negroes in various parte of the South during i I tho holidays appears groundless. Advices re ceived to-day by the military authorities indi cate the moat peaceful state of affairs general- . ly South.

Secretary McCnlloch has returned from New York. His Interview with moneyed men was entirely satisfactory. The banks offered him a temporary loan of a hundred millions, which he win probably accept. He contemplates funding fifty or a hundred million certificates