The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-25
s AV A N N "A II.
Our savannah Correspondence.
SAVANNAH, Ga. July 10, 1865.

ooUrm AsTERH GEORGIA.
Brevet Bnaadier General H. D. washburn has com
mand OF sub district under General Brannon In South
eastern Georgia. with headquarters ct Bisckshear which
IL forty miles or 30 up the Gulf Railroad from the coast
He is very popular among the citizens He
has about Eve or six thousand men scattered over his
district
FOURTH or JULY CELEBRATION sH A.
On the Fourth of July tho citizens OF Pierce and ad-
Joining counties assembled at Bacshear for the purpose
of taking the amnesty oath and listening to Fourth of
july addresses General Washburn spoke them, and
in the course Of his stated that in his district
over ave thousand had already taken the amnesty OATH
He was introduced by Colonel G. q. Hopkins who am
convinced has always been loyal man and fought &C.
cession from the outset The Colonel spoke substantially
as follows
It is just i've years to-day since the anniversary Of
fraterna blood 81 Fo Sumter and L disappeared from
with additional stars It's galaxy. So far from losing
many Of the States several were added TO tho
over this broad land unmoested and respected from it's
centre to Its circumference Peace has been restored
among us, we are again one people, and hope, my
by our loyalty that patriotic and united people
You are all familiar with the events of the Within
have nS been a slain or died Of camp Diseases large
portion of territory has been desolated and
that warned you against this trouble told you
sion was war and that war would end In the ruin and
President who foil recently by the hand OF oxecrabe
assassin, had promised more than any of his prede
had ever DONE and that to thirty days before
the fall of Richmond he offered four Thousand mil
lions Of dollars for slaves and six TO settle the
question Of emancipation and that the overture for
peace contemptuousy rejected by the organ OF the
South In addition TO this the House Of Representatives
with but vote in the negative guaranteed to as per
otmity with the wishes Of the President elect But
nothing would satisfy ambitious and deluded leaders
but secession ana o ana my So
| solemnity Of an oath, to the government from
which you Withdrew in ,, ISL S General , Wash
Southeastern Georgia present To- administer the oath
and to grant you ali tho privileges which not
tnon-which You and and most Of us loved and de-
Tended we'll until treason tampled IL in the dust
standing between the sword which they unsheathed and
US in this hour Of anctIon. They have abandoned
under tho prosecton II the nag they spat upon in 1851
fleeing panic stricken from the conagration which
they have sndlsa When speak o. Leaders a,luds 70
Gus and conndng masses, and made them unwilling
Instruments to destroy their country and ensave US
They may have been deceived themselves but they
were in tho themselves they should not abandon
now. The General does mot come with sword to spill
mor fratcrnal blood but with the olive branch of peace
to heal wounds Of tho nation and restore it's way
ward children In Southern Georgia to ther loyalty
When this done his WORK will Be finished tho army
country.
- ooNcHRNWu YRyaow PsvER
When passengers from the Arngo arrived here their
nrst inquiry was in regard 70 yellow fever, and we
learned Thorn that report had obtained currency
ct the North that the epidemic prevalent Augusta
and gradually extending through the State This
entirely unfoundcd there hes not boon case Of
yellow fever in Georgia th.s sesseo The report from
officer who had been at Augusta, TINT resident ply
stefan examining the bodies Of three patients who had
ofo tnf
their symptoms remark ed the similarity Of the crcum
stances those Of deaths from yellow fever But Sur
geon Provost In charge at Augusta sescss that In all
three the disease ,ooncesvve oAEuL
believe there Ia danger or yellbw fever this soa
" S@ the sanitary arc re very tosousn the
quarantine strict and there are Of The appear
Of the epidemic.
Several physicians Of tho among taen DR.. r. D.
Arnold tho Mayor who IL also Assistant Hbahh Ocer-
inform that there sscarcciy chance Of the disease
But, suppoeing does appear, exoer,n DIV Of
extraordinary prevalence, 1t has nos been Sufficiently
fatal dangerous TO occasion the dread which the name
usually excites The fever " treated i'm season, Is
less dangerous than typhoid The treatment n simple,
and only il required TO make II generally enectua
Tho best preventives cleanliness good condition
Of tho bowos the mind and the conscience conversed
with tho lady OF we'll known citizen s other day,
| and learned that she in So Louis New
Orleans and Savannah during tho principal yellow fever
excemcnts in those cities; that she gwen her per
sonal attendance to many cases cachsoason In the
scarcity from fright OF ordinary nuss that she had
MAYER known csse wber, the disease. yvas Fatal when
promptly attcnde4 tho directions carefully fol-
lowed and that she had twice haA the ves without
| suffering Inconvenience than usually attend
fevers. She haeven known people 20 recover after the
mUa uigrd ha1et in and this Ia confirmed by my own
| observation and the testimony Of phyecians Ny i'm
bear and that ipeopic could boiieve without relax
ing precautionary diligence We shoad not hare enough
| OF IL make l. q much account
| GrSKRAL
| believe temper cent s NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. small
recn Trranor ho efeient Medical Director q tc dis
trc that ihoper ccntage here lasiw as four per
cent This raised considerably by sickness In the
One Hundreds and Third United States cobred troops
where the Pee centage ten The Previous week only
aslr SICK There il sosfoely any preva
vers Fcvcr in their season. FATAL the
numerous, than diseases Of the bowos The ratio
OF their respective In about six TO
with one death in fever cases thres Deaths 10
| OF bowel diseases.
| powr PuIAsKI
Ia consisssed one OF the healtbes posts In the
| mand A while ago two companies os the Thircth
Name sent there and her sickness decreased nf
| per cent IN fourteen days About tho decrease
occurrcdsth their predecessors OF tho sixth regulars
when the regulars went there the troops they relieved
were 8a,iealthy that the surgeon Cat A PRIDE had TO
put msn with merely ria-round hts finger, in the
hospital TO keep running The Ons Hundred and Thirc
UneA States colorcd troops have bssn sent there
| HOPKINS GOING 10 WASHINGTON
Colonel Hopkins In gsng TO Washington TO reprcsens
the interests Of the Loyal people Of bis section
The receipts yestcrda absas eight hundred b&ss.
But little Is doing In Sea island The only sale today
sixty cents Tae following the quotations. for
mddlns, 10; strict mddling ar. good middlins, As
~; fair, 40 4v,4
| sArR or THE srNKES LkgsBURG
The sunken United states steamer Leesburg sss'yos
Jsrday sold at auction for tw thousand dollars.
| REVIVAL HrTERPpTsE
The most cheering OF tha OF the tim gthe en-
srgy with which those VINO have heretofore boon the
leaders In business enterprises again throwing the
weight OF their influence in favor OF the momentum
with which southern rade is now moving rs e
these men, perhaps, aud their measures, that shal
have TO look fer the birng up OF the frghfu wounds
which the country has suffered The conmunsy Of In
between the Northern and Southern traders ant
the friendly intercourse OF business communication arr
10 be the uaobrusve but working agents by which
sincere and permssent reconciliation will be Effected
Some Of the commercial enterprises which have lont
occupied the minds Of public SPIRITED merchants are nov
being revived with great vigor and not few new ant
interesting schemes are likewise canvassed Anon!
these important movements, ezdeavo< to inspire wit
life an embryonic railroad enterprse--the Savannah