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pa yi)L. 2-NO. 106. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, MONDAY, MAY 14. 1866. PRICE, 6 CENTS. Lpailv News and Herald, nr*T>T Tkiiivn BY PUBLISHED BY W. MASON. .PVIBTI6IHO: r„r Square of Tfen Lines for firet in- ’ " Dollar for each subsequent one. w»B PniNTING. jeatiy and promptly done. U|TI0X OF THE SOUTH. HE PORT TO JOHNSON. PRESIDENT l0 fthe Account* of the Mn.lt ictit- ent of Northern Men. t hi;kn people the best friends OF THE FREEDMEN. .. tuiiu C. Truman, au experienced and federal army correspondent, lias recently aij.lote tour of the Southern States by direc- - president, and his report, covering an ..£$• tour, is just made public. The report (.iterate and lengthy, but we extract the ^rtant portions. nlRAL SENTIMENTS OF THE PEOPLE. f the aentimontg of the white population relations with the general government j ihe North, he says: jbh between loyalty and patriotism, and 1 need only to obtain the facts. I am personally ac quainted with most of the officers of a hundred odd regiments of volunteers, aud output these I could name thirty regiments one-half ol whose officers and many of the men have returned to the South, and as many mors that have left large numbers there upon being disbanded. Hnndreds even of the officers of oolored regiments—the most offensive to the South- have remained there and entered* into business, the most of them having rented plantations and employ ing their old soldiers. Large numbers of ex-Federal and ex-Confederate officers are engaged together in mercantile pursuits and in cottou planting. Nearly all of the cotton plantations in Florida are being run by such parties. The banks of the Missis sippi are lined with plantations which have been leased by Northerh men and Federal officers. Arkan sas and Whits river plantations are being ran bj T offi cers who have served under Gen. Reynolds, while a* large number of the Red river plantations have been placed under cultivation by ex-officers of Gen. A .T Smith's command. FROM BOSTON* Boston, May 7, 1866. [For the Savannah News and Hekald.] is rather backward ; when compared with last year, which was a forward season, it is about two weeks be- Jiind time. The fruit trees were all ready and waiting to blossom two weeks ago, but a chilly dry spell, with cold nights, kept back vegetation and put a damper upon the gnahingness of the fruit buds. We have just had a favorable change, however, and now things promise to be no longer backward In coming forward. We lack rain yet. The streams and ponds are low, and the prospect is that it will be a poor year for grass, which is the most important agricultural pro- Fourteeu officers of a colored j duct of New England. Last year it was very good. i£ES°5p“t^oriaf T g e« 9 in fflt T j *ope to make up the difference in fruit, which wi tional Bank ol lexas, -at Galveston, lias for President P oor jear. ex-Maj.-Gon. Nichols, of the late Confederate army, aud ten ot its directors are also ex-rebel officers, while the cashier is ex-Maj.-Gen. Clark, of the Union army, jiutiueiion not ill-grounded. That glo- ,eous burst of popular enthusiasm North responded us one man to the I'-aiders of Sumter was the most sublime *patriotism the world has yet witnessed; and oven cheerfulness, with which the W. ■; once yielded obedience to the rule of Jtian, whose administration they hated ’ W as au instance of loyalty, Buch as only auseiis could have furnished. never rebelled against James Buchanan, • lV proposed to; but I assert, without hesi- - nuw the war has swept over the South, mure disposition in that section of the rebel against the National Government a-* in the North at the time above referred - rcral assertion can be made that will ap- of the people of the South, it is that present time indifferent toward the eminent. For four years of eventful life T-. they were accustomed to speak of aud r-j Government” as the ono which had its , ad ; aud thousands who at first looked . rmneut with great suspicions uud dis- jv, from the mere lapse of time and the ..at lc, came to admit it into their ideas as riiment. The great body of the people, in aiways moves slowly—tho transfer of al- •’a oat* de facto Government to another is . ;;j a day, w hatever oaths of loyalty may be •-I have witucssod many amusing instauces i -.ti the part of those of whose attachment T.m nt there could be no question. Ig- Liprvic.lice always lag luribest behind any :B' and no person can forget ttiat the iL.‘ 3 ‘ t tho past lew years have left the ,-ppulace greatly unsettled and increased vc. Fully one-hall of the Southern 1. J.crished an educated aud active attacli- :} Government that was over them ; and ...a them very much as it found them. »cJ file of the disbanded Southern army—‘ ituned in it to the end—are the backbone i the South. Long before the surrender, ■£ ns, brigades and regiments had been ; irged of the worthless class—the skulk- . whom ihe South, us well as any other .;1 b*; best rid ; and these it is that iye jjig past bitternesses. These are they, in .51 abundantly learned, by personal ob- ;:.it are now editing reckless newspapers, j rtli those pernicious utterances that so I -the thluking, substantial people, and .y--;zed on aud paraded by certain Nor- who themselves as little represent S :»li. To the disbanded regiments of the both officers aud men, I look with great • -* th»: beat aud altogether most hopeful : South—the real basis of reconstruc- : 2 material of worthy citizenship. On a . ..... hclcb they have tested the invincible :*iit u -vernmeut they' vainly nought to over- a thousand picket lines, aud under a^K i truce, they have learned that the : it* Uuion boro them uo hatred, anil shared common attributes of humanity.— soldier of the South gathers the -runnug friends that wo see around - i hearth-stonea in our own section, and - Mr slowly learning the lesson of char- 1 know ol very lew more potent j n promoting real and lasting re nd reconstruction l han the influence of ■•3 uthern soldier. and who formerly commanded a division of colored troops. In all of these connections the utmost har mony prevails. Notwithstanding the above facts, and 1 could multiply thorn, 1 maintain that in many sec tions of tho South there is a widespread hostility to Northern men, which, however, in nine cases out of tfen, is speedily dispelled by individual contact, aud the exorcise of a generous regard for private opinions. In fine, I will say that all who can be spared from the industry of the North to go South can readily find places of business where they can live in quiet aud prosperity. THE FREEDMEN. After ridiculing the idea of any insurrection among the negroes, and demonstrating that they are not generally improperly restrained, Mr. Truman says : Tho Freedman's friends need never fear his re-en slavement ; it never can, never will take place. Hi» head is filled with chaotic ideas of freedom, and any thing but the most insidious and blandishing en croachments upon his freedom ho will perceive'and resist. The planters everywhere complain of his “ demoralization " in this respect. As to the personal treatment received by the negro at the hands of the Southern people there is wide spread misapprehension. It is not his former master as a general thing, that is his worst enemy ;.but quite the contrary. I have talked earnestly with hundreds of old slave-owners, ^nd watched them move amon^ their former “ chattels," and I am not mistaken. The feeling with which a very large majority of them re gard the negro is one of genuine commisseration al though it is a sentiment not much elevated above {bat with which they would look upon a suffering animal for which they had formed an attachment. Last sum mer the negroes, exulting in their new-fbund freedom, as was to have been expected, were gay, thoughtless and improvident, and, as a consequence, when the winter came, hundreds of tliejn felt the pinchings of want, and many perished. The old planters have olten pointed out to me numerous instances of calamity that had come under their own observation in the case of their former slavos and others. . I insist that there was in most cases a' real attach ment* bet ween master aud slave, and still is, especially betweon the family and the house servants. It is, then, the former slave-owners who are the best friends the negro has in the South, those who heretofore have provided for his mere physical com fort generally with sufficient means, though entirely neglecting his better nature, while it is the “poor whites" that are his enemies. It is from these he suffers most. In a state of slavery they hated him and now that he is free there is no striking abatement of this sentiment, and the former master no longer feels called by the instinct of interest to extend that protection that ho once did. On the streets, by the roadside, in his wretched hut, in The field of labor— THE STATE RUM SHOP. We arc having an investigation—a legislative inves tigation—which promises to be rich in detail and queer in the catastrophe. The facts which have already appeared are very significant of the true character of the fanatical people who are determined to make everybody else virtuous according to their model. There is richness in it. “ Do-the-Boys Hall ” is no where. Artemus Ward, philosopher, being once called upon to give his opinion about temperlnce ho tels, said that he thought they were just about the same as any other hotels, except that they sold rather worse liquor! The State of Massachusetts has been ; keeping a temperance hotel for a number of years. The law prohibits the sale of indiscriminate «• nip pers," hut as it is well understood that some kinds of liquors are used for mechanical purposes, and that some kinds are also used for medicine—especially by country deacons, who are very much inclined to this branch of the materia taedica about haying-time rs wise men who framed tho prohibitory law pro vided for this want by a State agent for the sale of liquors, with a sub-agent in every town. The sub agents are authorized to sell liquor for mechanical and medicinal purposes, and for no othor. The State agent is authorized to sell pure liquera to the town agents. Every lot must be chemically assayed and declared to bo pure by an officer appointed for the purpose, and the liquor must be sold at a certain small per centage above the cost, which pays the State agent for his trouble. Some years ago, when the law first Went into force, we had a State agent named Burnham—ho was better known as -‘Hen Fever Burnham," ho having published a book disclosing the manner in j which he had humbugged the people during! remark able hen layer that prevailed in New England somo years ago. The idea was this. New broods of hens were introduced, declared to be wonderful creatures, which would outdo the renowned “white old hen with yellow legs" that laid one egg every day, “and Sun days she laid two.*' Men Fever Burnham having shown that he was a master of humbug, his book fol lowed Barnum's, of which it was an imitation, and said Burnham having taken a warm interest iu the temperance movement, aud in radical politics gener ally, he was hit upon os just the man to be the State E X H I I I T I O N fJaris MY OWN IMPORTATION. Insurance. FIRE, MARINE, L IF E T ACCIDENT BY the ^received a large and beautifully aborted stock of of Paris’ finest -is in itself the TOILET, LAVENDER and COLOGNE WATERS CREAMS FOR THE COMPLEXION, . DENTRIFICES and HAIR RESTORATIVES, The8e 5^DE D^cM b ^t^^ C ^ ^tulbercn Kern, Monpelas, Five*2b” Jffi *“ perfection of art DUC , HE8SE ’ a P omade ' the ^est known m Pans, possesses all the qualities of a Hair Restor H E ATR H oT?^ E f^ LE \ B fl ANAN i and FLEUit M LissaS; Tm™? 4 ?*^’^£ DOLINE ’ HUILLE, CONCRETE. CREAM of the JUlCE of PEACHES, for whiteuinc tlie hinds LOTION VEGETALE PREPAREE AUX JAUNNES D’OfTTFFS J , ruff off aud stop the hair from falling out.' * * *° ®* Ve ^ alr a brilliant and glossy appearance, to keep dand- |mCi|o“bIlS§u£ £dfi£i5&»S H “ llV Di!N ™ mCE . f° r th. teeth and gams. ,nd Jr e00a * their <M ha,, beer™, renowed fo, their be.Mifhl eonpl.rion, to All articles shown with pleasure and explained when necessity requires Also, a few cases of CHATREUSE, from the GRANDE CHATREUSE, a cordial seldom broughthere ■ I,,, , I. .. . A ALSO ON HAND FEBIta PHof rgalate* * C ° ' ma “ F “ =»'•'■ » 1. COD LIVEIt OIL, a rare article. - - r GLYCERIA, a lotion for the hair perfumed with Bay Leaf DENTINE, FORMA DENTA, LOTUS BALM, AMBER, TOOTH and GUM WASH, TOILET and COLOGNE WATERS. INSURANCE Lippman’s Drug and Chemical Warehouse, other hand I have known inataneea where the ro- spectable substantial people of a community have united together to keep guard over a house m which tho negroes were taking their amusement, aud from which a tew uights before they had been rudelv driven by white vagabonds, who found pleasure lii their tnght and suffering. I reiterate that the former owners, as a class, are the negro’s best friends in the South. * * * » » „ — — — Liquor Agent. This was some ten years ago. Bnrn- Ho built houses’and bought horses. He was a man of elegant leisure. He was accustomed to spend the winters, with his family, in Washington, where, I doubt not, he was cordially re ceived and lully appreciated. He was considered a pro mising and rising man. But one day his business was looked into ; somebody thought he was getting rich too fast; thero was a legislative inveetigation, and it appeared that Burnham had been watering his rum all these years—" extending " it, he called it aud thereby cheating the worthy country deacons, inas much as it took twice as much of Burnham’s rum to fuddle them as it used to take in the good old times. So Burnham, who was iu quod during the investiga tion, was "busted" up aud "busted” out, and a "gentleman’’by the name of Porter was put iu his place. This was about six years ago. Porter seemed to he just the man for the place. He was forward iu every good word aud work ; he belonged to all the good societies ; he wus strongly in favor of the Maine Law ; he was the " ruff”-of respectability, tho aonl of honor, aud the charrow-tooth of reform. O. he was a jewel. Mr. Porter seemed to-bo a flourishing man iu the agency. He had money for charitable objects, and lie lived iu style. No body could object, however, to the way he lived ; fpr he was very " respectable." Only last winter tie congratulated the State, in his annual report, that " the cause" was progressing well, and that the sales through the agency were Many of this class diligently strive to discourage the lreedmen from any earnest efforts to promote their higher welfare. When one believes that a certain race of beings are incapable of advancement he is very prone to wilhhold ' tho means of that advance ment ; and it is in this form that a species of slavery will longest be perpetuated ; it is in these strongholds that it Will last die out. I am pretty sure that there is uot a single uegro in the whole youth who is trot re ceiving pay for his labor according to his own con tract ; but us a general thiug the lreedmen are en couraged to collect about the old mansion m their little quarters, jabor for their former masters for set terms receiving, beside, their pay, food, quarters and medical attendance, aud thus continuing on in their former state of dependence. Tho cruelties of slavery, its outward forms, have long since passed away ; but glimmerings of its vassalage, its subser viency aud its helplessness still linger. It is the result of my observations, also.not only that the planters generally are far better friends to the ne gro than the poor whites, hut also better than a ma jority of Northern men who go South to rent planta tions—at least they show more patience iii dealing with him. The Northerner ia practical, ciicrgotic] | economical and thrifty ; the negro is slow, awkward. : wasteful and slovenly ; he causes ids new employer to ' 'nose his patience, aud to seise hold and attempt to CORNER CONGRESS AND BARNARD STREETS. RISKS taken In THE KOLLO WING FIRST-CLASS COMPA NIES: Colombia Fire Insurance Company, of Now ° AP ‘ TAI " York Fulton Fire lnsnrance Company of New ^ ork 200,000 Excelsior Fite Insurance Company of New York 260.000 Springfield Fire Insurance Company of New York 300,000 Putnam Fire Insurance 'Company of Hart- ford 400,000 Washington Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore 400,000 Gulf State Fire Insurance Company of Tal- ritaasee t— 800,000 aooidbntt. Travelers’ of Hartford ‘ *400,0uu Miscellaneous. J. N. WILSON, Photographer. a*l rxottiixiiaii Q /> 1 i y W kj i> i A! ar.F PHOTOGRAPHS, Porcelain <St Ambrotypen, IN THE HIGHEST STYLE OF THE ART. Copying done in the best manner. Pictures made as well iu cloudy as in clear weather. perform himself what he seea so badly executed. ' Vapidly increasing. A few days ago he offered his lho Southerner is accustomed to the ways of sieved ; resignation. I don’t know what led him idTH BEOARD1NU to .take that step, but probably he “ainelt a mice.” A question waa raised iu his case. A member of the House made diatiuct charges against him. and that ia WCall and Kxtiiuinc ’Specimens. SOUTH-EAST CORNER BROUGHTON AND WHIT- alti-tf AKER STREETS. OGLETHORPE INSURANCE CO. OF SAVANNAH Are prepared to take Fire Risks on Reasonable. Terms, At their office, 11T Bay Street?' H. W. MERCER, President. ,1. T. Tuomxs, Sec. from his youth up ; hence he ia languidly and good uaturedly indifferent, or, at most, vents hia .displeas ure iu empty fuming. The Northern employer is ac customed to see laborers who are vigorous and indus trious : he knows the extent of a full day’s labor, and , .. . , ,, he expects all to perform the amount. Thu Southern t l,; " av we ** 10 legislative investigation, of which j , ' , man has always been compelled to employ two or i 1 spoke iu the begining of this paragraph. Some c-vi- i j - . ' three to do the work of one, and is more indguJgeut. | dence had been taken. iUq course tlie South would adopt in gn war, Mr. Truman believes a great !-ud on the character of the nation sympathizl* wiTS ! iTfrtho molt” n^rerWllLaUmony”^^^ I ^ “T " T ** ^ , | themselves, who have been under the supervision ol 1 tliat known liquor to be watered in tho store ; 1 , , i both classes—and I have, talked with many with a j that he had known condemned liquor to bo sold to the i j means ToVe I ^ ** ‘obe advanced j ;||. n at least, that the South, as a peo- • construed to mean that they desire to return to I after il lia<1 l,een iu the flrs t place. It is sup- ! anxious ior a war with any foreign j slavory—not by any consideration; tor the thought! posed that other frauds will appear, going to show how i ■■..tsolves are. Besides, there ia u of freedom is dearor to their hearts than to nn o ,.,i7,.,. | . - Tl wing conviction iu tlie minds ofi people of like intelligence in the world; biit that I ,hu ‘leacons have suffered, which may account, , iiuelngent aud thoughti.il of i 11u I being onee assured of their liberty to go and come at a ^ d "' f or tho increase ol^fho business of the agency, that a stranger would^seldoirulis- j will, they generally return to the service of the South- j Comment is unnecessary. I give you a bare state- i ment of such facts as have transpired; but others are j I fear the re- ! apectahle Porter will have to follow in the footsteps of II. W. Mercer C. S. Hardee William Hunter A. S. Hartridge A. Porter W. Ketnehart F. L. Gue -• H. A. Crane A. A. SoloOiutts M. Hamilton W. W. uonion tny7 tf Directors: M. S Cohen J. Lama .1 W. Nevttt D Q. Purse’ A. Fnllartou J. McMalioi. L. J. Uailmattin F. W. Sims G. Butler R. Laclilison K P. Ciaton. Augusta * .1, w. Knon. Macon B. F. Rosa, Macon W. H. Young, Columbus tf f * 1 • tf U zx ORFF tf WATKINS, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN DRY GOODS *3ST AIjIj ITS BRANOHE9, 111 & 113 Congress St., Savannah. ^ Marine a«cl Fire. Petersburg Savings and Insurance Company £ ril.of Virginia— $oou,oou * : £ufama Home Insurance Company of Ala- ama 200,000 o| Georsla Home Insurance Company, Colum- b08 340,000 Commission Merchants. I. P. Boose. f W. A. Biiaxi. Bouse & Bryant, (Formerly of dackso^Hle, Forwarding and Commission Merchants. Bit) - ll»4 SAVA AIM All, Wtrcct, - UKOIIGIA. W ILL give prompt at eul ion to leceiving and for warding goods, ttale-i on con.-.tgumeut, and all Hotels. LITEDAK .-■* ms 32 GEORG»S(n»®0HV- j Charleston, South Carolina, 1.IFB. rtn.L * srm New England Hutnal Life Insurance Com pany Of Boston *8.000,000 Kulvketbocker Mutual Life Insurance Com pany of New York 1,000,0i 0 On Open Follolea In Great Western, of New York, fa Commercial Mutual, of New York. Is now open for the accommodal ion of transient an permanent guests. (hoicPftt Liquors, Wiues, Alts and Solars ami will alriu Keep constaully oil baud a g»>od block ol Urot'eiles, Liquors, Agricultural Imple ments, Building Materials, Fair bank- A Co’s Scales, Ac., besides other goods aud manufactured articles ior sale on -consignment, and -for which they are ai/efib?. Orders and consignments lespectfuily so- Idled. alStl ALWAYS ON HANI». uraals of public speeches of prominent : *i* t*i8 «tdl under-currents of private -‘>Ui m the late war tlie baud of Provi- : es oi destiny, were against them— | averse to any separation of the Union, actual observation, that thousands of • nlc, aud hundreds ot their officers, • ' ...-i in the United States army against _ : -:*.quiers, particularly if they could be under tholr old officers. I have con- • ...y with hundreds of ex-officers and -J' Confederate army, and I only rc- • •-veinitn their own lips when I say that -•'^em assured me they would enter our evbut, in great part to give the Gov- ' • -niicmg proof that they meant to be hereafter. I recall at present - - i of t if fC : 1SC7, as it did huff winter, then. I think, the ne«7o V. ; ai United Stftee tSvernm W enfS.a^ °^ e „ T , e }.™ ed r* t ° m be 8ble “>8° City Sheriff’s Sale. erners. He opposes negro suffrage as Impracticable, impoli- tic, more likely to injure than benefit the negro, and j C ° mlng ° U ‘ “ 8Hb8e <l uent aa not generally daaired by them, and in regard to tea- ! timony in Court, claims the uegro has been generally ! put on a better footing than the white man, since he j can iummon both white and blacks, while a white ! man cannot usually summon a negro. THE FBkBDMEN'a BUBkAlT. Tho Bureau, In my respectful opinion, has nearly U ’N’DKK and by virtue of an sttachuaeat issued out of the Hon. the City 'Court of Savannah, re- tho gaUiuaccoua deceiver, who preceded him in the office. I should add that among the other charges made, and so far aubstantiated by the evidence, ia sel ling liquors without analyzing, (not forgetting to ! charge tho price for analysis,) and mixing liquors of J different grades. Truly, the temperance hotel only accomplished the work for which it was orcated, anil i differs from other hotels In this, that it sells poorer the necessity that called it into existence is rapidly j fiauor ' passing sway. If it shall have looked faithfully after H tho intereats of freedmen during the coming Summer ■ and, especially in the division of the crops next Fall’ turnable to the July Tenn, 1586, of said Court, favor of Archibald Marinos vs James Morphy, . have levied upon the following propel ty, to satisfy the satqe, via: 30 boxes of Freuch Soap, and 13 boxes ol Java Coffee 1 tOV.VL THAN AT THS SND OS THE WAB. I, :b-; youth—the great substantial “ ,iJ,;rc loyal: , more loyal to-day than yester- /f.U be more loyal to-morrow than to pmost Impossible to present the «ueml evidences upon which I base entertain It in all sincerity, and be- -’cant with the tacts "No revolu- war J,’’ j. a convenient but alrallow r®. expresB.ve of no truth whatever ; ."'ioi- has its ultimate revolution — ’ at, J, just as certainly as lor four . Kpuiiir Eentiment in the South was alri:i| gthening in favor of the I •; ' ! so certain is it that, from the r'. . , '■ U.ct,,pinion has been elow’yre- I ' •itachmente. For many years tile ’“““d been increasingly cherished J. f? Ui easts ol thousands ; for four a living fact, peuetratiug the -1, receiving the sympathies of Tj, f u i ai 'J then canto the sudden and ■‘"'•kening from this dream, to : vani i 'v,?^ xor “' jle truth that the pleasing l•. As weeks, months and years r; I!:a yearning for it will grow weak i -: Jat ‘-ream will never be revived, in ttm satisfied of anyiBing r-; -. ... a t] ’ d is that the great majority •‘••’.ivt forever renounced all expect*- . * nationality. . fi v politicians aud editors ot |7«3»ruJi. y O'" 1 6 ee u reduced to visa, l. * —“ icuucou iu a condi- j. ] ^ <: *" ou ldrfeverse their “records" I a ‘tL~ar Ireel - V unc ^ without hesitation i 01 the past four years had •olve. » 1 lis un willingness does not a corresponding sluggishness of 'W J ‘ E * NT UF NoaTHERN IUEN. ■. ' iki 111 ^ ls P‘^ition uot to associate too 1 '>«tv Lnr 1Ilfcli ’ OI t0 receive them into the i^.. . u lh la r trom insurmountable. ****•. iadth M over every other, woman ^Uitv aZZ** ar . b more embittered against l 1110 Hu thors ot all their calam- j-'U.y, 8 °n* and husbands. It r . a °*°Kical fact, and one I have of- ■: wt, younger generation,the South- c:i(j 8U P«lor to tho Southern men, - ergy > a ud their ascendency over tj -Poudngly great ; however this of ^v CC0UI1 ttd ior, whether by the ' lQ Wur » or otherwise, it never- I J *’ Dj SontK Oii!il0 uce is greatly due the V , i’^ hera eoeiety. t a ' : UtiuTv ruillc ’r» to ths effect that North- i* )iir,c ' ;ut8 d and compelled to » 1 Pronounce false. If Northern L.. ^ltct* o 10 ! 181 lor a while to be .v r -:r 4iIi eometiiaes with contempt; v 01u ^“ter political discussions | 08 with ordinary discretion, they I'y • 4 fc cctHn? r ‘ ,<iutlioc8 » 8 &d are treated with that are fr. forth alone. It is surprising and pleasing to the steadfest believer in the inherent capacity of all men for ultimate self-government, to witness the rapid strides in advance which the late slaves have taken. They, as well as their white fellow-cittizens, both North and Smith, learned much from the late war; its now than It was teachings ware fruithful to them In lessons of aalf-reli- anesand sclf-helpfulnoas; they have purchased and secreted arms; they hold little meetings together, in which they consult with much sageness concerning their common safety; they feel a dignity aud an inde pendence becoming their relations as freemen, and I am convinced that in nine inontha from this tiino the longer presence and assistance of the Bureau will be unnecessary and superfluous. NEOBO TROOPS. Regarding the military establishment South. I will respeotfully submit a few words. Taking everything into consideration, there is every reason to believe that it would be extremely injudicious to remove from the South tho foroa now stationed there. Troops ara required in the Bed rivor counties in Texas to protect loyal men, who are being continually outraged by somo thousand or more rebel refugees from Mis souri and Arkansas, who, on aocount of their atrooi- ties during the war, dare not return to their homes. Troops are also required in the loyal Gorman counties in Texas, whose people are suffering considerably from the depredations of nomadic bauds of Indiana Regarding the colored soldiers, I only agree with ali our officers iu tho Sonth, including those conneoted with the Freedmen’a Bureau, that they ahould be re moved aa apcedily as possible. To a great extent they in- oite tho freedmen to deeds of violence and encourage them in indolence. Th.*re has been a great improvement in this respect, however, during the past three months. Further, there ia the most bitter feeling existing bo- tween white and colored soldiers, and many of the latter have been cruelly treated by tho former. Vol unteer regiments are gradually wasting away by de sertion—officially encouraged. The demoralizing effects of this wholesale desertion <s felt in the regu lar army, which ia also suffering in like manner. The Fourth and Sixth Cavalry and the Nineteenth Infantry Regiments are losing hundreds ol men by desertion. FCCTJBE PBOSPECTS OP THE SOOTH. EEEP THE BALL HOtTNU. The absurd law prohibiting billiard saloons pnd bowling alleys from keeping open after 10 o'clock any evoning, and after 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, has been rcpoaled by the Legislature. We begin 'to feel somewhat encouraged. x THEATBICAL 4IATIEBS are lively for the season. John Brougham and John Owens are both postod upon the blind walla of the city. Booth will ba here this month. Owens ia at the Burton ; Brougham at the Howard ; Lucille Western at the Continental. Theatres and concert halls have had a very profitable season. iota. In conclusion, I must say that I bespeak for the South a glorious future. I predict that peace, pros perity, wealth and happiness will be her lot. Her rich lands will come rapidly under cultivation, and will In- vale crease ten-fold in value ; her noble waters wjll be thronged with the appliances of commerce ; popula tion, such as she desires, will flow steadily into her borders ; cities and villages will dot her landscapes; schools and ohurohes and publio institutions will ho her boast, and a refined society will grace the land. tll8 t are from time to time *“ regard m Southern cru- '< *yjl Northerners are mostly ma &y districts, bovMer, particu- vorrioihi oAlissiMippi, nt p.vattQt live -v -..ii :l- i.re also I .vaI’id ,u l.. v- it would life iuj- but they Presbytbrian Gexibai. Assemblies.—In addition to the religious ponventlon called by t>r Breckenridee of Kentucky, which will meet at SLLouisonthe tfth inst, the Presbyterian General Assemblies both Old and New School, wiU convene there during the month Over 1.000 delegates are expected to be in attendance' for whose accommodation ample Provisions have hr-J, made. All tliB railroads in the state, MississinDi packet companies, and eevcral of tho main railroad lines to the East have agreed to convey delegates at RppOBTcr Ops. Sickles—Gen. Sickles, who ar rived in Washington on the 8th, had an interview with Gen. Grant. Gen. Sickles reports affairs eradu ally improving in the Stole. The' labor question la well eettled, and the lawless operations in the north, western portion of the State have ceased. Gen Pick'r- having ffsetfeed th« mivsiop *„ f a~ will probtfriy return to the cnmmm i , ■ the , , ’ .... of £c'uth Carolina. Chief Justice Chase and the Tkial of Mr,-Davis.—Chief Justice Chase had aa in terview with the President to night at nine o’clock, relative to the trial of Jeff. Davis and the restoration of civil law in Virginia. Mr. Chase wanted to be assured that the United States Court would be unobstructed by mili tary orders He recurred to his letter to Mr. Jobusou of last October, in which he de clined to hold the United States Circuit Court in Virginia. So long as they were surrounded with bay onets aud subject to the interference ot mili tary commandants, he. would still refuse to hold court if the military status was un changed. He understood (he peace procla mation aa restoring tho writ of habeas corpus, but was ignorant of the condition ot affairs now in Virginia, and in doubt whether the military or the civil authorities bad pre cedence. The President informed him that so far as his official information extended the civil law is now supreme in the State of Virginia, and the courts could proceed with out fear of interruption from military offi cers ; and such, in taet, is the case so far as he knows all over the land where the civil courts are organized. It now rests with the Chief Justice, the United States District Judge of Virginia, Judge Underwood, and the United Stetes District. Attorney, Mr. Chandler, to deter mine whether Mr. Da via shall be iudicted and tried in Virginia or not. The United States Court sits on Monday at Norfolk, and it is understood that Mr. Davis’ case will be brought before the Grand Jury to be con vened in that city.— tvashinyton Latter to Cin cinnati Enquirer, 6tU. Aud by virtue of an order greeted by the Hon. Walter S. Chisholm, Judge ol said City Court ol Savan nah, 1 Will sell before the Court House. Iu the City of Savannah, at lti o’clock a. in, os MONDAY, the 21st day of May, 1360, the above described property. CHARLES J. WHITE Sheriff C. 8. Terms cash. ALSO. At the same time and place, a fast Horse, A No. 1 Light Buggy and Harness, war ranted. Terms cash, or note with good endorser. myT td CHARLES i. WHITE. DeWitt & Morgan, 137 CONGRESS STREET, Have Just opened a large assortment of NEW GOODS lor Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Summer wear: Bareges Organdies Jaconets Calicoes Mozambiqnes Grenadines, ac , Ac. Summer Shawls Summer Mantles Summer Cassimeres Linen Drills Sommer Undershirts bummer Drawers Halt Hose • Linen Cambric Hdkis Cravats Gloves FOR SALE AT THE LOWEST NEW YORK PRICES. myT-6 1 DRY GOODS Tlie undersigned having formed a copartnership under the firm name of Hiram Roberts* Sons & Co., for the purpose of carrying on a general DRY GOODS BUSINESS, have now opened, and will continue to receive additional supplies of Imported and Domestic Dry Goods, which they offer for sale at ZTo. 156 GIBBONS’ SnUHro Mt’K A V, BLTSS & 0*0., Commission Merchants, I .BALERS In White Oak and Yellow Plus Timber ol u all size*. Cash advances made on uousignmenta of Timber, Cotton, Naval Stores, Ac. The above-named house offer unn.nal facilities for the sale of Southern Prodncta, and reapecUully so licit consignments. MoKAY. BUSS A CO., d-21-tawtf 146 Broadway, N. Y. GEORGE PATTEN, Forward and Commission Merchant Tormi ailtf •2 1301- Day. PETER JONES, Proprietor. CHARLESTON HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. fltHlS popnlar and well known Hotel, situated In the , busineae portion of the city, lias lieeu ru wly tar nished throughout by the present proprietor, who ha? been sixteen years connected with the establishment lug *~ 11 W WHITE. Proprietor. ' AARON WILBUR, Ageu- No. 89 Bay Street LIFE INSURANCE! ST. CHARLES SALOON, B 1 '*■ STAMM, Bay Lana, rear of Poet Office.— The best Liquors, Alee, Wines Sefeare, Ac., lucl “ding a choice article of SELT- directly Imported from Heraagthum, ml2ly Nassau, aud the best of Rhine Wines. * UNCH every day at ll o’clock. No. 182 Bay Street, f22-3m* • SAVANNAH. K. MoLRA. J. H. CARTER. KENNETH McLEA & CO., Merchants SOa BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, O A. _ tf~ Advances made on ConalgBmenta of Cotton fluff other produce to onr friends in Liverpool aud New York. THOMAS H. AUSTIN, General Commission and Forwarding . AAKR.OZXANTF, 95 Bay Street, Savannah, Oa. axraaa to Wm. M TnnnoA Ca. Savannah; Nourse A Brooks, New York; Bpptng, Hansen! A Co., Columbus. m20-u GEO. W. BERRY & CO. Manufacturers and Dealers in WALNUT, CHESTNUT AND PAINTED CHAMBER FURNITURE) Refrigerators, Bureaus, Wardrobes, <tc., 1 * a Holmes’ Block. Hojrmorket Squre AUGUSTA MOTEL. I A.' RICE*'} Proprietors. THE KNICKERBOCKER LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF N. Y. Sniillm Brancli Office, 89 Bay SI., SAVANNAH, GA. A.* "W 1H31U* 9 TVT ft|T|jSyT t T‘-i No Extra Charge for Southern Residence, ONE RATE GF PREMIUM 'ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES. W E respectfully Invite onr old friends and the traveling public to give ns a call. Onr house ia located In the heart ol trade, and convenient to the depot*. [fS-3m] JONES A RICE Port Royal House, HILTON HEAD, 8. C. RIDDELL Jk a. a. ■™»’ Jufi-tf Psora is(Oa. u. r.’ as<u>. HEW MUSIC STORE J?rof. F, Lessing F^Policlea written at this office in an* 7 form de sired. ' - 490 ACRES OF LADD For One Dollar! TO BE RAFFLED FOR, O N the sixth day of June, one thousand eight hun dred and alxty-six, AT THAT SC&EVEN HOUSE, In the city of Savannah, Chatham County, Mate of Georgia, by a committee of gentlemen selected by the subscribers, 490 ACRES OF LAND, will constantly keep on hand Pianos from the cele brated manufactory of GEORGE STKCK Sc CO., New York. A great variety of Musical Instruments and Sheet Music thebest composer*. aU-lm tuned; Instruments repaired. TH£ DAILY NEWS, PUBLISHED At CHARLESTON S; C., LARGEST CIRCULATION Situated Is UwndM Coasty, star Min- town, State of Georgia.. The projected Brunswick and Florida Railroad run ning through the southeast part, offers great facility for Removing to the seaboard the fine cypress, pine and other Umber to be found on this lot, and a hand some sum may be bad from the Railroad Company Tor the privilege of running their can through It. Arrangements may also be satisfactorily entered Into with them (the Railroad Company) for making It a wood station to supply their locomotives with ftiel. A stream of water runs through this land, and lov ers of the placMptial art can indulge their fancy at all Reasons of thayeer. The qualltyof the eeil In Lowndes county Is too highly appreciated for any comments to be made on the above. TITLES CLEAR—The winner paying for the trans fer of the satoe to bis name, and be (the winner) la to pay also one hundred dollars to the Savannah Fe male Orphan Asylum. The pnaent owner of the land pledges himself to give one hundred dollari to tlie Savannah Metropolitan Fire Company, If all the subscriptions are taken up. Subscription—Ticket*. Mx thousand in number, at one dollar each. Can be purchased at the lfaalc Store of J. C. SCHREINER A SON, CotmrSaa l Savannah, Georgia, where a Plat of the above i ! Land can be seen. a9-tf The Itoas Foboebik6.—The New York paper, con tain detailed accounta of the succeaMul forgeries of John Boee, late a broker of that city. He managed to victimize various banking firms to the extent of about a half million and make bis escape. HU operations showed s good deal of adroitness, and caused a con siderable sensation in bustss.. circles. The following are all the losses that have been discovered, though a ». UiU.ij' he , were vat on other parties, and on Congress street, east of the Market, and at the second store from the end of the hnildlng. JAMES H. ROBERTS. ” DWIGHT L. ROBERTS. 126-tf EDWARD S. LATHROP. First-class Board, W ITH or withoat Rooms Also, Stable and Rooms In the rear. Apply at 1M Bryan street, op. pofeite the Market, lo myl MRS. E. VICK. Agents, Male and Female, *1 each, and cost the agent bat *10 per ham Any person wishing a pleasant baslnem can learn the particulars by sending two stamps for clrctuare aad return postage. Address B. WAYVELL, l •» 'Rm4.ni.GMi ■■r.ste tot enj msc HtuviSmsnnt am-nx-vs <..»• *»■ Wav r-.-Naa You* I Cromsc a Co nr snowti is ms SinaMsan- Wnuaat Panv -Buti-a, N .3 | Black A Sptuldm^ * tlondsy May 7. J866—The strsmsiup Merlin, iron. , David Ggovssbeek a Co .e-Foun(Band, reports the 8teau;zhi(ijV;Jliani Penn. LTi'.ol boric in ii , re tor New York, touched at 3t. Johns', > COnunenul Bank , on ti,2 13th ult. fibs had Herd Ventre J&utes , idtar7 ,b„.- uuuinitr- i reports Staph, u« on ■ .rid Total m-i-lme' ‘'Box4,Til, Chicago. it.S B. DAWKINS, i Attorney* at “Law and Solicitor in $ J43,0iXl gold, GAINESVILLE. U.iawiy EAST PLOHiDA (26 eod-3m BOSTON. Emigrants Can be Supplied • WITHIN TEN DAYS. fftHE undersigned are prepared to supply Planters A ami other parties who may be In want of WHITE and ha LABORERS, and have made necessary arrange ments in the North to fl'l any osiers for agriculture it any onset Lniforerik Woodcutters, Meebanlcs, etc., within Ten or Twelve days from the day the order Is given here. The Laborers are to be received by the Employers on arrival of the steamer here, ami transported to the points where they tw wanted at Employers’ expense, and the-Employers have further to pay a certain sum per head In advance, partly aa security and partly for covering the expenses In bringing the Emigrants from the North to this port. The rate at which Farming Laborers can be se cured will average about *140 per year, the Emplojtf era finding them. For further parrienuraag^ Sc CO., Jones’ Bock, Bay street. One door Eaat of Barnard street, Savannah, GM, KirawNCKS: Jackson tf LiwUm. savanna” John W. Audersou A Soa, asyannah. Solomon Coheo.Sarenna*. Jno. C. FenuL Savannah. Nit holla, Camp ef Co.. Savaoutth Geo A. Cuylei, Savannah. Vt IT. ptamihK ^a»awi«h. Joan S< 'even, SftvatDsh. Brlghan Baldwin <t Co., savannah Satawr-i Nationio. Bank, SsTauaab. mi JOURNAL PUBLISHED IN THE STATE, And la universally considered Tlie Best Commercial FAMILY PAPER IN THE STATE. PARTIES. THEREFORE, IN GEORGIA, who de sire to subscribe for a CHARLESTON- PAPER,will consult their, interest by sending fur THE DAILY NEWS. . TERHI.... $10 PER ANNUM. Published Is Folio Fora, Mae -of thv New' Herald. TO PUNTERS. Plows, Hoea, Axes, and other At aakeri and pauero and Country itefehr to onr itock and vhi est to purchase of c My on hand a full stock of i 3iieUerfl, Straw Cotters, ritarai Implements of best th which to supply Planters , whose attention we Invite ve can make it theti inter- J. W. STEELE, fLate Steele * Burbank.) 11 Merchanta' Raw, Hilton Head, So. Ca. And cornsr King ana George Sts., Charleston, /AALL8 the attention of Wholaaale and Rstail Pnr- V’ chssers to hie sapertor mock of Military and Naval Clothing, FURNISHING GOODS, Watcher Clock*, Fancy Goods, Jewelry and Plated WareKjwords, SaehM, Kelts, Bmfire2eries[ Olaesca, GnnuMeta, Glove* *«., Ac. Dissolution of Copartnership. £ HAVB this day withdrawn from the Arm of G. B. ’tf G. W. Lamar. O. W. LAMAR, JnB. continue the (Yunmlmlnn an* Forward! Business, and reepecUbUy solicit n ahareof On yui patronage. Q. B. LAMAR Savannah. May 1. IMA MpUm J24-tf BOUSE Sc BRYaNT, IM bay street.-