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THE SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. ——————— mmm " • VOL. 1-NO. 183. The Savannah Daily Herald fMOKNING AND EVENING) 16 PUBLVHKD BY <53. W/ MASON A COm At HI Bay JStumft, Savannah, Geop.oia. tiimi: Per Copy ""M per Hundred ** Per Year w ißViitiii ho: Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first in r(-„u. one Dollar for each subsequent one. Ad vertisements inserted In the morning, will, it desired, •ini'ear in tlie evening without extra charge. JOB PBINTING, in even- style, neatly and promptly done. . A PB.OCXaAHfLA.TXOXr, by JAMES JOHNSON, Provisional Governor. To the People of Georgia : For the purpose of enabling the people of Georgia the more easily to prepare them selves for the exercise of the rights of citi zens I hereby proclaim and direct, that the Ordinaries in the several counties of the State be and are hereby authorized to administer the oath of amnesty set. out in the President's Proclamation of the 29th of May, 1805, to such persons as shall be entitled to take and receive the same; and in case of a vacancy in the office of Ordinary in any county or counties in this State, then and in that case the Clerk of the Superior Court in such county shall administer said oath. Provided, said officers themselves shall have previously taken said oath. it is further declared and directed, that when the oath is administered as aforesaid to any person within any of the exceptions specified in said proclamation, it shall be appended to the petition of the applicant— which petition shall also be verified before such Ordiuary or Clerk, by the oath of the party; and when administered to any per son not embraced within any of the excep tions specified, the origiual oatli taken and subscribed shall be sent by the officer ad ministering the same, to the Secretary of State of the United States, and a certified copy shall be given to the applicant. And it is further proclaimed and declared, that all the civil officers of this State who have taken and subscribed the oath pre scribed iu the Proclamation aforesaid, if not embraced within any of the exceptions ; •br who may have received special amnesty, if embraced, shall proceed thereafter in the discharge of the duties of their several of fices according to the laws inexistence prior to the Ist of January,’lßol, so far as the same are not inconsistent with our present condition. To lacilitate the people in obtaining the Amnesty proffered, the Ordinaries, or Clerks, (as the case may be,) are authorized to pro cure printed blanks from’ either one of the following presses most convenient, as the Sadie may be needed, for which payments will be provided, or bills presented at this office, viz: Savannah Republican, Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel, Southern Watchman, Allauta Intelligencer, Rome Courier, Macon Telegraph, Southern Recorder, and Colum bus Enquirer. Done at Millcdgeville, the Capitol of the State, ou this, the 7th day of August, iu the year of our Lord, 1865, and the eighty ninth year of American Independence. JAS. JOHNSON, Provisional Governor of Georgia. By the Governor: L. 11. Bkiscob, Secretary. Cultivation of the Poppy. —Some discus sion is going on in regard to raising poppy for opium. We have just talked with a ter mer everseer of an opium plantation in Smyrna, and some of his information is wor thy of notice. An acre of land set to poppy produces about thirty pounds of opium on the average ; some years double this, and a few seasons less. The juice awhich exudes from slits made in the poppy heads just be fore they ripen, constitutes the gum opium of commerce. This juice is allowed to col lect ou the stalk, anti scraped off when it becomes nearly dry ; it is then put up in cases for market. In this country the heads would have to be cut offvflt the proper time and the juice expressed, which is a quicker process; and the juice remaining in the heads after pressure could be macerated in alcohol and water, and made into laudanum or morphiuf. Opium is worth about fifteen dollars a pound. The amount annually sold in the world is estimated at %irty millions dollars, while many put it as high as seventy millions. In raising poppy little labor is bestowed on it, except in weeding and keeping off insects. Cheap labor answers the. purpose, and it may be cultivated for twenty dollars an acre year ly. Allowing fifty dollars an acre for ex penses, we should find fifty acres of opium at thirty pounds to the acre, is fifteen hun dred pounds; at fifteen dollars the pound, would be twenty-two thousand and five bun* died dollars for the fifty acres—less interest and other incidental expenses. . The soil re quired is a light saudy loam, which we have abundance in Georgia. Extraordinary Nerve and Presence of Mind.—Last Wednesday night, a soldier ol'a Wisconsin regiment, while going koine on the Northern Central Railroad, fell from the top of the car, and the train passed over both of his legs, above the knee, nearly severing them from his body. He remained for seve ral hours without assistance, until lie arrest ed auother train by tiring his pistol at the machinery ot the locomotive. The poor fel low had actually severed his legs from his body, by cutting the few remaining tendrils with his pen-knife, and had contrived in a rude manner to arrest the bleeding from the stumps. His boots lay beside him with his feet within them. On medical assistance reachin '- him it was desired to amputate his legs properly, but he positively refused, say ing he hail suffered enough with them during the night. He was taken on to York, and exhibited the greatest calmness and coolness under his great misfortune. Trot'essor S. F. B. Morse, says the New York News, having noticed statements that no messages were transmitted through the original Atlantic cable, betweeen the Okl and New World, emphatically and clearly proves, by citing facts, that messages were sent and received, and that several items of news were published in Eu r opc within two or three days of tlife occurrence of events in this *country. Doubts on the subject have been very freely since 1868, when there was no hesitation in believing that the cable had worked, at least for a brief period. To Distillers.— Col. Cooper, commanding at Albany, has ordered all distillers in that section of Georgia to cease operations until nemiissiou is given them by proper authority to resume work. We presume this is a step taken preparatory to the enforcement oi the United* Slates revenue law with regard to distilling. A tax oi fa per gallon, as collect edupon all liquor distilled at the North, will most probably hereafter be collected m tieor- A MISTAKE, AXn> ITS RE SUETS. IN THREE CHAPTERS. CHAPTER I. It seems a long time ago since the journey from Cork to Dublin toott two days. There are those living, 1 suppose, who remember wfigu it was a matter of three or four, but I speak of a more modem period, albeit the railway from Dublin to Kingstown was then the only one in Ireland. At this time, Bian coni's large four-horse car's formed the grand trunktrom the south to the metropolis; while smaller vehicles, meeting the principal con veyance at diffefeut points, acted as branch lines to the main one. From one of these lattei I took the large car at Mitchelstown, on au intensely cojtl day, the last, or last but oue, til October, 18—. 1 was going to Dub lin for my Michaelmas Teftri examinations in Trinity College ; and having idled the whole summer, 1 felt some apprehension about the result of the ordeal through which I had to pass, aud wondered much whether I should come back “plucked.” The dark leaden sky, aud the cutting north-east wind, weie in dreary keeping with the sombre thoughts that troubled me. 1 occupied the box-seat, au honor that was dearly purchased by fac ing the blast; and Stapleton the driver pre dicted snow (early in the season as it was) before we reacheil Kilkenny, our destination tor that night. We delayed lor Italian hour, I remember, at Clonmel about two o'clock ; there was a good deal of excitement in the towu, from the expectation of a special com mission l'or the trial of prisoners connected with two terrible agrarian murders of recent occurrence in tbs South Riding of Tipper ary. As we journeyed on, the driver enter tained me with detaUs of difi'erent outrages that he knew of, pointing out, now aud again, the scenes where they took place, and winding up with the ominous announcement: “Mark my words for it, but the llihbon boys will give them enough to do this winter ; they won't let much grass grow under the peelers’ feet anyways. ” I forget how many stages vye had travel ed' from Clohfaei when we stopped to change horses at a small public-house on the road side ; something Was amiss with the shoe of one of the horses, and a sharp altercation ensued between the driver and the stable boy ou the subject, that ended with an in junction to “hurry off like blazes" to a neigh boring smith, to remedy the delect. As I forsaw that there would bo some delay, I proposed to one or two of my travelling companions to join me in a, run to warm our feet until the car overtook us. As they de clined, I set off alone, calling back to Staple ton, when 1 was a few paces on, to know il there were any turns upon the road. “No, sir,” he replied; and then added, “keep to the left, and you’ll be all light.” Laughing at this unintentional pun, and repeatiug the oid couplet to myself: ir you go to the left, .you'll lie sure to go right; 11 you go to the right,you'll go wrong— 1 dashed on at lull speed, aud very soon no ticing a road that branched off' at right an gles to the main one, I concluded that this was the reason of his direction. I was at all times a very swift runner, whUc the intense cold of the evening braced my energies still more. “By Jove!” I exclaitned, “I'll as tonish them a bit: old Jotiu will think I'm lost before he picks me up ami the expec tation of gaining credit by my prowess as a walker, accelerated my speed’ to unusual ra pidity. The day, I have already remarked,' was specially gloomy, aud the evening shad ows were now darkening into night with more than ordinary swiftness. Once I was for a moment at fault abowt the road, as I came upon a slight divergence from the di rect line, hut recalling Stapleton’s words— “ keep to the lett" —I followed that direc tion. and trudged on upon this unknown way into the thickly-gathering darkness. At laSl I began to wonder why the car did not come up ; but concluding that the smith's opera tions cuused the delay, 1 still went forward until the road became unusually rough and broken; and then, as far as the dim light allowed, I observed that the vegetation at the sides encroached far more than. I had ever known upon a mail coach road. “ Oh, ’tis impossible 1 have gone astray 1” I ex claimed, not allowing the unpleasant thought to intrude; and 1 still continued my coarse, though at a more doubtful pace, until I sud denly halted on perceiving that the narrow ing line of roadway appeared to cease alto gether, and 1 found myself actually walking on moist boggy ground. “ Where on earth am 1?” 1 ciied in consternation, peering through the darkness. As far as 1 could descry, I seemed to have wandered into some moor or commonage that stretched along the base ot a steep acclivity ; not a sound could I hear on any side, hut the moaning sigh 61 the wind as it swept by, with penetrating bitterness, and ouce the wild cry of some bird, startled from its lest by my approach, i mivde two or three efforts, hip prey proved ineffectual, to retrace my steps, and each time I became more bewildered, and stumb ling over rocky projections or roots of trees, occasionally sinking ankle-deep into wet miry ground. 1 “God help me! 1 exclaimed at last iu utter despair, and almost bursting into tears of vexation. “111 have to wander about here all night, and perish with cold before morning.” Another desperate effort to reach some pathway met with a like issue, save that by, I suppose, some consequent change .of uosiiiyu, i# bright light suddenly broke upon me, so bright and so close, that I was considerably startled at the unexpected appearance.' 1 thought of the Will-o’-the Wisp, and fancied, from the eidvent nature of the ground, that it might be the meteor of the marsh ; but as I moved cautiously forward, I saw that it came through the open door of a cabin, and a closer access showed me why I had not sooner detected it. The tenement before me was curiously constructed ; tire around on three sides rose at a considerable elevation, and it seemed as if a dark catein ous recess bad been formed, iu the yielding soil, and in R tills' mde habitation erected I walked straight to the door, but saw no one within or immediately near the cabiu ; the light came from a large peat-fire, piled upon a heartstone at one side of the room ; and so bright was the iiluminatiop, that it uot only disclosed eyery object inside, but enabled me tp notice distinctly the nature and peculiarity-of the building witbput. I hesitated to enter, notwithstanding the tempting look of the fire, where there Was no one to invite me. I called loudly ouce or twice, hut no reply came ;: and at length I passed within the doorway, ana proceeded without ceremony to warm my limbs at the welcame blaze. “Someone is sprp to be here in two or three minutes,” I though! ; “this fire has been lreshjy made up. lhe room where I stood seemed to be the only one the place eoffld boast of, and wietcfied enough it was ; and old bedstead with a tat teipd curtain, occupied one corner : beside the fire, rose a huge pile of dried sticks liuu"- loosely together that nearly reached the ceiling ; a largo log of timber, against the wall at the side opposite the lire, formed a kind of rude seat | while a stool or two, and an old rickety table, made up the re mainder of the furniture. W hen some short time elapsed, I began to feel a little nervous' at the position in which I fouud myself; apart.froin the vexation lexperieuced at hav ing gone astray, and the difficuty I might find in reaching Dublin iu time for my col lege duties, I remembered the troubled state of the country ; and this lonely spot, at the foot of some .mountain, was no desi rable place to be caught iu at night, alone and unarmed. J CHAPTER U. A was deliberating whether i had better SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1865. make another attempt to find tr.y way, or slay until someone came, when the dead si ience was broken by the noise of evidently more than oue person approaching. As the parties came nearer, I could discern that some contlict or struggle was goiug on ; at first, there were no voices, but a peculiar panting sound, such as accompanies the movement of people where effort is made by resistance, until at length, in a low, deep voice, like the growl of a mastiff, the words reached me: “Curse you, will you come ou ? 11l knock you on the head if you don’t.” The ominous tone iu which this brief sen tence was uttered, evidently close to the doorway, made me hound hack from the glare of the fire, and without a moment's thought, I glided in behind the pile of brush wood before referred to, between which and the end-wall of the cabin a narrow passage afforded bare space for concealment. I had scarcely effected my purpose, when three men entered the apartment, or rather two, dragging in another bel ween them. “Shut the door, Bill,” gasped the elder of the two, for he was out of breath, and perspiriug pro fusely. The younger man addressed as Bill complied, and then drew a large iron bar across the closed entrance. The screen be hind which I was ensconsed was so looseiy coiffecructed that I could see through the in terstices all that went forward, while I de voutly hoped that it would prove sufficient to hide me from observation. third in dividual of the party, who seemed to have been brought iu as a prisoner, was a mere strippling, did not look more than twenty, and had. I could notice by the firelight, an expression of extreme alarm on his pale young lace as he looked upon his captors. “There! ’ cried the elder man, giving him a violent push backwards, and shakiug his closed fist at him, “you are cocht at last, you miserable spalpeen you! I bad my eye upon you, when you little thought it. I suspected you even the very Dight you took the oath ; and to night I tracked you down to the po lice barrack, and saw what yon were afther; .but as there’s a heaven above us, it's the last chance you’ll ever get of doing the like!” “I tell you, Barney, on my solemn oath,” began the young man, in a voice that trem- Med with .agitation ; hut before lie could ut auother word, a quick, sharp knocking at the door interrupted him, and seemed to startle the whole party. The two men looked in quiringly at each other ter a moment. “Oh!” exclaimed the younger, who had been ad dressed as Bill, “ Tis Gran, I suppose ;” aud walking forward, he admitted, alter a mo ments parley, an old grey haired woman, with a cloak thrown over her head. “An where were you, now, at this hour of the evening?'’ asked Barkney, accompanying the inquiry with au oath. “An’ where was I, is that it? Afther them divils of goats there, that were wan thering off a good two mile and more from here ; and near enough I was, bad luck to them ! tumbling iu the dark into the Wizard's Hole above there, iu the bog; aud ’lisa night, glory be to God, that would shiver the heart out tv your body. But what’s along here ?" asked the old woman suddenly. “What’s the matlber ? Isn't this Ned Sweeney ?” “Matther enough!”returned Barney, gruff ly. “He only wanted to get the rope round my neck aud’Bill’s here ; ho was turnin’ in former on our bauds; but never you fear; we’ll stop that work. Here, Bill, lend a hand will ye,” and the speaker strode across the room with some strong cord in his hand, that he had'drawn trom his pocket. The poor youth uttered a wild cry of terror that rung through the whole place *as the two men seized him. “I tell you, Barney,” he cried imploringly, “I wasn’t going to tell a word to mortal soul, all 1 wanted with Connors was to ask him about the rabbits at the colonel’s.” “ Whist your jabber, you thin-skinned varmint, you. Keep your breath to cool your porridge. 1 would’nt believe ye, il ye kissed all the books iu the barony. Ye’d have told that same foxy cub of a peeler of our tramp to-uight, if I did’nt stop your ton gue. Ua! you'll rawer see daylight again, plase providence. Here, Bill, tie that knot tight, will ye.” . I could see from the spot where I was sheltered, that after a brief and feeble strug gle, their unfortunate victim had been hound ttand and foot, and was left sitting upon the log of timber before mentioned. I was at first so absorbed in interest at what 1 wit nessed! as to be halt unconscious of my own peril, but a terrible sense of it soon recurred. That 1 had most unfortunately lallen upou a party of desperate ruffians, there was no doubt, nor could 1 entertain a hope of es caping speedy death, if I were detected, and that might be expected every moment. A cold shudder crept through my whole frame as I realized the horrible position I was in. I was afraid, too, to stir, as an unguarded movement fniglit so disturb the trail screen in trout as at once to betray me; anil the narrow passage between it and the wall scarcely afforded standing room. Bitterly dill I curse the mad stupidity that led me into such danger; nor did many minutes elapse before a fresh accession of alarm was caused by the anticipation of instant dis covery. Barney and Bill, as 1 had heard them named, alter binding their prisoner, re turned to the fire, where the old woman had remained, holding her long skinny hands over the blaze, anil apparently uot much in terested, one way or the other, in the opera tions that were going on. “Isay,” asked Bill, as he seated himselt on a stool, “will you bring him helore Capt. Rock and the rest of the boys to-morrow night, and have him tried reg’lar?” '“Faith, I’ll do no such thing,” replied the other; “I'll be judge, jury, aud all myself. I ciuglit him in the act, and that's enough. Death and no mercy to the spy aud the in former—them's the laws among the Ribbon boys. Besides, I don’t like a bone in the young vagabond’s skin;” and the ruffian mutterred something that I could not hear. “May be, responded the other in a low tone, “you mav get into trouble.” “No fear, Bill, my boy. I dupuo,” he con tinued, “either, hut it may be best to finish him at once. Faith, here goes.” As he spoke the man lifted a square stone somewhere near the hearth, anil from a concealed re ceptacle he drew out what appeared to me, as well as I could see it, to be a huge pistol; from the safhe opening, he took the other appliances, and proceeded deliberately to load the weapon. The poor bound creature leaped up With a desperate effort, as he noticed those feartul preparations, hut fell back again, helplessly, upon the seat. “Ob, for the love of God, Barney, don’t murder me!” he cried, in a hoarse, halt choking voice. “Speak to him, Nelly, speak to him ! ’ he continued appealingly to the old woman. Neither of them took tire least notice of his eutreaties, the old woman mere ly shook her head, anil continued gazing into tne fire. Melt tingling from head to loot with horror at the prospect of witnessing this cold-blooded murder, and was inclined, op tfie first impulse, to rush out at all hazards aud interfere. “I say, Barney, why waste powder and shot on the likes of him ; ’ttin't so much we have to spare. Tell you what we’ll do ;us tye go down tq meet tuo boys on the way to the colonel's to-night, pitch him into the Wizard's Hole; aud mind me, he’il not come up again to tell tales.’ f “You’re right, Bill, —the—very—tiling,” returned Barney, laying down his pistol. “I remember the last chap as we tucked into the soft sheets there : laws ! what a plush he made as the black slush closed over him ; it made me almost shiver.” A deep 1 moan of aguoy that broke from the wretched youth, told the effect that this now arrangement had upon him. “There s a weight, a half-hundred, some ylftere,” said Barney ; “where is it, Nell ?” “Oh, tile old weight, is it? It’s behind lhe i sticks there, I believe. What do you want with it ?’ My heart leaped to ray throat at- this in quiry, lor just at my loot, where 1 stood. I Idt the hard substance, that I had supposed to be a stone. “Now for it !”'I thought, as I listened in an agony to the next words. “ We'll just tie it round his waist, Bill; ’twill be a nice buckle for his belt, aud will keep him down a while in the bottom of the hole." “ Shall I get it now ?” said-the old hag. “Time enough,” responded the other, “when we set out. Get supper, though.” Some relief was afforded by the respite; hut the faint hope which I had just begun To entertain, that I might possibly be able to evade discovery until the men departed with their victim, aud I had the old woman only to deal with, now vanished, as, when the weight came to be looked for, I was sure, of course, to be found, and as certain to be murdered. Some food was placed upon the small table drawn in front of the fire, while a candle fixed iu a sconce against the wall, added a feeble illumination to the firelight. The three partook of the meal in silence, and then the men smoked, during which an hour might have passed; scarcely a sound being heard, save a low moan or restless movement from the poor lad, who was evi dently writhing iu agony from the physical torture of the tight cording of his limbs, as well as harassed, no doubt, with the horri ble apprehensions of his coming doom. “Look out, Nell,” were the first words spoken by Barney, that broke the stillness look out, and see what time o’ night it is.” The old woman rose, opened the door, anil, judging by what external appearances I know not, iu a tew moments turned iu again. “’Tis no more than eight o'clock," she said. “ Eight o'clock ! Four or five hours yet, Bill. Let's have a sleep; we’re not to meet at the cross till one. Do you sit up and watch, Nell,” he continued ; “and wake us about twelve, mind.” Iu a few minutes the two miscreants had disposed themselves beside the fire, dragging over them some loose garments supplied by Nelly; and in a very short time their deep, heavy breathing betokened tliy) both were last asleep. A turmoil of anxious thoughts literally seethed through my brain in the brief period of stillness that followed. Could I take advantage of their sleep ? Could I take any step, and what, for my extrication from this dreadful peril ? At length a low, parched voice—a kind of husky whisper, il seemed—rose upon the quiet of the place : “Nelly, for the dear love of God, have pity on me, and save me, now they are asleep.” There was no answer. “Who knows but she has dropped off, too,” I thought. “ Nelly, if you ltope for mercy, listen to me, save me,” again whispered that weak voice of anguish. “ Whisht, will ye," replied the old woman, evidently quite awake. “It’s no use your talking; you'd have sold Bill to the gallows; and il the liftin' of my little finger would save yces, I wouldn't.” “Give me a sup of wather,” will ye?” he asked. “ I think I’ll go mad.” “ I’ll give you that much, at any rate,” she said; “though it’s enough of it you 11 get afore long, I'm thinking.” The old hag rose ana gave him some water from a tin vessel, but bitterly persisted in bet refusal either to aid his escape, or even to loosen the cords that were so cruelly tor menting him. When Nelly replaced the water-can on the table, she replenished the tire, settled the covering more carefully round the youth, and then muttered, in a kind of soliloquy : “No fear but I'll wake iu time; an hour at most will do me.” She moved towards the old bed, eyeing the pris oner's bonds, as she passed him, to see that all was right there, and threw herself upon the rickety resting place, that groaned and creaked beneath her weight, as she turned away from the light. Thank God, almost passed my lips as au audible utterance. For the first lime, I ventured to alter my position. I was so numbed and cramped that I could hardly stir. Soon the deep breath of the third sleeper was heard; the caudle had been extinguished. The fire burned less brightly, yet shed a crimson glow through the whole apartment, showing me as I gazed with less apprehension round the wood work screen, the dusky figures aud swarthy frowning faces of the two sleepiug men ; while it illuminated witli a fainter light the recumbent form oi the doomed culprit, disclosing a ghastly face, stamped with au expression of the deepest anguish, with the eyes closed, but not iu sleep, as a low sighiug moan that occasional ly escaped from his lips, but too plainly indi cated. CllAl'lEßln. To take swift advantage of so unexpected a turn iu the tide of danger, was of course, my foremost thought, and I was just about to glide out of my hiding-place, when I re membered that considerable caution was due with reference to the youth Sweeney, who, utterly unconscious of my being in the apart ment, might, in his surprise, give expression to some sound that would arouse the sleep ers, aud destroy us both. To release him from his bondage and peril, 1 was, ol course, as resolved on as to extricate myself. 1 crept out as gently as 1 could, and stood for a mo ment on the floor, to see if I could attract his notice. 1 was just by the bed where the old woman lay, a propinquity that I dreaded, as her softer breathing intimated a lighter sleep than seemed to have locked the two ruffians at tne fire. Still the young man remained with closed eyes, and it was only as 1 was just beside him that he started with a bound, aud glared upon me with anew terror in his face. I doubt not.hut that he thought, as 1 rose up so unexpected before him in that dusky light, that I was a spirit from the oth er world. “Hush!” I whispered putting my lips to his ear—“not a word,” pointing to the men. “1 was over there; 1 know all about you; wait till I cut those cords.” When with my penknife J fiad done so, it was some minifies before he could use his freed limbs. It required but few words to enjoin speed and caution. “Doyou unbar the door,” I again whispered, “and for your life, take care of a sound.” Slowly aud softly wo mqved on. 1 possessed myself qf the folded pistol, that lay by one of tlie sleepers, as I passed him. But our chief difficulty lay in getting the door opened. The iron bar that crossed it was fixed in a staple, aud fitted so tightly as to require considerable effort for its re lease, while the nervousness with which his whole frame shook made Sweeney but a clumsy baud. “Let me try,” I said at last in despair. I hifil just succeeded in drawing out the bar, and with scarcely a sound, when my companion in a horrified tone," cried : “For God’s sake hurry, I hear the old woman stir ring.” I instantly pulled the bolt back more rap idly ; and aware oj its weight, it fell with a dull heavy clang on the earthen floor. I hardly know now what at that terrible mo ment we did. There was an instantaneous rustling movement from tfie lied; but wc j wailed for uothiug. All I can recollect is, i that quick as lightning, we were both out upon the heath. “I ll hold you; I don't know the way,” I gasped, as I dreaded that 1 my companion might think only of himself aud desert me. lam sure font he never ’ dreamed ot doing so. He seized me tightly by the arm; and on he went headlong, plunging through swamps, and more than onco billing over some unseen im pediment. The night was very dark, and I trusted entirely to my guide. Want of breath at last compelled us to halt, and we stood panting for a moment. Not a sound oi any kind reached us. If pursued at first our foes must have been at fault, as we heard nothing , of them, i “Tell me, what was to be done to-night at the colonel’s,” I asked Sweeny. “Fire and murder,” was his expressive an swer. “Come on tit ere at once—you know the way, ” I said—“ will you ?” “Yes;” and without-another word, di verging a little from the course we had been pursuing, we again hurried forward with lrcsh speed. We soon reached the terpiinus o! the bog, crossed a road, and got into some fields. “Over there.” whisperep Sweeny, “is the colonel’s.” “Colonel Grey,” he added, in reply to an inquiry. “ What are you going to do there ?” “To warn them—to save them, to be sure, " I answered. “And never t'ear,”lcon tmued, as I noticed some reluctance on the part of the lad; “I saved you already, and 111 take care of you still; no harm shall come to you.” We continued our course through two or three fields, and turned out on what appear ed to me to be a narrow by-road, when sud denly, as iltrom the ditch close to U 9, a deep hoarse voice gave a challenge: “ Who goes there?” “May I never!” ejaculated Sweeny, in a trembling whisper; “if it isn't the boys; “ they're waitin’ tor the rest to go up to the colonel’s.” “ Answer them boldly,” I whispered. Sweeny replied to the challenge, wheu a rapid cross-questioning ensued, and some puss-words vtTtre demanded and given. “Who’s you ?” asked the speaker who challenged us, now standing out in the road, and who seemed to lie the leader of the par ly who were still concealed in the ditch. A momentary hesitation bearly proved fatal to us. “Oh,” he answered, and his voice shook, “’tis Bell sure. We are to go on, Barney said, and see all s right, aud give you the signal.” “You had better stay here,” gruffly re sponded the speaker. “Go on, indeed What signal ?” “Just a whistle and no more ; I must be ruled by Barney, as he’s the leader to night,” replied Sweeney, with an affectation of sulkiness in his tone, that showed more presence of mind Ilian I had hoped for. “Well, on with yoyi, then; aud it you trpoil it all, ’tisn’t my doing.” And to my in finitmrelief, the speaker sank again into the shelter from which he had emerged. We passed leisurely forward beside the lurking party, afraid to go,fast, lest suspi cion should be aroused, but wo had hardly advanced a dozen paces when the hard heavy tramp of the feet, runiug at full speed upou the road, distinctly reached our ears; and from the stir among the ambushed men, was evidently heard by them too. “On, on, for our vqry fives !” exclaimed Sweeny. “Come this way—quick !” and he plunged in among some thick plantations, through which it was no easy task in the darkness to advance. We caught, as we forced our way through, voices loud aud furious behind us, and the single terrible ex pression : “Hell’s fire, man, be after them !” discovered to us at once the danger we had to apprehend. .*/<•; j • “This way, this way,” cried Sweeny, drag ging me forward; “wo may do them yet.” Iu two or three miuules we reached a small wooden door iu a wall, with which my com panion seemed acquainted. He opened it quickly ; aud then, we having passed through, bolted it on the oilier side. It admitted us into what looked like the extensive back pitemises of a precious inansiou, that rose up dark aud gloomy ou our lett. Sweeny strode rapidly to where a single lamp was burning in a Biuall window, low, near the ground.— At this he gave two peculiar taps. At once the light moved. ‘•‘The moment ho opens the door,” whis pered Sweeny, “that lie's coming to do—you manage with that,” pointing to the pistol that I had. “’TisGriffen the butler, 1 mean ; he’s in the plot r ami then yon can alarm the house; and there’s not a moment to bo lost.” Most cautiously, an old grey haired, res pectable-looking servant opened the dour at which we hail stationed ourselves. “Is it ail right, Barney?” asked alow voice. “Yes, to be sure,” exclaimed Sweeny, pushing iu, as 1 followed; aud instantly shut ting the iloor again behind us, he seized the caudle from the mau’s band, while, with the butt end of the pistol, I dealt the treacherous servant a blow that ett'ectuaily hindered his interfering. “Go up the stairs there now,” cried Swee ny, “and wake thorn up; 111 stay here.” I dashed on with my pistol, and narrowly escaped being' shot down rnysell, as a close to my strauge adventure, by a hall-dressed gentleman, who confronted me on the lobby. “•Stop!” I cried, “till I explain. Your house is just about to be attacked; lam here to warn you.” A few words put liim in possession of all that was necessary then to inform him. A night qf confusion and alarm followed within the building : but to our surprise, no attempt fromivitbout was made; "why, we could not tell. My strange first acquaintance with Colonel Grey led to a close intimacy—though not in Tipperary, as he soon after left the county—resulting in what in no way con cerns this present narrative. The poor lad SvveeDy was well provided for, and sent abroad and for myself, I only add, that I never had reason to regret the mistake that led to such unexpected consequences.— Chambers's Journal. lt is no politeness which induces a man to give the road to a dog, especially if the latter shows the signs of hydrophobia. A man iu the town of Cape Elizabeth, State of Maine, a few days since turned his only daughter out of his fiopses for non payment of he having some dozen ten ements to let hosides. - . Brigham Y'oung has “counselled” all the faithful of Mormon City to shoot down any “Gentile" seen walking with a Mormon female. Dimes. Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals. A choice selection of DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINES and TRUSSES, LANDED ebom new vouk. Apothecar.e-5, Planters, and tradi re from the interi or, can lie supplied at the shortest notice, 1 cau warrant every article as being pure. A large quantity of European LEECHES, finest quality. All the Patent Medicines extant on hand. One hundred cases Jacobs' Dysenteric Cordial. ALL WILL BE SOLD LOW FO CASH, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. ATAPOTUE CARIES* HALL, Corner Broughton and Barnard streets. N, ft—Fresh Garden Seeds. W. M. WALSH, ~THON. W. HHOOItS MANUFACTURER OK furniture and ceneral UPHOLSTERY, i 33* Dock Street, PhiUdtluhK, Pa. All GftftEßS seat by Mali promyriy at. HMwm.. The Savannah National Bank IS HOW PREPARED FOR BUSINESS, at thr BANKING HOUSE, IN THE EXCHANGE. Deposits and Paper for Collection received. Bills on Northern Cities purchased. Checks on New York furnished. L. C. NOBVELL, x President. JACOB SPIVEY, Cashier. IUIIOTOBI : L. C. Norvkll, I Fbahois Sorrrll, Noiilk A. Harkrk, I J. *V. Lathrop, itouRRT Erwin. HENRY S. FITCH, _ Notary and Solicitor. Savannah, 25th Jane, 1565. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, I Omcs or Comptroller or tuk Ccrkrncy, > Washington, June loth, 1865. j W uKRRAB, By satisfactory evidence presented to the undersigned, it has been made to appear that “Th* Savahhau National Bank," in the City of Savannah, in the County of Chatham, and State of Georgia, has been duly organized under and according to the re quirements of the Act of Congress entitled “ An Act to provide a National Cnrrency, secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June 3, 1864, and has complied with ail the provisions or said Act re quired to be coibpliod with before commencing the business of Banking under said Act: Now, therefore, 1, Freeman Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency, do hereby certify that “Tua Savannah National Bank," in the City of Savannah, in the County of Chatham, and State of Georgia, is author tied to commence the business of Banking under the Act Aforesaid. In testimony whereof, witness m3’ hand and seal of office, this 10th day of June, ISO? f rvnVK-i . Fit BKM AN CLARKK. A ju2u" ,K) 2mos Com P ,roller °f the Currency. QUOTATIONS For Southern Bank Notes. banking house or MANNING & DE FOREST, 19 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. VIRGINIA, Bank of Berkeley BAT *' “ Commerce, Fredc'ruiubunt'go F* ,a r | e» ,on . Charleston...... 5 the Commonwealth ' “ Howardsville 1?, “ Old Dombiion .' "''"X “ Philippi “ Rockbridge }" “ Rockingham ScottsvUle “‘"'X “ the Valley “ Virginia “ Winchester.... * 8 P Central Bunk of Virginia Corporation of Alexandria'.’.! • • "X Danville Bank, Dnnvllle.. Exchange Hank of Va„ Norfolk. .".'.I X Farmers' Bank of Fincastle ... ? ' “ “ Richmond..' V X Traders'Bank, Ktchmond . :;;.'.';;;;;; '";;;;;^ WORTH CAROLINA. Hank of Cape Fc5r....... “ Charlotte ?•.. .80 “ Clarendon " Commeice “ Fayetteville....... “ Lexington.., “ North Carolina.... 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We pay the above rates in United States Legal Ten der Notes, or in Gold- Coin at market rates, if desired i by parties. Packages ot notes can be sent by Express withmatrucUoM. RemittancesmadSpcoin^u^ PRICE. 5 CENTS FINANCIAL. EINST&LSi,. . ROSENFELD & Cos., Bankers’, LTo. 8 Broad Street, Vkw Yfcu. Wc draw at si 0 . >, and at sixty days, 3 on London^. Paris, Frankfort, and all other principal cities of Europe. - Parties oprijag current accounts, may deposit and draw- at their convenience, the same as with the City Banks, and will be allowed interest on all balances over One Thousand Dollars, at the rate of four per cent, per annum. Orders for the purchase or sale of various issues of Government and other Stocks, Bonds, and Gold, executed on Commission. Manning- & I)e Forest, BANKERS AND BROKERS, Wo. 19 Wall Street, New York, Dealers iu Gold, Silver, Foreign Exchange and Government Securities. « fYK special attention to the purchase and*sale o Jj Virginia, iv'orth Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia Alabama, New Orleans and Tennessee Bank notes. Southern States Bonds and Coupons, Railroad Bonds and Coupons. Interest ullowed on deposits. jyls-3m INSURANCE^ insurance: Authorized Capital--#10,400,000. CHARLES L. COLBY & CO. are prepared to take Marina Risks to any domestic or foreign port, and Fire Risks in this .City in the following named first class New York Companies AT THE LOWEST RATES. COLUMBIAN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY 45,000,000 MORRIS FIRE AND INLAND INSUR ANCE COMPANY... 5,000,1KK) OMMKRCW FIREINSUR VNCE COMP’Y.. 2oil,imu STANDARD FIRE INSURANCE COMP’Y.. 200,000 Office in Jones' Block, cor. lisy and Abercorn sts. Branch Office, corner Drayton and Bryan streets. ante ts THE Underwriters’ Agency Os New York, CASH ASSETS, Three Million Dollars, ISSUE POLICIES OF Fire & Marine Insurance Made payable in GOLD or CURRENCY. Negotiable and Bankable CERTIFICATES OF INSURANCE - AU ISSUED BY THIS ASSOCIATION. J. T. THOMAS & CO., anll-eodltn IU Bay strreet. IS l OUIt LIFE INSURED ? tTMIIS is nn important question for every man and JL important also for every wife and mother, as it affects their future welfare. BEE TO IT AT ONCE. DO NOT DELAY. The “Knickerbocker Life InShrauce” of New York will iusnre you at the usual rates iu auy sum from SIOO, tto.ooo. They also issue the fivorite TEN YEAR NON-FORFEITURE Policies and will after two years payment give a fall paid up Policy for Two Tenths the whole sum, and Three Years Three Tenths, and so oil Thus a Policy of s‘lo,ooo. Two Premiums paid upon it will be entitled to a paid UJ> 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 InsuranceCa, jn27 Bay st., Savannah, Ga. THE NEW DUG LAND MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, O P BOSTON. PURELY MUTUAL. THIS is one of the oldest and best Companies in America. Policies ou Lives for any amount np to $15,000 are taken by them. The Policies of those Companies were not cancelled during the war null! heard from—a fact Which shews their dealing and determination to be just and honor able In ali cases. Apply to . jn27 A. WILBUR. AireuL ~ Notice. OFFICE PROVOST MARSHAL, Seu-Diaraicr ox OoKEciutu, Savannah, Ga„ August 17, ISUS. On and after this date all Drinking or Billiard Sa ouua and Grocery Stores or other places where liquors are sold, will be closed at 10 o'clock pm! aud on Sundays dosed at all hours. Tb(i proprietor will be held responsible for the'fulfill ment of thiß order, any violation of which will be summarily dead with. By command of Bvt Brig. Gefi. E. P. DAVIS, BAMUEL COWDItY, . _ Capt. and Prqvost Marshal. aals-7 Sub-District of ogeechee. NOTICE. OFFICE COMMISSARY OF SUBSISTENCE 1 . Savannah, Ga., August.lst, isos. / Sealed proposals to furnish this post with su thou sand pounds ol Fresh Beef per week, for three mouths, commencing September Ist, aud ending December Ist. Isbs, will be received at this Otllce until Tuesday,' Au gust 16th, 1865, at 12 o'clock noon, when they will he opened in public. The Beet u> be fnrnishqc) on days so-be designated hy the Commissary, and to be of good and marketable quality—dressed in equal proportion us fore aud hind quarters, excluding necks, shanks and kidney tallow. Persons submitting proposals will state the avenge net weight, quulity, Ac., of the Beef they propose to furnish. Proposals wifi be subject to the approval of the Com missary General of Subsistence. HENKYR. SIBLEY, aul-tla , Capt. aud C. S. U. Voto. CIDER "BRAND yT~* 5 AAA GALLONS, from one to live years old.— .UW Samples of each sent by Express, witb list of prices. Also, in cases of ono aud two doxen each. H. S. CONNOVEfo Distiller, aulo-lm r reehold, N. J. HEADERS SUB-DISTRICT OF OGEECHKsT" Savannah, Ga., August 10, 1865. Genual Orders, 1 No. 24. / , - Capt. Clark 11. Hcmick, MS U. S. C. TANARUS, is hereby announced as Acting Assistant Inspector General at Sub- District of Ogeechee. 01 Be will be obeyed and respected aaeordlngty. By command of * WA H. A. A. jß**