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Tha Savann? ji Dally Herald, BY S.W, MASON&CO. SAMVEL W. MA M>* -"■***"• W. T. fHOMI’Stm AMQCWI, MUn.. SAVANNAH. TCB3UAV, SEPTEMBER 18, IMS. Si HUTTKItS SEE THIRD KVKSISe EDITION OF THE RK.KALD. HT an accident to our press we were oblige! 10 sus- , pend our Evening Edition ttuponrilr. *"?I circumstances now lead us to announce «s Won tinuanee for slew days longer, we shall resume its | publication very soon- TO advertisers. Our advert,iu E patron, arc reminded that adver tisemenu inserted in the Momme Effitnm, oftbe Hmu> will appear in lbe Ere charge. Advertisements should be handed ,n as early as possible, but will be recetved as late as U o’oork • tWoht We adhere to onr advertised c except for ljmg "advertisements, or those inserted f'r a long time, (i which a reasonable discount will he made. HOW TO OBTAIN THE HERALD REG I’LARLI • n»e often have complaints from resident, of Savnn rah and Hilton Head that they are not able always to ..Main the FSIU.I.B. The demand is sometimes so -eat as to exhaust an Edition very soon af'er Us issne, and those trim wirtt to have the Bream regularly, should subscribe for it. Wc have, faithful carriers in t-a\ sniiah and at Hilton Head, aud through them we always serve regular subscribers flrrt. MATERIAL RESOURCES OF THE VNI TED STATES. The London journals, looking at tbe mere magnitude of our public debt, have never viewed it in connection, with the magni tude of our resources, material and financial. The analogies by which they have been guided, have been among the fallacies of the day. Even the best informed of those jour nals, life Loudon Economist, cannot perceive an-escape from the ordinary consequences of an immense public debt amouc*. ! ,ng to three thousand millions of dollar'’ with ah accu mulation of interest will inordinately tax our resources. it does not lead to repudi ation. The ’figures aVe beyond anything known vecnrdet i ; n finance withm the pe that the debt has been incurred. These gloomy vaticinations necal the celebrated passage in Macafiley’s History of Eogiand, in which similar predictions are ridiculed,' as relates to the English National debt, which Hume, the historian, in his day, pro nounced as leading inevitably to the eutha nasia of the British constitution t There are two important elements in this question which these English journalists have en tirely overlooked, and which if they had duly considered would have greatly modified their conclusions: 1. The extraordinary increase of mechanical power within the last twenty years. 2. The gold discoveries within the same period. It is scarcely pos sible to over-estimate their influence. When .Dr. Smith published his “Wealth of Nations, '* he drew- a distinction between agriculture and mactufactures "much in favor o t the latter, as the source of tbe greatest productive power by means of machinery and the more perfect division oflabor, The extraordinary progress made by Great Britain in manufactu res both at that time and since; the inventions of Bcilton, Witt, Carlisle, &c.,with the many new applications of steam to that branch of industry—had enabled the Manchester man ufacturer to undersell in their owfl market- the "East India makers of cotton goods, not withstanding the. far greater cbeapuess of their labor. These wore plain manifestations of the unparalleled increase of productive power in this branch of the national industry. The language used by their most distinguish ed economists, Senior, and McCulloch, was the greater efficiency of British labor nbove every other part of the world, rating the labor of one Englishman as equal to eight East Indians. With the aid, of machinery Great Britain was enabled to sustain the bur dens of a war atlnost single handed against the power of the elder Napoleon while her monopoly of trade for a quarter ol a century, enabled her to subsidize nearly all the Conti nental powers. Since the publication oi Dr. Smith's great work “The Wealth of Nations,” the agricul tural improvements have greatly increased tbe products of the soil by a better hus bandry, but the saviug of expense by mo- chanicai means is beyond all anticipation. Liebig, who visited England about the pe riod that a fresh impulse had been given to agriculture, greatly enlarged the limits of uciyntific culture by his profound knowledge of chemistry. Perhaps we would not baz ard anything in saying* that agriculture in the United States yvitbln the last twenty years, has made as rapid progress ts Me ap plication of machinery to the land as in any country in Europe. The natural fertility oi our soil makes less necessary the application of scientific chemistry, as in Europe, where land is in a state of comparative exhaustion, but as relates to those contrivances that di minish the expense of labor,our progress has been almost marvellous. - Mr. Ricardo s theory ol rent, wuich was over thrown by an American, Q.irsy was founded on the assumption that produce did not in crease as rapidly as population, ignoring tile fact, that scientific cultivation, skilful hus bandry and mechanical aids and appliances will augment the produce of the soil. Mr. Carey ga y S) “yi r . Ricardo taught tW as population increased, the reimn to labor diminished, and tire power of secumulution became less, Air. DeQuiney would have had him tcacb (says the same author) tb.it as population iucreased, the power of accu mulation also increased, and that by the aid of the capital accumulated, the return to la bor increased." It is capital in the form ot machinery with which we have iiow to do. Among the resources of material power this is ofthe utmost consequence The element of population is as indispensable as the ele ment of-wealth, and every step wc take jn this direction enables us, indirectly, at least to increase our productive power—to aug ment the produce of the land. If We are able by the the use of mechanical means, to make the labor of one man as effective in agriculture as the labor of ten men, without the use of machinery, we will have accom plished in that pursuit what England has effected in manufactures. We will have a a disposable surplus of population for an army as we have had a disposable surplus of produce for exportation. It is on this prin ciple ib&t we afe able partly to explain that great augmentation of material resources, which are supposed in Europe to constitute ■an exhaustive drain on those resources. We say partly to explain for the agency of gold "Rluing another part bf these resources, * large surplus for exportation, we must re serve fgi another opportunity. ror.tiny [aßjiuiii o* m* The Mt w York New« of the fltb (net cbroD'clee tbe arrival in that city of quite a number of gentlemen from England, who it says, are the representatives of British and European Capital, and are especiallj inter ested in enterprises on this continent. The party of visitors consist of thirty two per son., many of ;thein distinguished for their wealth, others for their scientific achieve ments, and others, also, for making known, through their literary abili'y, Abo progress ol commercial enterprises which may benefit mankind. Five in the last classification, are the gentleman who come as representatives of chief London journals, and will regularly report through their corresppndence, what ever they may perceive on their tour through the United Statee that may be worthy of the attention of foreign capitalist. In view- o fthe great importance of the ob- j jects contemplated by the visit Os these J wealthy capitalists, we would suggest to the | citizen of Savannah, the propriety of adopt ing some plan by which the attention of these gentlemen mighr be directed to the manj inviting opportunities for safe and vestment of capital In Georgia. The omission on the part of our leading men to address themselves to such valu able guests of the country, who ait seeking opportunities for the application of capital for development aud profit, may re sult negatively in much injury to the great interests of our state. ' Why not invite these gentlemen, who represent an enormous amount of British oapital, to extend their interesting explora tions to Georgia, and draw their own con clusions from personal observations, with reference to the splendid field presented within her borders’ for investments, however extensive or varied. LETTER FROM FLORIDA (Correspondence ot the Savannah Dally Herald.; . Ferkandsna, Fla., Sept. 9tb, 18C5. THE MAILS. Thanks to the courtesy and attention of Mr. Post Master Harris, cf your city, we can depend on our mail matter being assort ed and sent here direct. Fofmerly,' at least for the past year, the mail destined for this place, has been put into the Jacksonville or St. Augustine bag, and even has been sent to Pensacola and Key West reaching us, sometimes after an interval of three months. A few week# since Mayor Mot received a letter from liis native town in Fraace and one from Washington, D. C., at the same time and of the same dates. And the letter was written several hundred, of miles from Paris*! Hereafter we may expect our letters without being compelled to wait until they have been round Cape Horn, or have lain in the P<)3t Office as Jacksonville three or four weeks or months. All thanks to Post Master Harris of Savannah, aud to the efficient master of the Steamers Fountaine and Helen Getty. THE PROCLAMATION of Governor Marvin fixing the time for the election of Delegates (on the tenth day ol October next), to the Convention to be held at Tallahassee on the 25th of October next, is regarded here a3 tin eminently judicious and statesmanlike document. The voters in this, Nassau county, are beginning to look about for candidates, Among the gentlemen whom we have heard mentioned are Hon E. D. Tracy, of Traders Hill, and Major Al fred 8. Sears,of Fernandina, tire most promi nent. The former has served in the Florida Senate, of which body he was at one time a popular presiding officer. The citizens of Fernandina are .unanimous in their desire, for the election of Major Sears, His energy, ability and patriotic devotion to the interests I people, are well known throughout the county, and, though he is naturally averse to the duties of political life, yet he thinks his fellow citizens will urge his elec tion with success, especially as Col Tracy is not Inclined to press his claims to the posi tion. Either of the gentlemen above named will do honor to their constituents. » ~ FLORIDA is increasing daily. The country people are coming in from “the Main”, from up the St. Mary's and S.itilla Rivers, and the construc tion of a Ferry at the Draw Bridge oyer the Amelia River, facilitates transportation and travel. We hear that the Florida Railroad is soon to be put in running order, that two steamers iiave been purchased -to run regu larly between this port and New York, making a direct route of communication with Cedar Keys. THE TCRFEXTraB WORKS , of Hoyt & Cos., which were established here h February last, are now doing a safe and profitable business They have made lately, as we learn, several shipments of spirits of turpentine and of tar- THE HOTEL will be ready tor guests by the first day of October- Messrs. Riddel & Cos. Will spare no pains to make it a comfortable and home like resort, and the old “Coy House”-will undoubtedly, under tlieir management, be as popular ns it was in times bygone. It is spacious, well located, aud will lmvo all the comforts and conveniences of a first class hotel. LUMBER, in large quantities, is being shipped to the Northern ports, and red cedar wood. Messrs. Cohen & Cohrt have about 260,000 feet of yellow pine, which will be scut forward soon. •Other gentlemen are going largely into the lumber business, and are shipping it to Bar badoes and pther foreign ports. Quite a number of the old residents of the town are about to return. Mr. Finnegan, to whose enterprise the town was formerly largely indebted, will return soon. And when the people shall have returned to fheir former pursuits, and the bank shall be re-es tablished, tSith our railroad again connecting us with Cedar Keys, and a regular line of steamers of large burthen between here and New V ork shall be established, anti also with Charleston, Fernaudina, tbe salubrity ot whose climate and the safety aDd capacity of whose harbor aio unrivaled, will become again what she was before the war, one of the most delightful places for residence or business in East Florida. B. OESi. ROBERT E. LEE. It was announced some days since ihat this gentleman had been elected by the trus tees to the Presidency of Washington Col lege, located at Lexington, Va., and that he had declined to accept. • More recent information, which appears in the New York papers ol' the 6th instant, would seem to indicate that he has accepted the position, and will enter Immediately upon the discharge of its duties ! GENERAL LKtf. OfiliUi .Inneunceau-ai of HE Acceptable t>i the President) ts Aateliiites t olirge. Extract from His Letter of Ac* ceptance. IHk I.oynl Kutiniiieilmi to Au tliorttj-. (Front the Lexington Gazette Extra.] The gratifying duty of announcing to the country the acceptance by General Robert E. Lee ol the Presidency of IJ'asbington Col lege has been devolved upon the undersigned by the Board of Trustees of that institution. The accession of this distinguished gentle man to tbe faculty of this venerable college, and as its honored chief, is destined, we trust, to mark the commencement of anew era in its history, find most cordially do we congratulate its numerous friends on this most auspicious event. The high, noble and pa triotic motives which impelled, our lieioved Chief in accepting tie- honorable but compa ratively humble positiou tcadered to him by the authorities of the college, must win for him anew title to the admiration and love of his countrymen. The college, under the ad ministration and supervision of General Lee, will resume Us exercises ou the lfth inst. At a meeting of the Board qf Trustees of the College, convened in Lexington on Thurs day, the 31st ult., the following resolution was unanimously passed, the publication of . which is demanded ns au act of justice alike to Gen. Lee and themselves. Resolved, That the Board heartily concurs in, and fully endorses, the sentiments so well expressed by Gen. Lee in liis letter of ac ceptance of the Presidency of Washington College, that “it is the duty of every citizen, in, tlu: present condition of the country, to do all in bis power to aid the restoration of peace and harmony, and in no way to oppose ihe policy of the State or General Govern ment directed to that objectaud that “it is particularly incumbent on those charged with the instruction of the young to see an example ol submission to authority’;” senti ments that cannot fall to commend them selves to the approval of tbe President of the United States and to the unqualified assent of all sensible and virtuous citizens, v la dedicating his future life to the holy work of educating the youth of his country, Gen. Lee presents anew and interesting pbaj-e of liis grand and heroic character —a character than which no more perfect model exists among living men.' “'Tis a solid fa bric, and will well support-the laurels that adorn it.” Let the young men of the coun try, North as well ns South, be wise, and profit not less by hi 9 precepts than by his great example. John W. Bbockehbrocoh, Rector of Washington College. Lexington, Ya., Sept. 1, 1865. V*f.si:ißStor. Captain Jas. M. Moore, who interred the deatiat Andersonvilie, will, with the per mission of tbe government, publish as a public document the records of the Ander souvillc Prison, giving the names, regiments and residence of evely prisoner who died there, as lar as known. The number of names ou the manuscript list is upward of 14,000. Over twenty prominent British capitalists, among whom are Bir Morton Peto ancl Mr. Edward 8. Satterthwaits, arrived in this city on Tuesday from Liverpool, on board thp steamship Scotia. It is said that these gen tlemen visit this side of the Atlantic tor the purpose of looking after their railroad inter ests in this country tind Canada and making n recnmioissanee of the Pennsylvania oil re gions. Ex-Gov. Joseph Brown, of Georgia, was pardoned on Wednesday h-y the President.— Gov. Brown served three terms successively As Governor of Georgia. The last time he was elected by 20,000 majority, notwith standing nearly every leading politician of the State was against him, and every news paper save one opposed him. Since the suppression of tire rebellion he has spent most of his time in this city, and has proba bly had more interviews with the President than any man outside of the Cabinet. The Washington paragraphist is mistaken. Governor Brown was supported during his last canvass by the Augusta Constitutional ist, Atlanta Intelligencer, Columbus Situ and other papers. It is stated that 'Sterling Pi ice and other officers of the late Confederate army have received from the Emperor Mnximillian the commission of Generals in the Mexican army. According to the Bt. Louis Republiban, this is a mistake. Sterling Price has gone to Brazil, probably to seek a residence there. The special telegrammatists are predicting that President Johnson will very soon restore habeas corpus to all the loyal States. The Connecticut Union State Committee has issued an address urging the adoption ot the amendment to the constitution permit ting colored men to vote. "About forty persons in Giles county, Tenn., wito were declared outlaws by the military authorities, have been shot or hanged with in three weeks. During the past week the Post Office De partment closed 25 contracts for carrying the United States mails over important routes in the Southern States, and also re-opened 65 Post Offices. Judging, from the activity of the Department in the re-establishment of the Pest Offices and mail routes in the late Insurrectional States, they will soon be supplied with all their former postal facili ties. A notorious Rebel actor took a leading character in the opening at Grover’s Theatre on Tuesday night. _His appearance was the signal for a general" outbreak of cheers aud hisstts. The cheers preponderating. To-day the town has been perspiring over the row and heat. Hej/vas an officer on Stonewall Jackson's staff and has twice taken the oath. The Currehey Bureau have recently fcade an important decision in regard to banking institutions, an imperfect statement of which has been already published. Its purport is that although a batik might be {permitted to organize without circulation, by waging their claim to it, yet the law requires all bauks to deposit at least one-third of the amount of tlieir capital in United States bonds, and this requirement can jn # no case be dispensed with. Although privilege of circulation may be waived, the deposit, as above stated, mi\9t be made. The demand in Maryland for labor upon the larms has been so continuous and exten sive during the present reason that a number of indivuids have found it profitable to es tablish agencies in this city tor securing gangs of negro* laborers and distributing them tbrougn the interior counties of that State. One of these agents is said to have transported some eight hundred negroes from Virginia during the last two months for the purpose es supplying the active demand for t.irui hands. A large number of the men who acted aa substitute brokers in this vicin ity at the time of drafts are now engaged in this procuring business. As yet their opera tions have been conducted fairly, and tbe Frcedmen's Bureau has countenanced their efforts to employ the blacks. General McCullum left Washington last week for the Southwest, to turn over to the boards of public works in the States in that tedious the various railroads which have been used by the government during the vfar. Arrangements w ill be mode by which the rolliog stock furnished through tbe War De partment will be sold to the respective com panies on credit. Mrs. Mallory, wife of the rebel Ex-Secre tary, visited President Johnson on Tuesday morning. The object of the interview was to secure the release of her husband, now in prison at Fort Pulaski. ! Charles Peirce* of Richmond Who tu to invite the President and Ghljitwt to vlrit that city, arrived here on Saturday. He has Iwcu cordially received, and to-day at noon, by special invitation, was presented by. Mr. Se , ward to tbe Cabinet, a compliment due to ,Mr Palmer, who, during tbe war. was lin ! prisoned with Mr. Bolts for liis devotion to the Uuiou. The President and the Cabinet expressed to Mr. Palmer the hope to be able to accept the invitaiiou of the people of Rich mond as soon as the weather and business would permit. * . Tue Secretary of tbe Treasury is now “'ly ing the Texas indemnity bonds, so-called, which were issued by the United States to utc State of Texas under the act ot Sept. 9, 1850. when such bonds are presented by loyal holders,-with evidence that they have passed through the hands of loyal eitizens T>nly. . Bishop Lay, who was arrested on suspi cion of having important papers which would have furnished strong evidence against cer tain political prisoners, has been released, his innocence having been ascertained. There are now lour courts-martial or mili tary commissions in session in this city. One of them meets at the Old Capitol, to try the ra=es of the sixty prisoners at that place.— Bo far, about forty witnesses have been ex amined in the Wirz case. Tbe record makes eleven or twelve hundred foolscap pages of testimony. At the rate testimony was taken to-day, four or five days more will suffice to close the case for the government. The prisoner continues to occupy a place at the table with his counsel, ana in writing and making suggestions to them as to the cross examinations. > (ONMMUNICAT ED.) THE SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION OF TEA IN GEORGIA. .Editor Savannah Herald, Dear Sin —The war just closed, has pro duced a great change in the labor system of' the Southern States; and it may not be up • interesting to your readers and the public generally to invite their attention to the cul tivation of the Tea plant. It will add a sta pio article of production to the South of easy culture and large profits to the producer. I received from the United States patent of fice in 1860, fifty Tea plants nbout four inches high. I nursed them very carefully in pots for one year, and planted them out where I intended them to remain permanently. Most of them grew* very finely. On the second year the)’commenced to flower and produce seed, and now, September 1865, they are from five to six feet high and six to seven feet in diameter. I have been making Tea from themjfcr the last three years in small quantities of flue quality, and feel as sured ot the fact- that the plaut will do as Well and perhaps here better than its native country. The iatitude in which the Tea is cultivated in China is between 28 deg. and 35 deg. It can therefore be cultivated with great suc cess from North Carolina to the Capes of Florida. The plants require no culture alter the third year. If well taken care of by that time they will have taken complete posses sion of the grouud on which they have been planted, and will be large enough to com rneuce the manufacture ot Tea from them. The yeild to the acre so far as my experi ments have gone, is from three to four bun dred pounds. The plants will yeild good crops lor eighteen or twenty years. No ad verse seasons, such as dry and wet or storms effect them —and no insects molest them, the crops therefore is a certain one. Looking forward to the future ofthe South I am eonvincedjthat the cultivation of. our great staple, Cotton, is at an end; thatit will never lie produced except in small quanti ties by the labor of the freedmeu of the South. becomes necessary therefore for us to in troduce the cultivation of a plant that will require the least possible amount of rnuuual labor. 1 know of no plant so well adapted and that will compote with cotton ns a money making article, as the Tea. Take the lowest price of Tea, Isay seventy-five cents per pound, aud the product of one acre will be 260 dollars- Any one wishing to commence the cul tivation of the plant can ou application be furnished with seed or small plants. W. JON'KS. Liberty County, Geo. NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC NOMINA. TIONS. The following are the nominations of the New -York Democratic State Convention. Secretary of State.—Major Gen. Slocum. Comptroller.—Lucius Robinson. Attorney General.—John Van Buren. Canal Commissioner.—C. W. Armstrong. Treasurer.—Gen. M. K. Patrick. Inspector of State Prisons.—Andrew J. McNett. Clerk of the Court of Appeals, E. O. Perrin. Judge of the Court of Appeals (long term), Judge John W. Brown; Morton Grover (short term.) After the nominations the Convention ad journed sine die. Mortality in New Yore Carr. — From the City Inspector's report for the week ending Tuesday, 6th, it appears that 581 deaths took place in the city of New York during that period—9B men, 83 women, 189 boys and 161 girls—being a decrease of 77 as compared with the corresponding week of last year. The Cholera. The last foreign mails brought further ad vices from our Consuls in Italy and Spain relative to the sprend of the cholera. The Consul at Palermo, under date of Aug. 14, speaks of the serious spread of the cholera at Ancona, Italy, wheie some 8,000 people have died, aud isolated cases Imve happened in other towns of Italy, France and Spain. The local authorities have authorized seven days of quarantine lrom all arrivals from Italian, French and Spanish ports, including Gibraltar. The United States Consul at Port Mahon, Spain, informs the State Department, under date of Aug. 14, of the arrival at that quarantine of a Turkish steamer, which left Alexandria withjl,Boo pilgrims. The steamer, he says, comes with 1,280, and reports hav ing left on the way 500. Twenty deaths oc curred from cholera on the passage. The Capthiu, at his arrival at Port Mahon, re ported all well, but on examination of the steamer, dead bodies were found on board in a sad state of decomposition. The cap tain’s statements are discredited, and the 500 not accounted for may have died by the same disease. The Consul stated that accounts received at that station concur in the opin ion that the cholera is making its way west ward. Thus far the cholera has followed the pilgrims who, hb says, are packed like sardines on shipboard. Their religion does not allow them when passing to MCeccato sleep on a bed, to wash, or to eat warm food. They ate covered with filth an and ver min and are spreading disease all the Mediterranean. THfc SCOttOtS !MSW JICHSIC*, In Jersey city on Sunday, 8d » young | Colored man named John William*, ill the employ of Mr. Wm. J. B. Smith, coal dealer, at the foot of Hudson street, was'on his way to Church, when at the corner of Newark Avenue and Monmouth street, he was attack ed by a gang-of about twenty rowdies, and shamefully beaten. Smith was walking quietly along when one of the rascals came up and catching hold of his coat, asked him if he had a license for wearing the hat he had on his head. Williams told him to go away and attempted to pass on, when he was knocked down by auother of the party, and several of them then fell upon him and beat and kicked him most cruelly. Finally a citizen interfered und rescued Williams from his cowardly assailants, but not until he had received several deep gaMies in the head and was otherwise bruised *id injftrcd. He was taken to the Police Station, when Chief McManus despatched a squad of poliqp to the scene of the attack, but when they ar rived the rascals had all fled • It is said that these fellows are in the habit of thus annoying and attacking colored peo ple when on their way to and from church every Sundav, and Chief McManus is deter mined that no such slate of affairs shall ex ist in this city, if it takes the whole # police force to abate the evil. We take the following communication from the same paper : Assaults on Colored People. , • Jebsev City, Sept. 4, 1865. To the Editor of the Times: We should like to know it colored people have any protection in this city ?. A few nights ago a lot of young ruffians stoned a woman, and severely cut her face. She went to the Sation House’and they laughed at her. Saturday they beat a colored man, and loft. him in the gutter Sunday (yesterday,) three men jumped upon a colored man and run him into a house , he ran out, and it it had not been for Judge Horseley, they would have killed him. Are we to be protected, or shall we arm ourselves. S. W. Wheeler, G. H. Fekks. MISSISSIPPI. The Appeal to President Johnson In Be half of Jefferson Davis aud| Ex-Governor Clark. August 22, 1865. To the President of the United States : The members of the Convention of the State of Mississippi, assembled for the pur pose of amending the State constitution so as to restore our relations with the federal government, as Mississippians and individu als, respectfully present the following peti tion Charles Clark, late acting Governor of this State, is, we learn, held in confinement by the United States government at Fort Pulas ki. He is old, maimed, shattered in consti tution and wrecked in fortune. He has long been known as a gentleman nf high social position, of great worth, integrity and intelli gence. Jefferson ’ Davis, lately the President of the States in rebellion against the federal government, is said to be in strict confine ment and debarred, the privilege of corres ponding or conversing with his family or friends. He is said to be suffering ill health and to be threatened with the loss of sight. His family is reduced to poverty. Here, resistance to the authority of the United States is at an end.lThere is no long er among our people any intention or wish to resist the goverumeut, but an honest de termination to return to their peaceful occu pations and to restore the prosperity that once blessed our State, The action of the Convention now in session leaves no jloubt of the truth of this assertion. We believe that what is ,said of our own State is true of all the States lately iu rebellion. Few of us coincided witji Messrs. Davis and Clark in their political opinions. Most of ns voted against secession, and for years opposed the State rights party, yet none of us doubted rtiat Mr. Davis acted upon an honest and sincere Conviction that the theory of our government which he adopted was right—a theory ouce advocated by some of the best men ’ our country produced. He was doth to resort to a disruption of the Union as a mode of remedying what he thought to be wrong in the past and guard ing against other and more grevious wrongs which be believed to be impending. After the convention assembled in this State had passed an ordinance of secession, he left the Senate of the United States reluctantly and with sorrow, Relieving, we are assured, that he was required to do so by his duty to the State, a due regard for consistency and the political principles he had so long adhered to —the solemn, earnest and patriotic appeals contained in his latest addresses to the Sen ate justify us iu these opinions. It was well known to our people that he was not among the most ardent of his political associates. In other times, leading Mississippians to victory, he gallantly fought and bled for the the Union, and reflected honor and renown upon our State as well as tbe whole country. We cannot be indifferent to his fate now 1 , however much we differ from him in his 'political opinions, and we can but sympa thize with him in his misfortunes. When awarot sections begaD, inaugurated not so much by the action or appeals of in dividuals, as by the general uprising and en thusiasm of the masses, he was chosen with extraordinary unanimity, because he was known to be honest, sincere and prudent, to preside over the States in revolt. He was the representative of the sentiment of the people of the States. His acts were those of the great body of the people. We respect fully and earnestly ask that our sins, the sins of the millions for whom and with whom he acted, may not be visited upon his head. Now tfiat our people are returning, hearti ly and cheerfully, to their allegiance, we are confident the pardon of tho gentlemen we have mentioned will go very tar to produce a more kindly feeling between people of the North and the South, and rid us ot much of that asperity which has arisen from the re cent conflict. Wo believe, too, that the pardon of Mr. Davis would bo an act of grateful magnanimity, becoming a powerful governmeat, whose military strength and re sources have astonished tbe world, and whose claims to respect would rest not more upon its power than upon its acts of mercy in the hour of triumph. We Bubmit that this act would elicit the applause and ex cite the admiration of all good men at home, and all good men and governments abroad. We think the disasters that wat has brought upon us will prevent the- recurrence of re bellion. These disasters may well stand in the placi of further punishment. They have reached us all. We recognize them in the desolation of our fields—in the ruin of our homesteads—the destruction of untold wealth —the terrible loss of life, and the sweeping away of almost all that makes a people great, prosperous or happy. Wo therefore appeal, earnestly and respectfully, to the President to extend to these gentle men, in whose fate Mississippians es pecially feel so deep an Interest., nhe same clemency which he has generously extended to so many of our people. (The above, it is stated, was signed by every member of the convention.) The citizens of Sullivan county, Indiana, have had a meeting for the purpose .of devi sing means to keep negroes ont of the coun ty. The people of Perry county, in the same State, have passed* resolutions that nt groes shall not come there to stay. General Curtis, commanding at Lynchburg, Va., has recently learned tbe whereabouts of over seventy eight thousand dollars in specie, formerly belonging to tbe rebel government, which had been secreted by a rebel express agent and a rebel 'business agent, who have been arrested. rr*ANC!AL AND COMMERCIAL * Nr*» Vork Money Market. * Tui rsdaY. Till, T. M. Gold continues strong, with continued large de mand for customs and lot shipment South. The price Is Arm at tut.' a 144*, Out enUrelj without speculative support. As an ttlustrr.tlon of the movement of specie from this oily Southward, It may be stated that the steam er Even!up Star, arriving at New Orleans on 27th August, carried oul $860,437. About the same date the Meteor arrived/ with *148,108, aud the Victor witn *64,743 ; Adams Ex press also delivered *50,000 ; making the total re ceipt for one day *¥13,277. The Fung Slntey. iu the river, aud the Mari|»osa, then due, were expected to bring considerable amounts. Money continues easy. The demand is light from the s r_f, aud Is readily met at 5 per ccut. Dis counts are dull ; good paper is very scarce and tin led ; the rates range at C a 10 per cent., according to names ami time. Foreign exchange is dull. New York Markets. New York, SBpt.7—2 P. M.jg Flocr—Receipts 13,812 bhLs.;sales 12000 bbls. State and Western 6to 10 cents better.' State 6.95 u 8.10 ; Ohio 8.90 a 11.00. Western 7.00 a 8.46; Southern a shade firmer ; sales oao bbls. Mixed to good 9-50 a 10.60. Fancy and Extra 10.60 a 14.00. Canadian 6 to 10 cents better ; sales 300 bbls. Common 7.90 a 6.25. Extra good to choice 8.30 a 11.00. Wheat one cent bettet. Sales 20,000 bush. Anther Mllwankie at I.GO a 1.82. Corn is a shade firmer for sound, and dull and de clining for upsound. Sales 40,000 bush. Mixed Wes tern at 91 a 91.50 do. do. unsound, 84 a Bsc. Oats dull. Sales at 67c for Western. Pork flrmer, sales too lbs. Lard is steady. Sales 100 bbls. at 19K a 25c. Better quiet. Sales at 21 n 300. for Ohio, and 22 a 40c. lor State. Whiskey quiet. Cotton very firm, at 44 for middlnig. Miss McGregor, daughter of Jas. McGre gor, President of the State Bank of Boston, was accidentally shot at North Conway, N. H., on Friday, and died instantly. MARRIED, On the 9th by the Rev. C. F. McKea, at St. John's Church, Mr. Henry A. Richmond, of this city, to Mrs. Sabah L. W ernes, of Barn will District, So. Cr. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. , ATTENTION Oglethorpe Fire Cos. No. 1. Attend in Extra Meeting to be held ot Fireman’s Hall, on (Tuesday,} 12th inst.', at 734 o’clock. committees will come prepared to make final re ports. - . By order of H. F. WTLLINK, Jr., President, Jos. C. Cohnxll, Secretary. sep!2 IST ew Line FOR DARIEN & DOCTOR TOWN The fast new light draft steamer Rockland, Capt. Geo. H. Braufort, Will leave Stoddard's wharf on Wednesday, Sept. 13th at—o’clk. Eor freight or passage having superior accommoda tions, Apply to CHAS. L. GUILLEAUME, Nos Stoddard’s Range, Bay Street. sepl2-2t GFFIOIAL, Department of State. , BY THE > PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OT AMXBICA. Proclamation. TURercns, by my proclamations of the thir teenth and rwcnty-fourtb of June, one thou~ sand eight hundred and sixty-five, removing restrictions, in part, upon internal, domestic, and coastwise intercourse and trade with those States recently declared in insureetion, certain articles were excepted from the effect of said proclamations as contraband of war; and whereas the necessity for restricting tiade in said articles has now, in a great measure, ceased: it is hereby ordered that on and after the Ist day ot September, 1865, all restrictions aforesaid be removed, so that the articles declared by the said nvoclama tions to be contraband of war. ma • be im ported into and sold in said St. tea, ’object only to such regulations as the Si cret try of the Treasury may prescribe. In witness whereof, I have herev nt > set my hand and caused the seal of the l uited States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun [seal-] dred and sixty-five, and ofthe In dependence of the United States of America the ninetieth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State. Treasury Department, )' September 1, 1865. f* The foregoing Proclamation is hereby pro mulgated for the information and guidance of Officers of the Treasury Department. In conformity with its terms, articles here tofore regarded as prohibited may be trans ported to places in States heretofore declared in insurrection without any restrictions, ex cept guns, pistols, and ammunition.-* Applications for the shipment of these should be made, in writing, to the proper officers at the customs, who will forward t hem to the Department for its decision, ac companied with such recommendations as they may be disposed so make. H. M. Cclt.ocii, Secretary of the Treasury, sep!2-2t CARGO SALE By Beil, Wyiiy & Christian. ON THURSDAY next, 14th tost., at 10 o’clock a. m., will he sold, in front of store corner Whita ker and Bay streets, without reserve, the entire cargo of the Br. sloop Sylvia, from St. Georges, Bermuda, consisting.of Groceries, Dry Goods, Drugs, Medicines, Liquors, Clothing, 4e., viz; GROCERIES. Crash Sugar, Pepper, BeeL Pork Tea—Green and Black. . Sardines, Preserved Meats, Pickles, Sauces, Soaps, Dundee Bagging, Oil, 4c. DRY GOODS Broad Cloths, ’ Casslmeres, Kerseys, Ginghams, Irish Linens, Muslins, Prints, L. C. Handkerchiefs, Silk Handkerchiefs, Hosiery. Spool cotton, Merino Shirts, &c. Drugs and Medicine. Epsom Salta, Soda, - Olive Oil, Arrow Root, 4c. LTQUORS. Brandy—in eases, Pips Holland Gin. Ale—in bottles. 'Porter —In bottles. CLOTHING. Pants, Coats, Shoes, Caps, L. B. Shirts, Vests, *c. Also, Stench Calf Skins, Shoe Thread, Combs Brushes, Rubber Goods, Buttons, Ribbons Sealing Wax. Crockery, Glassware, Sheet Tin,. ■ Pins Needles Ac.. 4c., 4c. The above goods will be ready for examination on Wednesday—she day before the sale—whe* cata logues can be procured. TERMS CASH. sept!2-3 To Rent. A BAKERY with apparatus complete pertaining to the business. Also, rootte suitaWt for a ftradly, .wun eatable attached 1 Inquire at BURT’3 SALOON, sspli-St Bryan Street. FOR PALATKA, v *“ Darirn, Brnarwlrk, St. Maiy j, p tr . naudlna. Jicktoßvillc aud Picolatc T H fL new uni fact .tpnmer FOCNTAR . Capt G * CAWra«B.wlU lc»v» ra above on SATURDAY the 16th Inal, at 9 o'clock a.m. , F°f Freight or Passage apply on board, at Padlel ford s Whin i near Whim’s Central Cotton Pres* or to M. A. COHEN, Agent Freight payable ou Wharf. . Shipper* will furnish weights and measurement of good-. *eptl2 SSO Reward. STOLEN from my yard on the night of th» 3rd Scrtemtwr, one Bar Horse with the following marks Biased face, one white spot on his left side, also one white spot ou his right side, he has one small white spot on his neck under the mane, ana a smail scar ou his right hin quarter. , JOHN S HRODER, Corner of Wayne and W. st Broad streets. Augusta Contstitntionalist publish two times end send trill to this Ofilce. sepl2.2t To Rent. street, flue bnsiness stand, * “ m n Apply to sepmt CUNNINGHAM 4 FUR -£. Notice. *?, foywarn all persons against crediting my k E zabe h °? my a ''-WUM, as l will pay no debt« of her contracting. 1 J * a P 18 - 3 t ALFRED KENNEDY CENTRAL RAILROAdItOCr; ispaT® D r ro>astockcw,ie At fK * ,„ . v C. H. OLMSTEAD, At the office of Brigham, Baldwin Sc C© sepl2-2t HARDEN & LEVY, Attorney at Law, PFFICE, 99 BAY ETREET, Three doors East of Drayton Sepl2 \ . Ou Consignment for Sale Low. * 50 Firkins Br.ttcr, • iOO Bozo Cheese- MILLER, THOMAS & CO., 2t Corner Bay and Drayton streets. Grroceries for Sale. A choice stock Groceries at private sale. Also, Store to Kent, Corner Bryan and Jefferson Street. Inquire of sepl2-2t . E. O. BYRNE NEW GROCERY STORE, Vnn Newton & Wait!. WOULD respectfully inform their friends and the public that they have opened nt No. UOBroueh ton street, formerly occupied by Blun and Meyer: and will keep constantly on hand a well selected stock of Family Groceries. Quick sales and small profit® is their motto, and a share of the public pationage is respectfully solicited. J. H. VAN NEVvToN. H. G WARD eepl2 iTOLLOUKirS LEAD 10,. TsTo. 64- Duane St., sew Yosm. HAVE constantly on hand, their well known brands of Dr-op Shot, Lead Pipe, Buck Shot, Sheet Lead arid Bar Lead, Which they offer for sale nt the lowest market prices Orders solicited, and shipments promptly atiended to. ' JAMES MoCULLOUGH, President sep 12-lrao R« Ht ALLEN & £o», iso & 191 WATER NEW YORK. AGBICIILTIIiUf IMPLEMENTS, AND MACHINERY OF AU KINDS, Small Tools for the Fane and Garden, such as Spades. Shovels, Hoes, Forks, Hakes, dc., und for Grass Hooks. Scythes. Scylh-Slones, and Ayricul tural Hardware Hi general J We offer, also, a lergs assortment of onr own manu facture of Hay Cutter*, Coffee and Grain Mills, Snv.vr Mills for Grocers’ -use, Slore Trucks of various pat terns. Road Scrapers, Wheelbarrows.,Ac. Fcrtlllizers of all kinds, such cs Coo's Superphos phate ot Lime, pure Ground Bone, Peruvian Guano, and Foudrelte, SEEDS. Every valuable American and Foreign varietv of Vegetable, Flower and Gruas Seed and Field Grain icat aa9 proved worthy of cultivation grown and selected expressly fpr onr trade. Sale? made in bulk, per pound or bushel, orlnsman packets, for retailing, by the hnudred or thousand eepl2-2aw-3mo . Sundries. 60 Cards Pocket Knives. 150 Boxes Herrings, 60 Kitts No. 1 Mackerel, 6 Bbl? Brown Sugar, 20 Boxes AssortecfPickles, 20 Hhds Choice §idea, f» do do Shoulders, . 20 Nests Trunks. 25 Boxes Candles, 45 do Assorted Liquors In ; store and for sal* by „ crane Johnson & graybili sepl2-4t Boker's IBitters, The Oldest and best renowned L. FUNKE, L. FUNKE, 60 Liberty Street, *epl2-Jmo NEW YORK Towage. THE undoreivned, agents for the Savannah Tow Boat Company, are now ready sos tovvagj of ves sels of all descriptions. RICHARDSON & BARNARD,' Bay Street, Opposite Mariner’s Church. sep!2 . IST ew 'Wholesale BOOT AND SHOE STORE, No. 175 Broughton St., The Attention of Wholesale and Retail Dealers Is particitarly requested to OTJR STOCK. It consists of EVERY STYLE AND SIZE, AU of which are Particularly Adapted TO THE SOUTHERN TRADE, As they are from Manufacturers who have been pre viously Manufacturers for the saihe, prior to 1860. . *# NO BOOHS AT RETAIL WHYTE & FELLNER, Manaffictsren’ Ag»Btt. No. ITS Broughtcn'st-) Savannah Georgia. MplS-tf , -