Newspaper Page Text
■vannah Daily Herald
'JmMBG *»■>
[B rCBLISHID BT
.mason a co„
SaVAHNAU, QBOBOIA.
MOKE TROOPS ORDERED MUSTERED OUT
The Secretary of War has issued an order
directing the immediate discharge of ten
colored volunteer organizations.
the proposed reoroekizetiom of tbe army-
k w
luv SthM*
T KBM
ed..
. Five Centa.
....$3 60.
$10 00.
Dollar
Fare of Ten Lines for first 1n-
*— T each subsequent one. Ad-
ihc morning, will. If desired.
EsirtcOin —^ut eytT acharge.
hinting,
, eveinoc
nrtitlyand promptly done.
telegraph
TO THE
ly H e raid.
LEGISLATURE.
Despatch to the. Savannah Herald.]
Uldoetillb, Jan- 16.—The Senate to-
uinteil Tuesday next as the day for
|>lccu>»i of Judges of the Supreme Court.
C asc y, of Columbia, introduced in the
L . a resolution declaring that Georgia
l plu ,l the issue of the war in good faith,
* j determined to observe, obey and de-
re-
Constitution and laws. Also
ting the President to withdraw the mili-
troui the State, or confine them to tbe
ucks. forts and arsenals.
[ie G senior’s
Some misapprehension seems to exist as to
the increase of the regular army proposed by
Senator Wilson. His bill provides for fifty-
eight regiments, each regiment to be com
posed of ten companies of sixty-four men m
each, or about thirty-seven thousand infan
try. The twenty cavalry and artillery regi
ments would swell it to a minimum strength
of fifty-seven thousand. Geu. Grant is un
derstood to favor the ten company regi
ments.
Various newspapers have given an impres
sion that Senator Wilson's bill for remodel
ing the regular army will produce a standing
force of ninety thousand men. According to
the terms of the bill there are less than eighty
regiments, all told, provided for, and by
company organization of sixty-four meu,
ranK and file, these regiments cannot be
more than seven hundred strong, thus giving
an army of about fifty-five thousand.
PROPOIBD DIVISION OF UTAH TERRITORY-
Mr. Ingersoll, of Illinois, whose particular
vanity is the overthrow of polygamy, intro
duced a new system of tactics, on the 12th,
with that end in view. He offered a resolu
tion which provides for parcelling out Brig
ham Young's Territory among Nevada and
adjacent States. The Committee on Territo
ries lias the resolution under consideration.
Mr. Ingersoll proposes to- hammer away at
the beastly practice until something comes
down. By putting it on high moral grounds
he has enlisted quite a number of members
with him in the crusade.
Message was read in both
FROM WASHINGTON.
cember, struck a rock near Queenstown on j tain the opinion that the Commanderiib-
tbe 21st, and arrived at Liverpool on the fol- j Chief of the rebel armies should be regarded
lowing day with thirteen feet of water in her
hold.
!•, E U I »v a S OP CONGKESS.
jfoliE SALES OF CAPTURED COT
TON TO BE MADE.
ashisgton, Jan. 15.-In the House the
Initials of the representatives elect trom
:Oiusas Were presented and referred to the
bmmittec on Reconstruction.
iTlie proposition was made, but received
]l v twelve votes, to allow tbe negroes of
District of Columbia to decide by ballot
t-iher white men should vote.
|.Mr Stevens offered a resolution instructing
: Committee on the Judiciary to consider
If expediency of so amending the Act of
...relative to the Test Oath, as to allow
Iwyers to practice their profession without
Iking said oath, on an equal footing with
other professions. The resolution was
Slopted The House then resumed the con-
eration of the negro suffrage bill.
Washington, Jan. 15.—The Secretary of
e Treasury this morning instructed the
idled Stale’s Cotton Agent to nvike no more
i es of captured cotton at present. He be-
■ves delay advantageous to tbe Goveru-
rnt, in bringing into tbe Treasury higher
Irices for the cotton than can at present be
Ihtaincd.
New York Market.
New Yore, Jau. 15.—Tbe cotton market
buoyant. Middlings, 51a52c.
Naval Stores dull.
-Gold. 139 1-2.
’OUR
FROM
DAYS LATER
THE NORTH-
By the arrival of the steamship Herman
/Kingston, from New York on Saturday we
are in possession of our Northern files to
inst., for which our thanks are due to
Purser Robt. Saussy.
From our exchanges we compile the tol-
fcowiug summary of the news :
(condition of the squthern states—the
PRESIDENT CALLED UPON FOR MORE INFOR
MATION.
A Washington letter of the 12th inst., says
Mr. Raymond stole a march upon the Presi
dent s enemies to-day very neatly. He sent
jin a resolution calling upon the President
for all information tending to throw light on
f the political condition of the States lately iu
11 rebellion, such as proclamations from Pro-
I visional Governors, election returns, reports
of government agents, and the like. The
House at first refused to receive this by
operating in technicalities, but subsequently
agreed to it, when offered by Mr. Divis. of
tbeOuondago district of New York,to whom
Raymond turned it over for presentation.—
The effect intended by Raymond is the frus
tration of a scheme tbe radicals have for
-ending a sub-reconstruction committee down
South to make a report to suit them. 1 he
President is in possession of all tbe unbiased
teotimomy neeeded in this mattter ; but the
radicals, bent on throwing every obstacle in
the way of reconstruction, refuse to re
ceive it as reliable, backed as it is by news
paper reports and the tales of commercial
travellers in tbe conquered land. Mr. ttay-
mond'.s resolution gives tbe President a caance
to produce information which will prove ex
haustive of the subject. If afterward tbe
L radicals are shamefaced enough to insist on
’ a special spy committee, the country vvill
icadily observe that the Reconstruction
1 Committee is really bent on obstruction.
PROTECTION OF LOYAL PERSONS AGAINST IMPRO
PER CIVIL SUITS AND PENALTIES IN THE LATE
LY REBELLIOUS STATES.
The following order has been issued by
General Grant :
GENERAL ORDERS—NO. 3.
War Dept. Adjutant General’s Office,!
Washington, Jan. 12, I860. )
Military division and department com
manders, whose commands embrace or are
- composed of any of tbe late rebellions States,
and who have not already done so, will at
once issue and enforce ordefa protecting from
prosecution or suits in the State or municipal
courts of such States, all officers and soldiers
of the armies of the United States, and all
persons thereto attached or in any wise
thereto belonging, subject to military author
ity, charged with offences for acts done in
their military capacity, or pursuant to orders
'from proper military authority, and to pro
tect from suit or prosecution all loyal citizens
or persons charged with offences done against
the rebel forces, directly or indirectly, during
the existence of the rebellion, and all persons,
tiieir agents or employees, charged with the
occupancy of abandoned lands or planta
tions, or the -possession or custody of any
kind of property whatever, who occupied,
used, possessed or controlled the same,
pursuant ta the order of the President or
anv of the civil or military departments of
the Government, and to protect them from
anv penalties or damages that may have been
or may be pronounced or adjudged m said
courts iu any of such cases, and also pro
tecting colored persons from prosecutions in
any of said States charged with offences for
which white persons are not prosecuted or
punished in the same manner and degree.
By command of
Lieutenant General Grant.
JE P. Townsend, Assistant Adj’t- Gen.
GENERAL NEWS.
A remonstrance, signed by a large number
of ladies of Washington and Georgetown,
was presented to the President to-day
against the pardon of Richard S. Cox, a for
mer President of the la9t named city, who
served in the rebel army, and asking that, if
for public reasons, his pardon should be de
termined upon, it be conditioned on his do
nating to the ‘‘National Colored Home Asso
ciation'’ that portion of his property now
occupied by it.
It is stated in a Mobile paper of the 8th
inst., that General Thomas, commanding the
Military Division of the Tennessee, has given
official information that all the national
troops are soon to be withdiawn trom Geor
gia and Alabama, that arms and ammunition
will be furnished to tbe State militia, and
that tbe State will be promptly furnished
with provisions for destitute families.
A Galveston despatch of the 9tb inst. an
nounces that an order had just been issued
there mustering out of service twenty-two of
the white and colored regiments doing duty
in Texas. ,
A bag containing one thousand dollars in
gold, part of the recent Adams Express rob
bery, was found on Thursday near Coscob
bridge, on the New Haven Railroad.
The ice in the Mississippi river, opposite
St. Loui9, broke on Friday morning last, in
consequence or the late mild weather, aud
an immense mass of it moved down the
stream with irresistible force, doing great in
jury among the steamers and other vessels.
Tne amount of damage is estimated at over
a quarter of a million dollars.
Another War Department order for the
muster out of additional troops has been is
sued. It includes over thirty regiments and
about ten thousand men, belonging to tbe
States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas. Ken
tucky, Wisconsin. Minnesota and Maine and
the Territory of Washington.
A rumor has been prevalent at Fortress
Monroe during the pa9t few days of a plot
beiog in course of perfection there for the
liberation of Jeff. Davis. A correspondent
describes the scheme, according to reports,
to contemplate me arrival thereof the in
tended resouers singly, on board trading
vessels, so a9 to ward off suspicion. The
authorities have consequently instituted
searches of the craft in the harbor; but there
have yet been no arrests made, as no person
of a suspicions appearance has been ducov-
Cr The schooner Retribution, ashore on Hat-
teris Inlet, had four of her crew frozen to
death while hanging on tbe jigging, and two
pilots are supposed to have been washed on
and drowned. ,, „ - ,,
The Retribution vra9 tbe old tug called the
Uncle Ben, and was transfoimed early in the
war into a privateer in Wilmington, N. C.,
by the rebel authorities, it is not known
where she was from or bound to,
Mr. E. P- Brooks, correspondent or tne
New York Times, was attacked iu the office
of t he Spots wood Hotel, on Friday afternoon,
bv H. Rives Pollard, proprietor of the Rich
mond Examiner. Pollard was armed with
pistol, knife aud cowhide. Mr- Brooks was
unarmed at the time, hut succeeded in taking
the cowhide from his assailant and throwing
it away, wnen Pollard draw a knite, and the
parties were separated. .
Rumors are prevalent in Richmond that
Governor Pierpoint is about to resign, in
consequence of the defeat of his appoiutees
iu the Legislature, who were Union men.
A lot of negroes on plantations on the Red
river rose in arms a few days ago, and tried
to murder their overseers, but tailed. 1 hey
then marched to another point, where they
waited for reinforcements. The mili.ia,
however, succeeded in nabbing them all
without serious difficulty. The ring leaders
were arrested. On several plantations arms
and ammunition were found secreted in con
siderable quantities. Previously the freed-
men in that section refused to do any work.
The military and miliiia in Caddo parish are
under arms.
An extensive fire occurred at Matanzas,
Cuba, on the morning of the 5th inst., in
which eight persons lost their lives. A
steamship line from Havana to Aspinwall is
projected.
According to the official government paper
of St. Domingo, peace and order have been
completely restored in that republic.
An unsnccesslul attempt was made on
Thursday night to assassinate Senator Wade,
of Ohio, in his room in Washington, by some
unknown vlllian who took or pretended to
take offence at the Senator's refusal to sign a
paper of some kind. Mr. Wade mastered
and ejected the would-be assassin, who es
caped arrest. .. , .
James Stephens, the mysterious chief ol
the Fenian movement, has been beard from
at length. Iu a letter to John O'Mahony he
endorses the conduct of that official, appoints
him the American Representative and Finan
cial Agent of the Irish Republic, and ignores
the existence of the decernvirate of Senators,
The document puts a summary end' to the
dispute in the American branch of the
Brotherhood.
On the last trip of the steamsr Moses
Taylor, from San Francisco to San Juan, an
insane Fenian sTiot two Englishmen who
ventured to deny their having any Fenian
proclivities. -He was wounded himself, and
jumped overboard. On being rescued and
hauled on board he
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
The Cunaid steamship Scotia, from Liver
pool December 30, and Queenstown Dec. 31,
arrived at New York Friday, bringing
seven-days later news from Europe.
The resolutions introduced into the United
States Congress on the infringement of the
Monroe doctrine in Mexico, and the state
ment that the French Ambassador at Wash
ington was seeking fresh Instructions, bad
caused considerable excitement in Paris and
London, and had sent down the price ot
American securities. The London and Paris
papers were all devoting attention to the
Mexican question, and tbe London Times
predicted the speedy withdrawal of the
French troops.
Tbe speech delivered by the Queen of
Spain at the opening of the Spanish Cortes
indicated no immedifte Intention of aban
doning the position taken upon the Cbilian
question. • On the contrary the Spanish fleet
in the Pacific was about to be reinforced.
Meanwhile there were rumors of suspected
Chilian privateers off the coast of Spain.
In Ireland events of a strange character
had happened in connection with the Fenian
movement. By some means the govern
ment became impressed with a conviction
that a general rising was to take place on
Christmas day, and the most warlike precau
tions were taken to meet the emergency.
Nothing, however, occurred to justify the
fears of the authorities.
Advices from South America, received by
way of Lisbon, mentioned the probability of
the Paraguayan war being brought to a
peaceful termination by the mediation of
European powers.
Troubles had arisen in Japan through tbe
Mikado, or Spiritual Emperor refusing to
carry out the arrangements of the Tycoorf,
or acting Emperor, with regard to the open
ing of tbe treaty ports, and the fleets of Eng
land, France and Holland had been put in
motion.
— , , We respectfully solicit consignments of MERCHANDIZE and PROPERTY of all
Not being persuaded ot ; kinds, for Private Sale or Auction, and invite the attention of Boyere to our stock, which
it opinion, but regard- j a a j wa j S } ar g e an( j offered at the lowest prices.
' J. R. McINTIRE.
P. H: WARD.
as constitutionally present wilh'allthe insur
gents who prosecuted hostilities and made
raids upon the northern and southern bor
ders of the loyal States. This doctrine of
constructive presence, carried out to its log
ical consequences would make all who had
been connected with the rebel armies liable
to trial in any Stale and district into which
any portion of those armies had made J.he
slightest incursion. N ' ‘
the correctness of that — ^
ing the doctrine mentioned as a doubtful con
stilutionality, I have thought it not proper to
advise you to cause criminal proceedings to
be instituted against Jefferson Davis or any
other insurgent in States or districts in which
they were not actually present during the
prosecution of hostilities. Some prom
inent rebels were personally present at
the invasion of Maryland and Penn
sylvania, but all, or nearly all of them
received military paroles upon the surrender i
of the rebel armies. While I think that those j
parties have no ultimate protection lor prose- j
cutions for high treason, I have thought that
it would be a violation of the paroles to pro
secute those persons for ■crime before the po
litical power of the Government has pro
claimed that the rebellion has been sup
pressed. It follows, from what I have said,
that 1 am of the opinion that Jefferson Davis
and others of the insurgents ought tq. be tried
in some one of the States or districts in which
they, in person, especially committed crimes
with which they may be charged. Though
active hostilities and flagrant war have not
for sometime existed between the United
States and the insurgents, peaceful relations
between the Government and the people in
the States aud di9iricts iu rebellion have not
yet been fully restored. None of the Justices
TOIK, WILLIAMS, MdHTIRE & CO.
G E N E R A E
AUCTION AND COMMISSION
152 BAY STUBS, SAVASTMTAH,
a A.
ROBERT P. YORK.
M. E. WILLIAMS.
F E R E N C E
R E
Savannah.
Brigham, Baldwin & Co. Erwin & Hardee
Gaden & Unckles Hiram Roberts
LaR«che & West W. Woodbritjgc
Hunter & Gam mi ll
j8-lm
New York.
Longatreet, Sedgwick & Co.
8. T. Knapp & Bro.
J. P. Boyle & Co.
D- H. Baldwin & Co
L. C. Norvell.
THE CASE OF JEFF. DAVIS.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM
PRESIDENT.
THE
Important to Shippers!
G-reat Reduction in Freights
—BY—
ERWIJV Sc HARDEE’S LINE
ot fast, iron, light-draft, side-wheel Summers, between
SAVANNAH AND MACON,
Via Hawkinsville and Brunawlck R R., touching reg
ularly at Doctortown and running la connection
with the Atlantic & Gnlf Railroad.
The new and elegant iron steamers CHARLES 9.
HARDEE. Capt. R. Johnson; TWO BOVS, Capt.
•° rcQ - iN , OQe °VThomas Daniels, hiving elegant accommodations
of the Supreme Court have held circuit for freight nnt , p M gengers, wilt ply regularly a.
Courts in those States and distnctssince - ~ ""
letters prom the secretary
OF WAR AND ATTORNEY
GENERAL SPEED.
The President, on the 10th, transmitted to
the Senate a message in reply to a resolution
calling upon him to inform that body upon
what charges Jefferson Davis is confined,
and why he is not brought to trial. The
President incloses reports from the Secretary
of War and the Attorney General, and atthe
same time invites the attention of the Senate
to that portion of bi9 annual message which
refers to Congress the question connected
with the holding of Circuit Courts of the
United States within the districts where their
authority has been interrupted.
LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR.
War Department, Jan. 4, 1866.
Sir—In tbe annexed Senate resolution,
passed December 21, 1865, referred to me by
you for report, I have the honor to slate:
First—That Jefferson Davis was captured
by United States troops in the State of Geor
gia, on or about the 10th day of May, 1865,
and by order of this Department has been,
and now is, confined in Fortress Monroe, to
abide such action as may be taken by the
proper authorities of the United States Gov
ernment. , . ,
Second—That he has not been arraigned
upon any indictment or formal charge, but
has been indicted for tbe crime of high trea
son by the Grand Jury of the District of
Columbia, which indictment is now pending
in tbe Supreme Court ot the District. He is
also charged with the crime ol inciting the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and with
the murder of Union prisoners of war by
starvation and other barbarous and cruel
treatment toward them.
Third—The President deeming it expe
dient that Jefferson Davis should first be put
upon his trial betore a competent court and
jury for the crime of treason, he was advised
by the law officer of the Government that
the most proper place for such trial was in
the State of Virginia. That State is within
the judicial circuit assigned to tbe Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court, who has held no
court there since the apprehension of Davis,
and who declines, for an indefinite period, to
hold aoy court there. The matters above
stated are, so far as I am informed, the rea
sons for holding Jefferson Davis in confine
ment, and why he has not been brought to
^Fourth—Beside Jefferson Davis,the follow
ing persons, who acted as officers of the
rebel government, are imprisoned, to-wit:
Clement C. Clay at Fortress Monroe, charged
amoDg other things,with treason, with com
plicity in the murder of Mr. Lincoln, and
with organizing bands of pirates, robbers and
murderers in Canada, to burn the cities and
ravage the commerce and coasts of the loyal
States on the British frontier D. L Yulee,
at Fort Pulaski, charged with treason while
bolding a ‘eat in tbe Senate ot tbe Lulled
States, and with plotting to capture the forts
and arsenals of the United States, and with
iuciting war against the Government. S. R.
Mallory, at Fort Lafayette, charged with
treason, and with organizing and setting on
foot piratical expeditions against the united
States commerce and marine on the high
seas. Other officers of the so-called Con
federate Government, arrested and imprisoned
have been released on parole to abide the
action of the Government in reference to
their prosecution and trial for alleged of
fenses on their applications for amnesty and
pardon. Among these are G. A. Trenholm,
Secretary of the Treasury; John A. Camp
bell, Assistant Secretary of War; James A.
Seddon, Secretary of War; John H. Rea
gan, Postmaster General; R. M. T. Hunter,
Senator ; Alexander H. Stephens, Vica Pre
sident; and sundry other persons of less note.
Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War.
jXJTEB TBOM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Attorney General’s Office,)
Jau. 4, 1866. |
actual hostilities ceased. When the Courts
are open and all laws can be peacefully ad-
ministered and enforced in those States whose
people rebelled agaiust the Government;
when thus peace shall have come in fact and
in law, the persons now held in mili
tary custody as prisoners of war, and who
may not have been tried and convicted for
offenses against the laws of war, should be
transferred into the custody of tbe civil au
thorities of the proper districts to be tried for
such high crimes and misdemeanors as may
be alleged against them. I think that it is
the plain duty ot the President to cause
criminal prosecutions to be instituted before
the proper tribunals, and at all proper times,
against some of those who were mainly in
strumental in inaugurating, and most con
spicuous in conducting the late hostilities. I
should regard it as a direful calamity if many
whom the’sword has spared, the law should
spare also, but I would deem it a more dire
ful calamity still, if the Executive, in per
forming bis constitutional duly ot. bringing
those persons before the bar ol justice to an
swer fgw their crimes, should violate the plain
raeanitkjj of the Constitution or infringe in the
lea9t particular the living spirit of that in
strument. I have the honor to be, most re
spectfully, Jas. Speed,
Attorney General.
above, leaving Savannah every Thursday morning at
9 o’clock; Hawkinsville every Thursday mormug at
9 o'clock. .
It is the desire of the Agents of tills line to make a
permanent connection between Macon and Savannah
and t ho landings on the Altamaha and Ocnralgse
rivers, and with this object in view they aek the sup
port of the merchants of Savannah and Macon, and
the merchants and planters along the line of the
above named rivers.
INSURANCE EFFECTED AT THE VERY LOWEST RATES.
Freight received at all times at our warehouse, foot of East Broad street.
W B DAVIDSON I B. A WILCOX, I ERWIN A HARDEE,
' ' Agent at Augusta. | Agent at Macon. | Agents at Savannah
j9 2m
SAVANNAH AND AUGUSTA,
Aud Intermediate Landings, connecting at Latter
Point with the Georgia Railroad and Points be
yond.
INSURANCE.
HOME
INSURANCE COMPANY
SAVANNAH, GrA.
CAPITAL, - - - 2,600,000
AARON WILBUR
Prealdsn:
M. A. COHEN, Secretary.
DIRECTORS!
Ahdkzw Low.
Huey Bbimuab,
John Lana,
D. H. BannwlN,
Hu by Lam nor,
Aaxon Wilbcb,
Wn, H. Stair
Jno. R. Wlt.nva,
J.SEFH LltPJiA-
J»0. W. Avduso>
OoTavcs Coat
Jno. M. Coot: i-
C2W For Insurance against L03S or Dam.vge by
Fire, apply at the
OFFICE OF THE COMPANY,
89 BAY STREET, . SAVAYXA1I, GA.
The following steamers being of exceedingly light
draft, and having ample and complete accommoda
tion for freight and paasengers, will ply regularly as
follows:
Iron steamer WILLIAM G. GIBBONS, every Sat
urday.
Iron steamer AMAZON, every ten days.
Wooden steamer LAURA, every Wednesday.
Our CaptalnB and Pilots are the oldest and most
experienced on the river, and no effort will be epared
to meet the wants of the travelling and freighting
public
THE NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Organized, 1843.
CashAssetts $3,000,000
Last Cash Return 750,000
Losses Paid 1,731,000
Total Surplus Divided 1.247,000
Amount Insured 24,349,481
All Classes of Life Policies Issued.
B. F. STEVENS, President.
J. M. Gibbeks, Secretary.
A. WILBUR,
General Agent Georgia and Florida.
IMPROVED
PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
T. F. ROWLAND,
CONTINENTAL WORKS,
Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The Evans Gift Book Stork in Philadel
phia—The following is lrom the Philadel
phia correspondence of the Round Table :
Some years ago Evans' Gift Book Store
was accepted as one of the institutions ol thi9
city, and was conducted with a great deal of
firmness. After a prosperous reign of seven
or eight years, Mr. Evans came to grief, as
tbe saying is. He had been robbed on all
sides—plundered to a vast extent. One of
his employees, his confidential clerk, built
half a street with money which,he eventually
confessed, he had abstracted from letiters
addressed to Mr. Evans, and received by
mail. Mr. Evans eould have stood this, but
tbe war obliged him to close seven ot his
branch offices in the South, by which he was
a heavy loser. .
“Mr. Evans has manfully struggled since
his business eclipse; latterly as agent for
the Florence Sewing Machines. He' has just
re-commenced his old gift book business,
advertising liberally (which was the secret
of his former success), and is likely to make
a fortune again.”
Mr. Evans advertises books at very low
prices, with a gift, worth at the least 25
cents and liable to be worth $100. Cata
logues will be furnished by addressing him-
at 628 Chesnut street, Philadelphia. •
Gen. Mercer.— Hugh W- Mercer, the ac
cused in the Savannah case, is an old regu
lar array officer, and his ancestors were ii
our army from its existence. His grand
father, Hugh Mercer, a Scotchman, who
was engaged at the famous battle of Cullo-
den, emigrated to Virginia in 1760, and was
appointed a Brigadier of the Colonial army
on the 5th of June, 1776. He was mortally
wounded on the 2d of January 1777, iu tbe
“foggy” affair which has since been various
ly known as the battle of Princeton and
Tienton.The son of this General and father of
the rebel General was Wm. Newton Mercer,
who was a regular army surgeon from 1813
to 1821. Hugh W. Mercer, the present head
of the family, was boro in Fredericksburg.
He entered West Point as a cadet from Vir
ginia in 1824, and graduated third in his
class.—Mobile Tribune.
To the President:
Sir • 1 have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt from you of a copy of tbe resolution
of the Senate ot the United States, of date
the 21st of December, 1865- In that reso
lution the Senate respectfully request to be
informed upon what chargesandforwhat
reasons Jefferson Davis is still held in con
finement, and-why he has not been put upon
his trial. When the war waa at.its crisis,
Jefferson Davis, the Commander-iu-Chief of
the army of the insurgents, was taken pri-
Boner wiih_other promiqept rebels by the
militaiy forces of the United States. It was
the duty of the rJitary so to take them.
STEAM ENGINES
MANUFACTURED BY
RIVER STEAMBOAT
For Sale.
STEAMER PLATO
The undersigned are Agents for the above, and
keep on hand, and can order at shortest notice, En
gines of any power desired. Apply to
jUlm
E. V. WADE * CO.
Printer’s Ink.
THE SUBSCRIBERS ARE AGENTS FOR THE
SALE OF
JOHNSON'S CELEBRATED
News, Book and Card
INKS.
ALSO,
^Printer’s V arnisli*
Is now offered at private sale. She is UO feet
long and 36 feet wide, over all. Her engine is 39 2-100
inches cylinder and 6 feet stroke.
SHE HAS JUST BEEN
Thoroughly Rebuilt
UNITED STATES MACHINE SHOP AT SAINT
HELENA,
jn
Sold at Manufacturer’s Prices.'S*
COOPER, OLCOTTS & FARRELLV.
New York Piano Fortes.
Ernest Gabler,
Manufacturer of <
New Scale First-Clase
PIANO FORTES,
Factory, 122,124 & 126 East 224 St..
ESPECTFULLY announces that hie Lai
R
New
Factory ienow completed, folly organized, and m
successful operation, by meaDS ofwhich he
Increased his manufacturing facilities. He will Uio^
fore be aide hencetorward to turn out 36 Hanos per
week, to supply orders promptly, without that mcon
venient delay to which Dealers and Purchasers have
been subiected, from the fact that lor more than two
years past.he has been continually a hundred instru
ment* behind orders. A full assortment at all
may be found at his Manufactory »°d Wararooma in
New York City. Every Instrument fully warranted.
Retail Warerooms. 743 Broadway.
Brown’s Standard Scales.
SED by the United State* and Foreign Govern
'.m Ixx Perfect Order.
Application for purchase must be made to
je-tr
Oot. C. R. BRAYTON,
Postmaster at Hilton Head, 3. C.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
Direct ImDortatfon from Londo
and Paris.
J II8T RECEIVED, a large and varied assortment of
large
U Imported Wares and Fancy Articl
the coining reason, embracing In part
Articles, suitable for
Statuettes—Bronze, Beeqneand Pariar
Toilet Setts
Clocks
Perfumery
Ladles’Traveling Bage
French Parasols
Portemonnaies
Milliners’ Fancy Wares
Osier Baskets
And an endless variety ot
Fancy Goods,
ordered for this market and jnst received by ship
Comity of Plcton, and other vessels now arriving.
Fancy Goods by the riglnal papkage, to which the
attention of Milliners and othsrs is Invited.
U ! , . t
ments for more than
thirty years.
AdaDted to any branch of business for foreign or
home markets. Warranted accurate and durable.
Sales rooms No. 3 Barclay-sL, near Broadway. N. Y.
septa ly R. BROWN. Manufacturer.
C.V. HUTCHINS,
CRAIN AND COMMISSION
merchant,
155 Bay Street, Savannah.
AY CORN, OATS, MEAL, SEED, GRAIV, BRAN,
- «♦ insofgt mar tof
]15-lm
at^Acf,’ Tn quantities to suit, at lowest market
rates. '
ESTABLISHED 1826.
,WM.H. LEE
WABE BOOMS
199 Mia Street,
Between Broadway A Greenwich Street. oct27-3m
Religious Notice.
IVew'iS re^yTf^nVMeth^tCi.ut,.,,
| e ^hTm°aVdfe^
are requested to meet
the i7Ui inst., at l*o’clock M, to select tneir pews.
jl#-2
HORSE.'BUGGY AND HARNESS
For Sale,
Either together or separately. The Horse will be
eight years old next Bpring; weighs about 1,060; Is
a good draft or carriage horse.
The Buggy is a light, open one, and silver-plated
Buggy Harness.
Can be seen at Mr. Feeley’s stable, adjoining the
Pulaski House. jl6-3*
COME ONE! MIE ALL!!
And examine the splendid assortment or
BOOTS AND SHOES,
of all styles, sewed and pegged, just received from
tne manufacturers, as follows : . „ ,
Ladies’ Calf Morocco, Lasting and Polish Boots,
COntfteas Gaiters and Balmorals.
Gentlemen’* Boots and Shoes of all descriptions
Youthb*. Misses’ and Children's Slioes, in great va
riety, at the
Wholesale and Retail Boot
1 Shoe Depot,
No, 152 CONGRESS STREET.
and
COPARTNERSHIP.
wonld have been in- me uuq ui — , ,,
stantlv Tvnched had not some of the passen- They have been hereuitore and are yet he d
gers interfered and held him over to be dealt as prisoners of war. Though active bostili
lftW.
with according to the law. _
Accounts of extensive murine 1 disasters in
foreign waters, attended with loss of life, are
furnished. The ahip Casilda, frpmLiverpooJ
for Boston, was burned at sea in the early
part of December. Her passengers and
crew were rescued. Tbe steamer Bory9-
thene, of the French India mail steam line,
running up the Mediterranean -from Mar
seilles, struck on a rock on the night ol tne
15th of December, and with her” cargo. be-
came, it was supposed, a total loss. Thirty
or forty of her passengers were washed over
board and drowned. The steamship Fenn-
-Sylvania, form New York on the 16th of De-
ties have ceared, a state of war still exiat.
over thMerritory in rebeffioa Until peace
■ball come in tact and in law they can right-
treason cannot be had before a military -
bunal. The civil courts have alone jurisatc-
ion of that crime. The question then arises,
where and when must the trials thereot oe
held- In that danse of the Constitution
mentioned in the resolution of the Senate, it
is plainly written that they must be held in
the State and district “wherein the crime
shall have been • committed.” I know that
many persons of learning and ability enter-
Singer Sewing Machines.
FINDINGS AND TOOLS AT THE LOWESTXASH
jt6-6 PRICES.
W. W. LINCOLN,
Corner Congress and Bnll streets,
Monument Square.
COLUMBIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPA
NY, OF NEW YORK.
Cash Capital $600,000
TIMOTHYG. CHURCHILL, Prest
John D. Arthur, Secretary.
Fredsric B. Eluott, Supt. of Agencies
A. WILBUR,
General Agent South
FULTON FIRE INSURANCE COMPAN Y
OF NEW YORK.
Cash Capital..... $200,000
WM. A. COBB, Pret-ideut.
Jas. M. Rankin, Secretary.
A. WILBUR,
General Agent South.
COM
EXCELSIOR FIRE INSURANCE
PANY, OF NEW YORK.
Capital and Surplus $21:0,000
MARCUS F. DODGE, President.
Saml. M. Craft, Secretary.
A. WILBUK
General Agent South.
PUTNAM FIRE INSURANCE COMPA N Y
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
Cash Capital $500,OuO
. SAML. WOODRUFF, Prerident.
Daniel Buck, Secretary.
A. WILBUK,
General Agent Sout h.
SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MAPiN
SURANCE COMPANY, SPRiISG
FIELD, MASS.
Cash Capital $30-
EDMUND FREEMAN, Preside
Wm. Connar, Jr., Secretary.
A. WILBUR,
General Agent Sou
WASHINGTON FIRE INSURANCE (
PANY, OF BALTIMORE, MD.
Capital $50
THOS. Y. CAWBY, Preside
F. J. McGINNIS, Secretary.
A WILBUR,
General Agent Sot
>M
INSURANC
Authorized Capital, $10,400 n
C HARLES L.. COLBY 4 CO. are prepared
Marine Risks to any domestic or foi
Marine Risks to any domestic or foreigi.
and Fire Risks in this city In the following
first data Hew York Companies,
A AT THE LOWEST RATES.
u
MARINE INSURANCE
,000
COLUMBIAN
COMPANY $6
MORRIS FIRE AND INLAND INSUR
ANCE COMPANY 6
COMMEKC FIRE INSURANCE COMFY,.
STANDARD FIRE INSURANCE COMFY
Office in Jones’ Block, comer Bay and At’
streets; Branch Office, corner of Drayton am
streets. dl: tf
THE EYE, EAR, AND THROAT.
D R. WRIGHT, of. Toronto, Canada West, Physi
cian and Surgeon, Oculist and Aurist, can be
consulted on Deafness, Discharges from the Ear,
uolsej in the Head, Catarrh, Diseases of the Throat
aud Lungs.
All diseases of the EYE, requiring eithelr Medical
or Surgical aid attended to.
Office No. 41, In Dr. Thos. Bucklers old office on
Lexington street, Baltimore, Md.
Office hours from 9 to 12 A. M., and 3to 6 P. M.
j#-tf
AT PRIVATE SALE.
mHE west half of Brick Tenement situated on Holt
A street, first door east of Barnard. . The house Is
well supplied with gas and water, and contains
seven rooms, exclusive of a spacious basement. The
out-buildings are all of bdek, and consist of carriage
house, stable, and well finished servant rooms.
Terms—One-half cash, balance payable at the ex
piration of five years, with bond and mortgage ; in
terest annually. Apply to L. C. Harby, on the pre
mises. jio-tl
A.
MINIS,
Commission Merchant
Auction i
No. S STODDARD’S WESTERN RANGE,
WILL Q1YB ATHNTIOH TO
ISTEW YORK
FIRE AND MARI
Insurance Agency.
SECURITY INSURACE COMPANY
Capital and Surplus $1,
PHCENIX INSURANCE CO.
Capital and Surplus $1, W,W
INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE CO
Capital and Surplus $1. 0 ’
MANHATTAN INSURANCE CO-
Cr.pital and Surplus $
Sales of Merchandise and Underwriters' Sales;
Purchase and Sale of Stocks, Bonds and
other securities; also Real Estate,
At Private or Publie Sale.
jlO-lm
To Mechanics.
>ROPOSALS will be received for the repair of the
ed have entered Into copartnerjhlp, OROPOSALS will be received for the repair oi uie
friendsInLIverpool,
jlfr6 ALLAN FULLARTON,
Applications i .
Chalrtnan Dock and Wharf Committee.
JOHN WILLIAMSON.
Office United States Direct Tax
Comrnjssionr
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. i
Savaimuj*. J ml
Principal Office tor the State of Georgia.
US uMfillll STREET,
H. D. HAWLEY, General Agent.
A large assortment tor Md. at New York prices.
Sewing Mr h< "- 01 * U B “ U
nil
notice.
antt hing neatly done.
riven that the Tax Ball, tor
Mess Pork, Adamantine Can
dles and Whiskey.
F IR sale by
j9
A. MINIS,
No. 3, Stoddard’s Western Range.
LIME!
FOR SALE iN ANY QUANTITY,
ji2-e
p . W. SIMS * CO.,
ENGLISH DilKV CHE
Risks taken In the above highly responai
panics on buildings and merchandise of ai
tiODg, at the lowest rates corresponding
risks. Apply to A. A. LANE, Age.i,
n9-3m No. 15 Stoddard' 5 Range- B«
Rational Marine and F ire
insurance comm
OF 'NEW ORLEANS
capital.,.
.S560.0CO
50
wqtwh for sale on consignment
Tr reareotaM In ooW touiUjr* lots, lands and improve-
ments onfside the city of Savannah, or real- eotate
tamedfartaxaHwrta s^«™tyta««Mjuy gey
tbe taxes due thfd-e<mwithluMxty («)days ftomt^
date, at our office, north-west comer South Broad
■mi Lincoln streets. Savannah.
T. P. ROBB,
a A FANOOAST,
J. O. BATES,
£
ju
RRIGHAM/BALDWIN a CO.
WHITE PIKE LUMBER,
DOORS AND BLINDS,
jie-tf
}ll-lw
LiROCHE A JOHNSON'S,
290 Bay street
The undersigned begs leave to Inform '
public that he has been legally
the above named Company, “6 is ready
rice, River and Fire Risks at customary «
q. C. MYERS
Office over Hunter* Gammcll, 841
References—Octavus Cohen, Huntef .
Erwin * Hardee.
»]
11
i t
H
ins'-aa*- -r:--
ataSr--