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VOL. 2-NO. 127. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7. 18(96. PRICE 6 CENTS. Oailv News and! Herald, rrBLlBHED BY s. W. MASON. HI Hit hTBlttT, TIKHI Havamkas, Gao .Fire Centi. *3 SO. *10 00, iiiviKTieiNa: ni n. ir a .«-r Sqnare of Ten Linen for first tn- Hollar for cads subsequent one. jolt PRINTING, pl vic, m atly and promptly done. SOI :i-published by Bequest.] TH AMERICA. ,.,HI. CLIMATE AND RESOURCES. Ik" I.TIKS IN TRANSPORTATIOW. 4 iui und f*oliti€»l Aspects, Ac. , ..(the Southern Colonization Society* Meriwether and H. A. Shaw, of Ectye i . have recently made a tour through i/.il, i t the purpose of deriving rel^o- . • nee to its adaptation to South' migrate. Their report is pufc- i Advertiser, and is very lengthy, , t that paper. The following ex- ,i,:it( rial points of the report. It . ] . i t inns of country deemed moet in h tilers are at present so defi- . ns to make it quite difficult to l.-prive settlers of any convenient Time and enterprise may over- s, hut they should be duly con- i) contemplate emigration : tieorgia, about the 18th of Octo- i; R. t via. Washington City, where : spurts, and proceeded to New York. .11 the North America, one of the i. .1 states line of steamers to Rio De- ; vs York «m the 80th of October, and .11 the _<»th of November. At Rio we nih iiieii from the South, who had been mi mouths, on the same mission that ii. -r. Amongst them we formed the oc- i»r (iaston, of Columbia, 8. C., Mho .11 extensive tour in tho interior of : m. 1‘aulo. He introduced us to his aiil< * Susa, Minister of Agriculture, to 11«*i 1 t lie objects of our visit, and pre- i. m nils. Tho Minister offered us every in the prosecution of our investiga- trausportation, a guide, an lnterpre- .c*us, food and lodging. • • out, we stopped at Pernambuco, 1 ourselves that the climate would of our State. Everlasting heat y stem and break the constitution i o vince, however, is grown the beet •tton. Extracts from an English 1. quote Pernambuco cotton at from than any other in the great cotton sugar and tobacco arc also grown t.vtiou. We stopped also at Bahia, .It-, u miles south of Pernambuco, , mi gar. tobacco, and all the Tropical ii great perfection. Still the climate, is Equatorial, and liable to the , M .q.le . . !. i.mplete inquiry and investigation, i st. Paulo, lying between 22 and 25 de- l. itittide. appeared to us, the most suita- .pU\ on account ol health, climate and ii« mg bv its whole length and breadth, l»ti frost line, except higher table lands, (« from lrost the year round. With the •xplormg this Province thoroughly, we I went by steamer to Santos, its seaport try, lying between the mountains and sea- .» large bodies of farming lauds, and wc i attention to the interior, beyond the which hound the coast. Therefore, we • over the .St. 1‘aulo and Santos Railroad, i is not y#-t completed, but the cars pass ut twenty miles beyond the city of St. aj'itul nl thu province of the same name, ».i* •! to Juudiee, forty miles from the • whole completed length is eighty or - . kneeling the interior of the province • id, at Santos. TUis port, wc omitted .-a very capacious hai hor, an outlet for < m class, and by the first of June, it c.lroad will be finished. A survey Ilka uiinue it about one hundred miles ''lara were provided with animals to . y over a country almost without transportation in the interior is . <q;t that now aud then a bullock g at short distances, over roads certainly could not pass. These \i /ogvllibr, aiid all (urn together i ur tour on the 18tli of December, j|.« tailingna, the nearest pass over destination, but on arriving ; ii - utter impracticability of crossing. ].lain, that we either had to abandon tnp or the other, and here we agreed that he should go over the mountains i he lauds in that direction, whilst the other. His report is appended to ir course in the direction of Bolucstu litre we found the lands were owned * From St. Paulo to this place, by .; is about one hundred and fifty miles. . minus of the railroad is fifteen or ii arer. The road, if road it may be . i * it. passes over a tract of country, ex- twenty or forty miles, called here . ui in es or other growth upon it than •w small bushes. The people here con- p i 'livd they would produce well, but i *t As intimated above, there are : s. iiuug lauds on this route, and we - .,1a make one thousand pounds per a 1, ,rn that would yield twenty-live } 1 acre, all cultivated with the hoe. . , all stages of growth; some just up rive or six inches—some hi full - i i. punted the year previous, with bolls *•* -j.v c * tton gins at work, driven by . . t !>■» hand. All the cotton here ia -i~t ,,f this extensive campo or plain, -*• - i • u ren waste, suddenly rises up a 'iuves.M,»u of mountains, about fifty or l»y t.n or twelve miles wide,evi- pculur vulcanic formation. As this *v is the most interesting visited, we - greatest care, and satisfied our- ■•taiii .i th»* richest lands we had ever lac-iise aud inconceivably fertile tract • hunie extent, cultivated by small - wan “how much laud do you own?” u ’ i ly is •• i do not know exactly, bat it " ii miles long, and from four to six In lands of Brazil, except in rare * U 't Ik-vu surveyed, and no one with iiv. iMed on this subject, knows how ' All guess. Wo saw corn grow- • l!i i- wluch w ould yield more than fifty 1 ’ i he timber is cut down, allowed to • ’ l »> months, commonly, and thfti-set tniiher not consumed by the fird re- n: left it, till it rots. Then usually *•«'> 1 at the end—sometimes with a iu the ground, the seed from five M'Utiut.. this hole and covered with the ^all the cultivation the crops receive. L ri •. Migar cane, tobacco, and all the • re iu great profusion, l grapes also of good quality, ids are exempt froifi front—thfe i urn *aid to be unexceptionable-* -t freestone, and the water power w ; id. Stock of all kinds, bogs : > .it. snperior. Tho usual depth thirteen feet, but it is known • ‘ --Tt in rume places. If this tract of ^•w-rMteht and easy communication with l “ - * .in mere might be any to equal, j'Mihr he none to surpass it. Its pre- l: -- mdroad, one hunarsdahd twenty- : ninhub, and from eighty to oD6 hun- ■ Another outlet may be opened ‘“M'o M.-rra alluded to Above. In that ‘ i;... lylity to one hundred mile* to t ! **. i„. purchased at from one to two , ' Uul uh. tracts or parcel* with eon- Wi>«ui.:uta. r o! laiu.lies from the States should Ih-. u assured ofltclally that good “ 1 up immediately; anditisjprmcti- mis 'intrim by railroad with ,*e 8L : ’ railroad over the Biff Sierra to We saw other fftHKTlaads, hut they -eonld not.be purchased for leas then twenty-five, fifty sad a hun dred dollars per acre, since they were planted in cof fee! At Arraqtura, about two hundred miles from St. Paulo, a tract of country—a Facienda as it is called there, is offered for sale, by Dr. Gavias, of 8t. Paulo, conU&ning from one hundred and forty to ttfo hun dred and eighty thousand acres of land for one hun dred and twenty-five thousand dollars, on a credit qt ten or fifteen years if desired. We examined this, and suppose that from fifteen to twenty-five thousand acres of it are of good quality, including some caffBe* lands, and would produce corn, sugar, &c., to per fection. A large portion of it is compo, but the best quality of compo we have seen iu the province. The other is woodland, and will produce corn and cotton very well. The fifteen to twenty thousand acres of good land alluded to above is “terra roccha” as the Brazilians term it, which means land of inexpressible riohnew and fertility. Upwards of two hundred of very fine cattle are included in this great bargain; and a dwelling house, some outbuildings and one hundred acres of cultivated land com] rise the improvements on the place. Each of us have a map of this great do main and will furnish it to any one who desires it, with all the information we have in regard to its ad vantages. Lands which lie too low for coffee, are very little es timated by the Brazilians, aud in tho District of Cam- pens, within twenty or thirty miles of the railroad., are some very fine farms, of this description, with good improvements, which can be purchased for from two to five dollars per acre. Much of these lands are “terra roc ha,” and all of them will produce corn, sugar cane, and cotton, admirably. Two gen tlemen from the States, one from Alabama and the other from Louisiana, have already purchased aud settled there. Dr. Gaston reports that alter overcoming the diffi culty of passing the mountains, aud the dangers aud fatigues incident thereto, be pushed his investigations in the direction of Iguapa and Cannsnea, aiul found large bodies of public lands, which, although not so rich as the “terra rocha” of the interior, yet produc ing large crops of corn, sugar-cane, rice, toba«x*o, and, in places, eoffee. The few days he remained there the * weather was pleasant, and-the transportation easy and cheap, costing less than one-half of the price from the interior. He thinks it healthy, except on the water courses, and the price of the lands is only twenty-two cents per acre, on a credit of five years, without intei- ost. Several families from Alabama and Texas have already settled there. We hope this section may be as desirable aa the doctor imagines, for it is imme diately on one of the routes to a seaport, from the exced- ingly fertile districts described above, and the im provements of its territory, will assist in the settle ment of the other. The river Igpape is navigable for steamboats aa tar up as Xirerica, distant from the Dis trict we have chosen about one hundred miles, but nnlike the Tote, its navigatiou is uninterrupted by falls and shoals. We deem it our duty to state that tho price of ne groes has decreased one-lialf during our stay in the empire. It is said that the outside sentiment is the cause. At any rate all classes agree that the day is not distant when emancipation must come. We have heard of some gangs of negroes, including men, women and children, being offered by the year for fifty dollars each, though the usual price is from sixty to a hundred and twenty. For plantation hands the hirer pays all expenses. The law requires the purchasers of lauds to pay six per cent, cash, one time, on their i>rimo cost, as a tax to the Government. With this exception the farmer, we believe, never pays any lax during life. We will also mention that it is thought by well informed per sons that this small burden will soon he removed from all immigrants. The health of the table lauds of the province is repre sented by the native and foreigner as very good, with the exception of the low grounds near the larger fiirers, which are subject to chilis and intermittent fevers. A few specific diseases, snob as goitre and leprosy, are seen. Cases of the latter appear but sel dom, though a considerable number of the former are observed among the poorer classes. It is thought generally to be produced by poor diet, damp houses, &c. The temperature also throughout the table lands, notwithstanding we were there during the summer months, varies from 66 to 86 degrees in the shade. During the winter it varies generally, we understand, from 40 to 65 degnees, though sometimes it comet down to the freezing point, producing ice. In Santos, the seaport of this province, about forty- five miles from the table lands, aud about three thou sand feet lower, the mercury varied during the years 1863 and *64 from 67.1 to 83.2, viz : January, 83.3; February, 82; March, 79; April, 77.3; May, 69.8; Juue, 69; July, 67.1; August, 67.5; September, 70.3; Octo ber, 71.6; November, 74.6. Decomber, 78.2. The principal objections to the country are the lan guage, Portuguese, the mixed class of its population, and tho want of proper facilities for education and transportation, though it appears from all the facta we could gather that there is a steady improvement in the two latter objections. The cost of clearing forest lands according to the custom of the country, is from $1.50 to 2 00 per acre. Horses, domesticated, can be bought for from $20 to $40; unbroken, from $15 to $30; marcs, from $5 to $10; Jacks from $50 to $100; pack mules, from $25 to $30; riding moles, from $40 to $80; unbroken in lots, from $12 to $15; fat hogs weighing two hundred pounds each, from $5 to $8; breeders and pigs, in proportion; sheep, Horn $1 50 to $3 00, iuferior and scarce; goats, from $1 to $2; milch cows, in lots, from $8 to $10; single, $12 to $15; oxen, fair from $12 to $20; work oxen, from $30 to $40; corn usually from 50 to 76 cts., though, daring this summer, there has been a great scarcity, caused by a drought, during last season, said to be the first for nearly twenty years. We paid from 75 cents to $3 per bushel; rice from $2 to $3; coffee ‘from*. cents per gallon; bananuas, liuiea and lurnons from 't©,u cent each; oranges from to 1 cent each, and pine-apples abundant, and in season from 1 to '1 cents in the ferger towns most ol these products, particu larly fruit, are much higher. The religion of the State is Catholic, though ail others are tolerated; still no Protestant is allowed to build a steeple or place a Cross ou his Church. Should ever the people be disposed to immigrate to Brazil, it is of the utmost importance that there should be a concert of action among them. If they contemplate going in any considerable numbers, preliminary ar rangements should be made for shelter aud subsist ence, aud all of them should settle within a reasouabls distance of one another. A few families, or a tew dozen families can find ample subsistence and shelter in most of the settlements visited by us, but if more thau these propose to settle lsr iu the iuterior, at the same time, we would adviso them iu order to avoid disappointment aud distress, to make ample prepara tion betcre doing so. Notwithstanding we utter those words of caution, the citizens assure us that they will have plenty to subsist a vary large number of emi grants, and in some cases have ottered, with that gen erosity peculiar to the first class of Brazilians, to di- vidwhalf their aubsiatance with us, without compensa tion. This offer includes corn, sugar, rice, Ac. Flour cannot be had iu the interior, as there is no wheat grown in St. Paulo, though we understand, that st one «»ma wheat was one of the principal articles of export from this Province. We believe from tho character of tke best lands that it could be grown with perfect success. The government allows all immigrants to introduce, for their own use, free of duty, all articlos of prime necessity, such as tools of all kinds, wagons, gear, machinery, furniture, Ac. • This should not be forgot ten by the emigrant, for in tile interior, you will find only the hoe, sxe, hill-hook and bullock cart, and they, except the hoe, of the rudest manufacture - ploughs can be had only in the larger towns, aud none have been seen by us that are suitable for the ordinary cultivation of the produots of tlio country. Seed of every variety, especially for the garden, should be carried in bottles, securely corked. Cloth ing. shoes, hats, dry goods, Ac., cau be bought chea per in Brazil thau in the United States. Heavy shoes for plantation use, however, are scarce in this market. They should be taken from the States, and also plough- gear of all descriptions aa well as cooking uteusils. Perhapsit would be advisable for each family to pro vide themselves with a suitable cooking stovo, as they will find na chimneys in the iuterior; bnek scarce and expensive, and stone not very abundant in the vicinity of the best lands. Transportation from NewTork to Rio l>c Janeiro, by the mail steamer, has been reduced to *200 in gold, *100; children at the breast without cost; turalized citizen and the nattre Braxilian on an exact equality, in all rights, in tU privileges, and in all honors that the Government cau bestow The constitution of the Empire ia modeled alter the British, abating some of tho most objectionable fea tures, such as the rights of primogeniture, and a here ditary nubility, and the worhiug of the Government is harmonious, steady, just and powerful. The Emperor is a wise and magnanimous ruler, sprang from, an in- teUectual and illustrious race, aud ready ait all times to condescend to any man or thing, compatible with the dignity of his crown, for the advancement of the interests aud the glory of his rauntry. The foreigner on entering his dominions fitnn no prejudices to com bat. no antipathies to avoid, but a liberal Minister ready to welcome, and a population to greet him, aud a sovereign to offer him the powerful protection of his government. A large society for the promotion of emigration, has been organized, and some of the ablest and moat honored personages in the country appointed its di rectors. Its special objects are to aid and lake care of the foreigner on his lauding, to protect him trow want as well as from the frauds of the designing, and to vindicate his.rights and privileges before the Gov ernment snd the councils of (tie nation. The Gove ru men t has also established a Hotel fas the- shelter aud accommodation of the same class of individuals. Corps of engineers and surveyors ha&> boen appointed to open roads and survey lands, and there is a spon taneous movement of the whole Empire to open wide Us arms for the men of enterprise and labor of all nations who have a mind to seev the grandest theatre for the exercise of their energies and the display of their genius ever presenetd ou the face of tho green earth. Your obedient servants, Robebt Meriwether, H. A. Shaw. revi;~ »,th this mountain range is the * - 1 about twenty miles distant, on are lands of the best qnality, pro- ''Option ot crops, except coffee, in the , “ a anj abundance. There were seme *f not butter cotton than we ever saw h- ;*■ u! doubt the best •‘cultivated ornsa," ■ i. w,.-re from five to seven feet high, i' "uuiain with the greatest avidity. ... u ‘‘ 1 "ru good enough ldr any oOun- - ‘‘ M r acre is a small estimate for it. ■' Uiat r.,r more than one hundred ’ i;1, y tile same quality of land con- C' 1 " private individuals, and can be M . , ‘ ^venty-five cents per acre. It that the territory forty or ^«st!, ° ! 1;, ‘ mountain range above refetTed oitb, Indiana. The lands in this ' a * «ood for cotton as any in tb© Miiiary estimate of this crop is 11. pounds, with bfit little ‘ liaracter of the soil ia what ■t,T ^-mulatto,” and its depth from k.rtii * , * Rot a great objection to this ;■ ' Valley ]g its liability to chills, which , ^ignant a*uMtv lll,, ugh raising to considerable L*. J ' , A ' ral long slopes almost level in . ^ the larger portion of them is -Hitivation. This land is nearly all lli< lirbt quality. The woodaare ' »uei.reak, -UtofiA the cant ^ that grown in the States, and ^'‘boo.** Timber la abundant; in* uf th* finest grain, and that rt( 5Ui red for shipbuilding. Jtfcjyi' ulat in the dearripttou of them FW^rof .... fromtwelve to fourteen, half price: uudertwelve, one. third. All emigrants to Brazil are allowed a discount on this line of 30 per cent; the first class paying 1140, and the second class *70. But we cannot tell if a similar deduction is allowed the children. The steamers on this line make the trip in twenty- ■ix dayB, having to touch at several places iu the dis- chargo of their duties. Passage'can be had on a good sail vessel at most of the ports of the United Stales at from *75 to *lt« for the first class, and tor the second class at much less; perhaps one-half the time being from forty to sixty days. From Rio to Santos, the principal seaport of St. Paulo, it would cost about *2U, though we see that the government has generously as sumed that burtbeu itself, and from thence to the in terior you can pass over a railroad for about ninety The vast domain of Brazil contains the moet fertile soil in the. universe, and more cheap lauds to allure the emigrant than any other nation under the sun. For the supply of the millions that will soon be flock ing to her shores, she abounds in the precious metals and coetly gems, and in the moet valuable products, known toifikAmerefo '''The cattle upon a thousand! bllla"‘ere’l»#s! mitl'tnhjr be yours, and Buclrcatfle Sa men never beheld in any other clime. The earth vielda almost spontaneously the grain, fruit and vege tables that most delight the palate and satisfy the wants of men. To gratify the sportsman, the woods are full of game, of deer, of wild dogs, and partridges and quails, and of the most delicate birds of every hue sud of every deacripUon, whilst her innumerable river and water courses teem With ftab to the greatest variety and finest flavor. _ . Her water power ia sufficient to drivfi au the ma- chinery in the world, and her naturaljand material re- sources are equal to the support of the China* Below Rio, the seasons are precisely opposed to ours, their spring or planting season, beginning with the beginning of our fall, and their summer beginning with our first, and ending with our last winter month. But that nothing may be wanting for the encourage ment of the agriculturist, in this happy region, unlike moat of the other portions of the habitable globe, the summer is its wet and the wiuter is its dry season, and ill good lands never wash away. Ws traversed one province for over a thousand milea, taking aix months from our departure hence to make our explorations, and during the whole of that period, we discovered no ravenous beasts worth naming, and only three er four serpents of diminutive size, and no afore to he feared than t day in your dfode upon the crops, IB structive aa those which infest our richest lands, sud there is no nut or sufficient frosts to check or obstruct the growth of their beautiful ootton. Moreover, since the memory of men, there has been no earthquake there, no subterranean fete, no volcanic eruptions to Mod Mie Tienrtt orto disturb the serenity of its in habitants, and iu men and.tttmun line to s riper old sge than even in this oaoafovocrd country. Though there are a few legal and religious or ca nonical impediment* to the foreigner or emigrant, enchasthafehe may Hot 'reach one' or two of the highest offioea tn the mate, and may not, if a P testank stocks eroaa upon hie church, yet tfee win on,k splendid | m^lrt^SrumfodSfertlt^cwtai^mtohtwiS 1 ■ 1 moat certain proagneto of jlfocceee, to place die na- population of i those seen every Igaa* JNie insects that prey ling The red ant, are not ao de- Brosil, the mdiotnttyrl oowSS Tlte Battle-grounds Around the City of Viclcsburgh. [Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial.] VicKSBUJtoH, Wednesday, May 23, 1866. On Monday last, in company with ou officer of high rank, who participated in the siege, for my cicerone, l examined the battle-fields around Yicksburgh. Un less one under stands the topography of the country it is impossible to comprehend the magnitude of tho military operations connected with the siege. By some mighty upheaval of nattffc the whole country is cut up into deep ravines, washes, gatieys,and sharp angular hills. The popular idea of a battle-fiehl being a plane, would be perfectly antagonized here. ”111 the assnlts made upon the Confederate works it was im possible to deploy a line of battle—hence the charges were made by head of column. We examined one road over which Blair's division charged, and where the heaviest slaughter ensued. The r6ad is located on the crown of a narrow ridge, runs over compara tively smooth grouud along the edge of the ditch, ou the right face of the enemy’a position, aud enters the parapet at the shoulder of the bastion. The crown of this ridge road was perfectly commanded by the well- served artillery aud precise musketry of the rebels, and to cross this point was the terrible gauntlet of the battle. The danger was all in fifty feet, for before reaching and after crossing this spaco the ap proach was comparatively covered, as soon as the head of the column reached this point, the enemy, in double rauk, rose from behind hiB breastworks, and poured a raking and terrific fire upon the assaulting party. The rear would press forward, but to fall be fore the well directed fire. The result was a dis astrous repulse, and the production of the con viction in the minds of the leading Generals that such was the natural and artificial strength of the defences of Yicksburgh, and the determination of the force which lay behind them, that the place could never be taken by assault, and only, if ever, by the regular approaches of parallels and saps. This after ward was the policy of the Federals. By taking ad vantage of the grouud, they advanced their parallel works within a hundred yards of the redoubts which commanded the roads, and then resorted to the pre paration of covered roads and the regular saps. A sap is simply a deep trench, so dug as to allow of covered approach to a fortified place. At appropriate spaces traverses are dug for the purpose of deploying and covering the men. These sups are dug under the pro tection of gabious. A gabion is a hollow cylinder of wicker work, resembling a basket, but having no bot tom, filled with earth, and serving to cover men from the enemy** fire, while engaged excavating. Scores of these “saps,” half filled with earth, may be seen around the crumbling works. By means of these the Federal army was enabled, with small loss, to lodge itself directly uuder the shadow of the Confederate fortifications. Such was the proximity that artillery and rifles were considered inefficient, and the only effective weapon the rebels eonld employ was the hand- grenade. This missile is a miniature shell about two inches and a half in diameter, Ailed with powder, ex ploded with a fuse, and thrown by hand into the trenches or lodgments of the enemy. The officer who was with me, informed me that the prevailing impres sion that the morning of the 4th of July was to have been distinguished by a general assault, is incorrect. Nothing more was contemplated for that day than a terriffic shelling of the enemy’s lines, and preparations for a grand assault to be made upon the sixth. He was Adjntant-Geuoral to one of the divisions, and saw the order issued by Gen. Sherman to his troops. The plan was as follows: Ten soldiers from each company were to be detailed to run ahead, and with as many gunnybags tightly packed with cotton, throw them into the ditches and alongside the ramparts, and thus form a compact foot way over which the assaulting columns were to march. The plan was approved by all the general officers, and would, bad not the capitulation on the 4tli rendered it unnecessary —v«uij uam - L .nnui. 1 nave already intimated that the prwcipal losses of the United States forces in the siege of Yicksburgh were occasioned by the two charges ordered by Gen. Grant. After the sappers and miners began their work the loss was surprisingly small. The army was then so many thousand moles, approaching underground the strongholds of the enemy. • But the loss iu the two charges must have been immense. I have visited the cemetery into which has been gathered the Federal slain, and observed upon the head-board the number 4,637. There are acres of graves, aud yet many of the bones of the fallen heroes have not been gathered up by those appointed.for that purpose. On one of the old battle-fields we observed in one pile the skeletons of seven men. The bones had been washed or plowed" - up, and were piled by an* old stuuty, os irreverently aud indiscriminately as we have seen boulders in a stony field. In one ot the skulls I observed the gold filling of the dentist, as perfect as When first placed in the cavities. Here and there oyer a large plowed field could be detected human remains. What a commen tary was here upon the glorie* ot war I Who were these fallen braves ? They fougfct'fbr their country’s flag, put stars upon their generals' shoulders, added brilliant chapters to American history, won the theo retical applause of their country, and, so far as per sonally concerned, have served no higher purpose than to enrich a Mississippi cotton-held with their bio jd and muscle, and reappear in arlch growth^! cotton and eorn. It is horrible to think of the blood of our Union soldiers being coined into gold—but the next crop of cotton, by the transmutations of uature and the commingling laws of the vegetable and animal world, will present some of them to the market in the lint of the great staple of the South—and they will be quoted by the price currents of Liverpool by the penny/and thoso of New York by the cent. I hope the officers intrusted with the work will, at least, take care of the bones of these heroes. Inside the wasting fortifications of the enemy the 'Confederate dead are buried, and their graves are in no better condition than those of the Federals. The ladies of Yicksburgh have, however, adopted prelimi nary measures for the reinterment of the Southern dead and the decoration of the places where they sleep. A visitor now to the battle-fields around Vickspurgh will withess wasting ramparts, half-filled ditches, fragments of shell, scrape of aceourtreifieiits and bleaching bones—all destified flood to pies away, and leaving no trace behind bf the mighty conflicts which made this locality furnish one of the most romantic and bloody volumes of martial history. Where once the bray of the trumpet, roll of the drum and ‘ shout of charging columns—the hurtling shell, the whist ling ball, roar of artillery aud the rattle of muaketry was heard—now, alone can be detected the Bounds of peaceful husbandry. Upon one of the fields we saw a little negro boy gathering bullets in a tin pail, which he informed us, his mother took to the city and sold aa old lead. There are tons upon tons of iron and lead lying about the lines of fortifications which environ Yicks- burg. Every tree contiguous to the fortifications has been deadened by shot and shell, and contains a caisson loaded with ammunition. ^ tered the trees were are dead and seal paratively small. This Spring the farmers set fire to the canebrakes. which luxuriated over the storied hills. Hundreds of un6xploded shell bnrsted os the fire reached them, and for a time reminded the neighborhood of the hor- five miles frtSSs city. “ Tery few markS afe left, in the city of the bombardment Old rents have been repaired, and it is only here and there that a stranger would detect anything to remind him of the fearful scenes which once “painted hell on the sky" in this locality. While around the tTTlLL give prompt attention to receiving and for- W warding goods, sales on consignment, and all cfatabling fortifications mlpglo in common dust the remains of the ganabt soldiers of 1 armies—in life, enemies; in death, friends—on the sidewalks or the city the survivors of the slsin it each other aa friends, mingle in trade, divide greet each otnor as inenas, mingle in iraas, divide profits, share fossae, snd chsllenge each other in the enterprises of practical life. Sympathy from the Right Quarter.—The radl- sfiinoniu caIs are gi patting np i _ w _ testimonial for William Lloyd Garrison. It i* to be an endowment of *50,000. Ohief Justice Chase heads the movement! Garrison deliv ered a speech in New York a few years ago, in which he said: ’• No act of ours do we regard with more conscien tious approval, or higher satisfaction, none do we sub mit more confidently Jet tbs tribunal of heaven and the verdict of mackiRdAthtot when, oHvcral years ago, on the Fourth ol! July, in The presence of h great as sembly, we committed to the flames the Constitution of the United Stafosl" The motto of the head of his paper,' the Boston Lib erator, was: “The Constitution and the Union; a league with hell and a covenant with death.” By all insane mihs'fofa an endowment!!; He is titled to one at thw.hfinffaof the radicals, an<T ia . serving all the sympathy Chase can bestow on him Lol THE Poor Tbbtl*1—Fish os Flbshf—Capt. Calhoun, master of the schooner Active, at Fter No. .22 East River, was yesterday ar- bv officers ChuWn and miller, of the Second cUon comptttaC of Henry Bergh, Esq., Pseei- t of the Society 4pg the,PreTeultoj> it*. \ The corn] ttu^oosatwt^FforSe! wsaTaden with turtles, which were confined together in a cruel manner by lying the turtles upon their backs tt™j8hlhite flesh, andoord* nm through said haias for the pur pose of securing told turtles The defendant, oous- eel, on appearing before Justice Hogan, will clatzu the diachnrwe of bis cHeiitun thfi groufld. lhat a not or-&s animal, but judgment is still Official, REGISTRY LIST 1866. „ CRT OF SAVANNAH; \ OrFia* C’lkojx or Council, June 5, 1866.1 MOTION 2. Be it furttier enacted by Hie 1authority °. r That from gnu after tire passage of this Act, all persons shall be qualified to vobf a? the election of Mayor ami Aldermen of the etty-of Sa vaonah and Hamlets thereof, who are citizOianf the United States, have resided in the state of Georgia foroue year imi^diateiy preceding this election, and continue so to d6 up to the time of el. ciuta.and wfthm the cotporate mans of Shvannah for'one month immediately preceding their registrauou who have attained themge of twenty-one years, and have paid all city taxes, or have ia their own right sufficient real estate to satisfy any tax CAecuUtms which may be isaned against them, who have made all returns required by the Ordinance of the city, 'and hare been registered according to the provisions "HjiAct. [Extract from lb* Registry Laws, pass ed Sid Janaary, I86i-J Extract from Ordinance pamed Sec. $rr, 1886: Skc. 4-And lie it farther ordained.by the authority aforesaid, That every male raident of said city, be- tween the ages of twenty-one find sixty yeare, shall be liable to a poll or fapitau.iq tax of one dollar an- na ?,.7■ exce P l unly each of said persons as may be entitled to registry gfid to vote at city elections, and re Kcd er their munea and pay for the same. The following nameffpereons have registered their names since the first Monday in January, 18C6: Axsou, J 8 K Barron, Jas-A Bolsbaw, T H Boshlor. J H Bosh lor, Valentine Buntz, Henry Berth eta ess, R M Batter, Gilbert B. Bulloch, Wm H Burroughs, Jno W Burroughs, W Berrien Bullock, WmG Byck. Simon E Berrien, J M C. Insurance. ■ruxi CrUJOA ip SOUTHERN AND WESTERN Life and Accident, INSURANCE COMPANY f. V L i'v ew Orleans* Capital, 0300,000 Will b 1 SEN. JAKES LOHGSTREET, PresiAefil. AEt PUPAR1D TO TAKE RISKS ».M # Iff ( H.eamou»ble ■ my2i-tr Term*. WILLIAM C. COSENS, Agent, At Marine Bank. itJ Golding, S M Cameron, Gao H Crawford. Bembrie Champion, Aaron Cope, James E Cohen, Solomon Cooper, John Cunningham, H C Casey, C C Cohen, Octavus Corey, Wm B Ohrmody, Jas Cullman, Phillip Cornell, L M Colson, Theophilas MANUFACTURED by J. M. VENABLE & C o., Dumas, Henry B Daaoey, Jno Dortch, Jno D- Dixon,W D Dowling, Patk F. Petersburg, V a. FerriU, Jno U Footman, BabtH Fnrguson, D Ford, Thoe O Fairchild, L J B Fulton. Silas FerriU, B B Also Manufacturers of Superior “Maccoboy," “Rappee,” and other Snuffs, Chewing and Smoking Tobacco of every grade. Green, William Gardner, S Josiah Macy’s Sons, Sole Agents, may2!f-3ra. 189 A 191 FRONT8TWEET, MEW VOWK. Hunter, W P Haywood, Alfred Hover, LL Honlg, A H Henges, Henry Commission Merchants. W. A. Bryant. Bouse & Bryant, (Formerly of Jacksonville, Fla.,) Forwarding and Commission Merchants, , T 194 Bay SAVANNAH, - - Street, GEORGIA. orders; and will also keep constantly ou hand a good stock of Groceries, Liquors, Agricultural Imple ments, Building Materials, Fairbanks & Co’s Scales, Ac., besides other goods anil manufactured articles for sale on consignment, and for which they are agents. Orders and consignments respectfully so- icited. alS-lf iVlcKAY, BLISS St CO., Commission Merchants, I vKAl-KRS in White Oak and Yellow Pine Timber of 1^ all sizes. Cash advances made on consignments or Timber, Cotton, Naval Stores, Ac. The above-named house offer unusual facilities for the sale of Southern Prodnate, and respectfully so licit consignments. MoKAY, BUSS A CO., _-2£P' b tMSt«k. KENNETH McLEA & CO., Merchants 3P3 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, Q A. Advances made on Consignments or Cotton airaother produce to iwr friends iu Liverpool and Now York. a3-3m THOMAS H. AUSTIN, General Conmieu ant Forwarding mehchant, 95 Uity Mi reel, Savannah, Ga. URVRRS to Wm. M Tunno A Co., Savannah; Nonrse A Brooke, New York; flipping, Haiuertl & Co., Columbus, mio-tf DAVANT & WAPLES FACTORS, Forwardiui; and General commission mmm. Having associated ourserves in the above bnsinesa we respectfully solicit consignments. In connection with the above, wc hav* a large brick tire-proof building, known aB the Southern Warehouse, at the coner of Bay and Lincoln streets, and are prepared to take cotton or merchandize on. storage. R. J. DAVANT, Jr.. . W. D. WAPLES. Of the late firm of Davant k Lawton.a!8-tf JOHN S. SAMM1S. & CO. Forwarding and Commission MERCHANTS. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Groceries, kc., NOS. I AND 2 SAMMI3’ BtiX)K, Bey Street, Jackaonville, Florida. ID. Q. OOMMia. OBOO. L« MAT Jas.T. Paterson, TIMBER, Lumber & Commission merchant, Street, fiavaaaah, No. 153 Bay Darien, Georgia. • Orders for Lumber aolleltad. dfi-M J. SHAFFER, In dUdadfrt FOREIGN AND DtjUBSTtCfBUlTO PRODUCE, Wzwr Wearaaio* Mamaev, fipposlte 143 West st, Bulkhaad betweeu Barclay and BLAIR A BICKFORD, BER OF MANUFACTURERS, AND g TIMBER AttfiEQll- EVERY DESCRiP-* . Mill and Lumber Yard on Canal, near Bryan street office iso Bay street, ate-tr,, savanna* Ga. Hotels. ST. CHARLES SALOON, B Y A. STAMM, Bay Lay, rear of Poet Office.— The beat Liquors, 'Ale*, Wines Segura, foe,, always oa hand. Including a Choice article of BELT- ER’S WATER, directly Imported from Hersagthnm, ‘ N asaan, and the beet of Rhine Wines. LUNCH every day at 11 o'clock. ml2-1y THE VERANDA HOUSE, A TWIIITK TLUFF, will be open on and after Monday, the 9th lntt., for the accomdodation of Boarders, trr nail nt or permanent. The snhBcriber, from hia long experience in the business, can safely guarantee the comfort of thoee who may giVe him a call- mylm-if MOSES M. BBL1SARIO. LITE OIK GLOB HOOKE, No. 32 GEORG* STREET, Charleston, South Carolina, la now open for the accommodation ol transient au permanent guests. Choice*! Liquors, Wines, Ales and Segars always on band. per PETER JONES, proprietor." CHARLESTON HOTEL, CHARkESTQN, 8. Q. fftHIS popular and well known Hotel, situated in the A business portion of the city, has been newly fur nished tliroognout by the present proprietor, who has been sixteen years connected with the establishment u>2C-tt W WHITE, Proprietor. Port Royal House, HILTON HEAD, S. C. RIDDELL * a. i. biddux- ju3-tf PaorniiTOi. ai.iwa 490 ACRES OF LAND For One Dollar 1 TO BE RAFFLED FOB, QN the sixth day of June, one thousand eight hun dred and sixty-six, AT THE SCREVEN HOUSE, in the city of Savannah, Chatham County, State of Georgia, by a committee of gentlemen selected by the subscribers, 490 ACRES OF LAND, Sltwated In Lowndes Csuaty, near Mill* town. State of Georgia! The projected Brunswick and Florida Railroad run ning throngD the southeast part, offers groat facility for removing to the seaboard the fine cypress, pine and other Umber to be found on this lot. and a band- some sum may be bad from the Railroad Company for the privilege of running their cars 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 fuel. A stream or water runs through tills land, and lov ers or the piscatorial art can Indulge their fancy at all seasons oil the yesr. The quality of the soil In Lowndes county Is too highly appreciated for any comments to lie made on the above. . TITLES CLF.AR—The winner paying for the trans fer of the seme to Ms name; find he (the winner) Is to pay also one hundred dollars to the Savannah Fe male Orphan Asylum. The present owner of the land pledges himself to give one hundred dolls rs to the Savannah Metropolitan Fire Company, if ail the subscriptions are taken up. Store Savannah, Georgia, Land can be seen. ngress where a Plat of the above named fifi-tf Advances. R. ATKINSON & CO„ New York. JAMES HEWITT & CO., Liverpool. Advance, made as Cottnm ron.lgsed to above Hawses. myiaim G. P. MACMURDO, Office at o. Cohenw. 81 Bay street- GEORGIA STATE DIRECTORY. For 1866 and 1867. BY CAPT. JOHIt fi BRAty, OF SAVANtiAirrGA. r (S valuable work of reference will be published on or about the 1st day of July next It “"“S&tSB«7S,lSS most ttahed. ■■ _ . Mae should toil fo advertise lntt, aa Hi* douhtltoew splendid medium through which to conformalcnte frith substantial classes throughout the country. In the City of New York alone the publisher has nearly five hundred subacxibera, aad that tot is datty moons He lOfenuuBi mn uv « *«■ able. * , • o/c&Maflta S^SrwSfaSa fit I DeSb rear if fn^-OEtaS -toeh day f Jordan, Francis D Johnson, Jno K Josephs, Antonio G. Gilbert, Ctfonr L Gleason, fiolomon W H. • Howard, J U Hudson, Gao A Haupt, Jas X, Henry, E Hsppe, William J. Jachen, Clans Jansen, Adolf H. W. Merr-cr C. S. Hardee William Uunter A. 8. llartridge A. Porter R. Morgan J. Stoddard J. T. Thomas W. Remshart P. L. Gab H. A. Crane A. A. Solomon. M. Hamilton Knorr, Louis King, Jno Kirk. Tbos J Killorin, Patrick Knapp, N B Kelly, Jno J KoUock, P M L. LoCUs, Jas Law.Wm LippmaiL, Joseph Ldgan, Jaa J Litche, H F Lodge, C L L&mpc, C Lamps, Montgomery C Lovell, J M B] Lloyd, Thus £ Landrum,. 8y lvsnus Levin, Michael) Lee, Chas Lewie, Jno W Lark, Peter M. McDonald, Donald MoNelty, J C ■Mercer, Geo A McConaghy, Jno McCarthy, M D McGee, Jas McGuire, Tbos Moon, Antoine Mallette, Dan ■ Markins, Geo Metzger JnoC Meyer, M H Miigill, O A Miller, A C Mabel, William Nichols, Geo 3 Olcott, D G Olcott, \V H Prondhoi Plainer, Boon. Andrew If Read, Joe B Russell, Isaac Ryan, Cbis E Reilly, Jas Ruckert, Francis Robinson, ilex H Rogers, E T Bussell, Waring N. Nugent, T, Jr O. O’Mahony, Jno P. Purse, Thos R. Kivlar, Joe B Kmehart, W Ray, Jas Russell, Philip M Ruckert, FI Biddle, W P Robinson, Chas E Rogers, Geo F T 1*E OGLETHORPE INSURANCE CO. OF SAVANNAH Are prepared to take ' Fire Bisks on enable Terns, At thair Office, 117 Buy Street. H. W. MKRCEB, President. 3. T. Thomas, Dec. jr| Directors: M. 8, Cohen 3. Lauia J. W. Nevitt ' D Q. Puree A. Pullurton J. McMahon L J. Uullmartln F. W. 8lffu * I ■ Batter ichnson W. W. Gordon my7-tf R. Laclu K. P. Clatnu, Augusts J. W. Knott, Macon B. F. Rosa, Macon W. H. Young, Columbus INSURE ■ ACCIDENTS, Pioneer Company OF THE SOUTH. THE SOUTHERN --i-+ - AtTlileiit Insurance Go., s. Silva, Jaa 8 Shiels, P K SwoU, Wm Sadler, Alex H Stuart, Lyman 8 Stephens, Henry C iflnney.- Jno Schneider, Frank Sonllard, E A Stoddard, John Schley, Jaa M Stamm, Anton SmyUuvEfiW*- Savage, John Skehau, James Tapper, F A Tomson, David Taggart, Grantham I Tilden, B G Torlay, A F Thomas, Jno T V. Vroom, Wm L Vielaticks, Henry w. Wayne, B A Walker, R D Weeks, W H Weisheimer, Jacob West, J J WiMberger, Wm H Wheaton, Jno F Wade, John All persons wishing to register are informed that the Registry Book la anw open at this office. Ail persona, white or colored, subject to the capitation tax will at once return theiv names at the Treas urer's office. JAMBS STEWART, je3-10 Clerk of Council. CITY LICENSES, 1866. CHY OF SAVANNAH, ) Office Clikx of Council, I ) Jane 5th, 1866. Parties carrying onbosineae under the following heads, and who have not taken out the necessary li cense rre notified thaUOL defbulten wiR be placed on the Information Docket of Tuesday, June 1‘ltb, 1866, on which date the Register WiR be closed untlU alter July 1st, 1866—the census has been taken and is on file in this office: WHOLESALE LIQUOR LICENSES. RETAIL COTTON PRESSES. COTTON PICKINGS. PAWN BROKERS. PUBLIC STABLES. COMMISSION MERCHANTS OB FACTORS. GRIST MILLS. SAW MILLS. SHIPPING MASTERS. STEVEDOBESRESIDENTANDNON RESIDENT. WAREHOUSES, i 10 'j. ' •> COAL AND LUMBER YARDS. MASTER MECHANICS, taking In contract* for work 80AP BOILERS. GAS FITTERS. ' ATTORNEYS. PHYSICIANS. DENTISTS. PHOTOGRAPHERS OB NON RESIDENT HUCKSTERS. - . - KEEPERS OF COOK STOVES OB COOK SHOPS. •TYPISTS. JUNK SHOPS. DROVERS—HOUSES AND MULES. Extract from Oritntam. Dec. 47.1865. And any person subject or liable to take out any such license or budge, and ruling to fo> to for ten days after the said first day of January inrech yam. ehaU be liable to a fitte of not mate than tuffy dollar* for every day’s default on eenvtetten- before- the- Police C0Urt JAMES STEWART, je5-9t qmk uf council. CITY OP SAVANNAH, \ 'Orvioa Cuau or Cone oil, June V lafiA-j Flnt reading of ordinances, meeting of Council May 30, 1866. a mix to aa tmm.ni AM OJtDlMAMCK To fix the times for payment of ground rent on such parts ol the city domain as may heaieafter be sold. SBC 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Alderman or the city of Savannah,In council assembled, and it i* hereby ordained bj thn gutAviEy o* the same. That hereafter lnail sales 'of the dty domain, the deeds to be executed by the dty t» purchasers-of such domain, or any part thereof, ahall contain a etipidation fer the eetnl-anmtal payment or ground Mi that IS to toy,-Y ' rest an the Ant day and every year, Ian heretofore; and that such aalee, the ~ UVOBBUXO, VA. Authorized Capital, $1,000,000 INSURES AGAINST ALL ACCIDENTS, Giving the holder of an Annual Policy the lull amount insured in case of death, and compensation each week, if disabled, for a period NOT EXCEEDING TWENTY-SIX WEEKS. SHORT THE POLICIES, (93,000 FOR TER CBMTS!) Travellers’ Tickets, from one • to thirty days, may be bad at the Railroad Ticket Offices, Steamship Agencies, and at the Office of the General Agent. The Stock of this Company Is 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. I G PRESIDENT AND TREASURER, COL. MAURICE B. LANGHORNE. VINK PRESIDENTS, GEN. JOHN B. GORDON, of Georgia. GEN. HARRY T. HAYS, of Loi GEN. JOHN B. GORDO! Chief Agent at Atlanta Agent for my£3 O. C. MYERS, General Agent, » SAVANNAH, GA. J. N. WILSON, Photographer. PHOTOGRAPHS, Porcelain & Ambrotype*. IN THE HIGHEST STYLE OF THE ART.