Savannah daily herald. (Savannah, Ga.) 1865-1866, September 09, 1865, Image 2

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The Savannah Daily Herald. by s.w. mason&co. HAMI'KI. IV. M V**oV MAitar. w . T . THOUPW'. A.soci nU Editor. savannah, SATCRDAV, SKPI KrirKK it, is 6.» FOK LOCAL HATTERS SEE THIRD J VEMSC EDITION OF THE HERALD. Isj an accident to our press we were obliged to sus pend our Evening Edition temporarily, and various circumstances now lead us to »>'-u.tce its discon tinusuce-for a few days longer, v.v shall resume its publication very soon. ' __ »j*o ADVERTISERS. Dnr advertlfinc patrons are advor ttaements inserted in the Morning Edition of th’ Hfbalp will apfrfai in H*e Evening trithout ext.a charge. be handed in as early as possible, bat will lie received as late »» 12 o’-dorl at night Wi adhere to our advertised » F 'W for long advertisements, or those inserted f-w s long time, on which greasonable discount will he made HOW TO OBTAIN THE HER.IhD REG- IXARLT, We often have complaints from residents of Savan nah and Hilton Head that the? are cot able am ~ys to obtain the FiHAcr. The demand is sometime? so great as to exhanst an Edition very soon *Pcr its issue, and those who wish to have the Hcmct r rc'rnic.riy shoald sub“crihc for it. We have faithful conere .n SaMtnuah and at Hilton Head, and through ih ... always serve regular snbscribers first. ' BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF SAVANNAH- We are now'piiblishlng a column and more of brief business announcements, carefully classed, >tn ct i the gene-ral head of “Savannah Bn ones? Directory. It includes some fort y leading bnaines- men . < , firms ol savannah. We propose to retain this as a j regular feature o£,tlw* llfrau>. ji, ° expend Ui ; setting cards in this department of the paper is very small, and we believe the advoitlv'rs nil, m i nt more than a proportionate benefit. Barries wishing It, have iheir earths included In this Directory, can do so by Bending them to our counting room, or hand mg them to Mr. M J. Divine, who is authorised to reeeive them. Prepayment will be invariably re quired. ... -~j 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