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Decemb'r Novemb'r October S 5:12,19:26 7/14/21 28 M 10/18/2027 18/15/22/29 T 7/14/2128 2.916/28/30 5/12/19/20 W 15/22/29 8.10.17.24.81 11/18/26. T 9/16/23 5121926 310.17.2481 6/18/20/27 S 4111825 18/15/20/99 One of the latest inventionsis an iron shod boot. The Massachuseets war bill against the Government is $3,200,000. The disbursements in Missouri since the war began exceed $18,000,000. Orders have been issued for the sending of heavy artillery to Portland, Me. The cotton from Port Royal is shortly to be sold at auction by the Government. Philadelphia, The during total number the year of 1861, deaths was in 14,210. is It is reported that Carl Schruz about to resign his position as Minister of Spain. The banking capital of Vermont is $3,910,000; an increase of $40,000 over last year. The French National Exhibiti n of 1865 will be the grea's ast ever undertaken. Rome is voted the capital of Italy by the Italian Parliament; ayes, 232; nays, 79. A Turin correspondent of the Independ ent states that Mazzini is dangerously ill. Seventy-five thousand stand of arms atrived on the Teutonia all new and excellent. Silver is selling at 25 per cent. premium at R i chmond, Va, and gold at 35 per cent. Sir Christopher Wren. while building St. Paul's received a salary of only £200 a year. Icebergs, upward of 200 feet is height have been seen recently off the coast of Maine. Thirty of the counties of Kentuckey are in possession of the rebels, and eighty are loya!. The banks of Providence, R I., and Hartford, Conn., have suspended specie payment. hundred bales of cotton were recently sold at cents a pound. A Massachusetts for thirty Failures have occurred in Chili, since January last, that will sum up beyond $20, 000,000. From Oswego to Foundulae, we have not single fortification which could bear a day's seige. The last Chinese exploit was murdering two Protestant Missionaries, near Cheefoo, Oct. 17. Two million dollars' worth of cotton has already been gathered by our forces at Port Royal. The Richmond papers admit that the battle of Drainesville was a serious disaster to the rebelcause. The first consignment of goods for the International Exhibition of 1862 has arrived in London. The venerable Josiah Quincy recently met with an accident which will lay him up for some time. Chief Justice Thomas S. Williams, of Hartford, Ct., died Sunday week, aged 84 years and 6 months. Of over forty overcoats thrown away by the at retreating rebels Draisesvelle, only wo were woolen. Port Royal do not bear out the idea of The general negroes negro laziness. They are very indu trious. They are burning corn for fuel in Logan Co. III. and corn at 7 cents per bushel is cheaper than coal at 20 cents. There are now from 5,000 to 7,000 more on the negroes islands first landed. about Beaufort than when our troops There begins to be a disposition apparent in various parts of the country to throw Canada money out of circulation. Since the commencement of the war, upward of 2,500 fugitive slaves have found shelter and protection in Kausas. tariff bill went into effect on the 25 h and to the same as The ult., new importations applies after goods that date. in bond An English newspaper describes a new lock in process of manufacture in Wolverhampton, having 244,140,625 combinations. The French Government is said to be building very costly lines of steamers to run between France, the West Indies, and this country. The commissary stores. including a por tion of the ordnance department. in Nash ville, wereiburned on the 22d ult., Loss $1,000,000. The powding nufacturing company at Bennington, Vt., are allfiling a second order for one thousand bas. of gunpowder for the government.