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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-05

inc return Of the Bank Of France FOR the week end
Ing January Is shows the following results as compared
with the previous account:-Increase: Commercial bills
Id million francs; treasury balance, ole Million
notes, loh millions Decrease: Cash, II millions; ad
vanoes, half million; current accounts 20 Is millions
The following table shows the present value in England
Of gold and silver coins Of different naonalities accord
ing TO the British standard, per ounce
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-05

CALIFORNIA RAIsrvs--we have been shown, says the
eonon Cal) Herald California cured aisns from
the vineyard of Mr. A. wildss, Of shaw's Flat soms
varieties Of which are superior 10 any imported rasins
that ~ have IN The Seats We were partcu-
larry pleased With thoes made from the White Muscas
q AlsxasdyA fhey look and taste like ths very bssl
specimens Of MalaGa Qspsa There VS. aiss spsoimaa
q RESINS msde vn The large pink Rhine grapes that
~ n such eoefmous custsrs n vineyards not -
sstsls ssvethssso-msch bsstss. n faoA thsn ArUD
pguDogtioa q eoce1m nianA
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-05
Court or General Sessions

The February term Of The General Sessions win Co
mence this morning. A. the Board Of Supervisors hi
taken action In reference 70 nng the vacancy
bench Of this court occasioned by the election Of Rec
during The nrsssnt month The csses thst viii b d
posed of for the nrst two weeks Of the tarm will DO
ordinary charges Of burglary and larceny, the Court
Oyer and Terminer meets this month for the trial Of
dctments for murder and other serious offences.
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The navigation tables also show that the trade Of the
provinces employs more American tonnage than any
other trade and about half entire foreign tonnage
OF much Of the trade with Canada Is by small
vessels, making several trips monthly but the tonnage
and the trade remain The total United States tonnage
entered from and cleared for the various foreign
tries in the year 1864 was as follows
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-05

The Boardman Pilot Fund.
The Treasurer Of the Boardman Pilot Fund, A. A Lc
ESQ.,, desires us TO acknowledge through our columns
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-05

sAs,snhwas's circular refers 70 American stocks In
Ne London naekss - sOllows:-
no interruption n tslesnphie communication with
= !. be- ~ 3S sst c Toe .sss
Me- auring hs - vssk; but lower Quosalions OF
eold from New Yosk there kas 49, decided improve
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-05

Very little change had taken place IN the value OF
money in the principal cities in Europe. The following
the latest quotations Of the rates of discount
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-05

The shipments Of specie from the port Of New York
last week. and during the year. coure follows with
tha oxnorta fort tho Same period In I96s
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-05

the rate Of ak per cent and involving
expenditure OF about eighteen millions in gold per
mum. Cm bonoS the heavily taxed people may well
ask. This amount win continue 70 increase until the
maximum Of the circulation Is reached and the
mcndation Of the Comptroller Of the Currency acted
upon the latter will largely exceed the three hundred
millions ut present authorized Il Is not rskng much
20 say that within remote period national bank
will be at discount compared with legal tenders and
foreseeng this parties interested endeavorng get
Che national bank issues made q legal tender 10 the
public.
That the national banking system is parasite upon
the Treasury obvious and Its creation was one OF tho
greatest OF the financial mistakes Of the The gov
eminent itself ought to have Issued the circulation
issued by these banks II IL had 10 DO issued II would
thus have saved the interest which II pays these in
stuuons and have avoided the creation Of currency,
which has neither the mcr Of direct government issues
nor the old bank notes. All that Congress do at the
present time TO tax the circulation Of these banks and
cancel the interest on tho bonds deposited
By them Washington. The enormous profits
OF these Institutions, ranging from ten 70 twenty
per cent per annum would then be curialed, and The
amount gained by the government In this way might b.
probably diverted W the establishment Of sinking
fund
me 6nal extinction Of all banks Of issue should bs reu
IN view by Congress and the Secretary Of Tho ry,swrv
10 thal afsr The resumption Of specie paymeuss when
ever curing the next yea cha, event may occur ,bs
y isea tender notes In circulation viii b those issued
II D. Treasury direct We should thus have currency
r 49, b value = that Of ne Bank Of England curreo,
@6R sbs country and good letter ofcfedh abroad -
ADaak u England note ID here o. on the continent d
Bssopa Such . currency, and prohibtev Aw ~.
srdias local assA would prevent ffssA vps Of "wild
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During the year to date. so, AS, $50
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-12
Count Bismark's BOOts-Translated
from the Courier des Etats Unis.

Young BIsMARK, while student at Got
tingen, was invited to party Of the aristoc-
racy, where he expected to dance with the
prettiest young ladies of the city, and had or
dered for the occasion a pair Of patent leather
boots
As the day approached, the young student
became more and more uneasy about them
you'll not get your boots III time, said
his fellow-students
"But will, though,'' answered the future
Minister.
The day before the great day OF the party,
BIsMARK went to the shop of his bootmaker.
my boots ?" he asked.
Il am dreadfully distressed. sir; but have
so many orders for the ball Tomorrow !"
'Ah, it is so is it P" cried the student
swell, we shall see! ~
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Foreign News.

2
Accounts from Bohemia and other points
to the 9th ult., state that a continuous fire
of artillery had been kept up by the Aus
trian and Prussian forces between Neustadt
and Nachod. The Prussians were repulsed
near Strelits, and were in full retreat, leav-
ing their dead and wounded on the field
The army of the Elbe had a successful en-
gagement near Fernau, taking seven Aus
TRAN officers and five hundred men prisoners.
The Prussians had destroyed the military
bridge between Wendau and Grossntz
The King of Saxony had left Prague
In the battle of Custozzo, the Austrians
numbered 10000 men. The LIST Italian army
corps was held in check by overwhelming
numbers of Austrians, before which General
Drane had been forced to retire. The Italian
cavalry had several engagements with the
Austrians, who suffered heavy losses and the
third army corps took one thousand pris-
oners The Italian losses were great, but
those of the enemy believed to be greater
The italian cavalry did not abandon their
positions, nor were they overcome, until the
enemy received reinforcements. Gen. Bene-
dek's passive attitude is attributed to his de-
sire for the Federal troops to form junction
with his army, and to allow the Prussans to
advance into Bohemia, SO that he may cut
off their retreat. aa@
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what the Cotton Tax wiiI Do.

The insane advocates of the Cotton FAX are
about to do serious injury to the entire
country 1t 10 foolish conceit of theirs that
this burden is to fall only on the South 1t
is true, however, that its oppressive weight
will be first felt among the cotton growing
States but, the pressure will not be long in
manifesting itself in the Northwest How
great this tax will be, appears at once when
we reflect on the product per acre which may
be allowed as a fair average through the cot
ton growing region
Putting this at the moderate production of
200 lbs per acre, and the tax at cents a
pound, we have an annual tax upon all lands
devoted to the culture of this staple, of S12
per bale or SO per acre
What will be the effect of this The
question is one full of significance to the
Northwest. Small planters will find it to
their interest to avoid the expense Of cotton
growing, for they can raise the meat and
bread which the cotton growing States were
in the habit of receiving from the upper Mis-
sissppi The owners of small holdings can
produce both corn and pork cheaper than the
Northwest, and the tax which on fifty acres of
cotton would amount to $500, will naturally
have the effect of creating a class of small far
mers who will compete with the West in the
production Of all those articles of subsistence,
which before the war were brought down the
Mississippi; and upon finding market fol
which among their old customers indiana
and Ohio were relying on the future. Mr.
HENDRICKS, in the debate in the Senate, on
the 9th, when the Tax Bill was under con
sideration, showed that he appreciated this
fact; and we trust that the time is not very
remote when this attack on the agricultural
interests of the country will be rebuked BY
the intelligence of the people. In the mean
time we regard it as a very heavy weight on
the back of the Radical camel, which is soon
to be broken
In this aspect of the case, we can view it
with some equanimity
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-12
Virginia Intelligence.

The Richmond Times contains an interest
ing letter from its European correspondent,
which contains comparison between the
condition of Scotland and Ireland, Calculating
the superiority of the former country and as
signing reasons for the depressed condition of
Ireland aud the miserable state If its peasan-
try
The negro Taliaferro Fisher, who some time
ago shot the youth James Doyle, near Rock
etts has been examined before Justice Tbom-
as, but without eiciting anything positive as
to the guilt Of the accused The examination
was continued in order to procure the atten-
dance of other witnesses.
4 meeting Of the stockholders of the Pat
ent Concrete Company has been held in
Richmond, and eommilteeappointed to visit
Baltimore TO confer with the patentees and
examine the subject thoroughly. The cost of
putting the machine III working order is only
about $4,000. TIE mode of making the stone
is very simple and rapid. Five thousand
tomb stones can he made in day at cost
of only twelve and half cents each
fatal rencontre has recently occurred in
Gloucester county, in which VIM Levitt was
fatally stabbed by James Gibbs. The quar-
rel was about the stock of one getting into the
field of the other.
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Congress-

SEEATE.--A resolution was laid over re-
questing the President to intercede for the
Fenians held as prisoners in Canada ID .
The bill to fix the number of Judges Of the
Supreme Court, and to change certain judi
cial circuits was taken up After passing an
amendment and substitute for the first sec
ton, the bill was passed. Ere
The bill to enlarge the pubic grounds
around the Capitol was taken up--after some
remarks the bill was passed
The bill relative to the retrocession of the
county Of Alexandria was taken up it was
discussed by Messrs Henderson, Howard
johnson and others-the bill was postponed
and made the special order for the lth; when
the Senate went into Executive session, and
then adjourned. eilaE
HoUsE.-Ihe consideration of the tariff bill
was resumed, and discussed by Messrs Went
worth, Morrill,, Delano, and others, whom the
House proceeded to vote on the amendments
made in Committee of the Whole s1
The duty on pig iron, fixed at $40 per
ton by the committee, was reduced to SO per
ton. The duty on crash was stricken out
The next amendment of the Committee of the
Whole was increasing the duty on bitumi-
nous coal to 81 so per ton, on which Mr.
John L. Thomas demaaded separate vote
The yeas and nays were taken, and itresulted
yeas 6fnays u. So the duty remains in
the bill, on all kinds of coal, at ST. so per
ton. The House disagreed to the amendment
exempting the States of Alabama and Flori-
da from paying duties on railroad iron for five
years. .-.
The amendments increasing the duties on
all agricultural products were all agreed to-
w. n, l,,x,s To 4o-,
and coffee were agreed to. So the duty on
tea is 122 cents per POUND. and coffee %
Gems per pound. 1t is double these rates in
the present law.
The Committee Of the Wbole's amendments
being agreed to-
Mr. Morrill,, of VT, moved to fix the duty
on railroad iron at seventy cents per hundred
pounds, instead of one cent per pound.
Mr.. Farquhar, of Ind, moved to amend by
fixing it at fifty cents per hundred pounds,
which was lost-yeas so, nays co. The
amendment fixing it at seventy cents hun
bred pounds 1.-THE rate in the present law
was then agreed to-yeas 1913, nays Al.
Mr. Price, of Iowa, moved to reduce the
duty on salt from 46 to SO cents per hundred
pounds, when in SACHS, &C., and from 81 to
"a cents per 100 pounds when in bulk which
was agreed TO. f4r .as
The amendments being all acted on, the
question was on its third reading
Mr.. Eldriege, of Wis, moved to lay the
bill on the table, which was not agreed to-
yeas %, nays 12l.
Mr.. Washburne moved to recommit the
bill to the Committee of Ways and Means
to report at the next session.
Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, moved 10 amend by
recommitting, with the instructions noted in
his remarks, which was lost
Mr. Washburnes motion to recommit
without instruct ms was then lost-yeas 90,
nays 81 ae
After several motions to adjourn and post
pone, which Were lost, the question then re-
CURED on the passage of the bill; and it was
read third time and passed-yeas 95
nays 81.
At 6 80 P. N. the House adjourned.
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of predatory band Of Liberals-whom may
all the Saints confound who, in a few
hours, destroyed the labor of months, and
carried off number of the colonists as
prisoners. These unhappy men have at last
been liberated, We are happy to say, with a
loss of six of their number, whom, it is fair
to presume, have been disposed of by the
bloody cuchiAo of Mexican assassins. Tho
fact of the release of the survivors we gather
from the Mexican correspondent of the New
York Herald. This historian informs us that
"the Liberals say" our unhappy countrymen
were guilty of numerous offsnses. This we
utterly scout and disbeeve; for nothing is
more natural than the attempt Of the Liberals
to justify their barbarism by imputing offenses
to their victims. In denouncisg them, they
justify themselves; and men capable of rob-
berry and murder are not likely to pause at a
lie to palliate their atrocities. There is no
show of reason in the story. General PRICE,
Ex-Governor HARRIS, and Judge PERKINS,
were not likely to be the patrons of men Ca
pable of the lawlessness and crime imputed
to the colonists nor is it consonant with
reason that our countrymen should have been
SO lost to every consideration of self-interest
and personal safety, as to commit aggressions
upon the native population Obviously, the
wrong-doers have apologized for the wrong by
the invention of paltry lie.
The avidity with which the Heralds cor
respondent seizes upon story impugning the
personal spirit of that gray haired old hero
PRICE, shows his animus and we may there
ore dismiss his stories of outras les by the
American settlers as so many wretched inven
ions.
When he sees the article which the Herald
devotes to this, he will suddenly become en-
lightened, and we think it highly probable
that recantation may be made in his very
| next letter In our previous article on tht
subject Of the cruel wrong done the Cordovs
colonists, we called on the Northern press Il
display such magninimity as they might pos
sess, by making some plea in behalf of oul
countrymen, aud we here make an extract
from the New York Herald, commentary or
the outrage of which we complained. Its re-
marks are significant Of something more than
sympathy--they show the increased liberality
OF Northern opinion. will be gathered from
the following passage
Granting that these men have been guilty
Of treason to their own Government, and that
| they have deserved the severest penalties OF
! treason, we still hold that, in their present
undertaking, as Americans self-exiled in a
distant country, they should cease to be the
objects Of American vengeance, and may with
good result, be given a measure of loyal
American sympathy and encouragement"
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The Atlantic Cable.

The great Eastern was announced to leave
her meerings on Sunday last; and in all pro-
liability she is now under way, paying out
the cable wherewith it seems the enterprisipg
projectors of the scheme of Geographic union
between the Old World and the New. are de-
terniued to bind the hemispheres together.
Whatever be the result, we can but applaud
the pluck which insists on accomplishing this
vast and costly undertaking, despite all OBJ
stacles Its effects on trade, if it succeeds,
will be wonderful On Monday, set of
sables may be ordered, by one Of the "Mc-
FLlMsEY" family, from St. Petersburg, and on
Thursday the announcement OF tho purchase
may be made in Madison Square while it
will take with dispatch thirty odd days for
the precious merchandise to reach this coun-
y.
The stock exchange, and produce market
will lose much Of their fevered excitablity,
and their operations will become more steady
by the frequency and reliability of news from
abroad. Stock gambling, which depends, to
q great eAttAt, Oll uilCtlt ic' ITO Hi''N"'A
tive hazards, will be greatly abated, aud, with
this abatement, money will lose one of the
great attractions now drawing it in such vast
sums to commercial centres. Anything which
will counterfeit this tendency will be bless
ing; for the concentration OF money at p few
given points, like the CONGESTION of blood on
the vital organs, begets disease; and the more
money employed at trade centres in specula-
ton, the worse for the country at large-the
worse especially for us of the South. The
cable, if successfully laid and operated, viii
be sedatve, and as such, should be well
coined by all who desire to see the legitimate
operations of trade and commerce restored to
their normal condition. Apart from tile i'm
portance of getting our daily dispatches from
the Exchanges, Parliaments. and Cabinets of
the Old World, with our matutnal coffee, it
will be singularly exciting to hear each day
of the progress of the great Kilkenny-cat
business, now 10 progress on the battlefield.
of Europe But, it is IN view Of its sedative
effect en- the nerves Of the stock exchange,
that we look forward with hope to the sue
cess of the enterprise
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He went off; but after half an hour he came
back with two of those enormous dogs, which
German students are accustomed to keep.
"Sir," said young BIsMARK, ''do you see
these dogs p
eyes"
"Well, swear that they will tear you into
five hundred thousand pieces if have not
my boots tomorrow evening"
And he went out. But every hour man,
whom he paid for the purpose, stopped before
the bootmaker's shop and cried out in dole
full voice: wretch forget not M. BIsMARE's
boots !"
The bootmaker had but the night to finish
the boots exacted from him by this singular
utimdtum. At ten o'clock he shut lis shop
and said to his wife signing. Come, come,
we must go to sleep.
On a sudden, il the middle of the night,
he heard the barking of the horrible dogs and
the voice of young BIsMARK crying out in the
street: Dearly beloved bootmaker, your
life is threatened think of your family p 10
The next day the student got his patent
leather boots, and danced at the ball like a
mailman.
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General Henry a. wise.

This distinguished orator will deliver
lecture in the Freemason street Baptist
Church, on Saturday night, for the benefit
thereof sea ast la t.il.a g5sa
His subjsct-"The Duty Of repairing the
Churches of the South"--is one which ad-
mits of the modest elequence and we feel
confident that those who hear him will come
away convinced that they have listened to
one whose mouth. like the mouth of the
golden-lipped Saint in the legend, has been
touched by the finger of an angel
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A prisoner named Onderkirk, confined in
Henrico county Jail, was married in prison
the other day 20 beautiful young girl to
whom he had been for some time engaged.
Mr. E. E. Parham, formerly president of
the Warrenton, N. c., female college, and Mr..
l.. S. Edwards, design opening a first class
female boarding school in Richmond, the en-
suing fall. The Rev. John 4. Edwards will
lecture regularly on subjects to be taught in
this Seminary.
The dead body of white infant has been
found in Sidney's old field, near Richmond,
with the skull fractured Y y
Major H. G. Wall and Captain D. c. Mayo
have been arrested for fighting a duel on the
York River Railroad
The farmers near Richmond are bringing
their wheat to market, and obtaining prices
ranging from So to So 10 per bushel.
The Board of Aldermen of Alexandra
have adopted a resolution deprecating the
attempt now making to annex that city to
the District, and urging the committee to re-
newed exertions to defeat the scheme. r 7-o
grand tournament and ball are to take
place at Brantsville, Prince William county,
on the Goth
The Virginia watering places are receiving
a number of summer visitors ma, 81 .e.lorr
A convention is to be held in Winchester
on the 9th, to appoint delegates to the Phla-
delphia Convention
The negro wenches in Richmond are said
to be very barefaced and unbushing in their
MISUNDERSTANDING about the streets after
| night fall, singing snatches of indecent songs,
and boldly and impudently addressing pas
sers-by in obscene language The citizens
complain of these outrageous proceedings,
and the authorities are called upon to abate
| the degrading nuisance. 1aW b.
1t is announced, with great satisfaction,
that the steamship Niagara came over War
wick bar, in James river, drawing nine feet
ten inches, at about three-quarter tide. The
dredging machine has deepened the water in
the bar foot or more. '' ].
Richmond is daily rising Phenx-like, frs1n
its ruins,-so says the Enqurer---in even
more than its pristine beauty and grandeur.
A company of Northern capitalists, near
| Lynchburg, have commenced operations for
the production of paint ore-sulphate of
barites-and have made an arrangement for
the transportation of about 1900 tons per
annum to Lynchburg, on its way North
Another company of Northern capitalists
have commenced mining zinc ore near Wythe-
| ville, and>have made similar arrangement
with the Canal Company. a oaI
| The Dover Company, owned in large part
by Aspinwall & Co., of New York, have also
made a contract with the Canal Company
for the shipment of COAL to the extent OF
| from 10000 to 100000 tons per annum