The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 9, 1864, Page 1

The Latest News Hy Telegraph to the N. ¥. Sum, } -—— —2 -—_ —. TRE WAR IN GEORGIA. Fester’s C v-operating Expedition. VERY SEVERE FIGHTING. Arrival of Wounded at Port Royal LATEST REBEL ACCOUNTS. Operations in Tennessee, REBEL BATTERY ON THE CUMBERLAND Unsuccessful Attack On It. HOOD PREPARING TO MARCH ON KENTUCKY. The Border Rebels. MORE INCENDIARY PLOTS, Warning from the Government. “Jef and Elis Sympathizers. HOW SEWARD SNUFFED THEM OUT. Interesting From Mexico. “ MAX.” ON HIS TRAVELS. A Fine Snecimen of Blarney. now HIS PEAR PEOPLE WILL BE GOVERNED. &e GENERAL SHERMAN, Foster's Co-operative Expedition New York, De- 5.—By the arrival at this port, to-day, of the steam transport Trade Wind, from Hiiton Mead, 8. C., we have advices to the 3d inst. The residents at that place were al! uuder arms end doing guard duty, in consequence of General Foster having taken all the available troops to cos operate with General Sherman, who was expected oon to make bis appearance on the see const, Gen. F. bad met with consilerable rea'stance on his advan «, and a number of his wounded were brought into Hilton Head, from) waich place heavy Gring could be beard REBEL ACCOUNTS, There is eill consideratie obscurity respecting General Sherman's movements. The Southern pa- pers proieas to be considerably mystified on the subject, anol the Washington authorities are as yet without any direct ation, We infer, how- from the somewhat indefinite ataternents of the R' hmond pspers, thaton Friday or Saturday last, the main body of Gen, Sherman's army either neeupied Mi & Cc Ce, infor ever, , or passed within a few miles of Itto na polot not distinet)y smeertained, Millen is sixiy wiles from Savannah, and fifty-five from Au- guste, His cavalry had appeared on the Savannah river, which {t would be nove '¥y for him to cross, in case his ten estination war Savannah or Char!os- Teleg aphie communications between Rich. 1 Millen were sucpended on Friday night, end bad not been restored np to Monday last. This indicates that Sherman sti 1 that place or the approaches to it, The Anyusta CusonxioLe axp sexTixme hae the following io reference to Sher- mau: It, must be fessed thet for the past week sbermev has bees very * ily acting the part an “Artful D, uding all cacula- tons, and exciting eval apprebena on by bis seutrie movermente, The latest reporte indicate that he is mov nz toward the thero is litle re! anc tlon of bis iptentic il be shall get out {the triangle whiel has been manmuvering siver b t Atlanta, we can infer nothrog with 4nvaunah River, but od in any tmdica- rtal't om any ot his movements, as to bis ul- Viwwate course. Le may turn Auvusta aud peck to force his way through sooth Cavoiua or be may push for SaVeonal or Beanewie Vhe Riehwond papers appear to be no better tn- mec, necor lng to the tol'owing extracts. Tle Disraton of Monday last states 5 | Sherman's whereabouts fa not positiv known, tt # Lot certain that he has ev et resched Mil- lea, though the fact i# assured. AtfourP, M. last | re tole ator at M Ten anno b oper d that herman witLinfour miles of the place, end that bo bimself was ou the po at of wiading it | w hasty adieu, Nothing bas been heard from there since, He hart been within twenty miles of Mul a | tor ty i] the the sume date, saya: j Oca tioa was received here yesterday, suut the 4 §> wau's eriny which bes teen operating e neighborbood baa disup- peared, it ie te »tojein the maiu army near | Mulen., Informatou, rece.ved from official and viher sources seoms t) indicate that Bherma: bjoctive p 6 my Bear the mc Nlabatas k ver, fifty mites aout ] The Examen appears to bave a bitte fuller in- | tormauen: Two important statements Love reached us, One Isthat a porth f Sher . up bas pos Mu lev. Tie enemy bas uot eithe tow. Le other mamcmeot is tothe efecy that the ¢ mo which has been lingering ior owe time in the new hbor- hond of Muceo, haw le.tia country and gone off to the main bo.y, What and whee is the main | ol Au Auguste paper of Nov. 20:h etates: | The Jatest sews fiom Waynesbor.’ was that Puecler wus stl! fight os the enemy and ur.ving them. The road to Waynesbors’ is ail right, bus the damage from Waynesboro’ to M.jlen bas not yet been ascertained Toe 8 uthern papers give detai'ed accounts of the devastations" committed by Bherman's forces. Au Atlanta lo ter siaies that the city presented an appearance of almost barrev desolation, Al! the rairoad depots, hotels, foundries, railroad shops, government Works tills, and nearly all the unoceup!: private residences have been burn- eit a female college was pulled down and @ fort retablished ou the ground ; while even rail and fences ure reported to have been destroyed, At- | cutm which four mouths ago had a population of wenty thousand, now numbers only six hundred snd seventy-five male inhabitants, with a few wo- men and children. Only fifteen or twenty pegroes were left in the place, or - ~ NEW “The Augusta papers state that Sherman's forces Wave gathered up two thousand horses and mules dp Warren and Glaseock counties, and the largest plantations in Newton county were destroyed. The negro huts were lef untouched. K'lpatrick's cavairy are alleged to bave swept slong « belt of ten or twelve miles of country, capturing and | urn- ing aa they went. No cribs or dwelling houses were destroved, bat horses, muler, poultry and cattle were swept off. The planiers’ gin houses and hundreds of bales of cotton were destroyed, The burning of the Female Colleze is thus described ; Emory College, Oxford, was also destroyed, and 8!’ the buildings connected + ith the same, together with their contents, This college was the property of the Methodist Church of this State, Severs! tine libraries belonging to the various college soc.eticn, besides the one belonging to the cc llege itsel!, were among the property burned. Also s large and ex tensive mineralogical cabinet, fine chetuical appar- tus &e. Aas the federala approached the town they were fred upon, and one of ther party killed, The college was Curned io retaliation. It i eati- Mato! that the property cost uearly half a million before the war The Richmond papers publish Northern eccounte of the baitle of Franklin, but had not received any Confederate report according to Northern accounta and jusist that Hood drove the Union army and achieved a de- cided success. GENERAL THOMAS. lleod Preparing 2 arch on Kentacky, ee Louisville, Dee, 5.—The Nasavilie Purse of yes- terday says: ‘Shelling the rebel lines and the r working parties was kept up on the 61b inat., but hardly #0 vigorously or persistent!y aa the day he- fore, The rebel Generel Forrest, with his com- mand, is said t be across the Cumberland River, We cannot vouch for the truth of this statement, but give it as we bearit. Tho impr nm gains strength among both our soldiers and citizens that the rebele are evacuating, and if this be #, the march on Kontucky may be said to have com- meuced. We think this ts quite possible—indeed, probable, Unsuccessfal sang Vy a Rebel Battery, Nashville, Dec. 8th-8.30 P. M.—Mastere at the front present vo change from that of geveral days past. The rebels have established a battery on a bluff fourteen miles down the river. Last night seven gunboats went down and engaged this bat- tery, but without dislodging the rebels from their position, The gunboats returned to-day, one of them cousiderably damaged. A reconnoissance was made to<lay by our forces between the Lebanon and Nashville pikes. After proceeding @ short distance the rebels were dia- covered in considerable force, Our troops charged YORK, FRIDAY, They claim @ victory even | DECEMBER for every other exivency of the war in which ther | Ravinond, H 9, 1864. 6 Greeley, and many others, ask~ are engage), the inmirvents, who have blindly | ine an aprronrtation for a find for the support of rushed into that condition, are auffering no priva- tions that appeal for relief to charity either at home or abroad, The American people will be likely to reflect that the sum thus insidionsly ten- dered in the name of humanity, constitutes no large portion of the profite which ite contr buters may be fustly supposed to have derived from the weurgenta by exchanging with them = arms and munitions of war for the coveted productions of fmmorsl and enervating slave labor Nor will any portion of the Ameri- can people be dispored to regard the sum thus ostentatiusly offered for the relief of captured inmurgente ag @ too wenerous equivalent for the de- vastation and dissolution which a civil war pr moted and protracted by British subjects bas spreal througbout the States, which betore were eminently prosperous and happy. Finally, in view of thia last offictous intervention in our domestic affaire, the American peop! can bardly fail to re- cal! the warning of the Father of our Country, directed against two great and intimately connect- ed public dangers, namely, sections! faction and foreiyn intrigue. 1 do not think the in- mungenta have become debased, although they bave aaciy wandered from the ware ofloyalty avd par trioticm Ithink that in common with all our countrymen, they will rejoice tn being saved by their considerate and loyal Government, from the erave insult which Lord Wharneliffe and his aawwiates, in the'r zeal for the overthrow of the United States, have prepared for the victims of thie unnatural and hopeleys rebellion. Tam, Bir, Your obetient servant, Writtas H. Srwarp, Rebel Plots. OMclal Orders. Washington, Dee, 5, —The Provost Marabal Gen- eral to~iay issued the following circular: Reliat'¢ information has been received that a large number of evil disposed perrous, couristing of rebel sympath'zera, secessionlete, marauders snd otber outlaws, who have ¢ au with a view to enter the commercial cities of the North, and particularly those on the Canadian frontier, with the ortenmble purpose of aeeking em- ployment, but who are in reality intent upon the destruction of life property, will abortly arrive tn the United States All officers of this bureau are instructed to place all persons suspected to be of this class under strict surveillance, and to arrest such as evidently belong to tt, Provoet Marshals willconfer with the Municipal authorities, with » view to preventing the mischief cont \ated, and will aid the civil authorities in discovering these persons, and caraing their arrest, Javne B. Fry, Provost Marshal General, The following general order waa oleo to-lay issued frown the Quartermaster-Ceneral's office : L. The government haa received information that numbers in the British provinceson our northern borders have removed with the intention of ob- tainiug employment at the depote of military stores for the purpose of incend{arisin. which, some monthe «iver, m the western r vers were fired and destroyed by rebel awente, interns to atten pt the destruction by fire of military stores, shipping, manufactories, and public and | Sur have now been extended with the | Wharncliffle that permission tor au ageut of the | committec described by him to visit the insurgents wrivate property at various po.nts throughout the joyal Btates, IL. The strictest vigilance and greatest care in guarding against incendiansm are enjoined upon all officers 1p charge of the property this depart. ment. Tl, ONcera c# the Quartermaster's Depariet will employ at all depots where valuable atores are kept bo pertona who have atany time within the last aly mouths been living In Canada as re- fusgees trom the disown! States, or as fugitives from the disloyal States, or ae fugitives from the draf. IV. Officers of this Department vill require from those whom they my: gious which couki tneitate access storehouses satisfactory evidence ty upon the hill which the rebels occupied and drove them off. Two or three of our wen were killed ; seven severely wounded, and a few slightly. Col. Johnson, who escaped from Dlock House No, 2 no providentially, was slightly wounded by « rebel bullet to<lay. The river at thispoint is five foot deep. The weter on the sboals is scant and falling Rebel Battery Planted at Harpeth Shonls Cairo, TU, Dee, 7.—A dispatch from Paducab states that @ report bad reached there that the re!- els had planted a» battery at Harpeth Shoals, Ten- nessee River, and that # gunboat had | een seat to that locality. In the meantime, transports are not permitted to proceed above Smithland. The James River ‘Guorrilias. Daring Rebel Foray—-Characteriatic ¢ rael- ty—Kumor of the Capture of a Govern ment steamer and Three schooners. (Correapondenee af The Sun ) Portreas Monroe, Dee, T.—A sutler schooner and tho tug Lizzie Freeman, as alroady announce! in the Ses, were captured and destroyed on the night of the 4th instant, while anchoring off the mouth of the Warwick BR ver, a Httle stream about weven miles above Newport News by a party of ! ree OF Louly of lc tion to ihe usnal oath of allegian V. At posts within or nesr the field of active op- erationa, refugeos coming from the rebel territory upon preseniing mat tory evidence will be emploved, if neeaed, but great caution must be exercised tn employing such persons M,C, Mrra® Quartermuster-ienr Brevet Maj in, Wefent of the Indians Near Vort Lyon. tachmments of the First and Third Cavalry, under command of Col, Chronigien, had a fight with the and 600 01 them, and captured about 10 ponie The chiefs Black Ke'tle, White Ante- lope and Little Rob were killed, leilied and 65 wounded and mutex, Our lows was vine rebels. The crews wore parole Duriug the capture of the tug, the mate, Mr. Wi)'lam Spier, was severe! wounded .n the shoul- der, and ome of the colorod soldiers acting aa s guerd on the barge Z had in tow, was ahot down iu vold blood, and two others dangerously wounded, although not offering auy resistance. The passergert and crows of both the tug and tho sutlor achooner were rolibed of alt their clothing and valuables and contived in the hold of the barge with hatches shut down for sov- era! hours, The steamer Matlide passing the spot the pext woruing, relieved them from thelr un- Congressional Proceedings, XXAVIIIth CONGKEss—second Session, minerman, which the tug BENATE. Washington, Dee, 5-—Mr notice that on to-tnorrow Twill rewlution for the restoration Davis introduce a joint peace, and tor the vindicat P aud the guaranty of the of the cltizens of thi several Biates, Mr. A ay —f mov aulre the election of} that the rules which re- pleasant s: ov and conveyed them to Norfolk, ding Conunitteesa by bullot The steamer Wyoming arrived here last evening | be suspended, and thative iollowing Comritices ats lute bour, ond reported having seen two | be choren: schooners and @ steamer bearing off Day's Poins Foreign Re ‘atic n4a—Nt s 5 ner, jchalrm su; | {the scene of the occurrence night belore last). T | rapde rae ry, Doolittl ATE Avi PLURAL, wae supposed that the rebels bad wade soother | ky ance Sheytuan, Chaleur capture aud destroved the siesme Patuxent, wiih @ | Howe, © k Wiukle, ' tow of three schoouers which left here yesterday: | HU) immo enue Chairman: Morvi for Cty Polot. Noadditioual facts have Leen ree | ton Eyck, More sak BiulaLees kad Lane ceived, and the Wyoming's report is burdiy ered- jh d ryodl This ond tha Mitiia se Wee, ited, cmmneranimin Cha rinan; Merare. Love ot " nh Howar J, New British Sympathy, | Te matin ste "eran. “Chslrman {Mommy Jobo Ball's Campaign on Hebnlt of bef — Wile usoos Marga: Brragin, Halts fale of BADRm | yaks Vir, Sevard’s Flanking Opera. “Sudieiary Mr. 'Ystima bits Chairm ny Messrs The Paesident yesterday in answer to ® resolu. Your, Ten Kyck, Harris, Foote, Powell and Jokne tion of the Senate calling for information aud docu- Post Offera and Post Roida M tollarner, | | ments relative to avy propomtions of Englleh eub- | Charman A caer Dixon, Ramsey, Conness, jects to aid the rebell.on, transmitted the corres: | "public Lands Mr, Hurtan, Cha'rman ; Mesars, pondence in reference to Lord Whaincliffs offer to | Pomeroy, Foo Harting, Carlile, Hordreksa and end an English agent to the North to d'stmbute Wee ree nee ae Taisen among the rebel prisoners the proceeds of a fair | Ms:re. Wilkinacn, Laue (of Kunsas,, Harlin, aunt that has been held in England for their benefit. | mith, Biown and Buek slew Minister Adams referred the matter to Secretary The following are the Joint Stoning Cormmit- Seward, who at once transmitied the following reply: Deportment of State, Washington, Dee. 6, 18s4.—Are: Lhave reve:ved your diepatch of the 18. of November, No, 907,together with the papers toes: Joint Committee on Printing-Mr Anthony, Chairman ; Messrs, Morgus «Powel! Joint Committee on Evrolied Bills Mr. Howe, Cha. rman + Messrs, Cowan anu A cke. Joint Comin tittee on Part of Library Mr, Cole therein mentioueu, viz. a copy of a letter which BB ola fa in was addreamet to you on i 12th ef Novernber lamer, Chairman ; Mesars. Johuson soc Howard, Select Committee on Slavery und th of the Freedmen—-Mr, Suwner, Chair | Howard, Garlile, Pomeroy, Bugkalow, Conness. Mr, Morgan asked that the credentials of the Tre tment lust, by Lord Wharncliffe, and s copy of your #u- swer to that letter, You wii now inform Lord detsined in Oe mary prams, the United | Btates, to among them seven | Benstors from Louisiana preseuted yesterday, be faaeg Pe i expected Meas Se sevens: | referred to the Judiciary Committer, and it was deuce with Lord Wharnclife will end. ‘bat | so ordered, cor will necessarily become pub-| Mr, Morgan.—I desire to present « petition sign- . reading 1+ the American wi : 4 P well swore tbat watle the Ualted yb-pl ed by William ©. Bryant, Henry W. Longfellow, ple means for the support of nrisaners as welles | Jonn A-Dioe U 8 Grant. Reis Cenner anew ? employ at depots in pos | all | ty, but of reaidence within ‘he lowal States in addt- of loyalty | Denver City, Colorado Tervitory, Dee. 5.—Dee | Tudiane near Fort Lyon, and killed between 400 | T wish to rive | f the Union and | noft Yon jon | ' 7 | rof the Constitution | vucer she law im oricr that these officers may be } the Department & National Home for totally disabled soldiers and | seamen of the artny and navy of the United States, In consideration of the my. rtance of the mul ject, and the character of the wemorialiats, T ask that the paper be printed and referred to the Military Committee Tt waa so ordered, Mr. Powol! I move that the Senate proces! to the consideration of the resolution Introduced by ne yesterday, that the Secretary of War be directed, if not incompatible with the public tuterest, to communicate to the Senate the proceedings of the military comminsion appotuted t investigate the conduct of Gevera! Payne in Kentucky, I do not know what isin the ort, but 1 have understood frow persona in ¢ oculity, who ought to bere some knowledge of ecbaracter of this report, that tt has such evidence tn it aa convicts this man | Of the most heiuvour barbarities and cruelties ever intlieted upon any people of any civilized communt- ty. General Payne had been notified of the soasion the commission, He understoul he had since ned aud bis resignation had been accopaed. Mr. Trumbull said it appeare that the Senator from Kentucky i# vot informed at all except by tho rumors he bas heard, that Gen. Payne bed notice from thie commission, The Senator has heard re- poe prejudicial to the character of Gen, Pi ave beard a very good account of Gen, Pa: the only complaint 1 bave ever beard in regard to him from any source came frova the enemies of the country that he dealt with traltors and rebels in Kensuc ty they deserved aud protected Union meu. He was too severe upon the enemies of the country in the opinion of the enomies of the coun- try. He ts from my own State abd is regarded as an cetimabie citizen, FT think ft unjust to bin shat # report should be published reflecting Upon him, ff It was made by men acting in secret who gave him no opportunity for defence, I move the reference of the resolution to the Committee on Miltory Attaire, Pending the discussion, the Senate went into Executive session The doors were opened in a few moments, when ® inessage from the Premdent, recommending ® vote of thanks te Captains Winslow and Cushing Was read; aldo a message in answer to Mr, Sunm- ner’s resolution relative to ald furnished by British subjects to the rebellion; whieb, on motion of Mr, ir, Waw referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, Adjourned until Monday. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Washi gton, Dee, » —Mr, Stevens from the Com- mittes of Ways and Means, reported back the joint resolution explanatory of so much of the Internal Revenue Act as refers to the duty on segara. Mr. Brooks suggested that the bill be postponed for a fow daye for further exan nation Mr. Stevens replied thatin the opinton of those best instructed, the Department had lort millions of dollars by the construction of the Commissioner of Interr venue Mr. Brooks said that, inthe opinion of « large number of manufacturers, it was quite impossi! le under the prince Ube of the jaw, ever to have honest manufacturing of segare The temptation war so ereat, the duty so fmivense, and the punishment fo severe, a8 to render it almont impossible to pre- vent fraud by the measure now before them, There waa no doubt, from best information, thet the teat way way to attach w one ceut stamp to each sevar gold, aud th's would produce @ larger rev- enue than the principle in the bil, Mr. Sevens explained that all the committee had doue, was to put @ proper construction on the aw, in contradiction of » very erroneous decision of the Conmta'ss.oners of Luternal Reveaue Mr. Davies, of Massachusotts, suld that some o the manufacturers had atepped nearly entirely, in consequence of this very mogular construction of the law. The construction went even beyond the aw iteelf, Ue thought something more than & alraple joint resolution was necessary to remedy the effets He boped bia friend from Pennayl- vauia (Stevens) woud be patient in clearing up which ubject. than pre w that nine- gers menu » Congress instead of $9 @ thous- » the construction of tae Comnaiisel of Toterna! Revenue, he rej aw. Mr. Brooks expressed the hope that the Com- mittee would tare time to consult with emt manufacturers, in order to remo ' The measure pending was, U, bo give the proper construction to We ficulties ; but as the Heuretary of Treasury had | reooninended a duty on f tetacco, a duty on munufactured tolaces shot be considered in fame condechou, He repeated that experen tac!) had adv sed a statap on ciyrars alinilar to the postage stamp, say one crit and as wielding th largest revenue, The temptation to suugyling froin ¢ a wae pow irresetibie, Old stamped ce gar boxes were used, in which to put uew cigar, aid so wetamp alone woul! stop this, beside real ving the largest revenue, Mr. Karson advocated the passage of tbe pending or tou, slowing that every day the yovern- tuons War lowing rove e by cigars paying toree instead of eigbt dollars a thousand, ject then postponed, A menage received from President Leave Uiet Captain Winslow and Lent. Cushing each rece.ve a vote of thanks, oue fy. the destruction of the pirate Alabama and the oiler for the desuuction of the rebel jrou-clad Al- vectwuarie, \bls action of Congres belay pece po Sub. was here to, recommend! a ary adycuced one crade, Naval Mr. Scheuck, of Ohio, offered a resolntion, which Relerred to ibe Guusuiit AQuire was ndoptedy instructing the Cormtittee op dudi- elary, to inquire ipto the expedieucy of passing « Jaw denaioualiz.ng persons who vo abroad to es- cape the drat, cid requr ag pedonalization in cane they want ty be restored to the privileye of citivenal p. Adjourned Munday, The toterior Depurtmont—Secretery Loher’s Keport, Lie jual roport of Afr, Veber, ihe Secretary of i the buterior, states (hat there is | eu increased demmaud for lauds for settlement end cultivation, More than three milous of wered of | land were sold during the financial year ending June U0, Ind4, realizing @ total of l,i, ldo. to! quantity of lands surveyed, but not dis- of, amounted op the JOth of Bey tember to T acres the average of unseld lands for cars past, » acts donating lands * for the benefit of culture and the mechanic into = operation, Nineteen d its prov.sions, and have land scrip amounting to 4,950, - report allutes in tho most en- the velopment of the miuing ft the precious wetals are The etary recom ths sppoluumevt of expericuced raiueralog.ets to make # #exutfe examination of the mining re int. He ulso recommends the imposition of modrate taxes on mines and the products of | mines, to be evilected by the lnternal Revenue De- partment, Upon the subject of mining the re- port states ; ace Relrowd will pass, many rich veins have becn found, aud it ts eetitueted by persons tatnil.ar with the subject, that if the mines now opened there were supplied with the proper machinery, they would yleid ten millions of dollars per month, In the same region vast bods of salt have also been found, which, fro.o ite value in the process of sepa- rativg the silver in the ores, has given a fresh im- pulse to mining, When we reflect that the resion of country in which deposits of the precious metals abound, includes large portions of turee btates and aix territories, and that the richest velus of ore heretofore discovered are as yet but slichtly deve!- oped, While new discoveries aro cummiaully made i+ | | p the existiry dit | | the Biate | various States, and 1 | walt before he took a: ! after the Presidential ONE CENT..IN GOLD ‘KNTS EN CURRENCY, — SEES will be perceived that the annual product of the mines in the United States must soon reach # mag~ nitude without precedent in the history of mining operations.”” The Secretary augyosts whether it would not be expedient to appropriate a portion of the public lands for the construction of a ra'iroxd to open Up the productive, but nearly inaccess'ble mines of New Mexico and Arizona. Hoe warm! pom rf the interests of the Union Pacific Railroad to Congress and states thet since tiie date of the last Report, over half s million doilers have been expended upon the main line Mente J ent ~ ward from Omahe. More than a bhonirei miler of this line have been permanently located, am? fe ry toiles are in process of construction, The proposition to reverse the policy of making treaties with Indian tribes and to abrogate all ex- lating treaties, is discouraged by Mr, Usher ; but he surgeste the propriety of omitting all stipule- tious for the pavmeut of money annuities, when- ever good polloy or existing envagements will ad- mit of that course of on. Hoe adds: Where the Indians have kept faith with the government, ne auestion of expediency or policy will justify a vie Jation of its pledyos to them, There are, hago | many Indians within the domain of the Uni States with whom the government has no acknowledging the prurary right ot soil in the tribes ; with these, powmbly with some exce 14 would be wire to abetaln from making any treaty’ rocoguizing auch right. Suitable reservations should be aslected for them, and means adopted t establish thera thereon, and to enable them, by) thelrown industry, to sustain themeclves. This: policy has already been introduced succesafally, in, the nanagement of the Indiaus in California, and tay properly be applied, to a considerable extent, ‘no the nelghboring states and territories, There are now 51,155 penmoners on the rolls, ena the numb ris constantly increasing Of these, & are Revolutionary soldiers; 1,418 wilows of Bevo~ lutionary soldiers; 22,767 army penstoners ; 26,433. orphans and mothers of army penmoners ; sailors, The expouditure pension account Leet year were four an @ balf millions of dollars A, bY, aud 1,812 bounty land warrants, ~“- a7 = = Ss am = | resenting 256,060 acres of land, were iaeet, Oe the whole aunount expended for pensions lest years $5,500,000 were granted on account of disability or death resulting fromm service in the war of the re~ bellion, He estimates that over seven millions will be required to satisfy the claims on the Pension Bureau during the current fiscal year, recommends that the Netlonal Banke shall be authorized to act as pension ayents, The war acemsto bave atitnulated rather than depressed the inventive geniua of the people. Last yoar 6,740 applications were made for now patente; 889 caveats wore filed; 29 applications for exten- sions wore received; 4548 patenta were issued Cin- cluding re-lssues), and 40 extensions were grant- ed The number of applicatons awalting the pay- ment of the flual fee required by law before ean be issued bas largely tnereased, num! now over 1,000, The finances of the office are in & prosperous condition. The receipts of the office to eptermber 4, 1864, including balance, amount! te S20R 571. The exnenditures wero $212,458, leav~ ing ® balance of poG11T, October 1, 1964—¢18- S84 76 wore than the balance of the previous year. The Keport states that the corpilation the A statistics bas been nearly completed, The’ volume ov population has beer petaas and distri~ buted, and that on agriculture is néairly ready for distribution, The Secretary recommends an ep~ Propriation tor the purchase ot a building for the une ol the United States courts in the City of Now York. The leave of the present premises has ex~ pired the ownors bave given notice of am ine tention to sell From Albany. Meeting of the Electoral College—votm@ jor President and Vice-President. ‘Correspondence of the Sun.) ALuany, Dee, 7, 1864, and to-day Albany has felt ite ime Addod to the dignity of a State capital, ithas received the distinction of being the theatre for the meeting of the Electoral College, The digni- taries upon whom devolved the lunpertant respoa- wit iNiy of deciding the Presidency, eo far ae New York ts srned, bave come and gone and Al- bany ia again quiescent. The Flectoral Cc + which enjoya the dise Unction of being the most consummate humbug im. + system of government, convened in the Benate Chamber at 4 o'clock P, M,, on Tusaday, to decide the momentous question of whom the New York desire for President and Vice- aceordynce with the statute, the f State called the Electors to order, afler roll was callod snd the usual oath of stminiatered, The election of perman~- ent officers being next fo order, Hou, Preston King normiuated Horace Greeley, of N. ¥., for President of the College, and that gentleman was unani- mous! He was escorted to the chair by 1 the dignity and responaiili- ty of th with characteristic grace and atfabilit dis uined jn @ respectable enit of clothias, be was reconized by the serenity othe tendency of hie hands to portance our wh people of President, In Secretar whic office was di, vtumittee, aman position , and although of bia countenan hide 'n hia pockets, the unmistakable evidence of veweturianiein, sud vociferous cheers followed, Yhe ovcasion belug peculiar, the chairman was considerably at a loss to find vent for his super- abundant rhetoric, and consequently atated, with ustomed oraterical ability, that asthe meet- ng was of a deliberative character a speech would not be expected, At th me time, however, it ov. ltchim that the occasion was one of great motent, and he spoke accordingly, ‘r the clectlon of other officers, the Convenes tion, mpressed with the yravity aud immenee fu portance of the work before them, adjourned over till Wednesday, for the purpose of ecquainting themselves more thoroughly with thetr respons’ - Dilities and the bote! bills of fare, To day the College re-convened at 10 o'clock, end proceeded to ditcharge the duty of determining whom New York preferred for the two higoest offices in the country, The deliberations upon this subjoet were worthy of the Roman Seuate in its paliniost lays. The clectors at length determined what will no doubt be stale news to the people of that New York voted for Lincoln and his acc Johnson, Im) ressed with the stupendous work thoy had accomplished, the College then appointed com. mittees to inform every of what they bad done ; thanked everybody prosent for their aid ; ordered that thelr ;roceedings should become his- torical, by means of printers’ ink, and adjourned ody | atl otlock, no doubt feeling relieved that their In that portion of Nevada, through which the | onerous and mon fully terminated, tous labors had been success- w. From information received from Cuba it that « petition mgned by over 100 planters of thet isiand was presented to the Captain General, urg- ing him to uss his best efforts with the Queen of Spain for the abolition of slavery on that island. Be received the petition, and remarked that be would action in the matter until jection in the United States, as that contest would, in hie ju it, decide she tuture of the slavery question in the United Bates, ‘ Continued on the last page,