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SAVANNAH. GESOHGIA, THU1SDAY, JULY 19, 1866.
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[From Our Regular Correspondent J
Nsw ¥o*K, July 18, 1366.
THE SHADY SIDE
of our avenue* and streets to eagerly nought by our
people today* and baa keefc. during vJUie week—urn-
breliaa ate April, and all
aorta of excuses are made by sweltering humanity to
avoid even the walk of a single hlrw.fr in the scorching
rays of the sun. The grass on vacant Iota looks As if
it had been burned, and even billy-goats find littla
sustenance in it.
DOWN TOWN
appears pretty lively, notwithstanding the absence of
hundreds of our merchants and others at the water
ing places and in that unkuown resort generallj?
termed “thecountry.’* The fact is, there is pretty
nearly the same amount of business transacted in the
Summer mouths on Wall street and thereabouts as iu
any other portion of the year, hut the “heavies," as
the younger partners and clerks call the heads of their
establishments, are away, leaving to the juniors the
onus of the business. The former by no means throw
the oares.of business to the winds when they go to
Newport, Saratoga or the White Mountains, for they
constantly advise certain purchases and sales over the
wires almost every hoar. If fhet day.
• — tHX CROWD ■*-'*-•
on Broad street, during what is cailed “business
hear.,” ia nearly as large noivaajfc telb*30»«troiil
tically, “I’ll take twenty at 51 >£ short,’’ or “500 Erie
at 73%/' and jostle, crowd,- i About odd hurry around
with their memorandum books and pencils in band as
if the torrents of sweat pouring off them offered
more of an incentive tipa ia id(^edimsnt to their ex
citing rush in search of sharp bargains. They are an
indomitable and keen, razor-like crowd, one good view
of which ought to satisfy any inexperienced outsider
how easily a novice could be phlebotomised in pocket
in case one ventures a traffic amongst them.
HOR8H-FLESH
is a common commodity in our streets uow-a-diya,
and were any of the French savans, who have been
experimenting on this article as an element of food, in
this vicinity, they could obtain as many carcasses as
they would desire. It’s a wonder Prof. Blot has dis
covered some hidden virtues in this animal lor dietetic
prospects are better baa others, but even I purposes, but as he has not yet enlightened u» in ths
those are very far short of former vears. The I 8alair ou tb ‘* aub j ect - »« probably must be content
„ .. .I , . , , , .. I with his statement that the sour sorrell,- which grows
alleged causes are those that are pleaded all i , , ,. .. . . _
e y *** i ei0 und our barus and in the crevices of street edge-
I Tiie Crops in Striven County—The Free
j Labor System.
j ScARBqRo, ScRiVE.s Co., Ga., July!7, ’CO.
Editors News and Herald :
A recent trip through the upper and mo9t
wealthy portion of this county has placed
me in possession of a few facts in relation
to the growing crops, which may be inter
esting tfl some of yrur readers.
From information gained by conversing
with the most extensive planters, I should
| judge there will be scarcely more than one-
I fifth ot the crop made in that section.
— j Mobley Pond is generally known to be the
$ 75 j wealthiest and best agricultural section of
125 j°*' s count 3’> and formerly, by far the lar-
j_. 2 es t amount of cotton sent from this county
was raised there, and in that neighborhood.
The plantation known as the Mobley Pond
plantation, owned by the estate of Gan. Wm.
H. T. Walker, is partly cultivated by Messrs.
Shone & Smith, and is one of the largest and
finest plantations in the State. There are
about -50b acres in cotton, and an equal
number in corn. One of the parties told me
they would scarcely do more than make
enough to pav tbeirexnenses inn"
non ot the same plantation is owned and
planted by Mr. Alfred T. Martin, and a very
large, and formerly a very successful planter,
whose prospect for a crop this year, I learn,
is no better. Rev. Peyton L. Wade, proba
bly the largest planter in the county, will not
make coin enough to supply his own family,
until the 1st of next January, according to
his own statement. Bis cotton crop is but
little better. About the same may be said
of almost all the plantations in that section
ot the county. The corn looks very poor
indeed, and the cotton is small, and gener
ally very backward. There are soma whose
No ripple, however alight,
political sea, that does not bni
stones, is an elegant herbiferous plant to flavor soups I
However, to return, to horses—the dead and bloated
over the country
Bad seed, unfavorable seasons and unre
liable labor have so discouraged the planters I car “ 88es of ,he8e <=“> bB “ en 111 most
... , , , . I portion of our city where the track, of soulless horse
that many are ready to retire from their excr-
A HE is ten measured linos of Nonpa-
■ N'f'.vs and Herald.
rib.-m.-nts inserted three times a week
. : yj lor a month, or longei period, will
inw fourths of (able rates,
a'.isementa twice a week, two-thirds of
lions, and give up all hope of ever re-esta
blishing their reputalions in that line of busi
ness. The herculean efforts made by all
planters to test the new system of labor have
railway corporations are laid. The remains are suffered
to stay just where they are hauled to when they drop
dead in the traces, for three and four days and nights;
when, having poisoned a whole neighborhood, they
disappear, probably being carted off to some bologna
factory and bone-boiling establishment. There is no
met with such poor success as to deter many; j law under which the police can compel tfr* owners of
and those, or many of them, who have made j the animals to remove them*
their hundreds of bales cf cotton, have de
termined to circumscribe their labor to only
a> l"
enough to provide for the wants of their own
eek, one-half of table families.
The wealthy planter, the backbone of the
country, can no longer look with pride upon
his broad acres, waving with growing corn
.■rti-eiuenls inserted a? special notices will
thirty per cent, advance on table rates,
rti- [iienN of a transient character, not
will be continued until ordered
harmed accordingly.
•c.ii ly contracts, except for space at table
hi* m;uie: and. in contracts for space, all
v charged ulty cents per square for
local »r business notices, for indi
:Vi!l bo subject to a charge of fifty
* nan three dollars for each
and cotton, anci feci that there is a support
for bis family and occupation for the laborer
abroad; but be must fold bis arms, and con
template with sorrosv the waste of fertile soil,
rank with weeds and grass. Successful plant
ing in tbe South, at present, is a failure, and
under existing circumstances the comfort
able position heretofore attained cannot be
1'inorite must be paid in | reached. What the future may develope
remains to be seen- Let ns hope for a re
turn of prosperity, when Uemooractic rule
and Democratic, principles shall guarantee
to the people of ibis section all their rights
and privileges. Fanatic misrule is hurrying
us to destruction, an i taxation without repre
sentation is entailing upon us the calamities
that our forefathers fought to avert. Free
negro labor is a failure, and it will take years
of painful experience and xvise legislation to
reduce it to the efficient state that the de
mands of the counlry require. Generally
speaking, the negro writ not w ork faithfully
with no other incentive than a provident mo
tive. But let us awa.t the result. W.
iTri-tei] News and Herald
• p-.-r hr. ii 75uentfi per month and
|vVesk/y News and Herald
- ri -‘Uirdiy at $3 per year.
1 It 1 TN 'I'I (i,
. Mid piomplly done.
Tin!: ;i are the present Radicals in
duiure of Tennessee, of the honesty
. in-iituents, that they voted down
tank- on the 9th, by a vote of 10 to
‘ V. in/ proposition to submit the
i v.:.i- thiinents to the Federal Con-
ue people. Twenty Senators
The proposition to submit the
a' flie people was offered by Sena-
und is as follows:
-i. y.Mite of the State of Tennes-
Iti j/.mr,Tuat the proposed
i the Constitution of the United
6 -ifniitted to the legally qualified
*•*.'* Tate, upon the first Thursday
. xt. for their ratification or re-
.Ltl ih:n the sheriffs ot the several
j the State be authorized and re-
idvertise. open aud hold an elec-
■ several districts in each county,
at ore-aid; aud that each voter
i« iu favor of the ratification of the
una.-udmcnt, shall have written
s ticket “ratification,” and those op-
i iLuendment shall have written
f v tickets the word “rejection and
■ a ; - ., ral sheriffs shall make due
' ‘ e i' turns of the result of said"
v the eighth day of November next
■; ‘-'live Speakers of both houses of
nnbly.
faiLADLLPHiA Convention.—Since
wli ea the angels of light and those
F U( '" assembled in separate and ad-
icoimcii. tn> "ci.oveutions” have ever
L 1 ; ■' 1U folly represent “peace
o t will c,o the one hand, and an-
i".,,;, hate and proscription on the
l eu j which are soon Lo assemble
It; phi..
J.-n.s wliV-h environ the nation have
wise, the conservative and the
: h'lll; seel,. )U , to renew the long
>1 l ii n; which once united the
■y-ii the South. To accomplish this
I' 1 ’ ’"'eked the a^jemhlage ot all good
i j-;' 1 ' the welfare of.the nation truly
y »t bum. This call seems to
"O'l' the dormant or long slumber-
r f;“ 01 every section of u le R e .
Delegates are being sent to this
whose names recall the best and
us days of our history as a great
The multitude who pray for peace,
■ wish lo see tiie natioo once more
{From tbe Milletgeville Recorder.)
Georgia aud «ome of her Kcsonrcei.
In the counties through which the Savannah, Albany
and Gulf Railroad runs to the extent of about ouo
hundred miles west of this mad the wire or native
trniss grows abundantly, .-md from March to Decem
ber is a fine pasture for horses, sheep and cattle. Dur
ing the winter months th.-rc is sufficiency of pasture
for stock to live on, and sl.eep and cattle are never fed
and housed in those counties. The success in raising
sheep in the counties of Emanuel, Montgomery and
Tatnall, twenty years of experience has proved a de
cided success—some planters having as many as three
thousand head at one time, while from three to five*
hundred is common. The quality of the wool from
these counties commands in the market as high a
price as any wool in the count ry, except the wool from
choice breeds. Her© sheep double their numbers
every two years? a!l the attention they get to to be
penned in A|tay» sheared and marked, and then turned
out to shift for themselves—an investment that dou
bles itself every two years with such slight attention
and gives the wool as proiit yearly, is of real value,
especially when wool in the market® of the world sells
as readily as any staple article whatever. Land in this
part of the State is very cheap, the country as healthy
ae any part of the State. The Savannah, Albany &
Gulf Road completed; projected railroads, partto com
pleted, that does and will connect Savannah, Macon
and Brunswick, running through this part of the
State, offers to industry ftud enterprise a good and
speedy reward At a recent exhibition of sheep in the
State of New York, some varieties were exhibited
whose fieoce weighed as high as from sixteen to twen
ty-two pounds, and at this exhibition there was of
fered as high as $10,000 a piece for some of the bucks’
of choice breed at our doors. With perpetual pastur
age for sheep to feed on, only requiring a small outlay
of capital, the increase highly remunerative, as cer
tain of success as any pursuit whatever, these pros
pects would seem to give no countenance to dishonora
ble idleness.
This part of the State raises cattle and horses
finely, and where the laud is trod by penning the lit
tle on it, produces Sea Island cotton, double in
to any upland cotton, abundantly/ The West India
sugar cane grows in these counties well, and sugar
and syrup of a good quality is abundantly produced
to supply the wants of its inhabitants. These ugnt,
sandy lands yield the sweet potato iu great abumiance
and arc kept sound the entire year round. Horses
are raised in the>e counties on the natural grass.—
They are not large, but for spirit and action in har
ness or under the .saddle, cannot be surpassed.
ground pea raised among the corn for hog's, yields
abundantly, remains iu tiie ground all the winter and
spring sound. This with the sweet potato insures a
good supply of fat pork, good beef aDd mutton. With
an abundant supply of milk and butter is had tor
eigtlt out of the twelve mouths in the year tram the
native grass which grows all over the oountrj and is s
never failing source to feed the domestic animals _op.
What might be in reason expected where the .bleed
of sheep could he so much improved on iu neahand
fleece—where lands are cleared by girdling the trees,
only cutting down euougli to fence the fields where
both rye and oats sre sown in the fall, and in February
, i Mat. „ — and March are flue pastures fbr ewes aud lambs, aud
I" ".porous, happy, lmu the proposed . with a little attentionscarcelya lamb would be lost in
'!• ' '\jtil acclamations of joy. I‘h* Spring, for sheep are uevc.r penned in this part of
Ibis urosnei-t oi the neace and the “‘-‘Slate? can these great natural advantages be
prusptel OI me peaee WIU tue turned to a good account—give employment to the
idle, reward lo the industrious, and impart indo-
pendenceto the State 1 It is confidently hoped that
r< iations of the section* being
1 lias greatly disturbed that strange
'“usi.-oiitniion of malignant, turbu-
:np: iu, jpled men who delight. Hi
l* ,v revolution, riot and sectional strife-
!! !• lest Hie calm delights of peace
a- the mousing owl does tho mid-
i li itirv of an unclouded sun.
have determined not to yield the
Us power which they have gained
„H struggle. Like Lucifer, they are
1 hug tbi-ir black, blasted, and hideous
‘ a final struggle with all that is good
Wnoiic. They desire that “sin shall"
uion over us,” aud that the South
J 1 ' 11 ilm victim ot lawless and des-
i'\' 1 'iur all time. One Convention
r 1,s object the salvation of the nation ;
r " nhout. disguise, avows its deter-
1 lo make America a little more than
i.—Richmond. Times.
lady made a promise to her
■ that she would never marry &
1 «buoxious person “on the face of the
The old woman died and the young
Lth '
ihl ™ . Ul ° St »te ? Itis confidently nopea mat
tf^ a \ c .r ani! ‘= w hich has taken place iu the labor
E ” ! South, that in looking up new pnreulto,
Synothfe^^ reward.
The Taiiii f Bill—The postponement of
tbe tariff bill until th e n<;xl session of Con
gress, seems to give much satisfaction- The
New York Times says:
Tbe Senate has earned the gratitude of the
country by postponing until another session
all action upon the taritt. Commerce may
again breathe freely. Industry may bi e8fi ; l8
good fortune in being saved from the clutches
of monopolists. And in the vole of a ma
jority of Senators we have a pledge not only
against hasty changes in the interest ot spe
cial classes, but against the ultraism of those
who, under the guise of protecting fhe conn-
try, would sacrifice it to a policy copied from
Japan.
FIC-NICa .
are almost as plenty as blackberries, and thbvMHy
trains to convenient groves are laden with big and
little baskets, with big and little children attached to
them, fleeing for a day from the heated exhalations of
our pavements, a ramp in a shady grove, a tumble
about in the green grasa, under umbrageous foliage, a
dance in the fresh air laden with the sweetness ot
wild flowers, and other like pleasant exercises for a
day, go far with thousands of our community to keep
them from having the cholera, and far towards nerving
them to resist successfully the lassitude and enervat
ing influences of the “heated term.” Very lew houses
cau be found minus a dozen or two oak-leaf wreaths
made by members of the family in recent pic-nic ex
cursions, and but few of our young ladies but will ex
plain that their last now muslin was torn at the “last
pic-nic.”
COMPETITION,
as the “life of trade,’* is undoubtedly soon to be very
practically put in operation in the telegraphing busi
ness. The recent consolidation of the American and
Wvotcrn uuiun uuegnpB GtsnpM*.
given occasion for considerable iU-feling between cer
tain “wings” of tbe two former (now one) companies,
and there a¥e reports of a serious schism. This may
or may not ! be true. The new’National Company,
which has, obtained certain grants! and righto from
Congress, is said to be progressing rapidly, and
many hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of its
capital stock is rapidly being token in this city. There
is prospect of strong OMnpetition in this business eve
a twelve-month.
OVERCOATS AND FIRES
are not much sought after this afternoon. The ther
mometer, at 6 o’clock, on tne corner of Liberty street
and Broadway, at our fourth story window, in the
shade, marks just Doga loll out their tongues
between the interstices of their wfre muzzles—horses
/Look wistfully at the hydrants—and the marble fronts,
even, relax their normally frigid appearance, and
would actually perspire if they knew how.
FHcrr
of all kinds is coming upon us. Green apples have
been, here for a week or more, but no one dare buy
them, except to cook. Peaches are here, but their
very sight makes a fellow feel like taking a dose of
cholera medicine. Strawberries are “done gone,”
and our six-penny clerks can no more delectate their
gustatory palates with their diurnal, feast of straw
berry shortcake. Raspberries are plenty still, but
powerful high, the hucksters asking twenty cento per
basket. Banannaa are so plenty that boys and girls
peel them on the streets at ten cents each. Pine
apples are abundant. Lemons can be had by the
wagon load, and oranges are not scarce. “Huckle
berry” dumplings are in full feather atf the restau
rants, and blackberries are getting luscious. Verily,
the cant-get-aways willlive! - 1 !
THE EXCISE LAW
received a terrible black eye by the decision of Re
corder Hackett, that the law was , unconstitutional.
The fanatical admirers of sumptuary tows will, take
the case up to the Court of Appeals: but as the Oonrt
does not meet till September, the Haitbrdeators will
snap their fingers at the Excise Beard until that
LAST SUNDAY
there.was hardly a gin-mill, rum-crib, lager saloon, *or
beer shop, either in New York or Brooklyn, but was in
full operation. Judging from tbe streets in tbe after
norm and evening, there was no more consequent
drunkenness than on previous Sabbaths, when our
imbibulous citizens either drank at home from their
Saturday's stores, or obtained their liquid lightning
from the inviting shores of Jersey. It to a pretty aafe
prediction that no such narrow laws relative to what
a man shall drink, or when be shall drink it, will ob
tain any great length of time in the cosmopolitan me
tropolis.
Gold in LumpkiiI.—A correspondent of
the Louisville Journal, writing from Lump
kin county, Ga., gives a glowing account of
the gold interest in Lnmpkin county. He
says ; If Brownlow were to became an hon
est, God-fearing man, Sumner emigrate to
Cuba and buy a “plantation a&d "negroes,”
and Stevens, abandoning miscegenation' and
constitutional amendments, become a “de
cent white man,” the news would hardly
create a passing remark here. Penny
weights, lots, holes, Hannay, flumes, Ruther
ford janff gold are the only subjects of con-
versataon, [speculation end. contemplation,
the climate is delightful, the water charm
ingly cool, and the whiskey ih&mou».
Wounded in the House of Hn Fi iiESDa.—Yea*
terday. Jama, E. Bryant, tbe loyalist, waa aireated at
tbe instance of a colored mao, Stephen Walton, the
well known, skillful and urbane barber on Jackson
street. The case was one of debt, and a bail writ was
token out against Bryant. It to due the shrewdness
and intelligence of Stephen to say that he did not per
sonally allow this fellow Bryant to become indebted to
him, but the circumstances are these:
liah a business, at tho auto tttaa h*l«l paid Up
fifty dollars as a retaining fao. Sisco then this lawyer
Mr. Alvord) left tho city and tamed the cate over to
*“• ** ***•*“— U “*
—General John A. J>ix ha# written a let
ter to Senator Doolittle, approving K ^
b^rptofnre 'obnoxious lover re- | National Union Convention. He bay# he will
,0 of luTmajoth Cave,- Ky . do all ia bis power to carry cu. objects ci
o icjz-etfipr e unvention
—The new atyie of bonnet in Pari* »*
the-Catalans. U m described a# “loog
■qnare,” the shape of tbe pocket hand
kerchief the Italian women wear on
tfceif be : Another i*
Baler visit*-
.c v
[From tbe Columbus
HON. B. H. HIU..
itate the
-BrH.
ill to tbe surface. His latest in|ctiob upon
the public appeared in th&9bapi of a letter
to the editor of the Chronicle an Sentinel,
which we published some dajm ice, solely
for the purpose of following^ wit comment.
To the haste imposed upon him by a pend
iug journey to Northern latitudesare we in
debted for a homeopathic dose ofthe clumsy
and labored platitudes which disnguish his
epistolary efforts. Ere the ink hfi dried on
a paragraph, -suggesting bis nameai a repre
sentative in the. approaching Natkdal Con
vention, and long before a tithe of tte people
of Georgia had been made aware oi such a
suggestion, harlequin-like, he alights in the
political arena, and flippantly announces that
“Barkis is willing,”
If this production bad been comped to a
display of that sententious garrulity inordi
nate vanity and impudent ambitiot which
have characterized the man and wearied tbe
public eye and ear, we might have (pnniUed
it to pass in merited silence; but in hi* insa
tiate desire for official distinction he has in
corporated into his announcement oihis can
didacy for the position with which his name
has been very unwisely connected, i Blander
upon the principles of dead aud living men,
so unprovoked and unfounded as to demand
et our hands immediate and unstinted iepro-
: ner stone"’Tif his politics has evet tfeen“ci»i.
“the unconcilhtting, uncompromising ex
tremists of both secuons were always the na
tural enemy of the CBnstitution founded in
concert and administered hi compromise.”
No baste can pafdon or even qualify such
an assertion, foe-it is given as^the conviction
of a lifejijfne. Nor can Hn Hill, from any
record, public or priWMe, of any min, or any
set of men .who through more than forty
years of strife, upheld tbe banner of States
rights only to be branded as extremists by
those who did not have sufficient.-sense to
understand their Manciples, or independence
enough to support them, single out -one at
tack, open or concealed, upon the Consti
tution of the country. We of couue refer
to Southern Statesmen alone, for in the ex
tremist of.the North, tbe country h*s. always
recognized the open and avowed enemies of
the Constitution, and the men whose acces
sion to power has finally destroyed that
charter ot liberty.
The youngest student of the history of his
country knows that Hayne, McDuffie, Cal
houn, Yancey, and hosts of others, living
and dead, jaever faltered in their devotion to
constitutional principles, and devoted all the
energies of their glorious lives and splendid
intellects to a “strict construction” of the Fed
eral Constitution.
Such being the case, tbe gratnitons and
unfounded aspersion which Mr. Hill attempts
to cast upon these men, must be attributed
to one or two motives, both unworthy of one
aspiring to tbe honors of enlightened states
manship—i. e.—personal hostility to political
opponents, or a desire to obtain position by
pandering to that sentiment North and South
which seeks to persecute and ostracise' those
who were foremost in counselling tbe South
to seize the sword, when reason and com
promise had failed to secure her constitu
tional guarantees.
The classification oi those men whom the
South justly regards as the brightest of her
jewels, with the Sumners, the Garrisons and
Wendell Phillips of the North, is a . specimen
of partisan blindness or personal malignity,
which no man who had enjoyed the highest
honors of the late Confederacy, save Mr.
Hill, would have dared to publish i v a South
ern newspaper.
The pining prisoner of Fortress Monroe,
who, in addition to the pangs of disease, and
the burden of official cares, was <qj: four
years compelled to endure the fawnings and
adulations of Mr Hill, will receive w.th as
tonishment, if not with angry disdain,, this
life-long conviction of the sycophantic cour
tier, who, in the heyday of his glory, fol
lowed him from Richmond to the summit of
“Lookout Mountain.”
Perhaps some of the compeers of Mr. Hill
in the Confederate States Senate, who were
wont to listen to his exhausting arguments
in support of a cause which was inaugurated
and sustained by the “natural enemies of the
Constitution,” may be surprised at the clever
manner in which he so long concealed a “life
long conviction” so at variance with his then
brave words and daily associations; bat tbe
men in Georgia who will see to it that his own
prediction, that bis “days as a public man
have been counted,” is verified, have not been
greatly surptised at anything he has done in
the past, and will never be astonished atjany-
thing he may do in the future.
We have given, for the sake of harmony
and unanimity, our support to the National
Convention shortly to be held at Philadelphia,
bat if sentiments, such as are expressed by
Mr. Hill, are to be heard in its deliberations,
aod men like him are to be sent there to ad
vocate tbe dissemination ot this political
dogma, which he claims to have spent a life
time in eliminating, we fear we shall find
cause to regret the abandonment of onr first
position, and tbe South reason to rue the
day when she again embarked in national
politics. ■’ ‘
In view of tbe fact that Mr. Hill’s political
distinction was gained by the advocacy of
the only unconstitutional doctrine ever
countenanced by a respectable minority at
the South, viz: the incorporation of a re
ligious test to voters and office holders, wc
would commend him in future to be more
liberal in tbe assaults which he makes Upon
the “natural enemies of the Constitution.’’
Letter fre n Secretary Welles,
The following letter from Hon. Gideon Welles, Sec
retary of the Navy, to Senator Doolittle, chalrmah of
the executive committee of th^Natioual Union Club,
is a model as a condensed argument in behalf of the
policy of {he President in contravention of the de
■tractive ronrse of Congress*
Washington, D. C., July 11,186#.
Sir—Your note of the 10th instant was received yes
terday. 1 cordially approve the movement which has
been instituted to “sustain the administration
maintaining unbroken the Union of the States.” and
I recognize in the call winch you have sent me the
principles and views by which the administration has
been governed.
The attempt made to destroy the national integrity
by secession, or the voluntary withdrawal of a State
from the Union, has been defeated. War has forever
extinguished the heresy of secession. On the sup
pression of tbe rebellion measures were promptly
commenced to re-establish those fraternal relations
which for four years had been interrupted.
The policy initiated by President Lincoln to restore
national unity was adopted and carried forward by
President Johnson; the .States which had been in re
bellion were, under this benign policy, resuming their
legitimate functions; the people had laid down tbsir
arms, and those w ho had lieeri in insurrection were
returning to.their allegiance; the Constitution had
beeu vindicated and the Union was supposed to be re
stored, when a checi:- was put upon the progress lo
national harmony and prosperity .thus dawning upon
tbe country. Ou the assembling oi Congress all efforts
towards nnion and nationality became suddenly par
alyzed; the measures of reconediation which the
President hail, from the time he entered upon his du
ties, pursued with eminent sucr-?sa, were assailed, and
their beneficent purpose, to a great extent, defeated;
attempts were made to impose conditions ptecedent
upon states before permitting them to exercise their
constitutional rights; loyal Senators and Representa
tives from the States which had been in rebellion
were refused admittance into Congress—the people
aud eleven States' were and are excifiugg TQTbP'fttl'par-
ticipation in the government. -.
These proceedings, which conflict with ':til
mental principles on which our whole gov^toftjmpnto 1
system is founded, are generating and conBMT
sectional animosity, and, if long persisted in,
eventuate iu permanent alienation. I rejoice, there*
fore, in a movement which has for its object the union
in one bond of love of the people of oifr-common
country, aud which invites to cugptfei an^L political
action the citizens of ever^State dna Territory, from
the Atlautic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the
Gulf. The centralizing theory that the loyal and
qualified Senators and Kuxjrcseutatives from eleven
States shall be excluded from Congress, and that those
States atid the people of those States shall not partici
pate in the government, is scarcely less repugnant
than that of secession itself.
Propositions to nhange the Constitution, and unset-
tie some of the foundation principles Sf*our organic
law—to change our judicial system in such a manner
as to destroy the independence of the States by rnsldt
iously transferring to the federal tribunals all ques
tions relating to the “life, ii^erty„and property of tht
citizen”—to change the basis of representation, which
was one of the difficult and delicate compromises of
tbe convention of 1787, when no Stales were excluded
from representation—to change the ex-stlng and
widely adjusted distribution of powers between the
different departments of ,the government, by transfer
ring the pardoning po\ri?r in certain cases from the
Executive, where it properly belongs, to Congress or
the legislative brand! of th- Government* to whidt it
does not legitimately purtaiD—to incorporate into our
Constitution, which is to stand through ail time, a
proscription of citizens who have erred and who are
liable to penalties under existing enactments, by dis
qualifications. partaking of the nature of ex post facto
laws and bills of attainder—these propositions or
changes, aggregated rfs one and called an amendment
to the Constitution, designed to operate on the people
and States '..hicii are denied all representation or
voice in the Congress winch Originates them, are of a
radical, if not revolutionary, character.
These and other proceedings, and the political crisis
which they have tended to produce, justify and de
mand a con vocation of .the people by delegate* from
all the Staten and from the whole country.
The President has labored with devoted assiduity
end fidelity to'promote union, harmony, prosperity
and happiness among tha States and people, but has
met with rcsistanc&^mtorepresentatioii and calumny
where he had njlght to expect co-operation and
friendly support. • Xfeat the great body of our country
men are earuestly«iml cyrdially with him in his el-
forts to promote th^paUunol welfare I have never
donbted, notwithstanding the hostility of malevale&t
partisans, stimulated by puriecletl party organization;
and I rejoice that a Convention which shall represent
all true Union men of our whole country has been
called to sustain him.
JTery respcctf i illy,
Gideon Welles.
Hon. J. R. Doolittle, Washington, D. C.
Given to holders of Mntual Policies of
50 PER CENT.,
•• ...
if desired, when the [* >Tn *i' m amounts to
f 50 or more, and is paid annually.
DIVIDENDS
made to holders of Mutual Policies aa follows:
PAID IN CASH, .
APPLY ON PREMIUM NOTES, or
ADDED TO THK POLICY.
The latter or REVERSIONARY DIVI
DENDS declared bjr this Company in U65
were Uom FORTY-FOUR to ONE HUN
DRED AND TWENTY-HER CENT., ac
cording to age.
(The Great Invention of the Ago
Hoop Skirts,
J. W. Bradli
The “Southern Loyalists”' Contention^
The New York Herald says the associates of
the Radicals in the S outhem States bare, it
appears, issued a call for a convention to be
held in Philadelphia on the first Mondaf in
September next This is no doubt started
partly for tbe purpose of offsetting the con
servative convention in August, but mainly
to lay the foundation for a negro suffrage
pa*ty. At this convention the Hamiltons,
Battses and Stokes of the South, the Gerritt
Smiths, Fred. Douglasses and Wendell Phil
lipses of the North will no donbt ail gather
and lay down the creed of the negro suffrage
party, on the basis of lands and ballots for
the negro. Thus we shall have within the
next two months two parties organized lo
take the place of the present organizations.
The Republican party is in its death strug
gle, aud there is as great commotion over its
fi»al burial and the birth of the new party as
there was iu 1856 over the inauguration of
tbe ReptfKAhS, /•’flM gathering in Phila-
delphia in September is to perform the mid
wife ceremonies of the party which is to take
the place of the late Republican organization,
aitd as such is to enter the contest as the sole
opponent of tha party inaugurated by the
convention in the same city in August.
HoRRiBLE AcdDEST.-Mr. Wm. Barnes, a
manufacturer ot iron railing*
met with an accident 8”® n Thread*v
bis grounds at White Plkms on Tbruaday
He had purchased a mowing-ffi*«^>
while he was witnessing ^enfscnstowlythat
the horses attached to It went so siowiy u«at
Mr. Baras was induced to stePJV^> the ani
mal to make him go on faster, »hen the team
started forward suddenly,
Barawcouidstand aside “ d £ to h V w”?,,£
er to pass him, the blade AracM. J”*
goVS* bwi, and not.offiy KT«edeaU tbe
Atom-cam *
iinip W hiwl* negroett
f- u 1 several iipiie* riding c^dly u?t-
Moke. Indian Trochlesl-—A dispatch elated
Loavcnworth, Kansas, yesterday, says that reports
just received from Denver and the gold r. gions say
that the most serious apprehensions arsfelt there aud
upon the great overland route, as the Indian bands
assembled at Fort Laramie ifie poace. treaty him
fte vr ar path. All resorts agree that a band of
«x hundred Sioux were in t'he vici nity of McPherson,
llmmt5?i£^urnuKl r ^.' veI1 * r P; ed and with plenty of
council. At Fort Laramie, ou*t^e"^l\Vti^‘ 4 Blue river,
two hundred miles west of this place, a band of Chey
ennes have been murdering settlers, salting fire to
their hous<ifl, stcaliDg and ruiiiftiilg off their cattle.
The inhabitants are abandoning their homes * and
crops, aud moving.^* 0 the river settlements. Tbe
whole region between ttyp Kansas and Platte is over
run with hOBtile bands, who are assuming the offen
sive. - • *
New Advertisements.
NEW SKIRT FOR *e<3
fey’:
lie (or D<
’s Hew Patent Dnpex Ellip-
ouble) Spring Skirt.
1H1S Invention consists of Dnj
iplcx (ot two) Kllpttc
ingeniously braided
. . ______ and’flariible _
ever used. They seldom bend or break, like the sin-
wonderful flexibility and
pleasure to any lady wearing the I
will be experienced particularly in
biles. Opens, Carriages. Railroad Cars, Church Pews,
Arm Chairs, for Promenade and House Dress, as the
Skirt am be folded when in. Me lo o<a(py a small
place as easily and conveniently as .a .Sigt or Muslin
Dram.
A lady having enjoyed the pleasure, comfort and
great convenience of wearing the Duplex Elliptic
Steel Spring Skirt for a single day will never after
wards wiilingly dispense with their nee. For children,
misaefland young ladies they are superior to ail eth-
The Hoops are coveted with 2 . ply double twisted
thread and will wear twice aa long aa the single ram
covering which ia need on all Single Steel Hoop Starts.
The three bottom rods on every Skirt m ■ slM DettNe
Steel, and twice or doable coveted to prevent the pow
ering from wearing off the rods when-dragging down
stairs, stone steps, *c„ which they are conetanOy
•object to when in me. ... • . _ .
All are made of the newand.elegantCu.ded Tape*,
and ere thebest quality in every pert, giving to the
wearer the most graceful and perfect abape. possible
and are unquestionably the lightest, most durable,
comfortable and economical Skirt ever made.
WEHT8\ BRADLEY A CAHY, (late J. I. * J. O.
Westj Proprietors of the Invention, and Side Manu
facturer*, 97 Chambers anil 79 and 31 Reads streets,
New York.
,r sale in all first clan stores in this Ctty. and
bout tbe uaited States and Canatka, Havana
Mexico, South America, and the West In-
ear Inquire for the Duplex Elliptic (ordnrihle
Spring Skirt irSj”*
FOR SAlLlE.
COWSICQ.WS!
S EVENTY HEAD MILCH (X)7V9 and Beet Oattle.
The Cowi are with ywwff teJJfS jmd wa he
sden at Cherry Hill Plantation, one truie from Way's
station, Albany aud Gulf Railroad,
Sou in lots to anit purchaser*.
jyW-lw
££ property *
AMOS J HEARN, deceased, for the benefit of the
htlra mil credits!* of said Term, made
Jraownon the day, Ttoe Juue^staAsad^^
T®«
Administrator Deboots Nop.
V. A. KY.AN & CO.
so? B»y . .1
STANDARD UQUOHS,
Agent* foe Ghettos atm . .. - __
Eentaekr Bonrbon WWrirey,
tiryl -tf
Insurance.
SOUTHERN
BRAHCH OFFICE
KNICKERBOCKER
LIFE INSURANCE CO.
JSTo.
Of New York City,
89 Bay Street,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Policies issued imd Losses Paid
* AT THIS orXUOB.
CREDITS
Insurance.
THE OGLETHORPE
Insurance Comp’y
OF SAVANNAH
Are prepared So take .
Fire Bisks on
H. W. Mercer
8. Hardee
“ Hunter
At their Office, 117 Bay Street.
K W. MERCER. President.
J. T. Tnoaas, Sec.
Directors:
M. & Cohen
J. Lama
J. W. Neyitt
D Q. Pane
a; Fflllarton
J. McMabes
L. J. H allmartin
F. W. Sima
6. Butler
R. Lachliaon
E. P. Claton. Augusta
J. W,.Knott, Macon
B. F. Rosa, Macon
W. H. Young, Columbus
H. A. Ctane
A. A. Solomon.
M. Hamilton
W. W. Oordao
my in
S. B. HARRINGTON,
Ten Year, Yon-Forfeiture,
ENDOWMENT.
AND
Life Policies
Issued by this Company.
. -- S l ■
No Extra Charie for Mm Eesiieice
Directors:
£ Henry Bsiimum, President ^(etchants’ National
Tank.
Colonel Wm 8. Rocgwxtx.' 1 -’ 1 * Jt - r
H. A. Ckanb, of Cnoe* OraybUL i
JOBS D. HOPKIMS. :. \>
A. A. Solomons, of A., A. Solomons k Co.
E. A. SoitUAHO, . . /, .
E. 1. Moses, of Brady, Smith ft Oo.
Fhkd. M. HPLL,<ff Mdotaahr ft Co. - '
M. A. Cohen Secretary Home Insurance Co. r.i
■ :i . :•.» u : £ L^noiLci i&u ' ' . .
A. WILBUfi, General Manager
a.-iiw'3 **0 tJIiJO'
WM. R. BOYD, ***)*. .
.. ■ ■ ft SltaU B4 B9 is
m. 8. Y<!ftB%EtoH«ft«gkWWte. 1
Dr. II. D. AKNOL.D,
EVERY VARIETYfOF
lUKNITURE
18 SELLING Qocr *
^wer Than Any Other House
IN SAVANNAH,
Healtfr!
■pT-4 .fine
• aj WaisaO 7sip
{!;lO(4tUA oil .lid -<7y.;::
THE SUMW0*°Of W66.
ra Ml 1ST B(nM - - • • ’
) V.• iv» 1 L i >: U’l.
OIDlil SMfflBS, m
out i- r n -Ldiiqijt, l iatai tet.fci
UMHOMOHMD. jrtpriebto'te the tepiat
tsiSSSS
Wetteaa,
Ware, fttrortto, _
CapkffWdfflm^^.
HOTELS AND STLamhoa.ts
FUBMSHED.
PARLOR SETS, extra well upholstered.
FINE BED ROOM SETS, Walnut and Ma-
tfiim
COTTAGE BED ROOM SETS, of every
variety.
DINING ROOM and LIBRARY SETS.
MATTRESSES, BOLSTERS and PILLOWS
of all kinds.
-roTii
kTTRESSES, the best Rad ia use,
bd WARRANTED SUPERIOR total
otbetk
LACE AND GAUZE MOSQUITO CANO-
• PIES, sad CANOPY FRAMES
iTfuliJ 1 ■ ’7>'
FSP i ARD i’fPELEORD
WAREROOMS!,
178 Broughton Street,
leariy Onuitt II. iibev’s Hall.
Msl >
Mount Zion Select School,
'l 1 MOUNT ZION, GA.
WillAUM J. bORTHSI, RECTOR.
! NEXT aatSION WILL COMMERCE ON
MT.5UOH. October, isra
Ir. Wm. J. Ndrthea has been atooclated with me
jm (1W) to the Mount Zion
l my lntereourae with him, i have
y found him kind and obliging; indeed, Ms
i deportment has been that of a gentleman-and
tettan. In parttngwith Mr. N. It affimto mo
aony to MS soai, tadnatry and
to add, I know Of no young
■ abdfidelMy as aft instructor
“ice. - . .C. P. Ban an, D. D-
: or OnoBCU. July®, 1S67.
t ptoestaetoWtlfy to the competeMT
* — “ J. r Jtorth«eeeteeeb«r.^^
■nd fhoronghiy H mell.
September U, 1880.
r no hettmechorijor preparing boys for
ftfijiij®* B® I tip Rhii OttMiMm Swayne'a.
testfet
3 tin joasjfitAta i-iiLadt u. - -
Thta data «drtor .ne ectunutt monUia my
J^cafoewStberrFfor^wharl ^ ^