The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1865, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. prdiactiot rete ee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sam. fall, 472 Broad. Y. NSTRELS, Mechani a Das Basa ‘NeGno Comicatt- way. —Dan Bryant's New Stump Spt: Tiss, Buriasquxs, &c. INSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite OPIAN SINGING, Dancing, £0.— RTLSTS, Metropolitan Hore! Travian Ais ay Native TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Rowery.—Siva- ang, Dancin, Buni.2squss, &0.—THe FEexian’s Daksa; on, Tuxtanp Faxe at La: oh TEMPLE OF MUSIC, corner of Grand and Crosby atreets.—Tnoxre & OVRRIN’S MinstRELS OF ALL NATIONS— KeraiuTion; ox, THe DowNrate ov iuseva. GEORGE CHRISTY’S MINSTRELS.—Tae Orn Sonoon or Minsrexisy, BaLvaps, Musica, Gas, &0., at the Fifth Avenue Opera’ House, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth st. NEW NATIONAL CIRCUS, 37 and 39 Bower, cTRiAN, G¥myasTIC AND AcrogaTic Feats, &¢.— e duerta ZaNvuerta, EqQuesthuNNe, Matinee at 234 0) HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Brosdway.—Prorssson Wiseman’s Evveninas Or Mystery anv Visions. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermrorian Min. sreecsy—Batiaps, BURLESQUES AND PaNTomimes. FEW YORK MUSEUM 0} @pen from 10 A.M. till 10 P. F ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. “TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, December 6, 1865. DFFERRED ADVERTISEMENTS. Owing to the pressure upon our columns this morning we have been obliged to leave out a large number of ad- vort'soments, which will be promptly attended to to morrow. THE NEWS. THE MESSAGE AND REPORTS. ‘The Message of President Johnson to Congress was received and read in both houses yesterday, given to the public in an evening editiow of the Heratp, and appears again in our paper of this morning. It is aclear and comprebensive document, touching on all our leading national and international questions, and expresaca the views of its author in an unmistakable was An editor’al synopsis of it is alvo given in another column. We likewise publish this morning four other important national documents—viz: the annual roports of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Commissioner of Intornal Revenue and the Comptroller of the Currency. These too aro each sum- manner. marized and commented upon in separate editorial arti- cles in our present issue. We have also received Gene- ral Grant's report of military operations since he as ‘sumod control of all the national armies, and the reports of the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Inte- rior and the Postmaster General, CONGRESS. 4n the Senate yesterday the resolution adopted by the House for the appointment of a joint committee of fifteen to cons‘der and report relative to the admission of the Congressmen clected in the States lately in rebellion was presented, and, objection to immediate action upon it being made, it was laid over. The credentials of the Mississippi Senators were presented and also laid’ over. Bills were introduced for the survey‘and sale of the gov- ernment mineral lands, to remove certain disqualifica. tions of jurors in trials for treason, and repealing all laws making suy distinction on account of color in the District of Columbia and the national Territories. A rosolution of the Vermont Legislature in favor of equal rights in the Southery States was presented. The Presi- dgnt’s Message was received and read, and five thousand copies of it were ordered to be printed. During the reading certain portions of it were heartily applauded. In the House of Representatives the members on as- sembling proceeded to the business of drawing for seats. On its conclusion memorinis were presented from Messrs. William EB, Dodge and A. C. Baldwin, contesting respec. tively tho seats of Mr. James Brooks, of this city, and Mr. R. KE. Trowbridge, of Michigan. Resolutions were adopted declaring that all suggestions to repudiate the national debt should be sternly discountenanced, that a committee of nine be appointed to consider and report on a uniform system of bankruptcy, instructing the Military Committee to inquire and report whether the office of Provost Marshal General cannot be dispensed with, instructing the Committee on Commerce to eon- sidor means for the better preservation of life and pro- porty in cases of ships on the New Jersey coast, and appointing a committee to decide on some proper token of respect for the memory of President Lincoln. A joint resolution to #0 amond the constitution as to apportion representation dn Congress according to the number of voters was in troduced. The President's Message was read, and re- ceived demonstrations of approval similar to those mani- foatod in the Senate. It was resolved to adjourn over from to-day till Monday next. EUROPE. Tho Inman steamship City of New York arrived at this port yosterday, with four days later news from Europe Pigeon House fort, commanding Dublin harbor, had been strongly garrisoned in consequence of the appear- ance of three large veasels in the offing, supposed to be Fontan privateers, Both England and France were prepared to address Strong remonstrances to the Spanish government on its conduct in the Chilean affair. United States five-twenties on the London Stock Ex- change on the 23d ull. were quoted at 633 a 64. MISCELLANEOUS. Tho steamship Liberty, which arrived here yesterday from Havana, brought news from the British, French and Spanish Wes Indies, and some additional items from Moxico. ‘The cholera has appeared in s very violent form at Martiaiqus, Gandaloupe and the adjacent islands, ‘and precautionary mearnres have been adopted at St, ‘Thomas and elzewhere. General Baez, having been elected President of St. Domingo, was daily expected to arrive from Caracoa, where he had been living for some con- | siderable time. From Jamaica we learn that about three thousand persons have been put to death and fully as | American commerce during the late war are and it will no doubt be generally recognized by the peo ple of tho whole country. ‘The Surrogate has rejected the paper offered as the will of Joseph Hall, deceased, as not being properly executed, the signatures not being at the end of the will as ro- quired by law. The Senate, or General Legislative Directory of Amer- ican Fenianism, have again come on to New York to re- view the conduct of aftairs here by the occupants of the central offices. The session commenced yesterday at ten o'clock, at 730 Broadway. There appears to be a gencral opinion that the Senate will now thoroughly oxamne into the matter of economy and faithfulness in the executive departments; and the organization, demand- ing unusual probity and promptness at this time, seems to be anxiously watching for the report of these gonoral representative stewards, Unusual interest attaches to the mecting. It will, it is supposed, continue for several 8. oT fire, the ongin of which is unknown, broke out be- tween four and five o’clock yesterday morning among some cotton on board the steamship Weyboasot, lying at pier 13 North river, doing considerable damage to the vessel and her cargo. ‘The stock market was firm yesterday. Governments were steady. Gold closed at 1483. Business was emphatically dull yesterday, the dis- turbing influences of the election, together with the anx'ety about the tariff and currency questions, acting asa hindrance to commercial transactions. Groceries were dull, Cotton was quiet. Petroleum was steady. On Change flour was decidedly lower. Wheat was also lower. Corn was in good demand and quite steady. Pork was irregular, closing lower, Beef was steady. Lard was dull, nominal and a shade lower. Whiskey was entirely nominal, with scarcely any demand. The market for beef cattle was firmer this weck for prime steers, and some of the choicest offerings brought as high as 19¢. per pound. Other kinds varied from 10c. to 17c., generally 13¢, @ 1c. Mich cows were steady at from $40 to $100 a $150, the latter rate for fine thorough- bred cows, with calves at theirside, Veals were steady at 10c, a 14c, Sheep and lambs were dull and lower, vary- ing from $3 75 to $8 50, Hogs sold at from 10c. to 1034c. The total receipts were 6,183 beevos, 89 cows, 665 veals, 24,546 sheep and lambs, and about 30,000 hogs. ‘he State of Message. Country. The President’s Message, which we publish this morning, with other important public doc- uments, will commend itself to the special at- tention of the reader and to the general appro- val of the American people. It isa smoothly written State paper. It embodies a clear, frank and unreserved exposition of the views and purposes by which he has been guided in his policy of Southern restoration, an encour- aging exhibit of the state of the country and various recommendations to Congress upon the leading questions of the day which mark the earnest patriot, the sagacious and experi- rienced statesman, and the steadfast and con- sistent man of the people. He reverses the usual order of these mes- sages, and very properly, by beginning with our domestic affairs and giving our foreign relations a secondary po- sition. His statement of the constitutional considerations which have shaped his proceed- ings in the way of Southern reconstruction we regard as a conclusive vindication of his course. Resting his line of action and his justification upon the solid ground that the States involved in the late rebellion have not been destroyed by it, though their vitality has been impaired, and their functions suspended, he could hardly go astray. He presents very satisfactorily the nice distinctions between State rights and State heresics, the sovereignty of the Union, the relations of the States and the supreme powers and rights of the people of the United States; and thus shows that in what he has done towards Southern restoration, and in what he has declined to do, he is sus- tained by the federal constitution. Upon the vexed question of negro suffrage, especially, his justification is complete and overwhelming; and so in regard to the earliest possible ratifi- cation by the required three-fourths of the States of the great constitutional amendment for the permanent abolition of slavery through- out the Union. The Message furnishes us the desired expla- nation of the detention of Jeff. Davis as a pris- oner at Fortress Monroe. There are difficulties in the way to his trial in Virginia, and it has “been ascertained on inquiry that the Circuit Court of the United States would not be held within the disirict of Virginia during the autumn or early winter, nor until Congress should have an opportunity to consider and act on the whole subject.” President Johnson, how- ever, adheres to his opinion that “traitor: should be punished and the crime made infamous,” and that, through a fair trial, the question should be judicially settled, finally and forever, that no State, of its own will, has the right to renounce its place in the Union.” Jeff. Davis, therefore, is held over for this pur- | pose, and he must be content in regard to his trial to await the action of Congress. The operations of the Interior and Post Office Departments exhibit gratifying prosperity; in the Navy and War Departments we have a very gratifying retrenchment of expendi- tures—in the War Department alone, from the mustering out of eight hundred thousand soldiers, a retrenchment from over five bun- dred millions to less than forty millions a year expenses. The views of the Message in refer- ence to the national finances, debt and cur- rency are those of safety and solvency, and cannot be too carefully adhered to in the leg- islation of Congress, especially as to the pre- cau.ions necessary to avoid any sudden ‘and damaging financial disturbances. Our relations with England, as presented by the President, are anything but satisfactory, while his opinions in regard to the flagitious character of those Anglo-rebel depredations on all that could be desired. Great Britain hav- many exiled by the #h authorities on charge of com- pheity im the late insurrection. There were several United States vessels-of-war at St, Thomas, and it is said, | porhaps jocosoly of maliciously, that they saluted Santa Anna with twenty-one guns, while the officers addressed , him as the future Emperor of Mexico. Geffrard, Presi. | dont of the republic of Hayti, was at last accounts still ‘ongaged in the work of subjuxating his rebellious coun. | trymoa, fie had ordered a great many persons to be ahot. General Grant arrived in Charleston on Friday last, and his entrance into the city was announced by artil! salutes, Very few of the white inhabitant depot to welcome him; but there was a of the colored people, who cheered him enthusiastically. Ho wns received and comducted to his quarters by Gene Tals Sickles, Devens and Bennett and an escort of troops ‘The day of the General's arrival was a holiday among ithe military, nod in the evening the colored population got up a torchlight procession and flreworks in his bonor, On “aturday he gave a reception to the citizens, which was largely altended, and afterwards dined with Governor Perry, ror Orr and a large number of other prominent men of the State, He was to leave on Sunday last for Savaunab, wid it is avain intimated that his journey will be extended to the Rio Grande To-morrow will be the day appointed by President Johnson for the National Thanksgiving, and the first | occasion of the kind in our history to be observed simul | taneously throughout the Union, President Lincoln's Similar appolotment baving been ata time when the rebellion prevented it being effective in several of the States A number of the State Governors have also irsued procla in accordance with the President's Geo vmaavaddions. mmiviniog We gbseryauce of tho dav ; ing refused the arbitration proposed, and our government having declined Earl Russell’s proposed de-nothing commission, the matter thus reste, We presume, however, that it will not rest very long in this position. With regard to Mexico, after a general reaffirmation of the Monroe doctrine, all that we have from the Message is that “the corre- NEW YUKK H#KALD, WEDNESDAY, ‘The City Blection. The facts and figures in connection with the charter election yesterday will be found in our news columns. Mr. John T. Hoffman is elected Mayor of New York by over thirteen hundred majority ever Mr. Marshall O. Roberts, the re- publican candidate, This majority is eurpris- ingly small, and Mr. Roberts has polled an astonishingly large vote. Aa we predicted, both Hecker and Guiither are nowhere. When the Mozarters found that Hecker had no chance, they bolted him and his flour, and went over in a body to Hoffman. Gunther musters mere- ly a corporal’s guard of six thousand, composed of personal friends, genuine Germans and un- mitigated copperheads in about equal propor- tions, Had tt not boen for the sell-out of the, Mozarters Mr. Roberts would have been elected and as it is he has shown more strength than any previous republican candidate. Greeley and Fernando Wood have completely crushed Hecker, the so-called “reform” canfidate, be- tween them. Their unholy alliance did him more harm than good. From the returns he must have received very little of the Mozart vote, and still leas of the republican. Un- doubtedly he was put into the market by his supporters to. be knocked down to the highest bidder. It only remains to be added that out of one hundred and five thousand votes registered only about eighty thousand were polled, and that an immense amount of money changed hands on the election, the republicans being heavy losers, as they offered large odds. We may congratulate our citizens upon having secured a Mayor of great experience and un- blemished character, and can now paticntly await that action of the Legislature which will give us the reform in the departments of the city government 80 imperatively demanded by the majority of our voting and taxpaying popu- lation. The Condition of the National Paper— Report of the Comptroller of the Cur- rency. The facts presented in the report of the Comptroller of the Currency will surprise the country and damage a great many theories and propositions for the reduction of the amount of paper money afloat. The theories have all assumed that the amount of paper in circulation was a thousand millions, and their calculations are based on that sum. But it is now shown that while the whole available cur- rency of the country, State and national bank noles, and Treasury notes of all grades, is nine hundred and sixty millions, the amount actually in circulation on the first of last October was less than four hundred and sixty-one millions. This fact will be a serious blow to the financial theories of those learned fellows who have so persistently urged an immediate reduction of the currency as the grand cure for the evil of high prices. It is also shown that the amount of national bank notes in circulation is smaller than any estimates have made it. It has been thought that there were afloat ten millions in excess of the three hundred millions authorized by law. But instead of this there are hardly bonds enough deposited to entitle those insti- tutions to issue two hundred and forty-five mi?- lions, thus leaving a large balance in their favor. The Comptroller enters extensively into the discussion of the several questions which bear upon the condition of the currency. Like the Secretary of the Treasury, he has a great deal to say about contraction. He recommends that the National Banking law be so amended that the banks shall be required to redeem their notes at par at the three great business centres— New York, Boston and Philadelphia. This question has already been very extensively advocated in some financial circles, and opposed in others, and now goes before Congress with the official endorsement of the govern- ment banking officer. He also urges the reduction of the government issues of paper, and proposes to commence it by the conver- sion of all the interest-bearing legal tender notes into five-twenty six per cent bonds. This, he argues, can be done without affecting the money market, inasmuch as there is not more than five per cent of issue now in active circulation. The great bulk being held as an investment, it would be simply exchang- ing one class of securities for another. While he favors this reduction in the government issues, he also recommends an increase of the amount of the national bank notes to tour hundred millions. In effecting this he would require a reduction of the regular legal tender notes to an amoynt more than equivalent to the increase in bank currency. The policy of the financial officers of the government evi- dently is to leave the question of supplying paper currency to the banks exolusively at as early a period as possible. This recommenda- tion of the Comptroller is no doubt the initia- tory step in this policy. If it receives the endorsement of Congress it will be gradually put into operation; but all must admit that the legal tenders cannot be withdrawn until we again approach specie payments, which must, by the very nature of things, necessarily be at some distant day in the future. There is one other proposition in this report that will no doubt attract considerable atten- tion and be the subject of discussion. That is a plan for the payment of the national debt. Mr. Clarke gives it as his belief that there can he raised from a few sources of revenue suffi- cient to meet the interest on the public debt, pay the ordinary expenses of the government, and contribute an amount annually towards a sinking fund which will pay our entire national debt in thirty-two years, and at the same time abolish the income tax. This will no doubt astonish those growlers who have been claiming that we can never pay our debt | and that repudiation is inevitable. But he pur- poses to do this by adjusting our tariff, taxing spondence between the United States and France will at a proper time be Isid before | Congress.” With that correspondence we ex- pect, too, that President Johnson will have something more to say. Assured that he is fixed in the faith of the Monroe doctrine, we | infer that if he delays action it is from the per- suasion that Louis Napoleon, with the conces- | sion of a tittle time, will gracefally retire. We have touched upon the leading business features of the Message. Its general observa- tions on the beauty and strength of our popular | institutions, and the manifest destiny of the country, mark the patriotic spirit and con- fidence of President Johnson in the great duties of hia office, We see nothing in the Message calculated to lead to a conflict with Congress, excepting the question of negro suffrage, and upon this an issue will probably be avoided, as it isan issue upon which the Executive holds the vower of tho geovle, North and South, cotton, whiskey, malt liquors, domestic wines, tobacco, stamps and licenses, and abolishing | all others. As this mode would be less felt by the taxpayer than the present system we pre- sume that it will be popular among a large class of the Northern people. But it will at the same time abolish a large army of officials, in the shape of assessors and collectors, and there may be some question as to which class, the taxpayers or the taxgatherers, will have the greatest influence in Congress. The question which has already been raised in many of the Northern Legislatures in regard to taxing United States securities, and that has entered to a greater or less extent into the political canvass of some of the States, is dwelt upon quite extensively, and # mode pointed out by which the whole difficulty can be ad- justed in a few years withdut danger to the public faith. Taken altogether this is an en- couraging exhibit, and bes many features tq * ~~ ww DECEMBER 6, 1865.—TRIPLE SHEBT, commend it to the people and to Congress. It shows that the Department has been sdminis- tered with » view to protect the public inter- ests rather than for the special benefit of bank speculators. The Treasury Report. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury is a comprehensive review of the financial situation, in which he freely expresses his views and makes such suggestions to Congress as he considers best calculated to gradually eman- cipate the country from the evils inseparable from an enormous national debt and an in- fluted and depreciated currency. He moralizes like one who, disliking his surroundings, sighs for some Utopia which he knows to be beyond his reach. He regrets the plethora of paper money, and seos that it is undermining the morals of the people by encouraging waste and extravagance, and the only remedy, in his opinion, is a reduction of the currency. But elsewhere he qualifies his opinion by saying that avery rapid reduction of it would be disastrous, though there is no reason to apprehend that any policy which Congress may adopt will cause such a rapid reduction of prices aa to produce very serious embarrassments to trade, and that the influences of funding upon the money market will sufficiently prevent the too rapid withdrawal of legal tenders. He estimates that the public debt will amount on the lst of July next to three thou- sacd millions, but the unsettled and accruing claims against the government cannot now be computed. Meanwhile he observes that if the expenditures for the remaining three-quarters of the present fiscal year prove equal to the estimates there will be a deficiency to be provided for by loans of $112,194,947, ex- clusive of $32,536,901 of five per cent notes, a portion of which is now in process of redemption. ence he asks for power to sell six per cent bonds to provide the means of meeting this deficiency, as well as to retire compound interest notes, as they mature, and plain legal tenders. He cannot understand how the funding of currency can fail to reduce prices; but the example of it which he has already furnished has shown that at least it does not affect the price of gold, while, without loworing the price of the neces- saries of life, it exerts a depressing influence upon government securities. This is because there is a public distrust of the worth of the remainder of the currency as compared with gold. He does not formally endorse the re- commendation of the Comptroller of the Currency for a further issue of national bank currency; but he admits that the South is ine great want of bank circulation, and regrets that the North re- ceived the whole of the authorized three hun- dred millions, Hoe recognizes his own power- lessness, beyond a very narrow limit, when he r. marks that there is more danger to be appre- hende from the inability of the government to reduce its circulation rapidly enough than from @ too rapid reduction of it; and it is in part to prevent a financial crisis that is certain to come without it that the Secretary recommends con- traction. He places great reliance upon the revenue, and suggests the propticty of funding the entire indebtedness of the nation into five per cont perpetual annuities, the interest of which, supposing the debt to be three thousand millions, would be one hundred and fitty mil- lions per annum. By the application of one hundred millions to the payment of the prin- cipal, he shows that the debt would bo extin- guished in a little over twenty-eight years. Without entering into further details, how- ever, we may say that the report is, on the whole, conservative, and calculated to soothe rather than excite apprehensions of the adop- tion of radical measures. Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is an interesting and important docu- ment. The Commissioner speaks in favorable terms of the patience of the people under the burdens of taxation, and shows from statistics that the aggregate receipts have for the past fiacal year been largely above those of the pre- vious year. The following statement exhibits the amount of receipts from internal revenue for the past three years:—Receipts for 1863 (ten months), $41,003,192; 1864, $16,850,672; internal revenue will amount to two and three- quarters per cent of the receipts. The actual annual cost for the collection of the customs amounts to three and one-half per cent of the receipts, which is much below the cost of col- lecting the customs in Great Britain. Among the articles from which the internal revenue of the United States is derived it may be interest- ing to enumerate the following:—Bank divi- dends, $3,987,200; railroad dividends and interest on bonds, $3,258,404; insurance com- panies, $1,726,160; salaries of persons em- ployed by the government, $2,836,333; revenue stamps, $11,162,302—being more than double that of the previous year; licenses, $12,595,691; incomes, $20,567,340, or about six millions more than in 1864. Of the amount collected from incomes in 1863 $279,333 were returned at five per cent upon incomes above ten thousand dollars, $172,770 at three per cent upon incomes of less than ten thousand dollars, and $3,637 upon incomes from United States securities. Of that collected in 1864 $6,913,834 were returned at five per cent, $7,930,070 at three per cent, and $75,373 at one and one-half per cent. Of that col- lected in 1865 $801,941 were returned at ten per cent, $9,934,748 at five per cent, $9,697,246 at three per cent, and $133,402 at one and one- half per cent. .The receipie from iron and steel, in the various forms specifically named, were $9,219,713, or nearly six millions more than the previous year; from refined petroleum and coal oil, $3,047,212, being an increase of about $800,000 over 1864; cigars, $3,069,448 tobacco, $8,016,119; fermented liquors, $3,657,- 091; distilled spirits, $15,995,633, or nearly thirteen millions less than the previous year, The Commissioner devotes « considerable por- tion of his report to explainiig why the re- ceipts from distilled spirits, with a tax of two dollars per gallon, are so much less than they were when the tax was but sixty cents per gallon. The receipts for the current fiscal year fre estimated to reach $272,000,000, or about sixty millions more than last year. The Com- missioner auggests an alteration in the mode of appointing assistant assessors, urges an increase in their compensation, as well as in that of the clerks employed in the Internal Revenue Bureau. An additfonal allowance for office rent is also recommended, The Gommie- A 1865, $21,129,528. The Commissioner says the actual cost of asseasing and collecting the loner suggests several amendments in relation to stamp duties, the duties of the Tax Commis- sioners, and other changes in the law, whereby doubtful points can be definitely settled. ‘The Report of the Secretary of War. Secretary Stanton’s report is important in two points of view—first, as it relates the his- tory of the final events of the war, and pre- sents somo remarkable facts in relation to that history; and, second, as it shows the wonderful capabilities of the country for war, and indi- cates what we can do if suddenly called upon to defend our rights or assert the national dig- nity. In the latter view it glances quite directly at the Mexican question, and will ‘reassure all those who regret that our army has been so far disbanded while that question has not yet been brought to a definite issue. The military history of the great campaigns that gave us the victory is left to General Grant; the Secretary is satisfied to atate results in that respect; but he bears with natural em- phasis on the rapid change brought about through his department from war to peace—on the noiseless, effective, almost immediate oblit- eration of a vast army which the theorists of the Old World had declared would in the hour of victory prove more dangerous to our ‘liber- ties than the rebellion it had been required to put down. “The national military force,” says the report “on the first of May, 1865, numbered one million five hundred and sixteen men. It is proposed to reduce the ‘ military establishment to fifty thousand troops, and over eight hundred thousand have already been mustered out of service.” The mili- tary appropriations of the last session of Congress were over five hundred millions of dollars, The military estimates for the next year are less than thirty-four millions. This is aresult of victories that the taxpayer can ap- preciate. Some of the figures given enable us to realize the enormous expenditures incident toan army of a million men. Thusa large slice of the national debt is well accounted tor when we learn that more than a thousand mil- lion dollars have been paid to the soldiers. Two hundred and seventy millions were taken home by the eight hundred thousand men lately mustered out. Some ot the draft figures have also considerable interest, The number of men asked for by government te put down the rebellion was, on all calis together, 2,759,049, and the number of men actually brought out was only 102,496 short of this. This deficiency was not from failure, but occurred because the recruiting was stopped by the end of the war. What the Secretary says as to our ability to organize another army, if circumstances should require it, has a national interest at the present time. He states that the estimate for tLe army, as given above, “is believed to be adequate for any national exigency, it the country should be bleased with peace. The reduction of the na- tional military force, in its rapidity and num- bers, is without example, and if there be any alarm in the public mind be- cause this reduction is made while grave questions at home and abroad are unset- tled, a brief consideration of the subject will show that there is no cause for apprehen- sion.” The Secretary then runs over the facts that the troops disbanded were volunteers, who came out originally to support the govern- ment; that their struggles in its cause have not lessened their love for it, and that “a for- eign war would intensify the national feeling, and thousands, once misled, would rejoice to atone their error by rallying to the national flag.” The only question relating to troops is one with respect to how soon we could raise them. “Our experience on this point,” says the report “is significant, When Lee’s army surrendered thousands of recruits were pouring in, and men were discharged from stations in every State. On several occasions, when troops were promptly needed to avert impending disaster, vigorous exertion brought them into the field from remote States with in- credible speed. Official reports show that after the disasters on the Peninsula, in 1862, over eighty thousand troops were enlisted, organ- ized, armed, equipped and sent into the field in less than a month. Sixty thousand troops have repeatedly gone to the field within four weeks. Ninety thousand infantry were sent to the armies from the flve States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Towa and Wiggoggin within nity days.” And it is shown that Eats Te spects we are as ready for war as we were be- fore our vast army went home. These facts will make the report very inter- esting to Maximillian and to his friends in France. In all respects it is an important document, and will especially be recognized in its groupings of facts asa valuable contribu- tion towards the history of the war. Barning of the Steamship Weybosset. At about half-past four o'clock on Tuesday morning the night watchman, Stephen D. Smith, on board the steamship Weybosset, lying at pier 13 North river, dis- covered smoke issuing from the forward hold. At once an alarm was given, and the Fire Department quickly responded. A copious stream of water was applied gl ony k fire ents the ship was flooded so was prevented from spreading beyond the forward hold, where it seeme to have originated. The ae elicited by the Fire Marshal, show that Captain H. W. Parish arrived here, from Savenuab, on Saturday last—that vessel being a regular packet be- tween New York and Savannah. Her cargo consisted of four hundred and ninety-two bales of cotton. with an assorted cargo of fraite. Three hundred and forty bales of cotton had been discharged—leaving in the forward batch one hundred and sixty bales, hatoh bvelong) Insurance onit. The fire has been exceeding by Commissioner Brown and Chief Engi- , thus saving a very large amount of pro- yy. Nino-sixteenths of vonsel are owned by B. J. . He hasan insurance of $40,000 to cover “The balance of the ship is owned by freee a of Mystic, Conn. His interest is not neu The ship belonged to the Starline of Savannah pack- ets, of which Messrs. Wakeman, Gookin & Dickinson are the agents, No. 17 Broadway. A large quantity of the ship’s furniture was removed from the ship to the dock at the time of the fire. Cap- tain Pariah ia of the opinion, a8 the fire did not extend abaft the ma.nmast, the damage will not exceed $15,000, on which bir. Nightingale bas ample insurance to cover the lose. 1. i hs. In reference to the cause of the fire, Captain Parish informed the Fire Marshal that the forward hateh had not been , and that he is of the opinion that the fire was caused’ by combustion among the cotton; but from what cavee he is unable to say. fe may have been smouldering there since she left Savannab, The vessol is pretty well tilled with water, and ina few days the owners will pump her ont, and the repaira will imme- Ll goon and the ship will then be put om the line again. The North Carolina Senatorship, Raueian, N. C., Deo. 5, 1865. John Pool, of Bertia county, a Union man, was elected United States Senator to-day for the short term. Virginia bag ore The Lagislature today the bil Pepeal 4 theraot La re Ly eo ¢ transfer 1 faeecatton of Bevacley and oet. 1865, The Legiaiature organized ly by ee ee ee RT _ THE FENIAN SENATE. An Extra Seasion Commenced Yesterday im this City—Unusaal Importance of the Mecting—The Probable Work Be fore the Body—Views of the Rank ana Pile as to Promptness and Economy in the New York Offices—The Union Squ: Bstablishment—The Bonds—Matters Dublin, &., &c. ‘The Senate of the American Fenian Brotherhood mes yesterday 4t ten A. M., at 730 Broadway, to take on other survey of how the executive matters of the onan. ization have been going and of what is best to be done for the future. It is only some two weeks since this body adjourned, after a protracted seasion, most of which: was passed in endeavoring to obtain proper salaried off. cials and to inaugurate safeguards to secure safoty and confidence to the masses. CHE SENATE—THE RANK AND FILE AND THE NEW YORK OFFICERS. ‘These men were selected from the body of the organi- zation. They come from the several States, are practical business men, of character and capacity ; and, with fow of the drawbacks of the professional patriota, thoy possoas the positive straightforwardness of the working yeo- manry, whence the financial sinews proceed. Coming from the several portions of the country, with the viows of their sections and of the representative congross froah with them, they experienced many difficulties in giving practical operation in this city vo the views of the distant workers. From an article on the Congress in a weekly paper, it seems that the representative men from the body of the organization did not casily fall im rapport with the views of thoir officials, who, it was argued, having passed years within the walls of the Now York offices, could scarcely form as good an idea of the wants and opinions of the local circles ag the mon whom they had just selected from their own immediate con- tact. PROBABLE OBJECTS OF THR MBETING—THE PINANCES—ECONOMY, ETC- The meeting of this Fenian Directory at this time seems in every way remarkable and significant, The space of time transpiring between the adjotn'nment and this assembling is unprecedentodly short. Some grave matters must be on the tapis, The assembling of the Fenian Legislature is of 8 much importance to the hundreds ot enenni who hy vy sweat to — out a good object through a prompt and economic appli- cation of the hard earnings they contribute as is that of the American to our people, The appointments under the new constitution have never been of announced. ‘The appointing power rests in the President (Mr. O'Mahony); tho Sonate confirms. The public have had no intimation of the new financial management, if we may oxcopt the information conveyed by the hostile correspon- dence with the editer of the New York Times— namely, that next to Mr, O'Mahony in. the management stood B D. Killian, © member. of the organization from Kentucky, we believe, who took part in the application for John Mitchell's release, and goon after caine to this &c., the Fenians oxpress more or less distinctly ‘an astonishment at the reported splendor of the new establishment on Union square, assuming that such mag- nificence must necessarily impose a heavy draft om the more hard-fisted revolutionary departments. THE BONDS, ETC.—THN EAGER WORKERS IN THB DISTANCE. ‘The bonds of the Irish republic, whose sale was ex- sted to be a rushing excitement by this time, seem to making no stir whatever. We have not seen the addreas of tho Dubbn authorities regarding the bond loan which the New York Head Centre in his Philadelphia address, published in the Heratp, announced as being under re- vision and about to issue, The times in Ireland, too, seem tobe gotting too hot for the leaders there; and it scema, under the circumstances, that matters at the central post should be very brisk at this precise time. ‘It may be to see about one or all of these mattors that THE SESSION YRSTERDAY. The session is not held 1a the Lislenaeresre nor in the hall which tho city occupy, at ay i 5 4 Tho City Railroad Disaster. THB INQUEST TO TAKE PLAOR TO-DAY—NAMES OF THE JURORS, Coroner Collin empanelled the following jury yeater- day, to hold an inquest upon the remains of the unforta nate boy killed on Monday night id the Collision between car No, 53, of the Third Avenue Railroad Company, an@ Adams’ Express iron freight car, on the Harlem Railroad, at the Cooper Institute :— James M. Taylor, No. 693 Broadway; J.A. Van Bus- kirk, No. 10 Varick place; James Chichester, Pago’s Ho- tel; John T. Morris, No, 25 Fifth avenue; Wm. ngs = son, No. 38 West Fourteenth. street; Wm. Welling, No. 142'East Twenty eighth street; John A. Miller, corner of Greene and Amity strects; John McMurray, Kast Thirtieth atreet and W. 3. ‘No, 28 Woat Wash- ington place. These gentlemen were taken to the place where the mangled body was lying om a stretcher and sworn iu. The investigation will commence to-day at one o'clock P. M., and Coroner Collin earnestly requests all who witnessed the disaster, or who wore om the car at the time, to appear before him to-day. A large number of witnerscs have already been subpoenaed, and am st searching investigation will be made, that the canse and blame of the dicaster may be laid on the proper shoulders, ie nat Brooklyn City News. ’ Dasravctivs Firy.—Last night, about half-past eight o'clock, a fire broke out in the packing box factory of Henry Solms, foot of Rush street, E. D., and was un- subdued up toa late hour. The fire originated acar the boiler, in a frame building in rear of the mmin factory, and the flames soon spread to (he latter, Ip fess than an hour oe wore a ar Fe eee ia of, much ‘value, i Hi : is Two May Stansxo.—William Pickett, a man seven years of age, was arrested by officer Harris, of Twenty-zeventh precinct, on the charge of feloniously flicting severe wounds. Pickett also stands charged with stabbing Thomas Cahill, also is 26 Washing- ton street, in the face with » sharp . The accused taken before Justice Dowling, who required him to complaint. Pickets $1,000 to answer each int, No. 1 Morria street, lives at The Missi Cashier of the Missisquei ‘Bank of Ve i *, H.G. the missing sners ses, hy eonuatanannee geen Saris eats Bek he deranged. ——_——— News from she Pacific Coast. San Dec. 5, 1865. ‘Trade is very dull. Greenvacks at 66. , Gould & Curry $950, Savage ite . Sat Dec. 5, 1866. * the a abulish ’ Oxruria, Washington Territory, Dec. 5, 1965. Continuous gales have led th the Terri- tory three weeks, doing much and causing qiite a of small vessels are nae, The roads are here blocked ‘and the telegraph lines have been demolished by the fatien trees. Theft of » Mati a Ciarmane, Boo, 5, 1866. A mail bag that left New York on Sunday night for Cleveland was stolen in the depot here last night. pata etal aT Literary Intelligence. The December number of the Catholic World has been issued in New York. It fully sustains the high repute. tion of the series, both in original matter and its vaia- ble compilations from the Catholic literature of the Old ‘World. The ‘‘Spinster’s Story’’ is the title ofa new American novel just issued. ‘The widow of Sit George Cornwall Lewis, who has dict 80 soon after her husband, was herself the writer of two novels, and recently edited the momoirs of Miss Borry. She was sister to the Earl of Clarendon, and always spoken of as a lady of talent and great accomptishments, Sho had boen previously married to a gentioman named © Lister, the author of “Granby. ‘The Emperor Napoleon undertook a considerable share of the editing the description of the Trajan column, which has been issued by the authorities of the Louvre, Paris. Professor Max Mullor has beon appointed sub-lbrariam, of tho Bodloian Library. Oxford, Kuaiaud,