The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-12-01
G E o r GA a
Departure Of the Sixty-eighth and Nine
tieth New York and Twelfth Maine
Regiments from tho State.
RESULT OF THE LATE ELECTION.
60 &c. r.

SAVANNAH, Nov. 25 1885.
DEPARTURE OF TROOPS
Orders were received hsre a few days since from
General steedman. commanding the department. for the
mpsering out OF three regiments which have been for
considerable period identified with the military force
IN this section OF the staethe Twelfth regiment Maine
volunteers, the Sixty eighth New YORK State voun.
seers, and the Nineteth New York State Volunteers
inc Twelfth Maine has been doing duty in this city, and
sne regiment has won an enyiable regard among the
people Tor efficiency In preserving and for good
Donsvior The Same may be said OF the Sixty.eghth
ana Nneteh New York regiments the former Of which
mas Decn stationed at Fort Pulaski and the latter the
SOUTHWESTERN portion Of the State with headquarters
hawknsvillc the withdrawal Of these troops excites
any feeling think 1t Is Of uneasness in view of the
seriously apprehended trouble from the freedmen which
1t believed will arise in the interior country upon the
dspelng Of the illusions they have so long INDUCED
concerning the partition Of lands Christmas As 10
natural the freedmen regard the blue coats with
epec amounting almost TO veneration and their authors
ty with them is the supreme law In the not impossible
event Of outbreak among the blacks the presence OF
a single squad OF Yankee soldiers would doubtless be
more enicacous than that Of regiment OF native mill
TIA; and such is the feeling of the people here
THE RECENT ELECTION.
The returns OF the election come In very SLOWLY not
enough having been received here yet to determine for
certainty the result Of the contest for Congress in this
district though there Is very little doubt that Solo,
mon Cohen, OF this city, is elected both Colonel
styles and his unconditional Union competition Colonel
Hopkins In the First Congressional district think
Colonel Matthew'S soldier who distinguished himself in
ahe rebel army, and gentleman of marked abiIity--s
elected over his two competitors Colonel John Mledge
and Mr. Andrews. Seventeen counties heard from give
Colonel Matthews four hundred and seventy-fve
majority, which it is thought will be increased
6y the remaining counties of the district We
nave yet no returns from the district of which
columbus the political and commercial CENTRE and in
Wnicn non A. L. Chappel, prominent Union man,
od member of the United States Congress and man Of
marked ability. Is candidate He and Colonel Hopkins
entered the canvass for Congress avowed!y as anti
secessenists Most II not all the other candidates for
Congcss IN the State have been less prominently
identified with the Confederate cause But as l have
Doiore stated as general thing Union and secession
have had very little II anything to do with the election
other Of state representatives representatives in Con-
gross for the reason that would have been next to i'm
character and ability VINO had not like the great majority
OF the people, sympathized in the secession
need be disguised that the people their
leaders were, In the course Of the struggle
unanimous In support OF the Jef Davis government
than they have ever had credit for at the
sistiug what they bel eyed be Northern aggression
Dpoa their constitutional rights they less unan-
NOUS in accepting in good faith result which neither
their valo their sacrifices their endurance could
avert and you may rest assured that is not the nu
ental the most reliable friends Of the government
who seek make political capital OF their former
Unonisn and to perpciuato the III feeling and distrust
OF the Northern people.
Charles y Jenkins is elected Governor without
opposition. BE Is q gentleman Of high character, a
learned Jurist and distinguished statesman He was
prominent Union man. and gave the weight OF his in
nuence against the secession movement Occupying
lin politics during the war; but he does his pres
ent position 70 blatant professions Of opposition TO
son Hs NOR Of the
him as the man Tor the times, and he will assume the
helm Of State enjoying the confidence Of the great major
ny o. the people irrespective OF past differences Of po
lisical opinion
!. xaR ADMISSION or sorraRRS ooSGREsssrx
'ns Il ,Uf 70 e Sss
the Southern delegations will ~ received IN Washington
Some are o. opinion that notwithstanding tho acquics
conce OF or State Conventions and Legislatures IN all
that has been required Of them, the radical party apprc
hcndng political death from the ro-esabishmcnt OF
their admission pretext sufficiently plausible to
enable them to rally their strength, and that after all
their OF devotion TO the Union they will de-
feat its reconstruction This apprehension is strength
ened by the systematic and persistent efforts that
Nortn, through means Of procssed Southern cores
pondcnts to msepresent the policy and feeling OF the
s o M n Sn
forms OF legislative action Statements are published
In the Poa, Tribune and other republican journals
that grossly false, and which, purporting to
from southern correspondents, and In some instances
from Southern men, are calculated to deceive and rri.
tate the public mind at the North and to keep alive and
against tho South The object publishers and
North for the rejection Of any rcadmssion OF
the southern States TO their political rights in the Unon
toria vassaagc under military and social despotsm OF
tho most unreienting character
hut there ars many n the South who entertain
thosc apprehonsions who believe that the inieigcns
convcat,e cssses II the North are sincere in their de-
voiioa . The Union and the consultation; hAi they de-
sire 70 rccUnsruct tho former and 70 the latter
fnr the bleaxngs they win confer on them, IN common
h the whole Amcrcan people. Having settled BY the
sal questions wttc long divided and distracted tho
ssntry The South having accepted the result and
and hoped that tho true Of the North viii
ths rescue Of tho country and sustain the President in
his wise and patriotic scheme OF regeneration and re-
union, Of national peace, power and prosperity
When consider the suddenncss Of the emancipation
of the negroes tho almost universal ignorance which
prevails among them, the exravagant expectations that
have been excited in their minds and the evil counses
.they have received from intcrmodding abolition ennis
general thing conducted themselves 80 we'll In and
around the cities there Ii good deal OF dissipation and
vagsbondism among Thorn, but the more intelligent
family negroes In tho Towns and those who have been
reared smaller plantations Of the midland country
have moro rational views OF their condition and
trne intorest and manifest disposition 70 got along
ssnase
danger 70 DO unprecedented from the freedmen tho
large plantations the coast and In those districts
take possession Of the ad and where they have lived
impression that they the special charge OF the goy
eminent through the agents Of Che Freedmens Bureau
which they believe organised for the sole purpose OF
protecting them in the enjoyment Of The most estays
giant pretensons and the largest license Nearly oil the
valuable plantations rivera and Of
the valuable islands occupied by colonies OF this
character who despite the efforts Of the agents Of tho
bureau, fast lapsng into barbarism and bid fair IN
loft themselves TO become troublesome and DANGEROUS
TO both the neighborng whites and the government t
self
IMMIGRATION.
As the advances immigration b rapidly setting
In this direction, bringing lis swelling tide al clnsscs
of coners--morchants, mechanics, farmers, land
spectators and aborors, with not few roughs and
cAevaiisys dindssirie
Tho activity Of shipping gives emplcymsns 70
considerable number OF ab0rers about the wharvcs
mechanics Of all kinds find ready employment in the
city or interior towns Parties who came to purchase
lands penetrating tho rich planting sections and um