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t Wi |L i if I I ■; I 1 11 ® si-1 m it; 1 •U' I B ’if Wi: if as M m I fg£. & 0tuwg pm. J. H. EST1LL, Proprietor. W. T. THOMPSON. Editor. Largest Circulation In City and Country. TUESDAY, SOVEMBER 10, 1868. NOT ALTOGETHER DISAPPOINTED. We confess that we were somewhat disap pointed by the result of the late election, es pecially in the States of Pennsylvania and Indiana. We could not believe that a ma jority of the people of those. States were so thoroughly indoctrinated with Massachusetts fanaticism and malignity as to be utterly deaf to reason, blind to their own interests, re. creant to the principles of Democratic repub lican government, and insensible to the promptings of : every generous and magnani mous sentiment. We knew that they loved the South less, but we believed they loved the Constitution more, and we hoped that in choosing between continued wrong, outrage and oppression of the Southern people and the preservation of Constitutional Bepublican government, they would stand by the latter even at the price of forbearance towards the former. The result did not realize our hopes or our expectations—if that will suit our friend of the Bainfaridge Argus better—and we own that we were sadly disappointed. But if we recollect rightly we predicted the success of Beast Buttes—that he would defeat Dana or any other decent, respectable man, of his own or any other party, who might oppose him. We based our calculation upon the fitness of things—the character of the man and the principles, of the people. We felt assured that there was but one individual of whom there is any record, sacred or profane, who in all his characteristics and attributes is as well qualified to represent the Radicals of Massachusetts in Congress, or in any other deliberative body, as Beast Buttes, and as that Beast is too much employed in looking after the morals of the people generally in that region, and was not a candidate for Con gress, we felt fully assured, as the next fitest Beast for the place, Buttes would be returned from his District. And the result has de monstrated the correctness of our judgment. The Beast has triumphed—he is re-elected, and is to be turned ■ loose for another two years to prey upon the country. The Beast ib exultant in his triumph, and will, return to Washington more arrogant, conceited, unscrupulous and vindictive than ever. On Thursday last he attended a Badi- cal jubilee in Dowell, at which he made a speech, of which a dispatch gives the follow ing synopsis: General Butler was greeted last evening by about three thousand of his fellow-citizens, to whom he made a brief speech. He had triumphed, he said, under the motto of equal ity to all men, and rights under the law, by using freedom’s great weapon, the ballot. He hailed our glorious triumph of Republi can principles throughout the land, and be lieved that it would bring peace and prosper ity. We shall not long have murder enter murder, and riot after riot. Look at New Or leans, from which we havereported 25,000 for Seymour and 276 for Grant. There was a time, as he remembered, when the people of that city behaved better (applause) and he felt confident such a time would come once more. Several Southern States have voted for Sey mour, or are in doubt, because men’s lives were threatened if they attempted to vote. When Congress meets, as it will in a short time, it will be our purpose to find a remedy for this State of things, and if Andrew John son does not second our efforts, though it may be late in the day, we will try to provide for him. (Applause.) If the Republican party is true to the great Democratic principles of Jefferson and others, it will hold the govern ment for generations to come. We must be true to the doctrines of equality, and trust in the virtue and integrity of the great mass of the people, rather than to any member select ed from amopg them. Let us pledge our selves, as a pSrty in power with a renewed- lease, that we will aid in carrying out the principles under which we have triumphed. READING FOR THE TIMES. The Richmond Whig treats its readers to a well written and pleasant five column sketch of the life and writings of Quintus Hobatius Rtaccus. The editor in an apologetic intro duction to his essay, suggests that it may af ford the reader, as the composition of it did the writer, some relief to the eternal bore of politics. ‘‘And then,” says the editor, “ Ho race is just the man for these times. He fought with Bbutus at Fhillippi, saw the hopeless -extinction of the liberties of his country, and found in a wise philosophy a cure for every care. In the midst of a mined Republic, we can better appreciate him, for we shall read him with new lights, supplied by new emotions. ’’■ The article, which should be "preserved in the pages of some of our magazines, sketches the life and associations of the poet from an early age, with incidental allusions to the po litical history of his times and the events coincident with .the extinction of Roman Re publican liberty, so like the experiences of onr own day arid generation as to suggest the thought that history is but repeating itself, and that with the American Republic as with that of Rome, like causes must inevitably produce like results. The Democrats of our day are to be envied, who, with the experiences of Hobace are blessed with his philosophy. Perhaps the prudence and resignation of his matnrer (years may be attributed .to the discipline of his early education, which taught him submission. For this wholesome- discipline, the foundation of the philosophy which sustained him in disappointment and adversity, in all probability he was indebted to his Roman teacher Obbilius, the only one of all his instructors of whom in his writings he makes any mention, and whom he charac terizes with, the epithet plagosus, from which the Whig infers: that he was of the Teddy O’Roubke order, a pedagogue of the old Regime, who believed in the saving doctrine that ‘1 the surest and most expeditions mode of stimulating the brain of. a boy, was by a counter irritant tickling Ms cataatropliy. ” Had that mode of instruction prevailed in this country, we would, perhaps, not only have had poets like I Horace, hut more scala wag philosophers. ■rm Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II. By the Author of “The Heir of Radcliffe.” New York: D. Appleton <£ Co. This is a very handsomely printed and neatlyboUnd volume of-nearly'500 pages,' designed for young people who have passed beyond the elementary histories of England, and who are prepared to cuter in some de gree into the real spirit of events. The au thor without entering into .the more minute details, has put together a series of pictures of persons and events with a view to arrest the attention and 'give individuality .and dis tinctness to the recollection of. the most mem orable epochs in English History. A copious index . renders the volume both con venient and valvable as a book^f reference. The Works of CkarlaZRctens. With Mmstrationaby George Cruikshanxs, John Tesch and H. K. Browne. New York ■. D. Appleton tt Co. This' volume being VoL ill, of Appleton’s Library Edition of the works of Charles Dickens, comprises the novels of “Dombey and Son,’ ’“The Old Curiosity Shop,” “ Hard Times,’’ and several minor stories of the great English novelist, handsomely printed with clear type on good paper and copiously illustrated. The Library will comprise the complete works of Mr. Dickens, in six vol umes, at $1775 per volume, Or $10.50 for the complete set. A Practical Introduction to Latin Composititm-for Schools and Colleges. By Albert Habeness, Ph. D., Pro fessor in Brown University. New York: D. Appleton A Co' This volume is intended to aid the classical student in acquiring a practical acquaintance with the difficult but important snbject of Latin composition. It aims to be at once simple, progressive and complete. Starting with the beginner as soon os he has learned a few grammatical lessons, it conducts him, step by step through a progressive series of lessons and exercises, until he is so far mas ter, both of the theory and the practice of the snbject, that he no longer needs the aid of a special text book. Prank Mildmay, or the Nopal Officer. By Cafx. Mar- ryatt, New York. D. Appleton <fi Co. * This is VoL IV of Appleton’s uniform edi tion of Marryattte popular novels, which will be comprised in twelve volumes at fifty cents per volnme, or $5 50 for the complete set The novels are printed with large, clear type on good paper. Quentin Darwood and Peverit of the Peak. By Walter Scott: D. Appleton A Co. These volumes belong to Appleton’s cheap uniform edition of the “Waverly Novels,” wMch will be comprised in twenty-five hand some volumes (one illustration each) printed with clear type on good paper: at twenty-five cents a volume, or $6 for the complete set, with a steel plate portrait of Sir Walter Scott—truly “a miracle of cheapness.” The above books are for sale by Coofeb, & Olcotts, Savannah. Diseases of the Womb. Uterine Catarrh frequently the cause of Sterility. New treatment by H. E. Gan- xnxorr, M. D. London, John Churchill <k Sons; Paris, Messrs. Qalignani; New York, Bailliere cC* Co; Philadelphia, Henry C. Lee; Baltimore, Kelly & Piet; Savannah, Cooper <£ OUcotts; 1868. Most of our citizens will recollect the author of the pamphlet having the above title, ■ who practiced his profession in this city several years ago, and is now engaged in an extensive practice at No. 12, Rue du Mont- Thabor, Paris. Opportune circumstances have enabled the author to present a pamphlet of no little interest to a large part of onr population, while the ingenuity, simplicity, and certainty of his peculiar and original system of treat ment will be no small recommendation to the pnrely professional reader. The work was originally written in French, but at the solicitation of many friendB has been translated by the author, who, while apologising for his Gallicisms, has managed to intersperse just enough of them to add to the grace and elegance of his language. The work is dedicated to Dr. Wm. G. Bul loch, as a testimony of the author’s kind re gard and gratitude for the many and great services received during Ms stay in Savannah. A professional friend informs us that the instrument invented by Dr. Gautillon can be found at the well known Surgical Instru ment Establishment of Robebt & Collier, (formerly Chabbiebe,) Rue de l’Ecole de Medecine, Paris. The pampMet. can be had from Messrs. Cooper & Ollcotts. “PUT A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK,” &c. The Bullock is out with a proclamation offering a reward of five thousand dollars for the apprehension and conviction of the per son or persons who caused the death of Al bert G. Ruffin, Sheriff of Richmond county. It is very proper that the civil authorities should use every exertion to discover and bring to punishment all violators of the law. But the offering of extraordinary rewards for the detection of the slayer of one of Ms own partisans, while he does not even notice the murders and other crimes perpetrated upon citizens not of Ms party, is an insult to the law and an outrage upon our people. Such ex ecutive discrimination, instead of tending to suppress violence, is indirectly encouraging and instigating crime, by giving a seeming toleration to murder upon one side and court ing resentment on the other. There have been many revolting murders of Democrats and brutal outrages upon helpless women in this State since the Bullock was installed at At lanta, and we have yet to see a proclamation from Mm offering even $1,000 reward for the detection of the perpetrators. This ostenta tious proffer of the money of the tax- payers of Georgia in the shape of rewards, as in the present case, is for the double purpose of at tracting the attention and gaining the ap plause of his Radical masters North, and of irritating and goading his opponents to des peration. It is an unworthy device of a base partizan for the promotion of selfish par- tizan purposes, and not for the purpose of punishing and preventing crime. *■ ELECTION RETURNS. Mitchell County—Seymour, 677; Grant 112. Tiie election went off qnietiy. Miller County — Seymour, 802;' Grant, none. The frees of yesterday was ahead of the country in election news. No newspaper in America published as many dispatches, and every one of them was genuine—every one came cfver’tiie wiresrthe large majority being telegraphed at great expense, specially to us. no estimates, no guesses were made. TVe gave.the news as our correspondents sent it. ■What a boast for the editor of a newspaper 1 After having 'for months' filled Ms columns with lying dispatches, manufactured for polit ical effect in his own office/FoBNEY, knowing Ms reputation for falsehood is such that even his own partizans put no faith even in his news dispatches, has the brazen effrontery to declare that his election dispatches were “ every one of them genuine, ” and: that every one of them came over the wires,?^— still further that he gave the news as Ms cor respondents sent it. All of which amounts to a virtual acknowledgement that he had not only been in the habit of publishing forged gispatches, as has been time and again proven, but that it was a fact worth mentioning, that in the pi ' ' ‘ without alteration The President About to Make a Move.— It is stated that the President' is about to make a move against the . whiskey and rev enue thieves—that, exercising the power of suspension conferred by the tenure-of-offiee bill, he will suspend a number of prominent i news ‘as Ms correspondents officials on the ground of incompetency or malversation in office^ by which millions have been lost "to the -Government. In the mean time the Fobney ultras ore clamoring for impeachment, a bit of strategy probably designed to intimidate _the President from Ms intended foray upon the thieves. ’Ar- [For the Dally 1 CLEKI- A Fiscs tortel Epinxle of Summer Lift. Tbejumaleof*neighboring-- Afford material to relate The story or a party large. Where sheep took shepherd under charge ; Where eldera.deaoonB.-rarious creed. On all essentials fuU agreed. Resolved in conclave on a sail, - To recreate on novel ecaie.' With chartered vesael and a crew Not quite so learned, but wordly-wise, And in each wisdom could devise A score of plans on board a ship. To make the voyage » pleasant trip-. Well found the vessel, the skipper brave As everbresatolhriffy w*Ye,’ '*•' With ample stores, in ballast trim. All ready, then the crew with vim Cast off the moorings, down the bay - With favoring breezes sailed away. Thus sailed away this party large Of sheep, with shepherd under charge. And headed eastward, ontward bouadi - • For cruising, fishing in the Bound. And gone were they for many days. Made many ports, saw many bays. And touched at Islands, and a store Of knowledge gained, and, furthermore. These learned men and men of worth Increased in appetite and girth. . , And linguists, too, could add a-store Of sea phrase to their repertoire— Peculiar things, learned from Ups Of only those who dwell in ships. ■ The less recondite of the crew Were daily learning something new— To reef and splice, to spin s yarn, And walk the crack from stem toatern; But chiefly in repute were those Whose genius with the occasion rose, And who by iqritoct seemed tokn'ow The haunts of flsh at ebb or flow— Whose skill in tackle, handling bait, Whose zeal no weather could abate— Were boon companions one could wish Whose prinlal object was to fish; And fishing these, as though by rule, With steady hand and eye so cool, / w And seemed to have peculiar tact For hooking fish, while some, in fact. Would fish for hours without a bite. Despondent oft, and oft, in spite, ' Success in others charged to Fate, To better hooks or better bait Though erasing daily in the Sound. At night the crew an harbor found, Where, safely moored or anchor cast, Could sleep serene till night was past, Without annoyance, troubled rest, That comes to sleepers on the breast Of moving waters, pitching, bounds . And creaking timbers, rumbling sounds— From such sensations seldom free Are ships and landsmen on the sea. The undul&tionB and careen Of vessels on the deep marine Teach landsmen all the upxight state Has tendency to gravitate— Brings; new aei^safcioxLs, where tfcd strain Is more on diaphragm than brain— Sensations grim, that grasp and creep, Compelling tribute to the deep, ., . Compelling men of strength and might To sudden exit out of sight. Or gliding off, demure as monk, For refuge in the cabin, bunk, In narrow quarters, hardly snug As meanest insect in a mg, To hope for sleep, if sleep will come, And long for terra firma—home. So much, in passing, of disease Peculiar to the briny seas, An ailment that has mnch to do With gentle and with brawny, too, Who venture on the deep in ships, For business or for pleasure trips. Thus thrown together many days,. The crew could learn each other's ways, Each salient point and turn of mind, Where numor dwelt, and where to find The even temper that could flit Serene amid the shafts of wit. In dress and manners unconstrained, No rules conventional obtained, But level all—still, dignified— The doctors and the deacons vied Each with the other to produce The most from such a pleasant cruise. Now, cruising over, homeward bound, And having so much pleasure found— Bobust and bronzed, condition prime, And having had such jolly time— Resolved our crew, it would appear To cruise again another year. So much the chronicles relate, And writers fdr^her might dilate On benefits that would enure From such specific, and the cure ... „ . Of much splenetic that obtains ' ’ With race of busy hands anfci brains, y ' Increase of health, increase of span, By means that nature gives to man; And many flocks in shepherd's charge Might letihat shepherd, go at large, And free from care, with nerves unstrung, Go on a cruise for strength of lung, Or send him to the mountain side— A few choice sheep.his steps toguider- To browse where they in summer time'. Recuperate by change of dime. Tax on Cotton to be Revived—A Warning to Planters.—The following passage occurs in a speech delivered by acting. Vice-Presi dent Wade, of Ohio, at Cincinnati on the 10th ultimo. It plainly foreshadows the revival of the cotton tax, which operated so disastrous ly upon all classes, and injuriously upon all pursuits, in the South in 1866-’G7: You remember we" put a tax upon cotton, the. only thing under God’s heaven by which we could get anything out of the rebels, they hav ing rendered it necessary that we should in cur this great debt in defence of the Govern ment—and they howled abont the tax on cot ton, and the whole: Democracy of the North, out of Congress and in Congress, made such an outcry against it that they s indufeed soft headed Republicans to repeal it. The year before we got abont twenty-eight millions out of that cotton tax, and it came .out of the very men, of all others, that should give some of their substance to pay off that accursed debt that we were forced to incur. But we threw off that debt and this year did .not get ojje cent of it. I would not agree to it. It was ar magnanimity that degenerated into weak ness. We ought to have made them pay it, and this year we might have got $40,000,000 instead of $28,000,000, and let the Democrats howL * * * Now, Sir, is not this too bad? kansas, a few days before the election, de- • dared, the registration in a number of epun- t^es in that . State invalid. They embraced about one-sixth of the registration of the State, and were estimated to give six thous and Democratic majority. « : The Bully Bullock.—Bullock, on the day of the election, telegraphed to. his particular Mend, Sam Smith, that if his (B’s) illegal proclamations were not respected the elec tion would be vitiated. This blaster did not make the people of Coweta respect his pro clamations any more than the people of the Corn and Cotton Thieves.—The extent to which the planters of this county—and we presume of, the whole country—are being robbed,' is 'utterly amazing and unprece dented. One planter weighed and put in his gin house nine thousand pounds of seed cotton and packed therefrom three light bales. Another/m a single night lost about, two thousand pounds in the seed, from his gin house. Another has recently found near ly a thousand 'pounds stolen -by one single negro. The more modest rogues pick it from the fields and jaccumulate in a small way; the-bolder thieves drive wagons in the day time login houses situated-in the fields and at a distance . from the dwellings and :take off bales ready packed.' 17110118 11116 01 the cotton is also true of the corn. This cot ton, in quantities small or large—com in sacks holding variously from one peck to two bushels; according to the size and strength of the thieves, are nightly exchanged at va rious points throughout the country, for poor whiskey and tobacco—paper soled shoes and shoddy clothing, or sold. at the lowest cash rates. The unmitigated’ white scoun drels, who receive these stolen goods, lenoic ing than to be such, and commit the double villainy of inciting the negro ..to steal and then swindling their ignorant confederates in' crime, deserve the halter. Cases are known, where snch fellows .with a hundred dollars of stock in'trade, in a mis erable box only eight by ten; and a cotton and com patch of only a. couple of acres, have sold eight and ten hales of cotton and as many hundred bushels of com. : Not much need of Gttano or Superphosphate 'on such patejhea. ,- A barrel of mean wMskey, a string of red pepper and a convenient pond or creek supply all the means for an abundant har vest. *— - a'- --- Until by special legislation or other effect ive means such miserable vermin can be driven from the country, or put to honest toil in the Penitentiary, we need not try to prevent the negroes from stealing. Is there no remedy fox the evil.—MonticeUa (Flo.) Oa- tette. Wendell Phillip. Rend, a Warning Lec ture to Ulywe* S. Grant. [From the Anti-Slavery Standard.) Abolitionists and all earnest Radicals are fiow'summoned ttABBSSSnnRMKfiHKP worfc-wMeh is yet. to be accomplished. It has become very apparent, thrqngn Ml#* has. transpired in.Georgia and elsewhere, that the' Re const ruction laws require careful revision and perfecting in sundry particulars. The negroes and loyal white^of^ue South greatly need the means of self-defence. The question or con fiscation, especially with reference to the large amount of land fraudulently conveyed from the possession of the United States Government to the hands of rebels, should be at once considered, inthe interest of the landless blacks, to whom, by virtue of their past unrequited toil, the soil rightfully belongs. A - -'system of national-education which shall be comprehensive, and at least co-extenSive with the extension of- the ballot, should, early he inaugurated by Congress. The measure of primary importance now to be promptly in itiated and adopted on.the re-assembling of Congress, is an additional amendment, of the Constitution forbidding disfranchisement, or proscription from official trust, on ac count of race or color, in any State or Territory of the Union. Such an amendment, if adopted promptly by Congress and submitted to the legislatures of the several Stetes, would, without doubt, now be ratified J^y the requisite number. It is ur gently demanded to guarantee the ballot to Southern colored men, to enfranchise many thousands in the Border and Northern States. This measure should not be postponed for the consideration of the Forty-first Congress, but should be promptly acted upon and adopted by the Ibrtieth. “Let us have peace” has been many times reiterated during the cam paign^ ust closed. One danger before us is the assumption that the feet of Grant's elec tion in itself will insure “peace” at the South. Abolitionists and those who have studied attentively Southern society know better than this. While Southern Legislatures are permitted to perpetrate such high-handed outrages as the lawless expulsion of colored members, as in Georgia, without due punish ment ; if rebels are permitted to take seats in the House of Representatives who come from districts wherein colored and wMte Republi cans were practically excluded from the polls, “ peace ” cannot be realized. The negro is still the bone of contention, and until his manhood and political equality is everywhere recognized he will con tinue to be a disturbing element in our politics. Smarting under their political discomfiture, the Kti-Klux will still hold sway, especially if their treasonable Chief is allowed to remain in the While House till the fourth of March next. With the triumphant re-election of General Bntler, and the well-known desire of most of the new Southern members for the revival of the measure, we have strong hopes of the successful consummation of the im peachment and deposition of Johnson by the be ginning of the neic year. With Wade even two months in the WMte House, and such tools of treason as Ronsseau, Steedman, and Com pany, of New Orleans, replaced by Sheridan and other trustworthy, loyal meu; with the reconstruction laws properly revised and amended; with suffrage and the right to hold office vouchsafed to the negro everywhere, the nation may be well on the way towards “peace,” having secured its essential condi tions, before Grant is inaugurated. While deliberate aud organized injustice to the ne gro isperpetuated, the “irrepressible conflict” will continue, no matter who may be President. “Let us have peace,’’then, by promptly doing those things wMch make for peace. The new era wMch opens before ns, with the significant defeat of the slaveholders and their apologists on Tuesday, is fall of in terest to abolitionists and conscientious Rad icals, to whom the national conflict means- something more than mere partisan strife, to end with election day. Our many triumphs in the past have been won under circum stances of adverse opposition much more formidable than anything we are likely to have to encounter in the near future. Oppo sition we are undoubtedly to have, but now, as hitherto, logic and right ore on our side. We have but to press urgently and persever- ingly our demand and our past successes are a guarantee of ultimate complete triumph. The Times, the Post, the Herald, and the “conservatives” for whom they speak, al ready exultant at what they deem the eclipse of Radicalism, reckon without their host in sup posing it to be within the power of General Grant, if as they allege, it be his disposition, to mate rially obstruct the progress of Radical reforma tion in national poliiics. If the Repub lican party consents to be the in strument of that beneficient reforma tion all will be well with both the party and the country. If it refuses, it will only be worse for the party. There is no half way house for permanent judgment between slavery and genuine republicanism. The only truly for midable opponents the- abolitionists ever had were the brain champions of the slave system while their power was coextensive with the nation and their leadership acknowledged North and South. Their day is over. The earnest Radicals are the positive force in the new order of things. The tendency of this century is to universal Radical Republicanism. mot see, hut the effects of which they can most bitterly feel. Afr. Seymour was right— the financial issue is to be pressed; and the Be- must.meet it .with courage ce. -*-« Per Contra, tlxc Springfield Republican Reads a Lesson to the Radical Party. .. [From the Springfield (Mass.) Bepublican, Nov. 4.) The result of the election yesterday, though it was all the Republicans could have asked, was not a triumph of the Republican party as a distinctive organization. » » » v And if the victory was not acMeved by the Republican party, as a political organization, in its own strength and by the prestige of its name, no more does it give that party, as an organ ization, a new lease of power. * * * * The result of the declion does not indicate a popular approval: even of the general policy of Congress. The election was carried in spile of the policy. Had that simple issue been pre sented, we very much fear every one of the four Middle Stetes would have pronounced against it. * * * It may seem crabbed and cross grained, in the first rejoicings over the victo ry, to thrust forward such considerations. But it was never of more importance that the true meaning of the country should be understood:' Congress may assemble in a few days under the emergency created by the carnival of crime at the South. At the longest it will meet in a few weeks. Upon Us temper depends very much. Representatives have before this shown a strange facility, or fatality, in misapprehending the wishes of , the people. They must not do so now. - If they imagine that the elections are a token of par ticular admiration for them;'if they think they can begin again, just where they left' off last April, alarmed at the popular discontent and the increasing danger of losing the election; . if ihey alloWjhemselves to be persuaded that, now the campaign is over, it will do to take the screws off the expenditures, they make a great mistake. They .wUl not get off so easily the next time. * ' * * That party is dead and a and even Us name is likely to perish. is certain to be a recast of the political elements, according to the new and live issues; and, now, if the leaders and managers of the Republican party—the men who live by it and think they own it—wish to keep it "in' the control “of the government, they must make it attractive for-those who look to honesty, integrity and efficiency in administration. It is not difficult to gather the sentiments of the men who have tamed the scale, this time, ini fevor of the Republi can party, and who must be looked to here after to keep it in power. In voting to sus tain the reconstruction acts, against the mad designs of the reactionists, they have not de cided against a change in those acts, but quite the contrary. They desire an immediate amelioration of them in their most offensive features. Thedis- franehisementqfanyaass, or the exclusion of any State, for acts done in the rebellion, never wise, has grown to-be..simply ‘stuffid. The limited disfranchisement imposed lias done harm and only harm. It has not assured the control of a single State in loyal hands. It hasjlifted the disfranchised into undue and unsafe im portance, and given them a title of.respect among their fellow-citizens. Towards the general Government it has sim ply served to annoy and exasperate all classes, and make violence and negro-in timidation seem something like feir reprisal. Unqualified negro suffrage is another feature that willnot bear examination, and must eventually be modified; but the circustanees of the situation are so difficultand peculiar,that animmediate : change is not practicable. AIT that can be done hereafter, all, indeed, that is desired to he done, is_'it to'introduce throughout the country an .educational test, impartial with . respect to color and sex, by wMch. the suf frage will be limited to persons of some in telligence, whether black, wMte,red or yellow. But U is in matters of revenue and expenditure that the sense of the country is mast positive, and Us resolution taken. • • • • jjr e cannot go on as we are. The country is losing strength Itoofast, and the poor mtmtonjngtmffiqiwghly Statement of the Public Debt of the Uni te*! States on' the 1st'of November, 1868. debt rearing com interest. S per cent, bonds... .$221,588,400 00 -ftperct,bcfiids,Tfi81':: 38^,677.300 00 C per cent 5-20 bonds l,0O2,$12,2to 00 - i-r .1 : 12,107.577,y50 00 debt reabino currency interest. Certiflcstee *t 3 per cent.....;..:.... 68.325,000 00 Nsvv pension-land. 14,000,000 00 — |U 72,325.000 00 MATURED DEBT HOT PRESENTED EOS PAXMESX. 3-year 7^0 notes dne Ang. 15,1867, Juno and July 16, 1868 2,856,950 00 . Compound interest notes, metered June 10, July 15, August 15, October 15, end December 15, 1887. And Bfsy 15, Au gust 1, Sept 1 and 15, and October 1 and 16, 1868 6,128,310 00 Bonds, Texas indemnity, 266,000 00 Treasury notes, acts July 17,1861, and prior there to Bonds, April 15.1842, Jan. 28,1847, and March 31, 1848 Treasury notes, MarchS, 1863.... 445,492 00 Temporary loan 314,860 00 Certificates of indebted- 7......V,....... 13,000 00 151,611 64 487,600 00 9,753,723 64 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. United States notes.... .356,021,073 00 Fractional currency.... 33,413,995 42 Gold certificates of de posit 19,716,840 00 409,151,898 42 y) bonds is- : railroad companies. 2,598,808,572 06 42,194,000 00 Total Debt 2,641,002,572 06 Amount in Treasury, coin. 103,407,985 77 Amount in Treasury, currency 10,465,033 47 113,873,019 24 Amount of debt less cash in Treasury, 2,517429,552 82 The foregoing is a correct statement of the public debt as appears from the books and Treasurer’s returns in the Department on lat of November, 1868. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury. A comparison of the above statement with that of last month shows that the national debt- less cash in the Treasury, has decreased $7,514,166 13. MARRIED. EDWABDS—HOLUNGSWOBTH—In tee city of Macon on tee 27th nit, by Bev. Jos. S. Key, Mr. O. D. Edwards and Miss Isadora Hollingsworth. • FUNERAL INVITATION S. CASSIDY.—The friends and acquaintances of John CusHidy and family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of their daughter, Catharine J., from their residence on St Gaul street near Znbly, THIS AF TERNOON at 4 o’clock. * NICOLE—The friends and acquaintances of Hr. and Mrs. George NicpU are invited to attend the funeral of their son, Charles Herndon, at 4 o'clock THIS AFTERNOON, from their residence an Con gress street Ancient Land Mark Lodge, No. 23, F. A. M. A regular communication of tills Lodge will be held at their Hall THIS (Tue*-- day) EVENING, at 8 o'clock. Transient brethren and members of other Lodges are fraternally invited to attend. By order erf the W. M. novlO-lt J. O. McNULTY, Secretary pro tan. ’A [OFFICIAL.] PROCLAMATION. BY THE GOVERNOR. IT being indispensable to the prosperity and happi ness of a free people, in all their ways, to acknowledge God, to recognize the wisdom of His decrees, and the omnipotence of His will; to render unto Him thanks for the manifold evidences of His loving kindness and most gracious mercy; and to supplicate His divine guidance and protection: Therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor of tbig State, and Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, and of the militia thereof; do hereby, for the further ance o^the purposes aforesaid issue this, my procla mation, nominating and appointing Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of this month of November, as a day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God ; and I do most earnestly recommend and exhort all persons comprising the various religions denomina tions of this State, on that day to repair to their re spective places of public worship—there, with humble and contrite hearts, to offer unto the Giver of all Good, Praise and Thanksgivings for His beneficence and mercy, and to beg, for all men, the continuance of His Bivine grace and blessing. Given under my hiirid, and the Seal of the Executive Department, at the Capital, in the city of Atlanta, this fifth day of November, in the year of onr Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety- third. rufus r. bullock. By the Governor: Governor. B. B. DeGraffentued, Secretary Executive Department. November 9-3t- [official.] APPOINTMENT. BY THE GOVERNOR. Executive Department, State or Geoboia, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 5, 1868. ORDERED, That Carey J. Thornton be, and he is hereby appointed Solicitor General of the Superior Courts of this State in and for the Chattahoochee Judi cial Circuit, to hold the said ofiftce until his successor is appointed, and that he be commissioned accord ingly. RUFUS B. BULLOCK, By the Governor: . i • • Governor. B. B. DeGkastekbxed, Secretary Executive Department. November 9-3t Notice to Gas Consumers. Ton are respectfully invited to call at the office of the SAVANNAH IMPROVED GAS-LIGHT COMPANY, comer of Bull and Bay Streets, 2d floor, between tbehonxs uf 7 and 8 o'clock P. M., to witness and test the improvement in the light from common city gas effected by the Company. With the same light now obtained, a deduction of about 25 per cent, in cost may be relied on. This Company bas been in operation about four months, and we would refer to our present patrons as to the general satisfaction given. The apparatus is introduced free of cost. ' GEO. W. WYIAY, President DeWitt Bruys, Secretary. angl9-qy Sarannali, Skidaway & Seaboard Railroad. Tbe Books off Subscription off the above named Railroad,' including the CITY .RAILROAD, will be continued open, tor thirty days from date. Subscriptions are invited and win be received by Colonel JOS. S. CLAGHORN, President, or to W. B. SYMONS, Secretary. By order of tee Board. Savannah, October 12; 1868. ocl3-lm DR. ROYALL, Office, Cor. Ball and Congress Streets, je27—ly (Over Lincoln’s Drug Store). ; ; i Batchelor’s Hair Dye. -: /This Splendid Hair Dye Is the Best In too world. Tho only true and perfect Dye— Harmless, Reliable, Instantaneous. No disap. *pointment. No ridiculous tints. Remedies too ill' effects of- Bad Dya. Invigorates and leaves too Liir soft and beautiful, black or brawn. Sold by all Druggists and Perfumers, aud properly ap plied St Batchelor’s Wig Factory f 16 Bond street, New York, janl5—ly To the Voters of the First District. ; Metres. Editors: Please’ announce Mr. ROBERT J. WADE as a candidate for Magistrate of toe First Dis trict, and oblige sep28-2aw2m - 7. MANY VOTERS. Conjugal Lore, And the Happiness or True Marriage. ESSAYS FOR YOUNG MEN, on the Errors, Atvna«»n a and Diseases which destroy tho Manly Powers and create impediments to MARRIAGE, with sure means of relief. Sent in sealed letter envelopes free of charge AddriKsHQTCAJ® mQmWR. Box P., Phllsdel. SAVANNAH THEATRE! Lessee and Manager John Templeton. the ©beat fashionable dia ATTRACTION. HEW AETISTES. NEW SENSATIONS. TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10. WILL BE PERFORMED, all in the downs. To conclude with PO-CA-HOW-TAS. FOR RENT, BOOMS for Gentlemen: or unfur nished to a small family, convenient to business. Apply at tola office, novl0-it» HISTORICAL RECORD SAVANNAH. npHE HISTORICAL RECORD OF SAVANNAH is I now in the hands of the printer, and will be is sued at an early day. Among the Illustrations are: THE MAP OF SAVANNAH, as it appeared in 1734. THB MAP OF SAVANNAH, as it appeared In 1818. THE MAP OF SAVANNAH, as it appeared in 1868. GEN. OGLETHORPE. COUNT FULASKL GEN. BARTOW. CITY EXCHANGE. ' GREENE MONUMENT. PULASKI MONUMENT. WASHINGTON’S QUARTERS in 1791. SHERMAN'S HEADQUARTERS in 1864. OLDEST BRICK HOUSE IN SAVANNAH. CUSTOM HOUSE. ORPHAN ASYLUM., GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. STATE BANK. ST. ANDREW'S HALL. MEDICAL COLLEGE. POOR HOUSE AND HOSPITAL. As it is my intention to make the work not only in teresting to readers, but Serviceable to merchants of the city, business cards will be inserted in it, and many of onr merchants have availed themselves of the opportunity. Besides the great advantages given to advertisers by its circulation among subscribers, copies of the work will be placed in the leading hotels of Georgia and Florida, and also on all the* steamers ply ing to and from this port. The work Is being compiled by energetic and com petent gentlemen, who have access to all the old records of the city, and all other sources of informa tion, and I feel confident it will be sought after by all persons interested in Savannah, its growth, advan- Further Information will be famished by canvassers, or on application at my office. J. H. ESTTLL, novlO-tf 111 Bay street' TO MAJQEET GARDNERS AHD DEALERS! GARDEN SEEDS. Extra Early Peas. ~¥TTE OFFER FOR SALE AT WHOLESALE OB » * Retail for cash, a very choice assortment of GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS.* Our EXTRA EARLY Peas, we believe, cannot be excelled in quality, and to be as early, or earlier than any in the market. Farm and Garden Implements Of AU Kinds. Guano, Bone Dust, — AND — Otlxcr Fertilizers. Catalogues furnished on application. JOHN VANDERBILT & BROTHERS, nolO-lt Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store, 23 Fulton Street, New York. CALL AT ONCE, AND SEE! TT3ST RECEIVED BY STEAMER eJ GENERAL BARNES, 300 PAIR PANTS, From the Auction Rooms of New York, and for CHEAP FOR CASH by J. GROSS, 190 Bay Street, Savannah, Georgia. novlO-2 CO-AXi. E nglish parlor coal,* RED ASH COAL, egg size; In lots to suit purshasers. For sale by PURSE k THOMAS, novl0-3t 111 Bay street. Notice, nnHE UNDERSIGNED bas this day retired from the jL Ann of William Battersby k Co. November 6,1868. C. D. C. BHIND. novlO-tf LOST, ^ LARGE SINGLE STONE GOLD RING, while coming from the Post Office to the Dancing Academy. The finder will be rewarded by leaving it at the Prof. SEMON. Academy. . nolO-lt WANTED, JJY TWO GENTLEMEN, A NICELY FURNISHED . ROOM, in a quiet situation. Address nolO-lt BOX 781, Savannah. rjTO FACILITATE THE ADJUSTMENT OF LOSS’ Consignees of Cotton per steamer New Jackson, will please furnish duplicates of their invoices at toe office J. T. THOMAS. of nolO-lt WANTED TO PURCHASE. ANTED, SIX TO TEN ACRES OF LAND on or near toe Shell Road. Address LOCK BOX 780, Savnnnah Eost Office, stating location, terms andprice per acre. nolO-tf Eastern Hay! Gunny doth! 1,000 , BALES PRIME HAY. 1 125 bales CLOTH. Forsalaby 'novlO-St RICHARDSON k BARNARD. BARGAINS! BARGAINS ! B ed blankets, from $s to $20 per pair. MARSEILLES and GERMAN QUILTS, 77I ~ r FANCY CASSIMERES, for Genta' Suits. BEAVER md TRICOT CLOTHS. Colored and Black CLOAK CLOTHS. NOVELTIES IN DRESS GOODS. Colored and Black VELVETEEN, for Saits. - Black and Fancy DRESS SILKS. Solid Colors and Plaid POFXJN8. French and American CALICOES. OPERA and SHAKER FLANNELS. BLEACHED SHIBTINGS*ahd'SHEETINGS, At REDUCED PRICES, by « DeTOTT & MORGAN, 0022—tf 137 CONGRESS STREET. Silver Ware,' * &e. and in every otiier.«tu0e appertaining to hia jline of business, to which he invites the attention of his friends and the public. F. GH0SCLAUDE, BULL STREET, nov9-tf Opposite. Masonic HaiL W1I. W. GORDON. BAY^STREET, } SCIV (UVUCtlh . L iberal advances made on consign ments. ante—DfcTWCm NEW GOODS. WANTED, TH AN OFFICE ON THE BAY, A LAD of about aix- JL teen years of age, who writes a good hand, whose parents reside in tne city, and who will -devote his whole time to the interests of his employer, and wfll consider the information to be gained as sufficient compensation for the first year of his services. None others need apply. Address, in his own Hand writing. Post Office Key Box No. 102. nov7-8t \TOTICE TO PARK NTS OR GT7AR- JN DIANS.—A LADY without family will take charge of one or two children, of either sex, from early age upwards, on frtir terms. The utmost tenderness and care insured. Address MBS. FOSTER, for information, office of this paper. nov7-3t* MISS LIZZIE E. ALLEN -^flLL GIVE INSTRUCTION ' IN * VOCAL AND PIANO MUSIC, either at the homes of pupils or other residence, No. 128 South Broad street, References—J. C. Schreiner, S. W- Gleason. nov5-2w PUBLIC LAWS PASSED BY THE General Assembly of the State of Georgia, T.N JULY, AUGUST. SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, A 18 1869,.WITH AN APPENDIX. Price, $1.00. Just received and for Bale at . ESTILL’S NEWS DEPOT, BULL STREET. ON BAY LANE, NEXT TO THE nov6*ts POST OFFICE. THE CHAMPION BILIAARD TABLE! FOR SAAR. A PHKLAW& COLLKNDKB 34 SIZE, Carom Billiard. Table for Sale* Can be seen at St Andrew's HaiL For farther par ticulars, apply to : . * - nov7-tf D. McCOIYjVELL. BOOTS AND SHOES. B Y LATB.AffiiIV.tLS FROM PHIT-ATT-LrUI-t and New York we have received a HANDSOME ASSORTMENT of LADIES, MISSES AND CHILDBEFS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION; - AND OF VABIO03 COLORS. The public are invited to call and examine our stock, EINSTEIN, ECKMAN & CO., 0C13—tf 163 I NEW GOODS! MBS. S. H as behoved from Broughton stbeet to 161 CONGRESS STREET, where ahe invites her patrons and the public to <-*ti and examine her well-selected stock of new LOST, Millinery and Fancy Goods, A SMALL DOG, WHITE, WITH A BLACK SPOT on hia back, and black ears. Win par a LIB ERAL REWARD to any one returning him to the cor ner of Whitaker and Bryan streeta, A. Sack’s Jewelry Store, or THIS OFFICE: nov9—2t consisting of RIBBONS, VELVETS and 8AHNK of aU colors and widths, especially her- BBAUTIFW. HASH RIBBONS. Also, D11F.HS Tl;nanHa8, BUT TONS, and FRINGES* of all patterns and colors. Salt and Coal. 2 500 BACKS SAM ’’ 5 300 TONS ENGLISH PARLOR COAL, LI GrHTE BI NO — AND — TO W IjS! G! Novr landing and for sale from toe -wharf, by nov5-6t - CLAGHORN h CUNNINGHAM. THE STEAMER E. D. MORGAN, For Sale. 10,000 BUSHELS ROUGH 3 Caeuik TORRENT, r l PREPARED TO LIGHTER COTTON, LUMBEE and RICE. Is weU adapted for toe trade. ArpU“ j_ . “ ' E. W. DRUMMOND A BRO-. oc20—tf Agcnfc nov2-tf Forsaleby - .. TUCKER & LAPHAM. EASTERN HAT. SUNDRIES. 3 COFFEE, ASTERN HAY LANDING AND FOR SALE LOW, in lots to suit purchasers, by E. W. DRUMMOND & BBO., QcOO—tf. 154'B»iy street. a,OOO LBS. BACON, APPLES, ONIONS and POTATO^ 3 - Also, a General Assortment of GROCERIES. novG-tf E. O’BYBNEkSOS^ HARDWARE. COFFEE. lO TONS GRINDSTONES, SO tons PLOW STEEL, 300 tons SWEEDES IRON, *00 tons REFINED IRON, 1,500 kegs NAILS, lOO dozen COLLINS’ AXES, 40 dozen HUNT'S. AXES, 1,000 BAGS, PER BRIG JEMMA, DIRECT from Rio de Janeiro, for sale by hov7,tf i WEEDS & CORNWELL, - ^ bags SHOT; ibrsale by FOR SALE, B KSIRABT.F. BUILDING LOT No. 13 LLOYD WARD, fronting east 59 foot on Whitaker street atths comer of New Houston street, eTtenatng 131 feet to Howard street. Terms easy. Apply to RICE. L BUSHELS ROUGH RICE, 101 gay (Street, Forsale by PAYA2H*¥A» 3a NDS, WEDDING PRESENTS ! rjIHE SUBSCRIBER has just retained from the JL North with a very large stock of Jewelry, Silver Ware, Jeweler’s Fancy Articles, Sterling: Plate, fob WEDDING AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS, SPOONS A.ND FO RKS, If TO. H. TISON. TItiON & GORDON, COTTON FACTORS — AND— * COMMISSION MERCHANTS TTT8T RECEIVED, a fresh supply of fine OONFEC- e! TIONERY, from the celebrated house of H. Mill iard; also, on hand, a splendid assortment of tooth and hair Brushes, lancy Toilet Bets, LubfrTa genuine Extracts and Soaps, Powder Puffs, Lily White from the best manufacturers. Pomades and Hair Qfla, Dressing Combs, and a large assortment of Fancy Ar ticles too numerous to mention. No charge for look ing. Call and examine them, at nov7-tf TATEM’S DRUG STORE.