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ty.t . neatly and promptly done.
HiiiiniirlpUia Convention.
lug article, which express** our «
a the subject or the Conservative National
Ion to be held in Philadelphia on the 14th of
nth, *.ve take from that sterling Southern
the Richmond times:
I. The call for the Nation Convention of those who
tht* lmmeditate restoration of all the States of
;ou to their Constitutional rigiiU, has excited
.n unxiGus .'ipprebension of the Radical party,
ii^representation and foul abune which they
aj'on the distinguished Republican and Demo*
-UUr&meu who have united in recommending
-isure, fnroish unmistakable evidence o£their
and terror.
•j- Northern States the proposition meets with
:.:iuiriastic approval of every public man whose
justice aud conservatism elevates him above
he 5..ugh of Radicalism. A multitude of Northern
as are also advocating the proposed Convention
: *tii-rcat earnestness aud ability,
i-t juservatives of the North, without regard to
*I-ny lines, aie already moving with the moat
•ow.: unanimity in favor of the proposed Couven-
The representatives of the Conservative send*
• -t 1 the North, from whom alone we have »ny-
; hope, are radiant at the thought of once
• c uiesting the >> juth, iu a ITational Convention,
> u ter us of friendship, cordiality and equality,
aj. p«:als come to us iu a form so eloquent and
v.’<- .i to merit ..ur most respectful considera-
d T; c friends«>f the proposed National Convention,
“ • iv.- letter opp 'rtunities than ourselvesof study-
P-L.;. «eutimeiit at the North, and of observing
*• i.*J iu his nttive jungle, assure us that the
••ol'i.iou against the bloody programme of the de-
r - hid commenced, aud that the proposed
Lve:r: ;u will give immense strength to tlie reoo-
U..TV : .'Vcea which are now in motion. The North-
■u i-'- 'ithey assure us, are at last awaking from
‘ ’Lg lu 1 terrib delusion with reference to the
“s.^1.8i an. 1 character of tne Destrucaoulsts and Joco
se therefore attach a degree of importance to
invention which we have not hitherto
Onr Washington Correspondence.
[From our Regular Correspondent]
Washington, July 10th, 1866.
The prospects of the National Union Con
vention improve every day. It is believed
that the great point of coalescing all the
plished it is thought the Radicals must go to
the wall in the next elections. The Presi
dent’s friends desire all persons at the South
to join in the convention who in good faith
accept the existing order- of tliiDgs, aud are
for the Union. No queotions are asked
about the past. It is expected that in your
State, for instance, men like Alexander H.
Stephens aud Herschel V. Johnson will take
hold of it. As a matter of policy in the
choice of delegates to the Convention, it is
thought expedient for the South to send as
many persistent Union men as may be, and
for a iouble purpose to give the radicals less
handle, and to show the Union element at
the South is not treated with contempt. This
Convention is the opening of a new era of
hope for the South, and it is desirable that
the South should take an interest in it.
The moneped men are watching with
great interest the effect of the war in Eu
rope on the price of gold and our National
securities. So far no increased demand for
aas set in, and the demand for Ameri-
security is better. The securities of
the belligerent powers are falling rapidly.
Persons in Europe having money may seek
the United States ns a safe investment. The
revenue of the United States, with the cer
tainty of its va9t and almost indefinite in
crease, is calculated to give confidence to
capitalists as to the financial power of the
United States. If our securities have main
tained the good position they have under
the suicidal policy of the majority in Con
gress, what would not he the result if our
public affairs could be carried on with true
wisdom and patriotism.
The tariff bill meets with considerable op
position. The Northwest is not content
with the amount of protection ou wool, and
they are dissatisfied with the high duties on
iron. New England thinks it important that
Nova Scotia coal should be imported for her
use cheap. The protectionists are in trouble
in Congress; they run the risk ot losing the
tariff bill from their own dissensions, or if
passed, incurring a veto.
The Radicals are very much chagrined
over the failure of the Tennessee Legislature
to obtain a quorum and ratify the Constitu
tional amendment. It seems very likely
that Tennessee will do nothing for them.
Their desire for the action of Tennessee, was
to have a good, argument North as to their
policy being acceptable to the Union ele
ment Sopth. j
The effort being made in Congress to regu
late the election of United States Senators
is a novelty in our practice- Undoubtedly
these elections have not always been properly
conducted, and a uniform rule upon the
subject laid down. The important points lo
be attended to are, it is said, to fix the
time the State Legislatures shall proceed to
elect.
The news from the Northwest seems to in
dicate very closely that the radicals will lose
some of the approaching elections for Con
gress. It is believed that the result of the
next elections will be to deprive the radicals
of their two-thirds majority iu the House
of Representatives. This seems attainable,
and the effect would be very happy on the
President’s. position. Two-thirds ot both
Houses against the President of such a party
as make up the present majority, constitute
a dangerous fact.
Mr. James G. Holmes, of Charleston,
South Carolina, is here at this time, and has
laid before the Secretary of the Treasury his
plan for paying the uational debt. Mr.
Holmes’ plan was adopted some years since
by the city of Charleston, with remarkable
success. His theory is, in short, at the end
of each quarter of the year to pay off the in
terest due, with a small amount of the prin
cipal. And it is remarkable how, by making
an appropriation of enough to pay the accru
ing interest, with addition of one per cent,
for the principal, will diminish the debt.
Mr. Holmes has made himself master of
this subject, and he is sanguine of paying off
the national debt in a short period upon the
plan set forth. *
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•'I Cl fe’i.
lllcil ti,
• a- ;«n:m apathy of the Southern people
' : 1 the propuw-d Convention does not
11,1 -"' r iuilitfereuee to the question of recon-
riiottld rather lj-asenbedtothatgeneral
1 h'-lMeasuess and despair which hss token
l!l lil of us since the .Northern people have
„... sdanuisier to the disuniouiste at Washington
r i;;-- 1 ; 1 '* j ,; 6akc. We have for months past aeon a
E a - • ‘“rt.fion, st Executive set at utter defiance by
t 'hgrtss. au-l have been confounded at
It-V* : V I L " UL: - the constituents o? those bold, bad
l£nt o'. . * ?;*“ 1iOTk given their unworthy rspre-
ItLe 1.,.,‘s °T‘ h<,s ' thi rn people supposed that with
Frnnl.il,^ would return, and that there
. 11 “pvecly restoration ol the Union. Insulted,
j unrepresuut-d, taxed, and doomed to mill-
a forniai proclamation of peace, It ia
1- iC-’nim o! they “ lK ’ uW place not much faith
| .rssovereign ' Ihcacv ol Conventions
iWnlt of eT( ' r l- southern
U“;u , ^ U s^rw^ ff o ^ e ua^rS’! a «'s o "
ajiathy, aud send delegates to the
\ .Imperative duty to do this apee'tiu y aSd°?n
fcood Iau;,. lJie pi-ypoaed Convention faiu ttlSLHj
Jjiever l* atchbed to the failure of the Sonthom tin*
l*' Ie , respond W> the find appeal for union aud enn^!?'
|*mch tb. ; North has fnade to us. y
■1,, tl fj ,v,rc ' llie South to respond to this inviu-
,' 4,u tin. (Jouservatives of the Northern t$taten
■^biita be l.GWerfuUy wielded by the radicals at the ap-
“proHchaLg flections. Already more than one “cou-
k L -List” has publicly declared that **the
fih -‘ f ^° uot wish to return to the Union."
»1 „ 1UlJ hauic-u 'would assume, however, the sem-
1 “ ; 01 h-uili if we tail to unite with the Conserva-
,* L * ^‘jvtiuent yduch has for its object the resto-
•' 1 tLfe Sf iuin-rffitatos to their old places in the
an aristocratic scandal.
The Adventures and Intrigues of a Fast
Young Widow.
There havo been some recent developments in
social life here, which, although of little pnblic im
portance, at least lay the basis for a somewhat practi
cal homily upon the badly mixed character of society
in a great city like ours. Among the brilliant orna
ments of upper tendom there is a certain lady of
Southern origin, who, during the rebellion, became a
widow*. Marrying again, she chose for her second
companion a gentlemen who subsequently laid his
honor with his life at the feet of the now defunct Con
federacy. The lady was then left a widow, unpro
tected and alone, in Savannah, Georgia. Poverty made
a furious raid upon her, but she escaped the clutches
of that demon by the friendly aid of a blockade runner,
which landed her safely at Nassau, N. P. There she
made the acquaintance of an English gentleman re
joicing in the title of Lord Herbert.
The acquaintance ripened into a warmer attach
ment and, loving not wisely but too well, the lady
hnally consented to accompany Milord—as lady Her
bert—during a voyage to New York, but was ho re
markably thoughtless as to forget about getting mar
ried to him before setting out. Ou arriving here
Milord conveniently remembered that his real wife
was waiting for him, and was in readiness to proceed
home with him to England. The Southern widow
went to the house of h.jr mother, ou Fourteenth
street, who was a lady of cousiderable affluence, and
there remained for a short time, entertaining herself
with her two children. Meantime, Milord H. ar
ranged lor the disposal of his wite, aud, having en
gaged a stateroom on one of the outgoing steamers,
he informed her at the last moment that pressing
business would compel his remaining In the city for
an hour or two after the sailing of the steamer, and
that by a special conveyance he would reach Sandy
Hook in advance, and there join her on the voyage
homeward. . _ .
The programme worked like a charm. Milord, hav
ing got rid of his wife, return-d to the widow, who
was nothing loth to second all his plans. Taking her
children to New Jersey, she left them in care of some
relatives, and then she gathered up a goodly collec
tion of costly jewelry, aud as full a purse as possible,
preliminary to the Qi'crndt tour. Lord and Lady Her
bert promptly set off 011 a pleasure excursion, so-
jouruiift as man and wife at the hotels along then
northward path. At last they reached Montreal,
where they soou planned a trip across the Atlantic.
This suggested to the lady the idea of visiting New
York for the settlement of some business matters be
tween herself and her mother, and for the more elabo
rate preparation auch a long trip required. So, leav
ing her gold and Jewels behind her w Lord H.'s cus
tody, she came back to New York. Here she soon
learned that she had been traveling with a married
gentleman of the ‘•sharper" persuasion. Appealing to
Superintendent Kennedy, he told her bluntly that she
was mad, but, nevertheless, sent a detective to Canada
to work up the case, aud recover the valuables left
with the swindler. The result was. not the discovery
of the bogus lord, but the revelation that he was an
English Jew, who had been practicing on the credu
lity of the Southerners at Nassau.
Thus thrown back on her own resources, the widow
began business again. . By the aid of her mother's so
cial position and influence the young widow was re
constructed and restored to the fashionable walks of
metropolitan society. She made • conquest of a mer
chant, and they were married silly at Newarx, N J.
Not liking the idea of being monopolised by one hus
band, tlie sweet creature soon roiled out of the orbit
of propriety, which led her husband to urge a more
public marriage, by way of a restraint upon her. This
she refused, end refuses still. He pnbtiehed the fact
of the marriage already existing, hoping to bring her
to terms, but in vain. In despair, he sought counsel
of superintendent Kennady, and that functionary, re
membering 'he lady, r dated what he kne r of hf? hie
torv This narrative laud the last feather upon ill*-
husband’s burden of misery, and he determined to
sue for a divorce. Thus matters stand at present,
while the lady still continues to adorn our -‘nrst cir
cles" of Fifth avenue society.
•dor
er. if this polite and cordial invitation is
; 1! "-' radicals would taunt the Conserva-
’ . * mv mg made '‘advances to rebels which
vilsj ', rnlu! '' rejected." They would gloat like
u 3 npii itjover the failure of the 8outh-
”■ hjathv'° representatives to Philadelphia.
^ would thus become a powerful argument
,ll . uu 01 the radicals in power for perhaps
•rx years more.
til87-"
r tu'i m.
L ' , , n V~ A lieatlicnisli Tennessian, with
L .’"' Ve heathenish name, declared, one
Ihi-iv 1?l iu H P u t>l'c speech, that, “the
I ’* i,J ‘'Iiers lrom the Federal army would
Ei * * |,r<:!er 10 6° tn lh « Polls with a negro
T, a k ’ lhan to wiUj a fchel; that i‘ was
Paisgn.ce lor a negro to be put on a level
Ip 11 the rebels; that the present laws of
Peunessee pm him there, and he was in la-
uver“f’, ll 'S^ er > a nd selling hinj
Our Home Correspondence*
Valdosta, July 12, lsGC.
Editors News and Herald :
Gentlemen —The corn crops in this sec
tion of the State are unusually unpromising.
Just at this time they are suffering much for
want of rain. The cotton crop, on die other
band, where well worked, has been unnsual-
ly promising. But the cotton has yet to
take its chances with itsitwo great enemies,
rust and calterpillar. If it escapes these, aDd
the drought should not be very long a lair
crop will be made where the labor has been
sufficient.
We have just had our County Court—a
session of two days—crowded dockets, Ac.
Tlie fireedmen have been triad for crimes,
mostly of the small grades,and have witnessed
for and against themselves upon the stand
in a court of justice.
Cuffee gave in his testimony very heartily
and zealously—con amore herhaps is the
word; but he met with the misfortune before
he got through of finding out that he inad
vertantly contradicted himself.
Th»- sentences passed upon the delinquents
by Judge O’Neill, were quite lenient. The
colored gt'meu preferred to take the lash to
any other punishment. His Honor was be
sought, iu oue instance, by the criminal him
self, to have him whipped instead of sending
him to jail. His Honor would have complied
with the request, hut that the prisoner, hav
ing received a wound, his Honor thought
that it would be inhuman to have him whip
ped, and remanded him to jail with a fine,
very much against Sambo s notions of pro
priety.
Another, on the pnblic square, received
so many stripes with a switch otw two
shirts. I don’t know whether there will u e
any howling at the North, when the case is
duly reported, or not—certain it i*> the
Sheriff's ears were not stunned by any such
modem music on the occasion allnaed to
the delinoueat expr—xim; bi-icelf both gr**’-
tied • I astonished that he should ge* off <? ■
of his Honor, among our citizens, it is that ]
he is too lenient. This is certainly, if tn j
error, an ' error in the right direction, and I !
think his Honor will be sustained in the
course he has initiated by all right thinking
persons. It will be time enough to be severe
when it is found that moderate punishment
does not effect the object intended. Freedom
is a new thing with the negro, and the dis
position seems to be to make all due allow
ances for him, by dealing kindly and gently
with him
Your proposition to call a meeting at Black-
shear, to elect delegates to the Convention-at
Philadelphia, will meet with universal appro
val, I have no doubt. Make the call and fix
the day without further delay.
Yours, truly,
Tlie Philadelphia Convention.
The proposed Convention ia daily growing more in
lavor of the Southern people. Several of the preaaes
which were at first dispoaed to doubt the propriety of
the sooth being represented, are now in favor of a full
representation. Among the ablest ia the Mobile Reg
ister X Advertiser. In a late i-sua. that paper says :
"The proposition fdra general Convention of the
reoresentauves of aU the Statea and Territonea in ta-
vo? of a restoration of the Federal Union, to meet at
Philadelphia next month, waa one to challenge the at
tention of thoughtful men. and not to be accepted or
rejected without careful deliberation. Somewhat doubt
fai of its ulterior reaulta, aud a little auapictoua of its
origin wo did not on ita first presentation give it a
coruial support. We have not failed, however, to give
the subject the careful and anxious reflection its great
importance demands, and we have arrived at the con-
viction that duty to ourselves (speaking of the oatra.
Cised Southern Statea) and to the future common weal
of all the States commands us to encourage a full rep-
reseu ta lion ofthe iormer In that body This Conven
tion has not for ita objects the nomination of party
men for office, or the construction ol mere party plat
forms We take it to have its origin in a patriotic de
sire to unite all the friends of constitutional treedom
in opposition to the designs ot a factious minority
now in possession of the Government, and to rescue
the heritage of liberty left us by our fathera from the
hands ofmen who are intent on ita destruction. It is
not only at the South that good men are alarmed for
the aatety of institutions under wbicn, until within
tho last five years of Radical rule, the people have
been free and happy and the country has marched on
in a career of uuparaUeled prosperity.
The baleful eflecta of this bylet rule of New England
ideas in Government, are t<>0 palpable to the living
mind to need words of ours to deepen its odiousneae.
A terrible war, that moderation and wisdom instead of
hate and bad ambition in the public councils, wonld
have averted; a national debt verging to national
bankruptcy • taxes as onerous as those which five hun
dred years of peace and war have imposed upon the
people ol Great Britain, and a total obhteration of the
greet lrndmarka of a mixed Government which our
an eatorsbad so studiously and patriotically erected,
a broken Union and estranged aud embittered sec
tions are the present results of Puritan edministra
turn. Can these thirty millions of American people
afford any longer to sit quietly dOTOWbdeUus work
of ruin goes on, aud the men who have wrought it still
hold the high places of trust and P^r in the
national authority? For, not content with tho mis
chief already done, they are insanely bent on perpetu
ating and deepening the policy of discord and disinte
gration which they inaugurated to bring the country
to its present unhappy and disgraceful posit
“The thought that inspired this Convention cries
•no’ to the question, and it contemplatesismappeal to
the reason, and tha justice, and the patriotism of all
ilie people of all the States to make common cause
against the common enemies ofthe republic. It is
eminentlv proper that our Southern voices should be
heard in 'an assembly that proposes these objects, and
being started, no reasonable measure should be neg
lected to make the Convention a grand success.
“ We think that it will not admit of dispute that if
the South is represented in the body, it should be by
men who truly represent its present feelings and prin
ciples There is little difficulty in ascertaining what
these are. He who deserted-her iu bar sore tribula
tion and has now an iron-clad stomach, capable of
swallowing and digesting the iron-dad oath, and he
who, now that the war is over, is too passionate and
unreasonable to appreciate the publio exigencies, and
to accept tho logic of events, are equally unfit to repre
sent this people. Her true exemplars are those who
were faithful to her in her fiery triala -of struggle. Mid
have the wledoin to aeo that, now that they have ended
in defeat, her policy and duty in the diecretion of an
enlightened and enlarged etatesmanehim point her to
theearliest restoration of her political relation* with
her former confederates of the Constitutional Union.
‘■Any representatives who will fill this measure of
oualificatiou, and who are besides intelligent, firm
id discreet, can aaieiy be trusted to speak for her in
the first assembly, since the war, of delegates from
all the States. As there are no party differences among
ourselves as to national affairs, and aa we ail have a
common object of restoration on the general basis of
President Johnson’s programme, it would seem hardly
necessary to resort to the trouble, expense and for
mality in Alabama, at least, of a State Convention to
nominate delegates We would, therefore, respect-
folly recommend that it be agreed by ganeral consent
that His Excellency the Governor appoint the requi
site number of delegates, taking tham from
ferent parts of the State, with an alternate to each, in
case tho principal should be unable to attwd. At aU
events this plan would save delay, greatly simplify
the mode, and yet attain the end desired by all—a
auitable representation at Philadelphia.
••We venture with all respect to suggest this plan to
our brethren of the press, and ask them to give vanr
views on it, and, if they are favorable, to grim it their
concurrence and support and thus 7”® :
cebooty general public assent. Will our brothers ol
the profession favor us with an early expression of
opinion."
—A swindler recently visited the Female
College in Baltimore, engaged to place bis
sister in the institution, paid the fees with a
%300 forged cheeky received $70 in chaare
then changed his base of coitions
-wjvo-ti* ’ nen were *r
rested i r whet t
, cU»covt Jese; iers
from lb
The Evacuation or Richmond.
[From the Advance Sheets of E. A. Pollard's New
Work. “The Lost Cause.
A small slip of paper, sent up from $te ^ar Depart-
mert to President Davis, as lie was seated iu his pew
iu sl Paul’s t hurch, contained the news of the moat
momentous event of the war.
It is a most remarkable circumstance that the peo
ple otf Richmond had remained in profound ignorance
of the fighting which had been taking place for three
days on General Leo's lines. There was not a rumor
of it in the air. Not a newspaper office in the city had
any inkling of what was going on. indeed, for the
past few days there had been viaible-TOassurance in
the Confederate capital; there were rumors that John
ston was moving to Lee’s lines, and a eeneral idea
that the combined force would take the offensive
against the enemy. But a day before Grant had com
menced hia heavy movement $ curious excitement
had taken place in Richmond. The miming train
had brought from Petersburg the wonderful rumor
that General Lee had made a night attack, in which he
had crushed the enemy along hit whole line. John
M. Daniel, the editor of the Richmond Examiner,
died the same day, under the delusion that auch a
victory had been won; and John Mitchell, who wrote
his obituary in the morning papers, expressed the
regret that the great Virginian had passed away just
as a decisive victory waa likely to give the turning
point to the success of the Southern Confederacy!
This circumstance shows how little prepared the
people of Richmond were <m the bright Sabbath morn
ing of the 2d of April for the news that feB upon them
like a thunderclap from clear skies, afld smote the ear
of the community like the knell of deitb.
The report of a great misfortune trv'eraea a city
without the aid of printed bulletins. But that of tha
evacuation of Richmond fell upon many incredulous
ears. One could see the quiet streets stretching,
away, unmolested by one single sign dfc-war; across
the James the landscape glistened in the sun; every
thing which met the eye spoke of peace, and made it
impossible to picture in imagination the scene which
was to eusue. There were but few people iu tho
streets; no vehicles disturbed tha quiet of the Sab
bath ; the sound of the church bells rose into the cloud
less sky, and floated on the blue tide of the beautiful
day. How was it possible to imagine that in the next
twenty-four hours war, with its train of horrors, was
to enter tho scene; that this peaceful city, a secure
possession for four years, was at last to succumb; that
it was to be a prey to a great conflagration, and that
ail the hopes of the Southegi Confederacy were to be
consumed in one day, as a scroll in the fire 1
As the day wore on, clatter and bustle in the streets
denoted the progress of the evacuation, and convinced
those who had been incredulous of its reality. The
disorder increased each hour. Tho streets were
thronged with fugitives making their way to the rail
road depots; pole women and little shoeless children
struggled in the crowd; oaths -ayd blasphemous
shouts smote the ear. Wagons were being hastily
loaded at the Department with boxes, trunks, etc.,
and driven to the Danvillo depot In the afternoon
a special train carried from Richmond President Da
vis and some of the Cabinet At the Departments all
was contusion; there was no system; there waa
no answer to inquiries; important officers were
invisible, and every one felt like taking care of
himself. Outside the mass of hurpring fugitives,
mere were collected here and there mean-cisaged
crowds, generally around the commissary depots;
they were of that brutal and riotous element that
revenges itself on oil communities in a time of
great public misfortune.
The only convocation, the only scene of council that
marked the fall of Richmond, took place in a dingy
room in a corner of the upper story of the Capitol
Building. In this obscure chamber assembled the
City Council of Richmond, to consult on the emer
gency, and to take measures to secure what of order
wa9 possible in the scenes about to ensue. It ap
peared to represent all that was left of deliberation in
the Confederate capital. It was a painful contrast to
look in upon this scene : to traverse the now almost
silent Capitol House, so often vocal with oratory, and
crowded with the Susy scene of legislation ; to hear
the echo of the footstep ; and at last to alimb to the
dismal ahow of councilmen in the remote room where
half a dozen men sat at a rude table, and not so many
vacant idlers listened to their proceedings. At the
head of the board sat an illiterate grocer of the name
of Saunders, who was making his last exhibition of
Southern spirit, and twenty-four hours thereafter waa
subscribing himself to some very petty Federal offi
cer, "inoft respectfully, your most obedient servant.”
Here and there, hurrying up 1 * *
the War Department, was Ms:
herent, chewing tobacco
pluck, having the mettle of
man, stern and watchful to
cit}' that his ancestors had
exhibiting, no matter iu whi
age that no man ever doabf
announced by the Mayor
for a dispatch from Geu. Lee*
telegraphed in the morning,
such an expectation, uud that
moml was a foregoue conclui
maintain order in the city by
tia, to destroy every drop of
and stores; and to establisl
night. Bet the militia ran th
officers; the patrols could not
hour; and in a short while tt
into mad confusion aud ,ndei
But the horrors of that
capital were to be studiousl;
the enemy. The Federal f<
iLts-aainea river, eousistn I t
the command of General W<
covered thi9 approach to th
about four thousand strong,
silently withdrawn from W
guard traversing the city
had been instructed to push
his ability to enter Riehm<
day that Gran^had.. been euj
burg, the entire linos nortl
fectly quiet. Weitzei’s com -
as great a show os possible,
the day, but us darkness cai
of music to work upon nstioi
atos v*ed with the musical '
hours the uight was filled
But about midnight a compls
fell upon the lines. It wa9 a
to what wa9 taking place in tl
until the morning hours did
sky proclaim to Weitzel that
that Richmond was at his mi
There had been but little
Richmond in the night whicl
misfortune. It was an exf
pillage, shouts, mod revelrj
now dimly-lighted city could
pocple, crowded around some
besieging the commissary stow^k 7
intent perhaps upon pillage, and
in whatever momentary passion possessed them. The
gutters ran with a liquor treshet, and the fumes filled
the air. Some of the straggling soldiers passing
through the city, easily managed to get hold of quan
tities of the liquor. Confusion became more con
founded ; the sidewalks wero encumbered with broken
gloss; stores wero entered at pleasure and stripped
from top to bottom; yells of drunken men, shouts or
roving pillagers, wild cries of distress filled the air,
and night made hideous.
But a new horror waa to appear upon the scene and
take possession of the community. To the rear-guard
of the Confederate force on the north side of the James
river under Gen. Ewell had been left the duty of blow
ing np the iron-clad vessels in the James, and destroy
ing the bridges across that river. The Richmond,
Virginia, and an iron ram were blown to the winds;
the little shipping at the wharves was fired, and the
three bridges that spanned the river were wrapped in
flames as soon as tlie lost troops boil traversed them.
The work*of destruction might well havo ended here.
But Gen. Ewell, obeying the letter of his instructions,
had issued orders to fire the four principal tobacco
warehouses of the city; one of them—the Shockoe
warehouse—situated near the center of the city, side
by side with the Gallegc flour mills, jnst in a position
and circumstance* from which a conflagration might
extend to the whole business porrion of Richmond.
In vain Mayor Mayo and a committee of citizens had
remonstrated against this reckless military order.
The warehouses were fired; the flames seized on the
neighboring buildings and soon involved a wide and
widening area; flit* conflagration passed rapidly be
yond control; and in this mad fire, this wild, unneces
sary destruction of their property, the citizens of
Richmond had a flitting sowreh/r ofthe imprudence
and recklessness of the departing administration.
Morning broke on a scene never to be forgotten. It
was a strange picture—impossible to describe—the
smoke and glare of fire mingled with the golden beams
of the rising sun. The great warehouse on the Basin
was wrapped in flames; the fire was reaching to whole
block*of buildings; and as the smoke roae majesti
cally above the horizon, it burnished the fringe of
•moke with lurid and golden glory. Curious crowds
watched the fire. It* roar *°unied in the ears; it
leaoed from street to street; pillagers were busy at
thtfir evocation, and in the hot breath of the fire were
figures as of demons contending for prey.
The aun was an hour or more above the horizon,
when suddenly there ran np the whole length of Main
alreet lecryA‘‘Y-fc*-*" 2JH2SL
part of this street
people of
leir gnot
r, disorder,
In the
masses of
itement,
ig liquor,
to and fro
WRZing sparks filled the air. sprea.lin e still further
the destruction, uutil it had swept llforc it evert
bank, every auclion store, even? ggg
nearly every commission house, and most ol ihnfwj
tollable etorva. The atmosphere was choking
women, and children crowded into the square’of icil
capitol fur a breath of pure air; but It was not to be
obtained even there, and one traversed the green
alopes blinded by the cinders and struggling.f or
breath. Already piles of furniture had heqn coffee ted
here, dragged from the ruins of burning houses; and
in uncouth arrangements, made with broken tables
and bureaux, were huddled women aod-chilJren, with
no other home, with no other resting place in Heav
en's great hollowness.
Some tardy flttHtpts were made to arreat the confla
gration ; in ate afternoon the military authorities or
ganized the crowds of negroes as a fire com*; hut tbe
few steam engines that played upon tbe OUMrwere
not sufficient to check their progress. It tata lata in
Um evening when the fire had burned itwn out. It
had consumed tbe most important part of Richmond.
Commencing at the Shockoe warehouse, the flrjVljidl-
ate'd front and rear, and on two wings, burningtafern
Main street, half way between Fourteenth and. Fif
teenth street, and back to tbe river, through Cary and
all intermediate streets. Westward, on Main, the fire
was Stayed at Ninth street, sweeping back to therirer.
On the North side of Main, the dames were stayed be
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. From this
point the dames raged on the North aide of Main up
to Eighth street and back to Bank attwet. The pencil
of the surveyor could not have marked out more dis
tinctly tbe business portion of the city.
The evening breezes had turned tbe course of thb
fire; aud as these still continued, hempr plrt "lnirtt
hung upon the horizon, or streamed upwards in the
varying current of tbe winds, .^ts night came on, -w-w .
there was a painful reaction efffcr the day's-terrible Is O.
t; a Stonge qnlel tail upon the blactaoed
■ ■ I the qmet of
city and its scenes Of destruction.
crawled under shelters of broken furniture in the capf
tol square; hundreds of homeless persons laid down
to sleep in the shadows of the ruins of Richmond;
and worn out by excitement, exhausted as by the
spasm of a great battle, men watched for the morrow
with the dull sense that the work of years had been
ruined, and that all that they possessed on earth had
been swept away.
Outrages by Soldiers at Fredericks
burg, Ya.—The Fredericksburg Herald states
th*t od the 4th twenty or thirty United
States soldiers came into that town and had
what they called a jolly time, seizing several
casks of beer at Dunn & Decile's brewery,
and making off with it Subsequently they
broke into the Court House and Clerk's
office, and threw abont the* official papers,
and wound up by ringing the Court House
bell for half an hour, to the great alarm of
tbe good people of Fredericksburg.
—It is reported that a marked change in the
Horse Shoe falls at Niagara has occurred
within a few days. Large portions of rock
hare given way in the centre of the shoe,
giving the fall now more of a triangular ap
pearance, which is said to add to its beauty.
It has been demonstrated that the Falls re
cede ten or twelve inches a year.
—The Maine papers tell a comical story
about Marshal Kent, of Portsmouth, who wont
to Brunswick in disguise, for the purpose of
arresting an eloping couple, and was himself
arrested as a suspicious person, and required
e give an account of himself.
—Among the advertisements last week in
a London journal appeared the following
“Two sisters want washing,” and a spinster
particularly fond of children wishes for
two or three, having none of her own, nor
any other employment. ”
—A man came home drunk on a cold night,
and vomited in a basket containing goslings,
which his wife had placed before the fire,
upon seeing which, he exclaimed, * ‘ My God,
wife, when did I swallow them things ?”
a, »,«- -
—In Conue<iiaM||pM|M^'n u mber of
children lias, (tflaPsLpllMflHily dimin
ishing during t^^JSOuJlMSSHffh' The per
centage of chSBawMr4BM|PSalation has
fallen off from 39.49 in 1820, to 22.92 in 18G0,
a relative loss of eight per cent.
—An uugatfant correspondent accuses
Queen Victoria of taking too much port after
dinner.
Emigrants Can be Supplied
WITHIN TEN DAYS.
m choked with crowds of pillagers
xhbwb t^id'-d with dr»y«. <>tb«= rolling bxrreta np
tho stTftpt or bending under heavy burdens, and in-
te™"S ’with them women ud children with .mailer
SHnSor i» tag*, h"*? 1 "’
tin Dans As th# cry of “Yankees was raised, this
mat lev crv-crowd tor# up th# street, cursing, scream-
“f^plt^upoSetot other .^.rmed by au enemy
not vet in sierht, and madly seekisg to extni.st# them-
Slfv« from im^n.» dinger.,JPretenUy. beyond
thl. crowd, following up the «»ngi^m.M of plundor-
nnt Dressing or mterfenog with them, was
semtotonnallbodyffiTFedertl cavdry. riling MemlUy
Hong. Forty Mastacbunetta trooper., dispmtehed by
General Weitzel to inve.tig.te the umdtliou of affair.,
had ridden without hindrouee into Richmond. At the
corner of Eleventh atreet they broke into a trot for
the public square, andin afew
were planted on th. capitol.aiidfluttered a strange
apectacle in the early morning h|n‘-
A few hour, thereafter, gnd ggg’i troop, were
Dimrinc through the street, of th* city. A lady, who
HritneSeed the grand Federal enWfe, has given a
very graphic account of it, thus describe, a portion of
the sceno 'Stretching from the Exchange Hotel to
the slopes of Church Hill, down tha]mil^through_thc
valtasvup the ascent to bJteto y ’t, Wlth
Ita unbrt' on line of bine, bayo
net. at.-me nf martial muaxc, flashed countenances.
the line turned at the
street, the movement was the ® ^ borat
of cheers from each regiment »e-
groe. were the only rehouse.. Through throng, of
sullen spectators; along ‘bf. Uae l ii!!L 1 m j,^ 0 , k ,mdrt
of the horrors of conflagration. hP»«ed lr- the ex-
ploeionofeheltaleftbytheretretogaray; through
the vast serial auditorium c01 "5*3^ o ^ ll tt ' 0 conlI »o-
tion of frightful sounds, moved the gansh proceamon
of the grand army, with brave mnaic^and bright ban
ners, and wild Cheers. A regimes* negro cavalry
SJrttft by the hotel- A* TdT
thev drew th- 4 - sxtrax
fJIHE undersigned are prepared to supply Planters
A and other parties who may be in want of WHITE
laborers, aud have made necessary arrange-
tooirirerM t0 a »y orders for agriculture
Laborers, wooUcu , >_i*h Mechanics etc within TVn
or Twelve daysfroau he daytheorder Is Sven here
The Laborers are to ^ refeivM b, th e ^mDlJve?s
on arrival of the steamer here, and tran.i5>v£5
the point* where they ars wanted at Bmployers*
expense, and the Employers have further lo pay a
certain sum per head in advance, partly as security
aud partly lor covering the expenses in bringing the
Emigrants from the North to this port.
The rate at which Farming Laborers can be se
cured will average about $150 per year, the Employ
era finding them.
For further particulars apply to
WM. MORV1LLE * CG„
Jones' Block, Bay street.
One door East of Barnard street.
Savannah, Gg.
REFERENCES:
Jackson A Lawton, Savannah.
John W. Anderson A Son, Savannah.
Solomon Cohen, Savannah.
Jno. C, FcrriU. Savannah.
Nlcholls, Camp <f Co., Savannah
Geo. A. Cuyler, Savannah.
W. R. Fleming, Savannah.
John Screven, Savannah.
Brigham, Baldwin <£ Co., Savannah
Savannah National Bank, Savannah.
m2
Insurance.
SOUTHERN
BkANCH OFFICE
KNICKERBOCKER
LIFE INSURANCE GO.,
Of New York City,
Street,
SAVANNAH. GA.
Policies Issued and Losses Paid
AT THIS OKTOB.
CREDITS
Given to holders of Mutual Policies of
50 PER CENT.,
if desired, when the premium amounts to
$50 or more, and is 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 1865
were lrom FORTY-FOUR to ONE HUN
DRED AND TWENTY PER CENT., ac
cording to age.
Insurance.
THE OGLETHORPE
Insurance Comp’y
- OF SAVANNAH
Are prepared to take
Fire Risks on Reasonable
At their Office, 117 Bay Strut
0. W. MERCER. Pres' tom
J. T. TnonAs, Sec.
H. W. Mercer
C. 8. Hardee
William Hunter
A. 8. Hartridgc
A. .Porter
R. Morgan
J. Stoddard
J, T. Thomas
W. Remebart
F. L. Oue
H. A. Crane
A. A. Solomons
M. Hamilton
W. W. (lor l.m
myT-tt
Direetors:
M. 8. Cohen
-T. Lama
J. W. Nentt
D G. Parse
A. Fallarton
J. McMahor
L. J. Gnllmar
F. W. Sims ■
6. Butler
R. Lachlison
E. P. Claton, i
J, W. Knott,.
B. F- Ross, Mi
W. II. Young,
S. B. HARRINGTON
VALUABLE MIDDLE GEOBGIA
Plantation for Sale.
I AM OFFERING a desirable Suhtmer place for
sale, three mile* from Mhledgeville, containing
700 acres of good com and cotton land, with good
improvements. One peach and apple orchards, with
other fruits. Water and health unsurpassed In Mid
dle Georgia. Situated on the main rood to Sandets-
Ttlle, convenient to good schools, and a good market
for all that can he produced on the place. Price,
$12.50 per acre. In two payments. Addrcee BOX 247,
MilledgOMlle, Gu. fyfttav-
GUYTON ACADEMY,
1ALE AND FEMALE,
WHITES VILLE, GA.
T he exercis
earned on th
they drew th-t
L! ' • .x. JU'.lrti
throne of
'. -..awl... .
enrirs br. !
wsretet, r
—alL ' *3
rlcjir., -l!.* 6i‘U
of this Institution will be r»
_ mimed oh tbe second Monday (»th)of Jaly, 1SSS,
under the supervision of the undersigned, who will
■pare no pains, labor or expense that will contribute
to the advancement or pupils committed to ids
charge.
KATES OF TUITION PER SESSION OF FOUR-
TERN WEEKS
Primary, $7; QrtHnary, $10; Higher English and
Classics, $14. Tqltkm payable at the end of each
Session. No deduction will be made for lost tune,
except In eases of protracted gicknees.
Assistants of experience and ability will be em
ployed, as soon ae the number of pnplla renders tt
necessary.
Board con be procured, with pleasant ftfmilies, in
the village, on reasonable terms.
Parents desirous of haring their children thorough
ly instructed in the usu^l Academic Course, previous
to entering College, will have every attention given
them in this School. A uniform and who eeome sys
tem of discipline will be maintained. Doe attention
will also be paid to the moral training of pupils-
The undersigned can furnish numerous testimo
nials as to qualification?, Ac., from prominent citi
zens of Kdgefieldand Barnwell Districts, 8. C.; where
he has taught for a number of years, having in ail
cases, so far ae Is known to him, given entire asus-
There win b* a Public Examination at the clone
each term, to which the public a e respectfully In
vited. Persons desiring farther in.onnaUon will
make application t j the Primjipah _
ieW-law3w*tw K. G. JOHNSON* Principal.
SAVANNAH DAIRY,
WEST SIDE OF COLUMBIA SQUARE,
BETWEEN STATE AND PRESIDENT STS.
PURE FRESH MILK,
Morning and evening.
Fresh Butter and Buttermilk,
ILABKR, MHS AM CREAM
^vary £Ar.ti oiwi vu.i fca and pastured
' Timae desb enu gt> milk fro: the xam - cow for
GBO. w LAMAR, Jftj
Ten Year, Non-Forfeiture,
ENDOWMENT,
AND
Life Policies
Issued by this Company.
No Extra Charge for Southern Residence
Directors:
? Henry Bmguxm, President Merchants' National
Bank.
Colonel WM. S. Rocewell.
B. A. Crake, of Crane A Graybill.
John D. Hope ins.
A. A. Solomons, of A. A. Salomons A Co.
E. A- SOULLAKD.
E. J. Moses, of Brady, Smith A Co.
Fred. M. Hull, of Holcombe A Co.
M. A. Cohen, Secretary Home Insurance Co.
A. WILBUR, General Manager
WM.ft. BOYD, Agent.
Dr. K. VON OH, Examining Physician.
Dr. K. D- AHNOL.D, CnulUof Phyaic’it.
■4e7-tf ■ ■! - • : -
J. W. STEELE,
(Lata Stride taBnrbsak,) ‘
11 Merchants’ Raw, Hlitaa Head,So. Ca
A nd comer sins Aftd George AM., Charleston,
C ALLS the attentMHf WhoMsl* and Retail
chasers to bis superior stock of
Military and Naval Clothing,
AMO
FURNISHING GOODS,
Watches. Mosks, Paata Goods, '"iqfcr and Plated
Wero, Swords, Ssshea, Melts, EWHWIderlos, Boots
Capa, FieUi Glories, OaUmttata, GV/ves, Ac.,;Ac.
14
THO!!*. W. BROOKS
^, Manufacturer op
^fHilTURE AND CENEIIAL
UPHOLSTERY.
i SKA Doe Street, Philadelphia, Pa,
‘ N. B.—All ORDERS sent by Mail '■
tended to.
pron o.,r
JOHN V. WELLS > Libel tar Divorce in Bryan Snpe-
. vs. ! rior Court.
MART WELLS. ) December Term, 13«1.
RULE TO PERFECT SERVICE.
r : APPEARING to the Court by the return of the
Sheriff that the defendant in the above cause is
not to be round In the county, and It further appear
ing to the Court that she does not rotate tn tbs State
or Georgia, on motion of A. & Smith, attorney for
libellant, _
tt la therefore ordered, That the saM defendant be
required to flli her answer (If aay Bfco iurq on or by
tbe fine day of th, oaxt tens of this Oomrt.et, tn de
fault thereof, the UbeDaot be allowed to proceed.
And It is farther ordered, That this rule be pub-
llabtaln one of tha pnblic newspapers of this State
taGHfaonUi for four months preceding the next
mEIrI is Court
In Bryan superior Court, April Term, 1366.
lohn V. Wells)
. vs. Libel tor Divorce.
Mary Welts, f —
It appearing to the Coort that the order taken In
the above cause at the Decamber term, J84t, to. per
fect service, has never been published- tt is there
fore ordered that the same be pnbUsaed according to
its trnmaenwr before tho Brat AST of the next term
of Asia Court.
EVERY VARIETYI<;‘
FURNITUKJ
£9 SELLING GOOD
Lower Than Any Other
IN SAVANNAI
HOTELS AND STEAMt
FURNieHlfr
PARLOR SETS, extra well uphi .
FINE BED ROOM SETS, Wale
hogany.
COTTAGE BED ROOM SETS
variety.
DINING ROOM and LIBRARY
MATTRESSES, BOLSTERS and ■ >
of all kinds.
KETTLE’S FOLDING SPRING BEDS t vnd
MATTRESSES, tbe best Bv-i in mm?.
and WARRANTED SUPERIOR to ail
others.
LACE AND GAUZE MOSQUITO •-
PIES, and CANOPY FRAMES.
WAREROOM
178 Bronghtea-
nearly Opposite St. Andrew * afe
jel24m
Mount Zion Select Scnooi,
MOUNT ZION, GA,
WILLIAM J. hORTHKH, It ICC FOR
T hb nbxt sbssion will commit
i
the ffiat of Augtut.
lit. Zion, Octr.i r. liiAs.
j Mr. Win. J. Northen has been associate rritb rue
during the present year (BKd) In tt- Y. tint ihon
High School. In all my intercourse w t>: t-;: 1 a vi
uniformly found him kind and obliging ; nl ‘ .toe
whole drportment baa been that of a gent. •; ,*’1 an 1
a Christian. In parting with Mr. N It - V- 1
pleasure to bear taatimony to hls zeei. in - r > *' vl
■kill in teaching—and to add, 1 knowo. ■ vctotifc
man in whom abilities and fidelity as au ' ji | ,r '
I have greater cnafideaoa. C. P- • - -•
Cnitekmtt of Gkoboia, Jo:..
aTTgives me pleasure to taatlfy to fa c
and efficiency or Mr. W.J. Northen ' ‘
posmsae* scholarship, tact and dlari , ' -
of a high order. I recommend hn» , • “ J' 0 ^;
fldence to thoae parents who wish u „ v ; -‘ ° b «
properly restrained and therow^ i u ^ SLL .
pi^rieLD, Septemoer 17, *3«o.
better school for preparing boys for
C Am hom u, express thl
J ae 4 have expressed it to ot to.
Steh«t?mm* wtl 'h ,n< »ee < -n Ira,
N.:
XTHU 23,
FRICKS! BRICKS*
I certifr use
miuutea of Brjau Superior
isoi, and \?M
.mm
WS’_. Bn-at 9r.
,io CJTATU OF fiBOBGIAr—WaXHB COUNTY.—’Two :
c f Q XQOBttS altel uR'.b <Jppii'.'ilUOD Wli* U# ElAU# tO j -- ... . —•
s. vr jojuuaaite —'“vetoeenj qB5ti HAD AP^th^Ajf'-,
AnpUng. i O made tovheOodit -ito*".-..'.
ol johe- ; tor >nave to noh ihc Leri Kotare
.r.-,'- aoxeururtf. fho
-t'-'i- r. ' rt nd ;-nige> the Court of Ofilnem "f.-eid county. 7or leave to aeH
*n« c. - »■ uuud-.reof w te st, tl! lot tel land No. «». originally Atmlmw.
ioi in n® - - ul 2. . ’ ,r. :p no ft> 'tt o-n.-j l^longlng to the^estate ol
eriay Bohn, az.rtry. an
‘o. prey. A ’ 2 ring tic i'er.'jaoei: ; Tfctr 24ay 2S'.i. 1S4C-
,n.’ burofi.r -ands and to.>r* O' Jit
.. Z. SMiTfl.
< m 9aj* iQiGr ’ -
. On SivancaS and Ogoect a CanaL above i»«i u«
may2S.
b«!
NOTSGE.
O. G. 5J3TXL
suiuiner cfouih# -
“ - M MY&KLLe