LATEST AMERICAN NEWS.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 272, 1 June 1866, Page 3

LATEST AMERICAN NEWS.

NEW TOEK DATES, MAECH 15. We have to thank Messrs Thornton, Smith, and Firth for copies of the San Erancisco Mercantile Gazette, of March 17, from which we extract the following : — TELEGEAPHIC. New York, March 8. — The steamer Java, from Liverpool, with dates to Eebruary 25th, three days latter, has arrived. Consols closed on the 24th at 87-J to 87-g-, with a steady demand ; 5-20's left off at 69^ to 69| — the highest price touched for some time. The Paris Bourse was flat ; rents, 69f. 3c. The weekly return of the Bank of England shows an increase of bullion of £702,821. The cattle plague was increasing. The last weekly returns quote 13,000 cases, and largely increasing. The Peruvian ironclad 'Heuscan' remained at Brest, under surveillance. The banks of France, Prussia, and Italy have reduced their rate of discount. The Peruvian Government has suddenly closed the Chambers' proceedings, and "l-he action of the Deputies in opposition to tlie Government tends towards strife. The action is quite unexpected. Washington, March 7. — The special report of the Eevenue Commissioner on the subject of distilled spirits is a very elaborate argument, showing that the present tax of 2 dols. gallon kills the legitimate manufacture and invites fraud. That it does not produce as much revenue, as 1 dol. per gallon, is considered quite certain. Washington, March 8. — In the House, Mr. Higby, on leave, introduced a bill granting the right of way to the ditch and canal owners in California over the public lands. On Mr. Woodbridge's resolution in the House, on the Sth, that the United States guarantee a fifty-million loan to the Eepublic of Mexico, all the Pacific members voted aye, except McEuer, who was not present. Chicago, March 8, — The New Yorlc Evening Dost says Bishop Staley, of Honolulu, now en route to the Pacific, has been prevented from gaining the object of his mission in the Atlantic States beyond barren courtesies. This is abundant proof being placed before the public that he went to the Sandwich Islands as an English emissary to promote the interests of England, in antagonism with the United States, in hopes to alienate them from the United States and secure their possession to Great Britain. Washington, March 10. — The Senate committee on the Pacific Eailroad have reported a bill granting lands to the Leavenworth, Lawrence, Port Gibson, and Galveston Eailroad and Telegraph Company, for 200 feet on each side ofthe road and twenty alternate sections per mile, the mineral lands being reserved. The road must be commenced in two years. Washington, March 11. — Mr. Garfield has been instructed by the Ways and Means Committee to report in part the changes in the Eeve-nue-law already agreed on. The tax on incomes has been fixed at five per cent, on all over 1,000 dols. The tax on schedule A has been thrown off, except on billiard tables and carrriages worth 300 dols. Cotton is taxed five cents per pound, payable not by the planter, but monthly by the manufacturers or exporters. The tax ofl dol, per barrel on crude petroleum, is removed, and the tax on transportion is also removed. The tax on whiskey has not been changed. The House Judiciary Committee will be ready on Tuesday to again report the Civil Eights Bill. A proviso will be added which will make the bill explicit on the subject of suffrage and kindred matters. Chicago, March 13. — A Washington correspondent of the 10th says : Mr Conness has introduced a bill to abolish the Southern U. S. District of California, so that the State shall constitute one | district, under the officers of the Northern District Court ; the Act to take effect May Ist. Mr Conness has also introduced a bill to confirm location and sales, under State laws, of land grants made by Congress, which is intended to cover Bidwell' s bill, and supposed to have the approval ofthe land department. The President approved on the Sth the bill confirming Field's Pueblo Decision, which passed Congress without amendment. The Senate has passed a bill granting lands to the Eolsom and Placerville Eailroads. Boston, March 14. — Jared Sparks, the historian, ex-president of Harvard College, died at Cambridge, this morning, of pneumonia. New York, March 14. — Senor Mockenna, Chilian Agent, and Stephen Eogers, Chilian Consul, charged with attempted violation of neutrality laws, were admitted to 5,000 dols. bail each, today, dn the United States Circuit Court. Washington, March 14.— Freeman Clark, the Controller of the - Currency, publishes a sharp letter, addressed to Secretary M'Culloch. saying 'that the published statement of the condition of the Treasury is inexcusably erroneous, and also that the Secretary has sold, during the last month, without authority of law, ten millions of bonds. He concludes as follows : — " I will add, I can show to the satisfaction of any one that neither of your monthly reports, for the last four months, has shown within fifty millions the amount of money in the Treasury, or on deposit to Government credit." In the House, on motion of Mr. Higeby, the Pacific Eailroad Senate Bills, granting aid for the construction of a Eailroad from Folsom to Placerville, and from Placerville to the most feasible point of intersection with the Pacific Eailroad in Nevada, was referred to the Committee on the Pacific Eailroad. St, Louis, March 15, —The upper- 7 river trade with Montana and Idaho opensbrisk. , mmL_ the.. ghi^Oeature

Fort Benton, fill two columns of the the daily papers, and immense quantities of goods are being purchased for shipment. Several boats have already left, and not less than seventy -five are now receiving freight and passengers. The emigration thitherward resembles the California gold fever of 49. All the boats loading draw but few feet, and hope to get through before low water. Halifax, March 15. — The steamer ' Africa ' from Liverpool, the 30th, and Queenstown the 4th, has arrived. Her dates are two days later, but the political news is unimportant. Consols for money have ruled at BG£ to 87; 5-30's at 70£ to 73f . New York, March 15. — Havana advices of the 10th say that a Spanish war steamer had brought in a captured slave schooner, which was reported to have 1,574 negroes on board. Washington, March 15. — The Post Office Department has closed the mail letting for the Pacific States. The competition was greater, and the prices are reduced from last year. The following are the most prominent contracts ; San Francisco to Sacramento, §18,000 ; a reduction of $2,000. San Francisco to Stockton. §15,000 ; a reduction of §5,000, San Juan to Los Angeles, §IS,OOO, a reduction of §6,000. The West Eoute from Lincoln to Portland, Oregon, 624 miles, was let to Henry W. Frisbett, for §17,900, the present pay being §22,500. Chicago, March 15. — It has been known for some time that Secretary M'Culloch and Mr Freeman Clark, the Controller of the Currency, were at variance in respect to the loan bill and other questions of financial policy. In relation to the matter now in publication, ■ the correspondence of Mr Clark, under ; date of February 24th, states his decided opposition to the loan bill, for the reason, that ample authority exists, with the ; means in the Treasury hot required for ■ other uses, to fund that portion of the ; temporary loan deemed desirable. i