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d£|rottidf $ Stolls* •« AUGUSTA, GA. MOR.MMU l»Kf RMB^'R*tt Cha r ge of Hates. The’Cheapest Weekly Is sued in the Country, THE WEEKLY Chronicle & Sentinel Is issued every Wednesday. It will contain all the lateßt markets, both foreign and domes tic, as well as all the current news oi the day. (Subscriptions will be received at the annexed rates : One copy one year, S 2 Three copies one year, !i Five copies one year, 8 Ten copies one year, 15 Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers $1 50 each. An EXTRA COPY will be sent to any person who will get up a club of ten and forward the same. These rates make the AU(SU. V TA CHRONICLE & SENTINEL the publication in the country. Mac in & At oust a Rail Road.- We observe with gieat pleasure that the capitalists of Ma tt >n are making an earnest effort for the com plot ion of the unfinished portion of the rail road from that city to Augusta. A public meeting has been held, and a committee ap pointed *to co operate with tho friends of the enterprise along tho line ol the road and in this city. Only about thirty-three miles of the road remain unfinished, and a great portion of that is graded and ready to receive tho track Only one bridgo of any importance is to be built, and that, over tho Oconco, can be very speedily erected We need ccarcely urge tho importance of this line upon our readers. Intercourse with the Southwestern part of the State has been too Intimate for years to be interrupted, as it is by tho break in the Central mad, without •artons embarrassment to cur heaviest business Interests. This break is likely to continue for soma tirno to come, and even when repaired, restores a line so circuitous and expensive as only partially to supply the public conveni ence. Tho country through which this line passes constitutes the most salubrious and desirablo portion ot Ike “old black belt”—a section of our State that has ever been proverbial for its fertility, as well as for tho intelligence and pro gressive spirit of its citiaens. It is destined to attract a largo immigration from abroad, as Boon as social order and civil law are firmly established. This road will afford a ready outlet to market, and will become an impor taut feeder to the trade of Augusta. There can be no doubt that this enterprise will pay good dividends to tho stockholders. It will shorten the distance to the West, and wlieu the road to Columbia is completed, will afford almost a central air lino from Washing ton city to tho Mississippi. It will greatly facilitate communication with our State Cap ital, and supply a radical deficiency in our railroad system. In short, the road may be regarded as a pub lic necessity, and its speedy completion an ob ject of geneial interest, all that is required to to raise the necessary means to complete tho road is the 00-operation of the capitalists ot tho section immediately concerned. To this end wo deem it important that a public meet ing be held in Augusta, to take into considera tion the speedy completion of this' enterprise. At present the money invested i» dead capital. Is it wise to thus waste tho original investment when a little further outlay will maks the whole remunerative l Tub Lo t Voyagers.—' Tho New York pa pers print long extructs from the journal of Captain C. F. Hall in the Arctio regions, giv ing the details of his conversations with the Esquimaux, from which he has gathered hope that there may still be survivors oi Sir John Franklin’s expoditiou. They add nothing im portant to the intelligence already published. Captain Hall seems to have obtained no in formation respecting the exact time when Cro sier and his companions were last seen, and has no other reason for supposing them alive than the generally expressed conviction of the Esquimaux that they are still living. It ap pears that Crczler and his companions were found by tho Esquimaux about 1850, and that tho date of their departure to the southward, In the hope of reaching the frontier settlements of the Hudson’s Bay Company, was probably the spring of 1851. This traces the lost explorers three years later than McClintock, who supposed that they had perished about ISIS. The probability that they have survived a horrible imprison ment of fourteen years in the Arctic ice is faint Indeed. Considering the remarkable acquitt ance which that people manifest with what ever occurs iu the .remotest regions of their frozen country, it seems ’hardly credible that white men should live several years amoug them without even the most distant members of the tribe knowing something positive about them ; but then, on the other hand, it would be hardly less strange if Crczier had died with out his death being generally known. The fate of Crezter ptomises to be a problem little less difficult and interesting than that of Frank lin himself. We tako it for granted that Cap tain Hall does not propose to come home without a strenuous * ff art to solve it. Sent Awat. —We are informed that about a thousand freedmen have already been sent from this sectiou to the Mississippi Valley These parties refuse to make contracts with their former owners. They probably thick that those who provided for thun in days past will have to continue to do to, whether they work or not. Bnt the authorities are pursuing a course which will soon dispel this delusive idea. The freedman will find that if he will not work in Georgia, he will have to werk in tome other State—and more than likely ir ■ >Dt location where be will not" be so well taken care of and provided for as he would be with his old master in his old home. When once In the hands of the authorities, they will fl »and that they cannot remain here, even if they then make up their miudi to work. To all freadmeu we say, make reasonable contracts with those whom you have lived. THE ME\!< A\ U -I.OA Z.Y iI »!<i til HUME. Tt.e proclamations <-f Maximilian, however delusive they m»y eventually prove to be, in viting colonists, have no? beta without very j considerable effect. Private letters, pnbli'’ j correspondence, and tho statements of individ Uvg concur iu the news tb,.t agricultural colonics are, iu spite of the citil war, spring ing up on ail sides and that some of them are already fi urishir.g Six fine haciendas or farms of true Mexican extent and richness iyir g in the imm-diate environs of Cordova h'iVv hi on parcelled out rarer g tae colonists | recently arrived from Europe, enl epen the j Rio Verde, in the State of San Luis Potosi, two immense cotton plantations are now under cultivation by an Alabamian named Wood, and promise the most abu ideut harvests The report rrcivel at the Capital from the sub perfects b;ar testimony to the impulse that bis been-given to colonization f.u-in the interior by the successful experiments along the high road.; leading from Mexico to the sea coast. Ihe large proprietors are, of their own free will and accoid, offering a portion cf their land for colonizitioa, and are endeavoring to attract immigrants by concessions as judicious a; they are lit eral. The official J vernal, for instance, publishes an invitation to colonists addressed to the Gov eminent by Senor Romero Gil, the proprietor of the rancho of Muquilal, wk<s asks lor twen ty Belgian families, to whom he's wi ling to let the rancho for eight years, giving them oxen, 6eed, and the land, and requiring nothing from them in return but their labor. Stock will a’so be placed at (heir disposition as a loan. The rar.cho has an extent of 2169 acres of good, well watered soil, producing one hundred fanegas of Indian corn for one sown, and *n>m ten to fifteen fanegas of beans for one. Situat'd in the Department of Jalisco, about fifteen leagues wert of Guadalajara, it enjoys a healthy climate, to which no disease seems indigenous, and lies only about sixty yards from tho highway between Guadalajara and Topic. On tho day when the colonists take possession, the owner will lend to the colonists two hundred fanegas of maize, forty of beans, and ten loads of wheat, which they replace liotn their first crop. As agent of the Imperial Government, Sen ior Gil m'-utions the arrival of General Uar dunan and Mr Roberto, cn behalf of an cn tire company of colonists. These gentlemen are all ox-officers of the Conledeiato Army, and announce their intention to remain per manently in the country. General Harde man a large property, sufficient for the cultivation of cotton, sugar-cane, Indian corn, etc. Colonel Terry h9s his eye upon the haciendas ol Santa (Jruz and Teucapan, in the direction of Tepie. Magnificient offers are being made to emi grants by large land holders in various sec tions of Mexico. Tho municipal authorities of Vera Cruz, determined not to be behindhand, come forward with similar inducements, and a large number of wealthy proprietors have agreed to place commodious and pleasantly situated houses at the disposal of honest and laborious colonists, free oi rent for five years These tempting inducements have had their effect upon the nomadic masses of tho United States and Europe. Within the last six months there has b.en a steady and constantly swell ing current of the best kind of immigration setting into the Mexican ports. Tho sunny South can hold out as great in ducenionts to immigrants as Mexico. Every thing that can l>e, should be done to attract the sturdy laborers of other sections to flock hither. 4t would add to our wealth and to our resources beyond calculation. Secretary Seward on the Relations Be tween England and America —The New York correspondent of the London Spectator gives tho substance of some remarks recently made by Mr. Seward in the writer's bearing. As to the relations of the two Governments, he said that they were on a footing of formal amity but nothing more. Sir Frederick Bruce has expressed the wish that a feeling of frark cor diality might be established between the two governments and the two peoples. Mr. Sew ard wished that it might be so, with all his heart, aud he would do, as-indeed he always had done, ail that could be done to bring about so desirable au end. As to war, that was a horrible alternative, the responsibility tor which he, as far as he was able, should take care did not rest with onr government. This he had said privately to Sir Frederick Bruce, with whom his relations were of the pleasantest kind, and of whom he spoke with respect and cordiality. But lie had also told tho British Minister that the way toward anything more thana the present relations of mere formal ami ity between tho two peoples and Governments must be led by the British people and the British Government. If they were content with our present attitude toward each other we were ; but that if any change were made in it for tbe better it must be of British ma king. The United States was tho aggrieved, party, who had suffered wroug for many year, and it was not for us to seek a reconciliation While the British it'prop er to reply to our representations of the in jury we had suffered through its neglect or its incapacity to restrain »he unfriendly disposi tion ot British sul jects, by merely talking down to us about being tbe guardians of their own honor, nothing could be expected from us bat to stand upon punctilio as well as up on our essential lights, and insist’upon boih in the minutest particular. If our elder brother wishes us to trust him again, ho must bring forth “fruits meet for repentance.” We should be pleased if he did ; we should be content if he did not. However he—Mr. Seward— nrgbt peisonaly bs disposed to conciliate the British people, th ; s was as far as tbe people of this country would allow any administration to go in that direction. Puting this conversation cf Mr. Seward and the President’s message together, it does not look as if any serious and fficulty would arise be tween the United States and England. on the Coast.- -The latest reports from the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia, which were given in charge of the freedmen by Gen. Sherman, is, that they are nearly barren of products, and hence we need look for none of the valuable cotton of those islands, until, say a year from the present date. The Jli-'Slfsjpi'i & Tennes-ee Railroad.— The M : ?sissipoi k Tennessee railroad is now com oleted through to Memphis, and the ODly 1 charge of cars from Grenada is at the Talla hatchie bridge. The timber for this bridge is complete, and will be ready for the cars within v month. Fare Reduced.— The tare between Savan jah and New York has been reduced. The Pioneer Line is twenty-five dollars for first: class passage. The Atlantic Coait Mail Steam ship Line, charge only twenty dollars. i It is True ecus St»ps were Taken to p {. vent the negroes from docking to cur cities ; Id by-gone dajs, when the most st.ict re - lations were in fore? and carried oat, it v.?.s iVfficuß then at periods to keep order. But now, when there appears to ba little or no restraint up-n Ihe colored portion of the com mundy, wh a 'bey roam about at pleasure, u. and commit acts >t lawlessness with little fear of being detected ; at this time, we say, ihe:e should be some (ffieient mea; s adopted to pie vent tin iv coming to our citits iu the r umber; they do. There is no woik here for them, even if they were disposed to labor—and they live a life of idleness and crime. Hundred? can be seen loafing around our streets in the d;.y lime—waiting for the coming cf in order that they may plunder some unlucky traveler, or make summary entrance into some store selected to operate upon during the day. Cannot some measuie be aiopted to* prevent tee itfl 'x of negroes in f o our city ? Wt hope there ran be. We trust (hove will be. etsvmi A Good Work.—The Ere vest Guard in At lanta, we notice Ly the papers of that cky. have made a regular raid cu the vagrant fretd men in that place, an 1 many arrests were made amorg these who could not give aediisfactory •account of themselves. It is not stated what disposition it is proposed to make of them, but wo Lave not a doubt they will be properly cared for. This is as it should bo. it is known to all that a large par pontage of that class do not appreciate their freidorn ; that hundreds of them have I-ft good homos iu the rural districts and aro now vagrants in the cities and towns. A3 the holidays approach this will especially be the case. It is to be hoped that the good work cf clearing Augusta of vagrants wiil soon com mence, and be vigorously prosecuted. There is labor and good homes for them in the coun try, and tttere they must be sent and bo made to slay. Labor in Central Alabama.—A letter wri te“r from Selma, Ala , speaks of the labor ques tion in that section thus : The negroes iu this section, although the freedmen’s bureau and many others have tiied to persuade them to the contra-y, hon cstly believe that all of the lands of tbeir for mer masters are to be taken and divided out among them after Christinas. This was told' thorn by cfficers and soldiers who .were sta tioned through our country soon after the surrender. The amount of harm it haß done is incalculable. Truly said. The idea which tho nsgroes have in regard to cbtainir-g possession of the iand is an idoa which has wrought great mis chief, and is an idea which every one who has anything to do with them should eradicate if possible. If the head of the hegto had nut been filled with false ideas, matters would be in a much better condition in our midst than they now aro. We are glad to perceivo tb.- 1 some officials are doing all they can to teach them their true position. One Way to Make Them Contract.—We understand that on somo plantations in Burke county, tho freedmen refused to contract for tho coming year. Complaint was made to the proper officials in regard to the matter, and at once a guard was sent to remove the disaf fected laborers. Those left, at once made reasonable contracts for the coming year. We understand that all negroes on plantations who refuse to mako contracts will ba t .kon from them at once. Now it remains for the freedmen to either go to work, do ea they ought, and i» m-»iu on'the old places, or bo removed from the mine and sent off to distant parts of the country. There is one thing certain, wherever their lot may be cast thoy may rest assured that they wii! have to woik for a living. If they will not work in their old homes, they will have to in their new ones where they will be. sent. Importations at New York.— Our foreign importations are running up in a high figure, much higher than ha'b been tho case of late years at this season. The New York Custom house returns for the week show a to‘;l of $5,795,221, but it is gratifying to know that these are pretty evenly balancecl.by the exports which foot up $5,900,000 in produce, and $723,000 in specie. A noteworthy feature of these importations is the large proportions of fancy goods for holiday comsumption. Un der this head the entries exhibit a total cf $152,174, besides which we have such itenr* as the following : Jewelry, SSO 075; watches, $84,746; wines, $59,996; fruits, $110,000; ci gars, $25,376; perfumery, $5,833. Emmigration.— Twenty thousand eight hun dred and seventy emmigrants were landed at New York during the mouth ot November, this year, of whom thirteen thousand one hun dred and seventy-nine were Germans. From January 1 to November 3D, cf this year, cue hundred and eighty-eight thousand two hun dred and four emigrants altogether arrived in New York, seventy two thousand nine hun dred and ninety six of them being German*. Every effort should be used to turn this tide of emmigration Southward. Asa geaeial thing the German population which comes to this country are a hard working class, and are an addition to any community. Cheering News.—W. A. Ramsey, Esq., who has for some time been on a visit to New York has just returned. While in that city he took pains to inform himseif of the public sentiment which there existed. He states that with the majority the most kind and concilia tory spirit exists towards the South. They are willing that that which cap be, shall be done to settle all difficulties. The leading mer chants and business men of the great metrooo lis are anxious and striving to have business once more resume its wonted chanels with all sections of the Union. The lilixois Cenex Crop. —lhe Western papers say that the present crop of cotton in Illinois is the largest ever raised in that State Tbe product per qcre this year will range from 1,000 to 1,500 pounds seed cotton. The quality is good, is first rate as compared with upland cotton at the South. It is stated that Jackson county aicne will produce 10.000 bales, while I Perry. Williamson, Saline and Union counties will more than double this amount. Cures ix CaufjPxia A coupie of men have this year cultivated on Kern river, Buena Vista county. California, the largest field cf ; cotton ever grow *, in the State. It will take j the State bounty of $3 000 < flared for tbe first hundred acres ; also the $3,000 offered for the first 100 bales. Cotton cun be grown in South ern California to good advantage. * 1111 # The Foblic Di'bt —A resolution las parsed he House of to the effect that the public debt of the United States “is sacreci and inviolate" and must be paid : and that any attempt to repudiate should be ‘•discountenan ced by the people and rejected by Congress*’' Ins I'LEcrroN in New York Crrv.—The elec- ! •Ln m Jew York cily has gone overwhelming- ‘ ' y D.mocrat c. II ffmans—the nominee est - e • i.mmany Hail party—majority was over terteen buqdied. Mr. O’Goim.in was elected to the ffi ;a of Corporation Counsel almost ••v.thout opposition. The Democrats elected . t-r r’y all of their candidates for Aldermen, Ccmmissieneis and Trustees. There was a tre ni-adour excitement at Tammany Hall in : he evening, after the election, the cheers and ! hurrahs amounting to something like the Dem • oc— : e demonstrations- of the palmiest days of J the Wigwam. The Inevitable Captain Byn | tiers was present and made an amusing speech I on the occasion. Well-Merited The Miiledgevillo cor j rerp n tent of the Atlanta Intelligencer, speaks oi the new President of the Beuate in the an nexed cr.mpliimniary terms : The President of the Senate, the lion. Win. Gilson, has often been honored by hit coustitu ents of Richmond county with a seat in tbe General Assembly of tbe State, in which capacity, he won reputation as a practical legislator, and an eloquent debater. \ It gives U3 pleasure to notice that tho talents of our lownstnun, the Colonel, are appreciated elsewhere as well a3 ac home. The Presiden tial chair of the Senate is well filler this ses sion, and the duties of the position wiil be ably discharged. The President of tub Senate —The Pros! cf the Senate, Mr. Foster, of Connecti cut, now occupies, to all intents and purposes. She position of Vice President cf the United States. In the event of the death of President Johnson, therefore, in tho interval to lfcGS, Mi. Foster, as he now stands, would become. President of the United States. lie is under stood to boa sort of semi-radical, semi-con servative oid line whig ; but it is p obable that tide is not enough (ortho leading radi cals. Hence there may be some truth in tbe report afloat that- “ there is somo talk cf a change in the presiding officer of the Senate,” as the ultras, when they vote together, have a majority in that body. Operations of the U. S. Mint. —The gold deposits at the United States Mint for the month of November were $1,009,700,19, and cf silver, slo,493,7o—making a total so $1,029, 193.83. The coinage of gold iu tbe same time was SBCG 905 59; of silver, $13,569,48, and of copper, s7s,6lo—making a total coinage for the month of $956,080 07, covering four mil lions, eight hundred and fifty-.eight thousand, cue bundled and twenty pieces. Os this num ber of pieces there were 2,939,000 of cent pieces, 047,500 two cent pieces, and 912,000 tbieo cent pieces. The total of these small coins made during -the month was 4,789,500. Florida Election. —Returns sufficient have been received from Florida to show that the annexed gentlemen have been elected to State offices: Judge DS Walker, Governor; Major W W J Kelly, Lieutenant Governor ; B F Allen, Esq., Secretary of State; Mr. Galbraith, Attorney General; Colonel Pyles, Comptroller General ; Mr. Austin, Treasurer. Judge B A Putman has been elected to the Judgeship of the Eastern Circuit, Colonel T T Long of tho Suwannee Circuit, Judge J Wayles Baker of the Middle Circuit, and Judge Allen Bush of the Western Circuit. The U. S. Court in Alabama.— At the re cent session of the United States Court at Montgomery, Ala., the presiding Judge, in a few and well timed romotlcu otatod. that In the present position of the Judiciary, whoso orders had beempereinptorily resisted by the military at Mobile, and this with the apparent approv al of the President, he did not consider it proper to hold Court, except for the despatch of motions and orders cf a conservatory char acter. Military Trial in Savannah. —lt is said that G. B. Lamar, Sr., and G. B. Lamar, Jr., and General Mercer, are shortly to be tried in Savannah, before a Military Commission, con vened expressly for tho trial. Captain Wat ror.s, of tha U S C TANARUS, will act as Judge Advo cate These gentlemen wore released from prison on bail of $25,000, on Saturday after noon . —-rw Alabama and the Constitutional Amend ment.—The General Assembly of Alabama ha-3 adopted tbe Constitutional amendment, simply declaring in connection threrewith, that “that it does not confer upon Congress the powor to legislate upon the political status of freedom in this Slate.” Decrease of Cotton sent North. —Four steamships sailed from Savannah for New York, December 6. Altogether they only car ried one thousand three hundred and thir ty-seven bales of upland cotton, twenty-five bales Sea Island, and three bales of domestic. mm- -on in Labor Wanted in the West. —We are in formed that there are now here from Arkan sas two gentlemen who 'have large planting interests , who have come to Georgia for the purpose of hiring nine hundred laborers of both sexes. TnE Vote for Governor. —The vote for Gov ernor has been counted. Hon. C. J. Jenkins received thirty seven thousand and two hun dred, and has been declared governor. !■ -Mil Hon. A, H. Stephens. —A dispatch from Miiledgevillo says that this gentleman has positively declined being a'candidate for the Senate. The Constitutional Aerndmeht.— The Geor gia Senate has passed the House resolntion thus ratifying the Constitutional Amendmen abolishing slavery in the United States. Small Pox in the Injebior.— From reports received from the interior of Georgia, we learn that this loathsome and feaiful disease is cn the increase. Proposed Amendment to tub U 3. CcncTitu tion —The following joint resolutions have been offered in the U. S. Congress ; Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives ot the United States of America in C-oncress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring. That the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures of tbe several t tabs, as amendments to the constitution cf ihe Uniled States, all or any cf whieb articles when ratified by three fonrths of said Legisla tnres shall be valid, to all intents and pur poses, as part of said const it ut ion, viz : Ist The following provisions ; No tax or shall be laid cn articles exported from any State, being the 5 h paragraph of tbe 9th section of the Ist crdcle of the constitution, is hereby repealed and declared of no effect. 2d No part of any debt contracted in aid of the late rebellion, or which may hereafter be contracted in aid of any lebellion against tbo United States, shall ever bo assumed or paid by the United States, nor shall any State as j snme or pay any part thereof. , j 3rd. Congress shall have power to make ali , laws necessary and proper to secure to all per- ; sons, in every State of the Union, equal pro I tectiop iu their lights of life, liberty and pro- j P**/• 1 REPORT OF SECKET.VIY OF THS AAVV. ice report gives a comprehensive stafenv ut of toe operation: at the N..vy, its present cj;i- C-Uious aud future necessities. A concise r«- noit of the operations of the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, a.l West Gulf squadrous is presented,.together with the details of the re duction of tb.* u vval fiy.ee at the close of tho war. The number of vessels aud crews on for t;gu service will not be greatly increased over those of former years, while the number of gunr. wii! bo lei.3 ; yet it ij believed that the superiority of steam over sail, for naval war vessels, and the improve moats of ordnance, wiil.give out force abroad greatly augmented efficiency and power There are now the Eu ropean, B-'sz 1, Dmt India and Pacific squad rons, in alt thirty-two vsstelf. To there wi.l be added the West India squad ron, with nine vessels. We bad in 1860 five rquanrons on foreign stations, numbering 31 xts.-eis, carrying 445 guns. At the present time we nave on the several stations abroad , 06 vessel- 1 , mounting 34. gnus, and earn ing 06 howitzers Since the 4th of March, 1861. 418 vessels have been purchased, of which 313 were steamers, at a cost of $18,366 681 83 and of these have been sold 340 vessels, for whteL the Government has received $5 6>i - 800 27. , ’ ’ The Beoretary recommends the enlargement of tiro navy yards at Boston and New York, to compote the ya;d at Mare Island, on the Pa cific, rebuild those of Norfolk and Pensacola, and sell the present restricted grounds at Phil adelphio, and the establishing of a yard of suffi cient c .pacity at League Island or somo other proper location on the Delaware He states that ho omits any recommendation in regard to thef yard ai lvittery, because there aro serious objections to it as a naval station, on account of its proximity to the ocean, which renders public property there insecure. M dshipmen, it is recommended, should be appointed ono-huif from enlisted apprentices of tho navy, aud tho remainder from congres sional dist.icts. The establishment of a uavai academy on the Chesapeake is urged as oosses sing superior advantages to any other place that can be selected. Tho law of Deiomber 31, 1861, and of July 16, 1862, directing that “ the hours of labor and the rate of wages of.tho employees in the navy yards, shall confoim, ns nearlv as is con sistent with the public interest, with those of private establishments in the immediate v'cln ily c-t the respective yards, to be determined by the commandants of tho navy yard3, sub ject to the approval and revision of the Secre tary of the Navy,” the Secretary recommends should bo repealed. It is a'so urged that the military and naval asylums be separate, and that whatever funds m:y remain in the Treasury from fines and other causes ep c'tied in the fifth section of the act of March 3, 1865, to incorporate a Na tional Military and Naval Asylum,” bo set apart, not for cne asylum, but for the two branches of tbe service. He also recommends that all fine3, forfeitures, &e , derived from na val officers or seamen, may inure to the ben efit of the men of the navy, irrespective of tho asylum indicated in the act of last March, which is more appropriately adapted to the army. Tim subject of the increase of salaries in the navy is presented for the favorable considera tion of Ut-ugrete. Tho total expenses of this department from the 4th (if March, 1861, to the 30th cf Junoj 1865, embracing a period of lour years and four months and covering not only the ordina ry expenses; ot the navy, but such a3 have arisen in the purchase, construction, and equip ment of vessels, and in the maintenance ol the large naval force required daring the war, were $311,170,960 68—an average annual expendi ture of $72,500,990 93. It is gratifying to note that the expenses of this Department since the cominenc- ment of the war have been but nine and three tenths per cent, of the ex penditures of the government during the same time. GEAEItAL OKASIte REPORT. Gram s-.ys he was impressed from an early period of the war, with the idea that the act tivo and continuous operations of all the troops that could be brought into the field, regardless of season and weather, were necessary to sue ocus Tt»« uuuiw, E.. o t ond went, aided with out conceit like a balky team, uo two ever pulling together, thus enabling the confeder ates to u'e to great advantage their interior lines of communication, and it was a question whether the Federal numerical strength and resources were not more than balanced by confederate advantages and superior position. Convinced that no peace could be obtained un til the military power of the South was entire ly broken, he determined firet to use the great est number of troops practicable against the armed fotce of the opposition, preventing him from using the same force at different seasons against first one and then another of tho Fed eral armies, and the possibility of repose.— Second, to hammer continuously against the aimed iorce of the South and their resources until by mere attrition, if in no other way, thero should he nothing left but aa equal sub mission with the Northern cection of tbe coun try to the eonslititutjon. These views, Gen eral Grant says, were kept constantly in mind and orders given and campaigns made to carry them out. General Grant then refers to the situation of the contending fore, Bat the date of his ap pointment, the main armies of tho South be ing commanded by Lee in Virginia ar,d John ston in Georgia ; tho Federal forces being com manded by Shennan in the West and Meade in Virginia, General Grant exercising general cupeivision of the movements- of all the ar mies. t hertran was instructed to break up Johnson’s army, go into the interior of the j Southern country and inflict all the damage to the Conl'edrate war r. sources and, if the Con federatess'iowed signs of joining Lee, to fol low them up to the full extent of his abi'ity, while he (Grant) would p.event Lee’s concen tration upon Shennan. General Grant then details bis instructions given to Generals Backs, Butler, and other', and enters into a detailed account of the pro gress of the campaigns, and of Butler’s move ment against Dniry’g Bluff General Grant srys that the time consumed lost to the North the hem fit of <he surprise and capture of Richmond and Petersburg, enabling Beau regard to collect his loose forces in North and South Carolina, and bring them to the de fense of those places. Subsequently tho Con ederatts attacked Butler, who *as forced or drew back into the intrenchments below the J anus and Appotomax r ivers, and his (But ler’s) army was as completely shut ‘off from further operations directly against Rxhmond as if it 1 ad been, in a bottie strongly corked. General Grant- gives a succinct exposition of a : I the military movements wh ch resulted in finally stepping the war, and closes with a stab meet that he knows no difference in the fighting qualities cf the Eastern or Western armies. RE pour OK IUE CO.MMIggI~.YER OF THE GL.YE nAL LA YD OFF ICE. In a ye--r and a quarter, ending 30th. June, 18(35, the whole amount of public land dis posed of was 4 513 738,4 G acres, of which, un der the homestead law, 1,160 532 acres were appropriated. The cash receipts were $1,038,- 400 78, a slight increase over the previous 1 year 4 161,778 acres of wild land have been surveyed during (he fiscal year. The whole amount of unappropriated surveyed land was, cn the 30 h of beptember last, 132,285,035. To the excellent report from this important Bureau we will hereafter devote a larger space. Gey. Jfc kins to he Inaugurated —The fol lowing dispatch was sent into tho Legislature by Provisional Governor Johnson, December 13 : W aldington, December 11, 1865. J. Johnson, Pn-vi-ional Governor : The Governor elect wiil be inaugurated, which will not inferfcie wifn you as Provisional Govern or. You will receive instructions in a few days in regard to being relieved as Provisional Governor. Why can yen not elect a Senator ? I would no( ii sue ermmissions for Congress, ! but would leave that for the incoming Gov ! ernor. i We are under mvny obligations to yon for | the noble, efficient and patriotic manner in i which y u have discharged tffifduties of Pro ; visional Governor, and you will be sustained AjJ the Government. | (Signed) A ndubw Johnson, President Uuitcd States. AEvtg tl'inn iY. Our Mcx-cau ad vices s : a.e that L'rnis'Ni po.ec-n lad refcnk. dMax : mtlian for luck of i-n - that the Mexican cabinrt had resolved t> tortify the frontiers—a movement which Marshal Baa tine had a’reriy commenced to execute. Col. Bravo, < ’§ ! he L : brml army, irasarived r.i St Louis He lepe-rts President Jtnrez at Er Tania the best cf spirit?. Twenty five thousand men arc u rder ar ms, and an ad ditional force of 50 000 will bee-peed ily raised. A' Toronto corv;-; pendent says the number of beniaes enroll.d and r ev. -drilling in Oanadi" is stated at no. rly 82 000, of whom nearly one half are said to be- tready armed. Col Gilbert, late of 110 four h Ohio volua* teers, has eccop ed an - (files from the cov et nrneat of Columbia lo n>; ke a survey of New Grenada, at a s dary of SIO.O'jO a year iu gold and expanses p iid The ciiiwiai m j .rity cf the Union party in New Jersey tli a 5 ear it 2.789 The Democratic im j rrity last year was 7 301 Ten tticli'afid woman ar-.dchildren, and crip pled aud inff ui old urea in the northwestern c:unties of ArkaffSas, are said to be in imme diate need of .assistance do save them from starvation The Virginia Leg is l hire has amended Slate Constitution uo as t- a u-w persons heretofore excluded to hold clii a-. It is decided that ladles cannot act as direc tors ot National Banks. A Mr, Crandall and his wife, tho former sixty and the latter sixty five years cld, has been brulalTy murdered ar. H ..ir residence in Cooutown, N. Y , six miles from Bridge water, ou the NeW Berlin 11 rad. Mr. C. was shot through the head, Aid tho brait a of his wife werv beaten out with a oiatuud at. taytor conductor on erro of the passenger trains cf tb3 Kentucky Central Railroad, has been trrested at Lexington by order qf the military authorities, aud taki n to Camp Nelson, on tho charge of re fusing to transport on his train, colored persona- who were unprovided with passes from their mas ters. While mirtial law w sin foice in Ken tucky, tho railroad cvuTpauy transported ad colored persons who had military passes, but since martial law has been revoked refuse, wo believe, to carry them, unless they can prove that they aro free, or are provided with passes from their owners. Tho R dlrcad Company is having a perplexing tirno of -t- If it carries a slave without a special order from hla or her owner, the latter rues for damages under the State laws, while on the other hand if it re fuses to transport them the conductors are ar rested by the military. During the year ending September 30, there were received at the Patent Office eleven thous and eight hundred and Gxty applications for patents and seventy applications for an exten sion of patents. Six thousand two lmhdrod and ninety-two patents (including reispues’aud designs) were issued, and s'xty-cne extensions granted. One thousand five bundled aud thirty-eight caveats were filed. Sevc-u hun dred and forty-one applications allowed, bit no patents issued thereon by reason of the non payment of the final fee. All commissaries and qnartornissfers whose services can be dispensed with will bo muster ed out. Oregon has adopted tho Constitutional Amendment. The Virginia an 1 Tennessee delegations think they will be admitted to Congress. Three hundred second lieutenants are to be appointed in the regular army. The people of Missouri wiil be allowed to vote whether or not the new constitution shall remain in force Roy & Co’s office, West Troy, New York, was entered December, 8. and the safe robbed of thirty-four thousand dollars. The Missouri German’s are encouraging imi gratiou to that State. The Indians on Texan frontier are commit ting outrages. The constitutional amendment has been rati fied by North Carolina. Gen. Grant has returned to Washington from bis Southern trip. Tho Virginia City Montana Post of Novem ber 4th contains a glowing description o-f a most extraordinary gold discovery about four miles frim Holena, in that Territory, made by a man named llrown, one of the original dis coverers of tho Gould At Curry lode of Nevada This discovery is repi-ftfie-**ran ft -tto.l defined ledge, fully five feet wide, wdth a gold vein threb feet wide, three fourths of the entire substance therein being pure gold. On each Side of this vein there is a easing of one foot of quartz, which will atssy from S4OO to $2,000 the ion. The Government hns restored to the Ameri can Telegraph Company the full control of its Southern lines. There was a snow storm at Fortress Monroe, November 29. A collision took p’ace on the New Jersey Central Railroad, Dec. Ist. Seven persons were killed and ten wounded. The first thing Gen. Lee doqa. when he ar rived at Lexington wr s to visit Stonewall Jack son’s grave. A great, quantity cf powder and government stores are being collected at Curio, UlincD. Gov. Ogeesby of liiinol; has gone to Wash - iDgton, to look after the Stale debt. A home has been purchased in Lexington, Va., for Gen. Lee. Senator Wilson of Mass , has signed a peti tion for the releaee of Mr. Mallory late Secre tary of the navy of the Confederate States. Tho small pox is prevalent ip several parts of North Carolina. The Nashville authorities are kept busy fer eting out murderers. Acu-ious story is being told in Geo-getown end Washington, to the <lLct that the son of Mrs. Iturbide, late Misss Green, of Geor re to vd, D. C, was recently forcibly taken from the mother in the City of Mexico, by ord- r of the Emperor Maximilian, and adopted by him; tho child is only about four yeara old. He has been created a Prince of the Empire, and the mother wa3 ordered to leave Mexico in twenty four hours afterwards. It will be remembered that Miss Green was married somo few years ago to Ignatius Irturbide, son of the late Em peror of Mexico of that name. At tho time of the marriage the groom was a student of Georgetown College. Recently they have been residing iu Mej’o. Mrs Tturbide hag returned to her homo in (he District, apd is said to be much d'Btnsssd. The Indians cm the plains have commenced their outrages again. Two of the oil wells in Wood county, Va., aro of extraordinary richness. Ons of them yields 200 barrels per day, worth $8 000, tbe other about ninety barrels, worth $3,500. In the first case the gross annual income to the •company —estimating three hundred working dayr t > the year—would be $2,400,000, and in the leroad $1,800,000. A vessel which lately arrived at New York from China reports having picked up, about six weeks ago, midway between Africa and South America, an empty half barrell, painted with the name “Vision,” and supposed to have belonged to the little bring which Eaiied for Europe eighteen months Ego wi h two man and a deg, and has never since been heald from. The losses of vessels at sea, reported in No- vember in New Yoik city, are ei.chty-nine in number. The value of the vessels alone is es timated at a million and three quarters of dol lars, and the valuo of the cargoes at four mil lions. The California petroleum well3 promise an abundant yield. The triple murder at Little Falls, New York, of which brief mention has .been made by tel egraph, was the deed of Daniel Waldradt, who; after cutting the thioats of his wife and daughter while they were asleep shot himself. The Farmers’ Bank, of Kentucky, having lost S6O 000 bv the Morgan raid in June, 18G4, sued J. W. Witherspoon, a rt-turned Morgan rffher, attached his laud and got judgment from a circuit for the whole sum. Ee*appeals the case. The numb'r of patents issued this year will be about 6 670; last year they numbered 5,220. T he property at Puiut Lookout ha3 been se cured tor a temporary asylum for disabled soldiers and sailors. A large number of men are finishing up the fortifications at Dutch Island, near Newport. A ba-que lately arrived at New Bedfird, alter twenty five months'* absence hi the Indian ocean, with S9O 000 worth of sperm oil. The Fall River Mass., priefvrorks have been remodeled lately, and will commence running in January, with 500 looms and 13,000 spin dles. Chancery M Depew declines the mission to Japan. > PJililtiX IT3MS. ! The Great Exhibition ot 1867 encounters m-my obstacles for lack of au authoritative wi.l at 'ho nead of the Comm ssioa thatPriuce d'try 900 ima2e diateljg resume the Ikesi- T.-.A he cto V\ ra * wili cb his begun to subside in Europe; surt rages in somo of tho oricntial countries, v.here it originated. At Jerusalem die mortality is frightful. A Berlin dispatch says tbe Prussian Govern ment whl not hesitate to follow the example 0. other States, aud more especially of France, h.:..:... materia! reductions of military force be ended. The B Jginm paper-makers like the repeal * ct t{r paper duties. Ttnir mills have increas ed from lour to forty, producing 20,000 tofts annually, chiefly exported to England, France and America. Tea operation of ea ting a cubic b ook cf steel, of the enormous weight of one hundred tons, w.'.s ru 'cessfully accomplished re- i ntly a foundry at East Greenwich, nev.r 1.01 dorr The hards made of herrings by the Groat- Yarmouth boats have been enormous. Ot, one day 7,735,200 herrings were lauded. lae contest for the rectorship of tho Unlvor sUy of Edinburgh has resulted in the election of Mr. Carlyle, Mr. Doisaeil King beaten by more than two to one. A Swede, has invented anew sort of needle - gun, which Cras ten shots in a minute, ao-d does uot get foul after a huo-lred abets. Jr. has boon accepted by the Swedish Government aud is to be introduced into the army. A conspiracy organized on a lame scale waj recent y discovered in Jvhxiria .tn.tUuaGdudaii.ts of exiles were concern ed in it. Mr. Thomas Dde. an engineer, has just sub mitted to tbe L'vtrpool \Yater Committee a sch.nuo which is “comprehensive’’ in the. broadest soeeo of «.;e word, for- it net cc y coraprehends L’verpool bat a sore ut other towns besides. Mr Dale suggests that resource should be had to two lak< s at a distance of 60 to 70 rniies from Liverpool. The length ct tire main trunk, owing to and« fi cliou trom a straigh; line, lor tire purpose of Fupplyiner various places, would be about 150 rades. Mr. Dale estimates the amount of water to be supplied daily at 131,000.000 gallons and th'o cost at forty five million of dollars. | A writer in a Pans paper complains thail Alll ericaas are buying many of tbe fiues'l] paintings in that city, and sending them out or* the country. If the pictures suit them they pay but htile regard to prices, aud tho high ' arms offered tempt many Frenchmen to part, with cheriMicd treasures. - The secretary of anew theatre about ftr ho opened at Paris, received within eight days after notice given, one hundred and seventy • seven hew dramatic pieces from eighty-three different writers. Instructions have been s nt to the French authorities in the Island of Reunion, to compel tho queen ot Madagascar to pay the indemnity due by her to the French Government. Four ann and vessels aro to be dispatched forthwith to Tamattva. The Emperor gives Princess Anna Murat m rortion of £BO,OOO on her manage, and thy Duke do Mouc’uy settles £240,000. In anew play now perlorming at Paris, the costumes of the f <ur principal fcmnlo charac ters cost nearly $15,000. A Madame Petitpas, residing in Paris, ha« just celebrated the hundredth anniversary of her birthday by inviting her friends to a grand mass at the church of Eulpice, her parish. The Empress of tho French has presented Mdlle Patti with a superb diamond necklace, in return i'orau album with 24 portraits of that eminent actress in characters and positions. Patti’s arrival at Florence produced a great, sensation. Ihe night before her arrival the ' choral societies assembled before the hotel windows and executed a serenade in her honor. Madame Jenny Liad Goldschmidt is at pres-1 ent living at Ems with her family, and ' will probably pass the winter there. 1 The Emperor of Austria has ordered thafl passports shall no longer be considered sary ter persons. Belle Boyd—Mrs. Harding—has been stutly ine for the stage, and will soon appear at one of the Liverpool theatres. The Paris Patiie estimates that the occupa tion Os Romo by Franca since 184!) 'inw -cost the country 56,G00.000f. A stratum of graphite-black lead for- pen cils—has just been discovered near tlursea of Azoff, equal in quality to that of Siberia. According to the France Medicaie, 5,050 persons Jdied of chmera between the 22ad cf September and the 2nd of November. Fifteen died in September, 4 715 in October, and ,230 on the two days in November. Twelve workuron were killed and nineteen others scalded by the explosion of a steam boiler at tho blast furnance near Charleroi,. Belgium. IXPORI VYT TREASURY CIRCULAR. Treasury cf tiie United Status, * Washington, December 6, 1865. ( Whereas, Much embarrassment has beer;'oc casioned in this office and to the proper ac counting officers of the Treasury Department by reason of the insufficient indorsement of warrants, drafts, and checks, drawn by au • thorify of any department of tho Government on this cr any other office or agency of. tho Treasury of the United States, therefore, to avoid s-jeh embarrassment in the future, and to the correct understanding of what is requir ed in tbe premises, tbo following rules and regulations are promulgated: First. When any such paper is made pay able to the of any official, whether civil, or military, with the designation of his office, this indorsem >nt must bo made thereon with the official affix a6 designated in such paper, before payment thereof. As honorary or. com plimentary titles prefixed to the same of Ihe payee are u-.ually of no legal import, they will not be regarded, but the name of office being affixed to hold the payee in his. official capa city and on his official bond, such affix must in oil cases be strictly exacted in the indorse ment If for example any such paper should be made payable to “Major John Doe, Quar termaster,’’ the indorsement should be, “John Doe, Quartermaster.” Second. When any such paper is made pay able to the order of a bank by its corporate name, the indorsement should bo by the Presi dent or cashier of the bank in his official ca pacity as such Pres’dent or Cashier ;‘and when payable to the President or Cashier of a bank, either may indorse for the other of such officers. When made payable to the order of any othc-r character'd company by its corpo rate name, such indorsement should be made by the President. Tseasurer or other duly au thorized financial officer of such company,— When made payable to th3 order of an incor porate company by its assumed name, betoro payment can bo made, evidence must be judg ed in this office, or in tha’ by which the pay ment is to be marlo, that the person indorsing the paper on the part of such company is duly authorized, as agent or otherwise, to malco such indorsement and receive payment there- 08. Third. When indorsement is rnado by at torney for individuals, *hssoci<>tions, compa nies or corporation?, the original powet of attorney, or an exemplified or legally certified copy thereof, must be lodged in this office, or in that office whero the paper may have been made payable. General powers of attorney will be sufficient for all payment to the same parties. Special powers of attorney relating to the &ingl3 transaction, mu-t, in all cases, accompany the paper which payment is made !d virtue thereof. All th« powers of attorney must have the requisite revenue s‘amps at tached. Fourth. All indorsements must bear the proper ant.ograph signatures of the} persons requesfed to make the same, and no payment will be made on any stamped name of any per son, association, company Or corporation. When indorsement is made by a cross or other sign or monograph, it must be witnessed, and the witness should state his residence. Fifth. Acknowledgment or receipts for any paper remitted or sent from thi3 office need r.otbe made or givin, unless a special re quest to that effect shall accompany its trans mission, or a blank form of a receipt, to be signed and returned, shall be sent with the paper for that purpose. T. E Spinster. Treasurer of the United Slates! Major Wynkoop has been sent to hostile In dians in the west to make terms of peace with them.