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POl`ll4.—On December ,DX9, John Potts. in tho 78th year of lib my. HIH Mond* and relatives aro invited to attend las fu• meal, on Tuostlay morning, December 7th, at 10 o'clock, f,*ni th., resith.ll,.... of his son-inlaw. John Hutchlason t art liehencl'a Station. Cart lenVO Kensington Depot at VI. A . 1 ittornient at Upper Dublin, Moutgomtry count . Pa. _.. ',LACK GROS GRAIN SILKI4, _ ._ . it) 3t 75, 4t2 50, NI 1 4 7,,i, 192 75, )92 ('O, 3 00, , ' . 250, &c. IS I SSON A: SON. SlB c:lt EST NUT STREET I ECOND MOUItNINc DRESS GOODS. t. Clewing out below the cost of Importation our entire to of fall and winter Sewn"! Mourning Poplin., Un-, hairs, Alpacaa, Plaids, Mouvielinea Robes. 4t.c.. nkssoti tc. SON. de2.6ti ON Chestnut street. i littlA CAMEL'S HAL% SCARFS von . etunsTmAtt PRESENTS Oh' VALUE. EYRE A ,- LANDELb t FOURTH AND ARON. SPECIAL NOTICES. 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Bal- . 131 ca path. 8313 to em. rine. , Tiorperial Suit% from D„) s ' Jarrete--- 91 50 66 to 823. 110,1.5' Pante. 3 50 ,I.,roarrke, 86 to eX). 3 rel . /Whole Baits..._... ea Oa • te eat) oilier t•tylet. I . aD Gents' Wrappers, I 'all gruueu up to $44. 83 to 4533. 1 3letro_polltan Salta ' i from 810 to 823 IYO oth.6' Cboaterrlelde from 816 to 823. Thia Hat tinbraely a man portion of onr,stoct.iint giera6 ilex of what buyers can do. and denioniftrati: that 'he Very Finest Styles, The Very Fined qualities, The Very, Finest Hakes ENTS', YOUTHS'and CHILDREN'S READY-MADE CLOTH-DIG Le• be sold and •re being sold by up ♦et, CHEAPE R Tban tkce People think JOHN WANAMAKER, estnut Street Clothing Es*ablishment, 818 and 1320 CHESTNUT STREET. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. liE STAR COURSE OF LECTURES. YOUNG FOLKS SERIES. Afternoon Lectures. . By PAUL B. - DU CIIAILLU. I. B. PUGH takes great pleasure In announcing to oyouNG FOLKS of Philadelphia that Mr. PAUL B. ' CRAILLU. the lament; African explorer, whose ad nturee in Equatorial Africa bare_ given so much de bt to the youthful student of History, will give a lee of three Lectures, in day time, as follows : ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. December It, " UNDER THEE QUATOR." ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, December 12, " AMONG THE CANNIBALS." ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, Deceinber 18, " LOST IN THE JUNGLES." he Lectures will bo Illustrated with immense paint s, hunting implements, weapons of warfare,and other !active noteltles. Itir. Du (,haiku will appear on ono these occasions in the identical costume worn by him his travels. r. Carl Sentz's. Parlor Orchestra will discourse ap ipriatellillbte previous to each Lecture tdinisslon to each Lecture teserved Seats textrat ickets 'with reserved seats) for !macs. >oore open at 2. Lecture at 3 o'clock. rickets for sale MONDAY and TUESDAY, Dec. 6 and ror theseriee ONLY; aer which tickets for the ale Lectures ONLY will behold. To be obtained at uld's. 923 Chestnutstreet. 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Strangers cannot dwell in Barcelona, Spain, without previously purchasing a permit to do so from the civil Governor. —A St. Louis paper shows, to 'its own satis lactiou, that the cause of the low price of wheat is not the abundanCerop, but the "high tariff on iron." —A St. Louis.woman asks to be divorced from her husband because he gets "tearing mad 'whenever his stockings are starched stiff." —What is the dillerence between a conceited conuror and an important blood-vessel *in the neck? One is a vain juggler and the other is a jugular vein. —The Khedive of Egypt owes in Prance the? round sum of seventy-five million francs. His paper is quoted at the Paris Bourse at ten per cent. discount. —A negro deacon in Louisville attempted to put an unruly boy out of meeting, the other day, and had his throat cut by the irreverent black youth. —The London I?(lihixey New predicts that in a few years an unbroken journey by rail will be ma.de from London to Pekin. The English Channel will be bridged or tunnelled, or terry boats will take whole trains across. —Young Gladstone bad, an unpleasant time at his reC.lectinn from Whitby. He was re turned only by a small majority, and when he attempted to return thanks from the hustings, the Conservatives howled him down. —Thieves in Russia are punished with ex treme cruelty. They are branded on the fore head, flogged within an, inch 0' their life, and sent to the Siberian reifies, generally for along term of years. Nevertheless, Russia is the country where audacious thieving 's more pre valent than anywhere fan on the continent. Think of the daring burglars who the other day, stole all the valuable ornaments at the. Chapel of the Imperial Winter Palace, in Petersburg ! These robbers must have been ,at work there for many, hours, inasmuch as, they took With them even all theprecious' stones, which they had to break out of ,the golden pillars. The police has not yet been able to discover who they were. The spells they succeeded in carrying off were worth . over three hundred thousand silver roubles: L 4 • ; 4 ' SrECIAL 'NoTturic, iw.. ,.. „*# 74 oxq . 4 x.,: r *;€fa : . 9 N 4. BETHANY OF THE FOW 'REUNITED PRESDYTERI f t.N CHURCH: A. I It FOE THE Sale pi Useful and Faucir.iirtioles Suitable for Christmas Gifts, TO DE HELD IN nORTICULTURAL, HALL. Comment'lna* Pecembor ath at 4 P. And (laving " 14th sill) P. DIL. Our NI irons are requetitect to bearthis in mind while Arranging for the Fair. (0. IcNIGHTS OF P lIIAS. GREENWOOD CEMETERY, Corner of Asylum Turnpike &Fisher Lane, NEAR FRANK FORD. A chance is now offered to secure Lots, at the Low price of 915, • payable In Instalments, in what Is admitted to be the best adapted grounds for Cemetery purpose, near Villa delphla.heing rotnattikally located. perfectly dry and beau tit Oily rolling surface. Apply to Pr.eastoatir—WlLßUß R. MYERS, 419 'North Fifteenth street. VICE PHESIDENT.-ELART M. GEARY, B. E. corner of Ridge avenue and 'Wallace street. RECRETALIY—GNO.CUANDI.ER PAUL. Office of the Compatty;l723 North Tenth street. TREA.ACZMA—W.M. S. SNEYD, i 22 East York street Scrrnrreirsonsr—SAMlTEL S. MEADE, nol3lmrpj On the Grounds ,I ,12,rpi FACIN AND FAIVCIVII4 Aujac is ringing in Brussels. Baron Friburgg t the richest man in Brazil died, after building a , ":1,5w),(X)0 hpitse. ,4:,,..,, , ....,.,...;, 'TITRIAItMY '' R.eportoftlieG46iieral GEN. SHERMANT , STATEMENT Report, of Gen SAieridan IMPORTANT -AND liiirEitESTINO FACTS ; .4 Lity.!f4heinnein'os htatenient. iIEAPOJARTESIS 08 THE ARMY, WASINGTON, D. November 28.Ucti4l /taro now the honer to 'tailduli my report of the fly for the present year. Al the time of the last nbmitt report General P. 8: " Grant with In coinmand of the army, and remained until the ith of Marc!,, 1869. when he became President of the United States, rind I succeeded biro it. 4 General-in-Chief. The cm, firmation of my.cormidssion ab litilltninCed on the &til of 3 / a rgil. and/ was Ordered to assume corm . nandMandlwhich I did. At ibat time *I lijor-Goneral J'. M. Schofield Was Secre , Lary of IVer. and continued in that capacity until March L 3, when litiieral Jolla . A. itawlitis was ditty CMIIMIIB cIoned sand entered upon , his duties as Bntretarr War, a poet befitted until his death, September ti, when the President conferred on me the conunission, with the understanding that it was to be 11441 only until he could select a successor, and it afforded me icreat pleasure on the let instant to give place to yourself, thineral W. W. Ilulknay. As the-re Gli.auges have in a meanureafroeted the course - of events, I behave, 'oh will be pleased that I take a 'witle'r view of tbiThistury and condition of the army and its administration than is ctuitcunary for the Cinumander in-Chief. ' LINE 01" - rug ARMY. for the purpose of Military rpspousibili!y dividedrn meet, the domain of the United States is into twelve departments and three dhdricts, each under the command of-an experienced geberal officer, who by law is invested with all the powers el the commanding general of an army to the field ; and Is held responsible for the discipline and maintenance of the troops, the pre-, nervation of good order: so far as the military authority extends', and for the care of all public property that be longs to the army. The linilte and boUndaries of these departments are better described by the map and tabu lar statements herewith, than by any mere words 1 could give. In order te prompt action in case of need, and to place aiwiLar Wilton , and similar interests under a common commander, these departmenta are again gratip.. into four mllitaryilivisions, which are commanded by the four generals next la rank to the commander-in-chief. kly the organic law of.bily 2d, 1866. as modified by that of Nereid 1, 1869, the regillar array non , eonsiste of five' regiments of artillery, ten of cavalry, te - enty-liee 'of In fantry, a battalion of engineers, and the cadets of the Military Acadentx s , These are all assigned to the sev eral departmeets try regiment's or companies ; but each division-commander can reinforce any point within his command by transferring the troops from one of his de partments to another. As a general rule, the artille.ry.companics are die , ' tributed in the permanent forte along the seaboard from Eastport, from Lien - Diego , California, to Alaska, serving on: toot, One company of each regiment is mounted and equipped as light artillery ; one of these companies is stationed at Washington. and the other four at Fort Riley; liansas, as a school of instruction.. Another company of each regiment fin ell. five) is stationed at Old Point Com fort. as , a echool of instruction for heavy or reaceast All the ten regiments of CHI airy are eert lug Teias, the Indian country, the Pacific Territories. with the - cept ion of a eiegle company heroin AVaeldietton which Is the only cavairy east of the Missispi. The Avente five regiments ot Infantry are distributed:;One regi ment along the Northern frontier; one it Virginia, one in Mississippi, and three in the Departikentof the tionth. The rvenainiug nineteen are in Texas., the Indian coun try; and Western States and Territorie s. Three companies of engineer troops are at. Willett's Point. New York harbor, one at Jefferson - Barracks, Miseouri, and one at Verbs Buena San Fran cisco harbor, doing garrison duty, and more eepecially designed to preserve the practical knowledge of held for-. tilielopion, of mines. and of pontoon bridging, The cadets are at the V. Point Acadeine.undergoieg inrttnetions preparatory to being conuniseionwl as offi cers of the army. At thin moment we hare not a single regiment Gist may be said to be in reserve. All 'are on duty, and I have constant rails for more. troops, which canted be aantcd. I beg, therefon", your earnest attention to this matter, that Congress may be appealed to not to diminish the military establishment any further, be cause of the great extent of our country, the unsettled character of a region measured north and comb, east and west, by thousands of miles. the nomadlecharacter of the Indians who inhabit this region. and the growing necessity to afford greater protection to the roads that traverse this region, and the mining and as interests therein. W bile the nation at large is at peace a state of quasi war has existed. and continues to exist over one-half of its extent. and the troops 'thereto are exposed to labors, marches. fights and dangers that amount to war. Were the troops withdrawn, or largely diminished in Texan, the Indian country, in Arizona, Mew Mexico. Montana. Idaho, in Alaska. as well at in some parts of our own Southern States, I believe a condition of things would result amountiog to anarchy. For a history of the labors cud exposure of our troop.' I must refer to the reports of the division and depart •ment commanders herewith, and I hope the officers and men composing the army will receive the assurance of the country. to which they are fairly entitled, that their services are appreciated. Many of the officers lucre been reunited to`periorm, at great personal rick, the duties. of Indian agents., governors, sheriffe. judges and in erectors of election, Am..te duties foreign to their military training. and they Give done this duty without d murmur end with marked intelligence. The great mass of them are banished to • dletant sections.' and kept there with indifferent shelter, without any of the associations and facilities of civilized life: and many of them have famine. that they scarcely havethe mean. to educate and provide for. filmy whole array experience I have never knOwn the army officers elo poor. and yet I believe they will continue cheerfully to endure . this ntute of facts if they can see in the future any hope of improvement. Ido not - understand they expect' more pay. but they live in hope that our money will soon ap proach the value of gold in its purchasing rapacity, and I believ e that any diminution of pay would turn the thoughts of every officer to a change of profession, which would be extremely damaging to the army itself. CONM)LIDATION. fly the organie act of Jnly 23, ISGti, fixing the, peace establishment. there was a provision for forty-five regi• mints of infantry. In the appropriation bill passed 'arth 3, 1%0, was attached a clause as follows :—•• That there shall bo no new COllllll62iOllE. no, promotions, and no enlistments in any infantry regiment until tloi total Number of infantry reo,inients is reducssl to twenty tiv e and the Secretary of War hereby directed to con solidate the infantry regiments as rapidly as the re quirements of the public service and the reduction of the number of officers will permit." By the same act the period for enlistments wigs 01nel - sal from three to five years. but at that date all the enlisted men of infantry were in for three years, beginning mostly in ISIO and 1607. The Secretary of IV sir. (ismer:ll Schofield, :witty whom by law the discretion rested, saw at intro that were he to wait for the number of ofticeraro dimin ish to the standard of twenty-tire regiments by the , slow process of death and resignation, all tits enlisted 111.`n would be 41i-charged by the expiration of ' , their term of service, and we would be catapulted to abandon many of the forts in the Indian country, Ile, there fore very wisely resolved to make the consolidation at once, SO that new enlistmento could he made to replace the nun discharged by expiration of their term or enlist went: llie orders, prescribing the mode and manner of consolidation, were made on the 10th or March, and have been carried into effect as fast as possible; considering the, scattered condition of the troops. The colonels and Held officers were chosen here and announce 1 itigeneral orders from these headquarters. The captaine and lieutenants were selected I,y the couguanding-general of the departments in which the new regirrient 1V , :r41 servo. As a general role, all other thing's being equal, the smiler of each grade ‘7llll retained, provided he was deemed Qualified and wag actually present for duty. The recruiting service WiLIS renamed on the 11th of April, and has supplied about a thousand recruits per month, barely enough to replace the discharges to the u 410 ex posed garrisons of the Indian country. The consolida• tion has thus been effected at as little cost us possible, and on principles as fair and just as the case admitted. By tins consolidation were rendered supernume rary tofficera/ 012 Assigned to fill s acancies 71 Transferred to fill vacancicein cavalry 7 Transferred to fill,vacancies in artillery 10 • Resigned .11 Died Dismissed Cashiered....... Retire() Balance of unattached carers, November 1 209 Accounted for ea follows : On recruiting serVino n 0 On Indian service..' i 0 On reconstruction duty 95 As professors in civil colleges, 7 On duty in United States Military Academy • S As aides-110.cent, and general officers f 24 On duty in War Department 12 On duty at headquarters .of division departments and districts 20 OIRI duty in. Quartermaster's and Subsistence Depart . monis 20 As Acting signal °Moen 10 Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees and Abandoned Lands 13 On engineer duty . r 2 On ordnance duty n 4. 1 Commanding military districts reconstruction 3 Commading poets. I On dutywith General Sickles. I , . Total 353 Balance "awaiting orders" ' ' ' ' 1.5 d Of this latter number there are reported physically aiti ginditied, twenty (20) Z IntemPerate, seven (7); under suspension three (3); in arrest, three (3); inefficient, turn(3);nt Mime at their own mutes, ninety-six (961. If dishandonment must come—and I suppose it is inev itable—it is but fair that tile blow should tint nil! on 'those last named. But the three hUndred and fifty three unattached officers are among out very best, who have in battle earned their 'commundOns. and who aro illy qualified to be thrown .out of their elusion Pre fession to begin life anew. Their ' claims are entitled' to the generous consideration of the government, and I feel' assured they will receive and to this tpnd will endeavor to tubmit all the faotifof the case, With such suggestionti My.seent appropriate and Moir to facilitate their totem. Moult) themillitary serviee,, thofirst niece, in the re- otganizatioit of the nrmy'inlSG6 the law provided for four regiments of veteran reserve troops, the officers of which were Oilmen because they had become disabled - • ' BUR WHALE Vtr6OXltY* fataewil2l.ll.l3Da v .1.00V.' • tho ' war of the iettellion In * the Conseil bMtfettet aneregimento -were pdt st a par , ft 1, t hin tbertuand @M ffi eal of rho officers. though - mounded a id Aftabled,itea„ previded for, in the slew. organntation miff; tiottvetit maJority. have 'Men left Out, and, in fart, are diequalifloi, by tho lose tff.lintho mot her Chrbi cal qlfgibuitv *for the exposure tsud .aotivity of tsr in titian' tee' , Merits; They Would he entitled to be retired 'leder Pending laws were it .not for the feet t het flu , ',timber of officers to be retired is limited by the Sixteenth Keaton. 7 ofs the' act appreted May 3,1861, to seven (7) per cent• of, the officers , of sti n- Tide limit of . seven per cant. of officers 1!1 service' was fixed when the army tear; Ten' large `and BOW that it to rndttocrl the number thee can be retired , hYreakon' of , age or infirmity or by reason of, 'altitude is ertuperatitely small. ' I iterneotly reedfameed 'that this halt he none Ved and that the President he allowed to retire any number for cause, viz,: for wounds In battle' oregil ore if it le, deemed prielent tai fix-Ie limit', that It be II Xed nteeine h peel fic , number, bey twe hundred and fifty- The imbiber new retired is one hundred and seventy-tw(l7li. By the present orgeniza t ion or the :Allay the art dlery and cavalry have to wich regiment One COiOnet, One lif • llVOant - colonol, three taajore„ and I wits compel/14'F. whereas the infantry regiinente have one C 01 0 .1 1 ,1, the lieutenant colonel, one major, -and tell con. pa 111/!S. - - FP OF TRY: ARMS. This terra applies' to those officers and men who ad minister to the wants of every . military establishment, and ere fri our eery ice OIREI9Itied na adjutant -general, in - (Teeter-general, bureau of .military justice, gunner imaStioti, etainuiooaries, surgeono, paymaeters, corps of engineers, chief signal officer and peat thaptains. Their femme Imply their respective duties, and the organic last of liV4 'Mute and prescribes. their numbers. The. heads Of these departments reside in Washington, and enbmlt annually a written report of their operations for fit', pest year. it sn happened that I was Secretary of VVar during the month of October when by law these re. 'ports Were made, in order to reach the public printer by ,the lint of November. and I required all the annual r h p A r il ts juo be G ei enera k l e or ke e 11 , other military Genpoal- oo the Army, who could make nso of such information as . they contain, and then lay them before the Secretary of Wee. - Thiele. in ray judgment, the 001111i0 that should alWays ra ile d forgo though a different have as hereto fore pr therwise WO would he absurd ity of a general commanding, the twiny with his eliferstaff offieere reporting to somebody else. The general 'hove no objection to any amount of labor being imposed upon these departments by Congress, by the President, - or Secretary of War, but all orders end instructions touching army movements by law Must pass through the General of the Army, that be may know whet Is trans piring. (See oection 2, act of Congress approved March 2, 1e67), This matter has already attracted the attention of Congress, for I find a . ,,printert report on army organi sation wasniade on the 20th of February, 1869, by Mr. Gerfield - Item the Committee on Military Affairs, to the', Howie of Representatives. This report, with the testirnopy of eeveral officers therewith, con tains much matter OM is worthy of the rtioet• serious consideration. *I need only refer to some of its conclu sions: "The staff departments, or corps, are, in the apittion of thacemmittee. too large in proportion to the line of the army. 'There has been for a long time a ten dency Meanie - Is the • multiplicatiou of departments, in crease of reek, rind trelepend, nee of control in the staff, that ought to be checked." "The staff departments( by custom, rather the,' by legislation, have become almost absolutely indePendent of generals commanding military departments and diottietriarven of the general in-chief of the army." "In the opinion of the ceminittee, all ofllcere of tho staff deportment should be as directly under the control and BUPOFI'biiOIII of, the gen• era'. and the department commanders as . officers of the line now are. This reform can be effected better by ad ministration than by legislation ' tor this independence of the staff departments ilads no warrant In lew, except in regard to eugtheer officers, who are, by a clause in one of the Articles of War. made subject only Co the order of their superior s in their own , corps, and to the l'resinent. I heartily concur in thew views, and, so far as my authority reel, will carry them out-. It would be absurd to hold Gimetal Sehofield, or General Ateenr, or general Han cock responsible for :claire In their most important de partments, if they have not the absolute command of their troope and all the staff ofilecre who minister to their .11(1 . OF.8itiell.' If Cenerress will enact the new Arti cles at War cranertful distinctions Iteretefore existing wilt at our and 31] parts of the army a - ill be put on the saute , honorable tooting. The marked dis tinction made in favor of the officers of engineers by: the 'sixty-third (631 Article of War Iwo been the canoe of a great 'deal of mischief ; but when taken in consideration with. the ninety-eLeth (96) article I ant satisfied that within " the line of their immediate profession " tbey are as mush oubject to orders ao tlfe' officers of the quartenitaster s Departmeat. To place them ontlutY waselethe sphere of their professional duties is, in my opinion, all that was ever intended by the sixty-third article , as required the orders of the Pre sident; vet the conclusion arrived at by the committee is the ig:erpretation . which engineer officers them selves have .usually placed on the law, anti, for thin reason in the new articles of the law, the one in question is omitted altogether. For my part I have no i+ll to command the EneineerCorporauy- other corps; but if it forms a part of the regular army of the ;United States,it is ail-important that the generals who command the military dpartment.; and aro charged with the eeneral superviM e OD of all army matters within their limits ohould be able to avail thewtelves of this most important breech of the army, ris-eive from them the usual reports of the status of the natiortal dofences, &c., without asking it a'. a special favor, or applying to the . President for his permisoton in each ease. General Humphreys gives, in great detail. f lie condi tion of the yarlons furta with whose construction, alter ation and repair his department has been engaged. Nearly all the seacoast forts were planned at a time when the eight-inch gun was the heaviest 'afloat, and before rifled guns came into use. - Now, however, that ordnance of the fifteen and twenty inch calibres, throw ing a shot over one thousand pounds in 'weight with a velocity of MUM feet per second, have come into general use, the problem of resistance le entirely changed. It is believed that casement forts, no matter how reinforced with iron, ..are. not able to resist those shot, and changed must be made to meet these changes of wets. The engineer officers have carefully studied this subject, and have made many moot valuable ex periments; and, in connection with the officers - of ord nance and artillery, they ehould continue therm experi nit into The Board of lamineerro in New York has laid down five _general propositions for application to .all modifications of the dtacianst forts. I heartily ap prove, viz.• use of barhette batteries of earth, with deep parapet, and a liberal number of bomb-proof and leo gaztue traverses. e , notti=-Theneweif.the heaviest guile practicable', 1%10'4' carr lay* , adtnittlng.of the' gun being depressed below the p .rapet for toed ing. Tom—The oho ndant mi./fitly of heavy mortars. 'rib —'l4.- OW- t0FP . 6",,,. , IVM — Entanglements to hold a fleet long enough for de o tart itet. Taking the new " Fort Winthrop," in Boston harbor, as a sample, I am satisfied that these , propositions fulfill aft the conditions of the problem. Noforeign army will be likely to attempt a landing on our coast; and all that a Medile fleet can attempt will be to run by the forts and lay the cities ander contribution. firm loud we can handle guns of heavier calibre and with morftaccuracy of aim than :my enemy con his afloat ; and itt my judg ment no armored ship as yet built can long exist n the range of our twenty -inch gune,or even of the fifteen inch guns, if skilfully handled. ; 1 therefore recommeno that the forts covering the cities of Portland, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, .ew Orleans and Son Francisco should be pushed to completion as soon an practicable. All other ponds migld he neglected. for the The l'eport of General Dyer, Chief of Ordnance, con tains much that is of the gre,atest interest to the army. All our troops are no*Fllppliefl with breech loading small arms ,f the best kind fully equal to any in use by foreign armies. , asinventions anti so-Called improvements are ail the Y time being pressed by inswidors. I have com mitted to u board of experienced and practical officers in st. Loubi. with General Schofielda non, its head. the task of making a prm•gical test of small and ammunition t hat may be submitted prior to March 1,18;6. I concur with Gen. Dyer pt•rfectly in his reconumenda• bone that the small and surplus arsenals at Rome. N.Y.; Champlain, Vt.• Mount Vernon, 411f3: Apalachicola, Foettevilie, N. C., by sold,as well as the captured establishments at Shreveport, La ; Marshall and Jeffer son. Texas: and in Marion and Davis counties,Texas. Other sanall arsenals , might, In the et:alma time, be sold. until we have, at central points, but a few great arsenals and depots of powder, and these should boot. the most wriect kind, sin the most extensive scale. Our rain °ado can rapidly transfer front these arsenals tho' requisite stores at the times and to the places needed on short notice. I have the honor to be your obedient servant, W. T. SIIBRBAN, General. GeneraloW. BELM , I-3r. Secretary of War. Ritertdon's Report. The reuort of General Sheridan accent patties that of the General of the Army. General Sheridan commands the Military Division of the Missouri, , Lich embraces the Departments of Dakorah; the Vieth) and the Nis- C 0111111411311411 respectively by Major- t loueral W. S. list wock. Brevet Major-General O. C. Augur and Major- General J. M. Schofield:, These three Departrvieri is cover a territory of great extent, In which most of the cisiiizul, 84 )131i-civilized and wild Indians abide. Tito commander reports that all the commands have boon economically and successfully ad - Ininistet tql during the past year. The number of troops would be sullicient if the companies aro kept tilled to their maximum. The report then entail:Pled as follows: A great many el the settlers in Montana have been mur dered, and live or SIX hundred head of stock captured and run off withirr the last fifty days, and, much bitter complaint has been made by the settlers on account of non-protection, the' few troops stutiened iti Montana • being insufficient to meet the wants of the rase. There has-aloe been agreatdeal of trouble along the Missouri river.mal a number of people trairtiertBl In the vicinity of the military posts. 'The friendly Indians and the scents and emPloyusat Rig Cheyenne, Grand River, ' and W Modelle agora:des, have Seen in -Jeopardy on Reve ral occasions, as tho relict Indians have ut all times had their own way tko employes into te agency buildings, taking possession of ,the tumuity goods, and taking the 'Cattle. Steps have been' taken to remedy these evils, as far as wecan. by the erection of block houses. The post at,rort Buford his been in a state of siego for two or three years. In the early spring I hope to be able to send a few troops from the Department of the Platte to thoDepartmitot of Dakota. Although there have been numerous depredations is the Department of Dakota, and some, in fact, in all the departments, still the condition of Indian affairs is, very much better than last year. The Dopey of reserve adopted by the indiali Demtrttaont is, in Mr iteft• meat, tho only policy that Wilt pmt an end to Indian murders and depredations.. I. think that it may be necessary to punish somekee %Atha Sioux us thS Cheyennes end other tribes south had to tie punished, before peace. can be fully establishetl ' the reservation system made success ; but every effort will be made to *Mail any necessity of this kind, with tho strong hope- that, the savages may itettledOwn on their reservation "unit adopt a more peaceful and civilized life 'ho Indians hare run the along the lines et our West;.' ern settlements and the enligrant and commercial lines of travel for many Ireerew in tatirdering and plundering¢'. without any adeguato pun MA, and the gevernment -hettheretoforo sought to give protection to seisms:if its beet interests by makingpresents to theso savages Or, brother words, while It found it necessary to enact tho most stringent. laws for tini goVethment of CidliZeq Whites, it was attempting to.govern a wild, brutal. and savage people without any laws at all, or the iuflictio of any punishment for the moitt heinous crimes; This' Rya tei r w n e ot'a euecess. a white man commits mu t er obs. wekbil rig idin or Natal hitn to the pmitentiary. If an int ian does the same, Artiliaye hoen in the habit of high more blankets. The !tidied Inky, id le' agabond ; ttr never latinree' and has po protession.Aseept that of twins to which' ho to raised from a child ; scalp is constant l y dangled bit - . fore , I,la eyes, and the highest' honer be can aspire to Is to;possess one taken by himself. , It ,is not to be won.' deted et, therefore. if h o aims tor the honor when he Kregs up, especially if there be tin punishment tdfellow the ha run roue act. The Goverpnient has, always been. very liberal to Indiana, especially whenever' they have Nettled on reser , vet Ions; the lands allotted , to them have been of th- very beat character,making thenuperluips, by far the richest eonatiunitha in the country • The system of npplying'the wild , band tinder the pre- . Sent management Is working Well; the - Indian gets all that. the government intentlim to have; Inc cannot now plead had faith, and, if bedoes, not now - up hie • eruel and destructive !Me tie other way to save,: the lives and property of our people than to punish him LID tit peace becomes a desirable object. The troops at the different poste throughout the inili tary division areguarteted (ollicers and men) comfort ably. The expenses for the ensuing year will be much Isom than for the past; however.a very large poi tion of Ilot. expenses of the fart year were very properly charge able,tothe Indian Department. I cannot close this report without. expressing my high appreciation of the efficient inamigement of the present Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and assure bun that every effort will be made by the military to assist him in bit difficult and highly responsible duties. I am, Gene ral, very respectfully, your obedient servant, I'. If. Surintosit. ' • Lieutenant-tleneral U. S. Army, Brevet Major-General E. D. Townsend, Adjutant-Gene ral; Washington, D. C. THE RUHLUX OUTRAGES IN NORTH CAROLINA. A Methodist Minister and Teacher Assaulted, Beaten and Abused. HIS OWN ACCOUNT The following painful but vivid pictrire of a Ku-Klux outrage perpetrated on the night of the _6th ult., in a North Carolina village, has . been handed us, by the Secretary of the Friends' Freedmen's Relief AssOciation. The witness and writer, who is the victim himself, is Principal of a colored Normal School at Company Shops, N. C., whence his letter, written ,to one of the Superintendents• of the Association, is addressed. He is a gentleman of education and ardent piety, and was, as we learn; formerly teacher of one of our Grammar Schools, in • Frankfort', Philadelphia. 'His unvarnished story, the testimony of a Christian intent on doing justice to the better nature * even of his enemies, needs no introduction : Comemet. .Spurs, N. C., Nov. 28, 1869.—A1y Dear l'riedd ,--=: lour last lath been received, —Miss Kate Bateman will begin an engag and I have notified LH . . V. of your plans in merit at the Walnu Street Theatre, this even e, - - reference to Graharn School. We , yearn for ing, in Toni Taylor's new drama Nary ;Varna% the sympathy of your kindred spirit, and we —3l , re. Drew will produce at the'Areli Street are sure we shall have it when you hear what Theatre, this evening, Torn Taylors drama, has happened to us. .We will give you a plain The Ozerland Route. There will be • new account of the terrible affair, to correct the scenery, and a good cast. exaggerated reports that may reach your ear. . . We have received injuries in body and mind —To-morrow night, at the Chestnut, a drama entitled Patrice ; or, the White Lcaly of Wicklow, froni which we shall never entirely recover: Since brothers and sisters N— and D— will be presented at the Chestnut St. theatre for the first time. The Theatre will be. closed were here, a gracious revival of religion has commenced among the colored people. Many this evening, that the play may be nreperly re of our more intelligent patrons were amonf hearsed. the converts. On the evening of the alt, i —The American Theatre announces for this instant they sent for me to preach, evening a good miscellaneous entertaintnent, for them, ;is their minister was at,- which 'includes pantomime, faree, ballet, sent. After making a 'few brief appeal s negro comicalities, singing, and the wonderful ttrthem from the text" Seek ye the .I..oria ,ft&c„ance performances of the Rizzarelli Brothers, Who during which there was softie disturb are said to he gymnasts of extraordinary skill. - from masked men outside, I returned home, —Signor Blitz, the great conjuror Will give accompanied by two of my mins. We re- an entertainment this and everye ' veninga t fired at night, feeling at peace with all men. , Assembly Blultlines. The Signor has a num- At midnight we were aroused by. a beating ber of curious new' tricks which he will per-; against the back door of our house, which is , form every night. the weakest part of our fortress. Frances: —Duprei & Benedict announce a very at playfully remarked that the K. K's. had come— ; tractive . entertainment for this evening at the ndt dreeveing that even they would harm us. " Seventh Street Opera House. New extrava 'Soon we heard the low hum of voices in the ad - zas will be presented, with good music— joining room. As soon as we left our bed, ' retrurnental and vocal—dancing and Ethio four men, disguised in satanic garb, seized me : plan delineations, &e. by my feet anti arms and hurried Inc. away in —Miss Keene gave the second, of her series double quick time, regardless of my corntort, ! of 'ehildren's performances at the . Chestnut . till I explained to them that my diseased knee Street Theatre on Saturday afternoon to. a to favor:thelarge audience of delighted „children. The, them it. When they' could play Vas a 'burlesq aittio not silence my irrepressible screams by old story of Jack th ue e Giant dapt Killer of the good . There are striking me on the head with a pistol and tbree threatening to blow out my brains, one he grants of enormous size, of hideous band relented, and offered to carry.me up These moustees were slain successively byon emmtenalice and most sanguinary appetites. his shoulders. lie pretended to be a " black 311se Josephene L who corresponded nigger . ," and hence arose his sympathy for ine; nicely with our ideal" , Jack," and sustained but he soon wearied, and others took their r the heroic reputation of that able young war turn, who refused .to carry me, and tried to ior in a most creditable and :sf 'make me walk, but I 'could not Without m yner. Thtre were songs, Sane .., an aetory man ' plenty of *inches. Then they seized me by the feet ' , real jolly good fun from the of er members of and bead again and hurried me on. I asked ; the company, with Rome very pretty and ap what harm . I had clone them. They answered :' prime music from Mr. Hassler's orchestra. •"Teaching niggers and making them equal to / fit. children were pleased beyond measure white folks.' • They brought other charges ' with the entertainment, and their hearty en against me, which I told them were not true. ' jeyment was as pleasant to witness as the per- They said they came from Chatham county, Jormance upon the etage. Next Saturday the' and had only heard of me as a teacher of hg Babes in the Woods Will be given. These etersand that I must give it up and leave the : ages are hat ovely in this country, but we are matt- State in ten days er they would visiting again assured t they will be very popular and and serve me , worse. When I started I had on only my shirt and drawers, which . very successful. were the well-known humorist, "• • ' were soon torn ont my body by the tops of --Mare the hushes through which they bore me. will lecture, to morrow night, at the Academy They seated me on the ground and gave me Of milSie , 11 / 1 " The ' 111(11 flielt , .dandy- Mr about Twain's reputation is SO great that he does aheut thirty lashes, judging from . appearance ! not need any sipecial recommendation' from ' ' the next dais, for I fainted - during the opera tion. They used a raw-hide and several green i us. He knows all about the Sandwich:Mande, ; for he was horn there. Hie ancestors. were Gtr • • hickory sticks. I remember being aroused by 'one time Kings of tlicee islands, and for , - " a kick in my side, and was asked to rise, but Imany could not. They lifted me tip and cut the hair 'years from one side of my head, and painted halt' nabs of y f gamboled their dominions the sueny Have n- ious attired in banana leaves and satiated upon a diet of fleet. Jena - My head anti face black. When they started ' off from the thicket where I lay, I asked them relations. Love of their fellow:leen has al the direction eta house. One of them kindly ways been a trait of the Twain thirdly, anti showed Me the road, to which I event, but did they ' never cared what their - per mit know which way to move to the nearest "nal peculiarities- were, so that they house; but by the stars I knew the direction were cooked with a crust , on, , and of the shops, and soon heard the voice of my we're served up with,. gravy. When iettee. :dd. over faithful wife, alone, calling for inc. She Twain came away, the entire population shed mese from bed at the smile moment Itlid and tears at the wharf. "Heaven bless You!" they, attempted to. tear the mask front the fifth one said. "Don't come back unless you grow fat ter." "Mark, we love yon-we love you tided of the band, and succeeded in getting part of it, and then ran loin the room, half-dressed, tare,' with the bones out ;" and one woman, and aroused the whole villas c. Bands of to whom he had given his heart's young iif white Men anti negroes were soon scouring fictions, and with whom he had wandered the woods for me. This caused my persecu- often, hand in hand, on starry nights, through 'torst to be in great haste anti to carry me fur- glade and dell', while the balmy breath of the ther than they intended to at first. Many tropic., swept in trete-the murmuring sea and whiepered to their euraptured . souls of • were panic stricken and would not aid in the , pursuit. Some report that a hundred K. K.'Belysian joys—this has neck and made,young him pledge womau fell upon - were in the village, but only- five were ever seen. We arrived lonne•at 3 o'clock A. M. I to her his noleinnplie returned. The sceneromise that she should cannot toll you all. It, would take the pen of have his liver when a recording angel to portray all the horrors of was very affecting; there Was not a dry eye ; • that doleful night. During rho first part of the on the pier. Mr. Twain's real name is Virana march I expected they would hang me, and pat-tellianavglaherty,,, 'He was converted by . • I pleaded with them to let me see my wife a Bohemian priest, name.d o',Callahan. :Ile once more anti pray for myself and them. But speaks the English langaage fluently, and— they:would only allow me to exclaim: "Father, firmly believes that George Washington was . an Irishman who discovered America and forgive! you know not what you do!" I was exposed three hours to night air with- was rescued .by Pocahontas from , an awfill out clothing, and hopped a mile and a half death on Plymouth rock, afters perilous yey- • with the aid of a ;dick to meet my wife with age in the Spanish Armada, wlueh he saved , my crutches. A mile further brought, us home. from. nun by cutting down .a mast with. ii Several times ' I paused from exhaustion. A little hatchet which had been given him ,by colored man hastened to bring me' my clothes, his father, who perished_ in the storm, and so, and offered to bear me in his arms. could not give his son permission to leave a The full extent of my injuries lam not, able `'!Jost which the heroic boy firmly- 'refused to • to realize yet. I have (ease now of pneuince forsake with his father's orders. . ' .• , , nia. , 31y weak knee will not be well again for . —At the EleventliStreet Opera,' House this ' ' several years, if ever. . My best Normal evening a miscellaneous entertainment of un4 pupils can manage the school till I , hea;r usual excellence will be given. . from Y9u- For myself, -I am silent I —Professor Blot, t i O r gratat lecturer on ' the whilet ; bile theK Ife . .'s Ole. , , I do. not advise 5701.1 to ecienee, of cooking, .4 , oontitine his• Itietlties . ' come Inirt'till there iti more ,proteption, for,,at tbe Atisembly Building, 'Tenth' and 'Cheete' .' you are doing more for the cause than I am. nut streets,' each, triornini, torameneing .at 11 The K. K.'s bate a man in, proportion as he ' works ter the elevation of the- negret.' '' '/ do • Vi, Pl643k ' l i s k n lti t4 4 l)4l) 41c 1181' " . ‘ E.51617 h°l36te '' : .• . not feel worthy to,, stiller .so , muolt!,for the. 7"' e Pf r 8 :. 13.11 ",. , r7-' , S.;,', *.; ; i ; ?, . '', ":, %:'.,., cause, Perhaps they'were Olowed to ecourge j Jelin Te . grougbleill. deliver his great •.: . 10..::!-f :..••,:: me, that I might realize how ranch ~ the poor :tare, I .! , cirOnmstartnese" tat thp'•Avadetty Of •,- .... colored men suffered duringthe iaet.two . con- Music thia,,evenirig.,,forthe? hc_noilt of 4bo ~ i...i :tutees; Many white• men have . sympathized Yotitig Men's ti'beletiett Atestaelatintl...Thaketee..:, , ,i, ,' With me, colored teen knew hOW to dress to be hadat Aidtmead'e, and Whitt door . 'Tien7 - ; :r. 'My wounds after my wifelinit faulted" in the sale of tickets thin' far insures one of the moat ' ''.': endetiVeriand could tell ofdnorasevere whip- brilliant. audiences ' ev'eteUtietubled - in ;000' ''t ~4 . ' " .. . . pings ,they. had . received from :drunken mss- _ AcaqmY.4:' ' It ters, whom thhY still JoYe4.. We can only pray that "good maY. come out of it. - A eouserv,ativo member of the legis lature now in session, closed .up the , E L F I EMERSTON. PaliWit& sitivereatwhes,•and Spoke decidedly.,agatitailti the Outrage. . I trust he will work tesfep aneh ; edits. D. W. ,cried like a child, when - I .ii•Sellirj the extent my'injuries. • Tliti . ','neatit itf,tny ;capture flew with the tipeed'ot the'nfottne',,, train to Raleigh, and: it is reported • dicta are to be sent, but not at .'my requestd `. The citi?.ens ; ,white ..and black; "promise :tent - 4 the tin daya.glioted me tettliiio, Icing of the but I want _yourM , itti,ooi I shall not he..-'fible to .go for ; two ...weblot,ik. least. ' My. pupils and patrons • ,cottio. reei around' My. bedside ; notwithatanding Iri fit ' threat that every cine. who came shcitild'"haViff' a call soon." I could only Weep fqr fear ENS same torture would soon he theirs. . Prey, fur rim that I may endure these: trials: with. pa. 4 tience. St. Faul and . the holy rnattym rejoiced in greater sufferings. The agony of. Jeaus,tii,.. only comfort, *as infinitely greater.. Farewell: . • • Ai.ortcf B. Dorm tatt, 8.--It is with suporbuinan effort .that intervals I havo'licen• able to pen yea tbrito,',,.. few , lines , which I . intended -to dictate. to another. I cannot, move a joint, tendon or ;. muscle ill 11 . 1 y body Avithout extreme pain.. setalthiS faint description of the reality to yeti: as fa personal friend from a sense of duty, not for any good that will accrue to myaelf—with': many Mara that it will never reach you, as'l • am closely watched. • You can make such use - of it as jn yourjudgment you think best.. you think it Nvill.deter others from this noble work it may be best to suppress the worst fea tures of it. If it can lie used to break, the , power of this terrible " Klan," you may nisei. tor tlhat.lf it will cause other teachers to prat • test • themselves from - like\ assaults, .you Oat circulate these facts among them.- 1-forget to mention that one of the clan struck Frances on the head with a revolver to htish her cries- ." for help, but Ido not love to think or writs - more of that. dark hour. I tars beard of merciless fiends dragging very . bad men bodily down to the infernal regions., seemed to me like such a scene, and there were , momenta in royanguish 'when I feared that God - had forsaken inn; but He did not. He softened the heart of one of the Klan, and caused hint to show me as many little favors as he gored,: which probably saved my life. Ho took away my sensibility dining the infliction .of the worst part of my torture. When I was about to lie Wiwi) in the leaves to periali, He caused the silver queen of night to arise and the sen tinel stars to direct me him°. - He gave un-; natural., strength to my dear companion to continue:her cries for ine till I heard their • faint echo in the distance. I will still have confidence in my , God, and call upon ..Hitn in the day of trouble. A. B. C. AIITCSMIMBPTS. —A sign in Berlin, Wisconsin, informs Ma public that "Thetis Ceder iwasts wear poot hear fur sail:"
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