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delicate constitution, ikl ra,s ? d
with even an unwise tenderness, she
as no more fitted to be a pastor s
wife with only three hundred a year
to live upon, than a summer Uower
is to take the place of aha rdy au
tumn plant. This her husband
shoeM have known and taken into
die account before he decided to
accept the call from \ •
When it was found that Mrs. Lar
rofi after partially recovering from
her first severe attack, began gradu
ally to sink a strong interest in her
f avo r was awakened among the la
dies of the congregation, and they
showed her many kind attentions.
13ut all these attentions and all this
kindness did not touch the radical
disability under which she was suf
fer\na. They did not remove her
, 00 heavy weight of care and labor.
All lhe help in her family that she
felt justified in employing, was a
rrirl between fourteen and fifteen
vears of age, and this left so much
tor her to do in the care of her chil
dren, and in neccessary household
duties, that she suffered all the lime
from extreme physical exhaustion.
In the just conviction of the er
ror be had committed, and while he
felt the hopelessness of his condition
Mr. Carroll, as has been seen, re
solved to leave \ immediately.
This design he hinted to one of the
members of bis church.
‘You engaged with us for a year,
did you not /’ enquired the memb
er.
That settled the question in the
mind of the uuhappy minister. He
said no more to any one on the sub
ject of his income, or about, leaving
the parish. Bnt his mind was made
up not to remain a single day after
his contract had expired. If in
debt at. the time, as he knew he must
be, lie would free himself from the
incumbrance by selling a part of bis
household furniture. Meantime,
his liveliest fears were aroused for
his wife, as symptom after symptom
of a rapid decline showed them
selves. That be did not preach as
good sermons, nor visit as freely
among his parishioners during the
last three months of the time he re
mained at Y , is no matter of
surprise. Some, more considerate
thnti the rest, excused him ; but oth
ers complained, even to the minis
ter himself. No matter. Mr. Car
roll had too much at home to fill his
heart to leave room for a troubled
pulsation on this account. He was
conscience-clear on the score of ob
ligation to his parishioners.
At last, and this before the year
had come to its close, the drooping
wife and mother took to her bed,
never again to leave it until carried
forth by the mourners. We will
not pain (he reader by any details
of the affecting scenes attendant up
on the last few weeks of her mortal
life ;nor take him to the bed-side of
the dvingone, in the hour that .she
passed away. To state the fact that
she died, is enough—and painful
enough.
For all tins, it did not occur to the
people ot \ that, in anything,
ihev had been lacking. They had
never given hut three hundred a
year to a minister, and, as a mattei
of course, considered the sum as
much as a reasonable man could
expect. As for keeping a clergy
man in luxury, and permitting him
to get rich ; they did not think it
consistent with the office he held,
which required self-denial and a
renouncing of the world. As to how
he could liveon so small a sum, that
was a question rarely asked; and
when presented, was put to rest bv
some backhanded kind of an answer
that left the matter as much in the
dark as ever.
Notwithstanding the deep waters
of affliction through which Mr. Car
roll was required to pass, his Sab
bath duties were hut once omitted
and that on the day after he had look
ed for the last time upon the face
of his lost one. Four Sabbaths
more he preached, and then, in ac
cordance with notice a short lime
previously given, resigned bis pas
toral charge. There were many to
urge him with great earnestness not
to leave them ; but a gear’s experi
ence enabled him to see clearer than
he did betoie, and to net with great
er decision. In the hope of retain
ing him, the vestry strained a point,
and offered to make the salary three
hundred and fifty dollars/ But.
much to their surprise, the liberal
offer was refused.
It happened that the Bishop of
the Diocese came to visit Y a
week before Mr. Carroll intended
taking his departure with his moth
erless children, for his old home,
where a church had been offered
him in connexion with a school. To
him three or four prominent mem
bers of the church complained that
the minister was mercenary, and
looked more to the loaves and fishes
than to the duty of saving souls.
‘Mercenary !’ said the Bishop,
with a strong expression of surprise.
‘Yes, mercenary,’ repeated his
accusers.
‘So far from it,’ said the Bishop,
warmly, he has paid more during
the year for supporting the Gospel
in than any five men in the
parish put together.’
‘Mr. Carroll has!’
*\ es. How much do vou give ?’
addressing one.
*1 pay ten dollars pew rent, and
give ten extra, besides,’ was the
answer.
‘And you ‘?’ speaking toanother*
‘The same.’
‘And you V
‘Thirty dollars, in all.’
‘ While,’ said the Bishop, speak
ing with increased warmth, 4 your
minister gave two hundred dollars.’
This, of course, took them'great
ly by surprise, and they asked for
an explanation.
* It is given in a few words,’ re
turned the Bishop. It cost him,
though living in the most frugal
manner, five hundred dollars for the
year. Os this you paid three hun
dred, and he two hundred dollars.’
* 1 don’t understand you, Bishop,’
said one.
‘Plainly, then; he was in debt
at the end of the year, two hundred
dollars for articles necessary for the
health and comfort of his family, to
pay which he has sold a large part
of his furniture. He was not wor
king for himself, but for you, and,
therefore, actually paid two hundred
dollars for the support of the Gospel
in Y , while you paid but twen
ty or thirty dollars apiece. Under
these circumstances, my friends, be
assured that the charge of being
mercenary comes with an exceed
ing bad grace. Nor is this all that
he has sacrificed. An insufficient
income threw upon his wife duties
beyond her strength to bear ; and
she sunk under them. Had you
stepped forward in time and light
ened these duties by a simple act of
justice, she might still be living to
bless her husband and children !
Three hundred a year for a man
with a wife and three children, is
not enough ; and you know it my
brethren ! Not one of yon could
live on less than double that sum.’
This rebuke came with a stunning
force upon the ears of men who had
expected the Bishop to agree with
them in their complaint, and had
its effect. On the day Mr. Carroll
left the village, lie received a kind
and sympathetic letter from the otfi
tial members of the church, enclo
sing the sum of two hundred dollars.
The first impulse of his nataral feel
ings was to return the enclosure,
but reflection showed him that such
an act would be wrong ; and so he
retained it, after such acknowledge
ments as he deemed the occasion re
quired.
Back to his old home the minister
went, but with feelings, how differ
ent, alas! from those be had expe
rienced on leaving for Y . The
people among whom he had labored
for a year, felt as if they bad am
ply paid him for all the service he
iml rendered j in tact, rather over
paid him, as if money doled out
grudgingly, cou!d compensate for all
he had sacrificed and suffered in his
effort to break for them the Bread
of Life.
Here is one of the phases of min
isterial life.presented with little orna
ment or attractiveness. There are
many other phases, more pleasant
to look upon, and far more flattering
to the good opinion we are all in
clined to entertain of ourselves.—
But it is not always best to look up
on the fairest side. The cold reali
ty of things, it is needful that we
should sometimes see. The parish
of Y does not, bv any means,
stand alone. And Mr. Carroll is
not the only man who has suffered
wrong from the hands of those who
called him to minister in spiritual
things, yet neglected duly to provide
for the natural and necessary wants
of the body.
Later News by the 5 teamship Niagara.
New York, Nov. 22:
The Royal Mail Steamer Niaga
ra, Capt. Slone, arrived at the
wharf from Liverpool direct, at nine
o’clock this morning. She sailed
from Liverpool on the 9th inst., and
has made the passage in less than
thirteen davs.
France. —La Patrie announces
that the message of the President
has been communicated to the Min
isters in Council, and that it con
tains no allusion to the prolongation
of the Presidential term.
Cardinal Wisemen is at present
at Lieges, where he will remain
some days.
Spain. —lt was reported that the
Portuguese Government had invi
ted Spain to interpose her good offi
ces in adjusting its differences with
Great Britain, and that several con
ferences on the subject had already
taken place between the Duke of
Valencia and Lord Howden.
A letter from Seville announces
that the Princess Clementine of Or
leans, was shortly expected in the
city on a visit to the Duke and Du
chess Montpensier.
It is said the King of Naples is
attacked with dropsy.
Lola Montes is said to have be
come devout, and gone to Madrid
with a view to enter a nunery.
Germany. — On the Ist inst., the
Bavarian and Austrian troops en
tered Hesse Gassel. The dissolu
tion of the Hessian Army, partly
by the resignation of many of the
officers, and partly by the act of the
Elector, had left the country entire
ly without military protection ;
while the refusal of supplies by the
Chambers had effectually stopped
ali the machinery of civil govern
menl.
The proclamation of the Elector
and of the Diet at Frankfort, was
torn down by the people, but no
other demonstrations were made.
According to advicesfrom Cassel
of the 2nd inst., the eighteenth reg
iment of Prussian troops, accom
panied by a Squadron of Hussars,
and a battery of Artillery, entered
the town on the morning of the day,
after a very forced night’s march. —
These troops were sent off by
Gen. Groeben from Warburs as soon
as lie read intelligence of the entry
of the Bavarians and Austrians on
the opposite side of the Electorate.
The military posts in Cassel were
occupied by the Burgher Guard.—
The reception of the Prussian troops
by* the inhabitants was quiet, but
riendlv.
Denmark and the Duchies. —No fur
ther hostile movements appear to
have taken place in either army. —
The Danish force it is reported,
have received a considerable in
crease; some say to the amount of
42,000 men. Typhus fever, how
ever, disables a large portion of
these.
From five to. six hundred pieces
are said to have been placed in po
sition on the Danish defences.
A rumor was in circulation on
Change, that the Prussian garrison
at Hamburg had received orders to
hold itself in readiness to march at
a moment’s notice —the Duchy of
Holstein being designated as their
destination.
It is added that a corps of twenty
thousand men are to enter that Du
chy, if the Stadholderate do not
speedily arrange terms for the with
drawal of their troops. What de
gree of credibility is attached to
these rumors does not appear. —
They are said to be the result of the
resignation of Yon Radowitz.
Austria. —From Vienna we learn
by accounts of the 2d. inst., that
Gen. Radetzky, and other military
chiefs, have been summoned to at
tend a grand council of war at the
capitol.
The Austrian army against Prus
sia is to be increased until it musters
150,000 men, and among them 130
squadrons of horse, of 140 each.
This may appear extraordinary,
as certain conciliatory proposals
have of late been sent in by the
Prussian court; but it is stated that
these probably cannot be accepted
by Prince ISchwarzenbeg, since
Prussia insists in the Hessian ques
tion to protect the Electorate against
the intervention of the Federal Diet.
Liverpool. Nov. 8.
The Markets. —This week opened
rather heavily —Cotton being freely
offered, and the trade buying rather
sparingly, and only to meet their
present wants. As the week ad
vanced, a vague apprehension of
continual disturbances induced an
increased desire to sell.
The Europa’s advices, received
on Monday, in no way varied from
those previously received; but the
import was larger than has usually
been received at this advanced pe
riod of the year, and cotton was
[tressed for sale.
The Arctic arrived on Thursday.
Her advices had no countervailing
influence, and the week has closed
heavily. Colton being freely offer
ed, and the total sales have not ex
ceeded twenty-five thusand eight
hundred bales.
To-day there was a fair atten
dance of buyers, but tlie trade are
indisposed to hold beyond a pre
sent supply, and only four thousand
are sold at yesterday’s reduced pri
ces. All kinds of American are
frel v offered.
The authorized quotations for fair
qualities of Orleans and Mobile are
reduced £d. per lb and that of
Uplands -;fd per lb., whilst in the
lower and middling qualities a de
cline of from 4 11 41* had been
extensively submitted to.
Brazils and Egyptians are dull of
sale and have partially declined an
£d per lb. Surats are frtelv of
fered, and they have declined about
an £d. per lb. 720 ; bales Ameri
can and 20 Peruvian have been tak
en on speculation.
The stock on hand at this date is
459,970 bags, against 487,919 bags
at the same time last year. Total
sales to November 9, 1849, 230S*-
000 bags ; to same date, ISSO, 2,-
101,720 bags.
There is no change for the better
in Beef. A fair inquiry for Pork.
In Corn there is a better feeling.
American yellow brings 26s’per 480
lbs. In flour of all description there
are few sales at the late rates.
By the Fire at Fredericton, N. 8.,
property to the amount of .£30,000
was destroyed exclusive of mer
chandize, personal property, &c.
There were 122 tenements burnt,
and 177 families turned out of doors.
Insurance only for <£19,000.
President of Mexico. —It is now
rendered certain that Gen. Arista
has been elected President of the
Mexican Republic. By the returns
atCheopas, he had twenty States,
thus giving him a majority,
The Fire at New-Medford.—Thir
ty houses were burned, and the loss
estimated at one hundred thousand
dollars. A child was burnt to
death, and many families rendered
houseless.
! CITY TREASURER’S OFFICE, SAVANNAH, NOVEMBER IST, 1850.
Statement of Cash and paid through the Treasury of the City of Savannah,
from the Ist November, 1849, to 31st October, 1850, inclusive.
= - — : =='-~ v =-- D R.
*q qj 1 49
To balance as per last settlement . * ’ _ ....
“ Badges.— Received from Clerk of Council for Badges issued . 5,165 1)9
“ Board of Health.— Received from Marshal for sales at 1 ound ol 00
“ City Lots Received for ground rents . , m i r n- t c ‘odl
Court of Common Picas * Oyer * Terminer.-Received from Clerk for Guy Tax. fees 39b 0J
“ City Exchange. — Received tor Rents, Ac. .
“ Dividends. — Bank State of Georgia, received for Dividends Nos o 9 and 60 104 00
“ Central Rail Road & Banking Cos. received for Dividends 14 and la 37,500 00
“ Fees. —Received from Clerk of Council and Harbor Master 3,621 64
“ Fines. —Received for fines collected for violations of Ordinances 241 12
“ Jail —Received from Jailor for fees collected 4,602 23
“ Incidental Expense*.— Received for money refunded for pavements 570 7o
“ Interest. —Received from South Western Rail Road, interest on bonds 1,234 20
“ Licenses. —Received from Retailers of Liquors, Venders of Lottery 1 ickcts, for Ex
hibitid.ni Ac. ’Mi/ M
“ Market. —Received for fees collected, and for stall rent 4,411 8.3
“ Poor House and Hospital,— Received for State t ix on Auction Sales 843 2o
“ Sale of City Lots. —Received tor sales on City Lots 7,71-3 90
“ City Taxesi —Received for taxes-collected for 1850 46.938 72
t> “ “ previous year 7,449, 76
“ City Watch. —Received from Superintendent for fees collected 194 79
“ The Massie Legacy. —Received tor balance ol Legacy. 0,400 00
*1 “ dividend on stock invested JCB 00
“ Scavenger's Department. —Received for sales of manure 422 7-3
“ Central Rail Road Banking CV—Received for Mayor’s note discounted 2,000 00
$159,256 81
Balances brought down $3,110 00
CR.
By Board of Health —Paid Secretary and Messenger, $l5O 00
“ Lime, copperas, chloride of litnc, Ac. 219 95
“ Printing notices, 46 00
“ Appropriation for sick poor, 100 00
“ Badges —Paid J. Sullivan for making, 109 78
“ Cemetery —Paid Sexton's salary, , * 250 00
*• • “ **intei ring paupers, 233 25
“ “ repairing hearse, 250
“ “ removing remains from old to new cemetery, taking
down and rebuilding vaults, whitewashing, Ac., 777 28
“ City Clock —Paid Keeper’s salary, 75 00
“ City Scrip— Paid amount redeemed and destroyed by burning, 37 00
Court of Common Pleas <V Oyer 4* Terminer —Paid Judge’s salary, 600 00
“ Stationery, 15 50
” City Exchange— Paid repairs, painting, Ac. 958 86
“ Public Docks —Paid sundry repairs, 296 37
“ Dry Culture —Paid Inspector’s salary; 225 00
“ Drainage, cleaning ditches, Ac., 264 54
“ Fees —Paid Commissioners of Pilotage, 1146 85
“ Fire Department —Paid Clerk’s salary, • ‘ 120 00
“ New Engine, Hose, building cisterns, Ac., 2520 12
“ Fire Companies’ bills, 3154 36
“ Jail —Paid Jailor’s salary, 1176 17
“ Provisions and other supplies, 1776 76
“ Repairs, Ac., 271 29
“ Incidental Expenses —Paid amount as per detailed statement annexed, 6513 67
“ Interest —Paid interest and exchange on bonds for internal improvements, 43365 32
“ On Mayor’s Note, “ 36 17
“ Lamps —Paid Contractor’s salary, 1163 11
“ 6ms Lamps— Paid for Lamp Posts, Lanterns, putting up, Ac., 3073 07
“ Gas and lighting, 1367 36
“ Market —Paid Clerk’s salary, 849 99
“ Lighting Lamps, 224 76
“ New Stalls, painting, repairing, Ac., 1250 75
“ Poor House and. Hospital— Paid President of Society State Tax on auction sale*, 848 25
“ Printing and Stationery— Paid public printing, stationery, Ac., 767 47
“ Pumps —Paid Contractor’s salary, new wells, Ac., 1590 18
“ Quarantine— Paid Keeper’s salary, insurance, Ac., 055 87
“ Salaries —Paid City Officers’ salaries, 6449 21
“ Streets, Lancs and Squares— Paid surveys of lots ordered to be paved, 420 00
“ Material and work done in streets, 3962 o'3
“ “ “ “ “ squares, 873 79
“ Mason work on Bluff wall, 661 50
*• Repairing sowers, 342 20
“ For Tiees, 167 00
“ Scavenger's Department.— Paid Superintendent’s salary, 500 00
“ For Negro hire, 1718 66
“ “ Subsistence for do. 804 25
“ “ Carts, repairs, foiage, Ac., 1316 59
“ “ Two Mules, ]75 00
“ City Watch —Paid pay roll, fuel, oil, Ac., 23011 02
“ Addition to Guard House, repairs, Ac. 1501 86
“ City Bonds for Internal Improvement —Paid bonds redeemed and cancelled, 2<loo 00
“ Monroe Rail Road Bonds —Paid bonds redeemed and cancelled, 2000 00
“ Sale of Cily Lots —Paid City Marshal f>r commission on safes, 80 25
“ City Taxes. — Fai l amount ot tajtes refunded. 14 50
*’ The Massie Legacy- Paid Savannah Gas Light Cos. for subscription to stock, 5500 00
Savannah Gas Light Company —Paid subscription to stock, 25000 00
“ Springfield Plantation —Paid for surveys, 900 62
“ “ Ditching, drainage, Ac. 2404 78
. , , 3305 40
“ Balance carried down, 3110 00
$159256 81
JOSEPH FELT, City Tieasurer.
We have examined the accounts of the City Treasurer for the year ending the 31st day of Octo
ber, eighteen hundred and fifty, and find the same correctly stated as above. Vouchers have been pro
duced fi.r the charges to our satisfaction. The balance due by the Treasurer on the day above stated
was three thousand one hundred and t<-n dollars, which sum the Treasurer exhibited to us as appeared
from his Bank Book.
SOLOMON COHEN, -v
THOMAS PURSE, /
ROBERT 11. GRIFFIN, s Committee on Finance.
JAMES P. SCREVEN. C
THOMAS M. TURNER. )
Savannah, Nov., 1850.
Statement of the permanent debt of the City of Sa
vannah, ’.Slst October, 1350.
City loan for internal improvement—
Bonds outstanding, $436,000 00
Monroe R. Road Bon Is, outstanding, 9,500 00
Bonds to S. W. It. R. Cos., 150,000 00
“ Augusta A Waynesboro’ R.
Road Company. 105.000 00
City scrip—amount still out, 1,341 00
Corporation notes-- “ 1.979 50
Bonds in paym’t Springfield Plantal’n, 27,840 00
$731,660 50
Statement of Incidental Expenses.
Cash paid for Coal for offices, $ 20 50
Stone ballast and drayage, 340 50
Check &• listk’pers at elec
tion, 24 00
“ 20 copies White’s statistics 60 00
Hauling out dead Horses, 37 00
“ Sanary ullownnce for pro
fessional services, 1,200 00
“ Turner A Oden, medicines
for sick poor, 150 00
“ Purchase of lot for
new Magazine, 255 00
“ On oc. for build’g
powd’r m’zine, 2 088 22
Remov’g powder t
Pm old to new, 22 J 8
MAYOR’S OFFICE. >
CITY OK SAVANNAH. Nm. 26. 1850. $
Fellow Citizens —ln compliance with the ordi
nances ot the city, I beg leave to present to vou
my annual report for the fiscal year just closed.
I ask your attention in the first irsstance to the
accompanying statement by the city Treasurer of
the receipts and expenditures arranged under the
usuul heads. An examination of this statement
will satisfy you that our affairs are entirely pros
perous. With a revenue materially diminished by
the reduction ol taxes, the Board has been enabled
to meet the regular and also very heavy extraor
dinary expenditures. The chief of these last was
the subscription to the Gas Light Company as or
dered by the citizens in town meeting assembled
and the cost of the erection of Gas Busts, vVc.
In my last communication I announced to vou the
probability of the introducing of Gas Light during
the then ensuing fiscal year—my opinion has been
justified by the result. 1 lie works were carried
on with a union of energy and caution which se
cured at once rapid completion and successful op
eration. i lie Company commenced furnishing
Gas to consumers in the latter part of July, and
the city Council immediately ordered the erection
of Post* along the wholelineof pipes ns laid down.
I am happy to he able to add that I am informed
that the Company intends very speedily to lay
down an additional extent of pipe and I hope
that the time is very near when the whole of our
city will he lighted.
Another heavy item of extraordinary expense
grew out of the purchase of the Springfield Plan
tation. A part of the huge body of land, known
by that designation, was obnoxious to your Dry
Culture regulations. The Dry Culture Committee
in the exercise of a sound and liberal judgment
recommended to Council the purchase of the
whole tract and the Chairman of the Committee
enforced the recommendation by such strong views
that Council unanimously concurred. The pnr
chase was made ©n tsrnis fair to both parties, the
Cash paid for Lithographing City Bonds
to Aug’a St W’b’ro it R.Co. 99 43
“ Clerk Court, record’g papers, 2 75
Jones and Richardson, killing
•logs, 27 50
“ For postage. 8 54
“ City Trea- for extra services
in signing city bonds to S.
W. Rail Road, 100 00
“ City Marshal serving sundry
notices, 154 37
“ City Marshal,for cutting down
weeds, 63 00
“ City Marshal, for cleaning out
rlitch, 54 00
“ City Marshal, for expenses to
Lopez’s men, 76 81
“ Sundry expenses of funeral of
Gen. Clinch, 35 50
“ Sundry expenses of obsequies
of President Taylor, 195 25
“ A. Short, for sidewalks
in front lots 39, 40,
41, Jackson Ward, 255 00
“ “ lots 6,10,14,15, 16,
Pulaski Ward, 564 00
“ “ lots 3,6, 7,8, 9,10,
Lafayette Ward, 605 00
“ Sundry small expensos, 75 12
$6,513 67
pi ice paid being twenty nine dollars per acre for
the whole tract, including in all 960 acres. Bonds
payable in 25 years have been issued for the pur
chase money. The Dry Culture Committee at
once took the purchase under theircharge and un
der the zealous supervision of the Chairman, the
lands have been thoroughly drained, the health of
the neighboring portion of the city released from
great danger, and the value of the lands themselves
materially enhanced. The work has necessarily
been expensive, hut the Committee and the Board
have been careful t i economise as closely as was
consistent with the due execution of permanent
work. Tt was referred to a joint Committee of
Aldermen and citizens to recommend a mode of
disposing of this purchase after the accomplish
ment of the work of drainage, but the Committee
have only been able to report very recently in
consequence of the illness ofthe Surveyor in their
employ. I hog leave to refer you to that report
among the proceedings of the Board at its last
meeting.
I am happy to inform you that the Augusta and
Waynesboro Rail Road, and the South Western
Rail Road are advancing as rapidly as could be
expected.
TlieOntral Rail Road stock paid last year, a
dividend of 7£ per emit. We may safely calculate
on the dividend being hereafter at least equal to
the interest on our Central Rail Road debt. The
stock of that company is now very nearly at par,
and there is every reason to anticipate its reaching
par within a very limited period. In view of this
fact, and in the belief that the true policy of the
city, was to relieve herself from debt at the earliest
practicable moment, the Finance Committee re
commended the passage of an Ordinance providing
for the sale of the stock at par for cash, or the
exchange of the stock for the bonds of the city
“on terms of perfect equality ns to value.” The
Ordinance was accordingly passed, and under its
operation, we may hope for the entire discharge
of the Central Rail Road debt.
The experimental plank road along the Bay
and West Broad-streets has proved entirely suc
cessful. The system should be pursued, and trust
that the new Board will be able to extend it
through all the principal thoroughfaress of busi
ness.
The subject of Water Work* has engaged the
serious attention of the present Board. The Com
mittee in charge of the subject have been diligent
in the prosecution of their enquiries, but it has
been immpossible to bring the question to a cb fi
nite close before the expiration of the term of ser
vice of the present Board. Things are in such a
train, however, as to justify me in encouraging
yjoii to hope that the work may be accomplished in
the course ofthc next year.
lam most happy to be enabled again to con
gratulate you, in conclusion, on the increasing
prosperity of our city, ller fortunes are constant
ly advancing, and with the prospect of an early
completion of our great Rail Road improvements,
we may count upon her assuming, year by year, a
position still more important and commanding.
Very respectfully
A our fellow Citizen.
11. WAYNE, Mayor.
Proceedings of Council.
Savannah, Nov. 26, 1830.
Council met pursuant to adjournment. Pres
ent, His H onor R. Wayne, Mayor ; Aldermen, Po
sey, Turner, Screven. Mallery, Griffin, Cumming,
Walker, Cohen, Purse, Saussy.
Reports Rend and Adopted.
The C onimittee on Streets and Lanes report
that they have attended to the various matters re
ferred to them, the Committee have had thebluffat
the foot ol West Broad street planked, several
individuals agreeing to pay a portion of the ex
pense. Respectfully submitted.
THOMAS PURSE, Chairman.
Ihe Committee on Health and Cemetery in
the winding up of their official duties, would res
pectfully communicate the welcome and pleas
ing intelligence, that with an increased and in
creasing population, the health of Savannah will
compare with the most favored cities of our Con
federacy. Though our city in common with al
most all parts of our extensive county has been
visited lilts season with an epidemic, known in
common parlance as the breakbone fever, attack
ing indiscriminately all ages and conditions, yet it
was of so mild a type and so controllable even in
its severest form as to have excited no alarm, and
as cold weather approached it has disappeared
from our midst. By comparing the mortality of
the years ’l9 and ‘SO, as exhibited upon the hooks
of the Saxton, it will be perceived that the deaths
of 1850 are much less than those of 1849. It is
fair to conclude that much of the healthfulness
of our city is due to the extension of the Dry
Culture system, or the reclaiming and drainage of
that large body of low and wet swampy hind on
the South-western part of the city, known as the
Springfield Plantation. When the system of
drainage which has been so diligently prosecuted
on those swampy lands shall have been fully car
ried to a successful completion, which may lie ex
pected at anearlyday, the citizens of Savannah,
by a rigid enforcement of the Dry Culture system,
and all the low lands which have been brought un
der their corporate jurisdiction, will have a sana
tive coidon that will be effectual in seem ing them
against the malarious diseases to w hich they have
been exposed. The Committee w ould direct pub
lic attention to another subject which is insepera
hly connected with that system of improvement,
which lias for its chief object the health ami com
fort of all. being the carrying olf and out of the
city the surface water; to do w hich two modes
are in operation, viz : the one by sewers, the other
hy super-surface drainage. Os the two modes
the Committee find no difficulty in giving the
latter the decided preference, and if time and op
portunity allowed, they believe that they could es
tablish both by arguments and statistical facts, the
decided superiority of the latter over the sewer
age system. While every effort has been and is
still beii g made by a proper system of drainage
and Dry Culture of the adjoining low and swampy
ground, to protect our city against the destruc
tive influence of miasmatic exhalations, it be
comes equally important to guard against the ac
cumulation of such materials in our midst as may
and will necessarily produce the same deleterious
gases—and it could lie easily shown bow, and in
w fiat way sew ers offer all the facilities for such ac
cumulation of filth arid production of noxious
gases. The Committee would recommend that a
system of super-surf,tee drainage be Substituted
and carried out in the place of sewers—and bv
placing ibis branch of the public business in the
hands of a competent Committee and Engineer,
little doubt is entertained but that in a short time
all the surface water could he carried off and out
of the city, leaving the streets clear and sweet.
All of which is FesoectTullv submitted,
J. R. SAUSSY, Chairman, 11. and C.
The Committee on Fire Department beg leave
to report, that the cisterns contracted for, have
been built, and reported as ready to be filled, and
vour Committee have had them surveyed and
commenced filling them, but the water failed in
the pumps, and they have not been able vet to fill
th cm. 1 lie survey is herewith annexed by which
it wi:l be seen that the one in Crawford Square, is
capable of holding twenty one thousand one bun
dled and fifty eight gallons, and that on Spring
Ilill, eighteen thousand and eighty one gallons,
and as ihe contract was for twenty-five thousand
gallons, each of the contractors now proposes to
receive pay in due proportion, which your Com
mittee recommend as soon as they can be tested by
filling, which is in progress.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN MALLE RY, )
THOS. PURSE,
ROBT. 11. GRIFFIN. )
The Dry Culture Committee have had in ad
dition to their ordinary duties, the responsible ta.-k
of improving the lands, recently acquired by the
city from the minors of the late Joseph Stiles,
known as the Springfield Plantation. They take
pleasure in communicating that their labors have
been crowned with good results. The parcel of
land bounded by the Rail Rond, the Ogecliee
Canal and the Springfield Canal, has been
thoroughly drained. The Augusta Road from the
Ogecliee Canal Bridge to the Springfield Canal
Bridge is in fine order, ar.d will require but little
work for years. This work was performed in
connection with the improvement of the Spring
field property. The ponds lying between the
Ogecliee Canal and the Rail Road have been drain
ed. The land which they occupied, and which
was generally covered with three feet of water,
is now available for agricultural purposes. It
will sell for at least as much as will pay the ex
pense of the improvement. This work was much
needed, for the ponds having no outlet, furnished
a fruitful source of miasma, and kept the road
bordering upon them always in bad condition.
The important work having for its object, the
drainage of the low and swampy lands Southwest
of the city, is as well advanced as the adverse cir
cumstances, caused hv sickness among the labor
ers, and want of drainage through the Ogecliee
Canal culvert, with which it has had to contend,
would admit. A Canal thirty feet wide, extend
ing from the Ogecliee Canal to the Springfield set
tlement has been excavated as deep as the cul
vert under the latter would allow. An enbank
ment nineteen feet wide and seven high, has been
constructed for the same distance, tbe object of
which, is to prevent, inundations from freshets.
It will answer that purpose most effectually. The
Carmi bring of extraordinary width, and when
deepened, which will be do?e as soon ns the Canal
culvert is in a state to admit of it. it may be ex
pected that water will runoff so rapidly, as to pre
vent dangerous accumulation, bur should that hap
pen, the embankment will be strong enough to
resist it.
That portion of the canal running through the
Yale Royal plantation has been widened and deep
ened, and a very efficient emburkment construc
ted on its eastern margin. A similar embankment
should be made on its western margin. Ar
rangements have been made with the proprietors
of the land, whereby they are to pay half the ex
pense of this improvement, and the work has been
commenced. It is necessary that this should be
done, in order that the canal may be excavated
thr.-e feet deeper, to give the proper fall of water,
for the purpose of executing the woik upon the
upper section of the canal.
The Committee, like all Committees that have
preceded them, have to regret that several of the
Dry Culture contractors have failed to comply with
their obligations. Suits at law have always been
instituted against them, but is feared flora our
knowledge of tho results of similar actions, that
the contracts cannot be properly enforced in that
way. It is recommended that the contiactors,
whose lands ara in bad order, be required to pul
them in Dry Culture condition this winter. An
inspection should be ordered and notice given that
if within a reasonabie specified time tbe lands are
not put in the condition required by the contracts,
Council will procend to have it dune at the ex
pense of the contractors.
J. P. SCREVEN,
J. F. POSEY,
J. R. SAUSSY.
The Comrffittee on Public Building*7uTV
tended to the duties of their appointment ‘
port that the Public Buildings • a P l .e !r a s ;\ n i d e , ' e r
good repair. 1
JOHN F. roSEY, Oh’mn.
I he Committee on Pumps, report that owin, ,
the excessive drought they have found it
to deepen several of the citv wells. Thev 1
now the satisfaction to report the PumL
Wells in good order. 1 und
JOSEPH LIPPMAN, Ch’mn.
The Market Committee report the M r L
Building, is much improved the present year l, v
renewing and raising the brick walls, supply,;
new meat and vegeiable stalls, fcc. They
also substituted Gas lights in the place of Oil
T ,1 M R- D. WALKER, CI,W
I o the Mayor and Aldermen of the City
Savannah and the Hamlets thereof, in Cou'nci
assembled:
Tbe Committee of Aldermen and citizen,
charged with enquiring into the proper m „de ,f
disposing of the Springfield Purchase, submit tU
report : r
The Committee in the performance of their du
tv, engag ‘d the services of a competent and ex
perienced Surveyor, by whom all the lines of ths
purchase have been ascertained. Under the d*
rection of the Committee, the Surveyor has dV
ded the land into lots or parcel* of different dimen
sions, according to location and other circomstan*
ces. After the completion of his work in the iffM
and while engaged in the preparation of his p ],l
the Surveyor became so ill that it was necej, tr ’
for him to suspend his labors. Down to the Yr.
ent time he has not been able to report the ff .
plat to the Committee, though the first draft
some time since exhibited to them and met tiY*
approval. Without the plat w hich was to hr
pended to this report it is impossible for the Corn”
mittee to explain the division of the land • i*
they must therefore refer the Board to the *' l
when it shall come in. In the mean time t p !
beg leave to recommend, that when the plat P’
pears, an appraisement he made ol the Jots as
out, under the rules now governing the annr
ment of the municipal domain. Theyrecomn I
further, that tho lots be sold, whenever, under Ye
advice of the Committee on public sales and citv
lots, the City Council for the time being
it expedient.
The Committee have given to the question of
anew Cemetery, their most deliberate and cars
fol attention, and in this labor they have been *.
sisted by Health and Cemetery Committee of
Council who were associated w ith the Springfield
Committee, for that purpose. Ihe elaborate and
valuable report of the Health, and Cemetery Com
mittee, presented to this Loard on a iormer occa
sion, as unanswerable as to the propriety of extra
mural interments. This Committee therefore o
cupied themselves chiefly so far as this branch of
their duty was concerned, in endeavoring to dis
cover, in the Springfield purchase, a location sui
ted to cemetery purposes, and in considering the
measures necessary to accomplish ihe object in
view. They trust they have succeeded in this
labor, and they submit to Council th e following
recommendations.
They recommend that a new’ Cemetery be es
tablished, and that tbe piece of ground selected
by the Committee, and designated on the survey
or’s plat of the Springfield purchase be set apart
for that purpose. T hiss piece of land contains
about seventy-five acres, is easy of access, and
at a distance of only one mile and a half,or there
abouts from the Exchange. At the same time
it is sufficiently retired to be entirely appropriate
to Cemetery purposes. The Committee recom
mend the reservation of the whole tract of 75
acres, but that only so much be at present taken
in, as may appear to the Board, to be necessary.
What that portion should be either in location or
extent, the Board can hereafter determine upon
the report of some competent person, having
skill in such business. For this purpose, and for
laying out and improving the grounds of the new
Cemetery, the Committee recommend the em
ployment of an experienced landscape gardener,
under whose supervision, tbe work connected
with the opening of the Cemetery, should be
done. The Committee also recommend, that all
tbe heavy timber on that portion of the seventy
live acres to be selected for immediate use be sold,
and that the proceeds be applied tow ards the erec
tion of a substantial wall, Sexton’s House, and
Chapel, and such improvement of the grounds as
may be appropriate. The Committee further re
commend tile clearing up of the outer line of the
seventy-five acres so as to prevent injury to the re
maining timber.
The Committee further recommrnd that so
soon as the new Cemetery be laid out, all families
having dead buried in the old Cemetery be al
lowed lots in Ihe new Cemetery free of charge,
on condition that they remove their dead, but the
Committee respectfully and expressly recommend
to Council that there be no restriction as to tht
time of removal.
The Committee also recommend that lots he
granted to those who have no dead in the old C* m
.etery either entirely w ithout charge, or on terms
so low as to be nominal. The details of these ar
rangements must of course be reserved for future
consideration.
The Committee further recommend that a suffi
cient portion of tbe new Cemetery be reserved for
the interment of strangers, and residents not hold
ing lots in the new Cemetery.
In closing this branch of the subject the Com
mittee are unanimous in the expression of the opin
ion that tbe old Cemetery should never be appro
priated to any other purposes.
‘i he Committee further recommend that appli
cation be made to the General Assembly at its next
session, for the extension of the jurisdiction of the
city over the whole Springfield purchase.
The Committee add, by way of information, that
a suitable site can also be reserved Tor a Negro
Cemetery.
All of which are respectfully submitted.
ROBERT H. GRIFFIN,"t
JAMES P. SCREVEN, ...
THOS. M. TURNER, { Al(lr,mcn ’
THOS. PURSE, J
R. R. CUYLER,
WM. DUNCAN. .
F. M. STONE, ? Citizens.
R. HABERSHAM, J
J. R. SAUSSY, ) Health and
ROBT. D. WALKER, }
JOHN MALLERY,
The Committee on City Lamps beg leave to re
port, that the introduction of Gas, within the past
year, tins superseded the use of a considerable num
ber of the old City Lamps, those still used, thirty
six in number are in good repair.
MONT. CUMMJNG,
Chairman Committee on Lumps.
The Committee on Docks and Wharves report,
that certain repairs and improvements have been
ordered for the same during the past year, and that
generally they are in good order.
MONT. CUMMING,
Chairman Committee Docks and Wharves.
The following Lots were re-entered for ground
rent on the 12th inst, and the rents remain unpaid*
Brown Ward Nos. 15,50, 51,2 quarters each ;
SG, 18 quarters.
Crawford 12, 43, 44. 2 quarters each.
Elbert 24, 33, 3(5, 40, 2 quarters each.
Franklin 4,7, 21,22,2 quarters each.
New Franklin 7, 8. 9, 10, 11, 12, 2 quarter*
each; 13, 14, 4 quarters each.
Green 5, 22, 2 quarters each.
Jackson l(i, 40. 47, 2 quarters each ; 29, 0
quarters.
Jasper 29, 31, 32,45, 4f>, 47, 2 quarters each.
Lafayette 10. 27.28,29,2 quurterseacb.
Liberty 8, 23. 25, 2 quarters each.
Monterey 11, 12, 13,21,22, 2 quarter* each,
4, 4 quarters.
Pulaski 10, 14, 15, 16, 24, 34,2 quarter* each J
23, 3 quarters.
Washington 2,3, 6, 2 quarters each.
DANIEL H. STEWART,C. M.
Savannah, 26th, November 1850.
On motion, the following resolution wa* read
and adopted.
Resolved, That the City Surveyor advertise
the above re-entered lots for sale, and that
proceed therewith in tbe manner directed by Or
dinance.
Resolutions Read and Adopted.
By Alderman Griffin—
Resolved, 1 hat the Treasurer be and he ‘*
hereby directed to pay to Stratton & Dobson, one
thousand dollars on account of their bil s against
the Corporation.
By Alderman Purse, seconded by Aldrrm* B
Walker— .
Resolved, That an Election for the Mayor ®
the city of Savannah and twelve Aldermen
held at tbe Court House on the first Monday o
December tiext, under tbe proper superim®®
deuce, and that the City Treasurer attend “it >
digest and the City Marshal with his exet u
to collect taxes, and that the City Sheritl (,r
Deputy and the City Constables attend toprt* tr
order.
Amount of accounts passed, $82,00.
Council adjourned.
EDWARD G. WILSON, c- f *
