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o, i' TtXi: :* ■ i VOL. 2-NO. 121. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, Y, 1866. W W ruE? / PRICE. 5 CENTS. The Dailv News and Herald. PUBLISHED BY S. W. MASON, At HI Bat Hum, Savannah, Guo mu: her Copy Jive Cent*. ivr Hundred a $3 6u. her Year $10 00. A U.V EBTialNO: Tn-n Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first ln- foriioti ; One Dollar for each subsequent one. JOB PRINTING, IniCverY style, neatly and promptly done. Che Freedmen’s Bureau. General Steedman’ft Tour Through Geor gia and Florida. {specially Reported for tho Savannah News and Herald.] Generals Stcedman and Fullerton, the Commission- , as appointed bj* the Government to investigate the .t i kings of the Freedmen’s Bureau, left Savannah u Sunday, the 9th inst., in the^Government steam- i.oat “Planter,” for a tour among the sea islands of i i« <»rgia and Florida. On the way up the river an it. i.lent occurred which is much to be regretted, as being calculated to give the Commissioners an er roneous opinion of the disposition of our people. The Planter,” it will be remembered was run past the i. rts at Charleston by tho colored pilot Small, who now commands, her and was surrendered to the Federal licet. Tho steamer Fannie, plying between here and Charleston, is the property of the firm that formerly owned the planter, and in this way proba bly a«'ine ill fcojing had arisen, which accounts for the occurrence about to be uarruted. It became necessa ry for General Steedman and Fullerton to return to Savannah for a short time. As they were on their way hack the Fannie overtook them and attempted to pass ihi iM without blowing the three whistles required by the regulations. There was room enough in the channel for this to be done, but Capt. McNelty, of the Fannie, suddenly brought his helm round, foiled the planter and evidently tried to put her on the obstruc tions. The two vessels went down the river closely locked for about half a mile, and at last tnebow of the Planter began to crush in the weather boarding of the Fannie. The next thing we know the muzzle of a Colt’s navy revolver was pointed from the wheel- house of the Fannie, by Capt. McNelty, at Captain Small. All this time not a word had been spoken on either cide. Small ran into his cabin and brought out a double barrelled shot gun loaded with buckshot, rained it to his shoulder, and was about to fire when Gen. Fullerton iuterposed. Gen. Steedman at tho parne moment sprang upon the railing and ordered i aptain McNelty to put down his pistol, which, with some reluctance he did. The pilot-houses of both vessels were surrounded by passengers, and had not the dilliculty terminated as it did several lives would unquestionably Lave boeu lost. McNelty then sheered off and went ahead, as he could have done from the first had he so chosen. This unpleasant incident over, nothing further oc curred to mar tho enjoyment of the trip. Threading the tortuous narrow inland channel, we made St. Catherine’s Island on Sunday afternoon. On this island, a few months ago, a strange state of things prevailed. A full blooded negro from the North named Tunis G, Campbell, was appointed an agent of the Bureau under General Saxton, and assigned to duty at 9t. Catherine’s and Ossabaw Islands. He im mediately constituted himself a kind of Emperor, formed a Senate and House of Representatives, appointed a Chief Justice and Circuit Judges, Sheriffs, Marshals, Corouors and Delegates—in short, estab lished an exact parody of the government of the U. S. ami all fur the control of three hundred niggers. This dons, he issued a proclamation “by virtue of the authority vested in me by the President of the U. S., aud Major General Saxton,” setting apart a day of public thanksgiving for the blessings bestowed upon st any white may be disposed .way any of these aforesaid standing army of nigger soi ls on the beach to drive off pted to land. Gen. Tillaon, jtie Bureau in Georgia, at once fcf Tycoon Campbell, and his the position of delegate at the ich is or was sitting in Savan- if his rule aud the infiueuce of ra permit from one of General came upon the island xireach- selliug whiskey, are still appa- andjudicious officer in charge at the present time, matters are ring. There is only one pianta- , on St. Catherine’s Island, and a on it is. Messrs. Winchester and rk, have leased the farm and are one third of the crops and their s liberal arrangement the negroes - y and well, and are doing incom- the darkies at the other end of fess to be cultivating land under but iu reality are doing as much erine’s wo went to St. Simon’s and where we found much the same That is to say the freedxnen who ^on contracts were doing well and were Q)y the planters, aud those who were * by themselves, were doing but in- ’ ff**rently. The 6ea island cotton looks far more i i mining than the short staple I have seen in other fait* of the State. If all goes on well 1 believe there **J1 fct least a one-fourtli crop of sea island cotton rn^d. ' ,h May 21st we reached Fernandina, on the coast f Florid*, and found it a very warm spot in'more than one. There is an investigation going on -ere, by order of the President, into the manner in *uieh tho confiscated lands and houses were sold by •iie Tax Commissioners. The result, of course, is the ^scovery of a series of frauds and rascalities whioh ^•tiling but the municipal records of New York city uld equal. The progress of the investigation, aud the discovery that not one title in three is good, has naturally caused great excitement in the community, the former owners are hoping to get back their pos- et 's8ions: the Northern purchasers will leave no stone ^turned to retain them. The position of things is dangerously complicated by the fact that some un- ^rupulous men from the North have incited the ne ■ rot810 :, nn, and there are several hundred drilled" te k’rofc3 ready for riot and bloodshed. Governor and General Foster, military com mander of the Department, are earnestly laboring tb oppress these elements of strife. u * the further progress of the investigation in Flo * ua and Georgia I will speak in a future letter. There r *mam several points of interest yet to be inspected. Letter From Fernandina. [Special Correspondence of the .News and Herald.] Fernandina, Fla., May 30,1866. Circuit Court—Judge Long—Fei'nandina Courier— D. C. m Truman—Tax Commissio)iei's—Business, dc.y (tc. The Circuit Court, His Hon6r, Judge Long, pre siding, commenced a session in thia city yesterday. This will be the first session of the court since the war, and the first held in this city, the county seat for Nassau county having been changed from Callahan to Fernandina at the last session of the Florida Legisla ture. The Court has jurisdiction of civil, criminal aud chaucery proceedings. The charge of Judge Long to the Grand Jurors yesterday is said by the lawyers who heard it to have been very able, discriminating and loyal in its tone. The Judge is the youngest on the bench, and is a man of unquestioned ability. He lost heavily during the rebellion, and starts in the world anew. It is said that he has political aspirations, or with more truth, perhaps, that the people of Eas 1 Florida are beginning to looks towards him as their candidate for the United States Senate at the next election. You will have perceived before this that we have a weekly paper, “The Fernandina Courier,” published by J. M. Doty & Co. It is a well got up paper, aud fs alive to all the important topics of the hour. It is to be hoped that it may be permanently pecuniarily sue" cessful. Col. B. C. Truman, whose report, hitherto published, on the condition of the South has excited much and well-merited encomium, is at present investigating the doings of the Direct Tax Commissioners for the State of Florida. He has now been here nearly three weeks and has “pitched in ” to the Tecords of that Board in earnest, and has taken testimony from all sources. Mr. Truman comes hare from the Hon. Secretary McCulloch, by the direction of President Johnson, and when his report shall have been made the country will be astonished. Business is slack. The lumber mills are not doing much, and several Northern capitalists who have in vested in these enterprises are willing to sell out at cost. Messrs. Appel & Cohen, one of our largest mer cantile firms, are selling out their stock at auction and propose to relinquish business here entirely. - There can be little doubt that this will some day be come a large city. But the present uusetttad and vexatious condition of land titles, and the unpleasant animosities engendered by reason thereof, are at pre sent a serious bar to its prosperity. The large hotel has not yet been opened to the pub lic. But tho enterprising proprietor, Dr. Payne, has leased the house known as “The Fernandina Hotel,” aud is doing a good business. The Doctor knows how to keep a hotel. T Wc have plenty of steamboats now. Tho steamer Kate, Capt. T. J. Lockwood, made the trip on Monday from your city to this port iu thirteen hours. The steamer Helen Getty arrives on Sundays. Th« Sylvan Shore and Dictator on Wednesdays. The Lizzie Baker used to arrive ou Saturdays. I have just Been a letter written to Mr. Truman by one of the editors of tho New York Tribune, in which he says that he believes his (T*S) report to be a truth ful report and a masterly production. [From the New York World, 24th instant.] The Torture of Jefferson Davis. It is no longer a matter of newspaper rumor that the treatment which Jefferson Davis has received during his incarceration in Fortress Monroe has been such as to break down ^his constitution, and to put him, after twelve months of protracted suffering, in iminent peril of death. Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, the President of the United States recently ordered the Post-Surgeon at Fortress Monroe to make a careful aud thorough report upon the condition of Mr. Davis’ health. That report has been made and is now published. It cannot be read by any honorable and right-minded American, no matter what, his sectional feelings or his political opinions may be, without a sickening sensatioii of shame for his coun try, and a burning flush of indignation against the persons who have prostituted their official position to inflict upon the American name an ineffaceable brand of disgrace by the wanton and wicked torture of an in valid lying a helpless prisoner in the strongest for tress of the Union. The report of Post-Surgeon Cooper is all the more damning that it is perfectly calm and formal in tone, and that it deals only with the strictly medical aspect of the investigation which its author was ordered, to make. We hear nothing, for example, from Surgeon Cooper of the stories which have been repeated over and over again, in all varieties of tone, but with a sin gular consistency in the main details, by correspon dents of all shados of opinion, in regard to the petty insults heaped upon Jefferson Davis in the routine of his daily life. The refusal, by express military or ders, of the common .courtesies aud simplest decen cies of life to a man who for four years wielded the re sources of eleven belligerent States against the whole power of the Union, while it would be unspeakably disgraceful to the authorities perpetrating it, might be of very little consequence either to the health or the spirits of the captive at whom it was aimed. A man of strong and self-sustained character might be annoyed, indeed, at finding himeelt in the hands of persecutors so paltry; but they would scarcely be able to disturb his digestion or his sleep. The American people, should these stories prove to be true, will have a serious account to settle with the functionaries who could thus misrepresent and be little them in the eyes of Christendom and of history. But the crying result of Surgeon Cooper’s report, the result which demands the most prompt and emphatic expression possible of the popular indignation, if we are not to be written down all of us as accomplices in the vile transactions which it reveals, is this, that the health of Jefferson Davis, which was notoriously poor at the time of his capture, has been systemati cally broken down by a cruel and deliberate perse verance k in applying to him one of the worst tortures known to humanity. If the members of the Congressional majority at Washington are not weaker aud more wicked men than the sternest of their political opponents would willingly believe them to be, they will compel a prompt exposure of the authors of this shameful thing.a prompt exposure and a punishment as prompt. The President has done bis duty iu laying bare the facts, and WiU do his duty, we doubt not, in arresting at once andj summarily this continuous outrage upou the national character. But we live in an epoch of Congressional inquiries into national scandals and national rumors of all kinds ; aud the conscience of the country will hold the present Congress to a dread responsibility if it shirk or evade in any way a duty more important to sur national honor4han any which it has as yet assumed. Pride of Rack.—It seems that on Wednesday last tiie Sunday School anniversary exercises of * Pattern District Sabbath Association, the children n n i m t0 tbe Scho °l the Gothic Methodist Epis- P*i Church, Grand street, refused to fall into line the children of a colored Sabbath School, and en peremptorily ordered to do so by their officers, . peremptorily refused and withdrew from their }^ ce lh the line. This action of tl>e children has ttU8 p considerable comment in the District, and ani ♦K Var “ 1 feellu 8 is .exhibited by those who approve “ th ‘ 8tt who disapprove their course. The local l p r i s adding j Uli x to th e game aud holding the imrch responsible for the action of the Sunday S, children. This is condemned on all sides, as Jf e officers of the Church and School used their au- ptlty with the children to make them conform to ■w programme, without effect. The boys did not ob- in ? l i° ,he color ed children walking in the procession, Jy c ‘iaimed the right of taking precedence of them on of their numerical superiority. But pride of was doubtless the main cause of the juvenile ^oeuion—Sew York Tribune. Those Brooklyn Sunday School children have not ^‘become sufficiently educated and ehlightenod- they grow up and become renders of the Tri- u he, they will be bettor able to appreciate their in- Priority to tho black raco. Uek. Wheklee.—The friends of Ueu. W., as well ma ^Bcers and men who wore under bis command, urgiug liinj t 0 write a history of his campaigns. * wiil probably comply wit)i the request, and has iiready eaUed upon his subordinate officers to turotsh 1111 Wit h the details of the service of their regiments. 1118 hook will be a great suecess, undoubtedly, for appealing, as it does, to every bad who served in the v *'Alry of the West, vory few of the twenty, thirty, or lort J thousand will bo without it—^Mobile Register. Mother Decision Against -a Test Oath.—At the rftc *ut session of the Circuit Court of Hampshire Jj° Unt y. Wes^'Virginia, Judge Hunker pronounced his J* lBlon upon the law requiring suitors to take the * ° alh la the following dear and -emphatic lan- |..V7 ? c ou»b£« Uw ia , »iol*Uon Of the Federal and State th ® oaaantial principles of oar i0D '- nt ' * nd *• therefore illegal and of no dbliga-. S»w« from Washington. The French Minister. M. Montholon, had an inter view on Saturday with Secretary Seward. It is under stood in Diplomatic circles that he expresses ths opin ion very freely that the war cloud which suddenly ap peared in Europe, after the Emperor’* speech, will be dispelled. He says the Emperor has no idea of going to war. Sir Frederick Bruce, the English Minister, received advices per laat mail, ths tenor of which is more pacificatory. The financial difficultiea in Eng land, it is believed, are passed. One of the principal objects of Mrs. Davis’ visit lo Washington is for the purpose of finding out, if possi ble, when the Government intends to try her husband. She is very anxious to get a trial at once, but it is un dorstood that she has been informed by pretty good authority that it will probably be several weeks, per haps months, before the matter can be arranged for bis trial, the present indictment being regarded by the Government as worthless. Mrs. Davis has been in receipt of a large number of calls. The President has granted her permission to remain with her hus- band at Fortress Monroe. Treasurer Spinner, in a communication to the New' York Herald, aays that, according to the act of Con gress, the Government is liable for The face value of all notes of National Banks, and that no case has arisen in which note holders have suffered any loss ; in other words, the Government does not act in the capacity of jonit trustee of National Bonks and the holders of their notes, to pay the latter such sum at it may realize from the sales of securities of tbe former, but it stands as tbe perfectly secured indorser of every circulating note issued by a National Bank. - Charles O’Connor and George Shea, counsel for Mr. Davis, left for New York this evening. ’They were in consultation with Mr. Davis most of yesterday. They say they found him in better health than they antici- pated.’and though worn out by long confinement he is in possession of the keenest faculties, and is alive to the important issues involved in the trial. They said they only obtained permission to visit him after many futile attempts during tbe past year. [From the Biehmond Whig.] ' The Banslag ofCslmabta. When General Wade Hampton indignantly denied the allegation of General Sherman that the city of Co lumbia was burnt by hia (Hampton’s) order, and chal lenged an investigation, pledging himself to prove that Sherman was responsible for the act, the New York Tribune, affeeting to consider Gen. Hampton’s assertionnot “worthrefuting,” availed itselt, never theless, of “positive evidence” and “credible testi mony” (as it was styled by the Tribune), impugning the veiaoity of General Hampton. This positive evi dence and credible testimony was an affidavit of W. B. Nash, to the effect that the city was on fire and cotton burning in the streets before tbe Federal forces enter ed. Tbe first discovery made in regard to this testi mony was that the person whose name an signed to it was a negro! The Tribune had concealed mis fact. The seeond discovery was tfoit the negro had made no such statement—had given Wo such testimony, and that his signature to the affidavit was forged. The third discovery—a natural sequence—was that the Freed men’s Bureau had had its dirty finger in the dirty job. We copy from the Columbia Phoenix of the 23d inst.: “We called upon W. B^Nashyesterday, and received from him the following affidavit, which demolishes the testimony of the Post. The conversation he had was with a Dr. Ruff, connected with the Freedmen’s Bureau, and he distinctly and emphatically Baid that he told this officer that Gen. Sherman burned the city of Columbia; that his men set fire to his own house, which, with the assistance of inends, was extin guished. Beverly was perfectly in lignant at the use made of his name, and at the mntu.tioo of his mere statement, and the falsehood that he had made an af fidavit. Here is now his solemn declaration under oath : “ State op South Cabouwa, ) -■ Richland District. ) “ Personally appeared before me, W. B. Nash, who, being duly sworu, says that he never made an affidavit in relation to the burning of Columbia; that he made a statement of the blowing up of the depot by acci dent, and that a few bales of cotton were burned by private parties, to an officer connected with the Freed men’s Bureau. Deponent further states that General Sherman, or men acting under his permission, burned the city of Colombia, and that Gen. Hampton had nothing to do with the nefarious transaction. “-W. B. Nash. “ Sworn to before me, this 21st day of May, A. D., 1866- W. B. Johnston, Magistrate." The Indianapolis (Indiana) Herald states, on the authority of soldiers who formed a part of Sherman's army on that occasion, that the Federal soldiers burned Columbia by the orders of their immediate commanders, but whether the latter were acting under instructions to that effect from Sherman was not known. Conscripts m France. —John Mitchell, the Paris correspondent of the New York News, says : year have been called upon. Tbe price of a man is Row In France, the conscripts whoso service is due this $400, or 2,100 francs—that is to say, if one of con script age desires to buy himself off such ie.tlie fcrice. The conscription, which did not exist under the old monarchy at all, has now entered completely into'the life and habits of France, or seems to work smoothly ; lhou «k no doubt, there is many * hard leave-taking when the conscript officert make their ut the French conscript _ swoop upon some country - village, take it gaily ; as they take most other things. They seem reconciled to the notion that those predestined Boao “ ! i® lr8 , belong, to their country, and to glory, and ta thedrapeau. The system also has its advan- ln i giving to most young Frenchmen an oppor tunity of seeing somewhatfil the world ogtside their native valley. t,la cn<l of tll *‘i r Sevan years, * h ® l ’J w4dl, ' st »'‘d must estimable part of the population: and the tales thoy bars to toUof their advtsitures stimulate the youngsters, who, per- ba,>8 ’ Ur S ” ther Pleased than sorry when the dav ar rives and the sergeant comes round to gather up' the contingent of the village. 1 That Is always a kind of gaia. Tho conscripts are covered with ribbons and rosettes, and are marched repeatedly through all the streets preceded by a fffo and drum; their frlenda escorting them, treating them to wine in nome caje gardens, and' making them little presents. All daj there is. an^ppc&rance of noiav festivity; though sometimes the mothers havered eyes. And iq tbe evening the party ia marched off to the nearest railway station, ready for any country aud for service;Tor they have not only “h«frd of battles,” but they have beard of .the orange groves of Blidah, that paradise of Algeria, and of the tropic splendors of and Mexico with Senorites. Letter from Mexico. We are indebted to Rev. N. W. Smith, of Jonesboro, Ga., for the following letter from Mexico. It will be interesting to those of our friends who propose mak ing homes in that lovely, but, for the present, un settled and unsafe land: Office Colonization, 13 San Juan DeLetran, Mexico, April 17, 1866.. Dear Sir:—At the time I stated that the transporta tion to Mexico would either be furuisbed emigrants, or their expenses paid, or refunded by the Imperial Government, such was actually the case, and agents were appointed and sent to the United State* for that purpose. But the Federals arrested them, and refused to permit them to act, and strict orders to that effect were really issued from Washington. Therefore, the generous intention of His Majesty has been frus trated, and that portion of the decree which promises it has been virtually repealed. It was never intended to pay the expenses of every one that wanted to come to Mexico. There are thon- sands of men in the United States whom we would not have here on any account. To distinguish between the good and the bad, the desirable and tbe un desire- able, to aid the former and retard the latter, were the duties of the agents. Since we are not allowed agents, wc cannot exercise the discrimination; and sinoe it would be an impossi bility, as well as very undesirable, to pay the expenses of all, we cannot pay the way of any. I would be glad if yon would have thia letter pub^ lished, that it may correct the impression made by my former letter, which represented on this point a state of things that now does not exist Respectfully, Richard Liteanry, Sub-Commissioner. [From the Atlanta New Era.] An Editor’s Trials in Utah.—The Vidette, a wide-awake Gentile paper, has, for soma time past, been published in Salt Lake City, bearding the Mor mon devils in their own den, tp the great discomfort of their “Saintships.” The editorjrecently received a letter written in bloood—or red ink—which reads— Skedaddle 1 It is the “red hand” of the Destroying Angel, and threatens assassination. The editor is not much frightened by the order, but aaya : “Well, we shall keep the docament, and leave our readers to judge whether we are much frightened. If these miserable hounds aud cut-throats think they can intimidate the Vidette, why, they are simply mis taken. We have spoken plainly in the past, and we shall speak stiff more plainly in the future, holding ourselves accountable only to God, our conscience, and the laws of the land.” The following day the editor received smother warn ing, ol which he saya: “We stop the press to give place to tho fcUowiug: ‘Now.’ as the lark said to her young ones, ‘it is time for us to leave! ’ We could stand the ' bloody hand ’ and the * skedaddle ’ of ths other warnings, but the following gets us: Salt Lake City, April, 1866. Mr. Editor Vidette : If you don’t quit abusing Sten- house and the Mormons, we’ll come and marry you. We don’t 'mean blood,’ but we won’t stand to have Stenhouse maligned; so look out. f ^’ 27 Mormon Women. We weaken on tbe turn. Will some one take our place? ‘27 Mormon Wom^n! r We apologize. We don’t edit the Vidette—Stenhouse is a good fellow- brave man—and he can look a dog in the face! Be sides, he never did borrow a pair of brass knuckles. 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The TRAVELER’S of Hartford is tbe-oldest Acci dent Insurance Company in tlie United States, aud established on a linn basis. It has issued many thousands of policies, pays claims for compensation almost daily, and its business is steadily increasing, its capital is ample, its directory of the highest char acter, and it has paid over One Thousand Losses, without contesting one.. NO MEDICAL. EXAMINATION KE- Q.CIKED. tW“ Three cents a day will insure a man for $2000 or $10 weekly compensation, for one year. J. G. BA1TTBRSON, President- Insurance. FIRE, MABIRE, L I F E AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE Eoomt Dsnkis, Sec. A. WILBUR, J. T. THOMAS, GREEN A FOOTMAN, J. C. MCNULTY, Agents, Savannah. INSURE ACCIDENTS, Pioneer Company OF THE SOUTH. IN RISKS TAKEN THE FOLLOWING FIRST-CLASS COMrA- 260,000 300,000 600,000 ALIVATS on HAItn. J. B. OASTBR. 7 Deaths in Houston.—We are pained to (hear a re port that the Hon. John M. Giles died recently at his residence in Perry, of a wound received from the horn of a cow, which subsequently gangrened and proved incurable. Hr. Giles was a distinguished lawyer and most estimable gentleman. We also learn with much regret the death of John H. Powers, of the same county, a brother of the late Hon. A. P. Powers, of this county, and kell known to our citizens generally,—Macon Messenger. An Odd Epitaph.—A Trenton paper says: “A walk through the Morrisville burying ground, just over tbe river, win bring to one’s notice a qneer epitaph. It is to Samuel McCracken, a former resident of that vil lage, and bears tbe following addenda, of the record of his birth and death‘If all the leading politicians, and priests go to Heaven, I want to get off at some other station. ’ To put this on hia grave-stone was the order of the man by directione found in hia will.'’ VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, LEXINGTOK, VA. r E BOARD OF VISITORS will meet at the Vir ginia Military Institute oh the 27th of June, to mako appointments of Cadets. Applications for State and pay Cadet appointments will be made to the urn dersigned, accompanied with the nsuti testimonials of good moral character. Candidates for appointment mast be exempt from bodily disease, of ages between 16 and 26 years, and in the case of Slate Cadet applicants, must satisfy the Board of their inability to meet the expenses of the Institution. Candidates for admission most be able to read and write well, and to perform with facility and accuracy the various operations of the four, ground rules of arithmetic, of reduction, of simple and compound proportion, and of vulgar and decimal fractions. State Cadets (one for each Senatorial District) will be supplied with board and tuition without charge. Every arrangement has been made by the Board of Visitors to maintain the high scientific character of the Institute, and to put in full operation its well tried und distinctive system of discipline and Ins true- The graduating, exercises of the institution will take place at the Institute on the 4th of July. The examinations will commence on the 27th of June, and be continued daily until completed. The public are respectfhltyinvUed to all of these exercises. For ail further information, application will be made to the Superintendent. FRANCIS H. SMITH, Superintendent.. Augusta Constitutionalist please inMrt six. times, anil send bill to tills office. may*^-St w. BDRR, ESOPUS COIiOGNE MiUStuseSr BOLTING CLOTHS, nEL-ium, r ' Smith Machines, Hoisting .add Lighter Screws, Don Proof staffs. Mill Picks, Ac. ... HE subscriber can now furnish the above goode,- us well as . MILL FURNISHING GOODS GENERALLY, of the very best quality and at lower rates than ANY OTHER HOUSE in tbe country, a* he is importing stock In largo quantities for supplying the trade— MiilwrielitH aud Millers direct. JOHN J. BELL. Importer and Manufacturer, . ma»5S-tr. No. 66 Robinson street. New York. KENNETH McLEA & CO., Commission Merchants 303 BAT STREET, - SAVANNAS, OA fy Advances made on Consignments of Cotton and other produce to onr friends in Liverpool and New York. a3-Sm THOMAS H. AUSTIN, toral Commission and Forwarding MHROBAWF, - 93 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga. arm to Wm. M. Tunno A Co., Savannah; Nonrse A Brooks, New York; Epping, HshrerU A Co., Columbus. m20-tf DAVANT & WAPLES FACTORS, Forwarding and General Having associated ourselves in the above business we respectfully solicit consignments. In connection with the above, we have a large brick fire-proof building, known as the Southern Warehouse, at the corner of Bay and Lincoln streets, and are prepared to take cotton or merchandise on storage. ■ R. J. DAVANT, Jk, ' W. D. WAPLES. Of the late firm of ffiavant A Lawton. a!8-tf s. & Forwarding and Commission - MEBCHANTO. WHOLESALE AND RET AH. DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Ac«, ’ NOS. 1 AND 2 BAMMIS’ BLOCK, Bay Street, Jacksonville, Florida. - Jas.T. Paterson. TIMBER, Lumber & Commission : merchant, ' No. 193 Bay Street, Savaaaah, TcrxuMf alltf OS per Day. PETER JONES, Proprietor. CHARLESTON HOTEL, CHARLESTON, 8. C. been sixteen years connected with tho establishment. tc36-tt W WHITE, Proprietor. Port Royal House, HILTON HEAD, S. C. RIDDELL * BUGG FtormtOti s. r. nw, j03-tf THE DAILY NEWS, PUBLISHED AT CHARLESTON S. C., HAS TUX LARGEST CIRCULATIOTT ‘ • cr *xr JOURNAL PUBLISHED IN THE STATE, i . w . And is mdreisaUjr considered Tlie Best Commercial AMD family paper IN THE STATE. PARTIES. THEREFORE, IN GEORGIA, who de sire to subscribe for a CHARLESTON PAPER, will coneult their Interest by sending for THE DAILY NEWS. •’ THE SOUTHERN Accident Insurance Co., ITNONina, VA. Authorized Capital, $1,000,000 INSURES AGAINST ALL ACCIDENTS, Giriilg the holder of aD Annual' Policy the lull amount insured in case of death, and compensation each week; if disabled, for a period NOT EXCEEDING TWENTY-SIX WEEKS. Columbia Fire Insurance Company, of Now ' York lulton lire Insurance Company of New York Excelsior Fire Insurance Company of New York..; Springfield Fire Insurance Company of New York Putnam Fire Insurance Company of Hart ford Washington tug Insurance Company of Baltimore Gulf Stato Fire Insurance Company of Tal lahassee.... AOOIDBNT. Travelers* of Haitford. ><i ,600.000 Marino and Fire. Petersburg Savings and Insurance Company of Virginia....... $500,000 Eufaula Home Insurance Company of Ala bama 200,000 Georgia Home Insurance Company, Colnm- bna 360,000 LIFE. nu ASSETS. New England Mutual Life Insurance Com pany of Boston .$3,000,000 Knickerbocker Mutual Life Insurance Com pany of New York- : 1,000,000 On Open Policies in Great Western, of New York. In Commercial Mutual, of New York. AARON. WILBUR, Agent tnl^-ff No. 89 Bay Street. TERMI. $10 PER ANNUM. Published in Folio Form, size of the New York ■HeraW. : .... ass-tf Darien* ‘ Orders for Lumber soUctted. J. SHAFFER, Omv»rr| 1 jpl Dealer FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FRUITS amdPRODUCS, c Warn Itimsoios Maikit, DppoMte Mfi-WaMMy^fthsad between Barclay and • h s w Z__y ’ o b £ Potsidiffi'ApWes.inff Offioto constantly onhand,mfi- pfii up for the^— — For Sale, deep, about 60 ax inch tubes lO feet long.. boiler is very strongly braoed. Will be sold very low if applied for immediately. Also a Cylinder Boiler, 26 feet long, 30 Inches ia di ameter. For farther particulars apply to ___ C. L. COLBY * CO, my»0-tf corner Bay and Absrcorn streets. BLUR & BICKFORD, LUMBER MANUFACTURERS, AND the Buvannal^fetropoUtiui Fire Company, if DEALERS IN TIMBER AND LUM* M t*criptiortAre_wwre »p.. BER OF EVERT DE8CRIP- . WON.-.., ’ DOORS, Sfi8H,.fitD BUJipg udLaabet Yard ou Canal, near Bryan street nuinriiMiiu, i WITH or without Rooms If in the leu. Apply posits the Market,-to MJl . . also, jtohls and Moo— Apptynt U4 Bryan street, Op-. MBS. B. VICK. 490 ACRES OT LARD For One Dollar! TO BE BAFFLED FOR, fXft the sixth day of June, one thousand eight hun- KJ- died and Mxty-six, -j ;<• AT THE SCREVEN HOUSE, in thS city of Savannah, Chatham County, Stats el Georgia, by Aeqannittae of gentlemen selected by the subscribers, ‘ 490 ACRES OF LAND, Situated 111 Lswudii Cshuty, near Mil*- : ..a loWu, 8tat« or Georgia*. some sum null oe iiaa irom. i for ftipiprtvafeg* rumrinff SHORT THE POLICIES, ($3,000 FOR TKN CENTS!) Travellers’ Tickets, from one to thirty days, may be bad at the Railroad Ticket Ofices, Steamship Agencies, and at the Office of the General Agent. Tbe Stock of this Company ia exclusively in Southern hands, and represented by a Directory widely and favorably known We, therefore, appeal with confidence to the good will .and patronage of the Southern public, b FXOBR niBDiH AND TRKASUBEK, ; COL. MAURICE S. LANGHORNE. VEU PRESIDENTS, GEN. JOHN B. GORDON, of Georgia. GEN. HARRY T. HAYS, of Louisiana. GEN. JOHM B. GORDON, ) chief Agent at Atlanta, Ga., Agunt for ths State. o. c. MYERS, General Agent, -- SAVANNAH, GA. for re; „ —, . „„ ual other timber to i*e foeniTon tide let, be had from, the Jfoilraed I their duel making Os * supply tiwtr foeodiedvee with fuel. A stream of water rnuathrough this land, and lov srrofths piscatorial art can indulge ifietr fancy at *11 seasons of tire year. “to. The anhlltyof the soil in Lowndes county is too Haywood. T. upiuertetod for ah v eouitgeirtt to be made on «°dlT U rnLTO CLEAR—The winner paying for the trans fer of the seme to bis, name, sad tiedllie wtmer) Is to du, aMo one hundred doUam to the Savannah fo imsinffik Slut nMMt of rim aF tho m«)e orphan Asylum. The present owner of the pisriees hjmaflftogirejmo hundred doVtiutn Subscription—Tiekcfa, six thousand ln number •tehe dollar sash.. Cun be pwn hwunl st the Muatr Store of#. O. SCHUKINKit A SOM, Congress street • Georgia, where a Plat of tbe above can be i aD-tf J. H. WILSON, Photographer. Photographs, Poroelafaa Ac Ambrotypcs, » THt IMBBBSr STYLE OF THE ART. ibeet manner. Pictures made a ‘res iu dear weather. mento< VtMl uud Enualae Specimens. SM SOUTH-RANT CORNIER BROUGHTON AND WHIT- il«4f - AKER STREETS UDES80R11ILR1KS0N, CRY MARSHAL’S SALE. IHiMEDS. SADDLERY V 6k. dtmaA IRnWOTtfiV TmU .rewt «- - * *■«- - . V THE G-PLEAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN Life and Accident INSURANCE COMPANY / / OF 1STew Orleans- Capital, $300,000 BEK. JAMES LOHGSTEEET, President. ARE PREPARED TO TAKE RIMKH Reaffion.a'ble Ten my21-tf WILLIAM C. COSENS, Agent, At Marine Bank. OGLETHORPE INSURANCE CO. OF SAVANNAH * Are prepared to take Fire Ms oh Reasonable Terms,! At their Office, 117 Bay Street. H. W. MERCER, President. J. T. Thokas, Sec. H. W. Mercer C. 8. Hardee William Hunter 8. Hartridge A. Porter R. Morgan J. Stoddard J. T. Thomas W. Remsbart F. L. Gue H. A. Crane A. A. Solomons M. Hamilton W. W. Gordon my7-tf Directors •. . M. 8. Cohen J. Lama J. W. Nevitt D G. Purse A, Fullartbn J. McMahon L. J. Gnliuisrtin F. W. Sims G. Butler JL Lachliaon K. P. Clatoo, Augusta J. W. Knott. Macon B. F. Hoes, Macon W. H. Young, Columbus LIFE INSURANCE'. THE KNICKERBOCKER LIFE INSURANCE CO..OFN.Y. c SAVANNAH, GA. Wilbur, Msaxtagor. No Extra Charge for Souther Residence, ONE RATE OF PREMIUM ALL • THE UNITED STATES. RTPolicies written at this < OVE SA.'FaATKAJHC,. GA,