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' to** M. m > j. m ‘t f# ' ? .. i| 11 '?*'*■ fcfi ,dH :■! a II VOL. 2—>0. 155. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1866. ■ t Daily News and Herald. fuulisbed by W. MASON. S. )>* lTF . five Cents. *3 5u. *1000. ^ OF ADVERTIdlNG. Allf -. first Insertion, $1.50; each lnacr- „t. 75 cents. 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ISoi 330 450 540 63u 720 945 1,0S0 . iSi»j 340 482 655 643 740 970 1,110 1901 343 47.' 570 665 700 995 1,146 j . i95| 353 4S7 josr | 053 780 1,025 1,170 2001 368 son 1 60C ! 700 i 600 1 1,050 1,200 yT a sql'AKE is tea meAsui 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.