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SAYm AH DAILY HERALD. VOtiUME I*\ Jfo. 4*s* i |pt fttbatmal; PURUBHEP EVERY EVENING, SUNDAYS EXCEPTED, RY S3. W. MASON & CO., At 111 Bay Street, Savannah, Georgia, terms: Per Copy Five Cents. Per Hundred $3 50. Per Year. -.slo 00, ADVERTISINGS A limited number of Advertisemeets will be re ceived at the rate of Twenty Cents per Line for first insertion, and Fifteen Cents per Line for each subsequent insertion; invariably in advance. Ad vertisements should be handed in before noon of each day, JOB PRINTING In every style, neatly and promptly done. OCR NEW YORK LETTER. New Fork, Friday, Feb. 25*. BUNTING Ms Tolled osot this week froip. all the housetops in great profusion, and there Is no attempt on the part of our people to disguise the great satisfaction felt at the announcement that the accursed city of Charleston is once more, and now forever to be, under tke flag its inhabi tants have so long contemned and dis graced. The fact is one ot intense gratification to your correspondent, who was most outrageously chaffed in the office then occupied by him in Broad street in this city a few weeks before the fall of Sumter by one of the assist ant editors of the Charleston Mercury, who had just returned from Europe, ‘fin order,” as he said, “to be present at the funeral of the United States!” Os course the response from the writer of this was rather savory of what might be* expected from a Boston boy under such circumstances, concluding with an inti mation that unless the then embryonic rebel did not leave our premises he would be kicked out. He left. His fulminalions in his paper all through the war have been ot the regular blood and thunder style, and now he £as sneaked out of Charleston just as he did out of our office four years ago to save himself from being kicked out, for no decent Yankee would have the name of captur ing such a contemptible whelp. God is great—God is just—and the workings of His hand never were more forcibly ap parent to good patriots than at this hour. His bow of promise rises beauti fully res plendent over the dark clouds of war, and we shall yet worship Him with thankfulness an* praise in anthems “Peace on eartl and good will to man!” THk PETROLEUM TRADE which risen to be a great element in the business of this city, and of the country has established a Stock Ex change of its own. Petroleum companies are growing daily, and if one quarter of them strike He the income of the govern ment from the illuminating fluid will soon double its present amount, comput ed at forty millions a year. The sessions at the board arfe quite lively, and the suc cess of the enterprise is established. Its members already rumber.fi ve or six hun dred. At the opening of the .rooms it was stated that but for the exports of pe troleum the price of gold would ere this have reached 350 or even 400 pei cent. That it is a great source of national SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1865. wealth there is no doubt, for the oil re gions stretch from the Alleghanies to the Mississippij and even though two-thirds of the companies organized should prove to be “South Sea bubbles,” the sound ones will soon, if they do not already, render the trade equal in importance and in material results to that of the dethron ed “King Cotton.” THE LATEST THEATRICAL SENSATION has been the debut of Mrs. F. M. Lander, widow of the General of that name, and •formerly the popular artiste Miss Jean Margaret Davenport. On her marriage she left the stage* of which she had been an ornament and to which £he has re turned. Four years ot retirement have not altered the Miss Davenport of our memory, always a good painstaking and correct actress, and in many respects a superior one. She was distinguished for an unemotional, freezing style, to which an iceberg might have been called warm. A perfect lady, mistress of the aits of conversation and elocution, she is the beau-ideal of the higher class of women whom the stage port rays. Y~et the per sonal magnetism which had distinguish ed others of our first actresses is want ing, and while we feel tha t before us is a perfect conventional artiste, we miss the hearty outburst, and the magic smile which havepn other's made the stage al most in seeming a paradise, more parti cularly to young and impressionable theatre-goer3. The play was “MesAe liance,” formerly “Lucie d’Arville” brought out in this city some years ago by Mary Provost. It has been consid erably pruned, and among other scenes omitted was the sensational one which gave the drama some popularity. This was where Miss Provost used to climb up the side of a vine clad tower, expos ing her ankles to a bewildering extent. The play will give way to some of those in which the fair artiste used to appear, and in which she will show to greater advantage. ARTEMUS WARD. Has been delivering his “Mormon” lecture all over the Eastern States. He carries round with him a lot of photo graphs of large size of the ‘'belles of Salt Lake city,” or at least that’s what he says they are. The faces are remarkably handsome, and there is a strong sus picion that Artemus has a fresh set for every place he visits, and that the whole lot have been obtained surreptitiously, for everybody knows that the haggard, skinny, blear-eyed women of Utah couldn’t be induced to sit for their pic tures at all for fear they would crack all the plates in existence. Artemus lec tured in Lowell a week or two ago. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the well known metaphysician, also addressed an assem blage the same night. A stolid old farmer irom the interior went to Emer son’s lecture, and the next day was asked by a triend what he thought of Artemus Ward, and to the surprise of his inter rogator replied that if “that was Artemus he was a mighty poor stick.” The joke is that the farmer had attended Emer son’s leeture and not Ward’s, and had not been able to discover the difference. ATTEMPTS have recently been made made to injure Gen. Meade, in connection with the Pe tersburg explosion failure, and the affair has been fully investigated, the Conduct of the War Committee endeavoring to throw the blame on him, while a debate was in progress in Congress. Some question arose as to the* cause of the disaster, and after considerable dis cussion and before any decision had been reached, a balmy Senator arose and said, “Mr..President, there is no neces sity of appointing a commission to in quire into the disaster. I can inform you what was the occasion of it.” The Vice President requested the Senator to give the reasons; and the answer free and plump, from his lips, was—“Mr. President. The cause of this disaster was these G and and and rebels. ’ There was a hearty guffaw, and the Sen ate subsided. The failure at Petersburg is easily traceable to this very cause, and the attempt to injure Gen. Meade, did not succeed. Gen. Grant's opinion of Gen. Meade, fully endorses the latter, and it is safe to assert that more faith is put in his words than in the report of the Committee, and the Senate, by re cently confirming Meade’s promotion to a Major Generalship, in the regular Army, have fully coincided in the Lieu tenant General’s published endorsement of that gallant officer. THE DRAFT * - - Has been gorng on very quietly over in Brooklyn, and there has been no sign whatever of trouble, as it is well known that Ned Hinks, the Provost Marshal General here, will not hesitate a second as to what course to pursue should any of the remains of the old riot show themselves. There does not appear to be any uneasiness on the subject, and hundreds of the unfortunate ones whose names have been turned out as candi dates for military honors will much pre fer to serve six months in garrison or in the field than to pay from one to two thousand dollars for a substitute. Quite a number of “draft associations” have been formed in Brooklyn- iu various neighborhoods to help each other in ob- taining subscribers. THE SAVANNAH COTTON Has pretiy nearly all been heard from, although it has not arrived here. The fleet, which sailed so prettily from Hil ton Head, making speculators’ eyes water as they dashed off with their valu able cargoes, met with pretty hard usage from old Boreas, who has a way of treating most everything and everybody off Hatteras with a taste of his quality— they got somewhat separated, some of them dismasted, and they had to make a port just where they could. Their con voy , arrived here two or three days ahead of the few vessels which reached this port, much to the surprise of our people, who were foolish enough to im agine that the gunboats were sent as a protection! Some half dozen have reached Philadelphia, and it will prob ably be quite a season before the big sheds on Staten Island will cover all their cargoes. It is to be sold by sample. A MILITARY DUEL is reported to have taken place in this city a few days since, between a Briga dier General, who was In the Red River campaign, and a western Colonel. It is stated that the latter made some re marks about the Red River Campaign not much relished by the former, who felt so mueh incensed that he fcoi&bly challenged the Colonel The aShix said to have been decidedly rich, the duel being fought with cavalry revolvers in a close room, the Brigadier pegging away with all six charges, while the Col onel did not pull his trigger at all The valiant Brigadier then, on seeing the Col onel about to take his turn at peppering; him, and knowing him to- be a dead shot,, ran from the room, shouting “murder ! r> at all the top of his voice, rushing into* the midst of a lpevy of brother officer*, in an adjoining appartment, who baki witnessed the duel without bullets! THE TWENTY-SECOm was duly celebrated on Wednesday.— There was but little business of any kind done, and, the day being very ffiaer, out people put on their bqlklay attire utoll promenaded the streets and a cadg ing upon each other to exebuuge. con gratulations upon recent, victories.— Three regiments paraded l ,, in chiding the Seventh, and was reviewed by USovemoir Fenton, at Union* Square, tito re usew being witnessed, by some thirty thou sand people. The old veterans ufr£!'% (some of whom wear very light umns tachios for such old soldiers-1 tusuAtcl out, and let somebody fire their four can non for them on the Battery at noon.— then returned to City Hall, in th* adgk boihood of which they sat down to a sumptuous repast of coffee and cak&s t At noon, Broadway in the vicinity el Trinity Church was crowded by thou safidV’# ladies, and children, listening a> the attuned te* pc.* ....“ * andiin»-.the..evening triotic measure, A BIG FIZZLE took place in the different parks, in r/»e shape of fireworks. Second-hand IwoTja crackers would have afforded a more gorgeous display than the abortion which people were invited by the Cty Fathers to witness in City flail Parte., and the grand, magnificent, splendifler ous closing piece, advertised as a bril liant representation ot the “Father of Our Country,” on horseback, turned ap, minus ail the anatomy of said Father., except a spurless boot, aud the hoist: didn't have any head or neck—the boys pelted the thing with mud and ceur.G in disgust. ff OUR DRY GOODS ME!* who attended the Boston trade sate re turn with many eulogiums of the cour teous hospitality extended them., not only by their brethren in the trade, hut by the citizens generally, from urbane Mayor Lincoln to jolly Sergeant Dunn, the latter of whom was found a SpHuttiki pioneer by gaslight, having previous had much experience in piloting coun try members of the Legislature to see the Elephant. So far as their interests ex tended in the great sale, they profess themselves perfectly satisfied, and ex press much surprise that Boston Sms at this late day adopted a system vrtuchlbr so many years has been so saetessiisil here. The conductors of the side aru highly lauded for the tact, energy as& enterprise displayed. THE NEW ENGLAND are crowded with soldiers la transit's! to and from the field and the coast It is a funny sight to see a one-armed sohtier dealing out a hand to Lis three ccadja- I PRICK \Flvto Cents.