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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD.
YOL. I—NO. 74.
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LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
New .York, Friday, April 7.
STRANGE INCIDENTS
Occur ori Railroads sometimes—so strange
that they are really amusing. Among the
strangest is the manner in which pockets are
picked, (and these are not amusing) and the
pockets, too, ot ladies. Now what more au
dacious act is there than putting a hand in a
lady’s dress-pocket, but the professional pick
pocket is an audacious fellow, as well as a
thief. An iucident lately occurred on
the railroad between this city and Boston
which is worth relating. A lady had suffered
from the enterprise of one of these chivaliers and,
Industrie, and a friend of hers about to take
the same route, was cautioned to be on her
guard—to be on her guard especially against
any well-dressed prepossessing young man
who would take a seat by her side, and that,
too, just before entering the long tunnel near
this. city. The cautioned lady took her seat,
and looked nervously about her, she did not
see any “prepossessing young man" just
then, but as the train stopped at Springfield,
one such titered, and with much politeness
took the vrcant seat by her side. Os course
the nervowness of the lady increased, especi
ally as the offered her liis paper
to read, which she declined, and to his re
marks she responded only in monosyllables.
She was determined to keep him at a dis
tance which however, was necessarily lim
ited in those narrow seats. At length they
approached the Xatal tunnel, and the caution
she received took sudden hold of her already
greatly excited mind. As the train en
tered the darkness she made a sudden
plunge for her pocket in which she had
her portmonaie. But the folds of her dress
somewhat disarranged and she did not at
once find her pocket. Still she nervously
persevered, diving first into one fold, then
into another, until at length it found an
opening, when what was her horror to find
the hand of the “pre-possessing companion”
on the seat was already there. She con
vulsively clutched the hand with all her
might, but she Was frightened she was un
able to use her voice. She held on to the
hand thinking to expose the thief on emerg
ing into the light, and though it seemed the
train would never reach the end of the tun
nel, still she held on with the grip. Her
companion made no effort whatever to re
lease his hand, whether through fear of ex
posing himself, or rather liking the soft and
velvetty pressure; is not known. But day
light at length cam*e, and with it the fact
was revealed, that the lady, in searching for
her pocket, ha 1 inserted her hand into the
coat pocket of her “prepossessing compan-
ion, ” where she found, very properly enough,
one of his hands. It is needless to add that
the lady presented a very 'confused appear
ance, gently relaxed ker hold, glanced out
of the car Window, and left to her eomprnion
the task of tilling in the meaning of her
strange conduct,
A HRAVE LITTLE BOV
Came to grief in Brooklyn Thursday. He
was one of those heroic little fellow's that in
all sorts of weather may been skipping about
as lively as'crickets and chirping as merrily,
with bundles of newspapers under their
arras. He had jumped on a car to sell some
of his papers to the passengers, when he fell
off and the wheels passed over" both his legs,
cutting one of them' nearly off. The little
fellow, notwithstanding his injuries, asked
for his hat, which had fallen off. I suggest
that, in case he lives, he is entitled to a pen
sion from the newspaper establishments, in
whose service he has lost his leg.
PECULATIVE MANIA.
Avery remarkable case of larceny from
the person, otherwise pocket-picking, was
brought to the notice of one of our courts the
other day. It was remarkable from the fact
that the offender was a very pretty young
lady, beautifully dressed, of most pleasing
manners, and belonging to a very respectable
family. She was detected, however, with one
of her hands in another lady’s pocket, and
escape from the fact of criminal intent W'as
impossible. The re-examination showed that
she was not in the want of whatever money
she might possibly find in another lady’s
pocket, for she was supplied by her parents
with all her wants required, and more, too;
and what could have been the inducement or
temptation was a mystery the girl herself
could not explain. She insisted, however,
that it was her first offence of the kind, in'
view of which fact, together with her tender
ag* seventeen years, the judge let her off. It
will be difficult for her to find a husband.
SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1865.
HOGS,
In human shape, are quite plenty at certain
times, especially in our cars and ferry boats,
on rainy days. One of them rather got
scalded a few days since, in this wise. He
seated himself very comfortably in the Ful
ton Ferry boat, threw a pair of old boots into
the next seat, and waited for the boat to
start. The cabin soon filled up, leaving
vacant only the seat containing the boots.
A gentleman wishing a seat requested him to
remove them, but he refused, whereupon
H°S» being stout built, blacked the eye and
beat the gent. Hog had everything his own
way, however, only for a few moments, for
on arrival at the New York side, he was
handed over to a policeman, taken to the
Tombs, and the next day fined $375 and
costs, besides gaining an unenviable notoriety
as a one-horse bully,
OUR NAVV TARD
Is to be enlarged materially. Over two
millions of dollars were appropriated by the
last Congress for the improvements needed.
Anew receiving store. 195 by 200 feet, three
stories high, is to be built, and a machine
shop, 350 by 70 feet, with wings 200 by 70
feet, three stories, with two towers, an engine
house, a boiler house, and a 200 feet high
chimney, are to be built. Both buildings
are to be of brick. Anew gun park of
four aud a half acres is already begun;
new wharves are being filled in; anew sa
luting battery of thirty guns is to be erected,
with a fire-proof magazine attached; two
hundred feet of additional quay wall, two
more launching ways for frigates will be
erected, and all the streets in the Yard are to
be newly paved. The Cob Dock, formerly a
mud bank, will be filled, and anew building
for the ofllcials is talked of. Altogether,
those two million dollars will not go begging
amongst contractors and mechanics.
ABUSE OF THE PUBLIC
is sometimes expensive, even to corporations
in this city. A lady was recently very se
riously injured by being thrown to the pave
ment in getting out of a horse-car, the con
ddetor of which started up before she was
fairly off the car-step. Damages were ad
sessed to the tune of two thousand five hun
dred dollars. The Judge charged the Jury
that it was criminal to start a car until the
passenger was firmly on the ground.
A HORSE,
lately “procured” in Missouri, named “Duke
of Wellington,” is being for here as a pres
ent to Gen. Grant. It is a splendid animal,
a stallion, valued at five thousand dol
lars. It would be eminently appropriate
that Grant should ride into Richmond on a
“gray-back.”
GRAB
The fall in gold developed anew method
of selling cotton goods. The idea is not a
fresh one for the game of “grab” is as old as
the holding es fairs or the setting up of Christ
mas trees for the little ones. But it has had
anew application, and was the means of
securing to ten of onr largest houses in the
trade a “right smart” lot of business. The
modns operandi was to open one case of
goods atru time, and having by due notice
thereof, gathered together a crowd of purch
asers, allow them to carry away as much a9
they could separately grab, the -only condi
tion being that they should pay for the goods
at a rate representing rather more than fifty
per cent, of cost, when gold was at two hun
dred. Great quantities were grabbed, and
though it is difficult to see where the sellers
made auy money, it can readily be observed
that the firms who engaged in the affair had
the satisfaction of running their rivals to their
hearts content, and perhaps of obtaining a
ot of customers who will stick to them when
much higher prices are demanded. The
"grab” game was therefore probably only a
flyer to attract customers, and looked at in
that light may be a good speculatiou.
DEFUNCT.
The volunteer fire department of this city,
which has for so many years been run as a
mammoth political machine, is dead. The
law establishing a paid department has pass
ed both branches of the Legislature, much to
the chagrin of hundreds of unprincipled
political wire pullers. Many threats of vari
ous kinds have been made by the rowdy
element of the department, and to pour oil
on the troubled w'aters. Mayor Gunther begs
of them in a proclamation, issued this after
noon, to act like gentlemen ! Some of the ap
paratus when turned over to the city will un
doubtedly need an immense amount of re
pairing. A final parade is talked of, in
which every company is to turn out, march
to City Hall, deposit their machines in the
Park there, then forth a procession and march
off to the music of the “Dead march in
Saul.”
% SICK PRISONERS
arrive at the New England Rooms in large
numbers daily and nightly. They are piti
able specimens of what were once hale and
hearty men, and if any one can see them
and not find his eyes filling up, he is of stern
er stuff than your correspondent. More than
ever have we reason, with such sights of
unheard of brutality coming to .ns, daily,
nightly and hourly to heap curses upon the
i heads of the instigators and sympathisers of
| this rebellion.
One poor fellow, belonging to Bennington.
Vermont, yesterday had a letter written to
his sister, enclosing S2O (ail the money he
had) for her to come here to take him home.
Before it was mailed he was dead—he had
gone beyond the reach of the fiends who tor
two years had so tortured aud starved him in
a Southern prison that he could hardly re
member his own name.
A few moments after his death I saw the
hospital stewards carefully put on an over
coat to the skeleton of a young soldier
named Elliott, of Beverly, Mas 9., then,
making a cradle of their arms, lift him and
carry him down stairs to the ambulance to
be taken to the depot. Gods! He certainly
did not weigh over seventy pounds, yet he
was nearly six feet in height!
Scores of such cases are hourly witnessed
at our Rooms, where, it is needless to say to
Herald readers, every attention that' warm
hearts can give them is unstintingly dis
pensed.
FOR CHARLESTON. *
Our Brooklyn friends have engaged a band
of music, a big steamship, and the et ceteras,
to properly convey Rev. Mr. Beecher to
Charleston, where he is to deliver an address
on the raising of the flag over Sumter. One
hundred dollars will be taxed for each pas
senger.
A NEW ROUTE
To Rio Janeiro has been discovered by the
newspaper which should have been the last
to have made such an error. They stated
that a steamer from this port would reach
Rio after doubling Cape Horn! They
probably have a very ignorant ship-news
man in their office, and several ancient
geographies have been donated to the World.
IMPORTANT DEBATE IN THE BRITISH
PARLIAMENT.
An important debate took place in the
House of Commons on the 13th ult., in which
Lord Palmerston, Mr. D’ Israeli and Mr.
Bright participated. The principal topid
was the defence of Canada. The policy that
will be pursued by the British Government in
case Canada is attacked, is clearly Indicated
by the tenor of Lord Palmerston’s remarks.
Canada will be defended at all hazards, and
at whatever cost. The Premier as the organ
of a very laige party in the United Kingdom,
conceives the national honor to be involved
in the defence of a possession that was wrest
ed front France at the peace of 17G3, under
the vigorous administration of Lord Chat
ham, which reflected so much lustre on the
British arms, and the acquision of which
conferred so much glory on that administra
tion. There appears in fact to be no point in
the colonial policy of England in which the
British nation is more unanimous than the
maintenance of the territorial integrity of the
empire, as far as the colonies are concerned.
Mr. Bright, who is of that school of Bri
tish statesman who would not scruple to
sacrifice any of the dependencies of the Bri
tish Crown to save the expense of defend
ing them, and who is the organ of that party
whose opinions are ultra-radical as regards
Parliamentary reform and all questions of
Colonial and Foreign policy—stated that
“there is no power whatever in the United
kingdom to defend successfully the territory
of Canada against the United States, but
that there was not a man in Canada at this
moment, I believe, who lias any kind of idea
that the United States Government ha 9 the
smallest notion of attacking them.” He is one
of that class of British statesmen who think
that the dissolution of the connection between
the parent country and her colonies would
be mutually beneficial. In these extreme
views on British Colonial policy, Mr.
Bright expresses the opinions of only a
small section of the English poUticians of
which he is the exponent, as he is on almost
all questions of British Foreign policy, be
ing averse to interference of every kind in
Continental politics.
Lord Palmerston denied that there existed
any jealousy of the United States, as' had
been affirmed by one ol the previous speak
ers. He said that during this contest in
America there has been experienced, and
probably felt, both in the North and in the
South, some irritation against this country
But the irritation was caused by the natural
feeling which two parties in a quarrel have,
that a third party who does not espouse
either side is, to a certain degree, doing both
sides an injury, or giving them some cause
of complaint or of jealousy. (Hear, hear.)
The Nditli wished us to declare on their side;
the South wished us to declare on theirs; and
as we maintained a perfect neutrality be
tween the two, some slight degree of irrita
tion arose on both sides against us. (Hear,
hear.) But I am equally persuaded, with the
hon. gentleman, that among the great bulk
of the people of the United States there are
feelings deeper than that irritation—feelings
of goodwill towards the country with which
their ancestors were connected' [bear, hear];
and I am satisfied that when this unfortunate
contest shall have ceased, whatever its termi
nation, the natural feeling of good will and
relationship which ought to prevail between
the two nations will take the place of any
temporary irritation which the war may have
occasioned. [Hear, hear.] lam quite satisfied
also that England will not give to • America
any ju9t cause of complaint; that war will
not proceed from us; and if war does not
proceed from our side, and if, as the honor
able gentleman thinks, it does not proceed
from theirs, then we have a well-founded ex
pectation that, in spite of adverse appear
ances for the moment, and in 9pite of the
prognostications of many, the friendly rela
tions between this country and the United
States will not incur any real danger of in
terruption. (Hear, hear.) But this is no
reason why we should not use the means in
our power to place our fellow-citizens, if I
may so call them, in Canada and the North
ern provinces in a state of defence should
they be attacked. (Hear, hear.) There is
no better security for peace than strength to
resist attack, if attack should come. (Hear,
hear.) That is no provocation. It is an
abuse of terms to say that when you employ
means to prevent danger you are' provoking
that danger and irritating the party against
whom those precautions may be taken.
(Hear, hear!) If no animosity exists these
precautions can have no effect except that of
inspiring confidence in the party in whose
favor they are made. (Hear, hear.) If, on
the other hand, there he a disposition to at
tack, that disposition is sure to be lessened
in proportion as the chance of success is
diminished.
Mr. D’ Israeli wa9 rather erratic in Ijjs re
marks. He said, “It is impossible to deny
that in North America a great revolution is
occurricg, and that when this struggle is
over, when peace re-appears, and tranquility
is re-established, you will find these commu
nities governed by very different principles,
and aiming at different objects. I have often
heard statesmen, and distinguished states
men, mumbling over the balance of power
in Europe. It has appeared to me always to
be a great mistake when we look to the dis
tribution of power to confine our views to
Europe, because we 9hall find, and, perhaps,
speedily find, that there are other influences
in other quarters of the globe which will in
terfere to disturb our calculations. It seems
to me that this war in America has rapidly
precipitated the change. It shows us that
the psoper meaning of “balance of power”
is security for communities in general against
a'predominant and particular power, and
that you have to take into your consideration
States and influences that are not to be count
ed among the Europeon powers.”
According to this statement, it f ould ap
pear that the opinion of the orator that new
combinations will be formed that will
seriously disturb the existing
arrangements of the political equilibrium.
The Balance of Power is a phrase that is em
ployed to denote the international relations
between the States of Europe exclusively.
According to Mr. D’ Israeli’s impressions the
words will hereafter have a more extended
application. The Balance of Power will em
brace the United States, in common with
those oommnnities which constitute what is
called by writers on Public law the common
wealth of Nations. “It would, says the ora
tor,” be a great mistake when we look to the
distribution of power to confine our views to
Europe, because we shall find, and speedily
find, that there are other influences in othea
quarters of the globe which will in
terfere to disturb our calculations.
In this conclusion of the orator we concur
It is impossible to exclude the United States
from the circle of those relations called inter
national, not only as regards the observance
of the principles of public law, but as an es
sential part of the political equilibrium.—
Their commercial interests are co-exten
sive with the limits of the globe. Their
territory bounds on the possessions of more
than one wf the European powers. Their
manners, religion, laws render them an es
sential part of the political system called
the Balance of Power, that is deemed to be
one of the triumphs of modern civilization.
» ***
THE REBEL DEAD.
The casualties among the rebel generals in
the battles at Petenbure and the pursuit of
Lee’s routed army, in killed, wounded, and
captured, are already very large, and will
doubtless be much augmented before the
parsnip is abandoned by Grant and Sheridan.
Among the killed at Petersburg are Lieuten
ant General Hill and Brigadier Generals W.
H. F. Lee and Pegram; While among those
whose surrender to Sheridan as already an
nounced are Lieutenant General Ewell, Major
General Kershaw and Brigadier Generals
Corse, De Bose and Custis Lee. Virginia, as
usual, has suffered the most. The three
generals killed were all from Virgink, while
of the six captured four were from Hie same
State.
SKETCH OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL AMBROSE
POWELL IIILL, JR., OF VIRGINIA.
Ambrose P. Hill was one of the giants of
Lee’s army, and disputed with Longstreet
and Ewell for the place in the affections of
the rebel people whieh “Stonewall’’ Jackson
once held. He was a native of Culpepper
county, Virginia. He was born, we believe,
in 1820, and about the time of his death was
only thirty-nine years of age. He entered
West Point in 1843, with O. B. Wilcox,
James B. Fry, A. E. Burnside, E. G. Viele,
of the United States Army, and Henry
Heath, of the rebel forces, and graduated in
1857, number fifteen in his class. lie was
second lieutenant by brevet of the First ar
tillery, July 1, 1847, and second lieutenant in
full in the-August following. He was subse
quently promoted first lieutenant, First ar
tillery, but resigned March 1, 1801, and was
appointed colonel of the Thirteenth Virginia
infantry, which he commanded at Manassas.
He was engaged as brigadier commander at
the battle of Williamsburg, in May, 1862,
and was appointed brigadier on that
field, and immediately afterwards a
Major General. As such he com
manded the extreme left of the rebel army
in the seven days’ battles before Richmond,
June Ist, 1802, and divided with Stonewall
Jackson the rebel honors of those conflicts.
In command x>f this division he made the
campaign under Lee against Pope and into
Maryland, was engaged at Antietam fight-
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ing Burnside, and covered the retreat of the
rebel army from that disastrous field. On the
the organization of Lee's army after the bat
tle of Fredericksburg Hill, was promoted and
placed in command of the Third corps of
the army, which position he held at the time
of his death. At ChancellorsviHe aud Get
tysburg he agaiu distinguished »himself.
During thg battles of the Wilderness, May,
1854, he was disabled by disease, and bis
command was placed temporarily under Geu.
Jubal Early. August 25, 1864, Hill, having
resumed command, fought the battle of
Ream’s Station, and‘since then has been
fosted on left of the rebel position before
’etersburg. During the battle on the Ist
commaud was separated from the
rest W the rebel army, and in endeavoring
to restore communication he was killed. His
body was interred on Sunday, April 2.
BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM H. FITZHUGH ffkp,
OF VIRGINIA.
This officer, killed at Petersburg, was the
second son of Robert E. Lae, and was born
at Arlington House, Virginia, about the year
1832. He did not receive airappointment to
West Point, but was educated at William and
Mary’s College* Virginia. He received,
however, the appointment of second leuteu
ant in the United States Army, June 30,
1855, and was assigned to the Second infan
try. He held this rank until the breaking
out of the rebellion, when he hastened to fol
low the example of his father, and resigned
April 30, 1861, to accept a captaincy *f cav
alry in the rebel army. He was attached to
J. E. B. Stuart’s cavalry command. His first
expedition of auy importance was in June,
1862, when under Stuart, he made the cir
cuit of McClellan’s army, on the Pamunkey
river. 'At this time he was a colonel com
manding a brigade, but was soon after re
warded with a brigadier general’s commis
sion. He was engaged in the famous cavalry
battle at Beverly Ford, Va., June 9,1863.
He here reeeived a painful wound in the
thigh, and was removed to the house of Col.
W. H. Wyckham, in Hancock county. Here
he was captured a few days subsequently by
Gen. Speer, in his raid in the Pamunkey, and
carried to the White House. He was sent
North and confined, being for a time held as
hdstage for Captain Sawyer.
On his release he was assigned to duty in
command of a division of Stuart’s cavalry
coFps. This command was subsequently
given on Stuart’s death, to Fitzhugh Lee, a
cousin of W. H. F. Lee, and the latter re
mained in command of his division until his
death, on the 2d inst., before Petersburg.
BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM JOHNSON PE
GRAM, OF VIRGINIA.
This young officer, who was killed in the
battle of the 2d inst., was in the twenty
fourth year ot his age, and a native of Pe
tersburg, Va. He was one of the three sons
of General James W. Pegram, who perished
in the steamer Lucy Long, on the Ohio river,
in 1844, and brother ot the rebel General
John Pegtam, who was lately killed at the
battle of Hatcher’s Run. One of young Pe
gramJs uncles was the late Capt. George Pe
gram, of Elizabethtown, N. J., who was an
aid-de-camp to General Scott. Another
uncle is Colonel William Pegram, of Ken
tucky:
At the breaking out of the war William
Johnson Pegram was a student at law at the
University of Virginia, at Charlottesville; but
left his studies to volunteer in' the ranks of
the “Richmond Howitzers’’—the first artil
lery company raised in Richmond at the be
ginning of the war—under the command of
the then Captain George W. Randolph, late
Secretary ot War of “the Confederacy." As
a private in the ranks he fought in the first
battle of Manassas, and was noted on the
field for gallantry by Gen. Joseph E. Johns
ton. In the engagements near Richmond in
1862 he celebrated his twenty-first birthday
amid the carnage of battle. At Cedar Run
he was again noted on the battle field for gal
lant action. At the battle of Qhancel
lorsville General Lee, noticing the
ability with which Pegram handled his
guns, ordered an additional number
of batteries to be placed under his command.
At the battle of Gettysburg he displayed
signal ability,and was promomoted a colonel
of artillery, on the subsequent reorganiza
tion of the army. He was lately made a
brigadier general and placed in command of
a brigade in Hill’s Corps. In appearance be
was a beardless boy, of delicate stature, tall
and slim, with blue eyes and light hair.—
N. Y. Herald.
Freedom for Ireland, — A correspondent
of a Democratic paper writing on St. Pat
rick’s Day depicts with force the oppression
to which Ireland has been subject, but sees
hope for the iuture in the progress of the
Fenian Brotherhood. The avowed purpose
of the Fenians, he says, “is a good one; is
one which will commend itself to the heart
and understanding of every true lover of
freedom among the nations of the earth. For
a struggle in behalf of Ireland, if success
ful, would not be the mere triumph of a
frenzied foe over his enemy—no! It would
be a triumph of Right over Wrong—of
Freedom over Oppression—of the Celtic
slave over the Saxon enslaved.”
As friends of freedom everywhere and to
all races of raeD, we cordially wish success
to the Fenians, if such be their object; but
at the same time we would suggest to them
that if it be desirable that Freedom should
triumph over Oppression in one country, it
is still jnore desirable that it should triumph
in all—that if we hope that the Celtic slave
shall be liberated from the Saxon oppressor,
it is because we wish to see all slaves liber
ated fiom all oppressors.
Richmond Market under the Confed
eracy.—Flour, S9OO a SI,OOO per bbl. ; corn,
$ 100 per bushel; corn meal, ft 10; bacon,
flO a $lB ; beet, $lO a sl2 ; pork, sl2 asl4;
butter, $lB a S2O per lb.; lard, $18; bay, $l5O
per 100 lbs. ; corn field peas, SIOO a sllO per
bushel ; white "beans, $l2O a sl2sperbu9hel;
potatoes, S6O a $75 per bushel; eggs, $lO a
12 per dozen. Very little has been done in
the tobacco market since the late raid. Mar
kets now rather better supplied with meats,
fish and vegetables, "and prices tending down
wards.—Rich. Whig, April 3.
The report that the inmates of the'Blind
Asylum intend to visit Boston to see the
grand billiard tournament is denied by the
Advertiser.
