The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-18
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49, Election I'm Savanmah OF Member
vention-Receipts or Cotton
c.n.rs, 49,. mess Prospects Of ssvsn
The steamer Leo, fsom Savannah octsbsf srlyS
at this port yesterday We indebted 70 Pufsar slo
cum for favon
OUR SAVANNAH CON EsroNDENcE
sAyAAssAH, Oct II, 1865.
THE ELECTION yoa THE cos, kSroS
From all the intelligence received 70 THIS dase OF 'h
recent elections in this State Of mcnfoes 'ne ap
preaching convention, which occurred o. Tsesday last
the inference is warantabe that nothing Sansplred
prevent peaceful and satisfactory exercise - the cleo
tive franchise by the votsrs Of Georgia
In this city the election was conducted in excellent
ORDER and the large vote poed clearly indicates tina the
voters not Indifferent to the great interests nvo ved
in the discharge Of most important and, II this pa Z
ticular juncture, delicate duty The people had been
looking around for able and respectable gentlemen 70
represent them In the Convention, impressed with the
conviction that there had never time when they
stood more in need Of experienced popular and efficient
representatives than at this particular crisis; and
happy to say that prominent q undoubted loyalty
and ability have been honored with their confidence,
and who, animated by generous spirit arc ready 70
shake hands with their late Northern antagonists In good
faith, trusting that forgiveness, peace and meek eyed
mercy are at last emerging from tho blood and chaos or
civil war; They will attend the body to which they
have been elected with Views and purposes In harmony
with the interests of the country expounded by
President johnson and his Cabinet and will legislate for
the consolidation and perpeuity Of the political welfare
OF a reunited country,
The daily receipts Of cotton FOR the past week,
although 1uctuating have been large in the aggregate
and now that prices tending rapidly upward tho
receipts for the next month will continue TO increase
until the almost total amount in the hands OF producers
and spectators shall have found its way into the chan
nels OF commerce. Intelligent factors OF this city es
mate the quantity on hand at twenty thousand
bales wothirds of which, thoy predict, will find its
mainder will be withheld until March April, in
ticpaton OF still moro active market and higher
prices. #
According TO reliable advices from Florida the num-
Der of bales hand in that State the LIST Of April Inst
was twenty thousand Of which twelve thousand have
been sold leaving still in the hands OF tho farmers
eight thousand bales for the market and OF the latter
quantity two thirds is held iu Middle Florida, awaiting
the completion Of the Savannah and Gulf road for ship
ment to this city.
THE BUSINESS or sAvANSAn
far exceeds the expectat of the sangunc New
firms are daily being organized In which capitalists and
business men, mostly from New York. associated
with merchants Of this city, thus giving practical demon
sraton Of the prevailing sentiment In favor OF COM
mercial political and social reunion. Large stocks Of
goods are arriving hero by the steamers, which now
reach us almost daily, and extensive warehouses and
salesrooms being opened In anticipation OF the win
ter trade which promises to be immense. just at pre-
sent have very low river so low that only steamers
OF the iightest dranght reach from Augusta The
little steamer Laura which came down yesterday passed
Ave six river steamers aground between here and
Augusta, awaiting rise in the river This interruption
Of river transportation not only keeps back the
cotton supply from the Interior but prevents the ship
OF goods the point Of railroad communication
with Central and Upper Georgia. Cotton, however is
coming in In considerable quantities by wagons from
distant points which return freighted with goods Tho
repairs OF the Central and Atlantic and Gulf railroads
are for want Of aborers progressing slowly and the
roads will not be open before the close OF the year II
is expected that the latter will DO completed by tho LIST
of December