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The Savannah Daily Herald.
BY 8. W. MASON ARD CO.
SAVANNAH. THU RSDAY. MAHCH il I, 1S«.
■The End of Block ade-Rcnkihg. —What-
ever may be the ieeliiigs ol the “great ones
of the Isle," we have all along known the
feelings of the great majority of the middle
class of Englishmen has ever been sound on
the ‘‘American Question” —they have sympa
thized wish the North, though the}' have suf
fered severely from the South. But we have
had opposed ions in feeling two other classes
of Englishmen, who, though all the while
professing the strictest neutrality, have not
failed to injure us severely whenever occa
sion offered an opportunity to do so without
entangling their government in complications
with ours, or without entangling their
wealth.
These two classes are the aristocratic poli
ticians who manage the affairs of the nation,
and of this class Lord Palmerston is the
head and front. In the earlier days of the
conflict, men, by according to the
South the privileges of “Belligerents,”
gave them a sort of semi-recognition which
proved of incalculable value in securing for
them a kiflfl of status among the nations of
the caith which they had not as yet fairly
earned, and which they only obtained through
the very marked partiality and one-sidedness
of the English Lords.
These gentlemen, having observed the
rapid decliue and impending fall of the Slave
holder’s Confederacy, have, for some time
been, to use an Americanism, “backing out”
of their firt sattitude, and have now got
themselves retrogaded into a position of pret
ty nearly honest neutrality, previously to de
claring themselves positively on the winning
side, which they now plainly perceive is to
be the Federal one.
The other class, to which allusion was
made, is the immense numbers of men en
gaged in selling good 9 to the Confederates.
This class included dealers in every imagina
ble variety of goods, of every possible value
and importance, from Iron-Clad “liams' r to
Cotton Thread—from ships of war to knit
ting needles—from steel-pointed projectiles
to ever-pointed lead pencils.
There could be no perfect inventory made
of the endless variety of articles sent out by
England for the aid and comfort of the ene
mies of the Union. Cannon, gold lace, brass
buttons, armor-clad ships, mortars, three
hundred guns, grey cloth for uniforms, boots,
saddles, powder, laces, ribbons, French
fashion plates, wines, medicines, provisions,
coals, hunting for flags, (nearly all the Con
federate flags are to this day made up in
England,) thimbles, siege trains, pontoon
boats, in short, everything requisite for the
complete fitting out of armies, and for the
wants of the women and children who must
stay at home, came from willing England.
In return, she took cotton, tobacco and
sugar—not much of the two latter—every
thing depended on the cotton supply.
And so great was the profit, so enormous
the fortunes made in this business in the
early part of the war, while, from the scarci
ty of available men-of-war, our blockade of
Southern ports was unavoidably imperfect,
that the august English Government itself
did not hesitate to replenish its own royal
treasury by becoming a partner in the specu
lation.
This may seem a bold assertion to make,
but on no other hypothesis can we.account
for the fact that the Rebels had at all times
a supply of Armstrong guns, and other
weapons and projectiles of which the Enq
ylish Government holds the patent, and w hich
are not allowed to be made without special
patents from the English War Department
itself. And, as these articles, of which the
confederates had ever a good supply could
not even be manufactured, much less sold to
foreign powers, without the special consent
of the British Government, it is but fair to
presume that the said Government found its
pecuniary account in granting the permission.
So all British traders who could command
capital enough to go into the business,, were
up to their eyes in confederate trade—they '
asked for no money, expected no money,
hoped for none; all they looked for, was
iot ton.
All these goods tor the Confederacy, and 1
all the cot tofo. from the Confederacy, had, of
necessity, to ran the blockade.
At first, this was a comparatively easy
matter. The black treachery of the Traitor
Floyd, who had, even while as aU. 8. Cabi
net Officer, acting under bis oath of alle
giance to the United States, been plotting to
ruin that same Government whose bread he
then was eating, rendered our fleet of war
vessels for the time almost useless. Using
for the basest purposes his power as Secre-i
taiy of the Navy under Buchanan, he had
ordered our strongest and most efficient men
of-war to remote seas, whence they couid
not be recalled for many months.
And, until anew fleet could be organized,
and this old one recalled to its proper scene
of duty, the blockade, was truly in too many
cases ineffective. •
The government,however,jroneeded at once
with great energy to build, charter, and buy
vessels, and to arm them, and send them to
enforce the blockade. It now became impos
sible or inexpedient for English-laden ships
to make the straight trip from Liverpool to
Charleston or Wilmington, trusting to the
scanty number and slow sail or speed of our
to run directly in without inter-
It became neCesaaafy to have a harbof as
a halting-place, which should be sufficiently
j near the blockading ports to enable them to
discover when they could attempt with the
j greatest prospect of success, to break the
| blockade, and which port should also beneu-
I tral, so as to afford them pjotection so long
I as they should choose to lie there.
The port of Nassau, on the Island of New
Providence, the central one of the Bahama
Group, *>ff the southeast coast of Florida,
seemed to answer the required conditions.
The harbor is good, affording secore anchor
age. The people were all friendly to the
rebels, or in the phraseology of England,
•‘neutral, " and the situation all that could be
desired.
At once the little town of Nassau which
had ever been a dead-alive sort of village,
became a great commercial mart. British
traders emigrated thither—the oldest and
richest British commercial houses set up
branch establishments there, and it is even
more than hinted that certain American
houses of the copperhead order of filthiness,
sent agents there also.
Immense storehouses were erected, wharves
were built* channels were deepened, and
everything at once acknowledged the quick
ening influence of nnew commercial life.
For four years the place has thriven—im
mense fortunes have been made there, and
hundreds, if not thousands of English mer
chants will henceforth date their sudden
wealth from their sucking the life-blood of
the American nation through the outlet of
Nassau.
From a wretched town the place had
grown to a city,its petty traders had amassed
sudden wealth, and many of those who came
to its wharves penniless adventurers, were
rolling in wealth.
Suddenly, a change runs o’er the spirit of
the dream. The closing of the ports of Sa
vannah, Charleston, and above all, of Wil
mington, ruined utterly and irretrievably
the Bluckade-running business at once and
forever. The inhabitants instantly saw that
all hope had gone, and a sudden panic seiz
ed them one and all.
A lriend w r lio left Nassau a few days since,
informed us, that consternation has literally
seized upon the whole place. English mer
chants with stocks of goods amounting in
some cases to tens of thousands of pounds
sterling, seeing there was no hope of profit,
took the means of saving their
houses from loss, and have put out the red
flag of auction, and whole streets full of store
are now offering their goods at any price
they can get, thousands of pounds worth
having already been sold at prices which do
not begin to cover the firs* cost.
The English merchants and agents are
hurrying away. Dwelling houses are de
serted, warehouses are left empty, the ships
are fairly rotting at the wharves. ‘ Many of
the blockade .runners now in neutral waters,
have tried to reach confederate ports, been
driven hack by Union war-vessel3, and now
lie in Nassau harbor, their goods spoiling in
thetr holds, and their cables rotting affd rust
ing in the stream—others have never made a
blockade-running voyage at all, and are
afraid to venture out.
Thus crumbles another pillar which was
one of the main supports ot this short-lived,
now dying confederacy—and in its fall it
1 miles in its ruins those who have made it to
the world a spectacle of the utter weakness
of the South, and of the shameless bad faith
of England.
Disting uishe i> y i serous. —Among the
other gentlemen who arrived in Savannah
yesterday, was Colonel H. P. Rugg, the well
known newspaper agent, who has ever been
close on the track of our conquering|anniea,
endeavoring to conciliate and enlighten by
the pen, those who had just been subdued by
the sword. The Colonel has just returned
from a trip to anew base of General Sher
man’s, somewhere in North Carolina, South
Carolina, Virginia, Maine, Massachusetts, or
Georgia, where has supplied our soldiers
with the latest news, and has been success
ful in establish agencies by means of which
they wifi be hereafter fully posted as to the
goings-on in the great world, through the
medium of the Savannah Herald.
The large number which the Colonel has
added to our circulation in that particular
department of our armies, gives our sheet a
new and strong claim on those advertisers
who desire that the soldiers (who are shortly
to be paid off in full,) shall have the fullest
information as to where to spend their hard
earned shekels tq the best advantage. Under
the new arrangements just made, our paper
has probably a much larger circulation among
the soldiers than any other paper printed in
the State of Georgia.
Second Provost Court.— This court, es
tablished to relieve Judge Parsons of much
business that prevented his giving the neces
saiy attention to matters involving a careful
study of law and equity, is now fully estab
lished in the building southeast corner of
Bay and Drayton streets. The rooms used
are those foimerly occupied by the Hon. John
E Ward, President of the Cincinnati Dem
ocratic Convention which nominated the
Hon James Buchanan for the Presidency.
Mr. Ward was subsequently U. S. Minister
to China. Striking features of the court, are
the clerk and orderlies of Judge Walton.
They are colored men, and all who have had
business to transact with the court, have
been pleased with their courtesy and atten
tiveness. r l he clerk of the court is Sergt.
Johnson; orderlies, Charles W. Pott?r and
Geo. H. Gurner, all of Company B, 54th
Mass. Volunteers.
N*wj frem Augusta tu tht 12th.
THE CONSCRIPTION OFFICERS
RESISTED.
Vhe Citizens XLetnming to their
Homes and Business.
Through the courtesy of a merchant of this
city, a former citizen of Augusta, we have
been placed in possession of reliable intelli
gence concerning the state of affairs at Au
gusta at the present time.
It seems that in view of the recent triumphs
of the Federal armies, the people of Augusta
and the region thereabout have come to the
conclusion that the struggle for secession has
proved a total failure, and that the war is
approaching its close. They therefore re
fuse to being dragged and driven from their
homes to be forced into the support of a
weak and failing cause, lor which they have
lost all enthusiasm and even sympathy.
Open and decisive resistance to the con
scription officers is everywhere fearlessly
pursued, and, unless the agents of the press
gang service be in overpowering numbers,
always with success.
In several instances conscripting officers
have been shot while attempting *.o carry
citizens away from Augusta and the neigh
borhood.
The people of the city were of one feeling
in regard to the prospects of the Confeder
acy. Hundreds are returning to their homes
and settling down again, confident of speed
ly returning peace and prosperity. Business
men are reckoning upon a re-opening of
trade within a short period and are already
making preparations for that event. Augusta
and the adjoining districts are almost com
pletely cut off from communication in any
direction, and' in the dearth of any truthful
tidings from the theatre of war, the rebel
authorities fill the newspapers with fabrica
tions calculated to suit their own purposes.
Such was the report circulated in Augusta a
fortnight since, to the effect that Sherman
had been worsted in a great battle in North
Carolina, suffering a loss of 17,000 men; and
that all white troops had been drawn from
Savannah, to be sent to his succor.
In short, the conscription and the confed
eracy are essentially “played out’’ up the
country, and the hearts of the people are
filled only with longings for peace.
A OOOD.WOKK FOR THE FREE OMEN
The steamboat “Enoch Dean’’ left Fort
Royal on Tuesday afternoon, for this port,
bringing some passengers and a small amount
of freight.
This boat ia acting under the the imme
diate orders of Gen. Saxton, and i9 espcially
employed by him to further in varjpus ways
his philanthropic endeavors to elevate the
condition of the freedmen.
This term we suppose, is of course, under
stood by all our readers—there is a differ
ence between “freedmen” and “freemen”—
A “freeman” is a man who was born free ; a
“freedman” is one who has once been in the
condition of slavery, but through extrinsic
events, has been elevated to the state of a
free man.
All the colored men who have been releas
ed from slavery by the force of the Emanci
pation Act, and by the operations of war, are
called par excellance, “freedmen.” It is of
these that Gen. Saxton has especial charge,
and over whom he has special jurisdiction.
Having succeeded in colonizing many of
them on the various “Sea Islands” which dot
the Southern coast, he has been busily en
gaged, with the help of competent agents,
male and female, in giving them such in
struction, both oral and by book, as seemed
best fitted to their comprehension and condi
tion.
Foremoßt amongst his efforts has been the
attempt to render the enterprise self-support
ing, by inducing the freedmen to till the
ground and so cultivate the crops which
should make them gradually independent of
charity and outside help.
For this purpose agents have been collect
ing Cotton Seed, and various Garden Seeds
suited to the climate and the soil, and making,
under direction of the General, such distribu
tion of the same as has seemed judicious.
The “Enoch Dean” on her last trip had
on board a large supply of Sea Island cotton
seed, and also of garden seeds, to be given
away in accordance with this design.
To the Freedmen at Dawfuskie Island
three bags of cotton seed were delivered,
also a fine lot of choice seeds for the garden.
On continuing her upward trip the “Dean”
ran aground off. Braddoek’s Point, where she
lay from half-past six o’clock Wednesday
morning till noon the same day. Though
she had on board 30 bags of cotton seed and
a large lot of other seeds, she could make, at
the time, no further distribution. On her
downward trip doubtless this omission will
be remedied, and the other freedmen who
are anxiously awaiting the speedy advent of
these seeds for early planting, will in a few
days be gratified. All success to the noble
effort
Good Samaritans.— Wheu the cry of
angHish is heard and assistance needed for
those in distress, no professional men res
pond more promptly than T. W. Clift, Assis
tant Surgeon U. S. A., H. W. Marboorgh,
Assistant Surgeon U. S. A.Jftnd B. F. Rogers
Chaplain, U. S. A., all of the Scriven House
Hospital. These gentlemen have ever res
ponded to all caUs on them with promptness
and alacrity.
AHuSEMICNTf. W ‘ -
Tableaux Vitabts.— 'Thi* delightfta! en
tertainment was again attended by a fair au
dience. among which were many ladies. The
tableaux were entirely successful, and de
lighted an appreciative and discriminating
audience. We hope that the industry and
careful taste which the ladies have evinced
in this enterprise have been well recom
pensed.
Savannah Theatrc. The performance
last evening was well attended. Mr. Daven
port appeared in both pieces. With each
succeeding representation the company
makes a marked improvement in working
together, and it was noticeable that Black
Eyed Susan was even more acceptably
rendered than at a previous perform
ance. The sterling drama, “ All that Glit
ters is not Gold,” concluded an excellent
entertainment.
We on Monday evening,
the attraction of the Theatre will be in
creased by the appearance of Messrs. Scott
and Ryman, foimerly of the Scott & Sweat
nara company, in the bills.
St. Andrew’s Hall.—We are pleased to
learn that the popular Mr. Sweatman, the
leading actor of the very successful troupe
which first opened the Theatre in this city,
will next week inaugurate a series of per
rormances at St. Andrew’s Hall.
The accomplished actress Miss Lottie How
land, and the gifted La Belle Louise, the “Sa
vannah favorites, ” will assist Mr. Sweatnam
in his new enterprise. The public will hail
with delight the re-appearance of this popu
lar company on the Savannah stage. The
ball will be thoroughly renovated and cleans
ed, and will undergo such changes as will
adapt it to theatrical purposes. The carpen
ters are already at work, and no expense will
be spared to make the scenery, machinery
and auditorium, as theatre-like as possible'.
A New Aspect to the Cotton Trade.—
Ilallet Kilbourn, Esq., U. S. Treasury
Agent for the purchase of products of the
insurrectionary States at Fernandina Florida,
is in the city e» route for Fernandina to es
tablish the agency at that point.
Under the law and the regulations of the
Treasury Department, persons who own or
control cotton &c., by making proper ap
plication to the purchasing agent at Fernan
dina, can procure a certificate of purchase
which will permit them to take their pro
ducts to Feruandina and sell them to the
purchasing agent.
*lt is a matter of congratulation both to the
Treasury Department and the parties inter
ested in the cotton, that the day has at
length come when the property can be turn
ed over, thus subserving the interests both of
the Government and the owners of the cot
ton, and removing the embarrassment and
uncertainty under which the business has
been conducted. *
The Star of Peace. —Whoever in his even
ing walks of late, or at his western window,
has lifted his eye for a moment to the deep
azure of this climate, must have fonnd his
gaze drawn to, and spell-bound upon, the
lovely evening star, the beautiful planet
Venus, wnicn, now at its full, beams with
surpassing splendor.
He must have felt that its sweet light was
not for his eye alone, but that its gentle in
fluence stirred emotions of purest, peace
fulest delight in his inmost soul.—
He must have drank in with its tender ray
a certain deep assurance of the eternal love
of God. And what is more natural than
that the mind should darnll upon the benefi
cence of the Great of events who
has led on, as with signs in heaven, the
armies in our holy cause, and who having
guided us through the wilderness with fiery
pillar, now sets the mild star of peace in the
clearing heavens.
A Disappointment.— Many gentlemen of
Savannah were chagrined at the non-appear
ance of the Hon. E. B. Washburne with the
Congressional party which visited our city
the Other day. This Honorable gentleman
is well known to many persons here, and his
friends had intended to give him a fine re
ception. His coming was positively prom
ised, and it is not as yet known what unex
pected occurrence detained him from a jour
ney which could not have failed to prove
interesting personally to him now, and
profitable hereafter to the country.
Mr. Washbume’s friends in Savannah had
intended to receive him in fine style. A mag
nificent supper had been ordered; a fine
band engaged, to give him and his lady rela
tives who were to attend him a glorious
serenade. Transparencies had been prepared
and everything wa9 in readiness to make his
stay in our city as pleasant as it could be
done.
It should be bom in mind that it is to Sen
ator Washburne we owe the introduction of
Gen. Grant to the notice of the “powers that
be.” He is a fellow-townsman we believe,
at any rate, he is a citizen of the same State'
and knowing the great military ability of the
General, caused him to be placed in the
line of promotion, up which he quickly
ascended till he reached his present proud
position.
Dr. Dalrysple.— 'This eminent Surgeon,
who in accordance with General Orders, has
been assigned to duty as Health Officer of
Savannah, has his residence at No. 109,
South Broad street, 2d door west of Whita
ker street, south side.
His office is at the same place for the pres
ent, until he can provide other and more con
venient quarters.
That "Brs.*V-That toterpfUfcg citizen of
Satannah, John Feelay, comer of Bryan and
Bt. Julian streets, who runs that “bus" for the
Pulaski House, is deserving of patronage
Jack, with a Btout heart, has resumed busi'
ness, and is at ail times to be found on the
wharves, prepared to convey, to any portion
of the eity, passengers from the steamers
Success attend him, for many ladies and
others are indebted to slim for a dry passage
to the Pulaski and elsewhere, when, but for
him the Clerk of the weather would have
soaked them through.
Port of Savannah.— Since the advent of
the United States Army our harbor has had
new life in its waters. For four long years
was it locked up, yet Aladdin (Sherman)
brought the wonderful lamp, and, as the re
sult, to last evening, 260 steamships and
steamers, 15 ship#, 8 brigs and 66 schooners
have entered thlf port and been registered
Wait a little longer, there is a happy time
coming, and our commerce will again thrive.
Thanks.—We are indebted to Mr. A. H.
Davenport for late Northern journals. He
will please accept our sincere thanks.
Rev. Thomas O. Rice, of Charleston S C
formerly of Danielsonville, Ct., who made 'a
fortune by buying greenbacks of our prison
ers at Columbia, arrived at New Tort on a
late steamer.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived-ehip Northampton, Marsh, HUtoa Head
U. 8. Revenue steamer Whankee, , Hilton Head :
U. 8. Revenue steamer Nemaha. McGowan, Hilton
Head; steamer Enooh Dean, Hallet, Beaufort.
Cleared—steamer Resolute, Cannon, Hilton Head.
HOTEL ARRIVALS?
PDLASKI HOUSE, MARCH 22,1885. .
Geo. W. Williams, Navy.
John A. Trehch, Navy.
'Thos. P. Houghton, Navy.
A. N. Soule, Hilton Head.
Mrs. Essentyne. Hilton Head.
Col. Horace P, Rngg, Savannah. s
J. W. Selvage’, Ist Lieut. 34th C. T.
R. P. Gray, Hilton Head.
HChas. H. Gilman, New York.
W. H. H. Btewart, Hilton Head.
8.8. Brown, Manchester, Eng.
H. M. Puffer, Hilton Head.
J. P. Thompson, City.
T. P. Thompson, Cit.
SHIPPING
2JERUBBABEL LODGE, NO. 16, P. A. M.
A regular meeting will be held This ’Evening, at
71.9 o’clock, at Masonic Hall, Bull street, comer of
Broughton. Members of the fraternity are respect
fully Invited to attend.
mar 23 WM. GREENE, W. M.
(Official.)
HaADQCABTns U. 8. Fohcfs;
„ „ Savannah, March 21st, 18G6.
Gentsal Oanra,)
Ne. 23. f
Surgesn A. P. Dalrymple, U. S, Vole., having re
ported to these Headquarters for dnty In pursuance of
Special Order No. 60, Par 2, Headquarters Depart
ment of the South, is hereby assigned to dutv as
Health Officer of the Poet of Savannah, relieving’Sur
geon W. Y Provost in the dnties of that office.
By command of
Brevet Major General GROVER.
Edv/akd G. Dike, A. A. A. Gen. . mar 23
■J^OTICE.
There will be a meeting of Colored People held at
the School Boom, Bryant's Office, next Friday
Evening, at 7 1-2 o’clock, for the benefit of the Colored
People who are sick and without means. All ar« in
vited to assist in this charitable undertaking.
mar 22 2
YORK HERALD CORRESPONDENT.
The office of the New York Herald Correspondent
is at
.111 BAY STREET,
tTPSTAIBS.
mar 22 ts
QLD NEWSPAPERS^
FOR WRAPPING PAPER,
For sale at the
SAVANNAH HERALD OFFICE,
NO. 11l BAY STRKBT.
mar 22 ts
QOAL. a
The Fuel Supply Committee are now prepared to re
ceive orders for Coal, in quantities to suit purchasers.
Price S2O per ton, delivered.
JULIAN ALLEN, Chairman.
OCTAVUS COHEN,
WM. HUNTER,
J. D. LaROCHK,
J. W. RUTHERFORD,
mar 22 G Committee.
QLOSING OUT.
The large Stock oF
BOOTS AND SHOES,
SPRING CLOTHING,
GROCERIES,
bottled ale,
PORTER and
CHAMPAGNE CIDER,
SEGARS and
TOBACCOS, in great variety,
BEEF AND PORK, in half-bbls.,
SUTLERS’ GOODS,
TEAS
COFFEES and
SPICES.
The entire Stock will be sold,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
AT NEW YORK PRICES.
The public will find this the beet opportunity to pur
chase yet offered in thia market,
176 BROUGHTON STREET,
nmm ts Next door to Sherlock's.
JJROVOST COURT NOTICE.
On and after this date, the First Provost Court, Ist
Lieut. Eben Parsons, Jr., Judge, will be held at the
U. 8. Court House, corner of Bull and Bay streets.
The Second Provost Court, Capt. James M. Walton,
Judge, will be held in the room over Adams' Express
Co.'s office, corner Bay and Drayton streets.
The respective jurisdictions are fixed by General
Order Nq. 6., and all parties having business before
said Courts will govern themselves accordingly.
By order, PROVOST JUDGES.
marSd t s
NOTICE. " *
Custom House Building,
. Savannah, Ga„ March IStta, 1865.
All persons desiring to make statements to the
Treasury Department at Washington, in regard to the
Cotton captured in the city of Savannah* are request
ed to pres mt the same to Mr. B. W. Burnett, at this
office, who is authorised to receive them.
8. DRAPER,
-rauiO Special Agent Treasury BoPI