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in t. w tKXjvi . VOL. 2-NO. 161. SAVANNAH. GESOHGIA, THU1SDAY, JULY 19, 1866. PRICE, 5 CENTS. Daily News and Herald.; Our Home Correspondence. PUBLISHED BY S. W. MASON. * i:: Bat Street, Savannah, Geo thumb: Five Cents. • $3 60. $w oo, , — or advertising. ORE. first insertion, $1.50 ; each Inser- lirt-t. 75 cents. 2 i ? S » $ 44 & 50 95. 3141 133 150 ICij 180} 21; lSyj 217 260 210 245 280 ! I 315i 3681 420 ■ • 3921 445 3541 413i 47 o :.J 31 (J 272] 434 . 500 390J 4551 525 4061 470 650 :•!. 4:5j 510 5951 660 043 740 34b 4751 r*70, till 5001 600 TOO 800; 8GO 990 890; 1,020 920! 1,050 945I ],0Su 9701 1,110 9951 1,146 1.0251 1,170 1,050! 1.200 Our New ¥#rk Cerrespendeaee. [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 ^ ^