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Newspaper Page TextSAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. VOL. 1-NO. 59. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING) 18 PUTILISHED BY a \V. 3IASON & CO., At 111 Bay Stbket, Savannah, Georgia. teems: Per Copy Five Cents. per Hundred... $3 50. Per Year $lO 00, AnVBRTISING: Tw o Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first in sertion ; One Dollar for each subsequent one. Ad vertisements inserted in the morning, will, if desired, appear in the evening without extra charge. J<3 B PRINTING every style, neatly and promptly done. LETTER FROM NEW YORK. [ pecial Correspondence of the Savannah Herald.] THE CO-PARTNERSHIP DODGE. New York, March 22. The Cos Paxtneriship Dodge, as played in this city, is well kept up, but how well it succeeds it is hard to tell. A friend of mine made a slight investigation of the matter a short time since, and learned enough to satis fy him that none but Ihe greenest of the green ones could ever be taken in by them. They are are advertised extensively under such attractive announcements as “SSOO-with this small capital any one may engage with the advertiser in a neat, easy, and genteel business, yielding a profit of from 100 to 200 per cent., or from £BOOO to £IO,OOO per an num.” The first one he inquired into he found to be a real estate agency. He found the advertiser in an upper room, which con tained a desk and three chairs, and learned that by paying him £SOO he could have an undivided equal share in the profits of the business. Sometimes, the advertiser said, he would make a strike of £SOO in one trans action, which might be accomplished in one or two hours attention. These*strikes, he admitted were rare, “but then, you know,” he added, “you cau wait after making such a strike, a week, or even two weeks for another.” My friend asked him what the £SOO he was expected to pay him, was to buy, and lie told him half of the office fur niture (worth about £5) and the privilege to share in the business. He told the advertiser he thought it would be better for him, if he wanted SSOO to wait until he made one of the “strikes” he spoke of, and keep on with the business alone; but he said be had so much to do, since taking hold of anotlior business that he needed a partner. A clerk with a light salary would not do for the reason, perhaps, that where those “strikes" were made, the clerks would not be entitled to the “one individual half.” Mv friend frank ly told him that though there was a very per suasive promise that he would secure a speedy return ofhis investment, still not be ing of the Micawber turn of mind, he tho’t lie would look for something more steady in its operation, even if it were a little less promising. The next was a periodical pub lication, requiring only £.IOO to become an equal partner, and which yielded a very large income. He found the periodical to be an advertising sheet, principally of real estate. Each advertisement, making four lines, was inserted for fifty cents one time. The price of the paper was stated to be ten cents. Upon asking why so high a price was charged for the paper, the advertiser said it was to “prevent the rabble from run ning down bis office to procure copies.” My friend told him he could not expect to sell many copies, for the people would prefer to buy a paper that had news in as well as ad vertisements. He did not care for that—the less he sold the better, so long as lie got pay for his advertisements. But, suggested my friend, how long will you get advertisements if you don’t circulate them ? The advertiser began to get fidgety, and with some asperity exclaimed: “Very well—very well—if you think you know more about the business than I do, you are mistaken. I tell you there is money in it.,’ My friend told him he did not think the business would 3uit him, and left. Though well satisfied with his expe rience thus far, my friend looked into qno or two other propositions, and found them all alike. One was a proposition to go into the show business and travel. By putting in only one thousand dollars he could make £H>,OOO and expenses in six months. What he learned in every instance was that his money was to pay for an undivided half of a privilege, which the advertiser asaumed to hold exclusively. THE EAST DATS Os our volunteer tire department are un doubtedly drawing nigh, although the contest its attaches and friends are making in its be half, at Albany, show conclusively that there must be some strong interest at stake to en able the dogma of custom to so persistently hold out against the inevitable steps of pro gress. Aside*rom our tire department befog a strong political machine, there are even more contemptible uses to which it is put. Many of the engine houses, in certain parts of the city, are nothing more nor less than semi-brothels and the haunts of thieves. T he latter are known under the generic title °f Bummers, from whence spring this eu phonious word now in such common use to denote an idle or dissolute person. These SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1865. “bummers” aie generally red-shirted speci mens of the male persuasion, tlieif religion chief!}" consisting of a big pair of boots, (stolen,) a red shirt, (ditto,) whiskey ad Ithi tnm, (stolen or otherwise procured.) and any thing else they can lay their hands on at a fire. Anything comes handy to them that can be “shoved” at a fence-shop, from a baby's rattle to a gold watch, a pier glass or a cream pitcher, boxes of cigars or a mantel-ornament, a lady’s coiffure or au old soinbrao hat, an overcoat or shirt studs, a pair of slippers or an elegant dressing gown, a map of the world or a clean shirt—in fact whatever they first see on entering a house in the capacity of firemen is immediately swept out of sight, the unfortunates ascribing their losses to the devouring element. It is not an uncommon sight.after afire at a cloth iug store, to see whole companies of firemen with new suits the next Sunday,ostentatious ly sunning themselves in front of their “ho tels,” as they denominate their engine house. I once was a member of the Boston Volun teer Fire Department, hut never in ten years experience in that city did I witness any downright stealing—but in the city, at one fire, I saw more things “disappear” in half an hour than during all my observation for years elsewhere. An instance is given by our pa pers of the stealing propensities of our fire men at a fire last week in Dey street. A liquor store was broken into three or four doors from the building which was in flames, under pre'ence of taking the hose to the roof. That “necessity” is now explained by the act that the proprietors of said store lo9t four hundred dollars worth of goods, in the shape of fifteen gallons of French brandy, seven gallons of Bourbon whiskey, three cases of Cabinet champagne, several dozen bottles of gin cocktail, a dozen bottles of pickles, meerschaum pipes, etc. Those hose men must have had an awful exposition,but as the sixty-seventh anniversary of the de partment was to be celebrated in a few' nights thereafter, doubtless many a machine carried its quota of the good things to their houses to assist in their annual blowr-out. It is fair to infer that the red-shirted geniuses who often are thus “necessitated” to open a store half a block from a fire are not friendly to the establishment of a well-organized paid department. Not they—their occupation would be gone, and they w T ould have to work for a living or indulge in the passtime of bounty-jumping. THE KEARSAGE TESTIMONIAL has been collected and distributed. It amounted to the nice little sum of tw’enty five thousand dollars, of which Winslow, the commander, received ten thousand, Lieut. Thornton only twelve hundred, and “poor Jack” from twenty-five to forty dollars! The division is much commented upon, but, as it is said to be satisfactory to the subscribers, it of course, has got to be to those receiving it, and it is none of the public’s business. A story is going the rounds that the gallant commander has passed, over one-half of his ten thousand to Lieut. Thornton, who is con sidered equally deserving. THE TYEOTHETiE Is the title coined and assumed by the Master Printers’ new' association of this city. Under this head they w ill assemble at stated meetings to discuss and adopt measures for their mutual interests. They held their first meeting, as Typotlietae, last Tuesday evening, and, from all accounts they “gave out” and “distributed” to each other many “fat” takes. Although of them are not much in favor of night-work yet they did not ad jouriAintil long after “waiting” had com menced on morning papers. tfARDY HONORS To the manes Aif the martyrs of the British Prison Ships are' about being initiated in Brooklyn. It appears that the remains of the victims to the cruelty of the British, while imprisoned on board ships in this bar- bor, were interred in an obscure place in Brooklyn, and spasmodic attempts have, from time to time, been made to have some thing done with them, but without avail. It is now proposed to build a tomb on Fort Green, and erect a suitable monument over it in their honor. The project is favorably con sidered by the city government of Brooklyn, as it will tend to add an attraction to what is now considered a poor apology for a park. the auctioneer’s iiammerJ is a sad destroyer of old associations, and a perfect leveller of old landmarks. Such are the reflections of many as they pass through our streets daily. Among the many noted buildings in this city, especially noted and always cheerfully remembered by eastern sea-captains, is the old United States Hotel, on Fulton street, near the Fulton Ferry. It is now closed, and last Monday evening Ad miral Gregory presided over a meeting of its guests, at which many eulogistic little speech es were made by gentlemen from every New England State, from California, and by one or two “old settlers’’ who have made it their home for the past twenty-five years, all com memorative of the comforts and pleasures enjoyed under its roof. A block of stores will soon cover the spot. LEAVE THE CHILDREN AT HOME is your correspondent's advice to any con- templating visiting this city. Children are now' stolen here almut as regularly as fancy dogs, for the purpose of getting the high re wards offered for their return, and also for the purpose of robbing them of their cloili iug and little jewelled trinkets they may have on their little bodies. It is horrible to think of, but in some of the wealthy locali ties of this city there is an average of at least one case of child-stealing every day, and the police have “spotted’’several old hags who hang around door-stoops as beg gars, as “child-stealers.” After a child has been advertised for, and a liberal sum of fered with “no questions asked,” it will be brought back to its agonized parents, ho cheerfully pay from one hundred to five hundred dollars to rescue it from the hands of the miserable fiends, who otherwise pror titute its pretty Tace to J assist its villainous possessors in exciting sympathy from a generous public. An almost demented pa rent to-day advertises for “our little Johnny,” who was stolen from his door-stoop in Uni versity Place last Monday afternoon, offering “fifty dollars reward, and no questions asked," if the fiends- will only return their blue-eyed boy to his now desolate home! Au ounce of lead should be the “rewaid." AN “UNA BRIDGED” LEGISLATOR can be found at Albany in our House of As sembly. He is anxious to improve the schol astic abilities of his brother legislators, and consequently offered the following: “Resolvid, That the Clerk of this hous furnnisli a coppy of Webster's una-bridggd Dictouary to each member.” The “resolvid” did not pass. PATRICK’S DAT was generally observed in this city and Brooklyn by our Irish fellow-citizens. Al though the draft proceeded in Brooklyn on Washington’s birthday, it w r as suspended here in honor of Ireland’s patron Saint. The display in the way of procession w r as very fine—the number of Societies in line almost fabulous, each with a band of music—nearly all the Societies with their distinctive re galias and splendid banners of green and gold—and the crowded streets resounded to “Rory O’More,” “Noia Creina,” “St. Pat pick’s Day, ’’ and other Irish tunes. Every thing went off pleasantly and orderly, owing doubtless to the moral effect of the presence of a large number of Father Matthew Tem perance Societies. The Brooklyn Father Matthew Society is one of the finest bodies of men I ever saw' in this or any other city. There w r ere certainly a hundred thousand people on our streets to-day to view the pro cession. Grand banquets succeeded the day’s parade. , RELEASED UNION PRISONERS Have been arriving here quite numerously the past month. During the last w'eek our New England Rooms have received, cared for, and fomarded over two hundred to their homes in different parts of the country. A half hour’s conversation with any of them will melt a heart of ice. FOR MEXICO. The story is again credited here that the Juarist interest is strongly and energetically at work here, and that they have been quite successful in obtaining officers and soldiers of experience, who are to leave here for Mat amoras. The statement is made, also, that more than one full regiment will be ready to seek and carve their fortunes in Mexico after this wmr is finished. Nobody seems to care how' many go there, as they will form a future nucleus for our ow r n invaders. THE KNIGHTS OF THE OOI.DEN CIRCLE Have received a fresh ventilation this time by no less a personage than their President, George W. Lamb Bickley, M. D. It will be recollected that he was many months since arrested on charges of conspiracy with other members of the order, against the govern ment, and confined in Fort Lafayette. Mr. Bickley was respectably connected, and was himself widely known as an accftmplished writer on political and medical subjects. Various efforts have been made by gentle men of high position to secure his release, but they have failed, and there is now pend ing a writ of habeas corpus to produce his body in Court on the 25th inst. Recently a friend requested of him an exposition of the Order, to which he replied that though he does not hold himself bound to answer idle questions, but as this request appears to be made in good faith, he cheerfully complies. There are three divisions or degrees, and so far as the first and second are concerned the politics or religion of the novitiate are not interfered with. The novitiate learns in the two first divisions what is expected of him in the third, and can enter that division or not as he elects. The JBible and the Constitution are the foundations of their religious and political faith. And in the discussions which preced ed secession, the order took issue with both Mr. Greeley and Mr. Davis. They said, obey the Bible and tlie Constitution, and all errors of Americanism will correct them selves like a fermenting liquid- The writer proceeds in a rambling way to show that the principles of the order are not only the true ones for the United States, but that they had been practiced beneficially in Mexico until Louis Napoleon overthrew the government. He denies that the order has any connection with the Southern Confederacy. The order had warned the United States as early as 1858 of the Franco-Spanish alliance against Mexico. The order had proposed to raise an army without taking a man from our army oronethut would go into it. and drive the invaders from Mexico. Much of what the w riter says, reads as if he were a monomani ac on the subject, and is full as . ‘incoherent” as the remarks of . distinguished man on a recent occasion. FRESH OVERTURES—A OOAK ! The people were startled a day or two since by the announceinimt that fresh over tures, w’ith a view' to attaining terms of peace, had taken place between Gens. Grant and Lee. The correspondence, transmitted to the rebel Congress by Jeff Davis, is pub lished by the Richmond papers, and from it we learn that Gen. Longstreet. in an inter view' with Gen. Ord, commanding the Army of the James (so he reported to Lee,) in formed him that if Gen. Lee. desired to con fer with Gen. Grant for an adjustment of the present difficulties the latter would not de cline the conference, provided the former had authority to act. Gen. Lee at once ad dressed a note to Gen. Grant proposing to meet him at such place as he might desig nate for the purpose stated. Gen. Grant re plied that authority to confer on the subject w'ns vested in the President of the United States alone, and that he (Gen. Grant) had power only to act upon subjects of a purely military character. He further said, that perhaps he had been misunderstood by Gen. Ord or Gen. Lougstreet. He had a few days previous directed Gen. Ord to speak to Gen. Longstreet in reference to a letter on the subject of releasing political prisoners, an and of conferring with Gen. Lee on the subject, and which might have been the point of misunderstanding. But the most significant part of this correspondence are the closing lines of Davi9’ letter to Lee authorizing him to hold the conference, and which are aB fol lows : “Enter into such an arrangement as W'ill cause a! least a temporary suspension of hostilities." The “temporary suspension of hostilities” dodge was tried on “old Abe” at Hampton Roads and failed. How Davis expected it to succeed with a soldier so industrious—so ceaseless in his labor—as Gen. Grant, it is impossible to conceive. But Davis i9 clearly in the prgjligament of the gentleman from Dublin whcTwas hanging by his hands to bridge with half a dozen others banging to his heels. “Howld on a bit, below, byes,” he exclaimed, “ ’tilbl spit on my hands for a newliow'ld!” Grant knows better than to “hold on” if Davis doesn’t. Hints to Young Gentlemen. —Don’t give up your seat in the cars w’hen you are tired with your day’s work to a pert young miss who has been amusing herself with a little shopping. She won’t even thank you for it; and if a man is going to sacrifice his comfort, he has a reasonable right, at least, so expect a little gratitude. No use being polite to some ladies—there’s an old proverb about casting pearls before—what’s Tneir names. Don't submit to be crowded off a pave ment into a muddy gutter by two advancing balloons of silk and whalebones. Haven’t your newly blacked boots as good a claim to respect as their skirts ? Look 'straight be fore you, and stand up for your rights like a man. The ladies can contract a little, w'hen they see there’s no help for it. Don’t talk literature and the fine arts to the pretty girls of your acquaintance until you are sure they know the difference be tween Thomson s Seasons and Thompson’s Arithmetic. And if they look partiedlarly sentimental, then you may know they do not understand what you are talking about! Don’t ask a nice little girl about her dolls, unless you are very certain ahe hasnt “come out,” and been engaged in two oirthree flir- tat ions already. Don’t say complimentary things to ayouDg lady at a party without first making sure that her “intended” is not standing behind you the whole time. Don’t accept a lady’s invitation to go shop ping with her unless you have previously measured the length of your purse. Don’t stay later than eleven o’clock when you spend the .evening with a pretty friend —the wisest and wittiest man in Christen dom becomes a bore afur that hour. Don’t believe any woman an angel. It you feel any symptoms of that disease, take a dose of sage tea and go to bed—it is as much a malady as the small pox, and it is business to get over it as soon as pos sible. An angel, indeed! If you don't find out pretty soon that she lacks considerably more than the wigs, we are sadly mistaken! Don’t make up your mind about any creature in a belt-ribbon and velvet rosettes without first asking your sister’s advice. De pend upon it, one woman can read another better in five minutes than a man can in five years. And, above all, don’t imagine that you must keep your lady talk and gentleman talk iu separate budgets, labeled and sorted, un less you want the girls to laugh in their sleeves at your wishy-washy sentiments. Talk to them in a frank, manly style, as you would to an intelligent gentleman. Don’t t uppose, because they are Women, they don’t know anything. Remember all this advice, sir, and you may ma ce rather less of a fool of yourself than you would otherwise. It is now affirmed, on the authority of the “Stratford Register,” that Sbakspeares widow became the wife of a Stratford shoemaker,- named Richard James. This was the last of Ann Hathaway. PRICE, 5 CENTS Gabble of the Gold Board—Babylon HAS FALLEN THE CONFUSION OF TONGUES Confounded. — We copy the follow ing amus ing sketch, by the financial editor of that paper, from the Boston Herald of March 22d: “It. is written that man’s presumption in at tempting to build the Tower of Babel to reach to Heaven, resulted in the confusion of tongues, so that the work was indefinitely postponed. It occurred to us the other day in connection with the gold speculation. W'heu w r e. stepped in to see the menagerie composed of the “bulls” and “bears” of the Gold Board. A menagerie is a “highly mor al exhibition,” and so we ventured to look in. It was an exciting hour. Gold was tumbling, and there was a dense crowd gathered abour the blackboard, watching the rapid succession of quotations which were written by the nimble fingered attendant Tha exclamations and remarks which we heard on ail sides were peculiar to the place, and full of interest to the student of human ity. As near as we can remember they were somethin? as follows : “Jeroosalium! Heow she shrinks! I’l sell ten thousand at tew an’ a haalt ’f any txidy wants it! Leook a here—did yeou say yeouwanted to buy?" “Be Jabbers! Hoo it tumbles! D’ye mind thaht! Devil a fear, mon; ’twill be gone up in ajiffy. Sure, I’d not mind taken tin thousar’ at two an’ a quarter. I’m the malm for yez, if ye are anxious for a trade !’’ “Vat ish dat you say, Mishter. Nix cum rouse! Ish dat vat you mean ? Dat ish not so. Dey are putting dat up on us. Yaw! Yat price will you pays me mit fife thousand? Neiu ? Veil, 1 vill sliust tell you vat I vill do. I will gife you von and sheven eights. Vill take it? Yaw! MeiuGott! I wifi be von shwindle! How mush am I offered for fife tousand !’’ “Aves vous ? Non. Ze dam gold market clean me out be gar! Sacre! I will be ruined! Ici! Who will buy ten thousand in ze what you call ? I will give sixty-ono to five thousand. Who will give me so much more as me ? Le Diable !’J “Take car, dar; take car; Feller gwindar get his mouf smashed—dat’s so. Dis nigger buy none dat ’ar ’f he knows what he ’bou.— Can’t fool dis chile wid your soft soap. No, sar; Look a dar—look a dar! Down to sixty Sirtin! Golly! won’t dem fellers hab to up. Whr’ll gib sixty for five thousand? Where am the gentleman what wants to pur chase at dem easy rates ? Yah! ” “I’m yer man, be gawd! I’ll take all yer got at thatT ther price. Which did you say, stranger ? You ’uns feel purty gude neaow, but yeour time's a cornin’!’’ “What a blawsted couotwy this his.. ’Ow much wa9 that lawst pwice ? Hany gent give me height hand a ’all?" “Doonshe goes! Weel, weel, mon, ve maun hey what tlieed say. Ye canna tell aboun it. I’ll gie sixty-won for ten!” “Say, Bill, this here's a pretty show.— What yet doon about it ? Why don’t yer sail in and Us yer Band. There’s one o’ Five’s boys made a haul!* Bijlly for him 1" And so on. A Proposed “Fifth Avenue Hotel” ih Boston —A friend, from the steamer DeMo lay, Capt. Sampson, which arrived here from Boston yesterday, has handed us a Boston Herald of March 22d. We find several items of interest in it, and amoag others the follow ing, evidently from the pen of its able editor and proprietor, E. C. Bailey, Esq. We copy it, in answer to a number ot questions which have been addressed to us by Bostonians and people interested there: Tub New Hotel.— The energies of the whole community should be directed to the erection of anew Hotel in a central loca tion. This hotel should be the hotel of Bos ton and be called the Boston Hotel. The Post, Journal, Advertiser, Traveller, Transcript, and Herald, advocate the old Winthrop House site as the spot where the hotel should be built. The whole community are of the same opinion. The Evening Gazette is in faor of West street, comer of Tremont. The Post says the owners of the land there ask $35 per foot, which is too much j and be sides, the lots are not deep and Mason street in the rear is crooked, therefore the location is out of the question. The Back Bay is too far out of ihe way for a hotel. The Win throp estate is the only one left, i'jet the Bos ton merchants move in the matter, raise the funds and make the Directors of the Grand Lodge a liberal offer for the land, and we be lieve the Directors would call a meeting of the Grand Lodge to vote upon the proposi tion. We are furthermore satisfied that & majority of the Fraternity would prefer to sell and build somewhere else, lather than go on with the present land and involve them selves in a heavy debt. Some of the socie ties may oppose it, but the attempt should, be made, and if there are those who regard t heir personal likes and dislikes as par- mow t to the wishes of the whole eoimm,mtj, let us know who they are. Therein landenou,h there to build a second “Coutiuental” or “Fifth Avenue.” Paran Stevens is the man to engineer the thing, and Boston will back him. Fayetteville. —We know ipt whether it will be the policy of General Sherman to re tain possession of Fayetteville; but the place is not without its local importance. It is situated at the head of steamboat navigation on tbe Cape Fear river, sixty miles above Wilmington. A canal unites it with the coal mines of Chatham county, in the heart ot the State, and several graded roads (formerly, if not still, plunk-roads) radiate from it in vari ous directions. It is the seat of a United States arsenal, and of a number of cotton fac tories, and is surrounded by what was, in 1801, one of the most loyal districts of the State. Though bordering ojj South Caro lina, the counties of Cumberland, Richmond, and Moore were largely for the Union, at the last test which was made of popular senti ment. Tbe population of Fayetteville is about five thousand. It was originally set tled by Scotchmen. Lucky Boy. —A soldier of tbe 14 th New Hampshire Volunteers found, yesterday, in the rear of a house between the contraband camp and the head of Bay street, an old tin can, containing over $3,000 in gold and silver.