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BI SIVESsIdIRECTORV OF SAVANNAH.
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lrastness announcements, carefully classified, under
the general head of “Savannah Business Directory.”
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quired.
IN JUSTICE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE
SOCTH.
We have noticed with regret, a disposition
on the part of some Northern editors, to
misrepresent the feelings and sentiments of
the people of the South in regard to the re
construction of State Governments. They
allege in positive terms that an over
whelming majority of the citizens of the
Southern States, Including many of those
who have taken the oath of allegiance,
are still actuated by a spirit of insubordina
tion towards the General Government, and
that it is their secret determination to obtain
the control, through the medium of the bal
lot box, of the State Government, that they
may be, thereby, the better enabled to ac
complish their schemes of resistance to the
maintenance of National authority. I
These unfounded and mischievous imputa
' tions, are generally based upon careless or
willful misrepresentations made by Southern
correspondents. Our sole object in noticing
the unjust editorial strictures of the class of
editors of which we complain, is to place
them, as well as the Northern public, on
their guard against a class of gross fabrica
tions, sensational communications, and flip
pant insinuations.
That ttaeie may have been exhibitions of
restiveness and dissatisfaction in the South
under the new order of things, we do pot
pretend to deny; but it is equally true that
•uch manifestations of disloyalty are of ex
ceedingly rare occurrence, and are confined
almost entirely to a class of young men re
cently of the rebel army,who Ann it extreme
ly difficult to recoucile the present condi
tion of the South with that preconceived at
titude of iudependcnce to which they had be
lieved that she was entitled.
The intelligent Northern reader will readi
ly see and appreciate the difficulty, nay, the
impossibility, of eradicating from the mind,
in a few brief months, ideas or convictions
implanted in early life, and strengthened and
confirmed, by instruction aud example, at
every step in the progress to manhood.
But on the other hand, we know it to be
the case that the great mass of the Southern
people, Including almost every farmer, are
loyal, and are observing in good faith the
new political obligations imposed upon them
by the government at Washington. Their
course has been to encourage reviving loyal
ty, to harmonize as far as practicable the
elements of Southern society, to open the
way for a hearty Union for the development
c.f the material resources of the South, for
repairing the damages of war, and for the
support of a re-united country.
They are thoroughly glad that peace is
restored, and see no use in making war
among citizens, now that fighting in the field
is over. With this truthful assurance, we
commend to Northern editors moderation
and mutual forbearance, Poking to the
future rather than to the past, restoration
rather than more dissension, and mutual
amity in the place of mutual enmity.
We pen these remarks in the hope that the
most perfect peace and harmony will yet
prevail in this land, and that anew career of
sectional party warfare may not divide again
a people w T ho should be devoting themselves
to the cultivation of a fraternal spirit
throughout the nation. There are objects
of sufficient importance which call for the
attention of the intelligent conductors of the
press, without appeals to the passions and
prejudices of the people, who are too often
deceived by wicked and designing men.
3IAJ, 6BK. COX, OP OHIO, OX NEGRO
SUFFRAGE.
We appropriate a large portion of our
space this morning to the correspondence be
tween the Oberlin Committee and Major
General J. D. Cox, the Republican candidate
for Governor of Ohio. While the discussion
of the question of negro suffrage here at the
South would be gratuitous, it is proper that
our citizens should be informed of the views
of leading men at the North on a subject of
such grave importance. It will be seen that 1
General Cox not only opposes the proposition i
to extend universal suffrage to the black race i
—thus incorporating them in political asso
ciation and equality with the whites—but
gives the reasons which impel him to dissent
from the views of that portion of his politi
cal friends and supporters who are repre-
sented by the Oberlin Committee. His con
clusions and opinions are the result of
thoughtful investigation and personal obser
vation, and while he finds difficulties in solv
ing the great problem as to what is to be the
future status of the negro race, by the ap
plication of sound principles of statesmanship
and philosophy he is forced to the candid
conviction that a condition of political and
social equality with the whites is not only
practically impossible, but that it is not ne
cessary for the protection of the freedmen in
the enjoyment of their newly acquired rights.
Our readers will find the letter of General
Cox well worthy ot perusal.
Secretary Seward is at Cape May, and
every morning he sallies forth in a pictures
que barbing dress of blue flannel with red
stripes, and paddles into the embrace ot old
ocean. Ilia daily bath gives biin an excel
lent appetite, and his health is improving.
KN6LIBH WHIOISM.
The Baltimore American has the following
among other remarks on the %nglish elec
tions: •
The consequences of this election will
probably be most important. The “rest and
be thankful'' policy of Lord Russell will have
to be abandoned for a decided advance to
ward democracy, and although it is quite
likely that even the advanced liberals will
deem it prudent to accept from the new Par
liament something like the six-pound fran
chise of Mr. Baines's bill, yet every one is
aware that this is but a temporary stopping
place on the way to what, unless all signs
tail, will eventually prove to be a very near
approach to universal suffrage. It is unques
tionable that the example of Democratic
America, and especially the complete tri
umph of our contest with rebellion, which
has proved the strength and stability of a
popular government, has had a large share
iu giving renewed strength to the liberal par
ty of England.
Mr. Bright, iu his Birmingham speech, de
livered on his return to Parliament, put for
ward in a hypothetical form what will un
questionably prove to be the programme of
advanced liberalism in the new Parliament.
The main points may be briefly stated as
follows: First, an electoral qualification as
low at least as a G/. rental, with provisions
giving the suffrage to non-householders of
equivalent standing. Then, a measure for a
general and thorough system of popular edu
cation preparatory to a further enlargement
of the electoral body at a subsequent |>eriod.
Following these great measures will come
the abolition of the Protestant church estab
lishment in Ireland; an essential modifica
tion. if not an entire repeal of the laws of
entail aud primogeniture, with the avowed
object of largely increasing the number of
the land owners in the country by the break
ing up of large estates; the repeal df all re
ligious disabilities aud test oaths ; the reduc
tion of the military and naval ‘-sthnates, and
of the civil list; the abolition of all sine
cures ; and, as a consequence, a great reduc
tion of taxes.
There appears to be much misapprehen
sion as to the real tendency of English Par
limenlary reform among American journal
ists. From the tenor of the above remarks,
the conclusion would follow that the most
radical reforms are likely to occur from the
triumphs of the Whig party at the recent
English elections, to the extent of the “adop
tion of universal suffrage," to be followed by
the abolition of the Protestant church estab
lishment of Ireland ; an essential modifica
tion, if not entire repeal of the laws of en
tail and promogenitures, with the avowed
object of largely increasing the number of
land owners in the country by the breaking
up of large estates; the repeal of ad reli
gious disabilities and test oaths," &c., &c.
These cliauges would amount to a total
revolution of the government—would con
vert the English monarchy into a democracy.
Such expectations are founded on a total
misconception of the character of the people
ofEngland and their governing classes. If
there is one fact more Indisputable than an
other, it is the aversion of the English nation
to democracy. That there is such a class of
persons in England, of which Mr. John
Bright is and exponent, is not de
nied, but they constitute only a small number
even of the numerical majority of the peo
ple.
Those who govern public opinion in that
country—those who influence its councils,
and who lead in Parliament—are as much
averse to sweeping reforms as the most con
servative members of the Tory party. If the
debates of the House of Commons are scru
tinized, it will be found that Lord John Rus
sell, one of the most advanced of the liberal
Whigs, is far removed in opinion from those
reforms indicated in the extract made from
the Baltimore American.
Lord Palmerston, far more popular with
his party and the public than Lord Russeil,
is still more remote from democratic ten
dencies than Lord Russell. Mr. Gladstone,
one of the elect to the House of Commons,
a man of transcendant ability, and almost
ceriaiu to succeed Lord Palmerston as Pre
mier, although fayorable to the extension of
the franchise, and to reform generally, is far
from being disposed to make such conces
sions to democracy as would change the
character ol the government. There is not
one of the Whig leaders in the House of
Commons who would so widen the basis of
the suffrage as would lead to the “ abolition
of the Protestant church of Ireland,” and to
an “essential modification if not entire re
peal of the laws of entail and primogeni
ture.” If Mr. Gladstone should be the suc
cessor of Lord Palmerston, the probability
is very remote of his Initiating a bill for the
abolition of the Protestant church of Ire
land when it is recollected that he is one of
the strongest supports of that church in the
United Kingdom.
So much for the views and opinions of the
members of the House of Commons.
Outside of Parliament, the opposition to
any radical change of the basis of the gov
ernment, the middle classes, in whom repose
the political power virtually, composed in
the greater part of merchants, bankers, man
ufacturers, and landlords, there is an abso
lute horror of democracy. That the con
stituencies of Manchester, Liverpool, and
the large cities, would joyfully receive the
boon of more equal representation, will not
be questioned, but even the electors of these
cities would rejecl so large a measure of re
form as universal suffrage. Mr. Bright is tlur'
organ of only a small party in Eugiaud.
The Episcopal Church, Nobth and Sooth.
—The New York Church Journal says it
speaks by authority iu announcing that the
course to be pursued in the approaebiug
General Convention of the Episcopal Cliitteli
will be to call the full roll of the dioceses,
and “it any or all of the Southern bishops or
dioceses choose to be present, they will only
need to band in their names and their cre
dentials, answer to their names, and take
their seats, as of old time, without doubt,
question or condition of any sort whatso
ever."
The Boston Journal thinks if the views oi
Bishop Wilmer, of the diocese of Alabama,
prevail, no Southern delegates will present
themselves for admission, even on these easy
terms, lu a rescript of June 20, to the cler
gy aud laity of his diocese, he tells them
that “the lapse of the Confederate Gov
ernment does not necessarily involve the dis
organization of the General Council of the
Church within the limits of that Govern,
meat.” Two church organizations may exist
under one government, as is the case in
Great Britain, where the Church iu Eugiaud
aud the Church in Scotland exist as disiinct
organizations under one civil government.
Therefore no charge of schism can Justly lie
against the Church iu the Southern States, in
case she should see fit to perpetuate herself
through a separate organization. Whether
she shall do so remains to be decided by ec
clesiastical authority.
FOREIGN EMIGRATION.
Richmond,, (Va.,) Daily ltepnbllcof
the 26tli inst., says:
“It is stated that there lias arrived at
Washington a delegation representing a large
emigration society in Scotland, having a cap
ital of a'750,000, which they propose loin
vest in Southern lands, if sufficient induce
ments arc offered. The society is mainly
1 composed of the industrial cesses, and, on
the reception of a favorable report from their
representatives in this country, will increase
the capital to £1,000,000 and commence emi
grating immediately."
We have before alluded to the importance
of some prompt steps being taken to make
known the great Inducements offered by our
State to emigrants from abroad. All ac
counts agree iu representing the emigration
movement in the oid country as having re
ceived anew impetus since the close of the
war, and there is reason to believe that the
number of Europeans wbo will seek our
shores during the next few years, will
far exceed the emigration of any previous
years. It is observed, too, that the class of
emigrants now seeking to make permanent
settlements in the United States, are very
different from the dlift of pauper population
who have heretofore been driven to seek a
refuge in the States. Among those now
seeking to change I heir position of subjects
of the monarchies of the old world for that
of citizens of the great Republic, are capi
talists, artisans, mechanics and agricultural
ists—men of means, skill and industry—who
would be a valuable acquisition to any com
munity, but especially to us of llic Southern
States.
For such emigrants, we repeat, the State
of Georgia offers inducements second to those
of no other State in the Union. Unfortu
nately for them and for us, owing to our
comparative Isolation, and the prejudices
heretofore existing against our domestic in
stitutions, very little information in regard to
our soil, climate, mineral, manufacturing and
agricultural resources has ever been dissemi
nated in Europe, where the Southern journals
have had little or no circulation, and where
our people have had little intercourse. This
fact was formerly a matter of indifference to
us. But not so now. The great change
which has taken place in our political, social
and industrial status involves the necessiiy
for a change iu our policy in reference to
emigr ation. While we formerly repelled, we
should now invite emigration. Placed on
the same footing with the free States of the
North and West, the same elements to which
is attributed their wonderful growth and de
velopment must be employed by us. not only
to recover what we have lost, but to enable
us to attain that still higher rank in the great
family of States to which our superior ad
vantages of soil, climate, diversified produc
tions and great natural, resources entitle us.
The inducements which our State offers to
emigrants of every class should be made
generally known, and we hope that the
Convention shortly to assemble will not over
look this important subject. Some official
action on the part of that body, setting fortli
these inducements, inviting emigration, and
giving assurances of welcome in our midst,
would, we think, be eminently proper, and
greatly subserve the best interests of the
State.
John 3. Sammis & Cos., Jacksonvii.lb, Fla.
—Among our advertisers are John S. Sam
mis & Cos., of Jacksonville, Fla. They are
forwardiug and commission merchants, and
wholesale and retail dealers in groceries, dry
goods, &c. Col. Sammis, at the head of the
firm, is an old and wealthy resident of Jack
sonville, a large real estate owner, and a pub
lic spirited citizen. The firm do a very large
business iu cotton, lumber, &c.
Coiiciilntory Policy of tile Government.
Hon. Wm. Marvin, Provisional Governor
of Florida, in his late speech at Jacksonville,
said :
At the outbreak of the rebellion the so
called Confederate Government confiscated
the property of all Union people, and had the
insurgeuts been successful in the war, the
property of such citizens would have been
permanently confiscated aud lost to them.
The United States Congress also, as a means
of strengthening the government, and crip
pling the rebellion, confiscated the property
of its most guilty instigators and adherents.
In this category was embraced a large class
—for nearly all were rebellious. The action
ot government in this matter was in accord
ance with the usual practice of nations under
similar circumstances. By the failure of the
rebellion the property of Union people is re
stored to them, and that of the insurgents is
forfeited. VVe are utterly helpless, and fie pas
sive in the hands of the visitors. However hu
miliating it may be to confesss it, we are nev
ertheless a conquered people, and at the mer
cy of the Government. In this condition of af
airs wiiat does the government propose to do?
Still press us with its armies ? Glut its sword
of vengeance with our blood ? or confiscate
all our property f Not at all. Its majesty
ami might are no greater than its clemency
and mercy. It comes to us as the Father
went out to meet his prodigal son. It says
lay down your units and return to the peace
able pursuits of fife. Nearly all of you I
freely pardon,restore untoyou your property,
and civil aud political rights. The cases ex
cepted from tics general amnesty are Gene
rals, Governors, Judges, members of Con
gress and a few others. You may ask why
pardon was not extended to those who were
worth over $20,000 of taxable property.—
Sevei id reasons may be given. Their pre
sumed superior intelligence, their ability to
take some pains _to secure pardon, their
greater responsibility and obligations to the
State, may have been among the reasons
which led the President to inane that excep
tion But, though these wealthier persons
stand uupardoned, their case is by no menus
hopeless. They are in the same category as
the Generals, the Judges, and others except
ed from the general umnesty. Many of all
these classes, wili, I have no doubt, receive
executive clemency. It may be uecessary to
make examples of a few of the most wicked
and malignant persons, and confiscate their
property. Iu my official position I shall take
pleasure in recommending to the favorable
consideration ot the President all who are
truly penitent and give good evidence of a
| determination to he good, citizens in future.
I.in: in Ukoadwav—a Buckeye Heuo ahono the
syrens. —The captain of an Indiana company of
Uncle Sam’s soldiers came to New York on Wednes
day, and put up at the St. Nicholas. In the evening
he strolled out to “see the elephant." He was ac
costed by various persons In Broadway, anit evpress
ed his opinion of these persous by the commentary
that ‘‘the ladles of New York were as sociable after
dark as If they were old acquaintances." He ascribed
these expressions of Interest In him to the fact that
he wore a bran new uniform: with shoulder-straps of
the brightest pattern ; aud finally, on the Invitation
of one of the ‘-ladles” be met, he went Into the'‘Ori
ental” concert saloon, lu Broadway, not far above
Ills hotel. A bevy of beautiful, aud Innocent crea
tures here gathered about him, and drank his health
In sundry cooling libatlous. Growing warm and
feeling quite at home among his charmers, he uncer
emoniously drew off his broadcloth coat, and laid It
on the table by which he sat. Theu he resumed hts
Innocent nutations, the result of which was that the
“lady” who had entered ttte saloon with him grew
Jealous,und Insisted on Ids eomlngout Into the street
agatu. Captain said, “Oh, dou’t be In such a cou
touuded—hie—hu'-ry and then the “lady,” lu the
most playiui manner Imaginable, took up his coat
aud ran out with it, exclaiming, “I guess Uds’ll fetch
you." The Captaiu was not to be deluded out of Uls
comiorl, howeyer : he "guessed she’d be bauk." Jn
this lie was misukeu. He waited a good hour, but
“the lady” returned no more. Ho applied at the bar,
but of course no one there knew anything about
the woman he had lumself Introduced to the saloou,
and the conviction reluctantly forced Itself upon the
hero of mauy a battle UetiL that he was for once In
his life “jest regularly whipped." One of the attaches
of the place kindly offered to loan the Captain a
linen overcoat to return to the hotel In, but he swore
he "wasn’t afraid to be seen la his shirt sleeve*," and
accordingly found his way back to "headquarter*"
la that couditioo.
Terrible Inundation In Kansas.
Booses Swept Away and many
laves Lost.
The For* of the Storai and the ia.wea.lt>
•f the Waters.
From a letter dated at Leavenworth City,
Kansas, July 22d, 1865, we have been kindly
permitted to collate and present to our read
ers some account of an awful deluge
which visited that section, sweeping away
with the rush of the impetuous currents many
fine houses, massive stone bridges and stock
of every kind, aud revealing as the “crowd
ing waters" subsided, a loss of one hundred
and fifty lives. The inundation was preluded
on the morning of the 20th, by successive
displays of dark, weird-like clouds, mo
mentary flashes of lurid lightning, the
warring of tempests, and one continued tor
rent of water pouring from the heavens; and
its climax was only attained when the fear
ful darkness' of the midnight hour lent new
terrors to the appalling scene.
Between the hours ot eleven and twelve
o'clock signals of distress were given by the
ringing of hells in Leavenworth, and the
people advised of the precarfous condition
of those living on “Three Miles' Creek,” a
little rivulet contiguous to the city. Al
though but little assistance could be rendered,
in consequence of the deep darkness which
reigned supreme, many left their homes in
the city, and hurried forward to aid the suf
ferers. The shrieking of the hardly con
scious victims, the roar of the waters, and
the crashing of thunder, are described to us
as suggestive of the scenes depicted in the
most unearthly of Dante’s paintings. Grad
ually the waters moved up to the city, sweep
ing away everything with almost irresistible
force. Not a vestige of the two large and
splendidly ; constructed bridges on 2d and
sth sts., which ever) one thought would have
defied the blasts of storm for ages,
is remaining. Struggling victims were seen,
and their cries heard from every quarter,
summoned ns they were to a fate unforeseen
and terrible, all powerless to avert it.
We take the liberty of appending the fol
lowing extracts:
“Wo went yesterday to the scene of disas
ter, and O ! imagination caDuot picture the
misery. We saw five dead bodies taken from
the creek. I felt so sorry for Mrs. Murphy,
a young Irish woman, whose hjusbaud was
drowned, that I could no longer repress tears
of anguish and sympathy. Site sat in a
wagon beside her dead husband and wept
as if her heart would break. A lad, four
teen years of age, in attempting to save Mr
Murphy, was drowned. His father is in the
army, and his mother is at the point of
death. He was an excellent swimmer, and
could have saved himself. His name is Wil
lie Turner. I am tiappy to record such an
instance of s elf-sacrificing heroism. One
man, who had a wife and sever, children,
made an attempt to save them. He got one
child off in safety, and was returnmg for the
rest, but the water proving too strong for
his exhausted frame, he caught the branch of
a tree to rest for a time ; but while there,
oh! who can picture the heart rending agony
of the tiusband and father wtien he beheld
his house rushing swiltly past him, and
heard his wife and little ones crying aloud
in tones of anguish for that aid which he
could never bestow.' They were washed iuto
the current of the river and were drowned.”
Wc are also informed in another paragraph
that two other houses floated into the mad
dened torrent, and proving too weak to
combat the seething flood, all the inmates
found their graves in the watery depths.
The following detailed account appeared
in the •‘Conservative," a newspaper of that
city ;
“One house was seen floating down with a
family of four persons upon it, shrieking for
assistance. A livid flash of lightning lit up
the scene just as the wild current swept
them beneath the arch of the bridge, and
they were seen no more. By heroic efforts
many of the unfortunate ones who were
seen floating down upon drift wood and
wrecks of houses, were rescued from their
peril and brought to shore: One colored
man was saved by some gentlemen living at
the Grant House, who worked their way to
him.upon a piece of side-walking serving as
a raft. Steve Quinton saw a man hanging
to a tree, and tying a piece of rope to his own
body, he, with great difficulty, made his
perilous way to the exhausted and drowning
man, and brought him to shore. A woman
named Tusher, residing a short distance from
the Grant House, saved her life by breaking
through the ceiling and climbing to the
roof."
COUSIN SILE’B OIL FARM.
‘ The most dreadful smell! What on earth
is it ? Sally !—I say !
‘ P'raps it's the ile; some folks doesn't like
it. How de du, Cousin Peter ? ’
It wasn't Salley the chambermaid. I
knew that at once. But turning I was puz
zled to guess who the stranger was. To my
knowledge I had never seen him before, or I
never should have forgotten him. Loog and
lank, with straw-cole red hair and blue eyes
like dull glass beads, with a none long enough
to have made one apiece for three ordinary
faces, and with apparently two joint* in it,
both movi.ble, aud a loug expanse of yellow
cheek awAii to behold. Attired in the blue,
long-tailed coat aud brass buttons, the yel
low vest and tall white hat of the stage
Yankee, I verily believed that some of my
ihcalriai friends had played a trick upon me
und was visiting me in masquerade.
* How de du Cousin Peter '( ' said the pres
ence again, and I replied, npou my guard
against a practical joke.
‘ And pray, what am I to call you, sir ? ’
‘ Lor', don’t stand on no ceremony ; I ain’t
stuck np if lam beforehand. Jest call mo
Cousin bile, like you used ter. ’
Then I knew him. It was cousin Silas
Peek, whom I had not seen since we played
marbles, and robbed the orebard* together
down in Maine. He had always those eyes
and that nose, probably in his cradle, but be
wore roundabouts and was three feet high
when we parted. >
’ Cousin Silas! You had the advantage of
me, I admit- Delighted to see you. (Ob,
Mr*. Opie!) What has brought yon thi*
way?”
Cousin Silas tucked his coat-tails ui ider his
arm, aud sat down in a chuir the wroo g way,
with his elbows on the back and bis tchin on
both his hands, betore he answered my In one
monosyllable—
' Ile. ’
* What did you eay ? ”
‘He.’
‘ Oh, oil ? ’
’Sartainiy, lie. ’
As he warmed up—l mean outwardly, not
with the subject ot conversation—that awVul
smell grew stronger. Despit e my desire al
ways and under every circumstance to ap
pear well bred, I was obUg>|d to snuff audi
bly. Silas heard me.
’ Plain tube seen’t yu hr pren't got later It
yet,’ he said.
• Into what f ’ I asked.
• Inter lie.'
‘ I trust a wise Providence will never see
it necessary for ray discipline that I should
go into a thing Iso altominate,’ I said. And
then, as the smell grew stronger, I began to
think of my cousin’s explanations of burst
ing cans, overflowing hogsheads, etc.
1 looked at him, and involuntarily sniffed
again.
‘ 3 ime accident" I said, inquiringly.
4 You spoke of having been iu oil. Excuse
me, it is apparent— paiufully so. By what
accident ? ...
•Ob 'twarn’t adzackly accident.' inter
rupted Cousin Silas. Ts’poae you heard of
my marrying Suke Jenks ?’
4 Yes, I received cake.'
• Lor’yes ; Mother Jenks made it; wasn't
it light ? Well, Suke, she’s dead, an’ I’m a
wid-dewer.’ .
4 1 regret to bear it,’
‘Wa’al, it can’t he helped ye know. Old
man Jenks died afore her and left her some
land in Pennsylvaney, besides the Jenks
farm up our way, ye see.’
4 Ah!!’
‘You may say ah! D’ye know I went
down see that land, and ’twarn’t wuth
shucks? I’d a sold it, only nobody would
gie me nothin’ for it; so I kinder gin up nil
thoughts about it till las year. Then what
d’ye suppose happened ?’
4 You sold it.’
4 Anything green in my eye. Cousin Pete ?
No, that land to spoutin.’
4 To spoutin.’
4 You never seen the beat. Little boy took
a coal shovel to get some ile for a flower
pot, and the minute he struck the arth up
spouted ile, like this yer fountain in the
Union Square you Yorkers are so proud of
when it’a on full head. Most smothered the
child. Wa’al, fact is, my tract’s ile tract.
4 Dear me.’
• Os coarse I came down and fetched hands.
Neow thar’s about fifty ile fountains in full
play. Men drawing it off in buckets. Got
to be guarded by men with rifles like this
here Emperor of the French when he goes a
ridin ; the other specylatnis is so envious of
me down ther. Made the biggest pile agoin.’
Buy out A., or Astor if I like. Tell you,
like the smell or not, ile is a good thing to
get inter, Cousin Pete.’
‘Excuse me,’ I said, ‘but don’t call me
Pete. It’s vulgar; I don’t like it. I write
myself Pierre, the French form of the
name.’
‘Lor’duye,’ said Silas, ‘wa’al I wonder
I should like Pete; it sounds good ; sort o’
short for petroleum. That’s why I like Sile.
Take away the Saud it s ile, you know.—
So you aint in the ile ?’
I began to wish I was.
‘Come down here to visit hotels,’ said Sile,
go’mg on. 4 Want to contract to furnish them
with such superior quality table ile for salads
and sicb. New well started yesterday morn
ing; delicious stuff; fetch you up a bottle.’
4 1 beg you won’t trouble yourself,’ 1 said
aghast.
4 No trouble at all, Cousiu Pete—or what’s
that you wan’t to be called ? Peer ? Besides
you can write me a puff, Biggest ile man
goin’, finest quality ile, etc, etc. You're in
the newspaper line, I hear. ’
• I venture to call myself an author,’ I re
marked.
‘Sartainly. Don’t pay, does it?’
4 Tolerably. There are things better than
money, Mr. Peek.’
4 Wa al I dunna what, unless It is ile.
But I say, you know the big bug3, don’t
you ?’
I thought of my landlady’s bedrooms dur
ing midsummer, and groaned ‘yes.’
‘First families. Fifth Aveny folks and
them ye know ?’
4 A few,’ said I.
4 Wa’al, now I’m up in the world, I ought
to know ’em, oughtn't I ? Tell you what;,
Cousin Pete—beg pardon, Peer—l'll stay
with you a spell, and you shall show me
round.’
‘The accommodations,’ I began.
4 Don’t make no apologies. Slep’ in an ile
puddle many a time ; lam to rough it at the
wells,’ said Cousin Sile, and what more could
I say ?
Therefore he staid. We dined, we smoked.
Then I began to look at the time piece. I
had an engagement at Miss Wickett's; but
to take Sile there in his blue coat, white hat
and brass buttons, with such an odor of oil,
was impossible. I adored Miss Wickett; I
fancied I had made some advances towards
her esteem. To present a cousin like Silas
Peek might ruin them at once and forever.
At last I ventured : 44 Not having your bag
gage with you, I presume I dare not hope for
your company to-night, Cousin Silas?"
44 Eh ? Lor’, yes! Don’t you see I’ve got
on my Sunday bettermost? Paper collar in
ray pocket, wrapped up with a fine-tooth
comb id a clean handkerchief. Lam tu make
yourself slick easy at the ile wells.”
So in despair I dressed, perfumed my ker
chief with Night Blooming Cereus, and ac
cepted Silas Peek's company with a groan.
Our way up Bradway was marked by the
sniffs of pedestrians against whom we brush
ed, and ejaculations of 44 Awful!” 44 Horrid!”
44 kerosene, ain’t it!” etc,
They have a party at the Wicketts—an
elegant, select affair, graced by the belles and
exquisites of the 44 creme de la creme.” As
Silas took his hat off and ran his fingers
through his hair, I felt my heart sink. He
seemed such a greasy wretch, I expected to
be ordered from the house, when! said to
Mr. Wickett, aside:
“My dear sir, I’ve taken the liberty of
bringing with me a distant cousin of my own,
Mr. Peek—(a-ahem) a rather unsophisticated
gentleman—a—in fact, just from his exten
sive oil farm, where he has amassed a fortune
aud, I fear, learned to neglect the observan
ces. I—ahem.’
To my astonishmuit, Mr. Wickett shook
me by the hand. *
‘No apologies,’he said. ‘These busy and
prosperous persons are priviledged; we
don’t expect of them what we do of others.
Introduce me.’
All kindness to me, of course. 1 felt grate
ful. So I introduced Mr. Peek, and went to
find Miss Wickett who was divine in scarlet
and white flowers. How I adored that girl 1
HoW I feasted on her smiles! HoW I rejoiced
in those quiet moments when I dared to say
sweet nothings to her—when she looked at
me only as she could look ! Every man has
been in love once in bis fife, they say. If so,
every man can recall bis own experience,
and know bow I regarded Wilhemina Wick
ett. Woids cannot do justice to my emo
tions
In her presence 1 forgot my cousin Silas
Peek for a while. But soon in the midst of
the silence in which we listened to Wilhemi
na singing, I heard his voice, and turning,
uw him. lie stood in the midst of a group
of gentlemen, all with their faces very red
with excitement, and their eyes wide open
with surprise, and he held forth oh the sub
ject of oil.
How his tract spouted, sir, as es eleven
thousand whales were underneath the arth.
How folks went on their knees to get the first
supplies of that ile. How did he verily be
lieve thut diggin' down six feet you'd come to
a great vat full, all ready to be scooped up;
aud how all the ile streams and lie wells jest
bad their rise in Peek's tarm, aud nowhere
else, byjingo!
Aud whan she had done singing, Wilhe
mina—l mean Mr. Wickett, darted trom the
crowd, and seizing her hand, drew her to
wards Silas, with the words, “Mv love, I
must make you acquainted with Mr. Peek,
one of our oil pioneers, who hae just been
giving us sonie valuable information' on tbe
subject ot oil lands.’’
Poor Wilhemina—she who shuddered at
the unpleasant perfume of a marigold, and
could not walk in the garden until the gar
dener had uprooted the obnoxioue weed
how I pitied her as the atmosphere of my
horrible oil cousin surrounded her on the
tete-a-tete. ,
• For my take you have borne it, angelic
girli’ 1 thought; and followed her with my
eyes, as Silas took her down to ahpper, say
ing «n the stairs, * I wish Ids thought to
letch along a bottle of lie, you could a seen
Ibow fine it is to eat on salad. And I tell yon,
there ain’t nothing like it for hair ile. Beck
on you’re noticed how ellek vine look*. It
would take that kink out of yours In lass’n
no time.’
When we departed I could not help breath
ing in her ear, 44 1 appreciate your kindness,
most amiable of mortal women—angel!"
And she smiled on Silas and I, as we bowed
ourselves out together.
The next day there came to me a dainty
note, writen as an old iriend might write.
Could Mr. Paragraph dine with them on
Wednesday, and bring his dear, odd, agree
able cousin, Mr. Peek, who had so interested
papa about wells and things, along with him?
And she remained
Wilhklmisa Wickett.
Os course Mr. Paragraph could. Jle was
only too happy r . Cousin Silas turned his pa
per collar ou the other side and went also.
They had invited Mr. Bungilee and Mr.
Trumps, of the firm of Wickett, Trumps &
Bnngalee, to meet us; and the conversation
ran on oil so entirely that it took away my
appetite. But wbo could care for food who
could sit near Miss Wilhelmina Wickett, and
feel the folds of her silken robe brush his
knee—who was actually permitted to pass
her plate tor more turkey, and to see that she
had “just a morsel more gravy?” Not I
for one. A delicious certainty th'at my day
dreams were soon to be realized, and that I
would one day call Wilhelmina Wickett my
own, possessed me.
That night I drew her little note of invita
tion from my pocket, and, kissing it, repeat
ed, alluding to the signature:
4 Remain, Wilhemina Wickett. Oh, no!
no! no! not long, tor I shall make you Wil
hemina Paragraph. Does she not smile upon
my oily cousin for my sake ?’
Yes, she had been very kind to Silas. She
continued to be so. So did her papa- Also
the firm of Tiuraps & Bungalce. They made
Silas Peek the fashion, and lovely girls called
him a ‘dear, odd creature.’
When we passed along the street the peo
ple cose to see the proprietor of the 4 Peek
Oil Farm.’and would whisper:
‘That’s his cousin, Mr. Pierre Paragraph,
the poet.’ So I shone by reflected light. The
light of oil.
I begun to see at last that poetry was as
nothing beside petroleum. That Silas Peek
was adored for his farm’s sake. That he was
a veritable lion. A man bowed down to aud
adored. He had influence, also; every man
with whom he conversed resolved at once to
put his money into oil.
I should, if I had any.
At last a harrowing suspicion dawned upon
me. It was idiotic. I laughed at it. Yet it
remained.
One day, while dining with Cousin Silas at
the Wicketts, it forced itself upon my mind.
I resolved to banish it forever, and seized the
moment when the old gentleman and Cousin
Peek were roaring about ile, and we, Wil
hemina and I, Were on the garden balcony.
Then I began :
4 Welbelnuna, you must long have known'
—but she put up her hands and implored.
» 4 Please don't, Mr. Paragraph!’
4 1 must,’ said I.
4 Ilil go away if you do.”
‘Nay, stay and hear me.’
4 Oh, dear ! Ple-e-ease —'
4 Angel, we have no auditors. Your fath-,
er and niy cousin have forgotten all in oil.
My heart —•’
4 Oh, you musu't say anything about your
heart!’cried Wilheruiea, in quite a tragic
way. 4 It’s wrong for me to hear it.’
4 Wrong for you to hear my fervent pro -
testations of adoration ! Oh, Welhemina, I
love you better than my soul I—’
4 Oh, What would Mr. Pee'k say ? Do go
away.’ And she wrung her hands despair
ingly.
4 Mr. Peek! I trust he would not ven
ture a word on the subject,’ I said haughtily.
4 1 accord to hitn no such privilege.’
‘Oh, but he has, you know.’
4 Has what ?’
4 The privilege—the—the right. Oh, Mr.
Paragraph, don't you know I've been en
gaged to Mr. Silas Peak a fortnight ?”
I fell flat among the flower-pots. When I
picked myself up Wilhemina had joined Silas
Peek iu the parlor.
They had sold her for oil. Mr. Wickett had
put his money in oil and added his daughter.
Mr. Trumps and Mr. Bungalee only wished
that all oil farmers were Mormons, that they
might give them their daughters also They
had sacrificed her, driven me to despair,
and established the 4 Grand Peeks Farm Oil
Company.’
Next, week she was married in Grace
Church. Silas asked me to be his grooms
man, and I, for the first time in our aeqaiut
ance, turned on him and called him an oil
barrel.’
Who cared ? They went on their tour (to
the oil farm, I suppose,) as merrilyjas though
I had not uttered the vindicative words.
About three mouths alterward I remember
to have read something in a paper about a
celebrated divorce case. It appears that
Mrs. Wilhemma Peek had been in divers
ways ill-used. Among other things expatia
ted upon by her lawyer, were Mr. Silas
Peek having invested all his fortune in oil
lands, bad insisted on establishing his resi
dence upon an oil tarm, where it habitually
rained grea9e ; and, furthermore, had insist
ed on replenishing the caster cruet with pe
trolum, and had forced the beautiful Wil
hemina to partake thereof. I read the an
nouncement with great gusto. I attended
court daily throughoui.the suit. Yes, I have
been avenged!
A fellow known as “Old Jim Smith," who
had been a leader in outrages upon Union
men iu Tennessee, was recently arrested near
Nashville. The Sheriff, says a Northern pa
per, stepped aside to give some curious per
sons an opportunity to look at the wretch,
and in an instant seven bullets went whist
ling through the outlaw’s body. Terrible re
venge !
Hotel Arrivals.
PULASKI HOUSE, AUGUST 11.
F D Currie ami wife, H Almv, str Gulile
Beaufort J A Kein, Wilmington Del
L C Chapin, Surg Us V G Feay, Charleston
Hilton Head B Lake, do
GW Haines. do CaptJ P Lord, wife and
J M Crofut, do child. Beaufort
T Vail, do G Holmes, do
J McKane, New York IA K Lane, do
A S English, Fair Haven N K Seovel, do
U T Fulton, Savannah |J G Thompson, do
Capt M Murphy, Brook!yu|G C Hunting, do
SEA ISLAND HOTEL (HILTON HEAD) AUG. 10.
C Newman, Orangeburg |C P Lambet, 66 N Y VoI7
J S McCauifan, Q M, Capt A C McDonald,
34 U S C T 26USCT
Capt W W Webster, Major G D Weeks, Sav
6F9CT |J M ElUott, do
J H Mlsrell, Jacksonville J Kollock, do
J M F’alrbrooks, Virginia Lt W H Foster, 30 Me V
B M Partridge, N York |S E Howard, Beaufort
PORT ROYAL HOUSE (HILTON HEAD) AUO. 10.
Miss capron, Charleston Mrs Fitsslmmons and
D CJencks, do child, charleston
Surg Day, do G Fannin, Lawton plauta
G N Little. do HII Gooe, do
Capt T Smith, 47 Penn V C F Smith, do
A Poindexter and lady, J S Wjlson, Augusta
Richmond J A Wilson, do
G S Gray and servant J McKnne, Hilton Head
Lt U J Salisbury, Beaut P Slnnott, Columbus
T L Wlswall, do 0 Newman, Orangeburg
C F Haywood, Savannah Sor C S lteber, Boston
J H Gould, do W B Leaahubee, do
D B Lillie, Vermont Capt Kelly, 160 N Y You
Shipping Intelligrenee,
PORT OF SAVANNAH.
Arrived.
Friday', Aug. 11,1866.
Steamer O S Grant, Briggs, Hilton Head.
Steamer St Helena, cercopeloy, Beaufort.
Cleared.
Sehr Constellation, 358 bales Upland Cotton.
PORT OF PORT ROYAL.
Arrived.
Aug B—Sc8 —Sc hr Belle. Bulger, Boston.
Aug 9— Scbr J M Bruouiatl, Douglass, Me ; steamer
Lonlsberg, Dale, Jacksonville; steamer Continental,
Cleared.
Aug 9 —Steamer Idaho, Holmes, Washington.
BACON, BACON,
HAMS and SHOULDERS landing from steamer
Constitution this day. For sale by
angS-3 BELL. WYLLt * CHRISTIAN
FUNERAL INVITATION.
The friend! and acquaintances of Mr. andMa
John R. Johnson are respectfully Invited to attend tnj
funeral of their yonnqest daughter, CORNEL I*
SAMS, froaa their residence on Jones street. This &f
ternoon at S o'clock.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
DOG LOST,
LOST, yesterday, a black and tan terrier nno «i,„
• CRN. LEE” on the collar. v * WM *
A suitable reward Will be paid for bis recoverv «.
Stamm’s Barber Shop, corner Bull and Bryan bo-mu
or to me.
aul3-tf EDWARD G. DIKE, Oapt. 4 A. A. 0,
Special- Notice!
THE undersigned having been appointed Agent of
the Southern Mutual Insurance Com]uny, Athens,
Georgia, Is now ready to remote the business of said
Company.
Can be found at N. A. Hardee 4 Co.'a Office, Bar
■treet.
auli 2 JOHN N. LEWIS
ImOUGUSTAT
THE STEAMER GEN. BERRY
WILL STAST ON
SATURDAY, AUGUST I2th s
- AT EIGHT O'CLOCK P. M.
Has a few Staterooms, which will be reserved for
Ladlcas V'ithout extra charge. If applied for early.
For Freight and Passage apply to
CHAS. L. COLBY 4 CO.,
aull Cor. Bay and Abercorn sts.
For Augusta,
AND INTERMEDIATE LANDINGS.
O'NEIL’S FLATS Nos. 1 and 2 will leave for the
above port ou WEDNESDAY, the 10th Inst.—
Insurance guaranteed at the lowest rates Only a
limited quantity freight taken.
Way freight payable by shippers. Apply to
crane. Johnson 4 gratbill,
au!2-3 --1 Bay atreet
FOR DOCTOR TOWN,'
VIA DARIEN.
THE New and Light Draught Iron Steamer WM G.
GIBBONS, Capt PhilpoL will leave Dillon’s
Wharf, as above, ou MONDAY AFTERNOON, 14th
Inst.
Liability of the boat to cease when the freight Is
landed.
Freight payable here (on wharf, by shippers.
ERWIN 4 HARDEE,
aui2 Agents.
Notice.
"S'HE lease of the PULASKI HOUSE to Bartels 4
A Klddell, having beeu cancelled by order of the
mill tary authorities, and the Pnlaskl House property
having bee n, by the same authority, turned over to
W. H Wlltbereer, the owner thereof, the firm of BAR
TELS 4 RIDDELL, late proprietors of the Pulaski
House, is dissolved from this date. All persona har
ing e'aims against the firm of Bartels Si Riddell will
please present the same for settiem-nt to
JOHN 0. BARTELS
Savannah. August 12th, 1806. aulr-0
Notice.
THE business of the PULASKI HOUSE will be con
tinned aud managed by the undersigned, under
the firm and name ot W. H. WIi.TSKRGER CO.
W. H WILToERGEB.
J. O. BARTELS.
Savannah, Angart 12th, 1665. an!2-0
Notice.
OFFICE PROVOST MARSHAL,
Sub-District of OaevouEE,
Savannah, GS.. August 11 13(55.
The people of Savannah are hereby notified that tn
office will be opeued ut the U. s. Custom House oa
and after the 12th day of August, 18(16, where Lieu*.
W. W. Morton, 15Sd N. Y. V., Assistant Provoßt Mar
shal, will be ou duty fur the purpose of administering
to ladies the Amueaty Oatfl us prescribed by President
Johnson’s Proclamation of May 22th, ISCS.
(.Signed; * SA.U’L COWDHY,
Capt and Provost Marshal,
aul2-T • Sub District of Ogeechse •
UNDERWRITERS’ SALE
OCTAVUS COHEN
Will sell THIS DAY, at 10 o’clock, at Central Cotton
Cotton Press,
4 bales COTTON.
Damaged on the voyage from Augusta, and sold to
account of the Underwriters and all concerned.
Terms cash. au!2
mmm wanted.
WANTED, FIRST CLASS EXCHANGE
ON NEW YORK.
By THOMAS PEPPER,
anl2-3 116 Congress street.
Iron, Iron, Iron.
WT ANTED immediately, Fifty Tons of wrought enl
V V Cast Scrap Iron aud Metals. The highest case
prices paid.
Manufacturers supplied.
OLIVER & CO.,
aulS Forest City Mills, Savannah.
DON’T TRADE FOR THAT
DUE BILL.
ALL persons are hereby notified not to trade for > .:
Due Bill given by me to E. G. Wilson and pays, y
ble to hts order for two hundred and forty dollars ana
twenty cents as said Dae Bill has been paid by nw
long since! The due bill is dated February 16th, I®»>
an 13-3 WJLSWuLL
inkT
ok GROSS INK, in stands, at $8 60 per gross. 16 1
dozen Arnold’s Writing Fluid, pints, at $1 P& j
dozen. For sale by .„. _
SAVILLE & LE.YCS.
aul2 ts cor. Bryan street and Market square
stationery^
Os Iff BEAMS Superfine Commerc! and Note Paper.
it iJU 4 Yi pounds to tbe ream, at the very low prU*
01 Alßo,°a P large a variety of other Papers, Envelopes,
Pens, Ink, Pencils, Ac.
aul2 cor. Bryan street and Market Square.
And Merchants' Row, Hilton Head, S. c.
GUERARD & FERRILL,
THE undersigned haviDg entered Into Copartnership
as Factors, Brokers and Commission Merchants, war
sell aud purchase on Commission Coiton, TfmiKn
Produce and Merchandise. Orders and consignment
solicited.
EDGAR L GUERARD.
BENJAMIN B. FERBILL.
Befibbhoss.—Robt. Habersham A Sons, Geo. W-
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L. VUlslonga. 6 aul . ,
Offices to Let.
TWO ROOMS TO LET, SUITABLE FOB
OFFICES-
Apply at th* HERALD OFFICS
auli-tf .
Cellar to Let.
TO LET, A LARGE CELLAR, SUITABLE FOR
STORAGE-
Apply »t the HERALD OFFICE.
-‘•“’-rt -
FOB SALE.
en nnn first class cypress shingles,
OUsUUv In lots to su.t purchasers.
Aim, * and 4 foot Clapp Boards, will b. made to or
der. Inquire center President and Price snvsts.
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