Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-23

SUFFERING AT SAvANNAH.-0ur readers are
not wholly unaware, says the Boston Adger-
tjSer, of the suffering which at present exists
at Savannah We give below an extract from
private letter which has been handed to us
for publication, which presents terrible pic
ture of the state Of things there. In New
York and some other cities, contributions
have been made for the relief of the sufferers
d" SAVANNAH, Sept r.. The storm
and high tides left on the wharves and low
lands an immense quantity of fish and other
animal matter which is now decomposing and
the smell of which is hardly to be endured.
All vegetation there too, was killed by the
salt water, and is now exposed to very hot
sun. The sickness is increasing and must
continue to do so from the causes above
named, if it continues warm.
You can hardly imagine the scenes which
are passing hourly in buryiug the dead. Often
times the hearse is in a full trot with no fol-
lower, and yesterday | met it with one person
as mourner, and that a female, riding with the
driver. DR.. Wildman died martyr to his
unceasing devotion and almost superhuman
efforts OH behalf of the sick. The sole mourners
at his funeral were his woman servant and
her child, occupying his private carriage.
'Our poor city seems destined to complete
destruction, what with the gale and sickness,
and all it now wants is a fire, of which we
stand in dread, fearful of It's consequences.
Even famine is staring us in the face, as there
is little to be had in the market, and the few
groceries open are demanding almost double
price for every article. 1t is very hard upon
those Of small means or whose resources are
cut off entirely by the utter stagnation of
business.
" Tomorrow's report of interments will be
very heavy. l learn this morning that there
We're 40 dead at 8 o'clock. The sexton of
Laurel Grove Cemetery fell yesterday, in
grave from exhaustion, and an attack of fever
and no one to supply his place
WILLIAM MASON, THE PIANIsr.-This dis
tinguished artist is soon to give a concert in
this city. In Boston, where he makes his
American debut, genuine enthusiasm con-
corning his singular excellence is gathering.
The following article from DUigH'S Journal of
Music OF last week, shows what impression he
has made upon the true lovers of Art in Bos-
ton. Mr.. Dwight says
=" WILLIAM MAsoN.-During the past week
our own ears have had evidence of the Won
derful virtuosity of our young townsnan.
Not III vain has he spent five years in Ger
many, and enjoyed the friendship and the
quickening influence of List and Weimar.
That he possessed naturally a talent worthy of
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bly,, will be evident to all good nusic-loyers
when he gives his first concert here in his ma
tive city,on the Sd Of October We have been
truly astonshed and delighted at the mower.
the deicacy, the brilliancy, and the poetic
feeling and expression of his playing He is
not merely brilliant virtuoso, but fine mu-
stefan. familiar with the whole musical reper.
tory OF his instrument, equally able to illus
trate Bach aid Handel Mozart and Clement.
Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, List and
Thalberg and Stephen Heller, and the host of
lesser stars, the whole milky way of modern
fantasticals He loves and references the
classics of his Art, but Knows how to Hhumor
well the lighter and ephemeral whims of taste
lie also knows how to improvise, in a manner
at once scholar like and interesting, upon Civ
en- themes, and to vary and embellish popular
melodies, 50 as to win uncultivated ears with
out offending those severely loyal to high Art
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A LOVE OF A SHAwL.-In the CRYSTAL Pal
ace, New York, there is on exhibition an In.
dia Cashmere Shawl, made in Thibet by the
patient industry of one Of the most celebrated
artists of India, Hadji Mehemmed Hassam
for prince of the royal blood which is in
voiced for duty al the Custom House, at 3d.
700 Shawls of this class, says the New
FORK Tribune, are never made in manufacto-
RES, DuI III private 1amlleS, generally IN the
houses of the nobility, for their own use, and
are only procurable by special favor, as some
favorite piece Of needle-work, made under
similar circumstances would be in this coun-
try. A part of the work in the corners tells
its history in Turkish characters-that is, the
name Of the prince for whom it was designed
and when and where made. Its size is oyel
one and half by three yards within the bor-
der. This jewel of Persia is owned by V
Chiragy, the Turkish Commissioner to the
Worlds Fair. The Tribune suggests that il
be put up at auction, and guarantees the first
bid will bea thousand dollars. If $3.50 are
paid for a ticket to the opera, it is fair to esti
mate that in community like New York
half price, at least, will be paid for " a love
of shawl"
FATAL RESULT OF M1scHIEvous SPORT. In
Troy on Thursday evening, a party of mis-
chievous boys commenced shouting in broken
Dutch after fonr Italian image pedars. Du-
ring the fracas a man named Eli Hurlburt was
drawn into the quarrel, and was SO severely
stabbed by one of the Italians that he died in
an hour. A wife and child mourn his I'M
timely death. The murderer escaped.
The ERIE DIFFICULTY. - The Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, on the 7th inst, is
sued decree relative to the late railroad war
at Erie, in which the authorities and inhabit-
ants of that city are sustained, and of course
| justified in their proceedings, and the railroad
| company is required to take up the track in
the streets of Erie and Harbor Creek town.