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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. VOL. I—NO. 58. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING) is published by 8. W. MA SON & CO., At 111 Bay Street, Savannah, Georgia, terms: Per Copy.. Five Cents. Per Hundred ( $3 50. per Year slO 00, ADVB RT 18 IN G ! Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first In sertion ; One Dollar for each subsequent one. A<l vertisements inserted in the morning, will, if desired, appear in the evening without extra charge. JOK PRINTING f every style, neatly and promptly done. For the Savannah Daily Herald the new secretary of the TREASURY. FIRST PAPER. Mr. McCulloch enters upon the duties of his office with many advantages—official experience and a thorough knowledge of the principles of currency and banking. With his plans of financial administration the pub lie are yet unacquainted officially. Soffit insight, however, into these plans may be afforded the by publication recently of cer tain extracts from the speeches, reports and official letters of Mr. McCulloch, as Comp troller of the Treasury, in the New York Herald. It is our purpose to present an an alysis of his views in as condensed a form as possible, founded on the extracts made by the Herald, under sucli headings as have been adopted by that paper. NATIONAL CURRENCY' ACT. ‘ The national currency act, although ad mirable in its leading features, is not alto gether symmetrical iu its arrangement, nor clear, it it is even consistent in all of its pro visions. I respectfully suggest, therefore, that the act bo carefully revised; that those parts of it that refer to Ihe same subject be placed in juxtaposition, and that it be reliev ed of certain obscurities and apparent incon sistencies that render some of iis provisions of difficult construction. A law ol so much importance as this, which is lo be interpreted by so many people, and is to be the charter of so many banking institutions, should be methodical in its arrangement, clear in lan guage, and comprehensive and consistent in its provisions. In these respects the national currency act is somewhat defective. Sections relating to the same subject are scattered throughout tire act. Words of different sig nificance are sometimes used as if they were convertible. _ Many passages are ambiguous in language, if they do not contain inconsist ent provisions.” These defects must have been the result of party legislation. The improvements sug gested must be obvious to those' who look for method and clearness in so important an act of legislation as the creation of anew currency. OFFICERS OF BANKS INSTEAD OF STOCKHOLDERS, OUGHT TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE. Igstead of the liability of the stockholders, many of whom have little voice in the man agement of their banks, I would suggest that section 12 be so amended that the failure of a national bank be declared />rima fade fraudu lent, and that the officers and directors under whose administration such insolvency shall occur be made personally liable for the debts of the bank, and be punished criminally, unless it shall appear, upon investigation that its affairs were honorably administered. This suggestion is founded on justness and round principles, in the administration of banks. UNIFORM RATE OF INTEREST. The expediency of making the rate of in terest uniform throughout the country is manifest. The objection to national legisla tion upon this subject is that the States are supposed to have the exclusive right to regu late the interest upon loans of money. It is true that the power to regulate the rates of interest at which money shall be loaned has always been exercised (except in the case of the United States Bank) by the States; and it is also true tlTat the laws upon this subject iu the different States have been various and changeable. Th re are scarcely two States in the Union whose interest laws are exactly alike. Few things have been more embar rassing to the trade between the different sections of the country, aud none have been more prolific of litigation and conilictiug judicial decisions, than the different and fre quently changing legislation of the States in fixing the value of the use of money. What ever opinions may have heretofore obtained upon the subject, 'here are now very few in telligent business men of the country, who -have watched the effect upon trade and ex changes of the efforts of the States to estab lish by law the rates of interest, who are not agreed in the opinion that the regulation of commerce between the States can not be perfectly accomplished with out the establishment of a uniform rate of in- Urest throughout the Union. The commerce of the country ignores State boundaries, and Congress has the exclusive right of regula ting it. Congress ought, there lore, to have the incidental power of preventing the States li’oin embarrassing commercial intercourse between the people of the States, which is done to no little extent, by their fixing difl’er '■ut rates of interest upon money. If such power exists in Congress it ought to be ex ercised. In my judgment it is demanded both by considerations of public policy and pub ic convenience.. But whatever opinions may be entertained in regard to the general au thority of Congress to regulate the rate of interest upon loans of money, there can be but little question of its power to regu late the rate which shall be charged by the >anks through which a national circulation is to be issued, and which are organized under a national law. Unless it possesses this p wer the nit oml government must divide with the States the control' of the affairs of minks created to carry out its rigidful, ac knowledged and necessary functions. As uie law. now stands banks In New York and Michigan can charge seven per cent, on SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 186;). their loans, while those of New Eugland and most other States are restricted to six; and State laws can be so framed as to attract capital to be invested in national banks too largely into particular States, or to prevent such an investment of it, in such States al together. Restitution of a Stolen Masonic Seal.— We have been permitted to copy the follow ing letter, which speaks for itself: Fayetteville, N. C., March 18, 1865. R. T. Turner, Esq., Savannah Ga. Bro. Turner. —l am sorry that we have any in the army under our great and good commander, (Gen. Sherman), who would break into a Lodge Room of our Fraternity to pillage, yet such characters are to lie found in all armies, pot I hope among the ones who do the country honor, but among those who are continually straggling and out of danger when danger is near. I came in possession of the seal of Oglethorpe Lodge No. 50, Ga. You being the most extensively acquainted in Masonic matters of any one I know, I send it you, that the Lodge may come in possession of it, to which it belongs. We are not at war with Masonry, and had the South but lent a listening ear to the peaceful teachings of Masonry, thousands of hearts that are now sad, would yet have been buoyant with bright hopes of the fu ture, and our once happy and prosperous country would have no occasion to mourn the loss of so many of its noblest and best sons. I never had the opportunity of meeting in Solomon’s Lodge but once, (i. e.) the night before the 14th corps left Savannah, but truly nope that, through the kind interposition of the Great Architect, we may meet you iu peace and prosperity. Yours Fraternally, • Chas. H. Friend. Company F, 2d Minn. Volunteers, 2d Brig. 3d Div, 14th Army Corps. The Seal is now in the possession of Mr. James M. Jones, Secretary ot Solomons Lodge, No. 1, of this city. CEMETERY REPORTS. INTERMENTS TN LAUREL GROY'E CEMETERY. March 21. Andrew Long, Cos. C, 25th In diana ; Henry G. Miller, 3 years and 7 days, bronchitis, Savannah. March 22.—Eliza M. Nicoll, 64 years, ery sipelas, Savannah. March 23.—Dora Margaret Siam, 1 year, 8 mouths and 20 days, pneumonia,Savannah; Oliver Bartow Bordley, 3 years aud 8 mos., dysentery, Savannah; Ella Walker, 1 year and C mouths, marasmus, Savannah : Jose phine Hicks, 1 year and 8 months, teething, Chatham Cos., Ga.; Henry Wade, 6 months, teething, Savannah; Samuel Garmauy, 38 years, typhoid pneumonia) South Carolina. March 24. —Henrv |Black, 3 years and 9 months, dysentery, Savannah; Abraham E. Crosby, 1 year and 8 months, measles, Chat ham Corner, Ga.; Maria J. Tow, 2 years and 4 months, tubeola, Savannah; Kesh Bell, 52 years, tubes mesenteria, South Carolina. March 25.—Wm. 11. H. Kersh, 1 year, 4 months and 10 day's, whooping cough, Sa vannah. March 26—Jane E. Wells, 25 years aud 7 months, typhoid pneumonia, South Carolina; Annie F. Cubbridge, 3 years aud 2 months, I diptheria, Savannah. CATHEDRAL CEMETERY. March 21.—John Henry Smith, 2 years, necrosis, Savannah. March 22.—. John Q’Bryne, 46 years, drop sy, Ireland. Total, 17. A Paris journal publishes the following curious statistics respecting the balls at the Grand Opera:— Eacli of these fetes occasions an expendi ture of about 140,000f. The administration or the balls employs no less than 980 persons. Every ball night 1850 wax tapers, 210 oil lamps, and 2600 gas burners are required to light the theatre. Tlie average number of persons attending the ball is 5000, of whom 2400 are women, and 2600 men. Each ball leads to an outlay of 8200f. iu masks, 3500f. in the hire of costumes, 3500f. in hair dress ing, and about OOOOf. in boquets and fans. The fees paid iu the cloak-room are about 2500f. At the first opera ball this season 1490 hired carriages, and 300 private ones passed under the peristyle, which must have caused an expenditure of about 8000f. The sale of refreshments to the theatre produced 13,750f. At tlie rate of 140,000f. for each ball, the whole fourteen of the season would give* 1,960,000f. Ot course the above sum does not include the money spent in cases and restaurants after leaving the theatre.” > . Special Message of President Davis.— A special message from Jeff Davis was sub mitted to the rebel Congress on the 13th iust. Asa candid confession of the desper ate conditiou of rebel affairs generally, it is important. He says “the capital of the Confederate States is now threatened, and it is in greater danger than it has heretofore been during the war.” He also admits the worthlessness of the present rebel financial system, the inefficiency' of the military or ganization and the derangement of affairs generally in the confederacy. As measures of extrication from surrounding difficulties, he recommends more rigorous laws for the impressment of supplies, a more remorseless conscription and a suspension of the habeas corpus act. After the failure of the Hamp ton Roads peace couterence, Jeff informs us he made efforts to initiate negotiations for a settlement ot difficulties by a conference be tween General Grant and General Lee, and the latter wrote to the former on the subject; but General Grant’s reply was! that lie hail no authority to act in such a capacity. From Macon. —Recent accounts received from tlie interior state that'a very brisk busi ness is doing in trading for U. 8. currency, at the rate of $25 Confederate for $1 in green backs. At Millen, 79 miles from Savannah on the Central Railroad, there is a guard sta tioned to overhaul and scour the country for deserters and others coming into the Federal lines. Captain B. F. Davis* of an Alabama cavalry' corps, is in command of the post at Millen. • President Lincoln upon the Rebel plan of Arming the Slaves. —On tlie occasion of the presentation of a rebel flag, cap tin ed at Anderson by the 140th Regiment Indiana Vols., President Lincoln made tlie following remarks.- Fellow Citizens —l will be but a uery few words that 1 shall undertake to say. I was bora in Kentucky, raised in Indiana and lived in Illinois. (Laughter.) And now I am here, where it is my business to care equally' for tlie good people of all the States. I am giad to see an Indiana regiment on this day able to present the - captufed flag to the Governor of Indiana. (Applause.) lam not disposed, in saying this, to make a distinction between the States, for all have done equally well. (Applause.) There are but few views or aspects of this great w«r upon which I have not said or written something whereby my own opinions might be known. But there is one—the recent attempt of our err ing brethren, as they are sometimes called— (laughter)—to employ the negro to fight for them. 1 have neither written nor made a speech on that subject, because that Was their "business, not mine ; and if I had a wish upon the subject, I had not the power to introduce it, or make it ef fective. The great question with them was, whether the negro, being put into the army, would fight for them. I do not know, and therefore cannot decide. (Laughter.)— They ought to know' better than we. I have in my lifetime heard many arguments why' the negroes ought to be slaves; but if they fight for those who would keep them in slavery it will be a better argument than any 1 have yet heard. (Laughter and applause.) He who will fight for that ought to be a slave. (Applause.) They have concluded at last to take one out of four of the slaves, and put them in the army; and that one out of tlie four who shall fight to keep the others in slavery ought to be a slave himself unless he is killed in a fight. (Applause.) While I have often said that all men ought be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to lie ; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. (Applause.) I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for tnemselves. (Ap plause.) I will say one thing in regard to the negro being employed to fight for them. I do know he caunot light and stay at home and make bread too. (Laughter aud ap plause.) And as O; •is about as important as the other to them, I don’t care which they do. (Renewed applause ) lam rather in favor of having them try them as soldiers (Applause.) They lack 1 one vote of doing that, and I wish I could send my vote over the river so that I might cast it in favor of allowing the negro to fight, (Applause.) But they cannot fight and work both. We must now see the bottom ‘of the enemy’s resources. They wiil stand out as long as they can, and if the negro wiil fight for them, they must allow him *d fight. -They have drawn upon their last branch of resourc es. (Applause,) And we can now see the bot tom. Applause.) lam glad to see the end so near at hand. (Applause.) I have said now' more than I intended, and will therefore bid y'ou goodby. ► Swedenborg’s Clairvoyance. —ln the year 1759, when Mr. De Swedenborg, to ward the end of February, on Saturday, at 4 o’clock, p. m., arrived at Gottenburg from England, Mr. Wm. Costel invited him to his house, together with a party of fifteen per sons. About (’» o'clock Mr. De Swedenborg went out, and after a short interval returned to the company quite pale and alarmed. He said that a dangerous fire had just broken out in Stockholm, at the Sundermalm, (Gotten burg is about 300 miles from Stockholm;) and that it was spreading very fast. He was restless, and went out olten; lie said that the house of one of his friends, whom he named, was already in ashes, and that liis own was in danger. At 8 o’clock, after he had been out again, he joyfuily exclaimed, “Thank God ! the fire is extinguished the third door from my house.’, This news oc casioned great commotion through the whole city, and particularly among the cnmpany in which he was. It was announced to the Governor the same eveniug. On Saturday morning Swedenborg was sent for by the Governor, who questioned him concerning the disaster. Swedenborg described the fire precisely, how it had be gun, in w hat manner it had ceased, and how long it had continued. On the same dny the new* was spread through the city, and, as the Governor had thought it worthy of at tention, the consternation had considerably increased, because many were in trouble ou account of their friends and property, which might have been involved in their disaster. On Monday evening a messenger arrived at Gottenburg, who was dispatched'during the time of the fire. In the letters brought by him the tire was described precisely in the manner stated by Swedenborg. On Tuesday morning the royal courier arrived at tbe Governor’s with tiie melanoholy intelligence of the fire, of the loss it had occasioned, and of the houses it had damaged arid ruined,not in the least different from that which Swed enborg had given immediately after it had ceased, for the lire w r as extinguished at 8 o'clock.-— Emmanuel Kant. The Ruin in Charleston. —The following adds another scene to the melancholy picture gallery describing Charleston as it is: The oldest and richest part of Charleston is a wreck throughout. All the debris of the siege remains as"it was—tumble down sides of bouses filling half the streets in quarters, and unseemly monuments of bricks scattered everywhere. The streets are glazed with glass and papered with memoranda and let ters throw n out from the bauks and ware houses—paved with relics as a certain place is with good intentions. This min had few occupants save a handful of poor unkempt whites and w ondering negroes, as the stran ger passed through on Monday. Cactus, palmetto and the orange leaf were in the gardens of a few wealthy residences. A doz en times repeated knocking at one of the wealthiest doors brought a rickety old lady to the front, and a questioner asked for the owner. The reply was allegorical: “Gone away ’yond Jordan, massa.” Marriage among the Freedmkn. —ln March last Adj Gen. Thomas issued an or der respecting the marriage of Freedmen in the Department of Tennessee aud the State ol Arkansas, authorizing clergymen to sol emnize such marriages, and providing that a neat certificate of marriage be presented to the parties thus united. He also made pro vision to have a record of these marriages. From the record kept at Vicksburg some in teresting facts are obtained. The first of these marriages was celebrated April 10th, by Chaplain Rowley, of the 63d U. S. col ored infantry,and the bridegroom was the re puted son of Gen. William Smith, ot‘ Vir ginia. Since that time there have been recorded at Y ieksburg fourteen hundred and fifty-six marriages, before the Ist of November. The record is required to show the color, or blood ot the parties united in marriage, and of the parents of each ; of course the color of six persons should lie recorded for eacli marriage. Out ot these fourteen hundred anil fi(ty-six marriages there were one hundred and sixty six persons who W'ere the children of one white parent, and three of them were chil dren of white mothers. One-third of all the marriages recorded so far are ot parties while or partly white on one side or the other, and it is believed that the number was still larger,but this fact could not be shown, owing to the ignorance of the parties themselves, or their unwillingness to tell what they knew', the darker mulattoes claiming to be of unmixed color. A large part of the marriages recorded, especially at first, were of those who had lived together as husband and wife—perhaps for many years. One old man at Memphis was married, with several others, one morn ing. No sooner w r as the ceremony completed than lie turned and tenderly embraced and kissed liis now legal wile, with evident thanksgiving that she w r as now, in the eye of the law aud of civilization, as she had long been in the eye of God, his ow r n recognized wife. One old man, of almost three score and ten, was thus joined in lawful marriage to his venerable write. At the conclusion of the ceremony, when the chaplain extended his hand with the naptial benediction and dis missed them, as was the custom, in a short prayer, they both dropped ou their knees together, their eyes streaming w ith tears of thaukiulness, aud at the close, still kneeling, the old man reached out both arms and hug ged her to his heart, saying aloud, “My dear old w’oman, I bless God tuat 1 can now for the first time kiss my ow T n lawful wife.” Os these one thousand four hundred and flfiy-six marriages, five hundred and fifty two persons answered that they had been married before, and had been sold away or driven aw'ay from those who had sustained to them the dearest relation of life. Os these former marriages, thus virtually disrupted, there were bom one thousand and seventy seven children. One chaplain married 18 couples one even ing after 8 o’clock, at Davis’s Bend. Among these 36 w r ere 13 persona who had lfo@h sepa rated from husbands or wives “by force,” and these 13 persons were parents of 34 chil dren by former connections thus violently sundered. One chaplain married 108 couples in one day. The marriage fees received w'ere small. One received a silver dime for marrying a couple. Several times tlie parsons have been presented with a dime, postal currency, and half a dime has been given as a marriage fee. But the strangest of all was one from a company of eleven couples married at once. A bride, more thoughtful than her evidently worser half, came np to the chaplain and said that she “had not much to give, but begged him to accept a small token of inter est in what had been done for her and her family,” and handed him a sweet potato ! He received it and thanked her politely, and was much pleased with this evidence of her ap preciation of the service. The oldest person married was 88 years old. He brought to the altar an elderly young woman of 50—38 years younger than himself. One man of 80 married a woman of 40. The greatest disparity of ages was 46 years. A mature gentleman of 66 united to himself a gill of 20. She made sure of get ting a man old enough to be respected. Three white men married colored women. One old slave trader married a handsome quad roon w’hom lie had boughUfor $3,000, and had been offered $5,000 lor.’ The: First Verse in the Bible. —This simple sentence -denies Atheism—for it as sumes the being of God. It denies Poly theism, and, among its various forms, the doctrine of two eternal principles, the one good and the other evil; for it confesses the one eternal Creator. It denies Materialism, for it asserts the creation of matter. It de nies Pantheism, for it assumes the existence of God before all things, and apart from them. It denies Fatalism, for it involves the freedom of Eternal Being. It assumes the existeuce of God, for it is He who, in the beginning, creates. It assumes His eternity, for He is before all things ; and as nothing comes from nothing, He himseif must have always beeu. It implies His omnipotence, for lie creates the universe of things. It implies His absolute freedom, for He begins anew’ eourse of action. It implies His in finite wisdom, for a /cosmos, and order of matter and mind, can only come from a being of absolute intelligence. It implies His essential goodness, for the sole, eternal, almighty, all wise and all-sutlicieut Being, has no reason, no motive and no capacity for evil. it’presumes Him to be beyond all limit of time and place, as He is before all time and place.— l’rof. Murj/hy. Movement ok Troops.— Many soldiers are now’ going to the field from this port. The number averages about 1,500 a day. To-day 2,800 are to embark on the following named vessels: Steamer Atlantic, for Fort ress Monroe, 1,000 men; steamer Thos. A. Scott, for Fortress Monroe, 400 men; steam er Ajax, for Beaufort, N. C., 1,000 men; steamer Fnlton, for Hilton Head, S. C., about 400 men. Squads will also go by rail, and the whole number will exceed 3000. The steam-transport Illinois arrived from Fort Delaware yesterday morning, with 110 men of the One Hundred and Forty-fourth New Yoik Reeiment, who acted as a guard ctf prisoners toFori DelavVHte.—-«Y. T. Times , 14 th. PRICE. 5 CENTS Police Station Lodgers.—Barnum’? tem perance drama is very good in its way, but it is all tame recital wiien compared wt, <ur daily morning reports from the police sta tions. At the Tombs, every morning at 6 o’clock, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, or at the Police Court on the east aide, may be seen the real drama, and in it all the ac tors are up in their parts. But even here in the police courts.the stiwy does not fully ap pear ; for among all the prisoners there are no station-house lodgers. This class—a large one, as will presently be show’n—includes no felons that policemen draw to the bar of justice, the lodgers find shelter overnight in the cells of the police stations, and are dia missed in the morning to go whither they will. Nobody knows them by day ; they spring to the surface like mushroons at night. They are masculine, feminine, of youth, of middle age, and of the sere and yellow leaf; but they are mainly in appearance, males of middle age—young men who have grown prematurely old, females of twenty-two, whose haggard or bloated visages arenot to be described. The aged and very young are seldom of their number ; for their vagabond life is not conducive of age, and rum rarely does it work so rapidly as to drag children down to the necessity of seeking lodgings in the police stations. The males are in time of draft seemingly excellent subjects for army duty in place of men of sedentaiy hab its and comfortable incomes. But ask a Po lice Captain why he does not enlist them, and the almost invariable reply is, that they have offered to enter the field as substitutes and been rejected by the Surgeons. Theirs is a story of trippling, and they are Satan’s own. Station-house lodgers are not all, however, outcasts. In" the Sixth Ward, where in winter they average a score nightly, (in sum mer they sleep under awnings and in the park,) the tale of gin and misery is photo graphed on every countenance, but in the western half of the First Ward, where the average of lodgers do bles that of (he sixth, there is a mixed .class of imigrants and seamen, outcasts and tipplers. In the up town districts, where few lodgers apply,near ly every applicant is a victim of the wine cup, and their number, throughout the city, as revealed by last year’s Police report, was 56,929, distributed among the thirty station houses thus: 1 845 11.. 1.71521 1,544 2 ...1,398:12 563 22 1.23 T 3 811 12 ..1,426 28 J6* 4 6,119|14 ..2,273 26 io 6 3.867 j 16 2.049 27 ‘ 6,854 6.. ....2,446]16 2,428 28. !!.1,468 7 1,096,17 2,553 28 L9Q* 8 2,006:18 1,386 30 . . 354 8.. .....3,219 19 998 31.. 46 10 4,843120 1.716,32 6B This table tells the story of indulgence in intoxicating beverages completely; but the list of arrests for intoxication does not- The latter list shows only 16,665 prisoners throughout the city during the year, while the total of lodgers is about tripple that of the arrests for drunkenness, and exceeds the total arrests sos offences of all kinds, as may be seen by the following: Total arrests in 1864 for intoxication, 16,655; total arrests for intoxication and disorderly conduct, 6,302; for disorderly conduct, 9,368; for assault and battery, 6,591. total arrests for offences of all kinds, 54.751. Verily the policemen read us the most vivid temperance lecture, and Bar num ought to incorporate in his moral drama a scene from one of the station-houses. • A Man who has not Slept for over Fourteen Years. —At present there is a sol dier at the Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadel phia, who has not slept for a single moment for fourteen years and six months. This may seem incred ble, but, nevertheless, it is true, and can be verified by a number of per sons. The individual is an intelligent man, naturally, and has the benefit of a moderate education. His name is C. D. Saunders, Orderly Sergeant of Company G, Thirteenth Virginia Volunteers. He entered the service of the United States on December 28, 1863, He is in tbe forty-fifth year of his age. His health has been geueially %xcellent during his life. In 1849 he was attacked with cholera, and since that period with lung lever ou two oc casions, In the summer pf 1850- sleep lcr sook him, and since that time he has never felt the least drowsy. He has always led a temperate life. His wife «nd children reside in Putnam County, West Virginia. Since he entered the he has been on seven raids and four charges, during which time he informs us that he never felt tired or sleepy. He w’as in the four charges made beyond Harper’s Ferry, Va., on tbe 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th of last August, and yet did not feel the least sleepy. Why is it that he cannot or does not sleep is as much a mystery to him as it is to many scientific gentlemen, who having had their attention called to him, have beeu astonished in their attempts to investi gate the cause. Upon one occasion, at his request, a num ber of curiously-inclined gentlemen watched him for forty-tw’o days and nights conse cutively, in order, if possible, to arrive at the cause ot the wonderful phenomenon. These gentlemen look turns with each other in the progress of watching, so that if he should chance to sleep it would be observed. Some of the watchers became drowsy, and it w T as as much as he could do to awaken them. This singular man was sent tn'Ph l irielphia by order of tl e field surgeon. He was a limi ted into the Hospital at Chestnut Hill on the 17th of November last, suffering frem chronic diarrhea and rheumatism. lie has nearly recovered from physical disability ; his ap petite is good, but yet he does not sleep. He retires to bed, the same as the other soldiers, but lie cannot sleep. He simply receives physical rest This brief narrative of a most wonderful phenomenon may seem fabulous, but the reader is assured that it is the truth. , The Rebel Con gress has adjourned sine die, In Richmond great efforts are being made to commend the organization of negro troops. The rebel Vice President Stephens having“been now in Georgia for some time without being heard from, the rebel news papers appear to think his silence suspicious, and are calling on him to speak out. The colored citizens of New Orleans own „ real estate to the value of $15,000,000. They have a daily paper, printed and edited by colored men.