The Republican journal., 1873-04-17

and wild ducks from 1.25 to It's per
pair; beef from y 12 to 20 cents per
pound; pork from - l-2 to Is; mutton
from Is to 20; veal from 20 to 25; eggs,
% cents per doz; beets, carrots, turnips.
radshes, spinach, etc, abundant at 10
cents per bunch new cabbages Is to 20
cents per head. Green peas are in the
market but not yet abundant. The fish
market embraces shad, mulet, trout,
sheephcad catfish OF cats, snaprers, drum,
bass and numerous other varieties Under
the market is a row OF restaurants, or
rather, semi-hotes, for the rent of each Of
which the city receives five or six hundred
dollars per year.
The principal point of attraction outside
the city is the Cemetery Of Bonaventure,
about three miles distant, on the river
Warsaw The grounds are laid out very
tastetully; | ought rather to say, beauti-
fully. Broad avenues traverse them in
various directions, crossing each other,
passing through forest of live oak,
almost every tree draped with Spanish
moss, giving to the whole scene solemn,
funeral aspect; it seems peculiarly fitted
for the resting place OF the dead. There
is an atmosphere of solemnity, not of sad
ness, pervading it. The death curtain
hanging from the branches of the lofty,
wide-spreading oak, whispers, it is true,
of
"The knell the shroud, the mattock and the grave,
The deep, damp vault the darkness and the worm
but the evergreen leaves speak eloquently
of immortality, a faith in which alone can
rob death OF his sting, the grave of its
victory. ! have never seen any place
approximatng in solemn beauty to this
City of the Silent. save Magnolia Gene
terry in the vicinity of Charleston No one
visiting Savannah should omit to visit
Bonaventure.
| drove out to McAlpine's rice planta-
ton this morning, about four miles from
the city Prior to the war it was one of
the most extensively cultivated rice plan
tations in this vicinity; employed about
three hundred slaves; they of course
Joined the stampede, and since then but
little, if anything, has been done on the
pace in the cultivation of rice. From
indications about the place | should Judge
that the proprietor is turning his attention
to the cultivation Of other products. The
fine old baronial mansion is beautifully
located on the bank of the Savannah, and
is approached through one of those grand
avenues of oak festooned with moss which
are to be met nowhere in our country save
at the South. The slave-quarters are still
standing, although somewhat dilapidated.
On my way out took look at Jasper's
Spring. the place where Sargent Newton
Jasper, with one companion, surrounded
and captured guard of eight Britishers.
and rescued the prisoners they had in
charge, in the days of the revolution but
you read the story when YOU was boy,
as large majority of other boys probably
did, and will continue to do until the story
lies so far off in the realm OF antiquity as
to he regarded as mythical.
A beautiful drive of about four miles in
another direction brings you to a place
called Thunderbolt; a very fashionable
resort with pleasure seekers, thirsty and
otherwise. 1t is indebted for its name to
a tradition that many years ago bolt Of
lightning, or thunderbolt, struck the earth
in this locality and a spring Of water i'm
mediatelv gushed forth from the spot; the
water still flows If any man doubts the
story he can take drink of the water;
ard ii the story he true. he can do it with
safety. for lightning never strikes twice in
the same place, YOU know.
/ have reached my limits, and vet have
hardly begun to say what would about
this really lie city. To do it Justice
would require more time and labor than |
can spare ust now You must be content
with this mere shadow until YOU come and
see the substance for yourself
W. G. C.