Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-04

blame if they are not good ivers-for ns-
ture places everything at their feet
Savannah is admirably supplied with
churches. These structures are large
built of brick aud stucco, and nearly all
facing open squares The Jewish syna-
gogue is a model of interior beauty--we
have seldom seen q lovlier church inside.
The Catholic cathedral has some sacred
memorial windows, the one in the right
transept costing 5000. No one visiting
the city should fail to go to the Independ-
eut Presbyterian church. 1t is an ecciesias-
teal curiosity-with its anoieet style Of in
terror esselated aisles and high pulpit
The city of Savannah is rich in historic and
religious associations. Here, Methodism
made its first assault on the American con-
tinent in the persons of Whitefcd and the
Wesleys i'll 1865. Here fell Pulaski the
heroic Pole, in defense of our liberties III
l779. And the plucky young Irish Sergeant
Jasper here won his immortality by replac-
| ing in its proud position in the fire of the
enemy the broken flagstaff of his adopted
, country's colors, and he and Pulaski are
gratefully remembered by name in the
designation of leading avenues OF the city
The latter by a fine monument III a central
square.
Savannah is not only the forest city, but
the second cotton city of the South. This
whole city is cott0nized cotton bales by the
square acre at the depots, on the wharves,
in the warehouses, under immense sheds,
/ and piled along the streets. The cars come
i'll loaded with it; the drays and carts roll
and groan with it; you walk over great
tufts of it on the Sidewalks commission
merchants, sea captains and clerks are
god WI t,c-
streets; immense presses are compact ng it
into portable condition, and splendid ships
/ of nearly a thousand tons, with smaller
vessels by the score are continually
coming and going, carrying 10 the North
and to Great Britain this raw material, to be
wrought into textile fabrics. [ am told by
cotton merchant that the cotton yield in
| 1880 was about $500, 900 bales. aud that
/ this year, by improved quality, it will, in
every respect, equal the yield and value Of a
year ago.
The citizens of Savannah have a Just
reputation for hospitality. Your cores
pondent with the other visitors to the
American Public Health Association, en-
joyed that hospitality to the full. More
universal attention and kindness we never
received All the Northern and Western
guests were charmed with the generous
Southern welcome and treatment they re-
ceived. Besides most delightful entertain
ment given to the visitors at the house Of
| one of the physicians of tho city, large
and sunptuous steamer was chartered and
conveyed all the members of the Association.
over two hundred in attendance, down the
river twenty miles, by the rice fields and
| tho jackson and Pulaski FORTS to the open
| blue sea, sight never sssn before by some
of US. A magnificent FREQ collation. was
served in the cabin, presided over by the
mayor of the city, and after it was finished
ice creams and cakes were distributed on
deck.
This American Public Health Association,
besides doing noble service to sanitary
science, is also doing nobly patriotic work
in bringing men together from all parts of
the country, acquainting them with each
other, and giving them to SEQ that beneath
prejudices and external dissimilarities they
are all one in the great principles and pro-
found sentiments of American citizenship
f. T. STURGIs
Savannah, Dec. l, 1891