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SAVANNAH DAILY HEEALD. VOL. 1-NO. 104. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING} 16 rVBUBBXD BY ±l. W. MASON «3fc CO.. At 1H Bay Street, Savannah, Georgia. mils: Per Copy, Five Cents. Per Hundred *3 50. Per Year....: ijsio 00. ADVERTISING: Two Dollr.rs per Sqnare 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 eveuing without extra charge. JOB PRINTING, In every style, neatly and promptly done. THE RUSSIAN PLAGUE. What is the Nature of the Present Visitation f Symptoms of the Siberian Plague—lts Hav ayes in 1861 —Cure by a Cossuck. We have received the following very valu able and exceedingly interesting information relative to the disease which afflicts the city of St. Petersburg, from a well informed source, in reply to the article on the “Rus sian Plague” which appeared in the Herald of April 23: Portland, Me., April 26, 1866. • To the Editor of the Herald: Iu view of the interest now felt in the “Si berian Plague,” I send you the enclosed ar ticles, roughly translated from the St. Peters burg Police Gazette, and the Voydomostay newspaper, in the summer of 1861, when I resided in Russia, and learned something of the disease, which then prevailed there to a considerable extent among animals, and de stroyed perhaps fifty human lives between St. Petersburg and Moscow. It was not thought epidemic—perhaps was epizootic— but was believed to be.highly contagious.— Persons who died from it were supposed to have been infected by direct contagion, or by having the poison deposited on them by a'fly'which brought it from the diseased ani mals. Strict measures for the seclusion of infect ed animals were adopted by the police as soon as the disease appeared. It did not spread widely, nor docs it appear probable that it is now the cause of the present unusual mortality at St. Petersburg, but rather, as indicated in your leading article in the Herald of the 23d inst., that the malady now so des tructive there is relapsing fever, coexisting with typhus. The Valdai district, where the “Siberian plague” is said to have appeared so much earlier than usual, is one hundred and fifty miles southeast of St. Petersburg. There may be, this year, more tendency than usual to typhus, from atmospheric causes, and the statement which you quote from Dr. Murchi son, that one of the diseases and its condi tions is already present in London, may be well considered as applicable to the crowded and dirty portions of our own towns. This is always the most unhealthy season in St. Petersburg, particularly among the lower classes, who, enfeebled by the long winter, by inactivity, by the strict observance of a low vegetable diet during Lent, f.re now" ex posed to the effluvia of thawing filth in the courtyards and canals ol that undrained city. Relieving that there is little danger that we shaft be troubled with the “Siberian plague,” the name of which seems so formidable, but that we may always take dll possible precau tions against the dirt, low diet, stagnant water and crowded lodgings which promote typhus. I send you these Russian papers snowing that the “Siberian plague” is not novel or very much to be dreaded. Five Guineas for a New Planet.— The elder Herschel was a man ol' kindly disposi tion ; but like most persons who have risen out of early difficulties, he was extremely careful of money, and became wealthy. A traditional anecdote of his domestic life, however, showed that he could be good humoredly generous on occasions. An old servant, named Betty, was with him at the’ time of constructing his telescope, and his first act on discovering the planet Uranus was to give her a guinea, adding, “You shall have five guineas, Betty, when I discover another.” The poor woman accepted the promise in all seriousness, and great was her interest in all her master’sflhibsequent labors. Planets, however, even by a Herschel, are not to be discovered every day, and Betty's hopes were long deferred. One day Hersch el received a friend to whom he had previous ly told the story, with the exclamation, “I have paid my five guineas!" “What!" exclaimed the friend; “have we to rejoice over another great discovery ?” “No,’ replied the astronomer, with a good humored smile; “I have simply paid poor Betty in advance. “You see,” he added, as his visitor appeared puzzled, “I often pursue these researches long after the good woman has retired to rest. How is Betty to know that I do not discover new planets clandes tinely, and keep her from the knowledge with a mean determination to save my mon ey ? Better to pay at once; better to pay at once.” Bantingism. —A gentleman named J. W. Towner, of Putnam Couuty, has been wri ting to the Carmel Free rre33 how he re duced his weight from 320 pounds to 214 pounds, and is still getting lighter. He says he has seen a statement iu the papers that eating nothing but meat would 'reduce a person's flesh. At first he thought it a hum bug, but then the thought occurred to him that all animals which ate nothing but flesh were full of muscle and not of meat, he de termined to try it. The result was as stated before. He commenced his diet by rejecting bread, butter, cheese, potatoes, milk, tea, coffee, sugar, etc.—in short, everything that has sugar and starch—and ate all kinds of flesh, fish, and fowl that the family made use of; also such fruits and vegetables as were without starch. He says bis health and strength are much improved ; also, that after he had got settled ou his diet he has never been hungry as he used to be, with a gnawing sensation at the stomach, and his lood always relishes. He has been trying his experiment over a year. The whole number of post-offices in the Waited States is 28,878. SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1865. THE GRAY SWAN. HY ALICE CARRY. "O tell me, sßtlor, tell me true. Is my little lad, my Elihu, A sailing with your ship ?’• The sailor’s eyes were dim with dew— * Your little lad, your Elihu?" He said, with trembling lip— What little lad ? what Slip ?" What little lad? as if there could be • Another such a one ai he t- What little lad, do you say ? Why, Elihu. that took to the sea. The moment I put him off my knee ? It was just the other day , The Gray Swan sailed away. ’• "The other day ?" the sailor's eyes Stood open with a great surprise— ‘•The other day ? the Swan?" His heart began in his heart rise. "Ay, ay, sir, here in the cupboard lies The jacket he had on.” "And so your lad is gone ?’’ “Gone with the Swan. ” "And did she stand With her anchor clutching hold of the sand For a month, and never stir?” "Why, to be sure! I’ve seen from the land. Like a lover kissing his lady’s hand, The wild sea kissing her— A sight to remember, sir.” “But, my good mother, do you know All this was twenty years ago i I stood on the Gray Swan’s deck, And to that lad I saw you throw. Taking It off; as it might be, so l The kerchief from your neck." "Ay, and he'll bring it. back 1" “And did the little lawless lad That has made you sick and made you sad, Sail with the Gray Swan’a crew l" “Lawlers! the man la going mad 1 The best boy ever mother had— Be sure he sailed with the crew I What would you have him do 1" "And he has never written line, Nor cent you word nor made you sign To say he was alive ?" "Hold I if ’twas wrong the wrong D mine; Besides, he may be in the brine. And could he write from the grave? But, man I what would you have ?’’ “Gone twenty years—a long, long cruise— ’Twas wicked thus your love to abuse; But if the lad still live. And come back home, think you, you can Forgive him ?’’ “Miserable man, You’re mad as the sea—you rave— What have I to forgive ?’’ . The sailor twitched his shirt so blue. And from within his bosom drew The kerchief. She wild: “My God 1 my Father 1 Is it true? My little lad, my Elihu ! My blessed boy, my child 1 My dead, my living child !" [From the New Je.sey inues.] How Old is Secession. —Secession being now dead and buried, it may be well to in quire as to the age of the monster. It was not born in 1861, when the first shot was 'fired at the flag on Sumter. It was the growth of years of South Carolina pro siavery arrogance and aristocracy. A copy of the Southern Standard, published iu Charleston, dated April 13, 1852, precisely niue years before that gun was fired in Charleston harbor, was recently picked up in that city. At its editorial head stands the following collection of the sayings of prom inent South Carolina politicians, to show what was then the tenor of public opinion, and how, at that early period, these men were endeavoring to “tire the Southern heart.” Peoplt who think it would be wise and safe to pardon these secesh rebel leaders, and keep them in the country, will do well to consider that, thirteen years ago their organ in Charleston announced th%iollowing as OUR PRINCIPLES. . There Is one point on which there can be no diversity of opinion in the South, among those who are true to her, or who have made up their minds not to be slaves; that is, if we should be forced to choose between resistance and submission, we should take resistance at all hazards.— Calhoun. To do that, concert of action must be ne cessary, not to save the Union, for it would be too late, but to save ourselves. Thus, in my view, concert is the one thing needful.— Calhoun. Submit! The-very sound curdles the blood in my veins. But let us be united, and a tale of submission shall never be told.— Cheves. What is the remedy ? I answer, secession, united secession of the slaveholding States, or a large numher of them. Nothing else will be wise—nothing else will be practicable.— Cheves. The contest is not between South Carolina and the general government, but between the slaveholding States and the balance of the civilized world And for one State to sepa rate from the rest is to weaken ourselves, and enable the enemy to cut us off in detail. — Do. Crook. Then let South Carolina, as the vanguard, halt, stand fast, and maintain her position, skitmish with the enemy, and take advan tage of the chapter of accidents, until the body of the army—the balance of the slave holding Stales—comes up withiu supporting distance.— lbid. Stand upon your arms until you can give a blow that will despatch your enemy. — Orr. No nation can rely on the forbearance of others, and I would not allow the Palmetto flag to float by sufferance only.— Butler. We mßst concede to the other States what we claim for ourselves—intelligence to un derstand their rights, and courage to defend them. And it b bad policy and bad taste to assume that South Carolina alone has the spirit and intelligence to defend and preserve the common rights of all the Southern States.— Burt. South Carolina has been isolated within the. Union by the arts of our enemies, and we propose to complete and perpetuate that isolation by drawing between her and the other slaveholding States the deeply marked lines of a separate national existence. This seems to me to be a fatal error. — Barnwell. A Wilmington (N. C ) paper says : Some of our soldiers driving in the swamps back of the town,have struck a mine from which Have already been taken several hundred barrels of turpentine and a quantity of rosin. The superiority of those mines over the Pennsyl vania oil wells is that the product here is found in barrels all ready for market, the only expense necessary in working them being the cost of labor in rolling the barrels out. Furth er explorations are being made. Our Financial Status.— We have accomp lished extraordinary things in this country within the past four years, causing no little astonishment in Europe. The way we dealt with the stupendous rebellion and put it down, the vast military resources which we developed, the strength manifested by our government when, under circumstances un paralleled in this country, its elected head was asssssmated, and yet the stream of gov ernment Sowed on, without a ripple disturb ing its surface,9ave the shadow of grief which fell upon the land—all these events are be yond the comprehension of the people of Europe. But they have yet to witness the most remarkable and novel of all the events arising out of this war, and that is the capa city of the country to pay the debt which the war has created. It is a notorious fact that no country in Europe has ever paid its war debts. From England, with its four thousand millions of dollars of national debt, down tb the smal lest Powers of Germany, they have never been able to do more than pay the interest, and that by heavy taxation on the people. They have, on the contrary, been Increasing but never paying off, their debt But bow is it with U 9 ? The debt accumu lated by the war of the Revolution and that of 1812 was not only paid off in a few years, but, in the time of Jackson, we had a surplus of forty or fifty millions, which was distri buted among the States for the purposes of education, aud it was not until twenty years had elapsed that the last State accepted its quota The money had, In fact, almost to be forced upon them. The debt incurred by this war, now just concluded, immense as it may be, will be paid off in a few years. The generation now living will see it liquidated, and without oppressing the people with taxa tion to a greater extent than they feel the taxation of to-day. We have borrowed noth ing of foreign Powers, but have cairied on the war entirely with our own resources— have supplied our own fighting material aud our own money, while foreigu nations were supplying the enemy with all that was need ed in the way of loans and munitions of war, to be used against us. : This is something in the history of great wars which the world has never before ex hibited, and it is only a country with such boundless resources and such a free and firm government that could accomplish it. Des pite the severe struggle through which we have passed our financial status to-day is without example. —New York Herald. Bride and Groom a Ckntuky Aoo. —To begin with the lady: Her locks were strained upwards over an immense cushion that sat like an incubus on her bead, and plastered over with pomatum, and then sprinkled over with a shower of white powder. The height of this tower was somewhat over a foot. One single white rose-bud lay on its top like au eagle on a haystack. Over her neck and bo som was folded a lace handkerchief, fastened in front by a bosom pin rather larger than a dollar, containing your grandfather’s minia ture set in virgin gold. Hei airy form was braced up in a satin dress, the sleeves as tight as the natural skin of the arm, with a wai9t formed by a bodice, worn outside, from whence the skirt flowed off,, aud was distend ed at the top by an ample hoop. Shoes of white kid, with peaked toes, and heels of two or three inches’elevation, inclosed her feet, and glittered with spangles, as her little pedal members peeped curiously out. Now for the swaiu : His hair wfis sleeked back and plentifully befloured, while his queue projected like the handle of a skillet. His coat was a sky blue silk, lined with yel low ; his long vest of white satin, embroider ed with gold lace; his breeches of the*same material, and tied at the knee with pink rib bon. White silk stockings and pumps, with laces, and ties of the same hue, completed the habiliments of his nether limbs. Lace ruffles clustered around his wrist, aud por tentous frills worked in correspondence, and bearing the miniature of his beloved, flnished his truly genteel appearance. The Emigration to Me xico.— The .papers of Washington, Philadelphia and New York have announcements of an extensive con templated emigration to Mexico, where it would appear, the Mexican government is willing to give grants of land to such indus trious meu as may develop the resources of that country. Many people ate under the impression that this is intended as a military emigration ; but it by no meang follows that it is so; nor do we see, under the circum stances, that our government is called upon to interfere with the voluntary change of residence of any portion of our citizens not carrying arms out of the country. * It is probable that the emigrants will defend their ranches and plantations when they settle down in Mexico. It is quite natural that they should do so, and it also must be expected that they will adhere to and defend those principles of government to which they are attached. The English idea that every man's home is his castle is one that presents itself forcibly to every one who has a castle to protect. The emigrants ceive a home in Mexico will no doubt take care of it.— N. Y. Herald. Mr. Cobden’s Funeral. —Among the two thousand persons that attended the funeral of Richard Cobden, there was only one peer. Our Minister, Mr. Adams, was present, as Mr. Gladstone and other prominent members of the House of Commons. Outside of Mr. Cobden’s family, no one seemed to be so moved by the sad rites as his life-long friend and coadjutor, Mr Bright. At the solemn words in the service, “Ashes to ashes—dust to dust," iie burst into a paroxysm of grief, cryiog bitterly. Senator L S. Foster, the New Vice Presi dent, was born in Franklin, New London county, Conn., November 22, 1806, and is a direct descendant of Miles Standish. He has been a member ot the General Assemblv of Connecticut, Speaker of the House, Mayor of the city of Norwich, and United States Senator, to which position he was elected in and re-elected in 1860. Dibn’t Know How to See. —A young Englishwoman of 22, who had been blind from infancy, recently had her sight restored and when she wanted to tell what things were sbe bad to shut her eyes feel of them. (From the N-w York Herald lltb.j THE MEXICAN EMIGRATION ' SCHEME. The excitement respecting the new Mexi-; can “emigration” movement seemed to be on the increase yesterday. The headquarters of Col. Wm. R. Allen, corner of Howard and Crosby streets, were besieged throughout the entire day with applicants eager to joiu in tho movement, and hundreds of 9alwart men registered their names on the enrollment books. Among the applicants yesterday were numbers of sailors and other persons who have seen service in the United States navy. The rush of discharged soldie.s and army officers to join in the expedition was perfectly surprising. The enrollment clerks were kept busy, and if the enthusiasm that has been excited continues much longer, it will be necessary doubtless for Col. Allen to establish branch offices in various parts of the city. The success of this quiet appeal to the American public, it is said, has astonished the agents of President Juarez, who had no idea when they commenced operations here that the response would be so overwhelming. Gen. Ortega, it is stated, expresses himself as immensely satisfied over the manner in which his plans are working, and apprehends no se rious obstacles to the triumphal issue of the expedition. GENERAL ORTEGA CALLED TO WASHINGTON. It is not deemed prudent, however, to di vulge the plan in all its details as yet, a final agreement with the authorities at Washington not having yet been arrived at. General Ortega received a despatch yester day from Washington, requesting his pres ence in that city immediately, on important business, The summons is believed io have reference to the emigration scheme, and it is rumored that our government desires to have an explicit understanding with the Mexican Minister and Geueral Ortega on tho subject. The principal difficulty in tho way is the supposed cession ot Sonora to France by Maximilian. General Ortega will probably not return to this city until the middle of next week. - - N THE LEADERS AND SYMPATHIZERS. At the head of the military part of the e^- S edition in this country up less a person than [ajor General Rosecrans is mentioned. He is said to be using all influence and Interest in favor of the project, and promises to raise twenty-five thousand men in the great West. The intention is to proffer him the position' of comraander-in-chief of the forces when collected together on the plains of Souora. Large sums of money have been contributed, it is said, by wealthy American citizens in tho West, and deposited in various banks at Cincinnati, Chicago, 9t. Louis, and other cities in that region. According as circum stances may require, this money will be drawn for the purpose of fitting out recruits with clothing, arms, provisions, &c. STEAMERS AND WAR VESSELS TO BE PURCHASED. As soon as sufficient funds arrived from Mexico it is the intention of General Ortega to purchase four large merchant steamers for transportation purposes, and a few sloops of war lot use in shallow waters, as a protec tion to the army. Two of the steamers will be run on the Atlantic and two on the Paci fic. THE ROUTE OF THE EMIGRANTS will not be by way of the sea cost. They will enter the Mexican territory at Chihua hua, and proceed thence to their destined f ermanent quarters iu the district of Sonora, t is a part of the plan of Ortega to have all these emigrauts declared Mexicair citizens, invested with all the privileges and immuni ties of natives of the country, but freed from the necessity of swearing off their allegiance to the United States. This shrewd plan will, of course, place it beyond the power of Max imilian to treat the emigrants as pirates. Go ing with the express wish of the constitution al republican party in Mexico, the emigrants, of course, cannot be held as mere adventur ers and pirates any more than .Maximilian’s party who went on the Invitation of the no tables of Mexico. RvTiier Late. —A “neutral” English friendly contemporary made the following remark in its issue for April 8: “The tatest report is that She North and South are still trying to arrange their differences diplomati cally—the basis of the negotiations to be the reconstruction of the Union, slavery abol ished ; and if we might add to this report another item which seems possible, a good thrashing of the Federal armies before the ghost is given up, and the Confederates at length illustrate an bid saying that armies may be ruined by their victories. Wild Beasts in Algeria,.— I The Monlteur Algerien gives a statistical account of the de struction of wild beasts in French Africa for which premiums have been paid within a year:—Lions, lionesses and cubs, 21; panthers 62 ;.hyeneas, 87 ; jackalls, 1161: The prizes given are: for lions, lionesses and grown panthers, 40f. each; cubs, 15f.; full-grown hyenas, 16f.; young one and jackals, If. 60c. Baronets.— An English writeithu9 “comes down” on these titled gentry: “You have no prestige. ' Nobody cares for a baronet. If you were a lord, with a seat in the Upper House, that’s another thing. Yourorder would take care of you. I believe there’s a fund for poor lords. But a baronet! Gracious! the things I have seen poor baronets drove to. Some of them go on the stage for a time, till the public are sick of-em. There is no place for broken-down baronets under heaven! and that's what you are unless ycu put that paper in the fire.’’ As examples of the peculiar things found in advertisements, take the announcement of the wants of an affluent and pious elderly lady who, desirous of having, a domestic like-minded with herself, appeals to the pub lic for a “groom to take ettarge ot two car riage horns of a serious turn of mind." So also the simple hearted innkeeper, who ad vertises bis “limited charges and civility;’’ and the description given by a distracted family of a runaway member, who consider that they are affording valuable means for his identification, by saying “Age not pre cisely known—but looks older than he is.” Parole of honor—oa a pay rolL PRICE. 5 CENTS ODDS AND ENDS. As an example to modem people we pub lish the fact that for more than twenty years Dr. Geo. Fordyce, an eminent London phy sician, took regularly at four, a pound and a half of rump-steak, half a broiled chk-ker, potatoes, a plate of fish, two pound? of bread, a bottle of port, a quarter of a pint of brandy, and a tankard of stroug ale, that satisfied the doctor’s .moderate wants till four next day, and regularly engaged one hour and a half of bis time. Dinner over, he returned to his borne, to deliver his six o’clock lecture on anatomy and chemistry. In Paris in 1854 there were 34,000,000 of passengers who rode in 329 omnibuses. Ia 1804 the number of conveyances was increas ed to 562, and the riders in them to 92,923,890. Besides these Paris “ ’buses” are 48 others, partly suburban and partly those vast cara vans known as Americans, which travel on tramways, and carry about as many passen gers as a first-class line-of-battle-sbip; their aggregate is 100,000,000 of passengers. Near ly 10,000 horses are employed iu this busi ness. The Charterhouse Committee on the me morials to Thackeray and Leach have agreed to place in the cloisters near the chapel door two- simplo marble monuments, with very plain inscriptions, and to invest the remain der of the sum subscribed, about three hun dred pounds, in such a way as to produce two annual prizes, one for drawing and the other tor modern literature, to be given away in Charterhouse School by public competi tion. All that we mean by love when we speak of it and write of it—a blow glyen by the defender to the defenceless crushes. A, wo man may forgive deceit, treachery, deser tion—even the preference given tb a rival. She may foigivo them and forget them ; but I do not think that a woman can forget a blow. And as for forgiveness—it is not the blow that she cannot forgive, but the mean ness of spirit that made it possible. Anew compass, arranged for registering a ship's course at sea on lined and prepared paper working on a cylinder by clockwork, has just been patented in England. The machine >is claimed to be the invention of Commander Arthur of the British ship Ex cellent, but it is unfortunate for Commander Arthur’s claim for originality that Mr. Henry Peverly,of Chelsea,Mass.,a worthy mechanic, patented precisely the same machine in this country some years ago, but whicn lias lain neglected ever since. The mammoth gun just completed at the Fort Pitt Works, Pittsburg, is named Beel zebub from its ability to give what General Taylor gave the Mexicans. The bore ia 20 inches In diameter; depth of chamber, 14 feet 8 inches; weight, 93,851 lbs.; charge of powder, 125 lbs.; weight of ball, 1080 lbs. Anew opretta in Paris Is bewitching peo-* pie, one scene of which represents the hero on the top of the Column Vendome, from which he is about to throw himself, wbsnau “American Miss” appears, with whom he Instantly falls in love, instead of falling from the column, a far more agreeable end*, cer tainly, and marries her. One day, the philosopher Bliss found him self in the same vessel with a crowd of tprry scoundrels. A tempest came on; and in stantly the whole band began to invoke the succor of the gods. “Be qulet,you wretches," said the sage; “if the gods perceive that you are here, we are gone I" An Irish glazier was putting a pane of glass into a window, when a groom, who waa standing by, began loking him, telling him to mind and put In plenty of putty. The Irishman bore the banter for some time, but at last silenced hia tormentor by, “Arrah now, be off wid ye, or else I'll put a pain in yer head widoul any putty I ” It often amuses me, says Coleridge, to bear men impute all their misfortunes to fbte, bad luck, or destiny, whilst their success or good fortune they ascribe to their own sagacity, cleverness, or penetration. It seems to such minds that light and darkness are one and l lie same, concentrating from, and being part of the same nature. “As mad as a hatter” we always conceived an odd saying, not understanding what parti cular madness could bo traced to our friends Bush, A. N. Cook or Abofn, and we are re lieved to find it probably came from the French saying “He reasons like a (buitre) oyster,” aud, through similarity of sotjtnd, “11 raisonne comma une buitre” became “As mad ass hatter.” The Monlteur Atgeerien gives a statistical account of the destruction 'ot wild beasts in the French African colony, for which pre miums are paid by the government Lions, lionesses, and cubs, 20; panthers, 62; hyenas, 87;iackalls, 1161. The prizes given are tor lions, lionesses, and grown panthers, 40f. each; cubs, 16f.; full-grown hyenas, 15f.; young oner and jack alls, If. 60c. The late Mrs Browning said rather shafrply, in a letter to a friend, that so far as sbe could see, modem thought in matters religious waa developing two great classes of thinkers, “those who tolerated everybody, because they believed nothing, and those who tolerat od nobody, because they . some thing,.’’ Two French pr iesis, during tbs winter, who were oa their way to relieve a family buried beneath the snow, were attacked by six wolves. One of the priests climbed a tree, the other faced them, killng two with his te volver, when the rest fled. At Nevada, the miners consider it a sub stantial token of their approval to shower- a favorite actress with coin, a token which the actress never fails gracefully to accept. We have known them to be less willing this Way when coppers were thrown at them from this galleries. 1 ; - Among the most interesting marks of hu man progress is a postal convention which has lately been concluded, one between the Italian government and that of the United States, by which each country engages to circulate gratuitously the correspondence of the other.