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The Savannah Daily Herald.
BY S. W. MASON & CO.
SAMI'KL W. MASO.V Editor.
W. T. THOMPSON A»»ocia«e Editor.
SAVANNAH. THURSDAY. AUGUST 31. 1365.
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• iioumstances now lead us to annouuoe its discon
tinuance for a few days longer. We sluill resume Its
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nah and Hilton Head that they are not able always to
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BISINESS DIRECTORY OF SAVANNAH.
We are now publishing a column and more of brief
business announcements, careiully classified, under
the general head of". Savannah Business lilrectory.
it includes some forty leading business men and
firms of Savannah. We propose to retain this as a
regular feature of the Hera ur. The expense of in
serting cards in this department of the paper is t ery
small, and we believe the advertisers will receive
more than a proportionate benefit. Parties wishing
to have their oards included in this Directory, can do
so by sending them to our counting room, or hand
mg them to Mr. M. .1. Divine, who Is authorised to
it-oeive them. Prepayment will be invariably re
«. Hired.
CHEERING LETTER FROM AN EMI
NENT GEORGIAN.
We publish in another column a letter from
Mr. C. M. Howard, a well-known citizen of
upper Georgia, to which we invite ihe
thoughtful attention of our readers. In his
introductory remarks accompanying the let
ter, the editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer
says: “To many of our readers Mr. How
ard is known as one of the soundest thinkers
and most accomplished writers of the State.
Anything emanating from him is worthy of
respectful consideration. We are pleased to
see that his tone is yet cheerful and hopeful,
:is it comes within our knowledge that he
has suffered severely in the recent struggle.
He was himself a participant in many of the
bloody scenes enacted, and was severely
wounded in the campaigu which resulted in
the fall of this city."
The editor heartily approves the sugges
tions of the writer, and adds:
We have long been satisfied that a very
large portion of our State is well adapted to
the growth of the grasses, and that their
general introduction would not only reclaim
much of our land that is now worn and ap
parently wasted, but that it would also lead
to au improvement in the style ofliving with
our people generally, and cheapen the means
of subsistence. For the future it is evident
that the production of cottou in the South
will be much less than it was in years past,
and our people will be compelled to resort to
other modes for supplying themselves with
cattle, horses, mules, hogs, etc., which here
tofore they so generally procured from the
Northwest with the proceeds arising from
the sale of their surplus cotton.
By the introduction ot the grass culture
and the consequent improvement of our
farms, the production of wheat, corn, rye,
and other grains will be greatly increased,
and the rearing by ourselves ot all needed
domestic animals will necessarily follow this
change in our agricultural pursuits. The
cultivation of the grape, to which much of
our soil and climate is well adapted, aud of
the apple and the peach, which can be made
to thrive as successfully with us as in any
portion of the earth, will also furnish the
means of employment to a large portion of
our population, and be the means of bring
ing ta us annually a handsome revenue.
With a pieasant and healthful climate—
possessing almost every variety within the
limits ot our State—with a soil fertile and
productive, and which will yield almost
everything necessary for the subsistence and
comfort ot man, and with an active, ener
getic and industrious population, there is no
reason—notwithstanding the dark clouds
which have enveloped us, and of those dark
er ones which some think threaten out fu
ture—that our people should yield to a des
pondent spirit, but every incentive to be up
and doing, and by increased activity and
energy to overcome the difficulties of the
present, and to repair the disasters of the
past. Let action, action !be the watchword,
and soon the sun of our prosperty shall re
turn and drive away the dark clouds that
like a pall have hung around our way.
We are pleased to observe that Mr. Howard
approves the suggestion made by us a few
days since, that the State Convention, shortly
le assemble,should adopt measures to encour
age foreign emigration to Georgia, and to
acquaint the laboring classes, arlizans, me
chanics and capitalists of Europe with the
superior inducements offered by our State to
all who seek to make their future homes in
the New World. Mr. Howard suggests that
the Conventiou send Commissioners to Eu
rope for this purpose. We hope the Con
vention will not neglect so important a duty,
and as there is perhaps no gentleman in
Georgia better qualified by education, gen
eral information and practical experience for
such a mission, we would be pleased if the
Convention would secure his valuable ser
vices as Commissioner.
THE EVtiLISH MONOPOLY OF INIVEN
TiONi.
The article from Blackwood s Magazine of
which we presented, in part, an abstract, yes
terday, entitled “Rate of Interest" suggests,
as we have said, two tests of a perfect paper
currency. “First, the validity of the Note or
its constant acceptability by the community,
as a valid tender in payments, and other trans
fers of capital; and secondly, the steadiness
of the Measure ol Value, in which all con
tracts are made and all business is carried
on. A State currency when tiied by these
testa fulfills the former of these conditions,
hut fails in the latter. State notes are ne
cessarily a valid tender at all times and un
der all ciicumstances. The State expendi
ture is made in these notes and the State
taxes are paid in these notes.” But being
open to the objection of being liable to being
issued in excess they are unfit for a standard
of value.” A currency, the writer
thinks, might preserve steadiness of value
were it restricted to the amount of each
year's taxation, and at the same time ade
quate to the monetary wants of the commu
nity, but as the amount ot taxation and the
monetary requirements of trade sre not mu
tually dependent, a currency system which
>* regul&teg by the latter only, cannot be ad
justed, he concludes, for both." Now In this
coaclusiou we cannot concur. We conceive
that the currency of the National banks it
substantially a Mate currency. The adjust
ment, of which the writer in Blackwood
speaks, is not necessary. These banks art
: permitted to issue three hundred millions ol
dollars. If the taxes amount to that sum
the only adjustment required is that there
should be coincidence in the issue of the
notes, or, the expenditure, and the period of
paying the taxes, so that the latter operation
would not withdraw and keep locked up in
the treasury too large a portion of the notes,
and by that means restricting In too great a
degree the amount of the currency. If we
suppose the internal taxes and the duties, the
two largest branches of the revenue, and the
expenditures correspond on the Ist of Janua
ry and the Ist of July respectively, there
can be no possibility of that variation in
the value ol a paper currency that would
unfit it for the office of a standard of value.
The requirements of trade might demand a
less or greater amount than the expenditure
(cases supposed by the writer) hut paper
money is not wanted lor the larger transac
tions of trade. They are effected through
the agency of bills of exchange and trans
fers, by means of deposits, through the books
of banks; and as the institulions employed
by the State would not receive deposits, if
payable in gold, there could be no extra de-
mand for gold, and steadiness would be im
parted to a currency of paper. The writer
has insisted that the deposits of the banks
constitute the sopree of mischief in banking.
As the only currency required would be for
retail transactions, coins would supply this
want, while those on wholesale would be ef
fected through mutual transfers between
debtor and creditor in effecting purchases and
sales. The Scotch banks do not pay their
deposits in specie, combined with the prac
tice of cash credits,’ still the banking system
of Scotland presents ail the features of so
lidity, and its note currency, that of uniform
ity of value beyond any scheme of paper
currency known.
The nxt head of inquiry is how far does a
Single bank of Issue, like the Bank of Eogland,
answer the two tests or conditions of a per
fect paper currency ? The writer in Black
wood offers some very cogent reasons for
rejecting a single bank of Issue, as failing
to turnish adequate security for the main
tenance of the measure of value, and a
steadiness In the rate of interest, although
the validity of the note, under the system of
a single bank of Issue, may equal that of a
State currency. The notes of the Bank ot
England possess, in the fullest degree, va
lidity, being, both by law and practical
ly a legal tender, yet the fluctuations are
large and frequent in the rate of interest,
and the bank has been repeatedly on the
verge of suspension.
The writer having reached his third itead
of inquiry, “ Plurality of Note Issues," he
pronounces the issues of many separate banks
as furnishing a currency less perfect than one
issued by the State, as relates to the validity
of the note; but under the influence of com
petition, and in conformity with the law of
supply and demand, giving the freest play
to the requirements for loanable capital,
while preserving interest at its normal rate.
Now here arises the evidence of borrowing
a discovery, and without acknowledgment,
with which we have charged our English
cousins. ‘ ‘To insure the validity of the notes
issued where there are many banks issuing a
plurality of notes, security should be required
for issues through the public stocks.” This was
the plan originally devised and carried into
effect In the New York Legislature and
adopted in the organization of the National
Banks by Congress. The writer in Black
wood proposes "that the British Exchequer
be empowered to issue notes to any bank
which purchases and deposits In the Ex
chequer an equal amount of Consols valuad
at 10 per cent, above the current price of the
day. These Coosols or any portion of them,
to be returned to the bank on its giving back
the notes issued upon tire security of these
Consols, but returned in such a way that
whatever be the difference in value of the
Consols when bought and when returned,
the bank shall neither gain nor lose by the
temporary investment.”
The above plan of security differs from the
National bank system In requiring the bunks
to purchase and deposit an amount ot Ex
chequer bills equal to the amount of their
notes. The system of the National banks
requires the purchase and deposit of only
ten per cent, of their circulation in United
States stocks. It is still a matter of experi
ment whether ten per cent, of their circula
tion would be adequate to the effect promised
by the writer in Blackwood, “preserving
steadiness in the measure of value”. Its de
sign was to protect the note-holder against
the insolvency of banks. The writer in Black
wood thinks that It will restrain their issues
from becoming excessive, and thus securing
to the community a currency of uniform
value from time to time—uniformity between
place and place being preserved by a system
of redemption at some central point, such as
the city of New York,
If it should prove on trial that the system
of security for the circulation of banks is in
adequate to the preservation of uniformity
of value to the circulating medium from the
limited amount of the deposit, ten per cent.,
the plan proposed by the writer in Black
wood errs in the opposite extreme of requir
ing an amount equal to the whole circulation.
What associations for Banking would be
formed, the pre-requisite being the invest
ment and deposit of an amount equal to the
whole of its circulation ’
The writer in Blackwood seems very con
fident of the success of his scheme in the ful
filment of both of the conditions for a perfect
system of paper currency, to wit. the va
lidity of the note or its general acceptability,
and steadiness in the Measure of Value. He
calls his system one that in permitting the
full play of the principle of competition in
the issue of notes, a system offree banking that
will attain the two great ends of a paper cur
rency, the “validity of the note,” and “steadi
ness in the Measnre of Value.” But it is evi
dent that his system is a mixed one, partly
free and partly restrictive. It is free in per
mitting to any number of banks the privilege
ot issuing notes without direct restraint, but
it is restrictive in compelling them to give
security tor their issues. The system of Na
tional banks meets one of the requirements
In compelling them to give security for their
circulation. It, however, does not corres
pond with the other part of the plan of the
Edinburgh writer, for the act by which they
have been organized restricts their issue to
three hundred millions of dollars.
There ure several other important sugges
tions in the urliclcia Black W<h*l, the result
apparently of e\|*erieiH'e. The writer is of
opinion that if his systi m is adopted, that
not only w ill steadiness lie imparted to the
bank note currency, and tire rate of lute: eat
prevented from the frequent fluctuations that
occur in England, being regulated by the
natural law of supply and demand lor capi
tal ; that hanks would not be compelled to
keep in their ( vaults, a larger sum than one
fifth oi their circulation In specie, and that
about sixty millions in gold, would become
available in England on any .emergency |re
quiring its export.
The following important' suggestion is
mtide .• "Doubtless, also, a comparatively
new branch of trade would arise in the form
of gold merchants; for the banks would
dnd such a class of men of great use In econo
mising their resources. At present (speak
ing generally) each bank keeps on hand a
stock of specie, adequate not only for its or
dinary, but for its extraordinary require
ments. And as an unusual demand for spe
cie never affects all banks alike, it is obvious
that if the total amount of specie held by the
bnnks, could be "mobilized” as the French
say— in other words, if It could be made
available for any hank or banks, which
specially required it—a great economy of
gold would he effected.”
It is remarkable that here, also, we have
anticipated our Eugliah cousins, for we have
not only the species of security recommend
ed by this writer, for our hank note curren
cy, under the system ot Na tional Banks, but
Gold merchants also. The commerce in gold
with us has no doubt been carried to an in
jurious excess. It has been perhaps the un
avoidable result of that spirit of gambling
which has been generated by our abuse of
the paper system, but there can be no doubt
that when these abuses are rectified, as they
will he on our return to specie payment,that
a class of gold merchants would be found
very uselul as the commerce in gold prom
ises to constitute an extensive branch of bus
iness.
POLITICAL MOVEMENT IN SOUTH
CAROLINA.
A geptleman who arrived here from Hilton
Head last evening, informs us that the people
of South Carolina are now actively engaged
in the adoption of preliminary measures to
secure a full representation in theapproaching
State Convention, which is to assemble, we
believe, in the enrly part of next month. He
represents the dominant sentiment as being
in perfect accord with the grent purpose of
the contemplated organic reconstruction upon
an out and out Union basis. The views and
sentiments promulgated in the speeches and
proclamations of their newly appointed Pro
visional Governor are accepted, without re
servation, as constituting the true policy of
transformation to be observed in the construc
tion oi the new political fabric by the ap
proaching Convention.
It would appear from this thnt the leading
secession State of the South will wheel rapid
ly into line with Mississippi, animated by an
honest desire to recover her political rights
and privileges under the amended constitu
tion of the United States.
We oltserve also that Governor Perry of
that State lias been making another speech
at Greenville, in which he relates bis
reception at Washington, which he says was
most satisfactory.
Referring to his interview with the Presi
dent, lie says:
“I told him that the people of South Caro
lina accepicd the terms of his proclamation,
and were disposed to return to their alle
giance to the Union. That from having l>een
the most rebellious State in the South, I was
satisfied South Carolina would, henceforth,
be one of the most loyal of the Southern
States. That she would reform her Consti
tution and abolish slavery, give the election
of Governor and Pres'dential Electors to the
people, and equalize the representation of
Ihe State. I gave it as my opinion that the
disunion feeling of the South had origin
ated in the parishes. The President express
ed himself gratified at the course South Caro
lina was likely to pursue, and instead of
manitesting any hitter oi revengeftil spirit,
he evinced great kindness, solicitude and
magnanimity."
' The following also is interesting.
“Before visiting Mr. Seward I had been to
call on the Attorney General, Mr. Speed.—
He expressed himself surprised and mortifi
ed at tuy speech made to you on the 3d of
July. But I soon discovered that he had only
glanced over the speech and did not compre
hend the tone and temper of my remarks. I
told Mr Seward what the Attorney General
had said. He replied, I read your speech
this morning attentively, ann considering the
standpoint from which you made it, I think
it a very good one. When I was Governor
of New York, said Mr. Seward, I used to
make speeches which were very severely
criticised in Charleston, and I said to myseit;
what the deuce have the people of Charles
ton to do with my speeches made in New
York ? I did not speak to them or for them,
but to the people of New York. And I sup
pose, Mr. Perry, yon intended your- speech
for South Carolina and not for Washington.”
Perry says that when, in his
last interview with the President, he told
him the steps he had taken as Provisional
Governor, the President replied : “Well,
you are a most expeditious Governor.”
Whereupon, he. Governor Perry, added that
he would have the State ready, with the
constitution reformed, and have members ot
Congress elected, by the first Monday in
December, when Congress convenes.
NORTHERN MANUFACTURES.
The present high prices paid by the people
of the South for cotton fabric* of every de
scription has very naturally created a deep
interest with them respecting the condition
and prospects of the manufacturing corpora
tions of the North since the collapse of the
rebellion : and, therefore it is, that we hear
frequent enquiries made on this subject by
all classes of our citizen*.
Although not fully posted in regard to the
present actual condition ot the manufactur
ing interests of the countty, we feel authorized
ized to aay they are not aa healthy and prom
ising as before the war, nor Is it probable, we
regret to say, that the causes of their present
embarrassment will be removed immediately.
We learn from a Boston exchange that for
some time past the various manufacturing
corporations in the Northern States have
made strenuous efforts to obtain the requisite
number of operatives to enable them to
run their mills, but without success.—
The public mind had been Occupied by ur
gent appeals tor employment for young wo
men, and it was supposed that the great sur
plus ot these in the New England States
were ready to take up with any offer of re
spectable employment. The discouraging
results, however, do not sustain this conclu
sion.
We learn that during the war it was a no
ticable (fact that many of the young men
who were enlisted were previously married.
and tbeir wives received the Stale or tow"
aid voted tie ui by the ci’izeus wli<> remained
at home. This removed a large number lrom
the labor market. In many cases, row that
the soldiers have returned home, their bounty
money and savmgs have enabled them to
purchase a small place, which claims the
constant attention of both man and wife.
Then again, in many establishments, the
class of operators employed for some years
past is no longer as a whole, equal to those
daughters of New England who gave the
Lowell factories sucli great reputation for
skill and social standing. It was thought j
better to employ trained operatives from the
old country, or such help as would not at
the end of a tew years leave the mills for more
congenial pursuits. It follows now, when
the spindles are again to be set in motion,
Yankee girls who desire to enter the mills
are not readily found.
Notwitstaudlng these obstacles, it is an
nounced by the Boston exchange, as a grati
fying indication of the piospect in New Eng
land, that the various manufacturing cities
and villages are rapidly filling up. At Snn
cork, West Falls, Manchester, and other
places in New Hirapshire, as well as in Low- |
ell and Lawrence, [there is said to be a
great scarcity of tenements. The same is
true of Lynn, Worcester and Salem.
LOSS OF ANOTHER STEAMSHIP
Wreck of the Brother Jonathan
on the Pacific Coast.
Nearly all her Pnsaengera
Drowned.
Brigadier Gen. Wright, Family
and Staff among the Lost.
[From the Alta California, August 2.)
Jacksonville, Ouf.gos, )
August I—lo p. m. j
A soldier arrived this evening from Camp
Lincoln, bringing a despatch to Col. Drum.
He reports the Brother Jonathan, with Gen.
Wright, staff and family, and between two
and three hundred passengers, lost near
Camp Lincoln, bu July 30th, except four
teen men and one woman, who were saved.
No paiticulars yet.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS,
The steamship Brother Jonathan had the
engines which were in the steamship At
lantic, which dragged her anchors, drifted
on shore and was wrecked at Fisher's Island,
Long Island Sound, on Thanksgiving night,
November, 1848. She was cut down and
rebuilt under the supervision of Cantain
Aaron M. Burns, in this city, twoyears tinee,
and was coasidered one of the staunchest
vessels afloat in the waters of the Pacific.
The Brother Jonathan was owned by the
California Steam Navigation Company. She
left here on Friday last, at ten A. M., under
command of Captain S. J. DeWolf. We
learn that the only staff officer who went up
with General Wright was Lieutenant E. D.
Waite, his adjutaut. Mrs. Wright accompa
nied her husband. The General as Ims here
tofore been announced through the columns
of this journal, was en route to Fort Van
couver, to take command of the Depart
ment of the Columbia, to which lie had late
ly been assigned by the general government.
The following despatch has been placet! at
our disposal :
Camp Lincoln, Via Jacksonville,!
July tit, 1865. j
To Col. R. C. Drum —At two P. M. yes
terday the steamship Brother Jonathan
struck a sunken rock, and sunk in less than
an hour, with all on board, except sixteen
persons, who escaped in a small boat, the
only survivors of the ill-fated ship. No trace
of the vessel is left. I was out last night
on the beach with fourteen men; shall keep
a party out on the beach. General Wright,
family and staff arc supposed to be lost.
Full particulars by mail.
Thos Buckley.
Captain Sixth infantry, C. Y., Com’dg.
Brigadier General Wright and wife, Dr.
Ingram, U. S. A.. Captain Clmddock, U. S.
It. S.; Lieutenant E. D Waite and Governor
Henry, of Washington Territory, were
among those on hoard. Who are saved it. is
impossible to state at present.
The San Francisco steamer Bulletin of
Aug. 3d, expresses the hope that the loss of
life by this disaster will not turn out to be so
great as reported. The editor says:
The Brother Jonathan was provided with
three large surf-lioats and three of Francis'
patent life-boats, so that it is not improbable
that more of the passengers have been saved
than we know of now. The coast in the
vicinity of the accident is exceedingly rocky,
and the feat of landing in a boat a dangerous
one at any time. It U not unlikely that one
or more boats from the stenmer might have
put off from the shore with the hope of reach
ing Crescent City, which is only about ten
miles distant, in which case we should not
have received tidings from them as soon as
from the others who landed in the vicinity of
the wreck.
The same paper contains the following
brief notices of some ot the passengers, sev
eral of whom are known to our readers.
Brie Gen. Wright entered the military
service in 1323. He served with distinction
in Florida, and subsequently in the Mexican
war, where he led the assaulting column in
the battle of Moliuo del Key—one of the
most gallant feats of the war- At the close
of the Mexican war he was detailed to the
Pacific coast, where he has served most of
the time since commanding at different times
the districts ot Oregon, Lower California,
and the Department of the Pacific. He was
en route to Foit Vancouver to take com
mand of the Department of the Columbia, to
which he was lately assigned.
Lieut. E. D. Waite was Aid-de-Camp to
Gen. Wright. He entered the service in
1861.
Maj. Eddy was additional Paymaster in the
army, and entered the service in 186 L At
his particular request he was allowed to
change off with Maj. Fay, who was first de
signated for the post.
Gov. A. G. Henry wrs formerly United
States Surveyor General, and had recently
been appointed Governor of Washington
Territory. He was a dear friend of the Lin
coln family, and it was in his house that Mr.
Lincoln married his wife. He was about 55
years of age, and a man of noble character.
Victor Smith was formerly Collector of
Customs at Puget Sound. He had but re
cently returned from the Eastern States, and
was on the ill-fated steamship Golden Rule
in charge of a large amount of government
funds when she was wrecked on the reels
about a mouth ago.
Capt. Cbadduck came to this country in
1849, in the Lawrence, and has been in ser
vice on this coast ever since. For several
years past he has been in command ot the
revenue cutter Joe Lane.
Dr. A. Ingram is a surgeon in tbe regular
army, and was attached to the Second Uni
ted States Dragoons in the Army of the Po
tomac. He was in every battle of that grand
army up to tbe fight at Gettysburg, about
which time he was ordered to this coast, and
has recently been transferred to the Depart
ment of Oregon.
James R. Richards, of tbe firm of Richards
& McCracken, and J. S. Geddes, well known
Front-street merchants, were among tbe
passengers.
Among the passengers was James Nlsbet,
one of the editors of this paper, who was on
hit way to Oregon and British Columbia to
spend three or four weeks of relation from
the laborious duties of his profession. Mr.
Nlsbet has been connected with the Bulletin
since 1855, and is well known to the comau
j nity.' We vtill indulge in the hope that he,
with tunny others, will yet lie found among
the saved, and refrain, iberclure, from any
obituary notice at this time.
(.'apt. De Wolfe, who commanded the
Brother Jonathan, has been running on this
coast for about fifteen years past. At the
time Capt Staples was killed in Portland, De
Wolfe was bis mate, and upon his death suc
ceeded Capt. Staples to the command of the
Brother Jonathan, which poei;ion he held
ever since. He is about forty years of age,
and has a wife resitting in this city. Capt.
De Wolfe was one of two or three persons
who were saved from the steamboat Lexing
ton which was burned in Long Island Sound,
in the winter of 1840. He floated ashore on
a bale of cotton.
I Faox Mississippi. —Jackson, Miss., Aug.
25, 1865.—1n the Convention to-day the or
dinance prooosing to submit the Constitu
tional Amendment to the people for ratifica
tion or rejection was lost by a rote of 15 yeas
against 44 nays.
An eloquent appeal, memorializing Presi
dent Johnson to grant pardon to Jefferson
Davis and Charles Clarke, late Governor ot
Mississippi, signed by over 4,000 ladies, was
read ana approved.
A resolution was adopted requesting the
President ot the Convention to forward the
memorial to the President of the United
Stales.
The Convention give their President the
right to reconvene them when deemed ne
cessary.
From Baltimore Baltimore, Ang. 25,
1865.—Last night, about midnight, the
steamer Geo. Leary, Gapt. Bl&keman, from
Baltimore for Norfolk, with 100 passengers
and a heavy freight, came in collision off
Cove Point with the propeller Sea Gull, of
the new outside sea line from New York to
Baltimore.
The Leary was cut down to the water's
edge ; but the shifting of the cargo fortunate
ly lifted the injured part above the water
line, and prevented her from sinking. . The
passengers and baggage were transferred to
the Sea Gull and reached here this afternoon.
The Leary was towed into the Pawtuxent
river. The chief steward of the Leary was
lost overboard, and the chambermaid and a
deck hand were badly injured, the latter it
is thought fatally.
Ketcucm Caught. —lt will be seen that
the modern financier, Edward B. Ketchum,
whose name and exploits have engrossed
the attention of the country during the past
two weeks, has fallen into the hands of the
New York police, and that $50,000 was
found upon his person. We see it stated in
the Herald of Saturday, that the total of his
defalcations has been arrived at, and that
they foot up the enormous amount of four
millions, two hundred thousand dollars.
The loss then of the $50,000 is a small affair
to him. With the amount of money he has
n > doubt saved and the not itiety hejhas ac
quired for accomplishing a “big thing,” he
will be able to hold his position as the
financial lion of Gotham, if not tor the
season, at least until the next great sensa
ton.
Dr. Livinostone on African Missions.—
The evidence of Dr. Livingstone, the ex
plorer, before the Select Committee on West
ern Africa, which has just been published in
England, is entirely contrary to that of Cap
tain Burton as to the results of missions.
The doctor was asked whether he thought it
possible that an English government should
be established in the neighborhood of twenty
or thirty different tribes, and not interfere in
their quarrels ? His reply was, “I think so.
The missionaries whom I have known gen
erally make it clearly understood that they
will not Interfere in any of the native qnar
rels, and that they will not Interfere in the
protection of the country ; they are looked
upon as part of the superior power, and they
are not appealed to.”
The Darlington (Yt.) Times, of the 14tb,
says: We learn with regret that Mr. S., a
gentleman of this city, during the past week
eloped with the wives of three of the most
respectable citizens of Nashua, N. H. They
Immediately proceeded to Canada, crossing
the border in a lumber barge, under cover of
night. When last seen they were near the
village of St. Leon, C. E., closely pursued
by Dr. Q., the enraged husband of one ol
the parties. We suppress names, out of re
spect to the friends of the parties.
A New York correspondent of the Erie
Dispatch says that four months before the
meeting of the Chicago Convention Abraham
Lincoln was nominated for President by the
“spirits,” and that a certain Senator inform
ed Horace Greeley of the circumstance, who
was so much impressed by it that he “ con
sulted several mediums and applied all sorts
of tests.” All the mediums giving invaria
bly the same answer, he went to Caicago
and nominated Mr. Liacoln, as the spirits
directed.
During the sitting of the Mississippi Con
vention, Governor Sharkey received a tele
graphic despatch from President Johnson,
congratulating the Convention on the pro
gress they were making, and assuring them
that he would restore the writ of habeas cor
pus and remove the troops from tbe State at
the earliest practicable moment.
Military rule in Missouri is said to be dis
appearing. Last week all tbe military tele
graph offlces'ua Southwest Missouri south of
Pilot Knob, including Cape Girardeau, were
closed, and the wires ordered down. All the
Provost Marshals’ offices in North Missouri
have been closed, and there is a marked re
laxation ot martial law in St, Louis.
We learn from the St. Louis Republican
that tbe Reverend Father Feeban, Pastor of
the Church of the Immaculate Conception
in that city, has been appointed by tbe Holy
See Bishop of Nashville. He lias received
the apostolic letters, and the Republican
says he will probably be consecrated in Si.
Louis.
Tbe returns from one precinct in Prince
Georges county, Maryland, show that out of
one hundred and eighty voters, one hnndred
and thirty-one have been disfranchised by
the registration law of that State.
A Nashville despatch to tbe Tribune says
that Landon C. Hoynes, who was a Confed
erate States Senator from Tennessee has
been arrested at Wytheville by orders from
Nashville.
The American Consul, residing at Port
Mahon, Minorca, writing to the State De
partment at Washington, under date of Au
gust filth, says that the authorities of that
place are enforcing the most rigid quaran
tine regulations, and that the march of the
cholera is most certainly westward. The
accounts received there of the prevalence of
the disease at Ancona were such as to create
the most serious apprehension, and that
much alarm was feit in the Balearic Islands.
It la reported from Washington that no
more National Banking Institutions will be
authorized other than such as filed applica
tion prior to the first day of August.
Philip my King.
The loUvwing poem, written fir Mini Mnlocli, (the
antlioi of -'Jolui Halifax.) is so exquisitely beautiful
that we are sure oar readers will tliuuk us for repub
lishing it ;
FHIUF, MY KINO.
"Who bears upon his baby brow, the rouiul anil top
of sovereighty.”
L
Look at me with thy large brown eyes,
Philip, my King!
For round thee the purple shadow lies
Os babyhood’s regal dignities.
Lay on my neck tliy tiny hand.
With love’s Invisible sceptre laden,
I am thine Father, to command
Till thou shalt And thy queen hand maiden,
Philip, My King!
n.
Oh, the day when thou goest a-wooing,
Philip, my King I
When those beautiful lips are suing,
And some gentle heart’s bars undoing,
Thou dost enter lore-crowned, and there
Slttest all glorified !—rule kindly.
Tenderly, over thy kingdom lair ;
For we that love, ah : we love so blindly.
Philip, my King!
in.
lgaze from thy sweet mouth up to thy brow.
. Philip, my King I
Aye, there lies the spirit all-sleeping notv.
That shall rise like a giant and make men bow
As to one Ood-thronea amidst his peers :
My Saul, than thy brethren, higher and fairer.
Let me behold thee In coming years l
Yet, thy head needeth a circle rarer,
Philip, my King!
IV.
A wreath not of gold, but palm oue day,
Philip, my King l
Thou, too, must tread, as we tread, a way
Thorny, and bitter, and cold, and gray ;
Rebels within time, and foes without,
WUI snatch at thy crown. But go on, glorious
Martyr, yet Monarch, till Angels shout
As thou slttest at the feet of Ood victorious,
••Philip, the King I”
FROM WASHINGTON.
IMPORTANT Tfl APPLICANTS TOR PASSPORTS.
Executive Office, Department )
of State, Aug. 22. >
Paroled prisoners asking passports as citi
zens of the United States, and against whom
no special charges may be pending, will be
furnished with passports upou application
therefor to the Department of B’ate, in the
usual form. Such passports will, however,
be issued upon the condition that the appli
cants do not return to the United States with
out leave of the President.
Other persons implicated in the rebellion,
who may wish to go abroad, will apply to
the Department of State for passports, and
applications will be disposed of according to
the merits of the several cases.
By the President of the United States.
Wm. H. Seward,
Secretary of State.
abjot whws.
Wholesale Mustering oat of Major-Gen
erals and Brigadiers
War Department,Adj’t. Gen’s. Office,)
Washington, Aug. 24, 1865. y
General Orders No. 135 —By direction
ot the President, the following named gen
eral officers of t lie United States Volunteers,
are hereby honorably mustered out of the
United States, their services being no longer
needed:
Major Generals Nathaniel P Banks, Daniel
Butterfield, Silas Casey, Abner Doubleday,
Samuel H neinlzleraan, George L Hartsuft.
John J Peck; Brevet Major Generals, A
Asboth, George L. Andrews, Wm. W. Bel
knap, Charles Craft, Joseph Carr, William P
Gartin, Joshua L Chamberlain, Thomas A
Davis, Ellas H Dennis, Edward Ferrero,
Cuvier Grover, Robert S Granger, Charles K
Graham, Kenner Gerrard, Liwis A Grant,
Simon G Griffin, George H Gordon,
Joseph Hayes, A. J. Jackson, Nathan
Kimball, John R Kcnly, John Mc-
Arthur. James D Morgan, John P Miller,
Byron R Pierce, Jno C Robinson, Truman
Seymour, Fredk Solomons, Geo J Stannard,
Alex Shaler, Erastus B Tyler, Jas Veetch,
Wm Vandeveer, W I Ward, Walter C Whit
taker ; Brigadier Generals, Richard Arnold,
Napoleon B Buford, Mason Brayman, Hy
Baxter, Wm Birney. Cyrus Busbey, Ed S
Bragg, J Cook, H B Carrington. Charles T
Campbell, Powell Clayton, Alfred N Duffle,
E J Davis, Speed S Fry, Lawrence P Gra
ham, Edward H Hobson, Joseph R Hawley,
Henry M Judah, Jos F Knipe, H H Lock
wood, Jacob G Lanman, Thos J McKean,
Sullivan A Meredith, Wm H Msrris, Geo P
McGinnis, Thos H Neil, John M Oliver, Wm
A Pike, Elliott W Rice, Sapiufel D Sturgis,
Jas H Stokes, John P Stougtf, Ellnkim P
Scammon, Adam J Slemmer, Thomas W
Sweeney, Alex Schemmelflanig, J Sprague,
Stephen Thomas, Daniel Uilman, Horatio P
Vancleve, Fitz Henry Warren, Geo Wagner,
Jas A Williamson.
By ordei of the Secretary of War.
E. D. Townsend, Adjutant General.
The captain of a British schooner which
arrived at New Orleans on the 15th instant
reported that about a dozen deserters or dis
charged men from the United States army or
navy had been engaged in piratical opera
tions on the coast of Honduras, having mur
dered the crew of a small schooner, and*
setting sail in it, captured several other ves
sels. They were last seen near the coast of
Cuba, with an English vessel in pursuit.
OBITUARY.
On :he afternoon of the 23d of last-June, Death vis
ited the family circle of Mr. John D. Jussely.nnd with
its ley hand plucked from the happy group their
youngest son, JOHN WEBSTER JCSBELY, aged 11
years and 4 months.
Johnny, as he was familiarly called, was the loved
and petted one among four children, and when taken
sick, although others of the family were not free from
pain, he seemed to be the one upon whom they
doted, nis sickness was brief, lasting only live days,
but was apparently severe. He became quite deliri
ous the second or third day after he was attacked
with Brain Fever, and his mind seemed to be wan
dering over the boyish ga mes he was wont to delight
in, as he would frequently speak of them as though
he were then enjoying those sports, and would call
o’er the names of his Uttle playmates, with whom he
seemed then to be mingling m childish glee and play
fulness. Be would also call to his bedside those who
were in the sick chamber admlnlsterlngto his wants,
and who were watching with breathleas anxiety the
progress of the disease, which seemed to baffle the
skill of an experienced physician, and whit* in a
short time relieved him of his sulferlng and Anally
terminated In his death. Little Johnny lost his grand
mother during the month of August of last year, but
the thought, perhaps, never entered his young and
innocent mind that he would so Soon be called to
join her in a better and a brighter sphere. Before he
died he called each of those who were mourning
’round his dying bed and kissed them, telling them
he was going to see grandmother. Yes! he was go
ing to see her, and would abide with her forever, and
be free from sickness and all the other “Ills that llesh
is heir to.” But though he has been removed from
the family circle here bejow, his parents feel assured
that the parting is only for a time, and console them
selves with the hope of uniting with him in that up
per and better world.
Wherefore should I make my moan,
Now the daiilng child Is dead 1
Be to early rest Is gone,'
He to Paradise Is fled :
I shall go to him, but he
Never shall return tome.
God forbids his longer stay, '
God recalls the precious loan,
God hath taken him away
From my bosom to his own ;
Surely what he wills Is best,
Happy In his will, I rest.
Faith cries out, It Is the Lord i
Let him do as seems him good :
Be thy holy name adored.
Take the gift awhile bestowed.
Take the ernid no longer mine
Thine he is, forever thine. g g y
For sale,
A CARRIAGE & PAIR OF
Apply to
&3. CUBBEDGE, <
* n3 ° l Central Railroad Qffloe. !
IVEW ADVERTIbKMKvrg.
' NOTICE TO 'STOCKHOLDERS.
An Adloumsd Meeting of the Stockholder, o' ie
Steimer Hw.n will be held Thb Day am o . clocb ‘ If
•t the Office of the Home Insurance Company
au3l x 5
OFFICE COLLECTOR MIUTArVtXJ?T7~
Fxcuenos Boil ding, its ’ I
Savannah, Qa., IS«S. f
CIRCULAR,
I am instructed by General Order, No Sc He.*
quarter Snb-Di«trlct of the Ogeechee, Ang. kiss
to collect a Tax of Three per cent upon all income.
Real Ejt*t° andr * C * D ° U "* *” d Dpwirds ’
And, also, a Tax of One per cent. Cl) on Gross Sai«
of all Merchandise, except Cotton sold on Commlr.
sion; One per cent, on all Commisaions derived her
the transaction of on Auction. Commission, Shippik
Forwarding, and Brokerage business, except upon tbs
sale of Merchandise, upon which a Tax of One re
cent. is levied. ** r
All parsons coming within the requirements 0 ‘
these instruction* will immediately make a return c
all Incomes, Sales and Commissions, for the month of
August, 1805. 01
Blank returns for this purpose may be had on an-.;-
cation at this office PP
Office ia the Exchange.
OT* Office hours, from » A. M. to 3 P. if.
C. H. PIKE.
aa3l - Captain and Collector Taxes
FOR EENfT
sHK SS«J"2E!!° Horail i£
Store No. ISO. Poeeeesion given immediately e ‘
Apply on the premises. au3l-i
STAR LIIVIT
FOH
NEW YORK,
THE new and elegant first ,-lass O. S Mall
, *h!p IDAHO, Captain Holmm till £l2'
lively .afi for the above port on " po *'‘-
Thuroday, Au*. 31st, at 3 o’clock p. m
daMonsTapply > to P * i ** t ’ e ’ « and
* nßl-1 Stoddard’s pJsfofflce.
STAR LI NE
FOR NEW YORK.
y will positively sail for the
rianiFl 'iT l„ above port on
Saturday, September Sd, at - o’clock.
d.H°ora r ,tply to Pa “ BSe ’ h * Tta * 6plendid
01 c BRIGHAM, BALDWIN A CO.,
au,.l Stoddard’s Building, opposite Post Office
FOR NEW YORK,
STAB LINE.
The new and elegant first class D. S. Mail Steam
vrii? * TUl'IO ’ Capt. Greenmsn.
will positively flail tor the above port on
Wednesday, September 6th, at —o’clock.
datlons^pply°to P ****^ e ’ ‘“ ylns Pplendld
, BRIGHAM, BALDWIN & CO.
‘“*l Stoddard’s Bniiding, opposite Post Office.
merchants 7 Tine
Sailing jg| Vessels
FOR NEW YORK.
The fine Clipper Schooner
E. C. Howard, Capt, Nickerson,
Will have quick despatch for the above Port.
For Freight or Passage apply to
CHAS. L. COLBY A CO.,
. * agSl ' tf «*• Bay and Abercorn sts.
FREIGHT WANTED,
1500
»i3u
HILTON & RANDELL^
WHOLESALE GROCERS
Bay at.. Near Barnard, *
SAVANNAH, GA.,
“ 'KXKTS' 10 "
Complete Assortment of Groceries
I»r THE CITY.
lmo
YARNS ANDOSNABUROS,
20 bales YARN,
10 do OSNaBURGS,
F a r irt*l leby 6 JOHN McMAHON i CO.
S T^J? F OBORQIA-OHATHAMCODNTY.-To
whom It may concern:
nrsis^ a i; J ? ilD c - Ferrlil will apply at the Court of
Mondavin C fW* If V™ 3 on or flrst
be granted ° cto “ er neit " otherwise said letters will
“j o®' s *! signature, thlr 28th day of Au-
Kn * t ’,, lS6J - D. A. O’BYRNTS,
Ordlnsry.
SOLE ALEUTS WFOATEHS
o?
Ch. Farre Champagnes
FOR THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
SU3»
estixaiTsT
Newspaper Depot,
STATIONERY STORE,
Butt Street, Comer of Bar Lane,
BACK OF THE POST OFFICE. '
NBW BTowtit .a
Jnrt Received st the above Depots further supply of
DENIS DONNE, a Novel, by Annie Thomas- Price
50 cents.
BELIAL, s J?ovel. Price 60 cents.
CHRISTIAN'S MISTAKE, by the author of John
Halifax, Gentleman. Price 75 cents
THE ROGGES AND ROGUERIES OF NEW YORE,
Price ascents.
also
HARPER'S MONTHLY. GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK*
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, Ac., for September.
The usual assortment of
Northern Dailies and Weeklies
Received by Every Steamer,
ao*3o