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SATURDAY MORNING, Dec- H-
DON’T BE ALARMED.
Tbs recommendation of tiie President,
isl the action of Congress in regard to the
kile of Georgia, is evidently alarming
icof our good people, and we apprehend
Jtiit sitae of those who -‘take council of
■theirfears” will make themselves ridicu
lous. The two great complaints against our
■Statcarethe expelling of the negroes from
■the legislature, and the failure to adopt the
1 ]5th Amendment. The right to do these
I things was clear aud unmistakable. After
[thenegroos had been expelled, the Legis-
Ikture pisse f, and Bullock vetoed the fol-
llowing resolution :
•Resolved by the Senate and House of
I Hepresentativea of the State of Georgia,
I h Assembly convened, That a case involv-
iog the right of a colored man to hold of-
| fice shi 1, as soon as the same can be prop-
I erly brought belore tho Supreme Court of
I the State, be heard and determined by said
I mart and we believe that the people of the
I State will, as they have heretofore always
I done, in good faith, abide the decision of
I the highest tribunal of the State whenever
|» declared.
Erea if this resolution had not been To
lled, it was never intended to have retro
I mire force, and havo the effect of annul-
I ling what had already been done. But in
I all future elections the belief was expressed
I tint the Supreme Court decision would be,
is good faith, abide i by.
IVe most sincerely hope that the Legis-
htnre, when it reassembles, will maintain
is self-respect, and if their rights and priv
ilege* are to be overslaughed, let it be done
[ a ioite of their best efforts to retain them.
If any man is to have a seat in the Lagfa-
htnre who is not entitled to it under the
rulings of the respective Douses, which
t one are the lawful judges of this matter,
ht it be done by the force of the bayonet.
ifben the Legislature meets, if tho Gov-
«nor assembles others thao thoso whose
I “nits appeared on the roll, at the
tiaie of adjournment, let the first act bo the
daring of the Hall.
Second Day.
The Conference was opened this morn,
ing with religions services, conducted by
Rev. C. W. Key. A number of members,
clerical and lay, absent yesterday, answered
to their names this morning.
Nearly all the morning session was con
sumed in the examination of the character
of Elders. Rev. Dr. Boring announced his
desire to resume the labors of the regular 7 “ ° « “““
° and the works aud purposes of the Devil
nncrnmu * *
tor*.
dOled t
English Immigration,
hewou'd respectfully call the attention
*fw readers to a letter iu another col-
•om—«a the above mentioned suject—and
respectfully commend the same to the care-
P erus ?> of the Dome Commissioner of
1 e "1*m4 and Immigration Bureau for the
ilite c * Georgia.” The large exodus of
011 P w Pk> n °w going on from North Geor-
to the IV estern and South Western
-*ates will very shortly create an immense
which should be filled alone by
**f%immigration from Great Britain.
ile baviag no objection to well-disposed
•“grants from any part of the civilized
°" ^~T ct " e prefer those from the above
stationed portion of Europe. North
*° r gia is not only a fine field for Agricul-
maaufacturing aud mining, but
manufacturers and miners are now
; oea: >ed—and this demand is rapidly
reaiing where can these be fonnd in
^“ lcr Perfection than in England. A
,/■' ° reat responsibility rests upon the
S L ** °^ tbe Commissioners Col. George
IV I iT’ ^° me Commissioner, and Col.
C1 oicign Commissioner appointed
J‘he Legislature of the State, to carry
the provisions of the-‘immigration Bill”
the - 11 *** ' a8t Eess ' on - The people of
thi* ex ^ ect 601116 practical results from
“experiment.” 1 hope Col. Wsil has
let vie if 016 6uccess ln Germany—if not
to Or. . ° f ' a ' Jor ' le at 0008 transferred
our neat" B," 1 ^ materia, Crests of
Gerl v ’ U10re “P° ci % North
in t^i, 6man d of our public officers
t 8 will. *•* r P rom P tan d energetic action,
“Comm^ioLn^ * 8UbjeCt when 0M >
■emonerg have made their reports.
lessee,* 6 Harris, of Ten-
Constitntion^al o b J be . a “““her of the
, v . . 61 Convention of that State
- «2G5? asked, “What
yon win joj, j^,,P Shut your eyes, and
pastorate.
Rev. Dr. "Wiley," President of Emory
and Henry College, and Rev. Dr. Arba-
gast, President of Martha Washington Fe
male College, Abingtcn, Va.,and Rev. Mr.
Springfield, of the Holston Conference,
were introduced.
The reports of the Presiding Elders and
preachers showed that the work of the
church is in a very prosperous condition.
Tblrd Hay.
The Conference was opened with reli
gious services by Rev. John P. Duncan.
The transfer of Rev. A. T. Mann, D. D.,
f.om the Memphis Conference to the North
Georgia, was announced. Also, the trans
fer of Rev. Jno. Harris, from the S.uth
Georgia Conference.
Rev. Mr. Hickey, of the Holston Con-
ference, was introduced.
A letter from the Trustees of the Chero
kee Wesleyan Institute was read and re
ferred to the Committee on Education.
The following young ministers were con
tinued on trial: Jas. H Baxter, Henry S
Babcock; (who was also elected to Deacon's
orders) John W Stipe, Jno. W. Baker, J
A. Myers, A. G. Carpenter and David No
lan. Jas. T. Lynn, was discontinued at his
own request.
Bishop Doggctt delivered a brief, but
most impressive address to eight y-iung
men who came before the bar of the Con-,
ference. This was a solemn aud interest
ing part of the proceedings of the morn
ing session.
Rev. Dr. Muosey, the distinguished
Seeretary of the Board of Foreign Mis
sions, was introduced to the Conference.
Rev. L. M. South, D. D., President of
Emory College, read before the Conference
a most scholarly and interesting report up
on the history and condition of the College.
The report animadverted in very severe,
but just terms, upon the act of the Legis
lature repealing the act granting education
al aid to maimed soldiers. The Institution
is shown to be in a most prosperous condi
tion, with a high standard of scholarship,
and a good patronage. The Doctor urged,
in emphatic terms,-the need of an ample
endowment of the College. Doubtless the
gooCt cha*-acter of qEs students is due in
part to the fact that the act of incorpora
tions excludes from the village of Oxford
everything in the shape of dram shops and
gaming saloons-
The Doctor’s report explained the sys
tem of culture adopted by the Facility, and
strongly questioned the value of the so-
called University systems in vogne in New
England, as an education of immatnre and
undeveloped minds.
The most interesting features of the re
port was the Doctor’s account of a most ex
traordinary revival ot religion that em
braced a great part of the students daring
the late session.
President Smith followed his report with
an eloquent and impassioned address upon
the subject of sanctified education.
Rev. J. 8. Key, D. D-, agent ol Emny
College, followed with a short and telling
speeoh in favor of Emory Colle; e—urging
with true eloquence that Georgia must ed
ucate Georgia boys.
Thy Little Giant Wheat Screen.—
A joint stock company has been formed in
this city,for the purpose of manufacturing
and selling the above named machine, in
valuable to farmers. It has more practical
worth to wheat raisers than any machine
of its cost that we have ever seen. This
Company own the patent right for Georgia,
and want agents in the several counties.—
See adv.
Slang.—The Commercial of yesterday,
devotes about three fourths of a column, of
slang and groundless charges of falsehood
and nnfair dealing to the publisher of this
paper. We donbt notit is an unpleasant fact
to the publisher of the Commercial that it
is well known that “the circulation of the
Courier is nearly double that of any other
paper in the Cherokee' Countryhut then
he need not get mad about it. If the Com
mercial chooses to take advertisements at
cheaper- rates Hjanr. thfe^ tpqurfc-, it is our
right to satisfy advertisers fay letting them
know qur relative circulation.
Keep your temper Brother—blackguard
ing wont help you. We are Toady to have
the proof of our statement tested.
Death.—We have seldom read any
thing more beautiful than the follow
ing Irons the pen of George D. - Prent*
lice;
“There fa but a breath of air and a heat
of the heart betwixt this world and tiie
next. And in the brief interval of pain
ful and awful suspense, while we feel that
death fa present with ns, that we are power
less, and He all powerful, and the faint
pulsation there fa bnt the preludes of end
less life hereafter, we feel in the midst of
the stunning calamity about to befall us,
that the earth has no oompensltion good
enongh to mitigate the severity of our loss.-
But there fa no grief without somo benefi-
cient-provision to soften its intenseness.
When the good and lovely die, the memory
of thefa good deeds like the moonbeams in
the stormy sea, lights up our darkened
hearts and lends to the surrounding gloom
a beauty so sad, so sweet, that we would
not if we conld dispel the darkness that
environs. '
Montgomery Election.—The Tele
graph has already announced a R*d‘<»J tri
umph in the municipal election on".Tues
day. The vote for Mayer stood—Glam-
cock, Rad., 1174; Scheussler, Dem., 558.
The Mail states that one of the Aldermen
elect for the 3d Ward fa a Democrat. All
the others are Radicals. Two negroes were
elected Aldermen in the 5th Ward.
From the N. Ga.Citizcn.
Origin of the “Te*t Oath.”
Mr. Editor,—-Many, perhaps most, per
sons have thought that the infamous test
oath imposed upon the Southern people
by the Radical Congress, iu violation of
the terms of surrender agreed uponbetween
Generals Grant and Lee, and Sherman and
Johnston, was an original idea of the Radi
cal leaders. Bat Solomon, the wisest man,
said “there fa nothing new under the son,”
and his followers, and the measures relied
upon by them to secure and perpetuate their
power, are always the same.
In reading Banyan’s Holy War, recent
ly, I was forcibly impressed with the-close
resemblance of the Radical test oath to that
imposed upon the people of the city of
Mansoul by Diabolus. Either the Radical
leaders, who devised the test oath, stole the
idea from that book, or their father, the
Devil suggested it
Banyan, in the third chapter of the Ho
ly War, says :
“Diabolus, that he might make Mansool
as 8uro as he could, frames and imposes a
new oath and horrible covenant upon the
towns' folk to-wit: That they should
never desert him, nor his government; nor
yet betray him, nor seek to alter hfa law ;
but that they should own, confess, stand by
and acknowlege hi n for their rightfhl king,
in defiance of any that do, or hereafter
shall, by and pretence, law, or title what
soever, lay claim to the town of Mansoul,
thinking, belike, that Shaddai had not pow
er to absolve them from this covenant with
death and agreement with hell. Nor did the
silly Mansonl stick or boggle at all at this
most monstrous engagement, bnt, as ifit
had been a'sprat in the month a whale,
they swallowed it without any chewing.
Were they troubled at it ? Nay they rath
er bragged and boas tad of their so brave
fidelity to the tyrant, their pretended king;
swearing that they would never be change
lings, nor forsake their old lord for a
new.”
When we bear in mind that, for many
year8,the leading spirits of the Radical par
ty were in the constant use of the expression
that the Constitution of the United States
was a covenant with death and agreement
with hell,” it fa apparent that they stole
this expression from Banyan’s Holy
War.
Did John Banyan, or the Devil, suggest
to them the idea of the Test Oath ?
Whitfield County Farmer.
BULLOCK AND BLODGETT BOTH
HARD AT WORK.
TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE OF THE
CHRONICLE Sc SENTINEL.
Washington, Dec. 7, p. m.—The
President’s message and the repoits of the
different chiefs of the Government Depart
ments having been read and received, the
next important matter claiming the atten
tion of Congress, fa the question whether
Georgia fa legally reconstructed or not The
indications now are, that early action will
will be taken by Congress in thfa affair, and
a second reconstruction of the State ordered
by that body.
The certificates of the seven members of
the House of Representatives from that
State are still before the Committee on
Elections, to which they bad been referred
for consideration. They will remain with
this Committee without being reported back
to the House until Congress shall have act
ed on the recommendation made by the
President with regarJ to Georgia in hfa
This recommendation, coming from the
quarter it did, has received prompt atten
tion at the hands of Congress and to-mor
row fa the day apppointed by the Senate for
the settlement oi the matter so far as that
body fa concerned, and it is believed that
there will be very little delay in the action
of the House of repretentatives.
The Senate will, on to-morrow morning
take np the bill introduced at the last ses
sion by Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, to
settle the Georgia difficulty. This bill pro*
vides, in substance, that the State shall he
at once remanded back to a Provisional
government with Bollock as Provisional
Governor; that the original Legislature
shall be called together, re-seating the no-
i »ro members and expelling the whites who
iave taken their places: and the qualifica
tions prescribed by the Fourteenth Amend
ment to he strictly adhered to, after which
the reconstruction of the State is to pro
ceed in due course. This bill meets the
President’s views, but some think that Sen
ator Carpenter will want to have hfa bill
jassed, which applies the test-oath to mem-
>ers of the Legislature.
Bollock has gotten up a powerful stimu
lant for the Senate in the shape of a report
from General Alfred Terry, military com
mander in Georgia, which will be lead to
that body -to-morrow in time to be used in
thedebate which will ensue on the Ed
mund’s Bill. This report fa couched in
the strongest language and fa evidently one
of tiie strongest cards of the Bullock ring.
The report gives a very gloomy account of
the condition of affairs in that State and
goes far toward corroborating the previous
statements of Bullock and other Georgia
Radioafa. General Terry represents that
there fa absolutely no safety, whatever, in
nearly every portion of that State for eith
er the lives or property of the colored people
or white members of the Republican party.
He says that he can see bnt one remedy to
be applied for the core of the evil, and
that fa military government in the State
for a time, by means of which the prevaling
lawlessness can be checked and the crimi
nals detected and punished. He believes
that it fa absolutely ersential for the safety
of the negroes and the Republicans that
the State be turned over to tiie oontrol of
the military authorities until the Legisla
ture can till called together reorganized and
on such a basis as will give protetion to all
of its citizens. This report is forwarded to
Washington by General Henry W. Halleck,
commandant of the dfavfaion of the South,
but he does not concur in its recommenda
tions.
Added to Bullock and the rest of the
Georgia Radicals there fa now Foster Blod
gett, and both himself and Bollock are in
dustriously lobbying Congressmen in order
to get the State remanded. They are on
the very extreme line and are arguing in
favor of the harshest and most Radical
measures.
._ A Montana paper calls for the organiza
tion of a company of volunteers, who shall
have a bounty for all Indians they kill, and
also have all horses and valuables captured;
bnt it expresses a donbt if Governor Ash
ley will listen to its wise demands, “through
fear of the philanthropists in the Eastern
States.”
Internat’l Land and Labor AGENor, I
Town Hall Chambers, >
Birmingh. M,Oct.25,1809 )
Editors Avalanche.—Sirs: Without
entering upon what may be called the mo
rale, ethical or industrial, in regard to a
large and sadden importation of Chinese
labor into the Southern ani Wettern States,
I beg to express the opinion that, there
fa an abundant supply ot better labor near
er home that may be imported at sheaper
rates and conditions as to pay nent. Cer
tainly there are a hundred thousand English
laborers in town and country who would
gladly enter upon all the fields of employ
ment and occupations which the South and
West open to them, if they conld get tcross
the Atlantic. Bnt if those fields were cov
ered with apples of gold, to be had for their
labor, these poor men could not pay their
passage across the ocean to obtain them.
Can the poor Chinese to he importod do
any better out of their own means? If ifbt
it the whole expense of their transportation
from China has to be borne or the party by
company importing them, fa it not clear that
each must cost at least twice per head as
the whole charge upon an English laborer
from London or Liverpool to Memphis or
St. Louis via tho Mississippi? If, then,
planters and farmers, and Manufacturers,
and railroad companies are willing to pnt
English and Chinese on the same footin
as to the conditions of their importation, a
hundred thonsand of laborers from this
conntry would go at once, and gladly, to the
occupations and localities thus opened to
them. Even if there were only one steam-
era month direct from Liverpool to New
Orleans, such an importation might be ef
fected. And with alt this reconstruction of
Southern industries; with the great Mfa-
ssfaippi as the jugular vein of the
the wealth they produce, and also tapping
the great traffic between Eastern Asia ant
Western Europe via the Pacific railroad,
surely there ought to be not on'y one steam-
er a month bnt one a week from Liverpool
or London to New Orleans. If these were
np to ca*rry emigrants at a cheap rate, they
might be loaded with good English blood
to be infused into all the States of the Mis-
sfasfaippi Valley, and of the great West. It
would not cost more than forty dollars per
head to deliver them at Memphis or St.
Louis; and as there wonld be one tranship
ment, at New Orleans, thei would bo bnt
a slight chs nee of any of them slipping away
at that port, or at any one on the river.
Now does any company or party offer to
deliver Chinese at St. Louis or Memphis
less than forty dollars per head? If not,
wonld yon not all prefer English laborers
at the same price? I wonld ask your lead
ing men to give a little thought to this
proposition. If they are disposed to try
the experiment onr agency will assist them
in carrying it out.
Having traveled a good deal in both
countries, and seen how mnch honest labor
fa needed in the one and how many labor
ers in the other need employment, I have
felt it one of the best undertakings I ever
E at my hard to, as yet, to do what little
.y in my power to bridge tho sea that di
vides these worlds of labor-demand and la
bor supply It wasjwith this feeling & object
that I entered upon the work of onr Inter
nation Land and Labor Agency, the spirit,
principle and object of which have already
won much confidence both in the United
-States and England. Indeed, within two
months of its first opening, more than a
thonsand farms were committed to it for
sale to England purchasers, from Maine to
Califorhia, and from j,$500 to S50,000 in
price. We are also receiving applications
for servant girls,and working-men from both
those and intervening States. Several in
telligent, indnstriousyonng men, with their
ies, are going out to Memphis on the
steamorthattakes this, to take cotton lands
in yonr vicinity to cultivate on shares or
on lease, payable in stipulated portions of
the crop. If they find that all the condi
tions of the lease arc fulfilled in good faith
by the planters, doubtless scores of other
families will follow them, and make a very
valuable element of yonr community.
It is sad to find how few of even skill
ed acd industrious mechanics, as well as
fatm laborers, can raise money enongh, even
by borrowing, to pay their sea and inland
fares to points less distant that Memphis
or St. Louis. After being oat of work for
two or three months, their savings are gen
erally exhausted. As an illustration : wc
advertised in (he leading paper in this town
for a groom for a gentleman in Milwaukee.
Ten young men well fitted for the place
applied for it in twenty fonr hours. Of
these only one conld pay bis fare all the way
to Wisconsin. Most of them were intelli
gent looking young men. One had been
the military servant of Lord Raglan in the
Crimea; had earned good wages, bnt had
infirm and aged parents to assist. This
may be perhaps taken as a fair measure of
the means of working men of various occu
pations in this country. Not more than one
in ten can raise the money to pay tbeir
passage to the Mississippi or even to the
Hudson. Bnt even at this rate of ability
we conld send out a large number of good
laborers of every trade and occupation, if
good, definite and guaranteed offers were
made for them. But they must know pre
cisely to what party they are to go, the ser
vice required, and the wages to be paid
per week, month or year. With regard to
noose servants, such as cooks and house
maids, not more than twenty can pay her
own passage by sea and inland. So that
parties applying for such “help” must ad
vance to the agency the whole fare from
Liverpool to the place of their destination
in America, to be deducted from their first
wages. We take every precaution to send
out only such as are very highly recom
mended as faithful and competent in eveiy
way for household service.
We are much pleased that some of the
first operations of onr agency were diiected
to Tennessee, and hope yonr State will de
rive no little advantage from onr efforts.
Yotus truly,
Ellhu Burritt.
Horse thieves are now hung at sight in
Texas whenever they are caught. A trav
eler in that State writes that he fonnd sev
en of them hung on trees in a ride of five
miles, and a Texas paper says that the crop
of such fruit fa large this season throughout
the State.
Delegates to the General Conker-
znce.—We learn from a private letter that
the Sonth Georgia M. E. Conference, which
has been in session several days at Cnth-
bert, have elected the following delegates
to the General Conferedcc which meets next
May at Memphis, Tennessee :
Clerical Delegates:—Dr. L. Pierce, Sam’l
Anthony, Dr. J. E. Evans, Dr. E. H.
Myers, and one to elect.
Lag Delegates.—Gen. A. H. Colquitt,
Jndge Jackson, of Macon, Dr. Green, CoL
J. Jones, Dr. Lovitt.
SCHEMES FOR THE INJURY OF
V- -- - GEORGIA.
On the 24th day of November the Bad
ical Executive Committee of Georgia had
a iecretseision. Among them were Bide
lock, Blodgett, Halbert, Farrow, Blount,
Conley, Jeff. Long, and ethers.
~ We had intended to have ventilated the
matter sooner, ba we desired to get at the
facts folly, and onr attention has beca ab
sorbed in the municipal election.
, The session was stormy. In the morn,
ing a committee was appointed to report
upon urging Congress to reconstruct Geor-
gfa-
The committee" was Farrow, Halbert
Coply, Jeff Long, and another negro.
All but Conly reported against any fur-
tli er reconstruction. Conly made a minori
ty Report urging it A hot discussion en
sued.
Pending the discussion the committee
adjturned for dinner.
JP’hjJeljhey were out, Bullock and-Blod
gett got hold of the negro members and
secured a majority in their views, and on
the reassembling of the committee a ma
jority of them sustained the minority re
port.
This report calls for Congressional inter
vention in the affairs of Georgia immediate
ly. No particular bill fa asked for, but the
reseating of the negroes in the Legislature,
and the manipulation of that body to give
Gov. Bullock its control, fa sought to he ac
complished fy Congressional authority. As
to Bollock seeking Dr. Miller’s place iu the
Senate, that fa denied, and fa not probable,
as it wonld hardly compensate Bollock to
give up three years as Governor for a few
monthi as Senator.
FartoW and Halbert, it fa said, both op
posed the thing. The majority were
against them. How far they will acquiesce
fa a matter of some speculation. They both
owe their position to Bollock, and can illy
afford to break with him. Bnt the rumors
are rife that they will resist the matter.
This fa extremely uncertain.
Bullock left for Washington to carry out
the programme, and urge Congress to haul
the State to tow. It fa said he carried
large amounts of money with him, and has
more to draw on.
Blodgett and Harris, it is rumored, will
leave for Washington in a day or so.
The secret proceedings of the committee
will be printed and laid before Congress
The publication oi Bullock’s proclamation,
claiming an extravagant condition of hos
tility to Union men in the State, and offer
ing rewards foT murderers, fa a piece of the
same cloth.
Suspension Bridge* In china.
The construction of suspension bridges
has been thought a signal achievement by
the Western nations, bnt in China they are
of great antiquity, and many still exist.
They are made of iron chains, and their
mode of construction resembles, in the main
that used in the Western countries. They
are, however, generally confined to the moon
taioous re-Jons, and span rivers whose nav
igation fa interrupted.
There fa one over a river in the Ynnnan
province that is said to have been first built
by one famous Chu-koh-hand more than two
thonsand years ago; and there fa a second
and mnch larger one in the Kwelohow pro
vince, spanniag the river Pei. This lattei
was built during the ming dynasty. It
consists of many chains stretched across
the river, and fastened firmly in the stone
on either hank; from natural elevations
above, other chains depend, and are made
fast to the span, and there also chains fas
tened to it from below, the object being to
make the bridge as firm as possible. A plank
floor is laid on this bed of chains.
Of 1,777 Protestant missionaries, 533 are
in India and Ceylon, 277 in Sonth Africa,
217 in Gniana and the West Indies, 196
in the Pacific Islands and the China Sea,
133 in China and Japan, 132 in West Af
rica and 89 in Western Asia. The large
numbers in South Africa and British col
onies include many pastors of feeble church
es of English settlers who aro not proper
ly foreign missionaries.
The Low Church Bishops, Mclivaine,
Alfred Lee, Johns, Payne, H. W. Lee,
Bedell, Stevens, Vail and Whitaker, have
addressed a letter to the other members
of the House of Bishops, proposing that
“alternate phrases as a modification in the
office for the ministration of baptism of in
fants” be allowed. They solicit the co opera
tion of the other bishops in an effort to bring
about this mild reform.
Th i statistics for the Methodest Church
South are, summarily, as follows :—
7n 1868. In 1867.
Traveling preachers 1,495 2,389 incres-j 107
Local preachers, 4,413 3,932 increase 4tl
White members, 503,593 472,434 31,112
Colored members. 32.095 54,173 dee. 22,087
In addition to the above tnere are 179
superannuated preachers. There are in
the Holston Confederence 75 Indian mem
bers, and in the Indian Mission Conference
2.226 comprehended in the table among the
colored members. There are also 9 bish
ops.
According to the American Presbyterian
the united Presbyterian Church raised last
year 86,047,042 for congregational purpose;
for ministerial relief, 856,162; for the four
causes of education, home and foreign mis
sions, church election and publication, 81,-
214,310; for contingent expenses of the
assembles, 838,706; for miscellaneous pur-
loses, 8760,690—being a total of $8,166,-
114. This fa considerably below the real
sum. In numbers they are surpassed by
the Methodists, the Methodists Sonth, the
Baptists and the Diciples. Next below
them in numbers come the Lutherans, Con-
gregationalfats and Episcopalians. Were
all the the denominations which accept
Presbyterian polity to be united, including
the German and the Dutch Reformed, they
wonld number over 900,000.
Oglethorpe University.—The Board
of Trustees of Oglethorpe College conven
ed in this city on the 1st inst., and affirmed
the action of the Synod of Georgia in refer
ence to the removal of the College to At
lanta, on condition that the Gate City raise
forty thousand dollars in money ,and furnish a
title deed to ten or twelve acres of suitails
ground on which to erect the hnUdings for
the said institution. If these terms are
not complied with by the fiist of March,
then the.Trnstces are at fnll.liberty to accept
a proposition from any town or city in the
State, in relation to the location and endow
ment of the College.
The citizens of Atlanta express the ut
most confidence that the necessary sum can
be secured by the time above indicated.
Messrs. Nisbet, Gresham and Anderson, of
Macon, are a committee appointed to select
tbesite oftheinstitntion and to arrange all the
preliminaries. The friends of Oglethorpe
intend to employ every agency in their pow
er to revive and re-endow it —Macon Tel-
The name of Scott’s Monthly has been
changed to the Cosmopolitan.
Conference met at 9 a m. Religions
services conducted by Rev. Josiah Lewis.
Most of this morniog’s session was con
sumed in the election of local preachers to
deacon’s and elder’s orders.
The questions that came np in relation to
these matters were thoroughly sifted.
The character of superannuated preach
ers was brought under review this morn
ing. Oneef them had died during the
year—Rev. James Qailliiuu, who, when he
had forgotten hfa friends, remembered .the
Redeemer, and talked well upon the sub
ject of religion. This fa a most venerable
band of veterans. The Conference hon
ors them, and they have deserved well of
the church and of 1: the country. They are
Wm. J. Parks, Jesse W. Carroll, J. B. C.
QnilliaB, Edmund W. Reynolds, Jno. P
Howell, Jas. B. Payne, Henry Cranford,
Andrew J. Deavors. Miller H. White, Jno.
M. Bright.
Rev. Dr. Wiley, President Emory and
Henry College, and Rev. Mr.. Arbogast,
President Martha Washington College r ad-
dressed the Conference in the interests of
the Institutions over which they presided.
Delegates were elected on Monijay to the
next annual Conference.
Annouccements were made, and Confer
ence adjourned with the benediction.
Flftb Day.
Conference met at 9 o’clock. The reli
gions services were conducted by Rev.
Dr. Wiley.
Tbe following resolution, introduced by
Rev. W. J. Scott, was adopted by a rising
vote :
“Whereas, The Baptist Church, of this
eity, through one of its deaeon’s, Thomas J
Perry, Esq., has tendered this Conference
the proceeds of its monthly collection, on
yesterday, in support of our domestic mis
sions; therefore.
Resolved, That this generous expression
of Christian courtesy and sympathy from
a sister denomination fa highly appreciated
by ns, and that we will ever cherish it in
lively and grateful remembrance, as one of
tbe most pleasant incidents of onr present
session.
Resolved, That the Secretary be request
ed to transmit a copy of this resolution to
Rev. Mr. Gwaltney, the Paster of said
Church, and also furnish copies to the city
papers for publication.
Albert W. Rowland and Eldridge K At
kin, were readmitted into the traveling con
nection.
Wm. M Winn, Felix P Brown, Benj. E
Ledbetter,' Thoe. H Simmons, Wesley G
Hanson, were admitted on trial.
The interestingfeatoreof the morning’s
session was the election of delegates to the
General Conference, to meet at Memphis,
Tennessee, next spring.
On the first ballot the following delegates
were eleeted: Jesse Boring, W J Parks,
W H Potter and W P Harrison.
On the second ballot Atticus G Haygood
and Alfred T Mann, were elected. Reserves
W R Branham, H J Adams, and G J
Pearce. Lay Delegates, Bev. J E Godfrey,
Col. Geo. N Lester, Dr. J P Garvin, T M
Merriwether, Esq., H R Harris and L D
Palmer. Reserve Delegates, W A Tuner,
C H Johnson, Dr. L. Smith, W S Tfaomp.
son, F L Little and Jndge Jno. J. Floyd.
Reported lor the TrI-Weekty Courier.
Insurance Rates Lower —Since the
exhibition made by the Mountain City fire
Engine on Satuday evening, the Insurance
Agents in this city,have about concluded to
lower the Insuence rates on buildings, Ac.
about 80 per cent.
She threw direct from the engine four
streams through Siamese connections to a
very .considerable distance and with vigorous
force. These streams wonld worry a fire
pretty badly. When the Rainbow comes ont
with her Siamese connections, we suppose
Insurance Agents will then pay a premium
for the privilege of insuring a house.
We are betting our bottom dollar on the
fire department ot Rome.
We welcome to oar table the Hancock
Journal, which come3 rejoicing in the foot
that Mr. C. S. DuBose fa its associate Ed
itor. This young gentleman possesses con-
si derale talent. Yon have ou best wishes
Charlie.
Mrs. Jas. A. Oates’ Burlesque and
Operatic Troupe.—This Company will
be in Rome and plays at the City Hall on
the 20th and 21st insts. They are highly
extolled by the Press in Louisville and oth
er places. See adv.
Personal-—We are pleased to learn
that Mr. Goodloe Yancey, has become
connected with the Atlanta Intelligencer.
Mr. Yancey is a man of consummate talent
and we welcome him cordially to the realm
of newspaperdom.
We simply mention that he fa a son of
the celebrated Wm.YAKCEY, to say that
he fa a son,'worthy hfa tire.
Success to yon, Goodloe.
Wo are informed that CoL Foster, of
this place, was robbed last week of about
81800 in gold and $10,700 in enrrenoy.
The money was in hfa trunk in CoL Foster’s
residence, and the thief carried away the
trank and its contents. No cine has as
yet been obtained as to the pepetrator of
the crime.—Tuskegee News.
The Mobile Weekly Register, the oldest
Democratic paper inthe South,fa arid to hare
reached a larger circulation than was ever
attained by any Journal Sonth of Mosod
and Dixon’s line. It fa foil of interesting
varied matter having an able Agricultural
Department, presided over by the veteran
Editor and successful Agriculturist, Hon
C.C. Langdon. Its General Literatue,
Poetry, Stories, Ac., make it highly accep
table to the ladies.
The coming year will open with a new
continued story, of deep interest, by one ol
the most distinguished writers of the day.
Tbe price was recently reduced to 83,00
per year which, for so large a paper (12 pa
ges,) fa extremely cheap.
Washington, Dec. 9.—House.—After an
effectual effort to investigate the recent gold
horror, the census bill was resumed
Sen atx.—The'. Reconstruction Committee
heard a dozen speeches regarding Virginia,
and adjourned to qatarday, when other argu
meets must be submitted in writing.
The disability bill is now before the Presi
dent It is" House bill No. 331.
The London News, commenting on Presi
dent Grant’s Message, says that the Ameri
cans want indemnity for their feelings on the
Alshama question rather than there trade or
pockets.
Bone, Dec. 9.—The Ecumenical was open
ed by the Pope. Seven hundred Bishops fol
lowed him in the procession.
Washington, Dec. 9.—Revenue receipts
near half million.
Customs for the week ending December
4th, orer two and a -quarter millions.
The President nominated John F. Dillon
Circuit Jndge of the 8th Circuit. This clos-
eses the Circuit Judge vacancies.
SENATE.
The District Committee is directed to in
quire into the propriety of repealing tbe
charter of a medical society for rejecting ne
gro rotes.
Trumbull reported, with amendments from
the Committee on Judiciary, a bill relating to
the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court.
The bin, as amended, declares that the ju
dicial power of the United States gives no
powers to the courts to decide upon political
questions, and that it rests with Congress to
decide upon political questions, and that it
rests with Congress to decide what gov
ernment fa the established one in any
State. It prohibits the Supreme Court
from entertaining jurisdiction of any case
growing out of the execution of the recon
struction acts until the government of the late
rebellions States are recognized by Congress
as valid. It repeals all acts authorizing ap
peals to the Supreme Court in habeas corpus
proceedings. The President fa directed to
hold and proceed with all prisoners held , in
said States by military authorities without
regard to any civil proceedings of authority
whatever. . .
House.—llr. Schenck introduced'a bill to
complete the reconstruction of Georgia.
Mr. Van Tramp presented a joint resolu
tion of the Ohio Legislature, withdrawing
the ratification of the I5th Amendment. It
was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Montgomebv, Dec. 9.—In the Senate to
day there was a strong debate over the bill to
break up the present city government of Mo
bile, and turn it over to a triumvirate, con
sisting of the Lieutenant Governor, Speaker
of the House, and the Attorney General It
was so amended as to give the power of ap
pointment to the Governor, The bill was
then recommitted.
In the House, by a vote of 42 to 29, Mr.
Brown, Democrat of Chambers, was declared
not entitled to hfa seat. A motion was made
to reconsider the vote to-morrow.
Nashville, Dec. 9.—The Senate has pass
ed a bill to the first reading forbidding in
dictment for acts committed by soldiers dar
ing the war.
Washington. Dee. 10.—San Francisco.—
The Governor’s message recommends State
aid to facilitate emigration from Europe and
the Eastern States.
He says the Legislature has the power to
prohibit Chinese emigration, and favors the
removal of all barriers to Chinese testimony,
not only as an act of justice, bnt sound
policy.
Washington, Dec. 9.—Senate—No session.
House protest against the admission of
Booker.
Fourth Virginia District refused an elec
tion.
A straggle between the banking and cur
rency and ways and means committees, re
garding reference of financial bills growing.
Census bill resumed.
Supreme Court dismissed the appeal from
Louisiana in the case of New Orleans, .ts-
New York Steamship Company.
Montconest. Dec. 10.—In the House to
day Brown, of Chambers, Democrat, was
voted ont of hfa seat, and refused the privi
lege of spreading hfa protest on the JonrnaL
A motion to'seatWord, hfa contestant, was
voted down.
McKinstry, Republican, of Mobile, was
voted a seat to-day in the House, in place of
Magee who was recently ejected -on the
ground of inelligibility for having been a
Road Commissioner before the war. The
name of McKinstry was in the list of persons
whose disabilities were removed this week
by congress.
Washington, Dec. 10—Revenue to-day one
fourth million.
The awards made by the Court of Chums
for cotton captured by the military, aggre
gates seven hundred and thirty-tonr thousand
dollars, in twenty nine cases. The Govern
ment has appealed in them all
The census bill was discussed all day.
Louisville, Dec. 10.—Congressman Gol-
liday fa the prominent candidate for Senate
from Kentucky. He favor repudiation on
moral and legal points, citing precedents in
support oi repudiation of our own and for
eign countries.
St. Johns N. B., Dec-10.—Last night be
ing very cold the crew of the schooner Ketch-
em built a fire in the stove and closed the
hatches. Fonr dead this morning.
The New York Tribune says dispatches
•from Cuba confirm the defeat of the Span-
ards at San Jose. Also an account of se
vere punishment of negroes at Sagua. Num
ber of stripes from two to eight hundred.
Tho Diaro D La Marian says the -Spanish
district Holqnin unable to move for want of
reinforcements. Three thousand troops nec
essary. Troops suffering from severe sick-
:ss.
Seven sugar estates destroyed in Rcnedfas
district, five in Trindad, three in Cionfugas.
Col. Cameron, with 600 men and five pieces
of artillery, attacked the Cubans at Vegas
del Costellavo. Tbe fight lasted four hoars.
The Spaniards were repulsed with great loss.
Forty-seven dead left on the field.
Official statistics from HaTanna show from
the commencement of the war with the Span
isha loss of 8,000 killed in battle; 5,000 from
disease; two thonsand deserted to the Cubans;
3,000 now rick.
New Yoee. Dec. 10.—The Spanish gun
boats were released to-day, and will proceed
to sea immediately.'
London, Dec. 11.—Burling
formation that the Chinese government Las
ratified the American treaty-
House.—The committee of ways and
means are instructed to inquire into the ex-
pcd.eny of relieving the provision trade
from taxation.
A bill was introduced dispensing with
specie from the Revenue service.
New York, Dee. 11.—Pere Hyacinthe
sailed for France tj-day.
Augusta, Dee. 11.—The reported Co-
ban expeditions from this place fa a hoax.
There has been no disturbance between
whites and blacks in Edgefield, S. C._
New Yoke, Dec. 12.—At a large meeting
of Tennessee bondholders facts developed
show Tennessee bonds to be 39,000,000, ot
which 30,000,000 were issued to Railroads.
One-half those roads could pay on demand.
Tho Railroads actually cost 69,000,000.
A committee goes to Tennessee to induce
the Legislature to place the defaulting roads
in the hands of Commissioners, for the bene
fit of the bondholders. ■
Spanish gunboats not quite ready. 18 will
leave in a short time.
New Orleans, Dec. 12.—Galveston returns
received. Thirteen additional counties all
give majorities to Hamiltoa—aggregate
19()7, leaving Davis’ majority, as far as heard
from, 7,107. Flanagan, Radical elected
Lieut: Governor by a large majority.
The Legislature largely BadicaL
Washington, Dec. 13.—The American
ship Crescent City, which started from Sa
vannah on the 13th of October for Liverpool,
was abandoned at sea. She was loaded with
cotton.
House.—Butler asked tho publication of
three bills tor the admission of Virginia,’ to
expedite the election committee.
To-morrow, a vast number of bills under
regular call, including many disabilities. *
Senate.—Carpenter introduced a joint res
olution forbidding the departure of the Span
ish gunboats.
Kellogg introduced a bill authorizing a
Navy Yard at New Orleans.
The Judiciary Committee bill regarding
Georgia follows the suggestions of the Presi
dent, with the addition that tde reconstruct
ed Legislature shall be provisional until the
members and Senators are seated.
Prospect of Virginia’s admission brigh ten
ing.
Nbw Orleans, Dec. 13—A. Houston spe
cial says returns have been received from 87
counties. Hamilton’s majority in 45 coun
ties 8,986. Davis’ majority in 42 counties 12
322; Davis 3,572 ahead; forty counties to hear
from, .
Registered whites, 16,454, colored 9,233
Davis leads one-sixth of the colored register
ed vote. The Legislature now stands Con
servative, Senate 13; House 41; Radicals,
Senate 12; House 34. Entire Radical State
ticket, except Governor, elected.
Hamilton’s friends churn his election by
two thousand. ill
Armstrong and Conyers, conservatives, be
lieved to be elected to Congress.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Washington, Dec. 13.—Canvass of Con- ■
gross shows that action toward Georgia be
withheld an til after the meeting, of the Leg
Ialnre; when, if the negroes are reseated,
the matter be dropped. Otherwise the meas
ures foreshadowed in Carpenter's bill and
Mortons amendment will be enforced.
Gov. Bullock urges immediate action.
Senator Trumbull, in the commiteee op
poses the whole move. He is alone, however.
President withdraws the nomination of D D
Sugner, Assessor 4th Georgia district; also, H
L Jones, as receiver of public money at New
Orleans.
Judges Davis and Nelson dissented from
the opinion of the court declaring the taxa
tion State bank notes constitntionaL
Revenue today seven hnndred thousand
dollars.
The Judiciary Committee will report unfa
vorably upon the nomintion of Zemafor cir
cuit Jndge of the 6th district, unless the
President withdraws him.
The State Department hasofficial informa
tion that 21 states have adopted the 15th
amendment.
House.—Among the hills introduced in the
House wasa bill to build a Federal Court
House at Raleigh, N. C.
Also, a bill providing for the payment of
loyal citizens for Quarter Master and Com
missary stores taken by Federal troops.
Atso, a resolution endorsing the Presidents
views regarding the reciprocity treaty.
It is now 12 o’clock and no dispatches yet.
Whose fault is this?—think printers don’t
want any sleep.—Es. Courier.
ORDINATION.
On Sunday morning Bishop Doggett or
dained the following preachers, deacons—
Henry J. Ellis, Sidney Babcock, Jno. M.
Bowden, Cnrtfas, A. Connoway, Wesley G.
Hanson, Alonzo M. Campbell,Franklin M.
T. Brannan, Robt. T. Wilkerson, Oliver P
Bitch.
In tbe afternoon assisted by several el
ders Bishops Doggett ordained the follow
ing preachers elders, Wm. D. Heath,Tbos.
H- Seals, Wm. P. Kramer, Jno. W. Heidt
Amicus W. Williams, Wm. P. Riven,
Joseph C. Holmes and James R. Mayaon.
We havo received from Wm. N. McDon
ald of Louisville Ky., a School Book entitled
“A Southern Hfatoiy of the U. S.
The authors claim that if fa superior to
any school hfatoiy published.
In support of this they call attention to the
following:
1st. That its novel arrangement ren
ders the narrative unusually clear and in
teresting.
2nd. That it gives to Southern events
their longwithheld hat just historic prom
inence.
3rd. That it gives a true and hence
a new account of the late war.
The authors admit that one of their ob
jects in preparing the works was to preserve,
In the hearts of the American youth, an
honest pride in the history of the Sonth.
Summary Execution.—We learn that
the negro man, oi whom we made mention
some weeks since violated the persons of
two yonng ladies, twelve or fifteen miles
distant in the country from this eity, wae
arrested in Cnthbert, Ga., some dsye since
and summarily executed by the enraged
citizens last Friday^ *hat fa known as
Brick’s old field, in tbs neigtborbood of
where the crime was committed Jnstien
may be alow bnt it fa always on the tnek of,
and will dways overtake, the griky.—Eu-
faula Macs.
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