The Lake County star., 1877-06-14
Two Southern Cities sketched.
CHARLEsToN's Poverty AND
IA LACK OF ENTERPRIsE-BEAU-
TIFUL SAVANNAH.

OoIIeoPOuuent or the Springfield
Republican travelling through the
south says: There Is good deal OF
poverty and lack OF enterprise mani.
Iest In ChaNeston, but not as much as
expected to see. Most of the old fam
iiies are poor, AMI their children are
slowly learning that they must work
II tney Will live. 1t Is 80 much easier
70 order slave 70 toll for you than 1t
Is TO DO 1t ityourself that, after having
been for generations the master, Il Is
nard TO giveit up, and we must be pa
tent with them for q good while to
come. i do not find anywhere in the
south any bitterness against the ne
gro, and do not believe the whites have
any more than we should under the
same circumstances. There Is some
thing In the climate that tends to de-
velop Incidence, and NOrtherners sue.
cumb to Its effects as readily as the ma
tive. The listless attitude of both
whites and blacks, as they sprawl over
their door-steps and gaze at you with
vacant stare, ts only counterpart of
the Arabs at the street corners OF Alex
andria and Cairo. Both races in the
South are slowly learning the Adamic
curse, I'm the sweat of thy face shall
thou eat bread" and when they have
mastered 1t, not war but work will be
the result. But / am not going to talk
politics In this letter, for It is too large
q subject.
l want to say word or two about
Savannah before / close. First, It is
the most beautiful city I'm the South,
and 1t pains one to think that, with
all its beauty, II Is very unhealthy.
The river which makes It Is sluggish.
and lined with rice marches and pro-
duces malaria. am told that after |
the middle of May no one Is allowed to |
sleep on the river for fear of the fever.
Last year 1t was terribly scourged by |
the yellow fever, and, though every |
one left the city who could get away, |
yet 400 Of those remaining died. This |
cripples its business badly, but better
drainage and great care may prevent |
1t in future. Certainly II one wishes
to get the effect of broad streets and
grateful shade and beautiful parks, he
should visit this city In preference to
beyond the ocean. Savan-
nah has two beautiful and appropriate
one to the Polish hero
Pulaski, who fell at the battle of Saw
annah, and the other, recently erected,
to the Confederate dead. Pulaski's
Is in the eold-fashiOned form
Of pedestal and shaft, but the artist has
relieved the stiffness Of the lines OF this
style by graceful ornamentations and
appropriate bas-reliefs, 80 that the
elect Is quite pleasing. The only
feature7-cOnfessedly an un-
|ortunate one--is has relief represent
ng Pulaski asfalling, mortally wound
III, nom his horse. When will artists
90 - M W Df i
eringare to beavOided in sculpture?
Che other monument Is thoroughly
The whole story of the
lelfcately limited, and with o pathOs
hat is touching. The form and gen
raj style remind one Of the engrav-
ngs Of Walter Scott's monument at ,
Sdinburgh, though Of course this is
much smaller. The lower female :
lgure Is very beautiful In It's pose and !
rapery, and is holding the inverted :
orch to signify death. The f0re-fing-
r of the right hand rests upon the q
lpe, denoting silence, and when L re- :
leCted what that word meant to the
evOtees of the "lOst cause" could :
ee that the artist had struck q note
vhose vibrations would be widely felt.
he upper figure, representing Fame, n
did not at first understand from the h
eculiarity Of its treatment. As was
tudying 1t little gentleman passed r.
y, and asked him to explain It. He o
aplied, II really cannot say exactly g
that 10 does mean, but believe it is In :,
ended for q Naiad." did not laugh =
! his face, but fear that my smile :,
1owed that ! thought him all at d
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