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eeen ? Possiblv her <-nco to
the various objects of interr.st .n
tha tmost interesting of cities rntg u
be attributed in ? o,ne , t 0 >n^
these causes; but certun it u.t>,.
that with the grave figure of Mr.
Sevens bv her •!<-, Kiln cared lit
tle where she went, nr what she
saw, so long as she was likely to be
ia time for the conveyance which
was to take her farther north, an, so j
much nearer to the goal of all her
present expectations ami desires.—j
Jn time she therefore was, and much
earlier than was necessary, leaving
the public libraries, and even the
castle very slightly explored; and
never dreaming at that moment, how
often she would regret in alter life,
having received so faint an impres
sion of the whole place, as never to
be able to recall it with any force
or distinctness.
“ 1 shall see everything when I re
turn,” snid Ella, more than once,
to which her companion grvely re
plied, each time—“ That may de
pend upon how you return. As I
take it, for the most part there is
nothing like the present time.”
Mr. Stevens did not add, that he
himself had a little claim—just a
little upon the child ot one whom
he had served so faithfully and so
long; and that although a rich
young ladv might calculate upon
seeing many cities many times, to a
poor clerk the important fact ot be
ing able to see what was new and
striking, in this was an event in a
life-time, which he could never rea
sonably calculate upon ever having
repeated. Ella never once thought
of this: she would luive waited a full
hour for Mr. Stevens if she had, or
perhaps she would h ive waited two;
but the bare existence of such an
ind i vid ua 1 was ac i rcu mst ance which
never crossed her mind, except as
she saw his small spare figure dress
ed in black, moving along with her
as she moved, very much like her
shadow, and not in any respect ex
citing more interest, or calling forth
more consideration. In fact, she
would just as soon have thought of
making way for her shadow, and of
consulting it where to go, as of re
ferring her actions in any way to the
decision of her father’s clerk ; and
this not for want of feeling, but pure
ly from want of thought.
After some stages performed in
an almost empty vehicle, and en
dured by Ella with a degree of im
patience which it was well there
was no eye to witness, the happy
meeting with her friends took place,
and a warm north country welcome
made the young traveller feel at
once at home amongst the numer
ous friends who had come to meet
her. Tartly in honour of their
guest, and partly for the sake of a
pleasant excursion a whole party
had come on horseback and in carri
ages to express their welcome, and
to conduct their young friend to her
new residence amongst the hills and
lakes of Scotland. And very frank
and merry did this party seem, and
very different in their speech, man
ner, and address, from any society
which Ella had been accustomed to
meet with in London. Even Mr.
Stevens fell some comfort in com
mitting his fair charge to so moth
erly a person as Mrs. Stuart, and
when he had seen the goods under
his care all safely delivered, he
made his respectful bow to the whole
party with more satisfaction than
he had experienced during anv oth- i
er portion ot the journey. As if
suddenly recollecting something,
however, be stepped back to Ella,
and said in his precise and quiet j
way—“ Any message home, Miss,
that I could take?”
“Ah ! my best love, of course,”
said Ella, “and you can tell them
all about the journey.”
“ Perhaps 1 might state,” added
Mr. Stevens, “when they would be
likely to hear from yourstdf.”
“Ah! yes immediately,ofcourse,”
replied Ella: “I dare say 1 shall
write to-night before I go to bed, or
at all events very early in the mor
ning.”
“ And in case,” said Mr. Stevens
lowering Ins tone—“ in case there
should beany change for the worse?”
“ In that case,” replied Ella, “ I
shall return home at any hour, with
out a moment’s delav.”
“And in case Mamma,” continu
ed Mr. Stevens, “should be too
much occupied to write?”
“ 1 shali depend upon you,” re
plied Ella.
But the Stuarts’ carriage was now
ready. Some half dozen kind hands
were stretched out to help the young
traveller in, and such a heaping -of
warm shawls around and about her
took place, and such an adjustment
of luggage, the whole of which the
family insisted upon taking with
diem, that the last words of her
taitlitul protector were lost to Ella’s
ear nnd before she could utter her
good bye, the horses were scram-
up a steep stony street, and
Mr. Stevens was forgotten.
Ella wondered within her own
mind who all the people were sur
rounding her as they did with an at
mosphere ot kindness, and seem
ing to he all of one family, and
household ; though far too numer
ous to be likely to dwell under the
same roof. Her friend Agnes was
close beside her in the carriage, hut
there was an awkwardness in ma
king such inquiries all at once, and
she therefore kept her wonder to
herself, until there cantered past
the carriage, on a fleet and high-!
mettled poney, the light figure of a
very auractive-looking youth, ‘who
more than once contrived in passing
to make the lash of his whip run
round the neck of Agnes Stuart by
a manoeuvre which was acknowl
edged without anv symtoms of dis
approbation on the part of theyoung
lady. Indeed it would not be very
easy to be angry with such a youth,
for he looked the very personifica
tion of mirth and good humour, and
Ella, finding it impossible longer to
restrain her curiosity, asked at last
in plain terms who he was.
“ Oh!” said Agnes laughing,“that
is Frazer Cunningham. I ought to
have introduced him before, for if I
mistake not you are already pretty
well acquainted with eacli other.—
How do you like the look of him ?”
“Oh! very much,” said Ella,
and as if he had heard this discus
sion, the youth at that very moment
drew up his impatient poney, and
bringing it close to the side of the
carriage, he threw in a handful of
beautiful wild roses which he had
gathered from the hedge. While
facing the carriage, which the po
ney seemed shy to approach, Ella
had an opportunity of forming a
better judgement of the appear
ance of the rider; and, with a rap
id transition of thought, she glanced
immediately from his face to that of
her friend Agnes; and, strange to
say, perceived just then, for the first
time, that her friend was rather
plain.
F r uzer Cunningham was indeed a
handsome youth, once the joy of
his mother’s heart, now the pride of
his proud father. He was amiable,
too, light-hearted, and very pleasant
to chat with ; but he warned stabil
ity and depth, and the great point
with all.who were interested in his
welfare, was to keep him to one
purpose for a sufficient length of
: time to pursue it with success.
I W ilhout this could be done, his
: friends saw plainly that he had no
change whatever in the profession
which had been his early choice,
although to hear him speak of it
; now, any one would suppose that
| he had been forced into it by com
| pulsion, rather than allowed to fol
low the bent of his own inclina
tions. The father of this youth
was not rich, although he held him
self in point of rank a little higher
than some with whom he condes
| eroded to associate ; and for this
reason, as well as many others,
there appeared to be much depend
ing upon the position which his on
ly son should lake in the world.
On the present occasion the
young man was just taking his plea
sure in the Highlands on leave of
absence for a limited period, and
under the most strict and imperative
injunctions to return to Edinburgh
before the arrival of a certain great
personage eminent in the law, to
whom the father was particularly
anxious that his hopeful son should
be introduced under the most fav
ourable auspices. This personage
was considered to have considera
ble influence in the way of obtain
ing appointments in the East, and
was on the eve of returning to India
himself so that the present chance
of his visiting Edinburgh, his own
written promise of being while
there the guest of Mr. Cunning
ham, added to the fact of his having
already been fully informed on the
subject of the sou’s undisputed
qualifications tor the law, were cir
cumstances of no small weight in
the calculations of the ambitious
father, and every one acquainted
with them, saw plainly that it would
neither be kind, nor strictly speak
ing honourable, to urge the son to
trespass upon the time allowed him
even for a single day.
But these things concerned not
Ella. Her young mind was full of
interest, and of delightful expecta
tion. It is true the highland resid
ence of the Stuarts presented in
some respects a more uncouth as
pect than her London life had pre
pared her to expect; but a little
roughness and homeliness of exte
rior was made up for a thousand
fold by the cordial hospitality, good
cheer and comfortable arrangement
of every thing within.
The evening of Ella’s arrival was
one of peculiar brilliancy and
beauty. Not altogether forgetful
of her parents, but deceived by the
lengthened daylight, Ella thought
she should have time to write home
after a stroll along the side of a
mountain, from w hence her friends
told her she*-must see the setting
sun. So after a most plentiful re
freshment, the whole party sallied
forth, and it need scarcely be told,
that on their return there was little
time, and perhaps as little inclina
tion, for writing letters. In the
morning, as was quite natural, after
such unwonted excitement and
fatigue, Ella overslept the appoin
ted time of rising. The Stuart
family, however, were as kind in
making allowances, as they were in
hospitalit y ; but the fact of the post
boy being already gone with his
daily budget of letters to the near
est village, convinced the young
sleeper that she must make a better
use of another day, it she w r as
really in earnest in desiring that
i her parents should be spared the
anxiety of waiting in vain for her
own account of her safely and
happiness.
Gladly would Ella, on this occa
sion, have claimed the privilege of
an uninterrupted half-hour for the
purpose of writing her letter ; but
to Iter astonishment the carriage
and horses were actually in readi
ness for a long day’s excursion be
fore she had finished her breakfast,
which, but for the urgent solicita
tions of her friends, she would cer
tainly have, left untouched. Mr.
Stuart was rather a hasty man, the
whole family w r ere accustomed to
early hours, and there seemed
really no alternative but leaving the
letter until another day.
How many long summer days
elapsed before it was actually writ
ten and sent off, we decline, for
Ella’s sake, to state ; neither would
we undertake the task of describing
wffiut were the feelings of her par
ents when clay after day parsed
over, and still there was no letter.
Carelessness, and want of thought
can sometimes occasion as much
real pain, as intentional unkind
ness; but it requires the experience
of neglect towards ourselves, to
teach us to what extent the human
heart may be made to suffer from
such causes.
Ella More, like many other per
sons, was quick to sympathize on
points which had at any time oc
casioned suffering to herself; and
she could say, as feelingly as these
words are often said, “Ah ! I fell
for you from my heart, because 1
know what it is to suffer thus.”
Until tins knowledge had been ac
quired by experience, she sometimes
appeared remarkably difficult to
teat h ; or rather she was usually
too much interested in some other
emotions or pursuits of her own, to
lend a willing ear to that most pre
cious instruction which makes wise
by the experience of others. If,
therefore, some of Ella’s best feel
ings might seem to have been left
behind her on this her first journey
from home, it urns because she nev
er was before—and she seldom was
afterwards—so entirely absorbed in
the pleasures of the moment, as
during her short but happy resi
dence in Scotland.
The freedom of the life which all
the pleasant party met beneath the
Stuarts’ hospitable roof were now
leading—the universal kindness
which manifested itself in a thous
and different ways—in litiie acts of
constantly-recurring service, hut
chiefly in proofs of consideration,
interest, and feeling—that genuine
flattering of the heart which no
stoicism can resist ; lids of itself
would have been sufficient to make
happy a young heart like Ella’s,
and to add brighter sunshine to her
hitherto unclouded life. But to all
this was now added anew charm m
the aspect of nature, such as she had
never beheld it before. A garden,or
a green field, or the blue and gently
undulating hills, seen from the out
skirts of London, were all the
scenes of a rural nature with which
Lila had hitherto had ah opportuni
ty of making herself intimately ac
quainted ; and although she had
often felt a thrill of delight when
contemplating these, she “had form
ed no conception of the degree to
which that delight might he extend
ed by contemplating the bolder,
wilder, and more romantic scenery
which met her enchanting gaze
while rambling amongst die moun
tains lf the north. To feel all this
for the first time, and to feel along
with it so many emotions of affec
tion, gratitude, and enjoyment, was
almost to live months in the space
of days ; and yet how rapidly those
happy days were actually fleeting;
—too rapidly, it seemed, for Ella,
or she might surely have found time
to w’rite the letter to her parents
which they were so ardently antici
pating.
To he Continued.
Active Virtue. —l cannot praise a
fugitive and cloistered virtue, unex
ercised and. unbreathed, that never
sallies out and sees her adversary,
but slinks out of the race, where that
immortal garland is to be run for,
not without dust and beat. This
was the reason why our sage and
serious poet, Spencer, describing
true tempemace under the person
of Guion, brings him in with his
palmer through the cave of Mam
mon and the bower of earthly bliss,
that he might, see and kuow, and
yet abstain.— Milton.
It is contended that the accept
ance of a Papal bishoprick in Eng
land is not incomputable with loyal
alty. We are afraid, adds Punch ,
that the only loyalty it is consistent
w ith is that of an Ignatius Loyal
ist.
Punch has lately heard of a Pro
testant who has just discharged an
old and faithful servant, because the
poor fellow happens *to have a
Roman nose.
Be not affronted at a jest. If one
throw salt at thee thou wilt receive
no harm unless thou hast sore
places.
The attempt to light Paisley with
, red-haired girls has been abandon
ed. But the girls have not,
SAVANNAH PORT SOCIETY.
Ttiis Society celebrated their
Seventh Anniversary at the Penfield
Mariners’'Church, on Monday eve
ning, 13th instant, before a respect
able audience. The exercises were
made exceedingly interesting by an
eloquent and appropriate address
by the Rev. Mt. Thomas of South
Carolina, followed by some few,
but animated and well chosen re
marks, by the Rev. Mr. Hutchings,
the present incumbent of the Mar
iners’ Pulpit.
The Annual Repout of the
Board of Managers was then read
by the President of the Society , ac
companied by a synopsis of the
Treasurer s account for the year
IS-50. The old Board ot Managers
were then re-elected, viz:
WILLIAM CRABTREE,
President.
BENJAMIN SNIDER,
1 st. Vice President.
JOSEPH FELT,
2d Vice President..
o. A. WOOD, 11. LATHROr,
11. BRIGHAM, 11. J. GILBERT.
A. A. S.VIETS, GEO. S. HARDING,
J. T. THOMAS, 11. F. WILLINK,
C. F. MILLS, D. VEADER.
SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF MANAGERS
OF THE
SAVANNAH PORT SOCIETY,
Delivered at tha Mariners Church, on
Monday Evening, Jan. 13th, 1350.
Gt n tie men of the Port. Society :
Seven years have’elapsed since
this edifice, consecrated to the spiri
tual welfare of Seamen, was com
mitted to your care. A solemn
duty w r as then imposed upon you,
which God, in his mercy, lias ena
bled you to fulfil, namely : To see
the Gospel preached to the Sailor.
Though difficulties luive beset your
Cl */
path on every side, you have yield
ed to none ot them, but have pur
sued the even tenor of your watv,
through good and through evil re
port. Where benevolence • has a
bouuded, so has vour zeal—and
when the love of many has waxed
cold.it has only served to double
your diligence, and to animate vour
exertions. With fervent thankful
ness for the continued favor bestow
ed upon us, your Board proceed to
detail their doing-* for the past year.
They trust that no small amount of
good has been accomplished by the
spiritual ministrations kept up from
Sabbath to Sabbath within these
walls. The sailor has ever found
these doors open during regular
service hours, both by day and by
night—and if your Board may judge
from what they themselves see—
within and without the Bethel—the
habits and deportment of the sea
faring portion of ibis community,
as well as of those who occasionally
visit this port, have been sensibly
improved, and as a natural conse
quence, the order and observance
of the Sabbath, in those portions of
the city formerly noted for distur
bance, and for desecration of holy
time, been greatly changed for the
belter. Tiie folds of the Bethel
flag, the banner of the Dove aryl the
Olive Branch, waving over this sa
cred building, is of itself calculated
to inspire respect ami to quell tumult
and strife, even were the sound of
the Preacher’s voice not heard from
within. Were th • keeping up of
the Mariners’ Church in this city
sustained by no stronger argument
than this, it would seem to vour
Board, that the labor of this Society
would be to a considerable degree
compensated. But w hen it is added
that the Gospel of Christ has been
thrice dispensed to an attentive au
dience oti each Sabbath, (w’ilh some
small exceptions,) within its walls,
the good that may have been done ,
seems almost incalculable Your
Board seek not to magnify their own
services, or to arrogate to them
selves a praise that belongs to God
alone. They simply present them
selves before you this night, as the
humble agents of a higher power,
and the grateful administrators of
your benevolence. They claim for
themselves nothing. They trust
however that they may say, without
being charged with a feeling incon
sistent with this disclaimer, that
they have exercised their best judg
ment in the administration of the
powers, and the disbursing of the
funds, you have in your liberality
committed to them. The original
list ot annual subscribers was amply
sufficient to pay all the expenses of
the institution, including salary for
the preacher. But for four years
past that list has been materially
diminished. Death, removals from
the city, and the natural and very
common declension of interest,
which many feel and exhibit towards
benevolent institutions, after having
tor a while contributed to their sup
port, havealloperated as conspiring
causes to shorten our list of annual
subscribers, and make it necessary
for your Board to fall back upon the
occasional charities which circum
stances from time to time have
thrown within their reach. With
out these Providential aids, your
Board must have, ere this, resigned
their trust, struck the Mariners’ Hag,
and closed the Seamans’ house of
prayer. They have laboured long
and laboured hard to avoid the His
grace, and to save the community
from the charge,ot suffering a House
of Worship for Seamen to fail for
want of pecuniary aid. To save
themselves, the Society they repre
sent, and the city in which they live
from this obloquy, your Board have
applied themselves to every proper
source .within their reach, and have
thus far been able to discharge all
their pecuniary obligations to the
preacher; and to pay all incidental
expenses, pertaining to the support
of the house, including the insur
ance on the Church building, which
item of expense by compact with
the Trustees, devolved upon this so
ciety. But they are compelled to
say, that they hav<*but a very small
surplus iu the Treasury, wherewith
to commence another year, and if,
the liberality of the community,
which they now invoke, is not exhi
bited for the support of the cause
in future, your Board see not how
the house is to be kept open another
year.
The present incumbent of the
Mariner's pulpit, is, in the opinion
of your Board, the most acceptable
Mariner’s preacher that the seamen
have ever had in this city; and
every proper exertion should be
used to keep him, when he is so em
inently useful. With a disinterest
edness truly honorable, he has ex
pressed a readiness to continue his
ministrations — Salary or no Salary.
But your Board cannot for a mo
ment entertain the determination to
retain a man whose services they
may not be able to compensate ;
and they believe that their feeling
on thishead will be cordially recip
rocated by the Society, and bv all
those who now listen to this Report.
The alternative then is to raise the
means for his support; the mode
oi doing this will doubtless exercise
the ingenuity and discretion of the
new Board of Managers.
The present occupants of that
trust cannot but feel a strong, and
an abiding confidence in the libe
rality and proper feeling of the
public toward the Seaman’s cause ;
and on that they base the hope that
the Seamans’ (lag will yet wave,
through years to come, over this sa
cred roof. They are reluctant to
close this branch of their Report,
without disclosing the sources from
vvhtnce proceeded the funds that
have, for the three last years, sup
plied the deficiency in their Trea
urv, left by the lulling off of annual
subscript ions.
They are indebted mainly to
certain Charitable Radies, uncon
nected with any special Society,
and whose only bond of union was,
a love tor the cause, for more than
sl-500 paid into the Treasury, as the
avails of three several Annual Fairs.
held by them, and prosecuted with
much labor and industry. It is al
most superfluous to add, that these
Benefactresses of the cause have
kept alive the Mariners’ Church un
til this lime. \\ hat meed of praise
is their due, need not here he insis
ted on. Were they consulted, tliev
wouid doubtless shrink from this
disclosure of their labours of
love. ‘1 hose who can do such
things, seek for no acknowledgment
from man. Real benevolence is
ever modest, and that charily which
comes from the heart, is ever unob
trusive.
It is hoped by vour Board that
some other mode may be resorted
to hereafter, less onerous and less
ardnous to supply the means neces
sary to support the gospel in this
house. They are of opinion that
the:e is no iack of good feeling in
the public for ‘he cause of Seamen.
It becomes the duty of those who
shall hereafter regulate the affairs of
this institution, to stir up this feeling
and by persevering and respectful
application, to present this subject
to those who have the means of aid
in their hands, and who value the
spiritual welfare of Seamen—these
are, in truth,the nail parties on whom
the support of the Mariner’s Church
should rest. And to these vour
Board think an appeal may he made
without fear of rejection. The pre
sent incumbent of the Mariner’s pul
pi!, the Rev. Thomas Hutchings.
has been engaged by vour Boarj]
for another year, provided the meaps
for paying him can be raised. His
services have been highly accepta
ble to Seamen and to many others
who from Sabbath to Sabbath, .at
tend at the Mariner’s church. These
latter are persons living in the vi
cinity of the church, who have no
regular place of worship of their
own, and who probably would not
otherwise attend Divine service on
the Sabbath. During the Summer
months, while few Seamen visit this
port, the audiences are principally
made up of this description of per
sons, so that the house is never emp
ty on the Sabbath. In the Winter
months and during the business
season, the audiences vary from 20
to 100 persons. The Marine
Church, properly so-called, com
prizes 56 names; the ordinance of
the Lord’s Supper has been cele
brated four times during the past
season—nine new members have
been admitted —90 new names have
been added to the total abstinence
pledge. A synopsis of our yearly
finances is here subjoined, shewing
the state of our funds. The total
expense of keeping up Divine Ser
vice in the Church for one yearmav
be estimated at S7OO. The amount |
of annual subscription is about S2OO.
The present incumbent of the pul
pit lias voluntarily taken upon him
self the duties of chorister and sex
ton, for the two last years, and there
by has saved to die Church the sev
eral amounts formerly paid for
those services, say $156 per annum.
And lie may be fairly considered a
donor to the Church funds in that
sum annually, tor the last two years.
Your Board would now once
more tender you their thanks, for
the confidence you have reposed in
them, and take their leave on this
occasion, with the expression ot a
hope, that the friends of Seamen
will still rally around the Bethel
standard, and that the sons of the
Ocean may ever find the Bethel
doors open, and that ihe voice of in
struction may still reach them bom
the Mariner’s pulpit.
WM. CRABTREE,
BENJAMIN SNIDER,
Committee of the Board.
SynDp3i3 of Treasurer’s Account,
For Ihe year ending December 1 dth, 18-30.
Dr.
By balnnee on hand, Jan. 14, 1330,....5117,51
A n’toollwted lY’m A'lmnl Subset il>. rs ,
up to December 19, 1330, - 154,00
Ain’t of voluntary Donations, 11,00
Amount of C Ilections received at the
doors at Aanu it Meeting, .1 inuary,
1350 17,98
Avails of Li li s’ Fair, in the month of
Min-h, 1830, 309.17
Sabbath Collections in Church Plates, 100.9 5
Collections to buy Hymn Books, 24,00
Hymn Books 501d,..... 2.G2
$7 45,53
Cr.
To Ministers’ Salary up to December 19,
1830, 12 months, at S3O, SGOO.OO
Expenses of lighting and cleaning nit
Church, and other incidental ex
pen"<, 44.9 G
Hvinu 800 \s purchased May, 1350 . 18,59
Balance carried down, 81,98
$745,53
By’ B ilaoc * brought down in hands of
W . Crabtree, Treasurer, Dec-in
her 19, 1830 $Bl 93
WM. CSABTREE, Treasurer.
Savannah, Dec. 19, 1850.
FRIEND OF THE FAMILY.
E. J. PURSE, CITY PRINTER.
PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL.
Savaxxah, Jin. 16th, ISSO.
Council mel. Present —His Hon
or R. Wayne, Mayor, Aldermen
Posey, Turner, Lipptnan, Mullery,
Screven, Ciiifin, Cumming, Saus
sv, Walker, O’Byrne and Purse.
The minutes of ihe last meeting
were read and confirmed. The in
formation and line dockets were
read and confirmed.
His Honor the Mayor laid before
ihe Board ihe resignation of Alder
man Cohen. Ald.Grilfiu moved to
accept the same. Motion not sec
onded, and resignation declared not
accepted.
Reports Read and. Adopted.
The Committee on Pumps report
that the same are in order, and are
-ready to be delivered to the new
contractor.
J< USE PH LI PPM AN, )
ROB’T D. WALKER, >Ccm.
JOHN MALLERV. )
His Honor the Mayor and the
Committee on Public-Buildings to re
port relative to a Keeper of the City
Clock, reported that they had ap
pointed George M. Griffen as such
keeper at SIOO for the year.
Report Read.
The Committee on Health, to
whom was referred the subject of
supplving the sick poor with medi
cines, have had the same under con
sideration, and after a careful exum-
ination of all the circumstances con
nected with the system hitherto in
practice, have arrived at the conclu
sion that that system should be aban
doned. It would be unnecessary to
enter into a lengthy statement of the
reasons which directed them to this
conclusion—suffice it to say, that ns
the supplying of medicine to the sick
poor is a humane and benevolent
act, intended to confer benefit, it
ought to be done in that mode which
would promise the greatest benefit
to that unfortunate class of our fel
low-citizens. After a most careful
examination of all the plans sug
gested to their minds to carry out
th;s system in an efficient and econ
omical manner, they hesitate not to
recommend that Council should di
vide the city into fourdispensary dis
tricts, and elect for each district a
Physician, whose duty it shall be to
attend and supply with medicines
the sick poor of their 1 several dis
tricts, paying to each Physician
dollars as a compensation for said
services. The Committee recom
mend therefore the passage of the
folio wing Ord in an ce.
J. It. SAUSSY, ? Health
It. D. WALKER. Com’tee.
Ordinances.
An Ordinance for the establish
ment of a dispensary system, for the
relief of the indigent sick, was read
the first time.
An Ordinance for laying offinto
lots, certain parts of thetract ofland
known as the Springfield Plantation
purchased by virtue of an Ordinance
passed June 10th, 1850, and for dis
posing of the same—read the first
time at the last meeting of Council,
was again read, and passed under
thc_ title thereof,
An Ordinance entitled, An Ordi
nance to require the supension of
lighted lamps at night, on all Ve3 ,
s cls ami craft in the River Savan.
nan, under weigh, was read th e
first and second times, and on
motion passed, under the title
thereof. c
An Ordinance altering ihe mod.
y di r s, i'? ‘t 11,0 c,t ? ‘-ns i„
•New t ran klin Ward— Wits rend ihe
hist and second limes, and on ra „.
tion passed under the tide thereof
An Ordinance to he entitled. An’
Ordinance to restore to the Clerk of
Council the salary and fees affixed
to sail office by the Ordinance
sed 2nd August, 1839, and for the
increase ot the salary of the Jailor
was read the first add second
times, and on motion passed under
the title thereof.
An Ordinance to amend the exis
ting Ordinances regulating the p u h.
lie Market iu the City of Savannah
—was read the first time.
Elections.
John Roden was unanitnusly el
ected a Measurer and Inspector
oi Lumber for tbe City of Savan
nah.
Petitions.
Ihe petition ol James J. &
Joseph H. Hines, representing th al
they had purchased Lots No.?, la
iJ> 15, 1 6 L , and 13, of the
track of Land known as the Spring
field Plantation, for the pu-pose of
erecting thereon a Steam Saw Mill,
and requesting Council to grant
them permission to make
basins as are necessary, and guaran
teeing a free flow of water, no in
jury to health, &c—was read and
on mo’ions of Alderman S reven
referred to the Com mittee on Health
and Cemetery.
The petition of Elijah Hender
son, praying a lease of 99years for
lot No. 5. New Franklin Ward,
was read—no action taken, as au
Ordinance had been passed relating
to same.
The petition of Enas Reed, owner
of east halt of lot No. 27, Franklin
Ward, praying permission to pay to
ihe City the valuation on said half,
and obtain a fee simple title—was
read and referred to the Committee
on public sales and City Lo[s.
The petition of Thomas B. Max
well et al.j city Constable, praving
an increase of salary, was read and
referred to the Committee on Fi
nance.
Resolutions read and adopted.
By Alderman Purse seconded
by Alderman Screven :
Resolved , That the Surveyor lay
off*, according to the plan of the
city, that portion of the city Com
mon, north of Gordon and east of
Dray ton-streets, and that the Com
mittee on Public Sales and City
Lots repor an Ordinance for dis
posing of the satne.
Bv Alderman Purse, seconded
by Alderman Griffin:
Resolv'd , That His Honor the
Mayor, in conformity wiih the sth
and Gili sections of the amended
Charier of the city, appoint five
freeholders to often Price, Presi
dent and Gordon-sireets.
His Honor the Mayor appointed
as such Committee Aid’men Purse,
Cumming and O Byrne ; citizens
Aaron Champion and Charles Ha
Horn.
By Alderman Mallery, seconded
by Alderman Posey —
’ Resolved, That the Measurers and
Inspectors of Lumber, and other
City Officers requiring license, be
required to take <>ut their licenses
wit Inn twenty days from the time of
their election, or their election be
comes void.
Miscellaneous.
Alderman Purse, in behalf of the
Central Rail Road and Banking
Company of Georgia, asked permit
sion for stiid Company to
Iron Bridge, 14 feet high,across fiat
Road Street ; and on motion of A**
derman Griffin, the same was refer
red to the Committee'on Streets an
Lanes, with power to act.
His Honor the Mayor laid before
the Board the following communi
cations, which were read —to “ ll •
From t’lie Hon. Joseph W .Jackson,
in replv to the Mayor’s letter enclos
ing a copy of the Resolution pas$ cl
at the last meeting of Council, re
questing that a company ot
Artillery might he stationed at c
thorpe Barracks. The Hon. Jusep
W. Jackson says:— ,
“On the -27th December, I un
dressed a communication to the 3r
Department, asking that a garrisn
of artillery might be stationer
Oglethorpe Barracks. It ) VJ | S ,
ferred to the General-in-Chief
on the 4th inst., through the A< J
taut General, reported to die
j retary of War that, at present, the
is not a disposable company fori
purpose, but ‘that it is the inten
of the General-in-Chief to r e P a
the necessary garrison at as ear.’
day as practicable.’” r ...
From His Excellency the <*o
ernor of the State of Georgy
reply to the Mayor’s letter enc
the resolution passed at the
meeting of Council, directing .
Military Store Keeper at Sa'‘ ,a
to deliver to His Honor the A
sixty muskets with accoutred
complete, for the use of tn°
Watch.