The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1870-03-16
Continued.
For the Hcrdld.1
To Florida and Back.

Savannah is not only tho most
beautiful city North or South but
it Is progressing in commercial i'm
portance. 1t seoms not only to
rival Charleston but oven to cx-
coed it in commercial activity. 1t
is evidently rising place. Bay
Stroot is worry bustling, stirring
scono with it's many drays hurry
ing back and forth. It is " pccu-
liar looking street, boing built up
only on ono sido, whilst botwoon
il and the river thcrc arc walled
up declivities, with stairways Of
heavy masonry and paved en-
frances for drays to havo access
to tho dark subtcrrancan looking
warehouses under the bluff, which
look like the gloomy state prisons
Of Vonicc, whilst to tho upper
stories of these warehouses there
aro ornamental bridges from the
quays in front next tho strcct. 1t
is unlike any city tho writer has
over seen in this particular. Somo
of these stair ways arc very steep.
Ono Of tho buildings in this part
Of tho town is built in tho style of
somc Of tho old French Palaces Of
tho timo of Louis Fourteenth, but
. on n much smallor scale Of cour3c,
and covered with slate. Tho ship
ping ut Savannah is heavy. Sew
cral large vessels wcro at anchor
down Tho river and at tho wharvos,
but not so many as at other times,
rs [ was told by an Intelligent
gentleman and fricnd, whom we
found in Savannah, n resident
thcro and q near relative Of ono of
the ladies Of tho party. We re-
grettcd that wc did not have an
opportunity to visit Bonavonturc,
the beautiful cemetery near Sa-
vannah, which wo had heard
described as tho most beautiful
place of tho kind to be seen any
where, and really tho photograph
ic views of it, which tho writer
saw on tho street, warrant tho be-
4ief These represented vistas of
magnificent live oaks drapcd with
hanging moss, with whito monu-
mcnts cleaning through tho "dim
religious light" that seemed M most
fitting place for tho roposo of tho
dead us well as for tho "pensiyc
contemplation" Of tho living.
Thoro arc many ornamental
squares in Savannah, but tho largo
park on tho suburbs of tho city
is the handsomcst. In tho ccntrc
there is n large fountain on slight
ominenco,in which arc four Tritons,
and a largo elevated shell-lil1o ba-
Gin in which arc figures of an ap-
propriato character.
Wc strollcd lcisuroly through
tho handsomest strcots after lcay
ing tho park, and towards sunset
found ourselves on " kind of COM
mon near the landing Of our steam
or,at tho extreme end Of tho town,
and rs this common is on q HIGH
bluff, which ovcrlooks the river and
tho fiat country for many miles, we
had wido Wow boforc us, as we
sat at tho base Of q monument, or
leaned on the railing which sur.
mounts tho high walled bluff, and
watched the approach Of the cslcam-
cra with the cXcursionists as it
steamed up tho river. When we
won't on board we found tho boat
very much littcrod up with the
debris of the rovcllcrs. We started
athalf past nino o'clock that night,
and thad to pass Fort Pulaski at
might, and thus was another case
of damages against tho Company
for not starting at tho regular
time. Tho nights rest on tho
boat was refreshing, and tho wri-
ter was surprised tho next morn
ing when he awoSo to find that
swe had reached Fcrnandina, the
I time had seemed so short. We
lay at t,oFcrnandina from sunrise
still half past ono o'clock, p. NJ,
sand as it was Sunday, our party
had timo to attend tho morning
services ut tho Episcopal Church.
SfWo entered tho st. Johns rivor
ilatoin Tho day, and tho weather
CLOUDY and bleak, SO that my first
Eos perionco Of that sunny clime
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