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Supplement tu ®he jailp Jerald.
The Savannah Daily Herald
Difficulties between Spain and Chili.
The steamship Ocean Queen arrived at
ITew York on Friday trom Aspinwall on the
31st October, brings important news from
the West Coast of Soul k America:
The difficulties between the republic of
Chile and Spain, which for a Considerable
time have worn a threatening aspect, have
at last culminated in a positive refusal by the
former of the demands of the latter and a
declaration ol war. These demands grew
out of the late hostilities between Spain and
Peru, during the continuance ot w hich sup
plies were refused the Spanish war vessels
j n Chilean ports. For the losses and incon
veniences thus suffered, the Spanish govern
ment demanded indemnity of Peru, and au
thorized Admiral Pareja, commauder of its
naval squadron in the Pacific, to act, if ne
cessary, in the double capacity of minister
and warrior—to negotiate sot reparation,and,
if not successful iu that manner, to seek it
at the sword's point and cannon's mouth.—
The civil portion of his mission was a com
plete failure, owing to the peremptory and
indignant refusal of the Chilean government
U> accede to his demands, which were made
in an insulting and threatening manner, and
therefore, on the 24th of September, be as
sumed the beligerent portion of bis mission,
and instituted a blockade of the coast of
Chile. Immediately afterwards the Chilean
Congress declared war against Spain, author
ized a loan of twenty millions ot dollars, and
granted the President, unlimited power to
raise troops and increase the navy. Up to
the date of latest accounts no collisions be
tween the hostile forces had occurred; but
Admiral Pareja kept up his blockade, and
threatened to bombard the city of Valparai
so, and the Chileans were arming. The
Spanish squadron, however, is emirely une
qual to an efficient blockade, and even from
Valparaiso two well armed Chilean war ves
sels, ou an undivulged expedition, succeeded
in getting to sea through it. Thu foreign
Ministers had held meetings and protested
against the action of Pareja.
Peru is, meaqtinie, convulsed with a civil
war. The revolutionists and the government
forces appear to be about equally matched.
Council of the Kpio-opal Church.
The Augusta Constitutionalist of the Bth
inst., says of the important Church Council
now sitting in that city :
This body, composed of the Bishops, cler
ical and lay deputies trom several Southern
dioceses, meets iu St. Paul's Chutch this
morning at 10 o'clock a. m.
The action ot the Convention recently con
vened in Philadelphia was so conservative
and conciliatory to the branch of the Church
South that it is believed the unity of the
church, North and South, will be accom
plished.
The effort of some members of the Phla
delpbia Convention to introduce matters of a
purely political character into the delibera
tions of that body, was voted down by an
overwhelming majority. The radical lay
members and their loyal resolutions, insult
ing alike to the dignity of a Christian body
aud the feelings ot Southern deputies were
discountenanced, and everything was done
to bring about a reunion of the Church.
In this Connection we publish this morning
an article from the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, an ultra radical sheet, which
speaks of the influence of that distinguished
prelate, Bishop Elliot, and the part which
he took in the deliberations ot that body.
Makriaoks op Consanguinity. —Toe Ar
chives de la Medicine Naval of Prance, con
tain a scrap of curious information respect
ing marriages of consanguinity in the black
race :
In 1849 there died at Wldah, in the King
dom of Dahomey, a Portuguese trader nam
ed Da Souza, well known to ail navigators
who have visited the Western Coast ot Atti
ca. He was an important personage in the
country which lie had inhabited many year.,
and had made an immense fortune by tra
ding with the negroes. Ou his death ne left
behind him a number of children, the issue
ot the four hundred women kept in his ha
rem. ’ The political policy of the kings of
Dahomey being hostile to the establishment
of a mixed race, the numerous progeny of
Da Souza were shut up in an enclosure by
themselves under the government of one of
the sons. Here, subjected to the surveil
lance of the agents of the king,—the most
despotic of all the monarchs of the earth,—
these metis (people of mixed blood) could
unite in marriage only among themselves
in other words, they lived in the most shame
less promiscuity.
In 1803 they counted the children of the
third generation. The color of their skins
wa* returning rapidly to deep black, though
all qj'them preserved some traits ot their Eu
ropean ancester. Among all the descen
dants of Da Souza, —we are able to state
this from personal observation,—forming
among themselves unions at once the closest
in relationship and the most monstrous,
there are neither deaf mutes nor blind, nor
cr 'ins, (idiots,) nor feeble or deformed lroiu
birth.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1865.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT OP THE
PRESIDENT’S POI.ICY.
Presentation of the Proceeding. of the
North Carolina Couventioa tolhc Presi
dent.
On the 10th inst., members of the late
North Carolina Convention and other gen
tlemen of that State visited the President,
when Hon. Mr. Reid, on behalf of the Con
vention, over which he had the honor to pre
side, presented for his favorable considera
tion certain of its proceedings, saying,
among other tilings, that the first act of the
Convention was to declare her uninterrupted
connection with the Union, and that the or
dinance of May, 18G1, by which she was at
tempted to be severed, was null and void.—
This was done by a vote very nearly ap
proaching unanimity, and thus the first issue
in the late war was yielded. The next thing
done was to prohibit slavery, and this was
by a unanimous vote; and a committee of
able lawyers was provided to prepare whole
some laws for the consideration of the Legis
lature; and thus the second issue in the late
war was yielded. The Convention having
yielded what was involved in the war. and
being of the opinion that the State was, aud
always had been, in the Union, and that her
relations hud only been disturbed and not
destroyed, respectfully asks the President to
declare, on the part of the authorities ot the
United States, as the State has done on her
pari, that her governmental relations have
been reconciled. The Convention instructed
the Legislature to provide for the payment
of the debts o£ the State; declared all debts
contracted in aid of the rebellion to be ille
gal, and prohibited the payment of the same.
Mr. Reid continued:
We have heard that, notwithstanding the
State might yield, and as she understands it
has yielded, all that was involved in the war'
aod notwithstanding our people were sub
missive, well disposed aud anxious tor fra
ternal relations, her delegation in Congress
would not he admitted unless they had quali
, fications not prescribed by the constitution ;
that they would be required to take an oatli
w’hich few meu in the Slate can take, affirm
ing, not merely that they are right now, but
that they have never been wrong. The ex
clusion ofher delegation upon any such test
as is suggested would be felt by our people
universally as such a deep wrong that it
would put their strong devotion to the gov
ernment and their lively hope of perfect re
conciliation to the severest trial. They can
understand the bitterness of strife aud the
aversion to treason ; but they will be con
founded at the repulsion of offered friendship
and avowed loyalty. The Convention, there
fore, respectfully asks Cougress to repeal the
test oath. I have thought it respectful, both
to you and to Congress, that this request
should pass through your hands, with the
hope that your Excellency’s magnanimity
would add to it some reflection which would
avail that body.
After further remarks by Mr. Reid, in
which be spoke of the confidence reposed in
him by North Carolina, the President res
ponded as follows :
Hon. Mr. Reid ; —I receive from you, with
pleasure, a copy of the proceedings of the
Convention of North Carolina. 1 reciprocate
cordially tlie conciliatory spirit iu which you
have addressed me. The Convention ol
North Carolina has done much and well
towards restoring that State to her proper
national relations ; but something yet re
mains to be done to reoder that restoration
immediately practicable. An acceptation of
the Congressional amendment abolishing
slavery throughout the United States by the
Legislature of the State of North Carolina is,
in my judgment, practically important to the
successful restoration which is so much de
sired by all. Without answering specifically
the questions you have proposed to me, it
will be sufficient to say that my action must
depend upon events, aud that Mr. Holden
will be again instructed to continue the ex
ercise of bis fuuclions as Provisional Gov
ernor until he shall have been expressly re
lieved by orders to that effect.
Mr. Grant, a blacksmith in Halton, Cana
da. has lately beeu the victim of an unlucky
joke. His name is the same as that of the
American General, and about seven mouths
ago, when that soldier was pounding at
Richmond, he made some jocular remarks
aDout goiug to Washington. His creditors
hearing of it, prepared an affidavit that he
intended to “skedaddle,” and put him in jail,
from whence he has only just emerged.
Cooper Institute is self-supporting, the in
come for rents being about $25,000. The
gallery contains 400 pictures, the library 4,-
000 volumes, and the reading room 160
newspapers, besides periodicals. The School
of Design, a leading feature in the institu
tion, numbers at present about 200 pupils.
The scientific department is supplied with
valuable philosophical and chemical appa
ratus. The night sebool, which opened
Oct. 2d with about 1,500 pupils, is a very in
teresting and admirable feature.
—The Steamship Ocean Queen, which ar
rived at New York on Friday last, from As
pinwall brought a million aud a quarter in
specie.
Dancing*, Dancing.
MR. H. G. Ward would inform hi* friend* that the
Second Swaion of his Dancing School for Young
Men will begin ou Monday Evening, the 2»>th instant.
Those wishiugto avail tbemselve* of the opportunity
thu* offered to acquire the art will leave their limned
at Van Newton A Ward'* tJroceiv. No. 1 -3 Broughtoq
street, or at the St. Andrew's Hall, on Monday Eve
ning. The Afternoon Class tor Young Ladle* and
Children meets on Tuesday aud Thursday AUeruoops,
at3.V, o’clock. lw nl3
NOTICE.
I3ICKFD UP, floating in the SUvannah River on the
. 7tli day of April. I$G5. a Flat Boat, 42 feet 0 inct.es
in length, 13 feet beam. 3 feet 6 inches deep, and not
painted. Negroes on nearly every plantation on the
Savannah river claim the above Flat. Notice is here
by given to the legal owner to come forward, prove
property, pay expenses or said Flat will be sold. For
further particulars apply to the watchman at Fig
Island Mill. P. W. SEARS.
Dl4-10
Notice.
\ LL persons having dexn.oids against the estate of
-ia. Edward G. Wilson, deceased, of Chatham county,
are respecttully requested to hand them in properly au
thenticated; and all persons indebted to said estate
•are requested to make immediate payment to
ANAIS WILSON,
nl4 Administratrix.
AGENCY.
[.AHUE Paper Collar Manufactory is desirous
Opening an Agency,
IN SAVANNAH, GA.
To a first class Wholesale House, with large con
nections. who could command a large trade, liberal
arrangements will be made.
The Collar is of the very first class, with a space for
the Cravat.
Address Box 2163, Boston Post Office.
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A CARD.
PlasteriiiE, Repairing anil Wliitewasbins
THE Subscriber respectfully announces to his friends
and the public that he has returned to Savannah,
where he will resume the business conducted by him
during the past twenty years. He is prepared to do
Plastering, Repairing, Whitewashing. &c„ in a man
ner to give safcWaction, and respectfully solicits the
orders of his old friends and patrons.
nl4-lm ISAAC BRUNNER.
The Fisheries.
FOR SALE—Englich and Spanish Cast Nets, Cast
Net Lends, Thimbles, Hand and Lead Lines,
Fish Lines, Cotton and Hemp Seine Twine, Cotton
and Hemp Seine*, Flax Gilling Twine for mullets
and shad. Tikes. Turtle Nets, Quail Nets. Minnow
Seines and Dip Ni ts, Cork and Cedar Floats, Right
and Left-laid Net and Seine Rope.
Every kind of Net and Seine made to order.
American Net and Twine Cos.,
43 COMMERCIAL STREET, BOSTON.
nS-10
COMSTOCK & KIIEYr
MACHINERY DEPOT,
Oice Ho. 154 Bay Street.Sayannah Ga,
WE keep on hand and furnish to order at Manu
facturers' Prices, Engine,Foot and Hand Lathes,
Planes, Drills. Chucks. Bolt < utters, Geai Cutters.
Wood & Mann “Portable Engines,” Hoisting En
gines, Wood Working Machinery of every description,
Stationery Steam Engines and Boiler.-. Cotton Gins
and Pres*»*s. Saw Mills, Rice Mills, Grist Mills, Circu
lar and Mill Saws, Rubber and Leather Belting and
Hose. Glaring, shafting. Hangers and Pulliea, Hy
draulic Jacks and Punches, Pumps of all .kinds. All
kinds of Wood and Iron Working Machinery and
supplies.
Agents tor the West Point Foundry, E. A. Wood’s
Steam Guage and Boiler Feeders.
C3T- SEND FOR A CIRCULAR.
COMSTOCK & KINSEY,
No. 104 Bay street,
oct4-Tu,Th&S2m Savannah, Ga.
KEROSENE WARE,
Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets, ITarp Hangers, Side
Backs, Side Lamps, with and withont Reflectors; Fan
cy Hall Lamps, Lanterns, Bases, Pegs and Fonnts-
Fatent Glass Cones, Burners, Globes, Chimnies and
Wick, DRUGGISTS’ FLINT 4 GREEN GLASS, Crock
ery Dealers’ anil Confectioners’GLASSWAßE. Goods
of all kinds made to order. KEROSENE OIL.
JAMES T. WRIGHT,
225 Greenwich Street, Two doors below Barclay, N. Y
novl-|m
away with spectacles.
OLD Eyes made New, without Spectacles, Doctor
or Medicine. Pamphlet mailed free on receipt
of ten cents. Address E. B. Foote, M. D„ No. 1130
Broadway, New York. n9-2w
Architecture aud Engineering.
MULLER & BRUYN, Architects and Engineer*,
are now prepared to furnish Dr..wing9. {Specifica
tions and Estimates for Buildings. Also for ail kinds
of Machinery, such ns Saw Mills and other Mills, Facto
ries, Ac., and to superintend the building of the name.
Surveying done in all its branches. Levelling. Ac.
Office in Sorrel's Building, corner ol Bull ana Day sts,
second floor.
M. P. MULLER,
Civil aud Mechanical Engineer.
Da WITT BRUYN,
uov4-lm Architect.
HOTELS.
Port Royal House,
lIILTON II RAI), S. C.
RIDDELL A KL6 O , Pbopr ietOis
E. S. RIDDELL. M. P. HUGO-
Ju3-tf
SEA ISLAND HOTEL
HILTON HEAD, S. C.,
NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
BUCKLY & BANCROFT, Proprietors.
Kmv.tui TANARUS„ Jones, Agent. ts oetlO
HEWITT’S
GLOBE HOTEL,
Augusta, Gra.
fIYIIE OLD GLOBE HOTEL, corner Broad and Jafk
-*■ son streets, having patted into the ham is ol W.
C. Hewitt, late of the “ Hewitt Hiuse,*’Va., has been
thoroughly renovated, and is uow open for the recep
tion oi visitor* to the city. He will be most happy
to see his old friends and the travelling public gen
erally at the Glohr, where they will receive every at
tention and meet with the very he*t accommod.ition
the Southeru country can affonl.
W. C. HEWITT, Proprietor.
Col. G. H. Jones. Clerk. i»8-lm
R. MOLINA,
Corner Bull and Congress Streets, under
Srreven House,
IMPORTER and Wholesale Dealer In Havana Se
gura, Leaf and Smoking Tobacco. Alm>, all kinds
of Virginia Chewing and Smoking Tobacco. Mcr
sebaum. Brier Root, and all other kinds ot Fancy
Pities. sep3(V3m
State and County Tax Col
lector.
THE Subscriber is a Candidate for re-election, and
respectfully asks the suffrage of the citteens of
Chat h im County.
obtito SEABORN OOODALL.
LINVILE & GLEASON.
SAVANNAH.
A&EIWTB FOR
MERRITT, WALCOTT & CO.,
64 Courtlandt Street, New York.
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF
BOLTS, NUTS AND WASHERS
Bridge, Car, Ship cr Band Hook,»
AND
BOILER BOLT ,
SETT SCREWS, COACH OR LAC SCREWS.
Hot and Cold Pressed Nuts,
ROUND AND BQUARE WASHERS,
Tumbnokles, Bolt Ends, Taps
and. Dies. &o.
ALSO DEALERS IN
RAILROAD SUPPLIES.
LOCOMOTIVES, CARS, HAILS, CHAIRS,
SPIKES,TIKES, AXLES; CAR TRIM
MINGS of every description, and
every article used in constructing
or operating Railroads.
STEAMSHIP SUPPLIES.
ENGUVEERS’ STORKS.
COAL OIL. TALLOW, WASTE FELTING, BEMP,
AND RUBBER PACKING; LAMPS, PAINTS,
VARNISH, Ao.; ENGINEERS’ TOOLS,
of every description; CHIPPING
AND RIVETING HAMMERS,
SCREW PUNCHES,FILES,
CHISELS, Ac,
TELEGRAPH MATERIALS.
WIRE, INSULATORS, BATTERIES, IN
STRUMENTS, ACIDS, SULPHATE
COPPER, &c.
Also Manufacturers of the
BEST OAK TANNED BELTING.
MACHINERY. LATHS. PLANERS,
DRILLS. PUNCHES AND SHEARS,
STEAM ENGINES, STATION
ARY AND PORTABLE
SAW MILLS,
SAWS,«fcc.
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