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.n^jmsssa ■ | f£r jp|i andMessenger. The Greorgig "Weekly Telegram>h, aad Journal & IVEeseer^er. jiaoM DECEMBER 14, 1869. zz^^dConl Transportation. ( ° B flr from Atlanta, dated December 9th Writes ns to attend a meeting of coal ‘‘'Scalers and proprietors of mannfactur- KSments ng coal, and of railway t0 bo held in Atlanta next Tnesday *f otsl December, the objects of the 1 being an increase of supplies from the i '= , j j' 10 facilities for transportation ^Station among the people. ting of onr own locality, the coal trade, j dealers, or coal monopolists have tripped • e n p this year. Coal, last winter, was f t jn jiacon at eight to nine dollars nei j'is very scarce this year at eleven dol _ ; rjany of the people are going back to ‘ Jler having made their arrangements for 3 * ; nR . Fow, indeed, would bum coal at i t for the expense and trouble of getting ",^ an a split. Sambo can reduce a * 0 ° to ashes on his own acconnt faster v other human agent; but when he -To’ redacing it to fire wood for the parlor, ** ° ^ costly business. He stalls at it „ resume. The circular sets forth that ' ' transportation of the State Road for the ling September 30th, 1867, was 7,485 for ISO®, 8,967 tons, and for 1869, 23,388 j.,,1 the coal mining companies complain, Trading this increase, that the means of negation are still vastly deficient. The i„ Augusta, Macon, Columbus and TTierv are ver ? inadequately supplied, qfco consumption would be doubled, if the . n f transportation were adequate. An an- ' . liply °f at ,eaat 50 > 000 tona “ neetl ed for T* purposes alone; and the entire con- J„n could require the constant employment tut -100 cars. The number now in service ‘™ 0 f which eighty are supplied by the and Atlantic Railroad. -relief it seems, must come from the rail- companies, who ought to contribute more J quotas of their rolling stock for this > aiid we hope they will meet in Atlanta rjree to do it. ^ I.ot the Judiciary Speak. V received yesterday from onr friend the ed- .jf the Albany News, Cob 0. W. Styles, the ning dispatch: Albany, Ga., December 11, 1869. Md and Messenger : j Radical Convention at Macon and Gov. A charge that justice cannot he obtained j civil courts of Georgia. Is it so ? It is •sled that nil the Superior Court Judges, of Bullock, repair by request to 5-ton to testify before the Reconstruction ittee, and that Georgia will abide their any. Carey W. Stylus, Editor Albany News. (Tc may, indeed, earnestly, and, thank God, appeal to every judicial officer—from ceof the Peace to Chief Justice of the Sn- t Court—to rebuke this foul calumny. , from where it may, it is an atrocious slan- ajion Georgia. If a gnilty man, we would ur take the chance of a negro, than of a man, before any court in Georgia; because m sure that justice is more universally tem- «} with mercy in courts in the case of blacks of whites, wht are presumed to know bet- md punished accordingly. We call the at- mi of our judiciary to the suggestion of Styles. __ Noue to Deliver, letter from a prominent Democratic mem- of the House, to the Editors, say: “None .war people are hero. Your best men ought here. Your State is in great danger.” No about the danger. The assault is with y weapons and it has been secretly and ssfnlly planned; but what onr “people” ill do in the premises, except to hasten the ii, we are unable to see. With the Execu- iind Congress in full accord against us, no resentation or entreaty from the people lid be availing. fnromn is Congressional Elections.— • Herald's Washington special, of Thursday, i the Committee on Elections have agreed a t hill which provides that the day for hold- sections for members of Congress shall he iform throughout all the States. As it will i some change in the laws of several of ^ States to conform to this act, the billpro- «that it shnll not take effect until the first lesday in November, 1872. The bill has two Iffis: first, to insure a full representation of •the States at the organization of each new ppess on the 4th of March, and, second, to pent persons from one State going into ano- fto colonize. ■ *i ffounoAL Disabilities.—A Courier-Journal [Aingtou special of the 8th inst. says the de- F in the Senate that day on the removal of j political disabilities imposed by tho Fonr- tah Amendment, and the informal discussion members, leave no reasonable doubt • Congress will soon pass some one of the r«al hills pending for that purpose. The psnre may be so amended as to abolish all o»ths, as proposed in the Senate, though i is not quite so certain. Tho Southern Eberg generally oppose the passage of any b till nntill the Fifteenth Amendment is rat- I'br of Grant's postmasters recently neglected Jttrtify on oath to the correctness of his re- _report, and wrote to the Department in fixation: “If i bant give oath enuff then 3 610 take the office and i shall be very glad ••—I shall do the best i can for the united p* fbat i don’t think it p*ays to go so fur to a Pf* onc ® in 2 years is a nnff—I should have I bier a horse it is up hilL” I** one of-his late letters to the Cincinnati reml, Don Piatt very offensively reminds J- Radical readers of that journal, that “the philanthrophy is that which frees r else’s nigger. Had these slaves be- 1 to us, instead of to tho South, is there 16 simple enough to believe that we would = had a war of emancipation ? Not much.” |-*n:uBrn 0 if.—We learn that J. P. Jawitt, original publisher of Uncle Tom’a Cabin, is . *°rking as a journeyman printer in Phila- paia, and ifinton Rowan Helper, the author infamous “Impending Crisis,” is a pau- pin New York. “The mills of God grind yet they grind exceeding small.’’ t has gono into a now business. Wit- 1 this from the New York World: “Divorces t Indiana good in New York, and cor- ia J of marriage performed between clients, charge unless successful. Advice free, for circulars. Address H. W. B., Ply- -•a Church, Brooklyn.” | Blatb has been warning the New ■-• Democrats not to consider Grant a fool. . Grant was tin obstinate man,who wonld 10Wn way, and, after the four years of ministration had passed, would give ample *0co of his obstinacy. —Farragnt wants his name ■S® 88 ® Farragew. How about catycio fid- r.’^mgs ?—Columbus Sun. L*? 1 and how about that greedy-gut business ■ ( “2 prize money at New Orleans, when a ‘•a of bad Porter wa3 nncorked?—Const it u- Hot —Commissioner Delano has and subordinates reporting to him. General Terry’s Report. ' We reprint from the New York Tribune, the most of General Terry’s report on the condition of Georgia, because it is important, if not pleas- ant, that the people should see just what kind of official statements go before Congress and form the groundwork of their action. No citizen of Georgia could possibly credit the existence of such statements as these unless he saw and read them. Every intelligent and can did resident of the State knows, so far as his own observation and reading extend, that she is as quiet, orderly and law-abiding as in any previous period of her history. Not one Geor gian who reads these lines, ever saw any thing of the outrages ana denial of justice of which General Terry complains. And we may say more than this—that the administration of pub lic justice in Georgia, so far as the negro is con cerned, is universally more scrupulous and guarded than in the case of whites, because there is a disposition among our people and judi cial functionaries, natural to persons of generous minds, to guard especially the rights of the ig norant and more defenceless members of the community. But Gen. Terry asserts, on the contrary, that abuses of the blacks are universal—“too com- mon to excite notice,” and that a system Of ter rorism exists which not only fatally obstructs reform and rerdess, but absolutely compels the witnesses of the government to give in evidence with bated breath and- under injunctions of secrecy, which, if not respected, wonld consign these witnesses to the fiery vengeance of the tyrannous mob. Thus he says (substantially) that Georgia is under a reign of terrorism instituted by a reck less, ignorant and wicked white minority, against which the respectable portion of the people dare not rebel; and even his parties in evidence as to the existence of this desperate state of affairs cannot he disclosed, lest they should be victimized to Kuklux vengeance. We have heard of this plea before. Every wretched creature who wishes to batten on the public mis fortunes and disorders seeks to cover his slimy trail of slander and defamation by the plea of personal peril! Now here, according to Gen. Terry, is a state of things in which violence and wrong are the rule, and justice, peace and order the excep tion. Crimes are as plenty as blackberries in June, and yet it is well known in seven or eight months’s command in Georgia, with all power and every facility to arrest offenders, not one has been brought to justice by Gen. Terry, or through his co-operation. He should, upon his own statement, have raked them np by hun dreds, but he cannot show a single case. All his military expeditions and seizures, searches and investigations, have resulted in absolutely nothing. It is true he sets np some plea of want of power—but he was not only backed by all the executive power of the State, but would have been backed by the vast majority of the people in every fair attempt to detect and pnnish crime. And if he had failed in bringing even one of such a mass of offenders to justice, he surely could have amassed by bis own personal inqui sitions and those of his officers, such accumula ted evidence of crime and disorder, as to com pel conviction of its existence, and dispense with his invisible witnesses who cannot be brought to light lest they should be killed off by the Ku-Klux. He certainly would not have been compelled to come before Congress with little or nothing more than his unsupported assevera tion of a state of faot3 in Georgia, which he could, by his own official inquiries have proved beyond reasonable controversy, if it really ex isted. The failure of all adequate proof and evi dence, however, puts Gen. Terry’s report among the mass of party slanders got up in the service of the Congressional majority to disfranchise Georgia, simply because her people will not vote the radical ticket; and to gorge the few in significant adventurers at home with money and officoby re-inaugurating political disorder, while the intelligent people of tie Stato are disarmed and silenced for all purposes of self-protection. The Last “Fashionable’* Washington Marriage. A Herald correspondent—who, a Times cor respondent says, was invited because ho was “a special friend of the bride”—gives that paper a long account of the Gerand-Wormloy nuptials, wherein the contracting parties were a miscege- nating and mercenary Frenchman, and a mu latto girl at Washington, whose dad is rich. The correspondent says the “lady” wished to be married by a “negro Presbyterian parson,” while the “gentleman,” who is a Catholic, in sisted upon a priest of that faith, and finally carried his point The affair was kept a great secret, says tho correspondent, but he was let into it of course. The marriage took place at the residence of the minister, which, says the correspondent was filled' with “colored belles and beaux.” Among the whites present were ex-Mayor Barrett, and Messrs. Piatt, Sheppard, Ramsdell, Brooks, Borseau and the correspon dent-all, but the first named, Washington re- portorial ear wigs. “Miss” Wormloy, we are in formed, “was arrayed in a beautiful white satin dress trimmed with lace, and wore on her head a wreath of white flowers, from which hung a costly lace veil, also white. She carried in her hand a beautiful bouquet. Large, dark swim ming eyes, jet black hair, delicato peachy com plexion, a full, plump figure, and stature rather above that of ladies in general, make up a very rough description of tho bride. Sho is quito pleasing altogether in appearance, though not what properly could be called beautiful. Her white robes were hardly calculated to set off to advantage her peculiar style of features. Tho bridegroom can be briefly described as a dark little Frenchman—in fact, darker than his bride very young, and with most of tho French characteristics in appearance and manners. He was dressed in a plain black suit, white necktie and gloves.” For which graphic description we suppose papa Wormloy, who is in tho restaurant tine, will give the correspondent the run of the kitch en during the winter. The Bnrdcll Murder. Just before John J. Eckel—who, it will be remembered, was tried for the murder of Dr. Burdell, but acquitted—died the other day in the Albany prison, an interview was had with him, for the purpose of drawing from him any disclosures he might feel disposed to make in regard to the murder of Dr. Burdell. It is stated that Eckel emphatically declared that he was entirely guiltless of any connection with the crime, and that he did not know who commit ted it. He added that he entered the house about eleven o’clock on the night of the mur der; that lie was met by Mrs. Cunningham in the lower hall; that he noticed she appeared confused and excited; that she preceded him up stairs to his room; that she stopped on the way up stairs and closed Dr. Eurdell’a bedroom door; that she accompanied him to his own bedroom door, where he left her, locked his door and re tired to bed, and that he was entirely ignorant of the murder until after the discovery of the body. This statement was made a short time be fore his death, and in view of the fact that his physician had informed him that his end was near and that lie could not possibly survive. Given under such solemn circumstances, it will doubtless be generally believed, especially as, while it exonerates himself, it adds one more link to the chain of testimony which pointed to Mrs. Cunningham as the murderess of Dr. Bur dell. Immigration. Eably County, December 6,1869. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : “A cargo of cotton, 1000 bales, was cleared for Genoa from Savannah, oh Saturday last”—Telegraph December Zrd. Here Is the true key to our immigration prob lem- Southern, not Northern Europe, is where we of Georgia, should look for an increase of population, and of all Southern Europe Sardinia and Lombardy particularly. Geographically the countries are very similar. From the Alps (onr Blue Ridge) Sardinia andLombardy sweep down to the .Italian peninsula (Florida,) and are washed on the one side bj)the Mediteranean, (the Atlantic) on the other by the Adriatic (the Gulf of Mexico.) A tropical heat, mitigated by a happy union of sea and monntain breezes; streams, torrents in winter, diminished in sum mer ; mild winters, long and delightful sum mers are common to both. The Sardinian and Southern Lombard would find in Southern G*eor- gia his crops of sugar, rice, cotton, olives, silk, indian corn, and oranges; the Vtgneron, from the foot of the Alps, his hills and vines in Cherokee. Lombardy has a population of over four hun dred to the square mile—Sardinia, over three hundred. The Lombards, next to the Belgians, are the finest agriculturalists in continental Eu rope. Sardinians and Lombards both till a soil vexed for two thousand years to return a crush ing rent; they both, like all peasants of Western Europe, yearn to possess a few acres—would they resist the temptations that Georgia holds out, were they informed of them ? We would find there a hive of industrious, skilled and law- abiding immigrants, unbiased against us by prejudicial roports industriously circulated by interested and mendacious agents; immigrants careless of all that bosh about the inability of the white man to labor under our sun; immigrants who would make gardens of those wastes which now swallow up the Macon and Bruns wick, the Brunswick and Albany and the Atlan tic and Gulf roads; and should they bring with them a hatred of trans-montane politics, so much the better for us. A road runs out from Genoa to Milan and Turin, from Milan to Verona, from Verona to Venice, and from Verona to Trent, so that im migrants from any part of Sardinia or Lombar dy could easily by rail reach the sea at Genoa. If there are to be cotton ships from Savannah to Genoa, would it not be well to look for a re turn cargo of cotton makers? Geobgia3. From Texas. . Richmond, Texas, Novembeb 20, 1869. Editors Telegraph and Messenger’. Your State Fair, which is now about closing out, was no doubt the grandest aad most brilliant affair of the kind ever inaugurated south of the Potomac, and will confer more practical benefits on Georgia than any assemblage, great or small, that has occurred within her bordeis in the last quarter of a century. The value of State Fairs, to the multifarious industries of the country not yet fully appreciated, but it will be in good: time. We have had several County Fairs in Texas this year, reflecting much credit on the ingenu ity, skill and industry of the exhibitors.. De spise not the day of small beginnings. Our mammoth State Fair will be held in good? time, when visitors from distant States can eaa some thing of what even the partially developed re sources of tho State are capable of exhibiting. At the recent Fair at San Antonio, a oow yielded thirteen quarts of milk on the Fair-Ground one morning, having been milked tbp-evening be fore. She was fed on the native grasses. She is of the Durham breed, weighing only a little over COO pounds. That cow is a jewel. The Registrar’s office has at loagth been opened. The Commissioners have fifteen bayonets with in easy calL It is to be hoped there will bo no occasion for calling them. Their Commandant- seems to be quite a gentleman, and the men are white; so if any bad men of either color should succeed in getting up a disturbance during the election, wo may hope that “blood is thicker than water.” An old man was murdered not long since on the Bernard in Austin county, by a young man who rode np to his house and shot him down. The affair oaused great indignation where it oc curred, and oven beyond. If we ever get re constructed, and the good old common Jaw once more assumes her sceptre, the reign of violence will cease. It cannot cense too soon for the good of the Stato. Candidates, white and black, are pressing their claims on their colored constituents, for as tho whites in this county are nearly all dis franchised, they cannot properly be numbered among the constituents; In this county the whites, very unwisely as I think, take but little interest in the election. Cotton continues to come into Galveston and Houston pretty freely. Tho roads being in su perb order, everybody that can, avails himself of their fine condition. Frost, the first of the season with us, made his appearance the morning of the 17th instant. His advent was as heartily welcomed by your correspondent, if he will only squelch the chills, as tho first shad of the season is by the epicure where these finny luxuries aro to be found. Pah Fois. Consolidation the Death of Liberty. TTimm Walbridge, a Now York Radical politi cian, in a speech before the National Board of Trade in Richmond, said: A great revolution has been consummated, and wo should bring ourselves in harmony with it. That revolution has constituted the national government almost without limitation, the sacred repository of the honor, the integrity, and the future prosperity of all the States. The centralization of this federation is now an ac complished fact It is the part of wisdom for this generation to accept the inexorable logic of events, and to conform to the situation. - To which the Philadelphia Age replies, as follows: More than thirty years ago, a Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, traveled in this countp’ and wrote the best book ever written about it. Its prosperity, its liberty, he traced to the tnie cause—the de-centralized administration which was the product of our Federal system. As he wrote for the instruction of his own country men, he showed them how they had missed the road to liberty. The French revolution, he said, was a failure because it declared against provincial institutions, which liad gathered some odium from’abuses. A consolidated gov ernment was continued in France, and, whether worked bv Republicans, Monarchists; or Impe rialists, it has always proved a despotism. Against that, French intelligence is now strug gling, and we do not think American intelli gence is likely to submit to it tamely. Mining Statistics.—The United States Com missioner of Mining Statistics reports that the product of the precious metals in the Pacific States and Territories, during the past year, will fall below that of 18G8. In Califomia the extraordinary droughtinterfered with placer and hydraulic mining, and in the quartz mining dis tricts the strike of the workmen closed several of tho most important mines. In Nevada the exhaustion of various old workings and disas trous fires materially reduced the yield in the Washoe region, but this deficiency, it is assert ed is counterbalanced by the increased produc tion of the White Pine district. The prospects for 1870, however, it is believed, are favorable, in consequence of the gradual introduction of Ohineso labor. In Oregon, Montano and Idaho the placer and hydraulic mining have been in terrupted by the drought, and very little quartz mining is carried on in those regions. In Colo rado the yield for 1869 has been very encourag ing and tho Commissioner is of the opinion that tho Territory will advance rapidly in popu lation and wealth, since the inhabitants are de voted to steady industry and not to mere specu lative activity. BY TELEi 3-RAPH FROM WASJ iHXGTOlT. . Washington, December 10. — Eevenu*i to-d»Jy 8250,000. The awards made by the Court of Claims Jor. cot ton captured by the mffitar y, aggregate $734,000 for twenty-nine cases. Thegc >vemment iris,appealed them all. Commodore John Roger s succeeds Admiral R?W- an in command of the Ash itic squadron. The New York Tribune <? is patches Item Cuba con. firm the defeat of the S] laniards at San Jose, «»■* also give an acconnt of the severe punishment oft negroes at Lagua, the number of stripes being freer two hundred to eight hundred. Diarro de la Marina saya the Spanish in the d»r trict of Hal quin are unable to inoreJor want of inforcements—three thousand troops being neces sary. The troops are suffering . from, severe- sickness. Seven sugar estates have beau destroyed in. Ra, medi&a district; fire in Tricadod, and,.threaia Cienfuga. Col. Camara, with six bvndaed snen .and fir*, pieces of artillery, attacked Cohans at Regju* del Castellano.' The fight looted, four hours, ™'i> the Spaniards were repulsed with great loss—fcaiy T seven were left dead on the field. Official statistics published, .at Havana show tram the commencement of the - warg Spanish less.of eight thousand killed in batttoefive thousands by disease; two thousand deuestad to.the Cubtns>£ three thousand now sick. Thirty-five prominent Catena,have .been aprestod in Havana, supposed to he,.iasympathy wiiMhe Cuban insurrection. The Supreme Court hue,dismissed the appeal from Louisiana, in the cagqnf .New Orleans,varaoe the New York Steamshin^iomgany. Washington, December-10.—In tho Houe^-a.pro test against the admission; of Booker, from^khe fourth Virginia district,.was referred to the. Ejec tion Committee. The struggle betw«en.th» Banking and .Currency and Ways and Meanp- Conmittees, regarding; the reference of financial bills, is increasing... The census bill was resumed. Washington, Dcsembfr 11.—In the.,Rpsoxatruo- tion Committee ijatter was read fronkEx^Oover- nor Welles, of Ybginie* urging immediate, admis sion of Virginia .and opposing the exaptiosiof the test oath from the Vhjinia legislators.. The best ov-ipion a that a bill wQhbe.Teported from the committee cn Tuesday for tlio.riatoration of the State, tmd that the Senators and Representa tives, except Hooker and McKenzie, whose seats are contested, wlllhe admitted to seat s-jTbebill will re quire a plecgp from tho officials, that there shall be no further disfranchisements on recoup.! of race or color. The statements of Governors Welles and Walker, were ordered to be printed. : A subhcomisattee was appointed to prepare, a-, statement-of the alleged election frauds, but not to print it,.as She voice of the committee is against; serioqsly entertaining any cuggtioq regarding.too fairness of. the. election. jfq.tlia Bouse, a motion to table Iagersoll’s forty-, five million additional currency bill was defeated, hot was referred to tho Committee on Banking, and Currency, instead of tho Mommitteo on Wafa, and Means, winch is regarded i as equivalent toils ulti- imate defeat, as the Banking and Currency.Gommit- tee is understood to be hostile to its provisions. Revenue to-day, 8362^HX). Robert Clarke has been appointed Assessor for tho Second Georgia Distrisl. < 2t is stated that Judgo Grier has resigned) to take effect on February l$t* The Star says: The Senate Judiciary-Ooromittea had another sessionyesterday, on Georgia. Abillwas agreed upon for carrying out the suggestions of the President’s message. Gov. Bullock was before the Committee and made statements relative to the. condition of affairs in .that Stato K which ho repre sented to be little better than it was during the wa* tbat is, so-far as Union men ara.concerned. The bill will he raported next week. Tho Attorneys of the Tehuantepec Ship Canal Company,, and tho Mexican Pacifio Railroad Com pany, filed claims before the Mexican Commission, aggrogaejeg $322,000,000. Mr. Wardweil, Superintendent of the Virginia Penitentiary, stated befors tho Reconstruction Com mit ieo, that that institution contained 493 negroes, »iyl 44 whites who had served in the Federal army; Sgevwho bad been in the Federal employment; 15 or 30.who had been in the Confederate servico—total nqmber of; prisoners, 621. News , from Cuba, from Spanish sources, to the New. York Tribune, report the insurgents in the countiy adjoining-Trinidad, and burning estates. A number of plantations have been fired, aqd the greater number reduced to ashes—one losing cane that ought to produce elovon hundred hogsheads' of sugar and molasses; another thirteen hundred. There has been general destruction thus far. Mora than ono-b<%l| of the cane crops have been entirely destroyed. FOREIGN NEWS. London, Decanter 8-—The London News, com menting on President Gnat's message, says Amer ica wants indemnity for their feelings on the Ala bama question- rather than for tbeir trade or pockets. Roms, December 8s—Tho (Ecumenical Council was opened by the Pope. Seven hundred Hsbops followed the Pope irvtho- procession. St; Johns, N. Bj, December Pk—Laat Night bet ing-.very cold,.the crew of the schooner Keichom built a fire in. the stove and dosed tlx* hatches, Four of the crew were-found dead in rgnongnonto London, December M.—The stsamship Brazilian, built expressly, for the Suez GAnai traffic, hod to die- charge hall her ooigo before get* tag, through. The Dole of-Saxo Coburg is dying. PVisce Alt fried,'of -England, is htoheir. Paris, Deeember-11.—THe officii# yellow Ieoh to published. IBs relations of Franco-vrith otlwr pow- ers, and their relations with oadi other, are peace ful. Begtedtogribe Ecxmenieal-Canned,.th» book Bays: It is-beyond the pale of tho political' power, so the Empemria resolved not-to use his ihcsntesfc- ible right tointervene in. ito deliberations. Alb tho Catholic powtre -approve-thia-conra*:. The movement in the- GOrps-Legiatotif to impeach- The Gove Be- i he Minister of the Intoriercreatedtawiolbnoeaever before witnessed. The sitiiiig.of-the-Corps woe- ad, j burned amid great excitement; The FrenehiGovernment- has maib-known to-ttie (Eeumeniosl Council, that iB/alfibilily. js-an inoppor tune questioa-from a rehgwua view; .and. politically places France othorwia&than ascending to the con cordat, aad rdoases henfromihe obligatibna-tfaera ccepted. Bomb, December ll.—The Pope delivered mu Elo cution before the asestobled Bishop* to-day. Be said that false human > science and- impiety were never before 80 strcNgaa- at the .present dby;.fte» they ware well organized and hid them*el vee. behind pretended-aspiration, for-liberty;; but- throe was nothing to fear, because the. church, was. stronger than the heavens. Tliae would remedy. the>yroeent evils... Tha Ecumenical Council in adjporaingiaras- the Ephipbany, the Pope s&id he wea suro of Ste co operation of the American Bisheps. London, December-11—Burlingame hee-ihfbrma- tioniiat the Chinese.Government has. xritfied the American treaty. l&xfisment moots-on the 8y>of,Fobruaqyi The Times condemns the Grange Lodges as only perpetuating.theidoas of two,races.. Motuzs, December 11.—Tho-Anti-Eapal Council has assembled. Two. hundred. Italian, and twenty other.delegatee-were present.. BiccartSiwaa elected President. Letters werz- read from. Victor Riga, Garibaldi, ;and others, amid much enthusiasm.. St. Fsxebsuubo, Decembes Ilk—3he navigation of the Baltio-isxlosed. MAmtm, December 11 The Cortes rejected the bill for indemnifying.exiles-under *monarchy. Havana.,. December —There, was a sharp skir mish yesterday near Trinidad. The result is un known. The Cleopatra arrived today from Yera Cruz; also a steamer wiibi a thousand troops fro^q. Cadiz, __ FROM NEW ORLEANS. Nets-Qbleans, Decembers.—Gen. W. T. Clarke,, member, of Congress, elect from the third district of Texas, passed through this city yesterday for ’Washington. He claims that Davis is elected Gov ernor. The probabilities are that all the candidates foe- Congress oa the Davis ticket are elected,, with gcod majorities, in both branches of the Lefp^&tnre fee-the same party. FROM SAN FRANCISCO. San Fbancisco, December 10.—The Gwremor’B message recommends State aid to facilitetoemigra- tion from Europe and the Eastern States^ Ho sayb the Legislature has the power to prphfhto Chinese mmigratkm. Ho favors the removal of ail-barriers Chinese testimony, not only ts,£q,pe>.of justice, but of sound policy. tent Department parts. The annual reports of the heads of-the Gov ernment Departments, together with the Presi dent's message and the-- commencement of- the session of the Forty-first Congress; are the ab sorbing national topics of the day. Thevepet ts of the Secretary si War, the Postmaster Gen eral, the Secretary of the Navy, the Commis sioner of Internal •Revenue, United States Treasurer Spinner and the Comptroller of the Currency, are unusually full and exhaustive, and present an interesting exhibit of the affairs of the Government for the past year. According to tho-report of the Seoretary -of War, a farther reduction of the army toreeom. mended. He asks tor authority to retire at least seven per cant, of the offioers of the-whole army. The present maximum of the army is 52,324 enlisted-men. > About 29,750 man - may be relied npoafor actualserrioe, and below that standard it wonld. not be prudent to go. - The paymaster’s noils show disbursements for the year to 'the amount of $38,782,144 81*.: The operations of the Frdedmen’e Bureau haver been dosed,- except the educational and bounty divi sions, and too hospitals for freedmen. The General of the army shows that everyiregjnaent is on duty, and 1 that he cap scarcely supply alt the urgent demands made upon him fur troops. He says that if the forces were, withdrawn from certain localities “a condition of afflura wonld result amounting to anarchy.” ' The Commissioner of Internal Efevenoo ad vises a continuance of the income tax and states that the present whisky tax .will yield. & revenue, of sixty millions,, although,/‘the government has been generally and almost syste mattoally cheat ed” under the present mode, of collecting the tax. He estimates that the internal revenue from all sources umia.Do ®ivs,poo.oo« nually. The Saeretary-«f the Navy thinks that our naval force- in, toseign waters ia wholly inade quate to the. demands of American, commerce. (We thought that,had perished long,ago.) , But for the protection of the rights-of American citizens in, foreign lands, we think -tins state ment of the Seiastary .admits of ao, discussion. The condition, off the navy.is at a uesy low ebb. The report recommend? vessels which can be propelled: by. sairing as well- as steam power. Our iron-, clads, are only-fit-for home service. He urgqa-the encouragement of fleet claw ocean steamarsforconnnercial purposes, .as they would be oi gjeat.bcaefit in case of wax. The Darien Ship Canal is-also strongly recommended. Tho,BoBtmaster General shows that the reve nues of the department for the- past fiscal year were $18,34.V>1Q and. the. expenditures. $23,- 698,131, giving a deficit of $5,355,621. The deficiency is caused by the depreciation of the paporcutseocy, unpaid postagpiOn printed mat ter and the franking privilege- These are evils whiqh can. he remedied. He .also urges the re- establishment of AmericanHnas-of ocean steam ers.. These are twenty-sewn thousand onis hundred and six post-officeaan operation. The,Comptroller of the Gowency states that th^ro are one thousand' six, hundred and twenty national hanks in active operation and that the total number of notes of all; denominations out standing are $299,789,85fe He Also offers soma important suggestions on various subjects com- nee ted with his denartcaonlw 5 The, United States Treasurer says that if the present rate of purchase of tbepublia debt .he maintained and the accruing interest be sestir annually invested in bonds, the whole debt will ■be paid off in less than thirteen years. {jilfcte York Telegram. 600,000 200,000. CONGRESSIONAL. Senate—No session. House. —A bill was int roduced prohibiting the sale of coin by tho Treasury. Also, that tho Committee on Foreign Affairs bo directed to inquire into the circumstancoa attending the landing of tho French cable. A bill was introduced for the removal of obstruc tions in Bayou Teclie, La. Also, for repairing and furnishing the New Or leans custom house. The census bill was discussed all day. Two efforts to consider the Cuba question failed., Tho House adjourned. Washisoton, December 11.—House—Tho Com mittee of Ways and Means were instructed toon- quire into the expediency of relieving the provision trade from taxation. Five members of tho Banking and Currency Com mittee, to which Ingersoll’s forty-four millions ad-, ditional currency bill was referred, voted to lay it on t'ne table till the bill was introduced. A bill was introduced dispensing with spies in tho revenue service. Tho Census bill was considered till adjournment. FROM ALABAMA. MoxiGOMEBr, November 10.—In the House to-day Brown, of Chambers, Democrat, was voted out of his seat, and was refused tho privilege of spreading his protest on tho journal. A motion to seat lYard, his contestant, was voted down. McKinstry, Representative from Mobile, waB vo ted a seat today in tho place of Mageo, Democrat, who was recently ejected on tho ground of ineligii bility, for having been a Boad Commissioner before tho war. The namo of McKinstiy was in tho list jo persons whose disabilities were removed this week by Congress GENERAL NEWS. Louisville, December 10.—Congressman Galla- day, a prominent candidate for the Senate from Kentucky, favors repudiation on moral and legal points, citing precedents in support of repudiation in our own and foreign countries, been robbed and the cashier killed. The jrobbers got only five dollars. were released to-day, and will proceed to sea imme diately. St. Loins, December 11.—The steamer IV. B. Ar thur, hence for New Orleans, sunk near Burnett’s Island with a valuable cargo, which is a total loss, including three hundred and fifty head of live stock. New Yoke, December II.—Father Hyacinthe sailed for Franco to-day. Chicago, December 11 The jury gave Mary Walton $3300 in a libel suit against the Chicago Times. A new trial was granted without argument. Augusta, December 11 The reported Cuban ex pedition from here is a hoax. There has been no disturbance between the whites and blacks in Edgefield, S. C. The press of Georgia is almost a unit in denoun cing measures looking to a reorganization of the State. The attitude of Congress creates uneasiness in agricultural and commercial circles. Halifax, December 1L—The Chronicle says that Grant's meesage breaks off all hopes of a recipro- cocity treaty, and renders annexation more desira ble, but believes that independence has become pop ular. TEXAS ELECTION. - Galveston, December 8.—Returns from forty counties give JIavis 3489 majority—Flanagan, for Lieutenant Governor, 8260. The Confederate Armies. Debow’s Review gives the .following figures concerning the Confederate armiaa during the war: Confederate forces actively, engaged. 61 5............ J. Total deaths in O. S. A...'.,, Losses of O. S. A., in prisoners, 1861- ’5, which may be considered as total losses on acconnt *of. the. policy of non-exchange by .tha United States. 200,000 Losses of C. S. A., by, discharge, dis-__ ability and desertipn. w „..„ r ' 100,000 “If this calculation, which is given only as an approximation, be correct, one-third, of oil the men actively, engaged on the Confederate side were either, killed outright upon the field,, or died of disease, and wounds; another third o{. the entire number were captured and held fpr an indefinite period in Northern prisons; and of the remaining four hundred thousand, at least one-half, were lost-to the. service, by &S; charges and.desertion. ■ , , . “At the close of the war the available force, of the Confederate States numbered scarcely 100,- 000 effective men. “The resolution, unsurpassed bravery, and skill, with which the. Confederate.leaders.con- ducted.this. contest, is. shown by the fact that out of 500,000 men in the field, about 500,000 were lost to the service. “At the close of the war the lOftGOQ Confed- erates were opposed to one million (1,000,000) Federal troops. - ■ i The North Georgia-Conference. Special Correspondence of the Rome, Ga.,.December 8; 1869. ’ Tho North Georgia Conference‘of the M. E, Church South met this morning at 9J o’clock, in tho City Hall, Bishojj, Doggett presiding. Conference was.,opened by singing and prayer by the Bishop. After tho opening tho Dishop delivered quite an impressive address to the. body. ' The roll was then, called. Key. A. G. Hay- good was elected Secretary; Rev. J. W. Heiat was elected as Assistant. After a little discussion, it was agreed to meet at 9 a. m., and adjourn at 1 P. M. The .Confer ence proceeded, to appoint committees and fill vacancies iu the standing boards. It was agreed that tho Conference should set with open doors. Communications were then received and read from the Secretary of the Board, of Domestic Missions, J. B. McFerrin; Y. G. Allen, Mission ary in China, and the President of the Wesleyan Female College, at Macon, Ga. Examination of character was then entered into. W. H. Potter, A. Wright, Geo, Pattillo, C. W. Key, J. M. Armstrong, Leonard Rush, A. J. Jarrel, Josiah Lewis, Sr., M. Morris, Julius T. Curtis, Thos. F.-Pierce, Clement A. Evans, Richard J. Harwell, E. W. Spear, Wm. R. Foot, Cicero A. Mitchell, D. G. Myrio, Morgan Cala- way. Supreme Couri^Morning Session. From the Atlanta Constitution.] Atlanta, December 9, I860. Argument was resumed and concluded in No. C, Southwestern Circuit. No. 10 is Roe and Jno. Henry, plaintiffs in error, vs. Doe ex. dem., Granniss, administrator et. at. Ejectment from Lee. Vason & Lewis, W. A. Hawkins for plaintiffs in error. F. F. Snead, R. N. Ely for defendants. It was dismissed because prematurely brought up. No. 11 is Samuel Lindsey, Sheriff, plaintiff in error, vs. B. F. B. Cook, et. al. Rule, etc., from Le?. F. H. West, C. B. Wootten, Lochrane & Clark for. plaintiff in error. Hawkins & Burke, R. F. Lyon for defendants in error. Pending the argument for defendants ia error, Court adjourned till 3 o’clock p. al evening session. Argument was resumed and concluded in No. G, Southwestern Circuit No. 9 is Covington Duma; , administrator, plaintiff in error, vs. Jesse Roben, et al., “Mo tion to open fi.fa.” from Calhoun. Vason. &-Davis, Lyon, for plaintiff in error. T. L. Dunn, O. B. Wooten by S. D. Irwin and W. A. Hawkins, for defendants. Pending the argument of W. A. Hawkins, the Court adjourned till 10 o’clock a, m. to-morrow. Cincinnati La gee.—We were indebted yes. terday to Sherlitz’s Lager Beer Depot, comer Third and Poplar streets, for a dozen bottles of Cincinnati Lager—very fine. We # think some body drank every bottle, thus furnishing cor? elusive evidenco of appreciation. THE OUTRAGES IN GEORGIA. Report of Major. General Alfred Xeory. lYttn the New York Tribune, 8th.] Washington, December 7.—The annual re port of the Secretary of War is accompanied, jy numerous sub-reports, some of whiah are of the first importance. That of Major General Alfred H. Terjjt, commanding the District of Georgia, is, in ,-iiew.. of the recommendation of the President’^ message, and in further, view of the bill to be tgken up.in'the Senate .tomorrow, of the highest, interest. It is dated .August, 14, 1869, and is axfailows:. SENATOR WILSON ON THE OUTRAGES.. Soon afterjl assumed command of this Depart ment, a letter from the Hon. Henry- Wilson to the President of the United Statsao»as referred to me, with, instructions to investigate and re- iort upon, matters therein mentioned. The fol- owing ism copy of that letter,, and of the en dorsement placed upon it by the - General Com- mandingdha army. ! Naiiox, Masi, May 12* 1869. Dea^Eiu : Can nothing bo done to stop the outrages in Georgia ? Thesapolitical murders should cease. Nothing animated, the people more in the canvass than the idea that the rebel- outrages should be stopped, They were checked muchjby your, election - >; still they go on, and manyof opr best friends,say that we do. nothing to. stop them, and that wa had rather say nothing about,them. I fear that- unless something is ■done many of onr most devoted friends will rgrow dissatisfied. Cannot a proclamations re gard to Georgia be.issued? Cannot these crimi nals bp caught by the army aud punished ? I am sura something should be attempted. Mar tial law is this day needed in that the worst of all the States for the security of the friends of the country. Yours truly, Henby Wilson. HEADQTJAitTEns a» the Aemy, Wasjbngxon,) • I* 1 Jane 7, 1SC9. f ' Respectfully referred’to Commanding Gener al, Department of the South, fox thorough in vestigation and report W. T. Sheehan, General. I have delayed making report thus called for until the present time, in order that X might be come acquainted with the condition of affairs in Georgia before expressing any opinion. Now I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the situation here demands the interposition of the National Government, in order that life and property may be protected, the freedom of speech and political aotion secured, and the rights and liberties of freedmen maintained. This opinion is based upon complaints made to me, reports of offioers detached to investigate the alleged outrages, and upon the statements of many persona of respectability and high posi tion from different parts of the State. In those representations I must repose confidence, some of whom have given me information only under pledge of sccrecry, the state of affairs in their section being such that they feared extreme personal violence should it become known that they had been in communication with me. THE KU-KLUX ELAN. In many parts of the State there is practi- oally no governmRit; the worst of crimes are committed, and no attempt is made to punish those who commit them. Murders have been and are frequent, and the abuse in various ways of blaoks is too common to excite notice. There can be no doubt of the existence of numerous insurrectionary organizations known as the “Ku-Klux Klans,” who, shielded by their dis guise, by the secrecy of their movements, and by the terror which they inspire, perpetrate crimes with impunity. There is great reason to believe that in some cases local magistrates are in sympathy with members of these organi zations. In many places they are overawed by them, and dare not attempt to pnnish them. To pnnish offenders by Civil proceedings would be a difficult task, even were magistrates in all cases disposed, and had they courage to do their duty, for the same influences which govern them eqnally affect juries and witnesses. HOW THE CRIMINALS ESCAPE. A conversation which I have had with a wealthy planter, a gentleman of intelligence and education, and a political opponent of the. Na tional Administration, will illustrate thi&diffi- cnlty. While deploring tho lamentable condi tion of affairs in the county in which he lives, he frankly admitted to me that were the most worthless vagabonds in the county to.be charged with crimes against the person of a Republican or a negro, neither he or any other person of property within the county would dare to refuse to give bail for the offender, nor wonld they dare to testify against him, whatever might be their knowledge of his guilt. That very many of the crimes which have been committed have no political bearing, I believe; that some of the numerous outrages upon freedmen result from hostility to the race,, induced by their en franchisement, I think cannot he controverted. The same difficulties which beset the prose cution of criminate are enoountered by negroes who seek redress for civil injuries in local courts. Magistrates dare not da their duty to ward them, and instances are not wanting where it has. even been beyond the power of a magistrate to protect a negro plaintiff from vio lence in his own presence, while engaged in the trial of his case. I desire it to bo understood that, in speaking ot magistrates, I in no degree refer io Judges of the Superior Court. They are gentlemen of high character, and I have every confidence that they will do their duty fearlessly and impartially. But it i3 to be observed that even they cannot control grand and petit juries; they cannot compel the former to induct, nor the latter to render unprejudiced verdicts. The ex ecutive of the Stato would gladly interpose to i give all citizens the protection which is their right* but radar the ■ GoMtifatfon mid laws, ha has power neither to act directly in bringiixg the offenders to justice, -naerto’Oompol subordinate officers to their duty. sc»ua'BX!miaanc>iit.THa snun. I do not suppose that the groat majority of the people of the Stateof either race approve of the commission of these crimes. I believe that nof only would they gladly see good order restored; peace and quiet maintained, and law vindicated, but would lend their aid* to secure these* end*-were they.no* controlled by their fears. Governed, however, by tbeir apprehen sions, and having no confidence that the civil authorities -wilt afford thenvproteotion, in many conn ties-they suffer these e-rile to exist without an effiert to abate them, and meekly submit to the rnleof’A disorderly and otiminal minority. tYhile I have been< in commend of the,Depart ment, Ik have endeavored-to. take no aotion which could not be justified, by- letter of law, evert if Georgia should be- held to be restored to its original relations- to-the General Govern ment.' I have confined myself to-giving sup port testhe civil authorities, and moving detach ments ot troops into some, of -the disturbed countkw- where their presence would exert a good itehtenoe, and where they would' be ready to act if -properly called upon.. I think that some gped has in this way been accomplished, but the greet evihhasby nonneana been reached. As Department Commander,-I can do no more, for, whatever may be the status of Georgia, and whatever may be the-ppwers which, an offi cer assigned to the command of-the Third Dis trict, created by the Reconstruction acts, would posseas^ifc'is only an otS&er so assigned who could exercise them. They, are. sot vested ia me by my .assignment to.the command of the TlapartmAnt. Where, ihorafovo, tko. atTil ao thorittes are in sympathy with, or are overawed by time*-who commit crime, it is-manifest that I am powerless. In thia-oonnoction I respect fully call the special attention of the General Commanding the Army to the reports in regard to tho "attempt made in.Warren county to secure the arrest and punishment of persona, charged with crime, which are this-day forwarded. vweraux government , should interfere. It appears to me that the national honor is pledged to tho protection of loyalists and freed- menof the South. Lam, well aware that pro tection of .persons and property is not ordinari ly one of-the fnnetioss-of the national govern- moat; bat when it is. remembered that hostility to the supporters of, tho government is but a manifestation of .hostility to the government it self,. and that the prevailing prejudice against blaera.results fronvtbe^ emancipation act of thq gqwernmeht, it would seem that each-protection cannot be denied them, if it be within the pow- . erof the government- to give^ I.know of no way in which such protection, cambe given in Georgia except by,an. exercise, of; the powers conferred on military- commanders by the con struction acts. [The General then enters intoa. long discus sion whether these powers can stiUibe exercised In Georgia, and-treats of all laws bearing upon the question with much vigor «f- Judgment and clearness of expression, coming to the oonclu- sion that they may still be decreased and closing bis report aufeUowa] :.- HOW,TO RESTORE OC£Q ORDER. In conclusion, I desire to express my convic tion that the only, way to restore good order in the State is- to resume military control over it for the time being, and ultimately to provide by law that the Legislature shall re-assemble as a Provisional Legislature, tom which all ineligi ble persons shall be excluded, and to which all eligible persons elected to it, whether white or black, shall be admitted- Such legislature would- !.believo, enact such,laws, and invest their Ex ecutive with such powers as would enable him to keep, the peace, protect life and property, and punish crime. The process of resuming military control wo«l$.it appears to me, be a very simple one. All that would be required is an order from the President countermanding General Orders No. Gtr, Adjutant General’s Office,. July 28,. 1863^ and orders No. 1Q3, head- ,, quarters. Third Military District, July 22, 1858, and assigning an officer to the command of the district, excepting the States of Florida’and Ala- : bama.’ This action I respectfully recommend. GENERAL *ALLROX ! S INDORSEMENT. General Halle ck, commanding Military Di- . virion, of the South, indorses this report of Gen. Terry’s as fallows: I: cannot concur entirely in the views of Gen. Terry. After-the recognition for so long a time of the Stato- Government of Georgia by the President and highest military authorities, for these officers to retrace their steps and declare their own cots illegal and void, wonld not only seem inconsistent, hot might produce muon Should Congress, However, decide to retain the State to the condition of a military district, under the Reconstruction laws, on the ground that it had not been fully reconstructed, the case would be very different. I therefore respeot- fnliy recommend that the matter be left for ae- ' tion of Congress. "Washbubne at Compeigne—He Dances with the Princiss Mathilde.—The Emperbr; v, dne evening this week, ordered MM. WaldiejfieM, who with a violin and piano are almost equal.to a full band, to play the “Carillon' deTT)un- kerque.” His Majesty then led the dance, which is a sort of Sir Roger de Coverley combined with figures of the cotilion, and made feii^tho la dies, young and old, follow his example.'^ The ministers joined in, the Prince de!a.Tour-d’Au vergne having for his partner one of the most brilliant valseurs in France. H. da.Foread® Roquette displayed his athletic graae lb dR its amplitude. Gen. Chaucard led tho .gallop, and Mr. ’Washburn described around, fke Princess Mathilde, the elegant entrechats cf^’.IS&a For nearly two hours the dancers whirled round the drawingroom without a moment's pause, and the arms of the musicians were-tired before the Emperor had sat down. Tho Qompany danced again on the following evening/several ladies of Compeigne being invited. The guests joined in the feto with suoh a spirit-afc-’about eleven o’clock they began to feel somewhat hungry. The Emperor inquired what could be had for supper, and was told that there remained no thing in the pantry but two fowls and some ham, but no bread! The pastry which re mained after dinner hadlpeon distributed among the orpheonists. 'All the shops in the town were closed, so some soldiers’ bread was sent for to the barracks. “ Meadames/’ said the Emperor gaily, “ I have only simple.faro to offer yon.” And then those elegant ladies might be seen eating their sandwiches with the appetite of haymakers. Champagne mixediwith water mois tened this frugal sqpper/w^ich was the merriest eaten for a long time in' the palace.— Com peigne Correspondence Liberte. Georgia in-Congress.—A special dispatch of the 8th, to the Charleston News, says: The Georgia Conservatives are making efiorts to counteract Bullock’s representations regard ing that State, and haye furnished records show ing Joe Brown’s inconsistency on the eligibility question. Two . Irishmen were in prison, _ the one for .stealing, a cow, the other for stealing a watch. ‘‘Hollb, Mike, what o’clock is it r said the coy-stealer to the other. “And sure, Rat, I haven’t any time-pieco handy, But I think it is most milking time.” Enthusiastic Entimologist.—“I say, Brown, did.it ever strike you what an insane looking .word ‘Fruiterer’ is? Why could’nt we say * Fruiter ?’ ” Brown (punster as above)—“Well, yes; looks very like an ever, don’t it?” Emile Ollivier declares that in order to guard against popular excesses, the Corps Leg islate must rally around the dynasty. Da. Paul Schoejppe has written a letter to Governor Geary, in which he denies that he poisoned Miss Stienecke, and argues his case upon the evidence adduced at. the trial which resulted in his conviction. Col. John Kino, a lawyer from Arkansas, committed suicide at the New York Hotel, Fri day night, by shooting^himself through the head with a piatoL ■ Don Piatt pleasantly speaks of Grant as “a stolid, brass-mounted political howitzer, whose bore is in reverse magnitude to his caliber.” Small Pox is about becoming epidemio in tho Fifth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Wards of Brooklyn. _ Power of Spider's Silk.—A bar of iron one inch in diameter will sustain a weight of 28 tons, a bar of steel 50 tons; and, according to computation, based upon the faot that a fibre only 1-4000th of an inch in diameter will pus- tain’54 grains, a bar of spider’s silk air inch diameter wonld gvjpport a weight of 74 tons. . . -■ [journal of the Telegraph, .-'iM' S