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Newspaper Page TextThe Savannah Daily Herald BT 8. W. MASON ANI> CO. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2!*. The News —Again are our colomns so crowded with news that there is li’tie space left for our editorial lucubrations, and we fancy that our readers will not perhaps regret the circumstance very much. Wc offer them new and interesting gossip ing letters from our Northern com spondenU. Wegivc them also further particulars of mat ters of heavier and graver importance, in the shape of political news, both home ana foreign—and the latest tidings from the war —and to close our programme we give rebel news from the latest sources which have crossed our lines. If this isn't a pretty rich hill of fare, we don’t know what would he. . From Augusta to the 23i> inst. —We have had the pleasure of conversing with two young men just arrived in this city from Au gusta by the way of Macon. They were vic tims of the merciless conscription, and fled from sheir homes rather than join the rebel army. Between .Macon ‘and Augusta they were seized by a body of Wheeler's cavalry, who plundered them of all they had—money, clothes and food, scarcely leaving them the clothes upon their backs. They repeat the old story of distress and high prices in Au gusta and other Confederate towns. Flour was SSOO to S6OO per barrel; corn $45 per bushel; bacon $7 50 per pound ; tallow and lard $8 per pound. Board from SSO to S6O a day. Quinine was $175 per ounce and opium SI,OOO per pound. Greenbacks were 25 for 1, and gold 50 to 60 for I. Confederate money was so worthless that when Wheeler s cavalry pillaged them their grey backs were declined by the thieves. Brig. Gen. M. J. Wright was in command at Macon. No trains are now runuing from Macon to Milieu, though communication is still open between Macon and Augusta. The Weather.— We’re always having weather. Somehow or another, weather nev r goes out of fashion. Just at present r:. v,- a-her is the special style, and the - j or*—damp, mo.st i. ..u is objeciioua .lo ui. "•* •••v3-v3 1. t— cloud.* couid COlltriW. *>.•_£■ v/i/ • .cut taeir iil-numori—for as we take it, ;mse little fitful, senseless Bhowers are simply and only expressions of spleen on the part of certain ill-natured clouds—if, we say, they could continue to work them selves out ol this state of mind iu some other way, they would spare us a great deal of moist unpleasantness. However, it is as it is, and we must make the best of it. Yes terday we had rain overhead, and mud under foot ; let us hope that to-day uiay r bring us bright skies and dry sidewalks. Theatrical.— At the Theatre last evening, tho gh the rain was incessant and severe, so much so as necessarily to deter from their anticipated attendance many who had hoped to enjoy the fine rendition of the “Lady oi Lyons,” still those who did attend were much gratified, as ive learn from a friend. Owing to the sickness of one of our editorial corps, our dramatic critic kindly undertook other work last evening, and was unable to attend in person. We saw the piece on its first representa tion by this company however, and received from it the most favorable impressions as to the ability of the company to render it ad mirably, Wc trust Mr. Davenport will not be deterred by the elemental accident ol rain /rom again producing the play, when we shall, if necessary, be prepared to make no small sacrifice in order to be present through out the whole of the representation. Fun.—ln our Evening Edition we shall be enabled to give full particulars of an ex ceedingly interesting Birth-Day Party, which was given last evening by certain gentlemen who have rooms at the Pulaski House. The party was not entirely free from convivial features. Songs were sung; toasts* were drunk, and several speeches were made, of which jve propose to give an abstract this afternoon. We could give some particulars at present, but we fancy that ‘.hose most interested will have the report quite soon enough il it is printed any time to-day. Water.— Temperance men and cold-water drinkers have a pretty rough time in Savan nah whenever a rain storm visits us. Just at present, the river, from whence our reservoir is supplied, is as muddy as if it never expected to get clear again. If a tumbler of hydrant water to-day docs not contain more than an inch and a quarter of mud in the bottom, it will be because it comes from a clearer spot than that which yields us our own present supply. The Work or Raising Negro Regiments PJR TXIE IvEUEL A.RMY COMMENCED.—OIII* lilcS fate Richmond papers show, among other things, that the effort to raise negro regi meuts for tHe rebel armies has commenced in earnest. The official order bas been is sued from the Adjutant General’s office, and a rendezvous for the reception of recruits, slave gnd free, has been established. All who are received will be mustered in for the war. Judging Ironi pit sent appearances, their term ot service will be a very short one. General Lee, in a letter written on the 10th inst., urges on the work of raising and organizing negio troops, and says he is very cnxlous to witness their first experiments in fighting for the rebel cause. > [For the Savannah Dally Herald.] the nbw secretary of the TREASURY. Saeoud Paper, RECOMMENDS that the secretary of the treasury have power to relieve the basks from the penalties for usury. Inasmuch as the history of all commercial nations has shown it to be occasionally neces sary, lor the regulation of trade between them and other nations, that the rate of in terest should bo under the control of an au thority less arbitrary than statutes, 1 further recommend that the Secretary of the Treas ury. or a commission to be created by Con gress. be authorized temporarily to relieve die national hanks in the cities of Philadel puia, New York, Boston, etc., from all pen alties for usury, whenever it shall be thought ihat the public interests will be promoted thereby. This recommendation is in the spirit of that previously made to relieve the Banks from the penalties of a violation of the usury laws. THE BENEFICIAL EERECT OF SUCH POWER. The judicious use of the power possessed by the Bank of England of checking, by an advance of the rate of interest, excessive :-peculation, and the creatiou of a foreign debt, to be liquidated by shipments of com, has frequently pievented financial crises in Great Britain. The same power prudently and resolutely wielded by the hanks, of New York as a unit, would, iu years past, have saved millions to the United States. It may be many years before the national bauks will possess the power now held by the State hanks in that city, but they may have it in due time; and when this is the fact no statu tory restrictions should prevent them from using it for the benefit of the country. It is well known how necessary in the in stances of the" Bank of England, such a power is, not only to the safety>>f that insti tution, but to protect the country against ex tensive mercantile bankruptcies. It is the balance wheel of their financial system. THE EFFECT OF AN INFLATED CURRENCY. It is frequently the case that money is ap parently the most plenty when there is the least of it in circulation, and the scarcest when it has attained the highest point before a financial crisis. Alt increase of the circulat ing medium injlates prices. High prices require an increased circulation, and so they act aud react upon eM'h other \ and there appears to be no re dundancy afcurrency,nomutter how vast the volume may be until a collapse takes place, and what was supposed to bo real prosperity is shown, to be without a substantial foundation. The words in italics contain a summary ot the whole philosophy of the subject of an ilat.d currency. I*’ in: ‘.■fbio tocoin p jss iu fewer words :. i .•; >: aud reaction of an increase of circulating medium on prices, and the necessity of a further increase to circulate the same quantity of commodities at enhauced prices. government issues. Now, this objection to a bank note circula tion applies -with much greater force to gov ernment issues. There is always induce ment enough for banks to keep up a full circulation, aud against excessive issues there are the restrictions of law and the liability to redeem. Government notes, in the Issue ihereof, would be regulated only by the ne cessities of the government or the interests of the party in power. At one time they might be increased altogether beyond the needs of commerce and trade, thereby enhancing prices and inducing speculation; at another, they might be so reduced as to embarrass business and precipitate financial disasters.— They would he incomparably worse in this respect than a bank note currency, because the power that should control circulation would be the power that furnishes it. Sup plied by an authority not In sympathy with trade, they would not be accommodated to ihe requirements of trade. They might be the fullest iu volume when there was the least demaud for a full circulation, and the most contracted when there was a healthy de mand for an £crcase. They would eventu ally become an undesirable circulation, be cause there would be no way in which the redemption of them could be enforced; they would he a dangerous circulation, because they would be under the control of political parties; an unreliable circulation, because, having no connection with trade and com merce, they would not be regulated by their necessities. This is sound doctrine as relates io gov ernment issu.es. Nothing but the necessity of providing financial resources before taxes can be cpllected justifies the use of this power. THE EFFECT OF PLETHORA OF MONEY. When money is plenty and tortunes are being rabidly acquired, the country is always in a feverish and unhealthy state. This is especially true at the present time. The enormous expenditures of the government, and the great advancement in prices since the commencement of the war, have made many persons suddenly rich, and, upon for tunes suddenly acquired, have lollowed reckless expenditures, extravagauce, waste. Speculation is taking the place of sober and persevering industry, and thousands are deluged with the notiou that the wealth of the nation is being increased by the increase of its indebtedness. The truth of these conclusions is beyond dispute. The enormous expenditures of the government and the great advance in prices since the commencement of the war, have made mauy persons suddenly rich, and upon lortunca suddenly acquired havo followed reckless expenditures, extravagance and waste. HAS FEARS FOR THE NATIONAL HANKS. The inauguration of anew system ot bank ing, under such circumstances, is peculiarly hazardous, and I have been, from the time of my appointment, more apprehensive that too many banks would be organized than that the system would not be sufficiently at tractive to induce capitalists to become con nected with it. The government is the great borrower. Its obligations compose a large portion of the discount line of the banks, which are making large profits on govern, meat securities at little apparent risk, and the danger is that the national banking sys tem, with all its restrictions, may, during the suspension of specie payments, and the con tinuance ol the war, add to the plethora of paper money; and that, wiien the war is over, the. banks, deprived of the existing means of investment in government obliga tions, and fiuding no legitimate use for their capitals, may be tempted to use them in en couraging operations that will eventually prove to be as unprofitable to themselves as they will be injurious to the country. For the double purpose, tlierefoie. ot keeping down the national circulation as far as it lias seemed possible to do it, consistently with the establishment of the system throughout the country, and preventing an increase of banking capital, that might hereafter be instrumental in keeping up the inflation and retarding the resumption of specie payments, or prove unprofitable to its owners, I have felt it to be my duty to discourage, iu many instances, the organization of new bauks,aed iu more instances to refuse niv sanction to the increase of the capital of those already organized. In doing so I may seem to have exercised a power not warranted by the act; but if not sustained by its letter, I have been by its spirit, and lam willing to let the fu ture decide as to the correctness or incorrect ness of my course. It wonld appear from the above extract that Mr. McCulloch was averse to the adop tion of the National Bank system, but in ex ecuting the functions of his office ho sought to give it all the efficiency of which it was susceptible. His conclusions from the opera tions of the system are founded on uniform experience from too great au increase of banking capital, keeping up inflation and retarding the resumption of specie pay ments. . COMING COLLAPSE. The expenditures of the government have created a great expansion of currency and of prices. There would have undoubtedly been an expansion, in a less degree it is true, but still an expansion, if the war had been carried on upon a spe.cie basis. Prices of all the necessaries of life as well as luxuries, and of everything which the government must purchase in the prosecution of the war, are enormously high, and the penalty is yet to be paid; for the inflation, in increased taxa tion aud the ruin which must overwhelm the thousands who believe, anti act upon the be lief, that the apparent prosperity of the country, is real, and is be interrupted. Fortunate will the country be if the war can be closed and prices reduced to former stan dards without a collapse, which will as great ly excel in the extent of its. disaster that which occurred at the close of the last war with England, as the present war excels that in costliness and magnitude. THE NATIONAL BANK OUGHT TO REDEEM IN NEW YORK. There are too many points at which banks may redeem their notes. All, with the ex ception of those in Philadelphia and Boston, should redeem in New York. banks should prepare for a return to spe cie PAYMENTS. The bauks ought to be compelled by law to retain a part, if not all the coin received by them, for iuterest on their gold bearing bonds, in order that they may be prepared to lend their influence in favor of a return to specie payments, and some provisions should be introduced by which, when specie ments are resumed, excessive importation of goods may be checked, and dangerous im portations of coin may be prevented. FINANCE AND POLITICS. It is of the greatest importance that the national currency system should be inde pendent of politics and freed from political influences. To effect this, aud to facilitate the business of the banks with the Comp troller, I am clearly of the opiuion that the bureau should be made an independent de partment, and removed from Washington to Philadelphia or New York. NEW YORK COMMENTS ON TIIE LATEST NEWS. We copy the following two articles from the New York Times of the 22d inst. They are appropriate, and doubtless will have their interest for our readers: The Financial Panic. —The anticipated collapse of the rebellion is producing its nat ural consequence, in the fall of gold. Yes terday gold went down to 154, though it subsequently went up again. Til’s is a fall of fiity per cent, within a month. So sud den and serious a change in the recognized standard of value, naturally produces con fusion, failure and disaster in every depart ment ol business. Even Government securi ties, like everything else, feel the shock, aud yesterday some of the very best Government stocks sold at from eight to twelve per cent, discount. There may be persons who fancy that this state of things is desirable; but no thing, in our judgment, could well be more disastrous. Any great financial crisis, what ever may be its cause, shakes and shatters the whole business fabric ot the country.— What the country needs is such a gradual de cline in the price of gpld as will enable ail branches of business, publie and private, to adapt themselves gradually and safely to the necessities which it creates. A New French Minister: —Among the news from Europe which we publish to day, in the bold announcement that M. De Moii tholon has been appointed French Minister at Washington, and M. Dano, Minister to Mexico, This disposes of the speculative theories founded on the non-arrivrl of M. De Chateanien.u 1, the minister first nominatt and as the successor of M. Mercier. The new ambassador may be presumed, from his resi dence here in the capacity ofFreneh Consul- General, not less than from his more recent position in Mexico, to bring to his new mis sion at least a familiarity with American con tinental affairs, which may facilitate liis per formance of the duties on which he is about to enter. It is a curious coincidence that France shonld send us a Minister raised from the rank of Consul at New York, just as we send them one formerly Consul at Paris. Great Freshets at the North. —The heavy freshet and thaw inaugurated by the rain of last Thursday night have caused im mense damage, extending through a wide extent of country. The accounts of the de vastations of the flood multiply. Through .out various States, as far cast as New Hamp shire and as far west a 3 Missouri, the rivers have been swollen to an extraordinary height and the increased volume of water and accel erated currents have carried everything be fore them, overflowing thousands of acres of lowlands, inundating cities,' towns and rail roads, and sweeping oft vast amounts of pro perty. Travel bas been temporarily stopped on several of the main railways of the coun try, as also telegraphing on some of the liuc3. One hundred miles of the Erie Railroad, and several miles of the New York Central and other principal routes of travel were on last Saturday under water. [From the Afcgusta Constitutionalist. March 15.] 1 A Man for the Crisis.— ‘*ln times of great peril, it is good that men reason togeth er upon the actions of their rulers.” Such was the timely admonition of an eminent Frenchman at a time when disaster and de struction threatened the Government of Fiance, not only by a powerful opposing arm v from abroad, bat by a failure of a cer tain class of their rulers to sustain thejwishes of the people; and the language is no less applicable to the present crisis of our own country. The South, almost unanimously, had look ed forward to the passage of the late bill be fore Congress, authorizing the enlistment of negroes in the army with a degree of confi dence which was indeed cheering in its pros pects, hut with one fell blow it has blighted, we fear forever, the fairest and brightest hopes of the nation, laid low its energy and paralyzed its power; and as a wise people, guarding with eternal vigilance our sacred cause, it is not the true policy to lie supinely on our backs and watch in silence and with indifference the vitals torn from the bosom of our country, when believing and knowing the means of resistance lies within our grasp. No demand has ever been made by the Confederate Government for means, money or material for the prosecution of this war, which has not been acquiesced in by the people without scarcely a mutmur; nor can any demand lie made looking to the advance ment ot our cause that will not be cheerfully submitted to by them. But when the Gov ernment or any of its co-ordinate branches, invested as they have been with almost supreme power, fail through self-interest, or any other motive, to comprehend the magni tude of this revolution, and act in accordance with its requirements, thereby becoming a barrier to tlie subcess of the cause, the vox popu/i will demur, and be heard in opposition to a policy so disastrous in its effects and fraught with so much evil in its terrible eon sequences, and justice and humanity will sustain them in their decision. We, as a nation, have too much at stake to daily over measures for months and months in secret conclave that require prompt and energetic action, and none but dastards can or will do it. It will require but a moment’s reflection for any man who lias the best iu terest of his country at heart, and who will take a clear and comprehensive view of the great question involved in this great struggle, to decide in favor even ot giving up the in stitution of slavery forever if by the act we can gain our independence, an object para mount to all others. Though it is not our purpose here to discuss this branch of the subject—having had the honor of submitting several articles to the public through your columns heretofore, and will take this occa sion to refer the reader to a series of articles recently published iu the Constitutionalist by W. W., which for ability and logical reason ing have not been surpassed by any writer of the present age. But to return. Congress lias failed to meet the publie expectation in this matter, and grave issues now present themselves for the consideration of every man who has a spark of that patriotism left which once moved his heart, in the defence of his native home; danger is sounded from every mountain and valley throughout the length and breadth of the South ; danger of overthrowing her lib erty, freedom and independence; danger of subverting her every institution; danger of her annihilation aud desolation, all. all come to us upon every breeze, and still the late Congress, Micawber like, failed to meet the exigency of the times, ‘'waiting for some thing to turn up.” t\ e regard the salvation of the country iu a great degree dependent upon the success ful inauguration of this new policy,-and its defeat in the hour (if gloom is an ill omen, and feeling the lull measure ot its impor tance we can but adopt the language of a distinguished American Statesman, who lived when virtue and integrity were the sole monitors of the heart, and the good of the people their only incentive to legislative ac tion: “When, oh when, will the corrupting influence of property cease to pervade the Legislative Halls of our country?” It is patent to every man, that we are now in the death-grasp of this struggle, and with out a different state of affairs, we must ere long sink into irritrievable ruin. If the peo ple submit to the action of Congress in ref erence to the bill recently defeated by it, the doomed institution of slavery will pa-s front our hands at a much earlier day and lie turn ed against us by the enemy, for our own de struction. The question now comes from all quarters, what shall be done in this the hour of our country’s greatest peril ? “Oh ! for an hour of our dead Dundee,” or some mau equal to lli who would wipe out the feeble reign of the “powers that be.” Iu the hands of such a ntffi we would be willing to risk the destinies of this Gov ernment; and we believe one could bqpeelect ed from our midst whose patriotism is suffi cient to call forth an imitation of the “Father of his Country, ” and when onr independence lias been firmljr established to yield the power invested in his hands and welcome the eon of Liberty and Freedom. That man is no other than Robert E. Lee. And if this be treason make the most of it.” 1 Harry South. A Little Goon Advice—Gratis. — As Parson Brownlow is now Governor of Ten nessee, it is greatly to he desired that he should make some attempt to infuse a little moderation into his language and demeanor. A great meny things that were pardonable in the East Tennesseean loyalist, really do not lojk very becoming in the highest civil functionary of the State, and we would fhere fote, earnestly entreat the Parson, if only f< r the sake of the cause for v h ch he lias suffer ed so much, to make a thorough revision oi his manner of expressing himself. The pub lic both North and South is now familiar with his sentiments on the subject of secession and the war, as well as with regard to his rebel neighbors, and we believe we express the opinion of the best portion of the community when we say that nothing that Gov. Brown low can add to what lie lias already said about them could increase our abhorencc of these persons and their doings. The loyalists whom they plundered and outraged while secession was in the asetfa laiit, are now bringing actions against, them in the civil courts, and are obtaining heavy damages against them ; and quite right, say we ; but we think there is no occasion for the Gover nor to comment on the matter in this style : Impoverish . the villains—take all they have give their effects to the Union men taey have crippled and imprisoned—and let them have their ‘Southern rights.’ They swore they would carry on the war until they exhausted their last little negro and lost their lands. Put it to them, is our advice, most religiously—fleece them, and let them know how other men feel when robbed of all they have! Let them be punished—W them be impoverished-Met them be slain— and after slain, let them be damned!” We should not object io this sort of talk so much if the Parson’s expressions had ever been remarkable for feebleness. But ail those who are familiar with him and m, compositions can testify that this has never been one of their defects. And we think now that he has been made Governor of tlip Stale, all parties would be the gainers if he were to endeavor to make his articles end letters al_ttle more “milk and watery " This war is not going to last always, and when it ends there will be in every State in the Soutli a iaige number of persons wiio have helped in one way or other, either to bring it about or carry it on as well as others who have, been from the hrst bien oppcs nl to it, and have suffered for their Unionist opinions. Now everybody who loves the Union party ought, so far from seeking to keep alive the name ot animosity between these two classes of persons to do everything in liis power to extinguish it \ strong desire for revenge will, of course reign for a good while in the breasts of the victorious party, but he must be a poor pa triot, as well as poor Christian, who will do or say anything to help them to gratify it And the business of every man who finds himself in an official position at the South hereafter, is, before all other things, to wipe out, as far -as lie can, the memories of the war. Sojt.lie less said about “fleecing,” and “slaying,” and “damning” the better, par ticularly by Governors—iV. Y. Times. MOBILE. Despatches to the 9th inst., have been ie cfived. Refugees who had come into the Union lines from the city of Mobile, reported that rebel troops had been going from there since the Ist of February, some of them to Soutli Carolina; but there still remained iu and around the town about fifteen thousand. Most of these, however, were citizens, many of them very young boys and old and infirm men. lhe attacx of the national torces was daily expected, and in anticipation of it the women and children were beiyg sent away. There was great distress among the poor corn meal selling for fifteen dollars per bush el, wheat flour lor two dollars and a half per pound, and bacon for four dollars aud a half per pound. One dollar greenbacks soid for twenty-live dollars each in rebel notes. Twenty thousand bales of cotton were railed up iu one vast heap at the depot* of the Mo bile and Ohio Railroad, ready for transpor tation into the interior as soon as the rebels should become convinced of their inability to hold the place. The citizens believed Gen. Maury, the rebel commander, would burn the city if he was compelled to aban don it. A severe wind storm visited Mobile bay on the evening of the Bth inst., and con tinued nearly twenty-four hours. Two transports ol the national forces were driven ashore, and some damage was done to one or two other vessels. Thackeray. —How can any careful reader of his books apply the word ‘ ‘cynical” to this great, warm, idviug, reverent heart ? It is the very intensity with which lie feels and sympathizes with the irailties and weaknesses ot humanity that make his moralizings sad and seemingly bitter. It is the coldest hearts and the narrowest brains that are best satisfied with society as it is. Thackeray could transfix pretension, hypocrisy, vanity and selfishness with the keenest shafts of ridicule and dip the points iu gall, but no man had a profounder reverence lor truth, purity and honor, or a warmer love and pity lor the injured and the suffering. lie paints life as it is; he palliates no vice ; he exag gerates no virtue; he was a true artist and a great writer of the noblest school of fiction. When lie died, English liteyature|lost one of it3 greatest ornaments and “Vanity Fail” its most faithful delineator. HOTEL arrivals. PORT ROYAL HOUSE, CHILTON HEAD,; MAR. 2C. J. Levj\ Beaufort, S. C. T. J. Clark, N. Y. C. G. Strahan, Charleston, S. 0, M. B. Custer, Homer, lit. J. W. Kelly, “ F. A. Sears, Hilton Head. L. Larson, Savannah, Ga. L. J. Comstock, Boston, Maas. < > R. Tyler, New York. i E. A. York, Michigan. D. Reilty, Philadelphia, Pa. X. Capt. M. W. Atwood, Savannah, Ga. J. 0. Morgan, Morehead, N. C. Wfe*'' S. B. Jarvis, Boston, Mass. J. L. Turner, Charleston. S. C. Lieut. J. W. Smith, Savannah, Ga. ""'sLL. A. McHfirdy, «• •• 'Sre” M. Flint, ” .* « . Lieut. E. Hopper, “ « M. O. Edgely, Charleston. Major 11. 11. Higginson, Hilton Head. M. L. Dunn, Rochester, N. \ r . T. C. Smith, Capt. C. S. J. Evans, Hilton Head. Mrs. Teele, Wilmington, N. C. Capt. A. C. Nutt, Jacksonville, Fla. Capt. W. T. White, Pa- W. Robinson, Manchester, N. Tl G. H. Dudley, “ .. G. L. Kennard, Charleston, H. C. Lieut. B. E. Miller, Hilton Head. E. D. Jones, Boston. G. M. Woodward, Capt. 54th Mass. E. .Speer, New York. Col. G. R. Godfrey, Sherman’s Army. J. F. Buck, Wisconsin. M. O. Bronson and wife. C. E. Dugane, New Y'ork. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF PORT ROYAL. Arrivals—March 26—schooner Nancy Mills, Charles ton, S. C. March-26—steamer Arago, New York; schooner Challenge, Beaufort, N. C. March 27—schooner Hannah Mai tin, Beanfort, N. C ; schooner James G. Donohue, N. Y. Schooner Barkentine Lamplighter. N: Y. Cleared—March 25—schooner New York ; schooner Julia Hallock, New York; schooner Rock ingham. Beaulort, N. C.: schooner L. A. Burlingame New York; bark America, Morehead City, N. C. March 27—ship Northampton, Bath, Me.; schooner Col. Jones, Philadelpnia; brig Georgia. New York. I. o. o. p. ~ OGLETHORPE LODGE, No, 1, meets everj' Tues (lay evening. (Lodge Room on Bay .street, over Geo. N. Nichols’ Printing Office.} A. F. Today, N. G.; F. Kreuson, V. G.; James Clemence, Treas.; C. Gross, Sect Ll\ E OAIC LODGE, No. 3, meets every Friday evening. (Lodge Room S. W. cor. Bull and Brougli ton sts., 4th story, entrance on Lronghton street.) J. Holbrook Estill, N. O.; R. M. BartheWss, V. G.; D.. Ihorapson, Ireaw.: 1). H. Galloway, Sect. „ ENCAMPMENT, No. 1, meets Ist and 3d v\ euuesday in each month in Live Oak Lodge Room John T. Thomas. C. P.; John Harrison, H. P.; John Dexter, S. W.; R. Groves, J, W-; C. Gross, Scribe ; James L. Haupt. Treasurer.