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ed Hues of Nonpa
| It is pretty well understood that the Presi
dent will veto tlie tax hill if it goes to him
in its present form. This veto power is un
doubtedly the salt of the Constitution. And
all honor to the President for not letting in
rust.
The Committee on the Memphis riots are
nearly ready to report. It is said their re
port is a regular electioneering document,
stuffed full of horrors.
The extent to which the Northern States cert on the common,- tbe : city; procession,'
present claims for war expenses incurred by ! with mnaic, the reading of the Immortal
JOTTineS FROM TI|K “fcTB.” : ’ ’
* * ' **■' ' * '
Boston, July 1 Still.
Editors of News jlni> Herald : *
There is only one place in America where
the “Fourth of July” is celebrated, think
the people of the “Hull, " and yesterday
Boston had its patriotic spread, which
commenced with a parade ot the Fire De
partment in the morning, a mammoth eoo-j
them, in which they want Congressional ac
tion, is very striking. Massachusetts heads the
column. They will never rest until they
make the General Government pay all the
immense sums they paid out as bounties to
fill their quotas.
The attacks of the New York World oh Mr.
Seward are very much regretted here by the
President’s friends. Mr. Seward has finally
broken with the radicals. They We him
Declaration ol Independence in Music Hall,
and an oration by Rev Dr. Lothrop in the
Music Hall, a rowing regetta on Charles
river, a Bailing reuettaat South Boston Point,
a balloon ascension' from the common, and
Ihe usual display of pyrotechnics on the
Charles street mall at night. The usual city
dinner was dispensed with, but the arrange
ments for the delectation of the juveniles
was never more perfect. The Alleghanians
now cultivate seventeen, even twenty acres,
halt in'corn and-half in cotton. A fair es
timate will ‘be that be may average ten j
bushels of corn per acre, which will make!
100 bushefs. The ' mule, perhaps, could j
plopgh tor twd hands, ana-thereby yield
200 bushels of corn, '(be hands and the ! murk than 1 two thotsasd fami-
mqle will consume lft, btiphels, and to : iARS iwaur uomri.fss.
raise'the 600 pounds ol pork’to feed theTwo j - ~— : 11
Is of corn, at ft-l.TEN MILLIONS OF DOLL ARS’“WORTH
ves to the own- i OF PROPERTY CONSUMED.
ty bushels of!’
bales of cotton ,,, . ,,, , , „ ' _“
'Qtk “’give your! f^* 01 ** Correspondence of the Now \ork World.
should be
cordially. He could not go back to them if and the great orgau delighted two vast
he would. His interest his only hope -is i audiences in the Music Hall, the Boston
in building up the new conservative party. ! Theatre was crowded from morning till
If he thinks he can benefit himself by doing I night with many dancer.s and happy lookers
so, what harm will it do? Let him think on. ! on, whilst the Tremont Temple was used as
It will only sharpen his zeal. It is very ob-1 a Sa^ t j); c /otiqus by Professor Bryant,
vious he will never be selected as the stan- j whose feats of leger demain and excellent
dard-bearer of this new party. But there is j veutiiloqui9m delighted ten thousand juve-
no sense in keeping up a bombardment , nii e g. The day passed off to the satisfaction
on him at the very time he is doing our ! n f u ie one hundred and fifty thousand active
work. Mr. Seward is a usod up man. After participant atM j ^is morning a genera!
this administration, in aU probability ho | mnj ; marks every txK ty you me( , t .
will be consigned to the post ol honor apri-. The celebrations elsewhere were spiriteu,
vate station. | an( j t i, e on | y “ mns s’' we have beard
Onr New York Correspondence!
[From Our Regular Correspondent ]
New Yore, July t>, ItSlitl.
THE FOURTH
has rolled by ns agaiu with the usual explo
I mentioned wns in New Bedford. A monu
ment was inaugurated to perpetuate the
! memories of the falleu soldiers of that city,
i The Monument Committee desired the corner
- stone should be laid by a Master Mason, bat
■ the worthy Mayor would not forego the
| honor, and did the ceremony himself. There
{ was much feeling manifested, and the
slve patriotism, and had old John Adams , citizens divided, so that the ceremonies were
been in New York this year he would have i not very imposing.
been pleased at finding his recommendation j It may interest your local readers to learn
as to how the day should be commemorated that B. G. Gaden, of the firm of Gaden &
so well carried out. Our people, as a gen
eral thiDg, hunted up and found the “glo
rious Fourth,’’ and, having found it, spent
their money on the spot. Some found it
Unckles, is here and in good health, that
Philip Holcomb, formerly of the steamship
Virgo, is purser of the Zodiac, a steamer
running to St. Johus, N. B., aud they will
stowed away in corner groceries behind pine 1 also lie delighted to learn the whereabouts
Counters, done up in packages, not of “four- i of our “ Republican triend, from the tot-
t .ssue Nt.ws and Herald.
ITArircrti^menis inserted three tunes a week
other drv) for a month, or longer^rrioJ. will
jijcfi uirce-fonrths ol table rates. @
T Advertisements twice a week, two-thirds of
Advertisements once a week, one-half of table
■ A-lvcrtisemeuts Inserted as special notices will
irts l thirty per cent, advance on table rates.
■ Ai- enlsemcnts of a transient character, not
t;>l cj to time, will be continued until ordered
a'A charged accordingly.
‘ So y-arly contracts, except for space at table
i mil be made; and, in contracts for space, all
gesw. ;t- barged fifty cents per square fot
Eiir.-ris:. ln'ui or business notices, for lndi
.'•ent-ar, will be subject to a charge of fifty
t: .me, I at noi^ess than three dollar's for each
g- A., transient Advertisements must be paid In
lUishea at j C per year, or cents j
the Weakly News and Herald
Isissned every Saturday at $3 per yea;.
dOil PRINTING,
S
' style, neatly and promptly done.
teen years' standing”—others found it iu
gaudy diam-shops—others in fancy glass bot
tles on their own side-boards—still other3 on
board steamboats in the bay, or ia groves np
the river, in “gardens” on the outskirts—and
all seemed to “pitch in” as if they never ex
pected to find another Fourth. Juvinility
found it very early in the morning, and pro
claimed the fact in anything but a quiet man
ner, (parenthetically, the police hereabouts
lowing paragraphs, which we extract from
the Journal and Transcript of this city. Here
they ere:
“Tub Savannah Republican.—When Gen.
Sherman’s array took Savannah, this paper,
tbe oldest in the Slate, was deserted by its
rebel publishers, and was placed by the mili
tary authorities in the hands of Mr. It. E.
Hayi s, who at twice made it a loy8\ paper,
and' it has since^tben done good service in
the cause ot free labor and of tbe Union, al
though in doing so it hns had serious obslu-
don’t interfere with anybody on tbe Fourth,; j c les to contend with. Mr Hayes, who is a
and there are not many people, male or fe native of tins city, aud well known to many
as formerly an active member of the New
England Guards, is now iu this city aDd
wishes to obtain aid in the way of subscrip
tions and advertisements to put bis paper ou
Pater i a firm basis. A little help now will do it,
and we hope he will find his anticipations
fully realized.”—Journal.
“Tae Savannah Republican is tbe only
truly loyal paper that we see from tbe State of
Georgia. Since tbe arrival of General Sher
man at Savannah, it has been tbe earnest
male, but can relate their narrow escapes
from being “burnt to death” by crackers be
ing exploded by roguish boys and girls in
close propinquity to their persons,
familias were let off very cheap if they ex
pended less than ten dollars for the little
ones—but all seemed happy and patriotic.
FIRST CLASS ROWDIES
1 are indigenous to the soil of Manhattan.
fetif News am Herald lu-»»- <*« SE-STS
r month and I P robabl Y where they fructify and germinate ; j.j ayeS) t t, 0 proprietor, is now on a business
perm.on am j go j ra pj^j y< They delight principally in be-! visit to the North, and should receive liberal
i longing to some sort of public organization, patronage fmm the loyal public. The Re-
I , b „ public au is one ot the oldest papers ol the
| like a military regiment, a hre company, a | Louth. bul ba8 ncver advocated genuine Re-
base-ball club, or a target company. Some p U blicamsm until it came within Mr. Hayes’
of these fellows, iu two different gangs, one possession- It now lias a daily circulation of
gang being what is called the; “Bench* several “and copies.^md as H is an^
Zouaves,” and the other.a crowd or Mackerel- , ^ notagrec with its political opinions. Were
ville roughs and pugilists, came together on i papers of this class in all the chief
board of an excursion steamer on the Fourth. ! places ol the South, reconstrucliou upon a
The boat was crowded with ladies and chU- i sound and lasting basis Would not be so diffi-
. , j cult a problem as it is at present. Mr. Hayes
dren. The rowdies got into a dispute , ^ b J ( , much experience wilh the press,
knives were drawn—then pistols—and a gen-, ■ | ia vmj been a war correspondent of the Bos
eral cutting and shooting was indulged in ton Traveller and New'Y’ork Tribune.
it W ashington Correspondence.
i ron; our Regular Correspondent.]
Washington. July 7tb, 1666.
/ committees ol the two Houses bave
dnyon the tax on cotton of three cents
:.ind. This is an exhorbitant. tax, and
i it tends to aid in the production of cot
ta foreign countries, it will be a blow
.e iree negroes ol the South, whose wages
depend so materially upon the price of
a This argument has been put very
edly by tbe President’s organ, tbe Na
il Intelligence??.
-t National Union Convention is regarded
-c great event of the day. If this great
a if the fusion of alAbe national elements
accomplished, it is thought the pro
’s will be rapid in the right direction.
^President's friends are earnestly alive to
Haovement, and axious to launch it sne-
Sally. It is hoped that the South will be
-gly represented. There are two names
ur State most highly respected by all
; e Radicals Alexander H. Stephens and
^hel V. Johnson. It Ts such men as
whose presence will be welcomed in
onvention with enthusiasm, lor they are
fed a? the type of Southern conserva-
‘•t this lime. There Is no doubt but that
ivement is rapidly assuming great pro
's? The Radicals begin to regard it as
5- The movers in this matter do not
Iktiie Yallandingham school to bepromi-
he Convention, and they want all
snservatives. they can get from the
• The fixing up ot the platform will
15 T «y nice work.
'SrJreshmg to see, as is indicated by the
of Wendell Phillips at the recent
Slavery meeting, thut the simon pore
‘tlonista are down upon what they call
upiicity of Congress. This Wendell
‘“Sis school demaud as a tine < iMX n<jn> un j_
tTgro sufirage, and they denounce the
''Prizing course of Congress on the sub-
This radical sentiment has a powerbe-
fii» mere numbers, for it is a compact
‘N&n'i members of Congress of tbeRepub-
fJSl faun regard it with fear and trembling-
" fillips announces bis platform to be
f sad the ballot for the negroes, and pro
nto found a party on these issues. If Wen-
e -Phillips Cau only succeed iu divining his
- party while the President succeeds in
'■ ag his, tbe skies will look quite bright,
'no active movements of the Prussians, in
■ring on Saxony and Hanover, and other
•utan States, is commented on here in
, , i ; Ulr y circles as a brilliant opening of the
l, 1 u > Profiting by the lesson of Frederick the
In the seven years war. A vary able
lljil litary man here says this was one of the
v-t mistakes the South made, that they did
t occupy the border States before the North
ready.
The amendment agreed upon by the Joint
aunhtees of both Houses, to let railroad
npsnies add their tax on their chargee, is
immense boon to those railroads which
ty make enough to keep tbemrclr,-; ,
right in the midst of the affrighted passeu-
geis. The scoundrels took possession of the
boat, made the captain laud them a mile or
two tiom the pier, took off their wounded on
the doors of the boat, which they tore off,
and then let the steamer go. Never did peo
ple feel so relieved as when the prow of that
boat turned from the yelling, drunken fiends
down the East river. One ol the passengers
says that for an hour it really seemed as if
“hell was empty and all the devils were
there!” A petition is circulating among our
respectable military organizations for the
disbandment of the Bendex Zouaves, they
having disgraced themselves by a. riot at
East. New York on their-May parade, as well
as on this occasion.
GRATITUDE
is an element in human nature which our
sick and wounded soldiers on Davids Island
have certainly read of—but of its practical
application in New Y’ork they must certain
ly be. in some doubt. Videlictt. A public
spirited gentleman offered to take charge
of any contributions for the benefit of the
poor fellows, in order that they might bave
a few luxuries on tbe Fourth- Oaf merchants
and citizens were appealed to, and the enor
mous amount of sixty-eight dollars and fifty
cents! was raised- However, with the
few goodies purchased with this trifling sum
they had the kind words of Dr. Webster,
their surgeon, and the boys made the most
of It. Big thiDg for this big city—wer’n’t
it ?
* OLD SOL
has rather beat down upon U9 this week, and
the pavements of Broadway have actually
been hot as late a9 ten o’clock at night. It
is fortunate the dog law ia effectively in
torce, or we should certainly have several
car es of hydrophobia to record. It is lortu-
nate their is no law agaiust two-legged curs,
or the dog pound would soon deplete some'
of our fashionable avenues. Umbrellas are
very popular here to shed the sun’s rays.
THE AII9EB9
carried the vote to-day in the Brokers’ Board
on the question of a donation for the benefit
of the Portland sufferers. A motion was
made by a member to appropriate five thou
sand dollars; another member moved to in
crease it to fifty thousand, when a leading
member (formerly ol Chicago) moved to
moke the stun one hundred thousand dollars,
and supported bis motion bv an eloquent ap-
peal for the houseless and homeless. The
gentleman [who made the last motion gal
lantly fought for his proposition, but the
Shyloeks were too numerous, and not only
voted him down, but cut down the original
sum from five to three thousand dollars. The
Gold Board was the scene of a similar move
ment, and an attempt there to make the fig
ure fifty thousand resulted in a reduction to
three thousand—about the sum that many
of the members of both BorriJr — — - r ~- -
We
commend him to the favorable consideration
of our merchants and business men.”— Tran
script
Tbe weather is quite warm, yet business
ol all kind is brisk Mechanics ot all kinds
are in demand, aud the standard of wages
was niver higher.
To jiorrow a notable event will occur on
Riverside Trotting Park, being a trial be
tween tbe celebrated horse George Wilkes,
and tlo trotting mare Lady Tborne. Horse
men are all talk to-day, and much depends
on tbe race. H
(From tile Macon Messenger ]
COT VON URUWiaiU I\ liEORGiA.
Perhaps tbe most fearful experiment that
was ever made with the labor of any-country,
when i onsidered as to its immediate results,
prospective efficiency, or as to the perma
nency if its products, is now upon us. A
change so. universal, so sudden, the antago
nism of races, the natural effect of the eleva
tion oi the slaves-without a moment’s pre-
liminaiy training, as well as the inexperi
ence of* their former masters in the manage
ment of free labor, all combine to make tbe
experiuent, not only one of embarrassment,
but haaxrdous in the extreme. Without time
to adjust the plantation to the new order of
things by making settlements, removing
buildings, erecting new ones, &c., we have
been precipitated into all the embarrass
ments that cluster so thickly around it, at a
mament the most unpropitious from the
pecuniary exhaustion of five years’ war,
with the labor of those five years totally
lost. Under such circumstances, it i9 but
natural that many errors should have
been < ommitted, even by the most saga
cious, by those possessing the most self-
control. and with the best capacity for the
management of others. In the present
status, tbe labor of freedmeen in the cultiva
tion of cotton 1 regard as a decided failure,
although a combination of fort on at&cS rc u m -
stance* may make individual case^; 1 occa
sionally successful. These will be not the
rule, but exceptions to it. My opinion then,
is tliat cotton growing, under the present"
system, or no system at all, must soon lan
guish and mainly cease as our people are too
poor to risk a succession of ruinous, or doubt
ful experiments Tbe end of this year, lam
fearful, will find tbe South poorer than at
tbe beginning, wilh its energy greatly para
lyzed at the unreliable labor of lreedmen,
as a general thing, the uncertainty of its po
litical I mure, and the burthens ot taxation
too henry for its resources. It is my candid
opinion, after much reflection and close ob
servation, that there will not be enough gath
ered in iliis State, of all tbe crops grown the
present year, to subsist our people and em
ploy the same bands and teams another year.
All admit that it has been the most disas
trous stesnn ever known Ipr planting, but
enough has been learned to satisfy even the
most singuinc, that employing the usal num
ber of bands, as heretofore, on tbe old plan
tation, and working them in large gangs
will sieedily lead its proprietor to bank-
ruptcj—that unreliable labor upon badly
worn lands, without the means formerly
used i 0 improve them, or the pecuniary
starvation. It may not he* tofr, fliglf 1 *i fig
ure to estimate th e waste and consumption
of provisions at one-third more, and the-- la
bor fully or- ie* 8 th an when alana.
Suppo i .1 ■> -".it! isse'd
*Y~er:” .j Tsheu/i. o&ve
|THE PORTLAND FIRE.
Two Thousand Bmliijs bum.
hands will require 60 bi
moderate estimate, whs
er of fhe lock! and m
corn. Suppose they. I
at $ino per bale,
hands one-thfrd,
$283, which would
prietor $4o6 and forty
cover tbe wear and
tion, teams, wagons,
ments, to support tbe
taxes, etc. Thiseatim;
selection of tbe best hi
and mules, tbe most pr<
will prove far above an
portion of Georgia- Thl
the additional one-th
former times. In trt
ter the lands become
to get rich when we
certain addition to t
was tbe increase an-
Much attention was
compost manured, ar
our work so as'to t
V« - to the pro
of 90m to
■of -the {ilanta-
farating nnple-
’ tor, to pay his
made upon tbe
' the best lands
seasons, and
-ge crop in this
_ ss not embrace
J 'r--*~ < »lr>o aaove |.
piah*’=*•£ e
:3,k~i n!oa
■tites - t; a
altr - oi Gu- - .
-wtli r-i wu: . c
No
!,'.y oi or-.-ir
! destroy,
uprietor for f
eras
th-
b-
rh lit
tu.u
with leaves, straw,
abandon this import;
our exhausted field
plantation to improev
make it of little val.te
would yield but a bcar»-
tition it out after t
slroyed in opening b-
to operate upon, the .
sites for settlemer. !:
Will it now remunei
penses be will have :
and other convenie: e .Lint
thousands of acre ; .'.it ■;<.
iu Georgia ? Will • a pi
free labor justify ;n\.;i i • t
tire little that is lull
way? Who is to • in . i
next year? We k ops
and wasteful, aud v , •
•selves when we d< ■
our mules and prot ■ maci,
settlement there ar, s t-.U.
vagrant freedmen,
supplies in a mont
out for the year.
freedmen, what is ■: • :
class, the worst? i-■■.->. or
into settlements, a- •
and you cannot ar L ’ > Li
time, any profit, ui.. y ■ • „
yonrlands ; for confine uts i,
out a system of manuring, v - .
our fields as to mat; them • ■ m-.: to
Derate the labor of cultivate m .
But buy fertilizers one •no .it l - pi - .
have we to buy wj r J in c* r .- -
in the investigatacc: ci this , n u t i
of capital is always Uef . vi.
plan whiah I shall adopt m-j -.... , o.
onty employing a$ say o. .;
vate one-half of «iy land, ,...
lands. What are to become -i .
employed? Are the;, to : ;ra^-• ...
the energetic and the pro' th;
employ them pro: ably
gions of the State The »:
building has die< .-.it.
questions for state -• ir. -n . : .,
and their solutio
soon Here eoloj i r
The truth is, we hi,
in our own bone i 1 <
and we must all
most assiduous at
may r consider o-i■•■-•!
gel as much to live
wasted
We bave uot r.-u
ye-t Let tbe hea- ’ ...
painful disclosure, alt
blood as be does it
family must Ijve uisi.!
tions, stop all ext.-■•••»
that they have ' ei
strongtli. That -air J
to tbe cooking stove,
do the house work
ply tbe axe. the p'
Don't rush ini
uselessly, for wit
culture of the Sot
not pay. Make > -..
self sustaining. ’V
work or perish, a'
restraint and safe a ■ ■
have left, and n
means for succts
iving.
It there be any
ample They wh- -
factors. Honest, u
it will be better fo. f -
and far better for
the people shoul
as speedily as po
We can lose n
save millions. T'
try is oovered »' • n
There is bat one t
cotton growing <
and that is by Is
capital in our c :
tbe matured ex
managing free
baa it great into
we have the lar
tore. We are
their abuodanc
yet bave a com
for. Withhold
jeopard their o
indeed- If col iu., .
be made prosj *’• his
soon impart li
business, and i troyed
grain country wm — e _. „ :<• ;.
because they can live by their own labor, and
live much cueaper, and fur better. It is not
tbe hopelessness of despair, bttt tbe convic
tions of my judgment conforming to history
repeating itself. I have been a planter for
ncariy thirty years; was one of the first to
declare my slaves free, and promptly entered
iuto a most liberal contract with them.
They are not “a* ignorant as- the mules
they drive,’’ as 1 have always lived on the
plantation with them, never debarred them
the use of books, many of them can read,
and most of whom are still with me.
I give them one-tbird of all tbe crops
grown this season, feed the males and bands
that work. They, too, have done about as
well as any set of bauds I know of, bat they
are raising their children without manners or
restraint- They are becoming more and
more sensitive, and very perceptibly doing leas
and less work. Twelve months have elapsef
since we acknowledged: them to be free
I shrink from indulging or publishing my an
ticipations of their probable condition at the
expiration of the next year. May we be able
to bring order out of chaos, and may a mer
ciful God save tbe country from penury and
waQ t. E- J- MoQkhke.
Houston County, June 30, 1866.
Field Marshal Wrangel.who fought against
Napoleon L and commanded the Prussian
array at tbe beginning of the late Schleswig
campaign, but has since bcoo relieved from
all active duty, has left for the front, to die,
as he says on horseback- Betorc his de
parture he left cards for hi* acquaintances,
on which were the words: “Wrangel, Vol
unteer iu the Third Cnirsssiers.'
Portland, July o.
One of the most beautiful, if not the most
beauiitul of our smaller Atlantic .cities, now
lies in ruins. Portland, which, auice the
completion of the Grand Trunk Railroad,
and the selection of its noble harbor as the
winter terminus ot tbe C'annduuk'line .of
steamers to Europe, had made snch rapid
strides iu prosperity as to promise at no dis
tant day a serious rivalry with Boston for the
primacy of commercial importance in New
England, has been visited in a season of pro-
*oand peace, and ou the anniversary of onr
ual independence, with a conflagration
reeping and tremendous that it can be
ed only to the desolation by fire of some
ir Southern capitals in the very crisis and
nf tbe late war. How the fire was rom-
cated to the small wooden building in
h it seems first to have broker: out, has
y yet become a subject of- conjecture,
s months ago a mysterious individual
arrested here shortly after- a fire
taken place in Free street, Who finally
issed that he bad come to Port-
for the express purpose of born-
Ihe city, and that be was the author
he conflagration which last year laid
e the capital of tbe State,' Augusta, a
agration which, untill this day’s sad
i was done, ranked first in the ounals of
nisfortunes of this kind. It is poA^ble
this last catastrophe may have been tbe
: of some such incendiary madness; bat
; probable, perhaps, that is to ba car
lo the account of the carnival of fire
gunpowder with which it is considered
-er to celebrate the birth-day of the ua-
Wbatevcr its origin, Us extent—of
eh unfortunately, wc cannot yet speak
i precision, since the brave firemen are
battling with tbe enemy, and have not
secured their victory—is simply appall-
lu less than twelve hours one-third of
property of this busy and flourishing city
been roiled up in the scroll of fire and
wn away in clouds of smoke. Portland
ivided into an upper and a lower town,
tbe high land to the south and weat stand
handsomest private residences, and the
st picturesque streets of the city. Cou-
euous among these is the stately mansion
Mr. John Brown, the architectural pride j
Portland, a house literally aet upon a hill, ‘
1 the tower of which is the first object dc-!
ied by i lie traveller coming lo from Bos-
i on the railway. From this mansion pro-
iding eastward as far as State street and
rk street, the former of which, wilh its
ble rows of fine forest-trees, is one of the
ist charming streets in America, extends I
: richest “home-quarter of Portland, and i
■ s region happily has been spared-
The fire began, as we have stated, below j
i high lands to the eastward of the two
ge stations of tbe Boston and Maine and
stern Railroad, which, togetbei with the
LIFE INSURANCE' GO.,
Of New York City,
No. 89 Bay @fcreet„
SAVANNAH, GA.
Policies issued and Losses Pafd
in:
AT THIS OFFICE.
CREDITS
Given to holders of Mutual Policies of
SO PER CENT.,
if desired, when the premium amounts to
$50 or more, and ia paid annually.
DIVIDENDS
made to holders of Mutual Policies as follows:
PAID IN CASH,
APPLY ON PREMIUM NOTES, or
ADDED TO THE POLICY.
The latter or REVERSIONARY DIVI
DENDS declared by this Company in 186'G
were trom FORTY-FOUR to ONE HUN-
e warehouses on Commercial street, have DRED AND TWENTY’ PER CENT., ac
eapi-d the flames From the little boat- !
.filler s shop ia which it originated just. c °rd in S lo a £ e
uetore sunset, it w is communicated to tbe (
splendid sugar-houses of Mr- Brown, of 1
. lose resilience we have already spoken as !
e finest in the city. They constituted tbe [
. sst e:\U-n.-ivosiigur works in New England, !
I Ten Year, Non-Forfeiture,
;re, they had disappeared totally before ■
n o'clock at night: and i-he wind, blowing UNDO W M E N T
most a gale from the southwest, swept the' nu n ana a,
iglity mass of flame away from Commercial
reel, aud up towards the’heart of the lower ]
•wn. Exchange street, in which were
toiled the handsome jewellcre -ahops of the
ty, the newspaper buildings—four in num-
ar—the Merchants’ News-room, and many
Bees, public and private, including the law
fice of Senator Fessenden, and the British
onsui's office; Middle street, from just'
;low the l uited States Hofei, down to Ex- ; "
range street, with all ib« banka in tbe ' r
.tv—seven in number—the beat retail shops, !
sadiug members of the Portland bar*- t t | Extra Charge for Southern Resilience
andsome new Custom House, which con
fined tbe post office also ; the telegraph
Sees, situated at tbe corner of Exchange
-nd Middle streets, directly opposite the!
.'ustom House—all were wrapped in flames 1 .
i3 the fiery surges swept steadily onward to \ J_)lI > GClOI*S 1
he east and north.
AND
Life Policies
Issued by this Company.
tire!
.u bt
N c
-p-.-r,
hern
. v. i-.il It
vstem of
id !
! Li: V,
The flames passed across, in the rear of
.he United States Hotel, into Congress street,
lestroying the buildings of tbe Portland
Natural History Society, and with them its
valuable collections, and sorest loss of all
perhaps to the architecture of tbe “Forest
City,’’ the new city and county building, a
very handsome edifice, ol hewn stone and
brick, of which tbe peopte of Portland were
justly proud, claiming that it ranked next
after tbe new City Hall of Boston among
buildings of tbe kind iu New England. This
fine structure was completed only two or
three vests ago, and waft believed to be so
their furniture aud other .goods iuto it as the
conflagration went on, hoping thus to save
them. But all went together in the common
min.
_ Daring the brief darkness of tbe summer
uigbt the spectacle presented by the confis
cation, as from the upper part of tbe city,
was indescribably grand; but it ia not easy
to indulge one’s love of the picturesque in tbe
presence of these smoking ruins, which alone
now represent what yesterday stood forth as
tbe accumulated resnlts of human energy and
enterprise, to the estimated valne of some
ten millions of dollars. Nearly two thousand
families, and, it is computed, from seven to
eight thousand individuals in all, are to-day
destitute and homeless, who In tbe morning
of yesterday constituted nearly one-third of
the population of one of the most orderly,
E rosperons and industrious cities in America.
iglit churches, seven hotels, every.printing
office capable of issuing a newspaper, have
vanished.
Incendiaries.—The telegrams report an ex
traordinary number of fires on the night of
the 4th, and very many of them the work of
incendiaries. We have never had suclfa
year far fires, and it would 9eem that combi
nations existed almost every where to destroy
. -x, «. FitfVC V a — r --- T -^- v property. Let these destroyers of men’s
ability to purchase them, must result in homes and places of taring* 6 watched by
atarrafikn t. _ - ? . L ' > -A. .a n; L«r ft MnnNft cm/4 ■*-
Emigrants Can be Supplied
WITHIN TEN DAYS.
rrtllK niiiterslgasd am prepared to supply Planters
1 au-l other parUj. who may be in want of WHITE
l. a lion Kits, and have made neci
_ meats iu the North to Clany orden ^
TwelvVmontb. hive efa^parf SfS c '"gSSSt.
Tile Laborer* are to oe received U; the Bmployers
on arrival of the steamer here, and tranevorted to
the points where the? are wauted at Bm/loyers’
expense, and i he Employers have farther to pays
certain unm per head In advance, partly ss security
and partly for covering the expeasea in bringing the
Emigrants from the North to tlii* port.
The rate at which Farming Laborer* can be se
cured win average about also per year: the Employ
er* hndiug tbeat.
For further particulars apply to i
WM MOltVILLE * CO.!
Jones’ Bloch, Bay street,
One door East of Barnard street.
« savaaaab. da.
agrSBENCKS :
Jackson & Lawton, .- avaunah-
John W. Anderson A Son, Savannah.
8otomon Oohen, Savannah.
JB0.C, FerrilL Savannah. .
Nlcholls, Camp <* Co., Savannan
Geo. A- Cuylcr, Savannah.
W. R. Fleming, davaanah-
John Screven, Savannah.
Brigham. Baldwin <* Co., Savannan
Savannah National Bank, Savannah.
patrol* of -hyapabKc and seent
police, by organized detectives, and in every
way which human ingenuity can detect. Br
this way, k is to be hoped, some of these
.-1 flaws on vllbimi may be L * ’
■ j, iv ; „etss.
VALUABLE MIDDLE GEORGIA
Plantation for Sale.
I AM OFFBEING a desirable Sommer place for
sale, three miles from Mtlledgeville, containing
TOO seres of good com and cotton Mad, with good
SKSTTAefiasiusskat
die Georgia. Situated on the mala roed to Ready
vllto, convenient to good school*, end a good parti*
, « ■ ■ , for all (hat fern he produced as "tM *|si*4'"' Wp
nea sna $is.io per acre, in tvc po ?ment*. d itdreie BOX MI
. t MUlodgevtUe, Gr.. jy'Jw*
Henry Bbiohak, President Merchants' National
Bank.
Colonel We. & Rockwell
H. A- Crane, of Crane Sc Gray bill.
Jon> D. Hopkins.
A. A. Solomons, ef A. A. Solomons A Co.
K. A. SOULLARD.
B. J. MORE*, of Brady, Smith A Co.
FRED. M. HULL, Of Holcombe A Co.
M. A. Cohen, Secretary Home Insurance Co.
A. WILBUR, General Manager
WM. R. BOYD, Agent.
Dr. E. YONGE, Examining Phyiiciea.
Dr. R. D. AnSWLU, Comoltlng Fhyilc’n.
jeT-tf
Insurance Conup y
OF SAV*|IH*»I
Arc prepared to take
Fire Risks on- Reasonable Ttrsiv.
At I heir Office. 117 Bay Street.
H- W MERCER. Pr si
J. T. TaoxAS. Sec.
II. W. Mefccr
C. 8. lisracc
William Hnnt^r
A. 8. Hartrulge
A. Puner
1L Monran
J. Stoddard
J. T. Thoiiuifl
W. Rciushart
P. L. One
H. A. Crane
A. A. Solomons
M. Hamilton
W. W. Gordon
mv7 tf
Directors:
M. S. Cohen
J. Lanm
•t. W. Nevift
1) G. Purse
A. Pal tartan
>7. M ’MtUidc
L. .1. Guilmnrtin
F. W. 8imR
C. Bntler
R. Larhlison
K. P. Cfaton, Anc
J. w. Knotr, Mac
fi. F. Roas, Macoi
W. H. Young, Co
S. B. HARRINGTOi
EVERY VARIETYIO
FURNITU1
in
IS SELLING GOODS
Lower Than Any Other Hou>?
IN SAVANNAH.
HOTELS AND STEAMBO
FURNISHED.!
LESnreTOR, YA.
; ■o’vj
T he board twjrisrrpas wm meet at th. Vir
ginia Military uatitut* un dm STlhof Jane, to
nuke ,npotntment» of Cadet*. Applications tor state
and pay cadre .ppblnlervnt* will be Made to thena-
deretoed, eiiwtiindlul nlih the unut testimonial*
f5ntua»cfftwr GKtttniiaf idint be" dxempt from
bodily aifeehe, -dflSfrt bWddetfie *na *» year*, and
In thucaaaof 9«t»JChart -appitcanw, must rettefy
the Bowtdfm meet the eapensee ol
theXo*ttlutioci,„.-,, . , ,
...TT-ArmiijM.. j jatBtteable to read and
rtth fholUty and aeeoracy
the varlone a> eyrithh* - at the foar grenad raleeoj
arithmeUc, of redactJon.
P BaSlWatriri* Will
bcnrapM—dtk tR«d. ^ M
character
uf the Institute, audio piff lrfcfr operation its well
trim and ihEiliiriWinjgimhlf dwcMtf h»d inatine-
}ei-. ^ wiU
the «h of July. The
eh the tTth of Jem,
i~rihrrrmttEnMtt••**“ nl i 1 »■* The public
ore -W—laxlted,Mailof Bwea *E»rclae».
For aUJUfthS InJofm application will be
made to the'Snpft6|tnnideril. '‘- ' £ ■
KIRCIB H. SMITH,
Aogosta Constitutionalist please luyert Me times,
and tend bill to thl* (MM. “
PAR LOR SETS, extra well upholster
FINE BED ROOM SETS Walnut an
fcogany. *
COTTAGE BED ROOM SETS, of
variety.
OTNING ROOM and LIBRARY SET
MATTRESSES. BOLSTERS and PILI OVvS
of all kinds.
KITTLE S FOLDING SPRING BEDS and
MATTRESSES, the beat Bed in use,
and WARRANTED SUPERIOR to ali
others.
JACE AND GAUZE MOSQUITO CANO
PIES, and CANOPY FRAMES.
j.. w. stbkLe,
(Late Steele A Btubanfe,!
11. Merchants’ Bow, Hilton Hcad,So. C.»
And comerKtno and Oearye fe.. Chartestor,
/NALLS the attention of tVTifllreale and Beta!]
V' ctweere to Ills eopeMor etort of
Military an4 Haval Clothing,
r : -.
FURNISHING GOODS,
WsUhos, Mi, Ttmtf U*»ds,-tywek, and Plated
Wen, BwqnMhif Saahra Mefte, ■ MktMdcriee, Boot*
Caps, Ple-’-J Gl*alea,aao*tleti,Glr^ *c.,;Ac.
TpoiA y, '
.1/ I MAHOTJbQTDHHB OF
FURNtrOKife lM^
mm
tieni by 5£e?l 'po'ai.a,.
{yKi-tf
WAREROOMSv
178 Bronghton Street,
Mearlf Opposite SI. Andrew’s Hall.
jel2 6m
Mount Zion Select SchpoL
MOUNT ZION, GA.
WILLIAM J. \URTHEN, RECTOS.
T he next session will commence c..
the tret of August.
Mt. Zion, October, ISM.
Mr. Wm. J. Nor-then has be*u associated with u.c
during the present year (1866) in the Mount Zion
High School. In tU my intercourse with him, I hare
uniformly toadd him kind mad obliging; Indeed,
whole deportment has been that oLa gentleman an.'
a Christian. Id parting wilii Mr. N. it nffurds iu
pleasure to besFteatimony 10 bis zeal. Industry * -
skill in teaching—and to add, I know of no yo’-i ,
.man in whose abilities and Oddity as an inatraruu
I have greater confidence. C. P. Bxjl*n, D-
CxrvnnaiTT or Gspneia. Jttlr®. 1887 ■
JWfivea me pleasure to testily to ^
and eiOciaocy of Mr. W. J. Northeri •*•^*ch«. He
properly restrained and thoroughly taoghL ^
pgNTiELD. September 11
I too- of no !«• preparing
Coti.-ec than yoare, and am happy to expi
omaimi to yoq, aa I have expieeeed It to o
onlalon to yoo, ee I have expreteed It to others
wd*h job mack success, which indeed yon deesrv
jv7-lw* N. M. CKAW70R!
If
120»000 WELL Burnt Brick,^.^
c. k. :
and Qgsechee Canal, above Swayne
notice.
r -act'
y H XifihU.