Savannah daily herald. (Savannah, Ga.) 1865-1866, July 27, 1865, Image 1

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SAVAMAH DAILY HER ATP VOL. 1-NO. 163. The Savannah Daily Herald MORNING AND EVENING} 18 PUBLISHED BY Q. W. MASON & CO., At 111 Bat Sweet, Savannah, Georgia. Tims: per Copy Five Cents. Per Hundred $3 60. Per Year . ~, i «10 00, ADTIBT1BIN8: Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first in sertion ; One Dollar lor each subsequent one. Ad vertisement? inserted in the morning, will, if desired, appear in the evening without extra charge. JOB PBINTING, In every style, neatly and promptly done. -- -‘'■l!”'- I T IFE. FIRE, MARINE, RIVER INSURANCE TO ANY AMOUNT.!IN GOOD COMPANIES. * KNICKERBOCKER LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF BOSTON. Issues ail kinds of Policies of Insurance on Life. FIRE IUSURANCE. COLUMBIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK. FULTON FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF NEW YORlf. EXCELSIOR FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK. GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, OF COLUMBUS, GA. EUFAULA HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, OF EUFAULA, ALA. WOODVILLE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF EU FAULA, ALA. MARINE AND RIVER INSURANCE. COMMERCIAL MUTUAL MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF NEW Y'ORK, GREAT WESTERN MARINE INSURANCE COM PANY, OF NEW YORK. Under Open Policies of these Companies I will take Risks at regular rates. Apply to A, WILBUR Agent, At Office of Home Insurance Company, Jy2o-lw 6® Bay street, Savannah, Ga. jy£ARINE INSURANCE AT LOW RATES! COLUMBIAN INSURANCE COMP’Y of NEW YORK River Risks cx Favorable Terms. CASH CAPITAL $3,600,000. The undersigned are ready, through their open poli cy with the above, to effect Insurance for Augusta, New York, and Jacksonville, AT THE LOWEST MARKET RATES. Mdse, on first-class Ocean Steamers SIOO,OOO « •, “ bailing Vessels 75,000 u »• »» River Steamer or Flat— 15,000 Shippers will find it to their interest to call before effecting Insurance elsewhere. CHARLES L. COLBY A CO., Jyld-tf JS YOUR LIFE INSURED? This is an important question for every man and important also for every wile and mother us it anecis tneir future welfare. SEE TO IT AT ONCE. DO NOT DELAY.' The “Kniekerbocker Life Insurance” of New York will insure you at the usual rates in any sumlrom *IOO sjsio.ouu. Tney also issue the favorite lEN YEAR NON-FORFEITURE Policies, and will alter two years payment give a full paid up Policy tor Two Tenthstne whole sum, and Three Years Three lenths, and so on. Thus a Policy ol SIO,OOO. Two Premiums paid upon it will be entitled to a paid up Policy ot sAouo. and live years live-tenths for every additional year. For further information apply to A. WILBUR, Agent, At the office of the Home Insurance Cos., jn2T Bay st., Savannah. Oa.^ UK NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE INSU RANCE COMPANY, OF BOSTON. ' PURELY MUTUAL. This is one of the oldest and best Companies in A Policies on Lives for any amount up to $16,000 are taken hy them. The Policies of these Companies were not cancelled during the war until neard lr..m-a fact which shews their dealing and determination to be just and hunur able Uali cases. Apply to wILBpR Ageut J£IRLIN, BURKE, & BRO., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN ALES, WINES AND LIQUORS, COBNBK WUITAKEB STREET AND BaV LANS, ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED AND DELIVERED. jail ____ , —— BUNDY, general agent and ATTORNEY FOR CLAIMS, No. 24T F Street, Between 13th and 14m Stbeetb, (Near Pay Department,} WASHINGTON, D. C. ju3o “ SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1865. i ommission RJnrcbants. W, B. GRIFFIN A CO. W. B. Griffin, J. c. Millnxb, p. Plumb. AUCTION AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AUGUSTA, GA. Will give prompt attention to all consignments and make liberal advances when desired. ju26-lm 'TX) SHIPPERS OF COTION AND OTHER A SOUTHERN PRODUCE. FENNER, BENNETT A BOWMAN, Successors to Hotchkiss, Fenner & Bennett. CO MM ISaION MERCHANTS, No. 40 Vksey Street, a ,kw Yobs. • And Memphis, Tenn. I uomas Fenner, Henry Bennett, D. W. Bowman. jyd 6m QHARLES L. COLBY & CO. SHIPPING, COMMISSION AND FORWARDING MERCHANTS. JONES BLOCK, CORNER RAY AND ABERCORN STREETS, SAVANNAH, GA. LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES Made on Consignments to the firm of Chab. L. Colby, of New York, or to our friends in Boston. MAUDE A WRIGHT, Agents at Augusta, Ga. references; Messrs. Dabney, Morgan <fc Cos., New York. Jarive Slade, Ksq., New York. Hon. J Wiley Edmauds, Boston. Gardner Colby, Esq., Boston. Jylß—tt L. JONES, ~ T ANARUS"“ SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, No 17 Broadway, New York. Liberal advances on Shipments to above Consign ment, made by HUNTER & GAMMELL, Agents Pioneer Line Steamships, 84 Bay Street, Savannah. Reference in New York— Messrs, Sfofford, Tileston & Cos. 'YY' oodward - BALDWIN & CO., 110 Duane Street, New York, 9 and 11 Hanover Street, Balimore, DRY GOODS COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Liberal advances made on Consignments Sheetings, Osnaburgs and Yarns. jyis JOHN MoMAHON. COMMISSION AND PRODUCE MERCHANT. I Strict attention given to all Consignment. Corner Broughton and Jefferson Streeus. Ju3o lm J SHAFFER, i . COMMISSION DEALER In all kinds of FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FRUITS andPRODUCE, West Washington Market, Opposite 143 West st., Bulkhead between larclay and Vesey sts., NEW YORK. Potatoes, Apples and Onions constantly othand, and put up for the Southern market All consignments promptly attenked to. Refers to A. L. Bradley, A. Hayvood, T. J. Walsh, and J. H. Parsons. jy!2 eodlf J.. GUILMARTIN A CO., j general COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MERCHANTS, NO. 14« BAY s-ffaSET, (Oppose the City Hotel,} SAVANNAH, GA, Particular attentln given to procuring Freights, and filling orders fc Hard Pine Timber and Lumber, Cotton, Wool, Hide, &c. 1,. J. GUILMABTIN, OHN FLANNERY. E. W. DRUMMOND. JylT * lm jyjITCTIEL A fiIITHS. GENERAL (DMMISSION MERCHANTS. Dealers in Shewing, Shirting, Osnaburgs, Yarns, Rope, Bagging, Minufactured and Smoking Tobacco, &c., &c. Particular attenton given to the Purchase, Sale and Shipment of COTTON. Ralston’s Gbanite Range;—Third Range, , MACON, GA. Referenors.— Erwii A Hardee, Claghom * Cun nine ham, Savannah; L. G. Bowers, 8. M. Farrar, Cos lumbus; E. B. Longs Cos., L. B. Davis, Augusta; P P. Pease. V. A. Gaskll, Atlanta. ju2S.lm QEO. R. CRUMP A CO., AUCTION AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 208 Broad Street, Accost a, Ga. jq2o 3m . JAMES B. CAHILL. GROCER COMMISSION MERCHANT, AUGUSTA, GA, Consignments Solicited. Cotton Purchased and Shipped. Merchandise bought and sold on Commission . . , Will also take Agencies for the sale of any Goods and Merchandise required in the Southern market. jy22 3m U J. SOLOMONS. COMMISSION MERCHANT. Will attend to the Selling or Receiving and For warding all kinds of Merchandise. Produce, Ac. Office for the present at the Drug Store of J. M. Abrahams A Cos. RIVER AGRICULT URAL WORKS. GRIFFING, BROTHER A CO., Proprietors, SS and 60 Cocbtland Street. NEW YORK. Manufacturers of Plows, Harrows, Cultivators, Cot ton Sweeps, Corn’Mills, Cotton Gins, Ac. Every implement wanted by the Planter, Also, dealers in Fluid and Garden Seeds. Also, Agents tor Bruce’s Concentrated Manure, Bone, Ac. Send for cireular. ju2o 3m J^OTICE. We the undersigned do hereby agree mutually to dissolve the Co-partnership heretofore existing be tween us, under the style and fine of Lomelin, La hill & Cos., and do hereby further agree that all busi ness of the late lirm shall be liqui dated and adjusted by A. C. Lomelin, who alone s hall have power to sign the name of the late Urns lor auch^purjpose. F. C. LOMELIN, JAIMES B. CAHILL, Savannah, Qa„ July 80, 1866. Jy * JJAY SIXTY BALES HAY, T onAing from Steamship Arne rica. For sale by jyC-tf BBIGHHF f, BALDWIN * CO, Young Men of Savanah in Council Address of Rev. G< ». G. Smith u.t Trinity Cl ureh, An Eloquent and Patiotic Appeal. ' Tnnity church was flllei to overflowing last evening, on the occasorof an address by the Rev. George Q. Sniitl of the Georgia Conference, upon the “day of the young men of Georgia in the prdenl hour. The simple announcement of thjproposed lecture in the Herald of Tuesday vening, was suf ficient to assemble a large idience, compri sing great numbers of the |>uug men of Sa vannah, with a fair proportpn of the soldiers and officers of the post. Mr. Smith has served at Chaplain in the Southern Army, and froi the eflects of a wound received while attending to his duties as Chaplain, was unable tostand, and, con sequently, addressed 1 the audience while sit ting. The meeting was opend with prayer by Rev. Mr. Wynn. Mr. Sn ih was introduced to the audience, and deli\ fed the address of which we present the foib ting synopsis. The eloquent and stirrinf address of Mr. Smith was listened to throghout with 'the closest attention, and aj> eared to create a profound impression: ; Mr. Smith said— The only apology, my -cung countrymen, I have to offer to you torbecupying my pres ent novel position, is thejiitense affection I have for you, and the dfcfp anxiety of my heart for your future invest. My subject already announced is “ydir duty in the pres ent hour. • The hour is a great onet lis pregnant with great results, it calls tor ihw duties; let us know them and meet ‘he(o, You will remember four jiars ago a conven tion was called in Georgia, composed of her ablest and best children, Cobb was there, Toombs was there, Stepheis was there, pill tvas there, Johnson was there. Men occupy ing different stand points, mtertaining differ ent views, but are actuated by the same lofty motives, and aiming at the tame end. There sult of this convention was that the Slate of Georgia decided to resume lersoveignty, And enter into another Conleddacy. The result was war. You were called by her command to the field, and you responded right gallant ly. The tide of war oscillated, now vic tory, now defeat. Great qualities Were de veloped on both sides. The war has ended, and in our defeat. What shall we do now ? The U. S. Government proposes, as a price we are to pay for citizenship, that we sub scribe to an oath. This oath requires—Ist. That we promise to obey the Constitution of the United States and the Union thereunder; 2diy. That We emancipate our slaves. to this oath, orTeaving > t£ie f lmi& s , ing io this oath or shutting ourselves out of the pale of citizenship. Shall we accept the alternative? Unhesitatingly I answer. No. We cannot forsake the feeble, the maimed, the aged, the defenceless. The noblest he roism is that which leads a man to sacrifice himself; and whatever might be my personal feelings, I could not forsake these. Again, your interest will be secured by subscribing. In all the world you will find no sphere in which you can act to such ad vantage as here. What! forsake the homes your lathers won from the forest and foe, the graves of your loved, because of a feeling of pride? No, never. That you will take this oath without men tal reservation, I need not say. The man wi o, from the sanctity of an editorial cham ber, makes an insinuation to the contrary, is as base as he is cowardly, and the charge is as false as it is degrading. If you subscribe to this oath, it will be in all good conscience. Your fault was never time-serving treachery There are those who would have you bow servilely at the feet of the conqueror, denounce President Davis a traitor, call imprecations upon the grey head of our dear old leader, R E. Lee—and with your own hand brand yourselves with infamy—but gentlemen they are not the gallant members of the army which conquered us, not the Government, hut Jguoble souls who can understand no prin ciple of nobility or magnaminity. Asa dis tinguished Brig. General of the U. S. said to me to-day, we are not required to think, but to act Let us take the oath, heartily keep it aud set to work bravely to reorganize our Stfttc* Your duty of courtesy to the soldiers among us is apparent- They show every disposi tion to be kind, let us meet them—our hopes against future aggression is in them. Be magnanimous enough to recognize the pure motives, which led them into this con -16 Remember he who insults the strong, pre suming upon his forbearance, is as cowardly as he who treats with insult the weakness 0t Remember your duty to the maimed and <uiflv>rinc of your old comrades, to their wid ows and orphans. . Obeying the same call which called you into the field, they have nnt been so fortunate. They have fallen or wounded aud nnurned. TUe Go,- Lament of the United States will not pro vide tor theirs or them—your own State can not • it remains tor mdmfiuals to do the ° J. YVe must be lrue to t,li9 To w . it '.he fatherless and the widow is every where the dictate of Christianity-to visit In eh widows aDd such orphans, is to you the HWate of simple humanity. lam a poor m«n bv the result of this revolution—a beg gared man—but never have I been, never will ?be poor, that my log cabin will not:tur nish a shelter, my table a crust for one of these, “your duty to the freedmen deserves men n They were born under our own root, thev were our playmates in infancy, they have been our friends in manhood. They nursed us in sickness,and when we wenttothe Lmytbey remained and they were tumble Mid true and stood by us in tnal. By the (let of the U. S. President they are free. They did not seek, ask for it, or demand it. If under the insane excitement of this new transaction, influenced by the counsels of minds, they act extravagantly, forgive them, nor let the ties of affection which bound them to you, be broken. When labor and capital comes in conflict, as it will, a strong temptation will be pre sented to wrong and oppress them. There will be danger of re-euacting the scene of Manchester and Glasgow, of the Coal Mines of England and great manufacturing estab Uslnnents everywhere. Resist the tempta tion, be kind, be just, be tiue. Co-operate with evciy effort made to ad vance them. With schools, with churches. Unlike those of another section we are not willing to cast them off'but let us stand by them and laber w.th them. 1 assert fearless ly here, that young as I am, I limre done more for the salvation of the soul of the ne gro and lor his moral elevation than Henry Ward Beecher ever dared to do, and am to day prepared for greater sacrifices and labors for his welfare than are those shriekers, who call me slave-driver—so have you,so will you. But, gentlemen, an etfort will oe made to give to them the right of suffrage. Dcma gogues and fanatics will second it. We must resist it. The light of suffrage, like Sin bad’s old man of the sea, is easy to get on and hard to get rid of. We refuse it to them as we refuse it to minors, as the Californian it to the Chinaman, the western man to the Indian, and all to Foreigners until they have been here five years. lam glad Ip see that President Johnson has had the courage to re sist lhi9 movemeut. Let him be firm, and forgetting the past, we will stand by him and support him in every just measure. When they shall be elevated sufficiently for this right, we will yield it, and not till then. We are aware, gentlemen, that we can control this power. We are aware, that with it, we can injure those who clamor for it. But we would uot, for party or personal purposes, open such a flood gate of corruption, offer such a premium for rascality. Let those, who, for party aims, clamor for it, remember that there is' such a thing as digging a pit for another, and falling themselves into it. The duty, young gentlemen, which you owe to yourselves is one to which I call your spe cial attention. During the progress of this war you be came weaned from the vices of the city, the billiard room, the gaming saloon, the drinking saloon and the brothei. You find yourself bereft by this revolution of fortune and with nothing left but your character —see that •it is kept untarnished. Avoid vices, cultivate a high Christian virtue. Let a noble principle of honor, a generous benevolence, a Christian devotion be yours. Remember, "That, 'tis orly noble to be good—J Kind hearts an; more than coronet', And simple faith than Norman blood." A nation’s strength is not in its bayonets, nor the calibre of its guns, but in the virtue of its people. Oh, I pray you never aiuk to that degrading avarice, that counts no sac rifice of nobility, as dear, which make a re turn in money. Cultivate, I beseech you, your . native mind. The intellect of the South is equal to any other intellect, but heretofore we have enterThlo therrllft'( I ff’tilt*lKll,-thatjve might be so no longer. Wp must not only enjoy the delights of literature, but must share its toils. Let us bid adieu to ease and say to labor, thou art my brothe> and let us reach that position of intellectual excellence to j which we are entitled. You must be our statesman, and ministers, our architects, aud lawyers fit yourselves for the worse before you. Again I would urge you to appreciate as you should the nobility of labor. It has been charged against us by those who know as much of the South as they do of the Hot tentots, that the laborer is scorned among us. Not so gentlemen; no where has the true and accomplished man stood more upon his own merits. We must go to work. We have lost all but our honor. Off with your coat then, wield the blacksmith’s ham mer, stand beside the machinist’s lathe, plunge into the forests with the surveyor’s chain, stand behind the handles of the plow, work anywhgre, everywhere—do unythiug but fawn and cringe and defraud. Remem ber that the truest nobility is the nobility of labor, but while you have the hand of a peasant, remembier you have the heart of a prince. In this hour willingly wilt our noble country-women stand by you. They have excited our highest admiration as during these four terrible years, they have watched and waited, toiled and wept, but never did they appear so lovely as now. My admiration for you, my young countrywomen, was never so great as now, when bereft of all, you so wil lingly, so unmurmuriogly go through the menial labors of the kitchen and the wash room. I am sure you will not kiss the cheek less fondly because it is tanned, nor clasp the hand less warmly because it is rough—nor will you in the eyes of those who are your defenders lose a gleam of your trans cendant loveliness, because of your toils.— The diadem of industry which you wear shines brighter than that of on Eugenie’s regal brow. The rank is but the guinea's stamp— The man’s a man for a’ that. Impoverished as we are, we are not dis graced. Rise up then and say “Tarn fortune, tarn thy wheel; thyself and it we nei ther love nor hate, Onr hoard is little but our hearts are great; For man is man, and master of his late.” The future, my young countrymen, is open bright before us, if we are true to ourselves. The old men who see now the labor of lives swept away are broken spirited and ener gless We must show them that their sons are not unworthy of them, and we will re pair the fortunes which tney lose. Onr State is boundless in her resources, i have stood upon the mountain peaks which bound her northern border. I have stood m the rich plains through which the Chatta hoochee flows on the West, besides the broad Savannah on the East, aud m the Italyol the State in the South, I make my a nd as I call up what I know of her I feel a throb of most exultant hope. swelling Her mountains conceal in their swelling bosoms rich treasures of coal, and o, PRICE. 5 CENTS copper. Her very river sands are gold. Her splendid quarries of marble invite the mallet and saw. Her rich plains, on which cotton, corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, sugar cane and tobacco grow so luxuriantly, are still here. Here the apple, tbe peach, the cherry, the pear, the orange, the banana, the olive, the melon all grow at our bidding. Her forests are filled with treasures of timber, and when her pines are bidden, they yield to our call rich stores of turpentine and rosin. Grand rivers -permeate her, railroads course over her, aud all she asks of her sons is industry and virtue. Shall we forsake her for any mnd ? No, no! Come to her aid true heart ed sons of her soil, and she will richly re ward you. The church, the schoolroom, the college, will all flourish again, and, an independent, virtuous, religious race, we will rise to a height of glory we have not dreamed of lo your work, then, to your work. Let no whining toues of despair be heard, but let the air ring with shouts of cheering hope, a»we enter upon our mission. Shattered and broken as I am, I may not live to see that day, but it will come if we are true. On, then, to the field of glory that awaits and may God attend you. The Atlantic Cable. From the New York World’s interesting article upon the Great Cable, we condense the following : . WHO OWNS THE OREAT CABLE. The cable and afi the working slock of the Atlantic Telegraph Company is to be paid for by collections upon the stock shares of the many thousand holders. The British government is heavily interested in the suc cess of the undertaking, and gives it material and nautical assistance, with, probably, a very great subsidy, if it is successfully laid. But no American vessel will assist this year iu the paying-out and portage of the wire, as did the Niagara in ,1858. At the same time, there are many American stockholders, and an American, Mr. Cyrus W. Field, has been most directly and creditably engaged in stir ring up foreign capitalists to undertake the laying of the cable a second time. The wire will be managed entirely by this company, which will make specitled charges for all messages passing over it, and, in course of time, lay other cables. DEPTH OP THE OREAT TELEGRAPH WIRE. The present cable will reach from Valentia harbor, in Ireland, to Heart’s Content bay, Newfoundland, a curvilinear distance of 1,800 miles, but by submarine irregularities will be in water of from 1,500 to 2,500 fathoms. Most of the distance the slopes are gradual and easy, and considered safe as receptacles for, cables. Until lately it was supposed that a part of this truck was exceedingly danger ous, owing to the supposed abrupt dip, form ing an abyss, located about one hundred miles off the west coast of Ireland, and where the water had been supposed to deepen iu the space of a tew miles from about 300 fathoms to neariy.♦» rapid descent been regarded with fear by telegraphic engineers, and this alarm led not long ago to a most careful sounding survey of the whole of the suppos ed bank by Captain Dayman, R. N., acting tne Isup posed precipitous bank or submarine cliff to be a gradual slope of sixty miles. Over this long slope the difference between the great est Height and greatest depth is 8,760 feet, so that the average inclination is about 145 feet pgr mile. This careful survey has furnished many facts of interest; the bottom of the ocean is found to be less uneven and wild than was supposed, particularly on the route of the cable, where, instead of sharp-cutting rocks and deep gorges, a greater portion of the way is covered with ooze-mud and sand. By means of the attempt to place tbe cable in its bed, therefore, we derive new and close knowledge of the status of the ocean bottom. It is possible that after a while we may hare as distinct and correct notions of the regi men of the floor of the ocean, and the posi tion of this wire, as we now have of the land telegraph, visible in the air. DESCRIPTION OF THE CABLE. The present Atlantic telegraph cable is two thousand three hundred nautical miles in length, that is twenty-six hundred English or geographical miles. The core or central conductor is composed of seven fine copper wires, “laid up” or twisted into one strand, and is insulated with Chatterton’s compound. Outside of this strand are four distinct lay ers of gutta-percha, each layer being insula ted with the same compound which incloses the conductor. Outside this layer are wound eleven strong iron wires, each of which, be fore it is twisted, isr itself carefully “would ed” with strands of hemp saturated with the best of Stockholm tar. The structure, there fore, contains no less than twenty-five thou sand miles of copper wire, thirty-five thou sand ot iron wire, and more than four hun dred thousand miles of hempen strands, making a grand total ot four hundred and sixty thousand miles of continuous fabric which, if knotted together, would reach around the world twenty times! The Twenty Thousand Dollaks Clause in the Amnesty Proclamation.— A Rich mond letter of the 26th to a New York co temporary, says; The chief impediment to the reconstruc tion of the burnt buildings in this city is the twenty thousand dollars clause in the Presi dent’s amnesty proclamation. Property holders are unwilling to make any expendi tures in the way of improvements with the doubts as to its ultimate ownership which that clause occasions. With a view of as certaining the true intent of Mr. Johnson in person in respect to persons holding proper ty above that amount, preparations are on foot to send a delegation to Washington, and upon the result of their mission will depend the future of Richmond. If that clause shall be enforced, then the city is destmed long to remain as it is—a hideous spectacle of chaotic ruin. Everything in the civil and military policy of the Government tends hut to discourage and paralyze. It is confident ly believed here that if Stanton was out of the Cabinet all would go well with the South.