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[[?]] city pumps from January to May, [[?]] for $100, was allowed. 
[[?n]] account of J.J & W.B. Young, for [[lum?]] furnished the city, for $14, was allowed.
[[?n]] account of J.J. Overby for $7.60 was allowed.
[[?n]] motion of Dr. McKee, it was ordered that [[?]] Mayor be authorized and requestad to [[em?]] a nurse to attend to the small pox cases [[?]] the hospital
[[n?]] motion of Dr. McKee, ordered that Mr. [[?]] Johnson has permission to remove his [[license?]] from the Putney house, on Wilmington [[Street?]], to the Ray house on the same street.
[[Messrs.?]] A.F. Sawyer and W.S. Ray also [[?]] permission to remove licenses to their [[present?]] places of busines.
[[?]] motion of Mr. Root, ordered that the [[?]] furnish the three city papers with the [[?dings]] of the board.

Jan 20.--The Senate passed the bill enlarging the powers of the Freedman's Bureau.
In the House, a resolution was adopted instructing the committee on the District of Columbia to report a bill excluding from the right of suffrage parties theroin who voluntarily were in the service of the late Confederacy.
The discussion of the constitutional basis of representation was resumed. During the debate, Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, a member of the reconstruction committee, said they had under consideration another amendment to the constitution, protecting the rights of person, both white and black, which had not heretofore been enforced owing to want of power in Congress. 
Mr. Strouse, of Pa., and Mr. Nicholson, of Del., favored the admission of Southern representatives to participation in the debates on matters affecting their interests and those of their constituents. 

European News.
Portland, Jan. 25.--The Hibernian with [[?erpool]] dates to the 11th has arrived. [[Cot?]] had declined from three quarters to one [[?ny]].
The recent gales along the coast have been [[very?]] disastrous to the shipping
[[?]] was reported that the Spanish [[? ?gents ?]] defeated the government troops, but [[official?]] dispatches represent the former as [[dis?raged]].
The Times and other journals have attributed the pressure of the money markets to the American exporting on credit, commercial letters are published refuting the argument, showing that prompt and heavy cotton [[?ipts]] are a set off against British exports.

The Markets.
New York, Jan. 25.--Cotton declined two [[?s]], sales at 47 to 48. Gold 39½

Quite a novel scene was witnessed in the [[mount]] House, Boston, billiard-room, on [[sday]]. Four commissioned officers engaged [[?e]] war, all bereft of their right arms, were [[?ying]] themselves in playing a game of billiards. Though compelled to ply the mace [[with?]] their left hands only, yet thetr performance well demonstrated their skill. Three of the [[?ies]] were Captains of the Massachusetts [[twentieth?]]regiment, and the other was a [[Colonel?]] of a Rhode Island regiment.
A Memphis newspaper correspondent [[em?s]] the following remarks about Corinth: [[?is]] place is rapidly improving. A very [[?e]] hotel and numerous business houses are [[e?]] course of erection, and the population is [[rapidly?]] increasing. Before the war Corinth [[?]] a population of about three thousand, and [[?]] as remarkable for its good health. Already [[much?]] of the town has been rebuilt, and the population is estimated at 2,000."
The House of Representatives of the Tennessee Legislature has passed a series of resolutions on the death of Henry Winter Davis, [[?etting]] that in him the nation had lost one [[?s]] brightest ornaments and the Union one [[?s]] defenders. Thirteen members voted in the negative.
Hon. G.W. Julian of Indiana, received at Washington, during the past week, inclosed in [[? threatening?]] letter, a large piece of a negro's scalp with the hair attached.

Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, N.C.,
at the
PROGRESS OFFICE BUILDING,
Next door to Towles', offers for sale a splendid stock of
CLOTHING,
BOOTS,
SHOES,
PRINTS,
HATS,
JEWELRY,
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS,
&c., &c., &c., &c., &c.,
He has in store a large stock of Calicoes from the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, Lowell, which he will sell as cheap as any house in the city.
ALSO A FINE LOT OF SEGARS.
His stock of Gentlemen's and ladies Shoes and Boots is very superior, and those in want of anything in the way of goods should call and examine before purchasing. He is selling at
NEW YORK COST,
and only asks a call to satisfy all who want to purchase.
jan 24-tf

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