Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-17

Day in Washi hinStOn.-Admfral Porter
VS.. Gen. Banks--Mr. PferPont Ex-
presses his ConvictlOns.--freston
Kings Remains Not Yet Discovered.
! NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-The Herald S WASH
ington dispatch says the Secretary of the Navy
| has determined to send abroad a considerable
portion of our surplus naval force to cruise
about and visit the principal commercial ports
frequ emily, if Congress will make the necessa-
ry appropriations.
| The President has appointed Chauncey M.
! Depew Minister to Japan.
| Winder, Duncan and Gee are the only pris-
oners of note in the Old Capitol.
| The Worlds Washington dispatch says there
| are rumors of Cabinet changes, but it is not
probable any will be made until the meeting of
Congress.
The Times Washington dispatch says the
! findings of the Commission to whom was re-
ferred the adjustment Of the rewards offered
for capturing the assassins and conspirators
| will not be made public until approved by the
Secretary of War.
| The Worlds Washington dispatch says thai
reports have Just been received at the Trea-
| sury Department from Agents stationed along
| the Canada frontier, which show that SNUG
| CLING is still carried on very largely. A large
| number of arrests and seizures are made con-
stantly. The inducements are so great, that if
| one half gets through the parties are amply
renumerated
An Agent who arrived here to day, says
| that smuggers have been unusually active du-
ring the last two or three months.
Fuller, who used the name of Senator
Harlan, aud obtained a large amount of money
belonging to the National Republican Com
mittee, and who has been in the Old Capito
for several months, has been released without
trial.
The Times special says: Hon. Freeman
Clarke, Comptroller'of Currency, in his report
will recommend the removal of the National
Currency Bureau to New York, and Mr..
McCulloch has made the same recommended
ton, when the Comptroller of last year will
probably renew the recommendation in his
forthcoming report as Secretary of the Treas
ury.
Yesterday the Government refunded the first
money from the proceeds of the sale of contis-l
Gated property, in pursuance Of section of
The act of March 3, 1865. The case in which
the money was refunded is one in which the
claimants and former owners of the contiscated
property show they were loyal citizens and
supporters of the Union, notwithstanding the
fact of the abandonment of their property at
the breaking out Of tie rebellion. Tie prop
erty is located in Alexandria, Va. 4 large
number of like cases are pending.
The Herald's Washington special says, yes
terday the time allowed for receiving bids for
contracts for the mail service of Virginia.
West Virginia, North and South Carolina and
Florida, expired, and the formal awarding Of
the respective contracts to parties whose rates
had been accepted, is under way. Contracts
about TO be consummated for mail service in the
above States will go into effect on the lst o.
January, 1866, and expire in June, 1867. Blds
made for the service have been largely in eX-
ce IS of the rates formerly in vogue, for some
routes.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a
circular notifying all Collectors of Internal Rev
enue that he regards it as a just precautlon that
wherever applications are made for the storage
of petroleum or its products within the limits
of any town or city, the Collector of Internal
Revenue should forward to the Department a
statement that the warehouse will not, IN case
of fire, endanger other property or the lives Of
people living or doing business in its vicinity.
Nathaniel Fl. Mclean, formerly Asst Adj
General to Gen. Burnside, who was ordered to
the Pacific coast, q he alleges to prevent his
testifying against Hunt, then about to be court
martialed ia Cincinnati, is preparing to bring
the case before Congress, which promises to
| throw much additional light upon that interest
| ing transaction.
| The Times Washington special says The
| statement that the Secretary Of the Treasury
| intended to discharge all the female clerks in
| his Depar tment is erroneous.
The leading hotels this city have raised
| their price to So day, lor the special benefit
| of congressman.
! Gov Parsons left for home yesterday NJ,
| with two hundred pardons for citizens Of Ala
bama.
Admiral Porter will soon publish reply to
| Gen. Banks structures on the conduct of the
navy in the Red river campaign.
| Col. Henry Paige, late chief quartermaster on
| Gen Sherdans staff, has been ordered to Ar
| kansas for duty.
The Times special says Antonio Pasa who
! was convicted at the October term ofthe United
| States Circuit Court for the Eastern District OF
| New York, of counterfelting fractional cur
| rency, and sentenced to ten years imprisoa-
ment, was to-day pardoned by the President.
The Tribune's special says that the Presi-
dent was more than usually annoyed by imper
tunate re-constructionists yesterday. He re-
| marked that he tried to overwhelm the South
| with pardons and kindness, but from recent
| events he begins to think them incapable Of
| approaching magnanimity.
/ Several efforts have been made to force a
belligerent construction upon The action OF the
| Navy Department, in ordering off certain o..
S. ships Of war. The facts are, that sundry
naval vessels have been ordered out upon
foreign and domestic stations, the same asycars
| before the war instead Of allowing them to
rot in our navy yards.
Gen Grant attended the Academy Of Music
last night, and was received with great enthu-
siasm by the audience.
1t is stated that plans are already on tost for
the rapid reconstruction Of ST. Georges and
DR.. Tyags ehurchs.
The body of Collector King has not yet been
discovered no doupt is entertained as to its
being in the bottom of North river, and work
men are dragging for his remains.
New York, Nov. 15.-Gen. Grant visited
the Union League rooms to-day. He was vel
coined by Vice President Beckman, who after
thanking the General for his victories. alluded
I to the foul wrong Of the French occupation 0
Mexico Gen. Grant replied briefly, by saying
There is one sGslment in your address which
is mine also 1t is the one touching the future
| of Meyico.' This was received with cheers
Speeches were also made by Gen. Meade, DR..
Trobrand. Rev. d. Osg0od and others.
grand reception to Gen. Grant will take
place Oh Monday evening.
Among the passengers the train which
met with an accident at Newark yesterday
were Gen. Logan, Asst Secretary Of Wa
Eckert, and Gen. Sanford. Gen Logan was
bruised slightly, but not as to cause am
Inconvenience Eighteen or twenty were
bruised, including Rev. J. N. Tu1tle, Of th
city.
New York, Nov. lG.-Cotton moro active
and firm at soc for middng