Show miscellaneous news N e wa items r I 1 i t M i t the latest dates dat es from fro the eastern rh cities received by ma maclare mail ilare liari are to the 9 ah h in instant stint the the news ia 13 not very lupar important tant the aus bus pension of specie payments by the new york banks produced a deep impression throughout the country in financial circles clr cir clis and on the ot of december the banks of boston albany Clevelan cleveland dx and many others sus bus suspended the treasury de pait ment also refused to pay cut specie eia aia asa conary measures as alleged on new years day in washington as reported the foreign ministers and attaches in full court dress and af afterwards the army and navy officers in uni uhl uniform torin forin formally smally fa paid their r respect to the president at noon calls were made on the heads of departments department 8 and many citizens and distinguished sojourners also keep open house bonse the members or of the cabinet and judges of the sup eme erme court were among 0 those who at an earlier hour paid their respects ao to tuo tue president major majon arny amy successor to kit carson as indian agent in new mexico dressed in a full sult snit of buckskin made in mexican style and neatly embroidered is said to have been a very prominent individual in the crowd at the white house and aird privately presented to mrs loncoln a splendid bla bia blanket eket as a new years yeara offering 1 11 the banke blanket ris ils is said to have been made by a squaw of a navajo chief who was employed upon it five fire months ls jt it was of wool wooi of at large elce bloe ifil th figures on it being of whit white ered red ved and blue liue the major reports that there are about Nava joes in new who own with the mexicans in the territory probably a million of sheep which are used principally for food the he animals remain unshorn of the wool which would make good blankets and cloth cioth in ng 0 for troops troop serenading Sere by the military banis banisin in and about washington city it beems seems b has d i s bie been i n practiced practised to that extent that it has become more of an annoyance than a compia compliment i e to thebe these lebe thus honored bo nored and an order has been issued prohibiting any bands in the service of f the united sated S ates atea from bioni 9 going out on serenade ing a parties unless by previous permission 0 of the jie jle provost marshal I 1 there were P as reported on the first of it january andary one t thousand housand and forty five a soldiers 0 11 e s 1 sick in the hospitals in alexandria george town own and washinton washington ton 1 on january at 11 ain aik 2 am in the steam steini tug tuk starlight left fort warren boston harbor with mason and slidell and secretaries for provincetown Province town where they were transferred ed to the arvish gunboat rinaldo which sailed e immediately for halifax at 5 that afternoon the departure of mason and slidell is reported to have been conducted very ery quietly the garrison excepting I 1 the tha tho guards guard s on duty were kept away from the prisoners quarters and I 1 there b ere are were but few persons persona on the wharf when they the embarked mason is represented as bein being in good humor but sll SU dell somewhat sulky and displeased atthe of their departure arid and the diminutiveness of the vessel there was a terrible gale on the ni el b i of january along thie thib coast of the E castein and middle states doln doin doina much damage 0 orr n land ad sea it is announce as the fir iret t gale ai of th the year and Is re reported port ed 0 to o bate hate b avye five been the most severe known for years what the f future gales of the year may be the edl edi fraternity in im the east do not se emlo 0 know |