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New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 684, 23 January 1866, Page 5

A Saratoga letter, speaking the machinery for making up a fashionable woman, says, " Pads for every part of the body are in use. A device for puffing out to a smoothness the wrinkles of the cheeks, called ' plumpers,' hap been introduced." A correspendent to a London contemporary announces the following literary discoveries, which, we think, our readers will agree with us are " curious if true": —"Bibliophiles [in Paris] rejoice,, in the fact that in knocking down a modern villa erected on the site of an antique Eoman dwelling, some precious fragments have been discovered which fill up certain passages wanting i u the Annals of Tacitus. Futhermore, a few unpublished pages of the Republic of Ccero havo been found in the library of the old convent of Fucino; as also fragments of the books of j Titus Livy's History. Canoo Biffi is the fortunate student who has stumbled upon these valuable relics of the past, and he has piomised to publish them a3 soon as posaible for "the "edification of the learned. Strange to say, a somewhat similar discovery ha* been made in Mexico, It appears that a nuncio of forme* days left at his death the whole of Pambeo Litta's work, with valuable autograph notes. The work lias been purchased by a French military aargeon."

We have been furnished with an Alia California of the sth December, from which we cxitract the following:—

WASHINGTON NEWS.

New York, Decomber Ist.—Secretary McOulloch's •-"report will contain a very important recommendation respecting the legal tender clause in ths compound notes. He will ask Congress to repeal the legal -tender clause in these notes as fast as they inaturo or -fall due. The Government to-day restores the American 'Telegraph Company the fall control of its Southern line. At the same time it reserves the censorship on tho Press and other matter in Ir ausitu which has been in force during the war. Thero is a rumour prevalent that the British Go--vrrnment has instructed Sir Frederick Bruce to remonstrate with our Government against the movements of the Fenians in this country. The President is said to h.ivo opposed tho request ■from Juarez, through hi« jsaaor, recently sent to this country, for permission to receive war inuto--rial from tho United States. Now York, December 2.—The special despatch to tho Tribune says tho statement of the public debt will •show a decrease of $55,000,000 for Novomber. The amount of certificates of indebtedness issued in .November will reach £G,655,000. Tho Commercial's special Bays tho President is greatly encouraged by tho news from Worth Carolina, which ho rogards as evidence of tho ultimate successful working of his policy. The exception of the Southern States in the habeas corpus proclamation as regarded as an evidence that the President does -not regard tho South as sufficiently pacified to allow ,of any complications. About fifty Alabamians have been pardoned by speci il order of tho President. AH belonged to the 520,000 class. The Navy ■Peporiment tj-day received a despatch •from St. Thomas, announcing the arrival at that port of the fleet on its way to the Pacific coast The ironclad Jfonadnock behaved splendidly in the roughest weather, displaying failing qualities superior to the other vessels of the squadron.

PROM THE SOUTH.

■Washington,'Dec.-mber Ist.—The President received the following despatch to-day :— " Raleigh, Noitli Carolina, December Ist.—The Xoffislatr.ro has passc-d, with but six dissenting roices, the Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery. Ifive Judges have been elected--all good .so lection '4. Three of ray personal appointments have -pee-i! confirmed. (Signed) " W. W. Holden, Pro v. Governor." Mobile, Novamb?!- 30.—The Tunes lias rcii'thlo information that 4000 bales of Government cotton were destroyed hv fire at Columbus, Miss., on the 25tb—the work of an incendiary ; loss, one million /dollars. New York, December I.—Land has been purchased ■in Lexington, Virginia, for a home for General Lee, and appeals are being made for money to erect a Jhonse. The Raleigh Standard says small-pox is prevailing in the southern parts of the State. New York, December 2.—" W. IS. Bassett, in the Savannah ITcrahl of the 29th ult., says small-pox is increasing at A tlanta. Foriy negroes from a plantation neaT Mobile, armed with rifles and sabres, attacked tho white men on a neighbouring farm. The leader was killed, but the others escaped, leaving the weapons behind. I'lie swamps near "Mobile are said to ho full of deserters from the ar.ny.

FROM CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.

Ner/ York, December 21,—The steamer Atlantic with [r] treasure from California, has arrived. The Spanish Admiral Parega continued to threaten to bombard the Chilian ports without daring to cairv the threats into effect. He announces that tbe blockade was Co be restricted to sis principal ports, Valparaiso, Caldera, Ccquimba, lTerredowa [.'] and Talcahuar. i. All others are left open to commerce. This new arrangement affects the interests of foreigners exclusively, and is an acknowledgment of ihe illegitimacy of the former blockade, and leaves lis Government subject to the claims of neutrals injured thereby. Postal communication with the ■ Chilian portt has been resumed. At Panama several destructive fires had oecarred. Dates from Valparaiso say the revolutionary forces .in Peru had triumphed, and peace was restored. The •overthrown President took refugo on board an English man-of-war, and departed on his way to Panama. Lima was captured on the morning of tho ■Gth of November by the revolutionary troops. No .resistance was made except by four hundred troops on tho Plaza, w]i ere the Palace was threatened Tho .Palace was fired Jand narrowly escaped de«< - : on. Fort Santa Calina held out under the orit-- _ ■ 'i ° Minister of "War, who expected aid from Pezet. 'x ii° ■ latter, however, marched towards Callao the i)c\"" day, and the fort was captured. The now PresidentCanzero', sent a demand for the surrender of Callao that "night, and Eeveisa abandoned the post. Tho city was soon in possession of an excited mob, who, dividing into hands, robbed and plundered every Principal shop and store, in tho place. What property could not ho taken away was destroyed. Immediate steps were taken by the citizens aud foreigners for their protection. The next-morning Pezet's army appeared outside the town, but before night he, with some officers, escaped to an English-man.of-war. The next day the fle:t yielded, and order was restored in Callao, Lima, and Canzero. Those in charge ot the new Government will doubtless repudiate the treaty with Spain, and make common cause with Chili—the overthrow of the Spanish treaty having been the cause of the revolution. Nashville, December 20.—Tho murderers of Mr. Heffernan are sentenced to death, and will be exe- ■ cuted as soon as the approval of G-en. Thomas, who, .at last accounts, was at Mobil ( e, can be obtained. One of the parties arrested has turned state's evidence, and informed against the whole gang of outlaws, numbering twenty or more. Some complaint is made in Panama about the jurisdiction claimed by the United States over tho ■offences committed by TT. S. soldiers crossing the Isthmus. ° On the 24th of October, Don Ori»anto Medina -effected a contract with the Niearaguan Government for tho establishment of a line of steamers from Panama to San Francisco, touching at San Juan del Sur and Corinto, ports in Nicaragua. The terms .are similar to those already made with Guatemala, Salvador, and TTonrliirn, hsivo the subvention, which will be only 6000 dollars annually if tho line is monthly, and 10,000 dollars if it should become semimonthly. Dates from Honduras are to October 6th. Congress closed its session on 28th September. The new Constitution has been published. President Medina, through motives of ill health, has resigned the post to Don Crescencia Gomez, tho Second Vice-President. The election of the next Constitutional President is appointed to take place on the first Sunday in December. It is expected that Don Jnse Maria Medina will be elected. A general pardon to political o(tenders from 4th February, 18IS, to '30th September, 1365, has been granted by a decree of the latter date.

CONGRESSIONAI

Washington, December 4th.—The proposition that the Senate Bh&ll act in harmony with the House, on the admission of Southern representatives, is coldly received by the Senators, on the ground that it is an infringement of the rights of the Senators. At the opening of the session in the honse the galleries -were densely crowded. At noon, Mr. "ifePherson, the Clerk, proceeded to call the roll of members. While it was being culled Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, whose name had not been placed on the roll by Mr. McPherson, wanted to suggest something, but the clerk refused to be interrupted. After the call was completed Mr. Maynard rose to speak, but the clerk ruled him out of order. One hundred and seventy-five members answered to the call. Brooks, of New York, made a speech, characterizing the omission of tho names of members from Tennessee from the roll as unprecedented, unjust and totally uucalled for. " If," he said, •' Maynard_ is not a loyal man from a loyal State, then the President waß not a loyal man. but an alien and a stranger." He charged that tho adoption of the resolution excluding Southern members from tho House by the Republican caucus, was designed to be antagonistic to the President's message.

COLFAX RE-ELECTED SPEAKER.

[special despatch to the ALTA CAHFOIINIA.J Washington, December 4th—lo p.m.—Schuyler Holfax is elected Speaker, by one hundred and three majority.

The following is the latest New York intelligence: file Commercial's Washington special despatch says leading Republicans are urging the consideration of financial matters at tho session, leaving Administration and Southern measures until after Christmas, by which tho harmonious action may.be secured. The returns from the North Carolina election aro not all in, but it is said that Worth is elected over Holden by 10,000 majority. The Newborn Times says : Tho truth is tho whole South has been tho guilty party to the most stupendous folly ever wrought by any people. Wo fear we will have to pay for it sorely by two years more procrastination and suffering under military government If, when our Legislature meets, it will at oneo accomplish what the Convention left undone, and wo can have a now election of men to Congress who are in favor of tho Federal Government, we may yet get in during this session of tho Congrc?, otherwise all is lost for t lie present. Gold f'ontinuos dull but steadfast at 117- Sales by the üb-'l'roasury meet a steady market, and there is 'no inducement held out to speculators to operate. Loans aro mado to-day chiefly at 6 per cent, interest in favour of tho borrower. The sales of the SubTreasury have recently averaged between and £000,000 a day. The so havo been mado with a special relation to providing for tho redemption of •) per cent. Legal tondovs duo tho Ist prox. Tho gold was sold by the Government, not actually paid out of tho Treasury, certificates being used instead, hence tho rapidly nominal increase of coin dopnsits in tho Treasury. It is estimated that upwards of S'3,ooo,<>oo certificates have been issued, whilst no more than a million represents tins deposits <>f coin. Tho public issue of theso certificates has the tendency to depress tlto gold premium ; yet a fair business is doing, and as a general thing tho markets are pretty steady. Tho Pariß Temps, Th-hals,' Sirefc, and Opinion Xntionalc unito in deman iing tho withdrawal of the French troops from Mexico.