Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-10
SAVANNAH SCENES.
A Northern View Of Thai Comfortable
oity--.kegrO Ideas Of Eman-
ClpatlOn Day.
savannah Letter . Nen York Trihnna.l

tound the white population largely i
bed. Negro cooks did the marketing
Negro men took down the shutters
Negro women with perfect dwarfs o
oxen hitched buggywise to tiny cart
had come from the country with fresI
salads, blackberries, live chickens an,
fresh butter for the market. and b,
this time were departing, for it is
sunrise market. Negro scavenger
cleaned the shady streets. Negro lad
drove the few street cars. Mules I,
drays stood along Bay street. ant
the negro driver might be talking o
the grand sociashun +" now meetins
at the First African church, some.
where in half a mile of his mule
An occasional white man, readins
the News, a fi~ve-cent sheet, with about
half the matter of one page of the
Tribune, appeared under an umbrella.
Negroes laughed with prodigal ivory
on every corner, and some cot out
of the white mans way, but not SO
certainly as in New York. An agent
with whom | had business was ex-
pected soon to be in his bath, provided
he was early out of bed. The negro
element was explicit as usual in Civ
ing directions. A colored house agent
did not fly in a pecuniary agony to be
the first to get the commission, but
consulted two brothers after the flesh
(and color as TO what houses Mr..
Mills and others might have, and gave
the addresses of all the other agents
as freely as his own. | was to lean
round down dare a piece" to find the
Screven House. A cottage on Ander-
son and Whitaker was ''up dare n
right smart bit. A direction was
down there below Mrs. Cohen's," as
it had a directory in my brain. and
the sympathy was as warm as the sun
of their is you jist come? Hain't
been here in eight years? Is that so i?
Oh, good Lord y The only CITY
newspaper had one house advertised
to let, a drove of COWS and a lot of
displayed shop notices. One place to.
rent in a square mile, nobody poor
and a capacity to absorb sunshine
and live on it, seemed the sum of the
city.
As | was going down on the
Whitaker street-cars on the morning
Of Emancipation day two colored
officers on horseback passed us, well
mounted and riding as well as the
average cavalryman of the plains.
One of these was Colonel w. H.
WoodhOuse, and the colored regiment
was soon seen formed on South Broad
street, on the green between the cen.
trail trees, There we're eighty.si
men in line, including the Lincoln
Republican Blues of Charleston.
eighteen men. But this did not in,
clude the oldest Savannah company.
which was refused its ranking place in
the line. They marched about as we'll
as so irrepressible and undrilled a
race can, and looked well, mostly in
blue uniform. and their hussars un-
mounted. Few of the colored people
had any adequate idea of what they
were celebrating. OF several that |
asked, one only said that it was
Emancipation. Another said that it
was Ballot Act Day, and another
said, Its somethin' about Mr..
Llnkum; don't know dezactly what"
The only white officer al the barracks.
or United States soldier in Sa-
yannah, so far as | can learn, said:
Dam fno; ! am green In these
political matters" He had Just the
sweetest little rosebud of a girl fol.
lowing him about the empty old
Confederate headquarters, and she
knew as little of the day as he did
The only Savannah paper said ii was
the Fifteenth Amendment. but il
tldn say what the Fifteenth Amend.
ment was and | have asked a score
Of men, white and black, with no
certain result. [ looked in a Planters
Almanac, and il said that Columbus
died on May 10. The Church All.
manae gave Rogation sometbins-I
don't Just know what. / could not
lind a Tribune Almanac in the eity.
\ colored barber was pretty sure il
was Emancipation Day, | think he
vas right, but leave il 10 you. If it
was, | lest twenty-eight slaves that
day but was not reading the Tribune
at the time. probably heard it a
few weeks later, but thought little of
as n Of the canards of the war
never saw st. Patric IS lay IN New
! ork so quietly kept. Not a single
policeman accompanied this column.
nor was n needed. Half a dozen
street tights Of small size attended the
attappts Of dark gentlemen 10 stand
before the Sidewalk" Of other colored
gentlemer, A lady ofcolor had herfase
cut with a parasol. A family had a
private shindy. | saw no one drunk
and wife and children were the only
whites | saw walking ia the midst Of
inc parade on the park extension.
Every one was polite or Indifferent 70
US. Probably 1900 men, women and
children out of a black population o,
near l9,QM was spectators. A Dor.
ton OF these came with the little one.
horse or ox-cart, and sold homemade
beer or iced lemonade. | saw nc
liquors. There were no white inter
iefence nor even presence. / counted
six white loungers in the park proper
IN their midst arose the beautim.
brown-stone monument of the Con
federate dead. It's white marble Lad,
OF Silence, with finger on lin. unde.
the canopy, and its white marble fe
male FaRe on the top with scroll am,
trumpet are In process OF displace
ment for q Confederate soldier. il
bronze.
A Thunder Dog.
indianapolis Ncws.l
Speakin' of dogs said Professo
Knox, the %tOnsOrial artist. as he lath