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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. *
VOL. 1-NO. 102.
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.TOll PRINTING,
In every style, neatly and promptly done.
Sanitarium or Home for Disabled Sol
diers. —F. N, Knapp, superintendent of
Special Relief U. S. Sanitary Commission,
has published an interesting report on the
necessity iind importance of providing a
home for disabled soldiers. The document is
too for our limits. The follow
ing i9 a summary of the truly practical views
of the superintendent.
A Sanitarium should be not merely an
“asylum,” but also a workshop, and a school
and a home.. Asa first pfinciple, the idea
of indolent cases should find no place there,
except in the rooms of those utterly and to
tally disabled. A central purpose of the in
stitution should be to provide facilities and
inducements for the development of produc
tive power in these partially disabled men,
so that they may be able as soon as possible
to support themselves. These facilities
would embrace careful instruction in the va
rious arts or branches of business, according
to the physical ability or mental capacity of
the different men. The inducements would
consist in opeuing to the men the use of
workshop, farmlands, gardens and the like,
as well as play-grounds aud reading-rooms
Inducements would also be tound in the
tone which should he infused through the
whole establishment of self-respect and per
sonal independence, based on the conscious
ness in each man of his trying every day to
do his part in the world honestly, according
to the measure of power or number of limbs
left to him by the war. Thus would self-re
liance also be maintai; ed; and quickly
would men learn to make one set of muscles
pertorm the work of two, aud the left hand
take the place of the right, and the brain and
one arm earn the living which before was
earned by the two arms, the brain having
been hut little, used. This development of
productive power iu all the inmates should
be an essential aim and prominent feature of
a Sanitarium, and that special work should
he under the charge of eminent and compe
tent men who would make this their sole
business ; thus to overcome the obstacles,
not a few,and to provide u'l possible facilities
and inducements for this condition
of self-help, aud consequent self-reliance,
followed by self-respect.'
This broader plan, with this larger provi
sion—Asylum, Infirmary, Agency for Pro
ductive Industry—can alone meet the de
mands made,-at the present day upon intelli
gent philanthropy.
NATIONAL SECURITIES IN EUROPE.
The New York Times says —As a signifi
cant evidence of the vastly improved credit
of the National Treasury, and the resolute
confidence of the loyal people in the national
securities, we may mention that all the gold
bearing bonds advanced decidedly yesterday,
and were in unusually active demand, in the
face of the unfavorable advices from the Lon
don market, received by the Hibernian, and
of a fall of lull 3 per cent, in gold in our own
market. A further important rise, especially
in the six per cents, of 1881, and each series
of the 5-20s, is confidently anticipated. A
steamer or two later, it is believed, will bring
us news from Frankfort and London, of a
complete restoration of faith in our funded
stocks, practical evidence of which is looked
for in the form of a heavy increase of foreign
orders at materially advanced prices. The
handsome premium borne by the National
Six per Cents in the home market, tends de
cidedly to stimulate the popular demand for
the 7-30 currency—loan, which is converti
ble iuto 5-20 Sfx per Cent, coin-bearing bonds
three years from the date of the issue of the
notes. The home market for all our funded
stocks is now—as it ever ought to be—mea
sureably independent of all foreign influen
ces.
CONDITION OF TIIB DOMESTIC STOCK AND
MONEY MARKET.
The same paper says:
Last week’s sales of the national 7-30 loan
were, up to the unprecedentedly high dally
average of $6,731,166, at which rate of dis
tribution, all of the unmarked balance, about
$160,000,000, oi the pending series of the
loan, will be disposed of in about four weeks
more. The daily average of subscriptions
during the preceding week was $+,238,233;
week ending April 22, $3,054,140, and week
April 15, $3,055,208. The orders for the SSO
and SIOO notes of the loan, last week aver
aged 4,706 a day. Government is deriving
great pecuniary relief from the extraordina
rily heavy receipts on account of subscrip
tions to the loan, which enabled it not only
to pay its current expenses, but to cancel
the oppressive arrears of last year. Forty
millions of cenificates of indebtedness, issu
sued last year, matured during the past
month of April, and were paid as fast as
they were presented, the government mean
time not issuing a single new certificate.
Government stocks advanced 3-4 and 1
per cent.., and gold fell 3 and 4 per cent, yes
terday. The foreign private advices are be
lieved generally to favor the immediate in
crease of trade, and of the stock investments
betweeu Great Britain and the Continent, and
the United States, and there is less firmness
in exchange on London. The railway mar
ket left off steady. Gold 1391-2 per cent.
A moderate business was transacted in
produce and merchandise yesterday, but at
irregular prices, thfe markets generally clos
ing quite heavily, in sympathy with the de
pression in gold. The freight market was
inactive. L ist evening gold closed at 37 1-2
—the lowest figure reached in a very long
time.
IMPORTUNITY.
BY AMELIA B. KDWARDB,
I’ve waited long enough, Kathleen,
The winter’s iairly past;
The lambs are playing on the green ;
The swallows come at last.
The vine is leafy round my door,
The blossom's on the May;
The waves come dancing lo the shore—
Why don’t you name the day »
' You know you put me off, Kathleen,
Until the early Spring,
The skies are tranquil and serene ;
The bees are on the wing;
The fisher spreads his little sail
The mower’s in the hay ;
The primrose blossoms in the vale—
Wtiy don’t you name the day t
The thrush is building in the thorn,
Among the whispering leaves;
The lark is busy in the corn.
The martin ’neath the eaves.
The little birds don’t build in vain ;
Their mates don't say them nay—
Beware 1 I may not ask ahain;
Why don’t you name the day ?
SORROWS OP WERTHER.
Werther had a love for Charlote
Such as words could never utter;
Would you know how first he met her t
She was cutting bread and butter.
Charlotte was a married lady,
Anff a moral man was Werther,
And for all the wealth of Indies,
Would do nothing for to hurt her.
So he sighed and pined and ogled,
And his passion boiled and bubbled,
Till he blew his silly brains out,
And no more was by it troubled.
Charlotte, having seen his body
Borne before ner on a shutter,
Like a well-conducted person.
Went on cutting bread and butter.
Thackeray.
SECRETARY STANTON.
There is no one member of the Cabinet
about whom public opinion has been so sure
ly, though gradually changing, as in regard
to the Secretary of War. The faults which
appeared in the beginning of the administra
tion—his impulsiveness in public action, and
bis sometimes harsh treatment of individu
als—are being forgotten in the splendor of
bis sudfeesses and the integrity ol his admin
istration. If Mr. Stanton is impulsive now,
U is always on the side cf liberty against
oppression, or it is against some gigantic
crime, or in his eagerness to throw his own
tremendous force of character and mind into
military movements which seem to him slug
gish or hesitating. His acts of revolutionary
energy and arbitrary power are not confined
to punishing petty traitors, but to the arrest
and punishment of more conspicuous crimi
nals iu peculiar crisises of affairs. His
prompt removal of Gen. Butler and his im
mediate renewal of the attack on Wilming
ton were grand and successful instances of
.“his revolutionary energy.” The recent
prompt, but trenchant statement of the
grounds of disapproval of Gen. Sherman's
negotiations, show Mr. Stanton’s intellectual
force and his deep earnestness in the nation
al cause, in the best light. We believe the
whole country felt a certain sense of relief
and security, when the manifesto appeared
at the thought of two such vigorous hands
at the helm as Mr. Stanton’s and Mr. John
son’s.
But the highest glory of the Secretary of
War, on the page of history, will be his re
markable powers of organization and the
entire integrity of his administration.
When we call to mind what, for instance,
the organization of the English campaign in
the Crimea was, when the armies were only
a few miles from the water hase, and the
problem was for the greatest naval power of
the world to feed and clothe and medically
care for 30,000 men; the inextricable confu
sion, l ltlie want of rations, of stores, clothes
and medicine, the sufferings of those brave
men from this most stupid want of business
capacity in the officials, until the Crimean
campaign became a spectacle to the world
for its misery and stupidity, and then reflect
that for four years Mr. Stanton and his offi
cials have been feeding, clothing arming and
taking medical care of some 800,000 men
each year, transporting them with great ra
pidity thousands of miles on the sea and the
land, and that no instance has occurred of
short supplies, or irregular transportation,
or deficient clothing or arming, or (on any
large scale) of a want of medical supplies,
everything seeming to be just where it was
needed, we must admit that somewhere in
our military service there has been a great
organizing brain.
Where Booth Lies. —The corresponibnt
of the New York World thus speaks of the
burial of Booth: Yesterday the Secretary of
War, without instructions of any kind, com
mitted to Col. Lafayette C. Baker, of the se
cret service, the stark corpse of J. Wilkes
Booth. The secret service never fulfilled its
vocation more secretively. “What have you
done with the body ?” said Ito Baker. “That
is known,” he answered, “to one man living
besides myself. It is gone. I will not tell
you w.here. The only man who knows is
sworn to silence. Never till the great trum
peter comes shall the grave of Booth lie dis
covered.” And this is ti ue. Last night, the
27th of April, a small row boat received the
carcass of the murderer; two men were in
it; they carried the body off into the dark
ness, and out of that darkness it will never
return. In toe darkness, like his great crime,
may it remain' forever, impalpable, invisible,
condemned to that worse than damnation,
annihilation. The river bottom may ooae
about it laden with great shot and drowning
manacles. The earth may have opened to
give it that silence and forgiveness which man
will never give its memory. The fishes may
swim around it, or the daisies grow white
above it; but we shall fiever know.
Humiliating.— While the corpse of the
President wa9 in New York, an advertise
ment appeared in a Washington paper, offe:-
ing for sale the funeral car used on the occa
sion pf the burial of President Lincoln. It
was described as a good chance for an enter
prising man, and application was to be made
by a letter addressed to Box 836, Post Office,
Washington. - m
, At a court ball lately given in Paris, a lady
assumed the character of Cleopatra. Her
cloth of silver tram was covered by hiero
glyphs copied trom the Obelisk of the Lu*or
Place de la Concorde.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MAY 15, 1865.
[Corfenpondencc of the Savannah Herald. 1
OUR NEW YORK. LETTER.
New York. May i).
Jeffs Capture
has been the expectation and hope of our
community the past week, and the general
impression here is that the capture aud hang
ing ol that fugacious fugitive can be consid
ered a fitting finale of the four years tragedy
through which we have passed. The pleas
ant rumor, even current yesterday, that this
villain had really fallen into the hands of
Sherman shed an halo of satisfaction over
the countenances of all;. but yet the ru
mor is not verified. We shall have the
good tidings by Sunday sure.
Peace.
seems as yet hardly realized by the majority
ol our people, probably from the fact that
their anticipations of an immediate decline
in the necessaries of life are not met by the
facts. Groceries, the price of which reaches
the tender spot of the masses, have hardly
reached five per cent., and indeed certain
articles seem, jin some special localities, to
have advanced —thus causing a quantity of
growling which grates harshly in the an
nouncement that government has reduced its
current expenses from one to two millions of
dollars per day. A little patience, and all
will come right in due time.
OverrcEcliiug Landlord*
Have generally had things pretty much
their own way this spring, both in this city
and Brooklyn. Some of the stories told of
experience by tenants are sad indeed, while
others border on the exremely ludicrous.—
Many a man, on moving to new premises he
had rented, found the old tenants in posses
sion, solely from the fact that they could find
no place to go to. Magnanimous charity was
fully developed in many such cases by the
new tenants allowing the older occupants
the privilege of shelter for a few days, al
though at great inconvenience. Some who
were not possessed of a like amount of the
milk of human kindness, ejected the unfor
tunates, in many cases entailing considerable
suffering and unnecessary distress, the house
less people being obliged (some of them with
young children) to obtain temporary shelter
at station houses of the police. The prices
demanded for rents would astonish the most
rapacious landlord or real estate broker In
your city out of his senses. Houses that a
year ago were considered a9 being “splendidly
let” at one thousand dollars, were tjiis year
thought cheap at twenty-five hundred and
three thousand. The medium-sized houses,
which were thought dear at four hundred
twelve months since, easily let this spring
for eight and nine hundred. The number of
families that have broken up housekeeping,
stored tlieir goods aud “colonized,’*, e., gone
to board, is almost fabulous. Hundreds of
the latter will go into the country the coming
month,, and by next fall will obtain resi
dences much cheaper than at present.
One May Day Incident
was as follows A gentleman had leased a
house at a rent of one thousand dollars per
annum —paid one quarter's rent in advance.
On May day his goods drove up to the house,
when, lo ! to his astonishment it was occu
pied—the occupant showing a lease and a re
ceipt similar to his own, only it was subse
quently dated and the rent paid was an ad
vance of five hundred dollars ! Here was a
nice fix. Knowing he was in the right, and
had the law on his side, he immediately stor
ed his household goods, and took his whole
family to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where he
engaged a suite of rooms and board for seven
persons ! He then went to the landlord, in
formed him what he had done, also inform
ing him that he (the landlord) would have to
toot the hotel bills ! The latter saw he had
overreached himself—offered to compromise
by payiDg back the quarter’s rent and one
thousand dollars. No go! lucreased from
one thousand to five thousand, but tbe tenant
didn’t see it, and will stay at the hotel, ob
liging the landlord to not only pay his hotel
bills, but for tbe storage of his furniture, and
will sue him for damages besides—and both
the law and a New York jury will side with
the tenant !
Extortionist a
are receiving a general raking from our
press. It makes them squirm terribly, but the
people look to the expositions oi frauds by the
newspapers as the only method of defence
from the swarms of monopolists which in
fest this metropolis. The ice-dealers, next
to the gas companies, are about an avari
cious a set of unprincipled Bhylocks as ever
undertook to cooly filch unmerited gains
from the public. Notwithstanding the enor
mous crop they gathered from the rivers and
lakes in this vicinity the past winter, far ex
ceeding any crop for five years, they have
(with one exception, the Brooklyn Ice Com
pany) combined to charge one cent a ponnd
this summer to consumers—just the same
price demanded last summer in New Orleans.
The coal-dealers, also, have been making
arrangements to keep up prices to a winter
standard, but some of them have already ig
nored the “arrangement” and are selling at
nine dollars. The press here have unani
mously “pitched in” to both of this class,
and already good effects are manifest.
THE USUAL CRY
of'“worms, blight, poor prospects,” etc.,
has already been stalled by the market men
here, in order to justify the high prices they
expect to charge for fruit this season. —
Dont’t believe a word of it, reader. The
fruit trees in Jersey, in Long Island, in Dela
ware, aud in this State never looked better,
nor were they ever so laden with promis
ing blossoms. Garden fruit is also plentiful
in promise, and our market is pretty well
supplied with asparagus, radishes, (no sooth
ing syrup with them, as there ought to be.)
greens, rhubarb, etc., at very reasonable
prices; strawberries are coming in freely and
we shall probably survive provided the Rus
rian epidemic is not imported.
Brooklyn Sunday Amusement*
partake of the fantastic sometimes, aud our
brethren across the East river may well boast
of similar advantages of civilization to those
iu vogue among the Hidalgos, the former,
however, preferring prize fights to the cock
fights by the latter. The Hidalgos after de
voutly indulging in mas 9, adjourn to their
favorite cock pits, and bet their doubloons on
their iavorite birds, —while, on last Sabtyatli,
after acoustically catching the drippings from
the sanctuaries of Cuyler, Beecher, Bartlett,
Woodruff, aud Father Francela, the Brook
lyn humanitarians could have piously ad
journed to a palatial bam and enjoyed the lux
ury of two prize fights—uo policemen to in
terfere, plenty of trickling claret, and oceans
of bad whisky. Who says Brookly isn’t des
tiued to be a big city ?
Steamboat*
are quite numerous in this harbor. They
have been discharged by the government,
and are “for sale” or “to let,” iu quantities.
Some of them look pretty hard, and some
little surprise is manifested by sea-going
gents in this vicinity at the tenacity evinced
by the shaky timbers of many of the wlieo
zy old things. It is really considered provi
dential that the government has decided to
send its heroes home by land, or we should
have more horrible drownings to chronicle.
Policemen
are useful institutions—individually and col
lectively. Like Toodle’s Coffin in the house,
they are handy to have about the streets—
handy when a breach of the peace occurs—
haudy to direct strangers—handy to put a
summary veto upon nuisances—bandy to call,
upon and by their suggestive presence cause
justice to be done in minor trading opera
tions—handy to settle disputes in their iuci
pient stages and thus prevent them from
reaching the magnitude of assaults and even
murder, A recent case of grand larceny
shows, too, they are very handy in assisting
in the performance of such an operation. A
gentleman had stored in a house in Brooklyn
several trunks, containing wearing apparel
aud other valuables worth several hundred
dollars. One day this week a light wagon
driven by a young man was drawn up to the
door, and the trunks demanded. There was
no one at home but two or three small chil
dren, and they, of course, pointed the way to
the room where the trunks were stored. The
young man found the trunks too heavy to
move alone, and the children too small to
assist him. So he stepped to the door to
call on the first passer-by. It so happened
that a policeman came along, and he was
called on. He promptly acquiesced, and the
trunks were soon in the wagon. A day or
two afterwards the owner called for the
trunks, and, with surprise and indignation
combined, learned the circumstances of their
withdrawal. It is scarcely presumable that
this policeman is detective enough to ferret
out their whereabout now.
The Ram Webb.
The destruction of the rebel ram Webb
again brings before the mind the powerful
towboat built some years ago* for service in
this harbor. She was of invaluable service
in breaking up ice in New York bay. but the
underwriters failed to fully appreciate her
until after she was .gone, and she was sent
out to New Orleans to the more profitable
work of towing bevvy cotton ships in and
out of the Mississippi. On the breaking out
of the rebellion the rebels turned the Webb
into a gunboat, her great speed rendering
her extremely valuable in that capacity,
though she never was in attive service but
twice. Reed, who commanded her, doubt
less expected to make a good thing out of
the steamer and her cargo, and possibly, in
tbe meantime, to do a good deal of mischief
to our commerce in the Gulf. His career in
the Florida ard Tacony is evidence enough
of hatred for tbe Union, and, now that he
is caught, should give him the full benefit of
the gallows. Semmes, Morris, and their
kidney, need not expect much mercy from
stern old Andy Johnson.
Women in Breeches.
Some of the strong-minded of the fair sex,
continue to sport the Bloomer dress, and one
of them,a Mrs. Doctor Harman, was arrested
the other day for wearing male attire. She
subsequently appeared in print in defence of
her “neat comfortable pagp’ and ma <* e quite
a sensible argument ontmlq&estion, contend
ing that women might as well be arrested
for wearing sleeves as well as men do, as for
PRICE. 5 CENTS
dressing the lower limbs in the same manner,
and alleging that the wearing of shawls by
the sterner sex is as much an infringement
upou female apparel, as the more useful part
of dress which occasioned her arrest. She
says the thought is not particularly agreeable
to an American bom woman that she may
not at pleasure clothe herself well, thinks it
a shame there should not be freedom of
judgement and taste in the matter in a Re
publican land, and states that the desire of
such as she is to place the dressing of women
on a common sense basis instead of a mere
fashion basis, rendering the costume less
cumbersome, and uncouth and les9 barrel
like. The argument is very good, but who
of the sterner sex desires to see the ladies In
any other dress than the flowing one, ho well
adopted to show their pretty shapes, particu
larly of a rainy day. Depend on it the mas
oulines will never countenance the change.
The State Legislature
which adjourned about the Ist of May ac
quired the character of being more venal
than all its predecessors, not excepting the
famous gridiron legislature of iB6O, almost
anything it was possible to grant was sold
by the more shameless members for a large
or small consideration as the case might be,
while many of the more modest members
were not above pocketing their little dowr
ies in a quiet underground way. More bills
were introduced and were rushed through
the body than at any previous session, and
there was more open, undisguised bribery
and corruption than ever was heard ol at
Albany in any one year before. The Legis
lature of 1860 will live in hisiory.
Charles Kean and Wife
have played their engagement of eleven
nights, and to crowded houses, at remunera
tive prices. I have seen nobody who re
gretted the visit, but almost every one whom
I have heard say anything abont them, con
fesses. to disappointment. Their style is
entirely artificial, and was not so much re
lished as acting more true to nature would
have been, and yet they are wonderful ar
tists, and in comedy Mrs. Kean is superb.
The Son* ot Malta.
Who has not laughed over the ludicrous an
ecdote I tpld of the renowned Sons of
Malta ? The saying “Recorded” has pass
ed into a proverb. Down in Smithfleld, N.
C.,some weeks ago Sherman’s men unearthed
a lodge room of the “Sons," and without
evincing any reverence for the order, a
regiment which camped near by, rigged it
self out in white robes, aprons, masks, mi
tres, crowns, etc., and gave an entertain
ment which can be imagined by those who
have ever experienced the mysteries of a
lodge room. After the novelty of the thing
wore off, the scenes were more ludicrous
than ever, for at one fire was seen the Grand
R. J. A. singeing a chicken while other
dignitaries were busy preparing the further
concomitants for the feast of eatables which
was to follow “the flow of soul.” The se
cesh citizens didn’t relish the joke so highly
as our boys did, and looked on with ardent
disgust.
• House Building.
There is great activity among the knights
of the trowel and jackplane. In all sections
of the City, building improvements are going
on, while a great many new edifices are in
process of construction. There to reason to
hope that ere next May-day comes round,
the completion of hundreds, and perhaps
thousands, of new dwelling houses will en
able ordinary circumstanced people to obtain
a place of abode within ten miles of the City-
Hall at rates they can afford to pay.
Lucky Recruits.
With the end of the draft we have been
relieved of provost marshals, all of whom
in this locality have resigned. All the con
scripts and volunteers at Hart's Island, num
bering some twenty-two hundred, were two
weeks ago mustered out of the service, and
leit for their homes. Some of the recruits
had received large bounties within a month,
and, in view of their quick exemption from
duty,havedone a very profitable business. They
are very thankful to General Grant for his
eminent services to the country, which have
resulted so greatly to their personal welfare.
President Johnson's family resides at pres
ent in Nashville, Tennessee, and consists ot
his wife and four children—two sons aud
two (laughters. His son Robert is tweuty
nine, and Andrew Johnson, jr., is twelve
years of age. His two daughters, with their
families, also reside in Nashville, having been
driven from their homes in Eastern Tennes
see. One of Mr. Johnson’s sons, Charles, a
surgeon in the army, was thrown from his
horse in the year 1863, and killed; and Col.
Stover, a sou-in-law, commanding the 4th
regiment ot Tennessee infantry, was killed
in the battle of Nashville, while gallantly
leading his command, on the 18th»of Decem
ber 1864. Judge Patterson who is also a son
in-law of the President, lives in Nashville. —
Mrs. Johnson has been in very delicate health
for some time past.
A Curious Incident. —At the N. York In
stitution for the Deaf and Dumb, on the Wed
nesday night preceding the President’s as
sassination, a little' deaf and dumb girl got
up in hei sleep, went to a class-mate, and,
after rousing her, spelt with the manual al
phabet, “IJhcoln i9 shot.” In the morning
ihe somnambulist' knew nothing of the cir
cumstance till informed of it by her friend in
the presence of others.
