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j&auuwah §ailg Jmtd. BY 8. w. MASON AND CO. SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, InJ5. ESLAR6E3IEXT OF THE SAVAN NAH DAILY HERALD. The materials for the enlargement of the Savannah Daily Herald to twice its present size are now at Hilton Head, %nd will arrive here in a day or two. — We shall make the proposed changes at the earliest possible time, and we hope to be able to do so within two or three days at the longest. A SUNDAY HERALD. The crowd of advertising has com pelled us to omit all of our Northern correspondence, with the exception of our interesting New York letter. We have decided to issue an edition to-morrow morning, containing interesting letters, the latest local and general news, and much other attractive leading matter.— It will be ready at day-light. Advertise ments should be handed in at the connt ing room, 111 Bay street, this afternoon. GOOD FOR EVIL. Though the Southern soldiers do all in their power to make the land a desert over which our armies must march, by destroying provisions and other proper ty, and by breaking up roads and other wise impeding the advance of our troops, it is no less a positive truth that the country is generally enriched by the pas sage through it of the hated “Northern invader.” Maay of our soldiers are Western men, who for yens have been employed in “improving” land»and reducing heavy forests and broad pra iries to the condition of cultivated farms. It has become second nature with them, and no sooner do they perceive a plot of land which could be made into a fine farm, were it only disencumbered of trees, and cleared from rocks and stones, than their fingers itch for an axe, and they instinctively look about for a spade. It pains the Yankee heart, and it goes to the very soul of the yeoman from the far West to upon the thousands of broad acres in the funny South, which might be subdued by human labor from thick pine forests,and from slimy swamps to some of the most beautiful and pro ductive farms the sun ever shown upon. There can be no doubt that when the present strife is done, hundreds of our sol dier-boys who have noted, in the course of their many weary marches,the fertility of the soil,and the salubrity of the climate will resolve to make their homes in the South. To the hardy son of Maine or New Hampshire, who has been accus tomed to earning his living on a furui where the land was so stony and sterile that a man has to turn his farm up edge waysand plant both sides in order to net enough off it to keep h s family, the cul tivation of the rich bottom lands of the South would be but as child's play. To the hardy Western pioneer the clearing of the pine forests and the live oak growths of this favored latitude, 'would be but pleasant pastime. We may be certain that our boys have not marched through “the bowels of the land” with their eyes shut. They came, they have seen, and when they have conquered, they will return to take possession. Not by force, for we much doubt if the policy of confiscation will ever be adopt ed by the United States Government, however strongly it may be urged by some, and however just it may appear to most—but the Northern soldier will come South with his dollars in his fist, prepared to pay honestly for the land he wants, and to work faithfully for the home he covets. In this way in time will the So?.th to a great extent be re populated with a people who, having all their lives seen and experienced the beneficent results of free labor in the North, will be the best men in all the world to inaugurate the policy of free labor at the South. • It may be asked what is to become of the present Southern population. We answer it will take many years to replace the men who have been drained from, the country by the ravages of war,and many of their places can be filled with men from the colder North. Then thereafter the natural expansion of the population will induce here, as in every new' coun try, the clearing of more forest land, the draining of more swamp land, and the reduction to cultivation of many tracts now T considered too sterile to be worked. Doubtless many Southerners, dissat isfied with the changes which all now see are inevitable, will sell their posses sions and emigrate to Europe, or even to the Northern cities where, for many years, they have been in the habit of spending their summers. Their places too must be filled. So that with Northern men coming South, and Southern • men going North, there will soon be produced a perfect homogeniety of population, and the abolition of the pernicious system of slave labor, which has ever been the sharp dividing line between us, being perfected, Americans will be one peo ple, in fact as well as name. Go£ speed the day. But even should the NfsrJiiera soldiers remain in their homes and never return, they will still have done much to im prove the face of the Southern country. The innumerable bridges which have been built, the hundreds of miles of road winch have been made, the many square miles of forests which have been levelled, have been of almost incalcula ble value to the owjtt of Southern property. But we tkuns: there can be little doubt that ere many months pass by, our brave boys in blue will return to the South to complete and perfect the improvements they have so well began. Passengers rim Steamship Arago* — Lieut. Cols E. P. Hammond &J. IT. Brig ham, Surgeons Cotton and Huber, Mr. ana Mrs. Bragg and son, Miss Baldwin, Mn Chambers, Mrs. Topham, Major El liot*. and lady, Mr. and Mrs. Brown,Miss Brown, Mr. A M. Agnew. C. B. Over tor Mr. and Mrs. Cohen and child, Mrs. F. If. Miss Wesselhoft, Miss Fow jer. Miss E. Lindsay, Mrs. McGovern, Mr Kent, A. 11. Davenport, G f- aggart, Miss Faijny Postage,Hat lie Le \ Maud St. Leon. Elsie St. Leon F Le Fond, Mr ? . M. Barn ell, Chaplain Joiivb, Asbj>t:uit Surgeon. W. F. Bu oiimm, Captains Rockwell. Barker, Lieutenants May, Webster, Cut ting. Long. Baylor, Taicott, Howard Assistant Surgeons J. It Long, W. Rice, arm fKyes ; ♦ Messrs. Kendall, Roof. uwym. Limn, Edwards, Knox, Weir, Lester, Haynes, Fish, Gifford, \.or .-tan:, Gerstman,Barnet, Harris, Guy lcr. Holst, Blaisdell, Otis, Barnard, Dors ton, Dolui, Marsh, Lentz, Edgell, iieisi. seaman, Hernden, Simpson, Car rer, Hatsoheck, Plowman, Kilpatrick, Capt. Ketchum, Evans and Baker, and <44 m steerage. To r. Inaugural. —The New York pa pers ha\e accounts of the inauguration, reik e*in s severely on Vice President Johnson. Until some more definite am. authentic accounts are given, we s.:all abstain from any statements or criticisms. SHlPPinw INTELLIGENCE. Arrived steamship Yazoo, Couch, Hilton Head; Fteamshi? Fannie, Cator. Charleston; steamer U. S. Grant, Dobbs, Hilton Head. Cleared bark Persia, Holm, New York; bark Atlanta, Th ooster, New York ; brig Emily Fielmr. Knight, New York. [From onr Special Correspondent.] LETTER FROM NEW YORK. NkwYoek, Monday Morning, March C. The great celebration which was post poned from Saturday until to-day, is absorbing as much interest as any war news of the most probable character might be expected to do. The clerk of the weather has considered himself one of the Committee of and has given us clear skies and dry pave ments,and we shall have a turnout of the people that will astonish sight-seers. At the first announcement of the proposal some of our leading political geniuses here thought they saw a very large meal tub, under which reposed the horrible proportions of a black republican some where, and they raised the cry of a par tisan character against it, whereupon they were cordially invited to inspect the contents of the aforesaid meal-tub. Their investigations proving eminently satisfactory, they turned about and en tered into the affair right zealously—the result of which will be a grand outpour ing of the people to-morrow to cele brate the victories of our soldiers and sailors as the most patriotic person could wish. The procession will have nearly ten thousand military, a caval cade of over five thousand citizens, all our veteran general officers in the city, including Generals Scott, Wool, Ander son, Dix, Admirals Paulding, Breeze, Worden, Rogers, and a host of others renowned for their glorious parts per formed in tliis war—veteran pri vate soldiers, all furloughed sol diers in the city, the ntxyy yard marines, apprentices, &e.,—representa tives of all the mechanic arts by scores.— we shall have ship-yards, iron- works, printing offices, sewing machine, scale, and other' factories on wheels, all in full operation as they move along in the pro cession ; express wagons gaily decorated with flags and ladies, various emblemat ical devices, a model of the original moiK itor, with some of Porter's old salts t<r man her, a representation of Fort Sumter as it now appears, with veterans from the x'iaw England Rooms who have partici pated iii assaults upon it; we shall have over a dozen German socities numbering each over five hundred men, together witn the Turners and German Singing Societies. We snail have numerous benevolent Irish and American Societies. Y e shall have a battery of captured reb el canaon in the streets of New York whose throats will be compelled by brave Union soldiers to give hoarse sal vos for victories over their late owners— we shall have “—tumultuous music from out the belfry of Old Trinity.” at nine in the morning, at noon, and at four in the afternoon, sending up glad songs in clanging melody to Him who has blissed the arms of the right. We shail listen to polished periods, anu patriotic eloquence in Union Square from tie lips of those whose words are like ‘hpplesof silver set in dishes of gold,"f-and we are j#i bound to be jubi lant, (peer the country, the soldiers, the the two hundred bands of music, and be glad with great joy. JCK HAS VANISHED from tie rivers and harbor, and our wa ter dots around the Battery feel much please, thereat. It is stated that the thousaids of private ice houses on the banks )f the Hudson are filled to their roofs, fnd the mammoth receptacles of thediferent companies have stored a stock equivalent to that of any two years heretofore cut. HOUSE HUNTING has conmenced, but those hunting ap pear t > meet with very poor success, everything with a roof to it bein- Taxes on real estate are said to°be enrT raous, and next year will be still bioh owing to the large bounties from corporation funds to enable draff,, citizens to leave their families paruitv provided for. v * LITTLE INTEREST seems to be felt in the Inaugural Ad dress of President Lincoln to-morrow which shows a tremendous change this respect from the excitement shown four years ago in this city. There w some loud bets at the Fifth Avenue last evening that there would be “a story” i a the document, meaning undoubtedly that the inaugural itself would pass into/aL scory / TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS were realized at the Charity Ball at the Academy of Music on Tuesday nicrh t __ This is an annual affair in this city f or the benefit of the poor, and upper ten dom vie with each other in purchasing the largest number of high-priced tick ets. Some of the dresses worn cost as high as—a petroleum fortune. A SERENADE came off last Wednesday night by the magnificent band of the Second Massa chetts Heavy Artillery, which is stop ping at the New England Rooms. Gen. Dix, Hunt, Wilcox, Kinks; Cols. Howe, Haipin and others were listeners to the midnight melody. New York, 9 30 a. m. Our streets are filling with the out pourings of all our people, old and young. The metropolis wears a flaming coronal of glorious banners—the streets and avenues are covered with flags anti streamers—the sun seems to shine with redoubled lustre—bayonets glisten as cur military files by to take its place in the great procession. Everybody is jubilant, and the bulletins, announcing Sheridan’s last feat of the capture of the rebel Gen eral Early and his army, are cheered again and again.* Never did Broadway look so splendid —every window’ from the Battery to Central Park, every house-top, every door-stdop—all are covered, festooned and saucily draped with flags great and small, from the fifty-foot “ old glory, J who curls and straightens out in the mornings west-wind so defiantly, and “touch-me-if-you-dare” appearance, to the little jaunty emblems of our nation’s honor in the jockey hats of our little boys and the elegant coiffures of cor beauteous damsels. Jollity rules. The favorable accounts from North Carolina of Gen. Sherman's advance—the recent inauguration of President Lincoln under so different an aspect from that accompanying his first inauguration—the good news from the Shenandoah Valley—and the general hopefulness of all true patriots, "causes all the hearts of the good to beat buoy antly and happily. Five hundred and forty of the sick heroes of Sherman's array, from Savan nah, arrived here safely last Thursday, and have been placed in the excellent hospitals in*the vicinity. Beall, the Lake Erie pirate and railroad robber, was duly hung a week ago last Saturday. This fact "has created more hope in patriot breasts that the govern ment really intends in future to deal with such parties as they deserve, according to the customs of war. Considerable comment, is made upon the speech of our new Vice President, especially that portion wherein he glon fied himself as being of plebian stock, and parading the fact to the foreign Ministers there present. However, everybody knows that Andy Johnson is one of the most honest men in the world, and, like our President, is as homely sometimes 111l 11 hfs expressions as the latter is in physi ognomy. They are always, neverthe less, whenever the good of the country is concerned, like the Dutchman’s horse? to be found tf.ar ! A. F. L