, 1862-01-11
Com. Dupont Rebukes Sherman for
His Inactivity.
CASE OF THE DlSl0YAl OREGON
SENATOR,
Reply Of Secretary Cameron to the
Demands of the House.
FEDERAL SUCCESSES ALONG THE
GULF.
FROM WASHINGTON,

Especial Dispatch to the Chieago Tribune.1
WASHINGTON, January TO- 1862
On November 22d, the pirate Sumter was
in the larbor Of st. Pierre, Martinique, block
AIDED by the Iroquois.
The Count dc Paris and Due de Chartres
have not resigned, as stated, but are East on
ten days leave Of absence.
Emerson Ethezidge's father having recently
died in Tennessee, he has gone to Kentucky
to recover the remains.
Acommittee of New York bankers before
the Committee Of Ways and Means, this morn
ing, proposed new scheme providing for'the
appointment OF a Board Of Exchequer, to con-
sist Of five commissioners appointed by the
PRECEDENT, one Of whom shall be Assistant
Treasurer Of the United States at New York
his Office to be IN TINT city, with agencies
elseWhere-whose duties are to collect nh
Government funds and revenues, negotiate all
loans authorized by Congress, attend to trans
fsrs and payment Of public debt and discharge
I'LL duties; the Treasurer ut New 7 ork appoint
ing subordinate officers aud agents, subject to
the approval Of the Secretary Of the Treasury.
As basis for national currency, the Secre-
| ta1y Of the Treasury is to issue and deliver to
the Board six per cent stock Of the United
States, In thousand dollar certificates, redeem
able twenty years from date; on receipt Of
which the Board shall deliver to the Secretary
eighty per cent. OF the amount in c1chequer
bills, payable in corn on demand to bearer; and
after July, 1858, receivable inpayment Of dues
to the Government, or in the purchase Of con-
vertible stock. The Board is also to issue in
e1change for gold and silver and receive On de-
posit their excheQner bills shall transfer their
funds as directed; shall not engage in bank
ing or loaning money !; shall with its funds
procure IN amount in gold coir equal to six
months interest oa the whole United States
debt, and pay the same. Other sections Of the
bill suggested provide for carrying schema Of
national,currency similar to that of Chase in
to effect through the agency Of the Exchequor
Board.
A bill will soon be reported By the Ways
and Meaas Committee for the establishment of
branch mint at Denver City.
The Committee are still at wotk on the
tariff and tax bills. They lave agreed to i'm
pose quarter Of q cent per mile On railway
travellers. Some leading members declars
they won't report any Of these important
measures until the army manifests an inten-
s3sn to do something.
Fremont read an elaborate paper in 4indica-
ton Of his Missouri campaign to the Joint
Committee on the Conduct of the War, to-
day.
TIC Quartcrmaster General went to day into
his winter buildings-the Adjutant General to
occupy his old room in the War Department.
Mcclellan will make grand advance into
rooms vacated
Banker Smithson, just arrested here, is 4
native OF Lynchburg, Va, and has lived here
since 1854. He always voted for men with
Southern procliyities. The proof against hin
| is that a rebel mnil-bag recently seized On its
way across the Lower Potomac, 4 letter to {
rebel General was found, containing al &C
count Of the condition and number Of tht
| Union army ct the Potomac, tht
plans Of Notifications, and scheme fol
| capturing Washington. A 8cticious sigma
ture was attached, but it is known to bt
Smithson's.
The Medical Board Of the army, appointed
to examine the typhoid question, say that th'
prevailing disease is malarious in its origin
and assumes the typhoidal type.
Gen Reynolds's resignation is purely for pyi
| yate family reasons.