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1 t; ■ 'V# ft .<k«& ! 1 It If |f If r VOL. 2-m 157. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1866. PRICE, 5 CENTS. Hip Daily News and Herald. PUBLISHED BY S. W. MASON. At 111 Bat Stefut, Savannai?. Geo ll::i:drc d. * vOl'AUE, first .Five Cents. $3 60. ...*10 00, I HWUSor Erst. :« rente. 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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. * ■ r •'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