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' BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF SAVANNAH-
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the gene-ral head of “Savannah Bn ones? Directory.
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RESUMPTION OF SPECIF. PAYMENTS.
The Northern journals nre discussing the
•probabilities of a return to specie payments at
an early day. Looking at the subject in its va
rious relations, it is impossible to assign any
definite petiod for that event, dependent, as it
is. ou a variety of contingencies. First, it
would appear to be impossible to resume
specie payments until wc have a full cotton
crop, uuless there is an increase of other at
tides of export, such as gold and petroleum
How much cotton we shall be able to raise
tor exportation, involves the ,sufficiency of
labor, and this again depends on tHe success
of therexpeiiment, now in progress, as to the
amount of cotton we shall be able to pro
duce by hired negro labor.
Secondly, the value of the exports bears
au importaut relation to the value of the im
ports. If the imports are mors in value than
the exports, the balance of trade wiffi foreign
countries will be' against us. If we import
less than we export, the balance will be the
other way. The foreign exchange will rule
in the latter event against us, and we shall
have to export specie to restore tire equili
brium and rectify the balance.
It is well known that the cotton crops be
fore the war paid our foreign debt, to a con
siderable extent. The estimates of this crop,
present aud to come, are 100 vague indt ft
nite to lead to any hut the most uncertain
conclusions. 1
A New Orleans correspondent of the Bos
ton Post has furnished the elements of a
computation which is perhaps as close an
approximation to the truth as can be ob
tained Under existing circumstances. The
following is a summary of his conclusions:
Three old crops : 5,100,000
(trowing crop 600,000
Total 5,700,000
Deduct old crop exports, 500,000
t hree years’ consumption 2,200,000
Burned, as estimated 600,000
Damaged, as estimated 000,000
Total exports, consumption and destroyed 3, Voo,oou
Leaving (or export ... 1,900,000
Now, admitting that a crop of 1,
bales should sell for $3,800,000 (40 cents per
bale, 450 lbs. to the hale) this would, of
course, much exceed the value of the crop of
1861-62, as estimated by this writer,
when cotton was only Hi ceuls per
pound. .
Mr. Blodget in his pamphlet entitled “Com
mercial and Financial strength ot the United
States;’ estimated the value of the total ex
ports of 1861-62 at $229,790,280 ; the value
of the total imports at $20."),819,823, nud the
balance in favor of the United States at $23,-
970,457. In this estimate Mr. Blodget places
the total excess of exports for two years pre
ceding the war, I^lßs8 -59) and 1859-60 at
$28,000,0000 each year. That his estimate
of the cotton crop ol 1862-63 was far too
high, as tested by the figures of the writer
from New Orleans, is evident, the crop ot
that year having been 1,100,000 bales
■whilst that of 1863-64, was only 500,000
bales, having made little or no allowance for
the events of the war. It will' of course,
be understood that cotton has ail along down
to a late period paid a large portion of our
foreign indebtedness. It is true that Gold
and Petrolium have supplied, in a great de
gree, the deficiency of cotton, but it also
must be borne in mind that all Mr. Blodgett's
estimates since the war. are made in cur
rency, and not in gold or bullion values.
There are two other contingencies that
may greatly modify these conclusions, t
The demaud in Europe for our cerials and
provisions; and, 2, lor our public securities
A European demand as large for 520 as has
prevailed since the close of the war would
diminish the excess of our imports, if any,
or increase the excess of our exports, thus in
the one case augmenting the balance against
us, and in the other ease lessening it, or.
perhaps, turning it in our favor.
The application of these remarks is obvi
oft?. Should the'value of oar cotton eiop in
1864-5 reach only 500,000 bales, as estimated
by the New Orleans writer, mere may lie no
balance in our favor, but a balance against,
us, notwithstandiug the increase of value
given to our exports by the export of Gold
and Petroleum and an European demand fa
our breadstuff's and provisions. Thcpr.ba
biiiiies are in favor of the balance being in
our iavor, from the increasing export ot gold.
The general conclusion is evident; should
the balance of trade be in our fnvor for the
uext two or three years, we shall be able to
resume specie payments within that period
Should the^ balance of trade, from the defi
ciency of our cotton crop, uncompensated by
the export of other articles, such as Petrole
um, &c., specie payments wili be indefinitely
ueferred.
re 8 &r ds the export and import of Gold,
'of * a * e our PuWte securities abroad,
-'“•Blodgett aaya, ‘•This is theaimple face
of the commercial statement. It includes,
of course, the mutual exchanges of gold,
aid it does not include that exchange of
values technically known as exchanee remit
tances This lust account is targe ;it covets
the interest and dividends payable abroad,
ou w hatever account they nuty be held,
1 whether railroad stocks and-bonds, or Plate.
municipal, or United States securities. It
| also cannot cover the transmission here for
j sale of any such securities, and the remit
tances of exchange drawn against produce
shipments in payment for them ; which is.
so far as the foreign creditor is concerned,
the final payment of the deft."
Alder a tabular statement, giving the ex
ports and imports for a series of nine years,
down to Decemltcr 111, 1-64, Mr Blodgc,t
! thus expresses ltimsey : “In comparison
I witlt all former years, this series constitutes
anew order of things, gold going out, in
| greater parr, not as commercial balances.-but
| really as an exportation of the surplus nt the
California mines. In l-MT there was an ex
j cess of specie imported of $22,214,26.., while
| at the same time the balance of trade, specie
} included, was about $12,4*00,000 in our fa
j vor ” This statement is the notice of an
| important fact in the history of our exports
I Gold should be deemed as part of our general
I exports, while it is viewed by those who look
! to these exports exclusively in one point of
view, to wit, as an export in payment of a
foreign balance- Gold is like the excess of
any other native production, such as cotton,
rice or tobacco, the surplus of which finds
its way to foreign markets.
Mr. Blodget gives tiie balance in favor of ;
the United States in tiio six years from 4857 j
58, to 1862-63, nt -$53,087,771, or an annual
average of $8,84 7W62, exclusive, of gold. Ta
king, says lie, the last three years, exclusive
of gold, the sum is $104,049,277, and the
average $34,983,092. The excess of 25 mil
lions exclusive of gold in 1862-63, is, per
haps, the most remarkable single fact that
appears in this statement, since, in that year,
there was uo cotton, rice or sugar, to ex
port, and the full effect of the war was felt
in every department of trade.” The reader
will, therefore, perceive the importance of
the fact that gold forms a part of our ex
ports, aud its influence ou what is called the
balance of trade. This is one of the con
tingencies to which we have adverted. If 1
the gold mines should become very produc- j
live, and a surplus created, it may more than j
supply the deficiences of (he cotton crop, j
producing a balance of trade in our favor |
POLITICS AT THE NORTH.
The political movements of panics in the
Northern States of the Union preparatory for
the Fall campaign are becoming more inter
esting than usual, as foreshadowing the pur
poses of each with reference to the new is
sues growing out of the great' political
changes that have followed the termination
of the late war.
The Democratic Conventions recently held
in Maine, Pennsylvania, New Jersey aud
Ohio placed the Democracy of those States
squarely in favor of the President s policy of
reconstruction. lu the two last named j
States the Republican Contentious present- j
ed platforms substantially identical with j
thosejof the. Democracy—the Conservative
Republicans overruled the Radicals, reject
ed the negro suffrage doctrine and planted
themselves firmly upon the President’s poli
cy. Ou the other hand, in the Republican
Convention lately held in Maine, the Radi
cals proved the stronger, their resolutions
oppose the President s mode of reconstruc
tion, and endorse the Negro suffrage doc
trine. The Republicans in the other New
England States will all, doubtless, follow in
the wake of the Maine Convention, for the
Radical element in that section greatly pre
dominates. The Missouri Republicans are
aireadj- pledged to negro suffrage, and it is
expected that the same party in lowa aud
Wisconsin will adopt the same platform. It
appears therefore, that so far as the political
field has been developed, the Radicals nre
arrayed against both the Conservative Re-
publicans and the Conservative Democrats.
It is now clearly demonstrated that the
Radicals are quietly preparing for their con
test in the uext Congress on the negro suff
rage question. Their aim is to restrain the
entire delegation of- congressmen accredited
to the reclaimed States from taking, tlieu
seats, with the design of forcing* the said
States to accept uegro suffrage.
One of the points which the Radicals de
sire to urge is the incorrectness of the basis
of representation in the Southern States
The slaveholding States have been, hereto
fore, in accordance with the constitution*
allowed two-friths representation for the
slaves; and as the apportionment of congress
men is made only once in two years, the
Southern States will be eutitled to the bene
fit of that provision until 1370, although
there will be no slaves. The plea of the
Radical, says a Northern paper, will be this :
That if the Southern States will not give the
freedmen the rights of citizenship, it is not
proper that the said States should be allowed
representation for the negroes. Although
this is clearly noTiing more than a quibble,
it will be seen on examination that the sub
ject presents some interesting features. For
example, there were four millions ot slaves
in the Southern States when the census of
iB6O was taken. In making the last ap
portionment for congressmen, these negroes
were rated according to the two-fifths rule—
that is, every five negroes were counted the
same as two white persons. The basis of
representation was one hundred and twenty
seven thousand people to a member of Con
gress, which it will be seen by calculation,
gave the South eleven congressmen on the
strength of its negro population alone. The
negroes, therefore, are as valuable to the
South now in a political point of view,
as they were under the institution of
slavery, and it is upon this point the Radical
will seek to make capital against the new
congressmen from the Southern States. It
is asserted that constitutionally there is no
cause of complaint on tins ground, as the
apportionment is unchangable in the midst of
a decade ; bux the Radieuls will as usual
place the upon the moral ground,
and endeavor to show that the South has no
legitimate right to representation for its ne
groes, since the two-third provision of the
constitution has become a dead letter
through the abolition ot slavery. But this
is only the string to the Radical bow. They
will try it effectually, but if they should fail,
as it is pretty evident they will, other plans
will be brought forward in its place. ‘Negro
suffrage or no representation,’ will be the war
cry of the Radicals, and they will fight the
I issue in Congress with all their accustomed
i determination mid jiersirteney.
The Southern people? though having no
immediate voice in the settlement ot the
question, will await with inteiest its pracli
,l cal solution by the two great Northern
oarties now battling for the in
; our National Councils. ” •
• Fkom Thomas Coc.sxy. —We learn from
the Thomasville Enterprise, that the Con
vention held it that place, on Saturday last,
nominated, as candidates tc represent Thom
as county In tiie State Convention, Messrs.
Seward, Alexander, aud, Mclntyre. A se
{ lies of resolutions recommending that the
1 State Convention formally declare slavery
j abolished, were introduced in the Conven
i tion by Col Seward, which gave rise to an
| animated discussion. Another series of res
| elutions, offered by Col. Mclntyre, as a sub
; ftitute for Col. Seward's were finally adopted.
I The Enterprise says—
| 'From all we eau learn great dissati-faotion
prevails with the proceedings of the County
! nominating convention on Saturday last
Another ticket is demanded and from mani
festations. the field will he full of candidates
| before the election. Well, if it must tic, let
! us have a wide field and a free fight
We recommend "to our Thomas county
friends to avoid all controversy on mere tech
nicalities, which can only be productive of
harm. Slavery no ionger exists in Georgia.
This fact the Convention must recognize aud
ratify in some fcrrn, and we think it would
be well for the people to leave it to the good
sense of that body to determine upon the
form in which the State will declare her ac
quiescence in what has already been done by
the General Government.
The Poi.iticai. News is becoming some
what interesting. has three candidates
in the field for Governor, Gen. S. D. Coxe,
the Republican nominee, and Gen. George
Morgan, as the regular Democratic candi
date ; while the Radical or Copperhead parly
have nominated Alexander Long, ex-M. G\,
as their candidate. The. real issue will be
belweed Gen. Coxe and Gen. Morgan, both
brave and distinguished soldiers—Gen. Mor
gan's reputation dating from the Mexican
war. The contest will be close aud interest
ing, and the result will have an important
bearing on the future political complexion of
the Western States, us Ohio stands the ac
knowledged head and front of the North
west, both in wealth and population.
1 A Washington letter says—The President
has been literally hunted down by office
seekers and visitors for the last week, With
the few days of cool weather we have en
joyed they seem to have, rallied for a fresh
charge. The rush and crowd at times re
minds one of the ticket office of a railroad—
all seem to think they must have entrance
anrl be heard first. Mr. Johnson is an inde
fatigable worker, commencing at nine
o'clock in the morning and often continuing
till ten at night. The doors close on the
public at ijye p. m, so it leaves but little
tiipe for quiet and recreation.
1 The Richmond Republic says “it is a source
of unfeigned pleasure to us, as natives of Vir
ginia, to know that the Commonwealth has
so readily returned to its allegiance to the
Union. We are daily conversing wish, and
receiving letters from, citizens from ail parts
of the State, and learn that the great body of
the people have heartily and sincerely re
newed t'ueir allegiance, and assumed the
privileges aud duties of American citizens,
with a fixed determination uot to be again
led astray by the scheming machinations of
ambitious and unprincipled political huck
sters and demagogues.”
Tub Augusta Constitutionalist. —This
truly conservative, consistent and ably con
ducted paper comes to us greatly enlarged
and otherwise improved. The proprietors
announce that the Constitutionalist has now
a much larger circulation than any journal in
that section of the State.
BnxNF.Ti’s ErnoMF. or thb American Gov
ernment. —James Gordon Bennett "says, and
he ought to be able to speak ox cathedra:
Our government consists of three powers—
the President and. Congress first, the Repub
lican party secoud and the Democratic party
third. These three powers are the materials
out of which our statesmen are formed, and
which animales all public action, foreign and
domestic. Os these .three great powers the
only one which possesses a clear idea of mat
ters and things is the President . And of all
the muddles of the present day we consider
the Conventions of the Republican and
Democratic parties the greatest muddles ot
them all. They mixed up the past, present
and future in utter nnu inexplicable confu
sion.
Ur. conns Missing. —Siuce the return of the
party sent to Atidersonville to lay out a ceme
tery and mark the graves of the soldier*,
the records of the prison that were captured
by Gen. Wilson, have been missing. They
were furnished. by (he War Department to
the expedition, to assist them in their work.
It is thought by some that they gere stolen
so that they could not be used as evidence
against Wirz. One of the clerks of -the
Quartermaster's Department, who accom
panied the expedition, has been placet! un
der arrest until an investigation can be had
and their mysterious disappearance account
ed for.
A grand spectacle observed near the base
of the Rocky Mountains, after leaving Den
ver City, is described by a correspondent at
Sait Lake City, as follows :
On our right hand stretched away the vast
rolling prairie, an immensity of waste six
hundred miles in width, which we had just
ctossed, ou our left the lofty snow-capped
range ot the Rocky Mountains. All day we
Continued this route.
About iO o’clock p. m , we commenced
the ascent of the first'range of hills, and at
sunrise next morning we were on the sum
mit. Whatever there might have been of
beauty on the eastern slope was passed in
the dark; but the summit of the pass at sun
rise was magnificent. Standing there, eleven
thousand feet above the sea, mountain upon
mountain piled up arouud us, their lotty
peaks covered with everlasting snow, spark
ling under the rays of the rising sun, down
the western slope we saw’ beautiful green
valleys nestling down among the barren and
rugged rocks, lovely spots, full of romance
aucl beauty. One of these places I shall ever
remember—Virginia Pale, as it is called.—
Descending from above, we caught sight, far
down in the distance, of a large emigrant
train, which had camped here ou the edge of
a mountain stream. A hundred white cow
ered wagons, drawn up in a circle, five or
six hundred cattle feeding about, a hundred
little fires, around which men, women and
childftn were eating their breakfast, was a
magnificent picture; the risiug sun lighting
up the tops of the snowy peaks, while away
down, down into the misty valley, this lov
ing group formed a tableau that no pen can
describe. On oue side, and overlooking this
-romantic camping ground, a huge rock
stretches up its perpendicular face, more
than five hundred feet, called the “Lover’s
Rock."
I-i. ,1.1. „| .fol* 11 -1,1, a* a Tailor.
A corrctqxiudciit of tin: New Volk Herald
writes from Greenville, Tenu :
“Mine host" of the hotel hsd been a
“brother chip,” and worked upon the tailor
bench with President Johnson in da\ a lung
syne, and I obtained Horn him some valuable
information concerning
A. JOHNSON,
Tailor.
which sign—a fad simile of the old one
which was sent to the Chicago Sanitary
Fair—now hangs over the door. The old
gentleman's story concerning our President,
runs thus : There was a vast difference be
tween Andy and I when we worked on the
same tiench. I eould spell B-a-k-e rand he
could not; but he could “flax” me ou a
pair of breeches or a flue Coat, and could get
a better price for his work than I. He
never made a garment that didn’t fit, and
never had a job returned. He was the
besttailor I have ever met. When Andy
got married lie dadn't ten dollars in the
.world, and his wife was as poor as Noami's
daughters Her mother said to her before
she was married, (calling her by name,) I
can giye you all the money there is in the
house—fifteen dollars—to hely you about
going to housekeeping : or I will take the
money and give you a ‘wedding’—which
will you prefer?” “Mother," said she “1
will take the ‘wedding,’’ and Andy and I’ll
work for money—won’t we ?' appealing to
her lover. He assented,and the consequence
was that the young couple had not one
cent with which 10 “set up” tor themselves.
After they were married she taught him to
read, ami the world knows the rest, said the
old map with a sigh of relief, as he stroked
down bis sandy wig, aud puffed away at his
old clay. Oh ! wonderful plebian ! it is a
long aud rugged road that leads from the
tailor's bench in Greenville to the Presiden
tial chair at Washington stfaut, that wonder
fu! trip through Cumberland Gap lias told
its tale.
RESIDENCE OP ANDY JOHNSON, THE TAILOR.
The old residence of President Johnson
stands on the main street, only a tew rods
from the hotel. We walked down aud sur
veyed its outward structure, though we did
not enter, as it has been prostituted to the
most vile purposes since the rebellion. It is
a simple brick house, two stories high, with
an L extending back, with a porch on one
side. Very like other houses where destined
Presidents have never lived. It being, how
ever, the place where President Johnson bad
made bis struggle for greatuess, Iliad a de
sire to see it, aud have given my readers the
benefit of my short visit.
the tailob’s shop.
The place where the famous knight of the
scissors held forth was the next thing that
attracted my curiosity, and so I went to see
that. “2V. Johnson, Tailor.” painted in crude
letters, en initiation of the original, said
Eureka to me, and I stood before the sym
bols, gazing intently on the little eight" by
ten frame building." It was plebiau in the
extreme, built very much in the style of a
farmer’s smoke-house, of rough weather
hoarding, whitewashed. On the other end
the boards are torn oft in places, and the
chimney is tumbling to decay. Au old negro,
raised by President Johnson, and assuming
his name, is the sole occupant of the build
ing, and he is the successor in business of
“A Johnson,. Tailor.” He says, “Massa
Johnson been in de trade, de bos tailor in
diggins.” President Johnson’s first public
office was Mayor of Greenville.
Tiif Eml of tiie New Zealand War.
The end of the Maori war in New Zealand
has been announced by telegraph. The fol
lowing particulars are ’frumifle Manchester
Guardian of the 17tli:
' “The renowned Waikato chieftain, Wil
l am Thompson, or, as the native organs of
speecli require it to be pronounced, Wirimi
Tamehane, has come into the English camp
and laid his stone sceptre at the feet of Bris
dier General Carey This man, if not, as
some have supposed, the aclual author of the
‘native king’ movement, was undoubtedly its
ablest upholder, and at. the commencement
of the war, at least, was a tower of strength
amongst his fellow countrymen. His osten
sible submission cannot indicate less than
that in his shrewd judgment the policy of
open resistance to British arms must be
abandoned for a time. It might mean that
he does unreservedly intend to accept the
supremacy of the white man as fixed and
irreversible.
The doubt which hangs over that impor
tant question is suggested by the certainly
curious terms in which his declaration of
submission is couched. What Wirimi has
said on behalf of himself and the cosignata
ries of the document he has handed in is
that ‘we, whose names are subscribed, con
sent that the laws of the Queen shall be the
laws of ‘he Kiug (Maori) to be a protection
for us all for ever and ever.’ It is unavoifl
able’to observe that this agreement, on the
most favorable view that can be taken of it,
involves Ihe Britishofficials ih a sort of re
cognition of the native king ol which a dis
astirus use may be made hereafter. The
Maoris are quite sagacious euough to know
that if they had been believed to have
been really beaten, these are no terms on
which peace would have been conceded to
them.
I From the Nashville Gazette, August 24.]
Negro Loyalty.
The only sort of loyalty entit'el to the re
spect of honest and sensible men is that
which is based upon a due appreciation of
our republican institutions. The negro and
the shoddy contractor are both intensely
“ loyal,” but the one class docs not under
stand ttie difference betwoyaour system of
government and that of ffßkey, and the
other would just as soon make monejiby
thievish contracts with the Grand Vizier as
with Secretary Stanton.
If, instead of a civil warbetw’een the South
and the North, the French had invaded this
country in iB6O, with the banner <jf emanci
pation displayed in their front, th* negroes
would have been as “ loyal” to “ Massa Na-
Eoleon” as they have been to “ Massa
inkutn.” If the rebels, at Ihe commence
ment of the “ fuss,” had invited the slaves
into the army, upon the condition ol freedom
to themselves, they would be to-day'wor
shipping at the shrine of “Massa Jeff”
No mnu of sense blames the Southern
slaves for the part they have acted. Asa
matter of course, they sided with the party
that promised them liberty, idleness, frolic
and fat meat. Their conduct was'natural,
affd, therefore, perhaps more respectable
than the behavior of those who took up the
trade of loyalty for the opportunity it afford
ed of speculating in quinine and for general
stealing. But to attribute to them any pref
erence for 'the government of the United
States, as such, is disgustingly foolish.
Distinguished Arrivals. —His Excellency
Gov. Perry, arrived yesterday from -Green
ville, and has his quarters at, the Shiver
House. Generals Meade and Gilimore, of
the United States army, have also arrived at
the capital and taken lodgings at the Shiver
House. General Meade is on a tour of sur
vey, inspection and examination throughout
this military district, where he will have
inuct to learn. These distinguished persons
are met in conference upon the state of af
fairs in South Carolina, and there is much of
evil to exercise and require the utmost wis
dom and no small will, for its correction.—
We hear of most atrocious outrages in many
places, on the part of the black troops—out
rages of a character too shocking to desig
nate by name For what good purpose these
troops are kept in the country and scattered
over it, it would be dificult to say. If a
process were particularly required, for de
feating all. the hopes of the experiment, at
converting slave into free labor, and for dri
ving the white population to madness, no
better one could be devised. We hope that
these gentlemen, thus entrusted with the
great and difficult work of carrying out a
most noble experiment at once in morals,
politics, society and labor—the most com
plicated problem, perhaps, ever submitted
I to a people—will bring to this conference a
I degree of wisdom, justice and conciliation,
■ such us has uot hitherto l> hi very eonapicu
| ou» in the management of our affairs It is
true that the jieople of the South are a con-''
quered people; but wo have been told and
haveqassumed that it is no part of thh plan
of the Government that they should be treat
ed as such. It certainlr is not the policy of
the Government that it should be so. Yet so
it certainly is at present.— Columbus Pinenix,
Ath instant. -j
A Gflnip.i at Russian History—'Curious
Record of Y'ioicnf Drains. .
The London Daily News, apropos of t|j -*
recent attaining of his majority b'v the present
heir to the Russian throne, gives this histori
cal synopsis :
“The events of Russian history prior to tfie
sixteenth century may be summed up in
very few words. All was disorder when the
hardy Northmen came to rule over the plains
of Russia, aud utter disorder and discord, in
tensified by' Tartar incursions and atrocitieg,
continued to prevail until John 111. subdued
his rival kinsmen, annexed their territories,
add founded the present empire out of Jhc
Grand Duchy of Moscow. Heirs to the
throne in those days were nominated by the
reigning sovereign at pleasure. The eldest
son was generally' preferred, but the patri
archal polity permitted every divergence
from the principle of primogeniture*. When
John 111. was asked by his noble3 to be- •
queath the crown to lus grandson John,
whom he had dispossessed in favor of a sou
by his second wife, his arrogant reply yvas :
‘1 will give Russia to whomsoever I please.’ I
Aud tins was the principle on which Russian
Czarovitche9 inherited the crown until the i
Emperor Paul decreed a law of heriditnry I
succession in the male line, and afterwards 1
in the female, instead of leaving it to the !
caprice of the reigning soveign, or to the
machinations of political factions. The first
Czar of Russia, the renowned John the Ter- j
ribie, killed his son and heir iu a fit of rage,
with a walking stick of iron—a crime -for
which he endeavored to atone by giving
large grants to churches and monastic estab
lishments, aud lie died full of grief pnd re
morse, after taking the tonsure. Dimitri, the
son of his successor, Theodore 1., was foully
murdered by his own uncle, the usurper,
Boris Godunoff, and iu him the Rurik dy
nasty' became extinct. Theodore 111,, third
sovereign of thS house of Romanoff, the joy
and delight of his people, died very young,
after only' reigning six years. On the day of
his death, says Karanisiu, Moscow was iu the
same distress as Rome was on the death of
Titus. John, his brother, should have suc
ceeded to the crown, as no other disposition
had been made by the deceased Czar, but
the Streltsi Guards decided that John’s half
brother Peter, afterwards the Great, should
share the throne with him. But PiMer the
Great, although only seventeen years of age,
preferred an undivided authority, and Jolm
soon after resigued in his favor. The tragedy
of the death of Peter the Great's eldest son
Alexis is well known. Opposed to his fath
er’s reforms, and having fled the country and
been captured, Alexis died iu a dungeon of
the fortress of St. Petersburg, almost im
mediately afier a visit from liis strong-willed
parent. The. application of torture has been
proved by documentary' evidence. The poison
ing of the son by' the father i9 a matter of
strong suspicion. Then the male line of the
Romanoffs became extinct in Peter 11.,
grandson of the Great Peter, wiio died at
fifteen, of small pox. Ann, Duchess of
Courland, daughter of John, Peter the Great’s
half brother, succeeded by the will of the
nobles, who imposed a constitution upon
her. . John VI , grand-nephew ot the Em
press Ann, who had left the crown to him,
was first imprisoned in a monastery, and
then put to death at the Castle of Schlussel- j
burg, in order to make way for Elizabeth,
daughter of Peter the Great. Catherine 11.
became Empress of all the Russias by the
murder of PeleiTlL, her husband, at Rop
sha, near 9t. Petersburg. Her son. Paul met
with a similar fate at the hands (by conni
vance) of his son Alexander I, the first sov
ereign \vho came under a law of succes-ion
to the crown. The rightful heir of Alexan
der, his brother, Constantine, iu favor of
Nicholas, whose succession was resisted,
though unsuccessfully', by the conspirators
of 1825. The Emperor Alexander is thus the
only sovereign since Theodore 111. (A. D.
1682) who has come to the throne peaceably',
honorably', by indisputable right, and in the
natural order of events. But eveirthis ex
ception may be cavilled at, for Nicholas I.
died prematurely and suddenly', in the midst
of a war iu which he had risked his empire.
And now it is hut a few short montlfoeinoe
the name of the Czarovitch Nicholas has
lieen added to the long fist of young sover
eigns and heirs presumptive ol Russia' who
have withered and perished before their
time. May the sins of the fathers be visited no
further, and may the Prince this day so •
mouufully called to swear fealty, break the
spell under which so many of his ancestors
have succumbed.
Prospective New States.
The following interesting information is
taken from an exchange :
Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska and
New Mexico, five out of the ten Territories,
may be expected to candidate before the
next Congress for admission to full sister
hood. It is only lately that the public atten
tion has been sufficiently withdrawn from
more absorbing objects, to take in the fact
that, during all the waste of war, there has
been a surprising process of growth going on
in the remote- West—a fact -which has the
most important political, as well ascom
mercial, bearings. Colorado has now only
to form a proper Stale Constitution to secure
its admission ; its population is variously esti
mated—some say sixty, others eighty thou
sand ; even at the first estimate, having al
most doubled since the Census of 1860. This
population lias mainly been drawn to Colora
do by the gold mining, which differs from
that of California in the comparative absence
of “placer diggings quartz mining is the
business of Colotado, requiring heavy in
vestments of capital in machinery, and tend
ing, apparently, to produce permanent im-.
provements and comparatively stable com-"
muuities. The field there for quartz mining
seems to be abundant; only the Pacific Rail
road is needed to lessen ihe present great
expense of transporting the heavy machinery
from the East. Agriculture offers to emi
grants the attractions of a productive soil in
the valleys, and a high range of prices.
Idaho and Moutana, a vast expanse, are
bo‘h drawing population fast with the
miner's loadstone, and will each, it is thought,
number near one hundred thousand inhabi
tants before the end of the war.
Nebraska is nearer, has been before the
public longer, and is thought to have-over
fifty thousand inhabitants, gathered in a more
steady way of growth; a good climate and
soil. New Mexico is old enough to come in
as regards date of settlement, which was
made by the Spanish in the sixteenth cen
tury. It has about one hundred thousand of
population, about one-third Indians: .
The next Congress will probably have on
its hands, in addition to the serious" problems
which are already under discussion among
the people, the question of admitting to our
fellowship five new States, and States, more
over, consecrated by nature to free labor.—
In the influence which these to-be-Btates
may exercise upon our uatiounl councils,
may be found, perhaps, one of the means by
which our deliverance is to be effected from
the political perils which threaten us.
South Carolina Convention. —Messrs, F.
J. Moses, Jno. N. Frierson and Thos. E.
Muldrow have been elected delected to the
South Carolina Convention from Sumpter
District.
Isaac M. Dwight was chosen without op
position to represent St. Paul s Parish.
Charleston Mercury. —We learn from the
News that the publication Os the Mercury,
which has been suspended since the evacua
tion of the city by the Confederate forces,
will shortly be resumed by Col. R. R. Rhett,
jr, its former editor and proprietor.
The Restoration of Houses end Land*.
By refereuct to the published order of T.
C. CaUicot, HupcrvUiog Special Agent, it
will b#seeu that all applications for ilie res
toration of lands and hourts now held as
“captured or abandoned property,” are to
be made to General Huwaid, the Chief of
the Freedineii s Bureau, . at Washington
We nre gratified at this announcement, as
showing a disposition on the part of the
Government to put things iu a cohrse of jus
tice, aud to this end establishing in the Bu
reau a judicial authority which may be in
voked in behalf of the citizen. It is well
-known that by much the largest proportion
I the property, real and personal, now in
’possession qj' the agents of the Freedmen’s
Bureau, though uot vacant at the time of
seizure, was uot “abandoned properly'” in
the sense <rf the Acts of Congress relating to
the subject. But this indiscriminate seizure,
when oqcc made and recorded in the registry'
of the Department, passed beyond the con
trol of subordinate agents, who -were invest
ed with no judicial power to try claims rela
tive to the property in their custody.—
Hence our citizens, very many of them,have
for many months been suffering under a pri
vation of property uot in accordance with a
coirect construction of the law, aud yet
having no redress for the want of some tri
bunal having authority, to iuquire into and
adjudge their claims. We are glad to see
that this great grievance is to be redressed.
General Howard, the head of I’ l # Bureau, is
now ready to receive all applications for a
release ot property from those who are ad
vised that they are not within the meaning
of the law. We are pleased also to learu
from the law notice of J. W. Wilkinson,
Esq, published iu oui columns to-day, that
prompt arrangements have been made to fa
cilitate, by his residence at Washington, ap.
plications for the restoration efproperty. By
prompt attention to the means now open for
restoring themselves to their full and com
plete 1 igbts ot property, it is to be hoped
that our citizens will in a short time become
once more the owners instead of the lessees
of their homesteads. —Charleston Courier.
Mail Facilities —The post master gen
eral has informed Gov. Johnson “that with
a view to furnishing mail facilities, at the
earliqgt practicable moment, to persons re
siding at or near county scats in tjjc State
of Georgia, be has the honor to inform him
that the department, on the I’eceipt of reason
able bids for the transportation, will be pre
pared lo issue orders authorizing temporary
mail service (’till 21st December) on routes
running from such county seats to the near
est point on railroads on which mails are
conveyed.” *
Letting of contracts on all the routes in
the State will be advertised for, from Ist
January ’65.
There is’ no excuse whatever for a much
longer stoppage of mails to all the principal
points iu the State. Every County seat can
secure a regular mail, within thirty days, if
prompt action is taken. We have also heard
that bids will bo considered reasonable upr n
all routes, if they correspond with the figun s
paid prior to the war. .There should be no
delay in moving in this matter.— Macon Tele
graph.
A War at the Cape op Good Hope. —The
Boers at the Cape ot.Good Hope had pro
claimed war against the Basntos. A body
of Basutos. under David Masocfa, son of
Moshesti, had murdered all the men and
male children of a tribe of bastard halt-castes
under a flag-of- truce, taking avvav a large
number of women. They left sixty-seven
women aud the female children without food
or clothing. The Basutos had shown the
same spirit to the Boers, massacreing all the
men u»d male children who were captured.
The Basutos say they can raise 20,000 men.
The English colonists will take no part in the
conflict, if they can help it, though it is re
ported that the Basutos have invaded Natal,
and that the British troops have been moved
to the frontier.
A Fix for a Young Gentleman.— Avery
nice young gentleman, whose name we do
not deem it necessary to venfillate, recently
invested a small sum in chickens which he
undertook to take home on the Dauphin
street cars. After proceeding a short dis
tance the attention of all the passengers, a
large portion of whom were ladies, was
called to him by one of his purchases raising
a lrmd cackle. In vain he tried to quiet the
bird ; the ladies ‘ tittered” and pull down
their veils, the gentlemen on board “haw
hawed” aud our young friend in ihe ignor
ance of the situation blushed. Growing
somewhat restless at being the cynosure <ff
all eyes, he cast a look into his lap and be
hold—there was an egg. He immediately
quit the car and pursued his way home
ward on foot. Imagine his plieelinks
Mobile Tribune.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
. Wanted,
I> Y a Lady, a situation a« TEACHER in a school or
* family. Is experienced iu the English branches
and Music.
Address Teacher, Herald office* scp9-lw
P. H. Nightingale—-T, P. Huger,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
. MERCHANTS,
DjYRIKTST, g a .
sept* rorilm
To Timber Cutters and Mill
Owners.
TIMBER AND LUMBER OF BEST DE
SCRIPTION .WANTED BY
scp9-5 EDWIN E. HERTZ.
FOR DARIEN & DOCTOR TOWN
In connection with Ihe
ATLANTIC & GULF RAILROAD,
Steamer Chatham,
WAUACi Smilti, GummAfitiiHfi,
Will leave positively on
SUNDAY MORNING, SEPT. 10.
For Freight (most of cargo engaged;, apply to
CRAWFORD, Clerk at Ferry Wharf, or
O’FALLON & CO.,
eep9-l Over Bant: of Commerce.
J. E, GEADY,
At Molina's -Segar Store,
Agent for the
.S' K W RE A ,
PUBLISHED AT OAINSVILLE, East Florida. Has
the lfirgfßt circulation of nnj r paper in the'State
A* an advertising medium, offers great inducements
to Ihe merchants of Savannnh.
pcpS-tf W H. ROBERTSON, Proprietor.
Rope, Bagging,
SUGAR, COFFEE.
For sale by
scpT 4 OCTAVOS COHEN.
SUGAB,COFFEE, &C.
p*A BAGS Rio Coffee
OU .V. bbls. Crushed and “C" Sugar
25 bbd«. Bacon, Sides and Shoulders
2 pairs Dearborn's Cotton Scales
ion bales Gutfiiy Cloth. For sale by
an2o 6 OCTAVOS COHEN.
Ticking my absence from the United States Mr.
John L. Villafon ga will act as Attorney for the-
Arm of Wm. Battersby & Cos., and for mrself.
“Cp4.3 WILLIAM BATTERSBY,
Blacksmithing.
r PHE undersigned wish to Inform the public that
A they have commenced business In Ship, steam
boat and general Blacksmithing.
Also Horse Shoeing done-with neatness and de
spatch.
Shop at the head of Bay street Batterabvs building.
T. M. WILUNE.
sep MF lmo R. CHAPMAN.
NOTICE - POLICEMEN.
* Applications nf the following persons bavine
been approved by the Brev et Brig. Gen. Command,at
thcPost. Persons hose nataea are hereto attach
time requested to call at the office ot the Prtvcst
Ma»hal at 9 o'cloc): a ra., September 7th, ISC'
V z.: J* *
Michael Dowd, Michael Dillon.
Jeremiah Hagatty, JM Barber,
Thomas Wade, Wm Hafesty,
J E Conyers. John Counts.
John liiley, Peter Counody,
August Gerber, . Mac Mcßride,
John Hamilton, Lawrence Fitagsrald,
Lends Smith, Herman Kreitman,
Wm Folliard. John Murray,
W D Ileddleston, Thos McDermott,
Thomas Hickey, Thomas Bill,
Andrew McKeon, Thomas D Burke
George A Rose. Patrick Reilly,
J B Dengan, John Eea ing,
CharleiFnx, Daniel Clancey,
WmO Godfrey, Michael O'Briej,
Thos Demsey,
• All who have received warrants will report at the
City Guard House by 9a. m., Sept 7th.
SAMUEL COV/DREY,
sept Capt. and Provost Marshal
HEADQ’RS DIST. OF SAVANNAhT ’
Ist Division Dfi’t of Georgiy ’ l
Savannah, Ga .Sept 7, 1835.1
General Orders, > '
No. 24. . )
Capt. 8. 8 Starr, A. Q M, U. s. Vok
having been relieved from duty a*r Chief
Quartermaster District of Savannah, and or
dered to Department Headquarters, Brevet
Lieut. Col. E. B. CarliDg, A. Q. M., U. 3
Army, is hereby announced as Chief Ounr
termaster District of Savannah, and whl be
obeyed and respected n^pordimrly.
By command of
Bvt. Major Gen. BRANNAN.
ill A. Coulter, Bvt Major, A. A. G
sepß 2
A DARbr
WILLIAMS, M iNTIRE & CO
TTAVING associated Cot. Robt. P York with them
in business, undpr the firm name of York Wil
liams, McTntire A- Cos., are now prepared with amnle
storage accommodations to receive any and all m
signments, with rooms for those who desire to looi
after sales of then-own goods, and will give promt
personal attention to nil interests entrusted to thX
care.
Regular sale days in' front of store on Bay street-
Tucsiiays and Fridays.
Night sales at store on Broughton street will com
memo, on Ist October. 7™
Seprelil' ,lmen YORK, i WILLIAM^ ?^IoINTIRE^cq
Rue, Whitney & Co~
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS
•202 BAY STREET.
Have in Store for sale, OATS, BRAN, SOA r* «r
GAR, .SYRUPS, Ac., die. Sole agents for Anueara’
Blacking. . Bepß-?>
-A. CHA
FOR INVESTMENT
ANY perann having a capital of one thousand dol
lars can meet with a rare chance for investin' nt
in a good paying business, already o*t a blisked in this
city, aa the present owner is oblijed to go North *
Address, with Inll name, staling where an inter
view can be had, A. B. C„ Herald ofllcc. «epß-2 *
Active Partner.
A GENTLEMAN connected with Jthc South
would invest a few thousand dollars in a weli
established business in either Savannah or Aunista -
Produce. Commission, t'otton, or Wholesale Grocery
preferred.
Address “Partner." H P. Buslie, Esq., 171 West
street, New York, with full particulars. sep7-7
BOARDING.
TEN OR TWELVE GENTLEMEN can be accom
modated with Board and Lodging., at moderate
rate?, corner Jefferson and Baj* streets.
ge P fi - 2v »* J.RIESEE.
Just. Received,
\ CASKS BACON SHOULDERS,
** 35 c.taes Tobacco,
•200 bushels Salt,
20 bores English Dairy Cheese.
For sale by
B< TS-tf C. E. OSGOOD.
BRiNSKERHOFF <& MILLS,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN TEAS. Orders for
an kinds of Teas, in any sized packages de
aired, filled at the lowest market prlceb. Parties or
dering will please send remittances. Terms cash
Ordeis solicited
Southern Produce received and sold on commis
sion. Will ateo receive deposits of money for Oia
bursement.
No. 177 Pearl street, near Wall, New York,
scpl Tm
LINViLLE & OLEASON
SAV A.]NT]Nr A_II.
■A. tilth; 1'- ;~i for
MERRiTT, WALCOTT & CO ,
§4 Conrtlandt Street, New York',
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF
BOLTS, NUTS AND WASHEKS,
Bridge, Car, Ship or .Baud Hoe!,
AND—
BOILER BOLTS,
SETT SCREWS, COACH Oh Lift SCREWS.
'Hot and Coid Pressed Nuts,
RQUiiO tAiiD SQUARE WASHIfi?,
TuutitraclUes, Bolt IDJfcds, Taps
and Dies, Ace.
ALSO DEALERS IN * ' *
RAILROAD SUPPLIES.
LOCOMOTIVES, CARS, RAILS, CHAiRS,
SPIKES,TIRES, AXLES; CAR TRIM
MINGS of every description, and
' e.very article used in constructing
or operating Railroads.
STEAMSHIP SUPPLIES.
ENGINEERS’ STORES.
COAL OIL, TALLOW, WASTE FELTING,/RUMP.
AND RUBBER PACKING; LAMPS, PAINTS,
VARNISH, 4c.; ENGINEERS' TOOLS,
of every description; CHIPPING
AND RIVETING HAMMERS,
SCREW PUNCHES.FILES.
CIIIsELS, 4c.
TELEGRAPH' MATERIALS.
WIRE, INSULATORS, BATTERIES, IN
STRUMENTS, ACIDS, SULPHATE
COPPER, &e.
Also Manufacturers of the \
BEST OAK TANNED BELTING
MACHINERY, LATHS, PLANERS,
DRILLS, PUNCHES AND SHEARS,
STEAM ENGINES, STATION
ARY AND PORTABLE
- SAW MILLS,
" SAWST&c.
aopß . - u tf —
Notice.
MR GEO. C. FREEMAN, comer Bay and Drayto*
streets, will repreaent tne during * few days * c '
«ep7-tf HENRY BRYAN
