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The Savannah Daily Herald. BY S. W. MASON &. CCK \ Ml KL W. MASON Kdltor. V. T. THOMPSON, A.wcUt' Editor. SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, !*»•>_ ;’OR LOCAL BATTERS SEE THIRD FACE. to advertisers. . On patrons are reminded that adver tisement* inserted in the Morning Edition of the H*rald will appear in the Evening without exua charge. Advertisements aboold be handed in ns early si« possible, bnt will be received as late »e 12 o’clock at night. We adhere to our advertised rates except for long advertisements, or those inserted Dr » long jtme, on which a reason-tie discount wUI he made. HOW TO OBTAIN -HE HIiBALD RKO v-larly. We often have complaints from residents of Sevan uah and Hilton Head that they are not able always to obtain the Fi»ai.i>. The demand Is aometlme* so preat as to exhaust an Edition very soon aPer its Issue, Knd those who wish to have the Heeacc regularly, should subscribe for ft. We have faithful carriers In tiavannah and at Hilton Head, and through them we always serve regular snhscribers first ar&iNESS directory op savannah. We are now publishing a column aud more ofbrtef business announcements, carefully ciasslaed. under übe gen*al head of “Savannah Business Directory. ,t includes some tone leading business firms of Savannah. We propose » reUJI tUB f* a regular feature of the Herald. The expen.e oftln serting cards In this department of the »«**“!** small, and we believe the advertisers w.llrecelte more than a proportionate benefit Fartles w thing to have their cards mcluded In this ,„bv sending them to our counting room, orhand lT)g them to Mr. M. J. Dlvtue, who U authorised to receive them. Prepayment will be Invariably re quired. - . i the monthlies Hours ai Hour. -This is the title of a popular monthly devoted to religious am. usiftil literature, edited by J M. Sherwood and published by Charles Scribner & Cc> of New York. The number for September is well filled with choice and instructive ori ginal matter. and is illustrated with a view ~f "the Sea of Galilee and City of Tiberias ’ The Magazine is furnished to subscribers at s:t a year. «», R Yoonu Folks, Is the title of a very handsome illustrated magazine for boys and trirls, edited by J. T. Towbridge, Gail Ham ilton and Lucy Larcorn, and published by Tickner & Fields, Boston. It is most copious ly illustrated with fine wood engravings, and filled with excellent reading for youth stories and sketches, biography, history and poetry, travel and adventure. Subscription price $2 a year. _ Comkctioss.—’The reader is requested to make the following corrections in the edito rial article in our yesterday's edition headed “ Edinburgh Review and Blackwood's Maya- Ilf : Seventh paragraph from the top, twelfth line, for resemblance read semblance. Eighth paragraph, for Twinbumes Atlantis in Calcedon read Swinburne's Atlantis in Cal cedon. Tenth paragraph, first and second lines, for Munio’s /. acretius read Muni o's Zncretius. Convention Between the United States and the United States op Columbia. —The convention between the United States of America and the United States of Columbia, uupplemental to that of September 10, 1857, lias just been proclaimed. It extends for nine months, the joint commission heretofore appointed for the examination and adjust ment of such claims as were presented but not heretofore settled. A letter from Mexico City says . ’ ‘Among those here are Gapt. Maury, Gen. Stevens, late Chief of Staff to Gen. Lee; Col. An drews, formerly on the staff of Stonewall Jackson, and Capt. Beauregard. Pierre Soule aad Gen. Cha». P. Stone are also here. What with Northerners and Southerners conjoined, vhere is getting tc be a strong American ele ment in Mexico.” Tut Tunnkssee Election. —The Memphis Commercial gives the result of the recent election for members of Congress in Ten nessee as follows: Dists.—l. N. G. Taylor, radically inclined. 2. Asa Falkner, “conservative.'* :i. D. B. Thomas “conservative.” 4 Edward Cooper, radically inclined. 5, Horace Maynard, radical, ti. W. B. Campbell, “conservative," 7. Colonel Hawkins, radical. k. D. Leftwich, “conservative.” The Commercial acknowledges a “fear that the results of the recent harmonious election will not be felt by us as the last step towards a restoration of tne complete auth ority aud power of the people. And, too, -we might add, Governor Brownlow, it is stated, has expressed a determination to furnish certificates to none others than those •elected of his own stripe. The cost of living seems to be as high in the West as in the East. The price of board ing in the first-class hotels in St. Joseph, Mo., is S2O per week, and $4 per day; in private boarding houses and families $8 to 10 per week, washing extra, and the new “ Pattee Female College” proposes charging pupils $6.25 per week for board. Cupid is busy among the coloicd popula tion of Tennessee. The Shelbyville Union of the sth of August says The clerk of our county court issued during the month of July 422 marriage licenses. The number issued to white persons. 1C; to colored, 400 He issued as high as 106 in one day. Is there a county in this Slate that can beat this ? Gov. Pierpont has authorized the publica tion of a report of a mineralogicul investiga tion ot Virginia by Dr. Grant, who avers mat gold exists in the State in large quantities, and that the development of its mineral wealth, which he contends is great, has been grossly neglected. It is estimated that the expense of taking care of the “freedmen" by the Government amounts to not less than eighty thousand dollars a day, with a probability of its largely overrunning that figure General Fremont, at the head of a compa ny of Eastern men, is about to purchase an extensive tract of mineral lands in Missouri; with the view of erecting an establishment in St. Louis for the manufacture of railroad iron. The Veteran Reserve Corpg, which now numbers about twenty-four regiments, Uto b* - consolidated into six regiments, which w ill have the effect of throwing a large num ber of officers out of service. I he supscription opened by the Phare dt la l Are, lor a gold medal to be offered to the ■» ,dow of the late President of the United btates, has already amounted to 27,4171. Hon. Samuel Hooper is reported to have ’>v<-n %&(),ogo endowment to the Mining De partment of Harvard College. Iwo hundred families from the British havfc BelUe ‘ J in Lowell, Mass., within a month. n & hat » Northern firm hag leased U,wrl \ last'd, and will prepare it S' ' “>*nng the coming year NEW ENSUED CORRESPONDENCE. lion. A. 11. Stephens at Fort Warrm—lhe Po litical Situation in .Yen' FngLmd—Anxiety of the Radicals—Lirety Scrabble for Seats in the Boston Custom House—Both Parties Claiming President Johnson and Promising to Sufi/'Ort Him—The Muddle in Massachusetts Politics Maine Law and Ant -Maine Law—Central ButUr—You Cant TtU which IVay uMm is Looking when he is Cross Eyed—Soldiers Receptions, A-c, Arc., Arc. Boston, Aug. 23, 1805. To the Savannah Herald : Various rumors, more or less absurd, have been published recently about tbs distin guished Georgian who is spending the "heat ed term ” at a cool retreat called Fort War ren, in Boston Harbor. Mr. Stephens, whom ’many Northern men choose to remember as a friend of the Uuion, opposing the violent counsels of the original secessionists, before the actual commencement of hostilities, is one of the few prisoners still remaining in Fort Warren, where the only other prisoner | of note is Mr. Reagan, late rejoicing in the j position of Postmaster General of the South ern Confederacy. Mr. Stephens is enjoying his usual health, which all who are personal ly acquainted with him know is not very good. He has recently expressed himself as pleased with the salubrious air ot what he pleasantly termed his "watering place,” and be baa had no occasion or inclination to com plain of the treatment he receives—which has been uniformly kind and considerate. His quarters are in a casemate, the Door of which is some six feet below the level of the parade ground, but which is amply lighted and ventillattd by windows facing the same. He has a spacious room, of the same kind of some now occupied by officers of the garri son. Indeed, some officers were removed from the very room in which he is now quar tered because it was considered more eligible than others. The casemates are made of heavy granite blocks, and therefore some times so damp and cool, even in summer, as to make a lire desirable. When Air. Stephens calls for a fire he has it fur nished to him as promptly as though he had lodgings at the Revere Housy. He is at liberty to walk and lounge on . the par apet all day, if he chooses, with the excep tion of one hour, during which Mr. Reagan takes his daily walk. He converses freely with the commissioned officers of the garri son, but is not allowed to talk with private soldiers or curious visitors. Mr. Stephens has expressed no desire, and probably has no inclination, to cater to the idlo curiosiiy of the numerous visitors at the Fort. He has much to employ his time at his quarters. He has books, newspapers, and magazines, without stint, and an unlimited supply of pens, ink and paper. He writes a great deal every day. Some have suspected that lie was preparing a historical work on the rebellion from his peculiar stand-point, but nothing certain is publicly known upon this topic. He is cheerful and confident in re gard to his own particular case. He looks forward to no severe punishment, and lias no reason to anticipate, for himself or the South, any vindictive action of the Govern ment. That he is anxious to see the end ot his prison life no one who knows his ac tive temperament will doubt; and when re leased his first duty will be clear to him, to aid in the reconstruction of the “Empire State of the South" in which all bis hopes and bis pride centre. Georgians may rest assured that their “ first citizen” is not en during privations or hardships beyond those necessarily connected with lawful restraint; that bis health is not suffering, for the lack of light, air or exercise; and that his mind is as clear, as active, and as logical as when lie combatted, with bis best efforts, the idea ot secession. One of these days, I doubt not, be will give a good account of himself on the side ot the Union, the Constitution and the Laws. There has been considerable activity in the political world hereabout of late. The radi cals cannot avoid giving President Johnson a “sly dig" occasionally, but they flare up in a moment, If the Democracy find anything in “Handy Andy” to admire or approve The radical wing of the Republican party is really the beet representative of “the dog in the manger,” that politics have afforded us •n this generation. They denounce a9 “Cop perheads” all the Democrats who do not ac knowledge that the Administration is the wisest and the best ever known, but if the 9ame Democrats have a word to say in favor of the President’s reconstruction policy, or promising him support in the same, the radi cals at once become suspicious, anxious, argumentative and abusive. This was exem plified within a few day 9 by the comments on the piattorm of the Maine Democracy, as constructed at the State Convention. The resolutions complimented President John son, and his reconstruction measures, aod promised him lhe support of the Democrats of Maine. They also advocated the right of the several States to settle for tbems.lves the question of who shall vote therein. Con servative Republicans said that the resolu tions were in good taste, and that, with the exception of one, the resolutions were such as could he endorsed by all loyal men But the radicals are suspicious to find Democrats j saying anything in favor of the President, and they pitch in. The radicals are really on the anxious seat. Those who want to carry out certain principles, without regard to the compact of the constitution, are fear ful that President Johusou will find it more expedient to follow the constitution when ever it can be followed. Those who want offices are getting to be frightened about their chances. The ‘ las’ are anxious to stay in, and the “outs” are eager to get in out of the cold. We have Just had a nice little scrabble over some comfoitably padded seats in the Custom House, down at the foot ot State street. The occupants of these easy arm-chairs were well satisfied with the way things were going on. and asked for no change; but sun dry patriots appeared who could show good reasons for rotation. The Prestdent seemed Inclined to “rotate,” but who were to.fill the places ? The mercantile interests of Boston asked that Mr. McLellan, late 2d As sistant Postmaster General, be made Col lector Mr. Goucb, representative in Con gress from Massachusetts, presented his claims. He found that his cons tituency had enough of him, and ao be thought it ex pedient to “hedge ' a little. But the flutter Is over, the long agony is through, and Han nibal Hamlin, of Hampden, Me , whose home Is two hundred and fifty milts from the Doric building on State street, is the happy mau. There were aound political reasons tar giving the place to Hainlia. It give* him an easy chair, shuts his month, and knocks over a nice little quarrel in the party in Maine. Mr. Hamlin is no business man, but he is a very adroit wire-puller, and such men must be satisfied. Air. Goucli, who wanted to tie Collector, is made Naval Officer, and Major General Underwood, for merly a young aud risiug lawyer in Boston, 1 and lor the last four years a rising officer in the army, is rewarded with tlife Surveyor ship. Mr. Goodrich, Mr. Tuck »nd Dr. Phelps will vacate theseeasy chairs on Sep tember Ist, and the new incumbents will take them. What shall be done for the old? Some places must be made for them among the tax gatherers. I don't know as this political gossip will interest you, but it is a part of the current history of New England radicalism, which is to have an important hearing upon the next political contest throughout the country. The Maine Republicans have declared in favor of negro suffrage, and also express con dence in President Johnson. It is amusing to one not feeling the influence of party prejudice to see the Iso parties scuffling to see which shall be first at the feet of ihe same nr,an. Verily Andy Johnson is in an enviable situation. I remember a picture which represented a bashful young man between two brazen-faced, “anxious and aimless" females, who were pulling him in opposite directions, each vowing that he belonged exclusively to her. Put Andy in the place of that young man, aud let the two parties represent the females, and you have the idea at ouce. 1 wonder if he ever sings “How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away.’ Or I might borrow another illustration— that of the two women who disputed the ownership of a child betore Solomon. Whose baby is Andy Johuaon i Or js he an orphan ? The political situation iu Massachusetts is rather mixed. We are liable to have two, three or four parties in the uext election.— The advocates of the Prohibitory Liquor Law will try to put into the Republican platform one of their own planks. They are very strong everywhere out ot Boston! and if they succeed, it is believed that a great many lib eral Republicans will bblt and take op any other man. If tlie Prohibitories fail to en graft their principles into the Republican resolutions, it is believed that they' w ill bolt and run a regular “gimlet and dipper" can didate. Besides, the workingmen threaten to run a candidate of their own unless they are satisfied by ussurances that hereafter every piiß-pot in the Commonwealth shall hold a quart. Hon A. H. Bullock, of Wor cester, will be the Republican candidate, without a doubt. General Butier has been urged by numerous friends, but he has no chance unless he works in qs a Maine Law candidate or an Anti-Maine Law candidate— it matters little which, I suppose. Governor Andrew has been invited to accept the Presidency of Antioch College, but whether he sees a "mission" in that direction, I don't know. He is one of the most radical of radi cals, but he is honest and truly democratic, and on the whole his administration ot the ass airs of the old Commonwealth through the five eventful years last passed has been very popular. Our soldiers are gradually eoming home and resuming their places lu industrial pur suits ; the Ist artillery arrived last—some tour hundred men. Soldiers' receptions are in vogue through out the Commonwealth. Etch city and town receives ils bronzed veterans en masse. The reception in Charlestown yesterday was quite imposiug. The Bunker Iliii city, with a I opuiation of only’ 25,000, lias furnished four thousand men for 'he army and navy; but tnauy of them were not residents; and if you should count noses, you would find many Blue Noses among them. lota. Re parts of Southern Cruelties. Our doubts, says the New York Commer cial, in regard to the reported cruelties per petrated upon North Carolina blacks ap pear to be verified. Tlie official communi cations irom the Mayor and Sheriff of Fay etteville explain, if they do not refute, the statements previously published that negroes have been murdered and brutally treated in that locality. As an exposition of the origi nal story, the statements are a sort of a gloss upon Munchausen. Too much objection cannot be made to the persistent attempts iu certain quarters to make it appear that all the Southerners are lawless, ungovernable, and rife for another revolution. The Richmond Republic, which is really a Northern Journal holding the most extreme anti-slavery sentiments, fins the following to say upon this subject in its issue of yester day : Tbeie is n class of Northern joursuls, small in number, but having unusual opportunities of mischiel, which is doing great harm to the South. 'At a time when our people are auxiousto buiy the past in oblivion, when they are seeking to put a favorable con struction upon all public acts, when they are desirous to believe that the Government is their friend and not their enemy, when their last hope of earthly happiness is involved in a laithful and uniform adherence to the solemn obligations of allegiance they have assumed, there are journals in the North which, impudently assuming to be represen tatives of a section, with whose interests they have nothing iu common, and whose sentiments they do not understand, are filled with incendiary appeals to the angry pas sions of the South, with malignant slanders and misrepresentations of the Government, with dark suggestions of the most horrid plots of a portiou ot onr own population, iu a word, with eveiything that can fan the flame of discontent and apprehension, apd give us over to madoess and despair. Is there no re lief from such disastrous agencies of evil, in flicted upon us by those who profess to be our friends, but who are really laboring, un intentionally, we trust, bat recklessly and in perfect safety to themselves, to deprive us even of hope ? We invoke the people of the South to turn a deaf ear to those Northern Journals which seek to keep alive in the South a spirit of hostility to the Government and to the North ern people. We implOTe them to believe tnat the Government is their friend ; that It is seeking that prosperity and happiness of the people with which Its own success is Identified; that its greatest glory and ambi tion are the restoration of the former happi ness and good undemanding of all sections of a common country. Let us judge of the future by the past. Have the miserable ap prehensions we entertained of cruel treat ment in the event of the failure of the Con federacy been realized ? Dn the contrary, has not the United States Government exhibited to the people a de gree of moderation and clemency which is in brilliant contrast to the “w» metis” that we imagined waa inscribed upon their banners? Have not the military representatives of the Government commanded universal respect 1 lor the dignity, generosity and courtesy of theirffeportnieut?' Has lint tlic Governor of the NL'ommnuwtAhli, whose advent was dreaded by thousands, reeuml not only the respect and the confidence, but the adinira tion and love of the whole people? And. finally, has not t hat class which incendiaries in the North are stigmatizing ns cruel sav ages, plotting our destruction, proved itself quiet, retpectful, sober, iiom the VtTV hour of its emancipation ? We invoke the Northern mischief-makers to have mercy upon the South. If they are our liiends, let them show it by promoting confidence among the people both in the Government and in each other. L»-t them suppress, instead of publishing, every man itestaiiou of ill will aud vindictiveness whicu hot headed political and religious zealots, who are not representatives of Northern public opinion, may happen to utter. ADDITIONAL NEWS ;BY THE PERSIA. Tlie cholera is steadily marching West ward. It was, according to the last report, at Marseilles, and a week or two mote will probably brim, it to England. A prevailing belief exists that all external influences, such as quarantine and similar regulations to shut it out, are ineffectual. An influential paper, in a seosible article on this subject, says: “Whether cholera be epidemic, infeciou.-, or contagious, we have almost ceased to inquire, tor the simple reason that it is impossible to keep out a pest which travels with the wind, or is conveyed in a bit of cloth, a breath, or a touch, but quite possible to reduce to a minimum each man's chance of a serious at tack, and each place's chance of u cte-truc tive visitation.” The object of this exordium is to show that cleanliness, good iood, and regular habits, will secure » person or a place, and where these are wanting there is no se curity. Most of our towns” and cities will compare favorably with those of the conti nent: but even with us there is much to im prove, and no time should be lost in making the improvement as perfect as possible. The cattle disease continues to absorb gen eral interest in England. A short time ago the belief was current that the disease was incurable. This i» not correct. A gentleman named Alavor has written to tlie London Times to say that he has cured seven of thir teen cows belonging to a person iu Muple bone, and declares that, with proper atten tion, half of the animals attacked may be saved. Mr. Alavor expresses his willingness to make a public exhibition of bis treatment, ior which he seeks no remuneration, and asks the proprietors of the Islington Cattle Alarket to grant him oue of their sheds for the purpose. Various other modes of exter minating tlie disease are suggested, but the best preventive is held to be inocculation, which is generally practiced iu the colonies of Australia, ihe Cape of Good Hope, and elsewhere. It is a remarkable fact that this disease broke out alpiost simultaneously last year at Natal, at tlie Cape of Good Hope, at New South Wales, at Victoria, at South Australia. Some writers attribute it to atmospheric causes, which, like tlie cholera, penetrate into districts hundreds and thousands of miles apart, and is not propagated by conta gion. Professor Syraond does not enti rtain this view, and, in a speech or lecture deliv ered by him on the Dili at Norwich, main tains that most of the cattle imported into England and Western Europe irom Russia labor under tlie disease, and that by closing our ports to Russian cattle we should take the most effectual means ior shutting it out. The King of Prussia seems determined to try the temper of his people to tlie utmost. He ha 9 made another experiment on public patience which shows the lengths to which lie is prepared to go iu putting down public opinion among his subjects. Herr Classen Kappelmanu, the President of tlie Cologne Banquet Committee, has been arrested on three charges—first, for summoning a public meeting in the open air without the permis sion ot the police; € second, for presiding over the Banquet Committee, which the po lice pronounced a political society ; and third, that he has done all this without giving the police information as to the constitution and members of the Society ! This arrest has made Herr Kappelmanu the hero of the day. Wherever lie goes he is cheered, and tlie very mention of ids name excites the warm est enthusiasm. BIGAMY EaTRSOKDINAS? A Mui.li Maaiicil Gentleman in Ccurt~- Uc Coniesies to Four IVivci, c(«. Hiram Kenny, a rather ill-lookiug individ ual who has lost lhe use of one eye, was ar raigned betbre Judge Ledwith at the Jeffer son Market police court yesterday, charged with bigamy. It is alleged that Kenny is blessed (?) with four wives, all of whom are now in the land of the living. From the affidavits made be tore the magistrate it appears that on the lttth day of August, 1850, he was united in the holy bonds of wedlock to Miss Mary Louisa Smith. The marriage was solemniz* dat the parsonage attached to Thirteenth Street Me thodist Episcopal Church, and the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Beach, the then pastor of the church. He lived with this wife for four or five years, and then lie abandoned her and uni ted himself in marriage with a young woman who now resides at Mount Pleasant, N. J., and who still is know as Mrs. Eliza Kenny, his first and lawful wife still being alive. In 1858. becoming tired of wife No. 2, he set tortlr on his travels, and soon after mar ried a young woruali in this city, whose name and whereabouts have not yet been ascer tained. He lived nearly two years with wife No. S, the other wives haviug lost sight of him. In due course of time he abandoned No. 3, and on the lfith of November, 1864, he was married to Emma Jane Depugb, at present residing at No. 324 Ninth avenue.— This marriage was celebrated also at tbe Tbirlietb Street Methodist Episcopal Church and the ceremony was performed by Rever end J. B. Hagauy, tbe pastor. None of bis ‘former wives having died, he now enjoys the questionable luxury of four living wives, none of whom, however, are about laying claim to his name or estate. The complaint of bigamy is made by the fourth woman whom lie deceived, and wlio makes an af fidavit that he was married to the accused, aastated above. The fir.-t and only lawful wife of the prisoner having lollowed tbe ex ample set by her recreant husband, and taken unto herself another partner, has ren dered herself incompetent as either a com plaiuant or witness, and in her absence, however, the first marriage is proved by an affidavit made by Eleanor E. C. Roan, of 435 West Thirty-second street, who was present at the ceremony, and was a sub scribing witness thereto. Kennedy was arrested by Officer McDer mott, of the Twentieth precinct, and when confronted with i woof his wives—second aud fourth—he admitted that lie had been mar ried to both of them as well as to two other women. On being arraigned before the magistrate he denied h|s guilt, aud staled that ho had no recollection of marrying so many women, and, it he had done so, lie must have been intoxicated at 4be time. Judge Ledwitn committed him for trial in default of $1,500 bail. He stated thui he was only twenty-seven years of age, was bom in this city, was a painter by occupation and resided at 392 West Twenty seventh street. The statement of his age is no doubt false as be was married in 1850, and accus ing to bis statement he must then have been but twelve years of age at that time. A few days ago, a colored man employed in a ship-yard iu New Haven, rendered him self obnoxious to a soldier at the camp by jeering at some trifling situation or predica ment m which said soldier happened to find himself. Shortly afterwards a file of soldiers wsut ovet to the ship-yard, which is iu the vicinity of the camp, and gave warning that the colored man must not work there nnv more; and it is said hefis so intimidated that up to this time he has not dared to resume labor. Gold mining is now being revived in Flu viana and Buckingham counties, Va., on a large Beale. Mr. Grant is working twenty five hands in Fluviaua county, using five rockers apd obtaining an average of from tiity to sixty pennyweights of fine gold a day. Oil Summary.—The Pittsburg Pa. Oil News rep<*ts more sirik -s in Pennsylvania —a 40 barrel well on Cherry Run : too bar rel well rat Dulrell Plats; 75 barrel we ll on French Creek ; smaller one on Sugar Creek ; a 300 and aSO at Uortseville*; 200 barrel well at Blood tarnt. Tuere are already lour towns on Pit Hole, nc ; ther of them over six weeks old. Typhoid mingles with petroleum fever at Petroleum Centre. The yield of oil on Buckman aud McClintock farms has lately increased 150 barrels per day. There is great excitemeut on Bennehoff iarra aud land is as high as at Pit Hole. ‘The “Petroleum House," buiit at Pit Hole iu one month, hi s been sold for §22,000. Green county wells are producing 20 to 40 barrels each daily.— There are retail groceries in Franklin that do a business of $2,000 per day. The refinery at Aleadviile has a capacity for refining forty four thousand gallons weekly; lias tanking for one hundred and sixty thousand gallons, and two agitators, each holding twenty thnusandjgallons. The works cost SIOO,OOO Tite three hanks in Oil City do an aggregate daily business of half a million. Over 40,000 barrels of oil are accumulated at the wells of theU. 8. Petroleum Company i t Pit Hole. Oil has been struck at Gallipoli?, Ohio, at the depth of 250 feet. A well at Vermillion, Erie county, yields eight barrels in twelve hours. A well in Aliddleport, Aleigs county, yields eighty barrels per week. The finest lubricating oil is pumped from a well iu Frederick, Trumbull county, and sells for S4O per barrel in the neighborhood. Boring is going on in various places, but no great results are reported. Discoveries of oil in the Copper Creek and Kickupoo river regions are recorded, and great excitement exists in the locality. There is no abatement of oil fever in Crawford coun ty. New discoveries are made almost daily. A great discovery is reported near Denver in Colorado. The’Denver Gazette says “an extensive area ot land, covering an extent of over 1300 acres, is literally saturated with the crude petroleum. One gentleman as sures us that the clay can be taken in the hand and the oil wiungfrornit like a sponge. Another tells us that iu a trench dug about four feet square the oil wns perceived oozing out from numberless orifices." That will do. We shall hear next that it is only nec essary to tap the trees to secure a steady flow of “ile.” In Canada there is much activity, and va rious wells are yielding small amounts. Ti e “Pepper Weil” at Bothwell, opened by a Boston company, is giving fifty barrels per day. Oil engines are arriving at Bothwell at the rate of five a day. The Philadelphia North American states that the exports from all our Atlantic ports up to the middle of July were over thirteen aud a quarter million gallous ; more than twice aud a half their amount for the 9ame time last year, though less by over five mil lion gallons than ior tlie same period in 18C3, which was the great year for petro leuin. Cooper River Plantations. Tbe rice lands on tue eastern and western branches of the Cooper River, for many years bciore the war, were held at very high prices, aud they were seldom offered in the market unless the owner was compelled to sell to get clear of financial embarrssment. This was not so much owing to their money value as an investment, winch was but small, but from their having been possessed by tbe forefather of the present owner lor several generations, aud from the proximity of the rice fields to the city. The lauds on this river are considered "very fertile, and when ever tlie rains have been sufficient to freshen the stream, the yield of rice lias always been heavy. For some years previous to the late troubles tbe crops failed for nearly . every other year ; but since the war, the rains and seasons haviug been suitable, the crops have been regular aud good. A successful year on tbe river will give a yield equal to about j twenty-five'thousand tierces of rice, which at present prices would bring one million five huudred thousand dollars. These are great results produced from the river front of a small stream of water, but it affords an in stance of tbe great agricultural wealth of the South, when managed by skill and expe rience. We regret to say, however, that for the present at least, the valuable products lof these lands will be lost to the country, | and that for the crop now growing we may I expect the most indifferent results. Weaie | informed that ihe demoralization among the | negroes on this river has been of such a j nature as to prevent them from producing | much more than will be sufficient for their j sustenance, and some planters think that the ! crop lor market will not equal one thousand ! tierces. This has not been from any fault of tlie weather, but from an indisposssion to work on the part of the laborers—the grass,' in most cases, taking possession of the crop. This is truly a sad state of things, and if remedial measures can be applied, they should be used without delay.— Charleston -Veres. Mississippi Intelligence—Tlie Result of tbe Election—t'limuelcr of the Dele* gates. If it be true that coming events csst their shadows before, we think we may safelv pre dict, from the returns already received, that a very decided majority of the Convention will be disposed to ignore quibbling, and ready to meet tbe great issue of tbe hour like men of sense and candor. We have arrived at this conclusion, as much from a knowl edge of the names of the successful candi dates in the several counties, as Irom any published platforms or addresses. The vote throughout the State is very re spectable, under the circumstances. In many places the people had but a short time in which to qualify. There are comparatively few, however, that have not taken the am nesty oath; and the number is very small that do not intend observing it in good faith. There were doubtless some who, having qualified, declined to vote. They wished to have neither part nor lot in the matter. Their political nerves were too delicate for so near an approach to tbe ballot box. We do not question their motives, or judge of their con scientious scruples; but we regard it the solemn duty of every citizen in this trying hour to act, and not by sullen indifference, stand idly by while breakers surround tbe ship of State and threaten her destruction. Enough of her citizens, however, have come to tbe rescue, and ere many months Missis sippi will find herself in position to demand and maintain all those rights not lost by the revolution. —Jackson Mississi/yuan. A regiment of colored soldiers was paid off at Louisville last week. That night a party of colored damsels visited them, nnd haviug supplied themselves with chloroform, they succeeded iu robbing quite a number of the sable heroes before mornlDg. At Ada and Lyons, Mich., Mr. Van Auken is extensively engaged in growing pepper mint for distillation. He has nearly two hundred acres growing in the two counties. This is an easily grown and highly remu nerative product, giving lour crops from one planting of roots. The one hundred acres devoted to this crop last year gave a net profit of five thousand dollars. Dr. Lancaster, one of the metropolitan coroners, makes the appalling statement that there are 12,000 mothers in London—in the capital of “the most religious country upon the earth"—who have murdered their own children. Infanticide,factual, wilful child murder—is terribly frequent in England. To avoid the exposure and identity of person, the ladies at Newport have introduc ed the fashion of wearing masks in the wa ter. These are made of thin white cotton cloth, fining tightly to the face, with places cut for the mouth and eyes. The disguise is perfect. The formal recognition of Prince Allied of England as heir to the Duchy of Saxe-Co burg took place at the capital of that State op tbe 6th of August, beiug ,he twenty-first anniversary of ins birthday Murder Upon Murder. A horrible sequel had followed the uiur cer of three children in London, as re ported by the steamer. The murderer, af l. i committing the deed in London, proceed to Ramsgate and there killed bis wife and daughter, from whom he had been parted for several years. THE FIRST CRIME. William Forward, the monster accused of tlie terrible crimes, has for some years made his living as a billiard sharper, under the name ol Southey. He had been separated from his wife for some time, and had been leading a disreputable life, maintaining all tbe time an illicit intercourse with a married woman named White. They were her three children he took to the Holborn coffee house and poisoned, and it is said that he himself was the father of them. THR SECOND CRIME. Early Hext morning Ramsgate was thrown into a state ot intense excitement by a re port that a man had committed a double murder iu a dyer's house in King street. — Unfortunately, upon inquiry, this rumor proved only too tine. It apears that For ward, who was formerly a banker in the town, left Ramsgate some eight years ago, leaving his wife and little girl behind him in a state of almost destitution. From time to time anonymous letters have been sent to his wife, ‘ some ot which have contained small sums of money. On Wednesday eve ning Forward suddenly appeared in Rams gate, and made his arrival known to bis wife. He requested her to take a walk with him, but she declined, giving as a reason that as be had been away for some years, he was a comparative stran ger, and she did not like being seen out in the evening with strangers. She then invited him to go into tbe bou9e of a person named Ellis, a dyer, residing in King street. About twenty minutes past eight Forward went to Ellis's house. Shortly before nine Mr. Ellis went into bis workshop, and while there his daughter told Forward and his wife that it they had anything to say in private they might go upstairs. They both went up stairs, aud had not been there many minutes before the daughter of Forward went up to them. She had hardly got there when Air. Ellis and his daughter were startled by two rapid reports of a pistol, and on the’latter rushing up stairs she arrived at the landing just in time to see Forward's daughter fall down dead, she having* been shot by the prisoner. She then called out to liar father, who immediately came in, and on rushing up stairs he saw" Forward standing at the top of the stairs, just in the sitting room. He said, “ What have you done, Forward" and seeing that he had a pistol in his hand he called on him to give it to him, which he did. Forward had a black mustache and dark whiskers on. Ellis then saw the teet of Forward's wife, and on looking over the table lie saw her head, and that blood was oozing therefrom. He told Fotward to sit down” and he then perceived that lie had neither mustache nor whiskers on. He asked For ward where they were, and he replied that they were under the grate. He looked there, but could not find them, and Forward then gave them to him. He then called out to send for the police and a surgeon. Forward added, “ Yes, send for a policeman." He was then given into custody. FORWARD AND LORD DUDLEY. The murderer complains that a son of Lord Dudley, who lost over a thousand pounds with him at billiards, had refused to pay him. He recently brought an action against Lord Dudley for turning bis para mour, Mrs. White, out nt his house, where she had gone to dun him for the money. Af ter his examination before the magistrates he made the following strange and incoherent statement, which sbems to show that he is insane: STRANGE STATEMENT OF THE PRISONER* Poi,icb Station, Ramsgate, Aug. 10, ’65. On Alonday, the 7th instant, I took three children, whom I claim as mine by the strongest ties, to the Star Coffee House, Hoi bom. I felt for these children all the uffec tion that a parent could feel. I had utterly worn out and exhausted every power of mind and body in my efforts to secure a home and it future for those children, and also other five persons who doubtless weie dependent on me. I could struggle and bear up no longer, for the last support had been withdrawn from me. My sufferings were no longer supportable. Tlie last hope had perished by my bitter, painful experience of our present iniquitous, defective social justice. I shall be charged with their murder—with their criminal mur der in the truest and strongest sense of tbe charge. I deny and repudiate that charge, aud throw it back on the men who have by their gross criminal neglect so brought about tins sad and fearful crime. I charge back the guilt of the crime on those high dignitaries of the State, the Church and Justice who have turned a deaf ear to my heart broken appeals, who have refused fellow help in all my lienzied efforts and exhausted struggles, aud who have thereby impiously denied the sacredness of humau life, tlie mutual depen dence of man, and the fundamental and sa cred principles on which our social system itself is based. Foremost amoug these I charge the Hon. Lord Dudley, tbe Bishop of London, Sir Richard Alayne, Lord Palmer ston, the Attorney General, Sir George Grey, Mr. Gladstone, the Earl ot Shaftesbury, Lord Ebury, Lord Townshend, Lord Richo, Sir E. B. Lytton, Mr. Disraeli, Lord Lyttelton, Sir John Packington, Lord Derby, Lord Stanley. Sir Francis Crossley, the Bisbop of Bath and Wells. Under all the terrible run of my life I did the very best. FUNERAL. INVITATIONS. The friends and acquaintances of Miss ANN O’- REILLY, Mrs O’Flynn Prendergast and the Rev. 0. C. Prendergast. are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral of the first named, from the residence of the second, on Fahm street, next to Southeast comer In dian and Fahm streets, This Afternoon at 3 o’clock. The friends and acquaintances of Mr. and Mr». Robt Balfore, are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral of LENORA bURANA, their youngest child, from their residence on York street between Barnard and Whit ,ki r. This Afternoon at 4 o'clock. HEADQ’RS SUB-DIST. OFOGEECHEB,) Savannah, Go , Ang. 09,1995. f Genpp.ii. Ordib, ) No. *C. I Pursuant to Genera! Order No. 15, Headquarters Dio trice of Savannah. Ist Division Department of Georgia, the following Taxes will be collected to de tray ihe necesaary expenses of lighting streets, clean tag of city, <Sc. I«t. Tax of three (3} per cent upon all Incomes of six hundred (60. >; Collars or upwards from Heal Es tate. 2d. Tax on all Sales of Liquor aa per General Order No. is, from these Headquarters. 3d. Tax Oil all Traders. Dealers, Commission Mer chants, and Shippers of one (ij per cent, on all sales and commissions. 4th. These taxes will be paid monthly, commenc ing on the 31st inst., to the 3ax Collector, ou account iif sales and rents sworn to by psrties. sth. All persons who have received Licenses with out paying the license fee as specified in Geueral Or der No 13, from ihese Headquarters, are hereby no tified that their Licenses are revoked from tbie date, and that new Licenses will be required before continu ing their business. otii. All persons coming under tbe provisions of this order will report Immediately to Tax Collector and register their names aud place of business, Ac. Any person neglecting to comply with the requirements of this order wlh be subject to a fine. ftb. c»pt. Calvin U. Pike, 163d N. Y. Vole., la here by announced as Tax Collector, City of Savannah. Be will be obeyed and respected accordingly By command of Brv’t Brig. Gen. K. P. DA Via Wa. H. Eolx A. A. a. O. an2B Buy Your Claret AND SHERRY WINES —AT TONICING’S, IN REAR OF POST OFFICE, HILTON HEAD. . »ng24 t s Notice. TSfClfr Connell. Stitt Regular Meeting on the S'P^berwill elect aClerkand snertff of the (Sty Court of Savannah for the present nuexpired lent. The compensation consists of fees Persons Intending to be candidate* for;the above offices uereqnsMed to hand to their applications to then" derslgued, with the names of the two aecurluee re qulrea. R T. GIBSON, sngK'-Sleoc? Clerk of Council. NEW ADVERTISEMENT!. H KADQ UARTCR^73^^^os^™ Savannah, Ua., Aug. as. fses. f General Order, i No. 3. ) I. The death of Captain William Robertson Cos r iroiu Uijuric., received h> u fall, w hereby anniiuuceu to this command. ’ “ nl/ed m<irlH as “ *° lJier have been frequently recog. He was Ist Lieutenant of Cos. A from the date of the organization ol this Uckiui. m (in the tall of istr’i until the surrender ot p 0! t Hudson, when tie was promoted Captain. Ha lias tieeu in command of his Company ever since. “ 1 Captain Robertson was originally Orderly Sergean’ In Capt. Baroque's Company, lath New Yorkbtofo did “ u, y withttthree months Since September ilth, 1362 (the date he joined this regiment,l he followed the fortunes of the 173d and participated with it. and the Army of the Gulf, In the battles upon the Teche—the seige aud assault upon Port Hudson—the 2d Teche campaign—Expedition to Sabine Pass (all In 1863.) the Red River campaign (Spring of 1864) participating iu each of the four hat. ties therein. Sabine Crass Roads—Pleasant Hill Cane River and Mansura. In the expedition to Deep Bottom (Armv of the James) July, 1864, aud in the Armv of the Sheuai doab, in Sheridan's brilliant campaign, in that his torical valley (Summer ami Kail of 1864.) Through all these various scenes and campat -c In the midst of many perils, he passed with afety o eud his military career near the close of his ie..u of service, In the city of Savannah (Leoartment of Georgia,) and In a time of profound peace 11. His funeral will take place mtu lust.’. at3P M under direction of Oapt. Cowdrey, who will command the Escort, hull military honors will be pud bye >. r. * * * * a a a'* A copy of this will be forwarded for lmormauon of his friends, and for publication iu the Brooklyn ne pers, late the home of deceased. By Command or „ „ _ Colonel LEWIS hi. PECK. M. Conway, Ist Lieut, aud Act. Ad’jt. au29-i HEADQ'RS SUB-DISTRICT OF OGEECHEK, Savannah. Ga„ Augiat 2S, ls#f. Grsznu Orders 1 No. ST. / Hereafter no Commissioned Officers, enlisted men or civilian, will be allowed to drive or ride lh“rlowed through the streets of Savannah faster than a trot un less on official buslnesa, and then the envelope will be marked gallop. The Provost Marshal is charged with the execution of this order. By command of Brevet Brigadier General DAVIS. W«. H. Folk. A. A. A. G. sneSS Notice. CAPT. CALVIN H. PIKE. Tax Collector, has his office In the Exchange building, foot of Bull street. Honrs from if a. m. until 3p. m. nti2» NOTICE TO~STOCKHOLDERS. The Stockholders of steamer SWAN are requested to meet at 12 o'clock m.. on Wednesday,Augu-t 30th, at the office of the Home Insurance Cos. au29-2 ACADEMY OF ST. VINCENT OFPAUL, Navnunnh, Gcorjjiii, CONDUCTED HY THE SISTERS OF MERCY THE Fall Term of this Institution will re-open on September isth and close on Febinsry 13th, 1566. The Spring Term will commence on February 16th nud close on July 16th. Terms per Session, inclndlng hoard. Tuition In English. Washing, and use of Bed and Bed Tuition In French so do do Mnstc on Piano 30 Ob do Music on Guitar 30 to do Crayon, Drawing and Painting In Water Colors. 20 co Tuition in Oriental Painting, per coarse 16 to do Wax Fruit and Flowers 20 oo do Embroidery 10 to For further particulars apply to the Superioress at the Institution. an29-2aw lm STAR LINTE. FOR IMEW .jjjgpYOßK, THE new and elegant first class U S. Mail Steam “hip IDAHO, Captain Holmes willpossi tirely Ball for the above port on Wednesday, Aug. 30tfa, at % o'clock p, m. For freight or passage, having splendid accommc dttions, npplv to BRTGHAM, BALDWIN A HO, Stoddard’* Building, opp. Post Office. FOR NEW YORK. Merchant's Line Sailing Vessels. The splendid Clipper Schooner RvTE S. bammh Capt. WM SMITH, Is now loading for the shove port, and will have quick despatch. A ? P CHAS. L. COLBY A CO., _ _ au2b-ti cor. Bay and Abercom streets, FOR AUGUSTA, The light draft Ste .rusr General Berry, will start on Wednesday, 80th, at 10 a. m. Apply to CHAS L. COLBY ACO , cor. Bay and Abercom streets. .TUST RECEIVED —BT— STUART & CO. A Frash Supply of FULTON MARKET REEF; Smoked Salmon, SMOKED HALIBUT, ALSO A GOOD SUPPLY OF HECKER Sc BROTHERS SELF-RAISING FLOUR. Wholesale Druggists, aan» ssa&xks 2sr Perfumery, Patent Medicines, Sc,, Sc, ORDERS WITH REMITTANCES PROMPUV EXE CUTED AT LOWEST MARKET NICER. HARRAL, RISLEY & TOMPKINS, No. 141 Chamber* aud No. 1 Hudson Sit., NEW YORK. James Harral, formerly of Chsrketon, S c li- "W. Ridley, formerly of Augusta, Oa 0029-Sl3t SUGAR, COFFEE, &(L BAGS Rto Coffee 35 this. Crashed and “C" Sugar £6 hhds. Bacon, side, and shoulders * Dearbm’a Cotton Scales ~m a 100 bales Gunny Cloth. Forssleby * n - 9 ' e OCTAVCa COHEN CENTRAL r. r. AND SAVANNAH, ALBANY & 6UIF H, E. STOCKS, FOR SALE. APPLY AT THIS OFFICE. au»-3 MACKEREL. laa KITTS NO. 1, landing from steamer Zodiac. lUll For sale by amt* * CHANS- JOHNSON * GRAYBUJU