Georgia Historic Newspapers

    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.
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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.
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