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Savannah Daily Advertiser

Geo. N. Nichols, --- Proprietor.
SAVANNAH, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 10. 1866.

COTTON AT APALACHICOLA.——The receipts of cotton at Apalachicola, from Sept. 1st to Dec. 30th, are 68,629 bales, and the exports 48,101.  Stock, 30th December, 25,582 bales.

Gen. G. T. Anderson ("Old Tige,") has been appointed agent, at Atlanta, of the Georgia Railroad Company, vice Jas. H. Porter, who retires for the purpose of going into other business.

A correspondent recommends to the Selma Messenger that the stockholders elect Gen. W. J. Hardee President, and Col. Gorgas, of Richmond, Chief Superintendent of the Selma and Meridian Railroad.

MACON TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION.——At the regular meeting of this Union, held on the 2d inst., the following officers were elected to serve for the present year:
President——O. N. Dana.
Vice President——J. Chas. Pritchard.
Rec. and Cor. Secretary——J. H. Smith.
Treasurer——Rabun R. Ricks.

We notice in one of our Augusta exchanges an advertisement of a new patent machine, called a "Sulky Corn and Cotton Cultivator."  If the reported orders of the Freedmen's Bureau are carried out, we think the coming season will witness a good many sulky cultivators of agricultural staples, for the "freedman" has a natural disinclination to labor. 

INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS AT COLUMBUS.
The internal revenue receipts at Columbus, Ga., from the sub-district composed of the six counties of Muscogee, Harris, Talbot, Marion, Stewart and Chattahoochee, reach $229,165 58 since September.  Permits to ship 21, 798 bales of cotton have been granted, of which 18,000 have been sent from Columbus.  All cotton for which permits have been granted have been shipped.

THE DAILY PRESS.  This is the name of a new paper started in August, Mr. E.H. Pughe, several numbers of which have reached us.  It is published on the same principle as THE ADVERTISER, being circulated gratuitously, depending on its advertising patronage for support.  We commend the Daily Press to such of our business men, who desire to make their business known in Augusta. 

THE PRINTERS FORVER!  We dropped in our press and composition rooms, says the Mobile Times of the 12th, and let our boys know that the widow and child of the great and good Stonewall Jackson were destitute, when the boys, every one of whom represents a battle-field unanimously decided that "one day's work should be set aside for the widow and orphan child of that great American."  Result - One hundred and ten dollars, placed in the hands of a Committee.

TO THE POETS OF THE SOUTH.  Mr. Wm. Gilmore Sims, (says the Charleston South Carolinian) proposes to collect and publish a volume which shall comprise all the poems of merit put forth in the several States of the late Confederacy during the progress of the war of secession, and relating to, or suggested by its events and incidents. He requests that copies of all such may be sent him by their several writers, at the earliest possible period. He could wish that each piece should be accompanied by the name of the periodical on paper in which if originally appeared. The date also should be given where this is possible. Communications, with the writers' names, may be addressed to him in Charleston, at the office of the South Carolinian.

MOB [[?]]—Some fellow who has not much respect for himself, much less the fair object of his cruel lines, says:
Youngster, spare that girl
Kiss not those lips so meek I
Unruffled let her fair locks curl
Upon the maiden's cheek.
Believe her quite a saint,
Her looks are all divine,
Her rosy hue is paint,
Her form is crinoline.

The Governor of Wisconsin—a Republican—says that the national debt is "one of the greatest evils inflicted upon the country by the war."
Mr. J. Cooke, another Republican, says that a "national debt is a notional blessing."
It only remains for some other Republican to pronounce the debt both a blessing and an evil, and average Republicanism will be fairly represented—World [[?]]

Prize Money.
The official statement of the amount of prize money paid to each of the leading naval officers during the war, presents some curious anomalies. Admiral Farragut, who did the best part of the fighting, gets less than $60,000. who did none at all, gets Rear-Admiral Lee. who did none at all, gets nearly $100,000, and Admiral Porter gets over $90,000. which is none too much for him, while Admiral Dahlgren gets a little over $9,000. The whole list is so curious that we reproduce it here:
Vice-Admiral D. G. Farragut ... $55,443
Rear-Admiral S. P. Lee ... 99,456
Rear-Admiral D. D. Porter ... 90,348
Rear-Admiral . F. Dupont ... 58,476
Rear-Admiral Theo. Bailey ... 39,098
Rear-Admiral S. H. Stringham ... 14,447
Rear-Admiral H. H. Bell ... 12,207
Rear-Admiral T P Green ... 10,268
Rear-Admiral J. A. Dahlgren ... 9,371
Rear-Admiral Chas. Wilkes ... 7,943
Rear-Admiral H. K. Thatcher ... 4,560
Rear-Admiral J. S. Palmer ... 4,510
Rear-Admiral L. I. Goldsborough ... 3,021
Rear-Admiral C. K. Stribling ... 2,251
Rear-Admiral Wm. Mervine ... 1,479
Rear-Admiral A. A. Harwood ... 473
Commodore Wm. W. McKean ... 28,616
Captain J.B. Marchand ... 12,490
Captain B.F. Sands ... 28,516
Captain N.W. Walker ... 34,518
Commander J.E. Jonett ... 27,449
Commander J.J. Alway ... 54,431
Commander C.H.B. Caldwell ... 10,573
Commander D.B. Ridgeley ... 14,134
Commander R.H. Wyman ... 24,093
Commander N. Collins ... 15,222
Commander O.S. Glisson ... 30,426
Commander G.M. Ransom ... 29,101
Commander Wm. Budd ... 88,499
Commander Prince Croaby ... 23,896
Commander W.O. Sundt ... 21,115
Commander P.G. Watmough ... 24,272
Commander S.D. Trenchard ... 18,569
Commander J.R. Millay ... 15,441
Commander Wm.E. Dinnison ... 14,444
Lieut. Commander Wm.S. Cheeseman ... 19,178
Lieut. Commander Carl English ... 18,318
Lieut. Commander R.H. Lawson ... 10,525
Acting Ass't Paymaster Wm.J. Corle ... 10,439
Lieut. Wm.B. Cushing ... 16,100
Acting Vol. Lieut. F.D. Stewart ... 15,073
Acting Master Chas. Potter ... 12,045
Acting Master Francis Burgess ... 12,045
Acting Master Alexander Willis ... 12,045
Acting Assistant Surgeon A. Shirk ... 10,027
 There seems to be a practical injustice in these large prices to the naval service, when no equivalent compensation is within reach of army officers and men. To be sure, the latter monopolized most of the glory of the last war; but it seems unjust to pay mere vigilance in catching blockade-runners at so much higher rates than bravery,skill, and patient endurance on the battlefield or on the march. It has been suggested that this custom of giving prize-money in time of war, which we copied from Great Britain, might, perhaps, be so charged as not to work so much injustice as the above list shows the present system to have done. - N.Y. World.

 "Butler" says the New York World, ex-General, the 'tightly-corked-bottle-imp' of Bermuda Hundreds, is showing a letter to newspaper editors and others, which he alleges he received from Lord Palmerston, in which the latter apologises to Butler for animadverting upon his famous New Orleans woman order in the House of Commons. It will be remembered that, to excuse himself for his fiasco at Fort Fisher, Butler also produced a letter purporting to be written by General Whiting, the Confederate commander at that place, in which the latter took Butler's view of the case. 
 The curious thing about both Palmerston's and Whiting's letters is, that neither of them should be made public until after the alleged authors were dead. From these instances we are inclined to believe that, if General Grant should 'shuffle off this mortal coil' within a year, Butler would somehow produce a letter in which he would be whitewashed of all his military sins by the Lieutenant general.
 This is harder on the "Beast" than anything Mr.Hurst said in his advisory resolutions about the silver and plate. The fact that Gen. Grant has set the seal of his condemnation on the "Beast" renders him liable to a kick from every one. The officers of the United States army, scarcely without exception, execrate Butler as much as do the people of these Southern States, and the prompt acceptance of his resignation by President Johnson shows that he is without friends wherever honesty and integrity dwells, and upon this subject the Norfolk Virginian asks:
"We are curious to know, how it happens that Lieut. Gen. Grant praises the hero of Five Forks, and yet censures the hero of five thousand- Spoons[[?]] " -Richmond Enquirer

 AMERICAS AUTHORSHIP.- Washington Irving realized a handsome fortune, as did also Mitchell, the geographer. Professor Davis received more than $50,000 and Professor Anthon more than $60,000. The French series of Mr.Bolmar yields him  upwards of $20,000, and the school geography of Mr.Morse more than $20,000. A single medical book has procured its authors $60,000. The first two works of Miss Warner brought her about $20,000; Mr. Headly has received about $40,000, and Ike Marvel (Mitchell) about $20,000. Miss Lesley's cookery and receipt books have paid her $12,000, and the Rev. Albert Barnes has realized more than $30,000 by his publications. Mr. Presscott, the historian, received more than $100,000 from his books.-The present  sale of each of Mr. Bancroft's volumes yields him more than $15,000 and he has thirty-one years yet for future sale. Judge Story died in the receipt of more than $8,000 per [[?]]  for his works. in three years, Daniel Webster's works paid $25,000. Kent's Commentaries have yielded to their author and his heirs $180,000. and Webster's Dictionary also at least $180,000. 

 MEETING OF GENS. SHERMAN AND JOE JOHNSTON.-Gen. J.E. Johnston, the commander of the late Confederate "Army of Tennessee," arrived in Memphis on the 20th instant, and put up at the Geyoso House, where he met Major General Sherman. of the Union army. On this a Memphis paper remarks:
 "It is something of a coincidence that he and Gen. Sherman should have met here, the one in the discharge of his ordinary military duties, and the other in pursuits of private business.-Their meeting was characterized by the kindliness which ever inspires the true solider when hostilities have ceased. Their previous meeting in North Carolina was pregnant with momentous results. Then they met as enemies.-Now they are friends and fellow-countrymen, cherishing for each other respect and kindness. Cannot the country emulate the example of these two greatest of living commanders?"

 The Alexandria Gazette laments over the absence this year of most of the exciting and jovial scenes which distinguished New year;s Day in the good times before the war. It says: "Another main feature of New-Year's Day, in former times, was also absent. Hiring day, with its accompanying excitement, was missed by unnerved housekeepers; and the hundreds of negroes who used to congregate at Catt's, to seek for and to be sought after by masters for the commencing year, were nowhere visible. In those days an able-bodied man hired for $120, and a woman for $75 per year, in addition to their house room, food, clothing, and doctor's bills; and the great question now being solved is whether the absence of hiring day is a benefit or a reverse to those most interested."

 The records of Major Russel, Provost Marshal of Washington, show that since June, 1865, to the present time the cases of some thirty-eight thousand prisoners have been reported at that office. Out of the vast number the Old Capitol Prison shows upon its record that has housed, for longer or shorter periods, sixty-five hundred prisoners of war, forty-five hundred [[?]] and fancied offenders against the State, and twenty-five hundred deserters and bounty-jumpers. 

NEWS SUMMARY.
 A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger furnishes good new, if true in the following statement:
 "I will venture the prediction that the Tennessee delegates to Congress are admtted within the next thirty days, and possibly some of the members from the other States, My authority for this is no less a person the Speaker of the House, and he is generally sure he is right before he goes ahead. There will be some concession to the Radicals to effect this."
 Mr.Colfax is very good authority, but we doubt the news for all that.-N.Y. World, 4th inst.
 The Mr.Pendleton Colston. of Baltimore, who is associated with Judge Hughes for the defence of Raphael Semmes, is son-in-law to the latter. The trial will probably commence in a fortnight, or as soon as Commander Winslow, of the Gulf Squadron, who is an important witness, can arrange to come on from New Orleans. The detail of the court for the trial of Semmes has not yet been prepared. In the meantime all persons present at any capture of vessels by him are requested to provide the facts, with their names and address, to John A. Bolles. Esq., Naval Judge Advocate General. Washington. 
 The receipts for customs at the four principal ports of the United States for the six months ending December 31, 1865, were in round numbers seventy-seven millions and a half. The total receipts from all our ports for the fiscal year ending June 3, 1865, were only eighty-four millions. It is probable that the past half year has equalled if not exceeded, the twelve months that preceded it.
 Recently, General Longstreet made a visit to one of his old staff officers in Aberdeen, Miss., and upon the night of his arrival, the house in which he slept was set on fire. When an alarm was given, it was found that the chain of the well had been broken and all the buckets carried off, so that it was with difficulty that the house was saved from total destruction.
 The Treaurya Department is waiting for Congressional action, and declines to settle the vast number of cotton claims for commissary and quartermasters' stores seized during the rebellion, although many of them are urged by persons of undoubted loyalty. 
 A gentlemen from Texas says that it is not known what has become of Senator Wigfall. It is considered certain that he has not crossed the State into Mexico, and if in the United States his locality is a secret. Many believe he is dead. 
 A New Orleans dispatch furnishes the very improbable rumor that John H. Surrat, one of the conspiritors of the plot which resulted in the assassination of President Lincoln, recently made his escape from this country through Texas.
 The New York News contains a letter from Gen. Early, dated at Havans, in which he denies that he has applied for a pardon. He says he is a voluntary exile, and would not accept a pardon if gratuitously tendered.
 The estimate of the number of patients issued for the year 1865, shows the aggregate to be 6,600 over that of any previous year. There will be issued from the patent office for the week ending in January 2d, 1866, 129 patents. 
 The rector of St. Lararus's chruch, at Memphis, Tenn., acknowledges the receipt of over $7,000 to build a cathedral in honor of Bishops Polk and Otey, and others of the Confederate dead. 
 The census report shows the value of manufactured cotton in the United States to be equal to $3.68 for each of the whole population; and the amount of woollen fabrics to be equal to 36 yards per head.
 The records of the Treasury Department shows that during the last two years the government has realized from sales of confiscated and abandoned cotton, sugar, &c., in the State of Mississippi, over $6,000,000 .
 The War Department computes the number of deaths in the Union armies during the rebellion at 250,000, and in the rebel armies at 275,000- making a total of 525,000.
 All the government buildings at Point Lookout, about eighty in number, together with the appurtenances in connection therewith, are to be sold at auction, and the position abandoned. 
 It is stated that General Grant purchased and paid for a dwelling house in Washington last month, for which he gave $30,000. The statement that it was given to him is untrue.
 The funeral of Governor Corwin took place in Lebanon, Ohio, on the 26th, and was largely attended by delegates from all parts of the State. 
 Gen. William Hickey, Chief Clerk of the U.S. Senate, who had been in the employment of that body for forty-two years, died on the 5th inst. in Washington, aged about seventy.
 About 25,000 applications in all have been filed in the Attorney General's office since the amnesty proclamation was issued.
 The North will make an effort this session to get their rivers and harbors fixed up at the expense of General government.
 The Rappahannock was frozen over at Fredericksburg on Saturday, but the ice disappeared by noon. 
 A saving bank for colored people, established three months since at Louisville, now has $30,000 of deposits.
 The Memphis and Charleston railroad has been entirely rebuilt, excepting the bridge over the Tennessee river. 
 The government has sent orders to New York to prevent contraband goods being shipped to the Mexican liberalists. 
 It is thought that an appropriation of $1,100,000 will be necessary to support indigent Indians on the Plains.
 Captain Whitney, Jr., president of the California Steam Navigation Company, died in San Francisco on the [[?]] instant. 
 The present wealth of the British Islands is estimated at thirty-six thousand millions of dollars.
 It is thought General Crittenden will be elected to the United States Senate from Kentucky as the successor of Mr. Davis. 
 The Mississippi river is to be bridged at Hastings, Minnesota.
 Another big croton reservoir is to be built in New York city.
 Kansas is to have a State University located at Lawrence. 
 Half a ton of silver has been received from Idaho by a New York firm.
 A dispatch from Washington says the army will be reduced another 30,000 early in January.
 The Seaboard and Roanoke railroad are now running their cars to the Roanoke river.
 During the present year 194,325 immigrants from Europe have arruved at New York.
 Generals Scott and Longstreet met last week at New Orleans.
 The Norfolk and Petersburg railroad will be completed in about a fortnight.
 Chicago has shipped 262,446 cattle this year.


ANOTHER OUTRAGER - A wedding party in carriages was rudely assaulted and insulted on Sunday night in Montgomery, Ala., by a party of drunken soldiers. By the prompt action of the gentelmen of the party serious consequences were prevented. A little girl narrowly escaped death from a blow aimed at one carriage.
Outrages of this character are becoming althogether too frequent. We suppose soldiers were sent South to assist in preserving the laws: not to assist in breaking them.
A few examples would learn those who are induced to do evil a lesson they perhaps might not forget.


A young lad sent to the Reform School in Michigan was discovered to be a girl who had worn boy's clothes for seven years without being suspected.


BOOTS [[image]] SHOES
BALMORALS and GAITERS,
FOR LADIES, GENTELMEN AND CHILDREN
FROM THE BEST MAKERS IN
PHILADELPHIA,
Namely - LEONARD BENKERT & CO.,
T. MILES & SON,
J. McMULLEN, and others.
Call and examine my stock (which will be shown with pleasure) before purchasing elsewhere.
My arrangements are such that I will be in constant receipt of the above articles from the best makers in the country.
S M COLDING,
No. 153 Congress Street.
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DIVIDE THE PROFITS!
L.C. TEBEAY,
AT THE
WHITAKER STREET SHOE STORE.
Will Sell Philadelphia
Double Sole (sewed by hand) Boots at $10 00.
Thick Sole (sewed by hand) Boots at $8 00.
Double Sole (stitched by hand) Boots, worth $16, at $12.
BENKERT'S BOOTS AT LESS THAN PHILADELPHIA RETAIL PRICES
Call soon and secure a pair at
N. E. CORNER BROUGHTON STREET LANE.

ProposalsSolicited
[OFFICIAL.]
PROPOSALS will be received until Wednesday, January 17th, 1866, for supplying the Jail with fresh Beef and Bread for the ensuing three months. JNO. F. O'BYRNE.
j10-6 Act'g Chairman Jail Commit'e

THOMAS LYON,
Harbor Master,
OFFICE AT
CLAGHORN & CUNninGHAM'S
j10-12 Bay Street.

For Augusta
AND
LANDINGS ON THE RIVER
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The fine steamer
ECLIPSE
will take her place in the line and leave Augusta on FRIDAY EVENING at 4 o'clock.
Freight will be received at all times at Demund's Lower Press, and stored free of expense in a fire proof warehouse.
j10-3 F.W SIMS & CO.. Agts.

Cheap and Good.
White and Colored Flannels,
Linen Table Damasks,
Bleached Shirtings,
Irish Linens and Shirt Bosoms,
Linen and Cotton Sheeting,
Blankets,
Bed Tickings,
Cassimeres and Tweeds,
Winter Dress Goods,
Hoop Skirts, &c., &c.
For sale at lowest prices by
j10 DeWITT & MORGAN.

AUCTION SALE
- ON -
Wednesday, Jan. 10th, at 7p.m.
At the store on Bryan street, next to Timber Cutter's Bank, will be sold, and asortment of valuable goods to close consignment. j10-tf

For Rent,
[[image]] A residence situated in a desirable portion of the city; with household and kitchen furniture for sale.
Apply to A.M SCARBROUGH & CO.,
j10-tf 140 Congress street

For Rent,
A SHOP, on the corner of Habersham and Congress street Lane. Suitable for a Retail Grocery. Apply to
Dr.HARDEE
j10-20 cor. Broughton and Habersham sts.

Mules, Mules.
To arrive during the present week, thirty head No. 1 Mules. Will be sold low to close the lot. Apply at Saddler's Stables to 
j10-tf JOHN H. DEWS

Liverpool Salt.
FOR SALE BY
j8-3 W.B ADAMS
No. 96 of Bay street.

FOR NEW YORK
[[image]]
Atlantic Coast Mail S.S. Line,
REDUCTION OF PASSAGE
Cabin ... $30.00
Steerage.  10.00
the very fast-sailing and splendid Steamship.
FLAMBEAU,
H.B. Baton, Commander,
Will positively sail on her regular day, SATURDAY, Jan 9th, at --o'clock.
For freight or passage, having very superior accommodations, apply to
j10 JNO. R. WILDER.

STARLINE
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For New York
The new and elegant first-class Steamship.
AMERICA
Capt. Lindt,
Will positively sail for the above port on SATURDAY, Jan 13th, at --o'clock. 
For freight or passage, having splendid accomodations, apply to
BRIGHAM, BALDWIN & O.
J10 Stoddard's Building app. Post-office.

EMPIRE LINE
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FOR NEW YORK.
RATES REDUCED TO $35,
ATLANTIC MAIL S.S. COMPANY
The new and fast side-wheel steamship
SAN JACINTO,
Capt. LOVELAND,
Will sail as above, on SATURDAY, Jan 18, at -- o'clock.
For freight or passage, having unsurpassed accommodations, apply to B.H. HARDER
No. 12 Stoddard's Range
GARRISON & ALLEN, Agents
i9 No.5, Bowling Green, N.Y.

PIONEER LINE
[[image]]
REDUCTION OF PASSAGE RATES
For New York
Cabin Passage ... $25.00
Deck ... 20.00
This new and splendid Steamship
TYBEE,
Capt. Crowell,
Will leave for the above port on her regular day, THURSDAY, Jan 11th at 1 o'clock a.m.
For freight or passage, having superior recommendations, apply to
j5 HUNTER & GAMMELL.

RICE
FOR SALE BY 
18-3 W.B. ADAMS
nO.95 Bay Street.