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CONGRESS
Senate.—Dec. 12—Mr. Cowan, of Penn
sylvania, presented a petition asking for a
high tariff on imported goods.. A bill was
introduced to grant the right of constructing
.
a telegraph line from New York to the West
Indies. A resolution declaring the reb4ion
subdued, and restoring the writ of habeas
corpus throughout the country, was referred
to the Judiciary Committee. The resolution
from the House to appoint a committee on
the late rebellious States was taken up, and
after striking
. out that part which' provides
that no members from such States can be ad
mitted until the committee has reported, was
adopted. This leaves each House free to act
without waiting for the other, and removes
the necessity for Executive approval. A
resolution calling fbr information as to
whether the rebellion is suppressed, and for
the reports of Government officers and agents
who have visited the states in revolt, was
passed.
Dec. 13.—A resolution was adopted, calling
for information whether there were any per
sons employed in any of the departments
who had not taken the oath of allegiance. A
bill was presented abrogating all laws of
States lately 'in 'rebellion, which make an in
equality of civil rights among their inhabi
tants on account of race or color ; pending
the discussion of which the Senate adjourned.
Dec. 14.—A resolution favoring the eight
hour system for laborers on Government
works, was presented and laid over. The
death of Hon. Jacob Collamer, late a Sena
tor from Vermont, was officially announced,
and eulogies on the 'deceased were delivered
by Messrs. Foot, Harr' Johnson, Fessenden,
Dixon, Riddle, and WM.. Poland, the suc
cessor of Mr. Collamer, after which they ad
journed until Monday.
Dec.lB—Resolutions and bills were intro
duced when the Senate went into executive
session.
House.—Dec. 12.—A communication was
presented from the Governor of Virginia, en
closing an act of the Legislature favoring the
repeal of the act of 1862, consenting to the
division of the State, and the formation of
West Virginia. The Military Committee
was instructed to report upon the propriety
of granting bounties to the soldiers who en
listed in 1861 and 1862. Mr. Raymond pre
sented the credentials of persons elected to
the House from Tennessee, and moved that
they be referred to the joint committee on
the subject of the late Confederate States.
Considerable debate ensuedrbut the motion
finally prevailed—yeas - 125, nays 42. The
claimants were also granted the privilege of
the floor. The Committee on Territories
were instructed to give the name of Lincoln
to one of the new Territories.—The chairman
of the House Committee on Agriculture, Mr.
Bidwell, of California, is one of the largest,
if not the largest farmer in the United States.
He 0wn5.26,000 acres, a large proportion un
der cultivation, 1,000 acres in wheat, on
which he raised this year 38,000 bushels.
Dec. 13.—A resolution was passed instruct
ing the committee on the Lincoln memorial
to consider the expediency of providing for
the completion of the Washington monu
ment, so that it could be dedicated to com
memorate the virtues of both Washington
and Lincoln. The Committee on the Judi
ciary were instructed to inquire into the ex
pediency of creating the eight-hour law.
The committee on Pacific railroad were like
wise•instructed to inquire into what action is
necessary to expedite the work. Mr. Farns
worth introduced resolutions declaring that
impartial justice demands that our Govern
ment should secure to the colored soldiers of
the Union the same rights and privileges as
are accorded to other citizens of the United
States. A motion to lay them on the table
was defeated by a vote of 42 yeas to 113 nays.
They were referred to Mr. Stevens' select
committee. It was resolved t that the Com
mittee on the Judiciary be instructed to con
sider and report whether any inhabitants of
the rebel States are entitled to compensation
for loss occasioned by the Union armies; also,
that the same committee inquire into the ex
pediency of reporting an amendment to the
Constitution prohibiting any State from ma
king any distinction of color in giving the
elective franchise.
Dec. 14.—The Speaker announced the
tommittee on the part ;Of the House to in
quire into the conditidi of the late so-called
Confederate States :—Messrs.. Stevens of
Pennsylvania,Washburne of Illinois, Morrill
• of Vermont, Grider of Kentucky, Bingham
of Ohio, Conkling, of New York, Boutwell
of Massachusetts, 'Blow of Milsouri, and
Rogers of New Jersey.
It was resolved that with the agreement of
the Senate the House would adjourn from
Dec. 20 to January 9.
Appropriations for repairing the White
House, and for pensions were voted. The
House by an unanimous vote of 153 yeas
passed the following resolution.
Resolved, That treason against the United
States is a crime that ought to 'be punished.
The following preamble and resolutions
were adopted :
Whereas, Republican institutions can find
permanent safety only upon the basis of the
universal intelligence of the people: and
whereas, the great disasters which ha.ire af
flicted the nation and desolated one-half of
its territory, are traceable, in a great degree,
to the absence of common schools and gene
ral education among the people of the lately
rebellious States: therefore,
Resolved, That the joint committee on re
oonstruction be instructed to inquire into the
expediency of establishing in this capitol a
National Bureau of Education, whose duty it
• shall be to enforce education without regard
to race or color, upon the population of all
such States as shall fall below a standard to
be established by Congress, and to enquire
whether such a bureau should not be made
an essential and permanent part of any re
- construction: also,
Resolved, That all papers which may be
offered relative to the representation of the
, slate so-called Confederate States of America
''atir either of them, shall be referred to the
joint committee of - fifteen without debate,
and no member shall be admitted from either
dvof the so-called States until Congress shall
declare such States or either of them entitled
to representation.
Dec. 18.—The credentials of J. M. John
son, of Arkansas, were referred to the Select
Committee. A resolution declaring it an as
sumption of power for the President to ex
tend the elective franchise to persons in the
States was tabled. The President's message
was debated.
The 'Congressional Oath, passed July
2d, 1862 :—" I, A. 8., do solemnly swear (or
affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne
arms against the United States since I have
been a citizen thereof; that I have volunta
rily given no aid, countenance, counsel or en
couragement to persons engaged in armed
hostility theretn; that I have neither sought
nor accepted \per attempted to exercise the
functions ofany office whatever under any
authority or pretended authority in hostility
to the United States ; that ,I have not yielded
i voluntary support. to any pretended govern
ment, authority, power or constitution within
the United States hostile or inimical thereto.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1865•
And I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the
best of my knowledge and ability, I will sup
port and defend the Constitution of the
United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic; thlt 1 will bear true faith and al
legiance to the same ; that I take this obliga
tion freely, without any mental reservation or
purpose of evaMon : that I will well and
faithfully discharge the duties of the office
on which lam about to enter. So help me
God."
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE
Oregon Conference.—The minutes of this
conference, show an advance in almost every
department. The number of members and
probationers is 3028, which is an increase of
121. There are thirty-five churches and twenty
two parsonages, the former being one, and
the latter four more than last year. There
are sixty-seven Sabbath-schools and 2632
scholars; an increasealf fourteen schools and
215 scholars.
The Two Million Fund.—The Methodists
in this country propose to raise two millions
of dollars next year for benevolent purposes,
as their centennial offering. One rich man
among them has already subscribed a quarter
of a million, to begin the endowment of a
theological seminary! Re will put it on a
complete foundation. A good beginning.
Statistics of the M. E. Church;—The
Advocate and Journal gives, in advance of
the publication of the General Minutes qtthe
M. E. Church in the U. S. for 1465, tome
important statistical tables. The totii4lem-.
bership, probationers included, is 929,259,
against 928,320 reported in 1864. This ex
hibits an increase of 939, a figure which, so
far as it is an increase, is gratifying, but
which falls much below the expectation of
those who, from the frequent reports of the
wonderful spread of that church, have been
led to expect an enlargement at least corres
pondent to the growth of population. There
are 7175 preachers, of whom 6014 are " effec
tive." The increase of " travelling preach
ers" of all classes is 354. This does not in
clude local preachers, where an increase is
also reported. The number of churches re
ported is 10,041, being 21 more than were
reported last year. In the benevolent con
tributions there has been an enlargement of
more than one-fifth.
Revival in Virginia.—Rev. James A.
Davis, pastor at Timber Ridge and Liberty,
Virginia, reports to the Religious Herald
about two hundred conversions in connection
with protracted meetings recently held in the
two churches. One hundred and forty have
already come into communion by baptism.
Quite powerful revivals are also reported from
Bedford, Charlottesville, and churches in
Culpepper county.
Items.—From New York, revivals of much
interest are reported as going forward in the
Second Street M. E. Church, and at the
Bank Street Mission. —A revival is in pro
gress in the M. E. Church in Bridgewater,
Mass.—On Word circuit, in the neigh
boring county of Chester, the work of God
has been considerably revived. At one ap
pointment (Mount Rocky,) the membership
has increased from twenty to fifty-seven.—
Large and numerous revivals in the Metho
dist churches in and around Washington
city, are reported; also on Patapsco and
Montgomery circuits in Maryland. —ln
Genessee College, Lima, N. Y., and Cornell
College, Mt. Vernon, lowa, the work of sal
vation is going forward among the students.
MINING INaLIGENCE.
The very valuable correspondence from
Nevada, which we have ' published in the
Commercial List for a number of weeks, is
meeting with the attention it deserves.
These letters undoubtedly furnish the best
history of the location, value and future
prospects of the various silver bearing ledges
of the Reese River region, the most prolific
of rich lodes in Nevada. Mining Register.
OUR NEW SERVANT.
BY GRACE GREENWOOD
I think I must tell the children and their
mammas of a wonderful servant we have had
for about two months past. She is not Irish,
or German, or African, but that exceedingly
rare bird, a genuine American servant—han
dy, clever,
and cute. Her virtues are mani
fold. In the first place, she is wonderfully
quiet—going silently and steadily about her
work—doing all that is required"of her "with
neatness and despatch." She is good-tem
pered—is never " on the rampage "—never
msolitrit—never unkind to children. She has
no Tollowers—never goes off without warning;
never wastes, never blunders, don't drink,
and "don't break the eighth commandment.
I call her a servant, but she seems to me
more like a helpful friend, a kindly compan
ion ; and yet she is but a soulless thing, after
all—a mere wonderful piece of human me
chanism ; she. is—one of Wilcox and Gibbs'
admirable Sewing Machines.
1 was-very late in availing myself of the
services of this great, beneficent hand-maiden
of modern womanhood. I have longed for
one vaguely for years, and made many reso
lutions to procure one, but have refrained,
from painful doubts of my own ability to
manage a creature that seemed to me so
" fearfully and wonderfully made.", Being
but modestly endowed with mechanical inge
nuity and insight, I dreaded the trouble and
vexation of learning to work any machine,
and my inquiries of friends were always for
the most simple invention. The weight of,
reliable evidence being. overwhelming for
that of Willcox and Gibbs', I at last decided
upon it, procured it, am more than satisfied.
I began my acquaintance with it with some
trepidation, but it soon put me quite at my
ease. We were capital friends at once, and,
as yet, have had no falling out. Together we
fell right to work, and manufactured an arti
cle of clothing very creditable that very
morning.
The simplicity of this machine is only
equalled by the unerring accuracy with which
it works. Our little daughter, after a very
few trials, was able to manage it nicely, and
the two are now •on excellent terms. The
only trouble is, that mamma cannot supply
work fast enough. She laughs to see it
hungrily devour the tedious long seams
which were once her aversion, and then lick
up the little seams, hems, tucks and fells
with such apparent relish.
Ah, mothers and wives, when work pres
ses—when muslins, linens and prints cumber
your drawers, and little ones clamor for
spring "toggery," the thought that in your
sitting room waits, ever to help you, a silent,
trusty friend, of forty sewing woman power,
is wondrously sustaining, isn't it?
And while the novelty lasts at least, a
sewing machine is a great incentive to indus
try in the familT. Restless little girls delight
in a kind of work so exceedingly like play;
and boys even take to it, and think it "jolly
good sport" to be able to manufacture their
own shirts.
As for myself, I must confess I have not
yet come to any real hard word with my ma
chine. It still amuses me. lam still exper
imenting with it, and wondering at its Puck
like swiftness; I delight to set at a long
seam, and see it go like a greyhound on the
scent—like Flora Temple on the course. In
short, I don't believe there will be any end
to my enjoyment of my machine whikk the
dry goods hold out —The Little Rlgrtm
[From the Evening Telegr a ph.]
Profits of Silver Mining.
Anstvers to Objections to Investments in Silver Mining
Property—Distance—Transportation of Bullion
Inexhaustability of the Mines—Silcer
versus Oil, Etc., Etc.
To the end that the value of the silver regions of
the Eastern Pacific slope should be properly known
and appreciated by our readers, we have endeavored
in several previous issues of The Evening Telegraph to
describe the extent, immense wealth, and inexhaust
ibility of the treasure regions of the Territories. That
our efforts have not been without success is evident
from the urgent requests which have reached us from
various quarters and all branches of trade to continue
and extend the valuable information thus furnished.
We have, moreover, had the pleasure of chronicling
the organization of several nevi , mining companies,
which have purchased ledges in the silver region,
and gone to work in a systematic and energetic man
ner.
All this is encouraging, and it is the best evidence
we could have that the business men of Philadelphia,
as well as the capitalists, are not disposed to allow
New York and Boston to appropriate the whole of
the valuable property here offered, or reap the im
mense and legitimate profit to be derived therefrom.
The objections to investment in the gold and silver
mining property now offered in the market, and to
which capital is invited as a eine qua non of success,
are neither few nor unreasonable, at first sight; but
it is proposed to show that they are not insuperable
or indeed really well founded.
DISTANCE FROM HOME
One of the first of these objections• offered is the dis
tance to Colorado, Idaho, or Montana. Shrewd busi
ness men say, "It's too far off; I grant the wealth of
the mines; I cannot doubt the evidence of reliable
men, or the proof of returns in the amount ofbullion
shipped monthly; but I'm afraid to put my money
where I can't look after it myself." Now this is rea
sonable and natural, but let us see as to the distance.
We are within four days by rail of Atchison, Kansas,
the grand starting point across the plains. From
there eight days will put us, by daily stage, in any
point of the Colorado mines, twenty days from Phila
delphia in the mines of Nevada u and a like time by
water from St. Louis in the mines of Montana.
"But stop," says the objector, "that is too long for
our letters; we must communicate more readily.'
"Step into the American Telegraph office with me,
my friend. It is now 12 o'clock noon by the ornamen
tal olock there of the enterprising proprietor of our
excellent daily, the Ledger. Let us send this dis
patch :—' To Superintendent Franklin, Silver Mining
Company, Canon City, Nevada. What is the mine
dhing?"Our dispatch has gone in its turn, has it
MA'?" Yes It will reach Nevada at 9 o'clock, A.
M., gaining Just three hours in time, and be in the
liands of our energetic superintendent actually before
we sent it by the Ledger clock. When you are open
ing your business letters to-morrow morning his an
swer will be before you. Will not this do?"
TRANSPORTATION OF BULLION
"Yes, but," adds objector, "how about receiving
the gold and silver,here when, we mine it. It's all
i ,
very fine to have a M yiel4iiig• under proper man
agement, $5OOO a day; itiPVciiir treasure has to pass
through a wild unseptit . itmflifrY. full of hostile In
dians and white lesiitald'es, our chances for divi- i .
denda will be slim7' l 'IMO so, oh I Man of little faith '
your superintendent ships his bullion, be it much or
little, bars or tons, with our invaluable express com
pany of Wells, Fargo & Co, By them it is safely
transported from Nevada to San Francisco. deposited,
if required, in the Mint, and by the first mail..certifi
cates, entitling your company to its value in ccin at
the United States Mint in this city, are forwarded.
and your stockholders get their dividends in that
coin, with the additional advantage of the existing
premium; or, your bullion can be sold on the spot,
and your money paid by telegraph on New York or
Philadelphia at an exchange of one percent., and the
cost of the telegram."
"That is satisfactory and better than I thought, yet
there is another difficulty in my mind. I am told one 7
half of the mining property sent here for sale is what
you Nevada men call ' wild cat,' with neither title to
the ledge or silver in it if there was." "You never
was in greater error. That irresponsible and unscru
pulous speculators have placed worthless property on
the market hitherto is true, but that the majority of
that now offering, or indeed any of it is such, is not
true. The mining laws of Nevada require strict com
pliance withtheir regulations, which demand record
of discovery. a.certaiwamount of labor on each hun
dred feet of every claim to be done monthly, and the
expenditure of a certain sum before a fee simple can
be obtained.
"The mining engineers of Nevada are honest and
practical men, and will not furnish false reports. The
assayers, whose, rtificates you can have with every
claim offered, 4 arTamong the best in the world, and
you have also specimens, notselected, sent you in any
quantity required, which can be assayed here and
show for themselves. You are not asked to go into
the thing blindfolded—send a man you can trust out
there, it you have no faith inhuman integrity west of
the Rooky Mountains, and within six weeks you can
have his report by telegraph, and act upon it."
INEXHAUSTIBILITY OF THE MINES
Admitting that to the objections above proffered
there have...been perfectly satisfactory answers ren
dered, it is not to be supposed that no others will be
presented; on the contrary, a common obstacle is as ,
follows:—" Hven if these mines are as rich as rel.re-'
sented, what guarantee have we that their wealth will
not be exhausted in a short time?" To this query
there is, fortunately, an uncontrovertible argument
in reply—no silver mine was ever known to be exhausted.
The mines of the Andes yield to this day as they have
for centuries; the mines of Potosi. in South America,
have been worked since 1545! The mines of Hungary
still yield as they did when worked by the. Romans
before Christ. Man's efforts have not and cannot ex
haust the prodigal gifts of a beneficent Providence.
It is idle, therefore, and puerile to speak of the inex
hamtibility of a region the mineral wealth of which
has been known' to man but five years I If in this
brief period we have begun to learn the possibility of
extracting enormous amounts of treasure from these
hills, what may we not expect when only a quarter of
a century shall have elapsed? The chance of any
company or companies exhausting the ores of a fairly
located group of veins is conseqUently about as pro
bable as lightning in an unclouded sky.
SILVER VS. OIL
And now rises the most frequent objection offered
to investments in mines:—" I went into oil when it
promised as much as silver, and have lost all I in
vested, and now am called upon for an extra assess
ment on my stock." Let us compare the two, and de
cide the case—Silver vs. Oil. Last fall and winter
when the oil fever existed, and all that was necessary
to raise half a million of dollars was to issue a pro
spectus, every one who had any money over and
above what was actually needed in their business,
took stock. In the first place land was bought. likely
or unlikely to produce oil; next, money was squan
dered by bad management and rascality, then when
the failure occurred, the whole "oil business" was
denounced So much for the " bogus companies."
The legitimate and well-managed have paid a bet
ter interest than any other investment, save silver
mining, yet known, but how much short of silver the
best dividends from oil have been, we shall see. Four
per cent. per month, occasionally passing a dividend,
and sometimes through fortuitous circumstances de
claring an " extra," has been the history of the best
—the Columbia—and against this there have been a
thousand failures with no dividends.
In silver mining the facts are as follows :—Gould
and Curry Mining Company, organized within five
years, on the Comstock lode, Nevada, each share re
presenting a foot of ledge—sold at $lO per share—has
since yield ed $15,000,000; and for the year from De
cember, 1863, to December, 1864, 'yielded $4,000,000,
spending $1,000,000 in improvements. This company
has declared dividends of $5OO per share. " Savage,"
"Empire," "Belcher," "Crown Point," "Morgan
and Muncy," and numerous others are paying divi
dends monthly ranging from $5O to $lOO per share in
coin, to Eastern holders, in New York. Of these, the
Empire has paid $320 per share. Examination of the
financial adverti g column of the New York Herald
will show this fa every month. So 9 uch for divi
dends.
Again, in oil o eratiens, there is a great risk. A
well must be sunk .khree, five, or eight hundred fiset,
before the presence ef oil can be decided. and the
whole amount expended may be—how often has been
—lost. In silver mining the course of the vein is in
variably tiaced up.in the surface, and science and
Practical expbrience have demonstrated that rock
6,1
yielding theslightest trace of silver, or its chlorides
or sulphurets at the top, will inebitably prove enor
mously rich at the water-level—growing in value as
the vein is worked.
There need be no doubt—no hesitation : there is no
'striking silver," like "striking oil." and conse•
quently no opportunity for swindling. Given a cer
tain amount of ledge yielding ores, which will assay a
giben amount of bullion, and the result may be as
readily computed, expenses estimated, and profits
reckoned as in the investment of one thousand dol
lars at six per cent. per annum. Oil is vague, transi
tory, capricious, "one day she flows and then she's
sulky," they tell you at the wells.
Silver is always there, responding to the blows of
the miner's pick. in the ore, softening and becoming
friable in the roasting furnace, crushed and disinte
grated under the stamps, it is finally wedded to its
"natural affinity," the quicksilver in the amalgama
tor—turning out at last clean and bright, in bars or
coin, to pay our national debt, bless our people in
adding to our wealth, and requiring no further mani
pulation to add its quota to our commercial value.
We have in the foregoing endeavored to answer any
objections which could be presented to the investment
of capital in silver mining, and honestly beg to oali
the attention of all classes of our citizens to the
importance of the subject. It is hardly necessary to
add that everything stated as fact herein is based on
actual occurrence, "the documents" for which are
open for examination. In quoting prices asked for
mining property. it is to be understood that in nearly
every instance the original owners will take a large
Portion, if not all the purchase money in the stock of
the developing company—the mines remaining in
trust until developed. If, in our efforts to dissemi
nate information relative to the mining interests of
our Territories, we shall have succeeded in inducing
the investment of capital therein, or the creation of
one new enterprise, we shall have been rewarded,
(timid Astito.
Air The Presbytery of Rochester will
hold its annual meeting in Brockport on Tuesday, the
ninth (9th) day of January. WA, at two o'cloOk P. M.
C. E. FUR MAN, Stated Clerk.
Burria.o, Dec. 15th, 1865.
Air The• Presbytery o; Cortland will
hold its next stated meeting at Lisle, Tuesday, the
16th - of January next, at 2 o'clock, P. M.
H. N. MILLERD,
Stated Clerk.
/Op Wanted.—By an experienced Teacher, a
situation as DAILY GOVERNESS, in a private
family or School. Would have no objections to going
a short distance .from the city. Best of references
given. Address TEACHER. at the office of the Ame
rican Presbyterian.
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