The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-29
LETTER FROM SAVANNAH.
A wheeling Mans Observations In
:, SA- the south:
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, May 70, 1877.
Editors of the Register.

Editors OF the HeRlster'
Savannah is the sntlpodes of Wheel.
ng, and inssmuch as people like TO read
about those things andplsces with which
hey are least familiar, 0 letter from TINS
part of the world may not prove aito'
gether uninteresting to West Virginia
readers. I,r
The contrast between the two cities is
never made so apparent as it is BY the
route recently taken by your correspon-
Dent. Leaving Wheeling BY the Bslti
more and Ohio rsili DAD, in the evening,
one is whisked through 70 Baltimore just
III time to conveniently take the ocean
steamer the next day. Leaving that
latter city, we find ourselves, alter
pleasant trip OF about twelve hours down
The beautiful Chesapeake bay, lauL ched
forth on the broad Atlantic.
and final farewell to land
until reaching the point of destination is
spoken. Thus we are, as it were, sud-
denly waited from one climate to another,
80 different that we might almost imagine
ourselves in another world, without
passing through the gradual changes
which would take place were the trip
made BY land, and hence the striking
force with which the change is presented.
DEPRESSION.
And here let me digress little to dis.
cant on the aspects OF our ocean voyage.
There is no place so peculiarly adapted
to giving free rein to the wanderings OF
the mind as when on that same ocean.
With nothing overhead but the broad
canopy of Heaven; nothing beneath, and
on every side as far as the eye can reach,
but the blue wsyes-one vast eIpsnse OF
salt wster-the mind naturally INDUCES
in reverie; reverts to the past, and tries
to look forward into the future with
unusual activity. And especially is this
the case after darkness has settled on the
face of the deep, and nothing occurs
to disturb the thought but the noise of
the ship ploughing her way through the
briny deep, or that Of the waves beating
against her sides as if angry that she
should presume to intrude upon do
main peculiarly theirs. Then it is that
each stroke of the mighty engines recalls
the TACT that We are, every minute,
speeding on to greet friends to be met,
but slasl being constantly separated
further and further from those we have
lett behind. And who can say that, no
matter how dear may be those whose
meeting is so eagerly anticipated, such
thoughts are not psintul2 Paintings are
always unhappy. When we say "Good-
bye," we never know what changes may
take place before we meet again, if in
deed, we erer meet again, and surely no
one who has lived in Wheeling and
made friends of the cordial warm hearted
people of that city, can bid them thus
farewell without q psng. But be it un-
derstood that all this reveIie
and "Reminiscences can only be INDUCED in
when free from ses-sickness. II one is
suffering with that horrible disease, rest
assured he cannot think Of either friends
to greet or friends from whom he has
parted. His whole mind then is so occu-
pied with such deep abiding sense of
his own inner consciousness that he has
no power TO devote momen. to thoughts
OF others, your anal de mer is so terribly
selfish, jealous and absorbing o COM
panion.
BUT TO MY LITTER.
After three days at sea, we finally en-
tered the mouth Of the Savannah river.
Here began the contrast I have before
alluded to. Instead of the high hills and
wild mountainous scenery Of Wheeling,
there was now seen only one long, level
expanse of yerdure. In the distance
forests OF pine, live-osk, magnolia and
other trees peculiar to this latitude
stretched forth, their branches al COW
cred with the long, gray moss of the
South, while near the river rice fields,
intersected with canals and bitches ter
flooding (rice is kept flooded while grow
ing, and it is this which makes q rice
field unhealthy, on account of the ma
laris which arises from the stagnant
water), and dotted here and there with
little .huts, the homes of the negroes
employed as laborers, presented them
selves to our view, and really, as we
passed slowly along, the scene constantly
shifting and changing, formed pane
rama pleasant TO look upon.
At length, however, we reached our
point of destination,
THE CITY OF SAVANNAH.
The approaches to the same are not IN.
vitlng, but when the city itself Is entered,
it is SIMPLY beautiful. will not attempt
to describe it in detsil-thst would take
up too much space-nor could l. if l
would, convey more than faint idea of
what it is like. A great deal must be
left to the Imagination. 1t is known
both as the -"City OF Parks" and the
"Forest City," and well it deserves both
1t is literally filed with
trees, and every alternate square is an
open park, covered with fresh green
grass, and adorned in the centre with
sther fountains playing over flowers, or
with mounds over which creep vines
likewise interspread with flowers, while
b are and there monument rises up to
add its share to the general beauty. /
think Bull street (the principal street in
the city) Is without doubt one of the
nADQsOIntSt strccts III tuo WOtIu. Ger
talnly 1t is the hsndsomest have ever
seen. If one will stand in the midst of
the central one Of the little parks OF this
thoroughfare he will witness scene OF
loneliness not likely ever to be forgotten.
On either side are handsome residences,
in front of::which pass wide, level, clean
streets, adorned with long rows Of trees
whose boughs extending over the side
walk, form avenues of vedure of gr co t
natural beauty. At the lower end OF the
street may be seen, in the first little park,
4 monument erected to the memory of
General Nathaniel Greene, a plain
graceful shaft without any ornamental
ION whatever. Then as the eye passes
along up. it encounters park after park
until it reaches the last of these smaller
ones, in the centre of which is another
monument erected to Pulaski,
the gallant Pole who fell in the defense
Of this city against the British. This
passed, We enter the main park of the
,ity, q beautiful one, half mile square,
aid out in spacious walks and covered
With trees-some huge pines Of prima.
t;va Growth and others of diffaraof