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VOL. 2-NO. 198. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, FRIDAY-, . AUGUST 31, JJBflp.’ * i-- . '•*' f-i ’ PRIGE, 5 CENTS. p a ily News and Herald. il'blisued by w. MASON. S. HI li*r Stbest, Savannah, Gxo tsbhi: . Five Cents. :Copy •//. #3 60. pe! Huidica—— 410 00- I ' BtjOP ADVERTISING. • I! V ' vRE first insertion, $1.60; each lnser- 0SK 75 cents. mu al« r an'. 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IF* No yearly contracts, except for space at table ntc*. will be made; and, in contracts for space, all .•swillbe charged fifty cent9 per square for tach change. l$T Editorial, local or business notices, for indi | vidiial l*eneflt, will bo subject to a cliarge of fifty enis per line, but not less than three dollars for each 'sertion. &T All transient Advertisements must be paid ia Jvaace. rue tri-Mly News and Herald s published at $0. per year, or 75 cents per month, and The Weekly News and Herald Is issued every San.rday at $3 per yoar. JOB PRINTING. n ivrry style, neatly and promptly done. By Telegraph;: morning dispatches. nmi NEW YORK. TIIK PRESIDENT'S RESPONSE TO MAYOU M l|uFFAIAX’S ADDRESS. The Markets. by the New York, Aug 29.—In response to the Mayor's ad dress yesterday, the President, in a voice evidently afleeted by emotion, remarked as follows: “To make a reply to what you have just given utterance to un- derthe circumstances wotfld be more than I could | undertake. I am overwhelmed at the reception you •accorded tome. [Applause.] Language is in- I aue 1 uate to give expression to my feelings, I ac- I jour invitation, and I now beg you will in re- »vcept my most sincere and heartfelt thanks. I 5ach an invitation from this great metropolis ought to trage, aud it does encourage me in the faithful I Charge of my duty. [Cheers.] It is peculiarly ac- | ^kble at this time, lresh as we are from the battle- • but there is still & greater battle before us. tTs.j In reference to what I have done it is be- you, and it is for you to determine what my con- baa been. [Applause.] In conclusion let si- -.peak for me what I ought to say and what I in- [ to do. [Cheers.] In accepting these resolutions | Q Panied by sentiments so gracefully uttered, I* return you my sincere thanks.” •• fat conclusion of the President's remarks he *■ sTwted W ith three cheers, id calls were then make for Secretary Seward, ^ J 831(1 “* fed that I am at home. I thank you for Le welcome you have extended to me. (Applause |. ' fcl more l bau that, for I have brought with me _ yours and my home the President of the United (Cheers.] United by the arms of our heroes, 'iriue of our citizens, and by the - wisdom and • °f our Chief Magistrate, thing is wanting it is the certificate which we ‘ r at the coming polls to bear us out in our] II that the Uniied States should consist of thirty- ^ instead of twenty-five States. [Great applause.] lhe 01 l y and State of New York, the people Bhould v faithful first to their wives, then to their children, ‘ ta to the city and State, and then to the country, ’‘bis duty I adhere, and if persona were to inter- j er& w dh me in faithfully carrying out this principle, l °uld overbalance them, and still be faithful to the [Great cheering.] President, Secretary Seward, General Grant, Farragut and Secretary Welles were quar- at Dclmonico’s, while the remainder of the party Provided for at the Fifth Avenue HoteL The * -Sidont received many visitors last evening. EUROPEAN MARKETS. ^b>SDON, August 23—P. M.—The money market is J 1 out c hange. Consols, 89.^ for money. U. S ‘^twenties, 72^. ^bi. Eai>O01 Augugt 29.—The cotton sales to-day 10>000 bales; middling uplands, 13,^@13>^d. riaroot, August 29—P. M—The breadstuff* j. ^ bas a declining tendency. The provision i 1 iS unchau Ked. with the exception of lard, ‘ c bas an advancing tendency. From Cincinnati. • r om CINNAT1, AuKU8t 30.—There were three deaths cholera yesterday. The disease has ceased to ex- apprehension. Our Washington Correspondence, [From our Regular Correspondent ] Washington, Aug. 27, 1866. The President starts on his visit to Chic ago to-morrow to assist in the ceremonies of laying the corner stone of the Douglas mon ument. Seward, Wells and Randall, of the Cabinet accompany him, with Gen.Grant,and Admiral Farragut. It is hoped by the Pres ident's friends, that political advantage may grow out of the trip. The President is in the highest spirits, and confident of being sustained by the people. Mr. Seward is preparing an elaborate speech, intended as a great ^campaign docu ment,,which is expected to be let off in Hew York City. The Conservatives are moving with great energy in New York to carry the State elec tion which comes off in November. The Con servative Convention in that State will meet September 11th. The greatest impor tance is attached to the results ot that elec tion. The city is certain to go Conservative. And the New York millionaires are waking up to the danger of- the Radical pro gramme. The public still continue to discuss the withdrawal of Secretary Stanton from the Cabinet. The pressure is very great for his removal. He is denounced by the Radical and Conservative press. The better opinion is that he will be sent as Minister to Spain. The President was lately informed by one of his friends, that be had the most odious man in his Cabinet of any man in the United States. The President asked who that was, and the reply was “Stanton.” His removal, with that of Holt and Meigs, is necessary to put the War Department on a peace footing. It is stated that in various parts of the South capitalists are going to establish man ufactures. This is certainly in the highest degree desirable. High protective duties may be considered as a permanent fact in this country owing to the necessity of raising great revenues. And the South ought to avail itself ot this legislation to get all the profit it can. Instead of nullifying the law, build factories. It is Btaled in several of the papers that Mr. Davis will be discharged soon on bis pa role. I think this is a mistake. I do not think he will be so discharged until after the Fall elections. The Radicals would make an immense outcry if he were released-now; and it is very dangerous to give them any more capital- Mr. Davis' confinement is not in any degree rigorous now. . The publication of Gen. Sheridan's dis patches in full has revived the furore of the New Orleans disturbances. The Radicals are makiug a great deal of noise over these dispatches. As Sheridan cehiures the or ganization of the Radical Convention, he appears to be impartial, hence his statements of the violence of the police are very dama ging North- His dispatches give support to the idea too that there is a bitter feeling at the South against Northern people,which en dangers them. This is a lavorite topic with the Radicals, and they make all the use pos sible of Sheridan’s dispatches in this re- gard. The ratification meeting here on Saturday night is pronounced a great success. The majority of the residents here are opposed to the Radicals. This was very evident last winter when it was proposed to confer the elective franchise on the negroes here. That stirred up the people here amazingly. The.advices of the establishment of peace in Europe are hailed here with pleasure, but the best informed circles think it is moie a truce than a permanent peace. It is said the changes are too momentous to stand as the result of so slight a struggle. The war did not last loDg enough to exhaust the parties. The vast accession of power to Prussia and Italy disarranges the European system, the result of centuries of war. And then France has gained nothing. But suddenly Prussia has grown up to be a formidable rival to hem her in on the side of the Rhine. The peace is not likely to be permanent. At least that Is the impression. ttits- 'Hoed; Hew York Market. Vou^ hood, Aug. 30.—Cotton quiet at 33 flour declined 10 @ 20c; wheel and com de- pork heavy; lard and whiskey dull. ; exchange 108X at sight. p er le P° rt that Gen. Fullerton is to su- / Ct(lu Ge n. Howard, is not correct., Spiritualists’ Convention. One ot the remarkable features of the age in which we live, and ot a portion of the na tion to which we belong, is the rage for what is known"as spiritualism, and the number of its believers and conjurors, including amongst its partisans many prominent men belonging to the higher positions in the State—even that class of men who ought to be proof against such intangible and unreliable things, Viz; Judges. Most of them are persons Who put no faith in revealed religion, yet show a capacity of credulity in believing the whole round ot mysteries included under the head of spiritualism that is astonishing. Indeed, they have constituted a sort of new religion and a new faith out of the vague and decept ive manifestations from the spirit world through their mediums. And they discourse with endless speech of these matters ip an incompiehehsible and transcendental jargon, which takes its character from their wild, confused and undefinable nature. ; It is Wonderful with what ease the large community putting faith in these things de tach themselves lrom all of the systems of religious belief and social order which man kind, in its best informed and most virtuous slate, have adopted as good aud true. Hav ing cut loose from the restraints of religion and authorized morality, they have disre garded human law and relieved themselves from every bar to indulgence^ desire and passion. Hence we find spiritualism, free- love, woman's lights, abolition of all punish ments, infidelity, and atheism, all com mingled and fermenting together. The idea has been expressed by a very learned divine that the Almighty permitted these phenomena of spiritualism in order that men who, in their vanity, rejected the mysteries of the revealed religion might be confused and eon- founded by becoming believers in the contri vances of evil spirits, which are devoid of utility or good, and entirely incomprehensi ble to their believers. Whatever be the in tention of providence, certainly these disci ples or spiritualism betray a wonderful facili ty to moral depravity and social disorder. A convention of these people was in ses sion last week in Providence, Rhode Island. We sketch some of the curious incidents of their Thursday’s sitting- The body consisted oi some three hundred delegates! presenting the oddest array of all sorts of people. There were long-haired men and short- haired women—old skinny women with shrill voices, given to scolding—young momen with opera cloaks and languishing eyes—women with sharp noses, spectacles on them, and very suggestive of front wigs and air-trumpets. The men were of almost every variety save that having the appear- ance of a well-bred gentlemen. He wasn t there. , , . , A number of speakers wanted to know what spiritualism had done ?—a vepr perti nent question. Some seemed to think that it had done enough by relieving its followers “from the shackles of orthodoxy" and se- curing freedom of all kinds, including frtt love. Others were for central organiza tions. Many of the “Meejums’’ seemed to have an axe to grind. Placards were abundant announcing that certain persona would tell all manner of news about love, business, absent friends, and so forth. But a wag gish reporter observed that none of them seemed able to foretell the state of the weather on the next day, as there was a pro viso for the postponement of the spiritualists’ pic-nic in case of rain ! One Mr. Swan, of Conneticut, stated that he was a licensed Methodist preacher for sixteen years before he embraced spiritual ism. He recited details of his prophecies during the war, and -related free conversa tions he had had with General Andrew Jack- son. General Jackson had instructed him to say that he thanks God that Andrew Jack- son was taken out of our physical world, and that Abraham Lincoln was in his place, which was preferable on the occasion, as Mr. Lincoln possessed another and special organization of mind and body. Swan recited a.communication, in dogge rel, from the General, which we copy below as being amusingly absurd, connected with the name of'O.d Hickory. Swan said it had met the approbation of Gov. Buckingham in a Union Convention, he having made a mo tion to print it. It is given verbatim: A ooetical communicashion from A Jack- son Delivered through Sanford B Swan Im- pressionally Medium Friend* of Friedom Awake All that* dear is now at Stake Girde on your armes for the Fite Thus tdl with you will be Bight God thus far ha* Crowned you with auckseas Deale Justly and he will you Bless With victory on the Rebel Host His Angela will chase them from your cost Tennessee where my Bone* doe Lay Wboe long for Victdry dide prey To-day in God’s name can shout Knowing their Bebil foes are driven out Grant whoe who never did surrender He with vetron trupes came in splender To chaterueugers Bloody Battle field Where he made bully Brag to quale and yelde His Bebil Columes are now broke iu Twain While Loug Street did yelde in Paine They say to fight the yankes their is no Funo Look up suites of Friedom Behold them Bune ^ OU Hickory the lover of the Frie Has not forgot the Old Liberty Tree Which I Jackson helped protect and Train In days that tryed our Boles with Paine A Mr. Wheeler, of Boston, exhorted the members not to make fools of themselves, and act as though they had a patent right for insanity. He called upon the ladies, who were in the habit of clamoring for their rights, to come forward and “talk.” Miss Hutchings, a screechy and jerky lady, exclaimed: “The ladies don’t clamor for their rights: they take them.” Mr. Dyoit, of Philadelphia, we suppose a son of old Mr.Dyott, who physicked his thousands to death, advocated what he called the “lyceum system; ” defined to be “intel lectual, physical, and affectional education! ” The following resolution was the subject of the discussion: Resolved, As reason and experience teach that an early education has a lasting effect on our lives and opiuions, and is hard to eradicate by reason, even when totally false, therefore to be religious we should discoun tenance the sectarian teaching and Sunday School discipline of children, which fills their minds with religious errors and false ideas of God and nature, and lend our un tiring efforts to build up such a system of physical and mental gymnastics as are taught in the children’s progressive lyceum of the spiritualists. Mr. Peebles moved to include iu the reso lution “ moral gymnastics,” which meant, he said, the exercise of the moral faculties. Peebles deplored the errors of early trainiDg. His mother had taught him that to look at the moon over the lelt shoulder was unlucky, and to this day he preferred to look at it over his right. Peebles had done better if he had followed the teachings of his old mother aud steered clear of “moral gymnastics.” Pierpont, the poet, read a.temperance song for the Lyceums, all about water. [These are some of the people that led the crusade lhat brought on the late bloody war. How strange that such creatures should have power to inflict so much evil upon society!] Mrs. Kimball, a spiritualist from Califor nia, said they had a “Children'sProgressive Lyceum ’’ in San Francisco, numbering four hundred children: unfortunate little chil dren 1 Henry T. Childs, of Philadelphia, com pared spiritualism to a giant eighteen years old, «nd talked a great deal of wliat he had done. He confessed spiritualism had been indifferent good, and believed it was grow* ing better. This is rather proof that Childs is growing worse.. He believed in “free love.” A Boston man sung a Reform chant, whose chorusses sum up’the new religion or irreli- gion tolerably well: . “We’ll have no evil any more,’’ “No Cler gy,” ‘‘No Doctors,” “No Soldiers,” “No Po liticians.” “NoSlavery,” “No Paupers,” “No Drunkards,” “No Tobacco,” “No Old Bach elors,” “No Old Maids,” “No Hoop Skirts,” “No Foreign Fashions,” and, finally, “No Devil.” .» The last actor of the day was Mrs. Town send, of Vermont, who was tired of her clothing. She.spoke of her devotion to the “cause” of spiritualism. She felt oppressed that custom compelled her to be trammelled and fettered with long skirts. Her back: ached and her shoulders ached with the bur den of clothing which custom compelled her to bear. While remarking upon the fact that no such scenes as these ever occurred in the Southern States, as one that cannot fail to strike the mind of the philosopher, we may most profoundly thank the Ruler of Events that snch is the fact. TO THE CITIZBKS UF^tVAIIAB. On the sixth of June the following letter was sent to His Honor the Mayor, and a copy to the gentlemen composing the Committee on Fire: Hon. E. C. Andebson : Dear Sir The officers of the se*< of Savannah had a meeting recently, of taking into consideration the status of the Fire Department of ture deliberation they declare their would be for the interest of the city t'reatablii Board of Fire Commissioners, com] riiiflf officers of ail the fire companies said Fire Commissioners having the powers vested iu the Savannah fire company. The officers aforesaid believe that the company* composed entirely of citizens, viz: 1, 9,1®, Metropoli tan aud Mechanics working hand engines, have here tofore been unjustly treated, having no voice in mat ters appertaining to the Welfare of ..the Department, nor have they a right to vote for the admission or ex clusion of any person to said Department,.nor upon any other matter. The officers of the companies named have a representation of ten ex-officio mem- , hers in the Department, while the Savannah Fire Company, one single company managing four en gines, manned by freedmen, are represented in said Department by thirty-five membr In the opinion of the officers. Company could have no reasonablevpjection to such a measure, as the status of the negrwbi, who compose the working class of said company,^is changed, and can in no way be depended upon to permanently maintain the position he has filled so satisfactory to the citizens ot Savannah in times past. The officers further believe with the change in con templation it will not be necessary to abolish negro companies, nor does the Savannah Fire Company need any change as they are, and should be a distinct body, having lull control over tbe engines managed by them and represented in such Board of Fire Commission ers, according to the number of engines'under their control. They further believe that when such meas ure is accomplished by ordinance of the city, no addi tional legislation is necessary, as the Fire Department will then be on a'firm basis. Desirous to receive your opinion in regard to this measure, I take the liberty to solicit it, and remain, dear sir, Henry Blun, Ch’n Com. p. t. the me^perSi innmgb they may qi never tronbta the public with what coi themselves. Tbe author says “the ness of combination oHkwo kinds- of in hUfeaniJms b&n exhibit^! on iral previous occaftras,” etc., etc. The. graph treats^pon the very subject that 1 complainants hav#dmired tb brjpg to amicable settlement The only way ia wh Enameled Females.—An astonished and indignant Newport correspondent thus vents his wrath on the promonitions of tbe new fashion of enamelling; “ Where are these fantastic tricks, before high heaven, going to end? Surely it was enough that we allowed our “darlings” to squeeze themselves into every shape, but that of “ the human form divine,” by villain ous corsets, that robbed them of their ease and constitution. We said nothing or little about the hideous waterfall aud the barbar ous rats and mice; we merely exclaimed against the foolishness of powders, poma tums and tilting skirts; but when it comes to this, that ladies must veneer themselves, like a drawing-room table, in order to please their vanity and command admiration, it is time that we should spur ourselves up to the expression of a loud and honest indignation. This fashion, I believe, is quite the rage in Paris. The Misses B. have been there, and bad themselves “done.” More’s the pity. They must deprive themselves of a great deal of enjoyment. They cannot laugh heartily. A sweet smile is all they dare at tempt. A good, joyous ha, ha, ha would be sure to crack them and smash them all to bits. Then, the consequences are a long, tedious journey to Purls, or a* second coat. They cannot take more than three varnishes, the fourth one being fatal.* Our beauties, shining and glistening like a porcelain howl, drive op and down the avefcue every ptwr- noon. Thank goodness, the young ladfes here do not, as yetT seem enamored of the custom. The enameled females are evi dently just now sent to Coventry.” A Blowing Cavb.—There is a natural cu riosity in Georgia known as the Blowing Cave. It is situated on the plantation of Colonel David Barrow, Decatur county, Ga., twenty-seven miles from Thomasville, tbe terminus of the Savannah and Golf Railroad. The cave is at the bottom of a small, natural basin (whoso diameter will not at any point exceed thirty feet), in a perfectly smooth plane, and surrounded with a dense copsq of wood. From the mouth of this cave issues strong currents of air, with a continuous roar that Is heard seventy yards of> At cer- tam hours of the day a hat or veil, or other light objects thrown at it, art blown six dr. At a mass meeting of the white fire com panies held July 9th, the following preamble and resolutions were unaimously passed, and a copy of the same transmitted to .the Hon orable the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah: PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTION. Whereas, At a meeting of the Savannah Fire Company, held on the 2d of May, 1856, resolntious were ern bodied into the by-laws of aforesaid Company, de priving ex-officio additional members of that Com pany of all rights and privileges. 1st. While contributing by fines towards the charter fund, they arc not entitled to anyfn the benefits, nor ’ have they a vote in regard to the disposition of the same. 2d. The ex-officio additional members are allowed to vote for Chief, First and Second Fireman, but not upon any question pertaining to tbe welfare of the Savannah Fire Company. 3d. The ex-officiQ additional members are not allowed to vote on the petition of any person for admission nor have they a voice in the trial of any person for dereliction of duty, whether such person is an ex- officio additional or other member. 4th. Ex-officio additional members are compelled to attend tbe meeting of the Savannah Fire Compapy and ar6 treated with contempt there, and have not even the right to speak on their own behalf; And whereas. Said by-laws are still in force, and prac ticed by said Savannah Fire Company to the fuU ex tent of the latter; And whereas, Said Savannah Fire Company is partly composed of violent persons, of whom no satisfac tory amendment can be expected; And whereas, ^The officers and members of the 4 thorpe, Washington, German, Mechanics, and tropolitan Fire Companies, anxious to have an ami cable discussion npon the subject, with a view to put the Savannah Fire Department upon a just and equitable basis towards all organizations, have authorized the officers to bring this matter before said Fire Company; And whereas, The officers of the Oglethorpe, Wash ingion, German, Mechanics, and Metropolitan Firo Companies met the Savannah Firo Company at their meeting on Friday, Jnly 6,1866, aud their friendly endeavors were repulsed; * Aud whereas, Even insults were offered to the officers of the Oglethorpe, Washington, German, Mechanics an<f Metropolitan Fire Companies. Be it Resolved, That we, the officers and members of the Oglethorpe, Washington, German, Mechanics and Metropolitan Fire Companies, in mass meeting as sembled, do hereby instruct our several officers, ex- officio additional members of the Savannah Fire Com pany to notify His Honor, the Mayor, and Board of Aldermen of this city, that from aud after this date our officers will cease to represent our respective com panies iu the meetings of said Savannah Fire Com pany, unless guaranteed equal rights and privHsges with the officers and inembers of said Savannah Fire Company. Resolved, That our officers consider it their duty to obey all orders of the Chief, or, in his absence, the Commanding Assistant. Resolved, That we, the members of the Oglethorpe, Washington, German, Mechanics and Metropolitan Fire Companies will endeavor to perfect that disci pline heretofore in practice in our several companies, and in future increase our efficiency and merit the ap probation of our fellow-citizens. Resolvod, That we call the attention of the city au thorities to the fact that every city of tbe dimensions of Savauuah has a Fire Department, and that in no other city does one company have that privilege of acting As a Department, which consequently gives said one company superiority over all other Compa- u j«Sp as is the case in our midst. ftasoiveil, That His Honor, the Mayor, and Board of Aldermen be and they are hereby petitioned to pass an Ordinance amendatory to the present existing Fire Ordinances. Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing preanble and resolutions be furnished His Honor, the Mayor, ac companied by a request to have it laid before the Board of Aldermen at the next meeting. Resolved, That Oglethorpe, Washington, German, Mechanics and Metropolitan Fire Companies be furn ished with a copy of the same. To ibe former Mr. C. C. Casey acknow ledged tbe receipt, and stated that- it would be duly considered. Inasmuch as this letter, and also tbe reso lutions, bare been published, they may serve as.reference in regard to tbe report of C. C. Casey, Chairman of Committee on Fire. Mr. Casey, or whoever tbe author of the report may be, leads off by noticing an ob jectionable tone of tbe complaioants, and evades to answer tbe preamble referring to the action of tbe Savannah Fire Company at fijneeting held May 2d, 1856, as mentioned. Quoting some poetical author partly, be makes light of tbe action of tbe white fire bMtpjtaies, saying, “Suited, .perhaps, to the ienpqralufe of a midsummer mass meeting, they cannot be accepted as valid by calmer men.” In poetical quotations tbe author has certainly the advantage of the complainants; but we can assure tbe author that tbe action bad in mass meeting was deliberate, and may be confirmed by action when tbe cooler days will have approached. We are treated in tbe same report, gratui tously, to a history of tbe Oglethorpa Fire Company, of tbe author’s own manufacture. We are told that the Metropolitan and Me chanics’ Fire Companies—the former only having a charter from the Inferior Court— can claim no right in Mr. Casey’s company. The latter has even asked tbe amistatiee of the Aldermen's Company to get apparatus, etc. That the author ahouid parade that (bet is actually astonishing. ' The citizens were entirely ignprast that a Company, when or ganized, must Oder their services through the channel designated by ordinance. In ppn- nectiou tvjib this fact, we would only (ay that some of'Mr.'Casey’s subordinates ex pressed themsehresthat the Mechanics should have an engine, if they would not connect in the measures proposed by tbe ottier white fire companies. In fact, the author can ■ re cognize none excepting tully chartered bodies as entitled to rights which his company even withhold from them. 1 . His chances of re-election seem to be in danger by the exhibition of uneasiness in re gard to the avowed purpose of these compa nies, to be felt at the approaching municipal election. . ,. ...... The author goes on to say that some of these persons have in other years been con nected with his company, etc.” The per sons to whom he objects on that score are well known in tbe community. W* can re collect with pride a deed performed by one of them, that woold shed lustre upon any fire company. That snch persons are uneasy under the rule of a company lording it over the others is but the natural impulse to repel an in fringement of rights given by legislature and Council, after which the author bestows a general tickling on himselt hi* brother offi cers, and on all of his fellow-members, airing good deeds done in the olden time, and ex pressing a desire for a life lease on the office, in tbe company, charter hind, etc., etc^ We can bring no argument to bear down all points. The author thinks the organizations the complainants represent of little import- seems to trouble-bim most is tbst Savannah has as yet not bad mBr Department,, as the hours of the day, with a auction 1 datively great, the mouth of tbe cave draws in any such article placed near it. —A womaq will toleratejobacco smoke in a man she likes—and even say she likes it; yet, curiously enough, how she dislikes it in a mi™ she dislikes. The ooly way it can be done ia,1n Jhe opinion 041 plainants, Jby the creation of i^Flre inent. The author has no ( other offer excepting by the ftirtiier upholding ol his company as a department, which is ~~ aggravation of tbe eviltilod no remedy, are even treated t«tbe idea “ that tbe har mony of the mixed organization becojpromoted if tbe .right of -> by thejfire Department [the authl course his companyj of the two officers had been continued in that body.” If the author does gob know it, we desire to tell him that we are no mixed organization—our several companies are composed of citizens—tha, irannab Fire on |y mixed organization of the city is Casey'S company, officered by his mem sad worked by colored men. In regard to the Charter Fnnd, the author says: “The ex-officio additional members in common with the regular members, are lia ble to fines. These fines are paid into the Trea- hry of the Fire Department (Savannah Fire Company). But by resolution of the Fire Department (Savannah Fire Company), the fines so paid into the Treasury are set apart for tbe separate use of the independent companies, from whose officers they are col lected.” We have repeatedly called for a statement and have never heard Bor seen anything of the money so paid in, nor do we believe that a separate account has been kept It is only by reference to the minutes of each and every meeting of the Savannah Fire Company, that a correct account can be arrived at. The complainants think,' and with perhaps some show of propriety, that if they have no voice in regsm to the disposi tion of tbe Charter Fond, the Savannah Fire Company should disgorge the amount paid in by tbe officers of the white Fire Com panies for disposition by the complainants. The author concludes by conceding that changes are neoessary, brought about by changes of circumstances, but such only in regard to equipment; and closing, suggests the part of wisdom in Council to uphold the present Department (Savannah Fire .Com pany), recommending no action, toe. YVe have above given the report such con sideration as its merits demand at onr bands and have but little qpre to say in regard to the report. The City Council referred the Preamble and Resolutions to tbe Fire Committee, con sisting then, in the absence ol F. L of Messrs. C. C. Casey and Robert Lachli- 900, both of whom were known as unfriend ly to anything like bringing tbe arbitrary power exercised by the Savannah Fire Com pany to any termination. Tbe former is Chief Firemen, aud as such we think desirous to retain a power long enjoyed; tbe latter member of the same company for a long term of years. Tbe complainants are wonder ing, tbe report of tbe Committee thns com posed, is no worse; whether these gentle men, with their relations to the' Savannah Fire Company, against which complaints are made, are proper persons to act as' umpires and treat tbe subject with the candor and fairness necessary, we leave an unbiased community to determine, and are, With much respect. Your bumble and ob’t servt. ife Insurance. 0 : SOUTHERN Hr BRANCH OFWCE 4 ^ OF * $THE 9GLETHORPI Unsuraace OF 8AVANNAI Are prepared to JaJ^e . .. Fisfi Ms on Reasonable Terms, At their Office, UT Bay Street. ,, H. W. MERCK CHA**.. 9. HARDSSf VI seven feet high into the aiy, and at other* complainants allege, his company having the privilege of acting as a department We are even tSd that until his organization (com pany) waa patched—we must suppose by the creation of other fire companies—the action of his company was acrtptable, and pro duced no discord. It is the only point on which we must say the report stands con firmed. As long as one company existed, IN BEHALF OF OGLETHORPE FIRE COMPANY. G L. Scrick, 1st Foreman. Peter R. Magan, 2d Forenao James Garey, 3d Foreman. R. Wayne Russell, Sec’y. IN BEHALF OF WASHINOTON FIRE COMPACT. G. Murkins, Foreman. Jas. Kearney, 1st Assistant. YVm- Ryan, 2d Assistant. Jas. Fitzgerald, 3d Assistant. N. YVolf, Treasurer. P. C. Brown, Sec’y. IN BEHALF OF GERMAN FIRE COMPANY. H. Blun, Foreman, A. Schramp, 1st Assistant. C. Herat, 2d Assistant. F. Kolb, Secretary. M. H. Meyer, Treasurer. IN BEHALF OF METROPOLITAN FIRE COMPANY. James Stewart, President W. E. Gae, 1st Vice President. T. F. Butler, 2d Vice President. F. Rip. Sweat, Secretary. J. McP. Berrien, Treasurer. IN BEHALF OF MECHANICS FIRE COMPANY. W. D. Dixon. Act’g Pres’t. J. J. McKenzie, Act’g V. Pres’t. ' The Territorial Gains of Prussia. The kingdom of Prussia, according to tbe latest census of 1864, numbered 19,304,843. In consequence of its recent brilliant cam paign, the government will receive the fol lowing additions: 1. In virtue of tbe treaty with Austria, the two Duchies of Schleswig and Hototien, in 1864 had a population of 960,996. The people of Northern Schleswig will, how ever, have a chance to vote on tbeir annexa tion to Depmark. Thus th» nfmfcfr ol In annexed jtd, Prussiajnjf recced 2. It has been announced that Prussia will annex the whole of tbe four. .States, which had, in 1864, the following population: HaDOTC.- 1,923,192 | Haase C***«l. - 746,063 Nassau 468.311 | Frankfort..... 91,180 Together these States would add to tbe Prussian monarchy 3,228,046 inhabitants. 3. Hesse-Darmstadt, by a special treaty with Prussia, cedes to tbe latter Power tbe former Landgravate of Hesse-Homburg, which but recently, in eonsequence of tbe death of tbe last childless Landgrave, had been united with Hesse-Darmstadt. It has a population of 26,817 inhabitants. A. Bavaria is let off by victorious Prussia with tbe cession of the district of Lichtenfels, and tbe towD of Calmbacb, both in the circle (kreis) of Upper Franconia. They may represent a population of about 30,000 in habitants. Altogether, tbe territory which Prussia, according to the latest accounts, intended to iooorporate with its own dominions, has a population of about 4-,050,000. An Announcement.—A doctor latelyjLin- formed his friends, in a large company, that be bad been dght days in the country. “Yes," said one of the party, “it has been announced In the Times." “Ah," said the doctor, stretching his neck importantly, “'pray in what terms ?’’ ‘Well, as well as I can remember, in the following: “There were last week seventy-seven deaths less than the week before.” i I Wanted. 'J'HE HIGHEST CASH PRICES will be paid for HIDES, WOOL AMD GROUND PEAK aa2»5t BELL, WIL^y »lCHBI9y|AH- f T HE UNDERSIGNED has this day himself Mr. SAMUEL 0. CATHEKWOOD, for the parpoee of carrying on the Wholesale and Retail Drag and Prescription Cosiness. The firm will be known nnder the name and style of T HOMAN M. TURIER * CO. THOMAS M. TURNER. Savannah, Angnst 13,1RM. - au2t-tf Nab, Angnat 13, lfga FOR SALE, ■ A HANDSOME RESIDENCE la Btoctton, Ga. Stockton I* a beaattfal vllla^-, known as Station 1*, A. A O. K. B. OaU nsMense can be purchased ctiaap Also, aty form of 14<>u acrea.SOS acres cleared, 1* miles Mm No. U and 10 mum from No. U. Tenaa to ank parchaner. Por particulars address A, C. MAJfflH, ;> *036-1 m* Stockton, Q*. It’ WANTED FOB A TWO STORY BBICK DWELLING. jabSsSeSu « ooi -••smsk&t TQ PURCHASE, 0i • ■. * KNICKERBOCKER LIFE INSURANCE CO. Of Hew York. RESIDENT BOARD 0? DIRECTORS. Policies Written in every Form Desired. particular attention is called to the Ten Year, Non-Forfeiture, ENDQWKSH.T POLICIES, by which plan them can bn no forfeiture after two annual Premiums have been paid. Foliciss Writieft & Cosses Promptly Paid AT TBM OmOB, w No, 89 Bay Street. gw~ Call and receive a Circular, with free ex planation. A. WILBUR, General Manager. WM. R, BOYD, Agent. anl6.tr MtH AG111T iCCIDENTS in the mVELERSDISURANGE COMPANY. 1 - L •- : _ - 1 ! A TICKET FOR ONE DAY, Insuring tfcOOO iwhmat of Fsthl Aocident, and .75 per week la went of disability paused by Accident, COSTS SIS OHNTT*, :...■ 1> i For One Monti, $5; Far-One Year, $25. Do not Travel Without One. No Person Should Neglect It. r Call and gst a ChTfttiar. lt < t WM. ft. BOYD, Agent, aul6-tf Ho. W BAY STREET. BARGAINS IN DRY GOODS IM AT THE OLD STAND OF IV MOOHAOBY, He. 160 Broughton Street, (Opposite Msesn. Wead,. Dorp well * Co.’s) TTAVUIS raomtlr taken the Sion No. tSO Brough XL ton street, and received a. SELECT And EXPENSIVE STOCK OF STAPLE AND FANCft DRY GOODS, I respectfully invite the Ladles of Savannah and pub lic generally to call and examine my stock, which 1 am tailing off at greatly reduced price* " CONSISTING OF - Blown naff bleached Sheetings and Shirtings, Prints, Cot louder, linens, Jeans, Tickings, Towels, Tabln Damask, Diaper, crash, Irish Uaena had Corset Jeans, Figured, striped and plain Brilliant*. Jaconets, Cambric, and Nainsooks, Bishop and VMorisLbffan, S Darted Pwfose*. ... Mosnmblqme, Grenadines, Crap* and utapa Maseru, Bercgs, Leones, Paredes, Mertnoes, Ooboigs and Flannels, Manqntu Netting*, Shawm, Vella, Htndkerchisis, Conan, Hnatary andOlm Hoop SUM* saff , and Parasols, viixcaev . C. J.-BEATTY Mm*c —Win be aold at the L. the aom-lawM J. T. Tboh.s, sec. H. W. Mercer C. 8. Hardee William Hunter A. 8. Hanridge it. Porter J. T. Thomas W. Remsliart P. L. Cue H. A. Crane A. A. Solomon. M. Hamilton W. W. Gordon my7-tf Directors: M. S. Cohen J. Lama J. W. Nevitt D Q. Purse * J. McMahon L. J. Gqtlmartln F. W, Warn G. Butler R. La E.P^ J w b! F. Roaa," W. H. Young, Columbus S. B. HARRINGTON. EVERY VARIETYIOF FURNITURE IS BELLING GOODS Lower Than Any Other House IN SAVANNAH. HOTELS AND STEAMBOATS FURNISHED.’ PARLOR SETS, extra well upholstered. FINE BED ROOM SETS, Walnut and Ma hogany. COTTAGE BED ROOM SETS, of every variety. DINING ROOM and LIBRARY SETS. MATTRESSES, BOLSTERS and PILLOWS of all kinds. KITTLE’S FOLDING SPRING BEDG and MATTRESSES, the best Bed in use, and WARRANTED SUPERIOR to all . lOthers. ' •• LACE AND GAUZE MOSQUITO CANO PIES, and CANOPY FRAMES. WAREROOMSV 178 Broughton Street, , t* * Nearly Opposite St. Anirei’i SaU. LOW PRICES! Quick’Sales! *» . . ; ■ ai hoM W E harejnst reotived and opened the LARGEST STOCKjg GOODS :tty, and wbkhwe offer at iCKSthanthey esn^bs bought for at asy to be l LOWER other hoi Every variety of tire* Goods Housekeeping Good#. Doinerttcs and Prints Cloths and ( Figured Linens and Drills Embroideries and IMh* wym-tf mbroiSeries and 1 Hosiery and Glove* Ribbons and Braid* Half Eons m* Curie Lice Point* find Veik 5» Bradley** Emprea* Trail* 1*1 Congrte* street, ’ ■AVAHEAH. ga. 0.1. TRACY & CO# SaeeeNors to D. S. Cali®** imyobtkbs and jobbkm or No. 303 Broadway, epfn^fffyhane street, , . aug3-4moj|. . Nnw Tf»«^' . GREAT SOUTHERN 210 Bay Street* Sraub ifia.' PLATHER * BOffWOrarSmri < r a hug* stoefoef Ledger? Writ Piperi, of all vises and weights; uni D*fd i Banrds,PrinteiW Printing Inks.