Savannah daily herald. (Savannah, Ga.) 1865-1866, January 12, 1865, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextTub Gh.vki> Concert To-Nioht. —Tiie Band of the. 33d Massachusetts Volun teers, as is announced in another column, will give a grand concert to-night at the Theatre. It will he aided by tiie Orches tra of the Theatre, and the performance promises to be of the bsst order. We are authorized to state that every arrangement has been perfected to racin iain proper decorum and order, and that nothing will be permitted to occur to mar the enjoyment of the audience. — 'lt is expected that a number cl the aitizens will b>* present with their ladies to grace the occasion. The reputation of toe Band is so well mown that it requires no endorse ment from us. The music will be su perb ; the audience elegant and select, and the performance a brilliant success. Vie trust that this is but the initial per formance of a series that shall continue through the winter, ~to aid in dispell ing the ennui that will othr rwise prevail. Hay success attend the effort! tUf’ We have often been asked where the Naval Recruiting Office is. For the information of those concerned, wo are •equested to announce that there is no such office here. lievi ;w ov Kilpatri ck's Corps. —This splendid corps is being reviewed this afternoon, as we go to press, in the pre sence of many distinguished officers and dense crowds of admiring spectators, both soldiers and citizens. JOSH BILLINGS ANSWERS HIS CGRUE S PO N IJI3 M T S . Ambricus.— Your contribusliim iz in hand. Vie like its fluidness. It iz like lie on a sand hill. Natur lias did a good thing fur yu, and yu ought to be willing tew dew a good thing fur nature. This line in your produkshun strikes us as very batiful and origgynai:— “And larn the luxn.T of dewing goody Goldsmith . lusself mite hcv hiu proud of §ech a line. And again ‘Oh, would some power the gifLy giro ns, D v seeing ourselis az uthert see us." Ture idee uv introdusiug the Skoteh aeksent into your stile iz very happy. If you never her read Robert "Burns, you will be surprized to larn that his stile very wuch reacmbels yures. Onse more yu i*y “Hf ignorance iz bliss, ULs folly tew be wise.” This sentiment izj Ist az true as ’tiz •ommun. Pope, i think, haz sumtiling similar ; but awl grate minds sumtimes express*theirselfs alike. Yure conlribu ahim will appear in our next issu, with a wood-cut piktur or a saw buk at the top cr ft. Flora.— Yu sa that “Yure Adolphus haz proved untru, and yu must di.” 1 never advise deth under * enny circum ttanees, altho it proberly \ 7 , clioaper jist tow tew die than it iz tew live. Bear up like a naan under yure diapensashuns. Take sum pills ; but if yu find that you are so bound up iu Adolphus that fissick won’t work, hire out to teach a districk dtuie, and it won’t be three months be fore yu kan exklaim, with the patriark «T old, “Adolphus be d—d.” Beta.—l think sumly as yu du, “this wurld is awl a tloetin cirkus, for man’s flwshnn given, ” but that ain’t no rezon ttf not pitchin in and bein iiiushuned onso i .fr a while. I wouldn’t give a sent for a »an who hadn’t been iiiushuned and who I Hdn’t expect to be several times agin. Matthbw.—l see bi yure letter that yu Ikav determined to studdy ministry. Yu I ia you hav doubts about yur talents being |<»uffiy tew make a minister. I don’t ■Hunk that I ought tew bluff yu oph, for i ■Mare aawmenny* men of alinity mean l&flente who got tew be fust rate minis- Imrs, ! Pmr.AWDBR.—You ask me which iz the •hpsfc best, the married or the single eon ijjphin ? Most evry boddy, at sum time iff ffieir life, has tried the single state ; •po, most everybody has hankered after ■be dubble state or married condishun. Te * r * e< ? gta * e ®> an( i Am ready to MWothai if a man kan git a woman who fri paokakes on both sides without burniu them, and don’t hanker to he a wim ini it's kommitty, the married state iz a Heaven and arth ali tew onst. But after the married stat iz a good deal like fulim out uv a cherry tree ; if a per son don't happen tew git hurt, it iz a good reason tor not trying it agin. o*r Upturned Prisoners. About twenty-eight hundred of our men l;m iy impugned in Georgia have arrived at Annapolis. Their condition is thus describee by a correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquire r . A majority of the men look compara tively well, but-nearly ali have the scurvy. Their appearance is no evidences of their real condition. Many oi them are mere wrecks of hale, hearty men, and no doubt will soon sink away. One man whom I saw when he came* into the ward, looking as though he would soon be about as well as ever, yesterday at noon sat up and ate his dinner; was lively and chatted acout the bogus Con federacy, but at 5 o’clock in the afternoon he was carried out a corpse. One poor fellow, who was as full of life as though he had just come into the possession of a gold mine, had suffered long from the scurvy, lie was so happy to be once m >re among friends that, as he expressed it while he Baton the wharf waiting to be removed, “I think my mind has all left me, tor I now have a strange i mey that I'm in God’s country, and yet iin loth to believe it.” I asked him what kind of a country he had come from or had been iu. He replied, “Ah, and be sure, my friend, it the devil reigns anywhere or owns a foot of soil.in Gods world, it’s in the Confederacy. It’s surely a God-forsaken territory.” He showed me his limbs. They wei’e not larger toward the ankle than a man’s thumb. It was touching as well as amusing to the bystanders to hear their remarks as they came off the boat. One man, when he reached the wharf, coming from the gangway, jumping up and stamping with his teet, uttered the ex clamation, and as though it came from his very soul, “God bless the piece of land that lin now on.” Another “Thank God I’m in his country ouee more.”— Others would utter like exclamations ol joy and gratitude, such as, “Oh what a blessed hour is this !” “ Hurrah for the Union, I’m once more in it!” “Four teen months in Diric, but never a day more!” An Irishman, as he walked off, said, “ Sure this is the happiest day since I came to Ameriky.” We expect many more to arrive every day for several days, unless Sherman should, by his onward movement, so in terfere that they will hasten the prisoners away to more secure places. The iniormation which these men give concerning their sufferings and the cruelty practiced toward them by the rebel authorities almost staggers belief.— At Camp burnter, which is the prison camp where they were confined at An dersonville, thirty odd thousand were held during the summer. Very few of these had any shelter from the rain or burning sun. Their only resort was to dig holes in the ground, and at each end excavate or scoop out the earth from under, so as to afford a partial shelter. Here two would creep for a little relief. Their food we need not describe. It is the same old story which wo hear from every one who ha3 over been subject to the tender mercies of tho authorities in the South. Their rations were seldom if ever cooked. Peas and corn or com meal, with an occasional bit of bacon, and in very small portions, were tho only articles furnished them. The sufferings endured can never be imagined. As I have gsne around and sat by their beds, in the different wards and heard their statements o tho condi tion ot the poor fellows who were at Gamp Sumter and at Andersonville, and Lawton, at Milieu, Georgia, my very heart has ached, and I have had to leave, that I might hear no moro. The general testimony of these returned' turned prisoners is that a largo majority of the citizens in Savannah are for tho Union, and hope that he will soon come and take the place. God grant that he may, and that he will soon aeliver all our starved, naked and dying men in their hands. The late Sir Harris Nicolas used to practise rather strongly upon some ot his friends. The late Ix>rd S was ait ting with him one morning listening to a very astute, but rather dry, explanation of some matter about which his Lord ship had inquired. At last he throw b'rnself back in his arm chair, and said: “ My dear Njeolas, 1 am very stupid this morning; my brains are all gone to the dogs." “Poor dogs!” exclaimed Sir 11 arris, pathetically. ANECDOTES OF AKERNETIIY. A fox hunter, somewhat slrickcu in yi am, consulted Abe rnethy. The man’s digestion was not so good as it had been. He had lost his appetite ; man delighted him not, nor woman cither.’ “Sir,” said Abernethy, “you or drink a great deal.” “Now,” said the lbx-hunter, when rela ting the interview, “now, supposing I do drink a great deal, what the devil was that to him ?” A literary gentleman call ed upon him. 110 too had a disordered stomach. “Os course you have,” said Abernethy, “a half-blind man could tell you that by your nose.” He used to have ills wine of a merchant named Loyd, lie one day called to pay for a pipe, and thrust a handful ot papers containing fees into the wine merchant's h ind. “Stop, stop, doctor, ” said Loyd, “there maybe much more here than you have to pay !” “Never mind, body. I can’t stop, \ffiu have them as 1 had them.” lie was very careless of money. lie would receive a heavy foe, place Urn money on the table, and iorget all about it. “Lead me not into temptation” is the holiest, because the humblest, prayer. Some few of his pupils were led into temptation. The loss of money was bo considerable that the surgeon determined to know who was the delinquent. He marked his money, and appearing suddenly before his pupils, said “ Now, young gentlemen, be pleased to show me your purses.” The thieves w ere discovered and dismissed, lie was one day about to perform an opt ration — a paintui one. An was his custom, lie to ok care to see himself that all the re quired instruments were at baud, and ir. first rate order. “ I tlffnk everyth lug is ail right,” said one of his assistants. — “ No, sir, everything is not all right,” re plied Mr. Abeuethy. “Get a napkin to cone al these terrifying instruments. — The man need not be horrified by the sight.” Abernethy was offered a baron etcy by the Earl of Liverpool. He an nounced the proposal to his family by saying, as they were about to sit down to dinner, “ Lady Abernethy, permit me to hand you to your seat.” lie altenvards explained that he had been offered tiip title, but for cogent reasons, declined the honor. The memory of Mr. Abernethy was singularly active and tenacious. A friend, of a poetical term of mind, com posed some verses complimentary of Mrs Abernethy, which he recited after dinner on her natal day. Abernethy listened attentively, and immediately the reading terminated, exclaimed, “Gome, that is a good joke to attempt passing those ver ses off as your own original composition. I know them by heart;” and Abernethy at once repeated them without the mis take of a word. The “paet“ was as tonished, mystified, angry. The amused host explained, * and olfered to Tv3pcat verbatim any piece of about the same length which any one in the company would recite.— Eccentric Parsonages, by William Bussell , LL. D. “Hollo, stranger!” said one Hoosier to another, “you appear to be travelling.” “Yes, I always travel when on a jour ney." “I think I have seen you some where.” “ Very likely, 1 have often been there.” “And pray," what might your name be?” “It might be Sam Patch, but it isn't, by a long slide.” “ Have you been long iu these parts ?” “ Never any longer than at present, five feet nine.” “Do you get anything new ?” “ Yes .1 bought anew whetstone this morning.” “‘I thought so, you're the sharpest blade I’ve seen on this road I” A mah who had brutally assaulted his wife was lately brought before Justice Cole, of Albany, and had a good deal to say about setting justice. “Justice 1”: r eplied Cole, “you can't get it here. This Court has no power to hang you.” NOTICE TO THIS PATRON* OF THE PAkMKTTO HERALD. The proprietors of Tub Palmetto Hb*- ai.d have been granted permission to publish a daily paper from the office of the Savannah News. It ip designed to remove the establishment there, and to issue a live daily p iper, devoted to such news as is not contraband. Subscribers to I'hb I»ai mktto Herald can have tlib money refunded them for the unexpired term of their subscription, or receive the daily instead, for a proportionate time. Confident that wo have fully met the ex pectations of our many kind patrons, in the publication of a weekly newspaper, we invite a continuance of tin ir custom, and promise our Ih'&i endeavors to make a daily one iutore.-.ting. —Palmetto llsr nld, lie. 2[tih. Tali, Stout. —They are brigjffiig o£& tall soldier am >ng the Koval Snots Fusi lier Guards, wh > is <; feet 7 1-2 niche* high and pr pvir! ianably stout. Such a man as this is but a trifle compared with a man in a Maine regiment who was 80 tail that he could’nt be measured with, anything but a ten foot pol aiul was em ployed to lift the bharpshoot rs up into the trees. It is reported that Stephen li. * d’.ory, ex Unit M 1 States Senator and the head man of Jeff Davis’ Bureau of i racy or (in rebel parlance) “Navy Department,” has absconded from the Gonftd -aaiy and is In Paris. A Person coinpl lined to Dr. Franklin of having been insulted by one who call ed him a scoundrel. “Ah,” replied the doctor; “and what did von call him?’ “ Why,” said he, “l called him a scoun drel, too.” “Well,” resumed Franklin, “l presume you both spoke the truth.” The Albany Knickerbocker gives the following rectipe to kill flies: ‘‘Take -a hoarding house pie cut it into thin slices, and lay it where ihe insects may have full access to it. In less than fifteen minutes tiie whpjc caboodle oi them will be dead with the colic.” SOCIAL PARTY To bo held at OGLETHORPE HALL. Corner Bnv and Lincoln streets. FRIDAY EVENING, J ui. IS, I^ls, .Rv tli** Non-Commissioned Offlcora of the t t)th Kegt., N. Y. Volfl. GOOD MUSIC AND GOOD SUPPER. C nnmitteo of Arriin.r'nvmUt: Sen* Major J. Day, Ser«t. U< ». W. Phillip* Serfft. Robert liattaniH, «c rjit-liu Ua Ilonghkulc Corporal irs •Jon''*. Floor Manag* rs: Sen*. 11. W. Ramsey, *S V. inker, V. i) Gere. *• Donnahoe, “ dames Winne, “ J- W « Milton Miller, “ Jacob Pink, Tickets $3. to he procured of tiie Committee o Arrangement*) or Floor Managers. janis «t HrADOVAUTKES Clty oe Savannah, January loth, ISOS. Gkhiiial Oui»rxH,> nPIIE streets, aidewrllrs, alloys and premise* 1 within this city must be kept clean and W TlJ* Provost M arshal of each District will ap point an otileiont officer to aupermtund th« mat ter, and wilr detail auch asaintanu as may be no- U "ajT persons occupying buildings or ” r °“ n(l * ® whatever description, will bo required to the sidewalks and alleys- bordering np<m them thoroughly policed at all times, having tha sweepings piled up at the sides of the s»reots. The offal or sweepings from camps mast im removed beyond the aty luniU by tho troops <m- C l Th(luartermas.ter will awign Sther SwpepinKs'oot o ot the dty/' These teams will be under control oftho officere superintend the work in each cistric. Dt j f be held responsible that the work is I and thoroughly done. liy Command of r ,„ ir ,— 1 Brii-Oen. JOHN W. GLARY, Commanding W. T. Fokjikh, A. A. G. A STORK WANITJD-ONB SITUATED IN A /\ business location and adapU.-<l to a reta a,i,ipprh. trivinc situation and terms, fkwcM ‘ UitAixju.u»riaw Cmr or Savannau, 1 January 10th, 1805. f firms ai. Orn-i®, > No. *. f T COL . ARIO PARDEE, 14TTII PENN. Y T Whereby announced as Provost Marshal • the Eastern District, in the place of OoL WiM Wood, TOth Ohio V, T. relieved. By oommand of . Brig. 000. JOHN W. GEARY, Ocm*. W. T. Forbes, A. Jl ff.