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The ( (institutional Guaranty of a Re-
publicaji Form of Government.
Letter from Robert Dale Owen.
/', t/ir Editors of the New York Evenim/Post:
Now that we nearly approach the meeting of
a Congress before whom will come questions of
graver import and more lasting results than
any that "ever awaited the assembling of a na
tional legislature in our country, suffer me,
through your columns, briefly to inrite the at
tention of the members elect and of the public
lo a clause in the Constitution to which recent
events have given an unlooked for importance;
and to a practical recommendation which, if
brought forward by the proper men in the
groper way, will, I think, command two-thirds
of the votes in either house.
"A word or two of preface touching the Presi
dent and his recent policy.
Many good men think that he has placed
ton much confidence in the Southern ex-rebels;
that he has pushed the Christian principles of
forgiveness and conciliation beyond their pru
dent limits; and that he has been expecting
and facilitating the political rehabilitation of
the late insurgent States at a day too early to
consist with the public safety and with the
future domestic tranquility of the republic.
That may be, and the President himself may,
to-day, perhaps admit it. But let us not,
therefore, too hastily conclude that any harm
has been done. It is seldom unwise to tender
the olive branch even to the unworthy. After
a great national outbreak, clemency should
lirst be tried; nor, in practice, c«n we continue
through a long term to treat whole communi
ties ns culprits.
The South, wedded to her idols, has not re
sponded to the magnanimous overtures of the
Tresident. Such, l doubt not, will be the judg
ment of Congress. Upon that judgment I be
lieve Congress will act; and, if itdoes, no im
pediment, I feel assured, will be thrown in its
way by our Chief Magistrate.
Andrew Johnson’s past career is, in many
respects, a noble one ; and I do not believe he
will falsify it. I call to mind that, at Nashville,
a little more than a year ago, he declared to a
large assemblage of negroes that “loyal men,
whether white or black, shall alone control the
destinies of Tennessee and 1 remember when
from the vast crowd oi freedmen there came a
voice claiming him as their Moses to lead them
to the promised land, he replied : “Humble and
unworthy as I am, if no other and better shall be
tound, I will indeed be yoqr Moses, and lead you
through the Red Sea of war and bondage to a
fairer iuture of liberty and peace.’’
Conversing, a few weeks since, with an earnest
thinker and a distinguished member of last Con
gress, Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, thatr
gentleman expressed in strong terms bis convic
tion that the national safety is jeoparded it the
constitutional guaranty touching a republican
form of government remain a dead letter. I wish
that Mr. Davis were a member of the Congress
about to convene, there to qrge, as he did on the
occasion referred to, bis reasons for such an
opinion. It is, beyond doubt, a correct one. We
do well to look narrowly at this provisions and
its legitimate results.
It is the people of the whole nation through
their national government, not the people of any
one State through their convention or their State
legislature, who have foe right, and upon whom
|5 imposed the duty, to see that State govern
ments are, and remain, republican in form. (Art.
IV., Sec. 4.) And the whole people, not the
people of a single State, are by the Constitution
made the judges of what is a republican form of
government.
If a State of the Union were to proclaim e
monarchy, Congress would have the right to re
ject her representatives. But a repulJLictn form
of government may be subverted by indirection
as effectually as by proclamation of a monarchy.
A State has a right, within certain limits, to de
cree the qualifications of her voters. But any
qualification may be pushed beyond the point of
republicanism. Ana when tnia happens, it de
volves upon the national government to enforce
the constitutional guaranty. ^ ‘
A State, if it see fit, may require a property
qualification; as that a voter shall be a tax-payer
or a householder; but if it posh the principle so
far as to require that he shall possess a hundred
thousand dollars, then large masses are disfran
chised, and the republican form of government is
violated thereby. .
A State, if it see fit, may require a literary
qualification; as that a voter shall be able to read
'tie Constitution of his country; but if It push
'he principle so far as to require that he shall un
derstand Sanscrit or read Homer in the original
Creek, then large masses are disfranchised^aud
'he republican form of government is violated
thereby. * •***•• * y, . »u ■- « n
A State, if it see fit, may require a qualifi-
tion of birth, as that a foreigner shall have
'veil a three-year resident .before he is enti
tled to vote; but if it should push this princi
ple so far as to disfranchige ajl persons of for
eign birth and their descendants, daring life
time, then large ,masses would be excluded,
&nd the republican form of government would
violated thereby.
8o, also, if a State disfranchise, because of
race, the fiftieth part of her population, her
j action may violate justice, yet fall short of
i "oiklng a substantial change in her form of
I government. (De minimis non curat lex.)—
. Hut if the number excluded by tMs qualifica-
r 'ion of race from participation in self-govern-
ment amount to one-thira Ot one-half or two-
1 'birds of her entire population, then large
masses are disfranchised, and the republican
'hereby!
if such disfranchisement be temporary, then
11 amounts to the temporary suspension of the
republican form.
That the republican form, in the hitherto
'waived American sense of the term, wasfobt
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them. We have the same constitutional right,
and no more, to disfranchise one class or race
of these as another. A State that disfran
chises large masses of them substitutes the oli
garchical form for the republican- And Con
gress neglects a constitutional duty if it per
mits this. ' ■
The right to check a State which should
habitually violate, or temporarily suspend, a
republican form of government, was wisely
placed in the nation’s hands ; for such violation
or suspension endangers 'the national unity—
imperils domestic peace. Slavery, though
tolerated by the‘Constitution, did substantially
violate the republican form, and the late rebel
lion was the ultimate result
At the present juncture, when the danger is
that this constitutional provision regarding %
republican form of government may be violated
in the persons of four millions of native-born
citizens of African descent, an additional im
portant consideration presents itself. Loyalty
is scarce in the South, and it is precisely the
most loyal portion of the Southern people who
ran the risk 'of disfranchisement. We may
safely calculate upon the vote of the nogro
population, in mass, being cast for national
representatives who will vote with us on all
great national questions : as against repudia
tion of our debt or assumption of the rebel
debt. They will sustain us on snch questions,
ut because they hare financial knowldge or
political experience, but because they have
ctgacious instincts. They understand that their
safety depends in voting with their friends;
and they will do it.
There are two things, then, to be considered
in this matter: our doty and our interest.
They happen to coincide.' ’ God has decreed
that if we neglect onr constitutional duty we
goffer onr political allies to be disfranchised;
in other words, we permit to be deprived of
suffrage, to the number of four millions, the
friends of loyalty and the Union.
That is one side of the question. The other
relates to expediency and public opinion.
Prejudice, when it pervadea large masses of
a population, ought to be recognized as a fact,
and treated, to some extent, as a power. A wise
legislator perceives its error without despising
its influence. The moral world moves slowly,
and it is difficult, sometimes dangerous, to over
hurry its pace.
To such considerations mnch of the President’s
action is doubtless to be ascribed. The sun was
more powerful than the wind Id causing the
traveller to discard his cloak. But forbearance,
though an, eminent duty, is often mistaken for
weakness by the self-sufficient and the overbear
ing; and there is a large leaven of Belf-sufficiency
aud overbearance still at work in the South.
The world is not yet prepared (witness the last
four years !) literally to practise in the conduct
of national affaire, Christ’s injunction, when a
man smites ns on one cheek to turn the other
also.
And as the lives of men, so in the career of na
tions, there ia a tide leading to fortune, which
must be taken at the Hood. There are certain
conjunctures occurring now and then in national
affairs, which, if we pass them by, return not for
generations of men. We may suffer long in
“shallows aDd in miseries,” not alone for sins of
commissions, but more severely yet for seasons of
action neglected and golden opportunities unim
proved.
We shall have a majority, even of two-tbirdi,
in the Congress which is soon to convene. There
will come to that Congress applications by repre
sentatives from the late insurgent States. To
these we are bound to listen. But we are not
bound to receive them without due time allowed
for committee action and for reflection. We arc
not bound to permit a dilation of the loyal work
ing element in Congress, until, undiluted, it
shall have done whatever is its necessary work.
The four years upon which peace haw now closed
ought to have taught us much. They ought to
have taught us that it is our bounden doty to pro
vide not only against immediate, but against
prospective dangers. They ought to have taught
us the wisdom of Tat tel’s interpretation of the
right of war when he says (Book III., section 44,
40) : “If the safety of the State lies at stake,
onr precaution ana foresight cannot be extended
too far. Must we delay our ruin till it has be
come inevitable ?.... An injury gives a right to
provide for our future safety by depriving the
unjust aggressor of the means ot injuring us.”
It we allow our late enemies, by peimaaeotly
shutting out four millions of negroes from votes
for President and Congressmen, to obtain for
themSelves, the Whites of the rionth, twice as
mnch political influence, man for man, as we of
the North possess, we are, in my judgment, leav
ing them, as Vattel expressed it, “the means oi
injuring us.’’ If they employ these. means to
oar injury a aepond war may ensue ; for we have
become, in a measure, accustomed to the arbitra
ment of the sword; and the North will not tamely
tolerate from the Sooth in the future what she
has endured in the past. For the sake of both
sections, then—for the sake of permanent do
mestic tranquility—let ub do what is necessary
for safety while onr present majority gives us the
power to do it.
Whatever is really demanded by prudence and
foresight, we ought to do in the manner least
offensive to our Southern fe!low-dti?ena. Some
offence to the haughty and turbulent portion of
these we must give, and it is culpable weakness
to shrink from it.
But these are generalities. Let us come to a
definite proposition.
If the framers of the Constitution had antici
pated such an insurrection as we have just
quelled, I do not donbt that, besides giving
Congress the right to determine the time*,
places and manner of bolding elections for Con
gressmen, they would have given thfit body the
farther right to determine the qualifications of
voters as well for Congressmen as for President.
These are national offices; and I think it
would have been expedient to vest in the na
tion—not in the separate States—the right to
determine how they should be filled. lam
quite sure that, in the present temper of the
South, it is not safe to suffer each State to de
termine the qualifications of electors of Federal
officers. The qualifications should be uniform
in all the States, and ike representatives 'of the
nition should determine these. ‘ '
X propose, ' therefore, that Congress, before
admitting members from the late insurgent States,
should take the initiatoty steps-so to amend the
Constitution that the qnndif cations' of vot&s for
President and Vice President and for Bfiprt-
syitatices in Congress shall be determined by
Congressional or Oonstjtv/liojifll authority. _ I-
think it best, to insure permaneut uniformity
in a matter so vital as this, that the amend
ment Bhould set' forth, SI
cations to be required or jW fc!
tion, at least in part It shoffid be provided
that race or color shall. not be a qualification,
U^that the ability to read the CbnstituiioH
.' not free sad of
>nf?rrable from me. cC
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It would be well to incorporate in the Mine
by the people. The intervention of
colleges (a prorision.virtually emu
lie opinion)-had long been a mete
incumbrance ; ahd, a* such, should ! be erased
from the Constitution.
[As to the' literary qttAlifiuatiou^the - ability
to read—it has in its fovor at this time two ra-
cqmmendations; Ope tqmporary at# cf ex-
tfyi -jet
it is a
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nestion, Shutting
Europe oommonly selects property as a suf
frage qualification, republican America substi
tuted fer it the test of intelligence.
There are, it is' true, exceptions to every
rule, and, of course, there are to be found in-*
telligent men who cannot read; bat if these
men have obtained snch accurate political in
formation as every voter ought to possess,
they have collected it as a sailor shipwrecked
on a desert island might wrest a living from
the gronnd by cultivating it with a mason’s
trowel. They aro almost in the benighted
condition of men before the discovery of print
ing. They have not possessed themselves of
the modem implements of knowledge. They
should be required to procure these before they
are admitted to exercise the solemn duty of
suffrage.
We need something to remind us that it is a
solemn duty. Suffrage has, of late years, and
especially in our great cities, gradually come
to be not' only cheapened, bnt, in a measure,
dishonored and degraded. That cannot con
tinue and increase without endangering our
very form of government. Any thing which
tends to elevate suffrage in the eyes of these
who exercise it, tends to the perpetuity no less
than to the morality of the republic.
Some will object to the amendment proposed,
that it is insufficient for present purposes; being
a compromise under which we should lose, for a
generation of men, perhaps, the vote of a very
Targe majority of the negro population; and that
we cannot afford to lose eo large a loyal vote in
an emergency like the present. There is force
in the objection. But in this slow-moving world
it is often the question not what shonld be done,
bat what can be done. And the move, if it be not
as great a stride as is desirable, is, emphatically,
one in the right direction. We obtain a firm
basis on which to build hereafter; and the evil
which it fails at once to eradicate will be dimin
ishing year by year. No generation oi men will
elapse before the negro, Tree at last to enter the
school-house, will have learned to read there.
The incentive, alike to illiterate blacks and
whites, to make up for lost time will be powerful
beyond auv other, perhaps, that law can create,
I bare reason to believe that such a measure
will be introduced in the early days of next Con
gress, by one of its ablest members; and that it
will find favor in the highest quarters. It is not
all that, in jnstice, we ought to secure; it may be
all that, in practice, we shall be able to obtain.
Nor, if such an amendment is incorporated in
the Constitution, can it be alleged that the North
seeks to impose on the Sooth provisions as to
suffrage which some Northern States are them
selves unwilling to adopt. Public opinion in the
North will sustain it. Nor yet will there be pre
tence for assertion that State rights are invaded,
since the measure affects voters for Federal of
ficers only.
The North has the power, by making such an
amendment a condition ot re-admission, to se
cure its adoption. She will evince little pru
dence or foresight if she suffers that power to
pass from her bands.
As to the civil rights of negroes, if Congress
admit a single ex-insurgent State without seeiug
to it that these are constitutionally secured, the
representative^^ the nation will be doing worse
than to neglecflfheir duty in guaranteeing a re
publican form of government; they will be
making the nation an accesaory to an outrage on
civilization. To deny the negro the right to
testifv in a court of jnstice is an act not of dis
franchisement but of outlawry.
States have the right to pass laws regarding
vagrants and paupers. But a State has no con
stitutional right to incorporate in any such laws,
or in any laws whatever defining tbe civil rights
of free persons, a provision restricting their
effect to any particular race of men. A State
cannot, tor example, constitutionally enact a
vagrant law that shall apply only to citizens of
IrUh descent. Such a law would be in violation
of a republican form of government, to say noth
ing of its certain result; it would be the signal
for an insurrection among the Irish-all over the
land.
The public desire is strong that fraternal re
lations between the lately warring sections of onr
country shonld be speedily re established. That
is,well. To,be reconciled to a brother ia better
than an altar-gift. Peace is a Godlike visitor.
Bat if she comes with her white robes sullied
with injustice, brief will be her sojourn among
Let not our eagerness for tranquility, then,
betray ns into ooncessions alike perilous and dis
honorable. We are in danger of this. One of
the wisest of modern writers on public affairs has
said: “When a nation has been wearied by long
strife, it will submit to be duped for the sake of
paaoa.”
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Robert Dale Owbk.
New York, Nov. 22, 186a.
The Massachusetts Shoe Trade.
The Boston Shoe and Leather Reporter
gives an encouraging account of the lucrative
business enjoyed by Massachusetts from South
ern merchants:
The shipment of boots and shoes to South
ern ports and interior towns is forth excess of
all anticipations; 31,671 cases having been
sent daring the past three months. It shonld
also be remembered that these boots and Bhoes
are in the aggregate of a better description
than those heretofore sent, requiring finer
leather, better trimmings and more expensive
workmanship—the day of rasset brogans for
the slaves is gone by, and they being obliged
to pay for their own shoes, demand something
that will not be a continual reminder of the
past. We learn from Southern gentleman that
the colored population entertain a great aver
sion to russets, and that a pair is not to be
seen in a month’s travel throngh that section.
Manufacturers everywhere are busy on
orders, few, if any, having stocks on hand
from which to supply immediate wants. These
cases, wfth tire high rates now demanded for
labor, tend to keep up high prices, while the
demand is active and actual—net speculative.
There is afso no probability, from present ap
pearances, that this requirement will decline
for soiqe time to come, and although there has
beeq for several days a lull in the leather mar
ket, >t »s only such as always ensures a present
supply on the part of manufacturers, and may
regarded as only temporary. So long as
« demand > upon manufacturers is brisk, and
the wages of labor so high, prices will not
Abate-
first step-in the assertion qf two great priu?
__.es—'the oad, that the accident of race si “
not exdlffde a fret ifjfizen fr6m self-govern
ment ; and t>Uf wtpM HMMfttUftl
Bx.the set of Congress of August 15th, 1861, a
direct tax was imposed bn the several States and
Territories, pro rata, according fo foe ifsprasen-
tafive population. The amount was allowed to
he’paid In various Ways, In some Status direct
Tax' Commissioners were appointed. In others
theBtate Bad county officers collected it with the
State Taxes: hi others the amount was made up
Sftw*:°i^ W Yo?k,
South Carolina, *284,57* Hi Vu»ma, §WV
StT; Arkansas, *688,1658*1 Nevada, *4,528 88;
rylao*, *375.29* 88; Pennsylvania, *31500,80C
Indiana.^*6A701^eo ; Calitornia, *24T,«*«;
fi '67: Fl'oiida, *430,509 81; Louisiana, *88,208
Waalgagton Territory, *41486. Total--
The Late Gales.
TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS AT SEA.
SHIPWRECK AND PRIVATIONS OF
THE CAPTAIN AND CREW OF
THE SCHR. JOEL G. SWEET.
Four Days on an Uninhabited Island Without
Food or Water,
Ac., Ac., Ac.
The following statement of terrible suffer
ings, exposure and hardships endured at sea
and on an uninhabited island is made by Capt.
Robert Whitty, of the schooner Joel G. Sweet,
an account of tbe wreck of which appeared in
the Herald yesterday. Capt. Whitty is well
known in this city as a skilful navigator and a
thorough seaman, and it will be gratifying to
his pumerous friends to learn of his safety.
The schooner Joel G. Sweet left Charleston
on the 19th of October for Apalachicola, under
the command of Captain Charles Marks, Capt.
Whitty being employed to navigate the vessel
to her port of destination. Nothing occurred
worthy of note outside of the ordinary routine
of seafaring life ontil the 31st of October, when
they were overtaken by the hurricane which, it
will be remembered, was one of the most terri
fic and disastrous that ever visited our coast.
The gale continued to increase in force and
violence until the 23d, when the few remaining
sails upon the vessel were blown away, with the
exception of the mainsail, which was badly torn.
About noon on that day they sighted the land
a little to the north of Jupiter inlet, but shortly
afterwards lost sight of it. All through the
night tbe gale continued to increase in force,
with the sea running mountains high, and the
weather being thick and rainy. Early the
next afternoon observed the breakers to leeward,
tried to keep off, but could not. At this time
they were a few miles to the north of Cape Cana
veral. A heavy sea came rolling over them,
and swept Captain Marks and Captain Whitty
overboard, and at the same time the mainmast
waa carried away. Captain Marks clung to
the mast and was haoled on board; bat the
sail that was attached to the mast, when it was
carried away, fell over Captain Whitty and
kept him between the waves. He instinctively
felt for his knife to cat a place in the sail, so
that he might come to tbe surface and breathe;
but his knife was lost, and all the horrors of a
death by drowning were suffered by him daring
the time that he remained under the water.
After he had swallowed a great deal of salt
water, and jnst as he was upon the point of
giving np all hope of extricating himself from
his perilous positicn, the mast and sail were
lifted from over him by a monstrous wave, and
he arose to the surface again, and was hanled
on board the vessel, more dead than alive, by
those who had given him up as lost. Captain
Whitty had his breast badly bruised and his
right hand fearfully cut by the mast, and Capt.
Marks bad one of his ribs broken and sustained
other injuries. After crossing the breakers the
vessel was driven in towards the beach, the
waves in the meanwhile breaking clean over
her. One of the men after repeated efforts,
gained the beach with a rope, and by that
means they were all enabled to land safely.
They were all so completely exhausted that
they lay down beneath a small palm tree and
slept soundly, despite the fearful storm and
roaring sorf, until ten o’clock fhat night, when
they were awakened by the Bea washing away
the sandhill whereon they had lain.
They had then been without food and water lor
twelve hours, and hungry, drenched and ex
hausted sa they were they conld sleep no more
that night, owing to tbe innudated state of the
island. Cramped an* chilled, they were obliged
to keep oa their teat all night. The storm con
tinued all that night and the next day with una
bated fory. In tne morning the schooner had
TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
A Train Thrown Off the Track
on the Orange and Alex
andria Railroad.
Thre8 Persons Killed, Twenty-
Four "Wounded,
Ac., Ac., Ac.
Washington, Nov. 30.
The following telegram was received here
to-night, dated Warrenton Junction, Virginia,
Nov. 30:
' The night express train going South, on the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad, met with a
serious and fatal accident about 12 o’clock on
the evening of the 29th inst., one-half mile
east of Warrenton Junction, caused by the
breaking of a rail, which threw the near coach,
loaded with members of the 96th New York
Volunteers, from the track, and precipitated it
down an embankment, literally crushing it to
atoms, and instantly killing three men, and
severely wounding twenty-eight others. The
following are the names :
Killed.
Daniel Normitt, brakeman; Jesse Dondlan, Co
F; Jacob ZeibbcrD, Co F.
Wounded.
Ed McEvery, sergeant, Co E. slightly in the
head; Fred Schriver, Co F, severe cat in face;
Russell Crowningshield, Co F, severe in head and
face; Isaac Crapaud,' Co F, severely in eide and
chest; Albert Mamble, corporal, Co F, slightly in
shoulder and head; John Raker, Oo F, might!y;
Thomas SheileU, Co H, slightly; John Reeklur,
private, Co I, severely in face and heed; Andrew
Norman, corporal, Co I, slightly in head and
shoulder; Louis Greasall, corporal, Co I, severe
ly in tbe bead and back: James Donnellan, Co B,
slightly in bead and shoulder; Theodore Wem-
ering, Co I, severely in head and leg;
Jeremiah Buckley, Co E, slightly in head and
face; James Folman, Co I, slightly in face and
shoulder; Harmon Miller, Co F, elightlv; Fre
derick Crome, Co F, severely in hip; Wm Ste-
venson, Co E, severe, internally; George Ar-
thur, Co E, slightly, externally; Henry Dol
ly, Co H, slightly in arm; Henry Pionf, Co
F, slightly In head;' Jonathan Hopkins, Co
E, severely in head ; Lucius Wallace, Co F,
slightly; Edward Lapon, Co F, slightly; Mrs.
E. Burch, slightly in the shoulder and chest
A locomotive was instantly dispatched to
Warrenton village for medical aid, and prompt
ly returned with Surgeon Brady, of the 96th
regiment, who, with his able assistant, render
ed the sufferers all proper aid. The dead and
injured soldiers were early sent to Warrenton.
This morning the body of the brakeman was
sent to his friends in Alexandria. No blame
can be attached 1 to the company or their em
ployees, as tbe train was running at a moderate
rate of speed, and the car was one of their new
and elegant coaches ; but much credit is due
them for their prompt and efficient aid to the
wounded. The track wag cleared and the oth
er trains proceeded as usual.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A
Whole Family Brutally Murdered in Man-
heim, N. Y.—No Clue to the Murderers.
Aebast, Nov- 29, 1865.
On Monday night last the family of Daniel
Walratb, of Manheim, Herkimer county, con
sisting of himself, wife and daughter about 12
years of age, were murdered by a party or par
ties unknown. Mr. Walrath was shot through
the head, Mrs. Walrath’s head was mashed in,
and the child’s throat was cot. Coroner Fear,
of Mohawk, is holding an inquest to-day.
Thar^i^nojcloe^^th^murderMS^^^^^^^^
City as Well as those in the Country, with more advan
tages and conveniences in the
MISCELLANEOUS.
Of FParis,
French Language
AND
LITERATURE
Terms Moderate-
REFKKKNCES:
gale now began to moderate, hut they ware una
ble to reach foe vessel. Their situation waa now,
indeed, truly horrible They bad had nothing to
eat for nearly three days, and their tooguea were
swollen in their mouths for want of water. Dar
ing the afternoon ef their seoond day on the
island a barrel of biscuit was washed ashore and
these were all soaked with foe salt water. They
dug in the sand for fresh water, which they soon
discovered, when they immediately set to Work
sod, in regular order took tarns In lapping np
the water With thair tongues. The beaoh wqs
strung with fragments of wrecked vessels, and
at one place thsy found foe bodies of a man and
woman, foeir arms tight clasped around each
other, as they had met foeir death. One of the
man’s legs was off just below foe knee; it had
probably been eaten off by the sharks. Oa foe
fourth day they had succeeded in gathering
enough lumber to construct a raft, ana this they
launched on foe lagoon that, separated the long,
narrow island from the mainland.
Filling a small jog, which had been Washed
•shore, with fresh water, and taking as many
of the biscuit with them as they conld carry,
they left the island where they had safferrd so
much, and that afternoon, jnst as they were
nearing the mainland, they were picked np by
a small schooner and carried to Smyrna.—
From here, with the crew of tbe schooner Har
riet B- Tyler, which had also been wrecked;
they tried to reach the port of St- Augustine,
Florida, but were anable to cross pyer the bar
owing to the tremendous heayy surf. They
were then compelled to land, and had to make
their way as beet they conld 0 variant! to the
village of Enterprise on Lake Monroe. They
had scarcely shoes on foei* feet, hqt very fogs
food, and it con eqailv b* imagined that foe
hardships they endured g>u that trip were any T f .
thing but light. Vfhen they caotpedot night}, MAC H I N I * T 8
they w“d surrounded with wolvea, and it was
not' until they reached' Enterprise that they
really knew what rest ores, From Enterprise
they proceeded to Jacksonville, where they
were kindly furnished wltji transportation to
Charleston by Captain Crohker, of the steamer
Cosmopolitan, who did everything iff his pow
er to make the unfortnittte’mjea as comfortable
as possible. The officers and crow of the Cos
mopolitan generously subscribed eighty-fonr
dollars to enable foe sufferers to reach their
homes, They Saved nothing bnt what they,
had on their backs, and some of them will nqt
be able to work for some timyej to Coffie'.
A fotad st MUais Defeated with
' ' Great Slaughter.
r i San Francisco, Nov.- 27, 1865.
An official telegram to-day from Nevada
says that on ths 17fo instant Taeut.
rifled themselves in thpnSack Mountains,
About one hundred miles northwest of Dtfn-
gelen, in the northerly part of the State«f Ne
vada. During the engagement one volunteer
was killed and two were wounded. ' Qf for % ~
disns one hundred and twenty were kflli
few escaped, and ail foeir hocM^tinMrtiftffiaim-
munition were captured. This was; the band
which^hree weeks ago fobbed a tram, killed
fop teamsters, and afterwards obliged thirty
men who were scouting after
1 after so umncoewftd *ng»|emeaL
Prof. Dietz, Ph. Dr.,
ild, Mayor of ffavannafa.
Cann, Snpt. City Public Schools,
ev. Mr. King, Savannah.
. Mr. Cozpy. “ M
_ it Rev. Bishop Lynch, Charleston.
Gen. Beauregard, New Orleans
Prof Lusher, Snpt of Public Education, Louisiana.
|W Enquire at Chatham Academy Building.
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NEW YORK
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MAHI'FAvTUMAi OF
STATIO.MRY PART ABLE EXCISES AND
L-.r B O I Ij E R 8 i -xu
STRIM
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TOOL#
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS.
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tr Manufactories: COM *1 Tw«my-T
St., E. R., N. Y., and Worcester. Slaws.
. Office FOOT OF TWENTY-THIRD; B. R., N. T
Every Machine befit by ns is started and thoroughly
tested fn shop belbre being shipped.
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IMPORTERS OF
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BEDS, MA,SKS. ACCORDEpNS, *c
I^XIAIDEN LAN hi,
JComer William Street^
MISCELLANEOUS.
T. J. DUNBAB&CO
Importers and Dealers in
"WINES,
Liquors, Cigars, lie..
147- BAY STREET,
GJEORGM.
We 'Invite the attention of foe Trade and foe Pub
lic generally to oar Urge assortment of
WINES, 1 •:
LIQUORS,
CORDIALS,
CONSERVES,
CIGARS, Re., Re.,
which is not excelled by any similar establishment |in
the 8tates. We are sole proprietors of
DUNBAR'S CELEBRATED
WORMWOOD CORDIAL,
tbe reputation of which is folly established In this and
Foreign countries.
Danbar’z well known
STOMACH BITTERS,
quaranteed superior to any article of the kind, de-
slgued expreauy for Hstel and Family Use.
OXJUrBAJR’S
SCHEIOAM CORDIAL SCHNAPPS,
warranted of the atmost parity, and pot up expressly
for onr House, ot which we arc sole proprietors and
ole Agents tor Robert Smith's celebrated Phil
adelphia Ale in cases and barrels; English, scotch and
American Ale and Porter ; Brandy, hootch, Bonrboo
Whisky and Arrack Pnnobee, well known throughout
the United States, pat op by ns In cases tor export and
home consumption.
T. J. D. & CO. are sole agents for H. & H, W.
Catherwood’B Pure Bye Whiskies, X, XX, and XXX.
Brands guaranteed; unsurpassed in quality and excel
lence. * onstsntiy on hand a large and well Selected
stock of Bourbon and Wheat Whiskies, worthy tbe at
tention of foe trade and connoisseurs generally. An
assortment of Cigsa of the finest grades, manufactur
ed and imported expressly for this House, which we
offer at the lowest net cash prices.
Brandies, Gins, Wines, Champagnes, and every in
scription and grade of Foreign Liquors, imported di
rectly by this House, and for Bale in Bond or Duty
paid at lowest market rates. novT
Wholesale
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Fellner A PollalR,
167 Broughton street, Savannah Ga.,
4 BE enabled, through their permanent Hooee in
Boston, to. tarnish Jobbers and Dealers in this
Moot and Shot Trade.
than any House in said line. oct36 -6m
Poliak & Son,
EERSCMAUIW
Manufacturers, 5 ;
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
692 Broadway, near4thSt., 5. Y. City.
W E have only Black Meerschaum, and warrant
every article stamped with our name to be
genuine.
We cut Pipes to order, put Ambers, on. Mount with
Silver, make cases, and do repairing.
Pipes from to*80 each, most suitable for presents.
Send stamp for Circular. . novSO—6m
John B. Fuller.
Manufacturer and Dealer,
JYo. 8 Meg Street, wT. I\
Has In store tnd ready for immediate shipment, and La
manufacturing to order,
Portable and Stationary Stettin E
fines anti Boilers,
9 to BO horse power; Circular and Upright Saw M
' -lost approved construction, of all sizes. Cui-
to 1»W feet of lumber per hour; Gr'St Mills,
‘ * Wliaals snJ eem kind nf Wfl II.
Woodworth Pinning Ma
chines, :. i
Gray A Wood's Planing
Machines,
Denial* Planing Machines,
?%&$&?£***a
Foot Morticing Machines,
Boriqg Machines,
BUno eiet Tenoning Mo-
COTTON BINS. COTTON BINS
them. Craven, Xxedrior
with engines or horse
. Bt EATOK,
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For the Purfibose «od Safe at Ail Kinds ef
MISCELLANEOUS.
SOUTHERN
COTTON
WAREHOUSE
Owner Lincoln and Bay Streets,
SAVANNAH,GA.
OTALLON & CO..
FACTORS,
iFORWARDING.
AND
Commission Merchants,
Respectfully invite attention to |oor facilities for
the
PURCHASE OR MOVEMENT
OF
SOUTHERN PRODUCTS
and will give prompt attention to all business entrus
ted to onr care. Intending to establish permanently a
house In Savannah, expect, by Strict Baslnesa
Principles, to merit and receive a portion of the
Tratie.
Having a commodious
V1RBI01ISB FOR COTTON,
are prepared to Buy or Receive on coosipunent to
om friends in Mew York or Europe, and will
make advances on seme—picking rebating or mending
alj Cotton before shipping, thereby saving toe enor
moos expense incurred in Northern cities by this pro
We solicit a portion of the business of the Pew-
of Georgia and adjoining States.
pie at Georyl
OFFICE, STODDARD’S RANGE.
Cor. Bay anti Lincoln Street#
Post Office Address, Lock Box 25.
octT tf
$30,000,000 LOAN
OF THE
Republic of Mezico.
Twenty-year Coupon Bonds in Sum*
of $50, $100, $500 & $1,000.
; D,
Interest He wen Per Cent,
PAYABLE IN THS CITY OF
NEW YORK.
Principal and Interest Payable in
$10,000,000 to be Sold
AT
Sixty Cents
ON THE
In U. S. Currency, thus yielding on in
terest of TWELVE PER CENT. HI
GOLD, or SEVENTEEN PER CENT..
]St CTJ&RENCY, at the present rate of
premium on gold.
THE FIRST FEAR'S INTEREST AL-
READF PROVIDED.
Tbe Most Desirable Investment Ever
OFFERED.
IMMENSE TRACTS OF MINING AND
AGRICULTURAL LANDS; SIXTY
P&R CENT, of PORT DUES, IMPOSTS
and TAXES, in the Htatea of TAJflAEU-
PAS and SAN LUIS POTOSI; and tbe
PLIGHTED FAITH of the said States
and the GENERAL GOVERNMENT are
ALL PLEDGED for the redemption of
riyup Bonds payment of interest.
Tbe Security is Ample.
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in U.T. Currency willbay T per ct. GoU Bead of*W
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jjn mar lotbs or Barsaucaa Unuvnou sex u
Least One Bond.
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