Savannah daily herald. (Savannah, Ga.) 1865-1866, May 20, 1865, Image 1

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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. VOL. 1-NO. 107. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING) IS PCnUSOED BT W. MASON & CO.. At 111 Cat Street, Savaxnau, Geoeoia. teems: Per Copy Five Cents. Per Hundred $j GO. per Vefir $lO 00. AHVEETisiii o: Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first in-' certion: One Dollar lor each subsequent one. Ad vertisements inserted in the morning, will. If desired, appear in the evening without extra charge. JOB PRINTING, In every style, neatly and promptly done. besdiptios of specie payments The rapid fall of gold ha3 led to the expec tation that specie payments will be resumed shortly after the termination of the war.— This expectation we apprehend, will prove ilinssory. 1 . It is contrary to uniform ex perience. After the war of the revolution the historians of that period iuform us tba[ specie was not visible for some years after its termination. After the war of 181?, specie payments were not resumed until the year 1817, an .1 then by the most powerful efforts of the government. The Bank of England sus pended specie payments in 1797, and did not lesume until 1822. When it is recol lected that the currency ot the United States during our second war of indepen dence was depreciated only about 25 per cent, as compared with the currencies of other coin tries, and that the depreciation of the Bank of England notes was only from 25 to 30 per ceut. the impossibility of speedy re sumption, the currency of the United States being depreciated to a somewhat greater ex tent, must be obvious on the least reflec tion. Such an expectation is contrary to all re ceived principles. The fluctuations iu the value of gold, we have endeavored to show, were the sole result of the war, affording unbounded scope to speculation; the prices rising or falling with victory or defeat. But on the cessation of hostilities, and the pro clamation of peace, commercial circumstanc es will exclusively govern the value of £old. The principles of legitimate demand and supply will then come into play,' The pre mium on gold will measure the depreciation of the currency of the United States, as com pared with the cuitencies of other countries. This is the test or criterion. If by a reduc tion in the volume'of our paper money we can bring it to the same level of value with the circulating medium of those countries with which we have commercial intercourse, we will have evinced our ability to resume specie pay ment—not before. To effect this object the public expenditures must be large ly reduced, by which the volume of the cur rency will be correspondently lessened. But this should not be done too suddenly. §ir Robert Peel, when he brought in hi 9 bill Into the British Parliament, in 1819, com pelling the Bank of England to resume in 1825, he allowed ample time for a gradual resumption. The bank anticipated the pe riod by three years, because the balance of trade being largely in favor of England, gold fell in value from the operation of causes, which, while they lessened the demand for gold, increased the supply. It would appear to follow that as the currency of the United States is at least as much depreciated as the English currency at the period to which we have referred, it follows that as long a period will be required for resumption. But there are other considerations con nected wilh this subject. It is impossible to determine the amount, of the curreucy or the penod within which it will be so improved in value as to be equal to gold or silver, un less the amount ot the current expenditure is- known, aud this depends again on the magnitude of our peace establishment, and whether the maximum of taxation has been reached. , Should the government be deter mined not to impose any additional taxes, nor to resort to loans, its only other resource will be the issue of paper money. To be continued. Billiards—The Great Five Thousand Dollar Match.— The proposed match be tween Philip IHetnan, of Cincinnati, and Goldthwait, of New York, which has for months attracted thealtno3t undivided atten tion of the billiard world, and upon which R'reat expectations were based, has been terminated abruptly by the inability of Jlr. i lonian to play. lie has for weeks suffered from an attack, of his persistent enemy, the rheumatism, which, having settled in his v list, .precludes the possibility of his meet mj; G o ;Jti lwa i t 0a j a „ n< . luie(; i—the 31st ”, M *y- But, in order that Goldthwait and * c n ' a - v not be wholly disappointed, \r ta M^* lau bas ,P ro P°9ed that Mr. John tio evi,t ’ °* Bidianapolis, and Goldthwait puy a match on the above date, in Cincin i t, tor one thousand dollars a side, which . on haa been accepted. The game 'V, be ,lre *»we as the one just abandoned, a slte$ lte f n hundred points up, on ton e,an Collender full-sized, four-pocket t e ‘f’ actl will conclude the proceedings at vh.vt • ,° a , ol,iw St ate Tournament, the Selins inaugurated in Mozart Hall on The first section of the genuine Pacific •Railroad is completed, and has been inaunu- with appropriate ceremonies. SAVANNAH, GA„ SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1865. the great Meeting in lokoqn. Londoo, April 30.—0n Saturday evening, 29th of April, an immense public meeting con vened, under the auspices of the Emanci • pat ion Society, in St. James' Hall, to express feelings of grief and horror at the assasstna tibn of President Lincoln, and sympathy with the Government and people of the United States and with Airs. Lmcolu, Air. Seward and family. The galleries of the hall were draped in black. Over the end of the gallery hung the American fiig. The hall was crowded with an audience who manifested not merely their warm admiration of the character and capacity of the the late President, and sin cere sympathy with the people of the United Slates in the loss sustained, but their hearty approval of the great cause Air. Lincoln rep resented. The platform contained an array of Parlia mentary gentiemen and many leading citizens of the metropolis. Alany ladies were present, a majority of whom were in mourning. Various resolutions were carried, not merely with unanimity, but with an intense feeling rarely seen at public meetings. Tne chair was occupied by William Evans, president of the Emancipation Society.— Messrs. Foster. Stansfeld, Leathern, Taylor, Potter, Baxter, and Baines, members of Parliament, commenced the proceedings with expressions of deop sympathy with the American Government and people, and en tire confidence in the Administration of President Johnson. The chairman was supported by twenty in fluential members of Parliament, and a large array of distinguished presidents, represent ing every section of the community. Letters of spmpatby were received from Sir Charles Lyell, Lord Houlton, and others. W. E. Forster, member of Parliament, moved the first resolution, that this meeting desires to give utterance to the feelings of grief and horror with which it has heard of the assassination of President Lincoln, and the murderous attack on Mr. Seward, and to convey to Mrs. Lincoln, and the United States Government and people the expres sion of its profound sympathy aud heartfelt condolence. P. A. Taylor, M. P.. seconded the resolu tion. He expressed deep sympathy with the American nation, which had lost a worthy successor to Lincoln's great task had been fuifided. He had crushed the rebellion of the slaveholders. Time, the de stroyer, had not withered one leaf in the chaplet of his glory. He had no fear that the government of the United States would fall into the career of reveugeful retribution. He asked the audience to remember that for years portions of the press and people had heaped every epithet of abuse on Lincoln, aad were now trying to do the same thing by Johnson. [Shame.] He felt confident that the efforts of the new government would be continued in the same direction as Lincoln’s, and that it would soon effect the complete restoration of the Uuion, with the complete emancipation of the negro. Lincoln died for that principle, but his death was not the symbol of its defeat, but oi its glorious tri umph. [Cheers.] Mr. Leathern, M. P., brother-in-law of Mr. Bright, concurred iu the hearty tribute paid to the character and services of President Lincoln. Mr. Stanfield, M. P., moved the next reso lution, viz: That this meeting desires to ex press its entire confidence in the determina tion and power of the people and Govern ment of the United States to carry out, to the fullest extent, the policy of which Abraham Lincoln’s presidential career was the embodi ment, and establish free institutions through out the whole American republic. Mr. Stan field said thdt they had met not only to give an expression of their horror at a deed so foul that history could produce no parallel, but to show sympathy for a cause which be gins by being honorable and great td be righteous, and. which, by the acts and by the life and death of its martyr President, had now become sacred in their eyes. [Loud cheets.j The South had been fighting for the avow ed and deliberate purpose of promoting and perpetuating human slavery. It attempted to found its subsistence upon a uational crime, and had met the deserved fate of those who set themselves against the laws of God aud man. The North had been fighting lor a common country, which they would share, but which they would not allow to be torn asunder. Step by step the North rose to the height of the great aud holy argument on which their Cause was founded. Each delay, each defeat, seemed but to make their resolve firmer, and higher and purer their policy. When the South fiually abolished slavery throughout the States theu victory would finally crown the cause. Throughout all this period Lincoln guided his country with hon or. If anything could strengthen the States in their trial, it would bo the deep-felt, spon taneous and universal, sympathy which was now travelling to them from Europe. .He was sure all prayed that the Government and people might be true to the example of him who was the guide of their cause. Mr. J. B. Potter seconded the raotiou. He •aid he now stood in Parliament as successor of Kicbard Cobden, whose object it was equal ly with that of Lincoln, to dignify labor.— Lincoln destroyed slavery in America. It should be their wi3h to destroy serfdom at home. And he trusted the result of the Con flict in America would be to give ‘an impetus to the cause of reform in Europe. Mr. Baxter, M. p., supported the resolu tion. He expressed hearty concurrence with the eloquent tribute paid to the memory of President Lincoln. All the events of the last four years dwindle into insignificance before the great issues involved in the great contest in America. Not only was the great ques tion of slavery involved in t,he contest, but the question of constitutional government all through the world. He did not believe a great cause depended on a single life, and he felt confident that the American people would hurry to a triumphant issue the policy and piinciples of Abraham Lincoln. : Hon. Lyneph Stanley, second son of Lord Stanley of Aldersly, a member of the Cab inet, expressed his admiration for the charac ter of Mr. Lincoln. Professor Fawcett also supported the reso lntirma IW-—* Mr. Shaw Fefevre, M. P., said the men' who elected Lincoln could not be wrong in the choice of Johnson. Mr. Caird, M. P., moved that copies of the foregoing resolutions be placed in the hands of Mr. Adams for transmission to the President of the United States, Mrs. Lincoln, and Mr. Seward. He paid a warm compli ment to the American Minister, whose moderation and firmness and conciliation had been the best preservation of peace be tween the two countries. The resolutions were supported by Green fell, Curreu, and Ewing, members of Parlia ment, and Rev. Newman Hall, and Mason Joneg. Cyrus W. Field, who was called for and received with great applause, thanked the. chairman and the meeting, on behalf of thd Americau people, for their deep sympathy with the thirty millions on the other side of the Atlantic, who were mourning for the death of Abraham Lincoln. CHARLESTON NEWS. Public Education. i Mr. James Redpath, Superintendent of Public Education, has submitted a report to Col. Gurney, commanding at Charleston, con taining much interesting information in rela tion to the Schools lately established and now being directed by him. It appears tuat there are now nine Public Day Schools and five Night Schools uuder his supervision. It is estimated that at least four hundred children enjoy the benefits of these Schools. Mr. Redpath says: I think that at least five hundred children have passed through our schools on their way from the interior to the Islands, during the current mouth—remaining, just long enough with us to be taught three or four patriotic songs, to keep quiet, and to be decently clad; and then going off to give place to others who will receive the same instruction and disci pline and then be shipped off. Thus, at some Schools, while the number is kept up and in creases, it is not of the same children. Ido not regret this movement; it is full of prom ise for the tuture of the emancipated class, and I have given it a cordial support; but it retards the progress of some of the Schools, and makes the work of organization difficult. The uniform report from all the teachers is that the children are rapidly improving. ' ‘•The Night Schools—for adults only—are attended by over five hundred persons.— These are also free, and are taught by offi cers, Northern citizens, and colored South Carolinians.” There are over thirty Northern teachers in the schools how, educated in the best me thods of New England and New York. Three Noi thorn societies unite iu paying the salaries of the teachers, of whom there are now over a hundred here, all of them antfo. slavery associations—the National Ffeed men's Aid Association, the New England Freedmen’s Aid Society, and the American Missionary Association. During the coining month there will be adult schools in the afternoon; Sewing or “Industrial Schools” and Writing Classes established. Mrs. Colonel Beecher has a regimental school at the Citadel every afternoon. Her pupils are her husband’s soldiers. Mr. Redpath asks for additional accomoda tions for the schools. He has been obliged to turn away two or three hundred children during the last two weeks. Several of the present schools are overcrowded still. The Report goes on to say: While civil war lasts we know that there would be no safety for us here, if the bayon ets were taken from the hands of the class formerly held as slaves ; and as soon as civil authority is restored, all will learn that there would be no safety for the class formerly ex clusively possessed of political power if the school books were taken from the hands of the freedmen. This war is the result of the enslavement of the poor blacks, and the ig norance of the poor whites. By educating everybody we will take care to prevent a war of races, which the old ignobleness would bring about, if they dared and could, by prohibiting free schools for all and repeal ing the holy proclamation. One of the saddest results of slavery in its influence .on the once ruling class, seems to be that it has rendered them perfectly indiff erent to the education and elevation of the poor. Os the six thousand persons who have taken.the oath ot allegiance, not one has come forward and volunteered to teach in these adult Schools—not ODe. I see no hope of educating that va9t multitude of white adults in the insurrectionary States, who can neith er read nor write, except by the adoption by Congress of a law restricting (while extending) the electoral franchise to those only, and all those who can read and write. This plan is seriously contemplated as a political neces sity of the times—as a guarantee for the fu ture peace of the nation ; and one of the ear liest measures introduced in the next Con gress will be a bill to prevent the re-admis sion of any insurrectionary State into • the Union until universal educated suffrage is in corporated into its Constitution. Eank Ct House iia Charlcitoa- Messrs. Geo. W. Williams & Cos. have made arrangements to open, at an early date, a Banking House in this city. At tlie commencement of the rebellion Charleston had ten chartered Banks, with an aggregate capital of thirteen millions of dol lars, besides many private Bankers, employ ing a capital of millions of dollars. The failure of the rebellion will doubtless render it necessary that all the Banks in the State go into liquidation. We therefore gladly wel come private Bankers at this time in the old • Queen City. Court er. The Condition of the Streets. We are pleased to see that the prompt | measures of the military aetborities to put i the streets into a good sanitary condition i have progressed as well as onr most 6au- j guine expectations could desire or look for. j The old planks that have hitherto been in j many instances a nuisance to vehicles j m well as pedestrians, have been removed and replaced, or made use of. as was found most advantageous. Reduction or Price* at the Charleston Hotel. Mr. James P. M. Stetson, the popular pro prietor of the Charleston Hotel, announces to the public that he-has reduced the price of board, commencing today, at the rate of twenty-five per cent. The’ fall in the price of gold, also the decline in the prices of pro visions at the North, have indaced him to make a reduction in the hotel rates.— Courier. Th« New Regulations for the Pur chase of Cotton. The following amended regulations for the purchase of the cotton of the insurrectionary States on Government account have just been issued by the Treasury Department ; TnEASCRT’DicFAiiTMENr, May 9. 1. Agents shall be app Anted by The Secre tary of the Treasury, with the approval ol the President, to pnrehase for the - United States, under special instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury, products ot Stares declared to be iu insurrection at such places as may, from time to time, be designa ted by the Secretary of the Treasury as markets or places of purchase. Agents’ IRjffctofore appointed for the places designated under previous regulations, will coutiuue their agencies as if appointed /mder these regulations. 2. Before entering upon the discharge of hi 9 duty; each of the agents so appointed shali execute a bond, with sureties in the prescribed form, in a penal sura, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his - duty, and that he shall not engage, directly or indi rectly, iu the purchase of products on private account, nor be in any way interested in the products purchased by him, or the proceeds or profits arising therefrom 8. The operations of purchasing agents shall be confined to the single article of cot ton, and they shall give public notice at the place to which they may be assigned that they will purchase, in accordance with these regulations, all cotton not captured or aban doned, which may be brought to them. 4. To meet the requirements of the eighth section of the act of July 2, 1864, the agenl9 shall receive all cotton so brought, and forth with return to the seller three-fourths there of. which portion shali be an average grade of the whole, according to the certificate of a sworn expert or sampler. 5. All cotton purchased and resold by pur chasing agents shall be exempt from all foes and all internal taxes, and the agent selling shall mark the same “Free,” aud fqrnish to the purchaser a bill of sale clearly and accu rately describing the character and quantity sold, and containing a certificate that it is ex empt from taxes and sees as above. G. Purchasing agents shall keep a full and accurate record of all their transactions, in cluding the names of all persons from whom they make purchases, the date of the pur Clrasiya- - description of the cotton purchased by them, aud the quantify and quality there of, also of the one-quarter retained by them A transcript of this record will be transmit ted to the Secretary of the Treasury on the first day of each month. Sales of the cotton retained by the purcha sing agents under regulation fourth, a9 the difference between three-fourths the market price and the full price thereof in the City of New York, may be made by such agents, at such places and times, and in such manner as may be directed iu special instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury, where such sales are not- authorized, the agents shall, without delay, ship it to New York, on the best terms possible, consigned, uutil other wise directed, to S- Draper, cotton agent and disbursing officer at that place. Bills of la ding in triplicate for 9uch shipment must be taken, one of which shall be sent to the agent at New York, one to the Secretary of the Treasury, and one retained by the purchasing agent. 8. Prior to the close of each month, and in sufficient time for the necessary action, the purchasing agent shall prepare and forward to the Commissione- of Customs a full esti mate of the probable expenses ot his office for the month next ensuing, the amount of which, together with any sum found due, from inadequacy of former estimate, or less so much as may remain unexpended from any amount previously sent, will be transmitted to said purchasing agent. Purchasing agents will require receipts in triplicate for. all moneys paid by them. One of which receipts shall be forwarded to the disbursing officer ; one to the first Auditor of the Treasury, with his accounts, and one retained by the agent, 9. All agents are prohibited from purchas ing any product of an insurrectionary State which'shall have been abandoned by the law ful ow T ner thereof. 10. These regulations, which are intended to revoke and annul all others on the subject heretofore made, will take effect and be in force on and after May 10, 1865. Hcoh McCou.ocn, Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, Executive Chamber, ’ Washing ton, May 9, 1865. Andrew Johnson. A Pet Panther.— An old hunter of South western Texas, who had long had a pet pan ther of great size and ferocity, was recently attacked in his cabin by Indians. He let them gain the lower part of the house, and then let the panther loose among be bein ,T safely perched Upon the loose chamber floor, through the crevices ol which he could fiie upon his foes and watch the pro gress of events. But after the first howl and solin' l -of the panther'ho Indians remained except three killed bv the brute, and one skot by the hunter. The rest disappeared, probably never to return. The Confederate prisoners at Elmira, New York, held a general meeting, at Which reso lutions were passed expressing their dissent and condemnation of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. ■ j -;.; • »<•«*> Among the suspected numbers, are fiiree employees of Ford s Theatre. All the boasted California oil springs and speculations are prououaccd humbugs* PRICE. 5 CENTS LFrom the Augusta Constitutionalist ] EXPECTATION. BT L’UIOMIJUJfc. Ail day the golden lilies Count And fla-hlwneath the sky; All day the garden walks I haunt Ana watch her casement high I wonder if she knows I wait . . Beside our tryetlngplace f How lorn it looks ana desolate Bereft of her svrest grace I In every rustling leaf that stirs I think I hear her tread, . In every bird whose 1 ctat wing whirls In circles round my nead. * I ?cnd a kiss upon the sir Tuat b eathea upon her lips : It faints sway in sweetness there That might s 1 hetV.-n eclipse. Return with passion-freighted wavs, Oh 1 sephyr of the South, Return with sll the love she gave, And break upon my month. FARTHER OSTRICH OSs TO THE TKEAffltl . AGESTs. The New Regulations. Hilton Head, May 17, 18G5. Sir ; I have to-day seen the new regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the which went into effect on the 10th insL As - have no copy for you, I give you a synopsis thereof and such directions as they soein to require. You will please-rec that the same are promptly executed in your agency. All previous regulations are revoked. Tne new' substantially prescribe os follows: Ist, Nothing but cotton can be purchased by agents appointed to purchase for the United States. 2d. All other products in States Included* in the President's proclamation of -April 29, 18G5, maybe forwarded to loyal States by any owner thereof, whether he be the orig inal producer or a purchaser, upon payment of the internal revenue tax. 3d, Any person taking the prescribed oath that he will be hereafter loyal to the United States, may receive any amount of goods, not contraband of war, and may dispose of them without restriction at any place in the lines named, to any person who shall have taken tiie same oath. The authority to do that will be given by the custom officer of the port where the goods are received, or by any other officer of the Treasury Department. You will at once commence acting nnder the new regulations as above indicated. You wffi also at once dismiss all local special Agents in your agency, no duty being here after required of them. Any merchandize now arrived or hereafter arriving in your agency, under a proper clear ance, you will cause to be permitted to be landed and disposed of to or by any person authorizeffas above. Please to instruct assistants in your agency accordingly. I am, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, (Signed) Wm. P. Mellen, General Agent Treasury Department. Albert G. Browne, Esq., Sup. Spec. Agt. sth Agency, , Treas. Dept, Savannah, Ga. SOUTHERN TRADE. Re-ops ulng of Commerce. ' [From the New York-Herald, Msj IS J The extraordinary avidity which the people hate lately evinced in seizing upon the gov ernment loans, which have been presented to the country through the agency of Jay Cooke & Cos., is equalled only by the energy dis played in this city in taking advantage of the President's proclamation and the new Trea sury regulations published on the 11th instant, re-opening trade with the South by the re moval of tne hitherto "existing regulations.— The regulations ot Mr. McCulloch, as pub lished, are read, examined and preserved a# a document of the greatest importance. Iu all parts of the North arrangements for tak ing advantage of the President’s proclamation have been made by the merchants with a promptitude even greater than that of the of ficial action of the Post Office Department iu re-opening the mail facilities, and nearly equal in promptitude to tho action of the Treasury Department in establishing its na tional banks in Richmond and other parts of the South. What New York Is Doing. The-New York merchants are, of course, among the first to take advantage of the new order of things. The change which has so rapidly followed peace is not only a new era of finance and commerce, but “&n era of good feeling,” and New York city is among the first to weld a band ot Union by furnish- iugthe means for unrestricted intercourse and free commerce. The increased activity in the docks is very apparent. Owner* ot vessels which for four years past have been fit government efnploy, hare hastened to obtain release from their contracts, and ate loading with merchandise for the Soutuem seaport towns. Vessels of every character which havot been lying idle during the war, have brushed up and are preparing for missions of brotherly love and money making in the Southern ports. The increase in the traffic which has re sulted from the Older of the President is best seen by the examination of the list of vessels preparing to sail from this port. We find that since the promulgation .of the order over fifty vessels — many of them first-class steam ers—have been added to the trade with the Atlantic aDd Gulf coast cities. *e«|£ The following additions have been m*df to the Charleston and Savannah trade: Steamship City of Port au Prince, Bark Lamplighter, Steamship Alhambra, Steam ship America, Steamship Chase, Steamship Thames, Steamship Qrenada, Schooner Elk, Schooner John Randolph, Schooner Ann Elizabeth. —We shall doubtless have early news of large additions to the commercial fleet which is already being organized in the cause of Peace and Unioo. The movement it one of the deepest interest to all parts of the coun try, and the real true friends of Union will soon act with unanimity throughout the East and West. The reopening of trade is not only a guarantee lor widespread prosperity, but a most powerful peacemaker, and will do much to-wards reuniting the North and South in that old bond of Union which wi I be made stronger and more hallowed by tb* very wtf which sought to divide it.