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NEWS SUMMARY. Cotton closed in Liverpool on the 6th at 131d. The New York market was dull at 30c. for Middling Uplands. Gold closed at 34). The Senate of the Virginia Legislature have passed Bill by vote of twenty-five to four to call Convention of the State on the second Monday in May next. The New Hampshire election takes place March 12th. Miss BRADDON'S new magazine, Belgravia, is advertised for sale. Fires are prevalent in the woods in various parts of the State, destroying much property. Gen. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, last week, was invited to take seat on the floor of the Louisiana House of Representatives. The tax on cotton, under the new law cnacted last week, is 2 cents a pound, instead of 8 cents as heretofore BROWNLOW threatens to return to private life, and the Boston Post offers its condolence to private life. The Hudson. N. Y. and Newtown, Mace I National Banks have been taken in charge of by the Comptroller of the Currency. Canadian eggs, under the new tariff, will have to pay duty of one cent per dozen. Our national debt will be paid. There are about forty candidates for Governor of Iowa. Gen. BAKER, Congressman GRINNELL and Col. MERRILL are the leading competitors. Gen. GLEESON: who is now military director of the Fenian Brotherhood, has given a contract for two thousand uniforms to a large clothing firm in New York. It is said that Prince SALM SALM, a German offi cer, who served in the United States army during the recent war.isnow in command of MAXIMILIAN'S forces garrisoned in the city of Orizaba. Statistics show that the Northwest contains onesixth of the improved land of the country, and produce one-half of the entire bulk of the products of the United States. The Scandinavians of Chicago recently gave a grand ball. in which numbers of Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish men and women appeared in their old national costumes, Some ex-Fredericksburg darkies voted at the election in Georgetown. One old fellow. however, declined, saying, "They jist put the names down, and the next thing is tax: on every nigger that voted. The British steamship Mexican, dispatched from Baltimore to Liverpool by the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad Company, and which left Cape Henry on the 1st ultimo, arrived off Queenstown on the 16th, all well. The Chinese have nutaerous diseases of the eyes; every fifth man having some ocular defect, and every fifteenth losing his sight altogether. They attribute it to the excessive use of rice and constant shaving The Gainesville (Fla. New Era says that. with a favorable season, the cotton crop of Alachua County will far exceed that of 1866, as a much greater.area of land will be planted with the staple. Better raise less cotton and more corn. In the Maryland Legislature, the other day, Mr. APPLEMAN (Republican) offered resolutions condemning the election of the notorious rebel and traitor General CUSTIS LEE, to the Presidency of the State Agricultural College. Rejected It is stated in the New York Tribune that under the provisions of the Naval Appropriation Bill. passed at the late session of Congress, at least 10,000 employees in the Government Navy Yards are will be discharged during that there 2,200,000 proprietors of vineyards in France, 1000 varieties of vine cultivated. 5,435,000 acres of land devoted to vineyards, and in 1864 the crop was 1,820,000,000 gallons of wine, worth $100,000,000. Two large floating cisterns constructed at Cherbourg, have arrived at Havre, on their way to Paris. They are intended to supply the aquariums of the Exhibition with a water, and during its continuance will make constant trips between the sea and Paris. Senator WADE, of Ohio, who has been elected President of the Senate, was born at West Springfield, Massachusetts. and is sixty-six years of age. He went to Ohio when about twenty-one years old, after receiving a common school education. Heis an extreme Radical We learn that the Right Rev. Bishop QUINLAN, of the Catholic Diocese of Mobile, which includes, we believe, the States of Alabama and Florida, has been commissioned by Governor PATTON as one of the representatives of Alabama at the Paris Exposition. HARPER & BROTHERS will publish immediately the new Bankrupt Bill, with notes, forms of procedure, and a collection of all the American and English decisions upen the law of bankruptcy, adapted to the use of the lawyer and merchant, by EDWIN JAMES. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger Bays "Tradeof all kinde remains ruinously dull. Go where you will the complaint is uniform Many dry goods and grocery firms are behind with their notes, and nots few suspensions are reported among the smaller houses.' The St. Paul Pioneer says: "Some people are verdant enough to ask, 'Can Congress do so and so? Why certainly they can. A railroad conducfor once accosted LOLA MONTEZ thus, (Madam, you cannot smoke in the car.' But you see can. replied LOLA, for I am doing it. This is Congressional logic.' A cotemporary, alluding to the numerous cases of suicide, and murdering of children by mothers in the Northwest, says: 'When the fathers in that country determine to tar and feather every fanatical lecturer they catch in the act of haranguing silly people on the subject of spiritualism, freelovism and damphoolism generally, the throats of their children will be safe." The New York Assembly on Wednesday voted down a proposition to let negroes in that State for delegates to the constitutional convention. Yet a majority of this same New York Legislature are in favor of thrusting negro suffrage upon their countrymen in the South and not only that, but in favor also of keeping them out of the Union until they consent to it. Through the courtesy of Mr. ROBERT ROWELL, of this city, we have been permitted, says the Louisville Journal, to examine copy of the Australa sian, published at Melbourne, Australia, the largest paper in the world. It contains thirtv-two pages of five columns each, and if printed on a single sheet would be nine feet long by three A meerschanm pipe manufactured in this country, and designed for the Paris Exhibition, is now to be seen in New York. The pipe itself is eleven inches in length, and the amber mouth-piece eight inches long and two inchea thick. The carving on the trunk of the pipe represents the meeting of Macbeth and Banquo with the witches, on their way to the battle-field. Surmounting the bowl SHAKEPEARE is represented seated on a chair, looking down upon the scene. The Rabbis of Europe are to assemble in council in Paris next year, in order that the great Sanhedrim may take place in conjunction with the Universal Exhibition. The Central Jewish Committee of Paris has taken the initiative of the meeting, which will especially called on to decide the following questions The abolition of the probled
