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cation of which was as weak and inefficient as the attempt was Improper and illegal. The report Is .signed by A. B. Wade, chainnan ; Z Chandler, Geo. \Y. Julian, B. F. Loan. D. W. Gooch dissents from the views of the majority, concluding his report as follows: Whatever there may have been of feeling between the army and the navy in relation to the seizure ot cotton, an examination of all the testimony will show that the military operations were not delayed or interfered with by any operations in cotton. The de lays at the points where these operations were carried out were occasioned wholly by other causes. During the progress of the expedition meetings were held at two places, Alexandria and Grand Ecore, for the election of delegates to a convention then about to meet for the organization of a State govern ment in Louisiana, it does not appear that any officer or private, or Anybody connected with the expedition in any way, interfered with or participated in these elections, or that thev caused the slightest delay to the movements of the army or the navy, or in fluenced or controlled the expedition in the slightest degree. . , Lort Fisher. The committee in their report on the Fort Fisher expedition, say, from all testimony before them, that the deteimination of Ger. Butler not to assault the fort seems to have been fully justified by all the facts and cir cumstances then known or aftei wards ascer tained. The Commit tee on the Subject of Light Draft Monitor*. So, when it was I‘ound that these vessels were failures as origiually designed and con structed, Mr. Stimers was removed from the position he had held in relation to them, and they were placed in charge of other officers and altered as recommended by the commit tee appointed to examine them. The fire changed into torpedo boats were altered at a cost of from silty thousand to sixty thousand dollars each. The other fifteeu were altered at a cost of from eighty to one hundred thou sand dollars each. With these alterations they would appear to be a very serviceable class of vessels, though not so servicable as they should be considering the expenditure of time and money upon their construction. Except these fitted up as torpedo boats, which are of little utility, your committee cannot refrain from the expression of the opinion that it was unwise to order the con struction of so many vessels upon precisely the same plan, without first testing the ques tions involved, by the construction of one or two at most, carryiug them so far forward as to euable the department to understand and remedy the defects which have been shown to exist in those light draft monitors. The Savannah Daily Herald 8. W. Mason & Cos., Proprietors. S-uiuel W. Mason, Editor. SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1366. The Public Meeting To-Niglit. We call especial attention to the call for the public meeting to-night, at the Hail of Georgia Union Club, over the Express office. It will be a very important meeting, and should be attended by all citizens .who take ; au interest in the welfare of the St%te. THE POLICY OF THE NATIONAL AD MINISTRATION AND THE POLICY OF THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA. We'have published in the news columns of ' the Herald, without especial comment, full reports of several county meetings in the State of Georgia, in the proceedings of which Ex-Governor Brown was, either directly or indirectly, complimented on his wisdom in calling for a meeting of the Legislature. That this expression does not accord with the policy of the national administration—it may have been made in ignorance of it—is forcibly proven in the arrest of Ex-Governor Brown, and the forbidding of the assembling of the Legislature. No one can dispute the right of the United States Government to take such action, and its decision on this point has been officially announced with sufficient plainness, or fore shadowed with enough significance, to leave little doubt that this course is noufor special expediency, hut a part of a permanent policy. The alleged right of a State to secede was fought by national men in Congress and on the stump, for many years. It has been met and totally defeated upon the battle-fields of this rebellion. To attempt to uphold this fallacy in any form now is practical treason. Its total abandonment has been voluntarily assented to by Gen. Lee, in his acceptance of Gen. Grant’s terms ot surrender; by General Johnston, when he made his second capitu lation to Gen. Sherman ; and in all the sur renders which have taken place. • Had not this assent, been thus given, the war would not be ended. The defeat of the rebellion has thus estab lished in fact what was from the first true in law, that no State had a right to secede; that Becession was and is treason ; that the pre tended exercise of State Sovereignty did not shield a single man who participated, direct ly or indirectly from the guilt, the responsi bility and tbe penalties of treason. It therefore follows that any remission of these penalties is an act of mercy, and not of legal justice. And, Secession being Trea son, it therefore follows that all State ordi nances and laws declaring, abetting-or in any manner recognizing the pretended seces sion of Georgia, are t< - lay practically, and have been from tbe beginning legally, abso solutelv void. . Tbe power of the United States Govern ment to control and shape the status of the insurrectionary States, so far as national inte rests are affected, is thus apparent, and has been vindicated in the result ot war. From President Johnson’s proclamation with regard to the State of Virginia, which lias been published in the Hbrald, and from Maj. Gen. Gillmore’s terse, cogent and de cisive Order, No. 65, which has repeatedly appeared in the Herald, and from the tenor of recent acts of Congress as well as of the Admin|>tratiOß,U will clearly he sees that the Government proposes to exercise this right, and to permit the resumption of their sepa rate State Governments by the people of the insurrectionary States, only upon the terms of an absolute aud practical renunciation of the politicul heresies which have deluged the South in blood, and upon clear and unmis. takable proof that the people of these States have determined to be hereafter obe dient to the national authority, and loyal to the uational flag. Slavery and the alleged right of secession are dead. They can never be resuscitated. They were twin allies of the rebellion, and were alike buried in its grave. The Presi dent, in the exercise of his official functions, has said so; the sentiment of the North and the loyal South sustain him; and the dis loyal people of the South have, by their own voluntary, deliberate action, deprived them selves of any opportunity to influence the decision. One of the County Convections adopted a resolution expressing confidence in a disposi'ion on the part of the General Government to protect the people of the South in their property; that confidence is well-founded —but slaves are no longer prop erty, any more than Jeff. Davis is a National Executive, or Gen. Beauregard io command of Savannah. There are many people m Georgia, we re gret for the sake of the State’s prosperity, who still suppose they can vote themselves in or out of the Union, and vote slavery alive, and vote traitors into office, and vote various things that theGeneralGovernmcnt not only wishes aud claims, but should have and does have, the right to forbid. The sooner they understand the error, appreciate their exact relations, learn that rights and privil eges are dependent off the performance of duties, and adapt themselves to the new state of things, which their conduct has not only rendered possible but necessary, the better will it be for them, the sooner will trade be revived and prosperity return, the people resume the condition*of self-govern ment, and the State its rights of partieipa tion in the National councils. Slavery is dead.' Secession is dead. De clared traitors shall uot govern. Disloyalty disfranchises. Joseph E. Brown is uot Governor of Georgia, but the State is at pres ent under the direct coutrol of the Natiouai Government, which has the power aud the right, and will exercise them, to prescribe conditions to people in States which have vitiated their 1 11 prerogatives and now ask for new ones. That strict loyalty is the only essential condition enforced, is an evidence of its liberality—unprecedented in the treat ment. by a powerful government, of the participants in a suppressed rebellion. Georgia has long shown symptoms of a re generation, affecting social, political and all important relations, which, if thoroughly es? fected, might make her prosperous aud pow erful, one of the proudest members ot the sisterhood ot States. She has resources which can make her rich aud important.— With her soil fertilized by free labor, with productive plantations, with cotton-factories and flour-mills, with her own shops, with her internal and foreign commerce extended, with all classes of her people ele vated and made useful to her by a liberal educational system, she can shortly rise to a condition of prosperity and influence which she has never reached. . In the old days of a mutual struggle for national independence the record ot the State was brilliant. Her soldiers were conspicuous ly brave, her statesmen were able, and her people patriotic. She did wrong to engage in the war of the Rebellion, yet it is no reflection on the courage of her soldiers that they were oblig ed to submit to superior numbers. But now her inhabitants must abide the results, they must acknowledge the supremacy of the gov ernment, they must deserve the protection of the Stars and Stripes by their loyalty to them, and they must conform in all respects to their new condition, to be a prosperous people. This is their duty, this is their policy, and this is tbe only successful course they can pursue. •UR DESPATCHES OF YESTERDAY. We yesterday forenoon gave a summary of tbe Northern news to the 25th, from our special correspondent at Hilton Head. It was transmitted through by signal, a por tion of the way, on account of an interrup tion in the telegraph line, and our thanks are due to Lieut. Webber, U. S. Signal Corps, for his assistance in forwarding it. Only one error occurred, and that was in giving the price of gold at 145 1-3 instead of 133 1-3, but the error was obvious to all inte rested. Secretary Welles Coming Here— A Large Excursion Party on the Way. By the arrival of he Arago we learn that on the 26ljb the stea mer Santiago de Cuba, Capt. Glisson, was to leave Washington for Charleston and Savannah. Sbe will bring a distinguished excursion party, including Sec retary Welles, Postmaster-General‘Dennison, wife and daughter ; Chief Glerk Navy De partment William FaxQu, Calvin Day, wife aud daughter, Mrs Jaokson, Mark Howard and wife, Charles D. Tborner (Editor of The Press) and wife of Hartford, Conn.; Matthew P. Merritt, wife and daughter, Stamford, Conn.; Mr. Morgan and Miss Morgan, New York. The party will visit Wilmington and Richmond on their return. There is a Pennsylvania soldier who has lost both arms, both legs, and one eye, and remains alive to teU the story. AB&ZVA&OV MOXffSY! Three Million of Dollars Sent to the Paymasters. Disburse tuents to Commence in about a Month. By the arrival of the Arago three millions of dollars was received by the PayJ Depart ment at Hilton Head. The money is to be distributed through the Department, to be used in paying off troops. Major Elliott, Chief Paymaster, is now absent at the North on official business, and. the rolls are yet to be made out. A delay of from one month to six weeks will doubt less be necessary, and disbursements through out the Department will then commence. DEATH OF A GOOD CITIZEN. Mr. Richard Brown died Wednesday. 18th day of January, 1865, in the 59 th year of his age. Mr. Brown was born in the county of Limerick, Ireland, and early emigrated to this country. He has been a resident of this city for the la9t twenty-five years. He was a good Christian, upright and honorable in bi s deal ings, a kind aud loving husband, au affec tionate fattier and an excellent neighbor. In short his character in all the relations of life was most exemplary, his many virtues endeared him to ail who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Nearly a year ago his property, which he accumulated by years of toilsome aud the most assidous industry, was consumed by fire, which left his young aud helpless family in the most dependant circumstances. The cruel and wicked .war of Secession, together with the loss of his property, so far preyed on his constitution th it he sunk under a fit of pneumonia, to the inexpressible grief of bis alflictcd wife and two children, who now mouru his loss. May He who tempers the wind for the shorn lamb, grant them conso lation, and may his soul rest iu the realms of eternal bliss. Amkn. THE COURTS. SECOND PROVOST COURT —JUDGE BENEDICT PRE r SIDING. The following cases were called and dis posed of: Mrs. Goldsmith vs. Mr. Tuckler, re covery of rent; case dismissed. J. B. Hewlet vs. Mrs. E. Goldsmith, re covery of house rent. Judgment lor plaintiff in the sum of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Mrs. E. Goldsmith vs. Mrs Polly Furman, action for recovering of house rent. Judg ment for plaintiff in the sum of fifty-eight dollars aud thirty-three cents. United States vs. &. McNeil, charged with drawing a knife upon Daniel Ross. Sent to jail for ten days. States vs. Raymond Demere; charge of larceny. Respondent sent to jail for nine ty days Samuel Dotson vs. Lemuel Hewlet, action to recover of a cow. Ordered that the cow bo turned over to plaintiff. The L t . S. Steadier Jepf Davis.— The U. S. Government, by the destruction of the railways leading to the seaboard citizes of Charleston, Savannah and other points have been compelled to transport and forward to the interior by steamers, all'supplies for the army. Upon the evacuation of Savannah the steamer Jeff. Davis was not destroyed. This vessel the government has had plying between Savannah and Augusta, as a trans port ; she is a sternwheel steamer, and new, having been built on the upper Savannah River since the war. She has had her en gines thoroughly overhauled, the furnaces enlarged s>o tnat coal can be used for fuel, and at the present time is one ol the fastest steamers plying up the River. We annex the list of officers: Captain, Isaac Henry; Mate, Wm. Dexter; Chief Engineer, Thos. L. Carter ; First Assis tant, John Slocum ; Second Assistant John Shannon. The Steamer Amazon. —From the Phila delphia Public Ledger of the 22d inst., we make the following extract : ‘•The Steamer Amazon.— Judge Ca lwal’a der, of tbe U. S. District Court, has made an order of restoration of the steamer Magnolia to her owner. The vessel was captured by the U. S. gunboat Pontiac, in the Savannah River, loaded with cottou, which it was proved belonged to the so-called Confederate Government. The owner of the Magnolia, who was also the the Captain, made a claim for the vessel, and produced documentary evinence to show that he was a Union man, aud the Judge was satisfied of the fact. Since the capture of the steamer, she has been used as a transport by the U S. Government.” This Magnoiia is none other than tbe steamer Amazon, owned by Capt. David R. Dillon, who brought hei to Savannah having ruu the blockade from tbe Upper Sa vannah river. Upon her arrival near Savan nah, she was seized by Capt. Luce, of the U. S. gunboat, as a lawful prize to bis vessel. Arrival of the Steamship Wm. P, Clyde from Fortress nonroe—Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Family Among the Passengers. Tbe steamship Wm. P. Clyde, from Fortress Monroe, arrived at this port yesterday after noon,'having ou board iis passengers Mrs. Davis and four children, the family of Jeffer son Davis, late President of the" so-called Confederate States, now confined in Fortress Monroe, Mrs. C. Clay, wife of tbe former Hon. C. C. Clay, Miss Howell, aister of Mrs. Davis. Tbe party have taken rooms at tbe Pnlaski House. Mrs. Davis her family, Mrs. Clay and Miss Howell, will make Georgia their place of residence for the present. Aorival.— The Steamship W. P. Clyde, from Fortress Moaroe. arrived at Hilton Head on Wednesday with 190 men of the 2d : Division, 19th Army Corps, in charge of Lieut. W. 0. Townsend and Lieut. Jos. W. Grant. Four officers and thirty parolled Confederate prisoners on board; also Mrs. Jefferson Davis and four childreu, Mrs. C. C’. Clary, Miss. Howell sister of Mrs. Davis. Ice for the U. S. Hospitals. —The schr. Union Flag, having on board three hundred and fifty tons of ice for the U. S. Hospitals, is discharging her cargo at the wharf foot of Drayton street. The ice is being housed at Wilteberger’s Ice House, on Drayton street, near the corner of State street. Accident to the Steamer Dela ware. 4ien» Jones at Hilton flea«L [Special Despatch to the Savannah Herald.] Hilton Head, S. C.,1 May 27, 1865. , The steamer Delaware went ashore, in a gale, just inside of St. John’s Bar, last Wed nesday'. The passengers all got ashore safely. The Delaware has her hog-frame broken in three places, and is badly 9prung, so that she leaks a good deal. The Achilles has gone to her assistance. Gen. Sain. Jones and his staff are here on parole. It is said that Gen. Lee and his family are iu a destitute condition,-and that the Gener al’s shabby grey uniform is the only clothes he has to wear. ■ . ~ A CARD. On Board Steamer Savannah, ) 10 miles from the City of Savanuan, - Savaunah River, May 27tb, 1 865. ) Capt. Eldsidge : Captain— We, undersigned, passengers on board of your beautiful boat on its recent trip from Augusta to Savannah, made in (20) twenty running hours, the fastest time on record, take this method of tendering to you their thanks for your uniform conrtesy and kindness shown them, aud also their appre ciation of the energy and zeal displayed by you towards the Government of the United States, and we trust that in the voyage of life, you will ever lie with the flood, and turn its many, head-lands as successfully as your craft has turned the many difficult wind* ings of the beautiful Savannah, under your skilful pilotage. Respectfully yours, L. D. Waddell, Cos as, Farnsworth, Char. H. King, Gideon Hamilton, A. N. GammeJ, Wm.C. Bellous, Eben Parsons,Jr., Jos.Co9eti. E. B. Carding, Isaac A. Reed, A. A. Hyde, George Forrester, Peter Costellar, Assistant Surgeon 14th Maine ; Wm. R H. Bruen, S. H. Higgins, D. D.; Wm. Shear. W. R. Ellis, New York; C. C. Thomas, A. P Pelzer, H. D. Buckley, Geo. W. Adams, J. D. Daniels, W. H. Prioleau, Chas. Purse, Win. Nelson, D..Phillips, R. H. Tatein, E. D. Manes, At wood, C. F. Anderson, T. M. Wells, Ben Deshia, Telfair Hodgson, Geo. G. ‘Harrisson, jr, W. R. Waring, A. S. Kennard, F. M Willis, L. J. Solomon, Jas. Bancroft, jr., John Farley, E. Einstin, J. A. Greenwood, C. J. Barne9. pUBLIC MEETING. All LOYAL residents of Savannah who endorse the policy of the President. of the United States as Indi cated by his past history, are requested to meet at the “Georgia Union Clnb Hall,” over the Express office, corner of Bay and Drayton streets, on TUESDAY', 30th inst., at S o’clock p. m., for the purpose of con iidering such measures. In harmony with the present Administration as w'li conduce to the welfare of tbe State. Loyal men! there is work to be done. Turnout. Public speakers will be present aud aodress the meeting. WM. H. STARK. inay29-2 President Ga. Union Club. Jv E 9 ~ ' •GENTLEMEN’S FURNISHING EMPORIUM, Comer Bull Street end Bay Lane, Opposite Post Office, SAVANNAH, GA.. A FULL AND COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF FINE FURNISHING GOODS. HATS, CAPS. CLOTHING, UMBRELLAS, NOTIONS, TOILET ARTICLES, Ac. may2B—eod2w OHECKS ON NEW YORK, IN SUMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS AT FAB * -■ —nv— L, C. NORVELL S CO., ruu. street (opposite Post Office.} 7t [Official.:; ' HEADQ’RS DEFT. OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, 8. C.. May 22,15(>9. Generai. Orders,! 1 No. 67. / The following Dispatch from the War Department, Is published for the information of this . ommnnd • WAR DEPARTMENT, Wabuinotcx, 2;20 P M., May ltith, 1806. To Major General Q, A. tiiu.siosE, Hilton Head The Secretary of War directs that the provisions of General Orders 77, current series, be extended to in clude all patients who, although requiring further medical treatment, are able to travel aud desire to be discharged; also, all men yet iu Hospitals recently translerred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, as soon as tbe interests of the public service will permit The order for tbe discharge from Hospitals should be libe rally interpreted. The word -patieuts” lu Telegram Os Mtfy 3d, was Intended to include all enlisted men who were in Hospital except the guards aud nurses of the Veteran Reserve Corps. , SAMUEL BRECK, _ Assistant Adjutant General. By command of Major General Q. A. GILLMOKE. W. L. M. UiiK.EK, Assistant AdJutaut General. T. D. Honors, _jnay23 7t Capt. 36th P. S. C. TANARUS„ A. A. A. O. CIDER FOR SALE, To families by tbe quart or gallon, at O’MEARA A CO’S over Adame’ Express Office. Bay street ffihM MINIATURE ALMANAC— THIS WfcKK 29 | M 30 ITu ..j 453 j C 69 j H3? I ii •jijH js ?» i •l? "I Ii 1 *2 |*s 3 j Ba.. 463 | T 8 . 116 l 4| 9 ... I 4C2 j 7 S j j Braudreth’. Pin. a General AssUtanTot Nature* What is health f What is disease f Health is when the supply and expenditure are equal. Disease when the supply and expenditure are unequal. w kre Brandreth's Pills Impart certain expulsive powers to all matters in the body whose life |g below the standard or the surrounding part s, or which havers mained longer than the time nature destgn-d So in fevers and all that class of eases which soon run Into mortification. Brandreth-s Pill* have marvelous cura. tive qualities. Our bodies are continually ehaugiua and it is by this change we live. Should matter r main In organs beyond the time nature and Inflammation set In, which is nothing more a preparatory effort for our good. All Brandreth's Pills are supposed from the results to do is simply ai slating these efforts of Nature, Sold by all respectable Dealers In Medicines. may4o-lt ||eto . T E STILL LIVE AT THE ‘‘OFFICE,-. No. I yi Mebchanz’s Row, PORT ROYAL, 8. C I do not advertise my Bill of Fare because it is alter ed every day and a »riuted BUI of Fare is put on each table every morning. * THERE IS WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN. My Ice Houses are now fiUed with Turkeys. Cblck- Beef. Pork, Fish, Mutton, Po tk Sausages, Vege tables, and Salads of aU descriptions. ° THERE 19 WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN. I have now on hand abouttwelve hundred p ounde oflce, so that I can make Ice Cream EVERY DAY aud keep my Soda Water aud Beer cool. ICE WATEB FOB EVEBVSODr THERE 18 WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN. I have three Punkahs and several girls with fans to keep the flies from the ladies and gentlemen while eatiug their cleanly served up meals. THERE IS WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN. My Cooks, Waiters, <fcc„ are all clean. My Saloon has been newly papered, painted, whitewashed, £c. THERE IS WHERE THE L kUGH COMES IN. There Is bo man in Port Royal that can serve up Clams in every style better than Mr. Fitzgerald, at the Eagle Saloon, in the rear of the Poet Office, THERE IS WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN. There are many men In New York who go to Water street, where they can get their whiskey for three cents per glass. But you wfll flud that GENTLLE.uEN will go where they get the best articles regardless of ex pense. * AND THAT IS WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN. HONEY IS UP. AND SUGAR IS DOWN. BENJAMIN HONEY, Proprietor QOMPLETE FILES ■tor rax NEW YORK HERALD. FROM MAY lflia TO MAY B«x«. For sale at the SAVANNAH HERALD STORE. gAVILLE Sc LEACH, BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS. MERCHANTS’ ROW, HILTON HEAD, 3. C., —AND— CORNER BBTAN STREET AND I» ART JET SQUARE, SAVANNAH, GA may3o ts JPOR SALE DRIED APPLES, MUSTARD, PRUNES, DUTCH HERRINGS, CURRANTS, SPLIT PEAS. PEARL BRANDY. Apply to CHARLES L. COLBY & CO., . Corner Abercoru and Bay street. may3o 2 25 PACKAGES CHOICE GOSHEN BUTTER. FOR SALE TO CLOSE CONSIGNMENT. ALSO, A fine lot of fine Groceries, Flour and Potatoes now landing and for sale by W. H. SHERWOOD, Comer of Whitaker and Broughton. May 30,1866. v 2t QOTTON! COTTON 11 U. S. PURCHASING AGENCY, savannah, ga, Slav 29, 1806. All persons, owners, bringing Cotton into tbe City on private account, either by land or the river, are hereby required to report and register the same at this office. Purchas, is are also requested to make dauy reports at this office of their purchases; of whom bought, number of bales, and weight of each bale. TV P.'ROBB. • U. S. Purchasing Agent. maySO—tf _ Tbe Highest Cash Price* paid for all kind* of Rajfk Rope, Waste Paper, Iron and Metals, Bottles, Wool, Hides, tea., Ac., at the Forest City Mills. __ D.- OLIVER Savannah, May2C. * U,