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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. YOL. I—NO. 74. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING) 16 PFBLISHED BV *3. W. MASON «fe CO., At 111 Bat Street, Savannah, Georgia, tests: Per Copy Five Cents. Per Hundred $3 60. Per Year $lO 00. AI)VE*TISIbO: Two 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. JOB PRINTING every style, neatly and promptly done. LETTER FROM NEW YORK. New .York, Friday, April 7. STRANGE INCIDENTS Occur ori Railroads sometimes—so strange that they are really amusing. Among the strangest is the manner in which pockets are picked, (and these are not amusing) and the pockets, too, ot ladies. Now what more au dacious act is there than putting a hand in a lady’s dress-pocket, but the professional pick pocket is an audacious fellow, as well as a thief. An iucident lately occurred on the railroad between this city and Boston which is worth relating. A lady had suffered from the enterprise of one of these chivaliers and, Industrie, and a friend of hers about to take the same route, was cautioned to be on her guard—to be on her guard especially against any well-dressed prepossessing young man who would take a seat by her side, and that, too, just before entering the long tunnel near this. city. The cautioned lady took her seat, and looked nervously about her, she did not see any “prepossessing young man" just then, but as the train stopped at Springfield, one such titered, and with much politeness took the vrcant seat by her side. Os course the nervowness of the lady increased, especi ally as the offered her liis paper to read, which she declined, and to his re marks she responded only in monosyllables. She was determined to keep him at a dis tance which however, was necessarily lim ited in those narrow seats. At length they approached the Xatal tunnel, and the caution she received took sudden hold of her already greatly excited mind. As the train en tered the darkness she made a sudden plunge for her pocket in which she had her portmonaie. But the folds of her dress somewhat disarranged and she did not at once find her pocket. Still she nervously persevered, diving first into one fold, then into another, until at length it found an opening, when what was her horror to find the hand of the “pre-possessing companion” on the seat was already there. She con vulsively clutched the hand with all her might, but she Was frightened she was un able to use her voice. She held on to the hand thinking to expose the thief on emerg ing into the light, and though it seemed the train would never reach the end of the tun nel, still she held on with the grip. Her companion made no effort whatever to re lease his hand, whether through fear of ex posing himself, or rather liking the soft and velvetty pressure; is not known. But day light at length cam*e, and with it the fact was revealed, that the lady, in searching for her pocket, ha 1 inserted her hand into the coat pocket of her “prepossessing compan- ion, ” where she found, very properly enough, one of his hands. It is needless to add that the lady presented a very 'confused appear ance, gently relaxed ker hold, glanced out of the car Window, and left to her eomprnion the task of tilling in the meaning of her strange conduct, A HRAVE LITTLE BOV Came to grief in Brooklyn Thursday. He was one of those heroic little fellow's that in all sorts of weather may been skipping about as lively as'crickets and chirping as merrily, with bundles of newspapers under their arras. He had jumped on a car to sell some of his papers to the passengers, when he fell off and the wheels passed over" both his legs, cutting one of them' nearly off. The little fellow, notwithstanding his injuries, asked for his hat, which had fallen off. I suggest that, in case he lives, he is entitled to a pen sion from the newspaper establishments, in whose service he has lost his leg. PECULATIVE MANIA. Avery remarkable case of larceny from the person, otherwise pocket-picking, was brought to the notice of one of our courts the other day. It was remarkable from the fact that the offender was a very pretty young lady, beautifully dressed, of most pleasing manners, and belonging to a very respectable family. She was detected, however, with one of her hands in another lady’s pocket, and escape from the fact of criminal intent W'as impossible. The re-examination showed that she was not in the want of whatever money she might possibly find in another lady’s pocket, for she was supplied by her parents with all her wants required, and more, too; and what could have been the inducement or temptation was a mystery the girl herself could not explain. She insisted, however, that it was her first offence of the kind, in' view of which fact, together with her tender ag* seventeen years, the judge let her off. It will be difficult for her to find a husband. SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1865. HOGS, In human shape, are quite plenty at certain times, especially in our cars and ferry boats, on rainy days. One of them rather got scalded a few days since, in this wise. He seated himself very comfortably in the Ful ton Ferry boat, threw a pair of old boots into the next seat, and waited for the boat to start. The cabin soon filled up, leaving vacant only the seat containing the boots. A gentleman wishing a seat requested him to remove them, but he refused, whereupon H°S» being stout built, blacked the eye and beat the gent. Hog had everything his own way, however, only for a few moments, for on arrival at the New York side, he was handed over to a policeman, taken to the Tombs, and the next day fined $375 and costs, besides gaining an unenviable notoriety as a one-horse bully, OUR NAVV TARD Is to be enlarged materially. Over two millions of dollars were appropriated by the last Congress for the improvements needed. Anew receiving store. 195 by 200 feet, three stories high, is to be built, and a machine shop, 350 by 70 feet, with wings 200 by 70 feet, three stories, with two towers, an engine house, a boiler house, and a 200 feet high chimney, are to be built. Both buildings are to be of brick. Anew gun park of four aud a half acres is already begun; new wharves are being filled in; anew sa luting battery of thirty guns is to be erected, with a fire-proof magazine attached; two hundred feet of additional quay wall, two more launching ways for frigates will be erected, and all the streets in the Yard are to be newly paved. The Cob Dock, formerly a mud bank, will be filled, and anew building for the ofllcials is talked of. Altogether, those two million dollars will not go begging amongst contractors and mechanics. ABUSE OF THE PUBLIC is sometimes expensive, even to corporations in this city. A lady was recently very se riously injured by being thrown to the pave ment in getting out of a horse-car, the con ddetor of which started up before she was fairly off the car-step. Damages were ad sessed to the tune of two thousand five hun dred dollars. The Judge charged the Jury that it was criminal to start a car until the passenger was firmly on the ground. A HORSE, lately “procured” in Missouri, named “Duke of Wellington,” is being for here as a pres ent to Gen. Grant. It is a splendid animal, a stallion, valued at five thousand dol lars. It would be eminently appropriate that Grant should ride into Richmond on a “gray-back.” GRAB The fall in gold developed anew method of selling cotton goods. The idea is not a fresh one for the game of “grab” is as old as the holding es fairs or the setting up of Christ mas trees for the little ones. But it has had anew application, and was the means of securing to ten of onr largest houses in the trade a “right smart” lot of business. The modns operandi was to open one case of goods atru time, and having by due notice thereof, gathered together a crowd of purch asers, allow them to carry away as much a9 they could separately grab, the -only condi tion being that they should pay for the goods at a rate representing rather more than fifty per cent, of cost, when gold was at two hun dred. Great quantities were grabbed, and though it is difficult to see where the sellers made auy money, it can readily be observed that the firms who engaged in the affair had the satisfaction of running their rivals to their hearts content, and perhaps of obtaining a ot of customers who will stick to them when much higher prices are demanded. The "grab” game was therefore probably only a flyer to attract customers, and looked at in that light may be a good speculatiou. DEFUNCT. The volunteer fire department of this city, which has for so many years been run as a mammoth political machine, is dead. The law establishing a paid department has pass ed both branches of the Legislature, much to the chagrin of hundreds of unprincipled political wire pullers. Many threats of vari ous kinds have been made by the rowdy element of the department, and to pour oil on the troubled w'aters. Mayor Gunther begs of them in a proclamation, issued this after noon, to act like gentlemen ! Some of the ap paratus when turned over to the city will un doubtedly need an immense amount of re pairing. A final parade is talked of, in which every company is to turn out, march to City Hall, deposit their machines in the Park there, then forth a procession and march off to the music of the “Dead march in Saul.” % SICK PRISONERS arrive at the New England Rooms in large numbers daily and nightly. They are piti able specimens of what were once hale and hearty men, and if any one can see them and not find his eyes filling up, he is of stern er stuff than your correspondent. More than ever have we reason, with such sights of unheard of brutality coming to .ns, daily, nightly and hourly to heap curses upon the i heads of the instigators and sympathisers of | this rebellion. One poor fellow, belonging to Bennington. Vermont, yesterday had a letter written to his sister, enclosing S2O (ail the money he had) for her to come here to take him home. Before it was mailed he was dead—he had gone beyond the reach of the fiends who tor two years had so tortured aud starved him in a Southern prison that he could hardly re member his own name. A few moments after his death I saw the hospital stewards carefully put on an over coat to the skeleton of a young soldier named Elliott, of Beverly, Mas 9., then, making a cradle of their arms, lift him and carry him down stairs to the ambulance to be taken to the depot. Gods! He certainly did not weigh over seventy pounds, yet he was nearly six feet in height! Scores of such cases are hourly witnessed at our Rooms, where, it is needless to say to Herald readers, every attention that' warm hearts can give them is unstintingly dis pensed. FOR CHARLESTON. * Our Brooklyn friends have engaged a band of music, a big steamship, and the et ceteras, to properly convey Rev. Mr. Beecher to Charleston, where he is to deliver an address on the raising of the flag over Sumter. One hundred dollars will be taxed for each pas senger. A NEW ROUTE To Rio Janeiro has been discovered by the newspaper which should have been the last to have made such an error. They stated that a steamer from this port would reach Rio after doubling Cape Horn! They probably have a very ignorant ship-news man in their office, and several ancient geographies have been donated to the World. IMPORTANT DEBATE IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. An important debate took place in the House of Commons on the 13th ult., in which Lord Palmerston, Mr. D’ Israeli and Mr. Bright participated. The principal topid was the defence of Canada. The policy that will be pursued by the British Government in case Canada is attacked, is clearly Indicated by the tenor of Lord Palmerston’s remarks. Canada will be defended at all hazards, and at whatever cost. The Premier as the organ of a very laige party in the United Kingdom, conceives the national honor to be involved in the defence of a possession that was wrest ed front France at the peace of 17G3, under the vigorous administration of Lord Chat ham, which reflected so much lustre on the British arms, and the acquision of which conferred so much glory on that administra tion. There appears in fact to be no point in the colonial policy of England in which the British nation is more unanimous than the maintenance of the territorial integrity of the empire, as far as the colonies are concerned. Mr. Bright, who is of that school of Bri tish statesman who would not scruple to sacrifice any of the dependencies of the Bri tish Crown to save the expense of defend ing them, and who is the organ of that party whose opinions are ultra-radical as regards Parliamentary reform and all questions of Colonial and Foreign policy—stated that “there is no power whatever in the United kingdom to defend successfully the territory of Canada against the United States, but that there was not a man in Canada at this moment, I believe, who lias any kind of idea that the United States Government ha 9 the smallest notion of attacking them.” He is one of that class of British statesmen who think that the dissolution of the connection between the parent country and her colonies would be mutually beneficial. In these extreme views on British Colonial policy, Mr. Bright expresses the opinions of only a small section of the English poUticians of which he is the exponent, as he is on almost all questions of British Foreign policy, be ing averse to interference of every kind in Continental politics. Lord Palmerston denied that there existed any jealousy of the United States, as' had been affirmed by one ol the previous speak ers. He said that during this contest in America there has been experienced, and probably felt, both in the North and in the South, some irritation against this country But the irritation was caused by the natural feeling which two parties in a quarrel have, that a third party who does not espouse either side is, to a certain degree, doing both sides an injury, or giving them some cause of complaint or of jealousy. (Hear, hear.) The Nditli wished us to declare on their side; the South wished us to declare on theirs; and as we maintained a perfect neutrality be tween the two, some slight degree of irrita tion arose on both sides against us. (Hear, hear.) But I am equally persuaded, with the hon. gentleman, that among the great bulk of the people of the United States there are feelings deeper than that irritation—feelings of goodwill towards the country with which their ancestors were connected' [bear, hear]; and I am satisfied that when this unfortunate contest shall have ceased, whatever its termi nation, the natural feeling of good will and relationship which ought to prevail between the two nations will take the place of any temporary irritation which the war may have occasioned. [Hear, hear.] lam quite satisfied also that England will not give to • America any ju9t cause of complaint; that war will not proceed from us; and if war does not proceed from our side, and if, as the honor able gentleman thinks, it does not proceed from theirs, then we have a well-founded ex pectation that, in spite of adverse appear ances for the moment, and in 9pite of the prognostications of many, the friendly rela tions between this country and the United States will not incur any real danger of in terruption. (Hear, hear.) But this is no reason why we should not use the means in our power to place our fellow-citizens, if I may so call them, in Canada and the North ern provinces in a state of defence should they be attacked. (Hear, hear.) There is no better security for peace than strength to resist attack, if attack should come. (Hear, hear.) That is no provocation. It is an abuse of terms to say that when you employ means to prevent danger you are' provoking that danger and irritating the party against whom those precautions may be taken. (Hear, hear!) If no animosity exists these precautions can have no effect except that of inspiring confidence in the party in whose favor they are made. (Hear, hear.) If, on the other hand, there he a disposition to at tack, that disposition is sure to be lessened in proportion as the chance of success is diminished. Mr. D’ Israeli wa9 rather erratic in Ijjs re marks. He said, “It is impossible to deny that in North America a great revolution is occurricg, and that when this struggle is over, when peace re-appears, and tranquility is re-established, you will find these commu nities governed by very different principles, and aiming at different objects. I have often heard statesmen, and distinguished states men, mumbling over the balance of power in Europe. It has appeared to me always to be a great mistake when we look to the dis tribution of power to confine our views to Europe, because we 9hall find, and, perhaps, speedily find, that there are other influences in other quarters of the globe which will in terfere to disturb our calculations. It seems to me that this war in America has rapidly precipitated the change. It shows us that the psoper meaning of “balance of power” is security for communities in general against a'predominant and particular power, and that you have to take into your consideration States and influences that are not to be count ed among the Europeon powers.” According to this statement, it f ould ap pear that the opinion of the orator that new combinations will be formed that will seriously disturb the existing arrangements of the political equilibrium. The Balance of Power is a phrase that is em ployed to denote the international relations between the States of Europe exclusively. According to Mr. D’ Israeli’s impressions the words will hereafter have a more extended application. The Balance of Power will em brace the United States, in common with those oommnnities which constitute what is called by writers on Public law the common wealth of Nations. “It would, says the ora tor,” be a great mistake when we look to the distribution of power to confine our views to Europe, because we shall find, and speedily find, that there are other influences in othea quarters of the globe which will in terfere to disturb our calculations. In this conclusion of the orator we concur It is impossible to exclude the United States from the circle of those relations called inter national, not only as regards the observance of the principles of public law, but as an es sential part of the political equilibrium.— Their commercial interests are co-exten sive with the limits of the globe. Their territory bounds on the possessions of more than one wf the European powers. Their manners, religion, laws render them an es sential part of the political system called the Balance of Power, that is deemed to be one of the triumphs of modern civilization. » *** THE REBEL DEAD. The casualties among the rebel generals in the battles at Petenbure and the pursuit of Lee’s routed army, in killed, wounded, and captured, are already very large, and will doubtless be much augmented before the parsnip is abandoned by Grant and Sheridan. Among the killed at Petersburg are Lieuten ant General Hill and Brigadier Generals W. H. F. Lee and Pegram; While among those whose surrender to Sheridan as already an nounced are Lieutenant General Ewell, Major General Kershaw and Brigadier Generals Corse, De Bose and Custis Lee. Virginia, as usual, has suffered the most. The three generals killed were all from Virgink, while of the six captured four were from Hie same State. SKETCH OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL AMBROSE POWELL IIILL, JR., OF VIRGINIA. Ambrose P. Hill was one of the giants of Lee’s army, and disputed with Longstreet and Ewell for the place in the affections of the rebel people whieh “Stonewall’’ Jackson once held. He was a native of Culpepper county, Virginia. He was born, we believe, in 1820, and about the time of his death was only thirty-nine years of age. He entered West Point in 1843, with O. B. Wilcox, James B. Fry, A. E. Burnside, E. G. Viele, of the United States Army, and Henry Heath, of the rebel forces, and graduated in 1857, number fifteen in his class. lie was second lieutenant by brevet of the First ar tillery, July 1, 1847, and second lieutenant in full in the-August following. He was subse quently promoted first lieutenant, First ar tillery, but resigned March 1, 1801, and was appointed colonel of the Thirteenth Virginia infantry, which he commanded at Manassas. He was engaged as brigadier commander at the battle of Williamsburg, in May, 1862, and was appointed brigadier on that field, and immediately afterwards a Major General. As such he com manded the extreme left of the rebel army in the seven days’ battles before Richmond, June Ist, 1802, and divided with Stonewall Jackson the rebel honors of those conflicts. In command x>f this division he made the campaign under Lee against Pope and into Maryland, was engaged at Antietam fight- PRICE. 5 CENTS ing Burnside, and covered the retreat of the rebel army from that disastrous field. On the the organization of Lee's army after the bat tle of Fredericksburg Hill, was promoted and placed in command of the Third corps of the army, which position he held at the time of his death. At ChancellorsviHe aud Get tysburg he agaiu distinguished »himself. During thg battles of the Wilderness, May, 1854, he was disabled by disease, and bis command was placed temporarily under Geu. Jubal Early. August 25, 1864, Hill, having resumed command, fought the battle of Ream’s Station, and‘since then has been fosted on left of the rebel position before ’etersburg. During the battle on the Ist commaud was separated from the rest W the rebel army, and in endeavoring to restore communication he was killed. His body was interred on Sunday, April 2. BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM H. FITZHUGH ffkp, OF VIRGINIA. This officer, killed at Petersburg, was the second son of Robert E. Lae, and was born at Arlington House, Virginia, about the year 1832. He did not receive airappointment to West Point, but was educated at William and Mary’s College* Virginia. He received, however, the appointment of second leuteu ant in the United States Army, June 30, 1855, and was assigned to the Second infan try. He held this rank until the breaking out of the rebellion, when he hastened to fol low the example of his father, and resigned April 30, 1861, to accept a captaincy *f cav alry in the rebel army. He was attached to J. E. B. Stuart’s cavalry command. His first expedition of auy importance was in June, 1862, when under Stuart, he made the cir cuit of McClellan’s army, on the Pamunkey river. 'At this time he was a colonel com manding a brigade, but was soon after re warded with a brigadier general’s commis sion. He was engaged in the famous cavalry battle at Beverly Ford, Va., June 9,1863. He here reeeived a painful wound in the thigh, and was removed to the house of Col. W. H. Wyckham, in Hancock county. Here he was captured a few days subsequently by Gen. Speer, in his raid in the Pamunkey, and carried to the White House. He was sent North and confined, being for a time held as hdstage for Captain Sawyer. On his release he was assigned to duty in command of a division of Stuart’s cavalry coFps. This command was subsequently given on Stuart’s death, to Fitzhugh Lee, a cousin of W. H. F. Lee, and the latter re mained in command of his division until his death, on the 2d inst., before Petersburg. BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM JOHNSON PE GRAM, OF VIRGINIA. This young officer, who was killed in the battle of the 2d inst., was in the twenty fourth year ot his age, and a native of Pe tersburg, Va. He was one of the three sons of General James W. Pegram, who perished in the steamer Lucy Long, on the Ohio river, in 1844, and brother ot the rebel General John Pegtam, who was lately killed at the battle of Hatcher’s Run. One of young Pe gramJs uncles was the late Capt. George Pe gram, of Elizabethtown, N. J., who was an aid-de-camp to General Scott. Another uncle is Colonel William Pegram, of Ken tucky: At the breaking out of the war William Johnson Pegram was a student at law at the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville; but left his studies to volunteer in' the ranks of the “Richmond Howitzers’’—the first artil lery company raised in Richmond at the be ginning of the war—under the command of the then Captain George W. Randolph, late Secretary ot War of “the Confederacy." As a private in the ranks he fought in the first battle of Manassas, and was noted on the field for gallantry by Gen. Joseph E. Johns ton. In the engagements near Richmond in 1862 he celebrated his twenty-first birthday amid the carnage of battle. At Cedar Run he was again noted on the battle field for gal lant action. At the battle of Qhancel lorsville General Lee, noticing the ability with which Pegram handled his guns, ordered an additional number of batteries to be placed under his command. At the battle of Gettysburg he displayed signal ability,and was promomoted a colonel of artillery, on the subsequent reorganiza tion of the army. He was lately made a brigadier general and placed in command of a brigade in Hill’s Corps. In appearance be was a beardless boy, of delicate stature, tall and slim, with blue eyes and light hair.— N. Y. Herald. Freedom for Ireland, — A correspondent of a Democratic paper writing on St. Pat rick’s Day depicts with force the oppression to which Ireland has been subject, but sees hope for the iuture in the progress of the Fenian Brotherhood. The avowed purpose of the Fenians, he says, “is a good one; is one which will commend itself to the heart and understanding of every true lover of freedom among the nations of the earth. For a struggle in behalf of Ireland, if success ful, would not be the mere triumph of a frenzied foe over his enemy—no! It would be a triumph of Right over Wrong—of Freedom over Oppression—of the Celtic slave over the Saxon enslaved.” As friends of freedom everywhere and to all races of raeD, we cordially wish success to the Fenians, if such be their object; but at the same time we would suggest to them that if it be desirable that Freedom should triumph over Oppression in one country, it is still jnore desirable that it should triumph in all—that if we hope that the Celtic slave shall be liberated from the Saxon oppressor, it is because we wish to see all slaves liber ated fiom all oppressors. Richmond Market under the Confed eracy.—Flour, S9OO a SI,OOO per bbl. ; corn, $ 100 per bushel; corn meal, ft 10; bacon, flO a $lB ; beet, $lO a sl2 ; pork, sl2 asl4; butter, $lB a S2O per lb.; lard, $18; bay, $l5O per 100 lbs. ; corn field peas, SIOO a sllO per bushel ; white "beans, $l2O a sl2sperbu9hel; potatoes, S6O a $75 per bushel; eggs, $lO a 12 per dozen. Very little has been done in the tobacco market since the late raid. Mar kets now rather better supplied with meats, fish and vegetables, "and prices tending down wards.—Rich. Whig, April 3. The report that the inmates of the'Blind Asylum intend to visit Boston to see the grand billiard tournament is denied by the Advertiser.