ADDITIONAL AMERICAN NEWS. (FROM THE "SAN FRANCISCO EVENING BULLETIN," DECEMBER 6.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2683, 21 February 1866, Page 5

ADDITIONAL AMERICAN NEWS. (FROM THE "SAN FRANCISCO EVENING BULLETIN," DECEMBER 6.)

The Government to-day restores to the American Telegraph Company the full control of its Southern line. At the same time it reserves the censorship on the press and other matter in transitu, which has been in force during the war. There is a rumour prevalent that the British Government has instructed Sir Frederick Bruce to remonstrate with our Government against the movements of the Fenians in this country. An association has been formed in Washington for the purpose of collecting together the remains of Union soldiers now scattered over the battle grounds of Fredericksburg, and interring them in a central position. The association also proposes to erect over their remains * soldiers' monument of suitable size, and with appropriate designs and inscriptions. Another great artesian well, flowing 200,000 gallons daily, has been struck at Chicago. Its diameter is five inches, though the intention is to enlarge it to twenty inches, at which size it will have a discharge capacity of seventeen million gallons daily.

New Yobk, December 2. The Hemldls Richmond correspondent says, upon the authority of General Grant, that the system of issuing army rations to the destitute people, white and black, in the South, will be discontinued during the present month. Great suffering is anticipated in consequence, aud the people of Richmond propose to appoint a committee to solicit donations in the principal Northern cities.

Cairo, December 2. forty negroes from a plantation near Mobile, armed with rifles and sabres, attacked the white men on the neighbouring farm. The leader was killed, but the others escaped, leaving their weapons behind. The swamps near Mobile are said to be full of deserters from the army.

Washington, December 4. _ The proposition that the Senate shall act in harmony with the House, on the admission of Southern representatives, is coldly received by the senators, on the ground that it is an infringement of the rights of the senators. At the opening of the session in the House the galleries were densely crowded. At noon, Mr. MoPherson, the clerk, proceeded to call the roll of members. While it was being called, Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, whose name had not been placed on the roll by McPberson, wanted to suggest something, but the clerk refused to be interrupted. After the call was completed, Maynard rose to speak, but the clerk ruled him out of order. One hundred and seventy-five members answered to the call. Mr. Brooks, of New York, made a speech, characterising the omission of the names of members from Tennessee from the roll as unprecedented, unjust, and totally uncalled-for. "If," he said, "Maynard is not a loyal man from a loyal State, then the President was not a loyal man, but an alien and a stranger." He charged that the adoption of the resolution excluding (Southern members from the House by the Republican caucus was designed to be antagonistic to the President's message. The House took no action on the subject, but underthe previous question proceeded to the election of the Speaker. Schuyler Col fax and James Brooks were put in nomination, and Colfax was selected. The Navy Department to-day received a despatch from St. Thomas, announcing the arrival at that port of the fleet on its way to the Pacific coast. The iron-clad 'Monadnock' behaved splendidly in the roughest weather, displaying sailing qualities superior to the other vessels of the squadron. A Washington special despatch to the Chicago Tribune says : — "The general comment on the President's message, as expressed in frequent phrases is, that it is a tolerably good message— better, a good deal, than we had reason to expect. The Democrats make no objections as yet. The Unionists

are cautious in expressing themselves, except as above hinted. Conspicuous Radicals, however, freely criticise it, assuming that, on the whole, the work of reorganisation has been accomplished, with the single exception of passing upon the legality of the election of Congressmen. "

Lawrence, Kansas, December 1. A patty of 200 Cheyennes and Apaches attacked the coach on Butfcerfield'a express route, on Sunday last, near Downes Spring, and killed six passengers and an express messenger. After burning the coach, they went down to Spring Bluff Station, and burned all the buildings, and stole or destroyed all the goods and other property. One of the passengers killed three Indians, but was afterwards shot, and his heart cut out, and his body burned over a slow fire. General Grant's Report. —General Grant's report of military operations during the last fifteen months of war is a document of great interest. In it we have the history of some of the most remarkable campaigns in the annals of warfare, and told, too, in a singularly frank, manly, yet modest way. The lieutenant-general talks plainly, and calls things by their right names. Prompt to give credit where credit is due, he does not hesitate to condemn where condemnation is deserved. He tells us plumply why certain expeditions miscarried, and to whose insubordination or incompetency the country owed movements with doubtful results. He informs us why the Petersburg mine explosion in the summer of 1864 miscarried ; what was the cause of the miserable fiasco of Hunter in the ' Shenandoah ;' why Sigel failed, and what led to his removal. General Grant is also very plainspoken with regard to the first expedition against Fort Fisher ; says General Weitzel was assigned to the command of it, and cruelly adds that General Butler, in accompanyingit, was doubtless "actuated by a desire to witness the effect of the explosion of his powder-boat." This is a hard rap at the wouldbe commander of the armies of the Union, but it is deserved. Butler's conduct in the Fort Fisher affair was not only unjustifiable, but criminal. In any other service than our own he would have been court-martialled.