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Savannah Daily
BY 8. W. MASON AND CO.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1865.
ENLARGEMENT OP THE SAVAN
NAH DAILY HERALD.
We feel it our duty to apologize to our patrons
for so long delaying the improvements in our
paper which we promised at its start. Its
inferior size is as distasteful to us as it can be to
the public, and the defect will be remedied just
ns soon as circumstances will admit.
We have now on the way from New York all
the materials for an enlargement to a suitable
size for an enterprising daily paper, and for
many desirable improvements in its appearance.
We shall make several important changes in the
style of publication, and believe we shall fully
meet the requirements of the public as soon as
we can effect them. We hope to issue the
paper in its new form within a week, at farthest.
Until then, we rely on the appreciation by a
generous public of the difficulties we have en
countered, and promise to do all that energy, in
dustry and perseverance can accomplish, to re
ward their kindness. The large circulation of the
Heeald, the extent of its advertising patronage,
and the encouragement we have everywhere and
at ajl times received, indicates the favor with
which our little paper is regarded, and gives
promise of the greatest success when it becomes
what it should be.
We know our facilities for obtaining news to
be of the very best, and with the scarcity of the
article, the irregularity of communication with
different points, and the necessity, incident to
military operations, of confining our enterprise
in this department within narrow limits, we feel
that an intelligent public will scarcely require an
apology in this respect.
With the enlargement of our paper we shall
have important additions to our editorial and
reportorial force, and an increase of correspon
dents and contributors.
A WORD ABOUT THE CLERKS OP
SAVANNAH.
With exceptions, which had, until
within a few weeks, been so very few,
that they only served to prove the rule,
the shop-keepers and the clerks of the
various dry-goods and other stores which
had been opened in thi§ city, primarily
for the emolument of the proprietors
thereof, and as a secondary considera
tion, for the accommodation of the uni
versal buying public, had been so boor
ish and uncivil to most of their patrons,
as to necessitate, a word of journalistic
reprehension. We have heard from
others the complaint often, and have
ourselves more than once experi
enced the nuisance. It is a little
curious too, to remark that the
strangers to the city, the merchants from
the North who have opened places of
business here, seem, better than old res
idents of the town, to have some idea of
even tolerable civility to their custom
ers.
Happening to enter a certain mercan
tile establishment on a principal street
one Saturday lately, which is presided
over by three Savannahans, of the
same family, and who are paterno-filio
blood-relations, we observed, in the
course of a twenty minutes’ stay, some
instances of gross incivility to visitors
that would, in any Northern city store,
have been amply sufficient to banish
from the place all reputable custom foi
the next , two months. The two
younger ones of the trio are a couple ot
half-grown boys about the respective
ages of 1G and 19 years. They showed
their polite independence of the decen
cies of life by persistently keeping their
hats on their well-barbered heads; by
smoking half-decayed cigars, and by
thus nauseating every lady who ventur
ed into their presence. They did this,
firstly, by their filthy expectorations
about, and in one case actually upon
the dresses of their lady customers;
secondly, by their impertinent answers
to every question addressed to them.—
We saw, in a period of less than half an
hour, four gentlemen walk [out of the
place, having made no purchases, but
being utterly disgusted with the filthy
manners of these attendant clerks. As
two of these disgusted gentlemen (who
were buying under-clothing, &c., for
their respective companies) made, half a
dozen doors beyond, a bill of three hun
dred and ninety-four dollars, it is easy
to conjecture that in this case incivility
was a losing game.
Although we do not wish to make our
criticisms too sweeping, we are pained to
say that this establishment is by no means
alone in its impertinent and insolent
glory; we say, and we grieve while say
ing it, that there is more than one shop
in Savannah (those attended by'women
always excepted) which no lady can en
ter with a certainty of having her wants
attended to in a civil, gentlemanly man
ner, and then escaping therefrom free
from insult, either open or semi-patent.
As business is conducted now in Savan
nah, many a clerk never thinks of re
moving his hat in the salesroom, even
when serving ladies, and some of them
will not even so far submit to the usages
of decency as to take the cigar from
their mouths, or the half-pound of to
bacco from the cheek while answering
the queries of lady customers.
We should reform this altogether—
and probably the best way to do it is at
the ‘‘point of the cane.” If some gentle
man buying goods in company with a
lady should provide himself with a stout
hickory stick, and should administer a
series of heavy, hearty thwacks to some
one of these counter-jumping “gents”
who should neglect to take off his snob
bish bat, or who should refrain from re
moving the cigar or any kindred nico
tine abomination from his countenance
while ladies were piesent, the judicious
breaking of the puppy's head would soon
remedy the evil to some extent. This
present state of things is a disgrace to
the whole city.
W e append a londjide short dialogue
and then say no more:
lst Lady —“l hear, my dear, you are
not going to Mrs. L—’s party on Thurs
day evening. Why not?* We shall
miss you much.”
2d Lady— l would gladly go, but the
only new dress in the city that I could ,
with my peculiar complexion, becoming
ly wear, is at R—'s. I went there to
buy it, but one partner, with his hat on,
breathed whiskey fumes into my face,
■while the other one unrolled the goods,
and so filled the fabric with filthy tobac
co smoke that I could never have worn
it—and as there* is no time to get any
thing from New York before the event
ful night, I must content myself at home.
Theatre.— Again, last evening, was
the house 'well filled with an appreciative
audience to witness the new combination
company of Messrs. Sweatnam and Scott.
The various acts were well performed
and were loudly applauded.
La Belle Louise and Lottie Howland
gain new friends every night, and in fact
the whole company increase in populari
ty with every new appearance.
An entire change of programme is an
nounced for to-night. The two farces of
“The Swiss Cottage” and “The Statue,”
with dances etc., make up the bill.
Personal.— Capt.*Henry M Bragg, A.
D. C., on Gen. Gillmore’s staff, Mr. J.
Wotton ofNew York,Mr. Frank A. Sears,
of the Port Royal New South, Capt. G.
R. Hurlburt, of the 4th Mass. Cavalry,
Lieut. Farrand of the Engineers, and
Capt. J. R. Gilmore, A. Q. M., Superin
tendent ot Military Telegraphs, were
passengers here by the Wyoning, this
morning.
LATER NORTHERN NEWS,
New York Dates to March 2.
IMPORTANT WAR NEWS.
GOT. I> 197 5- 8 .
Tone of the Rebel Press.
We yesterday gave an abstract of
Northern news to March 2d, and below
we furnish extracts from New York pa
pers of the 3d, with some farther glean
ings from the Heiald and 'Times of the
2d. The papers of the 3d reached Hil
ton Head yesterday, and copies were
promptly forwarded by one of our cor
respondents. The extracts include a
synopsis of the Richmond papers of the
?Bth, and all the news will be found in
teresting.
[From the New York Herald, MarchS.]
Significant and important hints regard
ing affairs in North and South Carolina
are thrown out by yesterday’s Richmond
Examiner. It intimates that Generals
Sherman and Schoffield have formed a
junction of their forces at or near Golds
boro, in the former State, and says there
is reason to fear that Hood, as w'ell as
Hardee, has been cut off from uniting
with Johnston. It was Hardee's force
which held Charleston, t and on evacua
ting it it he marched northward as rap
idly as possible, for the purpose of join
ing Beauregard, then at the head of the
army now "commanded by Johnston.—
Yesterday we gave a report, brought
into Charleston by rebel deserters, that
Hardee entertained fears of not being
able to effect this junction. The Exam
iners remarks render it probable that
these fears have been realized, much to
the discomfiture of the rebels, and with
an equal advancement of the national
cause. General Johnston's order, as
suming command as successor to Beau
regard, is dated at Charlotte, N. C., on
25th cf February. In it he says he as
sumes command of his old army of the
Tennesse and the troops of the depart
ment of Georgia, South Carolina and
Florida. Beauregard, who, it is said,
was relieved at his ow n request, is, it
appears, to remain with Johnston in a
subordinate capacity. Though General
Johnston has only been in" command
five or six days, the Richmond Exami
ner of yesterday had already commenc
ed to berate him, probably on account
of his failure to frustrate Sherman's plans
and to secure his co-operation of Har
dee's and Hood’s troops.
The armies before the rebel capital
still remain quiet; but it is evident that
on both sides the belief is that this state
of affairs will not continue a great while
longer. Indications of rebel designs to
essay another raid with their James river
fleet are daily manifested, and the Rich
mond papers give additional reports re
garding a heavy massing by General
Grant on the left of his lines, to which
point they say he has moved his cavalry,
the main portion of his infantry and*a
number of pieces of artillery. Ail this,
they say, means a desperate" battle at an
early day, or at least as soon as the roads
shall be in proper condition. Deserters
still report preparations for the evacua
tion of Petersburg. The rebels are busily
engaged in improving their torpedo de
fences of James river. Paymasters have
been for some days occupied in paying
off the Army of the James for the months
of January and February. During the
last fen days, it is said, the daily average
of rebel deserters coming into the lines
of the James and Potomac armies has
been one hundred and forty.
In an article in the Richmond Enquirer
of the 28th ult, intended to allay the
fears and alarms excited in that city by
the mysterious military movements there
it is stated that “the air is filled with
alarming rumors ; every fear has found a
voice, and every ear is open* to the tale
it tells, and measures of precaution are
construed to presage disaster.” As the
rebel Senate has declined to take mea
sures for arming the negroes, the Senate
of the Virginia Legislature has authoriz
ed the Governor to accept slaves or free
colored men, and pass them over to Gen
eral Lee, when they will be armed
placed m the military service u
It would seem that, notwithstanding
the various reports we have had fm,
time to time, Mobile is not yet or at if
was not very recently, entirely evacim
ed by the rebels; for Southern jourSt
contain a report of a mass war meetin
held by them there on the 13th ult n
which occasion were adopted fierrS
-victory or dealh” ; “niggers, say «;
and “last ditch ’ resolutions, which their
concoctors will probably soon
by a grand rush for the interior, out If
reach of the Union land and naval forced
Stocks and government securities were
lower yesterday. Gold was heavy and
after opening at 10G 3-4, closed down
town at 197 3-4. At the evening board
the sales of gold were small, and the
closing price was 197 5-8.
The fall in gold yesterday was without
marked influence, the recent advance
having occasioned no corresponding ad
vance in prices of merchandise, owing to
the impression which prevailed that the
higher price of the commodity would be
only .temporary; still domestic produce
was generally lower yesterday than on
W ednesday. Cotton was lc. off. Petro
leum was without especial change. On
Change the flour market was quiet, and
sc. lower. Wheat was steady, while
prices for corn were without essential
change. Oats were less active, and lc.
lower. The pork market opened firm
and active, but closed dull and decidedly
lower. Beef was steady, while lard was
in limited demand, and scarcely so firm.
Whiskey was steady. Freights were
dull, and rate's tending downward.
Boston, March 2, ISGS. Private let
ters received here, dated Gibraltar, Feb
ruary 7, state that the rebel pirate Shen
audoah had put into Corunna, Spain,
disabled, and that the United Stated
steamer Sacramento left Cadiz, February
3, to look after her.
Philadelphia, March 2,
Cooke reports the sales of seven-thirties
to-day at $3,076,250. The largest Eastern
subscription was #300.000, from New
York, and the largest Western subscrip
tion #35,000, from Dayton,- Ohio. There
were 2,126 individual subscriptions of
#SO and #IOO each.
The Turf. —We are informed on good
authority, but have not seen the fact
published in the northern papers, that
the celebrated stallion Ethan Allen, so
noted on the turf among stock-raisers,
and Honest Allen, one of the most cele
brated of his progeny, have been sold by
Mr. F. Baker to Dan Macc, the well
known whip. The price paid by Mace
was #8,400, for the two. He has since
been offered #IO,OOO for Honest Allen
alone.
We notice in the Clipper a statement
that Air. Bonner, of the N. Y. Ledger,
has offered Mr. Noe, a New York gen
tleman, #25,000 for his mare Atlanta,
conditional upon her performing the feat
of his mare Peerless, viz : trotting a half
mile in 1.11 1-2, to a 335 pound wagon
and driver, Mr. Noe has decided to ao
cept the offer, and the trial will be made
on the 15th of June next. Atlanta was
sired by Ethan Allen, out of a mare well
known in turf circles as the Maynard
mare of Boston. When she was three
years old she trotted a mile in 2.411-1,
and was purchased by Mr, Dana for
#3,500. Mr. Noe bought her from Mr.
Dana in January last, for #5,000. Mr.
Bonner, it is stated, expresses his wil
lingness to present Mr. Noe #1,300, if
his mare accomplishes the feat of trot
ting a mile in 2.30, and repeating in 2.33,
to the lightest wagon that can be built?
with Hi. Woodruff or D. Walton to
drive.
Inspection of Hospitals. —Surgeon
Clymer, the efficient Medical Director o
the Department, has been making a
thorough inspection of the hospitals o
the city. He found them, generally, in
good condition. The colored hospital lS
to be removed, and the condition of it 9
inmates improved.
