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N. S. MORSE. Hjjnmirie & jStntmtl* me national l)KBr. The monthly exhibit of the Secretary of the Treasury for the mouth of October is moat en couraging, makiug plain the fact that the financial system, as adopted and developed by (Secretary Chase and McCulloch, is an extraor dinary success. The September statement showed a large do effuse in the public debt, that being the first time the receipts of the government had been sufficient to reach the principal. In October the same gratifying tcaturo is observed. On September 30th. the whole debt amounted to $2,714,047,720, being a reduction of over twelve millions within tbe month ; on the 31st of October it waa showing a decrease of over four inmions, or nearly sev enteen millions within two months. The ex p i;h- ii ol closing up the war have been much greater than the receipts from the accompany ing sales of government property, yet this cx traordinary strain upon the resources of the country lias been more than fully met, and we have passed the turning point where receipts equal expenditures. That point was in’the latter put of August, cr the first of September, i ineo which time the National indebtedness h:»H steadily decreased. The plan of funding (he legal tender notes which the Secretary initiated in September, lets added to tbe interest bearing portion of Lhe debt, while it baa materially decreased the HiiperabuDdant circulation. Should this plan moot with the approbation of Congress and the s imo means he employed to reduce the currency to a healthy amount, there will be still further additions to the interest of the debt, even while the principal is continually diminishing. The annual interest upon the present amount of indebtedness is $138,938,- 078, being an increase of about $1,400,000 dur ing the month. But when the cause of this in cieaso in the amount of interest is taken into consideration, it will bo soon to be a benefit rather than an injury ; for every six cents of that additional interest represents one dollar withdrawn from our inflated circulation. The reduction of these legal tenders caused by theii conversion into five-twenty bonds, amounts to $44,000,000. It is to he hoped that the policy of tho Secro tary of the Treasury „will be adopted as that ot tho nation by Congress at the coming ses sion; that the paper which basorowded out coin shall be absorbod jin government loanß until every representative of a dollar is worth the same amount of groceries as the now invisible gold and silver ; aud that the decrease of the debt be aided by a strict economy of the pub lic expenditures. The New York Chamber of Commerce en dorse tho action which Secretary McCulloch has thus far taken in the matter, as well as the policy announced in his Fort Wayne speech/ Prompt, and, at the Bame time, cautious movements toward the contraction of the cur rency, without an enlargement of the national hank issue or any further manufacture of paper mouey, is what the practical business me i of this association advice. There will, however, have to be a further issue of national bank currency to supply tho deiicle icy which will bo occasioned by tho con tempiated withdrawal of greenbacks; for the whole nrnouut of State and uational bank circu lation does not equal that of the State banks alone iu 1803, while tho business of the country has been greatly increased. Those measures recommend themselves to tbe business interests of the country, while speculators seo in them great disadvantages for their line of work. It only needs a firm hand and an honest purpose to carry the country safely through the fiuaucial course which the heads of the troasury department have marked out for it, and which every month proves more conclusively to be as productive of good results as the most sanguine could hope. The Florida Contzntion. —Tbo Florida Con vention bus adjourned. It passed the annexed ordicanee in regard to slavery : Whereas, slavery lias been destroyed in this State by the Government of the Unite 1 States Therefore be it ordained by the people r , the State oi Florida, in Convention assombh That neither slavery nor iuvoluntary servitu e shall in future exist in this State, except as n punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been convicted by the courts of the State; ami all the inhabitants of the State, without distinction of color, are free, and shall eDjoy the rights ol person and property without dis tinction of color. The following is the ordinance annulling the State war debt, which was adopted. This, it is generally understood, was done in obedience to the will of the President . Be it ordained by the Peoplo of Florida in Contention assembled, That all State Treas ury notes issued, and all other liabilities con traded by the State of Florida, on or after the ,10th day of January, A. D. 1861, to the 25th day of October, A. 1). 1865, except such lia bilities as may be due to the Seminary and School Fund, aud such other liabilities as are provided for by this Constitution, be and are declared void, aud the Ueueral Assembly shall have no power to provide for the paymont of the same, or auj part Tue body has ordered that the election for Governor, aud other State officers, Judges of the Supreme court and Circuit Courts, Solici tors, Repereeentatives in Congress, and mem bers of the Legislature, shall take place on Wednesday, the 29th inst. And directs that the Legislature shall meet on the third Mon day of December next. Bv vote of 26 yeas and 19 nays, the follow ing ordinance was adopted on the 6th, viz ; In all Criminal proceedings founded upon in jury to a colored person, and in all cases af fectiug the rights or remedies of colored per sons, no .poison shall be incompetent to testify as a witness on account of color. In all othai cases, the testimony of colored persons shall bo excluded, unless made competent by future legislation. The Jury shall judge of the cied tbility of the testimony. Louisvills Courier Revived. —W. N. Hal derman, Esq., the enterprising publisher of the Louisville Courier In days past, will resume the publication of that paperabOut the Ist of De cember. Cotton at Galveston, Texas.—At Galves ton, Texas, November 7, there wea seven thousand hales of ootton ready for shipment. THE PHKIIDiCVI'g POSITION AND \IKWBAB TO HKCO.VJTHUirriOM. lion. A. K. M’Clure, a prominent and in fluential politician of Peansylvania, sends to the Franklin, Pa., Repository, of which he is editor, a sketch of an hour’s interview whh j President Johnson. In the first part of it he has mixed ,up the remarks of the President with jhis ovn views. As the opinion of the former are jnly of interest or value, we cull them cut. fDuring the conversation the Presidefit had na reserve as to the policy be conceived to be the true one toibring back the Southern States. He held that they were never out of the Un ion ; that lecesssion, howe/er, accomplished as a fact, cannot be accomplished iu law ; that tiie supreme authority of the government in those States was not overthrown by the war but simply in abeyance, aud that since the war has ceased, the States resume their pro per place in the UuioD, and restoration is ac complished. In discussing the punishment of the Southern leaders iu the war, the President said “lhe measure of and tho time for atonement were yet for tho future to determine.” He also de dared with emphasis “that the South must come back and be a pait of ui, and,” he added, “it must come with all its manhood. I don’t want it to come eviscarated of its man hood.” The balance of the interview we give in Mr. M’Clnre’s own words : In reply to a remark that those “who con spired to overthrow the Federal Government should be strangers to its honors and citizen ship,” tire President said that such may be the measure of punishment, that he had pardoned but few who would couie under such a rule, that there are exceptions to all rules, and there were both civil functionaries and army officers who might, be pardoned with propriety. Ue said that he hud uot yet gone as far in his animosity, either general or special, as Mr. Lincoln proposed. He explained, what is not generally known, that his pardons are mainly of business men, many of whom wore Union men, who must have pardons to enable them to tell or motgage their lands or to got credit iu their business operations, and added that he had not yet reached the consideration of such cases as Lee, LoDgstreet, Beauregard, and othe.s of that class. Ho spoke freely of the trial of Davis, and said that as yet the Government had not taken any step iu the matter. If he is to be tried iu Richmond, the trial must necessarily be post poned until the civil authority is fully restored, and then it will be a question of consideration under tho condition ot affairs which may at that time exist. The President is clearly adverse to confis cation, and that question is practically settled. Ue will also wield all his power to effect the admission of the representatives of the South ern States into Congress during the next ses sion. The President, both by word and deed, dis claims the position of a partisan Executive, and ho is not insensible to the flattering approval ot the administration by the Demo cratic party. Mr. McClnre after the interview had closed sums up his conclusions thus: I feel warranted in saying that the President will adhere to the political fortunes of the Southei n States without regard to political con sequences. This may or may not sever him from the party that sustained and cherished him in the darkest days through which he passed, and that won him the highest honors of the nation through a,flood of obloquy, but if it does, I infer that he will accept the situation. He evident ly means, above all other things, to compass the admission of the Southern members and the complete restoration to power of those (/dates. France and Mexico. -The Paris correspond ent of the London Times again asserts that tho Emperor of France will withdraw his army from Mexico by installments, and August or September, 1866, the whole will have returued to France. The reasons for this resolution is said to be found, not only in a desire to keep on good terms with the United States, but on economical considerations. We find the same news in the Paris corres pondence of the Independence Beige, a paper generally well informed about French affairs. This correspondent, however, is of opinion that the courteous but firm representations of the Government ot Washington began to be heeded in Paris. He also states that there are indications that Marshal Bazaine intends soon to return to .France. The Washington correspondent of the Cin* cinnati Commercial states that the appoint ment of General Logan as Minister to Mexico is believed to be based on the promise that tho Freuch troops will be withdrawu from Maximillian’s domains at tho same time the United States army is withdrawn from the RioGramie, and the armed emigration to Mexi co is to be discountenanced at Washington. We have no means of judging of the claim which these reports havo to credibility. Soon er or latter, the event mu9t occur which they represent as btiug near at hand'must take place and then Maximillian will havo to rely on a voluuteer foreign legion aud his adherents in Mexico. Then it must become apparent whether his efforts to establish his rule in Mexico upon a permanent basis will be crown ed with success. Onerous Tax upon Consumers. —Northern papers state that the demand for cotton goods is so much beyond the ability of the manufac turers to supply, that one of the largest calico printing mills in New England is importing its priutiDg cloths from England, while there are other manufacturers in Massachusetts who are importing 4 very largely of brown sbeetiDgs, which they have stamped with their own trade mark in Manchester, England. It should be borne in mind that the New England manufacturers are enabled to do this notwithstanding the very high protective tariff now in operation. This single fact should satisfy the American people that a high tariff is a heavy burden upon the consumers. It is apparent that the New England manufactur ers must make immense profits upon the goods they are enabled to manufacture themselves, and but for the high tariff* consumers would not be compelled to pay tribute to swell the gains of these “lords of the loom,” for it is the high tariff ,which prevents foreign man ufacturers from bringing their fabrics to the American markets. Comical Blunder. —A Columbus Ohio, paper, in an account of the Perry celebration at Cleve land, says: “The procession was very fine* and nearly two miles in length, as was also the rayer of Dr Berry, the chaplain." AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1865. A Vitiated Atmosphere —Reading our foreign newspapers, one might almost think every living thiDg in western Europe was in danger of being swept away by disease. Animals, both wild and domes tic, die suddenly, as though affected by poison, and the same is true of birds, while the atmosphere, in Borne places, swarms with noisome We clip a few items, as fol lows : The northern departments of France are suffering from a pest which, to them, is about as disastrous as an invasion of lecusts in soYtth ern latitudes. Vast and innumerable swarms of lepi iopterous insects, belonging to the fami ly of Noctaide, will settle down on a field of beet, and not leave it as long as there is still a fibre of the root left. Fire, acid->, and every other powerful agent have been tried against them in vain ; notwithstanding the most un remitting toil an *l care the insect multiplies to an alarming degree, so as to threaten tbe total destruction of beet, endive, and cabbages, fortunately the only vegetables it choose to attack. A Scotch paper has received tho following fioin a corresponpent : The air in and around Hawick a few days ago, for many miles was tilled with a small fly, a little larger tbau our common meadow midge. So dense was the cloud of insects that passengers could only prevent their mouths and eyes from being filled by keeping up a constant process of fanning. On Sunday the nuisance remained unabated, and church goers might be seen in the lobbies before entering their pews, brushing the insects from their garments as they would snow flakes on a win ter’s day. When seen through a common mi croscope, the animal presents a very strange appearance, resembling a small bird" denuded of its feathers. Its body is dark blue, with light colored wings ; two small hoi ns protrude from its head ; and it possesses an instrument something like an elephant’s trunk, which it keeps iu constant motion. Some people have suffered severely from its bite, but they are the exception, as the most of skins seem to re ceive no harm from its visitations. Another newspaper says the chickens of Belgium are plagued—perhaps in sympathy with the cattle. Jn Englaud, sheep are beginning to die in large numbers, apparentley infected with the prevalent distemper. “The disease,” says the Sheffield Telegraph, ‘is attributed to atmos pheric causes, the peculiarity of the pasturage, the insects and other similar causes.’’ Iu Paris, the dread ot the cattle disease is such, according to a correspondent of the Lon don Times, that all dogs running at large are to be killed, lest they become agents for the transmission of the contagion. A common impression to, that these various forms of dto - ease among the lower animals, also tho abun dance of insects, oiiginate in a vitiated at mosphere, and keep company with the cholera; Important from tub Maine Border.— The New York Times says it has, from apparently trusworthy authority, a rather startling rumor es trouble of a serious character on the Cana dian border. It appears that a British officer took the liberty of leading a company of marines across tho line into the State of Maine to arrest deserters, that his men themselves finding that they were on foreign soil, deserted him ; the application was made to our au thorities to have the men given up, which was, of course, refused. The report adds that the Washington Government, on being ap prised of the case, immediately ordered Han- CO/'t’s corps, or a portion thereof, to ren dezvous in Maiuei* Such is the story. This much is certain.—a body of troops have left Hartford Ct., for Augusta Maine. Matters look a little squally, to say the least. It has been announced far and wide that J. W. Duncan of Atlanta, had negotiated a loan of one hundred thousand dollars, in behalf of the Provisional Government of Georgia. This is a canard. Mr. Dpncan did not negotiate this loan, and had no authority to negotiate it. Ihe above paragraph we copied a few days sinco from an exchange. It is incorrect in every respect. Mr. Duncan did not go North to ne gotiate a loan for the Provisional Govern ment of Georgia. He went to negotiate mon ey for the State Road. And what is more, he was fully empower’d so to do by the officers thereof. * An Important Opinion from Secretary Seward.— Under date of October 10, a cor respondent of the Macon Telegraph writes from New York in regard to Mr. Seward’s opinion upon the position of Mr. Davis : Since I have introduced Mr. Seward’s name, I will refer to a conversation he had a few days since with Ihurlow Weed—Jefferson Davis being the subject. Weed said that Da vis should be hanged, and expressed himself quite warmly on the subject. Mr. Seward then propounded the query. “Why should you hang him ?” to which Weed replied ; “I would hang him for treason. 7 ’ Mr. Seward responded in his energetic way : “Wo can not hang Davis without first convicting him, and 1 think no impartial jury would do that,’’ Weed said, his guilt is already established and bis conviction would net be difficult;”, but, Mr. Seward maintained jury could be formed to convict u m, and added in a significant way : “And even if we should hang him it would be no great moral lesson to the world” Gentlemen who were present during the conversation infer from it that Mr. Davis’ life is safe at least. Deaths by Cholera in New York.— The deaths by cholera in the city of New York, during previous visitations foot up as follows : In 1832 there were 3,513 deaths. In 1634 there were 971 deaths. In 184.9 there were 5,071 deaths. Iu 1552 there were 374 deaths. Iu 1854 there wore 2,509 deaths. In all other years 137 deaths. Total 12.775 deaths. Dr. LiviDgston was at Bombay at last ac counts, arranging for another exploration in to the interior of Africa. The scene of his explorations will be that tract of territory ex tending between the region which he has al ready explored tfnd that discovered by Capt. Speke. The cause of Spain’s present attack upon Chili is said to be to tie the hands cf the stron ger,.Chili, while she the more easily despoils Peru of the rich revenue from her guano is lands. Major Gee, recently arrested in Florida and taken to Washington, was the keeper of the prison at Salisbury, N. C, at the time when the mortality was greatest amongst Federal prison ers. The total number of freedmen under charge of General Eaton, in the District of Columbia, Fairfax asd London comities. Virginia, is thir ty three thousand and seventy. Jenny Lind's health is failing, and obliges her to repair to the south of Europe. Capt. JToha G. Guthrie, of South Carolina, Is the only officer of the Confederate Navy yet pardoned.^ ■SILVER Pit A K The discovery of Silver PeaE, iu the; South ern portion of Nevada, a few months ag% ip, perhaps, the most important event which has happened on tho Pacific coast during the year. It adds a rev district to the vast aragentiferous region of tbe Western world, and anew spe cies of ore to the uimerologist’s cabinet. It also supplies the mtosiug link in the splendid silver chain wnieh is now known to stretch continuously from northern Nevada to tho heart of Mexico It is a discovery wh'ch bears about the same relation to silver mining in Nevada that the striking of the Holmden Well, on Pilhole Creek, did to the oil business of Venango couety. It draws off money, and miners and public interest from less produc tive sections, but at the same time it gives a powerful stimulous to legitimate mining operations throughout the territory. The richness and permanence of the silver mines of Nevada have received a fresh guarantee from the finding of Silver Peak. The capitalist and financier may look upon Silver Peak with amazunent. Here is a mountain traversed by huge veins of ore, yielding hundreds of dollars of silver a tun Some specimens go as has SIO,OOO. Walls of silver ore rise like battlements lrom out of the body of tiie mountain. Vast piles of crumbling fragments cf the same precious substance lie all about the summit. There is enough de tached ore in sight, according to the report of competent engineers, to run a fifty stamp mill for several years. If the law which has hither to proved reliable in Nevada—that the rich ness cf a silver mine increases with its depth, holds good here, why should not the solid metal be struck a few hundred feet down? If the metal to be mined were anything but sil ver and goid, there might be some fears that the market would Boon be glutted with it What the exact effect of the enormous yield of the Nevada mines will be upon the value of silver currency throughout the world we leave for political economists to cipher out. It is enough for the men of this generation to know that silver will probably be worth picking up in the street during their lifetime at least. Regarded from a scientific point of view, as already intimated, the discovery is extremely interesting. The ore is a mixture of the black sulphuret aud chloride. There is only the merest trace of arsenic, and the base metals. Antimony which is the bane of some oies otherwise rich, is not found here in aDy appre ciable quantity. Nothing could be easier of treatment except the virgin silver ores, such as chaiscterized the Mex’can mines, It may justly be claimed, however, that the mines of Silver Speak, yielding a steady and reliable supply of sulphurets aud chlorides, will prove much richer in the long run than even the most famous mines of Mexico. The mines of the Comstock Ledge—the Gould and Curry, Ophir, &c.,--where the supply of ore to abund. ant, and the per centago of silver to by no means large, but ouly steady and certain, es tablish this fact. The same law obtains in copper mining. Those copper mines, such for example, as line the shores of Colorado River, Arizona Territory, pay best in which the metal exists iu the condition of oxide, carbonet of sulpbnret, instead of the pure form. They are easier to work and give batter results. That same providential arrangement which to observed in the juxtaposition of iron-ore, coal and limestone’ in certain parts of the globe, to clearly perceived at Silver Peak. In the immediate vicinity of the mountain, and owned by the same company, is a bed of the purestcommon salt chioride of 6odium covering two hundred and fifty acres This to of price less value iu extracting the silver ; for the use of salt in reducing the base metals to chlorides, greatly simplifies the process of separation, and more than doubles the pro duct of the silver. Adjoining the salt bed are perennial fountains or natural artesian wells, of pure water, sufficient to supply the wants of a good 6ized village of miners. At the base of the mountain is a vein of fire-clay, which may be used in building furnaces. The natural advantages of the location are also very remarkable. The climate is mild and singularly heathful. Only seventy miles east, over a good road, well supplied with wood and water, to the smart little town of Aurora, which is distant from Stockton, on the Socramento river, but 120 miles. The miners are, therefore, 150 miles nearer tidewater than several of the most profitable mines of the in terior. An outlet can also be had via the Col orado river, which is not navigated for a dis tance of about 500 miles from its mouth. — Journal of Commerce. The Elections and the President’s Policy. —A special dispatch from Washington to the Cincinnati Eaquirer comments thus upon the effect of the recent elections North and Preai - dent Johnson’s reconstruction policy : Much interest has been manifested to know if the result of the recent elections will effect any modification of the pqlicy of the admin istration in reference to reconstruction. It may be positively asserted that no change in this policy will be induced by such causes as have been heretofore stated in this corres pondence. Mr. Johnson has regarded these elections, except in New Jersey, as more of a personal than a political struggle ; because, both parties had strongly indorsed him and his administration, and whatever the result, it will still be an administration triumph. In New Jersey #he strong feeling in favor of the adoption of the anti-slavery amend ment to the constitution oversloughed the democrats. The adoption of this .amendment is desired by the administration, and the re sult in New Jersey 13 in accordance, and there is no reason whatever that any change should be made against the presidential policy. Mr. Johnson, however, wiU have the most strenuous opposition in congress from the radi cal wing of tiie republican party. Chas. Sum ner broke with the president when the latter made his speech to the committee of negro preachers, and told them, that freedom for them meant the liberty to work for themielves and earn their living by the sweat of their brows. Mr. Sumner has recently written a letter to Washington, in which be solemnly declares that he regards the present as the darkest days of the republic—even more gloomy and preg nant with national misfortune than the day alter the first battle ot Bull Run, and he is coming to the capital to renew tho fight, and fighi it cat. This is the token of a radical war upon the Administration. It will be perhaps quite as much embittered as the debates in congress which preceded the secession of the Southern States. A systematic effort will be made to drive Johnson from hi* platform, and to nullify his reconstruction policy, but it is now believed there will be found conservatism enough to sustain him and carrv him bravely through the ordeal. Petroleum Investments.—The N. Y. Chron icle states that the number of petroleum com pauhsis 1.100, with anomiual capital of $600,- 000,000, of which 15 per cent, or $90,000,000, have been paid up. This latter set of figures is regarded as representing the real value of the property. The production of lSGois pat down atone and a half million barrels, of which something over one-third is exported from the country. Reckoning every barrel worth ten dalLrs, the whole would aggregate fifteen millions. Os this nmouut, after deducting 20 per cent, for working and other expenses, there would be left twelve millions of dollars upon the capital paid in—ninety millions. This net profit would yield thirteen and a half percent ; upon the nominal capital, six hundred millions— only two per cent. It is computed that seven per cent, of the wells yield oil in paying quantities. Whether you Btrike oil or not, is very much of a lot'ery. How long the wells last is a question—some giving them a lease of four, and others seven years, though really there are not as yet suffi cient data to determine the question. [From Macon Journal ] GEORGIA Aft X UAL CONFERENCE, The Georgia Annual Conference met in Ma con, November 15. B’shop Pierce to the pie 6iding officer. Rev. J. Blakely Smith was ap pointed Secretary and Rev. G. G.N. McDonald Assistant Secretary. Seventy-two members were present at the opening of tbe session. The annexed committers were appointed . On Public Worship.-Presiding Elder of Macon district, aud the pastors in the city. On Memoirs—A M Wvnn, W A Summons. On Periodicals. —W J r.arks, JE Evans, W M Conneiy, W Kcox, S R Redding. On Bishops Claim.—J P Duncan, L L Led better. On Bibio Cause.—G J Pearce, E H Myers, W H Potter On the State of the Church—E H Myers, W J Parks, Joseph (8 Key, J W Glenn, J E Evans. The names of the following members were •ailed, their characters examined aud passed : J O A Clark, J E Evans. D D Cox, Geo Kramer, A M Wynn, J Jones, N B Morehouse, L L Lad better, W C Rowland. ! B Lanier, D R McWil liams, A T Mann, H D Murphy, R|A Conner, R J Howell, D W Calhoun, J M Dickey, J L Curtis, W II Potter, W M Crumley, L G Payne, E H Myers, W J Scott, B Arbogart, W R Bran ham, A M Thigpen, J B Payne, A G Haygood, J N Graver, J J Morgan, J W Yarbrough, A Means, D Kelsey, W A Florence, A J Devors, S A Clarke, J B McGhee, W F Cook, C A Ful wood, W A Rogers, B A Seal, C W Parker, J L Lupo, R H Waters, W P Arnold, M H White, BS Johnson, WW Oslin.'M A Leak, Geo C Clarke, James Harris, M Beliah, P M Ryburn, W J Cotton, J Lewis, E P Birch, J W Burke, C R Jewett, G W Yarbrough, B F Bieedlove, J V M Morris. J W Talley, J J Singleton, G G N McDowell, J W Turner, W G Allen. J M Mar shall. J Duuwoody, J M Bounel. A Wright, W P Harrison, J R Littlejohn, J S Kev, J T Ains worth, W Knox, G H Patilo, A J Dean, J F Berry, J W R-ynolds, Y” F Tignor, C A Mitch ell, R F Williamsou, W Brooks, L K Reddmg, W W Tidewell, W W Stewart, D T Holmes, J T Payne, H B Pitchford, L Bosh, L J Davits, C W Hay, D O Driscnl, S Anthony, T T Chris t-ain, J P Duncan, J H Harris, J W Hinton, J T Turner, T S L Howell, J R Owen, R B Les ter, W S Baker, J C Anthony, E A H McGhee, S W Traywick, C A Moore, J E Sentell, P C Harris, W F ConDeliy, W T McMitchael, R H Rogers, W Lane, W AI Watts, R N Andrews, L Pierce, W P Pledger, L Q Allen, M G Hamby, J H Meshbarn, J Chambers, L P Ncese, G Hughes, EGMuriab, W A Simmons, E W Speer, J B Smith, Ii F Jones W M D Bond, John Murphy, R W Dixon, W J Wardlaw, J Bush, G J Pearce, J W McGhee, Y' J Allen, J T Norris. The following members’ uame3 were called, characters examined, aud where located at their own request: D E Star, S S Sweet, T H Stewart, J P Bailey. J M Armstrong wa3 granted a superanuated relation, and the case of F F Reynolds was re - ferred to the Presiding Elder of the Augusta District. W W Robinson, who had been in charge of the Colored Mission in Columbus, died a few days ago. Dr J Cross withdrew from the M E Church, South, and joined the Episcopal Church. The following resolution, offered by Dr EH Myers, was passed : Resolved, That this Conference request the Missionary Board to take specially under con sideration the present religious condition of the colorbd people within the bouuds of the Con ference, and, if possible, devise some plan by which their religious wants may be provided for, and that the Board report directly to this Conference on the subject. second day. A committee consisting oi A Means, J W Glenn, W H Potter, and C W Key, were ap pointed to receive all papers and documents re ferring to Colored Missions, and to report on the subject of the Conference. Rev. A. Abbey, the financial agent of the Methodist publishing house at Nashville, set forth that the affairs of that institution would soon be in a flourishing condition, The report of Rev. E. Myers, D. D., Editor of the Southern Christian Advocate was re ferred to committee on periodicals. Rev. J. E. Evans, President of the Mis sionary Board submitted a report on tho re ligious condition of the colored population of the country. Referred to a special committee on the subject, Rev. A. Wright presented to the conference a statement of an amount of Confederate money contributed for the purpose of carrying on missions of the church, 'i he conference or dered paid money to be deposited in the safe of J. W. Kurke of this city, with a feeble hope that the United States may at some distant day return the money|lost by elemosynary in stitution. J Rev J 6 A Clark presented a communication from the African Methodist Church at Savan nah, in reference to the church property Andrew Chapel and a vacant lot—now occu pied by said church. Referred to committee on colored population. * The Bishop[read out the following names of members whose characters were separately passed upon by the Conference : R W Bigham, H H Parks, D J Myrick, M F Malsey, A G Worley, A Gray, J E Pierce, M W Arnold, T F Pierce, W R Foote, W H Evans, H Craw ford, H J Adams, J M Austin, G L W Anthony J A Reynolds, J H W T Norman, T B Harbin. The name of Rev. J PI Caldwell was called. Mr. Caldwell was permitted to read to the Con ference a somewhat lengthy document in his favor. His case was deferred tor the present. ffeThe Bishop read out the following super anuated ministers whose characters were pass ed upon by the Conference : W J Parks, F W Baggerly, J W Carrol, J S Ford, J Dun woody, W Graham, (deceased) C L Havs, J W Knight, (made effective) J J M Mapp, J Quiiiiaa, E W Reynolds, J Simmons, C Trupell, (made effec tive) W R McHane, JB 0 Quillian, J H Rob inson, A Turner, D Bialock, G G Smith, S J Beliah, J P Howell, J W Glen, I Bright, I L Smith. The committee of the first year reported the following members whose names were called, their characters were passed and they were ad mitted to deacon’s orders : N W Hollifield, E J Akin, J R Deering, W C Maloy, J O A Cook, R W Andrews—discontinued at his own re quest—J T Lowe, W B Merritt—discontinued at his own request—J L Fowler. The committee of the third year made their report, and submitted the followiug names of members who had been examined. Their characters were passed by the Conference and continued : J S HopkiDs, L It Redding—elect ed to elder’s orders—W IV Stewart, R A Hol land, B W Williams—elected to elder’s orders W A Dodge, W C Dunlap, R J Baldwin, J W Neese—located—J F Paine, J It Parker, M Calloway. third day. The report on the Wesleyan Female College was read, and referred to the Commitee onEJ ucation. The following members were elected to eld ers’orders • B W Williams, R A Holland, R A Seals, T J Embry B Sanders, S Leak (locat ed), O S Means, W P Patilio, J it Gaines, It H Jones, A J Jarrel, J M Lowry. The Bishop appointed the following commit ee to take into consideration the case of Rev J A Caldwell ; W J Parks, J W Glenn, S Anthony, W H Potter, C R Jewett. The committee to whom the subject was re ferred recommended the rale of the South ern Christain Advocate to J W Burke & Cos , of Macon, and their report was adopted by the terms of the sale, J W Burke &* Cos., agree to give to the Conferences of Florida. Georgia and South Carolina, one-third of the profits of the paper after the subscription has reached 8,000. A communication was received from the Trinity Church (colored), Augusta, asking that YOL. LXXIV.- —NEW SERIES VOL.'XXIV NO. 49. t ie titles to their church property be made ov er to said church, 'ihe communication also asks that the church be relieved from the charge of the Georgia Annual Conference.— The report was referred to the special commit tee on the colored population. >y. Rev. A M Thigpen stated to the Conference that, without any instruction on tire subject, he would represent that the colored church of Atlanta had withdrawn from the Conference, and that their church property stood on t e footing as that in Augusta and Savannah, and i the wishes of tho colored churches of those two citiess hould be respected, the colored ’church in Atlanta was thtitled to the same con sideration. 'lhe following local preachers were recom mended aud elected to Deacons’ orders : A C’henault, J II D Mcßae, I M Stokes, I N Wil cox, W F Foster, J A Donald, W T Hamilton, J J Harris?, H Sheluut, W Lanier, W Summer bill, W C Lovejoy, G rowlod g », N Trimble, LT G Powell, J W Atwater, D McLucas, B Mask, J Gantt, J Wright, J M Bolton, J A Baugh, S D Clemens, J Jordan, P Dell. Rev J W Glonn resigned his position on the board of trustees of Emory College. His resignation was excepted by the Conference, and Rev G J Pearce appointed in his place. The following local preachers were recom mended for and olecteff to Eiders’ orders: J T Lin, M G Norton, J M Gable, W F S Powers, A C Maxon, J W Cook, A C Pringle. FOURTH DAY The following members of the conference were recommended and elected to elders; A J Jarrel, R A Seals. James Thurman from the Methodist Pro testant church was recognized as deacon in the Methodist Episcopal church, South. Rev J W Parks from the committee ap pointed to investigate the charges against Rev. JII Caldwell, reported that said committee had been unable to effect an adjustment of the difficulties in the case, and asked that he be brought to trial before the conference. The report was adopted, and the Bishop ap pointed Monday next as tho time for the tiial to take place. Rev 11 J Adams introduced the following resolutions: Devoutly grateful to the great Head of the church lor the unparalleled progress which Methodistisin has made in this country since its introduction one hundred years ago; rejoicing in tho outporings of God’s spirit upon it dur ing the current year, and having confidence in tire efficiency of Metbodistism as it is iiLthe Methodist Episcopal church; and being very unwilling to offer any plausible pretext to the Methodist Episcopal church, North, to come into our midst, or to place in tho hands of that church a weapon with which it may suc cessfully assail us; therefore. Be it Resolved, That it is the sense of this conference that no change should be made in tho itinerant feature of our general superin tendency, and that whilst more should be elected by the next general conference, yet that so largo a number as one for each con ference (great and small) is, in the judgment of this conference, uuneccessary, und that we are opposed to making dioceses of each con ference, and diocesans of our general super intendents. Resolved, That any prolongation of the pastoral term is of most doubtful policy, lead ing to the destruction of the whole system of itinerancy, and that giving to our bishops the power to indefinitely extend it will produce unpleasant distinctions between the ministers of the M. E. Churchs, South, and must result inevitably in a stated ministry with its conse quences, i. e, the closing of hundreds of churches and the silencing of jhundreds of pul pits—in a word, must destroy a most efficient agency, a scriptural itinerant ministry. Resolved, That as thousands of our minia te; sand hundreds of thousands of our mem bership living and dead were received into our church, upon probation, as seekers of religion, and whilst in that relation, were converted ; that the Conference is opposed of the proba tion system of our church, but thinks it might be well to admit all converted persons who present themselves for admission immediately into fail conaection, and that no person should be received in full connection in our church until he or she is converted. Resolved, That cur delegates to the next General Conference be, and is hereby instruc ted to act in accordance with the foregoing preamble and resolutions. The resolutions were referred to the commit tee on the state of the churches. The Conference proceded to the election of delegates to the General Conference, to assem ble in New Orleans, the first Wednesday in April next. The following members were elected delegates on the first balloting : L Pierce, W J Parks, S Anthony, J W Glenn, J E Evans, E H Myers, A T Mann, J S Key. A second ballot was had, and on motion, it was ordored that a committee, consisting of the Brethren Dearing, Burke and McDonald, report the result of tho voting at the next sit ting 01 the Conference, on Monday following. Rev J. E. Evans offered the following re solutions : Resolved, That the delegates from this Con ference to the General Conference are hereby requested to have the Conference divided into two Conferences, ruQning the line across the State from East to West in such a manner as to leave Augusta in the Northern and Colum bus in the Southern Conferenec, having due reference to equalizing the two Conferences in their present and prospective strength—the Northern to be called the Atlanta Conference and the Southern to be called the Macon Con ference. 2. Resolved, That the Bishop is hereby’ re quested to make tho appointment of ihe Con ference, with reference to the demands of the work as a whole ; and that the preachers be allowed to transfer from one Conference to the other at the end of one or two years as they may elect. 3. Resolved, That the General Conference be requested to give us that part of the State now in the Florida Conference, and that it be taken into the account in making the division of the Conference. The resolutions were suffered to lie on the table for the present. STATE ITEMS A line of 'steamers is to be established be tween Savannah and Florida. The steamer Chatham which wa3 snagged a few weeks since on the Altamaha, has reached Savannah. During the late savere gale on the coast % the British ship Manannus was wrecked off the Sa vannah bar. The captain and crew were saved. Every thing else was lost. The work on the Charleston & Savannah Railroad is progressing rapidly. The locomotive Alabama exploded her boiler at Station No. 4, on Wednesday, The engi neer was slightly scalded. Burglars and store breakers appear to be doing a thriving business in Macon. Highway robbers are also occupied. A few nights since a gentleman was wayland and rebbe.i of slls. The late rains have not made the Ocmulgee navigable. The small pox has not yet abated at Macon. The Altamaha is at present in good boating condition. Gen. Fullerton, of the Freedmen’s Bureau in New Orleans, has issued a circular suspsed inthe collection of tax for tho support of ne gro schools, levied by Gen. Banka and en forced by Mr. Conway, and directing lists to be made out. It is stated that Gen. E Kirby Smith has ta ken the oath of allegiance at Lynchburg Va. Gea. Thomas severely censures the military commission that acquitted Emerson Etheridge. and robbery are of frequent oc curance in some sections of Mississippi. B iBSBt NEWS SUMMARY. It to ascertained from official sources that the army of the United States ba9 not been r®* 80 89 seems to have been supposed. Its full and available strength exceeds 180 000 men, of which about one half is on each side cf tho Mississippi. The New Y ork papers are replete with ad ditional particiila-s of the extensive damages to shipping and loss of life occasioned by the recent gale along the coast. One steamer ar rived at New Y r ork, reports seeing nearly forty vessels ashore. On the eastern and southern coast of Florida the storm appears to have been particularly terrific and destructive, and the shore in many places to Btrown with wrecks. The Secretary of the Treasury has re ceived tho following statement of deposits at the mint of the United States, Philadelphia, during the month of October, 1865 : Gold de posits, $456,783 31; silver deposits, $62 696 64. Total deposits, *513.428 95. The coinage dur ing the same period was : Gold, $266,685 83; sliver, $38,885 12 ; copper, $62,830. Total $367,900 95. A proclamation may shortly be expeoted from the President, declaring the insurrection or rebellion in the South an end. It is understood that the Treasury Depart ment favors the extention of National Bank facilities in the South, commensurate with ita wants for banking purposes. In the celebrated “Pike County Case,’’ in Missouri, where the Methodist Episcopal Church North took forcible possession of a ohurch belonging to the Church South, and where the County Judge ruled in favor of the Northern party, a decision has finally been ob tained, in the Supreme Court of the ‘State, awarding restitution of the [property to its rightful claimants. Patti receives £2OO per night for singing The cigar ship so long building in England has been launched. Tom Thumb has been sued for an income tax in England. Many people in Paris killed themselves by using alcohol as a preventive of.cholera. Vapor baths are given to cattle in England to cure the plague. The Free Masons in England are following tbe example of those ip Fiance by protesting against the Pope’s recent allocution. Governor Brownlow and Colonel Maynard were robbed on the Franklin pike a few even ing since some ten miies from Nashville. In lowa there are 86,000 dogs, and last year there were destroyed by the dogs and the wolves $126,148 worth of sheep. General Forrest has become a member of a grocery and commission house in Memphis. There is now telegraphic communication between Vicksburg with Monroe and Shreve port, La., Houston and other places in Texas, and the lines are working in good order. A horrid accident occurred near Indianopo lis, lnd., recently. A little son of Mr. Gillette, who was watching a sugar boiler, fell into the kettle and was literally boiled to death. Bands of armed men are prowling around the thinly settled portions of Tennessee and Kentucky. Orders have been issued from headquarters withdrawing military guards and patroto from the city of Mobile. A New Orleans paper says there is a great demand for mechanical labor in that city at the present time, especially for such branches of trade as carpentoing, joining, shoemaking, etc. The boot and shoe-makers especially, are hard run, and it is almost impossible to go to a store or shop of any repnte and have a pair made in less time than one to two weeks, without someone else Is disappointed in order to favor you General Canby, at the requ3st of Governor Wells, of Louisiana, has ordered an additional force of white troops to Shreveport to keep the negroes in order. The amount of money invested in the oil business within a radius of one half mile about Oil City, Pa., is fully $10,000,000. %In the vicinity of Surprise Valley, Nevada, is au extensive quarry of gypsum, perfectly crystalized, and as transparent as blocks of ice from the clearest pond. This rock naturally breaks in perfect squares, and without cutting ean be used for building purposes. Major General Sherman will not write politi cal letters. A home for friendless women is about being established in Nashville. 9 The Herald’B Columbia correspondent sends a report of the proceedings of the South Caro lina Legislature up to the 4th of November- The principal discussion related to the condi tion of the negro Some of the members ex pressed strong apprehensions of negro insur rections, and bills have therefore been reported for the purpose of empowering State officers to seize all fire-arms found in the possession of freedmen; to prevent them from, hereafter becoming possessed of arms, and to punish with severity any white person pretending to soil the same to them. Measures have also been proposed to shut np the shops kept by the freedmen, and to prohibit any white per son employing a negro servant without the written consent of his or her former master having been first obtained. The South Caro linans are very anxious for tbe removal from their midst of all the national troops, and the organization of their State militia. Sheep fever in Vermont continues. A ram lamb was lately sold for SIOOO, two yearlings for $2500 each, and a number for S3OOO. The currency of the country to estimated at a thousand million dollars. A man named Breckley has sued the city of Chicago foi $50,000, claiming that amount for damages for falling through a sidewalk, by which he nearly lost his life, and is now hopelessly a cripple. The Finance Committee of the American Tract Society make an argent appeal for aid in sending missionary colpotturs to the South, and to other fields of labor. General Dudley, in Memphis, has arrested twenty dissolute negresses, and bound them to work on plantations for the next fomteen months. He has also issued orders prohibit ing ferrymen crossing negroes from planta tions to the city without the consent of their employers, as labor iB now well paid for, bat the Degroes will not stay longer at work than merely to obtain money enough to go to the city to have a good spree. All negroes on plantations are under contract to work for a specified time, and constant breaches of con tract on the part of freedmen is the cause of the order being issued. The severe storm which strewed our South ern coasts with wrecks was exceedingly dis astrous, also to the shipping at Havana, some sty vessels in that harbor being more or less following dispatch was sent'to the Pro visional Governor of Georgia, by President Johnson, on the sth inst. The organization of a polire sorce in several connties, for 4 the pur pose of arresting Magruder, suppressing crime and enforcing civil authority, as indicated in your preamble, meets with approbation. Jt is hoped youj police will, as soon as practicable, take upon them the responsibilities of enforc ing all laws, both State and Federal, in con formation to the Constitution of the United States. The two Indian Chiefs, Medicine Bottle and Little Six, convicted of being concerned in the Minnesota massacre in 1862, was executed at Fort Sneiling November G. The Jamaica insurrection appears to be pretty nearly at an end. The British au thorities are acting with severity. The insur gents’are executed by the dozens. The Reid Express Company has been con solidated with the National Express and Trans portation Company, of which Gen. Joe John ston is President. This Company is now receiv ing freights to all the principal cities in the C °Bmhop Andrew presided over the Texas Conference of the M.E. Church which metal Chappell Hill November, 1.