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Newspaper Page TextSAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. YOL. 1-NO. 105. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING} 19 PUBLISHED BY * a. w. MASON «fc do.. Ax HI Bat Sxrxet, Savannah, Geoeoia. terms: Per Copy Fire Cent*. Per Hundred $S 60. Per Year $lO 00. AX>YEr.TI9II«G; Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first In sertion ; One Dollar for each subsequent one. Ad vertisements inserted in the morning, will. If desired, appear in the evening without extra charge. JOB PIMNTING, In every style, neatly and promptly done. [Correspondence of the Savannah Herald.] Otlß NEW YORK LETTER. New York, Friday Evening, May 12. Trade Restrictions Removed, The Secretary of the Treasury has issued an order removing the restrictions upon all “vessels of the United States” desiring to trade with heretofore blockaded ports. Ail foreign vessels, however, will be excluded. Tire Dullness of the week so far as exciting news was con cerned, was amply set off by the dullness, dampness and chilliness of the weather. Even the news of the reception in Europe of the assassination failed to cause a ripple on the apathetic sea; the frantic efforts of some of our papers to get up a passing interest in events to which some ot the editors endeav ored to attach a political importance, signally failed—the anniversaries were just tolerated, that's all—and, were it not for the open man ner in which the Mexican emigration scheme was boidly inaugurated this week, the Man hattanese would hardly have had anything to keep them in table talk. Wh&t will he do with It ? Geu. Ortega is non-plussed—he is in a fog—be has drawn an immense elephant, and he doesn’t know which way to turn. He has, iu response to his invitation for emigrants to Mexico, received so many thousands of re sponses that he really is in a tremor as to how to get them to Mexico, now he has them ready. Such a response is perfectly astound ing to him. Somebody will have to help poor Ortega out of his dilemma. Some of the released transports will undoubtedly soon pick up a good job. The Tornado. last evening was a first class institution In its way—aud things iu its way were general ly put out of the way, in a way not condu cive to the saving of.pieces. The whirl, as I saw it from a safe place, looked fearfully, and terrifically grand, lit up with lightning, the black clouds resonant with rolling thunder, and the murky mass of cumuli swept grand ly, swiftly and savagely across Brooklyn from the Atlantic docks to East New York, apparently attached to earth by a revolving spiral cloud in a manner eminently satisfac tory to the clerk of the weather and house repairers. I saw a stray cow twisted and whirled round in a pasture for some fifty rods, now on her - back, uow end over end, then rolled like a ball, until brought up against a high fence, where she lay uttering the most frightful moans. Roofs, shaky buildings, chimneys, signboards, and any thing loose, whether animate or inanimate, were spirited up in the air in a jiffy, and the succeeding torrents of rain, fo.lowed by heavy gust3 all night, made altogether as un wholesome a storm as has visited us for many years. Our Stree'ts really are again assuming a lively business like appearance. Persons of all kinds crowd all our thoroughfares, ail apparently well loaded with merchandise of different kinds .du transit to and-from Piers, Steamboat landings, and Railway Stations. The amount “of “grass” to be cut this summer on Broadway will, from present appearances and indications be not of sufficient quantity to keep the moderate want 9 of a Don Quixo te’s Rosinante supplied. The crop gathered will undoubtedly be of an emerald hue, but in stead of green grass will be an ample harvest of Greenbacks. A Memorial recounting the proceedings in this city on the occasion of celebrating the Union victories, ou the 6th of March, has been printed. It gives a comprehensive account of the affair, but is really marred by tacking on to the end of it, a lachrymose, semi-metrical phantasy Oi words evidently emanating from the brain of some individual, whose Pegasusean bight never exceeded the apex of a Bowery lamp post. The Sensational Description iu one of our ffeavy dailys, of the assassina tion aud its horrors, Ua9 created a great deal of attention, and much curiosity was evinced to know the author. It is the gent who has been connected with the Philadelphia and New York Weekly Press for the past live years, and who is famed as being able to “express less in more words” than any other writer in this vicinity. His name 19 Town- Bend, and his reputation iu this respect is abundantly fortified by his late effusion* SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1865. A Big Snub was appropriately given to some of the toadying fellows in our Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting. They are great fellows on long resolutions, and, on this occasion, a series was introduced in timating that it was the duty of our mer chants to see that our misguided “Southern brethren” who had been making graves for our northern patriots, who had been using all means in their power to subvert our gov ernment, who were really responsible for the tboumqfls of empty chairs at our north ern firesides,—should be at once admitted to full fellowship again in our commercial marts. This did not suit the stern patriotism of such patriots as Marshall, Gwinnett, Sturges aud others, and the framers ot the toady resolu tions received an excoriation richly merited and commensurate with the insult thus offered to a body of loyal men. Four Fire Elen*’ Fights Sandwitched the holy hours inter vening between the church bells of Williamsburg last Sunday. Broken heads, black eyes, bloody noses, and smashed machines decorated the streets, while the neatly dressed Sabbath School Children as they hurried past in shuddering horror made the contrast partake of the semi barbaric. Evidences of Summer are rapidly accumulating. Amoug them is an annoying preponderance of young shrubs in pots carried along the walks inpedestrians’ arms, said pedestrians scemiDg to insist that everybody shall be informed that they are botanical admirers by brushing your hat off, or ramming a stunted sixpenny rosebush into your face. Those who live in the rural dis tricts find o’raoraings that their beautiful flower patches in their front areas have been “chawed up’’ by predatory cows, hogs and goats, whose owners sneak about after dark and open your, front gate to allow their in fernai bovines and swine free ingress -and egress. The worm nuisance, and the bare footed beggars, together with musquitoes.sand fleas, and greea-ljead flies, are also among the accumulating evidences of summer, to say nothing of the great demand for “pepper mint," etc., to assuage the pangs incident to a too free’ indulgence of rhubarb pie and other like indigestible peace destroyers. “We Still Live exclaimed an ardent, heart and soul Abolit ionist on Wednesday afternoon after the rejection of Mr. Garrison's resolution to dis solve the Anti-Slavery Society. “We still live,” said he, “and lam happy. Our work is not yet finished.’’ It was, however, ’ a narrow escape from death. Mi. Garrison and his thirty-seven colleagues made a strong fight, but the “silver voiced orator” was too much for them and brought over a hundred to bis side. The debate was a sharp one, iu which some personality and not a little asperity was evinced. The Society still lives, with “universal suffrage” —a long stride in advance—inscribed upon it. How will it take 1 Nous verrons, as Father Ritchie would 9ay. Tiist Savannah Cotton. It will be recollected that when Gen. Sher man’s gallant veterans captured Savannah, some thirty thousand bales of cotton fell into our possession, which, it was stated, was to be sold for the benefit of Uncle Sam’s treas ury .' It was shipped to this port after having been thoroughly inspected by various gov ernmental committees and others, whose ex penses were by .no means light, and subse quently stored on Staten Island. Here a large number of buildings were erected at government expense for its reception. Since then it has been weighed, inspected again, picked over, and tossed from one storehouse to another by an army of Milesian laborers, hired at high wages by the various salaried storekeepers; and so many other things have been done with it in the way of lighterage, cartage, stevedori9m, ahd selling of small parcels by government authorities, adding to the already accumulated expense, that it is now quite certain, considering the heavy fall in the price of the staple, that our Uncle Samuel wilt not replenish his treasury much from this source. Had it been sold on its arrival, as it could have been, a handsome sum could have been realized, but, like a stabled horse, it has eaten up all its profits now. It should have been sent East for sale, where the pecuniary results would have been in accordance with those obtained by the sale of blockade runners. The same lesson has now been learned by the Treasury Depart ment in its dealings with New Yorkers, as wa9 fully demonstrated to the Navy Depart ment in its sales of naval captures—only more so. Wanted Freight. The various European steamers leaving this port the past two months hav'e had to resort to all soils of shifts to obtain ballast to take the place of freight—none of the lat ter offering. They carry crowds of passen gers, but their holds are empty. One steam ship purchased several hundred empty bar rels, filling them with Hudson river water to fill her bold, while another took nearly a whole cargo of sewing machines, at half rates. It is proposed to send off some of our heavy politicians in this manner. Opening of Trade with the South ern States. LUPOBTAJfT EXECUTIVE ORDER. Rci-es asp Regulations Concerning Doir- UERCIAL InTK&COUBSE WITH INSURRECTION art States. \ Executive Chamber, > Washington, April 29, 1805. > Being desirous to relieve all loyal citizens and well disposed persons residing in insui rectionary States from unnecessary commer cial restrictions, and to encourage them to return to peaceful pursuits, it is hereby or dered : First —That the restrictions upon iuternal and domestic commercial intercourse be dis continued in such parts of the States of Ten nessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro liua, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and so much of Louisiana as lies east of the Mississippi river, aud shall be embraced within the lines of national military occupa tion, excepting only such restrictions as are imposed by acts of Congress, and regula tions in pursuance thereof, prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, aud approved by the President; and excepting also, from the effect of this order, the lollowiug articles, con traband of war,,to wit: arms, atnmun tion, and all articles fr«m which ammunition is 4 manufactured, gray uniforms aud cloth, locomotives, cars, railroad iron and machine ry for operating railroads, telegraph wires, insulators and instruments for operating tele graph lines. 6'ecoad—That all existing military and naval orders in any manner restricting do mestic aud coastwise commercial intercourse and trade in the localities above named be, and the same are, hereby revoked, and that no military or naval officer in any rnauuer interrupt or interfere with the same, or with any boats or other vessels engaged therein under proper authority pursuaut to the regu lations of the Secretary of the Treasury. ANDREW JOHNSON. THE RULES AND REGULATIONS. Treasury Department, May 9, 1805. With a view of carrying out the purposes of the Executive, ae expressed iu his Execu tive Order, bearing date pf April 29, 1865, “To relieve all loyal citizens and well-dis posed persous residing in insurrectionary States from unnecessary commercial restric tions, and to encourage them to return to peaceful pursuits, thfe following regulaiions are prescribed, and will hereafter govern commerical intercourse between the States o! Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis sippi, and Louisiana east of the Mississippi river, heretofore' declared insurrection, and the loyal States: F<rst —All commercial transactions under these regulations shall be conducted uuder the supervision of officers of customs and others acting as officers of customs. Second—Prohibited ArticUs— The following articles are prohibited, and none such will be allowed to be transported to or within any State heretofore declared in insurrection, ex cept on government account, viz.; Arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammuni tion is manufactured, gray -uniforms and cloth, locomotives, cars, railroad iron, and machinery for operating railroads, telegraph wires, insulators, and Instruments lor opera ting telegraph fines. • Third—Amounts of Products Allowed, and Places to which such may be Transported. —lt having been determined and agreed upon by the proper officers of the War and Treasury Departments, in accordance with the require ments of section nine of the act of July 2, 1864, that the amount of goods required to supply the necessities of the loyal persous residing ia the insurrectionary States, within the military lines of the United States force s, shall be an amount equal to the aggregate of the applications therefor, aud that the places to which such goods may be taken, shall be all places in such lines that may be named in the several applications for trans portation thereto, it is therefore directed that clearance shall be granted, on application by any loyal citizen, for ail goods not prohibit ed, in ’such amounts and so such places which, under the revenue and collection laws of the United States, have beea created ixuts of entry and delivery in coastwise trade, as the applicant may desire. Fourth—Clearance. —Before any vessel shall be cleared for any port within the insurrec tionary States, or from one port to another therein, or from any such porta to a port in the loyal States, the master of every such vessel shall present to the proper officer of customs a manifest of her cargo, which man ifest 3hall set forth the character of the mer chandise composing said cargo, and, if show ing no prohibited articles, shall be certified by such officer of customs. Fifth. —Arrival aud discharge of Cargo in an Insurrectionary State.— On the arrival of any such vessel at the port of destination, it shall be the duty of the master thereof forthwith to present to the proper officer of the cus toms the certified manifest ot her cargo, whereupon the officer shall cause the vessel to be discharged under bis general supervi sion, and if the cargo is found to correspond with the manifest a ' certificate to that effect shall bo given to the master.— If there shall bo any prohibited ar ticles they shall be seized and held subject to the orders of- the Secretary of the Treesury, and the officer shall forthwith re port to the Department the facts of the case, and any such vessel arriving from any foreign port, or from any domestic port, without a proper clearance, or with contra band articles, shall, with the cargo, bj seized and held as subject to confiscation under the law of tbe United States. Sixth.—Lading Within stud departure from an Insurrectionary State. —Vessels in ports with in an insurrectionary State not declared open to tbe commerce of tbe world shall be laden under supervision of the proper offi cer of this Department, whose duty it shall be to require before any articles are nfipwed to be shipped, satifactoiy evidence that upon all merchandize the taxes and fees required by law and these regulations have been paid, which fact with the amount so paid, shall be certified upon the manifest. No clearance shall be granted, if upon auy ar ticle so shipped the lees and internal reval ue taxes or either shall only have been se cured to be paid; such facts shall be noted upon the manifest, and the proper officer at the port of destination of such vessel shall hold the goods till all such taxes and fees shall be paid according to law and these reg ulations. Seventh—Supply Stores.— Persons desiring to keep a supply store at any place within an insurretionary State shall make applica tion therefor to the nearest officer of the Treasury Department, which application shall set forth that the applicant is ioyal to the government of the Unites! States; and upon being convinced of such loyalty, a li cense for such supply store shall forthwith be granted, and the person to whom the license is given shall be authorized to pur chase goods at any oilier supply store within the insurrectionary States, or at such other point as lie may select. The party receiving such license shall pay therelOr the license tue prescribed by the luternal Revenue law - E'ghtk — Exempted Articles. —All articles of local production and consumption, such as fruits, butter, nee, eggs, meat, wood, coal, &c., may, without fee or restriction, be free ly transported and sold at such points in an insurrectionary State as the owner may de sire. Ninth—Shipment of Produce of an Insurrec tionary State. —All cotton uot produced by persons with their own labor or with the labor of freedmen or others employed and paid by them, must, before shipment to any port or place in a loyal State, be sold to and resold by an officer of the government espe cially appointed tor the purpose under regu lations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by the President; and before allowing any cotton or other pro duct to bo shipped, cr granting clearance tor any vessel, the proper customs of ficer or other person acting as such must re quire from the purchasing agent or the inter nal revenue officer a certificate that the cot ton proposed to be shipped has been resold by him, or that twenty-five per cent of the value thereof has bsen paid to such purchas ing agent in money, and that the cotton is thereby free from further fee or tax. If the cotton proposed tone shipped^claimed and proved to be the pioduct of a person's own labor, or of freedmea or others employed and paid by them, the effleer will require, that the snipping fee of tbrei cents per pound shall be paid or secured t> be paid thereon. If any product other tlhn cotton is offered for shipment the * certifltate of the internal re venue officer that allinternal taxes due there on have been ccllest/d and paid mu9t be pro duced prior to suffi products being shipped or cleared, and inhere is no internal revenue officer, then suettaxes shall be collected by the customs offler, or he shall cause the same to be seourd to be paid, a* pr»rid«rl «« these regulations Tenth—lnland Transportation.— The provi sions .of these reglatious, necessarily modi • fled, shall bo casidered applicable to all shipments inland o or withm the insurrec tiouary .States by my means of transportation wliatsover. Eleventh—Chares.— >Goods not prohibited may be transport'd to insurrectionary States free. The charga upon all products skipped or transported mm an insurrectionary State, other than upon cotton, shall be the charges prescribed by tbe internal revenue laws. Upon cotton, other iaj that purcuased and resold by the government, three cents per pound, which must la credited by the officer collecting as follors, vix: Two cents per Pvund as the sbippjsg fee. All cotton pur chased and resold by the government shall be allowed to be transported free from all fees aud taxes whatsoever. Twelfth—Record* to ■ be .Kept.'—Full and complete accounted records must be kept by all officers aetbg under these regulations or their transactfins under them, in such manner and foru as shall be prescribed by the Commissions of Customs. Thirteenth —Loylly a Requisite.- No geo Is shall be sold in fu insurrectionary State by< or t*>, nor any trf-nsponation held with, any person or persons not loyal to the govern ment of the United States. Proof of loyalty must bo the taliog aud subscribing the fol lowing oath or evidence, to be filed, that it, or one similar in purport and meaning has been taken—vie: I, - -do solemnly swear, in preseice of Almighty God, that I will hencefoti h i faithfully support, protect and defend tbs Constitution of the United States, and all; laws made in pursuance thereto. Fourteenth—Former Regulations Revoked These regulation? shall take effect and be in force on and alter the 10th day of May, 1865, and shall supersede all other regula tions and circulars heretofore prescribed by the Treasury Department concerning com mercial intercourse betweeh loyal ana Insur rectionary States, all of which are hereby rescinded and annulled. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury. THE OF THE BAM • WEBB. Captain Reed, who commanded the Ram Webb on her recent exploit, is now a prison er at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was Reed's design to take the Webb to Havana, there sell his cargo, of cotton and then re turn, and run the blockade at Galveston, de stroying all the vessels he encountered. The New York Herald has the following interest- ing account ot his last cruise: Everything being prepared the Webb steamed down the Red river and waited an Opportunity to rail out. One dark night he tied down his safety valve, and with his steam up to twenty-five pounds he drifted down on the current by our gunboats and iron clads without detection, until he passed the monitor Manhattan, when a mu-ket was fired on him, quickly followed by a discharge of camrister from a howitrer on her deck. The moment tbe Webb was discovered the engines were started at full head of steam, and she rushed down the river at a lightning pace, leaving tar astern theLafoyette and a gun boat which had started ia pursuit. Her speed PRICE, 5 CENTS : was slackened when the gunboats were out of j sight, aud she steamed along easily, so as to I pass the forts below New Orleans in the night. Ten miles above the city Reed sent a i boat ashore aud cut tbe telegraph wires to j the city, but, unfortunately for him, not be j fore a despatch had been sent from Donald sonville to Now Orleans that she had passed, giving the authorities three hours notice cf n:r approach. On nearing the city t! • American ensisrn was hoisted at half-mast, and her crew, dressed in our army overcoats, ' sat around on the cotton on deck and on the I guards, coolly smoking and picking their teeth, as if they were only innocent soldiers. The fleet laying at New Orleans were pre pared for the approach of a ram, but looked for something ot the Merrimac style of iron clads, and not for the innocent appearing, lead-colored transport, laden with cotton and thronged with soldiers, that steamed leisure ly down the river. The pilot of the Lacka wanna, an old steamboat man in those waters, at once recognized her as the Webb, and so informed Captain Eminous. Several shots were tired at her by the Lackawanna and Ossipee, which laid above Algiers, and could use their guns without endangering the town. The Webb was hit several times, aud she at once dashed forward, and ran by the Portsmouth, Quaker City, Florida aud other vessels, whose batteries were mauned, but.which could not be fired In consequence of the danger of killing innocent people, who thronged the streets and levy of Algiers, watching for the ram. The ram, therefore, passed quickly and without danger, and ran down to the ordnance ship Feamot, which she attempted to blow up by means of a tor pedo, filled with a hundred pounds ofpow der attached to a spar on her bow. Fortu nately tbe rapid current threw her bow around, and the spar . striking wrong, broke, a id the torpedo la led to touch and explode. Observing this, Reed again started down the river. He expresses great satisfaction that he was unable to blow up the Fearnot, as he has smee learned she had over three buud red barrels of powder on board, which would have blown her and the Webb to Davy Jones in the twinkling of an eye. Soon'after, the side-wheel tug Hollyhock, Lieutenant Com mander Gheradi, was in pursuit, and the Webb steamed down the river, Intending to get the pursuer well away troM assistance, and in deeper water, where she could be better - manned; and Reed proposed to capture her, as he probably would have done, as the tug had only twen ty men on board. When the Webb had got about twenty-throe miles away from the city, and had slowed to allow the Holly hock to come up, the masts of the Richmond were seen over a point of the river bank. Thinking that she had been placed there to trap him, Reed or lered the pilot, to put the Webb at her, to blow her up with a torpe do and then to hurry on. On the pilot la curve In the channel and pass under the Richmond’s broadside, he said he had tested her guns before, and would not ,-try it again. So he ordered tha Webb to be run ashore, and every man to look oat for himself. This was at once done. The vessel was at oaca tired, aod Reed and his officers and min took to tbe swamp. When the Florida and Hollyhock arrived, an hour later, she was in a mass of flames, too far burned to save. When the news was carried to New Orleans, cavalry was at once sent down,and,ninety-two out’of one huudred aud twenty-five of the Webb's men were taken and carried to the city. The balance doubtless crossed the river and made good their escape. , i Shadby Dressing.— Ail slatternline* of attire mark some Intellectual deficienay. A man who is shabby from any but dire ne cessity, is in a state of dingreement with his circumstances- It does not mean that he is wanting either in self-esteem or high expec tations, but that he has fixed them upon objects out of his reach—that his ideas have no relation to his powers or possibilities.— Tuero are men who go shuffling: about in threadbare coats, carrying cotton umbrellas, who nourish in their hearts fancies or re membrances of the wildest ambition. Noth ing short of an unt ttaluable seems worth tue trouble of adapt tug their externals to. Constant trim of attire does not at ail repre sent the state of mind that thinks nothing but the great prizes of life worth caring tor. The scholar who neglects bis person, as the phrase is, ten to one h posse*Sid by the no tion of the certain exposed faculties and at tainments, which set him above tha people he associates with, and offends by his slov enliness. . Dominie Sampson'was a bad dresser; but underneath wa3 an immense opinion of his own learning, and a sense of distinction and elevation above other men. And wlierevet we tee this discrepancy and want of fit, tue hitch which the dress typifies stands in the way of success. There is certainly something in the popular idea of a genius which does not fall in with our view. It Is an old no tion that the first step to be a wit; is to com mence a sloven; a notion which has largely encouraged the conceit of untidiness. fcioine men of genius have, we suppose, been slov ens, but it is not the genius which is-repre sented by his costume, but those defects and disorders in him which have prevented his genius from doing all it might have done.— No one can imagine Shakspeare-a sloven; nor can anyone, as an old wrlier has it, pic ture to himself Tully delivering an immortal oration in a blanket. For ourselves we can not see a scholar take to slipshop slovenly ways without our hopes of him suffering abatement. He will scarcely make a great name in the world—he will not connect him self by real ties with society. The Homestead of Mr*. Lincoln. The subscriptions to present a-home to Mrs. Lincoln are not to exceed five dollars each, so that all may have a chance *o con tribute. The statement that they were to be five hundred dollars each.- as mentioned in a previous despatch, was incorrect. In Troy they had a shin-plaster bonfire on Saturday, destroying $30,000 “worth" of city currency.