New-York daily tribune., 1866-01-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS.


action of tho Congress relation to the recent dssen'
Eions President Roberts is about issuing call Tor
grea. Tcnan Congress to assemble in February, and
has aso sent instructions to the various Circles ofder
Ing the members to arm themselves.
Yesterday Anthony Shoder. formerly clerk
in the Treasury, arrived in Washington in charge of
an officer, and was taken to the Cfdrt house. when
Judge Fisher committed him to prison. He is charged
with abstractng over s3oOoO in vetwenty bonds from
the treasury while be was employed clerk One OF
the employees of the Department was sent after him
aud followed bim to Michigan, where he procured his
arrest.
The National Hnteiigencer Of yesterday says:
Eve learn that the uster.out OF Lafayette c. Baker
as BrCader- General not in consequence OF any
dissatisfaction in the mind Of the Secretary Of War to-
ward his jealous and skilful nstrumenality but In
obedience to an express command of the President
No arrests have been made of the Adams
EXPRESS robbers beside those already reported The
amount Of money and bonds stolen according to the
statement of Mr. Sanford. is $4,000. The sum re.
covered is about 0oO Of which S. 900 in gold we're
found yesterday and returned to the Company.
Tie National Inteiligencer yesterday morning
announced that the President had ordered the troops
in Virginia to be mustered out thus couutermanding
the order Of the Secretary of War issued on Monday
At II O'Clock MIR. Stanton informed Speaker Cofax that
The Insligeneer's statement was false.
In reply to an inquiry of tho House the
Secretary Of War states that the Commission to award
compensation to loyal Shareholders who furnished
slaves for the army by direction Of the President con-
fined its abors to two States, and no payments have
been made, in consequence Of lack of money.
The skating season was at its hight yestcr-
Dork nd oil do
ia Eew.York, Brooklyn and vicinity being densey
thronged with merry skaters But. unless the weather
grows colder there will probably be an interruption in
the sport.
In the case of Crilley, administrator, against
the Brooklyn Ferry Company for damages for the
death Of John j. Crilley, alleged to have occurred
through The defendants negligence the jury yesterday
rendered q verdict for the defendant.
Secretary McCulloch was in conference with
the Ways and Means Committee yesterday. and sub
snted in an Informal his views in support oi
the fnoncal measure recently introduced into the
House. No action was taken.
Navigation in the Chesapeake Bay, which
was suspended on account Of the ice has been again
eumcd and the steamers of tie new line between Bat
moro. Fortress Monroe and Norfolk leave Spear.
Wharf daily at 5 O'Clock.
Another counterfeit greenback $40 bill has
made its appearance. The signatures Of Spinner and
Chtenden geo J. but the portTa Of Mr.. Lincoln is
coarse and the bill generally much heavier in appear
ance than the genuine.
1t is reported that the Commissioners ap-
pointed to select location for Asylum for the Blind
ia the western part of the State have fixed upon Ba
tsvia The site selected whet is known tie Soper
and Evans lot.
United States Commissioner Stlwell yester-
dag held to bail in the sum of D. 900 to await examina
ton Eloch W. Peabody, master Of the ship Neptune,
oaarged with cruel treatment to his crew and pas
beDgeIs.
A Military Commission, Of which Major-Gen.
Fessenden presiding officer is in session at Alexan
dria Va. trying II persons charged with
Icty in the disturbance in that city Csistmas day.
The Interior Department has just issued to
the State Of Iowa swamp land patent Of upward Of
30 800 acres The Land Office is actively engaged in
bringing the work to q close for that State
=. The Lloyd Steamship Company's now
steamer Hermann will he open to the public for in.
specticn to-day Friday The ship les at the Bremen
rier. foot Of Third-st, Hoboken.
The Ion-Molders' Protective Union held q
secret session yesterday morning, in Tammany Hall.
In the open session in the afternoon tho business
Of q routine character.
The President has recognized Jules PHILIPPE
as Vice Consular Agent of France at Mobile, and Hya.
cinths Provost Destyr as Vice Consular Agent OF
Trance OF Galveston
A bill introduced into the Senate, to carry
out the stipulaons Of the fourth article Of the Ash
burton Treaty gives Massachusetts, Sl33 0C0 900 and
Maine t33. 10000
1t is said the trial Of Capt Semmes would
have been commenced yesterday but for the absence of
Commodore wiuslow one Of the most important wit.
nesses.
Ben. Holidays overland coaches carried
during the quarter ending With december last 1882
sacks Of mail matter, weighing loo 900 pounds
The House Committee on Appropriations is
at work on the Army BILL and has already made reduc
tions amounting to g.. 100000
Gold closed at 1881 0l3si, yesterday The cx.
tremes OF the day 1884 03st Government stocks con-
x,,nus hrm for oil descriptions with = good demand In
Railway mortgages there doing st lower
mica. Railway shares opened weak aud show further DE-
c,e the O'clock Board sudden weakness WAS shown
a. vce, and general scramble made to SELL and low
ies wes quoted At the Second Board there was large
,.nra. and at the close prices were steady, and in some
hxer Money offered In abundance TO stock houses
f GOOD credit at per The rate 10 on ordinary sscur
s and lenders quite careful where borrowers not 6rst
,, IN connsrcs paper there 10 no change best names
80. ~ Der cent and second grade i0dl5 per cent
Before the Villalranca case and the cruelty OF