Savannah daily herald. (Savannah, Ga.) 1865-1866, July 28, 1865, Image 1

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SAV ANNAH DAILY HERALD. VOL- 1-NO. 164. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING) 18 PUBLISHED BP S3. W. MASON «t CO.. At 111 Bat Street, Savannah, Georgia, 'tkbms: per Copy Plve Cents. Per iiundml $8 so - Per Y64t.... . .#lO 00, ADTIITIBI NO: Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first in sertion ; One Dollar for each subsequent one. Ad vertisements inserted in the morning, will, if desired, appear in the evening without extra charge. JOB PRINTING, In every style, neatly and promptly done. ||nsiiratm. INSURANCE AT LOW RATES! COLUMBIAN INSURANCE COMP'Tor 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 cflect Insurance for Augusta, New York, and Jacksonville, AT THft LOWEST MARKET RATES. Mdse, on first-class Ocean Steamers SIOO,OOO « “ “ Sailing Vessels 75,000 .« “ “ River Steamer or Fiat 15,000 Shippers will find it to their interest to call before effecting Insurance elsewhere. CHARLES L. COLBY A CO., jylß-tf JS YOUR LIFE INSURED* This is an important question for every man and important also to. every wife and mother as it affects their future welfare. SEE TO IT AT ONCE. DO NOT DELAY. The “Knickerbocker Life Insurance” of New York will insure you at the usual rates lu any sum from SIOO $lO 00(1. They also is9ue the f .vorite TEN YEAR NON-FORFEITURE Policies, and will after two years payment give a full paid up ; Olicy for Two Tenths the whole snin, and Three Years Three Tenths, and so on. Thus a Policy of SIO,OOO. Two Premiums paid upon It will be entitled to a paid up Policy of $‘2,000: and five years five-tenths for every additional year. For further information apply to , A WILBUR, Agent, At the office of the Home Insurance Cos., ju27 80 Bay st.. Savannah, Oa. THE NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE INSU RANCE COMPANY, OF BOSTON. PURELY MUTUAL.’ This is one of the oldest and best Companies in America. Policies on Lives for any amount up to $15,000 arc taken by them. The Policies of these Companies were not cancelled during the war until heard fr«r* —a fact which shews their dealing and determination to be just and honor able in all cases. Apply to * j U 27 A. WILBUR, AgeuC rpo COTTON SHIPPERS. ALEXANDER HARDEE COTTON SHIPPER, Is prepared to take Cotton on Storage, at the lowest rates, and —uas opened, ON THE CORNER OF JEFFERSON & BAY STS. For the purpose of WEIGHING, REPAIRING, REPACKING, SAMPLING, CLASSING, AND— SHIPPING COTTON FOR THE PUBLip, AT THE LOWEST RATES, FURNISHING INK, Ac. jyT lm J£IKLIN A HIENZLE. WHOLESALE aND RETAIL DEALERS IN ALES, WINES AND LAGER BIER. OUR HOUSE, 165 BAY STREET, ju2l ts BURKE, & BRO., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN ALES, WINES AND LIQUORS, < VtKNT.It WniTA-KKR STREET AND BaT I^ANE, ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED AND DELIVERED. Ju2l _M HEADQUARTERS, ) Sub-Distkict of OoKKCup, r savannah, Ga., July 20> 1866. ) General Order,) All schools now in session in this city fer tile control of the military authorities, will be closed this 26th day of July, and remain so closed until October Ist, 1865. by command of oen DAVJ3 Jxo. MuxutK, A. A. A. General. jy2o ‘ <|ommißsimt &Urcbants. r ¥» SHIPPERS OP COTTON AND OTHER -■- SOUTHERN PRODUCE. FENNER, BENNETT A BOWMAN, Successors to Hotchkiss, Fenner A Bennett. CO MM ISsION MERCHANTS, No. 40 Visit Street, uw York. , And Memphis, Tenn Thomas Fenner, Henry Bennett, D. W. Bowman. 6m OHARLES L. COLBY A CO. SHIPPING, COMMISSION AND FORWARDING MERCHANTS. JONES BI.OOK, CORNER BAT AND ABEBOORN STREETS, SAVANNAH, GA. LIBERAL CASH ADVANCEB Made on Consignments to the firm of Chab. L. Colby, of New York, or to our friends iu Boston. MAUDE A WRIGHT. Agents at Augusta, Ga. references; Messrs. Dabney, Morgan A Cos., New York. Jarivs Slade, Esq., New York. Hon. J Wiley Edmonds, boston. Gardner Colby, Esq., Boston. jylS—tt J JIWIS L. JONES, SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, A T o 17 B ydway, New York. „ , Liberal advances on Shipments to above Consign ment, made by HUNTER A GAMMELL, Agents Pioneer Line Steamships, 84 Bay Street, Savannah. Reference in New York— Messrs, Spopfobd, Tilxston & Cos. may‘26 3mo OODWARD, BALDWIN A CO., 110 Duane Street, New York, 9 and 11 Hanover Street, Baltimore, DRY GOODS COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Liberal advances made on Consignments, Sheetings, Osnaburgs and Yarns. jyis JOHN MoMAHON. COMMISSION AND PRODUCE MERCHANT. Strict attention given to all Consignments. Corner Broughton and Jefferson Streebs. ju3o lm J SHAFFER, , COMMISSION DEALER In all kinds of FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FRUITS and PRODUCE, West Washington Mabkrt, Opposite 143 West st., Bulkhead between Barclay and Vesey sts., NEW YORK. Potatoes, Apples and Onions constantly on hand, and put up for the Southern market All consignments promptly attenked to. i£T Refers to A. L. Bradley, A. Haywood, T. J. Walsh, and J. H. Parsons. jyl2 eodly | J. GUILMARTIN A CO., GENERAL COMMISSION AND SHIPPING MERCHANTS, NO. 148 BAY STREET, (Opposite the*City Hotel,) SAVANNAH, GA, Particular attention given to procuring Freights, and filling orders for Hard Pine Timber and Lumber, Cotton, Wool, Hides, Ac. L. J. OUILMABTIN, JOHN FLANNERY. E. W. DRUMMOND. jyl7 lm R. CRUMP A CO., AUCTION AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 209 Broad Street, Auqusta, Ga. ju2o 3m James b. Cahill. GROCER AND 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 Merchandize 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_&^^_ =:^=^= PROSPECTUS OP TUR MERCANTILE MIRROR A Weekly Commercial and Advertising Sheet, WITH AN EDITION OF 10,000 COPIES, FOR GRA TUITOUS CIRCULATION. To be Issued on or about the 16th of July, 1865, By J. W. BURKE & CO., - MACON, QA. This enterprise is undertaken at the suggestion of many of the leading merchants of the countiy, as a method of extensively advertising their business.— While we will publish the advertisements of all who may favor m with their patronage, the paper will also contain Prices Current oi the Markets in all the princi pal Cities, Rates of Exchange, Brokerage, Ac., and Commercial News of every description that will be of interest to the Mercantile Community. Nor will the “ MIRROR ’’ be exclusively filled with advertisements; but the paper will ne sufficiently large to leave ample room for Editorials, Correspondence, Select Reading Matter, Ac. It will be a family, as well as a business paper, and we Intend that it shall visit every City, Town and Village in the Country. All can perceive the advantage of advertising in a paper of this description. OUlt TERMS WILL BE LIBERAL. We are unable to publish them in this Circular, not knowing what number of our friends will waattheir Business Cards, Notices, Ac., brought be fore the Public through this medium. We will only say to all, send your Advertisements to us immedi ately; state how much space you wish them to occu py, directions, Ac. We have a large Stock of Fancy Type, Cuts and material for displaying them, and feel confident of meriting the patronage and approval of all Business Men. As soon us we arrive at tbe amount of matter and size of paper required, we will make an estimate, and publish the rates tor advertising, in the first number. They will he as low as possible, to allow us to publish Tns paper. Deeming it superflu ous to argue the benefit of tills enterprise to the adver tising world, we leave the subject with it, feeling as sured It will meet its cordial co-operation and sup port. Address , J. W. BURKE & CO., Macon, Ga. Agent in Savannah: Gzo. N. Nichols, Bay Street. jylS-tf - N orth river agricultural works. GRIFFING, BROTHER A CO., Proprietors, 66 and 60 Cqurtland Street. NEW YORK, Manufacturers of Plows, Harrows, Cultivators, Cot ton Sweeps, ConTMills, Cotton Gins, Ac. Every implement wanted by the Planter, Also, dealers in Field and Gardes Seeds. Also, Agents ft * Bruce’s Concentrated Manure, Bone, Ac. Send for clrealar. ju2o 3nr. SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1865. srji <|aoi>s anil <Clotting. A, TOPHAM 138 CONGRESS STREET, SAVANNAH, GA., NO. 7 MERCHANTS’ ROW, HILTON HEAD. Calls the attention of Wholesale and Retail pur chasers to his superior Stock of MILITARY, NAVAL and CITIZENS’ CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, REGULATION HATS, CAPS, and GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS. For sale at the Lowest Market price. Additions to the Stock received by every Steamer from New York. jn2l-tf QARHART, WHITFORD A CO., MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN READY MADE CLOTHING, 331 and 333 Broadway, coil Worth Street, NEW YORK. T. F. Card art, I Henry Shafer, Wm. H. Whitford, [ A. T. Hamilton, J. B. Van Waueneh^ Office of Payan A Carhart in liquidation. jyC ; 3m A MURDOCK, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN SUTLERS’ AND NAVAL STORES, DRY GOODS, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS, Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods, Ao., No. 5 Merchants’ Row. Hilton Head, 8. C., W. O. RIDDELL. fjul3-tfl H. J. MUBPOOK. Steele a burbank, ii Merchants’ Row, Hilton Head, S. C. Call the attention of Wholesale and Retail purchasers to their superior stock of MILITARY AND NAVAL CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS, Watches, Clocks, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, and Plated Ware,Swords, Sashes, Belts. Embroideries,Boots, Caps Field Glasses, Gauntlets loves, Ac., Ac., Ac. fesflmraids.fr, Jg MANCIPATION SEEMS TO BE THE END OF OUR NATIONAL TROUBLES. THE HILTON HEAD HOUSE, Corner of Johnson Square and Brtan Street, Is now in good running order—a place where the weary con find rest, and where the waiters have no rest. BURTON’S EAST INDIA PALE ALE. COOL LAGER, ON'ICE. LUNCH AT ELEVEN O’CLOCK, A.M. No crippled jaws wanted in this establishment in business hoars. Old acquaintances ne’er forgot, “For particulars see small bills." BILL WILLIAMS, jyl9-tf Proprietor Hilton Head House. , QLAMS! CLAMS! I have the best Cltrtns at Hilton Head, and the best Cooks, m proof of which statement 1 adduce the fol lowing testimony from Mr. Beqj. Honey’s advertise ment in the Savannah Daily Herald, of the last oi two: “There is no man in Port Royal that can serve up Clams In every style better than Mr. Fitzgerald, at the Lagle Saloon, in rear of the Post Office. ••There is Where the Laugh Comes In." My dear Ben we wish you a long life and a merry one. In addition to the above luxury, we furnish as good a meal us cun be obtained at Hilton Head, or any other place in this Department. GIVE US A CALL, And we feel confident that you will leave our estab lishment satisfied that whatever we advertise you will find to be correct. Do not forget our old established house, in the rear ofPo&t Office. PETKR FITZGERALD, ju3o Proprietor. ttirginia tobacco agency;. GEORGE R. CRUMP A CO„ « 209 Beoad Street, Augusta, Ga, Have on hand a large and well selected stock of Manufactured and SmoKing Tobacco. Samples sent by Express when desired. 3m jn2o npHE NEW SKIRT FUR 1866. A “ BRADLEY’S DUPLEX ELLIPTIC.” A wonderful invention for ladles. Unquestionably superior to all others. Don’t fail to road the advertisement in the Savannah Herald containing lull particulars every Saturday morning. jy6 6taw3m rjpUE ADAMS EXPRESS CO. Os this city having made arrangements, are now nrenared to forward ireight and valuables to Charles ton. Hilton Head and Beaufort. S, C.; to Augusta, Macon Atlanta, and all intermediate points. Ala* to all points North, East and West. Special care and ■J^OTICE. The firm of O’MEARA A CO. having been dissolv ed hv a decree of tne First Provost Court of Savannah, all persons having claims against said firm willpre sent them forthwith to the undersigned, iV26-ti * W, U’MEAKA. q —sHbundy, general agent and attorney for claims, No 241 F Street, Between 13« b and 14tu Streets, (Near Pay Department,) WASHINGTON, D. C. ju3o OF MERCHANDISE Who wish to realize immediately, will consult their “‘S.'SK’4WB.GHT, General Commisskji Merchants, Augusta, Ga. Refer to—Messrs. Charles L. Colby A Cos., Messrs. Marcy, Day A Cos., William Battersby A Cos jy Re-opening off Railroad Coin indication .in Florida. [From the Florida Union.) On Thursday last week the first through train from Lake City arrived at Jacksonville. This places us in direct connection with the interior of the State for a distance of two hundred miles, with branch roads running in each direction.. The benefits derived from re-opening this route are already manifest in the shipments of cotton, sugar, syrup and other products of the country which are daily arriving at this pl&ce, and the ship ments of goods of all descriptions, which are daily being sent into the interior in exchange. The railroad from Jacksonville extends to. Lake City. At Baldwin it crosses the Flori da Railroad, which at present is in running order to Cedar Keys only. At Lake City the Pensacola and Georgia railroad com mences and extends to Quincy, about two liuudred miles from Jacksonville. At Live Oak station some twenty-five miles from Lake City a Branch road extends to the Sa vannah and Gulf road. Thirty miles from Tallahassee is a road eight miles in length leading to Monticello. At Tallahassee a branch road twenty miles in length runs to St. Marks. • Under the present arrangement a traveller leaves Jacksonville at two or three P. M. on Monday and arrived at Lake City the same evening at seven or eight; there he is com pelled to lay over till four the foUowing morning then a train leaves for Tallahassee and Quincy, making connections with the branen roads. Thus a traveller is not only subject' to a vexatious delay, but does not even gain advantage of a full night’s rest. It is stated that tbe condition and interests of the Pensacola and Georgia road will not permit night travel. There are important stations on the road, and connections which render it essential that trains should pass over it iu the day time. The expense, business, con dition of road and rolling stock at present warrant only tri-weekly trips. With all these connections and facts before os we see no reason why passengers should not be trans ported to their places of destination without detention. The fact that daily trips are at present impracticable renders such an ar rangement more important. The condition of tne road according to engineers and oth ers supposed to be capable of judging, will allow a speed of twenty-five miles per hour, exclusive of stops, except a few miles be tween Jacksonville and Baldwin. We will suppose a train leaves Jackson ville at sa. m. Monday. Allowing for the extra care in running over the newly and un perfectly laid track, two hours is certainly sufficient to reach Baldwin. A train could here be in readiness to start for Cedar Keys, with little detention by transfer of passen gers. Tbe remainder of the distance to Lake City is a trifle over forty miles. There are, we believe, five stopping plates. Allowing fifteen minutes stoppage at Baldwin and ten minutes each at other stations,■ would make 10 a. m. the hour of arrival at Lake City.— Allowing half an hour for changes at that station, the train would leave at half past ten. For Lake City to Tallahassee is one hundred and five'miles. At twenty-five miles per hour this would be accomplished in a trifle over lour hours. There are ten stop ping places between the places. Allowing thirty minutes stop at Madison station to dine, 15 minutes at the junction of the Mon ticcllo road, and 10 minutes at the remaining eight stations, together with other delays, we will say two hours and a half, is thus consumed; added to four hours, make six hours and a half, making the hour of ar rival at Tallahassee five P. M. Allowing the usual stoppage (one hour) at Tallahassee and ten minutes at each of the three way stations, the train would reach Quincy at seven P. M. Thus the entire journey would be accomp lished without compelling travellers to start or arrive at unreasonable hours, any vexa tious delays, or night travel. The return trip on the following day could be made on the same time-table. This being the direct line, passing through aud connecting the most important points in the State, the branch railroads, of course, make their time table conform to it. The only one of any considerable length is the Cedar Keys road. The trains could leave Baldwin soon after the arrival of the train from Jacksonville, reaching Cedar Keys the 9ame day ; return ing could leave Cedar Keys in time to con nect at Baldwin with the train returning to Jacksonville. The remaining branch roads would have to vary but little from their pre sent running time. This arrangement allows ten minutes stop at every station, (many of which do not require two minutes detention) ample time at all points to make changes, etc., where necessary. The City op Cologne —This ancient Ger man town which is now holding an interba tional exhibition is growing with almost the rapidity of an American town. Within the last twenty years it has more than doubled the number of its Inhabitants. From tbe 66,000 it hsd in 1844, it has, Within less than a generation, grown to be a city of something like 140,000 in 1865. Trade it flourishing, and not a trace left of the 12,000 meodiosots who, under the ecclesiastical government, subverted as late as sixty yur? ago, used to infest the streets in a professional wav and plant themselves at fixed »ation9. Jfcom the north-east the coal and iron districts of the Lower Rhine are pouring asD«i of rich es into tbe ancient but very yqntnful me tropolis of the land; in the scyth-west the, mines and cloth manulacfcyie* ot tte Julich and Moselle country h#Te besn Tendered tributary to tbq commercial enterprise and the financial resources flf CJblegne; while the wine trade and the tr|de generally have here found one busiest and most lucrative centres, Ataong the pecu liar advantages of ColOfpw it ought to be mentioned also that a Rhinelander, when be has leathered his nest and waits w enjoy his remaining years, wifijtafdly ever retire to Berlin, but, if he iikwtdwn life aHdl, is al most sure to prefer old “Oolle.** —The statistics of the ffcnited States cen sus show that the numbefiof deaths among the colored population, oi Boston, is nearly twice as large as the number of births ; and that if it were not for tbe acpessionf-Zrom tbe South, the negro pop.tri>*«i would soon be extinct. PRICE. 5 CENTS The He*ry Ordnance of the United States. In the report of the committee on the con duct of the war occurs the following with regard to the heavy guns in our service: Under tbe head of “heavy ordnance” your committee would call attention to three classes esof guus: First, those made entirely of cast iron; secondi, those made of cast iron and banded with wrought iron; and third, those made entirely of wrought iron. Os the first class are the guns generally known as the Dahlgreen gun and the Rodman gun. Os the second class is the Parrott gun. Os the third class is the Ames gun. There is still another gun known as the YViard steel gun, but as ii docs not come, so far as you committee have been able to leara, under the head ot “heavy ordnance,” they have not deemed it necessary to devote much atten tion to it. THE RODMAN GUN. The Rodman gun, while having to some extent its peculiarity of form, is principal ly distinguished by the mode adopted in its manufacture, which is an invention of Ma jor T. J. Rodman. The casting is made around a hollow core, or core-barrel, as it is termed, into which is introduced a stream of cold water, the outside of the casting being kept heated until the cooling from the inte rior reaches the outer portion of the mass of metal forming the casting. This mode of manulacture, it is claimed, insures two im portant advantages over the old method of casting the gun solid and then boaring it out. The strain upon the metal produced by cool ing in large masses is reversed, rendering the gun less liable to burst from the explo sion of the powder in it; and a much greater degree of hardness is given to the interior surface, rendering the gun less liabltf'to abra sion in the bore by the passage of the pro jectile along it, aud the action of the gases of the powder upon the metal. It is gener ally held by the witnesses that no effective gun of large caliber can be made of cast iron except upon the Rodman principle, or the principle of cooling from the interior. THE DALGREN OIN. i The Dablgren gun is the invention of'Rear Admiral John A. Dablgren, and is distin guished bv its exterior form. The plan adopted to avoid tbe strain consequent upon cooliug a solid casting of large size from the outside is to make the castings considerably larger than otherwise would be needed to produce a gun of the required size, anneal it alter cooling, then turn tt down to the prop er size and lorm. But the Dahlgren guns of the largest caliber are now being manufac tured upon the Rodman principle. These two guns are the only two guns of large caliber, made entirely of cast-iron, which are now used in the service. They are generally smooth-bore guns, but few, if any of the larger caliber being rifled. THE PARROTT GUN The rifled gun of large calibre, employed almost wholly in Ihe army and naval service, is the gun invented by Robert C. Parrott. It is composed of a cast-iron cylinder, with a wrought iron jacket or band, shrunk upon the breech of the gun, in order to strengthen k about the scat of discharge. The cast-iron cylinder of this gun was formerly cast solid, and then bored out: but latterly those of the largest calibre are cast upon the Rodman principle. The Parrott rifled-gun of large calibre is used upon our naval vessels, being able to throw projectiles with greater accu racy and to a greater distance than the smooth bore guns. At the time of their in troduction into the service they were un doubtedly tbe beßt rifled guns of large calibre which the government could obtain. But the bursting of the Parrott guns of large cal ibre, together with the bursting ot some of the cast-iron guns of large calibre, upon tbe vessels engaged in operations against Fort Fisher, has tended to weaken confidence in tbe durability of these guns. THE AMES GUN. The committee refer, somewhat at length, to a wrought-iron gun, which to them seems to possess those quali ties of strength, durability, and safety, which are so very desirable. It is the invention of Horatio Ames. But few of these guns havo yet been manufactured, yet they have suc cessfully withstood every test that has been applied to them. Upon the 21st ot August last, at the request of the inventor, the President ordered the appointment of a board to test a gun #f seven-inch caliber manufac tured by Mr. Ames. As the result of the examination the board report: “It is the unanimous opinion of the board that Ames’ wrought-iron guns possess to a degree never before equalled by Any cannon of equal weight offered to our ser vice, the essential qualities of lateral and longitudinal strength, and great powers of endurance under heavy charges ; that they are not liable to burst explosively and with out warning, even when fired nnder very high charges ; and that they are well adapt ed to the wants of the service generally, but especially whenever long fqpges anu high Velocities are required. —Abraham Stemberger, a citizen of Kos ciusko, Tenn., who bad fled from .home at the beginning of the war, and been residing dt Memphis, was on the wav- to his borne when he was murdered on tbe highway. He had considerable money on bis person, which was taken, and roost of bis clothing. He leaves a wife and four children, who reside in Philadelphia. A cat in Titusville, Pa., has given birth to a litter of four kittens, which are joined to gether at tbe back and sides in such a man ner that when two of them are walking tbe other two are on their baqks, with their feet sticking up. —The grape rot is attracting tbe attention of Cincinnati horticulturists. The disease has broken out afresh, and seems to attack nearly every variety. —lt is [said that the French and English fleets will meet off Plymouth on the 17tn of July, the former to visit theEnlgish.the latter the French ports, on a holiday cruise. g— I The infant son of the Prince of Wales is to be christened Albert Christian Emanuel. He will be known under the name of Prince Christian.