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The Savannah Daily Herald. BY S. W. MASON & CO. SAMI'KL W. MASO.V Editor. W. T. THOMPSON A»»ocia«e Editor. SAVANNAH. THURSDAY. AUGUST 31. 1365. FOR LOCiL HATTERS SEE THIRD PACE. KVF.SKC EDITION OF THE lIERAED. By an accident to onr press we were obliged to sus pend our Keening Edition temporarily, and various • iioumstances now lead us to annouuoe its discon tinuance for a few days longer. We sluill resume Its publication very soon. TO ADVERTISERS. our advertising patron* are reminded that adver tisements Inserted in the Morning edition of the Hnai.n will appear in the Evening without extra v barge Advertisements shcnld be handed in as early a* possible, hut will be received as Ist* »e 12 o’clock at night. We adhere to our advertised rates except tor long advertisements, or those inserted for a long time, on which a reasonable discount will he made HOW TO OBTAIN THE HERAI.D REG IJLARLV. We often have complaints from resident* of Savan nah and Hilton Head that they are not able always to obtain the Fer*i.d. The demand is sometimes so great as to exhaust an Edition very soon af’cr its issue, and those who wish to have the Hikvi t) regnlariy, should subscribe for it. We have faithful carriers in Savannah and at Hilton Head, and through them we always serve regular subscriber* first. BISINESS DIRECTORY OF SAVANNAH. We are now publishing a column and more of brief business announcements, careiully classified, under the general head of". Savannah Business lilrectory. it includes some forty leading business men and firms of Savannah. We propose to retain this as a regular feature of the Hera ur. The expense of in serting cards in this department of the paper is t ery small, and we believe the advertisers will receive more than a proportionate benefit. Parties wishing to have their oards included in this Directory, can do so by sending them to our counting room, or hand mg them to Mr. M. .1. Divine, who Is authorised to it-oeive them. Prepayment will be invariably re «. Hired. CHEERING LETTER FROM AN EMI NENT GEORGIAN. We publish in another column a letter from Mr. C. M. Howard, a well-known citizen of upper Georgia, to which we invite ihe thoughtful attention of our readers. In his introductory remarks accompanying the let ter, the editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer says: “To many of our readers Mr. How ard is known as one of the soundest thinkers and most accomplished writers of the State. Anything emanating from him is worthy of respectful consideration. We are pleased to see that his tone is yet cheerful and hopeful, :is it comes within our knowledge that he has suffered severely in the recent struggle. He was himself a participant in many of the bloody scenes enacted, and was severely wounded in the campaigu which resulted in the fall of this city." The editor heartily approves the sugges tions of the writer, and adds: We have long been satisfied that a very large portion of our State is well adapted to the growth of the grasses, and that their general introduction would not only reclaim much of our land that is now worn and ap parently wasted, but that it would also lead to au improvement in the style ofliving with our people generally, and cheapen the means of subsistence. For the future it is evident that the production of cottou in the South will be much less than it was in years past, and our people will be compelled to resort to other modes for supplying themselves with cattle, horses, mules, hogs, etc., which here tofore they so generally procured from the Northwest with the proceeds arising from the sale of their surplus cotton. By the introduction ot the grass culture and the consequent improvement of our farms, the production of wheat, corn, rye, and other grains will be greatly increased, and the rearing by ourselves ot all needed domestic animals will necessarily follow this change in our agricultural pursuits. The cultivation of the grape, to which much of our soil and climate is well adapted, aud of the apple and the peach, which can be made to thrive as successfully with us as in any portion of the earth, will also furnish the means of employment to a large portion of our population, and be the means of bring ing ta us annually a handsome revenue. With a pieasant and healthful climate— possessing almost every variety within the limits ot our State—with a soil fertile and productive, and which will yield almost everything necessary for the subsistence and comfort ot man, and with an active, ener getic and industrious population, there is no reason—notwithstanding the dark clouds which have enveloped us, and of those dark er ones which some think threaten out fu ture—that our people should yield to a des pondent spirit, but every incentive to be up and doing, and by increased activity and energy to overcome the difficulties of the present, and to repair the disasters of the past. Let action, action !be the watchword, and soon the sun of our prosperty shall re turn and drive away the dark clouds that like a pall have hung around our way. We are pleased to observe that Mr. Howard approves the suggestion made by us a few days since, that the State Convention, shortly le assemble,should adopt measures to encour age foreign emigration to Georgia, and to acquaint the laboring classes, arlizans, me chanics and capitalists of Europe with the superior inducements offered by our State to all who seek to make their future homes in the New World. Mr. Howard suggests that the Conventiou send Commissioners to Eu rope for this purpose. We hope the Con vention will not neglect so important a duty, and as there is perhaps no gentleman in Georgia better qualified by education, gen eral information and practical experience for such a mission, we would be pleased if the Convention would secure his valuable ser vices as Commissioner. THE EVtiLISH MONOPOLY OF INIVEN TiONi. The article from Blackwood s Magazine of which we presented, in part, an abstract, yes terday, entitled “Rate of Interest" suggests, as we have said, two tests of a perfect paper currency. “First, the validity of the Note or its constant acceptability by the community, as a valid tender in payments, and other trans fers of capital; and secondly, the steadiness of the Measure ol Value, in which all con tracts are made and all business is carried on. A State currency when tiied by these testa fulfills the former of these conditions, hut fails in the latter. State notes are ne cessarily a valid tender at all times and un der all ciicumstances. The State expendi ture is made in these notes and the State taxes are paid in these notes.” But being open to the objection of being liable to being issued in excess they are unfit for a standard of value.” A currency, the writer thinks, might preserve steadiness of value were it restricted to the amount of each year's taxation, and at the same time ade quate to the monetary wants of the commu nity, but as the amount ot taxation and the monetary requirements of trade sre not mu tually dependent, a currency system which >* regul&teg by the latter only, cannot be ad justed, he concludes, for both." Now In this coaclusiou we cannot concur. We conceive that the currency of the National banks it substantially a Mate currency. The adjust ment, of which the writer in Blackwood speaks, is not necessary. These banks art : permitted to issue three hundred millions ol dollars. If the taxes amount to that sum the only adjustment required is that there should be coincidence in the issue of the notes, or, the expenditure, and the period of paying the taxes, so that the latter operation would not withdraw and keep locked up in the treasury too large a portion of the notes, and by that means restricting In too great a degree the amount of the currency. If we suppose the internal taxes and the duties, the two largest branches of the revenue, and the expenditures correspond on the Ist of Janua ry and the Ist of July respectively, there can be no possibility of that variation in the value ol a paper currency that would unfit it for the office of a standard of value. The requirements of trade might demand a less or greater amount than the expenditure (cases supposed by the writer) hut paper money is not wanted lor the larger transac tions of trade. They are effected through the agency of bills of exchange and trans fers, by means of deposits, through the books of banks; and as the institulions employed by the State would not receive deposits, if payable in gold, there could be no extra de- mand for gold, and steadiness would be im parted to a currency of paper. The writer has insisted that the deposits of the banks constitute the sopree of mischief in banking. As the only currency required would be for retail transactions, coins would supply this want, while those on wholesale would be ef fected through mutual transfers between debtor and creditor in effecting purchases and sales. The Scotch banks do not pay their deposits in specie, combined with the prac tice of cash credits,’ still the banking system of Scotland presents ail the features of so lidity, and its note currency, that of uniform ity of value beyond any scheme of paper currency known. The nxt head of inquiry is how far does a Single bank of Issue, like the Bank of Eogland, answer the two tests or conditions of a per fect paper currency ? The writer in Black wood offers some very cogent reasons for rejecting a single bank of Issue, as failing to turnish adequate security for the main tenance of the measure of value, and a steadiness In the rate of interest, although the validity of the note, under the system of a single bank of Issue, may equal that of a State currency. The notes of the Bank ot England possess, in the fullest degree, va lidity, being, both by law and practical ly a legal tender, yet the fluctuations are large and frequent in the rate of interest, and the bank has been repeatedly on the verge of suspension. The writer having reached his third itead of inquiry, “ Plurality of Note Issues," he pronounces the issues of many separate banks as furnishing a currency less perfect than one issued by the State, as relates to the validity of the note; but under the influence of com petition, and in conformity with the law of supply and demand, giving the freest play to the requirements for loanable capital, while preserving interest at its normal rate. Now here arises the evidence of borrowing a discovery, and without acknowledgment, with which we have charged our English cousins. ‘ ‘To insure the validity of the notes issued where there are many banks issuing a plurality of notes, security should be required for issues through the public stocks.” This was the plan originally devised and carried into effect In the New York Legislature and adopted in the organization of the National Banks by Congress. The writer in Black wood proposes "that the British Exchequer be empowered to issue notes to any bank which purchases and deposits In the Ex chequer an equal amount of Consols valuad at 10 per cent, above the current price of the day. These Coosols or any portion of them, to be returned to the bank on its giving back the notes issued upon tire security of these Consols, but returned in such a way that whatever be the difference in value of the Consols when bought and when returned, the bank shall neither gain nor lose by the temporary investment.” The above plan of security differs from the National bank system In requiring the bunks to purchase and deposit an amount ot Ex chequer bills equal to the amount of their notes. The system of the National banks requires the purchase and deposit of only ten per cent, of their circulation in United States stocks. It is still a matter of experi ment whether ten per cent, of their circula tion would be adequate to the effect promised by the writer in Blackwood, “preserving steadiness in the measure of value”. Its de sign was to protect the note-holder against the insolvency of banks. The writer in Black wood thinks that It will restrain their issues from becoming excessive, and thus securing to the community a currency of uniform value from time to time—uniformity between place and place being preserved by a system of redemption at some central point, such as the city of New York, If it should prove on trial that the system of security for the circulation of banks is in adequate to the preservation of uniformity of value to the circulating medium from the limited amount of the deposit, ten per cent., the plan proposed by the writer in Black wood errs in the opposite extreme of requir ing an amount equal to the whole circulation. What associations for Banking would be formed, the pre-requisite being the invest ment and deposit of an amount equal to the whole of its circulation ’ The writer in Blackwood seems very con fident of the success of his scheme in the ful filment of both of the conditions for a perfect system of paper currency, to wit. the va lidity of the note or its general acceptability, and steadiness in the Measure of Value. He calls his system one that in permitting the full play of the principle of competition in the issue of notes, a system offree banking that will attain the two great ends of a paper cur rency, the “validity of the note,” and “steadi ness in the Measnre of Value.” But it is evi dent that his system is a mixed one, partly free and partly restrictive. It is free in per mitting to any number of banks the privilege ot issuing notes without direct restraint, but it is restrictive in compelling them to give security tor their issues. The system of Na tional banks meets one of the requirements In compelling them to give security for their circulation. It, however, does not corres pond with the other part of the plan of the Edinburgh writer, for the act by which they have been organized restricts their issue to three hundred millions of dollars. There ure several other important sugges tions in the urliclcia Black W<h*l, the result apparently of e\|*erieiH'e. The writer is of opinion that if his systi m is adopted, that not only w ill steadiness lie imparted to the bank note currency, and tire rate of lute: eat prevented from the frequent fluctuations that occur in England, being regulated by the natural law of supply and demand lor capi tal ; that hanks would not be compelled to keep in their ( vaults, a larger sum than one fifth oi their circulation In specie, and that about sixty millions in gold, would become available in England on any .emergency |re quiring its export. The following important' suggestion is mtide .• "Doubtless, also, a comparatively new branch of trade would arise in the form of gold merchants; for the banks would dnd such a class of men of great use In econo mising their resources. At present (speak ing generally) each bank keeps on hand a stock of specie, adequate not only for its or dinary, but for its extraordinary require ments. And as an unusual demand for spe cie never affects all banks alike, it is obvious that if the total amount of specie held by the bnnks, could be "mobilized” as the French say— in other words, if It could be made available for any hank or banks, which specially required it—a great economy of gold would he effected.” It is remarkable that here, also, we have anticipated our Eugliah cousins, for we have not only the species of security recommend ed by this writer, for our hank note curren cy, under the system ot Na tional Banks, but Gold merchants also. The commerce in gold with us has no doubt been carried to an in jurious excess. It has been perhaps the un avoidable result of that spirit of gambling which has been generated by our abuse of the paper system, but there can be no doubt that when these abuses are rectified, as they will he on our return to specie payment,that a class of gold merchants would be found very uselul as the commerce in gold prom ises to constitute an extensive branch of bus iness. POLITICAL MOVEMENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA. A geptleman who arrived here from Hilton Head last evening, informs us that the people of South Carolina are now actively engaged in the adoption of preliminary measures to secure a full representation in theapproaching State Convention, which is to assemble, we believe, in the enrly part of next month. He represents the dominant sentiment as being in perfect accord with the grent purpose of the contemplated organic reconstruction upon an out and out Union basis. The views and sentiments promulgated in the speeches and proclamations of their newly appointed Pro visional Governor are accepted, without re servation, as constituting the true policy of transformation to be observed in the construc tion oi the new political fabric by the ap proaching Convention. It would appear from this thnt the leading secession State of the South will wheel rapid ly into line with Mississippi, animated by an honest desire to recover her political rights and privileges under the amended constitu tion of the United States. We oltserve also that Governor Perry of that State lias been making another speech at Greenville, in which he relates bis reception at Washington, which he says was most satisfactory. Referring to his interview with the Presi dent, lie says: “I told him that the people of South Caro lina accepicd the terms of his proclamation, and were disposed to return to their alle giance to the Union. That from having l>een the most rebellious State in the South, I was satisfied South Carolina would, henceforth, be one of the most loyal of the Southern States. That she would reform her Consti tution and abolish slavery, give the election of Governor and Pres'dential Electors to the people, and equalize the representation of Ihe State. I gave it as my opinion that the disunion feeling of the South had origin ated in the parishes. The President express ed himself gratified at the course South Caro lina was likely to pursue, and instead of manitesting any hitter oi revengeftil spirit, he evinced great kindness, solicitude and magnanimity." ' The following also is interesting. “Before visiting Mr. Seward I had been to call on the Attorney General, Mr. Speed.— He expressed himself surprised and mortifi ed at tuy speech made to you on the 3d of July. But I soon discovered that he had only glanced over the speech and did not compre hend the tone and temper of my remarks. I told Mr Seward what the Attorney General had said. He replied, I read your speech this morning attentively, ann considering the standpoint from which you made it, I think it a very good one. When I was Governor of New York, said Mr. Seward, I used to make speeches which were very severely criticised in Charleston, and I said to myseit; what the deuce have the people of Charles ton to do with my speeches made in New York ? I did not speak to them or for them, but to the people of New York. And I sup pose, Mr. Perry, yon intended your- speech for South Carolina and not for Washington.” Perry says that when, in his last interview with the President, he told him the steps he had taken as Provisional Governor, the President replied : “Well, you are a most expeditious Governor.” Whereupon, he. Governor Perry, added that he would have the State ready, with the constitution reformed, and have members ot Congress elected, by the first Monday in December, when Congress convenes. NORTHERN MANUFACTURES. The present high prices paid by the people of the South for cotton fabric* of every de scription has very naturally created a deep interest with them respecting the condition and prospects of the manufacturing corpora tions of the North since the collapse of the rebellion : and, therefore it is, that we hear frequent enquiries made on this subject by all classes of our citizen*. Although not fully posted in regard to the present actual condition ot the manufactur ing interests of the countty, we feel authorized ized to aay they are not aa healthy and prom ising as before the war, nor Is it probable, we regret to say, that the causes of their present embarrassment will be removed immediately. We learn from a Boston exchange that for some time past the various manufacturing corporations in the Northern States have made strenuous efforts to obtain the requisite number of operatives to enable them to run their mills, but without success.— The public mind had been Occupied by ur gent appeals tor employment for young wo men, and it was supposed that the great sur plus ot these in the New England States were ready to take up with any offer of re spectable employment. The discouraging results, however, do not sustain this conclu sion. We learn that during the war it was a no ticable (fact that many of the young men who were enlisted were previously married. and tbeir wives received the Stale or tow" aid voted tie ui by the ci’izeus wli<> remained at home. This removed a large number lrom the labor market. In many cases, row that the soldiers have returned home, their bounty money and savmgs have enabled them to purchase a small place, which claims the constant attention of both man and wife. Then again, in many establishments, the class of operators employed for some years past is no longer as a whole, equal to those daughters of New England who gave the Lowell factories sucli great reputation for skill and social standing. It was thought j better to employ trained operatives from the old country, or such help as would not at the end of a tew years leave the mills for more congenial pursuits. It follows now, when the spindles are again to be set in motion, Yankee girls who desire to enter the mills are not readily found. Notwitstaudlng these obstacles, it is an nounced by the Boston exchange, as a grati fying indication of the piospect in New Eng land, that the various manufacturing cities and villages are rapidly filling up. At Snn cork, West Falls, Manchester, and other places in New Hirapshire, as well as in Low- | ell and Lawrence, [there is said to be a great scarcity of tenements. The same is true of Lynn, Worcester and Salem. LOSS OF ANOTHER STEAMSHIP Wreck of the Brother Jonathan on the Pacific Coast. Nearly all her Pnsaengera Drowned. Brigadier Gen. Wright, Family and Staff among the Lost. [From the Alta California, August 2.) Jacksonville, Ouf.gos, ) August I—lo p. m. j A soldier arrived this evening from Camp Lincoln, bringing a despatch to Col. Drum. He reports the Brother Jonathan, with Gen. Wright, staff and family, and between two and three hundred passengers, lost near Camp Lincoln, bu July 30th, except four teen men and one woman, who were saved. No paiticulars yet. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS, The steamship Brother Jonathan had the engines which were in the steamship At lantic, which dragged her anchors, drifted on shore and was wrecked at Fisher's Island, Long Island Sound, on Thanksgiving night, November, 1848. She was cut down and rebuilt under the supervision of Cantain Aaron M. Burns, in this city, twoyears tinee, and was coasidered one of the staunchest vessels afloat in the waters of the Pacific. The Brother Jonathan was owned by the California Steam Navigation Company. She left here on Friday last, at ten A. M., under command of Captain S. J. DeWolf. We learn that the only staff officer who went up with General Wright was Lieutenant E. D. Waite, his adjutaut. Mrs. Wright accompa nied her husband. The General as Ims here tofore been announced through the columns of this journal, was en route to Fort Van couver, to take command of the Depart ment of the Columbia, to which lie had late ly been assigned by the general government. The following despatch has been placet! at our disposal : Camp Lincoln, Via Jacksonville,! July tit, 1865. j To Col. R. C. Drum —At two P. M. yes terday the steamship Brother Jonathan struck a sunken rock, and sunk in less than an hour, with all on board, except sixteen persons, who escaped in a small boat, the only survivors of the ill-fated ship. No trace of the vessel is left. I was out last night on the beach with fourteen men; shall keep a party out on the beach. General Wright, family and staff arc supposed to be lost. Full particulars by mail. Thos Buckley. Captain Sixth infantry, C. Y., Com’dg. Brigadier General Wright and wife, Dr. Ingram, U. S. A.. Captain Clmddock, U. S. It. S.; Lieutenant E. D Waite and Governor Henry, of Washington Territory, were among those on hoard. Who are saved it. is impossible to state at present. The San Francisco steamer Bulletin of Aug. 3d, expresses the hope that the loss of life by this disaster will not turn out to be so great as reported. The editor says: The Brother Jonathan was provided with three large surf-lioats and three of Francis' patent life-boats, so that it is not improbable that more of the passengers have been saved than we know of now. The coast in the vicinity of the accident is exceedingly rocky, and the feat of landing in a boat a dangerous one at any time. It U not unlikely that one or more boats from the stenmer might have put off from the shore with the hope of reach ing Crescent City, which is only about ten miles distant, in which case we should not have received tidings from them as soon as from the others who landed in the vicinity of the wreck. The same paper contains the following brief notices of some ot the passengers, sev eral of whom are known to our readers. Brie Gen. Wright entered the military service in 1323. He served with distinction in Florida, and subsequently in the Mexican war, where he led the assaulting column in the battle of Moliuo del Key—one of the most gallant feats of the war- At the close of the Mexican war he was detailed to the Pacific coast, where he has served most of the time since commanding at different times the districts ot Oregon, Lower California, and the Department of the Pacific. He was en route to Foit Vancouver to take com mand of the Department of the Columbia, to which he was lately assigned. Lieut. E. D. Waite was Aid-de-Camp to Gen. Wright. He entered the service in 1861. Maj. Eddy was additional Paymaster in the army, and entered the service in 186 L At his particular request he was allowed to change off with Maj. Fay, who was first de signated for the post. Gov. A. G. Henry wrs formerly United States Surveyor General, and had recently been appointed Governor of Washington Territory. He was a dear friend of the Lin coln family, and it was in his house that Mr. Lincoln married his wife. He was about 55 years of age, and a man of noble character. Victor Smith was formerly Collector of Customs at Puget Sound. He had but re cently returned from the Eastern States, and was on the ill-fated steamship Golden Rule in charge of a large amount of government funds when she was wrecked on the reels about a mouth ago. Capt. Cbadduck came to this country in 1849, in the Lawrence, and has been in ser vice on this coast ever since. For several years past he has been in command ot the revenue cutter Joe Lane. Dr. A. Ingram is a surgeon in tbe regular army, and was attached to the Second Uni ted States Dragoons in the Army of the Po tomac. He was in every battle of that grand army up to tbe fight at Gettysburg, about which time he was ordered to this coast, and has recently been transferred to the Depart ment of Oregon. James R. Richards, of tbe firm of Richards & McCracken, and J. S. Geddes, well known Front-street merchants, were among tbe passengers. Among the passengers was James Nlsbet, one of the editors of this paper, who was on hit way to Oregon and British Columbia to spend three or four weeks of relation from the laborious duties of his profession. Mr. Nlsbet has been connected with the Bulletin since 1855, and is well known to the comau j nity.' We vtill indulge in the hope that he, with tunny others, will yet lie found among the saved, and refrain, iberclure, from any obituary notice at this time. (.'apt. De Wolfe, who commanded the Brother Jonathan, has been running on this coast for about fifteen years past. At the time Capt Staples was killed in Portland, De Wolfe was bis mate, and upon his death suc ceeded Capt. Staples to the command of the Brother Jonathan, which poei;ion he held ever since. He is about forty years of age, and has a wife resitting in this city. Capt. De Wolfe was one of two or three persons who were saved from the steamboat Lexing ton which was burned in Long Island Sound, in the winter of 1840. He floated ashore on a bale of cotton. I Faox Mississippi. —Jackson, Miss., Aug. 25, 1865.—1n the Convention to-day the or dinance prooosing to submit the Constitu tional Amendment to the people for ratifica tion or rejection was lost by a rote of 15 yeas against 44 nays. An eloquent appeal, memorializing Presi dent Johnson to grant pardon to Jefferson Davis and Charles Clarke, late Governor ot Mississippi, signed by over 4,000 ladies, was read ana approved. A resolution was adopted requesting the President ot the Convention to forward the memorial to the President of the United Stales. The Convention give their President the right to reconvene them when deemed ne cessary. From Baltimore Baltimore, Ang. 25, 1865.—Last night, about midnight, the steamer Geo. Leary, Gapt. Bl&keman, from Baltimore for Norfolk, with 100 passengers and a heavy freight, came in collision off Cove Point with the propeller Sea Gull, of the new outside sea line from New York to Baltimore. The Leary was cut down to the water's edge ; but the shifting of the cargo fortunate ly lifted the injured part above the water line, and prevented her from sinking. . The passengers and baggage were transferred to the Sea Gull and reached here this afternoon. The Leary was towed into the Pawtuxent river. The chief steward of the Leary was lost overboard, and the chambermaid and a deck hand were badly injured, the latter it is thought fatally. Ketcucm Caught. —lt will be seen that the modern financier, Edward B. Ketchum, whose name and exploits have engrossed the attention of the country during the past two weeks, has fallen into the hands of the New York police, and that $50,000 was found upon his person. We see it stated in the Herald of Saturday, that the total of his defalcations has been arrived at, and that they foot up the enormous amount of four millions, two hundred thousand dollars. The loss then of the $50,000 is a small affair to him. With the amount of money he has n > doubt saved and the not itiety hejhas ac quired for accomplishing a “big thing,” he will be able to hold his position as the financial lion of Gotham, if not tor the season, at least until the next great sensa ton. Dr. Livinostone on African Missions.— The evidence of Dr. Livingstone, the ex plorer, before the Select Committee on West ern Africa, which has just been published in England, is entirely contrary to that of Cap tain Burton as to the results of missions. The doctor was asked whether he thought it possible that an English government should be established in the neighborhood of twenty or thirty different tribes, and not interfere in their quarrels ? His reply was, “I think so. The missionaries whom I have known gen erally make it clearly understood that they will not Interfere in any of the native qnar rels, and that they will not Interfere in the protection of the country ; they are looked upon as part of the superior power, and they are not appealed to.” The Darlington (Yt.) Times, of the 14tb, says: We learn with regret that Mr. S., a gentleman of this city, during the past week eloped with the wives of three of the most respectable citizens of Nashua, N. H. They Immediately proceeded to Canada, crossing the border in a lumber barge, under cover of night. When last seen they were near the village of St. Leon, C. E., closely pursued by Dr. Q., the enraged husband of one ol the parties. We suppress names, out of re spect to the friends of the parties. A New York correspondent of the Erie Dispatch says that four months before the meeting of the Chicago Convention Abraham Lincoln was nominated for President by the “spirits,” and that a certain Senator inform ed Horace Greeley of the circumstance, who was so much impressed by it that he “ con sulted several mediums and applied all sorts of tests.” All the mediums giving invaria bly the same answer, he went to Caicago and nominated Mr. Liacoln, as the spirits directed. During the sitting of the Mississippi Con vention, Governor Sharkey received a tele graphic despatch from President Johnson, congratulating the Convention on the pro gress they were making, and assuring them that he would restore the writ of habeas cor pus and remove the troops from tbe State at the earliest practicable moment. Military rule in Missouri is said to be dis appearing. Last week all tbe military tele graph offlces'ua Southwest Missouri south of Pilot Knob, including Cape Girardeau, were closed, and the wires ordered down. All the Provost Marshals’ offices in North Missouri have been closed, and there is a marked re laxation ot martial law in St, Louis. We learn from the St. Louis Republican that tbe Reverend Father Feeban, Pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in that city, has been appointed by tbe Holy See Bishop of Nashville. He lias received the apostolic letters, and the Republican says he will probably be consecrated in Si. Louis. Tbe returns from one precinct in Prince Georges county, Maryland, show that out of one hundred and eighty voters, one hnndred and thirty-one have been disfranchised by the registration law of that State. A Nashville despatch to tbe Tribune says that Landon C. Hoynes, who was a Confed erate States Senator from Tennessee has been arrested at Wytheville by orders from Nashville. The American Consul, residing at Port Mahon, Minorca, writing to the State De partment at Washington, under date of Au gust filth, says that the authorities of that place are enforcing the most rigid quaran tine regulations, and that the march of the cholera is most certainly westward. The accounts received there of the prevalence of the disease at Ancona were such as to create the most serious apprehension, and that much alarm was feit in the Balearic Islands. It la reported from Washington that no more National Banking Institutions will be authorized other than such as filed applica tion prior to the first day of August. Philip my King. The loUvwing poem, written fir Mini Mnlocli, (the antlioi of -'Jolui Halifax.) is so exquisitely beautiful that we are sure oar readers will tliuuk us for repub lishing it ; FHIUF, MY KINO. "Who bears upon his baby brow, the rouiul anil top of sovereighty.” L Look at me with thy large brown eyes, Philip, my King! For round thee the purple shadow lies Os babyhood’s regal dignities. Lay on my neck tliy tiny hand. With love’s Invisible sceptre laden, I am thine Father, to command Till thou shalt And thy queen hand maiden, Philip, My King! n. Oh, the day when thou goest a-wooing, Philip, my King I When those beautiful lips are suing, And some gentle heart’s bars undoing, Thou dost enter lore-crowned, and there Slttest all glorified !—rule kindly. Tenderly, over thy kingdom lair ; For we that love, ah : we love so blindly. Philip, my King! in. lgaze from thy sweet mouth up to thy brow. . Philip, my King I Aye, there lies the spirit all-sleeping notv. That shall rise like a giant and make men bow As to one Ood-thronea amidst his peers : My Saul, than thy brethren, higher and fairer. Let me behold thee In coming years l Yet, thy head needeth a circle rarer, Philip, my King! IV. A wreath not of gold, but palm oue day, Philip, my King l Thou, too, must tread, as we tread, a way Thorny, and bitter, and cold, and gray ; Rebels within time, and foes without, WUI snatch at thy crown. But go on, glorious Martyr, yet Monarch, till Angels shout As thou slttest at the feet of Ood victorious, ••Philip, the King I” FROM WASHINGTON. IMPORTANT Tfl APPLICANTS TOR PASSPORTS. Executive Office, Department ) of State, Aug. 22. > Paroled prisoners asking passports as citi zens of the United States, and against whom no special charges may be pending, will be furnished with passports upou application therefor to the Department of B’ate, in the usual form. Such passports will, however, be issued upon the condition that the appli cants do not return to the United States with out leave of the President. Other persons implicated in the rebellion, who may wish to go abroad, will apply to the Department of State for passports, and applications will be disposed of according to the merits of the several cases. By the President of the United States. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State. abjot whws. Wholesale Mustering oat of Major-Gen erals and Brigadiers War Department,Adj’t. Gen’s. Office,) Washington, Aug. 24, 1865. y General Orders No. 135 —By direction ot the President, the following named gen eral officers of t lie United States Volunteers, are hereby honorably mustered out of the United States, their services being no longer needed: Major Generals Nathaniel P Banks, Daniel Butterfield, Silas Casey, Abner Doubleday, Samuel H neinlzleraan, George L Hartsuft. John J Peck; Brevet Major Generals, A Asboth, George L. Andrews, Wm. W. Bel knap, Charles Craft, Joseph Carr, William P Gartin, Joshua L Chamberlain, Thomas A Davis, Ellas H Dennis, Edward Ferrero, Cuvier Grover, Robert S Granger, Charles K Graham, Kenner Gerrard, Liwis A Grant, Simon G Griffin, George H Gordon, Joseph Hayes, A. J. Jackson, Nathan Kimball, John R Kcnly, John Mc- Arthur. James D Morgan, John P Miller, Byron R Pierce, Jno C Robinson, Truman Seymour, Fredk Solomons, Geo J Stannard, Alex Shaler, Erastus B Tyler, Jas Veetch, Wm Vandeveer, W I Ward, Walter C Whit taker ; Brigadier Generals, Richard Arnold, Napoleon B Buford, Mason Brayman, Hy Baxter, Wm Birney. Cyrus Busbey, Ed S Bragg, J Cook, H B Carrington. Charles T Campbell, Powell Clayton, Alfred N Duffle, E J Davis, Speed S Fry, Lawrence P Gra ham, Edward H Hobson, Joseph R Hawley, Henry M Judah, Jos F Knipe, H H Lock wood, Jacob G Lanman, Thos J McKean, Sullivan A Meredith, Wm H Msrris, Geo P McGinnis, Thos H Neil, John M Oliver, Wm A Pike, Elliott W Rice, Sapiufel D Sturgis, Jas H Stokes, John P Stougtf, Ellnkim P Scammon, Adam J Slemmer, Thomas W Sweeney, Alex Schemmelflanig, J Sprague, Stephen Thomas, Daniel Uilman, Horatio P Vancleve, Fitz Henry Warren, Geo Wagner, Jas A Williamson. By ordei of the Secretary of War. E. D. Townsend, Adjutant General. The captain of a British schooner which arrived at New Orleans on the 15th instant reported that about a dozen deserters or dis charged men from the United States army or navy had been engaged in piratical opera tions on the coast of Honduras, having mur dered the crew of a small schooner, and* setting sail in it, captured several other ves sels. They were last seen near the coast of Cuba, with an English vessel in pursuit. OBITUARY. On :he afternoon of the 23d of last-June, Death vis ited the family circle of Mr. John D. Jussely.nnd with its ley hand plucked from the happy group their youngest son, JOHN WEBSTER JCSBELY, aged 11 years and 4 months. Johnny, as he was familiarly called, was the loved and petted one among four children, and when taken sick, although others of the family were not free from pain, he seemed to be the one upon whom they doted, nis sickness was brief, lasting only live days, but was apparently severe. He became quite deliri ous the second or third day after he was attacked with Brain Fever, and his mind seemed to be wan dering over the boyish ga mes he was wont to delight in, as he would frequently speak of them as though he were then enjoying those sports, and would call o’er the names of his Uttle playmates, with whom he seemed then to be mingling m childish glee and play fulness. Be would also call to his bedside those who were in the sick chamber admlnlsterlngto his wants, and who were watching with breathleas anxiety the progress of the disease, which seemed to baffle the skill of an experienced physician, and whit* in a short time relieved him of his sulferlng and Anally terminated In his death. Little Johnny lost his grand mother during the month of August of last year, but the thought, perhaps, never entered his young and innocent mind that he would so Soon be called to join her in a better and a brighter sphere. Before he died he called each of those who were mourning ’round his dying bed and kissed them, telling them he was going to see grandmother. Yes! he was go ing to see her, and would abide with her forever, and be free from sickness and all the other “Ills that llesh is heir to.” But though he has been removed from the family circle here bejow, his parents feel assured that the parting is only for a time, and console them selves with the hope of uniting with him in that up per and better world. Wherefore should I make my moan, Now the daiilng child Is dead 1 Be to early rest Is gone,' He to Paradise Is fled : I shall go to him, but he Never shall return tome. God forbids his longer stay, ' God recalls the precious loan, God hath taken him away From my bosom to his own ; Surely what he wills Is best, Happy In his will, I rest. Faith cries out, It Is the Lord i Let him do as seems him good : Be thy holy name adored. Take the gift awhile bestowed. Take the ernid no longer mine Thine he is, forever thine. g g y For sale, A CARRIAGE & PAIR OF Apply to &3. CUBBEDGE, < * n3 ° l Central Railroad Qffloe. ! IVEW ADVERTIbKMKvrg. ' NOTICE TO 'STOCKHOLDERS. An Adloumsd Meeting of the Stockholder, o' ie Steimer Hw.n will be held Thb Day am o . clocb ‘ If •t the Office of the Home Insurance Company au3l x 5 OFFICE COLLECTOR MIUTArVtXJ?T7~ Fxcuenos Boil ding, its ’ I Savannah, Qa., IS«S. f CIRCULAR, I am instructed by General Order, No Sc He.* quarter Snb-Di«trlct of the Ogeechee, Ang. kiss to collect a Tax of Three per cent upon all income. Real Ejt*t° andr * C * D ° U "* *” d Dpwirds ’ And, also, a Tax of One per cent. Cl) on Gross Sai« of all Merchandise, except Cotton sold on Commlr. sion; One per cent, on all Commisaions derived her the transaction of on Auction. Commission, Shippik Forwarding, and Brokerage business, except upon tbs sale of Merchandise, upon which a Tax of One re cent. is levied. ** r All parsons coming within the requirements 0 ‘ these instruction* will immediately make a return c all Incomes, Sales and Commissions, for the month of August, 1805. 01 Blank returns for this purpose may be had on an-.;- cation at this office PP Office ia the Exchange. OT* Office hours, from » A. M. to 3 P. if. C. H. PIKE. aa3l - Captain and Collector Taxes FOR EENfT sHK SS«J"2E!!° Horail i£ Store No. ISO. Poeeeesion given immediately e ‘ Apply on the premises. au3l-i STAR LIIVIT FOH NEW YORK, THE new and elegant first ,-lass O. S Mall , *h!p IDAHO, Captain Holmm till £l2' lively .afi for the above port on " po *'‘- Thuroday, Au*. 31st, at 3 o’clock p. m daMonsTapply > to P * i ** t ’ e ’ « and * nßl-1 Stoddard’s pJsfofflce. STAR LI NE FOR NEW YORK. y will positively sail for the rianiFl 'iT l„ above port on Saturday, September Sd, at - o’clock. d.H°ora r ,tply to Pa “ BSe ’ h * Tta * 6plendid 01 c BRIGHAM, BALDWIN A CO., au,.l Stoddard’s Building, opposite Post Office FOR NEW YORK, STAB LINE. The new and elegant first class D. S. Mail Steam vrii? * TUl'IO ’ Capt. Greenmsn. will positively flail tor the above port on Wednesday, September 6th, at —o’clock. datlons^pply°to P ****^ e ’ ‘“ ylns Pplendld , BRIGHAM, BALDWIN & CO. ‘“*l Stoddard’s Bniiding, opposite Post Office. merchants 7 Tine Sailing jg| Vessels FOR NEW YORK. The fine Clipper Schooner E. C. Howard, Capt, Nickerson, Will have quick despatch for the above Port. For Freight or Passage apply to CHAS. L. COLBY A CO., . * agSl ' tf «*• Bay and Abercorn sts. FREIGHT WANTED, 1500 »i3u HILTON & RANDELL^ WHOLESALE GROCERS Bay at.. Near Barnard, * SAVANNAH, GA., “ 'KXKTS' 10 " Complete Assortment of Groceries I»r THE CITY. lmo YARNS ANDOSNABUROS, 20 bales YARN, 10 do OSNaBURGS, F a r irt*l leby 6 JOHN McMAHON i CO. S T^J? F OBORQIA-OHATHAMCODNTY.-To whom It may concern: nrsis^ a i; J ? ilD c - Ferrlil will apply at the Court of Mondavin C fW* If V™ 3 on or flrst be granted ° cto “ er neit " otherwise said letters will “j o®' s *! signature, thlr 28th day of Au- Kn * t ’,, lS6J - D. A. O’BYRNTS, Ordlnsry. SOLE ALEUTS WFOATEHS o? Ch. Farre Champagnes FOR THE STATE OF GEORGIA. SU3» estixaiTsT Newspaper Depot, STATIONERY STORE, Butt Street, Comer of Bar Lane, BACK OF THE POST OFFICE. ' NBW BTowtit .a Jnrt Received st the above Depots further supply of DENIS DONNE, a Novel, by Annie Thomas- Price 50 cents. BELIAL, s J?ovel. Price 60 cents. CHRISTIAN'S MISTAKE, by the author of John Halifax, Gentleman. Price 75 cents THE ROGGES AND ROGUERIES OF NEW YORE, Price ascents. also HARPER'S MONTHLY. GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK* ATLANTIC MONTHLY, Ac., for September. The usual assortment of Northern Dailies and Weeklies Received by Every Steamer, ao*3o