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The Savannah Daily Herald.
BY S. W. MASON &. CO.
SAMIKI. W. MASON Kditor.
, i< t A»*o« iutc Kditor.
SAVANNAH. WEDNESDAY. SKPTEMBKK i’O, 1865.
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THE REVIVAL OF BUSINESS ENERGY
AT THE SOUTH.
It is apparent to the most careless observer
of passing events that much of the spirit
and energy that characterized the commer
cial and internal improvement classes of out
. people anterior to the war, have reappeared
Bince its termination. And perhaps no illus
tration of the fact is more conspicuous than
the celerity with which the Railroad system
is being reorganized and resuscitated after
the terrible shocks to which it was subjected
during the war. If that deplorable contest
effected no other good, it certainly conferred
one advantage on us by the demonstrations
it afforded of the value of Railroad systems
in time of war, and of the length ot time for
which Railroads could be kept safely running
without repair or additions to tho rolling
«tock, and of the extreme difficulty of per -
manently interrupting a line of railroad com
munication, even by inflicting upon it what
might seem to be almost an irreparable in
jury. Another benefit was, that it taugbt
our people energy and promptitude in the
repair and rc-construction of railways, and
educated them up to a degree of proficiency
in this valuable art which before was not only
unknown, but quite inconceivable.
Asa particular illustration of these facts,
we may mention the railways of Virginia.
The close of the war found them in a sad
■ ondition. They had been run literally to
death. For four years they had been using
ibe same iron, many times relaid alter hav
ing been torn up, twisted, melted and broken.
The cars were ricketty aud disjointed, the
engines leaky and consumptive ; and finally,
during the last eventful months ol'the war,
what seemed the finishing stroke was in
flicted on them by the withering hands of
Sheridan and Grant and Stoneman. The tint
bers were burned, the tracks torn up, the
bridges destroyed. For some time after the
capture of Richmond, not only was all rail
way compulsorily suspended, but nothing
could be done towards resumption, some
weeks elapsed before the Government de
cided to turn over the roads to the stock
holders and directors. The money was to
be raised and labor organized. Four months
have elapsed and in spite, says an exchange,
of the seemingly insuperable obstacles,in spite
of the enormous difficulties to bo encounter
ed, in spite of the inevitable delays in begin
ning the work, the railways of Virginia are
now in almost as high condition of efficiency
as before the war. Not all of them, of course,
but the main line3 leading northward and
westward from Richmond are now running
with very nearly their former regularity.—
The Richmond and Petersburg, Ricbmon 1
and Danville, Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac, Virginia Central, the Orange
and Alexandria and the Virginia and Ten
nessee, are now in almost perfect running
order—at least trains sre running on them
with accustomed regularity. The Petersburg
and Weldou, the South, and the Norfolk and
Petersburg, are not yet so far advanced ; but
on the two first named, trains are running iu
connection with stages : and the reconstruc
tion of the Norfolk and Petersburg is in rapid
progress. One or two small and compara
tively unimportant roads appear to have
been lost during the war; but we presume
that even these will come to light again
when the full dawn of prosperity beams on
the old State. ”*
These facts prove anything else than a lack
cf enterprise and energy in the South It
shows the existence of an admirable spirit,
and that the attention of the people is drawn
closely to the consideration of those national
needs which will leave them little time for
the conspiracies and stratagems with which
they are charged by some of the northern
pres?
«
uA.iOH JOSES’ COCRTSHIP
•detailed with other scenes, incidents and ad
ventures, in a series of letters by himself,
with additional letters and thirteen illustra
tioos by Dailey—lias just been issued by T.
B Peterson & Brother?. Philadelphia.
The vein of humor is equally rich, origi
nal and entertaining as in the original series
and the illustrations irresistibly comic. From
Mr. Estill.
In the absence from the office of Mr.
Thompson, the author of Major Jones' Court
ship, and without bis knowledge, the Assis
tant Editor has written the above compli
mentary notice
A letter from a gentleman who has recent
ly been down the Mississippi river and tra
veled through the cotton country quite ex
tensively, says he found many Western and
Northern men on board the steamboats who
were negotiating for cotton lands They
were sanguine of making their fortunes, ana
nearly all proposed to try negro labor first,
but it that did not pay, then they would dis
card the negro and employ white men
Loss of a Gulf Steamer.
Cairo, 111., Sept. 14.
New Orleans papers of the Bth have been
received. Tney contain an account of the
wreck of the steamer Shooting Star on the
night ot the 6th inst., fifteen miles west o;
Timbeltar lighthouse, while on her way from
New Orleans to Galveston. The steamer
and the greater part of her cargo are a total
No lives were lost. It is feared that
o"er tho r? was wrecked swep.
amJu* °* CIIC0 ' no vessels had
° r,eanß far three dayspre-
TIIK ADVASCF. IN TNK PRICK OK
dry oooim.
I We need not inform our reader* that there
I has been a very great advance in the prices
| of cotton cloths and other dry goods in this
j maiket within the past few weeks. Con-sum
era know that, as when Confederate money
j began to depreciate, it is, now almost irnpos
I sibie to ctaasi up the advancing prices to some
i fixed figure of a tew days' duration. This is
j bv some attributed to the depreciation of the
currency This idea is not, however, con
firmed by the ruling prices of gold, which
has experienced but a very slight it auv ad
vance during last month. We think the
cause is more properly attributable to the
over-reaching cupidity of the manufacturers
on bmb sides of the water, who are too eager
|to realize the immense business and pro
fits, which they have counted on after the
r e-establishment of peace. Neither the price
of gold nor of cotton at the present
time justifies the rapid appreciation in the
prices of dry g. ods. The following para
graphs from the New York World of the
14th iust., will throw some light on the sub
ject. The editor say 6:
•‘The largest months’ business of dry
goods ever transacted in the metropolis was
during the thirty days ending September 10,
1865. The city was swept clean of cotton
goods, and so importunate and incessaut
were the orders, that the manufacturers have
been asking and getting from sixty to one
hundred per cent, upon the cost value of
the'r goods. But this was too good to last,
and trade has come to a sudden and unex
pected pause. Retailers have discovered that
consumers won't stand the enormous ad
vance in cotton goods, as compared with
the early summer prices, and so they refuse
to buy. Prices have receded already, and
there may be, and ought to he, a tumble.
With an abundance of raw cotton at a mod
erate price, aud the mills all over the coun
try in full blast, there will soon be goods
enough and at fair rates, if consumers will
bold up a little.
“Manufacturers cannot expect to get thir
ty-five cents per yard for prints which cost
them only sixteen cents, for more than
a month at a time. Consumers do right in
“striking against so enormous a profit.”
“The Nation,’’
This is a weekly periodical, (No. 2, Ist
volume) of the same character, as the “Round
Table" noticed yesterday, but of a rather
earlier date. Some of the most distinguished
American writers are among the contribu
tors, such as: Longfellow, James Russell
Lowell, Dr. Francis Lieber, Henry T. Tuck
eriuan, Bayard Taylor, Rev. Dr. Bellows,
Professor Goldwin Smith, Oxford, (England)
Professor Child, (Harvard) Edmund Quincy,
Judge Bond, (Baltimore,) &c., &c.
The initial article is on the same subject
that forms the theme of the leading article
ol the “ Round Table " i. c. “ Will the Freed
Negro Race Die Out,” the writer of which
comes to the directly opposite conclusion to
that at which the author of the other article
arrives. The inference of the former is that
t lie freed negro will not die out. This argu-
ment is founded more on arithmetical data
(the returns of the census) than on philoso
phical principles. The author of the paper
iu the “Round Table” basis his reasoning
on the difference of race and the analogies
of history wherever an inferior comes into
contact with a superior race.
There ism “The Nation," as in the “Round
Table," a critique on the Philosophy ot Sir
William Hamilton, or rather on a writer,
Jesse H. Jones, new in this field of Philoso
phy, who, from his obscure position in the
scientific world, and his imperfect conception
of Sir William Hamilton’s philosophy, did
not merit the attention bestowed on him. A=
an evidence of this last assertion, the critic con
victs Mr. Jones of attributing to the Scotch
philosopher the denial of intuitive perception,
among others the iuference that there is no
evidence of the existence of a Supreme Be
ing, when Hamilton, in connection with Dr-
Reid and his school of metaphysicians, sim
ply denied from the finite nature of the hu
mau faculties, that a knowledge of Deity can
ba obtained by direct perception and by any
exercise of the reason, but must be intuitive.
The criticism i are iu general good and impar
tial where the work criticised does not iu its
character conflict with the peculiar political
views of the conductors, which are decidedly
Republican and seemingly opposed to the
Reconstructive policy of President Johnson.
The article on General Lee Is deeply tinctured
with prejudice. That on “ Corporations and
the People" contains suggestions on the in
fluence of Corporations and the spirit of Mon
opoly they engender and foster which are
worthy of consideration.
There is very little foreign correspondence.
Tbe domestic correspondence called “spe
cial," is filled, if not with slanders of the
South, with misrepresentations and exag
gerations that aro anything but concilia
tory and tending to lessen exasperation. The
literary intelligence is very ample.
We are indebted to Mr. Estill for a copy
who will receive subscriptions.
[cOMMCSiiCATKO.]
Me. Editor— ln view of the fact that the
time at which the election of delegates to
the State Convention is near at hand, and as
there appeare to be an iudispoaition on die
part of the citizens of Chatham to hold a
public meeting to make nominations to that
body, an inpromptu meeting of a portion
of the citizens ot the county was held last
evening, for the purpose of selecting suita
ble candidates, and presenting their names
torraally to the public. Feeling that we
taiily represented all the different interests
of the county, and having in view but the
single purpose of selecting men of spotless
character and tried integrity, who, in rep
resenting our county, will act conscientious
ly for the best interest of the whole c cunty.
We met, and after free consultation, we se
lected, bv ballot, the following named gen
tie me u
Edward C. Anderson, Thos M Norwood,
Jso. M. Guerard.
We assert, l a behalf of these gentlemen,
that while carefully guarding the honor and
welfare of the State, they will likewise give
un earnest support to the upright and states
manlike administration of President Johu
'^ n . *f»?y accept, as an accomplished fact
the abolition of slaveiy in the State, and,
w. ith this exception, wIU use their best en
o ‘T 0 !* Oeor « ia 10 ber former po
sition in the Colon. 1
Citizens of Chatham.
A lady informs the Maine Farmer that she
saved her cherries from the birds by uiakinv
o th Old &
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THE ILIIIIII CAVVEfTIOR.
Alabama tho Second State to Wheel
into Xiine.
OKI.AUZATIONOK TIIK ItUt'OXSTRU.
TIOS lOXVEVTION.
Tin- Memlwi-H Claim to have
lu-en Original Union Men,
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 12, 1865.
The Alabama State Convention convened
at twelve m. to-day and organized. Nintv
two delegates were present.
TEMPORARY OFFICERS.
Robert M. Patten, of Louderdale, was
elected temporary chairman, and A B.
Chimera! secretary pro tem.
THE MEMBERS SWOBS IN.
Governor Parsons administered the oath
proclaimed by President Johnson, and de
clared the members of the convention dun
authorized to make a permanent organiza
tion
PERMANENT OFFICERS
Ex-Governor Benjamin Fitzpatrick, form
erly a Senator in the United States Congress,
and President pro tem. of the Senate of the
Thirty-fifth Congress, was nominated for
President of the convention and elected by
acclamation. After several ballots Mr. Os
bourne was elected clerk by one majority.
W. W. Stevens was elected assistant Secre
tary.
THE POLITICAL COMPLEXTiON OF THE MEMBERS.
No business was transacted to-day by the
convention. It is comprised of some of the
first men in the State, and all appear anxious
to do everything possible to get back into
the Union at the earliest moment practi
cable. A majority of the convention
claim to be original Union men and to have
opposed secession from the first.
SKETCH OF THF. PRESIDENT OF TIIE CONVENTION.
Benjamin Fitzpatrick, the President of the
Alabama Kecouslructionary Convention, will
be reraf inhered as the successor in the United
States Senate of Hon. W. R King, who was
a Senator from Alabama from 1819 to 1814,
and from 1846 to 1852. and Vice President of
the United States iu 1852. Mr. Fitzpatrick
was born in Greene county, Georgia, June
I 30, 1802, but emigrated in 1815, in search ot
employment, to Montgomery, Alabama. lit
is self-educated. He studied for the bar, and
was admitted to practice in 1821. He was
soon after elected Solicitor of the Skate judi
cial district in which he resided, was re
elected in 1825 and held the position until
1820. His health at this time became pre
carious, and he purchased a farm near We
tumpkn, and settled upon it. He was a dem
ocratic Presidential elector in 1840, voting in
the college for Martin Van Buren. In 1841
he was elected Governor of Alabama, and re
elected in 1843. He then retired from public
life, aud though Alabama continued to be
strongly democratic he was permitted to re
main quiet in his seclusion until the death of
Hon. W. R King, in 1852, when Gov. Henry
W. Collier appointed Mr. Fitzpatrick to the
vacaut seiiatorsilip. The appointment was
confirmed, and on the conclusion of the
term for which he had been appointed (1855)
he was re-elected for the term ending in 1861.
He was President pro tem. of the Thirty-fifth
Senate. On the secession of Alabama. Feb
ruary 11, 1861, Mr. Fitzpatrick withdrew
from the Senate, and retired to his residence
at Wetumpka. What his feelings have been
on the subject of secession and the war we
do not know, but it does not appear, as has
been stated, that he has taken an active part
in the rebellion. He appears, on the con
trary, to have remained quietly secluded,
leaving it to younger and weaker heads and
hotter blood to attempt to carry out their
bloody designs and purposes of a dissolution
of the Union.
Mataai-liu«etl< Convention.
The Republican State Convention of Mas
sachusetts met at Worcester on Thursday
last, and was largely attended. Senator Sum
ner was chosen presiding officer, and on tak
ing the chair addressed the assemblage in a
speech of considerable length, maintaining
that the rebellion and slavery arc not yet
ended, and will not be till the emancipated
negroes of the South arc placed on an equal
ity before the law r with those who were for
merly their masters. Colonel Alexander H.
Bullock and Hon. William Claflin were unan
imously nomited for Governor and Lieutenant
Govet nor respectively. The resolutions adopt
ed express the utmost confidence in Presi
dent Johnson, pledge him support in his ef
forts to restore order in the South, and agree
with his assertion that treason is the greatest
of crimes, and must be punished; call tor
vigor and vigilance in dealing with the States
lately in rebellion and the extirpatian of every
trace of slavery ; maintain that the Southern
people cannot be safely entrusted with their
civil government or allowed representation
in Congress tdl by amendments to their State
constitutions they shall hare prohibited
slavery; assert that neither Southern men
wo tried to destroy the nation by arms, nor
Northern men who declared the war for its
maintenance a failure aud called for its im
mediate cessation, are the proper persons to
be trusted with authority ; and, while avoid
ing a declation in favor of extending the bal
lot to the negroes of Ihe South, say that no
test can be made which will deny it to those
of them who have borne arms in defence of
republic and grant it to rebel soldiers and
traitorous politicians
The Limerick (Ireland) Chronicle of the
28th ult., is evidently alarmed by the Fenian
movements near that city :
We have been informed by persons who
would not exaggerate in tbe slightest degree,
that drilling is going on in Clare, Crantloe.
Woods, and the mountainous region
at the opposite side of the Shan
non, tbe movements of the Fenians
in that quarter being exactlv like what tbe
Cork Constitution describes iis being carried
ep on iu the environs of that city. The
mountainous districts of Tteland afford con
siderable facilities for the drilling ot Fenians,
and the well-disposed need not wonder, at
reading in the papers of the doiugs of the
lebcls in such places as the mountainous
parts of Cork, Kerry, Clare, Cavan ami Fer
manali, where they can carry on their drill
exercises, and yet escape the’vigilance of the
police, who may not lie stationed in these
secluded quarters.
Blildiso and Repairing in Charleston. —
We observe with great pleasure, in Meeting,
and other business streets, as well as upon
the wharves, preparations making for putting
up stores, while an immense deal of repair
ing and improving is being carried on. The
ravages of shells upon the private dwellings
in the lower part of the city are fast disap
pearing, and the houses are beginning to as
sume the air of comfort and neatness they
before possessed. Many of them will be
be ready for occupation at an early date;
and we have been informed that parties arc
in treaty for some of them at high rates of
rent. All this assures us that the approach
ing winter will be a season of large boil ness.
—Charleston News.
Large Fire at Liverpool, .Vova Scotia,
Halifax, Sept. 14, 1865.
A large fire is now raging at Liverpool,
N. S., the capital of Queens county. The
whole town is in danger. The city, which
}s one of the most Important in Nova Scotia,
ts situated on the right bank of the river
Mersey, seventy mites from this place. It
contains about fifteen hundred inhabitants,
several churches, a court honse and other
public buildings.
Au iMcrMilu*
We are iM-rmitted to lay befoie our leaders
the following letter, addressed to our fellow -
citizen. Cd. R A. Alston, iu respouse to the
one recently addresed by him to Mr. Grrcly
of the New York Tribun- , and which war
copied into this journal a ft-w days ago. The
name of the writer we withhold. It is to bis
experience in the South, the sentiments he
utters, the conclusions at which he arrives—
the justice that he dues our |>eople—we in
vite the attention ol all conservative North
ern men We also see much io this letter to
encourage our own people : to satisfy- them
that they have friends in the North ; and to
subdue, as it should, that spirit of hostility I
to Northern men—•’Yankees" —which long
years of heated political controversy origi
nated, and which war and its desolatious so- !
mented. Perhaps, in days past, wo have
indulged in this lio a lile feeling as much as
any one. In honest sincerity, we affirm that
the time is past for its further indulgence.
Honor, duty, interest, patriotism, alive for
bid it. In the new era that has dawned, new
responsibilities devolve upon us, anu upon
each individual citizen of the South. Let ail
meet and bear them as men, not as children!
Then peace will come ; then law aud order
will prevail—tliea the Federal bayonet will
disappear from our view-then justice wid
be done us by the North, and the South will
once more be a land ot plenty-. There is
strength enough in the North to save the
South from the degraded condition to which
radical fanaticism would reduce her. North
ern men— •* Yankees’—w ho teel as the writer
of the following letter does, need have no
fears as to their reception in Georgia ; it will
be one of such welcome, as they would give
to us. Nay, we go father and say, notwith
standing they m.iy slaader aud misrepresent;
malign and persecute ; the most veuumous
black republican in the North may pass from
one end of our State to the other, and none
will attempt to make him atraid, to molest
bis person, or to interfere with bis constitu
tional, political, or legal rights. Such is the
spirit that now prevails among our masses—
ninety-nine out ot every hundred —of our
people.
Below, the reader will find the letter to
which we refer :
Albany, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1865.
11. A. Alston, J\sq. ;
Sir—l have read your letter in the N. Y.
Tribune with tho most profound satisfaction.
Two years in the South during the Avar con
vinced me that, could it be rightly touched,
there is a chord in the Southern heart which
would render the people thoroughly, enthusi
astically loyal to the Union and ihe new or
| der ot things. Although Northern in my
sentiments, with the Tribune for my organ,
I aud Mr. Greeley for my friend, 1 became en
amoured of Ibe Southern soil, climate, aud
people. With small (arms and free labor,
the South can be made to excel the North in
everything that goes so make the wealth of a
State; the soil and climate combine to this
end. We have long believed what has proved
to be a mistake, that Northern men could
not go South without the almost certainty of
losing their health. Statistics will show That
Northern troops iu the extreme South have
suffered less mortality from sickness than
those serving in any'other section of the
country. As to the people, I have never in
my life met auy who aside from their politi
cal notions, pleased me so much; my stay
among them was the happiest portion of my
life; I have no language to express my de
light. As commanding officer of a District,
I made myself personally acquainted with
the people, and my inflexible rule was to
treat them kindly, justly, generously, firmly,
saying to them all—“I recognize y-uit as po
litical enemies, Southern and secession iu
sentiment, but I will persecute no one for
mere opinion’s sake; no one shall be annoy
ed lor bis thoughts or bis belief; so long as
you are within my- lines I expect you to
keep quiet, affording ncithei aid nor comfort
to the enemies of the Union by word or
deed ; go to work; cultivate your planta
tions; I will aid aud protect y-ou.” They
did go to work, and 1 protected them. To
ine and my authority I believe they were in
thought, word, and deed, loyal from the
crown of their heads to tho sole of their teet.
They said to me ottun—“lf this were the
Union, we could be contented, happy, and
loyal."
I firmly believe tbeie is a way to win the
heads aud hearts of the South so that they
shall, if possible, be more loyal to the new
order than the North itself. I read it in your
letter, I kuow it from personal experience.
Yet my faith has at limes almost forsook me
turougU the reports of the newspapei'3,
wuose informants and correspondents, I
verily- believe, since leading your letter, are
false aud base. While serving in the South,
I resolved to locate '.here after the war, but
have peeu atraid that “Yankees'’ and “Yan
kee officers” would not be well received.—
So I have been studying the newspapers,
only to be more and more discouraged, and
wailing replies t o letters asking for information
Your letter to tho Tribune is iu the true,
noble Southern spirit, as I experienced it.—
You are most happy in your expressions, and
your letter cannot tail to do good in tho rigid
direction. And, radical as he is, Mr. Greely
is the best friend the South has got at the
North. He has the ability-, the power, aud
the will, to do more tor the real, laatiug good
of the South, than any other man at the
North. You and he are both imbued with,
the same spirit, and working to the same
end. The final, successlul, aud happy paci
fication of the South, will owe more to Mr-
Greely and the Tribune than to all others.
Id writing you, it was my- intention to
have said more of a personal, aud less of a.
general nature. Being out ot the service and
out of business, lam looking anew home,
with rav inclination all toward the South.
Through the reported disturbances in nearly
every Southern State, I was about to abandon
my Southern preferences, when your letter
met my eye in the Tribune, of which I am a.
daily reader—though Ido not adopt all its.
notions. Mr. G. is a great aud good man, as
tlie Tribune is one of the best aud and ablest
papers. Your letter sounded like a message
from the friends I made in the South. So
kind, noble, and patriotic, were its senti
ments, I resolved at once to address y-ou.
Fray pardon and indulge the freedom. "May
I presume upon the spirit of your letter, as.
it comes to ine, to seek information and ad
vice from you ? I would be glad to know
something of your section and its prospects.
Whether purely agricultural or varied, in
dustrial pursuits are open? For what price
lands ran be purchased compared with 1860?
Are there streams and wutcr power, finilier
and farming lands for sale? are there min
erals ? Os course a large capital has advan
tages, but are there chances lor men ot mod
erate means? and in what business? Can
plantations be bad to work on shares ? Can
partnerships lie formed in other kinds of
business? Have you mannlacturing by
water power? What is the soil, timber?
Are., Ac.
I might refer you to Gov. Fenton, of New
York; Senator Harris, of New York, aud
Mr. Ureely, of New York. If desirable can
procure honorable testimonials. A reply
will greatly oblige Your obedient servant,
N. B.—l might mention numerous instan
ces like the case of your nearest neighbor.
In Louisiana I received calls from families
who, before the war, had rolled in wealth
and luxuries—having horses and carriages—
coming to me now in a cart drawn by a mule,
so poor as to be unfit to steal. Thus came
refined and educated ladies, with the same
ease and elegance of manners of their better
days, saying to me “they might as well
laugh as cry, though it was hard to bear."
In both Louisiana and Virginia, I saw the
same class of ladies without servants, doing
their own work—many having learned to
spin and weave, and make garments—ami
actually spinning yarn, weaving cloth, aud
making clothing for their families. Those
who had never lilted a finger to labor, doing
it now, however, with a grace and buoyan
cy altogether indescribable. This is certain
ly a noble spirit; a spirit to be admired and
worshipped, however much we dislike the
cause. Such heroic conduct deserves res
pect ; and tnrned In the right channel by
wise counsels will make a country richer,
nobler, and more united than the world haa
yet seen Bo mote It be.— Atlanta Intelli
gence'.
I The following little poem we flud In au ot
! seure corner of the Nashville Guzette. The
author'* name is eot meutioned, but the del
icate imaginative beauty of the verses re
minds us forcibly of those charming lyrics
which are encountered here and there in the
Plays of Fletcher.
Ooiiig to Sleep.
I.
The light l- fading down the sky.
The sha«l«»ws grow an«l multiply,
1 hear flic thrushes* evening song ;
Hut 1 have borne with toil aud wrong
So lung, so long '
Dim dreams my drowsy souses drawn—
So. darling, kiss my eyelids down *
ii.
My life’s brief song went wasted by—
M i summer ended fruitlessly ;
\ learned to hunger, strive and wait -
1 found yon, love —oh happy fate *
So late, so late ! *
Now all my fields are turning brown—
So, darling, kias my eyelids down
ill.
uh ! blessed sleep f oh perfect rest
iliu9 pillowed on your faithful breast,
Nor life nor death is wholly drear,
O tender heart, since you are here
So dear, so dear 1
3we»t love my soul’s sufficient crown
Now, darling* hiss my eyelids down
JEFFERSUV DAVIS.
Auolkfi- Appeal to lUe Presideut—Peti
tion of the Ladlca of Abbeville, S. C.
To His L'xcel/ency Andrew Johnson, /Vest.
of the United Staits:
We, the undersigned, ladies of Abbeville
District, Soutb Carolina, respectfully exhibit
to your excellency our desire to intercede in
behalf of Mr. Jefferson Davis, the President
of the late Confederate States. We have
heard with much satisfaction that petitions
of a like nature have been addressed to your
Excellency from other portions of the coun
| try, and we entertain the hope that these
| united appeals for mercy will not fall unheed
ed upon the ears of your Excellency.
In any event, it will be grateful to us to
have thus testified our feelings for one whose
faults, in our judgment, at least, bavu not
been past forgiveness. Called from the re
tirement of his home to a position which he
did not solicit, but wbiqh his manhood for
bade him to decline, illustrating by bis con
duct the highest devotion to principles, which
were maintained with marked unanimity by
his people, temperate in the hours ot triumph,
dignified aud calm in the days of defeat,
always just, always generous, always brave,
we see in his conduct everything to evoke
sympathy, aud nothing to rnarit the extreme
punishment with which he is threatened.—
The same firmness and calm views of policy
which, on repeated occasions, he displayed
in resisting the cries which, in his region,
were raised for sanguinary retaliation, we
hope will now be exhibited, in disregard of
the unfeeling agitation which seeks his life.
We hope there will be a merciful remem
brance of his poor wife, plundered and in
sulted after bieng tom away from his prison,
and his young children, whose prospects in
life have been so terribly blighted.
Impelled by the feelings of our nature—
which arc ever excited by tbe misfortunes
of the brave and the good, which have in all
ages, eharacterizied our sex, which moved
the Marys to be the last at the Cross and
the first at the grave—we earnestly beseech
your Excellency to exercise, in behalf of Mr.
Davis, all Executive clemency.
Grant cur petition, and beside finding in
your own breast tbe reward which attends
every virtuous deed, we sincerely believe
t hat you may expect increase of your re
nown, and of the honorable character which
forms the strength of your country. For
ourselves we will hold in grateful remem
brance this act of generosity to the unfor
tunate, and will teach onr children to “rise
up and call you blessed."
Abbeville, August 23, 1865.
A Curious Case.
MUST A free NEGRO IN VIRGINIA RE TRIED
ONLY BY A JCBY ?
[From the Alexandria Gazette, Sept. 9.)
In the county court, yesterday, a decision
was rendered upon the subject of constitu
tional law involving an entire change in the
judicial proceedings-of the Commonwealth
in the trial of negroes, charged with of
fences less than homicide or other offences
punishable with death The case came on
in this wise. A negro known as “Sonny"
Waters, was on Thursday convicted of steal
ing $1,160 from another negro man, Clay
borne Barks, and sentenced, to two years’
imprisonment in the penitentiary. Toe
court tried him according to the provisions
of the code of Virginia and of course with
out a jury—Water's counsel, F. L. Smith
and 8. F. Beach, Esqrs., reserving all pleas
relative to the jurisdiction. The counsel im
mediately upon the announcement of the
sentence moved to arrest the judgment of
the court and the motion came up yesterday
for argument. Messrs. Beach and Smith
contended that the accused being a free man
was not subject to be deprived ot his liberty,
but after having had a fair trial, being con
fronted by witnesses, defended by counsel
and tried by jury. This under the Bill of
Rights of Viiginia. The counsel asserted
that free negroes had been tried by jury from
the origin of tbe Commonwealth, until in
1832 the law was changed, so as to place flee
negroes and slaves upon the same tooting in
in this respect.
W. Willoughby, Esq., Commonwealth’s
attorney, opposed the motion, urging that
the question bad been adjudicated and that
the same law which made the five genilemeD
ou the bench a court, “at all” prescribed tbe
method by which that court sbonld try free
negroes. The right of the law of Virginia
thus to create courts of oyer and terminer
iiad been ackniwledged by tbe judicial tri
bunals of the whole country, and never been
questioned until now. Mr. F. L/ Smith
urged, in reply, that whatever may have
been tbe former practice or former decisions,
tbe case befoie tbe court was this: the law
of tbe legislature was iu contravention of a
higher law, the Biii of Rights, which had
been made part of tbe constitution. The
court (Justices McKenzie, Daw, Harmon,
Carlton and Taylor) decided that judgment
should be arrested, in accordance with the
motion of Waters’ counsel,—Justice Colton
dissenting aud declaring he was opposed to
the decision. The Commonwealth's attorney
said the decision had placed him in a singu
lar position. Under the decision of the court
he was without tho means of bringing one
class of offenders to justice. In response to
questions of the presiding justice, many
members of the lmr expressed tbe opinion,
that under tbe ruling ot tho court no law ex
isted by which negroes could be tried, at all,
for offenses not homicide or punishable with
death. Others expressed adverse views.—
The presiding justice thought that, at least,
they could keep the negroes in jail until a
law was made to suit their case. The coun
sel for Waters waived the right to demaud
his discharge, at this time, with the under
standing that if there was no further action
before the court closed, he should be then
discharged.
Major Dick McCann has been arrested and
carried to Knoxville, charged with the mur
der of Union citizens in Tennessee
The following despatch to the Philadelphia
Ledger squelches a most absurd sensational
Btory about President Johnson’s views :
The despatch in a New York paper, on
Saturday last, to the effect that President
Johnson hnd virtually pledged himself to “a
prominent New Orleans journalist” in favor
of negro suffrage, and that he ought to ad
vocate it in Louisiana is erroneous. The
President, in the course of an hour’s conver
sation, did indirectly make use of observa
tions like the above, but It, was understood
on both sides to be only a jest, and such it
positively was. The President has not the
remotest idea of advocating negro suffrage,
and the “journalist” in question would not
favor it upon any consideration whatever.
Secretary HarlaD, in his recent letter, ex
presses the President's views exactly, bnt
yon will note that he is very careful not to
say one word about the President himself
being a {supporter of the dogma
tUorganlKaUen.
REPORT OF IIU COMMITTEE AI’POINTKU TO IM
YITE rUKSIOENT JOHNSON TO VISIT Hi. HMO.ND
To i hi Citizen* or Richmond: As one of
a committe appointed by a mass meeting
, held on the Capitol Square for the purpose
1 of invltiog the President of tbe United States
aud his Cabinet to visit this city and par
take ot its hospitalities, I proceeded to
Washington on Saturday, the 2d instant, and
on the Monday morning following called at
the Department of State on that patriot and
greatest of statesmen the Hon. William H.
Seward, marred and scancd as he was by
the assassin's knife. He received me in the
mest cordial and flattering manner, and after
reading his invitation, he desired me to ac
company him the next day, at 12 o'clock, to
be introduced to the President and Cabinet,
To this I readily acceded. My reception by
them was in the highest degree cordial and
diguified. My interview with tbe Prerident
was necessarily short, but highly gralitying,
as he regarded me a9 coming to him with a
heart true to the South and my whole coun
try, representing those of similar feelings.—
The invitation with which I was charged
gave him manifest pleasure, and he express
ed both the desire and intention to visit Vir
ginia, as also bis native, good Old North
State, when tbe season and his public duties
will admit of it. These two States especial
ly. he said, should have remained in the
Union, and were not (I think he said) fairly
carried out of it.
He spoke with much feeling in relation to
the unhappy situation of Richmond, and of
the condition of the South generally, which
I think he will help as much as circumstances
will allow. Take him all in all, Ido not be
lieve that any proud monatcb of Europe,
whose race of kings by “divine right” has
flourished a thousand years of time, has a
clearer conception of his duties and knows
better how to temper justice with mercy
that, Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee. From
my interview with the President I drew the
most cheering auguries; it impressed me
with tbe conviction that tbe South will find
in him a friend and protector if she will come
up to his requirements cheerfully and accept
with true hearts the terms of reconstruction
offered. With one voice and one heatt we
will greet his coming to this old Common
wealth with joyous welcome.
Most respectfully; yuur fellow-citizen,
Charles Palmer.
FI AF.IIAL INVITATIONS.
The friends and acquaintance of Isaac D. Lnßoache
and family are respectfully invited to attend the fn
neral of his eldest son, JOHN DAVID, from his resi
dence, Harris street, Pulaski Bquare, This Afternoon
at 4 o’clock.
The friends and acquaintance of Mrs. ELIZA
HENDERSON, George n. Ash, and 8. S. Miller and
families, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral
of the former, from the residence of the latter, on
York street, second door east of Barnard, at 3X
o'clock. This Afternoon.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HEADQRS SUB-DIS. OF OGEECHEE, (
Savannah, Ga., Sept. If, 1865.)
General Orders, I
No. 31. I
Hereafter, until further orders, the City
Market will be open from 4 o'clock to 11
o'clock, a. in., Sundays excepted, and on
Saturdays from 4 o’clock to 1 o’clock, p. m.
By command of Brev. Maj. Gen.
J. M BRANNAN.
VVm. H. Fox, Ist Lieut, and A. A. A. G.
sep2o 5
U. S. Internal Revenue,
Collector’s Office.
AFTF.R thi« date. I will weigh and brand all Cot
ton paying Internal Duties in the Frsl District < t
Georgia. All cotton must be reported to this office
to be weighed for payment of Dnties on its arrival in
the city.
Cotton from other Districts, not weighed and
branded, will he weighed and branded when reported
with certificates from Collectors and Depatv Collect
ors. A. N. WILSON, Col.
sep2o G
Wanted.
A HOCRE AND HOUSE SERVANT-white or
iv colored; most be competent and faithful
GEO. C. FREEMAN,
sepSO ts corner Bay and Drayton sts.
Wholesale and Retail
GROCERIES AND LIQUORS.
WM H SHERWOOD & CO., Savannah, Georgia,
southwest corner of Broughton and Jefferson
streets, under St. Andrew’s Hall.
We are receiving by every steamer fresh articles of
Groceries of every description. Liquors imported aud
direct from mnnuiactures are offered at prices to suit
the trade. septSO-lm
Headquarters Sub-District of Ogeechee )
Savannah,Ga., Sept. 20, 1865. )
Circular,!
No. 22. 1
On and after this date articles iu the Public
Market of this city will be sold at the following
prices. Persons violating this order, will be
reported to this office and summarily dealt
with.
By command of
Bvt. Major Gen. J. M. BRANNAN.
Ws. H. Folk, Ist Lieut, and A. A. A- G.
Fresh Beef, Ist cut, per ib 20
Fresh Beet, 2d cut, per lb 16
Country Dried Beef 15
Country Cured Beef 16
Jerked Beef. 10 to 16
Yeal, per lb 20
Mutton, per 1b......... 20
Liver, per ib., IS
Fresh Pork, per lb 26
Bass, per lb 15
Drum per lb 15
Fresh Water Trout 16
Sait “ “ 16
Sheephead 20
Mullet, large size, per bunch 40
Mullet, smali size, per bunch 25
Brim, per bunch of five 26
Perch, per bunch of five... 40
Suckers 25
Whiting 40
Codfish, per 1b.., ip
Shrimp, per quart, 13
Crabs, each 7
Sturgeon, per 1b..., 5
Sausages, Fresh pork 40
Bacon, per lb., from 20 to 25
Butter, per lb 40 to 50
Clams per bushel 2 00
Cabbages, each, trom 10 to 30
Turnips, per hunch 10
Tomatoes per quart 20
Okra, per quart 10
Sweet Potatoes, per bushel 3 00
Irish Potatoes, per bushel 1 60
Green Corn, each 2
Water Melons, from 15 to 60
Apples per bushel 3 00
Peaches per bushel 3 00
Hopey, per lb 15
Ducks, per pair 2 00
Turkeys, each, from $2 to 2 50
Geese, per pair 2 00
Fowls, grown slto 1 25
Half G rown Fowls 75
Spring Chickens, per pair 50
Spring Chickens, 2d size 40
Eggs, per dozen 60
Turkeys, per lb . 30
Geese, per lb 20
Fowl, grown, per lb 20
Rice Birds, per doz 26
sep2o-tf
ESTABLISHED 1809.
ENOCH MORGAN'S SON'S
Soaps,
No. 211 Washington-St.,
*epl» NEW YORK. 3m
$5 REWARDT
L 0» ITth - • scotch ter-
HIER DOG, about three month* old. H. ha*
hi* right tonuni foot. Any par
ty finding the above dog trill receive the reward by
returning h.m to eteamer Constitution. 7
Bepl» 2
ISrown’tt >«taniljir«i
USED by the Usitcd Suicc and Foreim .
menta for more than e 4
THIRTY YEA.RS,
Adapted to any branch of buaiueaa for
I >“■» markets Warranted ac urate and *
for sale.
K| | ENGLISH DAIRY CHEEsh
•"J 100 Goshon do do
10 bblfl. Lard.
10 Irkins Lard.
10 tuba do.
CHEAP, CHEAP
F’ffisf“iisssvaf ZM\T’ ■■■'
Regular Line forßosiit
THE faat sailing schr. RED JACKET. Averin
ter, having moat of her cargo encased p"
dispatch for the above port. For or’2J“"
apply to RICHARDSON ABVR\
aepl9_ ts Bay-st, opp. Mariners chord,
FOR FREIGHfOHIi
THE fast sailing brig MARY CORII .
then, 2800 bblA capacity, will freight“*>■
ter on reasonable terms. Tor particular. e r r ! cll ''
B< * l9 ts Box 79, Hhton
SOUTHER |T~
Exporting and Importing
company ’
OF FLORIDA,
THIS association Is prepared to make advance* ir
currency of Gold on consignments of
s ‘ ore9 ’ Lumber, tc. to their agent in|££
Orders solicited for goods from merchants and ni
ters. The etrlcteat attention will be Daid to „n
however amall. for good, fto SJSjf
Germany. Our Savannah and Charleston A°em,
being salaried, make no charge for f .rwartUnc
way and will famish circular of details £ lthe
R. F. FLOvD. President,
AaINTS:-—E. T. Paine, r“e
Screven, Charleston, S. C. : Henry Bry.nf S.v.nnA
3moe aepis
Garden Lot for Sale.
ACRES first quality land, wooded, wifi
4/ building site, 4 « miles from to°m ffonS C
on Wniteblnff Road, with lands of Hover on tk#
north, Carrutherg east, and Stiles south. Price
See plat at my office. * •
ae P ls lw HENRY BRYAN.
THE JONES' STREET'
Select School!
TAUGHT by Mrs. S. 8. FUDGE, on the Northern
corner of Jones and Barnard streets, will be re
opened on
Friday, September 29th,
The coarse for. the Senior Department embrace*
all tbe English branches, together with French and
Drawing.
In the Junior Department are taught Reading Wii
ting. Orthography, and Elementary Georgraph-,
Arithmetic, and .N atloual Philosophy.
The Infant Department, is taueht Orally, on the Eu
ropean System, a method peculiarly adapted to the
rapid improvement of children from three to seven
years of age.
TK" MS PKE SESSION OF NINE MONTIIS :
Senior Department
Junior “ 4p,
Infant « .!...[ 85'
French and Drawing, each ..." 25
Fuel 5'
Terms strictly cash, payable quarterly in advance;
septtG-2aw2w
A COMPANV FOR THE SAU
OF
REAL ESTATE,
THE undersigned, having assoc! >tcd themselve*
with W H. Quincy, of New York, under the
style and title of “ Southern Real Estato and Emi
gration Company.” for the purposes of sailing
Heal Estate
and aiding Emigration, - ffer their services to ail m
Georgia and Florida who may desire to aell this kind
of property. Weflatter ourselves that we occupy«
position and enjoy advantages which enable us to scii
Ileal Estate. Let all who w!,h to sell give us a cal
Full and fair discretions of land mud be given. We
can be found, for the present, at the store of J. N
McKinnon A Cos., or at the residence of C. P. Jo cs
Those who wiah to purchase will do well to give tu
.call aa we haw several cotton larma and large bodies
of turpentine and timber lands now entrusted toou:
C P. JONES,
B. H. LEEKE.
Thomasvllle, Sopt. 6,1865. septl6-!aws*
NOTICE.
THE steamer FOUNTAIN having returned, owing
to an accident to her steam pipe, will leave for Pa
latka and Intermediate places, on WEDNESDAY
MORNING, Sept. 20th, at 10 o'clock, a. m.
For freight or passage, apply on board, or to
»ep!9 M. A. COHEN, 83 Bay-at
A. & G. R. R.
msbbbbbismmbjmbe
-3B WC Mrt tnrTVK
NOTICE la hereby given that the arrangement
hitherto existing between Messrs. Erwin t Hat
dee, Agents for Steamer Gibbons, and tbia Compan?,
win, by mutual consent, be discontinued on ana ahei
FRIDAY, the 29th inst,
WM DUNCAN,
Act. Prest. A.. * <». R It. CO
ERWIN * HARDEE,
Agents for Steame
NOTICE.
On and after Friday, tbt 29th Inst, the Steamer
WM. <3. GIBBONS
wlil be withdrawn from the Doctortown Kon’e -
F. eight received at Savannah on and before the!ith
Inst., and at Doctortown on or before the 28th inst -
will be promptly removed, »« heretofore.
ERWIN & HARDEE
aepl9 2w Agents tor steamer.
GEORGIA MON CLUB
THE members of the Club are Invited to attend the
regular weekly meeting, on WEDNESDAY EVEN
ING,Sept. 2 jth, at S o'clock, ai business <>f the highest
Importance wili be transacted. A full and pane ml
attendance is urgemly requested. Let every uncondi
tional Union man In Chatham county be present Pet
order. E. D. DODGE, Sec'rv
sepl9 2
DURYEAS MAIZENA
TRY ONE POUND.
"*• ™ Wn'wmi* m ,1M
That received a modal and honorable mention from
the Royal Commissioners the rompetion of all proO*
lnent mannfaciurera of ‘Corn Starch" and •‘Ptepu* l
Corn Flour'’ of this and other countries notwithataod
injr.
MAIZENA,
The food and luxury of the age, without a elnf l '
fault. One trial will convince the most skeptic*! -
Makei Pudding*, Cakes, Canards, Blanc Mange m -
without Isinglass, with lew or no eggs, at a cost**;
lonlshlng the moat economleal. A slight sddlil; n w
ordinary Wheat Flour greatly Improve* Bread an»
Cake It Is also excellent tor thickening sweet Mucej
grsvlas tor fish and meats, soups. Ac. For les Cr«»®
nothing can compar* with It A little boiled In mil*
will produce rich cream tor coffee, chocolate, tes
Put up In one pound packages, nnder tba trade
mark Mulxena, with direction* for use. ~
A moat delicious article of food for children and u
vattds of all ages.
*For sale by Grocer* and Druggists everywhere.
Wholesale Depot, 166 Felton Street.
WILLIAM DXTRYEA.
au2f-3m General Agest.
TRY ONE POUND