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The Savannah Daily Herald.
FRIDAY. JVSItC 3, 1865.
■ 1 Day of Mourning and Prayer.
C'oiuuaemorntiMi of the Death of
Preside**! LiaieolN.
SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS.
Comuiemorutive Address by
Chaplain Fowler,
DECORATIONS.
&c., Jkt-, «sec.
fßsroaiis roe ias sayaksui colt hsrau. j
Yesterday was generally observed in this
city, in Accordance with President Johnson's
proclamation, “us a dav of special humilia
tion and prayer, on account of the death of
President Lincoln. ”
Sntprnilon of Business.
All business was suspended, except such
labor as was absolutely Stores
as well as government buildings, were closed,
and very few' people were seen in the streets.
. Decorations.
Many public buildings and several private
ones were decorated with flags trimmed with
biack. Our neighbors of the Republican,
among others, had a display of flags, with
appropriate mottoes. The Theatre was es
pecially decorated.
Services at the Second African Baptist
Church on Green Square.
The Neptune Benevolent Association at
Savannah, having invited the Rt. Rev. D. A.
Payne, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, to deliver an address before them, a
large audience w r as assembled last evening
at the African Church in Green Square. The
Neptune Benevolent Association with various
other organizations of colored men, assem
bled at their boll on Liberty street, and form
ed a procession, which moved in the follow
ing order to the Church :
A detachment of the 33d Regt. U. S C. T.
with their Drum Corps and Major as escort.
Axe, Hook and Ladder Company.
£ Warren Fire Engine Company No. 1.
Pulaski Fire Engine Company No. 2.
Franklin Fir# Engine Company No. 8.
Toraichiea Fire Cos. No. 7,
Niagara Fire Cos. No. 11.
§ Neptune Benevolent Association.
The procession marched from the Hali to
Abercorn street, through Abercorn to South
Broad, down South Broad to Houston to the
Church. Over two thousand persons were in
the Church, and the services were in the fol
lowing order:
Introductry Anthem by the Choir; Hymn;
Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Handel ; Address by
theßt Rev. D. A. Payne. Subject “The
Life and Death of our Martyted President. ’
Remarks were also made by Capt. Ketch
mn aud a clergyman from Rhode Island.
Benediction by the Rt. Rev. D. A. Payne.
After the services at the Church; the pro
cession was reformed and moved from the
Cliurcli, through Houston to Broughton, up
Broughton to Whitaker, through Whitaker
to Liberty, down Liberty to the Hall of Nep
tune Benevolent Association, where an ad
dress was delivered by Lt. Col. Trowbridge
of the 33tsJ Regt. I*. 3. C. T. The proces
sion was then dismissed.
SnvUti in Other Churches.
Services were held at half-past ten o’clock
a in. in the following churches:
Christ Church (Episcopal), Rev. Charles
Coley, Assistant Rector; St. John’s Church
(Episcopal), Rev. C. F. Mcßae, Rector-
Trinity Church (Methodist), Rev. A. M.
Winn. Pastor; Savannah Lutheran Church,
Rev. D. M. Gilbert, Pastor; Independent
Presbyterian Church, Rev. I. S. K. Axson,
Pastor: Savannah Baptist Church, Rev. Syl
vanus Landrum, Pastor.
Appropriate sermons were preached by
the several rectors and pastors.
Services at the Theatre.
The principal commemorative demonstra
tion was at the Theatre in the evening, where
a large assemblage gathered to listen to an
address by the Rev. J. 11. Fowler, Chaplain
of the 33d Regiment U. S. C. TANARUS., upon “The
State of the Country.” At an early hour the
theatre was well filled, all classes being re
presented in the audience, eitizeus, both old
and new, soldiers in large numbers, and a
fair attendance of ladies.
Tue gallery wa9 devoted to the colored
people, aud wts densely crowded. They
paid throughout close and intelligent atten
tion to the discourse of the speaker, frequent
ly applauding enthusiastically.
Decoration*.
The Theatre was most beautifully and ap
propriately decorated for the occasion. Au
arch-scene was run out upon the stage, and
within this were tastefully ftstooned upon
either side the folds of American flag, draped
with the white and black symbols of mourn
ing. Between the parting folds was a trans
parency devised by Albert Fest and J. H.
Noruimui, orderlies at Gen. Btrge’s Head
quarters, bearing the design of a broken
column with the words,
*’lu Ntatary of our Late President, Abra
ham Lincoln.''
From this tasteful centre-piece festoons of
mingled white and black, extended to the
wings which were decorated with regimental
colors and battle-flags. The boxes and the
Ifltifc circle of flft itak-yfllce draped with
hangings of numrclng looped with kfiota al
ternately black find while. The decorations
were in every regard tastefully designed, aud
the effect of the whole ' was exceedingly
chaste, leffecting much credit upon the com
mittee of ladies who had the matter in band.
The speaker’s desk was appropriately en
veloped with the stars aud stripes The
band of music oi the 6th U. S. Infantry was
preseat aud furnished excellent music.
Col. A. W, Stout
called the assemblage to order and intro
duced, with a few well-chosen words, the
speaker of the evening. Chaplain J. H. Fow
ler.
Mr. Fowler was received with applause,
and spoke in substance as follows, being fre
quently interrupted with applause.
Hi'. Fovf lee’s Audi css.
Our experience covers ihe transitional
epoch between two geological periods and
laps on to both. Os this experience the
speaker would not attempt an exhaustive in
terpretation, but call attention to some promi
nent facts which cleatly indicated our pre
sent condition, and point to the future. JiL»s
ft arc com? to arms, ideas ioug standing grow
ing into institutions and civilizations, belong
ing to different ages and countries of the
world have developed here in this age and
country, as h*a been possible in uone other
and "(these have come to arms. The
long aud bloody conflict is ended.—
The victory is to oue side. The laws ot the
universe have given it, for the Union train is
chained to the stars. The freight forbidden
by these laws to pass through the nineteenth
century was thrown over by the forward
cars, while the rear cars clung to it. This
caused a dispute, resulting in an attempt to
sever the connection and upset the rear cars,
spilling out the disputed freight. The freight
is gone forever. The connection is good.—
The tram is one /&> ever.
Shall the rear cars go on up side Uowu,
split and splitting all the way, or shall they
come “right side up," and the whole train
move on loaded with homogeneous freight ?
This last is decreed by the“same laws that
upset them. The war was not to divide the
Union, but to kill slavery and open up the
South to the ideas and institutions of New
England.
Henceforth we are to be one people, a
power on the earth, a nation of Yankees
who progress by the obstacles they encoun
ter. The South in fighting against the North
bps unconsciously made themselves Yan
kees. The two sections have met in new
relations and learned to respect each other.
The war has left us in debt, but has discov
ered to us new sources of wealth in ourselves
und iu our country, and taught us how rich
we are. It has done more for the South
than the North. It has solved the
great question of Southern Com
mercial Conventions and of Southern Rights.
The light soil of the lower country is pecu
liarly adapted to machine culture, and the
curse of slavery lifted therefrom it. will invite
the enterprise of the world. The “up coun
try” waterfalls will be taught to run machine
ry and manufacture the home products, bring
ing a market to every mans door, and in a
few years these lauds gone down with the
cpi-rency, will rise far above their. former
value, for the whole average productions of
the South will double.
Finally, the Confederacy is collapsed, aud
what is lost ? Not States’ Rights, for these
are now. for the first time, made possible.
Not State Sovereignty, for this never did
and never can exist in this country. Man is
the only sovereign, under God, possible
among us. His will not iu conflict with right
or that of bodies of men is supreme. The
will of a majority of the whole nation is the
supreme law of the land as much as that
ol the people of a State for the State, or that
of the people of a city for the city, when
these last shall not coufliet with the first.—
This is pure Democracy; and for Demo
cracy the continent was made long before a
European ever saw it. Democracy must pre-
LOSS OF THE STEAMER GOV. TROUP.
Three Hundred Bales of Cotton Destroy
ed—Most of the Passengers aud Crew
Saved,with Loss of Hngtf age—Se ver
st Negroes Drowned.
On Sunday afternoon last the steamer Gov.
Troup left Augusta for Savannah, with a
crew and passenger list of over two hundred
persons. Among the passengers were fifteen
or twenty ladies aud some children, but a
large proportion of those on board were col
ored persons.
The Troup proceeded down the river to
the steamer Amazon, which lay snagged and
at Sand Bar Ferry, four miles below
Augusta. The Troup took on board from
the Amazon three hundred bales of cotton.
Capt. Davis expressed fears of the cotton
taking fire, it beiug in very bad order, with
no covering and very few ties. On Monday
morning the steamer started down the rtver.
At a quarter of eleven o’clock a. m., nine
miles below Augusta, an alarm of fire was
sounded. Capt. Davis nulled aft and dis
covered the cotton on fire in two places on
the starboard side. Knowing that it would
be impossible to 9ave the steamer or cargo,
he immediately ordered the boat to be roqnd
ed and run into the Carolina bank of the
river, which he succeeded ia doing. The
flames were rapidly extending forward, aud
all exertions were devoted to saving the lives
of those on hoard, with great success.—
Capt Davis and the colored pilot for the Al
tarnaha river remained behind till the last,
rescued a lady aud child, and then jumped
overboard, and by swimming reached the
bank of the river.
The Captain expresses himself certain that
no lives were lost of those who jumped over
board on the port side of the boat. A number
of colored persons on the starboard aide,
jumped overboard, and it is thought that some
of them were lost. Capt. Davi9 bad bis left
arm badly burned, and the back of bis bead.
Three small mail bags containing U. 3 Mail
matter were in the Captain’s room ; he suc
ceeded in getting the pouches out p» the up
per deck, bat being surrounded by the flames
had to aaye hjmseJf without them.
Ms, A. A. Htef, NperliHendaut of Attain*
Sipre#a wa*on bo*4.Aud saved the Express
Mail Pouch. 1
The crew and lost all their bag
gage and effect*' 1 j
The G< v. Trorijms burnt to the water’s
edge and is a she was built at Dub
lin, Laurens covßj on the Oconee river,
aud is about eight Mrs old. Two years ago
the Confederate (Merument purchased her
for $16,000, and dd her rebuilt at Quin's
Landing, on the Aniuaha river. She was
then used tor the affection of tithes on the
Ocoaee, Altamaha fid Ocmulgee rivers.
All the lady pastmgers with their chil
dren were seot baehto Augusta. The crew
were ordered by Cad. Davis to report also
to Headquarters at Augusta.
Mrs. Geo. L. Cop and family of Savannah,
were on board, andwere savyd.
The fire originat'd by flakes from the
smoke stack ; the e?«rape from the engines is
through the stack, ’fusing an unusual draft.
A despatch from Gen. Moliueux to Capt.
Matthews, A. A. (j, says that several ne
groes lost their and the news is con
firmed by the Ainaion, which arrived to day.
LITER FRIDI THE NORTH.
NEW YORK OF THE 28 TH.
Surrender of Airly Smith and HiS Whole
iuumand.
REMISSION OF SENTENCES BY MILI
TARY VRIBUNALS.
Union Meeting atflk* Capital of Alabama.
' GOLI 186 7-8.
By the arrival of the steamer Champion at
Hilton Head, we live New York papers of
the 28th. .j
We make us fuliextracts regarding the most
important news u otic space will permit.
Further extracts whl appear iu our morning
edition.
Official Auunnneentnt of the Surrender
of K itby Smith.
War Department,>
W asuinotMl May 27, 1865, >
Major General Dix, jWy York
A despatch from General Canby, dated
at New Orleans yesterday, the 29th inst,
states that arrangements for the surrender
of the Confederate fajjrces in the Trans-Mis
sissippi Department have been concluded.
They include the map and materiel of'the
arm y and navy.
Edwin M. STANr<u(L Secretary of War.
’Uiiitary Sentence# Remitted.
Wa*hinc*on, May 27, 1865.
The following older has been issued Irom
the War Department:
That in all cases of sentences by military
tribunals of imprisonment during the war,
the sentences be remitted, aud that the pris
oners lie discharged;-^’ 1 '
The Adjutant Gepwal will issue imme
diately the necessary instructions to »>arry
th is order into effect. By tirder of
The PbKSidekt.
Edwin M. Stanton, Sec. of War.
Union Meeting tn Alabama.
fFromtfie New York Herald, 2.Bth.]
At a meeting of citizens held iu the capital
ot Alabama on the 11th instant a petition was
prepared to be forwarded to the President,
praying him either to permit the rebel Gov
ernor to call the Legislature together or to
appoint a military Governor, for the relief of
the people. General Dick Taylor, in the
official order to his army announcing its sur
render, speaks in high terms of General
Canby’s conduct during the negotiations,
aud characterizes the terms granted by him
as most fair and generous. Taylor tells his
men that if any of them fail to observe the
stipulations of surrender they wili deserve
the severest punishment. .
Capture of Suspicious Persous.
| Irom the New York llsiald, 28th.]
A sailboat containing seven white men aud
a colored servant was discovered and captur
ed off Cape Sable, Florida, on the 17th inst,
by a detachment of tlie Second Florida na
tional cavalry, wlio had been in search of the
party along the coast for someday 9. As the
baggage ot the white captives contained con
siderable rebel money, rebel documents aud
9ome gold, and as they appeared to be very
intelligent men, and acknowledged having
recently been iu Richmond, they are suppos
ed to be persons who have held positions of
importance in the Confederacy, and who
were endeavoring to make their escape to
Havana.
* Gold.
The stock market wa9 extremely dull, but
steady, yesterday. Government securities
were inactive. Gold wa9 firm, and, after
opening at 136 1-4, closed at 137 1-4 at 5, P.
M„ and at 136 7-8 at night.
From Augusta. — l The steamer Amazon,
Ensign Lawton, U- 3. N., in charge, having
on board about 377 bales of cotton, arrived
this morning. The Amazon was slightly
snagged while passing over Sand Bar Ferry.
The damages were quickly repaired. The
following is the list of passengers by the Ama
zon :
J. C. Phelps, Mrs. Mary Bell, Mr. Alexan
der Bell, John Middleton, Mrs. C. A. Lamar,
and 4 children, Miss Hamilton, James Rank
in, Mrs. P. L. Wall and one child, Mrs. Jane
CYauston and family, Miss E. A. Sibley, A.
W. Johnston. G. Volger wife and family,
Miss Anna Volger, C. Breyvogle and wife,
P. L. Berry.
Wc shall publish extracts fiom our files of
Augusta papers, to-morrow morning.
Coal for the Savannah Gas Light Com
pany.—The schooner E. G. Finugly, Capt.
Heather, arrived yesterday from Philadelphia
with a loqd of coal consigned to the Savan
nah Gas Light Company.
WANTED
A pleasant room and good board wanted in the vi
cinity of South Broad aud Bull streets by two young
Sen. Address R. W., Box 44. Post Office. Savannah.
a. ' '* jaS
tAMSWfm,
(cottstn tototviitos Ast> Jtrruneto itum» j
W. P. Swea'ikam , Sole Lessee and Manager
M. Fersebtovseb Musical Director
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 2n, 1565,
FIRST NIIIQHT
—!»» TBE—
*
SUMMER SEASON.
The Management takes pleasure iu auuouucing an
an engagement of those Popular Artists,
MISS MAUDE ST. LEON,
MISS ELSIE ST. LEON,
and MR. J. W. CARNER,
Who will appear every evening in conjunction with
MISS LOTTIE HOWLAND, I
LA BELLE LOUISE,
W. P. SWEATNAM,
GEORGE PALMER,
And a Full Corps of Auxiliaries, in a choice selection
of
DRAMAS,
FARCES,
BALLADS,
DANCES,
ETHIOPIAN ECCENTRICITIES, Ac
Caras of Admission Tsc.
Orchestra Seats $1 00
Colored Boxes (up-stairsj 76c.
Doors open at 7>i. Overture begins at 8% .
Special Notice. —Ales, Wines, Tobacco, Ac., may
be obtained at the Refreshment Saloon, adjoining the
Hall. * ju‘2-1
[official.]
IIEADQ’RS. DEPT. OF THE SOUTH,
Hilton Head, S. C , May 26,18C5.
General Orders!
No. 71. /
I. The following Executive Order by his Excellency,
the President of the United’States, dated April 29th,
13(55, and the following Rules and Regulations of the
Treasury Department, approved by the President on
May Uth, lbti"> are hereby published for the information
and guidance of this Command:
EXECUTIVE ORI>EE.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, >
Washington, April 29, 1965. j
Being deacons to relieve all loyal' citizens and well
disposed persons residing in Insurrectionary States
from unnecessary commercial restrictions, and to en
courage them to return to peaceful pursuit*, it is here
by ordered:
I. That all restrictions upon internal, domestic and
coastwise commercial Intercourse be discontinued In
such parts of the States oi Tennessee, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama
Mississippi, and so much of Louisiana as lies east of
the Mississippi river, as shall be embraced within the
lines of national military occupation, excepting only
such restrictions as are -imposed by acts of Congress
and regulations in pursuance thereof, prescribed by
ihe Secretary of the Treasury, aud approved by the
President; and exempting also from the effect of this
order the following articles contraband of war, to-wit;
Arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammuni
tion is manufactured, gray uniforms and cloth, loco
motives, cars, railroad iron, and machinery for opera
ting railroads, telegraph wires, insulators, and instru
ments for operating telegraphic lines. „
11. That all existing military aud uaval orders in
any manner restricting internal, domestic aud coasl
wise commercial intercouse and trade with or in the
localities abome named be, and the same are hereby ,
revoked ; and that no military or naval officer, in auv
manner, interrupt or interfere with the same, or witn
any boats or other vessels engaged therein, under
proper authority, pursuant to the regulations of the
Secretary of the Treasury.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
BUI IS AND REOULATIONB CONCERN (Eli COMMERCIAL IN
TERCOURSE WITH AND IN INSURRECTIONARY STATES.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, I
May 9, ibd.'). j
With a view of carrying out the purposes of the Ex
eoutive, as expressed in his executive order, bearing
date April 29,13C5, “to relieve all loyal citizens and
well-disposed persons residing in insunectionary.
States from unnecessary commercial restrictions, and
to encourage them to return to peaceful pursuits,” the
following regulations are prescribed, and will hereaf
ter govern commercial intercourse in and betweeuthe
Stales of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and
Louisiana east of the Mississippi river, heretofore de
flated in insurrection, and the loyal States.
AU commercial transactions under these resolutions
shall be conducted under the supervision of officers of
the customs, and others acting as officers of the cus
toms. ‘
11, PROHIBITED ARTIOI.ES.
The following articles are prohibited, and none such
will be allowed to be transported to or within any
State heretofore deduced In insurrection, except oil
Government account, viz: Arms, ammunition, all
articles f tun which ammunition ia manufactured,grav
uniforms and locomotives, cars.r ailroad iron, and ma
chinery for operating railroads, telegraph wires, insu
lator.-,aud instruments for operating telegraph wires.
111. AMOUNTS OF PRODUCE ALLOWED, AND PLACES TO
WHICH SUCH MAT MB TRANSPORTED.
lt having been determined and agreed upon by the
proper officers of the War and Treasury Departments,
in accordance with the requirement of section ‘J of the
act of July 2, 1804, that the amount of goods required
to supply the necessities of loyal persons residing in
insurrectionary States, within the military lines of the
United States forces, shall be an amount eqnal to the
aggregate of the applications therefor, and that the
places to which such goods may be taken shall be all
places w ithin such lines that may he uamed in the
several applications for transportation thereto, it is
therefore directed that clearance shall be granted,upon
application, by any loyal person or party, for all goods
aud merchandise not prohibited, in snen amounts, and
to such places which, under the revenue and collection
laws of the United States, have been created ports of
entry aud delivery in the eoustwise trade, as the appli
cant may desire.
Before any vessel shall be cleared for any port with
in the insurrectionary States, or from one port to an
other therein, or from any such ports to a port hi the
loyal States, the master of every such vessel shall pre
sent to the proper oflleer of customs, or other officer
acting as such, a manifest of her cargo, which mani
fest ebalf set forth the character of the merchandise
composing said cargo, and, if showiiqjiio prohibited
articles, shall be certified by apeh officer of the custom,
y. arrival and discharge of oaroo in an insurrec
tionary STATE.
On the arrival of any such vessel at the port of des
tination. it shall be the duty of the master thereof
forthwith to present to the proper officer of the cus
toms the certified manifest of her cargo: whereupon
the officer shall cause the vessel to he discharged un
der his general supervision ; aud, if the cargo is found
to correspond with the manifest, a certificate to that
effect shall be given to said master.
if there shall he found on board any prohibited arti
cles, such articles shall be seized and held subject to
the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the
officer shall forthwith report to the Department of she
facts orthe case; and any such vessel arriving from
any foreign port, or from any domestic port without a
proper clearance, or with contraband articles on board
shall, with the cargo, be -eiaed and held as snbiect to
confiscation under the laws of the United States,
vi. Ending wttuin and departure from an INSUR
RECTIONARY STATE.
Vessels in ports within an insurrectionary State, not
ion jP en to th<? oo'nmerce of
the woi Id, shall be laden under the supervision of the
proper officer of this Department, whose duty it shaH
be to require belore any articles are allowed to be
Shipped, sutnslactory evidence that upon all merchau
dise so shipped th<* taxes unci lees required bv law
aud these regulations have been paid or secured to
» ? w 1IC “ ,^ct> Wltt ? lbe amount so paid, aha Ihe
cei tineu upon the manifest belore clearance shall be
granted; and it, upon any articles so shipped, the
fees and internal revenue taxes, or either, shall only
have secured to be paid, such tact shall he noted upon
the manifest, and the piopei officer at the port of
destination of such vessel shall hold the good* until
#ll *ucj; taacs apd fees shall be paid according to lav/
and these regnlatious.
vii. Supple stop.es.
Persous desiring to keep a supply store at any place
within an Insurrectionary State snail make applica
tion therefor to the nearest officer of the Treasury
Department, which application shall set forth that tne
applicant is loyal to the Government of" the United
St«M» i Md ttpah filing cvidUflce of loyffit* a
eff i tnd the pewofi to whom the license U dven cha i
b* authorised to purchase goods at any other supply
store within the insurrectionary States, in at such other
point in the United States as he in ay aele;t
VIII. EXCEPTED ARTICLES." ,
All articles of local production and consumption
such as iresh vegetables, fruits, butter, ice, e <W
Iresh meat, wood, coal, Ac., Ac., may, without fee or
restriction, he freely transported and sold at «nch
points within an insurrectionary State as the owner
therelor may desire.
IX. SHIPMENT OP PRODUCTS OK AN INSURRECTIONARY
STATE.'
All cottou uot produced by persons with their own
labor, or with the labor of freedmen or otheis em
ployed and paid by them, must, before shipment to
any i*>rt or place in a loyal State, be sold to and aud
resold by an officer ol the Government especially an.
pointed tor the purpose, under regulations prescribed
jg’ the Secretary of ihe Treasury and approved bv the
President; and before allowing any cotton or other
product to be shipped or granting clearance lor anv
vessel, the proper custom officer, or other oeraon art
mg as such must require from the purchasing A<*ent nr
the internal revenue officer a certificate that "cotton
proposed to be shipped has been resold by him, orth-n
twenty five per cent, of the vatae thereof has been
paid to such purchasing Agent In money, and that the
cotton is thereby free from further fee or tax if the
cotton proposed to be shipped is claimed to be the D ro
duct of a person's own labor or of freecimeu or others
employed and paid by them, the officer will rc-auire
that the shipping fee of three cents per pound shall be
paid or secured to be paid thereon.
If any product other than cotton is offered for shin
ment, the certificate of the internal revenue officer
that all internal taxes due thereon have been collect
ed aud paid, must be produced prior to such products
being shipped or cleared; and if there is no internal
revenue officer, then such taxes shall be collected bv
the customs officer, or he shall cause the same to be
secured to be paid as provided in these regulations.
X. INLANL TRANSPORTATION.
oi t *?® Be regulations, necessarily
modified, shall be considered applicable to all shio
ments inland to or within insurrectionary States bv
any means of transportation whatsover. 1
xi. citAßon.
Goods not prohibited may be transported to insurrec
tionary States free.
The charges upon all products shipped or transported
from an insurrectionary State, other than npon cotton
shall be the charges prescribed by the internal revenue
laws. Upon cotton, other than that purchased and
resold by the Government, three cents per pound
which must be credited by the officer collecting, as
follows, viz: tw r o cents per pound as the internal tax
and one cent per pound as the shipping foe. All cot
ton purchased and resold by the Government shall be
allowed to be transported free from all fees and taxes
whatsoever.
XII, RECORDS TO EE KEPT.
Full and complete accounts and records must be
kept, by all officers acting under these regulations, of
their transactions under thorn, in such manner and
form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of
Customs.
xiii. lotaltt a requisite.
■ No goods shall be sold to an insurrectionary State
by or to, nor any transaction held with, anv person or
persons not -loyal to the Government of the United
States. ■»
Proof of loyalty must be the *aking and subscribing
the following oath, or evidence to be filled that It or
one similar in purport and meaning has been taken,
viz:
do solemnly swear in the presence
of Almighty God. that I will henceforth tatthfully sup
port, protect and defend the Constitution of the United
States,and all laws made in pursuance thereto,"
FORMER UEOUI.ATIO.NB REVOKED.
These regulations shall take effect and be in force on
and after the 19th da v of May. ISOS. and shall super
sede all other regulations and circulars heretofore pre
scribed by the Treasury Department concerning Com
mercial intercourse between loyal and insurrectionary
States, all of which are hereby rescinded and annulled.
HUGH McCulloch, .
Secretary of the Treasury.
Kxeoutive Chamber, 1
„ , , Washington City, May 9, 19C5 (
Ihe foregoing rnles and regulations concerning com
mercial Intercourse with and in States and parts of
States declared in insurrection, prescribed bv the
Secretary of the Treasury in conformity with Acts of
( ongres» relating thereto, having been seen and con
sidered by me, are hereby approved.
ANDREW J^H^SON.
11. In obedience to said Executive Order all exist
ing Depn tmental Orders In any manner restricting in
ternal, a mestic and coastwise commercial intercourse
and trade with or in the limits of the Department of
the South are hereby revoked, and it is hereby an
nounced that the entire Department of the South is to
he regarded » being embraced within the limits of the
National Military occupation. >
111. The rejection of the one per cent. Depart
ment Military ‘fax, imposed "by General Orders No 5
and 43, eurren’, series, from these headquarters," Is
hereby diseonttyned.
IV 7 , While military restrictions upon trade are thus
removed, still District and Post Commanders are re
minded that they are expected to keep such a military
control over all merchants and traders as is necessary
for the maintenance of good order and a pioper police
within their commands. To this end they are author
ized to so regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors,
ales and wines as may seem to thorn requisite.
By Command of Major General
Q. A. GILMORE,
W. L. M. Burger,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Official • ;,T. D. Hodges,
Captain 35th C. S. C. TANARUS„ and A. A. A. General,
.maygk—Tt
[Official,]
HEADQ’RS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH,
Hilton Head, S. C., May 18, 1565.
General Order]
No. T 5. /
The following Special Order from the War Depait
nwnt, is hereby published for the information of this
command:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Adjutant General’s Office,
Washington. May doth, 1805,
SmciAi. Orders, ]
No. 210. f
r Extract.]
105. By direction of the President, upon the report of
the Judge Advocate General, Ist Lieut. Maximilian
Hosenlmrg, 64th Now York Volunteers, dismissed by
General Orders No. 165, Headquarters, Department of
the South, December 16th, 1864, confirmed by Special
Orders No- 35, Paragraph 46, January 23d, 1565, from
this Office, is hereby restored to his Command, with
date Irom the day at which he rejoins his regiment for
duty, provided the vacancy has not been filled, evi
denceof which must b 6 obtained from the Governor,
By order of the Secretary of War.
E. D TOWNSEND,
_ Assistant Adjutant General,
i By command of Maj. Qep. Q. A. GILLMORE,
W. L. M, Burger,
T D Hopces Assistant Adjutant General.
Capt. 35th ITS C TANARUS„ Act. Asst. Adjt. Gen.
may3l-7t
HEA DQUARTERS U. 9. force’s; ’
General Order, ] SaVal ‘ Ul * h ’ ° a ” Ma >’ 27 ’ ISOS ’
No. 33. /
A llera !. Opter No. 21, forbiddiDg the parsing out or
in through the military lines of this Post, of letters
or written communication, is hereby ro-
By command of Brvt. Maj. Gen. GROVER
Edwabd Q. Dike. A A may 27
JJOST QUARTERMASTER'S ’
Central Railroad Bank,
Savannah, Ga., May, Ist, 18C6.
In pursuance of orders, received at this office, all
citizens occupying buildings, whose owners are ab
sent within the Rebel hues, or buildings, or otbac
property belonging to disloyal persons, will, unless
such buildings have been previously assigned—rent
free settle the rents. for the same, due the Da -
ted States, at this office on or before the 10th of
May.
i
A failure to comply with the above will cause, a
forfeiture of all claims to further occupation.
S. 8. STARR,
Capt. and A. Q, M.. in charge of buildings.
CIDER FOR SALE, '
To famiiies by the quart or gallon, at
O'MEARA & CO’S
h o t over Express Office. Bay street.
