4. For the present and till otherwise provided, all this special transportation will be committed to a single steamboat, to be settled by the Board of Trade, the master of which shall execute bond with reasonable security that he will not deliver any package of merchandise, or any part thereof, at any place other than that for which it shall have been duly permitted. And such boat shall carry and reasonably remunerate a revenue aid, to be appointed subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, whose scope of duties shall be the same as those of similar officers on boats engaged in the St. Louis and Memphis trade.

5. The bar of this boat, and of all other boats running upon the waters within the district prescribed, shall carry among its stores no intoxicating liquors for sale or barter along the coast, and shall be immediately closed upon arriving at any port or place where the drinking saloons have been closed by either civil or military authority.

6. All lots of cotton, horses, mules, or wagons, shipped north from the lower Mississippi, must be accompanied by the bills of sale, witnessed by at least two witnesses, and duly receipted at the time of delivery to the pur

chasers.

7. These regulations are at all times subject to change or revocation by the authority that establishes them.

W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General Commanding 5th Division. W. D. GALLAGHER, Special Agent Treasury Department.

CHICAGO CURRENCY.

There was a report telegraphed from Springfield some days since that large amounts of Illinois currency had been applied for at the auditor's office. The following letter from the auditor to a banker of this city sets the matter right:

Auditor's Office Illinois, Springfield, August 30

DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of your favor of the 29th inst., in which you refer me to certain reports that applications are filed with the auditor for a large amount of Illinois currency. In reply, I would say that all such reports are without foundation. The total amount of currency applied for at this office is less than $100,000, of which not one half has been issued. Yours, respectfully,

JAMES K. DUBOIS, Auditor.

COMMISSIONS TO PURCHASERS OF STAMPS.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has established the following regulation concerning the commissions allowed to purchasers of stamps. The commissions will be paid in stamps, that is, a remittance of $50 will entitle the purchaser to stamps amounting to $51. A remittance of $1,000 will entitle the purchaser to $1,050 worth of stamps.

DEBENTURE CERTIFICATES.

Collectors of customs at the several ports are instructed to receive in payments of duties all debenture certificates issued by them, the same being made receivable for duties by the act of March 3d, 1849.

STATISTICS OF TRADE AND COMMERCE.

1. COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. 2. PRODUCTION OF BREADSTUFFS. 3. EXPORT OF BREADSTUFFS FROM THE UNITED STATES, 1862. 4. THE NEW MEXICO WOOL TRADE.

COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES.

THE following detailed statement of the commerce of the United States for the years 1860 and 1861, (compiled from the official reports of the Treasury Department,) contains much interesting matter. In volume 42, page 352, of the Merchants' Magazine, will be found the returns for the years 1858 and 1859. The aggregate decrease in exports the past year appears, from these tables, to have been $145,223,105:

Leaving out, then, the decrease in these items of cotton and tobacco, (Southern staples, the export of which has been necessarily cut off by the war,) and the decrease in the export of specie, and there will be found to be in all other articles a gain of $47,800,785. This favorable result, it will be seen, is due entirely to flour, wheat, and corn, which show a gain for the year of $47,925,319.

QUANTITY AND VALUE OF EXPORTS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1861.

of forest. 13,738,559 10,260,809 Quicksilver.... Of animals..... 20,215,226 24,035,100 Gold, silver, bul74,291,993 lion

Vegetable food.

Cotton..

Tobacco

Other articles..

27,590,298
191,806,555 34,051,483 Gold coin

Total....... 373,189,274 227,966,169

15,906,547 13,784,710 Not specified ..

746,370 3,428,740

The following tables give, in a compact form, the number and class of vessels built, and the tonnage thereof; also, the total exports and imports, for the year:

STATEMENT OF THE NUMBER AND CLASS OF VESSELS BUILT, ETC.