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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. VOLUME I.V ]Vo.<Wl _ J PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, SUNDAYS EXCEPTED, BY a W. MASON & CO., At 111 Bay Street, Savannah, Georgia, terms: Per Copy Five Cents. , Per Hundred $3 50. Per Year $lO 00, advertising: A limited number of Advertisemeets will be re ceived at the rate of Twenty Cents per Line for first insertion,and Fifteen Cents per Line for each subsequent insertion : invariably in advance. Ad vertisements should be handed in before noon of each day. JOB PRINTING in every style, neatly and promptly done. &ATJBR XUSBBXi NEWS. AUGUSTA DATES OF THE 2<TH IYST. We are indebted to Captain Young, of the steamer Mayflower, which has been up the liver for several days on a flag of truce, for late files of Augusta papers, from which we make extracts. The fol lowing: is the telegraphic report from the Constitutionalist of the 27th, with its head lines and all; evidently written with a view of breaking as easily as pos sible the new T s of Sherman's success at Charlotte, N. C. 5 and the consequent de struction of the immense quantity of rolling stock collected there for “safety/’ Probable destruction of Hail Road Cars and Store — Loss of Stores— Loss of Mails—Charleston Garison ed by Negroes— Two Regiments Captured There —Immense Loss of Cannon. [dr. NAGLE'S DISPATCH.] There are about thirty five miles of Railroad stock, making nearly 3000 en gines and cars belonging to every five toot gage in the Confederacy, accumu lated about Charlotte, the guage changes there preventing 'them them from going further. Sherman’s move will cause or has caused their destruc tion. All vere heavily loaded with stoves. For the want of wood and wa ter at the different stations, they could not be moved between Chester and Charlotte. , The Southern Express Company saved all its valuables and papers from all places which have been placed in safety. The postoffices lost their mails every where. The Express carried the only mail that was saved. Some Yankees captured in South Car olina had settled as miller's, carpenters and farmers. The fortifications around Augusta are being rapidly strengthened by a large iorce. No fears are entertained of a raid or demonstration in force for the future. When our forces left Charleston, on Thursday, the bridge over the Ashley was burned. Two regiments left behind were cap tured. f A large number of heavy guns were lett in the enemy’s hands, undismantled. The ammunition was cast into the harbor or destroyed. The city has been garrisoned by negro troops.* Seven-thirty notes advanced five cents to-day, and are in demand. [From the Augusta Constitutionalist, Feb. 26.] On a Rampage.— We judge from the dispatches, says the Rebels, that Joe Erown is on a rampage again. Noth in suits him. Everything is out of joint—the Government is mismanaged, the people are oppressed, the Constitu tion requires amendment, he fears the SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY MARCH 2, 1865. negroes are to be gobbled up, and soon j to the end of the chapter. We are sat-, isfied, from what he says, that if he was President and both Houses of Congress, aud all the Generals, and the army, the Foreign Ministers and the collectors of the tax in kind, w T e should have a dif ferent state of things from what we now, for great is Joseph the Governor of all the Georgians. LEGISLATURE OF GEORGIA. Senate.—Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1863. The Senate was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Wells. Mr. Pottle introduced a bill to tax the fees of county officers. It raises the fees 150 per cent., and requires said officers to receive Confederate monev for their pay. Also, A resolution renewing the assurance of Georgia to her sister States of her de termination to prosecute the war. Also, A resolution of thanks to Major Gen. G. W. Smith and the Georgia Militia for their gallant services to the State. The rules were suspended and thi3 resolution was unanimously adopted. Mr. Hammond introduced a bill to exempt from service the teachers ex empted by Congress from Confederate service. A bill introduced by Mr. Sprayberry to repeal section 4968 of the code, which forbids negroes and free persons of color to be employed as bar-keepers, w 7 as taken up and lost. Recess until three, p. m. House. —The House took up the un finished business of the day previous, which was “A bill to repeal an act enti tled an act to prevent the unnecessary consumption of grain in this State ” The bill was placed on its passage, and UfcW. The Legislature is determined to pro* vent our surplus corn from being con 1 - verted imo whiskey, as far as it can. A bill to authorize administrators, ex ecutors, guardians and trustees to sell Confederate bonds, under certain cir cumstances, was passed. > A bill for the relief of persons whose property has been destroyed by the pub lic enemy, was put on its passage and lost. A bill to alter and amend the charter of the Central Railroad and Banking Company was passed. It provides for the election of Directors of said Compa ny, and a President thereof for the pres ent year, and to change the office of the Company from Savannah to Macon, and to fix the number of Directors necessary (prescribes two) for a quorum to tran sact business. The committee reported a bill in lieu of a resolution requesting furlough of of ficers and men of Gen. Smith s com mand, who have been elected to civil of fices —the title as follows : “A bill for the relief of certain persons elected to civil offices in this State.” The House proceeded to read bills for the first time— Mr. Holt, of Bibb, submitted a bill to amend an act to incorporate the South ern Insurance Company of Savannah. Also, a bill to amend an act to incorpo rate the Home Insurance Company of Savannah. Mr. Fowler, of Crawford—A bill to provide for the support of indigent fam ilies, and other purposes. This bill pro vides tor the impressment of provisions in the several counties as may be neces sary to provide for families the present year, in accordance with the recommen dation of the Governor in his message. It also provides that an impressing agent be appointed, who shall ascertain the amount of surplus provisions in each family, and if the price cannot be agreed upon, two persons are to be chosen, whose decision shall be final. The House consumed the balance of the morning reading bills the second time. [From the Constitutionalist, Feb. 27.] Sherman s Movements —The Sacking of Columbia—The Terrible Accidfxt. [DR. NAGLE’S DESPATCH.] The 15th and 17th army corps, with ! Sherman in person commanding, Jiave a ; baggage train three miles long. The 15th army corps became drunk on the 17th and pillaged Columbia, burning the entire length of Main street. Not a house left standing. After all this mis chief had been done, Sherman ordered the pillagers and burners to be shot. On the 20th the Yankee force left Co lumbia at 4 a. m., quitting the city be fore nightfall. Two or three hundred citizens left Co lumbia with the Yankees. The condition of the town is dreadful, most of the peo ple living in huts Sherman left two hundred head of beef cattle for the subsistence of sick and wounded, and gave the citizens arms to protect themselves against the negroes. Every article of subsistence was carried off, the cellars, out buildings and every house being thoroughly searched aud sacked. The accident which was reported to have occurred in Charleston, happened ia Columbia on Friday morning. The enemy shelled the city furiously on Thursday, the missiles being thrown indiscriminately—some forty tailing in the hospital yard. Lexington Court House was burned, and only a dozen houses left standing. Charleston was quietly occupied by the forces of Foster and Gillmore. The citizens from the surrounding country came • within the city to obtain subsist ence. LdtaraivE Robbery.—On Saturday of tfee (yQvemfflfliji warehouses in this city was robbed of twenty-seven hundred blankets. The thieves were very deliberate in their movements. They first proceeded to the public stable on Ellis street, took out a pair of mules, hitched up a wagon, and proceeded on their mission, returning the team very honestly after the work of stealing. Find ing impossible to secrete one of the bales of blankets, they coolly tossed it into the street. Who these thieves wer su.be ? Another Freshet. —The recent heavy rains have caused another season of high water throughout this section of the country. Yesterday the Savannah river was booming, with thirty feet of water in the channel. To-day the stream rolls along with an angry tide, but does not threaten any serious damage. Some one hundred and fifty bales of cotton that had been placed upon the river bank ready for the torch, floated off, but were secured by the heads of the gunboats moored below the city. In consequence of the floods through out Georgia, no mails were received at the city post office yesterday/ and we are consequently without any intelli gence from the West, Wade Hampton, on Wednesday, re lieved Gen. Wheeler of his command, having been appointed Lieutenant Gen eral and Chief of Cavalry. ARTEMUS WARD INSURES HIS LIFE. I kum to the conclusion lately, that life was waz so unsartain, that the only wa for me tu stand a fair chance with other folks, waz to git my life ensured, and so I ka’ld on the Agent ov the ‘Gar don Angel Life Insurance Co.’ and an swered the following questions, which waz put tu'me over the top ova pair ov gold speks, by a slick little fat old feller, with a little round grey head and az pretty a belley on him, az any man ever owned:— questions : Ist. Are you a mail or femail ? if so, state bow long you have been so. 2d. Are you subjec to fits, aud if bo t do you have more than one at a time ? 3d. What is your precise fiteing weight? 4th. Do you ever hare enny ancestors, and if so, how much ? sth. What iz your legal opinion ov the constitutionality ov the 10 command ments. 6th. Did you ever have enny nite mares ? 7th. Are yu married and single, or are yu a Bachelor ? Bth. Du yu beleave in a future state ? if yu du state it ? 9th. What are yur private sentiments about a rush ov rats, to the head ; can it be did successfully? 10th. Have you ever committed sui cide, and if so, how did it seem to effect yu ? After answering the above questions like a man in the confirmatif, the slick little fat old feller with gold specks on* ced i was insured for life, and probably would remain so for a term ov years. I thanked him and smiled one ov my most pensive smiles. Frozen to the “Cross-Trees. ’’ — There is a man now living in'' my neigh borhood, who was on board a brig in the French war; and, being an able sea man, was at once set to look out on the bowsprit j it was on the coast of Norway There came on a furious storm of sleet and hail, which so battered his face and eyes that he could not see (as he has told me) half a mile ahead, and then only at intervals. The commander by and-by hailed my friend and told him to come in, “as there was land on the star board bow.” Now the officer had the aid of a powerful glass, which also pro tected his eye, whilst the man was near ly blinded" by the driving wind and sleet; still, for not performing an sibilityvithe latter was ordered aibft to sit on the cross-trees for tout Muirs in the most inclement season of flhat Irozt n climate* The result wap„ that when the time had expired* he was fixed there a sitting attitude* with every joint rigid, his tlesn numbed* and without a* particle ol feeling left. When hailed ly, the officer to coma down* lie eotficll neither speak'nor move ; upon tine dis covery of which, his messmates went aloft and lowered him down apparently frozen to death. They succeeded, how - ever, in pouring a little spirits down his throat, tnen wrapped him in warm blan kets, and as soon as he was restored to some degree of animation, administered a tail pint of rum, which the patient drank off without beiug able to tell whether it was rum or water that be had taken, so completely deadened wt s every sense by long exposure to thecold* with no better clothing than a common jacket and common trousers. Hun dreds of men would have died under such circumstances; however, my rid friend is still living, and although ap proaching seventy, walks uprigLt aud with as firm a step as any man.— yi years' (/leaning'from L’J’e's Harvest. An Affectionate Son. —Old Billy Tay lor, whose good stories and witty say iDgs will long be remembered by his ac quaintances, used to relate the fbllowij g: When I was young, just admitted to tLe bar in Kentucky, I was appointed by the Court to defend a man who had been n - tor the murder of Lis mother. Di - terminedto make out of the matter a. s much reputation lor myself as the case would admit of, I took the accused arid e and told aim it was necessary for me, a s his counsel, to know the whole truth : n reference to the charge against him. After assuring him that what he might say to me could not be used against him* I put the plain question,— “Did you kill your mother “Yes,” was the reply. “What made you do it ?” “Because,” said he, “she wasn’t worth wintering!” J PRICE iFive Cents.