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.t v v H ' ■■ m i| ilctlsilsffiv i l_i i» (mifliai m nmfiippgp. 11 VOL. X.—NO- SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1865. PRICE 5 CENTS. j, e. HAVES, Editor and Proprietor. ADVEBTHINO. Tor Square of TEN lines Nonpanel type or space oc- rnpied by the same number of lines, $2 first Insertion, }1 for each continuation. Half Square—$1 for first Insertion; 50 cents for each ( ai,sequent insertion. 'j'KRMS—$3 50 per hundred; subscription fby mail or carrier} $10 per annum; single copies, 8 cents. All advertisements must be paid for at the Counting Doom previous to insertion, and if handed in by 8 p. m. will appear in the morning edition. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. 6th. READING MATTES ON EVERY PAGE. For Ship Nows and Commercial In tell igence see Fourth Page. 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 !!!! &l ! d . b I t ?®“ cl “ l ?i5 «**•«• of pdr- " M _JSP ^ v juvi as ana«a a,as * ,r n free citi 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 nadva- fr “ -gAMwur gBeeoreolor^ ^allegiance, ent, the Cob B ^roent, toe Constitl . —w wuusumauiiy AXUUi UB t e to last, diwiriiqiB«m a* i Ai’l _ 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 tSpnegrd m 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. aecl-iAwtf. . . NEW YORK mm ’ WORKS, MAHI'FAvTUMAi OF STATIO.MRY PART ABLE EXCISES AND L-.r B O I Ij E R 8 i -xu STRIM AND I j 1 TOOL# OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. " .M '• ■ . 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. novS—eodam n 1 vm - -to -■> j- IMPORTERS OF GERMAN, FRENCH ASD ENGLISH - • nil 'ft a ‘ CHmA&FANCYG00I»| 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, ’-'V' 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. E in U.T. Currency willbay T per ct. GoU Bead of*W *!,«• jjn mar lotbs or Barsaucaa Unuvnou sex u Least One Bond. assss