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The Savannah Daily Herild. by s. w. mason&co. KAMI £l. At. MA*I»V . ... Bdltor. vA . T. rilc'H'AOt. .Iwwtttf savannah. wnnpA ski'TFMBKH r. ises r«R MCU WAITERS SEE THIRD Pllit. i:\KMN<- F.niTlO\ OF THE HEIIAM) an accident to our press »<• were obliged tons* onr Evening Edition temporarily, and various . in nmsunreu now lead us to announce its discon unusnce for a few dais lunger. We s'.iall resume its publication very soon. TO ADVERTISERS. Onr advertising patrons are reminded that adver tisements inserted in the Morning Edition of th. Hkraij> will appear in the Evening without extra charge. Advertisements should be handed in as early possible, but will 1* received as lute *s 12 o'clock at tight tVe adhere to onr advertised except for long advertisements, or those inserted for a long t i me, on w hicb a reasonable discount will be made. HOW TO OBTAIN THE IIKKAI.D REG ULARLY. W e often have complaints from lesidents of Savan nah and Hilton Head thst they are not able always to .tu b the Praam The demand is sometime* ao red as lo exhaust an Edition very sot n al'er Its Issue, and those who wish to have the Hf.rald regularly, mould subscribe for it. We have faithful carriers in >a\ anuab and at Hilton Head, and through them we ways serve regular subscribers first. New Smiting Roite.—A gentleman of Uacon informs the Telegraph that he has ...formation from the president of the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad, that a joint nrrrangement has been effected between the different railroad companies concerned, un der which a bale of cotton will be shipped Irotu Atlanta to Alexandria, Va., lor six dol lars From thence the cost to New York, by water, will be Hgh*. The roads are all completed, by this route, and if the state ment abjve is correct, and the Macon and W estern road should enter into the arrange ment in the same liberal spirit which has se riated the other companies, this route will command the attention of shippers at once. A Grizzly Chair —The St. Louis Repub lican states that Seth Kinman, the Rocky Mountain trapper, has constructed and pre sented to President Johnson a “grizzly chair. ' The four legs, with the feet and claws in perfection, arc those of a huge griz zly hear, while the arms are the arms and paws of another grizzly ; the back and sides are also ornamented with immense elaws. The seal is soft and exceedingly comforta ble, but the great feature of the “Institu lion" is, that by touching a cord, the head of a monster grizzly boar, with distended jaws, will dart in front and under the seat, snapping and gnashing its teeth as natural as life. Dkatii or a Bonapahxe. —The last news from abroad contains a brief announcement of the death at Rome on the ftth instant of Joseph Bonaparte, Prince of Musignana. He was about twentv-eigbt years old, had led a private life, and was only notable from bearing the name of a distinguished family His lather, Charles Lucien Bonaparte. Prince ot Caniuo, has been in this country, and was an elaborate and able writer on ornithology and botany. Why W lire's Counsel Withdrew —Hou. James Hughes, the former counsel for Capt. Wirz, is out in a long letter to the Indianap olis Journal, giving his reasons for his de sertion of the Andersonville jailor. He says • I did not withdraw from the defence on account of opinions as to the legality of mili tary commissions, or their expediency at this lime. I withdrew becaut; I believed that the prisoner could not obtain a fair trial and 1 could not secure it for him. I mean to say that if all technical rules of law were thrown aside, Captain Wire could not, in my opinion, receive before a military commis sion, subject to orders from the office of the Judge Advocate General, that fair play, on the merits of his case, that rough justice which usually characterizes the decisions of the rude and unlettered but equitable frontier men who hold the courts of Judge Lynch in the West. Their proceedings are quite as illegal and irregular as those of the “regu lators,” if they are called in the West, and not half so fair. [From the Rome (Ga.) Courier, September 7.) Desperate Fight In Picken* C ounty—Nine Person* Killed and Two Wounded. \Ve get tlie following accoti lit from a soil rce deemed entirely reliable: On Sunday, August 27tli, two citizens of Pickens county, uanicd Gravelly and Nally, went to a church during the hour of preach ing, and called for two men who were In the church, and against whom they had an old grudge. The men refusing to come out, Gravelly and Nally went in, drew their pistols and commenced shooting—shot several times—killed one of the men and mortally wounded the other, who has since died, and wounded a lady, before the desperadoes could Do forced to desist. On the Wednesday following, Lieutenant Harper, of company C. 29th Indiana regi meut. with three citizens of Cartersville, vie: Thomas Hancock, Bell Collins and Beu. Smith, went to Pickens county for the pur pose of arresting Gravelly and Nally. They found Gravelly and his three sons, ali Nahy, all in N ally's house, thoroughly armed and prepared to resist an arrest. Messrs. .'Uttb afl d Collins, as they were citizens went to entreat them to surrender. As they approached the door they were both shot and killed. tt was about 8 o’clock at night. A general fight ensued, lasting nearly half an hoar. Two of theriesperadoes being then dead, and a third one mortally woundeJ, the other two lushed out of tlm house anti al uwPr!J 0 ,i eSC T by rnuui “g. <>ue was killed and the other saying he would stir render, attempted to shoot one of ttie soldiers and was dispatched with the bayonet Two women who remained in the house »11 the while, escaped unhurt. The Bmuto War [Plymouth Telegram to Loudon Presi.] The Diamond Company 's steamship Albany Arrived off Dartmouth to-day, where she was obliged to put up. She brings Cape news ‘to July 28. Ibe Basuto war was proccedimr ! with great vigor, and the whole course of I affairs up to then was strongly in favor of ibe free State. Vechtkop, the stronghold of Busbuh, a Basuto chi :f, had been captured • <;0 Basutos were killed and 4,500 sheep 495 cattle, and 150 horses captured Molitsani’s town, another Basuto stronghold, had al-o been taken, and about 1,000 huts burnt. The country of Molitsani had been seized and i proclaimed free State territory. Great atro- 1 cities were alleged to have been committed, end murder auu robberies perpetrated by the Basutos on British subjects on British soil, viz the Natal side of tne Drakenberg. This was said to have arisen through the confu sion attendam on a great and successful raid made by the Basutos among the Africander Boers along the Natal frontier. Among the nomestcads burnt by the Basutos in the Wit teubergen Land river district and Winburg is that of Sir Walter Currie. The Natal gov ernment were acting promptly for the de- Y 1 * 5 of the frontier, and had resolved »o RanUal subsidy of seven thousand cation vi? fu le « D<i ‘c e tele (sraphic eommuni- D r,a ffie free State to Cape Colony. nrire > la con, has ad t*t copy pr ce 01 *'og'e papers to ten cents till: Mt« X WttH CAROLINA. We have bTiefly Indicated IC( changes oi political opinion n South Carotiua as rcgiti .is its Federal relations The changes are not more re naiksble as regard* its State govern ment. The toiisutu'ion of South Carolina was adopted in 179D. its hasi* w.* ohgai :dural, althcugb it could not he said to bo in he ordinary sense an oligarchy. As was -tated by Governor Perry in bis tnesrag. to ihe Convention “tbe election of Presidential electors l\v tbe Legislature, is clearly an usur pation on the part of that body, and which uo ollie! Stale in the Union tolerates al the iresent time. The Federal constitution de clares that ‘each State shall appoint in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct electors of President and A icc President. The Stale and not the Legislature is to ‘ap point’ electors. The Legislature is to ‘di rect the ‘manner’ of appointing only. The [teople are the State and should ‘appoint.’ No one will contend that the Legislature which represents the State is the State itself." It is impossible to resist this reasoning. But the argument admits of extension to other offices besides Governor, Lieutenant Governor and electors of President and Vice President. All the elections belong of tight to tbo people, and cannot lie exercised either by the Legislature or Executive branch of the government except by rxpiess delegation. Popular acquiescence sanctions the exercise of tbe right when minor offl -es are chosen by other than the popular voice. Asa question of policy, it resolves itself into a choice of evils. The election of mi nor offices no doubt, as alleged by Governor Perry, embarasses legislation no les3 than it is an inconvenience to the people. It Is a less evil that Sheriffs, Tax Col lectors, Magistrates, Poor School Commissioners,should be chosen by Executive nomination, subject to con tinuation by the Senate, than that the pow er of appointment should be in Ihc Legisla ture or the people; but the offices of a high er grade, Chancellors, Masters in Equity, Solicitors ate offices either of honor or emol ument, and there is frequently a legislative scramble to obtain them. It would cer tainly be a less evil to give these elections to the people than to make the legislature an electoral body, the theatre of intrigue and log-rolling. The inconvenience of the practice of elect- ing these functionaries— the time occupied in canvassing for votes—the intrigue and log-rolling to which it gave rise—induced the Legislature to restore these elections to the people, reserving iu its own hands the election of the higher officers, such as the Governor, the Judges, the Solicitors, tbe Comptroller, &c. Now, this is usurpation; this arrogates the whole power of appointments, and was sub stantially an oligarchy. The Executive was reduced to a mere cypher, with nrt official patronage, and with a salary entirely inade quate to his position. Governor Perry re commends an entire change in the mode ot election, not only as regards the electors of President and Vice President, but many of the subordinate elections. The frequent at tempts to place the State government on a more popular basis, for a period of seventy odd years, have been invariably defeated.— The Legislature and people of South Carolina attached a superstitious veneration to their laws and institutions, that resembled the monarchical traditions of the old world.— Their Penal Code, which was of unusual severity—their system of State taxation— their elections—were as unchangeable as the laws of the Medes and Persians. The revo lution of a few months has come to change ail this. The adherence to a system of State taxa tion, under all circumstances of change, affords the most striking evidence of obsti uale attachment to an unsuitable scheme of impost. The taxes were imposed on a valu ation of property perhaps equitable and just when adopted, but now, and for a long period since, totally inapplicable. The sea island cotton and rice lands were in their original valuation rated at $4 per acre. They are now worth from five to ten fold the value then put upon them. The city of Charleston paid one sixth of the whole taxes of the State. The uuequal representation of the Parishes has been a subject of constant complaint. It was be yond remedy unless by the process of a revo lution thnt changes the entire social system of the Stale. A reformation in this respect can no longer be delayed, giving represents lion in tba Senate in proportion to population while by a more equitable valuation of proper ty the burthens of taxation would be more equally distributed. Ou one point we cannot agree with Qov. Perry. He says : ‘ in considering the question of population it is proper that the “treedmen," who take the places of the white men iu the lower country, aud also in the upper country, in a less proportion, should, iu some way and to some extent, be counted. This is due the lower country, where there is such a large preponderance of that class of persons. The federal basis of representation iu Con gress, counting three-fiftbs of the negroes, would seem to be just and right. It was the compromise agreed on by the framers of the federal constitution, and no doubt found ed in wisdom.” Now, the “Federal basis of representation’’ can have no proper application after the constitutional abolition of slavery. It was the effect of compromise, aud presupposes the continuance of slavery ns long as that compromise of the constitution exists. The abolition of slavery abolishes also the com promise. Why it should be retained in one of the State Constitutions after it is abolish j ed both in the Federal and State Coustitu j turns, no good reason can be assigned. If the I n is entitled to representation at all lie is entitled to full representation. Besides, on motives of expediency, it would lie proper and right that the South should have the benefit of a full representation in Congress, instead ot a representation by three-fifths. If the South gives up slavery, it is. no more I t!wn just that it should have ail the nurneri ! ca i weight to which it is entitled. Brazilian Statistics.— The population of Arazil was estimated by the Government, in IBOG, at ~077.000, of whom 2,000,000 were whiles, 1,121,000 mixed free people—mu lettoes, mestixdes, etc ; 800,000 civilized In mixed »'' av e population ; 2,- 000,000 African slaves. In 1857 58, the standing army was composed <>t 18,500 men for ordinary and 20,000 lor extraordinary or war times, the national guard was 106 OCO then whose officers ore well drilled, and one thud of the rantc and fi.e are liable to be ?ai5 d ,t‘ Dt B 9ar m Ce iu ca!c of invasion. In 1857 the Brazilian navy uuiabered 42 ves sels in active service (of which 1.5 me steamers) 10 in ordinaly and 29 gunboats— tire naval force mustering 46ol min :BY TELEGRAPH. " %NV The .A lnl>iumi State ('on vent ton, Secession Ordinance Annulled' THU VOTJB UIVAIVI&XOtrS. i-qieelul I>espjt.!i to the Savannah Herald.} Mim-f.ockvtm.e, Sept. 2."». The Ordinance declaring the act of seces tioti from the Union null and void,was unan imously adopted by the Convention to-day. after being debated the entire day. IN GENER A 1.. —The orphan children of Charleston are to be returned to their old home—the Orphan Asylum in that city, from OraDgeburg whith er they were temporarily transferred during the shelling of the city. —They have, in the Cifyof Nashville, five theatres and a concert saloon, five hundred drinking saloons, three national hanks, five daily newspapers, and two more on foot, six teen churches, nine hotels, a race track, street railroads In contemplation, besides many other institutions too numerous to mention —Hero, the Russian bloodhound from Castle Thunder, and “Jack," the bloodhound kept at Andersonville by Wire, are on exhi bition in Boston. —Mr. 8. D. Thom, a well-known citizen of Columbus, was found dead on the 3d, on a road In Jacksonville county, Florida, with nine buckshot in his body. —The ride from Orangeburg to Augusta, forty-nine miles, part of the way by stage, costs fifteen dollars. A trunk isebarged five dollars extra. —Gen. Carl Schurz is reported to have said at Vicksburg the other dty, that he saw no basis for reconstruction in any State through which he passed on his tour of in spection—another instance of “Shirts” see ing tilings in a different light from President Johnson. —The South Carolina Railroad will soon be in running order to Columbia. —Between two aud three thousand bales of cotton have been waiting at the Orange burg station for three weeks for the trains to carry them to Charleston. —Major Collins, of Macon, has a fist <>f widows aud orphans, in that city, who are considered indigeut and entitled to assistance, which contaius the names of 487 widows and 913 children. —The author of the book entitled “The Oil Regions of Pennsylvania,” says that in the town of Petrolia, the. church universally l>e lieved in is an engine house, with a derrick for its tower, a well for its Bible, ancl a two inefh tube for its preacher, with mouth ro tund, “bringing forth things new and old," in the shape of 200 barrels per day,of crude oil mingled with salt water. —Two prominent oil operators of Phila delphia, have been held in SIO,OOO bail each to answer at court the charge of forging deeds to certain oil lands in which they had uot a cent of interest. —The Kentucky Conference, at its session in Covington, adopted the minority report on the state of the church, and declined to unite with the church North. A rupture tookplacp, and seventeen of the members of the conference have withdrawn from the it inerant ranks and demanded a location, which has been granted. —Gov. Brownslow says that idleness, star vation and dsiense will kill off the majority oftbe present gene ration of negroes, lie predicts for the black man the fate of the red man. —D. W. Halt, nn old resident of Jack sonville, Fla., and whose lather at one lime owned nearly all the town, died on the 14th inst. —The latest contribution to Barnum’s Muse um is the garter of Queen Mario Antoinette, presented by the grandaaghter of Madame de Campan, governess of the royal children of France. —A Judge Smith of Carroll County, Mary - land, has been issuing warrants for the ar rest of citizens of that county, who went South during the war. Fortner residents in that vicinity have been prevented from re turning to their, homes by vigilance com mittees. A whale was shot at Snrry, Maine, last week. He swam ashore between two small reefs, and there was not room enough for him to turn round, and he could not back out. A farmer bearing the noise, went to to tlie shore with his gun and shot the big fish. The Indian names which designate so many of our naval vessels are the subject of many transformatioils by Jack. He calls the Wissahickon the “ Widow Higgins; the Miami the “Miasronnnd now the Mian tononrah has been christened by the same authority “ My-aunt-knows-uo-man,” nnd tlie Shocknckon the “Shocking-corn.” During the past twelve years no man ha3 left the ofHee of State Treasurer of Ohio with an untarnished reputation. That officer handles ten millions a year’, and is paid the pitiful salary of #ISOO a year, And in order to earn this he lias to find securities to the amount of $600,000. The New York book trade sale, which was held last week, is represented as lire most successful of the whole of the thirty or forty years trade sale scries, the amount of sales being a quarter of a million School books for the South were in great demand. —On Friday night, in Litchfield, Ct., a young man named Thomas Redding, a re turned soldier, was shot by the husband of a lady on whom lie was attempting to commit a gross assault. Redding was killed. —A letter from Nantucket, Mass.,says - ‘tbe grass grows on the middle of the streets that once echoed to the busy feet of trade. Vast edifices—sperm caudle manufactories, oil cellers, ship chandlers’ stores—are aban doned to the mercy of the elements. Whole Mocks and rows of buildings are deserted. The Florida Union, published at Jack . vilie, appeared on the 23d inst, in an en larged form, and with the name or Holmes : Steele, well known in Florida, at the bead of j the paper, &b associate editor. The Union I proposes to • • battle against radicalism l whether North or South." **• A fcomsprindciil ot the Tribune say*, ilist ill iburlccn of the Houtberu Cmiufk- ill lllluoU, sod iu a few iu Lilians, cotton is everywhere seen. Ten* of thousands of re fugees find constant employment I —A youth fifteen yrsrs old retailing near Marmn, Ala., drank three glasses of butter milk, ate three watei melons, aud a basket of peaches, on the same day he dined heavily, and died in the afternoon. —A Catholic priest arrested at Jefferson City, Mo, for preaching without having taken the oath, was held in four thousand dollars to appear at the next term of the Cir cuit Court for trial. —There is an ex-army sutler in Indianap olis, who made $200,000 in fourteen mouths' time, and invested the whole amount in United States bonds, which arc exempt from taxation. —Gen. Fisk looks upon freedmen's camps as unwholesome and pernicious, and L rapidly breaking them up in his district. The negroes are encouraged to seek employ ment in cities and towns. —For the week ending 20»h ult., 136 post offices were opened in the South and 1,100 miles of mail routes let The post office Department is now preparing au adver tisement tor the South for ail its mail routes—contracts to commence July I,' 1866. —An “Essay on Back Yards” has the fol lowing : “The singing of the servant maid would not be so anuoying if 1 could understand the words, but to have little dqfachcd tit-bits of a song wafted on the breeze, is simply aggra vating. For example: Farewell yah-yah, you may never, t ress me yah-yah heart again ; Bat oli, you’ll yah-yah, yali jah, yalt-jah, If I’m yah-yah w.th the slain. —Business in Milledgcviile is iookiug up. Vacant stores are few and far between ; but money is yet quite scarce in the city. “Circumstances Alter Cases;” so says the old adage. A firm in Macon advertise a lot of blankets for sale under the caption, “Keep Warm!” An Ice Company in Au gusta head their advertisement with the words “Keep Cool!" Both are interested iu the advice they give and a change of busi ness would no doubt involve a change of temperature in their respective admonitions. Napoleon 111, and Prince Napoleon are still unreconciled. Julia Dean Hayne is playiug four niglils a week in the Salt Lake Theatre in Utah to crowded houses. She lias appeared in “Camille,” “The Stranger," “The Jealous Wife,” “Griseldls,” “The Hunchback, ' and “Leah." Miss Dorothea L. Dix has resigned the office of Superintendent of female army nurses, and that crops has been disbanded. Free Trade In Fra lire. The following is ail extract from the in augural address of M. Alexander Adam, President of the Conseil General of the de partment du Pas-de-Calais (France,) de livered at the first meeting of the present session of the Council : “Notwithstanding the commercial crisis produced by the civil war which for four yeais dolated the Unitd States of America, our Industry has maintained itself in a way that pinves’its strength and its solid founda tion, If some establishments have fallen which were placed in unfavorable conditions, this was but the inevitable result to which even internal competition would have led sooner or later ; while those which were better placed have become stronger and more prosperous Lorn the very efforts which tbe influence of competition have forced them to make. .Os this we have a striking example before onr eyes in the prosperity of tbe well-managed iron works of Marquise. This establishment has just obtained a very large contract for tbe supply of iron cast ings in England, having been able to offer lower terms than any of the English foundries, and they hope to be able to com pete successfully with English manufacturers in the markets of other countries. “Let us have confidence, then, in the fu ture prepared for its by the most exteuded application of commercial liberty, but do not let us cease to demand tbe withdrawal of all the obstacles which arise from fi-cal centrali zation, all ol' which result in loss of time ami money. Let us demand the carrying out of all measures which will facilitate carriage by land and sen, or diminish its expense■ and when all the privileges which, under the name of protective duties were attached to agriculture and manufactures have been abolished, we must ask that they be no longer maintained in relation to the mercan tile marine, which does not want them, and lias no right to any special compensation, since the reloi m of the system of maritime inscription has relieved it from the greatest burden under which it labored. “After having so vehemently attacked the protective system, it is with a bad grace that some of our greaj ports demand its continu ance with iegard to the commercial marine, which, like other industries, must prepare itself to sustain tbe shock of competition, in the home market a9 well a9 in foreign mar kets. While lam on this subject, Ido not hesitate to call your attention to the necessi ty of demanding the suppression of the duty still remaining on the importation of fish from foreign fisheries. It is tbe only way, believe me, to supply onr markets in abun dance with a valuable article of food, in ex change for which our iudustry and our agri culture would sell their produce, and it would in no way injure the sale of the fish brought to our ports by our own fishermen, which is always insufficient to meet the re quirements of our markets." Another Rebellion Anticipated.— lt is said that arms have been found secreted iu some of the Southern Slates, and another re bellion anticipated. We have no apprehen sions. Why? Because the military author ities, if such a tiling were possible, would act upon Dr. Coleman’s motto, and “Nip the evil in its Bud.” We clip the foregoing from the Nashville Press aud Times, and have observed para graphs of a similar import in a number of our northern exchanges. Especially is Geor gia implicated by these sensation mongers.— The order of Gen. Steedman, for tile collec tion of arms in this State, gavs the idea to the willing slanderers of the South, bht we apprehend they have mistaken the purpose of the General in issuing the order. It is understood here thnt a knowledge of warlike preparation among the contrabands led to the precautionary step adopted. There Is no State Union in which the white popu lation is more peaceable and orderly tuan in Georgia, and the military authorities will wit n?ss the fact. On the contrary, the papers report great disorder in Tennessee. The Press and Times will do well to give atten tion to its own State. Tennessee lias been trying to get back iuto the Union three years, but is yet out in the cold; Georgia will ac complish this quietly, and speedily, too, un less a fanatical majority of Congress keeps her out without cause.— Macon Telegraph. A woman named Henrietta Kroman, was killed while crossing a railroad track in In dianapolis. Her owu son was fireman on the locomotive which run over her; but although he saw the accident, lie was ignorant of his loss until going home to dinner lie found his mother absent, and on making Inquiries as certained that the deceased was his mother. He had seen his mother killed in a horrible manner and witnessed her removal yet was not aware of bis bereavement. ion IN wHk V stilt (Xiin-' lMk rtwn bart fur UhmM went cm IVbetKur «vc- lorn .1 inav •mi ill, o«ii' i? i .(hi cl. aml vriu.v.l «oHU. i.JAI. In the cut.! unit dark atone Trying iu nu t my way to your side— c.'otur. bailing- mu.l to*. BI natni Once i drew it aiva. ia my piM From Ur t<*» forest om? m the ten 1 1 Come bd~.it co.a.- back with the Spong's sweet prime With the bird- lrwta o ver the se.c For i turn iny far- from ti e gulden time. And iny ear from its minstrelsy : For my passionate Hunt cries out tor the ilay When iimr heart fell away front mine— Cries uni fiir tin- cap tout pushed away. Spilling its costly wine ‘ Come ! and your kiss .shall kindle again The passiun-btoem on my cheek ' Come ! amt read in uij eyes the pain That nn lips are too proud tft speak. ' C'o.ie : for i lie iu the cold without, Stalibed with agony wild, Alt for you—amt my heart cries out Like a poor litUe motherless child Jealousy and Murder. Tho Charleston (Illinois) Courier of Sep tember 6, says : “Sunday afternoon, Gifford Brown and Joseph March, hot It of t his county, met at a singing school held at Prairie Chapel, near Kansas, when the Intter invited the former lo lake a. walk with hire. The invitation was accepted and the two left the crowd and went around into the rear of a corn field, about a quarter of a mile from the meeting house. Soon after the discharge of-d pistol was heard in that direction, and March came running in a very excited manner towards tlie meeting house, mounted bis horse and dashed off. The bystaeders rushed in the direction of where tiny ltenrd the report- of the pistol, so see what had happeued. Ou arriving at the sport they found tbe lifeless body o? Brown. “X gentleman who happened to be riding up in lull view of the two, but who was un perceived by them, states that at the lime of the tragic occurrence Brown was standing with his knife ont and whittling on a fence rail, when March deliberately drew his pis tol and discharged it. tbe ball faking effect behind tbe left ear, and causing instant death. This statement was corroborated by tbe lact that the knife was louod lying open ns it fell from the hand of the dead man. a fresh notch Was aiso observed in a rail. “Pursuit was immediately given. The fugitive was chased about half a mile, when he was pushed so closely that he left his horse and took to a corn field. This was surrounded and then the intenor explored. The fugitive wa9 soon found concealed in a pond about the centre of the field, his head and shoulders only protruding from the water. He told Ilia pursuers if they wonkl not shoot he would give himself up, and ac-- corditigly did so, and was placed uuder guard. ‘Justice Bond held an inquest over the body of the murdered man. “Both parties had been soldiers. Brown was formerly a member of Seventy-ninth Illinois regiment, but was discharged and returned home some time since. March had but recently returned. It is said lie had been engaged to marry a girl who resides in the neighborhood of the tragic occurrence, who on the return ot Brown plighted her affections to him. March rode up to the object of his passion Sunday afternoon, just ns she was coming out. of tlie gate leading to Iter lather’s residence, and asked Iter if he could accompany her to church. She told him that he could, but that her company was etigaged for the return. He asked her ‘by whom, Brown?' and on receiving au affirma tive answer, and haviug previously learned that the parties were engaged, lie replied that lie ‘intended to kill him before sundown! ’" Perils of a Rope Walker. LESl.tfi ASSAULTED BY EXCITED CANADIANS. The Buffalo Courier says: “We had al ways supposed that the perilous feats pbr formed by Harrie Leslie were of themselves attended with all the danger necessary to make them sensational enough for the peo ple; but a very recent experience of the daring rope-walker iu her Majesty’s domin ions goes to show that we are more liberal in our notions of the thing than they arc there. •‘ Ou Friday afternoon last Mr Leslie thought he would delight the people of Bay field, C. VV., on the Grand Trunk Railway ; and having stretched his rope across the James river, a distance of six hundred feet, he proposed not only to perform his custom nry feats of walking over it, but also to as ? tonisli tlie natives with a display of his acro batic skill. At tlie time appointed, he and his balance pole started across the river to gether, and upon reaching the centre of the rope, he enacted all that was set down on the programme; but upon nearing the oppo site bank he saw a crowd of men who were evidently excited, and could hear them say, ‘D—n him, lie’s the devil,’ ‘qut the rope,’ ‘cut him down,’ &c. Leslie continued to move along on his rope, but before lie could reach its terminus, the slender bridge was cut, and he was allowed to fall a distance of nearly twenty-five feet. In bis descent he caught hold ot a tree, and thence rolled down the embankment to the water's edge. “Finding that he was pursued by the ruffians, he made his escape in the woods, and after travelling about a mile and n-half lie managed to get a horse and buggy, with which he reached Seaforth. Here he pro cured assistance, aud upon ret timing to the vicinity of Bayfield he learned that a man named S. 3. Skinner, who was acting as his agent, had oeen badly beaten, aud that about a dozen of the ruffians had been ar rested. Upon going back to Seaforth he was again beset by some of the gang, but tlie vigerous use of a loaded horsewhip made his progress comparatively easy, and he escaped the second time. Harrie has discovered that Canada is a hard road to travel, and he will Srobably avoid Bayfield and the James liver hereafter.” The Grave or Yancey. —A Montgomery correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, thus describes tho grave of William L. Yan tey : It is marked by no monument. A plain marble slab lying on a level with the ground and inclosed by a low iron fence, covers the ashes of the once proud fireater. The name “Wm. L. Y T aucey” on the iron gate is the only thing that tells whose bones rest here. Strange enough that one so ambitious dur ing life should, when dying, request his friends to put no monument to his grave— so strange, indeed, thnt I am disposed to doubt it in the case of Mr. Yancey, notwith standing an old citizens tells me that was the fact. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church in this city ; was re markably gifted iu prayer, and zealous of good works generally— at least that is the reputation he has here, no had a smnll plantation and owned a few slaves, but was, by no means, wealthy. Still be was the recognized champion of slavery and slave holders. He gave his great genius to the defence of an institution whose destruction ’tis a pity Providence had not spared biin to see. Many have lived to see it whom, I fear, do not profit by the lesson as much as he would have done. The schooner LSchiel, from Dundas, C. W„ to Oswego, with bine thousand bushels of wheut, fouudered in the gale on Lake Onta rio last week, fifteen miles northeast of Gene see Light. Nothing was saved from the wreck. The potato rot, which was supposed to be confined to the neighborhood of Chicago, is now assuming a serious aspect. Information from parts nf Michigan, Northern Indiana and Illinois, indicates that the rot is becom ing general Bon. Jas. Speed, the • Attorney General, has given notice that persons who hnve taken the oath of allegiance under the thirteenth exemption, and those who held petty offices, and who have applied to the President for pardoD, and whose applica tions have been sanctioned by the Governor, will be entitled to hold office and vote at elections Oj|tM> FuuflM-t, Etruiits is I'niiAtfci., |h r f ”iil*iiiS uu ofciiuiit of the graud Itiuu rtsT operation-, of the conductor* of tlie toreet cars in that city, who have managed to de t Irand three companies ot lund* lo the amount of one hundred thousand dolla s. Toe re ceipts of one road in tbe city, attei the de i tection of the Lauds, increased one hundred ! dollars per day. On this same road it was : ascertained that not only had some of the drivers been in the habit of extorting money from tbe conductors, but that even some of the hostlers anil stable boys bad tiecn in the ilaily receipt of regular amounts which they exacted from the drivers before the horses were brought from the stables Tlte driver : in many cases had been in years past con | nncted with the omnibus system of Philadel phia. and had thus graduated in a school of | morality which taught them that the chief and of man was to make money. Litrrary —Tickner & Field’s presses are busy with a great variety of new books, among them— Ata'anta in Caiydoo : by Algernon Swin burne. Hesperus: by Richter, translated by ltev. Charles T. Brook3. Poems: by Henry Howard Brownell. Complete edition of Ald rich’s Poems, in blue and gold Translation of Sardi's Porsiau P.*ets ; edited by Emerson. Lite and Letters of Robertson. Professor Felton’s Greece—iu two volumes octavo. Seaside Studies: by Alexander Agassiz, son of tbe famous Professor. Lyrics of Life :by Robert Browning. Humorous Poems: by Oliver Wendell Holmes. It is interesting also to kuotr that thi9 house has sold ninety-five thousand copies of “Enoch Arden,” of which number fifty thousand were in the cheap paper odition ; and that six different editions of the works of Tennyson have been issued—the last be ing the' “ Farringford," containing every thing that the Laureate has written.- i > President Johnson. —Life may be dearer thun all tltiDgs else to some—property to others —but to the Souther man there is one thing dearer still—one chord, that, when struck, vibrates the key note of his soul. And upon that chord President Johnston laid his hand when he said that tbe people of the South could and must be trusted— when he treated those whom fate had brought to sue for mercy at his feet, as a knight would have treated his vanquished enemy—when he branded it as a “pestilent and malignant" utterance that the South, in taking tlie oath, had blistered its lips with a lie. Here Andrew John»on touched us to the core—hntc, in very deed and truth, fired the Southern heart —for here it was that he vin dicuted tlie aspersed honor of a people whose enforced patience and silence, when wrong was done them' have been too long trumpeted as the very ear marks of pol troonery and fraud .—Constitutionalist. A few months ago, just before dinner time, a hungry looking mau entered the refectory of Mr. \Vamey, and propounded the usual interrogatory: “Is this the place where they keep clam soup ?” “Yes, sir," said Mr. Warner; “how much wilt j-oo have?" “VVeH," replied the customer, “I guess I'll take three cents worth.” “Three cents worth!” exclaimed the as touished host; “why, man-a-livc, where are you going to put three cents worth? You certainly won't pretend to cat that quantity at one time.” ! “How do you sell it?” asked the astonish ed countryman. ‘Due cent a gallon.” “Well, 1 11 try a gallon,” said the country man ns he leisurely took a seat iu one of the boxes. Mr. Warner, who felt in tbe humor for a joke, measured out a gallon of clam soup, aud bad it carried to the customer. He com menced devouring it, and after several tem porary suspensions iu order to wipe away the perspitation and breathe freer, he at length found the bottom of his soup dish. Mr. W. inquired of the customer whether he didn't want more ? Ho replied negative ly, and, on paying his nicbcl, inquired of Mr. Warner: “How in the world do you manage to make soup so cheap?” “Why,” said Mr. Warner, “iu the spring we buy about a hundred clams—put them into a hogshead of water, and by occasionally throwing in a few crackers, and sufficient pepper and salt, and in a few weeks have the soup ready for use, and keep it the whole year round." “Well, now, ain’t that fust rate ? What do ask for the receipt ?" “For a county right I ask SSO; S3O for a towmship, and $3 tier a family right." “That’ll ju9t suit, us, for we don't get clams whar I live, more than once a year. The next time I come down, I gue-s I’ll buy a family right. I'm desperately fond of clam soup myself.” SAVANNAH THEATRE. This establishment will be opened to the public, after undergoing a thorough Renovation and Improvement, ON SATURDAY EVN’G NEXT. We have secured a Fnll COMPANY OF ARTISTS, Selected from all the available Talent or the Country, A celebrated Scenic Artist Sig. F. ARRIGONI, Has been employed sometime in restoring and painting Wow Soenery For all the New Sensation Dramas THE FIRST CLASS STARS Will ail sppear during the Season. RAYMOND A HAMILTON, sep24tf Leasees and Managers. HEADQ RS DIST. OF SAVANNAH,) Ist Division Dep tof Georgia, v Savannah, Ga., Sept,.2s, 1865.) General Orders, ! No. 30. > In compliance with General Order No. 29, —— from these Headquarters, I hereby r.ssume command of the District of-Savan nah, Ist Division Department of Georgia. Brevet Major \V- A. Coulter, Assistant Adjutant General, U. S. V., is hereby re lieved trom duty in compliance with orders from Itisjoi General Commanding Depart ment Georgia, and will accompany Brevet Major Gen ,T. M. Brannan. Wm. 11. Folk, Ist Lieut, and Adjutant 173d N. Y. Vole., is hereby announced as A. A. A. G. of the District of Savannah, Ist Divirion Department of Georgia, to whom all reports and returns required by existing orders and regulations will be made. EDWIN P. DAVIS, sep26-2 Brevet Brig. Gen. Cornd’g. Wm. H. Burroughs & Cos. Forwarding ani> commission merchants. No. 9? Bay street, Savannah. Ga. For the sale of Cotton anl other Produce, Lirtnber, Timber, Plan tatlons nnd all kinds ot Real hstate. We now offer several ]<icc Plnntatlos* near the city, a number of Cotton aud Provision Plantations, Timber lands. City Property, and a few lota in the Mineral or Northwest ern part of the State. §ep2G-lm ADAMS’ EXPRESS COMFY Great Eastern Western & Sonttiern EXPRESS FORWARDERS, SAVANNAH, GA. f TUB Adams’ Expat Company are now prepared to receive ortl forward freight and monies to iioctortown. Thomiaville and ah way stations Al»o, w^Mh I tr ( s orßal,road ' ‘ ud to •» sepae-lw s. p. Tn.TOON, Agent. rt* .UM^UTIaRME.VIs. Union Candidates FOR THE STATE CONVENTION Regular Citizens’ Unconditional UNION TICKET ! Nominated in Open FuHie M *tin E j n the ottv Sirifioab, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1885. A. W STONE, ESH DR. F. V, CLARK. L. S. BENNETT, ESq. _*ep2T 10 Augusta Pilots Wanted! NONE BUT THOROUGHLY COMPE TENT MEN NEED APPLY CHAS. t. COLBY A CO. ""P 27 ts cor. Bay and Abercnnl st* MACKEREL. HERRING i BACON C KITS No. I MACKEREL. itj 60 boxes Herring*. 6 hhda Sides. 6 hhds Shoulders 40 boxes Russ’ Assorted Liquors For sale low to close consignment eep2T-4 CRANE, JOHNSON & GRAYBILL A private school MISS THOMPSON will resume the duties of h„. School on MONDAY, 2d October, at her aence, south side Jones street, one door west of Bali 9treet - ; sepST-3 FOR SALE, FARM of 227 seres is Lowndes county, Ga„ with J7 r op * end Out It, ready for pianttuv. Hm£»r*4t *d Tare COunty ’ Bnit!lW « h*rTurpentine, wood * CreS Chatham county, suitable sor K ett!u £ Apply for etjht days to , _ L. C. TEBEAU, 21 " 1 150 South Broad street. NOTICE. THE Steamer Helen, from Augusta, la cow die chargtugher cargo at Monxfn's Wharf -Con signees are notified to remove their coneivnmpnts this day, as the steamer wilt not be responsible for the same after landing them on the wharf „ , KEIN * (JO., Agents, ATLANTICiGDLFE.fi. WILL BE FINISHED ABOUT FIRST DECEMBER NEXT, 511A.R163 of its Capital Stock will bo sold at tv bargain by 27 - 3 nENRY BRYAN W*. n. Suckwood. Gao. A. Hcrao* Wi. H, SHERWOOD & f0„ Under St. Andrew’s Hall, Corner of Broughton and Jefferson Street!. MR. SHERWOOD hasjiud returned from the North where he has m ule arrangements to be con stantly supplied with a Select Stock of first class Family Groceries, Wines, Liquors, Jkc. Mr. Sherwood, the senior partner of the firm, re turns his gratefnl thanks to his nuraerom friends amt customers for their patronage to his {business, Corne tt hunker and Broughton streets, bnt wonld ree-wi fully iuform them that he has now. in connection with that establishment and that he has established himself as above, where he will be happy for a cor. ttnuance of the liberal patronage heretofore n teuded to him. se?2T-2w SWITZERLAND! THE SWISS CHEESE HAS ARRIVED. Where las it lime to? WHY, TO R. BALFOUR’S STORE, No. 161 Broughton Street. ,» C P 27 lw Notice. OUR OFFICE for the present may be found at the comer offtrnyton street and the Bay. up stairs sep27-3 F. W. SIMS <fe CO. LEGAL NOTICE* OTATE OF GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY To ait whom it may concern . V» hereas, Louis Grenrald will Apply at the Court of Ordinary for Letters of Administration on the es tate oi Paul K. Glutigny, deceased, These are, therefore, to cite and admonish ali whom it ruay concern, to be and appear before Bald Court to make objection (if any they have) on or be lore the first Monday next, otherwise said letters will be granted. Witness ray hand and official signature, this 26th day of September, lSGfi. D. A O’BYRNS, Ordinary. LEGAL NOTICE. STATE OF GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY To all whom it may concern: Whereas, Elizabeth Dillon will apply at the Court of Ordinary for Letters of Administration on the cs tate of James Carrol These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all whom it may concern, to be and appear before said Court to make objection (If any they have) on or be fore the first Monday in November next, otherwise said letters will be granted. Witness my official signature this 13th of Septem ber, 1865. r D. A O’BYRNE, Ordinary Legal Notice. STATR OF GEuKHA, CHATHAM COUNTY To ail whom it may concern • Whi reas, Andrew M Rost will apply at the Com of Ordinary for Letters ot Administration on the es tate oflsaac W. Morrell, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish aii whom it may concern, lo be and appear before said Court to make objecdon (if any they have} on or be fore the let Monday tn November next, otherwise said letters will be granted. Witness my hand and official signature this 20fn day of September, ISC3. aepVT D. A. O’BYRNE, Ordinary. HEADQ RS SUB-DIS. OF OGEECHEE,) Savannah, Ga., Sept. 27, 1865.) General Orders, I No. 32. I General Order No. 26, from these Herd quarters, is hereby modified to read as fol lows, viz.: Pursuant to General Order No. 18, Head quarters District of Savannah, Ist Division Department of Georgia, the following Taxes will be levied to defray the expenses of light ing streets, cleaning city, &c. Ist. Tax of three (3; per cent, on all incomes of six hundred (600) dollars or .up wards from Heal Estates. 2d. Tax of one (1) per cent, per annum on valuation of all Real Estate jot included in Ist section of this order. 3d. Tax of one-half (1-2) per cent, on gross sales of all Merchandise except Cotton 4th. Tax of one tenth (1-10) per cent, on gross sales ot Cotton. _sth. Tax of one (1) per cent, on all Com missions derived from any business transac don (other than 9ales 01 Merchandise) by any Factor, Auctioneer, Broker, Forwarding, Shipping or Commission Merchants. 6th. fax of one (I) per cpnl. on all in comes of one thousaud (1,000) dollars or up wards derived from Salaries, Professions, or any business transaction not Included in sec tion 3d, 4th and sth of this orde'r. 7th. Licenses for sate of Ales, Wines and Liquors, as per G. O. No, 13, C. S., from these Headquarters. Liceuse for Billiard Tables, Bowling Al leys, Theatres, &c., as per G. O. No. 46,dated Headquarters, Post of Savannah, June 15lh. 1865. Bth. All Taxes called for by this order will be paid to the Tax Collector prior to tb'e ista of each month tor the month preceding. Any person neglecting to comply with the provi sions of this order will be subject to a fine. By command of Brv’t. Brig. Gen. E. P. DAVIS Wu. H. Folk. Ist Lieut, and A. A A. G. sep27 6