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SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1874.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Jacksonville, in place of Cheney “re-
The change is a wholesome
Affairs in Georgia.
It is stated that Col Fitch will shortly
beein the publication of another news
paper in Griffin. Ho is at present en
gaged in superintending his hydraulic
ram.
Col. W. Genevieve Whidby, of Atlanta,
will deliver his lecture on the higher cul
ture of woman in Thomasville on the 23d
instant It may be remarked, in this
connection, that tho Colonel admits that
he is unmarried.
Two men named Flint made an assault
on a young man named Pool, in Monroe
county the other dny.S
The Tliomaston Herald puts up the
name of Col. Dud Hammond as a candi
date for Congress in the Fifth District.
The negroes of Calhoun county have
declared against AVhitely.
A negro thief was caught in Columbus
the other day, and, at his own request,
received fifty lashes.
The Wilkinson Appeal is the name of
a now paper started in Toombsboro, with
0. E. Carnes as editor.
Sparta wants a new court-house.
The venerable Dr. Lovick Pierce
preached in Sparta on the 5th.
Crops in Meriwether are county good.
Meriwether county hires out her crimi
nals to the highest bidder.
A Troup county youth has made a steam
engine. Tho cylinder works on a pivot
iu the centre, all other cylinders being
stationary, having guides and drivers, on
this the piston rod works on the crank.
Mrs. Sarah Jones, who died in DeKalb
county recently at, the age of ninety-three,
leaves more than four hundred living
descendants.
Prof. William Henry' Peck, who is
shortly to settle in Atbmtn, made $45,000
in five years by writing stories for the
New York literary papers.
A citizen of Wilkinson county attempt
ed suicide a few days ago. Tho cause
was domestic infelicity.
Several escaped convicts are. supposed
to be lurking around Toombsboro.
A negro forger has come to grief in
Cuthbert.
Blakely plumes hersolf on the fact that
she is now a money order office.
Mr. Travis McKinney, an aged and re
spected citizen of Monroe county, is dead.
Tho Eatoutou Messenger remarks: News
papers change and change and change.
Sometimes it is considered death by the
law for an editor to venture on the out
side of his papor. The leading editorials
mast he on the inside and nowhere else.
The fashion now is for the leading edito
rial matter to appear on the outside, and
the “paragraphs,” the “items,” &c., to
occupy the inside, whose sacred precints
they have before dared not invade. All
this is a very long preface to the state
ment that the Savannah Morning News
is one of those that havo not bowed the
knee to llnal. While it is folly up with,
if not in advance of its cotemporaries in
every thing that is actual improvement,
it never yields to any change merely
because it happens to be the fashion—
and thus it displays remarkable good
sense.
Atlanta Daily News : On the first of
this mouth two white citizens of Walton
comity, William Abridge the father, and
William Abridge the-son, were arrested
and brought hero hy the United States
Deputy Marshal, for Ku-Kluxing. The
warrant was issued on the 22d of June by
Commissioner Smith, and was, as is usual
in these cases, sworn out by the 15th
Amendment. His name is Dudley Tur
ner. Iu order to show how beautiful this
so-called Enforcement Act may be made
to fit almost anything, wo give the charge
taken from the warrant. It is “That on
the 15th day of June, 1874, in the
county of Walton, the defendant
did conspire together to go upon the
ldautatiou and premises of Dudley Tur
ner, and then and there, and since that
time, have laid wait around and about the
premises nnd residence of said Turner
with firearms, and made threats to shoot
said Turner, in order to prevent him from
the privilege of remaining at home and
enjoying his rights as a citizen of the
baited States, intimidating him from
pursuing his daily labors, and finishing
his present growing crops.” Upon this
delectable document the prisoners were
arraigned before the court. Fortunately,
they were able to given bond, and thus
escaped going to jaiL The case has
toen set for trial on nest Saturday morn-
’“t! at ten o’clock, Messrs. HUlyer &
fnf 0 ' have been retamed for the defense.
Inc indications promise a lively fight.
Florida Affairs.
The AlonticcUo base ball club publishes
nu address iu which the charges of par
tiality against Free, tho umpire, in the
recent game, are reiterated. Free pub-
lishes n card in which he defends himself
froin the imputation.
bine convicts made their escape from
the penitentiary at Chattahoochee recent-
8ix were recaptured.
A man by the name of Holmes shot
Henry Burleson, a few days ago, at tho
barrows, on Santa Rosa Sound. Burle-
Mn that ho aud Holmes had a diffi-
c “lty some time since, but he supposed it
® as all over. On the day mentioned,
°bnes stepped behind Burleson, and,
. u 8 Burleson’s pistol from the pouch
iu which he carried it, shot him in the
Jaw , niaking a very painful wound.
Hr. W. B. Porter, of Massachusetts
_ Purchased the City Hotel property at
ulaj'assee, and will make extensive re-
P a 'fs thereon in time for next season,
udge Eraser, of the United States Cir-
an d District Court, has recently is-
Qe d an injunction restraining the eredit-
p R of Hie Pennsylvania Tie Company, of
•unaeola from selling tho property of
l “ e Company.
Tittleiicld is rejoicing over the demise
ancient enemy. Governor Tod It.
'-“dwell, of North Carolina.
A Columbia county man proposes to
v e a baie of cotton in market by the
*"4 of August.
A century plant in the garden of Mr.
?i ^ art * of Tfdatka, j s jjj f a u bloom.
e Palatka Herald says that never
ee tlle settlement of the St. John’s
nw"? ^ t ' Je fruit prospect been
„ 6 ntt ering. The orange, lime, lemon,
vian* aD( * ^uHHoek promise a bountiful
J , S ; Adam s, editor of tho New
appointed postmaster ot
' ’ <-«SaQKM l BMa
Two brothers named Leppard settled
a dispute about a patch of com with the
pistol The younger brother was almost
instantly killed. The affair occurred in
Jefferson county.
Alligator eggs are among the most
marketable articles brought to Palatka.
The rattlesnake crop in Columbia eoun-
ty is nnfjimiTiiRhfifl.
A colored politician attempted to rob a
blind merchant in Madison the other day.
A colored man living near Madison went
out the other night with his son to watch
for a bear that had been eating his com.
He told his son to fire on whatever passed
a certain point, and the consequence was,
the boy killed his father.
A colored man in Columbia county de
coyed his enemy out into the dark by
making a fuss among the chiekens, and
shot him very severely.
We have been waiting for news from
Alberger, and it has come at last. Work
on the Great Southern Railway has sus
pended. The reason given is the failure
of the bank that negotiated the bonds of
the road. It was ever thus.
An incendiary fire was discovered in
a trunk in Tallahassee the other day.
The Monticello Advertiser: A white
person by name of Wm. Maddox, from
Taylor county, was brought before Judge
Bell for swindling the colored people. It
appears that he went about offering to
get them 40 acres of land and a mule, or
100 acres and no mule, or a year’s support
for 25 cents. He told the colored .folks
that President Grant sent him about se-
cretely for that purpose, and they were
not to tell the white carpet-baggers abont
it, because they were afraid that the col
ored people would get too well off. He
now reposes in the county jail, and he is
reported to be the same Maddox who
kiBed Richardson, in Taylor county, last
year, and that he escaped from jail and
got off on his mission to the colored folks.
The Tallahassee Sentinel says that the
caterpillar has made its appearance in
Leon county, and has commenced its
work of devastation. On the plantation^
of Messrs. W. and R. Lester and Mr. T.
J. Roberts, situated from ten to fifteen
miles north of Tallahassee, they have
been discovered in large numbers, and it
is feared will work dreadful havoc ” with
the crops. They appear about three
weeks later this year than last, but the
great bulk of the crop is less advanced
by three weeks this year, which places it
exactly in the condition it was at the time
of their appearance last year. It is
somewhat strange that on the plantations
mentioned they should be found in such
numbers, as the owners report but very
little rain there this season, while on
plantations near the city, where they
were discovered earliest last year, and
which have been almost deluged with
rain, they have not as yet been seen.
There seems to be little disposition on
tho part of planters to resort to Paris
green this year, although last year it was
used with highly favorable results in
many places. The reason for this is
doubtless to be found in the aversion of
the laborers to handling such a poisonous
article, and the probability of its being
washed off by the frequent rains before
having time to affect the leaf. Three or
four weeks of dry weather the most of
the planters regard as the only thing that
will save the crop.
Marianna Courier : Now that the rains
have ceased, and we have the sun’s rays
and warm weather, the cotton is bloom
ing and fruiting to its utter capacity, and
the farmer is pushing everything to clear
it of the weeds and grass that have so
rapidly sprung up during the rainy
weather just passed. The caterpillar has
not yet appeared, and oar farmers speak
hopeful of but little damage from this
dreaded enemy. The corn crop is made
—and our county can again boast of an
abundant yield. The smaller crops—
cane and potatoes, are looking fine, with
an unusual large area,of the latter planted.
Live Oak Times: The opinion of Attor
ney General Cocke in reference to titles
of the counties to the lands bid. off at the
sales of thG different revenue collectors,
has been productive of a vast amount of
mischief. It was the opinion of this
officer that the counties acquired no titles
to these lands, and this opinion was
authoritatively given to the people of the
State for the guidance of their county
officers in answer to certain questions
presented to him by the citizens of
Alachua county. It appears, after an
examination of this subject by legal
gentlemen whose opinions, though not
hedged about with as much authority
as those of the Attorney General, are
nevertheless entitled to respect, that the
counties do acquire a title to these lands,
and that a deed should be made to them
at the expiration of twelve months, if not
redeemed within that time. How could
it be otherwise and not terminate in
endless, inextricable confusion ? A
purchaser of land, sold by the State gov
ernment, does not acquire a title ? Are
our citizens who purchased these lands
in good faith, of the counties, to be
swindled by the State ? Is the State of
Florida, in the keeping of her purest
officers, to become nothing more or less
than a swindling concern ? Is it the
object of the Attorney-General to place
the State in' this attitude before the
world ? Such is the inevitable tendency
of this opinion, at all events.
The Latest Newark Elopement.—If
the Beaver street gossips in Newark are
to be relied upon, and the general im
pression is that they are in the present
instance, at all events, Newark has been
the scene of another elopement. The
story as it goes is as follows: In Beaver
street, for some time, has dwelt Mr. Da
vid Pioneer, having a wife and one child.
Tho wife is a rather good loooking brunette
They had a spare room, and into the spare
room, as it appears, installed a spare man,
a boarder. This boarder, whose name is
Frank Jacobs, iff a painter by trade,
and has an inordinate passion for climb
ing lofty steeples and flagstaffs. Once he
caused thousands of persons to shudder
in Broadway and Wall street hy his dar
ing ascent of Trinity Church steeple.
Frank, it is said, used to inveigle Mr.
Pioneer off to saloons, “lay him out,”
and then go home and make love to Mrs.
Pioneer. A few weeks ago Prank left
the house, and soon afterwards Mrs. Pio
neer started, as she said, to see her moth
er in Philadelphia. She was to be gone
two weeks. At the expiration of that
time her husband wrote to have her come
home. He received a letter saying that
she had left long before, after being only
a few days at her mother’s, and said she
was going to meet her husband in New
York. She is still non est inventus, and
so is Jacobs. Hence the belief is that
the two are not quite as much as a mile
apart.—N. Y. Herald, Qth.
Another New Fashion.—The smart boy
is an institution. The other day one
ragged little fellow, promenading 8th
street while it was crowded with lady
shoppers, thoughtfully remarked to an
other ragged little fellow, “These ’ere
gals have got another new fashion—they
only wear one ear-ring now.” Every
feminine within hearing immediately
raised her hands to her ears, supposing
she had lost, one of her ornaments. At
this the gamins smiled aloud, and ex
plained that they had heard the news
from Thomas Collins, Esq.—Philadelphia
1 Press.
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BY TMtAPH
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
PRINCE BISMARCK AND HIS AS
SASSIN.
THE ORANGE CELEBRATION.
One of Grant’s Bootlicks Writes a
Letter.
Some Remarks from the English Pre
mier.
GERMANY AND THE CATHOLICS.
The Carlist Revolution in Spain.
THU! GERMAN PREMIER.
Kissenoen, July 14.—Prinoe Bismarck
appeared at the public gardens last eve
ning, and was greeted with the utmost
enthusiasm. The musical societies,
accompanied by a great crowd of
people, subsequently serenaded him
at his residence. In response to
the demands of the concourse,
the Chancellor appeared and addressed
them. After expressing his thanks for
the demonstration,he said the attempt on
his life was aimed not at his perron bnt
at the cause he represented. In conclu
sion, he proposed three cheers for the
German Empire and the allied German
Princes. The people responded with re
peated cheers.
There is to be thanksgiving service in
the Protestant churches to-day for the
providential escape of the Premier.
It is reported that Kulmann has con
fessed that he intended to assassinate the
Prince, and that he used expressions in
dicating that others are implicated in his
scheme. A priest named Kolteller has
been arrested in Schweinturn under the
belief that he was accessory to the shoot
ing. He came from Kissengen yesterday.
THE BEITISH PARLIAMENT.
London, July 13.—In the Commons
this afternoon Disraeli said he hoped
Parliament would be in a condition to
adjourn on the fifth of August.
In reference to the public worship
regulation bill, he declared that he was
uncompromisingly opposed to the reso
lutions of which Gladstone gave notice
on the ninth instant, because they were
aimed against the settlement upon which
religious liberty depended. The resolu
tions in question oppose a definite settle
ment of points now in dispute, and the
clothing of Bishops with power to es
tablish uniformity in regard to the con
duct of publio worship.
TTTK ORANGEMEN.
New York, July 14.—There were no
disturbances at the Orange celebration
here yesterday. They went on a picnic
and excursion to Mono Island in steam
boats and barges gaily decorated with
orange and purple banners, the members
of lodges wearing ensignia of office.
Pittsburg, July 14.—The demonstra
tion of Orangemen yesterday was the
largest and finest ever held in this city.
Large crowds turned out to witness the
procession.
AFFAIRS IN GERMANY.
London, July 14.—The Times' special
correspondent at Berlin telegraphs that
the Bishop of Paderborne has received
another sentence of eighteen thousand
thalers fine and three months detention
in the fortress for persistent violation of
the ecclesiastical laws.
There is intense excitement in Berlin
over the attempt to assassinate Bismarck.
RAILROAD CASUALTY.
Springfield, Mass., July 14.—A pay
master’s train of the Fitchburg Railroad,
consisting of an engine and passenger
ear, was thrown from the track of the
Troy and Greenfield Railroad near Shcl-
bum Palls yesterday, near the bridge
over the highway. The engine and car
went down a fifteen feet embankment.
There were nine perrons on board, all
but two being more or less hurt.
Tn i-- CABLISTS.
London, July 14.—Special dispatches
from Madrid, report that Gen. Saballs is
continually receiving reinforcements.
Fresh outrages have been committed by
the Carlists, who are reported to have
robbed and nearly murdered a Doctor
and others who were sent out to bring
some wounded Republicans within the
lines.
SHOT'EY B-ER SON.
Boston, July 14.—Mrs. Maggie Smith,
of Charlestown, was shot and instantly
killed by her son, a boy nine years old,
last afternoon. They were in a room in
Roxbury, where the boy found an old
pistol and in playifig with it the weapon
was discharged.
A BEEP-EATER IN TROUBLE.
San Fbanoisoo, July 14.—W. J. McCor
mick, Collector of Customs at San Diego,
who told the story of having been robbed
of three thousand dollars of government
funds by two men, was arrested to-day,
charged with embezzling the money. He
was released on bail
SUSPECTED ASSASSIN.
London, July 14.—The Daily News re
ports that the police of Vienna have
issued a circular giving the description of
a perron whom they suspect of a design
to assassinate the Emperor of Austria.
A TITIltn TERM.
Washington, July 14.— Ex-Governor
Hebert, of Louisiana, publishes a letter
in the National Republican, favoring
Grant a third term.
ON A BUM.
Long Branch, July 14.—The President
and Vice President have gone to Sara
toga.
DEAD.
London, July It.—Agnes Strickland,
the historical author, is dead.
WARM.
London, July 14.—The weather is very
warm. The thermometer stands at 85.
arrived. ■ .
Saratoga, July 14.—The President and
Mrs. Grant arrived here this evening.
Another Negro Magistrate Caught
Stealing.—On the 9th of last month the
storehouse of Mr. Gordon, at Loyd’s
bridge, was-broken into late at night and
many articles stolen therefrom. A search
warrant was applied for and obtained,
and several days afterwards the premises
of one Robert Duke, the former negro
magistrate appointed and commissioned
by Kellogg, were searched, and the stolen
goods recognized. The said Duke was
arrested, and on his way to the magis
trate’s court he escaped from the con
stable. Thefts of this kind are not of a
frequent occurrence in this parish, but so
soon as the negro gets into office under
the Radical" regime, he believes himself
fully authorized to commence a round of
stealing and plundering. Duke is not the
only thief that has been in office in the
long years of misrule in this State and
parish. An honest man who holds office
under the negro Radical party of Louisi
ana is an exception and hard to find,
while the general rule is that all are
thieves and plunderers. Duke is an igno
rant negro and has escaped the hands of
justice, but has left behind him a whole
corps whose crimes against the property
and liberties of the people of this State
are tenfold as great. Forbearance with
public and private thieves throughout the
country has ceased to be a virtue.—Alex
andria {La.') Caucasian, July 4.
Spilkins says that nothing lias ever so
impressed him with respect and regard
for the much-abused orange-peel as to
see a man who had just rudely _ nudged
him off the sidewalk, stop on a piece, tho
moment afterwnrd, with the usual disas
trous results.
The Siege of Savannah by Count
D’Estaing, 1779.
A beautiful volume, bearing this title,
has been recently produced by CoL Chas.
C. Jones. The preparation of it was
doubtless suggested by the discovery in
manuscript of a daily journal kept by a
French officer, who was present at the
siege. The name of the writer is lost;
but “it is clear from its internal evidence
that the journal was a contemporaneous
document. The present tense is used in
nearly every instance ; and the probabili
ties are that it was penned from day to
day, as the events of which it treats
transpired.”
It can not be denied that this journal
form gives to the narrative a felicitous—
wc may venture to add, a scenic effect.
For the Savannah reader it intensifies the
peculiar charm of local history. Each
event is distinctly brought out, illustrated
by the names of persons familiar to many
and of places familiar to all From day
to day, and from point to point, we ac
company the approaching French in their
vessels of war, until September 7th, 1779,
they cast anchor in front of Tybee. "We
behold D’Estaing, plumed with the laurels
and flushed with the glow of recent tri
umph in the reduction of Grenada, pre
pare, on the 9th, “to force a passage
across the bar of the Savannah river."”
The English open upon him from the
Fort; but withdraw their vessels “a
league higher up.” Four frigates
of the French cross the bar, and at night
fall orders are issued for debarkation of
troops. The General’s cutter, containing
a detachment of only fifteen, moves much
faster than the long boats, and the impa
tient Chief, unwilling to wait, himself
steps first upon the island, finds it aban
doned, visits the environs of the fort,
posts a couple of sentinels, and goes
quietly to~sleep. Two hours later two
hundred men of different regiments are
put on shore.
But,on September 10th, these are retired
to the ships, and the fleet dropsdown to the
mouth of Ossabaw. Here the Count is
met by Col Joseph Habersham, “who
had proceeded thither to indicate the
proper place” for the landing. On Sun
day, the 12th, at nine o’clock the French
“set foot on land” at Beaulieu,and Pulaski
comes to welcome D’Estaing.
On Wednesday, the 15th, twelve hun
dred men remove from Beaulieu and go
into camp .three miles from Savannah.
Gen. Lincoln comes with fifteen hundred
Americans, and encamps on the left of
the French. On Saturday M. D’Estaing,
accompanied by the Crenadiers of Anx-
errois, and the Chasseurs of Champagne
and Guadalonpe, summons Gen. Provost,
commanding the garrison, to surrender.
The latter asks for. twelve hours time to
consider, takes advantage of this interval
to call to his aid Col Maitland, with six
hundred Scotchmen, whom he had
brought by Wall's out through Scull creek
from Port Royal, and then replies, “I
will defend myself.” .
On Wednesday, the 22d, the camp is
approached to within twelve hundred
yards from the-eity, and a line .of invest
ment is formed.
The American troops, numbering twelve
hundred militia, two regiments and one
hundred and thirty hussars and dragoons,
commanded by Count Pulaski, were en
camped on the right of the city, resting
upon the swamps which border it on that
side. The division of M. de Noailles,
composed of nine hundred men of the
regiments of Champagne Auxerrois, Foix
Guadeloupe and Martinique, camped to
the right of the Americans.
The General’s division, comprising one
thousand men of the regiments of Cam-
bresis, Hainault, the volunteers of Berges,
Agenois, Gatinois, the Cape, and Port au
Prince, and the artillery, was on the
right of the division of Noailles, and
formed the centre of the French army.
Dillon’s division, composed of nine
hundred men of the regiments of Dillon,
Armagnac, and the Volunteer Grenadiers,
was posted on the right of the GeneraL
To the right of Dillon's division were
the powder magazine, the cattle depot,
and a small field hospital.
On the right and a little in advance of
the depot were the quarters of.the dra
goons of Condi and of Belzunce, num
bering fifty men, and commanded by M.
Upon the same alignment, and to the
right of the dragoons, was M. de Rouv-
rai, with his volunteer chasseurs, num
bering seven hundred and fifty men.
To the right, and one hundred toises
[200 yards] in advance of M. de Rouvrai,
was M. de Framais, commanding the
Grenadier Volunteers and two hundred
men of different regiments. He effect
ually closed the right of our army and
rested upon the swamps which bounded
the city on the east.
At nine o’clock on the evening of
Wednesday M. de Guillaume, a Lieuten
ant of Engineers, with fifty men detailed
from the different regiments composing
the division of Noailles, is ordered to
take possession of an advanced post of the
British; but, carried away by his conrage,
disregarding his instructions, he rushes
straight upon the enemy, attacking with
full force a position which should have
been captured by surprise. He is re
pulsed with loss. At seven o’clock on the
morning of Friday, upon the lifting of a
dense fog, the English make a sortie with
six hundred men. They are repulsed at
the point of the bayonet; but, in driving
them back to their works, the French are
again imprndent, and -suffer a loss of
seventy men in killed and wounded.
At midnight on Monday, October 3d,
the bombardment of the city begins, and
is continued for two days. Bnt the allies
discover, on Wednesday, that this heavy
firing will not render the assault less
difficult. They “should not have con
structed works. In doing so, they afforded
the English time to strengthen theirs.”
“We regret that we did not attack on the
very first day.”
At midnight on Saturday the army is
formed into four columns:
The first, commanded by H. Dillon,
under the General; the second by M.
de Steding, colonel of infantry; and the
third—intended as a reserve corps—by
the Viscount de Noailles. The Ameri
cans, by themselves, constituted a third
column of attack; and the troops in the
trenches, commanded by M. de Sabliere,
supported by the chasseurs of Marti
nique, were to make a sortie for a feigned
attack. The vanguard, under the com
mand of M. de Betisy, moved in front of
the General’s column. It was ordered
to take possession of a redoubt on the
right, capable of .inflicting injury on the
General’s column, which would bo obliged
to pass it in making its attack npon the
enemy’s entrenchments.
At this point the column of M. de
Steding was toincline to the left,separate
itself from the other columns, cross the
road leading to Augusta, and assault a
battery and the entrenchments on the
enemy’s extreme right, occupied by
Scotch troops, under the command of
M. de Maitland. The American column
was to move above the Augusta road and
make its attach between the two French
columns, [p. 28.]
At five o'clock in the morning,' the
three columns, which had observed a simi
lar order of march, arrived in about
eighty toises (1G0 yards) of the edge of
the woods which borders on Savannah.
Here the head of the column was halted,
and we were ordered to form into -pla
toons. Day begins to dawn, and we grow
impatient. This movement is scarcely
commenced when we are directed
to march forward, quick time, the van
guard inclining a little to the right, the
column of M. de Steding to the left, and
the column of the General moving straight
to the front.
At half past five o’clock we hear on
our right and on the enemy’s left a very
lively fire of musketry and of cannon
npon onr troops from the trenches, who
had commenced the false attack. A few
minutes afterwards we are discovered by
the enemy’s sentinels, who fire a few
shots. The General now orders an ad
vance at double quick, to -shout vine le
Roy, and to beat the charge. The enemy
opened upon us a very brisk fire of artil
lery and musketry which, however, did
not prevent the vanguard from advancing
npon the redoubt, and the right column
npon the entrenchments. The ardor of
onr troops, and the difficulties offered by
the ground do not permit us long to pre
serve onr ranks. Disorder begins to pre
vail The head of the column penetrates
within the entrenchments, bnt, having
marched too quickly, is not supported by
the rest of the column which, arriving in
confusion, is cut'down by discharges of
grape shot from the redoubts and batte
ries, and the musketiy fire from the en
trenchments. "We are violently repulsed
at this point, and, instead of moving to
the right, this (Dillon’s) column and the
vanguard fall back toward the left. Count
D’Estaing receives a musket shot almost
within the redoubt, and M Betizi is here
several times wounded.
The column of M. de Steding, which
moved to the left, while traversing a
muddy swamp full of brambles, loses its
formation, and no longer preserves any
order. This swamp, upon which the
enemy’s entrenchments rested, formed a
slope which served as a glacis to them.
The firing is very lively; and, although
this column is here most seriously in
jured, it crosses the road to Augusta that
it may advance to the enemy’s right,
which it was ordered to attack. On this
spot nearly all the Volunteers are killed.
The Baron de Steding is here wounded.
The column of M. D’Estaing and the re
pulsed vanguard, which had retreated to
the left, arrived here as soon as the col
umn of M. de Steding, and threw into
utter confusion. At this moment every
thing is in such disorder that the forma
tions are no ionger preserved. The road
to Augusta is choked up. It here, be
tween two impractictable morasses, con
sists of an artificial causeway, upon which
all onr soldiers, who had disengaged them
selves from the swamps, collected. We
are crowded together and badly pressed.
Two eighteen-pounder guns, upon field
carriages, charged with canister and
placed at the head of the road, cause ter
rible slaughter. The musketry fire from
the entrenchments is concentrated upon
this spot and upon the swamps. The
English galleys and one frigate sweep
this point with their broadsides, and the
redoubts and batteries use only grape
shot, which they shower down upon this
locality. Notwithstanding all this, our
officers endeavor to form into columns
this mass winch does not retreat, and the
soldiers themselves strive to regain their
ranks. Scarcely have they commenced
to do this, when the General orders the
charge to be beaten. Three times do
our troops advance en masse up
to the entrenchment, which cannot
be carried. An attempt is made
to penetrate through the swamps on our
left to. gain the enemy’s right. More than
half of those who enter are either killed
or remain stuck fast in the mud.—[p. p.
30, 31, 32.]
.General .Pulaski here receives a long
barreled musket shot in his thigh. —[p. 34.
Standing in the road leading to Augus
ta, and At a most exposed point, the
General^ with perfect self-possession, sur
veys this slaughter, demands constant re
newals of the assault, and although sure
of the bravery of his troops, determines
upon a retreat only when he sees that
success is impossible.
We beat a retreat which is mainly ef
fected across the swamps lying to the
right of the Augusta road; our forces be
ing entirely, and at short range, exposed
to the concentrated fire of the entrench
ments which constantly increases in ve
hemence. At this juncture the enemy
show themselves openly upon the para
pets, and deliver their fire with their
muskets almost touching our troops. The
General here receives a second shot.—[p.
p. 35,,36.]
The losses of the allies are summed up
in the following note :
After the retreat of the assaulting col
umns from the right of the British lines,
eighty men lay dead in the ditch and on
the parapet of the redoubt first attacked,
and ninety-three within the abattis. The
attack upon the Ebenezer Battery, the
Spring Hill redoubt, and on the redoubt
in which Colonel Maitland had located his
headquarters was made with the utmost
gallantry and impetuosity. Two stand,
ards were planted by the allied forces
upon the Ebenezer redoubt; one of
which was captured, and the other
brought off by the brave Sergeant Jasper,
at the moment suffering from a mortal
wound. Count D’Estaing during the
conduct of this assault, received two
musket shots, one in the arm and the
other in the thigh. “The ditch” says an
eye witness, “was filled with dead, and
in front for fifty, yards, the field was cov
ered with slain. Many hang dead and
wounded on the abattis, and for some
hundred yards without the lines, the
plain was strewed with mangled bodies,
killed by onr grape and langridge.
Surely no citizen of Savannah can read
this record without a thrill of blended
emotion. A soil is poetized by the tread
of heroes! And did there exist a doubt
that the sands upon which we live had
been so consecrated, the page- before us
would dispel it forever. In mere pic
turesqueness of display the charging col
umns of the united French and Ameri
cans, antagonized by the English, the
Scotch, the Hessians, and the loyalists of
North and South Carolina, must have far
surpassed the entrance of “the grand
army” "of Sherman,-grand only in the mo
notonous host which made it; while the
exhibitions of personal gallantry by
D’Estaing, Pulaski and Jasper, we
quite np to the classic standard. In
the fact that the rapidly diminish
ing troops of the allies, pressed, in
repeated charges, through a murderous
fire, up to the very works Of the enemy,
and there fought him hand to hand; that
the general and superior office]
D’Estaing himself taking the lead, set
rare examples of personal prowess,
and thus covered, with a crimson
glory, tho fatal blunders of their chief;
in the shocking result; in the worse than
decimation of a gallant army; in the sac
rifice of leaders precious beyond all price;
this battle of Savannah, was singularly
like the battle of Franklin. The fall of
Cleburne was not unlike the fall of Pu-
lnclrin An accomplished critic would
probably apply to both assaults, the me
morable exclamation. “Cest magnifique,
mods ce n’estpas la guerre."
The French journal translated by him
self, CoL Jones has prefaced with an au
tograph map, “apparently the work of a
German or Swiss engineer, who may have
been connected with either "Wussenbach’s
or Trumbach’s Hessian regiment,” “more
elaborate and satisfactory in its details,”
than any map of the seige, which has
hitherto appeared. "We have no hesi-
tency in saying that to one interested in
the subject, the map alone is worth the
full price of the book. CoL Jones has
also appended “an extract from the jour
nal of a naval officer in the fleet of D’Es
taing,” and accompanies the jnain narra
tive with copious notes from l*i s own
pen. JThe collection presents as pe'rf ec t a
picture of the seige of Savannah as it I s
possible to conceive. The charming’
book should find a place in the homes of
us all
And’thus, from year to year, this de
voted Georgian, in the midst of the
arduous duties of professional life, and
in a large city which can never become
the home of his heart, labors patiently,
industriously, lovingly on in the work
of developing the history of his own
distant State. He allows no opportunity
to pass without profit to his darling
object. Nothing of interest, from the
rude arts of the barbaric races, which at
one time occupied her territory, down
through her revolutionary epochs and
political crises; nothing that concerns
the achievements, the habits and the fate
of her eminent tupti- nothing which at
tracts attention to any portion of her
people or her soil can escape his eager
eye. In his publications he spares the
expenditure neither of personal toil hoy
of private means. His style, always
nervous and pure, has ripened into that
of a practised writer. He has been lay
ing, broad and deep, the foundations of
no ordinaryjfame. Undoubtedly the eyes
of the thoughtful are concentrated upon
him as the only man who is capable of
writing an exhaustive history of Georgia.
In the achievement he will take his place
among her foremost sons. He richly de
serves the earnest encouragement of all
her people; more especially of those who
are in any wise charged with the pre
servation or the development of her in
tellectual life.
A Washington County Widow Sees Her
Departed Dick in His Shroud.
The Springfield Kentuckian relates the
following extraordinary spiritual mani
festations:
Mrs. Eliza Green, aged about thirty
years, now living in this place, (Spring-
field, Ky.,) a lady of irreproachable char
acter and of decided nerve and conrage,
having a fair English education, and in
possession of only tolerable good health,
details the following curious incidents, as
having occurred with her and at her
residence since the death of her hnsband
last spring:
On the 18th of March, 1874, Mr. Green
died after a protected illness, leaving
Mrs. Green with a family of six young
children with little or no means of sup
port. A short time after Mr. Green’s
death, say about three months, Mis.
Green heard singular noises abont the
house after night, and sometimes in the
daytime, heavy breathings and moans
resembling a person in the agonies of
death. At one time she heard a noise
under the house like a horse rolling about
and pawing violently, as though in the
agonies Of death. Again she saw fre
quently in her room at night, after the
lamp was lighted, a shadowy figure,
resembling the head and shoulders of a
medium sized man, moving around the
wall next the ceiling, and uniformly as the
shadow reached the lamp the flame was
extinguished, and this phenomenon hap
pened as often as four or five times in a
night. At one time when she and her
family, irith some visitors, were sitting
quietly in the room the front door, with
out any visible cause, was seen to fly
violently open and shut again as violently,
and so violently as to jar boxes of flowers
placed in the window out of it. At other
times when the lights were burning foot
steps were heard by her in the room as
though a grown person in slippers was
walking over the floor, and yet no object
could be seen. At one time she thought
she hoard some persons noisily approach
ing the front door as about to enter. Upon
opening the door, however, no one could
be seen. Again, near the steps of
the back door she thought she saw, after
dark, a small white dog resembling one
she knew in the neighborhood, that she
approached it with the view of taking it
np and carrying it in the house, but it
eluded her grasp and mysteriously passed
away. At another time the back door of
her room seemed half filled with a white,
gauzy cloud not resembling anything,
only a white figure, which alarmed her
and she tan out of the house. The ap
parition disappeared. Other persons,
friend and relatives, have been present on
some of these occasions, and corroborate
Mrs. Green’s statements. The most mys
terious and crowning development related
by her is said to have occurred on the 30th
nit., about 11 o’ctock a. m. She was in
the cellar of the house getting -kindling
wood, and in stooping down thought she
saw the lower limbs and feet of Mr. Green
standing by her, and immediately felt the
pressure of a cold hand upon her shoulder;
she turned and looked, and reports that
her husband stood before her just as he
appeared when she last saw him in his
burial clothes. When she exclaimed: “In
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who
redeemed me, Dick, what do you want ? ”
and that he spoke audibly to her in his
natural tone of voice and language, tell
ing her that the sufferings of this life
were in no way to be compared to those
of the other world, and that he was permit
ted to come back to her to advise her of
her neglect of duty, and to urge her to
act otherwise. He also sent by her mes
sages to his brother, Charles Green, Mrs.
Rachael Walker, and to Miss Edgerton,
all living here. He further requested her
to have three masses said for the repose
of his soul; one on the first Saturday of
this month, and the others on the two
following Saturdays. He further inform
ed her that he would not visibly appear
to her again, but could have appeared
twice more had he desired to do so, but
not to her, but to other persons named
by him—his kindred. Then repeating
the word “friend” three times he vanish
ed from sight. Mrs.’Green says she has
heard loud knockings on the door, and
heard groaning, as of persons in extreme
distress since, bat has seen nothing more.
The Baltimore papers tell abont a young,
lady—Miss Catherine Crouch—who was
walking along the street one night going
from a visit to a relative a short distance,
to the home of her parents. She says a
carriage passed her and stopped. A man
got ont and grabbed her when she wns
opposite on the side-walk, pulled her into
the carriage, and drove rapidly off. There
was another mail in the carriage to help
hold her and keep her from screaming.
Eventually the carriage stopped, and the
two men tried to drag her into a house.
She made a last desperate straggle, and
maidenly shrieking, at which her captors
became alarmed and released their hold.
She then broke away and ran for dear
life, and that which is dearer still, with
her hair flying and eyes flashing in the
moonlight, into the arms of a wondering
policeman, who took her home. In the
meantime the carriage had disappeared,
but a man was subsequently arrested
whom Miss Crouch has identified as one
of her tormentors. His name is Thomas
Lof Ins. Truly virtue is its own reward,
and vice catches it on all sides.
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