The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1805.

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see programme and small bills. —EVERY EVENING.
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Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, Is. ; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.

C " T E R B_U R Y II A LL.
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The Music composed and arranged by Willem Vandervell,
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AMERICA.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
(Per the Nova Scotian.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (Evening).

Governor Jenkins was inaugurated as Governor
of Georgia on the 14th December. In his address
to the Legislature there is no conflict between the
constitution of the United States and the constitu-
tion of the State of Georgia. The laws of the
United States are supreme. The Governor then
pays a handsome tribute to the conduct of the
negroes during the war. He says that they must
be thoroughly protected in their persons and pro-
perty, and have the right to enter the courts. They
should be encouraged to work, and then they would
be the best working class, and their late owners the
best employers in the world. The Governor then
reviewed the condition of the State institutions, and
says for a time even the lightest taxes will prove
burdensome ; but he thinks that in the end the
people will not suffer. He concludes his address
with an earnest prayer that God will help us all.

At the close of the address Provisional Governor
Johnson handed the great seal of the State of
Georgia to Governor Jenkins, who took the oath
of office, and was then declared by the President of
the Senate the Governor of the State. The senti-
ments of the address were most cordially endorsed
by the members of the State Legislature, which
adjourns to-morrow.
The Fenian Senate has adjourned, four of the
senators have gone home; the rest are awaiting
with Roberts the arrival of Stephens.
The opposition to the French occupation of Mexico was
making itself heard more decidedly both in and out of
Congress. The New York Evening Post, in view of the
fact that the French Government has lately been sending
reinforcements to its army in Mexico, asks why the
American Government does not send a fleet into the Gulf
of Mexico ? It characterises the Emperor Napoleon as a
" lying sneak," and assorts that it is " time for the United
States to change entreaty for command" in reference to
his Mexican operations. The New York Times denounces
the Evening Post for its efforts to bring about a war be-
tween America and France. it deprecates any precipi-
tancy in the matter, and, while it expresses full confidence
in the success of Ame rican arms should such an alterna-
tive arise, it urges that the Government should act up to
the last hour in a pacific spirit, and with a sincere desire
to avoid the dread arbitrament of arms.
The decree of Juarez in which he announces his inten-
tion of continuing to exercise the functions of Executive
of the Mexican Republic had been published. It is dated
from EI Paso, November 8. Juarez states that although
his presidential term has expired, as there has been no
opportunity, in consequence of the disordered state of the
country, to elect his successor, and as the Congress has
invested him with extraordinary powers, he regards it as
his duty to continue to act as President until such time as
another election can be held. _

The split in the Fenian organisation at New York ap-
peared to be growing wider. An enthusiastic demonstra-
tion had been held at Chicago in favour of the " Senate"
and " President" Roberts, as against the O'Mahony party.
The Fenians :of the entire :west were reported to be
generally in favour of the " Senate," but the New York
City circles were still passing resolutions in favour of
O'Mahony.
The correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from
Fortress Monroe says :

Some reason of most cogent nature is now, as lam
authoritatively informed, causing Jefferson Davis to turn
his attention snore especially than at any time heretofore
to the concerns of his soul. His old clergyman of St. Paul's
Church, in Richmond—the church which he attended
during the war, and from which he made that mar-
vellously rapid exit on the last Sunday of his attendance
there--has been allowed to spend a day with him. No
criminal about to ba led to the gallows can receive more
sedulous attention, or probably wiser religious counselling.
The sacrament was administered to him, and everything
done that could be, by his old religious teacher and
advisor, through scriptural reading and prayer, to give
him peace of mind and that cheerful, content, and resigna-
tion following the right kind of teaching and faith.
During his imprisonment Mr. Davis's only religious
adviser has been the post chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Chivvis,
a most amiable and excellent man and worthy and devout
clergyman. It was natural he should like to bo attended
by his old pastor, and no ono will bo inclined, I am sure,
to blame him for asking the privilege of his attendance
upon him or find fault with the request being complied
with.

President Johnson has sent the following despatch to
the Provisional Governor of Georgia:—
Washington, December 11.

J. Johnson, Provisional Governor.

The Governor elect will be inaugurated, which will not
interfere with the Provisional Governor. You will
receive instructions in a few days with regard to being
relieved. Why can't you elect a senator? I would issue
no commissions to members of Congress ; leave that for
the incoming Governor. We are under obligations to you
for the noble, efficient, and patriotic manner in which you
have discharged the duties of Provisional Governor, and
you will be sustained by the Government.
ANDREW JOHNSON, President.

The New York Tribune says :
The trial of Commodore Craven for not attacking the
Stonewall with the Niagara and Sacramento at Corunna,
has had a curious termination. The court—of which Vice-
Admiral Farragut was president, and which included
three rear-admirals, Commodore Winslow, and Captain
Molancthon Smith—adjudged him guilty, in "a degree,"
of the charges, and sentenced kim to be suspended from
I duty on limo pay for two years. Who Secretary of the

Navy sent back this finding to the court for revision,
whereupon they found him guilty, and re•awarded the
same punishment. Mr. Welles reviews the findings at
considerable length as inconsistent with the facts, contra-
dictory, and unaccountable, and winds up by setting all
the proceedings aside and releasing Commodore Craven
from arrest. On the question of the actual culpability of
the accused, the Secretary says it is impossible, from the

action of the court, to arrive at an opinion.
In the House of Representatives, on the motion of Mr.
Stephens, of Pennsylvania, the resolution providing for a
joint committee to examine into the condition of the late

so-called Confederate States, as returned from the Senate
with amendments, was concurred in.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Times
says:—
Those who expected a fight in tho House to-day on the
amended re-construction resolution were very much dis-

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appointed when Mr. Stevens arose and blandly moved to
concur in the amendments. This was speedily done, with-
out even calling for a division on the subject, the Demo-
crats hardly manifesting even enough interest to vote.
The resolution is now perfected, and being concurrent, it
will not, according to precedents hitherto established, bo

sent to the President for his approval, although there is a
constitutional provision which provides that all resolutions,
whether joint or concurrent, of the two Houses, must be
approved by the Executive.

In the United States Senate a resolution had been in-
troduced instructing the Committee of Judiciary to

inquire into the expediency of applying the eight-hour
system of labour to Government employds.

In the House of Representatives a resolution was in tro-
duced authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to pur-

chase a suitable site for a custom-house and warehouse in

Jersey city, and making an appropriation for the erection

of the building.

A resolution was passed declaring that treason against

the United States Government is a crime and ought to be

punished
A proposition was adopted (th6-53nate concurring) to
adjourn for the holidays from the 20th December to the

)th January.
Mr. Mont. Gibbs, United States Revenue Agent,
family, are sojourning :at :the Hotel de Holland, Paris,

for the winter.

Josiah Pearce, an American who is interested in
a railway stock contract, recently obtained by Messrs.
Winans Brothers from the Russian Government, has, we

learn, been made a Knight of the Russian Empire.
Mrs. Ellen Kay Blunt is at Frankfort-on-the-
Maine, giving recitations from works of the English and

American poets.
Mr. Cyprus W. Field, of New York, has arrived
in London, and is staying at the Palace Hotel.
Major-General Schofield has gone into winter
quarters at Paris.
Mrs. Judge Pierpont, of New York, and her
family have taken up their re..idence in Paris for the
winter.

Mrs. Fahnstock, wife of the senior partner of the
banking house of Jay, Cook, and Co., of New York, ac-
companied by her family, are stopping at Paris for the

winter.

Major General Franklin has accepted the Pre-
sidency of Colt Arms Company, Hartford, Conn., and en-
tered upon its duties.
Advices from St. John, N. 8., apprise us of the
death of Chief Justice Parker, who was one of the most

highly and deservedly respected public men in that pro-
vince.

Gurley, the assassin of Gen. M'Cook, was elected
Sheriff of the Madison county, Alabama, not long since.

Advices from Nassau, N. P., announce the pre-
sence of the rebel Jubal A. Early in that place, where he
is residing for the present, and is engaged in writing a
history of his campaigns.

Mr. Townsend Harris, late United States
Minister to Japan, has presented to General Grant a magni-
ficent sword of honor received from the Tycoon.

General Banks, at a serenade, lately at Washing-
ton, commended the President's message.
General Hooker is seriously ill, at Burlington,
Vermont.

Brigadier General Martindale has been breveted
Major-General.

Generals Butler, Dix, Croxton, and Ketchum
have resigned.
Ex-President Pierce was recently confirmed at
St. Paul's Church, Concord, N. 11. . .

Daniel L. Gibbons, U. S. Treasury Agent at
Mobile, has committed suicide.
General Logan is in Washington, but has not
yet indicated his intention about the Mexican mission.
General Butler is preparing a reply to General
Grant's Report.

The widow of Stonewall Jackson, now residing
in Virginia, is reported to be in a destitute condition.
A Miss Mitchell has been made Professor of
Astronomy in a New York college.
Geo. H. Magruder, of Virginia, who was Chief
of Ordnance of the Navy Department at the breaking out
of the rebellion, and was dismissed on account of his dis-
loyalty, has applied to the President to revoke the order
of dismissal so as to permit him to resign, thus placing
himself within the pale of pardon.
J. R. Thompson, formerly editor of the Southern
Literary Messenger, is living in England in straitened cir-
cumstances, and is said to be contributing translations
from the German for Blackwood's Magazine.
Mrs. Wirz indignantly denies the story that she
tried to poison her husband while kissing him, and swears
to what she says.
Memphis had only 26,000 population in 1860, but
now claims 60,000 or 70,000.
Gen. Carl Schurz has been engaged as a Wash-
ington correspondent of the New York Tribune.
Nebraska is growing fast, and has 50,000 inhabi-
tants now—twice as many as Nevada or Colorado, now
both states.
T. Buchanan Read, who has been to New Or-
leans, painting General Sheridan and his war-horse,
has left that city for Cincinnati, where ho will finish the
work.

It is reported that Gen. Dan Sickles, the present •:
commander of the Department of South Carolina, will :
succeed the late Preston King. as Collector of the port of
New York.
Robert Tyler, son of the late President, who
came South at the beginning of the war, and held an im-
portant position in the Confederate Treasury Department,
was pardoned by Pxesident Johnson a few days since.
The President's Conservative friends, in Wash-
ington, openly declare that Ex-Speaker Colfax's speech is
in direct opposition to his policy, and asserts that the
President is in favor of the admission of Southern members
to Congress without the test oath.
It appears from the census reports that the popu-
lation of the various Indian tribes in the United States
and the Territories is 307,842. During the late war there
were 5,400 in the service of the Government.
The lumber received at Chicago so far this season
amounts to 557,675,000, over 100,000,000 more than during
the previous year.
The Farmers' Bank of Kentucky, having lost
$60,000 by the Morgan raids in June, 1864, sued W. J.
Witherspoon, a returned Morgan officer, attached his land,
and got judgment from a circuit for the whole sunrre
appeals the case.
An ocffier has been despatched to the battle-fields
in the Shenandoah Valley by the War Department, to
look after the proper interment of the Union troops who
fell in the many engagements in that vacinity during the
war. It is understood that a cemetery will be laid out in
the valley.
It is not proper to address the President as " Your
Excellency," as some do. In the Convention that framed
the National Constitution this title was proposed, but was
rejected at the instance of Benjamin Franklin, who pro-
posed to insert immediately after, "And that the Vice-
President shall be His Most Superfluous Highness !"
It is reported that the Fenian " Head Centre"
of Quebec has absconded with the money of the Fenian
Fund in his possession.
$26,000,000 have been paid during the war to
procure exemption from drafts.
The Baltimore Catholic Mirror says that the col-
lection taken up in the different Catholic churches of Mary-
land, for the relief of Southern families made destitute by the
war, may be said to be now complete, and to reach a sum
a little short of $12,000. Of this amount we understand that
about $6,000 have already been distributed—principally in
Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina., Florida, and Mississippi.
In parcelling out the money differences of religion have in
no instance been considered. The applicant had only to
have his or her necessities properly vouchsafed for to be-
come a recipient of the fund.
The new bridge about to be suspended over the
Ohio river, at Cincinnati, will be the longest structure of
the kind in the world, being more than 2,000 ft. longer than
over the Niagara river, and 540 ft. longer than the Menai-
bridge, England. Its total span will be 1,057 ft.
The Memphis Appeal says r.—During the history
of Memphis there has never been a. time when the spirit of
public improvement was so manifest as at the present. On
every hand we see evidences of it, and, as an illustration,
it is estimated that there are at 'least 900 houses in the
course of construction at present. "The scarcity of mecha-
nics is sadly felt. In consequence the most extravagant
, prices are offered to workmen and Ineo clanks as an induce-