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The Savannah Daily Herald. S. W. Mason & Co.,' Proprieties. Samitki. W. Mason, Eiutpr. SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 188* FOR LOCAL HATTERS SEE THIRD PACE. TO ADVEKfIsEKS, Onr adverting patrons are reminded that adver tisements inserted in the Morning Edition of the Hcuai.T) will appear in the Evening without extra charge. Advertisements should be handed in as eariy as possible, but will be received as late »s 12 o'clock at night. We adhere to onr advertised rates except for long advertisements, or those inserted t'>r a long time, on which a reasonable discount will be made. HOW TO OBTAIN THE HERALD KKG ILARJ We often have complaints from lesidents of Savan uah and Hiiton Head that they are not able always to obtain the F The demand is sometimes so great as to ei *«ustau Edition very soon af'er its issue, ■ind those who wish tc have the llerat.t> regularly, sti aid subscribe for it. We have faithful carriers in Sa\ an.ah nd at Hilton Head, and through them we always serve fegul.ir first. FREE READING ROOM. For the convenience of our patrons and the public generally, wc have assigued a room in the rear ot our counting rootu, 111 Hay street, to the purposes of a free Reading Room. In it we keep ou file the latest pa lters from the North, the interior of Georgia, Florida, Hilton Head, Charleston and else where. We invite the public to use this room, anti are sure that thev will always find there a larger collection of papers of late date than anywhere else in Savannah. DEMAGOGUES. If there exists any class of people thor oughly hated by everybody out of their awn set, and more completely despised, because better understood, by each other, it vs that of demagogues—persons devoid of patriotism, who strive to rank as statesmen, and who are no more worthy of the classification than blacklegs are to be classed with bankers. But they, usually, have a faculty of howling with the rabble, of sailing with the current, and, so they float into position, they care not which side they are on. They are generally turncoats, shifting with every wind that blows, never consistent nor caring for consis tency, but only anxious, with the greed for gain which except by fraud cannot be satis fied, to obtain popularity. With a free representative government this class is a necessary evil, as with most other governments we presume. The offence i,s one for which they are only amenable to the bar of public opinion, and at that they have peculiar facilities for either avoiding judg ment or gaining a verdict. This class is especially dangerous under a government like ours, because demagogues make a profession of gulling the public and playing on the 'oi pdlloi, which in American ized Greek means the men who give the majorities. They are as skillful in their art as pickpockets are in theirs, and it is just, about as much of ,an art. But demagogues are easily detected, and would get no dupes if a tnoroughly unselfish, patriotic sentiment could be engendered.— This great work of detecting and putting them dow’ii belongs to the leading men of every community, whose intelligence and experience are a 1 guard against that sort of hypocritical humbug. Where they have a lion’s skin on, they £iould be stripped of the deceptive garb and held up to the scorn oi the people. We find there are demagogues South as well as North, meu who are a cross between Bombastes Furioso and Uriah Heep; who during the war have kept out of tights on the Hudibras principle ; who before it were very likely nulliflcationists, and now are “original Union meu;” who have talked treason four years, aud now are loud-mouth ed in denouncing traitors. TII6 same class ol men act iu the North in the same way.— Some ot the oldest sinners of the lot have held office under every administration for forty years, and took contracts during the war of the rebell ion. There is uot one of the gang, North or South, that would’ut pre fer a Seuatorship in the 0. S. A. to a subor dinate position iu the U. S. A., anil vice versa + We believe the nation has been so refined in the great crucible of fc war that demagogues hereafter will find their vocation scarcely re munerative. North and South, we hope, the riugleaders will be kept out of office tor the future, and where they are already nicely established, kicked out at every opportunity. Relieved of their means of swindling the public, some of them may reform, and adopt more honest modes of life, adapted to their capacity, such as peddling, for instance. Mahy, doubtless, witl go to State prisons, some to work-houses, and some will leave the country for the country’s good. We are convinced that President Johnson has a hatred for demagogues that will be a healthful feature of liis policy. We do not believe he will, knowingly, bestow an office on a siugle man who plays Yankee Doodle on the U nion horn now simply because Dixie is played out, and the strings of tiie Confed erate fiddle are all broken. Tie has said, sub stantially, that be preferred a consistent, frtyik, avowed secessionist,for an office-hold er under the I nited States government, to one of the truckling, toadying, hypocritical class who say good devil one day and good Lord the next, with equal sincerity. The people of the South do not complain because any one who has been for four years a consistent, undeviating Union man, simply because he believed in it, is elevated to a high office in their midst. We have never heard, for instance, any objection to the appoint- ment of Hon. Wylly Woodbridge to the Col lectorship of this Port. We do not believe many of the appointments of the President will lie objected to on that ground. But in * the election for the Slate Convention, and in the rush for State offices, elective and otherwise, as Georgia once more resumes | her self-government, we may expect to ! see political speculators as numerous as i buzzards after a battle, as vora | cious. A political almanac would say, in its | notes to the page of the calendar which is ! now being turned over in Georgia, “About this time look out for demagogues.” We know the breed well enough so we can tell it by its tracks, and we know this class are already making preparations for a fall cam paign. Demagogues, North and South, have done all they were 'capable ot doing to destroy the government, and they should now be left completely out in the cold, or the relapse will he worse than the original ill ness, and office-seekers will thrive on the misfortunes of those they pretend devotion to. THE ATVDEHSOIVVILLE DEAD. Arrival of a Working Party to Hark the Graves. Capt. James M. Moore, Assistant Quarter master, United States Army, arrived by the Virginia from Washington, Oth inst., last evening, en route for Audersonvillo, Georgia, left Washington under orders from the Sec retary of War to proceed with an adequate working force to Andersonvillc, Sumter County, for the purpose of erecting head, boards, fences,etc., to mark in a fitting man ner the graves of the thousands of ill-fated Union solders who perished in the stockade prison at that place. Capt. Moore brought with him on the Vir ginia seven thousand head-boards, quantities of fencing ready put together, and fourteen thousand feet of lumber to be used in the work oi enclosing and distinguishing the resting-places of the martyred Union sol diers. The material, altogether, composes the full cargo of the steamer. The working party is to he superintended by Mr. Joseph S. Walker, and includes a •force t>f carpenters numbering fourteen men, ten painters and letterers, four clerk 9, two ordeiUes and five laborers. All the materials, tools, paints, etc., Capt. Moore brings with him, and everything is fully prepared for the immediate commence ment of the work. There is, however, a very serious obstacle to the further progress of Capt. Moore and Ms party, namely, eutire lack of transporta tion. The resources of the Quartermaster’s Department at this Post are inadequate for the overland transportation of the ship load of material which has arrived, and it will be equally impracticable to attempt to reach the destination via Macon, from which Au dersfiuville is distant nearly eighty miles Literary Item.— A private letter received rom Fanny Fern (Mrs. James Parton) the distinguished authoress, stales that Mr. Par tou, having completed his life of Franklin is now engaged on another book. He is also a contributer to several Magazines and peri odicals. One Dav Later Washington News.—By the arrival of the steamer Virginia, last even ing, we have Washington dates of the Bth, one day later.- The news is Unimportant, but we give a few extracts from the papers. Appalling Disaster. BURNING OF AN EMIGRANT 9HIF—FOUR HUNDRED LIVES LOST. The ship Wm. Nelson, Capt. Smith, from Antwerp, June 4, of and'for New York, with passengers, was burned on the banks of New foundland, the lstinst. About thirty of her passengers were pick ed up and taken to St. John, Newfoundland. The boats, with crew, etc., are missing, and it is supposed that four hundred lives had been lost. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Montreal, July 7. , The purser of the steamship Moravian makes the following statement : The ship Wm. Nelson, from Flushing for Philadelphia or New York, was destroyed by fire on the banks of Newfoundland. The fire originated from a red hot bolt being put into a tar pot between decks. Forty people were taken to St. John’s by the steamer Meteor. Four hundred people are missing; some may have been saved in the boats. [SECOND DESPACH.] Montreal, July 7. Capt. Alton, of the steamship Moravian, gives the following statement: The Associated Press boatmen at Cape Race reports that the steamer Meteor, be longing to J. and W. Stewart, arrived at St. Johns on Friday, with forty of the passengers and crew of the ship Wm. Nelson, taken from the burning wreck on the Banks of Newfoundland. The Wm. Nelson sailed from Flushing for New York with German emigrants on board. Before the Meteor reached the burning vessel, all the boats had put off full of passengers and crew, but none of the boats had been heard of. As far as Capt. Alton could learn, there were upwards of lour hundred passengers on board when the vessel sailed. “Can you tell," asked a blooming lass of a suitor, “what ship carries more passengers than the Great Eastern ?” “Well, Miss, really I don’t think I can.” Why it is court ship," replied the maiden with a conscious blush. The gay young men, and some ol the gay old men, of Cleveland. who have recently been fascinated by a r “pretty cigar girl,” whbtn they have taken out to ride, and treated to ice creams, strawberries, aud deli cate attentions, are put to the blush by the revelation that after»all the girl was a jolly New York boy, who visited Cleveland on a lark. The Execution of the Assassination Con spirators. . From the detailed accounts of the execution of the gieat criminals con concerned in the assassination of President Lincoln and the attempted murder of Secre tary Seward, we condense the following : The Scaffold. —The yard of the old peni tentiary building was the place selected as well for the erection of the gallows as the spot upon which their remains should be in terred. The scaffold was erected out of substantial timbers. It was twenty feet in length, twen ty-one feel high, eleven feet wide. The height of the platform from the ground was ten feet. The trap floors, extending the. whole length of the platform, were secured by iron hinges. Two long pieces of scantling, attached to ropes near the ground, formed the levers. There was a wide stairway lead ing to the platform. From the upper piece of the frame dangled loosely in the hot July sun four pieces ot rope about half an inch in Thickness and eight feet in length. At their ends were four nooses, with hangman’s knots of huge proportions. It was a sickening sight to witness, when we remembered that soon they would each contain a shapeless, lifeless body. The ropes were placed about two-and-a-half feet apart. The platform was some forty feet from the south wall of the prison. A few' ieet turther on were four graves four feet in depth, and by their side were placed four pine, unplaned boxes, that soon you Id have four tenants. THE SC UROL'S DING 9. The yard of the penitentiary is a large one, and capable of holding two or three thousand people. It is surrounded by a thick hrick wall, some twenty feet in height. On its western side there is-a massive iron gate, trontiug on the Potomac. On its eastern side an entrauce is made by going through the prison. Major General Hartrauft ha 9 had command of these grounds and the custody of the prisoners ever since their arrest. A. regiment of soldiers have been encamped in front of the building, and the same»guards have not been permitted two days In succes sion to take charge of the prisoners. Every effort that ingenuity could devise was made to prevent them from obtaining any news ofwhat was transpiring around them, and at the same time to prevent any possible col lusion wilh outside parties. The day wa9 extremely warm. At the outer gate, several hundred yards from the penitentiary, a crowd of vehicles of every description was collected. Ambulances con taining military men were permitted to en ter, and private carriages were kept outside. Lat el in the day, however, the latter rule was not so strictly observed. When we entered at the western gate we were accosted by a heavy guard. The sentries were being sta tioned on the parapet of the high walls that encircle the grounds, and with well-burnish ed rifles, mounted guard only a few feet apart. Little fear was entertained that the criminals would attempt to escape, bat every necessary precaution was observed. We ap proached an entrance to the building on the building on the South side, and easily gained admittance. For an instant we were allowed to remain in the room where the prisoners were confined. Clergymen, the guard, and a few relative# of the criminals were there. We weie ushered into another part of the prison, where reporters were busily engaged jotting down items obtained ffom guards and others who had been in attendance. A DELAY. The order for the execution said between the hours of ten and two o’clock, and at any moment between those hours the sad cortege might be expected. The sun came down with intense force on the brief walls of the Penitentiary, and the court yard, surrounded by massive walls which excluded every breath of air, was almost overpowering.— Still the crowd were patient. They came to see the execution, and they well knew that not many hours could elapse before their curiosity would be gratified. Twelve o’ciock tolled by, and still there was no sign of Gen. Hancock. *The cause of hi 9 delay was the writ of habeas corpus issued by Judge Wylie in behalf of Mrs. Surratt. The writ had been issued on the morning ot the execution, and the endorsement of the President suspend ing its action was read in the Court at about 12 o’clock. THE TIME COME. At about one o’clock there was a busy show of preparation; the soldiers fortned two sides of a holiow-square to the soqth and east of the scaffold. Their bayonets bad bean stacked heretofore, but now every man hut died his gun with military precision. Pres ently, the narrow door was opened lrom the inside, and two soldiers emerged with four arras-chairs, which they carried to the raised platform, and carefully arranged them. There were four chairs, four ropes, four graves, four rude coffins, Quietly the soldiers de scended. The sun grew hotter and hotter, but the spectators maintained their ground unflinchingly, for they had come to see an extraordinary spectacle. General Hancock appeared in the prison yard some moments previous, and directed the formation of the military line, &c. Avery few minutes after one o’clock, the narrow door again opened, and the procession moved on. It was but a short walk they had to make—some thirty or forty feet from their cells to their scaffold. A few steps further on were their gaping graves waiting to receive them. Major Gen. Hartranft preceded the cortege, then came MRS. SURRATT. She was supported by a soldier, and by Fathers Wiget and Walter. All eyes were turned upon her. Her hands were fastened behind her back with handcuffs. She was dressed in a black dress of bombazine or some similar woolen fabric. A narrow white ruffle with a black bow of ribbon encircled her neck. Her dress was trimmed up the waist with square black buttous, and a black jet breastpiu fastened at the throat.— Her hands were ungloved. "She wore a black silk bonnet, strings of which fluttered loosely in the wind, and a thin mode veil completed her attire. Her feet was encased in black jasting gaiters, tipped with leather. It was with difficulty that she was enabled to ascend the stairway. Her face was flushed somewhat, and her expression, although she made an effort to appear calm and composed, showed that she was enduring the most ter rible agony. She said something to her at tendants, and with their support ascended the platform aud took her seat, with the dangling noose close before her. Her spiri tual advisers whispered words of comlort in her ear. THE OTHER PRISONERS. GeorgejA. Atzerott, with* mortal terror depected on his ashen-haed followed. David E. Her old came next, and took his seat near Atzerott. Last of all came Lewis Thornton Powell, alias Pajme. He took hie seat quietly. All the parties weie securely handcuffed. ALL IS READY. Herold then first stepped forward, al though all four of them almost at the same instant, to have their caps and rope 9 adjust ed. Herold appeared to be considerably af fected. The muslin cap was then pulled over his head. It fitted tightly, and when the noo3e was being adjusted he whispered something about the knot being too large.— Atzerodt, just before the cap was pulled over his head, said, in a loud though tremu lous voice, “Gentlemen, t?ke ware,” hud. after the cap was pulled down, he said, “Good bye, allgentlemen who are before me now,” and then, after the rope was fixed about his neck, “May we all meet in the other world." • In the meantime Mis. Surratt had remov ed her bonnet and handed it to the priest, and Atzerodt and Herold gave their hats to their attendants. Pavae had two muslin bandages tightly tied—the one around his knees and the other about his ankles, jnst above his feet. A bandage was also secure ly fastened around the knees of Mrs. Surratt, and the ethers were similarly secured. THE DROPS FALL. By this time they were all. in readiness to be launched into eternity. It was twenty minutes after one o’clock. Scarcely had At zerodt finished speaking when an aificer in front of the platform gently clapped his hands three times. At the very instant when he had done, the lever 'was pulled, the large blocks supporting the uprights were knocked out, the trap-doors fell with a dull, sluggish sound, upon their well-greased hinges, A second afterwards, four bodies were dangling in the air. Mrs. Surratt appeared to have died without a struggle, one slight movement ofheT chest alone was visible, and Payne gave one or two shrugs of his shoulders and all was over. Not so, however, with Herold. He swayed backward and forward ibr a few' seconds; there was a lifting of his feet, and an inclination of his body that indicated a vio lent and p otracted struggle between life and death. Atzerodt, the last of the four, seem ed to pass away very quietly. The people remained spell-bound for a tew minutes and all w r as silent. There were those there who had turned away their heads, determined not to guze upon the awful spectacle, who a mo ment after could not resist a sight of the sickening scene. Others were taken entire ly by surprise, and gazing elsewhere were suddenly reminded that the fatal deed was done. NEW ENGLAND CORRESPONDENCE. The Glorious Fourth in New Fug land—How it is usually Observed—The Boston Celebration — The Star-spangled Banner and “ E Pluribus Unum"—Farragut at Faneuil Hall—The Old Cradle Rocks and the. Old Tar Shakes—lnau guration of a Statue to Horace Mam—The Weather, the Crops, frc. Boston, July G. To the Editor of the Savannah Herald: Some of your New England born readers may feel an interest in knowing how our great national holiday was kept in New Eng land. Are we Yankees the exclusive cus todians of this piece of national property ? We always have a large slice of it east of It east of the Hudson. We celebrate more systematically and come nearer to filling the bill arranged by Adams the Elder, when he predicted that the clay which saw the incep tion of independence would always be cele brated by bell-ringing, cannon-roar, bonfires, &c., than the people of any other section. The Fourth o‘s July stands out and apart from all other holidays whatsoever. Its ob seivance is not only different in degree, but in kind. Old and young look upon it as sa cred to patriotism; and who can say how much its annual observance has had to do with the love of Union and the principles of the Declaration which pervades the North ? I would recommend by all means that the South, in its new start lor glory and prosper ity, exalt the Fourth of July, and devote it to patriotic feelings embracing the whole country. It is an old landmark, is Inde pendence Day, around which we can rally and forget the differences which have inter vened between the sections of our glorious country. Independence Day was a bigger institution than ever before this year, and Boston, in common with every city and village in New England, spared no pains to make its obser vance worthy of its new glory. The pro gramme in Boston, which must stand as the type of the whole, was varied and compre hensive, including the usual bell-ringing and salutes. Moving noon and night, morning concert on the common by a band of two hundred pieces, a regatta, with prizes amounting to $l,lOO, and comprising races for all sorts of row boats, an oration, reading of the Declaration of Independence, proces sion, collation to veteran soldiers on the .commou, dinner in Faneuil Hall, balloon ascensions on the commou, children’s cele brations at Music Hall, Boston Theatre, and Andrews Hall all day. and, finally, brilliant fireworks on the common and in the outlying wards of East Boston and South Boston Every feature was carried out except the balloon ascensions, which, being impracticable on account of a breeze that would have rendered inflation dangerous and given a wet termination to a voyage in the air, was postponed to the following Saturday afternoon. The principal distinguished guests of the city were Admiral Furran-ut and Gen. Auderson. They visited, with The Mayor, every feature of the celebration, and were particularly pleased with the reception they received at the bands of the children iu the various places they occupied for the day. You should have teen these heroes gaziuo with awe upon the Great Organ at the Music Hall, which, with the possible exception of the Great Rebellion, is the “biggest thing” that has been seen in the country since the times of the mound-builders. To-day, the Admiral and the General at the request of the Mayor of Boston, hold a leception at baueuil Hall, where they are be ijiged by thousands ot our citizens and sub jected to a fire almost as hot us that which lamed on rort Sumpter or from Forts .Jack son and St. Philip. Tne old viking is espe cially lionized, aud his modesty is only equalled by his bravery. He is not much of a talker, but his deeds speak lor him. It it would not be considered indiscreet, I would suggest that he is a gieal old tar—in abort, a great old Tartar! The celebrations in other New Engla-3 | towns were variations of this programmed the addition of floral features, which Vj especially elaborate and beautiful in Sal- * Portland, Concord, New Bedford, P r , deuce. Haverhill, Bangor, &c. Worn-, made a grand triumphant affair for ret on soldiers. Bangor added a boat race by 4 tive Indians in birch-bark canoes. Orati were almost as plenty as blackberries > the eagle, spread his wings ad cap tan A?, H " gus —for the interpretation whereof see YV ster’s Elementary Speller, and when fob make a note on. ’’ There, I forgot to mention one feature the day in Boston—the inauguration of colossal bronze statue of Hon. Horace Mu which has been placed in a command* \ position in the Capitol Grounds, wben balances the statue of Daniel Webster, overlooks the Common. The artist isjj. ] Stebbins, which is very appropriate as J * Mann went in strongly for enlarging • sphere of women. The statue is r ed after the models of the ancients, when* .that of Webster stands out tree and clear l ' all the fixed vulgarity of peg-top trow,: 5 (flap-front) and ungraceful swallow-tail co* 1 But what is gained in grace by the former lost in accuracy, and the regiments of- { get the bettei-of the sway of fashion, (jp trouble about following the fashions in maj*' ble and bronze—the fashions will chanA ' and Daniel will look decidedly shabby wl | the present styles ar#as much modified;, 1 they have been during the last century. T-, ] two statues of two great men of MassacLt 1 setts have a very imposing appearauce J they stand on guard on beacon Hill, an ] they will conjointly preach Liberty as-- I Union to all future generations. The weather has beeu tremendously lj 6 j here for the season, but the heat has bes j so judiciously mixed with wet that the ve<v| tajde kingdom never was more prospered j The hay crop—the most important crop | New England will be very heavy. A delegation of our Board of Trade vt! *1 be in Detroit next week ft the Internation: * Convention, where the principal topics discussion will he the Canadian Reciprocuf| Treaty and a canal round Niagara Falls. j H&bertisements "Yy ANTED, ’ A flrst-clngs Pry Goods Salesman, acquainted w; the city aud vicinity. Permanent employment sea ' ed. No other need apply. Apply at 111 and 113 Cc' gress street. j w ANTED TO PURCHASE. For CASH, unimproved Property in the City of&/ vannah or its vicinity. • W. P. NELSON, 5 Jyl3-2 , At Presdee <fc Orffs. I jyjANNING DE FOREST. ■’j BANKER AND BROKER.! No. 19 Wall Street, New Yoke DEALER IN GOLD, SILVER, FOREIGN EIJ CHANGE a*x> GOVERNMENT SECURITIES j Give special attention to the purchase and sale .1 Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-' ; | Alabama, New Orleans and Tennessee Bank Hotel Southern States Bonds and Coupons, Railroad BoaiJ and Coupons. Interest :iilowed on deposits. j y!3-3aN JgY J. D LAROCHii. Tr . T. 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