Latest from the North.
the U. S. Senate Again Convened — Valuable capture by the Florida, &c, &c--
We have received the Washington Chronicle, of Tuesday, the 3d inst:
An extra session of the U. S. Senate has been called by the President for the 4th of March, at 12 o'clock, "because the interest of the United States require it."
In the Senate, Monday, Mr. Grimes said there were already prizes in New York to the amount of eight millions sterling, half of which should go to the Treasury.
He called up a bill to effect that object.
Mr. Powell, of Ky., said officers in the West had taken large sums of money from persons arrested, besides taking cotton, rice, tobacco, &c.
Mr. Willey, of Western Virginia, presented the credentials of Hon. Lemuel J. Bowden, elected U. S. Senator from Virginia for six years from the 4th of March.
The Society of Friends were refused exemption from the enrollment bill — yeas 14, nays 22.
Mr. Lane, of Kansas, praised the bravery and fighting qualities of the negro.
The bill giving the President power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus at pleasure finally passed the House by a vote of 97 to 45.
A row has occurred between the Federal soldiers and the negroes at Hilton Head.
The Chronicle has "sad and humiliating reports of insubordination and outrages committed by regiments from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and, we say it with shame, Massachusetts." A soldier writes: ‘"The day after we landed the troops came in collision with the blacks — the soldiers rapacious, the negroes independent and uncivil.
The result was, the blacks were driven off to the other and of the island.
General Nag'es has censured the recent acts of vandalism of the soldiers.
Groans were given in the various camps for General Hunter at the close of the evening dress parade on Sunday.
Much ill festing has been shown by the soldiers on the island, (St Helens,) and there has been serious talk in some regiments about laying down their arms.
We expect General Foster to straighten things out."’
The Free South, published at Beaufort, lets forth the outrages in much stronger language, and says: "In one day the product of a year's toil of superintendents, teachers, and people, has been swept away.
These outrages at once destroy the effects of the moral teachings which were gradually gaining influence over them, and takes away their faith in Northern men," &c.
The correspondent of the Chicago Times, with Grant's army, writes from near Vicksburg, Feb. 19th: ‘
"The rebels are fully posted and prepared to resist the Yankee River movement.
Our troops have cut the levee constructed across it, and the water of the Mississippi flows through the pass in a perfect torrent.
Our troops have also removed the obstructions, and have got to the From the head of miles." ’
A late London paper says a Confederate agent is in England to negotiate a loan for the Confederacy, and to conclude arrangements for a supply of all kinds of commodities, especially munitions of war. Cargoes of cotton are guaranteed in exchange at 7 cents a pound.
If the vessels are captured, bonds are given to cover the amount, bearing a high rate of interest.
General Butler says if he had received in New Orleans President Davis's proclamation against him, he would have sent a rebel General and several other officers then in his hands to Ship Island, with orders that all should be bung upon receipt of information that a hair of his head or of any of his officers had been touched; "and Jeff. Davis knows that a Massachusetts man who dared to vote 64 times for him at the Charleston Convention would dare to do anything"
Paul Murphy was recently beaten three out of five games of chess in Paris by M. De Riviere.
It is stated that Longstreet's division is at Knoxville, Tenn., with designs on Kentucky through Cumberland Gap.
The Chronicle boasts that the 7th Illinois cavalry, whose orders in foraging are to leave enough provisions for each member of a family for six months, found an old Secessionist in Virginia who had 75 slaves and six months provisions for them.
They stole 58 negroes and then took the provisions for that number.
Hon. J. T. Eixon. of New Jersey, says of the Army of the Potomac: "The feeling of despondency among the men is gone, as is the semi-disloyal sentiments among many officers. "
The war has added 100 per cent. to the trade and business of Chicago.
In Canada, says the Detroll Advertiser, the currency consists almost exclusively of American silver Everybody tries to get rid of it. Tax collectors take it by the bushel.
The Toronto Treasurer has half a ten of it. The banks won't receive it. The railways announce that five per cent. only for fare or freight will be received in silver.
Merchants receive it at a discount of five per cent. for Canada bank paper.
The New Orleans correspondent of the Boston Traveller, Feb. 12th, says: ‘
"The Secessionists are getting very bold in this city.
Disunion sentiments are openly expressed every day, and it is a common occurrence for ladies to display rebel flags as our troops pass along the streets.
This week several ladies waved them at some of them.
At 9 o'clock at night, the chaplain, Rev. G. H. Hopworth, with several officers, armed to the teeth, went to the house, found a dancing party going on, but, nothing daunted, marched into the parlor, demanded the flags, threatened to search the house, got one flag, and departed. " [Brave and pious Massachusetts officers and captain!] ’
Peter Hatt's and Simon Price, of Richmond; E. Falk, of Dalton, Ga; M. Kebu, of Culpeper.
Va; D Oppenheimer.
Dalton, were committed to the Old Capitol in Washington, Monday, by Captain Todd.
They all claim to be refugees from the South and anxious to take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government.
Oppenheimer says he took the oath to the Southern Confederacy for the purpose of getting a pass.
The charter election at Geneva, N. Y., on the 2d, resulted in the success of the Democratic ticket.
The Chronicle says, editorially, "Mr. Sumner's resolutions on the mediation preposition were the result of a free and full discussion in the Committee on Foreign Relations, and were adopted unanimously.
It would be a most gratifying spectacle if the unanimity of the committee could prevail in Congress."
Col. Walter Harriman, nominee of the Union party in New Hampshire for Governor, accepts the nomination.
A dispatch from New York, dated the 2d, gives the following items of news from that city: ‘
The 2d New Hampshire regiment passed through this city on their way home to day.
The Supervisors passed the tax levy of over $8,000,000 over the Mayor's vote.
Judge Barnard instructed the Grand Jury to find bills against those parties implicated in arbitrary arrests.
Application has been made for the release of British subjects in Fort Lafayette.
Judge Shipman has decided that the habeas corpus cannot be suspended.
He refused to hear the argument of counsel.
The Mayor has vetoed Fitz John Porter's reception, which was voted by the city authorities.
The Monitor and Catskill went South from Philadelphia Sunday.
The following officers have been dismissed from the service of the Army of the Potomac; 13 Lieutenants 6 Captains, 3 Lieutenant-Colonels, and 1 Adjutant.
About a dozen more have been punished, and, the report says, "cause to belong to the military service of the United States from this date." ’
A dispatch from Halifax, dated March 2 says: The steamer Delta reports that on the 12th of February the Florida captured and burned the ship Jacob Bell from China for New York.
She had 1,600 chests of tea on board.
Her cargo was valued at $1,500,000. The steamer Columbia ran the blockade at Wilmington, N. C., and had arrived as at George with a cargo of cotton and tobacco.
The Government is a heavy loser by the capture of the Jacob Bell, as the duties on her cargo would have been $175,000.
The Chronicle says the Missouri Republican, the most influential Democratic journal of the West, condemns the peace resolutions adopted by the Cincinnati Democratic Convention which nominated Seymour.
A large tree fell across the Iron Mountain Railroad, Missouri, on Saturday, wrecked the train, killed three soldiers, wounded fifty, injuring fifteen or twenty others.
A Lake Superior paper says that on February 3d the mercury stood 34 degrees below zero.
New York Bank Statement-- March 1.--The Bank statement makes the increase loans one million six hundred and seventy-one thousand and sixty-five dollars. The increase on specie is $1,666,804. The decrease of circulation $12,567. The increase of deposits is $4,092,376.
The following dispatch was received in Washington Monday afternoon at the Navy Department:
U. S. Mississippi Squadron;
February 27 via Memphis, March 1
Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: Sir
--I regret to inform you that the Indianola has also fallen into the hands of the enemy.
The rams Webb and Queen of the West attacked her 25 miles from here and rammed her until she surrendered all of which can be traced to a non compliance with my instructions.
I do not know the particulars. February 27 via Memphis, March 1
Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: Sir
