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OLI) SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. (Chronicle & *rntinrl. If iONKV MOOJttE, a. n. wnioHT. PATRICK WAIHH, Associate Editor Al t.l s'l'A, GAi TKKIHOF SI'BSCttIPTION. daily. On »r r;*;, $1 00 T/.-o nv -rtb* 580 O. year 1000 TBI-WCKKLT I r »■ year t*> 00 ' x rair Ui? ; Turec riiontu* 00 A H WEEKLY. '<■ ''i* ’*.* .*.* ■.* * ‘.*.7.7.7 .*i so 1 .* KT 3 00 WKDNKSDAV MIIKMMi. DECEMBER 25. The Banner ok the South. —The last number of this favorite Southern weekly comes to us filled with its usual variety of entertaining and instructive matter. Among other attractive features is a con tinuation of the “ Earl» of Sutherland by Hath Fairfax ; the commencement of an exceedingly interesting critique on Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Umpire ; “ Nevermore a ‘‘Dirge for our lost Confederacy and Desolated Homes a New 1 ork Letter from “Tyrone Pow ers,” and the usual quantity of miscella neous matter. The Hanner of the South is now the only .Southern weekly devoted to the mem ory of the ‘‘Lost Cause ” and as such de serves substantial encouragement from our people. An Accession to the Newspaper Fraternity. —We learn, from a notice in the Charleston New* of yesterday, that Mr. R. L. Gentry has become one of the joint proprietors and managers of the Augusta Constitutionalist. We had been aware for some time that this gentleman was connected with our cotemporary, though we did riot know until now that he was one of its proprietors and managers, as there has been, we believe, no notification of this fact published. Mr. Gentry is an i able and experienced newspaper man. He was at one time collector for the Curoni- ! ri.E k Sentimel, and afterward one *l' the , editors of the Christian Messenger and the ! Fiiontnn Press <fc Messenger, and dis played his usual talent on those two. jour nals. As one of the managers of the Constitutionalist , he will, we areconvineed, add greatly to the popularity and pros- 1 perity of that sterling sheet. The following is Sumner’s bill in full to carry out the Reconstruction Acts in Geor gia : Whereas in the uet of Congress entitled “An act for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” among which is enu merated Georgia, it is provided that until the pe iple of said rebel Statos shall by law be admitted to representation in Con gress, any civil government which may exist therein shall bo provisional only,and such iStatosaro divided into military dis tricts; and whereas, in the supplementary Reconstruction act bearing date July nine teenth,eighteon hundred and sixty-seven, it is further provided that ‘-all persons hereaitor elected or appointed to oiliee in said military districts under any so-ealiod Ntute or municipal authority, shall bo re quired to lake und subscribe the oath of of hcO'prescribedby law forofliccrsoftheUnit ed (States and whereas, it was the true intent and meaning of tiio act above men tioned that persons allowed to participate in provisional legislation of any of the reb el (States prior to their admission to repre sentation by Congress, should take and subscribe the oatli above mentioned ; and whoreuH the legislature of Goorgia, elected under and by virtue of the acts of Congress known as the Reconstruction acts, on the 20th, 21st, 22d, and 23rd of April, 1808, and which assembled on the 4th of July 1808, failed to comply with the foregoing ro qureinent, so tnut such legislature was never organized according to law; and whereas timber, this legislature, thus de fective in organization, lias pretended to act as if it were a legislative body duly constituted, and has done cerium things utterly unjustifiable, and requiring the in tervention of Congress : Therefore, Jle it enacted by tie Smote and House of Representatives of the United States of .\mcncu in Cony less assembled, That the civil government actually existing in Goorgia is provisional only, and in all re spects subject to the paramount authority of the United Statos at any time toabolish, modify,control, or supersede the sumo,un til A legislature organized in accordance with tin* loquiremeuts of the act of July lillli, lsi!7, shall have duly ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the Thirty-ninth ('ougiess, anil known as article fourteen, when the State, according to the act afore said, will bo subject to tiie fundamental condition that the constitution of the State shall not be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen of the United States,or class of citizens, of the right to vote in such State, who are entitled to vote by the constitution herein recognized, except as a punishment for such crimes as arc now felonies at common law, u hereof they have been duly convicted, under laws equally applicable to ail the inhabitants of the State: And l>roviited, That any alteration of the con stitution may tie made to the time and place of residence of voters. .Sec. 2. An t be it further enacted, That the Provisional Governor elect of the State of Georgia, be, and he is hereby, authorized ami directed to assemble by proclamation at the city of Atlanta,on or before the first Wednesday in April next, the persons elected as members of the General Assem bly of that State, at an election held under and by virtue of the Reconstruction acts on the 20th, 2lst, 22d, and 23d days of April, ISOS. Sec. 2. .sud be it further enacted, That no person shall lie permitted to participate in the organization or legislation of such provisional assembly who shall not have lirst taken and subscribed tho oath of of fice prescribed by law for officers of the l ulled Stales, unless lie shall have beeu relieved of his disabilities by act of Cou grt ss. Sec. 1. And be it further enacted, That the Provisional Governor elect of Goorgia shall have power, whenever in his opiniou it becomes necessary to carry out the pur poses of this act, or to tho proper exteu tion of the act of the 2d of March, 1837, en -1 titled, "An act for the more efficient gov i eminent of tho rebel Slates,” or of any and fall ads supplementary thereto, to suspend kor remove from office, or from the por k >rmalice of official duties and tho exercise mjf official power, any officer or person holding or exercising, or professing to ex ercise, any civil office or duty in such State under any power, election,'appointment, or authority derived lrom or grantod by or claimed under the so-called State of Georgia, or tho government thereof, orau.v municipal or other division thereof; and upon such suspension or removal, such provisional governor elect shall have power to provide from time to time for the per formance of the duties of such officer or person so suspended or removed by the appointment of some competent person to perform the same, and to till vacancies oc casioned by death, resignation or other wise. Stv. 5. .tad be it further enacted, That the President be, an.t he is hereby',directed to place at the disposal of the provisional governor elect of Georgia, such portion of the army and navy of the United -States as may la- required bv him for the preserva tion of the lives and property ot persons, the peace and good order of the commu nity, ami the protection of citizens in the free expression of their political opinions. To Planters anp Shippers op Cot- j ton.— Henry Bryan, Esq., of Savannah, and Colonel George P. Harrison, Jr., of Auburn, Ala., have formed a copartner' ship for the sale and shipment of cotton at and through Savannah. Mr. Bryan is well known as one of the first business men ; of our sister city, and is one of her most re- : liable met chants. Colonel Harrison is known as the former gallant commander of a brigade of Georgians in the late war, and more recently as asuccessful planter in . Alabama. Parties transacting business with this firm may rely upon having their interests carefully attended to. Attention is directed to the advertisement. Lucy Conn Institute.— This well and favorably known Institute will be opened for the reception of pupils on Monday, January' 18, 1869, under the superintend ence of Rev. Ferdinand Jacobs, formerly Principal of a High School for Young Ladies in Charleston, and subsequently President of the Female College at Laurensville, S. .0. Mr. Jacobs possesses all the qualifications necessary for the suc cessful conduct of this favorite Institute, and we feel assured that, uuder his manage ment, the “Lucy Cobb" will lose none of its former prestige. The Principal will be assisted by au accomplished corps of teachers. We invite attention to the ad vertisement, which will be found in another column. _ Moina Cotton. —Dr. Durham, of this county, has grown seven thousand pounds of seed cotton from three acres and a half of ground, a part of which was shaded by fruit trees. This is about six hundred and seventy pounds of lint to the acre The cotton sold in Augusta at thirty-three cents per pound—realizing over 1200 per acre. —Athens Banner. How the North Suff-rs. We have again and again warned the North that the cruel, unjust and unconsti tutional legislation of Congress toward the South, if persisted in, would ultimately bring ruin upoo both sections. Their ap j parent prosperity during the war,when de , privedof the valuable productions of South i ern labor, was due entirely to the fact that j the demands and the waste consequent ! upon the terrific struggle in which the whole country was engaged, supplied to their manufacturers, artizans and ship i builders, a customer in the Government of the United States equal to the entire pro ductions of their whole section. Upon the close of the war tbe’r manu facturers were compelled to seek consumers i in the regular channels of trade and had to rely upon the private demand for their pro ducts, and just so far as the means of these consumers of their products were curtailed or destroyed by the war just to the same extent, was their own interests checked and : injured. The exhaustion of the South produced by the war—the losses by consumption and wear and tear of all those manufactured goods which are essential and necessary to | civilized and eolighted nations —placed our people under the necessity of making large investments aDd very extensive purchases to replace the property which had been lost or worn out. All kinds of dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, hats, agricultural and mechanical implements were in great | demand. The wants of the South and her custom would have supplied the loss sus tained by the withdrawal of the Government custom. The cotton which was in the South at the close of the war was worth more than four hundred millions of dollars, and the crop of the year following worth over two hun dred and eighty millions, gave the Southern people ability to pay their old debs due at the North, and then have a large surplus to replenish theß impoverished farms with the manufacturing products of the North, j If the policy of Mr. Johnson had met the approval of Congress—if the latter body had recognized the State governments set up throughout the South under the direction of the President—both sections would have been to day in immensely beter condition. But Congress, taking counsel of their bate, and with a view solely to gratify their bloodthirsty spirit of revenge, undertook the whole matter ot reconstruction itself, utterly ignoring all that had been accomplished in the several States under Mr. Johnson’s authority. In their bitter hatred of the Southern peo ple they seemed to have forgotten that the North —their own section—might be injured by their vindictive course toward the South. Tho result has been just as was pre dicted by Southern journals and Southern statesmen. The South has been harried and wronged, and injulted—her industries paralized, and her vast resources left un developed. While at the North, we find trade hampered, manufactures crippled, and commerce destroyed. Before the war the trade and commerce of tho whole country was carried on in American bot toms, and American ship-builders were successful competitors with British and French ship-owners in the carrying trade of the world. Now ship building has fallen off to such an extent that American coin™ tneree is almost driven from the ocean by foreign nations, and the great passenger and light-ireight trade between this court try and England and Franco is carried almost entirely in foreign bottoms. The following table, accompanying the report of Mr. Nimmo, of the Treasury Department, will show the falling off in this particular branch of industry, and may bo regarded as a fair index of the losses experienced in other brauchesof trader To ports la To foreign ports To all foreign Nationality. Europe. o-ber tnan ports ports. In Europe. Veu’Js. Tons. Ves’ls Tons Ves’is. Tons. U. States S 11 927 1 30,930 39 42,866 England 68 too W 4 5 2 268 7 131.2.12 France ti 7MB 2 84.3 8 18 291 N. Germany 24 62,001 24 62 601 Mexico I 205 1 205 Total 116 242 39 34 255 U 5 277478 Mr. Davis—Gen. Grant. It is said that the Radical, or at least some of the most violent of the party, are very anxious that no further action be taken in the case of Mr. Davis until the incoming administration is inaugurated. They say that when Mr. Davis was Secre tary of War he ordered a Court Martial to try Capt. U. S. Grant for some trivial mil itary offence, and they think that when Gen. Grant is inducted into the President ial Chair he will take pleasure in retaliat ing by ordering the trial to take place, and iu enforcing its judgment. The Editor of the Mobile Register, who is usually well and correctly posted, says; “Tho story is rather the other way. When Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War, Capt. U. S. Grant was tried and sentenced to bo cashiered from tho army by a court martial for “conduct unbecoming an offi cer and a gentleman”—that is to say, for gettiog drunk “all over,” and being in and around loose in gutters and other places where “officers and gentlemen” “hadn’t” ought to go. It remained only for the Ex ecutive signature to confirm the sentence. In this critical condition of affairs for Capt. Grant, that officer went to the Secretary of War and appealed for mercy. Mr. Davis, a West Pointer himself, and moved by a strong army “ espritde corps,” stuffed the sentence of the court in a pigeon hole, and advised the captain to resign, which the captain gratefully did, and for the privilege of which it is now said he wishes to make au acknowledgment in kind to Jefferson Davis. That is the story as it is told to us.” Important to Planters. The following, which we clip from the Selma (Ala.) limes &, Messenger, will be of interest to our planting friends. Simi lar investigations in other sections, attack ed the past season by worms, have elicited like results. It would seem that the ne cessity for destroying all the old cotton stalks by burning is tooapparant to require further advice. In all fields and in all those sections of the country where the crop was infested by the worm, it becomes the duty of the planter to burn all the old stalks. This seems to be the only feasible method of getting rid of this terrible seourage of the cotton planter : A lew weeks ago, we published a state ment from a Texas paper that the egg was deposited in the stalk of the plant, " where it remained until the proper season, pro tected against its enemies, then to appear upon its mission of destruction, and to gather up closely and burn the dry stalks in fall and winter would necessarily destroy them. Yesterday we saw, in the counting room of Messrs. Hardee & Robinson, proof of the correctness of this theory. There were the dry stalks. On the surface was the i scar left when the eggs were deposited. Inside, in the pith of the stalks, were the eggs in some places, and in others worms already emerged from the egg, and feeding upon the soft part of the stalk surrounding them. We presume any planter can have abundant proot of the theory in question. He has only to look for it in the stalks in his cotton field. This matter appears to us worthy of at tention. If the egg is deposited in the stalk and thus preserved and warmed into life and sustained through the winter, fire j is the remedy beyond question. Important Decision.— At the last week term of the Houston Superior Court an important easo came up in suit for damages. Mr Howard, last spring, made a contract with freedmen to work for him during the year. Afterward Mr. Salter hired the same hands, when they left Mr. Howard and went to Mr. Salter to work. Mr. H. thereupon sued Mr. S. for damages, and the jury returned a verdict of $1,200. This was at Perry. Hon. C. B. Cole, Judge, presiding.— Macon Tele graph. Cornell University consumes six head of beef weekly. The Georgia Reconstruction Bill in the Senate. The direction given in the Senate to Sumner’s Georgia Reconstruction Bill and Mr. Hill’s credentials, both of which were referred, on motion of Mr. Sherman, to the Judiciary Committee, inclines us to hope that the present condition of Georgia as a State of the Union will not be disturbed. A majority of that Committee are known to be opposed to any further action in re gard to reconstruction in those States where State governments have already been established under the provisions of the Sherman-Sheilabarger Bills, and the acts supplementary and amendatory thereof Fnremost among the ciass of Ilepubii can Senators who oppose further action, we find Mr. Sherman, Mr. Trumbull, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Morton, Mr. Actony and others of equal weight and influence. These Republican Senators must necessa rily wield considerable influence in their own party, and will perhaps be able to control a sufficient number of votes, when added to the Democratic Senators, to de featany further hostile Legislation. The real, and as we believe the only, diffi culty which will be met in the attempt to defeat the schemes of Sumner, Drake and | Wilson, we fear will be in the vote of the carpet-baggers in that body ; who hold seats,for, and pretend to represent, I the Southern reconstructed States. There | are of this class no less than twelve per sons, who claim to represent the States of | North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, i Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas. That | : all, or nearly all, of these wretched adven- f j turers will vote and act with the extremest ; ! of the extreme Radicals, we have not the | least doubt, unless they can be made to I ! believe opposite action will benefit them- selves personally. From w hat we can learn arguments of the latter character are being raised and prepared for their special benefit.— Whether these arguments will be large ; and weighty enough to influence the minds of those pure statesmen who fill the seats formerly occupied by Macon, and Hayne, and McDuffie, and Calhoun, and King, and Clay, and Yulee, and Sevier, and Mouton, and Soule remains to be seen. There is another way in which the Sher man Bill can be, we think, successfully managed. Mr. Sherman, as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, having a ma jority of that body in agreement with him, can bury the bill in committee, and refuse to report it back to tho Senate. Tiiere are many ways if he and his friends are determined to make a square out and out fight, by which they can defeat even a majority of the Senate if it should be ascertained that a majority of that body were opposed to them. It is, however, possible that the Judiciary committee may report a bill which, while not so Radical and extreme in its provis ions as that of Mr. Sumner, may cause our people much trouble. What the main features of such a bill will be we have no means of determining. The public mind of the North seems to demand some pun ishment for the people of this State for their contumacy in daring to cast their votes against the present idol of the Radi cal party, Ulysses S. Grant. How much and what kind of punishment for such contumacy is to be dealt toward us we can hardly conjecture. Weoanaot believe how ever, that it will extend to the limit of placing over our people as Dictator sueh a political and social monstrosity as the late- express agent, R. B. Bullock. It may be that Congress will simply declare thstf the loil people of the State are without protection of life and property, and direct the Military Commander of the District, through the persuasive power of the bayonet, to.afford full and ample military protection. It may clothe Gen. Meade with powers which will, while pretending to recognize the civil State Government, make the latter entirely dependent upon the will of Meade. In the meantime it is quite likely that the status of Georgia as a State will be again recognized by Congress, in tho ad mission of Messrs. Hill and Miller to their seats as Senators from this State. The latest indications from Washington seem to point unmistakingly in this direction. It is known that Brown, Hill, McCay, Walker, Saft'old, Hulbert, and all the leading mem bers of the Radical party in the State are opposed to any further action of Congress in regard to reconstruction in this State. The miserable faction of thieves, scalawags and carpet-baggers, headed by Bullock, Blodgett, Clift,Prince, Edwards and Gove, have neither character or influence in Washington or at home. Thev will not be able to counteract the influence of the Brown-Hill party in the present and the next Congress. Looking, then, over the whole ground— giving to all the facts the weight which at this time attaches to them —we conclude that the State will not be remanded to a territorial condition, but that legislation ' subjecting the present State Government I to the supervision and control, to some ex tent, of the Military Commander of the District, may be expected. The effect of such legislation upon the I material interests of the State will be serious and damaging. The labor of the j State revolutionized and sadly demoralized 1 for the last three years, is just beginning to be brought under the influence of a safe and profitable system. This will be over turned and we shall,in all probability,have a recurrence of the scenes and experience of I 1865 and 1866. In view of sueh possible demoralization of our labor it would be well for planters to enter cautiously into contracts and plans for the coming year. Those who own lan J and have plenty of provisions may be able to weather the storm, provided they do not agree to pay too much for labor- Those who rent land and have to buy provisions and stock and farming implements are laying up for themselves a rich harvest of annoyance and trouble and debt. If cot ton remains at 20 or 25 cents no money ean be made in its cultivation, when the planter has to pay high prices for labor and rent and provisions. When we add : to these drawbacks the probable worthless ness of the labor, consequent upon the probable action of Congress, we find that prudence requires that contracts for the coming year should be entered into with great caution. Since writing the above we have found the following speculations upon the prob able action of the Senate upon the Geor- I gia question in the Washington corre spondence of the New Y ork Express. It will be seen that the writer expresses simi lar views to our own : “It is declared by certain members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that Sumner’s Georgia bill will not be reported. The oath clause is against the written opin ion of the Reconstruction Committee, given to Gov. Warmouth, of La. The portion placing Federal troops at the order of Pro visional Governor Bullock is opposed, as if Georgia is to begemanded again to military rule Gen. Meade should be master of the situation. The Bullock party, comprising -a white man named Davis, and three ne groes expelled from the Georgia Legisla ture, have had it all their own way during this week, but some Republicans, headed by Joe Brown, late Governor, are expected and they declare that the power of Con gress over Georgia was concluded as to Georgia when that State was represented in the House; any renewed meddling will wreck the party there, they say, and the i Constitution of the State accepted by Con gress distinctly makes negroes ineligible to office. It is announced that Hill and Miller, Senators elect, decidedly agree with Brown. Messrs. Wilson and Edmunds are preparing a bill to supersede Mr. t Sumner’s, in which they will provide for" the declaration of the eligibility of black men to office, but will leave the handling of the Federal troops to Gen. Meade. “There is no doubt, from the Conserva tive character of the committee, that they ' will report on Monday or Tuesday in favor AUGUSTA,.GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1868 ; of admitting Hill to a seat. This will be resisted by Senators Cockling, Thayer and others, and an attempt made to overhaul j the Georgia Legislature and Constitution. ’ The President and the Bondholders’ Organs. The President has again given mortal offence and incurred the lasting wrath of Radical bondholders and currency man ipulators, by intimating that the honest j people have rights as well as the bloated j bondholding aristocracy, who enjoy ail the good things of life purchased with gold , interest wrung from the hard earnings of : the honest masses by taxation, and revel in French luxuries and outstrip English nobility in the costliness and extravagance of their households, by their marble man sions and gold mounted carriages and shek trotting steeds ; clothing their wives, by day, in white velvet robes, costing five thousand dollars a piece in Paris, and enrobing them, by night, in lawn night gowns, trimmed with rose colored silk. The cause of this high offending is the following honest paragraph in his recent message: “It may be assumed that the holders of our securities have already received upon their bonds a larger amount then their original investment, measured by a gold standard. Upon this statement of facts it would seem but just aud equitable that the six per cent, interest now paid by the Government should be applied to the reduc tion of the principalin semi-annual install ments, which, in sixteeen years and eight months, would liquidate the entire national debt. Six pe: ceut. in gold would at pres eut rates be equal to nine per CPDt. in currency, and equivalent to the pay ment of the debt one and a half times in a fraction less than seventeen years. This, in connection with all the other advan tages derived from their investment, would afford to the public creditors a fair and lib eral compensationfor the use of their capi tal, and with this they should be satisfied.” Although some of the Radical journals affect not to understand this paragraph or assert it to mean repudiation, the meaning is plain enough. The President, in effect, says that the bondholders drove the best bargains they could, taking every advan tage of the necessities of the Government and that they have already received back in gold interest, dollar for dollar, that they loaned the Government; that the avail able resources of the country have been already capitalized and are being daily consumed by taxation, and that this state of things cannot continue; that all the “miscellaneous receipts ” which Mr. Mc- Culloch gathered into the Treasury, by seizing at the South at the close of the war, the cotton and other prop erty belonging to innocent and confid ing citizens--ofwidows and orphans, and trust estates, and selling it, putting the proceeds, less huge commissions, into the Treasury, and then referring the lawful owners to the Court of Claims, barred by test oaths and Congressional repudiating laws, have been exhausted ; and, further, that although the Secretary ot the Treasu ry has reduced, by means of these “miscel laneous receipts ” the liabilities of the Gov" ernment more than thirteen hundred mil lions of dollars ; nevertheless the public debt is still increasing—hav- ing increased from two thousand five hundred millions on the Ist of May last to two thousand five hundred aud thirty-nine millions on the. Ist of December,or thirty nine millions in the last seven months of Radical misrule “outside of the Constitu tion.” Now the President intimates that, notwithstanding the exhausted condition of the country, notwithstanding the bond holders have already received one hundred dollars for every hundred dollars the bonds cost them, have gotten tho whole of their money back in gold,that they ought “to be satisfied” with the fair and lib eral compensation of one hundred and fifty dollars additional on the cost of their bonds, payable in seventeen years. The President’s delicate reference to Shyiock, that “it is not- well for the lender to be over anxious in exacting from the borrower the letter of the bond,” has made the bondholding organs atra bilious. His liberal offer of compromise, by the payment of two hundred per cent, on cost to the bondholders, opens the vials of wrath, and torrents of invective and vituperation are heaped upon him. The New York Times rails at him classically, quoting Coleridge, as “a roundabout fool” —cunning knave, resorting to the lowest arts of the lowest demagogue to ensure suocess in building up a repudiation party at the South. The gentle, moral, Tribune damns him in elegant rhetoric as “a brazen, reckless, shameless villain.” Minor organs take up “the argument,” like the hero in Iludibras, “to run in debt by disputation” and denounce Mr. John ston as “a traitor of the blackest dye;” “a highway robber” who “works in the threat of this or worse, ‘your money or your life“a despisable, contemptible dema gogue and a dabbler in the lowest dreg3 of infamy.” The Secretary of the Treasury says that the debt is “now manageable.” The Presi dent knows that Wall street and the banks own about nine hundred millions and Eu ropean capitalists hold about as much more, taken in tbe way of trade at the rate of sixty cents on the dollar ; and proposes to test the pocket nerves of patriotism radically, and what a howl is raised. Report of the Postmaster General. The Postmaster General gives a report in a document of thirty-eight octavo pages. The postal receipts for the last year has increased six per cent., and the expendi tures eighteen per cent.; the excess being $6,437,991 85. The receipts of the De- ! partment were from postage $16,292,060- 80;from the U. S. Treasury for free matter, (members of Congress use) $3,800,000 ; steamship subsidies New York and Cali fornia $1,125,000; San • Francisco and China $125,000; New York and Brazil $150,000 ; for routes established by 39th Congress $456,525 ; for maps post routes SIO,OOO. The total receipts from postage and U. S. subsidies is $21,989,125- 80. The Department expended over and above all receipts $741,466 85, for which deficiency a special appropriation is asked. The ordinary expenditures for the year ending July 30, 1870 (including $645,250 for overland and sea mails to California), are estimated at $24,540,413. The total revenue is estimated at $17,- 800,000, leaving au excess of expenses to be provided for from the general Treasury of $6,740,413. During the year 383,470,500 postage stamps were issued, of the value of sll,- 751,044. There were in the Department, on the 30th of June last, 6.591 contractors for the transportation cf the mail's. There were 8,226 mail routes, of an aggregate length of 216,928 miles. Os these routes, 36,018 were by railroad, and 19,647 by steamboats. The increased length of route over the preceding year was 13,683 miles. During the year $58,016 87 was paid for new mail-bags. There are now in opera tion in the United States 26 railway postal lines, subdivided into 34 routes, extending in the aggregate over 7,019 miles of rail road and steamboat lines, upon 1,571 miles of which twice-daily service is being per formed, making a total equal to 8,090 miles of railway postal service daily each way, and an increase of 3,276 miles over the service in operation in 1867. There are employed in this service 279 men, as head clerks, clerks, and assistant clerks, # at salaries ranging from S9OO to $1,400 per annum, making an aggregate cost of $329,- 700 per annum—an increase of 119 men, at a cost of $141,600 over the previous year. The aggregate amount of postage (inland sea and foreign) upon the letter corre spondence exchanged with foreign countries was $2,153,690 66. Os this amount $1,706,467 76 accrued on the letter mails exchanged with European countries; $309,- 516 43 on letters exchanged with the Dominion ot Canada; and $137,706 17 on letters exchanged with the West Indies, Mexico, Brazil, Central and South Ameri ca, the Sandwich Islands Japan and China. During the year, 2,167 postoffees were established and 849 -discontinued. There j were 26 481 in operation on the 30th of June last; of these, 849 are subject to Presidential appointment, tie remainder I being filled by the Postmaster General. The tree delivery system has been in I operation in forty-e’.ght cities, and eon-« j tinues to grow in favor, but is operated ! at heavy expense without return, j Under the provisions of the second sec tion of the Postal Act approved July 1, • 1864, postmasters arc now paid stated 1 salaries, in accordance with the amount of i business done, instead of commissions, as I formerly. These salaries have to be re viewed and readjusted once in two years. The readjustment :or the two years com mencing July 1, 186S, is now so far com pleted as to show that the salaries of 26,481 postmasters will amount to $4,548,- 137*. The number of money order offices now in operation is 1,463- Since the date of the last annual report -45 additional offices have been established and one office has been discontinued. The number of orders issued during the year was 831,937, of the aggregate value 0f516,197,858 47. The Postmaster General calls attention to the gross abuse of the franking priv ilege, and estimates the less of revenue from this cause at from one to one and a half million of dollars per annum. He urges that the law should be amended so as to compel Congressmen to affix their written signatures, and that a franking clerk be appointed tor each department, and for each House of Congress, to frank public documents. Agricultural and Manufacturing Asso ciation of Georgia. As our readers generally are interested j in the proceedings of the Agricultural and Manufacturing Association, which met in Macon last week, we publish the following resume of the proceedings of the Conven tion from the Macon Telegraph : On Thursday, the Farmers’ State Con veution met pursuant to adjournment, when it was announced by Mr - Howard, of Bartow, that the three other bodies, then assembled in Macoti, ostensibly for the same purposes, desired to unite with the Farmers’ Convention in one organization, and a committee was appointed to confer with committees from the other societies, with a view to consummate that object, after which the convention adjourned to 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Immediately after, the Agricultural and Manufacturing Association met in the same Hall, and after some preliminary business, adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That the different associations here represented, viz : The Farmers’ Con vention, the State Agricultural Society, the Agricultural and Mechanical Associa tion of Macon, and the Agricultural and Manufacturing Association of the State of Georgia, merge themselves into the State Agricultural Society ; that they proceed to organize by the election of officers, and that the Executive Committee, appointed by the President, shall obtain from the Legislature such changes in the charter as may he deemed necessary by them to ac complish the ends of the various associa tions. The Society then proceeded to the elec tion of officers, which resulted in the elec tion of Mr David Dickson, of Hancock, as President, and the appointment of the following gentlemen as Vice Presidents : First District—-Hon Wrn Schley, of Chatham. Second District—Gen Goode Bryan, of Lee. Third District—J A Miller, of Hous ton. Fourth District —Joseph Clisby, of Bibb. Fifth District—B T Harris, of Han cock. Sixtlr District —BC Yancey, of Clarke. Seventh District—C W Howard, of Bar tow. Motion by Mr Nisbet, of Bibb, that Hon B C Yancey be known as first Vice-Presi dent. Motion by Col-Joel A Billups, of Mor gan, that Hon B T Har-iis, of Hancock, be known as second Vice President. Hon D W Lewis, of Hancock, was ap pointed Secretary, and Dr. James Camak, of Clark, Treasurer. The Society, after appointing a commit tee to prepare business for the afternoon session, adjourned to 3 o’clock. AFTERNOON SESSION. After the announcement of the Execu tive Committee (which will be found In the second day's proceedings below.) A memorial was lain bofore the Society praying the importance of a committee being appointed to memoralize the Legis lature, and pray the aid of the State by the way of appropriation, in the purchase of machinery, models, apparatus, etc., for the use of industrial and scientific schools that this society may institute for the young men of the State. The memorial was referred to a commit tee of three: Prof. W Leroy Brown, of Clarke, Samuel Barrett, D E Butler. Mr Jones, of Paulding, addressed the society on the importance of a direct effort at inducing immigration, and offered to be one of five hundred men in Georgia to pay to the Secretary of the Society one hundred dollars each for ten years annually, for the purpose of organizing an independent im- j migration association. Sir Hutton, of Bibb, read a letter from an agent of a Liverpool and Savannah line of steamships, which was referred to the I Committee on Immigration. By Mr Howard, of Bartow — Resolved , That a committee be appoint- ! ed by the President to address the Legis- j lature of Georgia upon the subject of im- j migration, and pray that body to appoint a Commissioner of Immigration, and to take such other steps as may be necessary in or der to secure a steady influx of useful la borers in the State, through our own sea ports. Mr Rees, now of Bibb, formerly of Norway, addressed the Society, suggesting that more liberal inducements be held out to foreigners than wont to allow. Mr. Thomas True, of Morgan, in a few pointed remarks, made plain that Georgia held out stronger inducements than any State, North or West, to which Mr. Rees had alluded. The Society then adjourned until to morrow at nine o’clock. B. C. Yancey. Vice-President, presiding. Samuel A. Echols, Secretary. NIGHT MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COM MITTEE. Rev. C W Howard, of Bartow, Chair man. At a meeting of the Executive Commit tee, held in the private parlor of Brown’s Hotel, the following business was transact ed : : Mr. Nisbet, of Bibb, offered the follow ing resolution ; Resolved, That a sub committee of five he appointed who, with the Secretary and Vice President, shall go to Atlanta, at the approaching session of the General Assem bly of Georgia, to solicit an appropriation I of money and such legislation as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of'the i Society. Agreed to. James A Nisbet, TR Bloom, GeorgeS Obear, J S Hamilton, C M Irwin, B C Yancy. and D W Lewis, were appointed. Mr B T Harris, of Hancock, offered the | following resolution: Resolved, That Mr Harris. Mr Nisbet, 1 Mr Obear, Mr Bloom and Mr True, be a committee to arrange the Premium List for the Annual Fair of 1869, and that they convene in the city of Macon for that purpose, at the call of the Chairman. J A Nisbet, of Dade, offered the follow ing : Resolved , That the Vice-President of the Society, Mr B C Yancey, Mr Bloom, Mr Obear, MrTrueaujd Mr Lewis be ap poined a committee to procure from the f nited States Government the Laboratory building, formerly occupied by the Con federate Government, near Macon. Adopted. G S Obear, of Bibb, offered the follow ing : Resolved, -That tKe Secretary be direct ed to appoint one person in each county, and request them to solicit names of per sops as members ot the Society, with the annual membership fee of two dollars each; that these agents so appointed be request ed te appoint: sub-agents to solicit mem berships, with ten per cent, upon the amount collected for their services. GW Howard, of Bartow, offered the following ; Resolved, That the Secretary is hereby ' authorized to publish a short address to j the people, and appeal to them to become ; members of the society by subscribing tbe sum of two dollars ana sending their names to the Secretary. On motion the Executive Committee ad journed. C W Howard, Chairman. D \Y Lewis, Secretary. SECOND DAY. City Hall, Macon, Ga., ) December 11,1568 j The President called the Convention to order at 9) o’clock, and announced the order of busines to be the consideration of Col Schaffer’s report on Immigration. The order of business was read and Im migration was taken up. Whereupon Col S came forward to the Secretary’s desk and read an able paper on that subject. Mr True moved a vote of thanks be ten dered to Col Scbalk-r for his able paper. Carried. It was ordered also to be published in the pamphlet of the proceedings of this convention. (It is understood that if. will be made the foundation of a biff which will be presented to the Legislature.) Mr Rees, of Bibb, offered a resolution for the formation of sub-societies in each county, to act in conjunction with the State Society, whose duties shall be to of fer the peculiar advantages of each section for immigration. Adopted. A motion was made tc adopt Mr How ard’s resolution to appoint a committee to memoralize the Legislature upon tho sub ject of immigration. By Mr Butler: A resolution instructing the committee, raised under Mr Howard’s resolution, to publish from time to time short addresses to the people of Georgia, containing such facts as may be important | for them to know. By Mr Fulton : A resolution advising our young men to abandon towns and cities and go to work cultivating tho soil. Also, declaring that while we favor foreign im migration, we object to any system which will fill our State with an indiscriminate lot of worthless people, and that the Conven tion disclaims all intention of displacing the negro who faithfully discharges his work. These resolutions were supported by various members. They were read several times, and finally adopted. In the discus sion it was disclaimed that we had any ob jection to honest industry coming among us, but we did object to abandoned popula tion from the jails and workhouses of Eu rope. The Chair appointed the following stand ing committees : Committee on Colored Laborers. —D E Butler, Morgan ;J A Cobb, Sumter; T J Smith, Washington ; M C Fulton, W M Brown, Clarke ; O C Horne, Samuel Bar nett. Immigration and Land Companies —F Sohaller, of Clarke ; W Schley, of Chat ham ; H F Rees, J S Hutton, of Bibb Jas. Gardner, of New York ; Win M Brown, of Clarke. Committee on Manufacturing and the Best Method of Raising Capital. —J J Gresham, of Bibb ; R L Bloomfield, of Clarke; A J lianseli, of Cobb; W G Jack son, of Richmond; H II V Meigs, of Mus cogee; F T Cooper, of Houston; Enoch Steadman, of Newton. Committeeon Mining. —John Jones, of Poik; J A Nisbet, of Fade; G II Hazel hurst, T R Bioom, of Bibb; J L Rogers, of Dado. Mr True—A resolution to print Mr Howard’s report as a portion of the pro ceedings of this Convention. Adopted. Mr Butler—A resolution favoring the circulation of agricultural papers in our respective counties. Adopted. Mr Bloom reported 101 members of tbe Association which he had obtained this morning. AFTERNOON SESSION. Mr Howard—A resolution recommend ing, as far as practicable, that freedmen be required to obtain certificates of good behavior from their last employer. Adopted. A resolution was adopted to print one thousand pamphlets of the proceedings of this Convention, together with acts of the Legislature relating thereto. Mr Bloom—A motion to increase the Executive Committee to thirty-one. Amended so thatsevenconstitute aauorum. Adopted. The following is the Executive Commit tee complete : C W Howard, of Bartow; J H Nisbet, of Dade; J S Hamilton, of Clarke; W J Russell, of Clarke; PWJ Echols, of Ful ton; B H True,of Morgan;George S Obear, of Bibb; B T Harris, of Hancock ; J A Billups, of Morgan; J B Jones, of Burke; John S Thomas, of Baldwin; C M Irwin, of Lee, A S Reid, Sr, of Putnam; J T Smith, of Washington; T R Bloom, of Bibb; P M Nightengale, of Glynn; D W Vischer, ot Houston; Jonathan Miller, of Richmond; Josiah Hillsman, of Crawford; J A Miller, of Houston; VVm Schley, of Chatham; B G Lockett, of Dougherty; Dr J Dickson Smith, of Houston; il Casey,of Columbia- K G Harris, of Richmond; R Peters, of Fulton; 11 H Tilton, of Bartow; H L Benning, of Muscogee; T M Furlow, of Sumter; Wm Duncan, of Chatham; Dunlap Scott, of Floyd: and R II Ilada way, of Thomas- Air Butler moved.a vote of thanks to the Citizens of Macon for their generous hospitality. Unanimously adopted. Mr Howard —A motion to request Mr Rees to furnish the Secretary with an abstract of his remarks made to the con vention yesterday. Adopted. Mr Fulton— A. resolution on the subject of fencing. Referred to the Executive. Committee. Mr Howard moved to adjourn, which was carried ; whereupon tho ohair de clared the convention adjourned, to meet in Atlanta on the first Tuesday iu Feb ruary. Speaking of the convention, the Tele graph says : Seldom have we seen a more grave or a more dignified body ot mon met together. It was composed of plain, prac tical planters. Their speeches were all terse, sensible, to the point, and charac teristic of the men who made them. Such eloquence was indeed refreshing to every one used to listening to the forensic dis plays of political speakers. They came here to talk of the agriculture, the miniDg and the mechanic arts of Georgia, and not a single allusion was made of a par tisan nature. More Negro Outrages near Savan. NAH.—Chatham county is certainly cursed with the worst negro population in the whole State. Under the lead of the white miscreants, Hopkins and Clift, and the mulatto “wahoo” Bradley, they have or ganized themselves into military bands and companies, infested the swamps sur rounding, and the roads leading into *hc city, for the avowed purpose of waging a war of extermination against the whites. But a few days since we published an ac count of a murderous attack made by them on a German patrol, resulting in the death of two of the latter, and the Savannah pa pers of yesterday contain still another out rage perpetrated by these black guards. It seems that a gentleman named J. S. Mont molin, living fifteen miles from the city, discovered a negro stealing his sheep, and as he attempted to escape, shot him through the thigh. Mr. M. immediately harnessed up a horse and cart and took the thief to Savannah. On last Sunday morning he started home accompanied by a colored boy on horseback. When he had gone eleven miles on the Augusta road, he found a negro armed with a rifle sitting by the roadside as if on picket. On seeing Mr. M. he darted into the swamp, and run ning at full speed, pursued a course paral lel to him. After proceeding a mile in this manner the road was suddenly filled in front with negroes armed with Enfield rifles and revolvers, while a regular band debouched in his rear, capturing his at tendant. The negroes were regularly or ganized, under command of one whom they they called “Colonel.” After charging him with having shot a “gentleman,” they told Mr. M. they had come for satis faction. They then put a guard in his cart and proceeded further on until they met another gang. Here a consultation was held to determine whether or not their prisoner should be murdered. After a long and angry discussion, pro and con, the moderate party prevailed and Mr. Montmolin was dismissed to his home. On that night, after reaching there, his faithful attendant of that day informed him that an armed body of negroes was marching on his house to kill him. He immediately took to the woods aid started to Savannah. The negroes entered the house and, finding it started in pursuit; but he had the start of them and managed to gain the city at daylight, after suffering intensely from the cold. These outrages have gone far enough and the people, in self-protection, will have to ex terminate these bands of murderous out laws. As the News says, they have com menced like the Indians and their fate will be similar, 1 01R WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. — comu SPONDKXCE OF THS CHBOKICLX & BXICTIXEL* 1 Excitt ,'nmt about the Message—Political and views thereon—Sena tor Frefbighuysen utters Congratula tions that Johnsons time is short— Speech of Jam "sGf. Blame The Issues Settledby Grant « Election—The Trans j fer of the Indian Affairs Bureau — Greeley in Washington Rumors of Appointments —A Down East Dinner Contemplated in the Capital—Amuse ments — Opera Boulk and High-Priced Seats—Grant's Dining and lining Ex cursions, etc. Washington, December 11, 1868. Radical politicians and all shades of “news paper men” in the capital continue to be excited on the subject of the Presdent’s Message. The former because of the re affirmations of the political creed which has guided tbe present administration, and particularly tbe views touching the finances expressedin the document, while the latter (the newspaper.people) are generally in dignant that it was published prematurely. No earlier than Tuesday last copies of the message were given to the Agent of the Associated Press in this city, having been made up at the White House in packages, for different cities, and a Special Messenger sent from here, with instructions to deliver copies to the Ageuts at Baltimore, Phila delphia and New York. To the other cities it was to be telegraphed from proper points. The instructions relative to secresy, the proper time for delivery, etc, were thor oughly and sacredly observed, but judge of the astonishment of the parties upon learning that not only had certain papers received by telegraph a synopsis of the message, but it actually appeared in full about nine o’clock yesterday morning in “Brick” Pomeroy’s New York Democrat. “Brick” was not so fortunate as he might have been, however, for after striking off about forty papers or thereabout, his press broke and he did not get the message on the street. The Senate recovered from its fit of spite and anger of Monday so far as to permit the reading of the message, after which Mr. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, had his say on its merits viewed through Radical spectacles. He congratulated himself, his fellow-Sonators, the country, and the rest of mankind generally, that Johnson’s time was short, and the exercise of a little patience would be rewarded by seeing Grant in the White House, dispensing the laws after the latest approved Radical fashion. In the House Mr. James G. Blaine, of Maine, who is the most formidable aspi rant in the Radical party for next Speaker, made a speeeh of some length on the issues settled by the election of General Grant. He chimed in with every other member oi’ his party who has alluded to Grant in public and extolled him iu fine language. The object is to keep the party in his favor. Blaine as serted that the Reconstruction laws have been vindicated by Grant’s election, and that “the State governments erected under these laws will be upheld, and the basis of impartial loyal suffrage, without regard to race or color, will be accepted as a per manent rule in the lately rebellious States, as it will be at no distant day, throughout the entire Union.” The American people could hardly have entertained that view of things when they elected Grant, and Mr. Blaine would hardly have asserted it a week before the election. Another issue, which he asserted had been settled by the election, was the financial question, in the fact that the American people had record ed their decision in favor of an hunest dis charge of their public obligations. He also mentioned, in puffing Grant’s abilities which few have done lately—that great military rulers have always proved the firmest and best rulers, mentioning, with reference thereto, Cromwell, William the Third, Charles the Second, and Frederick of Prussia, of Monarchical Governments, with our Washington, Jackson and Taylor. Blaine is now among the foremost men of the Radical party. He has energy, talent and aspirations, and this speech, coming at this time, may be regarded, without doubt, as embodying the views of his party with regard to fastening their hold upon the President elect. Tim mu to transrer tne matan Bureau from the Interior Department to the War Department, which went through the House “like aflash,” received an uniooked for blow in the Senate yesterday, by being referred to the Indian Committee. There was quite a debate on this adherence to precedent, something unusual in Congress now, unless the precedent is dangerous to the constitutional liberties of the people, but finally the older fashioned Senators carried the day and the biff was referred. There is more opposition to thi3 measure than had been imagined. It was thought that because Grant recommended it in his annual report, and Sherman endorses it, that Congress would act at once in accord with the opinions of these two Generals. The Senate was not prepared to “give in,” however, and the consequence may bo con siderable delay in the passage of the bill. It is said there is a lobby here armed with the necessary greenbacks to kill the pro posed transfer if possible. Congress will,without doubt, take a long recess to cover the Christmas and New Years’ Holidays. Until that is over there will be little disposition to do much work. In the appointments of Committees in both Houses to day no material changes whatever were made. Horace Greeley, wearing the historic white coat, has been in Washington, and created a sensation among the newsboys around the hotel where be stops. He lectured Thursday night in Dr. Boynton’s church on the “woman” subject and did not j give the female rights advocates any idea of an intense advocacy of their peculiar j opinions on his part. They think he is ridiculously inconsistent and not at all practical. The department clerks here j hate Greeley with a holy hatred. He killed their twenty per cent, bill last year, j and is on the tapis to renew his warfare : this session. His presence here demoralizes i the clerks and they say all manner of hard things about him. Rumors of prominent appointments are becoming current daily and some of them, though presenting the names of “fit men for the places,” are extremely improbable as to their results. It is a good rule to believe nothing with reference as to who will be appointed to office by the President until the event has actually occurred. Commissioner Rollins, of tbe Internal i Revenue Bureau, resigns on the first of| January,and, unless a successor is appoint ed, the office will go under charge of Deputy Commissioner llarland, who is universally regarded the most suobbish 1 and discourteous official within the pre cincts of this district. The “down Easters” resident here con template having a dinner on the 22d of December in commemoration of the land ing of the pilgrims, their Puritan fathers. One of the Fessenden family is head centre in the movement. opera Bovffe is the rage here, and the public ignoring the legitimate drama, give all their attention to the sensational. The Worrell sisters are playing Barbe Bleu at the National Theatre to fine houses. At Wall’s Opera House, a first class company is playing “The Lancashire Lass,” anew piece, now having a fine run at Wallack’s in New York. Next week Max Maretzek, with his “German and Italian Opera Com pany,” open at the National. Prices of ad mission have gone up considerably, and to enjoy the luxury of listening to music that cannot be understood or appreciated by three out of every four who go, because it is fashionable, $2 50 must be paid for reserv ed seats. General Grant has been dined and wined sumptuously while away, a thing he does not permit here, but still no speeches. There are parties here confident that his inaugural address will not extend over five minutes in length and that it will give evi dence of no policy to guide hi3 adminis tration. Speculations as to his Cabinet have subsided. Grant says neither yea nor nay to any proposition submitted to him on that score. The weather has become very cold, and winter may be regarded as fairly inaugu rated. J. C. Radical Progress.—Here is progress ! The Radical journals which, pretty much all of them, applauded the suppression of the World and the Journal of Commerce by Lincoln and Seward a few years ago, disapprove the suppression of French jour nals by Louis Napoleon. This is a great advance in our Repub lican brethren toward the sound doctrine of liberty of the press. It deserves en couragement. To disapprove despotism anywhere is better than approve it every where. We bid the truly loyal God-speed. Ctoe of these days, they may come to the knowledge of the truth—or if not they, at least the lessons of liberty may not be hopelessly lost upon their children. One of these days, liberty will be popu lar even in America, whether a monarch, a president, ageneral, a majority, or “pro tective” tariff manufacturers seek to de prive freemen of their birthright.— N, Y. World. NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVII. NO. 51. OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE, The Bureau Reports —Their Substance- Report of the Secretary of War —Freed men s Bureau—Reconstruction Fizzle — Supreme Court Fourteenth Amend ment-Congress, Business, etc. New York, Dec. 10, 1868. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : Contrary to custom, the Bureau re ports of this year precede in order of publication in the message. More money and more troops is about the sum and substance of these reports; but as the i full text has been received, a fuller sum mary may be of interest, taking up, first, the report of the Secretary of War, it is stated | that the army on the Ist day of January next will number about 43,000 men. The j Secretary carefully forgets to add, however, that as the law now stands, Graut can, bv a single wipe of his pen, five minutes after inauguration, add some 25,000 to that number. It is recommended that the Bu reau of Military Justice, which hauged Mrs. Surratt and furnished Meade, and Pope before him, the vizier who converted Georgia into nigger reconstruction, be made permanent. “In the National Ceme teries 316,233 remains of soldiers have been of which 177,764 are identi tied ” The total expenses of the Freed men’s Bureau for the past fiscal year are given as $3,977,041 72, ali of which can be believed by whom it may concern Grants report, saying that “troops are still needed in tho Southern States” — jet us have peace (what a trick that was !) is given, as also divers other reports in synopsis, from the several military oom mandants, almost every man jack ot ’em bawling for troops, and Meade hinting at j the desirability of authorizing him to in- ! terferc in civil affairs. We thought recon struction was a glorieus success but this i yell for soldiery does not seem to say much j tor the quality of the success. The naughty Ku-klux then get a lick—much they mind , it —and then comes a declaration that the Indians “should no longer be regarded as a nation with which to treat,but as a depend ent, uncivilized people, to be cared for, fed wheu neoessary, and governed-" The italics being the Secretary’s own. Why not say of the negro what is here said of I the Indian l Cuffee is“dependent”enough, < and “uncivilized” enough and why since he is “fed”and“caredfor-,” why not “gov ern” bin}, tea, instead of setting the poor thing up as a ruler in the land ? The last thing in the War Department report is a cunning step toward an open military des potism in the South, thus : “The relation of the army to the civil authorities in the States recently restored to cjvil government has beeu a subject of no little perplexity. While those govern ments were yet imperfectly organized, j lacking to a great extent the sympathy and ' support of the most influential citizens, without arms and without money, and without even authority or law to organic i and arm a miltiia, the military government, j which the people had learned by more i than three years’_ experience to rely upon j tor protection ot life and property, was j suddenly withdrawn. Immedia'ely tV.- I Jewed an exciting political upivd-s, i u., ! for its alternative results, iu popular ex pectation, the support or overthrow of the newly formed governments. The result has been unusual disposition to lawless ness and crime, and comparative ineffi ciency ofeivii government in those Statos. “The only laws of Congress providiug/or the employment of tho military force of the United States in support of the gov ernment of any State, were passed in the infancy of the Republic, with a jealous care to avoid undue interference by the National Government in State affairs, and not designed for such a condition of society as now exists in the Southern States.” I What a confession of the absolute fail-; ure of this dirty reconstruction scheme is j this ? But patience. The sword is very | expensive and will break itself down. The j dilemma of tho loil is to let the South alone : or bankrupt themselves by trying to gov ern her by the army. Whichever way it turns it works benefit for the South. Let j ’em roll on their cart. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue presents.- .io l»ja # rannjet. wilderness of nguvea which, boiled down, amounts to this that the expense of collecting tbe revenue increases and tho amount of the revenue decreases. To obviate the enormous stealage, he recommends a civil service, or that the revenue officials be chosen for efficiency, as evidenced by strict examination, and then kept in office during good behavior. This is late learn ing. The Confederate Constitution had just such a provision. “Truth crushed to earth will rise again.” The report of the Secretary of the Interior contains nothing of any special importance, unless a propo sition to pay the Supreme Court, Vice President, and Cabinet officers, with a hint for the ereotion of palaces for the two latter, be so considered. Give ! give! give ! is the tenor of the song. Ihe Postmaster General dwells on the abuse, and reoomntends the restriction, of the franking privilege. He says that “three dollars will buy the sac simile frank of any member of Congress, and the use of it by claim agents and business men in cities in sending books, periodicals, letters and business circulars, de frauds the Department, but of immense suras of money ? It is estimated that this stealage for the past year equals $1,500,000. What an exhibit ! United States Congressmen selling their souls for $3 per frank ! Thank God ! there are some of us left yet who are not “loil.” The Secretary of the Treasury says the debt has increased $160,174,475 18 from April 1, 1865, and that the entire debt in Nov. 1, 1868, was $2,527,129,552'82 1 This is a huge sum, but no matter. It is all going to be repudiated, little or big. The Secretary himself says of the United States, “The question of their ability, under Democratic institutions, to sustain a largo national debt is to be decided.” Right there, Mr. McCulloch. It is still to be , decided, and when the day does come will be decided after such fashion as will forever forbid in this country the piling up of any more of your “national” debts to cut folks throats and boat down liberty. The Secretary reiterates his declarations in a former report that “the great ship-building interest of the Eastern and Middle Statos has been steadily declining and that the United States is gradually ceasing to be a great maritime power.” The entire Treasury report is dismal to the last degree and means, if it means anything, that “the nation” is speeding headlong into bank ruptcy, both spurs in and the bridle loose. But, let ’em roll on their cart. The report of the Secretary of the Navy is twaddle and bosh, being mostly a loud sounding of brass horns in praise of Farragut’s late cruise to the banquet halls of the “bloated despots” of the Old World. The other reports and the message are yet to come. A. J. dies game, and insists on “my policy,” as well he may, to the end of the chapter. The temper of Con gress has already been evinced to you by the opening debates. Nothing under Heaven can be expected from that body. With no election before them to keep them in check it will be steal, lie, rob, insult, oppress and degrade from now to the fourth of March next, when the session ends. Where are those “Democratic” members elected to Congress from the South under the Reconstruction Acts ? Why don’t they say something in behalf of the maligned and injured people they assume to represent? They were not sent there to sit in curule chairs and draw their per diem in silent ease. There is enough in what is now doing to tip the tongue of even a plain man with fire, and why then do these chosen leaders so absolutely hold their tongues? Was it in the bargain that “we would be good boys if you only let us in ?” Now that Chief Justice Chase’s green backs arc in the cramps, the legal repute of their author is becoming wofully ragged. In a case lately decided by him in Rich mond, Keppeli vs Petersburg R. R. Cos., he held that the Confederate Government was not a de facto government, because it never held “the National Capital,” or as serted any authority to represent “the nation,” by which “loil” Mr. Chase means respectively the seat of Government of the United States, and the United States themselves. Now, turning this about you will see that as the State Gov ernment of under the Confeder-' acy, did hold the State capital and did, not only assert, but. maintain authority to represent the State, it was, therefore, a de facto State Government, and, therefore, acts done under it cannot now be reviewed or made punishable by law. This is an unexpected deduction for Chief Justice Chase, doubtless, but nevertheless true, and should warn him not to depart from what an old writer beautifully calls the “golden mete-wand of the law,” to follow after extreme and “trooly loil” dogmas. A second matter of law may also be of interest. If the 14th Amendment be a part of the Constitution then exclusion from office is the only punishment for I treason, nor can Congressjmake any other, I | the former constitutional clause having been by implication repealed by this 14th Article. How this is would take some time to fully show, but the bar can readily I perceive the line of argument by a reference | to the terms of that Amendment, and the 1 state of the law upon treason as existent prior thereto. The opening of Congress and the tone of the departmental documents have pro duced an unfavorable effect here.. To use an old, old simile, it is believed the ship is nearing breakers, and the idiots of the helm cannot get her out. Markets generally are dull. Business somewhat depressed, and financial circles the seat of much inquietude. Altogether, the outlook is not encouraging, and the signs are things will be worse when Grant gets in. Tyrone Powers. Appointments of the Jiorth Georgia Conference for IS6P. AUGUSTA DISTRICT. H H Potter, Presiding Elder. Augusta—St. John’s, A Wright. St James, G H Patillo. Asbury, C W Key. City Mission, CJ Oliver. Richmond—J 51 Armstrong. 'Appling—B K Benson. Thompson—Leonard Rush. Warrentou—ThosA Seales. Sparta—A J Jarrell, Hancock—Josi&u Lewis, Sr. MiUedgeville—W T Caldwell, lalmferro Mission—D W Calhoun. Baldwin—J \ r M Morris. ATHENS DISTRICT. II II Parks, Presiding Elder. Athens—C A Evans. Factory Mission-J 31 Kenney. Watkinsville—Richard J Harwell and r H Porter. Madison-EustisW Spier. 3lorgau—W R Foote. Greensboro—J 31 Dickey. White Plains—C A Mitchell. Lexington—D J 3lyrick. Washington—Morgan Callaway. Broad River—John W Ileidt. Little River—Cyrus H Eilis. ELBERTON DISTRICT. John H. Crogan, Presiding Elder. Elberton—A G Worley. Elbert —E G 3lurrah. Jefferson—J II Washburn. Homer—W F Quillian. Hartwell—A W Williams. Clarksville—Francis G Hughs. Clayton Mission—To be supplied. Lineolnton—Brittain Saunders. DAHLONEGA DISTRICT. W A Simons, Presiding Elder. Dahlonega and 3lissioa—J T Lynn. Dawsonville—J Hughes. Canton—J R Gaines. Gumming—J Daniel, Jas A Carson. Ellijy—J N Sulivan. Blairsvillo—3l J Hamby. Cleveland—3l II Eaks. Gainsville—J R Parker. Gwinnett—J Bradford. ROME DISTRICT. W P Harrison, Presiding Elder. Rome—T F Pierce. Rome circuit—W P Kramer. Cave Spring—P Niece Cartcrsville—J L Pierce. Stilesboro’s 3lission, to be supplied. Bartow circuit—R H Jones. Kingston—W P Hamilton. Calhoun—To be supplied. Lafayette—J T Lupo. Dalton—J P Duncan. Tunnel Hill—T 31 Pledger. Ringgold—W D Heath. Somerville—J A Reynolds. Spring Place—W L Davenport. Oostauaula—J 31 Lowry. LAGRANGE DISTRICT. L J Davies, Presiding Elder. LaGrange—R W Bigham. LaGrange and West Point Colored Charge—E Harris, col. West Point and Long Cano —A M Thig pen. Whitesville—T S L Harwell. Greenville—P M Ryburn. Greenville Col. Charge—T 3laddox. Chalibeate Springs—WW Oslin. 3lerriwether—R II Jones. Palmetto—J T Low. Sanoy Col. Charge—li Stripping. Franklin—J W McGhee. Newnan -E P Birch. Missionary to China- W Y J Allen. mahibita ‘ UISTRIC Marietta —W F Cook. Roswell—C 31 McClure. Alfaretta —J 31 Chambers. Dallas—A G Carpenter. Acworth—W J Scott. Cedar Town—J T Norris. Carrollton—J W Davis. Bowdoin—J C Bridges. Villa Rica—R B Johnson. Sandtown 3lission—C Trussed, Campbellton—J 31 Bowdoin. ATLANTA DISTRICT. A G Haygood, Presiding Elder. Atlanta—Wes Chap, FA Kimball. Trinity, W M Crumley ; J T Curtis, sup. City Mission—W A Dodge. Atlanta Circuit—W J Wardlaw. FultoD—A G Dempsey. Decatur—N A Farris. Stone Mountain—W A Florence. ‘ Covington— P A Heard. Oxford—J J Singleton. Conyers—Albert G Gray. Monticello—3 l W Arnold. Social F 3lalsby. Walton —J W Baker. Lawrenceville—B J Johnson, J W Stipe. S S Agent—G J Pierce. GRIFFIN DISTRICT. W R Branham, Presiding Elder. Griffin—H J Adams. Zebulon—David Strippling, R A Scales, supernumerary. Pike and Col Mis—3lorgan Bellah. Thomaston —Daniel Kelsey. Barnesville—W F Smith. McDonough—To be supplied. Jonesborough- -W I’ Rivers. Fayetteville—J W Turner. Culloden—J W Reynolds. Clinton--W P Arnold. Jackson and Liberty Hill—David Nolan. Forsyth—W P Pledger. Forsyth Circuit— F B Davies. President Griffin Female College—W A Rogers. General Jfews. A crockery wedding is the latest. It is Weston’s legs, not his stomach this time. The reward offered for the largest Gre cian bend will break some-body. Greeley is said to have another book in hand. We hope it will remain there. Somebody wants Maj. Morrissey’s place at the State House. “Stick,” Major. It is stated that General Grant was closeted with General McClellan over an hour on Tuesday. “Warrington” was fifty years old Dec. 7. He has been considered an “old head” for some time. Onslow Stearns is to be the Republican candidate for Governor of New Hampshire, next spring. Gen. Grant’s speech at Providence! “No sir.” He will be obliged to repeat it often within twelve months. Fears are felt for the safety of the steam ship Union, from Wales for New York, which sailed October 25th. A terrific gale prevailed at Halifax on Monday night. About thirty vessels wore damaged in the harbor. Bailey’s hat factory,'at Newburyport, Mass., was burned yesterday morning, with most of its contents. The woman’s suffrage question, and the license question will be the two elephants in the Legislature this winter. The gale of Tuesday night was very severe on Long Island Sound. Boats fer New York did not leave, except one from New London. The ordinance granting $400,000 bonus toward the construction of"a narrow gauge railroad was carried by a large majority at Toronto. The Revolution pronounces Henry Wilson's speech before the Woman’s Convention “characteristically politic and disingenuous.” _lt is suggested that a society of the officers of the Army of the Potomac should be formed after the plan of the organization adopted by the members of armies of the West. Advices’from the interior of Pennsyl vania represent the presence of an im mense quantity of snow. lissome places it is over a foot deep and trains are de layed. The California Commissioner of Emi gration has sued the Pacific Mail Company tor violation of the Passenger Act, placing the penalties at >-.ear five millions of dol- Robert Kennedy, an apothecary in Brooklyn, was fined $5,000 damages for having given morphine to a daughter of Mr. Webster, from the effects of which his wife died. To Shakespearian scholars—What were the wages for which Good Digestion waited on Appetite l—Judy. The cattle plague is working great havoc in Western Wisconsin.
