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SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, InJ5.
ESLAR6E3IEXT OF THE SAVAN
NAH DAILY HERALD.
The materials for the enlargement of
the Savannah Daily Herald to twice its
present size are now at Hilton Head,
%nd will arrive here in a day or two. —
We shall make the proposed changes at
the earliest possible time, and we hope
to be able to do so within two or three
days at the longest.
A SUNDAY HERALD.
The crowd of advertising has com
pelled us to omit all of our Northern
correspondence, with the exception of our
interesting New York letter. We have
decided to issue an edition to-morrow
morning, containing interesting letters,
the latest local and general news, and
much other attractive leading matter.—
It will be ready at day-light. Advertise
ments should be handed in at the connt
ing room, 111 Bay street, this afternoon.
GOOD FOR EVIL.
Though the Southern soldiers do all in
their power to make the land a desert
over which our armies must march, by
destroying provisions and other proper
ty, and by breaking up roads and other
wise impeding the advance of our troops,
it is no less a positive truth that the
country is generally enriched by the pas
sage through it of the hated “Northern
invader.” Maay of our soldiers are
Western men, who for yens have
been employed in “improving” land»and
reducing heavy forests and broad pra
iries to the condition of cultivated farms.
It has become second nature with them,
and no sooner do they perceive a plot of
land which could be made into a fine
farm, were it only disencumbered of
trees, and cleared from rocks and stones,
than their fingers itch for an axe, and
they instinctively look about for a spade.
It pains the Yankee heart, and it goes to
the very soul of the yeoman from the
far West to upon the thousands of
broad acres in the funny South, which
might be subdued by human labor from
thick pine forests,and from slimy swamps
to some of the most beautiful and pro
ductive farms the sun ever shown upon.
There can be no doubt that when the
present strife is done, hundreds of our sol
dier-boys who have noted, in the course
of their many weary marches,the fertility
of the soil,and the salubrity of the climate
will resolve to make their homes in the
South. To the hardy son of Maine or
New Hampshire, who has been accus
tomed to earning his living on a furui
where the land was so stony and sterile
that a man has to turn his farm up edge
waysand plant both sides in order to net
enough off it to keep h s family, the cul
tivation of the rich bottom lands of the
South would be but as child's play. To
the hardy Western pioneer the clearing
of the pine forests and the live oak
growths of this favored latitude, 'would
be but pleasant pastime. We may be
certain that our boys have not marched
through “the bowels of the land” with
their eyes shut. They came, they have
seen, and when they have conquered,
they will return to take possession. Not
by force, for we much doubt if the
policy of confiscation will ever be adopt
ed by the United States Government,
however strongly it may be urged by
some, and however just it may appear to
most—but the Northern soldier will
come South with his dollars in his fist,
prepared to pay honestly for the land he
wants, and to work faithfully for the
home he covets. In this way in time
will the So?.th to a great extent be re
populated with a people who, having
all their lives seen and experienced the
beneficent results of free labor in the
North, will be the best men in all the
world to inaugurate the policy of free
labor at the South. •
It may be asked what is to become of the
present Southern population. We answer
it will take many years to replace the
men who have been drained from, the
country by the ravages of war,and many
of their places can be filled with men
from the colder North. Then thereafter
the natural expansion of the population
will induce here, as in every new' coun
try, the clearing of more forest land, the
draining of more swamp land, and the
reduction to cultivation of many tracts
now T considered too sterile to be worked.
Doubtless many Southerners, dissat
isfied with the changes which all now
see are inevitable, will sell their posses
sions and emigrate to Europe, or even
to the Northern cities where, for many
years, they have been in the habit of
spending their summers. Their places too
must be filled. So that with Northern
men coming South, and Southern • men
going North, there will soon be produced
a perfect homogeniety of population, and
the abolition of the pernicious system of
slave labor, which has ever been the
sharp dividing line between us, being
perfected, Americans will be one peo
ple, in fact as well as name.
Go£ speed the day.
But even should the NfsrJiiera soldiers
remain in their homes and never return,
they will still have done much to im
prove the face of the Southern country.
The innumerable bridges which have
been built, the hundreds of miles of
road winch have been made, the many
square miles of forests which have been
levelled, have been of almost incalcula
ble value to the owjtt of Southern
property. But we tkuns: there can be
little doubt that ere many months pass
by, our brave boys in blue will return to
the South to complete and perfect the
improvements they have so well began.
Passengers rim Steamship Arago* —
Lieut. Cols E. P. Hammond &J. IT. Brig
ham, Surgeons Cotton and Huber, Mr.
ana Mrs. Bragg and son, Miss Baldwin,
Mn Chambers, Mrs. Topham, Major El
liot*. and lady, Mr. and Mrs. Brown,Miss
Brown, Mr. A M. Agnew. C. B. Over
tor Mr. and Mrs. Cohen and child, Mrs.
F. If. Miss Wesselhoft, Miss Fow
jer. Miss E. Lindsay, Mrs. McGovern,
Mr Kent, A. 11. Davenport,
G f- aggart, Miss Faijny Postage,Hat
lie Le \ Maud St. Leon. Elsie St. Leon
F Le Fond, Mr ? . M. Barn ell, Chaplain
Joiivb, Asbj>t:uit Surgeon. W. F. Bu
oiimm, Captains Rockwell. Barker,
Lieutenants May, Webster, Cut
ting. Long. Baylor, Taicott, Howard
Assistant Surgeons J. It Long, W. Rice,
arm fKyes ; ♦ Messrs. Kendall, Roof.
uwym. Limn, Edwards, Knox, Weir,
Lester, Haynes, Fish, Gifford,
\.or .-tan:, Gerstman,Barnet, Harris, Guy
lcr. Holst, Blaisdell, Otis, Barnard,
Dors ton, Dolui, Marsh, Lentz, Edgell,
iieisi. seaman, Hernden, Simpson, Car
rer, Hatsoheck, Plowman, Kilpatrick,
Capt. Ketchum, Evans and Baker, and
<44 m steerage.
To r. Inaugural. —The New York pa
pers ha\e accounts of the inauguration,
reik e*in s severely on Vice President
Johnson. Until some more definite
am. authentic accounts are given, we
s.:all abstain from any statements or
criticisms.
SHlPPinw INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived steamship Yazoo, Couch, Hilton
Head; Fteamshi? Fannie, Cator. Charleston;
steamer U. S. Grant, Dobbs, Hilton Head.
Cleared bark Persia, Holm, New York; bark
Atlanta, Th ooster, New York ; brig Emily Fielmr.
Knight, New York.
[From onr Special Correspondent.]
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
NkwYoek, Monday Morning, March C.
The great celebration which was post
poned from Saturday until to-day, is
absorbing as much interest as any war
news of the most probable character
might be expected to do. The clerk of
the weather has considered himself one
of the Committee of and
has given us clear skies and dry pave
ments,and we shall have a turnout of the
people that will astonish sight-seers. At
the first announcement of the proposal
some of our leading political geniuses
here thought they saw a very large meal
tub, under which reposed the horrible
proportions of a black republican some
where, and they raised the cry of a par
tisan character against it, whereupon
they were cordially invited to inspect
the contents of the aforesaid meal-tub.
Their investigations proving eminently
satisfactory, they turned about and en
tered into the affair right zealously—the
result of which will be a grand outpour
ing of the people to-morrow to cele
brate the victories of our soldiers and
sailors as the most patriotic person
could wish. The procession will have
nearly ten thousand military, a caval
cade of over five thousand citizens, all
our veteran general officers in the city,
including Generals Scott, Wool, Ander
son, Dix, Admirals Paulding, Breeze,
Worden, Rogers, and a host of others
renowned for their glorious parts per
formed in tliis war—veteran pri
vate soldiers, all furloughed sol
diers in the city, the ntxyy yard
marines, apprentices, &e.,—representa
tives of all the mechanic arts by scores.—
we shall have ship-yards, iron- works,
printing offices, sewing machine, scale,
and other' factories on wheels, all in full
operation as they move along in the pro
cession ; express wagons gaily decorated
with flags and ladies, various emblemat
ical devices, a model of the original moiK
itor, with some of Porter's old salts t<r
man her, a representation of Fort Sumter
as it now appears, with veterans from the
x'iaw England Rooms who have partici
pated iii assaults upon it; we shall have
over a dozen German socities numbering
each over five hundred men, together
witn the Turners and German Singing
Societies. We snail have numerous
benevolent Irish and American Societies.
Y e shall have a battery of captured reb
el canaon in the streets of New York
whose throats will be compelled by
brave Union soldiers to give hoarse sal
vos for victories over their late owners—
we shall have
“—tumultuous music from out the belfry of
Old Trinity.”
at nine in the morning, at noon, and at
four in the afternoon, sending up glad
songs in clanging melody to Him who
has blissed the arms of the right. We
shail listen to polished periods, anu
patriotic eloquence in Union Square
from tie lips of those whose words are
like ‘hpplesof silver set in dishes of
gold,"f-and we are j#i bound to be jubi
lant, (peer the country, the soldiers, the
the two hundred bands of music,
and be glad with great joy.
JCK HAS VANISHED
from tie rivers and harbor, and our wa
ter dots around the Battery feel much
please, thereat. It is stated that the
thousaids of private ice houses on the
banks )f the Hudson are filled to their
roofs, fnd the mammoth receptacles of
thediferent companies have stored a
stock equivalent to that of any two years
heretofore cut.
HOUSE HUNTING
has conmenced, but those hunting ap
pear t > meet with very poor success,
everything with a roof to it bein-
Taxes on real estate are said to°be enrT
raous, and next year will be still bioh
owing to the large bounties
from corporation funds to enable draff,,
citizens to leave their families paruitv
provided for. v
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LITTLE INTEREST
seems to be felt in the Inaugural Ad
dress of President Lincoln to-morrow
which shows a tremendous change
this respect from the excitement shown
four years ago in this city. There w
some loud bets at the Fifth Avenue last
evening that there would be “a story” i a
the document, meaning undoubtedly that
the inaugural itself would pass into/aL
scory /
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
were realized at the Charity Ball at the
Academy of Music on Tuesday nicrh t __
This is an annual affair in this city f or
the benefit of the poor, and upper ten
dom vie with each other in purchasing
the largest number of high-priced tick
ets. Some of the dresses worn cost as
high as—a petroleum fortune.
A SERENADE
came off last Wednesday night by the
magnificent band of the Second Massa
chetts Heavy Artillery, which is stop
ping at the New England Rooms. Gen.
Dix, Hunt, Wilcox, Kinks; Cols. Howe,
Haipin and others were listeners to the
midnight melody.
New York, 9 30 a. m.
Our streets are filling with the out
pourings of all our people, old and
young. The metropolis wears a flaming
coronal of glorious banners—the streets
and avenues are covered with flags anti
streamers—the sun seems to shine with
redoubled lustre—bayonets glisten as cur
military files by to take its place in the
great procession. Everybody is jubilant,
and the bulletins, announcing Sheridan’s
last feat of the capture of the rebel Gen
eral Early and his army, are cheered
again and again.*
Never did Broadway look so splendid
—every window’ from the Battery to
Central Park, every house-top, every
door-stdop—all are covered, festooned
and saucily draped with flags great and
small, from the fifty-foot “ old glory, J
who curls and straightens out in the
mornings west-wind so defiantly, and
“touch-me-if-you-dare” appearance, to
the little jaunty emblems of our nation’s
honor in the jockey hats of our little
boys and the elegant coiffures of cor
beauteous damsels.
Jollity rules. The favorable accounts
from North Carolina of Gen. Sherman's
advance—the recent inauguration of
President Lincoln under so different an
aspect from that accompanying his first
inauguration—the good news from the
Shenandoah Valley—and the general
hopefulness of all true patriots, "causes
all the hearts of the good to beat buoy
antly and happily.
Five hundred and forty of the sick
heroes of Sherman's array, from Savan
nah, arrived here safely last Thursday,
and have been placed in the excellent
hospitals in*the vicinity.
Beall, the Lake Erie pirate and railroad
robber, was duly hung a week ago last
Saturday. This fact "has created more
hope in patriot breasts that the govern
ment really intends in future to deal with
such parties as they deserve, according to
the customs of war.
Considerable comment, is made upon
the speech of our new Vice President,
especially that portion wherein he glon
fied himself as being of plebian stock, and
parading the fact to the foreign Ministers
there present. However, everybody
knows that Andy Johnson is one of the
most honest men in the world, and, like
our President, is as homely sometimes 111l 11
hfs expressions as the latter is in physi
ognomy. They are always, neverthe
less, whenever the good of the country
is concerned, like the Dutchman’s horse?
to be found tf.ar ! A. F. L
