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The Savannah Daily Herald. BV 8. W. MASON AND CO. SAVANNAH. TTSSDAY. MARCH 21. !-&'■ HOW A GESTIKMAX RKPOKTED NT. PATRICK'S DAY. lii a certain oily, not twenty thousand miles from everywhere, there was once con iiocted with a certain newspaper a certain chap, called l»y a certain name, which, t<»r tlie present we will assume to be Sain This w*as in oar early editorial days, and we were considerably on our dignity, and we rather assumed to order Sam about a lew New, Sun wrote all. sorts ot thing*, editorials, and weather items, and ship news, and military intelligence, and fntun jokes, and tidvcrtise ments, and all sorts ot the various stilt! that has to be spun from the editorial brain to make that curious, queer, comical piece oi literary patchwork which we < ill n newspaper bam used to think he was the editor of the paper, mid as lie was a pretty good fellow, generally harmless, an 3 as w e could sometimes make him useful, we indulged him in hi> innocent little delusions. Sam also fancied himself the Proprietor sod as it is rather useful than otherwise to have a pnpricioi somewhere about on salary-day. we also put up with Ids whim in this respect Stint Patrick's dav came alone in our vieiiiitv oin i n.t nd. as we thought a dc risitor w •I ’> . M,i._ r l id", we concluded to g;. S to “spiva.l" on a fancy nyon. ,■> •we .w .Sum up, aud tiius ad dressed Su li : “SulU. sWtd We, ' ‘S;UIi. there S going to be a big thing—somebody is going j to do some doings—'twill he glorious, grand, sublime, tremendous, huge and nice. Thcre'il be speechifying, Sam, anl the speeches will be powerful, lofty, vigorous, impassioned, poetic, spirited, grandiloquent, Sam ; flowery, graudiose, Sun ; high-sound ing, pure and chaste, Sun; mellifluous, euphonious, polished, classical, elegant, Sam; Johnsonian, Sam ; Ciceronian, Sam ; Demos thenian, Websterian, Sam; rhetorical, mag niloquent, sublime—in short, Sam, they’ll be pretty good. Saint Patrick is like John Gilpin, “a gen tleman of credit and renown.” And he owns a day of his own,Sam. Saint P. has twenty tour whole hours which are his owu private, personal property. Secured to him in his own right, unencumbered, unmortgaged, aud nobody has even a four-cent lien on any one of the whole two-dozen. Now, Sam, P. is going to bring his day along here to-morrow, aud we want you to go aud see it. Besides the speeches and orations and things, there will be a lot of soldier men —fellows in blue breeches and bluer coats, with gold things on ’em, aud buttons all over ’em, as if they'd been out iu a shower of brass buttons and tinsel, without any umbrellas, aud had all got very wet. You shall see 'em, Sam. In the sublime words of the poet, Sain, “You shall put on your new Ebenezers, And go and sec the snojezers.” So, prepare Samuel, to go and bring us a full of this glorious day, and how Saint Patiick behaves himself. Go, Samuel, do your duty—(//stingulsh or extinguish your self, then come with your pockets full of manuscript detailing the thing, the whole thing, and a good deal more than the thing.” When we had concluded this speec'.i, which we flatter ourselves is rather neat. Sain re sponded in these Spartan words, though where Sam learned how to talk Spartan talk we don't know—“l «•;// go forth. 1 will do things, I will succeed. Ml go in and win—it I fail, 111 come home and bid you all a fond farewell, and then 111 kill myself or perish in the attempt.” After these memorable words Sam depart ed—where he weut. to or what he did, we don't definitely know, but we heard of him in various quarters of the city—-a black bot tic had hiui in charge, and he seemed, our informants said, to be in a thriving state. We waited patiently all day for the*Errant Sam, indulging serai-occasionally in a “modest quencher” in recollection of the ab- sent, as a tribute to the flay, and in honor of 1 tbe Saint whose name it bears. At half past I three o'clock in the morning, an hour and three quarters after the paper was all printed, some gentlemen deposited on our door steps a bundle ot something that looked like the elo lies Sam used to wear and tlientricd to lun away—one of them fell over a hydrant, another lay down on his back and called to be carried out and buried decently—while a third one aj'ter taking two steps in a wrong direction reclined on a Cirb-stone, and with bis head between bis knees, murmured an almost inarticulate desire that someone would saw his !"g off with a bar of soap. Our attention was now drawn to the bun dle, which dose examination showed to be Sam. the lost, the erring, the peccant, tlie ambilions Sam, in a state of highly-pcculiur collapse. On attempting to enter into conversation with him on the subject of Saint Patrick, and the day thereof, be thing his arms and other limbs about in a very promiscuous manner and made some funuy noises, being evidently trying to talk a little with bis mouth, but be only succeeded in extracting from somewhere about tbe neighborhood of hi 9 left band pantaloons pocket, some sounds which after many repetitions, at last resolv ed themselves into a strange melody in the minor key, the burden of which seemed to le j n asseveration that he “wnnld.ut go bom • till morning’'—“Samuel,” we replied with all our native dignity, “You n,‘edn’t say that aim in. You harn't come home till mom j ; n! r so there's no occasion for any more talk alniut ih'it." When the young man who was evidently suffering from some sort of a tit, the nature of which our limited experience of that sort of thing wouldn’t enable us to exactly determine, changed liis base (or treble, we don't know which.) and, rolling half over, demanded in the same odd sing tie tone to have “Johnny.fill up the bowl,” •‘Samuel.” we replied, “John shan’t do anything of the kind — John lias gone to bed ~n the counter, besides wp liavn’t got any >k>\vl. neither have we anything to fill it with." Sam here struggled up, dragged from his pocket the following lucid document, and (\v,aiming, “Here’s port Spatrick's day,” tell down and began to snore in the most stalwart manner. sam’s report. • Went jo see Pat’s day—went to ske— >ke—skedad’s ranche sometimes lie's a }>r» tty good old girl—generally—positively— silver quarters is good things to lose match ing pennies—don't you see—it warn’t half, halt full —you sec—as you said—why— wherefore, because, not so, neverthe less —all around my hat, —the black cat kicked out the grey cat’s eye—rinctum— ;n.;um—who’s afraid—you did, you did, Ivtty did—and so they eat red cabbage till their eyes bulged out —nobody said you did —and then he jumped into the trunk, and then lie jumped out on the top, and then— dhlo, dido, ri kitty dido—him, bam, bum— and why not—thus, notwithstanding—and so you see the elephant couldn’t get into the inkstand. Then she |cha-s.ized over his head—and the holler of her foot made a hole in the ground—and the dog ran down the far thest sugar-wagon, and her arras were stretched like a pair of twin pumpkins in a heavy gale of honey-bees, and when the story came to that, nobody believed tbe neighbors—live blue Thomas cats born with seven wooden legs apiece—and then, more over, when the tar-bucket heard of it, she replied, speaking iu the Arabic Tongue, that it must be the tremendous dose of Rhyming Dictionaries, which had drawn the blister on the sucking Yawl boat with two Quaker meeting-houses in a cradle hard by, and when the judge wouldn’t understand this lu cid statement of the case, then the blue bot tle flies were harnessed to the six-story om nibus, and they all came home through the back window of tbe mahogany bedstead.— Golden Old Johnny, fill up the Ale bowl.’ There, that is that young man’s report of the proceedings on Saint Patrick’s Day in that city where we were. The youth did not for a week quite recov er from his fit—he looked lobster color un der tlie eyes, but we cured him of his sick ness with a pint and a half of salt water, a medicine which we can confidently recom mend. Now, if any man, woman, or child, will expound to us the peculiar mental condition which produced the above lucid composition, we—we'll—we ll—introduce him to Sam. Meantime he had brought a half a gallon of laudanum, a pound of strychnine, a peck of dog buttons, a bowie-knife, two revolvers, and spent one day anxiously inquiring for a silk rope that could be warranted to thor oughly hang a man who weighed ISO pounds nett, lie said lie wanted to die genteely, and was afraid a hemp rope would hurt his neck and rumple iiis shirt collar. He said, in sup poi't of bis suicidal design, “what is life to a man if he is always going tobe subject to fils?” We recommended him to warm some clean water to lls degrees Fahrenheit, and drown himself comfortably. But he gave us a great fright, for though he eventually returned, he went away and was gone for four days, leaving us frantically demanding of every one we met, —"•Have you seen Sam t" A Word in Season.— The weather yester day was warm and sultry and gave rise to uncomfortable misgivings in the minds of many of our newly-adopted fellow-citizens as to tlie pleasure of passing the coming summer in this, even tlie loveliest city of the South. It is to be feared something more serious, too,may be apprehended than mere perspira tion and lassitude which were the only re sults of yesterday's dog-day-lilte weather. It becomes every citizen to see to it for him self that ever}' unclean spot about his premis es, which might serve as a breeder of disease under the action of hot summer situs, be im mediately purified. The hist >ry of past years warns us that epidemics have, not unfre i quently raged in Savannah, and whatever cau be done to diminish the ti-.lt of a visita ; lion, should be willingly performed as a duty 1 one owes to himself, to his family, and to the community at large Cattle Thieves About. —Sunday night last, five colored men attempted to steal, in the rear of St. Andrew’s Hall, on Broughton street lane, a valuable milch cow. The ani mal got away from them, and they had a great quarrel about it, each one blaming the other. It is a pity that the scoundrels were not caught and an example made of them. Persons in this city who have valuable cows are compelled to keep a careful watch over them at night to prevent them from being stolen. English Ignorance of'American Affairs. The utter ignorance of even the commonest and best known affairs relating to America, which isoften exhibited by English writers who should be better informed has often been the subject of sarcastic comment in the leadii g journals of this country. It is very true that some American Editors are none too well in formed respecting the minutal of English or European politics, but we venture to say that it is rare indeed to find in our periodi cals auy such egregious blunders about the commonest points of the Geography of fureign lands, as their editors habitually disclose when speaking of the New World. One of the leaning Euglish papers at the time of the last Chicago Con vention, gravely imparted to its readers the precious piece of originalin forma tion, that “Chicago is a thriving town in the parish of Illinois, in the Great West State on the lake of Huron”—and furthermore pro ceeded to patronize that thriving town aforesaid, by stating that “they were credi bty informed that the people actually had some of their streets very well paved, and that several of the more respectable buildings were lighted with gas.” We have more than once been informed that “Buffalo is a small city on the Niagara Falls River,” and that Washington city is a very nice town, and was called by its name, because Washington was born there. Even with the aid of the very excellent and generally truthful war-maps which are almost daily published by the enterprising New York journals, the Johnny Bulls make the most absurd aud ridiculous blunders about the topographical features of the country, the geographical relations of the various military points and positions to each other, and their strategic importance. Tiiese errors are perfectly inexcusable, for the reason that the maps above alluded to, are, though necessarily hastily engraved, for the most part carefully and correctly drawn from actual survey, and observations made on the spot by the most experienced and trustworthy engineer officers of the Ameri can Army. Their topographical correctness must be secured, for upon them are based the most complex and hold operations ol strategy, and an incorrect map would prove perhaps far more disastrous to a military leader than even a false chart to the com mander of a fleet in a naval engagement. The sin of ignorance is sometimes pardon able, but in these cases the error results too palpably either from an utter lack of interest in the subjects on which the writers proses.- to enlighten the public, or from pure laziness Os course, if a man has not care enough about the themes upon which he proposes to in struct his audience ; to mastor his facts when full means of information lie plain before him, iie is simply a charlatan aud a quack. I; he canuot muster industry enough to com prehend his subject, he is necessarily a gross imposter, and iu either case is of course per fectly unworthy of public confidence. Perhaps the two tilings which prove the greatest puzzles to our trans-Atlantic visitors are, to find that Americans are tolerably civ ilized people and are not all re'd Indians; and secondly, to discover that they speak, as a rule,a little purer English than even the Eng lishman himself. This is by no means a very ildvv exaggera tion—we have but little doubt that many and many an Englishman who comes to Ameri ca to study the natives, and to go home and retail his wonderful adventures to his ad miring countrymen, after lie has recover ed from his first surprise on landing in New York, aud finding that it is rather, on the whole, a tolerably respectable city, and not a mere collection of log lmts iu the midst ol a prairie, actually ventures lor the first time into Brordway with fear and trembling—he takes the well-dressed people he meets to be all foreigners like himself and wonders at their numbers—there he goes on, fearfully and anxiously looking for the aboriguees, and expecting each minute to see some huge stalwart Indian, start out from his ambush behind some sheltering corner, all attired in paint and feathers, and armed with bowie knife aud'tomahawk and bow and arrow, and rifle and war-club, and the whole armo ry of savage weapons of which he has often read—he hurriedly asks himself in what lan guage shall he address “ye horrible salvages,” and what intreaties he shall use to soften their stony hearts, in case lie should per ceive them making hasty but effective prpar.i tious to cut his throat and then scalp him afterwards. Perhaps this picture is slightly overdrawn— possibly the more intelligent of our visitors do; not look for Mohawk, and Sioux, and Winnebago, and Tuscarora Indians in Broad way, or expect to see a Chippeway camp in Fifth Avenue—they only think to find every man attired like the conventional caricature of the American they are familiar with iu so called “\ankee Plays,” and to see every woman with a pipe iu her mouth or a plug of tobacco in her cheek. But the delusions of even the more intelli gent aud cultivated Englishmen, with regard to the subject of hunting, and the supposed facility of bagging huge quantities of wild game within ten minutes w alk of our leading hotels, can hardly be .overstated. If they do not actually expect to shoot partridges and pheasants in Broadway itself, or hunt deer in Gramercy Park or Madison Square, there are vUry few ot them who have any idea of going further from their Astor House dinner than Brooklyn, to find plenty of Buffalo, or of taking a longer journey than to Hoboken oi Staten Island to grapple with a Grizzly. It is a positive fact that an English friend of one of our friends, who, on the day after his arrival in the city, had been invited to a quiet little family dinner in East Eighteenth street, actually made his appearance in a rough, shaggy, hunting-suit, and carrying a long telescopic rifle, whilo lie had a large hunting-knife of the most approved English pattern, stuck in his belt. It took him some time to recover from his astonishment at being presented to our friend's ac&nplished and amiable wife, with two lovely daughters, all of them of as-refined and elegant manners as any ladies in any land: After dinner, in the course of a quiet chat in the smoking room over a glass of fine old Madeira, he confessed with many apologies, that he had “brought his rifle along, think ing that he might be able to persuade his friend to go out. perhaps for an hour and shoot a couple of Buffalo, or so, leaving his squaw in the wigwam to take care of the pappooses, or, perhaps, com pelling her to attend tlie hunters that she might lie ready to skin and carry home the game.” This may be a case of extreme misconcep tion of our social condition, but the ignor ance at first displayed by many traveling foreigners, of our geography, our laws and political relations, even transcends that of our English hunting friend. AMISEMENTS. Solon Shingle. —As we anticipated, a fine house was present at the first performance of this popular drama. We are glad to re cord that it was in every respect a complete success. Mr. Davenport mastered the sym pathies of tlie audience at once, and kept possession of them to the close. Mr. Hern don, as Solon Shingle, was good, and the other parts were in general very satisfactor ily sustained. Manager Taggart has made a happy hit in producing this tolling play, and will be rewarded with a succession of crowd ed houses, as his enter;wise deseives. On account of want of space we are obliged to defer a more extended criticism until anoth er issue. Tableaux Vivants. —A good house attend ed the second display of the Tableaux Vi vants at Firemen’s Hall last evening. As before, the tableaux were very striking and beautiful. These exhibitions are gotten up in tlie best style of art, and with the most correct taste. They furnish an exceedingly recherche entertainment, and are attended by the elite of the city. We hope that the managers will find it to their advantage to continue them. Turner Kr venschen. —The Turner Asso ciation of Savannah.— The Turner Associ ciation of Germans of this city, held a soiree, kraenschen , last evening at Turner's Hall, corner of St. Julien and Jefferson streets. The Hall was tastefully decorated with fes toons of green, bunting, pictures and the banners and insignia of the institutuion. A large attendance was present, and an excel lent hand discoursed fine .music, to which the merry throng tripped tho light fantastic toe until a late hour. In the upper hall was dispensed the beverage which, since the (lays of Tacitus has been known as the favorite drink of Germany. A large number of ladies, officers, and others, enjoyed them selves iu dance and promenade, and every thing passed off pleasantly and successfully. The Turner Association of Savannah was organized iu 18T*2, aud is still a flourishing institution. Its object is to cultivate aud de velop the powers of both body and mind, and its proceedings consist of gymnastic ex ercises, singing and speaking. A fund is also started for establishing a library aud reading room, by means of which German literature and German newspapers will be provieed for its members. At the present-time, three turning or gymnastic meetings are held each week, and two evenings are devoted to music. The society of Turners is likewise a benevolent institution, and keeps up a sick tund for the aid of the families of members in distress. The Turner constitution contains principles radically opposed to and condemning slavery, and has, consequently, tbe honor of being the first, aud for a long time the only society ot anti slavery sentiments in the South. Throughout the war, the Turners have re mained steadfast friends of Freedom and the Union, and have endured much obloquy and persecution at tbe hands of the Rebel author ities in consequence. The Society is now iu a prosperous con dition, and has about forty-fiva members. Its ranks have been considerably thinned by the conscription and other causes, since the be ginning of the war. The following is the present board of offi cers of the Turner Association of Savannah. President, Ch. Goerz ; Vice President, F. Ziegler; Ist Secretary, F. Kolb ; 2d Secre tary, Albert Harig; Treasurer, M. Funk ; Turn Warden, N. Marin; Steward, F. Bruck er. Sensible.— The A. Sun, the organ of the million, in New York city, from the fact that it is and ever has been a penny paper, pub lishes, as its price, “one cent in gold, two CENTS IN CURKENCY.” \\ e would like to see the Sun gentlemen make change for some man who wanted to pay “one cent in gold,” tor a single ; aper. “Rumors of Wars.” —For a number of times during the past few days, reports have been curreut in the city, of £reat battles re cently fought, now by Sherman, now by Schofield, then by Graut, then by Thomas. None of these stories, however, would bear investigation. When sifted down, the whole thing would amount to just about this, that somebody said, that there was a rumor that somebody had seen somebody else, jjwho met the “reliable individual,” who had just had an interview with the “intelligent contra band,’who had just seen the “deserter who came within our lines,” and he said that a negro on a plantation told him that he lately heard a musket shot iu the direction of the interior of the State of Nortli Carolina. We give in our news, columns everything in the way of military intelligence that can be depended on. In the absence of further particulars, our readers may rely that Grant, and Sherman, and all the rest, know fnll well what they want to do, and how to set about doing it, and that not a day passes that each one does not do the State some service. Robbery.— Yesterday morning, between one and two o’clock, the store of Mrs. B. Kinneavy, on the nortli side of Stewart street, near West Broad, was entered and robbed of goods valued at S3OO. The thieves attempted to enter the door, by bor iug two holes and unlatching it; failing in this, they worked at the bolt of a side window, and dropped out its key—then opened the blind-raising the sash andentering the premises. Mrs. Kinneavay, hearing the rogues, proceeded immediately into the store, and found two men dressed as soldiers, who immediately decamped, having opened the door of the store. Several attempts have been made recently to rob different premises in the same neighborhood. HOTEL ARRIVALS. PULASKI HOUSE, MARCH 20, ISOS. M. B. Cnster, Homer, Illinois. ■Tno. W. Kelly, Homer, Illinois. Jno. 1 Sennet', Richmond, Ky. Frank Ketchum, Alexandria, Va. Geo. A. Hudson, New York. Henry A. Beattie, Staten Island, N. Y. Clias H. Vilas, Madison, Wis. .Jared Dennis and wife, Madison, Wis. Chas. G. Strahan, Providence, R. I. Jesse Daggett and lady, Hilton Hoad. Frank Geise, Lt. and Asst. Prov. Mar. General. George F. Lambert, Hilton Head. W. W Bridges, Capt. 54th Mass. Vo Is. John Fernandez, California. 11. Kilhonrn, Fernandiua, Fla. E. R. Kensletter, Fcrnandina, Fla. D. 11. Henry, Fernandiua, Fla. Alfred Eldridge, Chatham, Mass. 11. H. Maloon, Charleston, 8. C. Chas. L. Stetlaner, New York. Capt. E. R. Brink, Kilpatrick's Cav. A. C. C. Turner, Chari eston, 8. C. E. G. Martin, U. 8. Navy. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Arrived—steamer Hudson. Vanpclt, nilton Head : tug C T Shephard, Davis, New York : U 8 Revenue steamer Nemaha, McGowan, Hilton Head; bark Abdel Kader, Eldridge, Hilton Head; steamer U 8 Grant, Dobbs, Hilton Head; steamer Resolute, Can non, Hilton Head. Cleared—steamer Enoch Dean, Hallet, Daufusk<e Island; steamer Hudson, Vanpelt, Hilton Head I. O. O. P. OGLETHORPE LODGE, No. 1, meets every Tues day evening. (Lodge Room on Bay street, over Geo. N. Nichols’Printing Office.} A. F. Torlay, N. G.; F. Kreuson, V. G.; James Clemence, Treas.; C. Gross, Sect. LIVE OAK LODGE, No. 3, meets every Friday evening. (Lodge Room 8. W. cor. Bull aud Brough ton sts., 4th story, entrance on Lroughton street.} J. Holbrook Kstill, N. G.; R. M. Barthelmess, V. G.; D. Thompson, Treas.: D. 11. Gailoway, Sect. MAGNOLIA ENCAMPMENT, No. 1, meets Ist and 3d Wednesday in each month in Live Oak Lodge Room John T. Thomas. C. P.; John Harrison, H. P.: John Dexter, 8. W.; R. Groves, J. W.; C. Gross, Scribe ; James L. Hanpt. Treasurer. OUT. The large Stock of BOOTS AND SHOES, SPRING CLOTHING, * GROCERIES, BOTTLED ALE, PORTER and CHAMPAGNE CIDER, SEGARS aud TOBACCOS, in great variety, BEEF AND PORK; in half-hbls., SUTLERS’ GOODS, TEAS COFFEES and SPICES. The eDtire Stock will be sold, WHOLESALE AND RETAU, AT NEW YORK PRICES. The public will find this the best opportunfty to pur-' chase yet offered in this market, . % I ITG BROUGHTON STREET, mar2l ts Next door to Sherlock's. JpROVOST COURT NOTICE. On and after this date, the First Provost Court, Ist Lieut. Eben Parsons, Jr., Judge, will be held at the L. 8. Court House, corner of Bull and Bay streets. The Second Provost Court, Capt. James M. Walton, Judge, will be held in the room over Adams’ Express Co.’s office, corner Bay and Drayton streets. The respective jurisdictions are fixed by General Order No. 0., and all parties having business before said Courts will govern themselves accordingly. By order, PROVOST JUDGES. mariO ts •p^OTICE. Cvstom Hocse Building, Savannah, Ga„ March ISth, ISJS. All persons desiring to make statements to tire Treasury Department at Washington, in regard to the Cotton captured iu the city of Savannah, are request ed to pres .lit the same to Mr. B. W. Burnett, at tliis office, who is authorized to receive them. S. DRAPER, mar -G Special Agent Treasury Dept. NEWS-DEALERS AND OTHERS DESIRING Tub Savannah Daily Hkai.d at Wholsale are re quested to send in their orders as early in advance as practicable. a. W. MASON & CO.