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BY 8. W. MASON AND CO.
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WEDNESDAY, FEE. 15. ISCS.
MILITARY POLICE
Deserters ARRBSiBD.-*-The Govern
ment Detective Police, connected with
the Provost Marshal Department, under
JLt. Col. York, yesterday succeeded in
securing the arrest of two deserters, who
Were in town loafing their time away, it
not committing worse offences. They
Wrere found in a house of a man of the
name of Haygood, in town. On them
were found forged passes, signed by a
Hospital Surgeon, and purporting to
lie approved by Edward G. Dike,
Adjutant General on which they
Were in the habit of passing
about the city, and evading arrest.—
Their names were John M. Blair, of the
66th Illinois Regiment, and C, B. Lemon,
©rLahmaa, of the 06th Ohio. They
were committed to jail, and will be tried
for deserti on at an early day.
There is quite a number of the same
Stripe, who deserted their commands and
remained behind when the army moved
forward. Col. York, and his energetic
force of detectives, are on the track of
tnany, and it is likely that the entire lot
Will be apprehended and punished.
Confidencs Men in Limbo. —The con
fidence game has been played a good
deal in the city, by rascally soldiers who
don officer *8 uniforms, and go about
among the poor classes and negroes and
©xtort money and goods under various
pretexts and representations, giving
Worthless receipts for the same pretending
to exempt the deluded beings from further
trouble or annoyance. How far this game
lias been carried on, we have no means
of knowing, but two arrests made by the
muthorities recently, have shown that it
lias been conducted on a tolerably large
6C de. The negroes living on the out
©kirts of the city have been visited by
these scoundrels, and have been bled
considerably, as certain written docu
ments which they hold testify.
The first man arrested by the military
police was a private named prover, of
th,e 52d Illinois Infantry, in the uniform
of a Second Lieutenant. He had been
for some time about the city, living in
ftisreputabl e houses and gaining a liveli
hood in a questionable manner. Being
quite successful in his operations and es
caping detection, he became embolden
ed and struck in a*uew path, One of his
friends was in the lock-up, aud he deter
mined t© get him out by sheer impudence
»nd brass. Representing himselt as an
officer of the company to which his
friend belonged, he asked his release,and
remarked that he should take him at
once to his commands But his efforts
failed, and the culprit losing what little
confidence he had in his official friend,
mud suspecting that he had sold him out,
Informed the officials there, that the
Xjiculenai.it was no officer, a regular
specimen of the bogus species, and that
fie was only a private a deserter from his
regiment. He was arrested soon after,
his uniform taken from him, and be ac
commodated with a private room and
hread and water His case will be tried
hy the Provost Judge, Lieut. Benedict.
The last arrest was that of a shrewd
witlain, whose name is unknown, who
was dressed in a Lieutenant’s uniform,
mud engaged in confidence operations,
©bowing some skill in his profession.—
He bad some blank checks of the Bank
of to ft State of Georgia, and visited
negro and poor white families, on the
edge of the town, representing himself
to be tie collector of taxes for the Post
Fund. He assured them that, five, tea, or
fifteen dollars, which he assessed accord
ing to the apparent financial condition of
the family, would be placed in the Post
Fund, and would free them from Gov
ernment and municipal taxes, from
house rent, and other liabilities for the
ensuing year. The ignorant and credu
lous victims, eager to get off from all ex
penses for the year, would pay him l-he
amount demanded, or all they had in
hand, and receive from the bogus offi
cer a blank check, scribbled over, and
signed in various ways. Many have
thus suffered at the hands of this scoun
drel, who reaped quite a harvest. His
operations soon reached the knowledjg
of Col. York, who ordered his arreTb
He evaded it some time, until an office:
came across him, caught him in the act
of swindling, and took him in custody;
He is now in j ail. He will receive the
j ustice he deserves, and a punishment
that will in the future prevent swindlers
from pursuing their nefarious opera-,
tions. , • , ,
VALENTINES.
That Dog received a Valentine. It
came by Express from Mr. Pulaski’s
Tavern by the coat-tail pocket of Col-
Rugg; it was greasy, and smelt of
onions; it looked like a beefsteak bone—
probably it was a bone, but who knows
what tender sentimentalities were con
cealed under that unsentimental guise.
If the Eminent English Barrister in the
celebrated Breach-of-promise case of
“Bardell vs. Pickwick” (reported at
length in Dickens’ Reports, vol. ii., pp.
112 to 137 inclusive), could find delicate
insinuations of bone in “chops,” and dis
cover a positive promise of marriage in
“tomato sauce,” what Love, Affections,
Promises of future faithfulness till death,
etc., may not have been distinctly shad
owed forth in a beefsteak bone ?
We don’t know the fair lady who has
declared herself That Dog’s Valentine,
but we beg to assure that young lady
that our slight acquaintance with the
canine vernacular does not enable us to
translate fully that Dog’s expression of
feeling, but from what we can gather from
rather disconnected conversation he was
hugely pleased with his valentine. We
have but one word further to remark in
this connection—That Dog is a delicate
dog. Beef bones are too hard for his
tender toothlets (ha ! ha !) there’s anew
Fancy ladyism for (me,) and we beg to
state to Jane or Mary or Agnes, or Char
lotte, or Fanny, or Helen, or Alice, or
Martha, or in fact to each and every one
of that Dog’s innumerable admirers, that
that Dog’s meals are invariably 'sent to
him on a linen napkin of spotless purity,
and that he Eat’s with a silver fork like
the “Individual” or any other Christian ;
so that young ladies, dear young ladies
when you make up your diurnal gifts for
that Dog always put into the package
linen napkin, (with the name picked out
of the comer.) a silver folk, two silver
spoons and a soupladle, (for that Dog
Eat’s Soup like a human,) all to be nicely
tied up and addressed to “The Indivi
dual,” Savannah Herald. ’Be sure and
put a Government stamp on the outside.
For the four or five bushels of Valen
tines, which were addressed to the “Ed
itors of Savannah Herald,” we return
our consolidated thanks. There was one
which most people would have consider
ed disrespectful—it commenced with a
huge picture of a Goose. We imme
diately forwarded the same to our Long
Boss, who is rusticating in thl village of
New York. >
The Twenty-Seven, which commenc
ed “ Ode to a Jackass,” have been duly
placed in the private drawer of our
Rolled Up Boss, who took, a week ago,
the fast steamer to ran down to the ob
structions (3 1 4 miles) and who has
not yet returned. When the boat was
heard from she had successfully achieved
a journey of 3-4 of a mile, and the Cap
tain thought she’d finish the mile in six
hours and a half, if the tide served; we
expect our R. U. Boss here three
weeks from next Monday Afternoon;
The ballad of Valentines beginning
and “Loveliest of your
Sex,” and “Sweet, Sweet, Lore”
also a cord commencing with the
words “Honey,” “Love,” “Darlingest,”
etc., were of course intended for the
“Individual,” who will take care of
them. The dozen or so addressed to
“the Bully Boy with the Glass Eye, ”
“The man who struck W. Patterson,”
etc., are handed over to “Bobtom,” our
boy. (We have two boys, one is called
Bob, the other Tom—and as we can’t
tell “’em apart we call ’ei>: indifferently
Tombob pr Bobtom,) as they were evi
dently intended for him..
Seriously, however, the custom of
sending Valentines is gradually dying
out, and fewer are sent every year. The
Savannah mails have not as yet oeen un
usually burdened with lover-like materi
al, evoked by the magic spell of old Saint
Valentine—there may be more to come
—we hope so, for it will be a good thing
for Uncle Samuel, a gentleman for whom
we entertain the utmost respect.
LATER FROM THE NORTH*
. DATES TO THS 11TH.
'MOVEMENT OF GRANTS
ARMY.
HIS LINES ADVANCED FIVE RULES.
GOLD 3.11.
.. By the steamer Fulton, which arrived
at Hilton Head yesterday, from New’
York, the 11th inst, we have some' im
portant news from Grant’s army, but it
reached us at so late an hour that we can
only give a brief synopsis of the salient
points:
Grant had extended his line five miles
to the left, and advanced it five miles in
front, meeting with considerable resis
tance, but overcoming it after some
severe fighting, with a loss of about 1,100
men. The movement was regarded as a
great success, as it put him in a position
to threaten or close Lee's line of sup
plies. He is now strongly entrenched in
his new position. I
At the latest board, gold was quoted
at 2.11.
We shall give full details in our issue
of to-morrow.
Military Ball. —As one instance ot
the good effect produced by the permis
sion which is once more accorded, to all
good citizens, to promenade the city at
their pleasure after nightfall we beg to
call attention to the notice in our adver
tising columns of a Grand Military Ball,
to take place to-morrow evening, at St.
Andrew’s Hall. We are assured that no
pains will be spared to have everything
conducted with the strictest regard to
propriety, and those who attend will
doubtless enjoy a fine entertainfnent.
Mr. Foote is under arrest in our lines,
which he entered, but refused to take
the oath of allegiance. He is very
squeamish, seeing that he is a most ac
complished swearer, and that the oath
of allegiance is about as solemn an affair
as a customhouse oath. He 'should be
sent back to Richmond, to annoy his
friends , but he is taken to Washington,
which answers almost as well
[From tbe Richmond Whig, 2.J
Headquarters, Army of Northern
Virginia, Jan. 2f>, 1865.—T0 arm and
equip an additional force of cavalry
there is need of carbines, revolvers, pis
tols, saddles and other accoutrements of
mounted men. Arms and equipments of
the kind desired are believed to be held
by citizens in sufficient numbers to sup
ply our wants. Many keep them as
trophies, and some with the expectation
of using them in their own defence. But
it should be remembered that arms are
now required for use, and that they can
not be made so effectual for the defence
of the country in any as in the hands
of organized tneops. They are needed
to enable our cavalry to cope with the
well armed and equipped cavalry of the
enemy, not only in the general
but in resisting those predatory expedi
tions which have indicted so much loss
upon the people of the interior.
To the patriotic I need make no other
appeal than the wants of the service; but
I beg to remind those who are reluctant
to part with the arms and equipments in
their possession, that by keeping them,
they diminish the ability of the anny to
defend their property, without them
selves receiving any benefit from them.
I therefore Urge all persons not in the
sernce to deliver promptly to some, of
the officers designated below such arms
and equipments (especially those suit
able lor cavalry) as they may have, and
to report to those officers the names of
such persons as heglect to suirender
those in their possession.
Every citizen who prevents a carbine
or pistol from remaining unused will
render a service to his country. . Those
who think to retain arms for their own
defence, should remember that if the
army cannot protect them, the arms will
be of little use. While no valid title can
be acquired to public anus and equip
ments except from the government, it is
reported that many persons have igno
rantly purchased them from private par
ties. A fair compensation will therefore
be made to all who deliver such arms
and equipmonts to any ordnance offi
cers, officer commanding ads a post, offi
cers and agents of the quartermaster
and commissary departments, at any
station, or officers in the enrolling ser
vice or connected with the Nitre and
Mining Bureau. All these officers are
requested aud those connected with the
army are directed to receive and re
ceipt tor ail arms and equipments, what
ever their condition, and forward the
same, with a duplicate receipt, to the
Ordnance Department at Richmond,
and report their proceedings to these
headquarters. The person holding the
receipt will be compensated upon pre
senting it to the Old nance Bureau.—
W fiile it is hoped that no one will dis
regard this appeal, all officers connected
with the army are required and ail
others are requested, to take possession,
of any oublic arms and equipments they
may find in the hands of persons unwil
ling to surrender them to the service of
the country, and to give receipts there
for. A reasonable allowance for their
expense and trouble will be made to*
such patriotio citizens as will collect and
deliver to any ol the officers above de
signated such aims and equipments a©
1 they may find in the hands of persona
not in the service, or who will report the
wmo to those officers. A prompt com
pliance with this call will greatly pro
mote the efficiency and strength of the*
army, particularly of the cavalry, and
render it better able to protect the home©
and property of the people from out
rage. R. E LEE, General
Married. —At the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist last evening, Mr. Au
gustus Merkle, of New York city, to Mis©
Josephine Bi. Deppish, of this city.
We heartily wish the happy couple ©
full measure of joy, and a long life, un
clouded by a single sorrow.
A Government Police has been or
ganized in the city, and placed in charge
of a shrewd, skilfull and experienced de
tective officer, and its working is being
felt. It is a capital idea, and the organi
zation Mill soon be efficient and perfect.