Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-05-30

Oh men who fought THIS doom 10 give,
Your greatest triumph is not won
If e'er you falter while you live,
And not complete the work begun.
Give lands, give ootes to your allies,
By these alone may they their rights secure
Ourselves may scarce keep freedoms prlzef .
l.ss- Unless TO all it be made sure. s,ea W &
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Our southern correspondence.
SAVANNAH, Ca, May 18th 1866. I
FRIEND RITEzEL Having intimated
that my next letter would be written from
this place, 1 win now fulfil, that promise.
Ny trip from Blufton, S: c., twenty
miles distant, lay almost wholly through Q
wilderness, passing by less than half dozen
plantations under cultivation. Every milk
was marked by ruins, traces of old camps
and fortifeationS erected TO repel an advance
by. the Federals from the sea coast. Tree:
felled across the road for the same purpose
still remain as memorials of Southern sloth.
The last three miles was succession of rice
plantations of which but two were under
ciiltivation. 1T isis Common belief among
| old planters that rice culture is henceforth
one of the last arts. The work is said to be
very heavy, unhealthy and distateful to the
negro who, though proof against the malaria
duO pACu-
monias inseparable from the winter repairs
of the sluices and dams on whose efficiency
the coming crop depends.
through computation is|stiif elang to with
great tenacity.
To one who has travelled in the South be-
fore and since the war the decrease of the
negroes owing to their great mortalityiis at
once apparent. have little doubt that it has
fully equaled that of the Federal and rebel
armies combined. Rendered helpless as
cihldren by the enervation of slavery, the
absence of their owners in the war, the mer-
eiless conscription which swept away all
supplies for the subsistence of rebel hordes,
their dispersion by innumerable raids, and
the hatred incurred against them by the de-
struetion of the property interest they rep
resented, inducing general neglect by those
who had derived from their unpaid toll all
theiTywealth and consequence, hayetold fear
/ ifullyiagafnst them. 1t Is estimated that one
million have perished during the war. The
destructive agencies of plague, pestilence and
famine combined have never presented more
ghastly reeortiss Their exodus from slavery
to freedom has boon through a literal Red
sea and should be rewarded by speedy en-
trance into the promised land of political
freedom and equality with the utter over
whelming of all the Egyptian Democracy
who may oppose this legitimate consumation
of our second war for Independence.
Savannah is probably the best laid, out,
and most pleasant Of any coast city of the
South. 1t is divided into squares, the streets
lined with shade trees of the live oak-the
three widest titly called North, South and
West Broad street respectively, have from
three to four rows of shade trees running
their whole length, whose areh-ways of shade
form vistas of GOODNESS and comfort rivaled
only In beauty by the famed elms of New
Haven. Though compactly built, the houses
stand separately, and though AN old city
there are fewer worthless buildings in the
city proper than any place have ever seen
of its size. Fully dozen parks adorn the
city, each having shade trees, benches and
usually well. The chief one has broad,
curved walks, made Of white shells, with q
fountain in the centre having a large urn
with horrizontsI and vertical Jets which is
circled by four amphibious deities realizing
the conception of Milton:
Seem human to the waist
Thence tapering in many sealy feldp
These figures have laurel crowns and an
uplifted trumpet, at the mouth perforated
| like sieve, through which the water is fore
ed in q shower of sprays giving refreshing
sensation of GOODNESS and keeping in peren-
NAL bloom the choice selection of flower:
that surround the basin.
In a park but two squares distant is the
splended Pulaski Monument erected to hon
or the memory Of that gallant Pole who fell
at the seige of Savannah in 1779. His sacri.
flee was one of the most tragic events of the
Revolution, and one thrills with pride on
beholding his heroism perpetuated by. q rec
ord in the eVer!d during marble The shaft is
of rich yet chaste design, and know of none
more imposing in appearance save, possibly,
that of Henry Clay, at Lexington, KY,
which towering one hundred and twenty
feet IN the air, may be seen for miles around
The Depot grounds, embracing thirty
acres, are pgobably as extensive as any in the
I UaidnI 9He5 sFe.wen hlleds with building
all of brick, some of such vast extent as tc
recall the structures of Ninevah and Bah
ylon to mind as standards of comparison.
/ must not omit here to sender my obligations
to Col. A. L. Harris, formerly of Warren
in whose turnout was given a view of the
the city. The CCionel is living proof Of
the richness of Trumbull county soil, having
attained the modest weight of three hundred
and twenty pounds, and still increasing
He might well be called the 'happy philos
] opher, 2 and the sight of his Jolly eountenance
| isilike tnking anew lease Of life. He is now
the efficient Post Master of this city; and
never was an official so universally popular.
The season here is somewhat in advance
of that North, as may be seen by the enclos
ed market report: ai'.i '--- -
Turnips, 10c. per bunch, or three punches
for 25c; radishes, beets, onions and carrots,
the same price as turnips; green peas, 4Oc &
half peck; cabbages, i25c to soc, according II
size; lettuce, three for 25c; squashes, 60c q
dozen; new potatoes, Sc per bushel, or 25c {
quart; sweet potatoes, 25c. for two quarts
snap beans, 25c per quart; strawberries, 75c
per quart; plums, 25e. per quart; and black
berries, 1Oc. to 15c. per quart There wa'
very little fish on sale. Snappers were sci.
ling at 81 to $3.50, according to, size, Null.
Grabs and shrimps were plentiful, the former
at Soc. per dozen and the latter at 40c. pei
quart.
THE Union sentiment here during the war
was Of almost mythical existence. I have
heard of but three or four who were unmis-
takably Union during the war. One oi
these, Mr.. Bennett, carriage maker, has
lEhe most cOnsistent and honorable record Of
any man have met with. One son he sent
North on the opening of hostilities, who did
service in the Federal ranks. A second who
was absent at school, he Sneeee eded IN having
detailed in Confederate machine shops til
that recource failed, and by great effort hC
secured him place in an! Engineer Corps
being determined that he should never use 6
muskst agsinst his countrYmen. A third
son was rejuVenated by being dressed il
roundabout cap andsshOes, and. thus passed