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Our W ashington Correspondence.
[From our Regular Cwwfandent.]
Washington, July 12tb, 1866.
The great excitement of the hour is the
resignation of Postmaster-General Dennison.
Various rumors are afloat as to the cause.
From all 1 can learn, 1 think the cause of his
resignation is this: He has been on a visit
to his home, and he finds the bulk of the Re
publican party violently opposed to the Presi
dent's policy. In his Department was more
patronage than in all the other Departments
combined. Togo on with the President, and
carry out the removals which were necessary,
would subject him to immense odium. The
prospect appalled him, ami he thought it best
to retire before the storm. This blast of un
popularity no doubt drove Senator Lane into
suicide, and it has driven Dennison to resig
nation, which is a less fatal remedy. This
clinging to popularity aaibB^MBgeme good
is the curse of the times. The Northern
people wish slaves in office, and have no
tolerance for independence of opinion.
The resignation of Dennison created a
batch of rumors—that the Cabinet was going
to pieces; that at least three more resigna
tions were taking place—Speed, Harlan and
Stanton. It is curious that Speed and Har
lan hold on as they do, as they are in avowed
opposition to the Presidents policy. But
the Radicals urge them to do so, because the
President is weakened by having enemies in
his Cabinet. These two last named gentle
men cannot remain much longer in the Cabi
net, for matters are tending to a crisis. If
they had the proper delicacy on the subject
they would resign ; but delicacy is not, in
all probability, one of their weaknesses.
Mr. Montgomery Bla'rr is making a push
for Dennison's position. Blair is a violent
conservative now. He has been immensely
sympathizers in Maiyiand. This should be
remembered to his honor.
The radicals are trying to make something
out of the call of the Southern loyalists for
a Southern Union Convention, but it is rather
an up-hill business. The movement is a fee
ble affair. It is singular taste, in these
Southern gentlemen, who have signed this
call, to unite their fortunes with the radicals.
But if this party maintains its present as
cendency, this will be the only passport to
Southern men in search of Federal office.
The radicals are determined, as soon as they
can, to restrict all the patronage of the gov
ernment at the South, to those who act with
merits inserted as special notices win th *“- If the. Radicals succeed some very
! thirty percent, advance on table rates. ordinary persons at the South will get good
il«emcn*s* of a transient character, not
to time, will be continued until ordered
areed accordingly.
iriy contracts, except for space at table
•mil in contracts for space, all . .
i hi* ' in Tin i fifty cents per square for • ^ thought the wur will he short, sharp and
j decisive. The expense is so great that the
/Hdi. . -ai or business notices, for indl 1 end must, it is said, come soon.
•Hr, will be subject to a charge of fifty
;;»• NKWS AND HERALD.
\ i. itiseraents Inserted three times a week
. other day) for a month, or longer period, will
.j’/o.-P tin ■-•••-fourths of table rates.
“ A■ivirrtisvmenis twice a week, two-thirds of
tiles.
r * Advertisements once a week, one-half of table
offices
The impression strengthens here in the
best informed circles that France will be
drawn into the Prusso-Auslriaa war, but it
i iii. hut les a than three dollars for each
Ui transient .Advertisements mus* be paid in
Tri-Mly News anil Herald
-t’. r d u: *■' i * i year, or 7." cents per month, and
|he Weekly News and Herald
"very Saturday at per year.
! PRINTING,
ally nnd promptly done.
It is amusing to see the fixedness of party
in this country, as illustrated by the call for
the Executive Comnlitteesof the Bell, Breck-
enridge and Douglas parties of I860, to meet
in Richmond, to determine whether Virginia
should join in the proposed conservative
Philadelphia Convention. This is equal to
the respect of the Bourbons for the principle
of legitimacy when Louis XVIII considered,
on his return to Paris wiili the allied armies,
that his reign had never been interrupted.
The Radical party leaders in shuffling off
the tariff until next session have played a
smart party trick. The bill was creating a
disturbance in their parly, especially the
Northwest was getting restive. Under these
circumstances, after getting it through the
House, they let it drop in the Senate on the
THE ASSASSINATION PLOT.
Strange Disclosures—Witnesses Suborned
bytlie Radicals to Prove the Complicity
of Sfr* Davis.
[ COMMUNICATED. ]
loiitfistency, tl»ou art a. Jewel.”
h. ini tor:—Why is it that the meehau
„u, eitv-acknowledged to be the J plea ofuot fearing time to attend to it properly,
and sinew” of every community—after Thus they will go into the Fall elections With
L. ail entire six days, and who would twofaces-for the utmost protection, and not
for it. These party leaders have the strength of
•Sabbath holy’' in a recuperation
ysieal energies by innocent exer-
iopen air. should be compelled to re-
11. a “licensed grop shop for “bottled
R '.rater' to quench their thirst, which,
lild the proprietor be out of, we must in-
td take a claret punch or a gin-cock-tail?
-tr. with the limited knowledge of
ivnt supposed to be possessed by our
lathers (especially the mechanical portion
Lvl; . I would appeal to them whether
latter beverage or a glass of ice-cool soda
ci would most contribute to a recreation
(••-* ajuausted frames,
ule bar-rooms are kept open on Sunday
ii“ other lacilities are afforded us (and
apprentices! to indulge in a more harm-
w«v. we. as a body, must demur against
' l oiiig of soda fountains on the Sabbath,
can purchase segars and pomade for the
why not a glass of soda water?
"itli due deference,
A Mechanic.
! COMMUNICATED, j
-rs Ewrons:— At the conclusion of
intticle in this morning s paper headed,
pnvocaium oi Loyal Unionists of the
"*’• - v " u tntk, Who are George W. Ash-
|ne and Henry S. Cole, of Georgia?’’ Of
i know nothing. George W. Ash-
-v naa been lor twenty years a citizen of
I lbs. and is probably a native of tbe State.
I entered one of our schools to prepare for
Jai.nistrr, but became involved in some
, ’ r '" s ' R * ,i was expelled from the school
vic'd lrom the church. Subse-
r - i,e '- v "‘ 3 tbu k <*per of the hotel in
afterwards of a public house
jkookout Mountain. At the beginning of
| "ar he was in the vicinity ot Macon,
ummg involved in some difficulties, he
| the State, going in the direction of Nash-
f aud Kentucky. He joined the Federal
P- 7 - and held a place upon the staff of some
r ~perhaps that of General Buel—with
I l ank of Colonel. At the close of the
I he returned to Georgia. Where he re-
I I Jo noi know. Without cuteriDg into
p ulisrs. these general statements will give
ome idea of the man.
cunning. They are up to all these party
tricks.
A very stringent order has been issued from
the War Department authorizing the military
in tbe Southern State? to arrest any persons
charged with offences when tbo civil author
ities fail to enforce the law, and to keep such
persons in confinement until the courts can
be trusted to try them. This is the establish
ment of martial law in a degree- it is said to
be done on account of lawlessness in the
Southwest. It is to be regretted, for it gives
our enemies an argument against us.
1 editor of a Cincinnati [paper recently
p, _ision to pay a visit to Dayton in the
says lie noticed a geutleman and
S: 'tiiiZ in a close juxtaposition, and
’8 'rmn their conduct one would wo'l
t’ up '-hat they were exceedingly intimate.
• 1,1)1 "f t lie comfortable pair sat two gen-
‘-;litors ol two German papers in
-iinmi. When near Dayton tbe train
!llr, ugb a long, dark bridge. Among
. “UmleriDg and ratiiing of the cars, a
concussion was heard by those
P'” Hie lady and gentleman alluded to.
P- '-merged into the daylight, one of the
P au editors slowly drew his spectacles
pon his nose and exclaimed: “Well, I
r* hat ish a tam bad bridge. I heard him
fit tw°, three, four times!” The lady
E , ller veil, and for the remainder
I e U| P 'be pair were mute and nuiet
Death of Senator Jim Lane.
The death, by suicide, of Senator Jim Lane,
of Kansas notoriety has been announced by
telegraph. Tbe Augusta Constitutionalist,
citing his melancholy end as an illus
tration of the retribution that often follows
in this world, tbe perpetration of high crimes
against social order and tbe public good,
says :
He was one of the bold, bad originators
of tbe border broils wlrch stained tbe soil of
Kansas with fraternal blood, and contributed
prominently to the culmination of tbe war.
With a cloud on bis domestic life, and a na
tive proclivity for aggression and agitation
wrankling in his heart, bis thirst for blood,
and love for strife must have thoroughly
sated, and it is fit, while tbe country is op
pressed with tbe desolation resulting from
the folly and wickedness ot him and bis
brother agitators, that he should desire to
turn his face to tho wall and die. It is to
tbe honor of Senator Lane that some of the
recent Congressional acts indicate a convic
tion that there has been enough of strife,
and a desire to close Ids career with some
measure of atonement for a life whose best
years were waged in a career which fixed
on him tbe unenviable distinction of leader
ship as a “border ruffian.’’ God rest his
soul.
Distress in Prussia.— : A correspondent
writes. ••( heard yesterday from Prussia,
worn a private source, that the distress in
country is already great on account of
me great deficiency of manual labor caused
Dj the withdrawal of so many men from
I.?®", “vocations. Women are being
el s m places relaying the sleepers
Whe fih» t heorin- Vays rec f uire d repair. These
are the beginnings of trouble.”
Vienna, June 217. Patriotic subscriptions
are now taking place in all the German pro
vinces Of Austria to support the costs of the
war. The committees appoi, lted lor tlli8
object receive not only money but jewelry
and plate. Tho contributions, however, up
to the present, .are of unimportant amount.
Nrw Orleans, July ll.—In pursuance of
a call for a convention to meet in Philadel
phia, on the 14th of August, the Democratic
State Executive Committee met here last
evening, sinking their party organization and
invitiDg all the triends of President Johnson
to co-operate, selected the following delegates
to the Philadelphia Union National Conven
tion :
From the State at large.—Randell Hu0&
John Ray, John E. King, Richard Taylor,
A. Voorheese, George Williamson, JudgaW
p liVor, n a n, r
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald of the 6th, furnishes the follow
ing, he having, he says, obtained the facts
from the Congressmen while they were drunk
on the 4th.
The investigations of the Judiciary Com
mittee of the House of Representative* in re
lation to the alleged complicity of Jefferson
Davis, Clay, and others, in the murder of
President Lincoln have developed one of the
most villainous conspiracies ever concocted
in the civilized world. Strange to tell it is
not the conspiracy for the assassination of
President Lincoln and his cabinet, but au
equally bloody and tar more cowardly one, to
murder, through the forms of law, ex-Presi-
deut Davis and others of the defunct Con
federacy.
The Judiciary Committee, as soon as autho
rized to investigate the charges against
Messrs. Davis, Clay and others, entered
zealously upon their duties, and sent for
such persons and papers as they had been
led to believe would furnish criminating
evidence. The principal persons sent for
had already been examined ex parte in the
Bureau of Military Justice, and the papers
sent for consisted mainly of the depositions
of these persons, and some letters of doubtful
import, written by supposed rebels before
the assassination, allot which were under the
care of the Judge Advocate General. To re
cite from memory the papers verbatim would
be impossible, and it would be no less so to
give in extenso the examination of the persons
before the committee; but enough will be
given to show the most develish and damn
able conspiracy, the most disgusting and
dastardly perfidy, aud the coolest and cheap
est perjury you were ever called upon to
chronicle.
Immediately after the execution of Mrs.
Surratt and her feilow-culprits, the Judge
Advocate General tet to work io dead earnest
to procure evidence lor the conviction of Da'-
vis, Clay and others as co-conspirators. Sev
eral detectives were employed to hunt up
and hunt down every person supposed to have
had any correspondence or communication
witb the suspected parties, or any knowledge
tending directly or indirectly to connect them
with the conspiracy.
But, after weeks of industrious labor and
research, the detectives failed to discover
anything of tbe slightest consequence bearing
upon the subject. This result was commu
nicated to tbe radicals in tbe Cabinet, and by
them confided to the leading radicals—then
about to assemble—in Congress, and proba
bly to many, certainly to a few celebrities of
their faction not in any office.
These parties, as will be readily surmised,
were disappointed and sorely grieved. They
bad already arrived at tbe conclusion that it
would be futile and impolitic to try Davis
and other rebel leaders for treason, and their
thirst for blood and vengeance, and desire to
increase the humility and ignominy of tbe
Southern people, by banging like a dog tbeir
late cbiet, was aggravated by tbe unexpected
report that nothing bad been found to impli
cate him in the assassination - But the blood
thirsty are neither easily discouraged nor
over scrupulous as to what means they em
ploy for obtaining their ends. Another agent
ot great experience and shrewdness was en
gaged to perform the work which the others
had failed to accomplish. He was charged
to find the necessary witnesses at all hazards;
to proceed a la Forney, or in any way he
deemed best calculated to insure success, but
on no account to fail. With a zeal worthy
of a better cause he entered upon his duties,
and in a few weeks produced nearly a dozen
witnesses who deposed nnder oath, in the
Bureau of Military Justice, to matters and
facts enough to hang both Davis and Clay
higher than Hainan.
One of these witnesses, calling himself
William Campbell, deposed that he was a
native of New Orleans, and had been a Con
federate soldier; that in the latter part of
March or 1st of April, 1865. he was called on
at Richmond by John H. Hnrratt, who bore
a letter of introduction from William C.
Cleary, then in Canada; that said letter re
quested him to introduce Surratt to Judah
P. Benjamin, Secretary of State, with whom
he (deponent ) was intimately acquainted,and
assured him that Surratt would unfold a
grand scheme in which he (deponent) was
earnestly solicited to participate; that Sur
ratt did, on the same day, disclose to him the
plot to assassinate the President and Cabi
net; further, that in compliance with
Cleary’s request, he introduced Surratt to
Benjamin, when, after an interchange of
civilities, Surratt delivered to the Secretary
a package of letters, which were immediately
opened and pernsed; that Benjamin then
turned to address Surratt on the subject of
the letters, when deponent arose to with
draw, but, owing to a suggestion by Surratt
that he (deponent) was one of the parties to
engage in the murderous work, was requested
by Benjamin to remain; that the letters so
delivered to Benjamin, after referring to Sur
ratt’s business, requested him to present the
bearer |to the President, and help him
through his mission; that his mission was to
obtain express authority from the govern
ment to execute the plot for the destruction
of Lincoln; that Benjamin said there wus no
doubt but the President would give the au
thority desired, and proposed to go to him
at once, which was done, deponent, by invi
tation, accompanying them.
That after they had been preseated to the
President his Excellency and Benjamin re
tired to another room and remained for half
an hour or more in close conversation; that
on returning to tbe room Davis requested
Surratt to explain precisely what was de
sired, as the dispatches from Canada stated
that he would do so more minutely than they
did; that Surratt then explained at length
that several determined Confederates and
others in tbe North had resolved to make
way with “Old Abe’’ and bis Cabinet, if tlie
project would be authorized by the Govern
ment and the adventurers promised protec
tion in tbe event of their being captured; that
Davis replied that there had “been so many
schemes set on foot for this purpose, all of
which had proved miserable failures, that
he had ceased to hope tor any good results
from any such project; but that at any rate
no special authority more than the agents in
Canada could confer was necessary to war
rant tbe proposed proceedings; that Lincoln
being tbe Commander-in-Chief ot tbe armies
of tbe United States, Confederate soldiers
had tbe Same right, and that it was as much
their duty to destroy him, if they could, as
to kill aiiy private soldier in his armies, and
that if they should be captured while engaged
in such an undertaking they must be treated
as prisoners of war. Suppose that two or
three Yankees should steal into my bouse,
aud, without warning, attack and kill me,
can there be any doubt that tbeir Govern
ment would applaud, protect and reward
them, and declare tbeir action legitimate
warfare? Not at ail.
That Surratt replied that all his Excellen
cy had observed was undoubtedly true, but
that some oi the parties anxious to embark
in the enterprise were not wholly satisfied
that the government would recognize their
action, and with the assurances of protection
given by the agents in Canada, inasmuch as
the protection promised by tbe agents in
other cases—tot instance, in Abe case of
Beall, Kennedy, Burleigh and tbe St. AI*
bans i aiders—had not been extended, and
the present project could not be executed
without express authority and assurance of
protection from the government; that after
so ®‘L further conversation between Davis
and Benjamin, which it is not necessary to
give here, the President iireOfod Suratt fo
eall the next day at noon on the Secretary,
when he would recei ys all the authority
hP rpnmrpr
•sen sent to
rected, but the papers had not U *o return
him; that as Surratt was. anxious i * once
to the North immediately, Benjamin a,
started with them to Davis’ office ; that i_
vis pleaded indisposition for not having the
papers ready by the time indicated, but said
they had just beeu finished. (Sutvel was
now presented to His Excellency as one of
the braves ready to enter upon a bloody
work.) That alter a little codversaiion, du
ring which Davis inquired of Surratt wbat
route he intended to take and when he ex
pected to pass the Federal lines, His Ex
cellency placed a letter in Surratt’a hand,
sayiug “This is for Colonel Thompson ; it
confers all the power he requires, to au
thorize the proceeding proposed, and to
promise for the. government tbe necassary
protection to all who engage in it.” That
be then shook bands with each of them,
and said that he “trnsted they would behave
bravely and that their efforts' would be
crowned with success.” That Snevel then
observed that they “must act bravely and
succeed; for if caught in the act they would
all be made to dance on nothing.” That
Benjamin replied, “No, if any ol you are
captured, aud the Yankees threaten to hang
you, we will give the Yankee Government
notice that for every one they hang a dozen
will be executed in retalliation.” That Davis
responded, “Yes, you shall be fully pro
tected. The undertaking proposed is, under
the circumstances, perfeclly just, and in per
fect harmony with the laws of war.” And
again be illustrated with the query, “Sup
pose two or three Yankees should steal into
my house and, without warning, kill me, can
there be auy doubt that their Government
would applaud and protect them,and declare
tbeir exploit in accordance with honorable
warfare ?” That Benjamin again chimed in,
“that it was just like falling npon and sur
prising a camp and putting the foe to tbe
sword, without giving him time to seize his
arm9 and get in line fur defence.” That Bur-
rat, Snevel and deponent then bade the Pres
ident and Secretary farewell, and departed.
Such, almost word for word, is the depo
sition made by Campbell for the Bureau of
Military Justice, and his statement of what
was said and done by Davis and Benjamin
alter the alleged presentation of Snevel to
the rebel chief was fully corroborated by
Snevel in another deposition made at tbe
same time, tor tbe same Bureau and for the
same end.
Aud here we come to the most astounding
part of my disclosure. This man “William
Campbell,” and hia friend, “ Snevel,”
whose first name, or ratber alias, I do nut
remember, on being brought before the Ju
diciary Committee for examination, acknowl
edged that the above names did not belong
to them, but were fictitious; that they had
never been in the tebel service nor in Rich
mond ; that they bad never seen Davis or
Benjamin, or Surratt in their lives; that they
had never heard of any plot to destroy Lin
coln until after bis death; that there was not
a word of trnth in tbe depositions they made
for tbe Bureau of Military Justice; but that
they made such depositions for a pecuniary
reward, being first furnished with the state
ment they were desired to swear to, and com
mitting it to memory for tbe purpose, and
that of tbe other parties, some seven or eight
in number, who made depositions for tbe Bu
reau referred to, every one of them deposed
under lalse names to false statements for pe
cuniary considerations.
Tbe depositions of other “witnesses,” un
der the assumed names of Wright, Williams,
Patten, Douglass, Meredith, Knapp, Ac , ac
cused Davis of complicity in the assassination
just as positively, and were as ingeniously
concocted as those of Campbell and Snevel.
Having accomplished so much in tbe way of
procuring e videDce, tbe radical conspirators
urged President Johnson, with all their force,
to appoint a t’ommissloc for tho trial of the
distinguished culprit. Campbell and other
witnesses were taken before his Excellency
and the Cabinet, in order that their trank de
meanor and honorable appearance could be
observed, and were asked a few questions by
tbe President and examined at considerable
length by Mr. Seward, to tbe apparent satis
faction of all that they were teiliug the truth,
and nothing but the truth. Tin; President,
as is known, did not at once appoint the com
mission, but be was prevailed on to call for
the opinion \)f the A Homey General as to
tbe legality and propriety of trying by mili
tary court parties implicated in the assassi
nation, and the Attorney General soon after
gave tbe opinion aod tbe argument upon
which he based it, that it would not only be
legal and proper to tiy parties so accused by
a military court, but it would be clearly ille
gal and improper to arraign them before a
civil tribunal. The radical conspirators now
regarded Davis as good as disposed of, and
licked their jaws with glee.
But, unfortunately for them, the President
wonld not be hurried into ordering a military
trial. His penetrating eye had probably dis
covered something about Campbell and
others paraded before him sufficient to con
vince him that they were falsifying. He knew
Davis well enough to know that if he wonld
descend to conspire at murder at all, it wonld
only be with men of honoi—that kind of
honor to be found among thieves and bold
desperadoes—who would sooner die than
compromise themselves or their chief, and
not with men of ignorance or low standing,
and comparatively unknown to him, like the
witnesses paraded, who were willing to swear
to their own shame und betray their master
for thirty pieces of silver.
Finding it impossible to induce the Presi
dent to convoke a military court for the im
molation of the rebel chief, the radicals were
bitterly disappointed, and some of them were
furious. They determined, however, not to
be beaten altogether, not to throw aside as
worthless, “evidence” which had been pro
cured at so much trouble and expense, but if
possible to turn it to some account. With
Machiavelian adroitness they conceived a
scheme whereby, if they could not hang Mr.
Davis, they conld at least load him with in
famy, aud at the same time wreak exqnisite
vengeance on President Johnson for declining
to aid their murderous designs.
The process relied on for the consumma
tion of this double-headed project was re
markable for its simplicity. The depositions
of tbe spurious witnesses were to be pre
served in the Bureau of Military Justice, and
at a proper time rendered accessible to the
press and the historian. None of the alleged
criminal proceedings of Davis, set forth. in
the numerons depositions, with the excep
tion of those pretended to have occurred in
tbe presence of Benjamin (who, being accused
ts partiefys criminis, would not be believed),
were susceptible of refutation, all his crimi-
nal conversations and transactions being, as
alleged, in either the presence of prominent
rebels, since deceased, and the witnesses, or
in the presence of the witnesses alone. Da-
vis could and would, therefore, be published
td the world as a monster and a murderer,
deserving to be cursed like Cain and driven
n,rioiDm(nm ■ and no matter how much
he require- 1
That ot; ;‘;t
and deponent;
named r
*t.-i day they (Surratt
oy * xr.an
from Christendom; and no matter how much
he might say to vindicate himself or bow
eloquently his friends might expatiate on his
Christian character and high sense of honor,
tbree-fourths of his countrymen, and pos
terity generally, would believe him guilty.
This the Radical conspirators thought
would effectually dispose of Davis, and be as
great a punishment as he could bear.
But how were they to reach Mr. Johnson?
He had already been denonneed for his
leniency toward the rebel leaders, and with
endeavoring for political purposes to ingra
tiate himself with the South, and they wonld
now go before the country with the argu
ment that bis failure to put lMvis on his trial
for tbe murder ol Lincoln, in face of the over-
mhelmiog evidence that could nave been
brought agaiust him, aa aPP^f®“ dm
depositions in the Bureau ot IBiitary Justice,
was the result of his desire and scheme toob-
tain the friendship and Ikvor of the South,
and ol bis gratitude to Mr. ^Davw foir re
moving his predecessor and thus elevating
him to the Chief Magistracy ot the nation.
It will be readily seen that a most power-
fo) wesson could have ber-” :
j against Mr. Johnson ic the Nurtl Ah. &
; p : - v that beautiful a scheme . , ..
j rqtoUod But ,i is another «e ‘ .cation he
'nitird'X will out
Railroad Contention.
( OLUMBUS, Ga., July 12, .AT,
vention met pursuant to adjournment °° n ‘
Delegates from Tuscumbia and otW
came forward aud took seats in the 0(5^“
tK M. ' L “? d3a -V 1 a delegate from the city of
Ttmourn ^ add ^ ea , sed the Convention ia
from tSTbuilding 01 fhe SiiVannah Me “-
Ph ilr! De Wolf, iu beliaJ f °i'^ e ., Comini ‘ tee
appointed to prepare matte* e consider-
ation of the meeting, made th^ Allowing re-
P° rt: . All
Whereas, A railroad connecting the Atlan
tic at Savannah aud Brunswick with the
Valley of the Mississippi at Memphis by a more
direct route, lias long been felt; and whereas,
the one indicated by wliat is known as the
Savannah and Memphis road, via Columbus,
Opelika, Childersburg and Tuscumbia, from
its directness—being almost an air-line road—
running its entire length in a southeast and
northwest course; and whereas, it is shorter
than any other route connecting these two
important points—either in operation or
contemplation, or which, from the pecu
liar tormation of the country, can be con
structed—being a saving in distance of about
six'y miles; and whereas, from the great
amount of mineral wealth—consisting of
coa), iron, copper, marble, slate, petroleum,
etc., contained within the territoiy over
which the unconstructed portion of tile road
will pass, which material is important in
building np tbe manufacturing interests of
the Sooth and West, and which will make
the road, as a local freight road, second to
no road in the Union; and whereas, cheap
coal and iron are essential to the manufactu
ring prosperity, not only of Colnmbns, but
of all the cities and towns with which the
road connects; and .whereas, considering, as
we do the great value of these articles to the
manufacturing and industrial interests of Co
lumbus, be it
Resolved, That in addition to tbe hundred
thousand dollars heretofore subscribed, tbe
City Council ol Columbus be requested to
make a subscription of five hundred thous
and dollars to the Bavauuah and Memphis
Railroad; the bonds to be issued whenever
satisfactory evidence is furnished to tbe City
Council by the President or the Directors of
tbe road that a sufficient umonnl ol bona fide
stock, including the Columbus subscriptions,
has been subscribed to build the road.
Resolved, That Savannah, Brunswick, Ma
con, Opelika, Tuscumbia, Memphis, and the
railroads forming tbe connecting links in the
line of tbe Savannah and Memphis road—all
having a deep pecuniary interest in its early
construction—be respectfully requested to
give liberal aid to the enterprise.
Resolved. That the cities of Louisville,
Cincinnati and St. Louis, from their position
to tbe Savannah and Memphis road, and the
easy and cheap access it will give them to
large and valuable consuming markets for the
products of the West, are deeply interested
in tbe early completion of the road.
Resolved, That as soon as practicable a
committee of be appointed by tbe City
Council of Columbus,to visit those cities and
place the claims ot the road before their re
spective corporate authorities, boards ol trade
and capitalists, and solicit their aid and co
operation in the great work.
Resolved, That the President and Direc
tors of the road be requested to employ, at
the earliest practicable period, a competent
civil engineer to make a survey or surveys
of ODe or mote routes over the unlocated
portion oi the road, and make estimates
tor tbe same, with a view of ascertaining the
amount that will be required to make the
road bed ready for the iron, and the amount
of iron (T rail) necessary to lay it down.
On motion of Mr. Salisbury, the report of
the committee was received, and tbe pre
amble and resolutions were unanimously
adopted.
Mr. Allen offered the following resolution,
which was nnanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting does earn
estly recommend tbe holding, at an early
day, of a general Convention, the time and
place to be hereafter determined, for tbe
purpose of securing a full attendance of del
egates from every section of tbe country in-
Ha r vann d ahRmiroil diDE ° f Mem P hia “ d
Mr. Allen moved that the Chairman ap
point a committee of three to corresuond
with parties interested in the building ofthe
road, in the various cities on the line, as to
when and where the Convention shall be
held.
. The Chair appointed Messrs. Allen, Bow
ers and De Wolf that committee.
Mr. Goodwin, a delegate from the city of
Tuscumbia, addressed the Convention at
some length. His remarks, which were spir
ited, were well received.
Mr. De Wolf offered the following resolu
tion, which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting instruct the
City Council to carry out—so far as to snb-
mit tbe question to the voters of Coiambtis
for ratification or rejection—tbe terms ot tbe
agreement entered into by our delegates witb
the Montgomery and Entanla Railroad Com
pany, at the Convention in Montgomery in
June.
On motion of Mr. DeWolf, it waa
Resolved, That tbe papers of Colnmbns,
Savannah, Macon, Opelika, Tuscumbia,
Memphis, Louisville, Cincinnati. St. Louis,
Cairo, aud Chicago be requested to publish
the foregoing proceedings. ’
On motion of Mr. Mostian, the Convention
adjourned. A. R. Lamas,
Secretary.
Insurance.
SOUTHERN
branch office
KNICKERBOCKER
LIFE INSIMANCE GO.,
Of New York City,
T^To. 89 Bay Street,
SAVANNAH, hH.
Policies Issued and Losses Paid
onpzoB.
CREDITS
Given to holders of Mutual Policies of
SO PEH 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
DEND9 declared by this Company ia 1865
were from FORTY-FOUR to ONE HUN
DRED AND TWENTY PER CENT., ac
cording to age.
Ten Year, Non-Forfeiture,
ENDOWMENT,
AMD
Life Policies
Issued by this Company.
No Eitra Ciarge for Sontliero Residence
trice, « cen
insurance.
the ogleth^
Insurance Conm ?
OF SAVANNAH
Are prepared to take
Fire Risks on Rsasonak; ’
At their Office, UT Bay St rec r
„ _ H. W. MERCt R. Pf
J. T. Tbokas, Sec.
H. w. Mercer
C. 8. Hardee
William Banter
A. 8. Hartridge
A. Porter
R. Me
J. T. Thomas
W. Renuhart
F. L. One
H. A. Crane
A. A. Solomon*
M. Hamilton
W. W. Gordon
myT-ff
Directors:
M. S. Cnhc
J. Lama
J. W. New *
D G. Purs
A. Fullartc ;.
3. McMaho
L. J. Guiln.ar
F. W. Sims
G. Better
R. Lachllso/
B. P. Clato .
J. W. Knot i ,
B. F. Ross, K ,
W. H. Tonin' <:
S. B. HARMCTOIf,
Emigrants Can be Supplied
WITHIN TEN DAYS.
T HE undersigned are prepared to supply Plan tare
and other parties who may be in want of WHITE
LABORERS, and have made necessary arrange
ments in the North to fill any. orders tor agriculture
Laborers, Woodcu’t.is, Mechanics, etc., within Ten
or Twelve days fromt he day tbe order la given here.
The Laborers are to at received by the Kmployeri
on arrival at the steamer here, and transported to
the points where they are wanted atBmployera’
expense, and tbe Employers have farther to pay a
certain sum per head in advance, partly aa security
and partly for covering tbe expenses iu 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
ers finding them.
For farther particulars apply to
WM. MORV1LLE * CO.,
Jones' Block, Bay street.
One door East of Barnard street,
Savannah, Ga.
REFERENCES 1
Jackson A Lawton, savannah.
John W. Anderson A Son, Savannah.
Solomon Oohen. Savannah.
Jno. C, Fermi, Savannah.
Ntcholls, camp A Co.. Savannah
Geo. A. Cuyier, Savannah.
W. R. Fleming, Savannah.
John Screven, Savannah.'
Brigham, Baldwin <t Co., Savannah
Savauoab National Bank, Savannah.
m2
VALUABLE MIDDLE GEORGIA
Plantation for Sale.
I AM OFFERING a desirable Summer place for
sals, three miles from MlUedgeville, containing
700 acres of good corn and * cotton Und, with
Improvements. Mne peach sal apple orchards, with
other fruits. Water and health unsurpused in Mid
dle Georgia. Stunted on ths main rood to Sander,
Title, convenient to good schools, and a good market
for all that can be -produced on the place. Prioa,
$18.50 per acre, in two payment*. Addrem BOXS47,
MUleqpevffle, Ga.' Cf-'W
Valdosta Institfite.
HHHB REGULAR EXERCISES of this Institution
X (both Male and. Female Departments) will be re
sumed on the First Monday In August prox. ,
Terms as daring last amnion.
TUITION-
1st Class, per session of Twenty weeks,
M
M “
Jftanch, Extra “
Instruction in Music as CURomatJ.
Wmrtfa pleaeamfam^a^UjWffion^
IXT» BATS al:.“ date appiichtton wtr *
Directors: .
t Hrnbt Biionx, President Merchants’ National
lank.
Colonel Wm. 8. Rockwell.
H. A. Cram, of Crane A GraybllL
John D. Hopkins.
A A. SOLOMONS, of A. At Solomons A Co.
K. A. SOCLLARD.
B. J. Moors, of Brady, Smith A Oo.
Fred. If. Hull, of Holcombe A Co.
M. A. Cohen, Secretary Home Insurance Co.
EVERY VARIETY! 3F
FURNITU t
IS SELLING GOODS
Lower Than Any Other Hous*
IN SAVANNAH
HOTELS AND STEAMB
FURNISHED.
A. WILBUR, General Manager
WM. R. BOYD, Agent.
Dr. B. YOSGX, Kxmmlnlwg Pliyslclam.
Or. R. D. ARNOLD, Couwltimg Phyiic’R.
«f.
W. STEELE,
(Late Steels A Burbank.)
11 Merchuts’ Sow, Hiltom Head,So. C»
Ana corner King ana Georfc am.. Charleston,
fALLS the attention of WhOlMote and Retail
V ' chaser, to Ala aupetloa meek of
Military and Naval Clothing,
-AMD ‘
FURNISHING GOODS,
Watches, Rom*. Famw “
W.ro, Swords. Sashes, Helm, fiflnQerles, Boots
Caps, Field Glasses, Ganatlata. Gk/vest Ae.£Ac.
>4 - -
THOM. W- BHOOKM
MANUPACrCHm OF ■
FURNITURE ANP CENTRAL
PARLOR SETS, extra well upholsti
FINE BED ROOM SETS. Walnut t
bogany.
COTTAGE BED ROOM SETS, of
variety.
DINING ROOM and LIBRARY SE
MATTRESSES, BOLSTERS and PH
of all kinds.
fc’13
KITTLE S FOLDING SPRING BE]
MATTRESSES, the best Bed it ;?
and WARRANTED SUPERIOI tc
others.
LACE AND GAUZE MOSQUITO < ,
PIES, and CANOPY FRAJMRB.
IU Owe Si
N. a—AU
United to.
JOHN V. WELLS / Ubst for Dtvocm la Bryan Hope.
W. T rtor Court.
MART WELLS. } D$as$ib#r Twm. UR.
RULE TO PERFECT SERVICE.
r ’ APPEARING to the Court by the return of the
Sheriff that ths difimfiast m the ahure asset fr
not to be found ia *h- miff, sad » further appsar
lag to tbe Court that she doss not rertd* la the State
of Georgia, an motion <ff A. Bl Bmltli, attorney for
It is therefore ordered. That the said dsfeodallt be
required tolls her anew* (if any site has) oo arby
the flret day or tbs next term of this Copit, or, hi de
fault thereof, the MMM Mowed-
And it fa further ordered,
lished in one of Hie public
once e month far f
term of this Court.
Or Brian ScrxRtoR Oocet, April Arm, 1808.
John V. Wells ^
in
»*s
fore ordered that the same helOMMRiderenting to
WAREROOMSi,
178 Broughton -Stow.
Nearly Omniite St. Altai's ;
NIMb
8
to llu.
l tt
■Hi be made
.. . of v lia-py of McIntosh county far I O made to is ; cdpik-e#<wnfa*f
s—it the re* .fiate of Oharto Buteti, fata . • leave Wseil ttu M*eiE**gg25,'
runty, deecs* j 1 “ fate of
i irrT.frtn.rnnt j Jade MU. is*
It^TirpSS i itnintstrato!.
)««
Mount Zion Select Sch r ,
MOUNT ZION, ga.
WILLIAM J. 80RTHE5, HEC1 >«<
T IE NEXT SESSION WlLOhCOMMEt t li
the Ant of August.
*y. Zion, Octobei.
Mr. Wm. J. Northen has beeu associated w.ia
during the peasant year (MM) in the Mou.
High School. In all my interotmree with hiu .»v
unlfonuty found him kind aad obUging; lnd
whole dsportment has been tbet cf e gentian
a Christian. In parting with Mr. N. It ifa •>-
Measure to bear teatimony >o his zeal, indas
ihiU la w»*ref «"d to add, I know ol no
man la wham abintlee and fidelity as an mi
I bare greeter confidence. C. P. Behan,
university of Georgia. July
ss8&fcsnB-aw» a iS^l*‘
pwm* 1 3>< septemberdi, test*
I know iff no better fixxAtat preparing favslc:
ci£27taui>om%iS> d am happy to expres tr:.
* ,T » ctjrowid it to others
2B«nmu£ ^ixaer which Indeed you deecr .
"tjrMW* H. M. CRAWT.3P
>w *aEafti;
l mdQgnchn ($nUi above Swayt- '
notice;
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