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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD.
VOL. I—NO. 58.
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TREASURY.
FIRST PAPER.
Mr. McCulloch enters upon the duties of
his office with many advantages—official
experience and a thorough knowledge of the
principles of currency and banking. With
his plans of financial administration the pub
lie are yet unacquainted officially. Soffit
insight, however, into these plans may be
afforded the by publication recently of cer
tain extracts from the speeches, reports and
official letters of Mr. McCulloch, as Comp
troller of the Treasury, in the New York
Herald. It is our purpose to present an an
alysis of his views in as condensed a form as
possible, founded on the extracts made by
the Herald, under sucli headings as have
been adopted by that paper.
NATIONAL CURRENCY' ACT.
‘ The national currency act, although ad
mirable in its leading features, is not alto
gether symmetrical iu its arrangement, nor
clear, it it is even consistent in all of its pro
visions. I respectfully suggest, therefore,
that the act bo carefully revised; that those
parts of it that refer to Ihe same subject be
placed in juxtaposition, and that it be reliev
ed of certain obscurities and apparent incon
sistencies that render some of iis provisions
of difficult construction. A law ol so much
importance as this, which is lo be interpreted
by so many people, and is to be the charter
of so many banking institutions, should be
methodical in its arrangement, clear in lan
guage, and comprehensive and consistent in
its provisions. In these respects the national
currency act is somewhat defective. Sections
relating to the same subject are scattered
throughout tire act. Words of different sig
nificance are sometimes used as if they were
convertible. _ Many passages are ambiguous
in language, if they do not contain inconsist
ent provisions.”
These defects must have been the result of
party legislation. The improvements sug
gested must be obvious to those' who look
for method and clearness in so important
an act of legislation as the creation of anew
currency.
OFFICERS OF BANKS INSTEAD OF STOCKHOLDERS,
OUGHT TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.
Igstead of the liability of the stockholders,
many of whom have little voice in the man
agement of their banks, I would suggest that
section 12 be so amended that the failure of a
national bank be declared />rima fade fraudu
lent, and that the officers and directors under
whose administration such insolvency shall
occur be made personally liable for the debts
of the bank, and be punished criminally,
unless it shall appear, upon investigation that
its affairs were honorably administered.
This suggestion is founded on justness and
round principles, in the administration of
banks.
UNIFORM RATE OF INTEREST.
The expediency of making the rate of in
terest uniform throughout the country is
manifest. The objection to national legisla
tion upon this subject is that the States are
supposed to have the exclusive right to regu
late the interest upon loans of money. It is
true that the power to regulate the rates of
interest at which money shall be loaned has
always been exercised (except in the case of
the United States Bank) by the States; and
it is also true tlTat the laws upon this subject
iu the different States have been various and
changeable. Th re are scarcely two States in
the Union whose interest laws are exactly
alike. Few things have been more embar
rassing to the trade between the different
sections of the country, aud none have been
more prolific of litigation and conilictiug
judicial decisions, than the different and fre
quently changing legislation of the States in
fixing the value of the use of money. What
ever opinions may have heretofore obtained
upon the subject, 'here are now very few in
telligent business men of the country, who
-have watched the effect upon trade and ex
changes of the efforts of the States to estab
lish by law the rates of interest, who are not
agreed in the opinion that the regulation
of commerce between the States can
not be perfectly accomplished with
out the establishment of a uniform rate of in-
Urest throughout the Union. The commerce
of the country ignores State boundaries, and
Congress has the exclusive right of regula
ting it. Congress ought, there lore, to have the
incidental power of preventing the States
li’oin embarrassing commercial intercourse
between the people of the States, which is
done to no little extent, by their fixing difl’er
'■ut rates of interest upon money. If such
power exists in Congress it ought to be ex
ercised. In my judgment it is demanded both
by considerations of public policy and pub
ic convenience.. But whatever opinions may
be entertained in regard to the general au
thority of Congress to regulate the rate of
interest upon loans of money, there can be
but little question of its power to regu
late the rate which shall be charged by the
>anks through which a national circulation
is to be issued, and which are organized
under a national law. Unless it possesses this
p wer the nit oml government must divide
with the States the control' of the affairs of
minks created to carry out its rigidful, ac
knowledged and necessary functions. As
uie law. now stands banks In New York and
Michigan can charge seven per cent, on
SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 186;).
their loans, while those of New Eugland and
most other States are restricted to six; and
State laws can be so framed as to attract
capital to be invested in national banks too
largely into particular States, or to prevent
such an investment of it, in such States al
together.
Restitution of a Stolen Masonic Seal.—
We have been permitted to copy the follow
ing letter, which speaks for itself:
Fayetteville, N. C., March 18, 1865.
R. T. Turner, Esq., Savannah Ga.
Bro. Turner. —l am sorry that we have
any in the army under our great and good
commander, (Gen. Sherman), who would
break into a Lodge Room of our Fraternity
to pillage, yet such characters are to lie
found in all armies, pot I hope among the
ones who do the country honor, but among
those who are continually straggling and out
of danger when danger is near. I came in
possession of the seal of Oglethorpe Lodge
No. 50, Ga. You being the most extensively
acquainted in Masonic matters of any one I
know, I send it you, that the Lodge may
come in possession of it, to which it belongs.
We are not at war with Masonry, and had
the South but lent a listening ear to the
peaceful teachings of Masonry, thousands of
hearts that are now sad, would yet have
been buoyant with bright hopes of the fu
ture, and our once happy and prosperous
country would have no occasion to mourn
the loss of so many of its noblest and best
sons.
I never had the opportunity of meeting in
Solomon’s Lodge but once, (i. e.) the night
before the 14th corps left Savannah, but truly
nope that, through the kind interposition of
the Great Architect, we may meet you iu
peace and prosperity.
Yours Fraternally,
• Chas. H. Friend.
Company F, 2d Minn. Volunteers, 2d Brig.
3d Div, 14th Army Corps.
The Seal is now in the possession of Mr.
James M. Jones, Secretary ot Solomons
Lodge, No. 1, of this city.
CEMETERY REPORTS.
INTERMENTS TN LAUREL GROY'E CEMETERY.
March 21. Andrew Long, Cos. C, 25th In
diana ; Henry G. Miller, 3 years and 7 days,
bronchitis, Savannah.
March 22.—Eliza M. Nicoll, 64 years, ery
sipelas, Savannah.
March 23.—Dora Margaret Siam, 1 year,
8 mouths and 20 days, pneumonia,Savannah;
Oliver Bartow Bordley, 3 years aud 8 mos.,
dysentery, Savannah; Ella Walker, 1 year
and C mouths, marasmus, Savannah : Jose
phine Hicks, 1 year and 8 months, teething,
Chatham Cos., Ga.; Henry Wade, 6 months,
teething, Savannah; Samuel Garmauy, 38
years, typhoid pneumonia) South Carolina.
March 24. —Henrv |Black, 3 years and 9
months, dysentery, Savannah; Abraham E.
Crosby, 1 year and 8 months, measles, Chat
ham Corner, Ga.; Maria J. Tow, 2 years and
4 months, tubeola, Savannah; Kesh Bell,
52 years, tubes mesenteria, South Carolina.
March 25.—Wm. 11. H. Kersh, 1 year, 4
months and 10 day's, whooping cough, Sa
vannah.
March 26—Jane E. Wells, 25 years aud 7
months, typhoid pneumonia, South Carolina;
Annie F. Cubbridge, 3 years aud 2 months, I
diptheria, Savannah.
CATHEDRAL CEMETERY.
March 21.—John Henry Smith, 2 years,
necrosis, Savannah.
March 22.—. John Q’Bryne, 46 years, drop
sy, Ireland. Total, 17.
A Paris journal publishes the following
curious statistics respecting the balls at the
Grand Opera:—
Eacli of these fetes occasions an expendi
ture of about 140,000f. The administration
or the balls employs no less than 980 persons.
Every ball night 1850 wax tapers, 210 oil
lamps, and 2600 gas burners are required to
light the theatre. Tlie average number of
persons attending the ball is 5000, of whom
2400 are women, and 2600 men. Each ball
leads to an outlay of 8200f. iu masks, 3500f.
in the hire of costumes, 3500f. in hair dress
ing, and about OOOOf. in boquets and fans.
The fees paid iu the cloak-room are about
2500f. At the first opera ball this season
1490 hired carriages, and 300 private ones
passed under the peristyle, which must have
caused an expenditure of about 8000f. The
sale of refreshments to the theatre produced
13,750f. At tlie rate of 140,000f. for each
ball, the whole fourteen of the season would
give* 1,960,000f. Ot course the above sum
does not include the money spent in cases
and restaurants after leaving the theatre.”
> .
Special Message of President Davis.—
A special message from Jeff Davis was sub
mitted to the rebel Congress on the 13th
iust. Asa candid confession of the desper
ate conditiou of rebel affairs generally, it is
important. He says “the capital of the
Confederate States is now threatened, and it
is in greater danger than it has heretofore
been during the war.” He also admits the
worthlessness of the present rebel financial
system, the inefficiency' of the military or
ganization and the derangement of affairs
generally in the confederacy. As measures
of extrication from surrounding difficulties,
he recommends more rigorous laws for the
impressment of supplies, a more remorseless
conscription and a suspension of the habeas
corpus act. After the failure of the Hamp
ton Roads peace couterence, Jeff informs us
he made efforts to initiate negotiations for a
settlement ot difficulties by a conference be
tween General Grant and General Lee, and
the latter wrote to the former on the subject;
but General Grant’s reply was! that lie hail no
authority to act in such a capacity.
From Macon. —Recent accounts received
from tlie interior state that'a very brisk busi
ness is doing in trading for U. 8. currency, at
the rate of $25 Confederate for $1 in green
backs. At Millen, 79 miles from Savannah
on the Central Railroad, there is a guard sta
tioned to overhaul and scour the country for
deserters and others coming into the Federal
lines. Captain B. F. Davis* of an Alabama
cavalry' corps, is in command of the post at
Millen. •
President Lincoln upon the Rebel plan
of Arming the Slaves. —On tlie occasion of
the presentation of a rebel flag, cap tin ed at
Anderson by the 140th Regiment Indiana
Vols., President Lincoln made tlie following
remarks.-
Fellow Citizens —l will be but a uery few
words that 1 shall undertake to say. I was
bora in Kentucky, raised in Indiana and
lived in Illinois. (Laughter.) And now I
am here, where it is my business to care
equally' for tlie good people of all the States.
I am giad to see an Indiana regiment on this
day able to present the - captufed flag to the
Governor of Indiana. (Applause.) lam not
disposed, in saying this, to make a distinction
between the States, for all have done equally
well. (Applause.) There are but few views
or aspects of this great w«r upon which I
have not said or written something whereby
my own opinions might be known. But
there is one—the recent attempt of our err
ing brethren, as they are sometimes called—
(laughter)—to employ the negro to fight for
them. 1 have neither written nor made a
speech on that subject, because that Was
their "business, not mine ; and if I had
a wish upon the subject, I had not
the power to introduce it, or make it ef
fective. The great question with them was,
whether the negro, being put into the army,
would fight for them. I do not know, and
therefore cannot decide. (Laughter.)—
They ought to know' better than we. I
have in my lifetime heard many arguments
why' the negroes ought to be slaves; but if
they fight for those who would keep them in
slavery it will be a better argument than any
1 have yet heard. (Laughter and applause.)
He who will fight for that ought to be a
slave. (Applause.) They have concluded
at last to take one out of four of the slaves,
and put them in the army; and that one out
of tlie four who shall fight to keep the others
in slavery ought to be a slave himself unless
he is killed in a fight. (Applause.) While I
have often said that all men ought be free,
yet I would allow those colored persons to
be slaves who want to lie ; and next to them
those white persons who argue in favor of
making other people slaves. (Applause.) I
am in favor of giving an opportunity to such
white men to try it on for tnemselves. (Ap
plause.) I will say one thing in regard to
the negro being employed to fight for them.
I do know he caunot light and stay at home
and make bread too. (Laughter aud ap
plause.) And as O; •is about as important
as the other to them, I don’t care which
they do. (Renewed applause ) lam rather
in favor of having them try them as soldiers
(Applause.) They lack 1 one vote of doing
that, and I wish I could send my vote over
the river so that I might cast it in favor of
allowing the negro to fight, (Applause.)
But they cannot fight and work both. We
must now see the bottom ‘of the enemy’s
resources. They wiil stand out as long as
they can, and if the negro wiil fight for
them, they must allow him *d fight. -They
have drawn upon their last branch of resourc
es. (Applause,) And we can now see the bot
tom. Applause.) lam glad to see the end
so near at hand. (Applause.) I have said
now' more than I intended, and will therefore
bid y'ou goodby.
► Swedenborg’s Clairvoyance. —ln the
year 1759, when Mr. De Swedenborg, to
ward the end of February, on Saturday, at
4 o’clock, p. m., arrived at Gottenburg from
England, Mr. Wm. Costel invited him to his
house, together with a party of fifteen per
sons. About (’» o'clock Mr. De Swedenborg
went out, and after a short interval returned
to the company quite pale and alarmed. He
said that a dangerous fire had just broken out
in Stockholm, at the Sundermalm, (Gotten
burg is about 300 miles from Stockholm;)
and that it was spreading very fast. He was
restless, and went out olten; lie said that
the house of one of his friends, whom he
named, was already in ashes, and that liis
own was in danger. At 8 o’clock, after he
had been out again, he joyfuily exclaimed,
“Thank God ! the fire is extinguished the
third door from my house.’, This news oc
casioned great commotion through the whole
city, and particularly among the cnmpany in
which he was. It was announced to the
Governor the same eveniug.
On Saturday morning Swedenborg was
sent for by the Governor, who questioned
him concerning the disaster. Swedenborg
described the fire precisely, how it had be
gun, in w hat manner it had ceased, and how
long it had continued. On the same dny the
new* was spread through the city, and, as
the Governor had thought it worthy of at
tention, the consternation had considerably
increased, because many were in trouble ou
account of their friends and property, which
might have been involved in their disaster.
On Monday evening a messenger arrived at
Gottenburg, who was dispatched'during the
time of the fire. In the letters brought by
him the tire was described precisely in the
manner stated by Swedenborg. On Tuesday
morning the royal courier arrived at tbe
Governor’s with tiie melanoholy intelligence
of the fire, of the loss it had occasioned, and
of the houses it had damaged arid ruined,not
in the least different from that which Swed
enborg had given immediately after it had
ceased, for the lire w r as extinguished at 8
o'clock.-— Emmanuel Kant.
The Ruin in Charleston. —The following
adds another scene to the melancholy picture
gallery describing Charleston as it is:
The oldest and richest part of Charleston
is a wreck throughout. All the debris of the
siege remains as"it was—tumble down sides
of bouses filling half the streets in quarters,
and unseemly monuments of bricks scattered
everywhere. The streets are glazed with
glass and papered with memoranda and let
ters throw n out from the bauks and ware
houses—paved with relics as a certain place
is with good intentions. This min had few
occupants save a handful of poor unkempt
whites and w ondering negroes, as the stran
ger passed through on Monday. Cactus,
palmetto and the orange leaf were in the
gardens of a few wealthy residences. A doz
en times repeated knocking at one of the
wealthiest doors brought a rickety old lady
to the front, and a questioner asked for the
owner. The reply was allegorical: “Gone
away ’yond Jordan, massa.”
Marriage among the Freedmkn. —ln
March last Adj Gen. Thomas issued an or
der respecting the marriage of Freedmen in
the Department of Tennessee aud the State
ol Arkansas, authorizing clergymen to sol
emnize such marriages, and providing that a
neat certificate of marriage be presented to
the parties thus united. He also made pro
vision to have a record of these marriages.
From the record kept at Vicksburg some in
teresting facts are obtained. The first of
these marriages was celebrated April 10th,
by Chaplain Rowley, of the 63d U. S. col
ored infantry,and the bridegroom was the re
puted son of Gen. William Smith, ot‘ Vir
ginia.
Since that time there have been recorded
at Y ieksburg fourteen hundred and fifty-six
marriages, before the Ist of November. The
record is required to show the color, or blood
ot the parties united in marriage, and of the
parents of each ; of course the color of six
persons should lie recorded for eacli marriage.
Out ot these fourteen hundred anil fi(ty-six
marriages there were one hundred and sixty
six persons who W'ere the children of one
white parent, and three of them were chil
dren of white mothers.
One-third of all the marriages recorded so
far are ot parties while or partly white on one
side or the other, and it is believed that the
number was still larger,but this fact could not
be shown, owing to the ignorance of the
parties themselves, or their unwillingness to
tell what they knew', the darker mulattoes
claiming to be of unmixed color.
A large part of the marriages recorded,
especially at first, were of those who had
lived together as husband and wife—perhaps
for many years. One old man at Memphis
was married, with several others, one morn
ing. No sooner w r as the ceremony completed
than lie turned and tenderly embraced and
kissed liis now legal wile, with evident
thanksgiving that she w r as now, in the eye of
the law aud of civilization, as she had long
been in the eye of God, his ow r n recognized
wife.
One old man, of almost three score and
ten, was thus joined in lawful marriage to his
venerable write. At the conclusion of the
ceremony, when the chaplain extended his
hand with the naptial benediction and dis
missed them, as was the custom, in a short
prayer, they both dropped ou their knees
together, their eyes streaming w ith tears of
thaukiulness, aud at the close, still kneeling,
the old man reached out both arms and hug
ged her to his heart, saying aloud, “My dear
old w’oman, I bless God tuat 1 can now for
the first time kiss my ow T n lawful wife.”
Os these one thousand four hundred and
flfiy-six marriages, five hundred and fifty
two persons answered that they had been
married before, and had been sold away or
driven aw'ay from those who had sustained
to them the dearest relation of life. Os these
former marriages, thus virtually disrupted,
there were bom one thousand and seventy
seven children.
One chaplain married 18 couples one even
ing after 8 o’clock, at Davis’s Bend. Among
these 36 w r ere 13 persona who had lfo@h sepa
rated from husbands or wives “by force,”
and these 13 persons were parents of 34 chil
dren by former connections thus violently
sundered.
One chaplain married 108 couples in one
day. The marriage fees received w'ere small.
One received a silver dime for marrying a
couple. Several times tlie parsons have been
presented with a dime, postal currency, and
half a dime has been given as a marriage
fee. But the strangest of all was one from a
company of eleven couples married at once.
A bride, more thoughtful than her evidently
worser half, came np to the chaplain and
said that she “had not much to give, but
begged him to accept a small token of inter
est in what had been done for her and her
family,” and handed him a sweet potato ! He
received it and thanked her politely, and was
much pleased with this evidence of her ap
preciation of the service.
The oldest person married was 88 years
old. He brought to the altar an elderly
young woman of 50—38 years younger than
himself. One man of 80 married a woman of
40. The greatest disparity of ages was 46
years. A mature gentleman of 66 united to
himself a gill of 20. She made sure of get
ting a man old enough to be respected. Three
white men married colored women. One
old slave trader married a handsome quad
roon w’hom lie had boughUfor $3,000, and
had been offered $5,000 lor.’
The: First Verse in the Bible. —This
simple sentence -denies Atheism—for it as
sumes the being of God. It denies Poly
theism, and, among its various forms, the
doctrine of two eternal principles, the one
good and the other evil; for it confesses the
one eternal Creator. It denies Materialism,
for it asserts the creation of matter. It de
nies Pantheism, for it assumes the existence
of God before all things, and apart from
them. It denies Fatalism, for it involves the
freedom of Eternal Being. It assumes the
existeuce of God, for it is He who, in the
beginning, creates. It assumes His eternity,
for He is before all things ; and as nothing
comes from nothing, He himseif must have
always beeu. It implies His omnipotence,
for lie creates the universe of things. It
implies His absolute freedom, for He begins
anew’ eourse of action. It implies His in
finite wisdom, for a /cosmos, and order of
matter and mind, can only come from a
being of absolute intelligence. It implies
His essential goodness, for the sole, eternal,
almighty, all wise and all-sutlicieut Being,
has no reason, no motive and no capacity
for evil. it’presumes Him to be beyond all
limit of time and place, as He is before all
time and place.— l’rof. Murj/hy.
Movement ok Troops.— Many soldiers are
now’ going to the field from this port.
The number averages about 1,500 a day.
To-day 2,800 are to embark on the following
named vessels: Steamer Atlantic, for Fort
ress Monroe, 1,000 men; steamer Thos. A.
Scott, for Fortress Monroe, 400 men; steam
er Ajax, for Beaufort, N. C., 1,000 men;
steamer Fnlton, for Hilton Head, S. C.,
about 400 men. Squads will also go by rail,
and the whole number will exceed 3000.
The steam-transport Illinois arrived from
Fort Delaware yesterday morning, with 110
men of the One Hundred and Forty-fourth
New Yoik Reeiment, who acted as a guard
ctf prisoners toFori DelavVHte.—-«Y. T. Times ,
14 th.
PRICE. 5 CENTS
Police Station Lodgers.—Barnum’? tem
perance drama is very good in its way, but it
is all tame recital wiien compared wt, <ur
daily morning reports from the police sta
tions. At the Tombs, every morning at 6
o’clock, at the Jefferson Market Police Court,
or at the Police Court on the east aide, may
be seen the real drama, and in it all the ac
tors are up in their parts. But even here in
the police courts.the stiwy does not fully ap
pear ; for among all the prisoners there are
no station-house lodgers. This class—a large
one, as will presently be show’n—includes no
felons that policemen draw to the bar of
justice, the lodgers find shelter overnight in
the cells of the police stations, and are dia
missed in the morning to go whither they
will. Nobody knows them by day ; they
spring to the surface like mushroons at night.
They are masculine, feminine, of youth, of
middle age, and of the sere and yellow leaf;
but they are mainly in appearance, males of
middle age—young men who have grown
prematurely old, females of twenty-two,
whose haggard or bloated visages arenot to be
described. The aged and very young are
seldom of their number ; for their vagabond
life is not conducive of age, and rum rarely
does it work so rapidly as to drag children
down to the necessity of seeking lodgings in
the police stations. The males are in time
of draft seemingly excellent subjects for
army duty in place of men of sedentaiy hab
its and comfortable incomes. But ask a Po
lice Captain why he does not enlist them,
and the almost invariable reply is, that they
have offered to enter the field as substitutes
and been rejected by the Surgeons. Theirs
is a story of trippling, and they are Satan’s
own.
Station-house lodgers are not all, however,
outcasts. In" the Sixth Ward, where in
winter they average a score nightly, (in sum
mer they sleep under awnings and in the
park,) the tale of gin and misery is photo
graphed on every countenance, but in the
western half of the First Ward, where the
average of lodgers do bles that of (he sixth,
there is a mixed .class of imigrants and
seamen, outcasts and tipplers. In the up
town districts, where few lodgers apply,near
ly every applicant is a victim of the wine
cup, and their number, throughout the city,
as revealed by last year’s Police report, was
56,929, distributed among the thirty station
houses thus:
1 845 11.. 1.71521 1,544
2 ...1,398:12 563 22 1.23 T
3 811 12 ..1,426 28 J6*
4 6,119|14 ..2,273 26 io
6 3.867 j 16 2.049 27 ‘ 6,854
6.. ....2,446]16 2,428 28. !!.1,468
7 1,096,17 2,553 28 L9Q*
8 2,006:18 1,386 30 . . 354
8.. .....3,219 19 998 31.. 46
10 4,843120 1.716,32 6B
This table tells the story of indulgence in
intoxicating beverages completely; but the
list of arrests for intoxication does not- The
latter list shows only 16,665 prisoners
throughout the city during the year, while
the total of lodgers is about tripple that of
the arrests for drunkenness, and exceeds the
total arrests sos offences of all kinds, as may
be seen by the following: Total arrests in
1864 for intoxication, 16,655; total arrests for
intoxication and disorderly conduct, 6,302;
for disorderly conduct, 9,368; for assault and
battery, 6,591. total arrests for offences of all
kinds, 54.751. Verily the policemen read us
the most vivid temperance lecture, and Bar
num ought to incorporate in his moral drama
a scene from one of the station-houses. •
A Man who has not Slept for over
Fourteen Years. —At present there is a sol
dier at the Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadel
phia, who has not slept for a single moment
for fourteen years and six months. This
may seem incred ble, but, nevertheless, it is
true, and can be verified by a number of per
sons. The individual is an intelligent man,
naturally, and has the benefit of a moderate
education. His name is C. D. Saunders,
Orderly Sergeant of Company G, Thirteenth
Virginia Volunteers. He entered the service
of the United States on December 28, 1863,
He is in tbe forty-fifth year of his age. His
health has been geueially %xcellent during
his life.
In 1849 he was attacked with cholera, and
since that period with lung lever ou two oc
casions, In the summer pf 1850- sleep lcr
sook him, and since that time he has never
felt the least drowsy. He has always led a
temperate life. His wife «nd children reside
in Putnam County, West Virginia. Since he
entered the he has been on seven
raids and four charges, during which time he
informs us that he never felt tired or sleepy.
He w’as in the four charges made beyond
Harper’s Ferry, Va., on tbe 17th, 18th, 19th,
and 20th of last August, and yet did not feel
the least sleepy. Why is it that he cannot
or does not sleep is as much a mystery to
him as it is to many scientific gentlemen, who
having had their attention called to him, have
beeu astonished in their attempts to investi
gate the cause.
Upon one occasion, at his request, a num
ber of curiously-inclined gentlemen watched
him for forty-tw’o days and nights conse
cutively, in order, if possible, to arrive at the
cause ot the wonderful phenomenon. These
gentlemen look turns with each other in the
progress of watching, so that if he should
chance to sleep it would be observed. Some
of the watchers became drowsy, and it w T as
as much as he could do to awaken them.
This singular man was sent tn'Ph l irielphia
by order of tl e field surgeon. He was a limi
ted into the Hospital at Chestnut Hill on the
17th of November last, suffering frem chronic
diarrhea and rheumatism. lie has nearly
recovered from physical disability ; his ap
petite is good, but yet he does not sleep. He
retires to bed, the same as the other soldiers,
but lie cannot sleep. He simply receives
physical rest This brief narrative of a most
wonderful phenomenon may seem fabulous,
but the reader is assured that it is the truth. ,
The Rebel Con gress has adjourned sine
die, In Richmond great efforts are being
made to commend the organization of negro
troops. The rebel Vice President Stephens
having“been now in Georgia for some time
without being heard from, the rebel news
papers appear to think his silence suspicious,
and are calling on him to speak out.
The colored citizens of New Orleans own „
real estate to the value of $15,000,000. They
have a daily paper, printed and edited by
colored men.
