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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. YOL. 1-NO. 57. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING) IS PC BURKED BY M. W. MASON *fe CO., At 111 Bay Street, Savadkah, Geokoia TERMS: Per CopJ, Five Cents. Per Hun:ired $3 60. Per Year. . $lO 00. itmmiNo: Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first in sertion ; One Dollar tor each subsequent one. Ad vertisements inset ted in tho morning, will, if desired, appear in the evening without extra charge. JOB PRINTING In every style, neatly and promptly done. aasasrgg. 'i!ii SMALL BUSINESS. There are few of us who are men now, who were not boys once, and the man who chooses to forget that he once a boy and to act accordingly, has either a very Bhort memory or a very bad heart. The remem brance of a happy childhood never had too great an influence on the actions of any man who was worthy to lie called a man. We never see a fellow surly nnd cross to chil dren; sneering at the graceful sports of little girls, or turning up his nose at the rougher games of boys, that we don’t mentally thank God that no such a man is the parent of a certain little girl and a not quite so little boy (God bless them both), of whom we have intimate knowledge. Why, heaven savo yon, a harsh look would sjirivel up that baby-girl as the sun does an out-of-the-placo violet; and a cross word would at once froeze the heart of that boy-child, or rather, that l>oy-man, within him, for each of them has yet .to hear any word save such as ara fraught with love, and to see any glance that is not laden With kindness and affection. Now, tho difference—coming to our work yesterday, we encountered a group of lively little school fellow’s who were playing marbles ou tho sidewalk—to be sure they occupied the 9ntire walk, and pedestrians who did not care to walk over the little chaps, ha<J to leave the curb-stone and, for half a dozen steps to walk in the street. But what of that ? the street was dry, and in it was quite as good walking as ou the pavement, so we gavo way, passed by’, and felt the better for it. But. a short distance after us, strode a gloomy’-appearing fellow, looking as cross as though he had ouly made twenty thousand dollars when he had expected to realize twenty’ thousand dollars and thirty-one cents. An exclamation from the group of young sters caused us to stop nnd cast a backward glance, when wo perceived that his most tremendous Sulkiness had not only refused to turn off the walk to let the bovs enjoy their game, hut had deliberately kicked all their marbles half-way across the street, had des troyed the “ring” aed was now engaged in scolding the boy’s up the street.'’ We pitied that man. for who would not pity any* man with such a temper. We, how ever, watched him for a few minutes longer till lie came to a place where a little fellow was in trouble about his kite—the string had become entangled ih the lower boughs of a tree—the man being tall enough, could, with scarcely an effort, have released the string and gladdened the boy, instead of which, he, with an oath, broke the kite-line which had tangled Itself about his feet, and then again swore at this little fellow for “blocking up the street.” Now, if that wasn't small business, we never have seen business done on a smaller scale. We don’t uphold the boys In monopolizing the sidewalk, to the sxclusion of foot-passengers who have a right to travel thereon, but we will say, and we do say, that the individual who will de liberately take trouble for the sake of break ing up an innocent boys-game is about as contemptible a person as ono would care to meet. We won't say that old people ought always give way to let young folks have their fun ; that is a matter of opinion, but according to our fancy, the hearty laugh of a crowd of hoys at a pleasant word, or tho timid “thank you," either spoken or only looked, from a bevy of rope-sklpplug girls when we move aside in order that their gams may not be spoiled,*is worth all the trouble a hundred times over. And may God grant that before we grow so mean in spirit as to imitate the ex ample of Mr. Surly aforesaid, there may be found some use for us in another world, where, whatever the dirfy work we may be called upon to do, it shall at least be no disgrace to our friends. I ltE Herald.—We have received many compliments on the improved appearance of t Ue Herald, and also an increase of patronage which has exceeded bur calculations. Our edi tions yesterday were rapidly exhausted, but ve shall ho able to supply all demands to day. 4 Installation.-— This morning at 9 o’clock the Irish Union Society will install their offi cers eject at their Hall, corner of Bay and Lincoln streets.' Provost Court. —Yesterday no offenders being presented to Judge Parsons tho busi *ws of tho Court was confined to civil cases. SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1865. ‘ Thu Weather and divers other Ncil ances.—We had hoped that we had, for the present, done with rainy weather. But there’s no such good luck. Old Jupiter Flavius is by no means suppressed—he is still extant. This present we’ve had a visit from him—he ca*te “in thunder, lightning, and in rain,” like Macbeth’s witches. We beg to state that we don’t refer to Mayor Mcßeth of Charles-, ton, but to another disreputable character who amused himself bv cutting the throat of his mundane Lord’ and Master, Duncan, a highly respectable old gentleman who was in the King business in Scotland, a little vil lage in the vicinity of Edinburg, on the other side of the herring pond. The history of Mac beth, also Duncan, also Baaquo, (who would'nt stay dead, but after having had his throat cut in a style much approved by Mr. Mcß. kept coming back from the other world, and persisted in visiting Mac when he was at dinner, coming without an invita tion, and conducting himself in a very un pleasant manner,) is very nicely and com pactly given in an account written by Mr. William Shakespeare. Thongh we never bad any personal acquaintance with Mr. Shakespeare, we have reason to believe that he was a highly respectable person of some little talent, and wa give full credence to his account of the Macbetho- Duncani-Banquoic affairs. We have heard William Shakespeare accused of romancing, but wo don’t credit any such thing of WHliam—we think Billy was above lying, though it is said ho had a fancy for deer stealing. Well, whose business was it, if he was dainty about his venison, and thought Sir Thomas Lucy kept better deer than he did himself? Why, it waa ths most natural thing in the world that he should select from a neighbor’s flock a toothsome saddle, or a tender haunch. But we started to talk about the weather, and anybody might think wo had slightly “meandered” from tho subject. Well, Bill Shako wroto about'all sorts of storms in liis day, but with all his experience, we don’t believe he ever saw it rain harder than it has done here inSavannah at times during the past month. There was one day in particular— one special day, one wretchedly soaked twenty-four hours, when it rained so hard as to quench the sun—or at least it cooked him off to such an extent that he couldn’t show himself through tho clouds, and a man had to take a double-convex lens to concentrate sunshine enough to make himself cast a shadow. It rained as if it was raining on a bet. It poured as if it was raining a race and was within about half a length of the winning post. It came down as if it had made a con tract to drown all creation in a second del uge, and was bound to beat off-hand the little shower of Old Noah,and give him twen ty-seven points in the game. We don’t think it rained “cats and dogs,” if it did, we didn't see ’em—but we did see a big hop-toad and three large angleworms— they were fat—they wero healthy, they were well-fed—those angleworms evidently hadn’t for the last month got their meals at certain boarding-houses within our ken, tor, as we think we said before, those squirmy gentle men of tho w’orm persuasion were fat. Well, as w T e were saying, those frog may have rained down, ancl that worms may have fall en from the clouds, but we don’t believe it, for had it been so, they should certainly have got well enough acquainted in cloud-land not to have eaten each other up—which they did—at least the toad eat the worms, all of ’em—we don t know much of tho etiquette of Reptile and Insect-land, but we think we arc justified in saying, that, if that hop-toad had never been introduced to those Angle worms he took an unwarrantable liberty wheu he ate them up alive. We think they should have protested—it might have been too late after they had been swal lowed an hour or 30, but stUl they had their rights. As our old Professor used to say, “Experiments fail, but tho principle is tho same.” Well, as we remarked before, wo never yet saw it rain cats and dogs—neither did we ever observe it rain “pitchforks, tines down,” though we have heard of such things, but we have seen it rain so hard, here, in our own little town of Savannah, that an umbrella was a wretched nuisance, and an idia-rubber coat soon became merely a filter ■—when the drops were as big as six-pound cannon shot, and a man had to dodge for his life—when the rain could and would, and dtd take tho earthen tiles right off the roofs— and, day before yesterday we saw a drop, only one drop, of water fall on a roof, where it joined company with another drop, and the two together formed a mass of water so huge as to drown two colored boys and a pig on whom they fell from the roof. That’s a fact—we never do anything by halves here in Savannah. Even when, we sit down to write a weather paragraph wo spin it out a rod or so long—as, witness, this present. Forgive us readers, but if you had a call, as we did, from our three-story Satan, lor “copy in a hurry," and nothing to write about but the weather, our word for it you would’nt choke yourself off as long as you could find a single word to say. A Word to Parents. —There is nothing like fun and jollity to keep children from be ing sick. Many a childish illness is brought on by pure imagination in the first place, and doubtless many a lassitude or chillnesr., or other premonitory symptoms of fever has been killed down by the eager engagement of the child in school sports. Provide al ways for the little ones of both sexes, ap propriate gymnastic apparatus, and our word for it the poles, and bars, and ropes will save in apothecaries’ potions and doc tors’ bilis their worth in a single year. Few people estimate the immense advan tage of keeping children occupied in sports, of seeing that they have all of toys, and other appliances that can possibly tend to keep them ever gay and full of sport. Many and many an incipient disease has been siiffed in its birth by a burst of “ the jolliest soft of fun ” which the boy has encountered on the play-ground or the ice-field, or the girl has found hi the meadow or in tho girls’ gymnasium. Encourage your children to have fun—the more fun the better, so long as it is modest and decorous, and if it be not so, it iB the fau.“-*,C the parents of the children, and not of the little ones themselves. Children are naturely as pure as the heaven itself from which they came, and whatever taint of earth affects their earlier intercourse, comes from tho contaminating influence of older persons. But encourage them to play-do play hard —play drives away disease even if it did not win health, which we know it does. Let no child know the letter A from a seven-pound codfish till he is six years old, and he will be the better for it. But there will always be a lot of grandmothers who will insist that “bub"or “sis” shall learn its lffttev3, and who will try to make a prodigy out of the unfortunato infant while it yet wants milk for dinner. To avert the ill effects of all this give tho child play, play—plenty of it— they can’t have too much. The Street Cojehtssioner’s Deeaeiaiest. Capt. Stearns has, from the commencement of his-dutieß as Street Commissioner, acted upon the general principles of first providing for the health of our people, and then for the beauty of its public places; he ha3 now’ near ly completed the removal of. ail unhealthy deposits from within the city limits, and ac complished something towards restoring its parks, squares and streets to their original condition, and he hopes soon to be able to devote more attention to them. Many peoplo have complained that the squares have not yet been cleaned of the rubbish left from the camps, previously located therein; but when it is borne in mini that this does not affect the public health, we think tiie Captain had acted wisely in leaving them until more important matters were attended to, be has sought at all ti mes to avail himself of the ad vice of onr worthy Mayor and leading citi zens, and to employ men who have hereto fore had experience in the work which he has undertaken, he assures us that our beau tiful city will soon be in a better sanitary condition than ever before. We subjoin a brief statement of the doings of the Department sinee the 24th of February. The Department was organized on the 24th of January, and has accomplished to the 13th of March, the following vast amount of work: Number of singlo horse cart loads of manure, etc., removed from the city, - 1 - - - 11,672 Dead animals removed and buried 636 The average number of employees since March Ist, - 158 Average number of days labor since the Ist of March, - 121 There are employed in cleaning the streets the following vehicles: One-horse wagons, 36; one-horse carts, 27; six mule teams, 8k - ■» ■ ■ Sooth Broad Street.— The excellent con- I dition in which this street is at the present time, is especially creditable to Capt. Albert Stearns, the Street Commissioner. Under the central row of trees rich earth has been ; placed, and this summer a bed of beautiful ! grass and blooming shade trees will be a re j lief to the pedestrian and tho care-worn la ! borer, who will be able to enjoy a siesta in the shade. Chief Medical Officer.— Surgeon A. P. Dalrymple, who is, we believe, the only Surgeon now in the Department who has been in It since its formation, has been assign ed to duty as Chief Medical Ofiler of this District, and has reported for duty. His long experience in this Department, the im portant places ho has filled, and his skill as a surgeon, well adapt him for this position, and wo are very glad to know of his appoint ment. * Municipal Government at Hilton Heap. We understand that measures are on foot at Hilton Head for the organization of a mu nicipal government to act in connection with the military authorities. One meeting has already been held, at which Brig.-Gen. M. S. Littlefield, commanding the District.made some remarks. Another meeting is to be held. A local civil government has already been established at Mltchelvilie. A FATTY ON SKATES. Mr. Fleshly, an obese beau of Gotham as sumes to skate on Central Park Pond, to oblige his cousin Kitty. A contributor to the New York Leader relates how’ he dkMt: I bought the “Skating Manual”first, for to tell the truth I hadn't the sligliest idea what kind of skates to get. I took it home, read it carefully through, studied the which were just as intelligible to me as Egyp tian hyeroglyphics, and learned which variety of skate is the best. “ The blade or runner,” I read, “ should curve symmetrically, be rounded at the toe and heel, so as to override slight obstructions on the ice, whether in forward or backward motion ; and not more than two inches of the surface should at any time rest upon the ice.’’ , Reading over this clause of the description until I had firmly committed it to memory, I sallied out, invested a cross-bearing greenback in a pair of the latest ‘patents,’ and devoted myself assiduously to studying the theory of skating, and waiting for the ball to go up. Li a few days I had completely mastered the Manual. I understood every diagram in it; and, what is more, I believe, I “could do it,” for I am an earnest-theorist. At last my time came. 1 looked at my thermometer one morning, and found that the mercury had been trying to get within the bulb to keep from freezing, anti soon after saw, to my delight, “.the ball,” on which the eye of New York is fixed in the. winter season like that of the mesmerist's subject ou tbe button. In exactly an hour and forty minutes after I made this discovery, I stepped upon the edge of the frozen Park Pond, with skates in my hand, Manual in my pocket, and con fidence in my heart. “Put ’em on, air? only five cents,” said a diminutive youth with a very dirty face and a gimlet. i must have cast one of my most wither ing frowns at that boy,- for he slunk away sheepishly. Tho fact is, 1 bad learned from the Manual all that was needful regarding the putting on of skates, and it seemed to me that a proposition liko that of the boy was as much as to say that he thought I couldn't put them on. I seated myself on a bench, and after freezing my fingers for twenty-live minutes, accomplished tiie work ol fastening the skates to my boots, and was ready, in the language of the Manual,* to “strike out gracefully, and skim over the ice in the poet ry of motion.” In rising from a sitting to a standing posi tion, I observed a singular phenomenon in my feelings. In the exact proportion that my body approached the perpendicular, my confidence in theoretical skating diminished. However, I determined to give the instruc tions of the Manual a fair test, and accord ingly prepared to “strike boldly out,” as the directions suggested. Mi/ striking out was not a success; that of the icc was, decidedly. I made a vigorous lunge with the right foot, as the Manual di rected. I think it was entirely too vigorous, a3 i gave it such a momentum that the left was unable to keep up with it, and I sud denly saw both in the air, and in the same instant felt the bald spot on my head strike the ice with the force of a battering-ram. “What a fall was there, my countrymen,” said a chap with a girl on his arm, as they sailed pass me. “Te he,” tittered the girl. “I say, Bill, pork’s coming down,” said a little villain to a companion. “Here Bob.” said another ragged littie rascal, “git a derrick to put this cove on his pins.” “Oh, my eye, isn’t he a big thing on Ice I” suggested a third. Notwithstanding that my head throbbed with pain at a rate something like the strokes of a forge hammer, I was conscious of being the subject of ridicule and saw that the theo retical part of skating was a humbug. But a happy thought struck me, and I grabbed one of my skates in my hand, gave it a vigorous shake, pretended to readjust tho screws and manipulate the fastenings with a very profes sional air, just as I had 'seen others do under the game circumstances, to give spectators the impression that the fault is not in the skater himself—oh, certainly not; but these wretched skates! Just at this moment a winsome young man came up to where I was safely sitting, and after a dexterous flourish, remarked : “Excuse me, sir, but you have a very dan gerous style of skate there. A cousin of mine, who is a capital slater, bought a pair of them, and the first time he tried them, which was yesterday, he fell and dislocated his collar-bone. You see they round up at the heel, instead of stopping sharp like these, holding up his own ; “and they give you no chance to keep your feet from flying up.” I had noticed this latter feature ; In fact, it ■truck me forcibly. “You are correct,”l replied; “I bought these skates without giving them my usual critical examination, and was deceived in them. But Low to better the case is the trouble." I’ll tell you what I'll do, *’ said the nice young man, in a kind of self-sacrificing man ner, “I have been skating all the morning— my skates are excellent—if you would like to trade and pay the difference, I wouldn t mine letting you have mine, as a matter of accommodation.” “And what la the difference ?” “Well, say three dollars, although thaj won t pay me for the trouble.” The bargain was concluded. The gener ous young man took the three dollars and my new skates and started off, while I went to work to buckle on my new property. “Do you know that cove as you traded with ?” said a boy with a gimlet, >vho had witnessed the transaction. “No. Why?” “Nothin,’ only he’s humbugged you sweet. Them skates you've got now is three inches too short for you, and ain't good for nothin’ nohow. Youre was tho best they make." The boy was right, as I found by placing one of his skates by the side of my loot—it was just about onedhird too shotl. lam not a protane mam but I just then happened to think of a pface wlieie it would afford me a great pleasure to have that nice young man sent. What a fyol I had been ! Had thrown away a pair of good skates and been grievously hoaxed besides. But the thing was done, and, like a true PRICE. 5 CENTS. philosopher, I pocketed the affront and the okl skates, and started homeward. But I didn’t give it up. Not a bit of it. I thought of what was at stake—my reputa tion lor veracity; my digestion, and—and Kitty’s favor. So, wnen I got home, I applied a little liniment to my head, a little hot punch to my stomach, concluded that Skinuem could not complain about my want ot exercise that day, determined to learn to skate “or perish in the attempt,” as the rebels say, and then prepared to call on Kitty to say that the ice would probably be sale in a few days. But I must deter my further experience till next week; and iu the meantime I offer a pair of half-wflrn skates to anybody who will put in my clutches that nice young ras cal who swindled me out of* my new '“pa tents.” Being determined, like Mr. Brown, not to “give it up so,” he makes another essay, and gets his skates on, and here is related how Mr. Fleshiy becomes convinced that he was too fat to skate . Cautiously I advanced one foot a little, then the other, .keeping my arms stuck out like a couple of pump-handles, and using them as a rope-walker uses his balance polo. My greatest difficulty was in keeping my feet within a reasonable distance of each other. The skates exhibited a kind of elec tric repulsion, and each seemed inclined to get as far away from the other as possible, which eccentricity, I may observe, is not con dueivc to keeping an erect position. But as I gradually worked my way out into the throng, anew trouble beset me. A few hundred skaters, big and little, young and old, male and female, novitiate and ex pert-all turning, crowing, whirling—-with an occasional skating-chair by way ol' variety, is not calculated to give confidence to a man who is taxing his ingenuity to the utmost to keep his centre of gravity where it ought to be. First a 3kater would come sailing along directly toward me, whereat I endangered my equiUbrium by an attempt to avoid a collision; then the skirts of a lady would brush against me, threatening to topple me over; then an urchin would rushing past my legs as it he had been shot from a mortar, i was just beginning to pride myself on the dexterity I displayed iu thus keeping my feet under me, when suddenly I experienced a singular sensation, and one which I havo not the slightest curiosity ever to feel again- I felt that something had violently collided with my coat-tails, and that my body—the entire 237 pounds avoirdupois—had received a forward impetus, the liko of which I had never experienced since my father sold the old ram that we used to keep on the farm.— For au instant I was in the air; the next. I was sprawling upon the ice like a lobstef Ita his element. “ Why, Mr. Fleshly!” Did I hear aright ? Had the thump from that .villainous skating-chair unsettled ray seuse.3, or was that really the voice of Kitty Gleason ? Assuming tho favorite Turkish posture, I looked up. “Why, Mr. Fleshiy, I am so surprised to see you. Are you hurt ?” I hope to be guillotined if it wasn’t Xitty, and actually hanging on the arm of that hor rid Jones ! A. pretty dilemma for me to be in ; a nice exhibition of awkwardness I bad made. But my self-possession seldom leaves me, it my feet do, and I determined to make the best of it. “Oh, no ; I- am not injured iu the least. It’s very seldom the ice gets the better of me; but I was not paying attention, and that booby with the chair came against me with force enough to knock down an elephant." She smiled as if she thought the compari son wuainot drawing it a bit too strong in my case, and remarked : “Do you see Mr. Jonls ? Isn’t he a lovely skater ?” and she looked admiringly at that worthy who was cutting cue of his figures a few yards distant. “Yes, I see Jones,” I remarked sharply; and I felt very much like taking Jones by the head and deliberately wringing his neck. Just then Jones came up with one of his favorite flourishes; Kitty took his arm, and the next instant they were gliding away like birds. This was the end of all my fond expecta tions. This was the style in which I had checkmated Jones 1 I beckoned an urchin to take off my sfcfitesT giving him to understand that if be wha more than half a minute about it, I should etrfo him. Takingtho skate* In my hand, I walk ed from the Bark in no enviable frame of mind. Conjugal Disparity.— (Enter disconsolate looking female without hoops.) Foreman. —Madam, what complaint have you to make. Complainant—l come to enter complaint against my companion. /ora.—Your husband, I supposo. Wei!, wbat is your name, and what has he dc-<. ? Com.— His name is , and he struck me and threw me out of doors, and to kill me it I came into the house again. Fore.— What provocation did you give unw | him, madam, for such treatment ? Com. — l don’t line to tell sir. Fore.— But, madam, you must. The grand jury must know all the circumstances. than—Well, if I must, I must. He done it justcause I would’nt sleep with him. Fore. —Ah! that’s the nature of the case. Very well, why did you refuse to sleep with him? Ckm.— 'Cause he was drunk, and I did’nt want to. Fore.— Well, bow is it when he’s sober? Do you refuse to sleep with him then? Corn.— No, sir; but when he’s sober he won’t sleep with me. [A general roar fol lowed, in which the foreman could’ut help but join.] Wendell Phillips was riding In a railroad car, when he was addressed by a man of such rotundity that he seemed to carry everything before him. This man asked Mr. Phillips what was the object of his life “To bene fit the negro,” was the bland reply. “Well, then, why don’t you go dpwn South to do it?”'That is worth thinking of. I .tojdL white cravat around your neck; pp«JW4 Is the object of your life?” “To from hell." “May I ask propose to go there/-' * given as a joke