the country who has not often been restr tn his money he hag loaned by the usury ¢. Inail countries, in whi (he. " ‘beer h ot a siperabundance of capital, usury laws have Deen found neve whose interest it is % borrow money charges thore who have it tol mations is not to bo disregarded. fa the form of the p @reated by law. Gold and &: coined and made such by t d, and the expe Money, whether it be Js or of bank notes, is until authority of the govern ment. It ie not, like merchandise or other persoval pro. perty, the result of man's industry, but a creation @f te government, and sovernm nt, which fixes @e valuo that shall be placed upon it, has the right to way, and it is its duty to cay, what shall be @harged forthe use of it. Of course solvent bank notes, Ghetber teoued by national or Stote 4 depend for their value as money upon the valuc coin of the United States. The only question, then, iv it is necessary to consider in this connection is, what penalty shal! be attached to violations of usury laws On this nt lam “i opinion that while the penalty should oor h aa will protect the borrower frei opprosion, it Should not be of sach a character as to tempt (oo strongly his houor, or to compel both the lender and borrower to Fesort (o shifts for ite evasion, which make money dearer Yo the latior than it otherwise woult be. The laws of Phose States thet make void all usurious contracts, even fim the hands of innocent parties, and punish usury as a Grime, are impolitic and unwise; those laws that make valid contracts for any rates of interest which may be agreed upon are scarcely iess 20. RECOMMENDS THAT THE SHORRTARY OF THR TREASUNY NAVE POWt TO RELIRVE THe NANKS PROM THE PRNALTIOS FOR ‘OSURT. Inasinuch ae the history of all commercial nations bas ghown it to be occasionally necessary, for the regulation @f trade between them and other nations, that the rate of Snterest should be under the control of an authority lees ry than statutes, I further recommend that the Of the Treasury, oF a commission to be oreated Congress, be authorized (eo) peeeety to relieve the ational banks ia the cities of Vhiladelphia, New York, dards without a collapse, in the extent of ils disaster 0 of the last war with magnitude. NATIONAL BANKS OUGHT TO REDEEM IV New YoRK, ¢ are too Inany poimts at which the ba n their notes. All, with the ¢ WY short timé as the business of your customers will permit, and iusist upon the payment of all paper al maturity, DO matter Whether you need the money or not. Never re- new @ note or merely becaise uu may not know where to place the money with a advantage if the paper is paid. In no other way can Fv control your discount Seo orate it atall Distribute your rather than concentrate them in a iow | bende, jamee Large loans ton; single individual or am. proper necessary, are gene! inyudicious, and frequently unsafe. Larg?’ rs are apt to control the bank; and when this is the relation between a bank and its customers it i¢ not difficult to de- cide which in the end will saffer. Every dollar that a bank loans above its capital and surplus it owes for, and its managers are therefor) under the strongest jons to its creditors, as well as to its stockholders, to keep ite discounts constantly under its control. Treat your customers lberally, bearing in mind the fact that a bank prospers as its customers prosper, but never permit them to dictate your policy. If you doubt the propriety of discounting an offering, give the bank the benefit of the doubt and decline it; never make a discount if you doubt the Ly of doing it. If you have reason to distrust the integrity of acustomer close his account. Never deal with a rascal ‘under the impression that you can vent him from cheating you. The risk in such cases is greater than the ita. In business know no man’s politics, Manage your bank as a business institution, and let no political par- tiality or prejudice influence your judgment or action in the conduct of its affairs. The national currency system 1s intended for a nation, not fora party. As faras in you lies keep it aloof from all partisan influences. Pay your officers such salaries as will enable them to live comfortably and respectably without stealing; and require of them their entire services. If an officer lives beyond his income, dismiss him; even if his excess of expenditures can be explained consistently with his in- tegrity, stl dismiss him. Extravagance, if not a crime, very naturally leads to crime. A man cannot be a safe officer of a bank who spends more than he earns. be # reality, not a fiction; The ital of a bank should and it be owned by those who have money to lend, and not by borrowers. The Cor will en- deavor to prevent, by all means within his control, the creation of @ nominal capital by national banks, by the use of their circulat.on, or any other artificial means; and in his efforts to do thisj he confidently expects the co-operation of all the well-managed banks. Every banker under the national system should feel that the reputation of the system, in a measure, depends upon the manner in which his particular institution is conducted, and that, as far as his influence and manaze- ment extend, he is responsible for its success; that he is engaged in an experiment, which, if successful, will re- flect the highest honor upon all who are connected with it, and be of incalculable benefit to the country; but which, if unsuccessful, will be a reproach to its advocates and a calamity to the people. It should bea chief aim, therefore, of the managers of the banks, to make their respective institutions strong; not only to keep their capital {rom being impaired, but gradually to create a surplus that will be a protection to their capital and to their creditors in the trying times that sooner or later happen to all banking institutions. There are few items that haveabetter look upon the balance sheet, and none that is better calculated to give aid and comfort to the managers of a bank, and to secure for it the confidence of the people, than a large surplus fund. Create, then, a good surplus, even if you have for a time to keep your stockholders on short com- mons in the way of dividends to do it, Pursue a straightforward, upright, legitimate banking business, Never be tempted by the prospect of large ro- turns to do anything but what inay be properly done under the National Currency act. “Splendid fnancier- jug” is not legitimate banking, and “splendid finan- cicrs,” in banking, are gencrully either humbugs or rascals, Recollect, especially at the present time, that {t shoukl be the object of ail honorable bunkers to ¢xpedite, as far as practicuble, rather than to postpoue, a return to specie payments, While the exigences of the nation have required that the issues of the government should be a legal tender, it must never be forgotten that the business of the couniry rests upon an unsound basis, or, rather, is without @ proper basis, as long as the government and the banks are not meeting their obligations in coin, The Comptroller therefore earn- estly recommends that every bank retain the coin received from the government for interest on ils publi¢ securities, and not be tempted by high premiums to dispose of i. the national banks can do would tend 80 ly to secure for them the confidence of the public, or to restore the finances of the country to a healthy condition, as the gradual accumulation by them of a specie reserve. The eyes of the pooplo are turned to the national banks. ‘The indications ure strong that if they are we ll saanaged they wil furnish the country with its bank note circulation. It is of the last importance, then, that they should be 30 managed. The sincere efforts of the Comptroller will not be wanting to make the system a benetit to the country. May he not expect that these efforts, on his part, will be sustained by the efforts of the managers of the banks that have been or may be organized under it? UGH McCULLOCH, Comptroller. NEWS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Successful Expedition of the Pwelfth New York Cavalry. Wholesale Desertion of the Rebel Soldiers. OFFICERS AND MEN &e., &., DESERTING ALIKE, do. Our Newbern Correspondence. Newnery, N. C., Feb. 20, 1865, EXPEDITION OF THE TWELFTH NEW YORK CAVALRY. An expedition of two or three companies of the Twelfth New York cavatry and an equal number of infantry re- turned this morning from Little Washington, on the Tar river, in which vicinity they captured between twenty and thirty rebel soldiers, mostly from the Sixth North Carolina gavalry. No shots were exchenged, and it was not much of an undertaking to make the capture, In fact, the Sixth North Carola cavalry regiment is fast being depleted by desertions, and rebel soldiers gonerally in this region of the confederacy are becoming dis- gusted, demoralized, and disloyal to the rebel govern- ment. Every day more or less deserters céme into our Hines at this point, some bringing horses with them, some their muskets, and some even their fami- lies. The sentiment in North Carolina is becoming almost universal fora return to the good old Union, on almost any terms. Among those brougut in by the expedition this morning were a few officers, a Lieutenant Satter- thwaite, whose father was chairman of Governor Vance's private connell lust year, being one of them. He was glad to come in, and even gave the whereabouts of brother of Lis, whom our troops paroled, on account of his being too sick to be brought in. Newbern is having its sanitary condition thoroughly NEW BOOKS. Notices ofNew Publications in New York, Philadelphia and Beston. One of the mest complete and valuable treatises that Iaas ever been published ‘ cis country on the homwo pethic theory and practiceaf medicine has just been issued by Mr. Wm. Radde, an enterprising publisher of this aity. ‘The authors are Dra. E. E Marcy and F. W. Hunt, two professors eminently qualified by their edtid learning and long experience for the work to which they have so well deveted their time, energies and research Such a work as this was long needed, but none wore found fully ‘equal to the task who were willing to undertake the labor and responsibility of #0 vast and important # work. The two volumes we now have before us completely fill the void. They are intended equally to aid the medical man im the pursuit of his arduous and practionl duties, as well as to assist the neophyte who has just entered THE GULF. Ratification of the Constitutional Amend- ment by the Louisiana Legislature. Alarming Increase of the Bar For- mations at the Mouth of the Mississippi River. The residence of Mra. A. Stone, No. 815 Smith THE DRAFT IN _ LOUISIANA, | the portals of the temple of medicim In the | © p was omtered and robbed of ke, acs he. —_| Pref Preface to their work, the authors say thot thelr viata’ Jomoliy, Ba, to tho valne of $100. object throughout has been to present to the medical Pian va cau mae = profession and the friends ef homéopathy ® compre- opnzuz Coumt—Cinoure. —Cour atten Tho steamship Evening Star, Captain Bell, from New | hensive and intelligible view of the principles and prac onlock A.M sNow. 1261 1407, €87, 900, 080, Orleans 184 instant arrived at this post yesterday. The | tices of that school, as itis now represented by its best 900, 92, 004, S98, 1600, 16o4, 1610, ao, 1023, 1 purser will accept our thanks for prompt delivesy of | writers and practitioncrs; to enabody, as far as tho wide | 2082 1%)" Arlt. paane eat Soe O07. 86, 108T, anapeteben, range of subjects permitted, the latest opinions and | 938, 940, 948, 958, 976, ‘L417, T11,, 826, 872, 243, 1016, 672, deat Scrxwor Covrr—Teiat, Tena. Court oy Common Pieas—Adjourned. ——————— SHIPPING NEWS. YORE—THIBS DAY. vare 88 The steamship Fung Shuey, Captain Hildreth, from New Orleans 18th inst., also arrived at this port yester- day. The purser will aecept our thanks for favor, Our New Orleans Correspondence. New Onraane, La, Fob. 18, 1805. ‘THE DRAFT IN LOUISIANA, theories of investigators of every school on pathology and collateral sciences connected with medicine, and to give to all enquirers after advanced scientific truth, the opportunity to investigate those principles and to me them tested by facts, as illustrated tm the clinical expe- rience of » large number of reliable observers. ‘These prefatory romarks will give the reader a very MOON SETS... 6 @| mam water... ‘The draft in this State has commenced in earnest, In | general idea of the immense flold of rosoarch and | a9: <n rrr Orleans and Jefferson parishes the quota is 4,148. The | observation embraced in this usoful work. To give| Port of New York, February 20, 1965, drawing comménced on Wednesday last, at No, 45 | any connected synopsis of ita contents would be simply ~ ARRIVED. Carandalet street, and is under the superintendence of | impossible in a newspaper notice. Suffice M to say | | Steamship Evening Star, Bell, New Orleans, mS Captain Joseph Hibbert, A. A. G,, Headquarters, Depart- | that the first volume begins with an interesting history | chs was detained 14 hours ait handy Hook by heavy . ment ofthe Gulf, The first day five hundred and six | of medicine from the time of the Egyptians to that of | | Steamship Fung Shuey, Hildrth, Now Orleans, pames wore drawn from the wheel out of three thou- | the Turks, passing in review the theories of Asculaptua, Thgod very heat Weather and thick fog iad sand five hundred and thirty elgnt which were placed | Hippocrates, Aristotle, Plato, Celsus, Galen, Hahnemann | ,,Steamnsiip Ben Deford, Loveland. Milton Mand via Dente in. Double the number of namos required in each | and many of the other ancient and modern profesgors of | Medical Director. is mah ard Ni district will be drawn for the purpose of covering, | the art. It then troats of the general principles of medi. | {iv tnvinclbe cof Boston), Tester, Hem Kennstece, ay ff possible, those who may be exempted. The draw- | cal science, and of the arrangement and classification of | 2007 W, spoke ship Sumatra (Br), from Liverpool, for ay ing so far has been confined to the Fourth district, | diseases, reviewing tho various classes and discussing from Neweustle ‘tor Java; 280, lat B's2 8, 4 31 90, which includes tho section inclosed by Felicity road, Tole- | the remedies. Every question proposod is fully exam. | brig Doct Corgh (Dutch), same time, bari Night Yiatsa (Os dano street, the river and the woodg in the rear of the | ined, and all the infirmities that flesh is heir to care- dant; Jan 25, Gape St Roque in sight, i Otago, trom city. During the drawing of the names the excitement | fully considered in the light of science and advanood ex- | 'n for eee, Hol), Kramer, Amsterdam, Dec 14, wit has been intense to know tho result of each drawing by | perience. mdse, to order. haa heavy woeterty, ee on he 6 van; the Inrge crowd assomblod in and around the draft head- | Among other matters to which reference 1s mado in | #i4/6th inst, In s heavy gale, from Ut Dy Ms tie Totes There has been no disturbance whatever. | this volume is a matter that will arrest attention, | nels, dnd loxt everything moveable wbout decks, and caused quarters. New Orleans is divided into four districts. The quota for each parish in Louisiana, with the exception of New “Orleans and Jefferson, was drawu on Wednesday last. THE AMENDMENT TU TIS CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED . STATES. About one o'clock on Tuesday afternoon last the fol- lowing commuuication was received by the Louisiana Legislature from Governor Hahn:— the vessel to le badly. John Admiral, the cook, was bl wees Tout” ‘whe ¥ is bound to Boston, and pub ito this Tepair dumages, Hark Marco Pole (Brem). Gerdes, Alicante, 80 days, tn bal st, to Gurrels & M . — + Sark Pride of the Sea, Humphrey, Measing and Gi 80 days, with fruit, 4c, to Jas Robinson. Has ex; strong gales the entire passage; lost and split sails, way rudder head and sprung aleak. 23d inst, lat 35, lon 70, spoke sclir Wide World, from Fortress Monroe for New Ye had been blown off the coast, was 25 days out, and had and split some of,her sais; Supplied her with provisions; jr ig bile ok Meaduland, NS), Nelaons Ora J tig Abilene (or Maluland, NS), Nelion, Orange Bay, Jan 29, will wood, Ke, to H J & C A Dewolf, iad Kear} Weather; lost foretopan!! and split other sails. through its novelty, if nothing moro. This is tho influence of dress in causing or preventing dis- ease, Tho authors illustrate this part of their subject by reference to many practical oxperi- ments showing the different degrees of inflammability of silk, Wool and flax, and the necessity for regulating tho temperature of the body. Flannel is classed among the safest articles of clothing, from its radiating power, CaAge or Dormant, Reeves Darian, {ts bad conducting quality, and its power of absorbing New Oxuxans, Feb. 14, 1865. To Tie SENATE AND House or REURMSENTATIVES OF THR | Moisture from the skin or the atmosphere. : Sehr Tigris (o NS), , Curacoa, Feb 8 with ATE OF LOU eh vary of Stato | ,, Teseeond volume opens with an elaborate diserta- eS dee DR Deval eg erty sep ave thia day receive e Secretary i “ Sci Princess (Br), Bennett, Prince Edward Talan of the United States the following communication and | Monon tho inflammatory diseasos of tho kidneys and Cee eect ee oe tsttice & MeAulif, Had heavy weather the enti sage; split sails, &c. peSote Benepe a er Brown, from brig Puritana, ‘from Rio Grande, ashore at Barnegat, Cas John Custa, Pierce, from Luritano, from Rio Granda, ashore at Barnegat. ‘Schr Sarah, ——, Rockland. Schr Ada Herbert, Crowell, Gloucestes, Schr Gharm, ——, Providence. Schr Bengal, Hix, Providence. BELOW. Wark Salacia (of Melbourne), Peterson, from Amoy Oct 5, Also # bark and a b: urinary organs, beginning with the normal anatomy of the kidneys, and passing to a full consideration of every variety of the diseases of the sauguineous fuuetton. Next in order we have the diseases of the nervous func- tion, beginning with mental derangement and continuing on through the terrible forms of monomania, insanity, delirium tremens, dementia, and all the diseases of the mind. certified copy of an amendment proposed by Congress for ratification by the Legistatures of the several States: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Departwent or State, Washinctoy, Feb. 2, 1805. 's Excellency the Govanxor or Hk Srare ov Lout- ‘4, Now Orleans, La. : =i transmit un atiested copy of a joint resolution of s, approved on the Ist inst., proposing to the Legislatures of the several States a thisweenth urticle to the constitution of the United States. Your Excellency mvat of the receipt of this communication is requested | whatever in medicine which is not fully and ably treated Seep he: sada eg nenes in this work. Its sucoess as a medical handbook to all classes of medical students is therefore beyond all doubt. Such a publication must work its own way to public favor by the internal evidence alone of its value and ex- celience. by your Excellency’s obedient servant, F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary. Unirep Srates oF AMERICA, Derartal ov Stare. To Aut. To Wom Turse Presents Snatt Cour, Qnrert- ING:— Wind at sunset SW, Brlley: tron Shlelde for New York, Srup Frexpom, Bradley, from Shiclds for New gE Pa Bra tre care ‘week cnding aes for destination, Banx Mary Axx, Powell, at New Orleans from Philadel. T certify that the annexed is a true copy of a jotnt reso- : ; lution of Congress, entitled “A resol Sten gubusitting to Messrs, Ticknor & Fields, of Boston, have reached the } phia, reports saying axpasencet: J heav; weather the entise the Logisintuses of the several ‘States u proposition to | seventy-sixth thousand of their edition of “Enoch Arden.” | Passage warks and sustaine slight damage. amend the constitution of the United states,” the original | yfr, Tennyson did well for his interests in placing the _ A, Bans, tram Carat for Now York, abso, ws “ Toa gy 20 Ramya ie emcee ‘American reprint of his work in the hands of these gon- | ing condition, put into Bermuda betweeff Feb lath and t. In testimony whereof, I, W.liam H, Seward, Secre- tary of State of the United States, have hereunto sub- scribed my name and caused the seal of the Deparuaent to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, 2d day of February, in the year of our Lord 1865, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 89th. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. The resolution submitting to the Legislatures of tho several States a proposition to amend the constitution of the United States was then read by (he clerk. Mr. Baum offered a reselution ratifying the proposed amendinent, which, by a suspension of the rules, was Bric Kataup1y, from Havana for Portland, put into Boston 26th inst in w leaky Gondition. Scar Kare Fietp, Allen, from Tabasco for New Y ily wrecked on the bat'ol the former port, on the 16th ul a nen Ot ene wee balls at Newburg vas Regi ns, ; See reer aeavbed is tn clip by Murray & Nephew. “ws Seu Apor Prrxuns, hence for St John, NB, previously portal aNhore on Great Ledge, py ny tt da ws, Orloana Picayune of Fab 16 says the bar : ‘become a great obstruction Inw water even vewels of moderato draught are much didioubey. Notice to Mariners. WEST INDIES: COAST OF VENEZUKJ.A—REVOLVING Lies? sv tlemen. No publishing firm in the country t more lib- eral in its treatment of fereign authors, or in a better po- sition to push their books. The sale of “Enoch Arden” is unprecedented, considering the brief period & has been before the public. Mr. Dutton, the eminent retigions publisher af Boston, has purchased tho retail portfon of Messrs. Tioknor & Fields’ business, and will removo to the old premises of the latter firm, in Washington street, as soon as Menara. Ticknor & Ficlds’ new building i completed. These gentlemen coukl«bave no worthier succesor in this na 1s—¥ PUERTO, CABALLO. Laas age ea pia Sg rs eg _ aoe Soe es branch of their business than Mr, button, whore enter- The government of the fneened ne Kewe ey pee f mas ia (aes idles anneal ioe wea a: prise, courtesy and extensive acquaintance with forcign | Bouse thaton and after the lat so receuly, eroted om Mr. Hills introduced in the Loufsiana Legislature a memorial, signed by about five thousand colored men, asking the right of suffrage, The resolution was read and referred to the Sel»ct Committee. WHY KIRBY SMITH DISOREYS ORDERS. By the way of the North we have received news hero that Kitby Smith has repeatedly refused to obey the orders from Richmond requiring him to move his army across the Mississippi for the purpose of reinforcing Hood. The account should have read that the army refuse to cross the Slississippi, and not Kirby Smith; for this is the truth. On two separate occasions has his army refused to obey orders to cross; and it is feared ma rece! Puerto Cabello, on the coast of Venezuela, Biome light fea revolving light, showin) oteras =e tely Cy] shite faves at intervals of for Lf Clevation of 79 feet above ‘ike mean level fone should be seen in clear weather from a distance of ‘hé is quadrangular, and said tostand in lat 1080 enous we Gonnee Vessels pares to bao Ga bello from the eastw: should gtve a berth Alcatras: og which les NE by E 3¢ E, distant 33¢ miles from Brave, rolut. ‘thouse Board. By order of the Lighthouse TOSHUBRICK, Chairman. Foreign Ports. Curaooa, Feb 8—In port brigJ $ Smith, from Liverpool, disg. G08, Feb 16—Arr bark Thomas (Br), Maho! ng RFE tha brig sen Foatn, Coombe, Babumore Toul, sche “Watkins” (Br), do, publications are so well known to all in the trade, Messrs, Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, are pubMshing a most valuable class of standard works in addition to their law books, which {s {their specialty. Among their misce!laneous issues we would recommend to those form- ing libraries their edition of Smollett’s translation of Gil Blas, It is printed in large, clear type, on a beautiful quality of peper and in three volumes, of convenient pocket size, Le Sage’s eccentric andjdelightful creation has never been presented to the American or English public in a more acceptable form. Their editions of the works of that profound thinker and great divine, Jeremy va ilar atyte. Silke | Uo . ' that if au attempeis mace to force them across the Mis- | 810, tre ee pes Prasat i? ad av- | MCiaoaas Fol 1f—Are brig Selma, Gippe, Boston; 18 Sissippi the whole rebel army will break out in open | |"% Adee) from his miscel- | park f 4 ‘Sarah Kenedy, Hoffaes, Key West. ha tote mutiny against their leaders. lancous writings, are books that shotld occupy a promi- brig Biri By, Phos, Portland; 38th, bark Sarah RESIS DISPERSED NEAR RODNRY, MIFSISSIPPT. nent place in every collection of religious works. A de- | ¢ PR Pi sr re bark Esther. Pri ia While the Misstusippi atcamer Olive Branch was on her | jicutfut volume, published by the same house, is the | brig Geone hurauam Mouutford, do. Ae irene wean way to this city on her last. trip a gunboat hailed her | 8! ater brig George Buruhamy Mouutford, do, Bie ee sen Littles aroat fifteen miles above Rodney, Miss, and informed | ‘European Mosaics’? of Mr. Payson Arnold. Ite author | eid, sagua; 19th, AF Larrabee, Carlisle, New Orleans. Ue captain that ashort distance below thefe was furee of | is not only a man of vivid fancy, but han a schooled and | , Miraomen, Poh tu vort barks Sally, Bansal, Lott two hundred rebels, attempting to cross into Loulsiana, ‘i te rom NYork; Daniel, Spe: Baral ines sree were, TortuMatery, abeat oven RLnarecl MURRioR Oe hore eee re cierere - le meeoeased upon SHSHANS. Yeobibe, from Ualtinors; Ramee, Dean, Dean, from, NYork monumonts and galleries will be read wtth lively interest, | Alphw (Br), Steigerthal, for do; Karnak, Locke, board the Olive Branch wt the time. fhey were rapidly disembarked, The rebels fled in every direction as our force spproached them, leaving two prisoners and one killed in our hands. A BNIG ASHORE IN MOBILE BAY. By the arrival at this port of the United States steam transport Exact, on Thursday last, I learn that a brig was sehr J A Woodhouse, Thomas, from and for do, Manzanivo, Feb 8—Arr ee ee Small, St Thomas, Matanzas, Feb 17—Arr ship B Aymar, Uarver, New York, Sid I7th, barks Hanson Gregory, Gregory, snd Winslow, jew York; brig HB Juba Mackie, Swott, Boston; Abby Gray (air), Hosko, New Yo Philadelphia, Ewery, Bradford, Holmes’ Hol ‘Orange Bay, Ja, Jan 27—No vonsels in port, Peterson & Brothers, of Philadelphia, are bringing out a large number of works of fiction just at present. Among their latest publications in this way is Mrs, Henry Wood's last novel, “Lord Oakburn’s Daughters,” which appeared in serial form in Once a Week, The story, in its NYork. 1 each in Mobil the night brig Maria (Br), oT oe ae eer aniugovertuelail which | eomplete shape, fully realizes the opinions we had formed snag ies mare vehines 4 iowa, thera, Fa was alnost entirely submerged. ‘the erew usd escaped, | of it from an occasional glance a te fragmentary isues. | Y59% iia buy New Oriocne oly bark’ Wilatranen, Bge berngahthe saat erie nig a It will rank among the bost of this charming writer's | wood, Havana’; brig John Pierce, Strout, Portand. Sid 171 as surfboats were sent to their assistance, but were una- " brigs Chowan (Br), Forbes, Baltimore; 1, Loch Lomond, ble to approach the vessel. When the Exact left Mobile | works, Another story of absorbing interest, published by | ghite, NYork. bay Captain Cromwell reports that he could see mon in | the samme house, is that entitled “Family Secreta.” Itis | Tkumpan, Feb 14—Arr brig Clara Brown, Brown, Portland the rigging, with the breakers washing over the vessel P . a ” American Ports. eee nuit way to her tops. It is feared that both | PY the author of “Family Pride” and “Pique,” and bas | 5.24. pet 95, AM_—Cld steamer Norman, Baker, Philae vessel and crew would be lost, The value of the brig is | been written as a companion to those piquant ny barks Youtg Turk, Small, Messina; Auna Walsby overhauled. The streets are being cleaned, and the mammoth shade trees, for which the city is famous, are being trimmed up all over town. Every precaution 4s to be taken against sickness, phia and Boston, suould redeem in Ne’ BANKS SHOULD PREPARE FOR A REICRY TO SPKOIE PAYMENTS, The bank: it to be compelled by law to retain a part, if hie coin received by them, for interest on theit gold bea in order that they may be pre- dw lend their influ urn & cle i by med, excessive and dabgerous ex- nite, and some py when specie pay importation of goods may be check portations of coin may be prevented. FINANCE AND POLITICS. It is of the greatest importance that the national eur. rency system should be independent of potitics and freed from political influences. To effect this, and to factli- tate the business of the banks with the Comptroller, ain clearly of the opinion that the bureau should be mado an independent department, and removed from Washing- ton to Philadelphia or New York. | EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF INSTRUCTION TO THR NATIONAL RANKS. Bear constantly in mind, although the loyal States ap. jally to be in prosperous condition, that fact. That while the government i* en- appression of a rebellion of unexampled ess and magnitade, and i¢ constantly draining the noring and producing population and di sical industry from works of permenent instruction of implements of warfare, while re crowded and the country is to the sare extent 1 waste and extravagance prevail as they prevailed in the United States, the nation, may be the external indications, is not prosper- war in which we are involved is a stern necea- must be prosecuted fer the preservation of the government, no matter w* may be its cost; but the country will unquestivnal!’ be the poorer every day it is continued, The seer pority of the loyal States is owing mainly to t ment and the redund tures eeem to render penditures of the govern- irrency whiog these expendi- ey dy in mind, and manage the ike with a ‘perfect conseious- it et Keep these facts ost affairs of your respective b nose that tho appar. prosverity of the country will be proved to be unreal » lien the war is closed, if not before; and be prepared, by carcful management of the tru committed to you, to help seve the pation from a finan- cial collapee, tnstead of lending your influence to make it more certain and more severe, The business of the vanks should be carefully and promptly conducted. The books, at the close of each day, ehould exhibit the amount of cash on hand, and the In large banks all the Inamall banks, weekly quarter a careful made by com mittees of the directors appointed for this purpose, and a Teport of the result of these examinations entered upon the minutes. The officers of the bonk, other than the presl- dent, should be appointed to hold their offices during tho pleasure of the board, and bonds should be executed ace sndition of the bank. <# should be balanced dail, boo! or cordingly, ‘This will obviate the necessity of requiring annual bons from these officers, and will prevent the oocurrence of a time when they will not be under bond, Presidents being annually elected or appointed will of course be required to give annual bonds; and whenever an officer4s appointed or reappointed a bond shoud be réqtired of him. no loans be made that are not secured beyond # feasonable contingency. Do nothing to foster and on- courage speculation. Give facilities only to legitimate ‘ang prudent transactions, Make your discounts on as City Intelligence. Prerarations wor St. Parnick’s Day.—The Trish so- cictics in this and other cities of the Union have com menced the usual preparations for the celebration of St. Patrick's day, which occurs on the 17th of March, and the indications are that the anniversary of the tutelar saint of the Emerald Isie will be commemorated with even more than the usual spirit and enthusiasm. The Trish civic and military organizations held a meeting on Friday evening at Hibernian Hall, in Prince street, and arranged their programme for’ the parade on’ that day. It will consist of pretty much the usual elements with considerable additions. The Sixty- ninth regiment will turn ont in full force, and it ig understood that the Fenian Brotherhood, which is attracting #0 much attention at the present time, will also parade in honor of the day. ‘ie Phoonix Brigade is now quite extensive in this erty, and is a very well drilled and discipiined body. In the evening the cus tomary balls, receptions, dinners, &e. take place. The Knights of St. Patrick will eat their annual dinn at the Metropolitan Hotel, and the Friendly Sons have engaged Deimonico’s, in’ Fourteenth strost, for their nquet, ‘The tickets for the former banquet are to dollars each without wines, and for the later Afteen di Jars each, including wines, &c, The Knights will hold « quarterly meeting at the Metropolitan Hotel to-morrow evening, when the tickets will be ready for distribution. Tho Convention of Ir#h societies moots again next Fri- day night for the completion of their programme, Seur-AnvoaL Exuisraos at St. Francis Xavier's Oow- nos. —The semi-annual exhibition of the students of St. Froncis Xavier's College is to take place to-morrow even- ing in the grand hall of the institution, which is located in West Fifteenth and Sixteonth streets, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The exerciser will bo of @ most interesting character, and it is expected that the Most Rev. Archbishop McCloskey will be prevent, Axotien Feaare Onarok ty tie Fitio.—Miss Emma Hardinge, recently returned from California, where she became v@y prominent es a public speaker during the Presidential campaign, will deliver a lecture at ped Union on Thursday evening next. Report speaks highiy of her ability as an extemporancous speaker, and the public will have an opportunity of compar ber with others of her sex who bave appeared here r Onsequias ov Derory Counry Cisax Fownan axp Ex- Courciman Pinckrey,—The funeral services of David A. Fowler, late deputy county clerk, who died on last Friday, in the sixty-socond year of hia age, took place at three o'clock, from No. 674 funcrai was well attended by the pensed and a large number of city otticiale, ine will be taken to tchester ths morning. The faueral of Benjamin F. Manckney, late Councliman and Almshouse Governor, aloo took plac yesterday afternoon from Professor M: ‘s ebarch, } corner of Fortv-firet sireot and Sixth avenus. a Codmbs, New Orleana, aon ehip Cathedral, Calcutta; brigs © B Allen, eT eas AM Arr. aeamers George Ai TIMORE, Feb 25, AM—. on Waiden, New York; bark Min McLeod, Salama, ane Oe age gto ene 9 St Thom ri jasinet |. Wi nm, from Detnara paneer iol, ‘\lurioh NYork; schr Loulsa A Jol sketches of domestic peculiarities. The Messrs. Peter- son's last publication, “The Forsaken Daughter,” is ono of those simple, pathetic stories which at once arrest the attention and carry the: reader through to their last page without a desire to pause, There can be no greator evi- unknown. MAJOR GENWRAL BALDY SMITH, Belizeg neral Baldy Stith ts im this department one special mission for the purpose of looking into certain matiers which have required rectifying for some time past. The arrest of two or three prominent military officers in this department, for alleged raalfeasance in office, hag already Howes, and Sea Guill, been made. donco of the merit of a tale of this kind, more particularly | Culver, do. ls se RRR A ralitood for ARTITART RADLAOAD. sts trom | When the elements of which it is composed are simple BeAvEORT FW Worle, Retort, dou fom Peleg ral military purposes hi nal “y th; lth, Dolphin, Hill, Pantego, cern tenia: tothe isclesippl river, ranning | 884 dovold of all sensational features. Peterson's “New | Dorn: tnin, Tuenox, Harker, Roaioke Talo. eld’ Tub sche through St. Joseph street. It connects with ten diayn Cook Book” is one of the most esteemed and popular of baling: m Genk Las , CG hehe ie do; Blizas Railroad, and the track is laid on the famous “Shell | ghis claes of publications. Tt has had the largest editions i WSL Ke road.” The work of building the railroad commenced P are BLORSPORT, Feb, 9 Arr ach’ Princes, Ho printed of it of any work of the kind over issued in this country. Messrs, Oliver Ditson & Co., of Boston, are publishing on Saturday last, under the superintendence of Captain EB. A Morse, Assistant Quartermaster and Superin- ‘ork. ia Be kebr Bradore, Lawren more. FORTRESS MONROE, Feb 23—Arr steamer ‘anne tendent of Military Railroads tn this department. The vhead City, NC ‘ors © W May, May, Phil le BE Eon relee‘Steciman, do; Ringold, Mitchell, Now Fork; Brothers, Hawes, Boston; T 6 Bartlett, Card, new road is about ix miles in length, aud is nearly com- " p . pleted, A locomotive will be run over it to-morrow. the libretti of the works of the Italian repertoire in astyle OuAMPTON BoaDs, py dy a of ng Seats ‘TUN BAR FORMATIONS AT THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPrT. which cannot fall to render them most acceptable to the | OWEN OnTRANS, Feb 18—Arr steamship Fung Sbu In commences of en pay obstructions to naviga- | frequenters of the opera. The scores of the principal | Hildreth, New York (and ga 18th on her ). Old tion by the increase of the arias aro introduoed tn the body of the work, and atten. | May Stewart, Dennuon. Malcinorn Boston. Cl brig Caras eon on the bar at the brig month of the ener the ber of Commerce of line Eddy, ‘Cienfuegos; schr Wapella, Hayden, Har this city held a special meeting on Thursday last, and | tion is being paid to the correctness of the text generally. appointed Messrs, Fianders, Fosdick and Moulton & | tp the character of their type and paper these Mbretté vei Arr brig Abby Thaxter, Walker, Havana. committee to proceed to Washington and “ memorialize Abby Thaxter, nase’ Nvorky, barke, Ma Congress for an appropriation for removing the obstruc, are also much to be commended. they aro of a quality | Mi em tnitniin: a Lindsay, Boston: brig tions at the mouth of the Mississippi mver;” also ‘that | to induce people to collect and bind them for purposes of Hi Fitler Fl tenes, entaeelpes RR oR ‘# Louisa, Jones, NYork. Mie are schire E.G Knight, Hewes, Boston; Emeline Me> , Al ler, NYork. bet te oon ‘6th, bark J EB Ward; brig Jessie Rhynas; 13th, reference, Brady, of Ann strect, has reprinted, from the London edition, Mrs. Ellen Wallace’s new novel, “Fanny de the Secretary of ‘this Chamber be, and he is eons? re- uested to represent to the Postmaster General the elays and irregularities of the mails, and the great injury resulting therefrom to the business of this city, and to secure, if possible, a correction of the evil.”” Lacy; of, the Clandestine Marriage." The title gum. | brige Fanny, 6 Ward, and Julie » EWHERN, NC, Feb 17—Arr sehr Constitution, Smith, a ee ENT OF THR BUREAU ) ciontly indicates the materials out of which tho plot is ee Cia Th oh BW, Sanders, York Julia ‘Tuo Rey, Thomas U. Conway, Superintendent for the | woven. The misfortunes resulting from secret unions | Crewtord, doi ity, Mary Miller, Pave inerva, Urosaman, Bureau of Free Labor, has just’ made his annual report. | aro portrayed in it In the most forcible colors. We have | Fail Rivor for New York: Superb, Canmen. Frovinectows, ‘The number of freedmen in this department now sup- wy for do, Sid 28d, chr Mary E Gage, Hopkins (from Vertis ported by the government is one thousand nine hundred | rarely met with @ story which has more intorested wa, Amboy, Allon'h Polmt, ae gee sunk. Pile and sixteen, The cost for their support has been Put ADELE Bra, Je Atal ee Westy Ailantay $113,426 40. Williamsburg City News. Roya ree oe Maine, Jarvis, Trinidad; Sitka, Cronin, do. : ion by aan Dwight, age — ieraamense ¢ EXTENSIVE INCENDIARY FIRES—LOSS OF VALUABLE PORTLAND, ren a Age ae yg Ma Coabeane arn from Colon! ight, agent for the exc! of VB STOCK—GALL "7 LY | NYork; sehr Een: lo; Shenapeal cont ‘oxas, havo exchan; J ss " ‘They and sevoral soldiors aro daily expected in this city. Williameburg was the theatre of unusual oxcitemont hla steam Hows Asseriein (Be) hep route Major General 11 Mg ng _ an vn #1 on Saturday night and Sunday morning in consequence | ¢//\,, Gas M Gregory, Regan, Havana, . yee jor Gen lerron has appoin' @ false alarm. Rut , ira Juatina, Grero'y, ° ‘of hie old command, the district of Baton Rougo, | % 80 lees than five incendiary Ares nad cue eee TANS, Hall, Baltimore, N Tarbor, Feu don, Waabe ‘Tho night was an unusually stormy one, and the bad passions of many firemon, or runners to fires, accorded with the night. Tho following is summary of the fires:—About ten P. M, on Saturday «frame building in rT y AN FRANCTSCO, Feb %3~8Id steamship Sacramento, radbury, Pan Brigadier General Albert L. Lee has returned to gg Sr and is awaiting assignment, jeutenant Colonel Lovell bas been promoted to the coloncicy of the Forty-sixth Wisconstn, Lieutenant F. Bechtel has been promoted to a captaincy in es Hundred and Twenty-first United States in- Fourth street, Wt a sorte Rig = North ie PeNiowe, conve, 1NaRoWwING, ATS, CHILBLAT A Brigadier Genoral Slack is in New Orleans, sit tho’ lower story was occupled at a stable. THO | Hatwruy” cel dose: branch ores id restacnce FROM THE TEXAS COAST. building itself waa comp! 4 and four | Broadway, corner Twenty-first street. Y Alleviator The supply ship Bermuda, Captain Jerry Smith, | horses wore burned; Cig Reg ree hundred dolla: Curative sold by druggists and sent by arrived here yesterday morning from the mouth of Bra- | was oy Mr. ;, the other three were owned bj * INVERTED NAILS, 40., CORED 208 St. Jago, Whioh point she left on the 11th inst, She | Mr. Dantel Butler, and of an age value of six | (YORNG. BUNIONS, INVETOH, at 68 Bowery, Citizens? risa Fronch bark, from Bordeaux for Ma hundred Ho insurance on building, About | }/. without pain, ty De tee Gorns, unions, Obilblaing ashore on the bonch at Brazos, Left the following mer- | tweive 0" the stable corner of North rated Feet, yy mail 60 cents and @1. chant vevwela at Brazow:— Sixth stroote was fired, the inflammable materials being | ——— D CHERRY Bark Fanny Foulk, brig Ellen Bernard, schooner Argus | placed in the manger of avaluable borso, It was for- wars BALSAM OF yu f. . Eyo, Fanatety disoovs before much damage waa done. * 4 i ° ° ry Blookading vessels at Brazos—Seminole, Wostern | Betweon one and two A. M. day the liquor 3 e e . . . Chiof, Ossipee, Chicora, Pembina. siore of Thomas Berry, corner of Grand and e e . . . . Blockading ‘vessels at Galveston—Iackawanna, Vir- | Seventh streets, was Pap dbodnd 9 Len] by ee Cures COUGHS, COLDS, SORE THROAT and nia, Princors Royal, Cayuga, Kanawha, Gertrude, | Smith, of the Tory Oe eecun, he extinguished | wry atecton et § muinoaT, LUNGS AND CHEST Penguin, assistanve allo—Venobscot. i The firomen, however, entered the store, au Loni roe Sold by all a0Ine