Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-02

This seems to be hard summer for children,
North as well as South, in large cities, the
death rate being very much increased.
Captain Phil F. Brown, Of the Blue Ridge
Springs, Va. is here on a visit, and reports
great rush at the fashionable summer resorts
in that State. About here the rush is beginning
to assume fair proportion, and the trains leave
daily with many Atlanta families. Some go
far away. but many prefer Catoosa Springs
Mt. Airy, Toccoa, Tallulah or New Holland
Springs all of which are near at hand and de-
sirable resorts.
Colonel E. w. Cole is in the city, and is as
quiet and unconcerned as possible. He simply
says his plans are being slowly but surely per
fected for the completion Of the Macon and
Atlanta extension and the road to Rome. He
now has gang of men at work on the old
Georgia Western road bed preparing it fer
cross ties and iron for the first twenty or thirty
miles. This is the only actual work that is
being done aside from the making of surveys
of different routes for both the proposed roads.
MINOR TOPICS
The Gate City Guards went into camp YES
terday afternoon. Having failed in their
armOry project, and declined to enter any con-
test with rival companies, the once famous
&c. @. g. have taken a"back seat" in military
circles
Many persons will be glad to know that the
Public Printer at Washington is returning
twenty five cents to each subscriber to the first
volume of the Confederate War Records, as
the cost of publishing the same has been ascer-
tained to reach only seventy-five cents. The
cost of the second volume, to be issued in
few days. will be one dollar. as it is larger and
more expensive.
met Gen. James Longstreet Yesterday and
found him looking much improved by his
European trip. He now wears side whiskers
and bears striking resemblance to Gen. Au
CUR, one of the handsomest officers in the
army. The General says he is already over
run by applicants for positions as Deputy
Marshals and clerks under him, but will
have to disappoint great many eager patri-
OTIS.
Battery and L, of the Fifth Artillery, and
Battery L, Of the Second Artillery, have just
come to MCPHERSON Barracks for the summer,
the former from Pensacola and the latter from
New Orleans. The health of these troops is
good, but it was deemed advisable to remove
them to a cooler climate during the warm
months at the seacoast stations.
Atlanta is destined to become the head-cen-
tre for colored educational institutions The
Atlanta University. to which the State gives
$4,000 yeaI is a hourishing institution; the
Clark University has new and elegant build
the Baptist Theological Seminary also has
new edidce and renewed prosperity since its
removal here from Augusta. All the above
named institutions are presided over by white
professors. The colored Methodists however
propose to establish here a college or univer-
sity with colored teachers, and to embrace
theology. medicine, law and literature in its
departments.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Colonel John B. Baird is putting the Senate
Chamber and Hall of Representatives in the
best possible condition for summer Sc ssion,
but in the matter of cool ventilation the mem
bers will frequently get short supply.
Since the canal question has come to the
front, and the subject has been made so promi-
nent, several parties are engaged in getting
ready to apply to the Legislature for charters
to construct canal from the Chattahoochee
river to Atlanta. lively competition may be
looked for in this matter
There will be considerable opposition to
granting $50, ,000 to the Cotton Exposition, as
the Department OF Agriculture and the rail-
road companies will give Georgia fine repre-
sentation Augusta and Columbus will make
splendid exhibits of what Georgia cotton fac
tories can do in first class goods.
The resignation of Hon. A. j. Lane of Bibb
takes from the Legislature one of its most
substantial members AS the Chairman Of the
Penitentiary Committee Colonel Lane occupied
q very important position, one requiring the
, firmness, good sense and experience that he
possessed 70 prevent unwiSe action in reg ard
to the convict lease question. 1t is to be hoped
that Speaker Bacon will fill this Chairmanship
with an experienced, cool-headed, practical
statesman as it will be the most important
committee of the adjourned session.
AS was one of the first correspondents to
agitate the better care of the insane of the
State. propose to be one of the last to touch
up the subject before the Legislature meets
Frequent reference to the increase of insanity
has not covered the case The increase Just
now is really alarming, and is not confined to
any one part of the State or to any single class
of people. The Legislature is not now called
upon TO simply empty jais, poor houses and
other institutions of crazy people but to make
ClB1pte provision for the rapid increase of
lu natics in the future. No ordinary addition to
tn asylum at Milledgeville can meet this de-
mend, nor will it be met by a small asylum at
Gainesville.
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATS.
Many of Congressman Speer's friends have
been denying the truth of your Washington
correspondents special kilograms about that
ambitious and erratic young statesmen. But
later and reliable reports compel them, in sor-
row and regret to admit that they have been
deceived in their idol. Another class and not
very small one either indorse his course and
will go with him. General Longstreet will
soon make pretty clean sweep in the United
States MarshaPs Depat tment, and If Collector
Clarke is removed there will be another small
army of new appointments. Should Congress-
man Speer, as is anticipated, control some of
these appointments, his followers will be many
and enthusiastic until all the officers are dis
posed Of and no vacancies are in sight De-
pend upon it, it is not question of principle
nor matter of policy, but greed for official
patronage and political power that has caused
all these defections from the Democratic
ranks. General LoDgstreet is daily beset by
Democrats of this class who want appoint
ments under him. still, the movement needs
watching here in Georgia.
ARMY APPOINTMENTS.
The item in the MORNING NEWS of yesterday
in regard to army appointments has in some
way become transposed. Instead of only four
teen graduates of West Point this year getting
COHlUllSSlO0S, bueTo are OnY fourteen VINO
await vacancies under the appointment of
additional Second Lieutenants. The class had
fltty-three, and not thirty three members.
Our Georgia graduates, with one exception,
seem to have been provided for. Cadet Fred
G Hodgson, who graduated thirty five in his
class is made Lieutenant in the Sixth Cavalry,
now on duty in Arizona. Cadet Andrew g.
Hammond, who stood thirty-fonr in the class
goes to the Eighth Cavalry, which is serving in
Texas. Cadet Lyman Hall, whose rank was
thirty nine, does not appear in the list Of as
signments.
Cadet Francis J. Herman, OF Florida, who
stood as high as eighteen, is assigned to the
Twenty first Infantry, on duty in Washington
Territory; Cadet John B. Mcdonald, of Ala
who ranked fifty is one of the ''addi-
tonal" assignments. and is to 90 in due time
to the Fifth Infantry in Montana AS all the
graduates have leave of absence until the
first of September, there is a good chance for
twenty vacancies by that time.
Under recent Congressional action no more
Second Lieutenants will be appointed from
civil life until all graduates and worthy nom
commissioned officers have been assigned or
promoted. l do not, however, fear large
surplus of West Pointers next year. A close
observation will show that vacancies are con-
stantly occurring in the army by deaths resig-
nations and dismissals. Even young officers
are dying, just as young men die in other de-
partments OF life, from premature breaking
down under our present high pressure system
OF living and working. Vacancies will be oc-
curing all the time.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
The thirty-sixth grand convention of the s. |
A. E. Fraternity is now in session at the Senate
Chamber. presided over by Major Witburger,
OF the Kentucky Military Institute.
As the vote to sell the Young Mems Library |
building was so close (only ten majority, and |
the board of directors are divided in opinion, |
the sale may rot take place, or be delayed for |
another and fuller vote.
Petitions are coming in daily from all parts |
of the State, the longest from Milledgeville, |
asking the Legislature to pass a prohibition or /
local option law in regard to tbs liquor traffic |
The whole State is moving in full force Ia this |
matter. CHATHAM
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There were about five hundred dele
gates to the International Sunday School /
Convention, held last week at Toronto.
Canada. The United States was well
and delegates were present
from Kentucky, Georgia, North Caro-
lima, Mississippi. South Carolina, West
Virginia and Virginia. Governor Col
quit, of Georgia. who presided at the
last convention, was present with large
party and made very stirring speech.
The report of the Secretary shows that
there are about 80, 900 Sunday schools in
the IInitad Gfofoc with oIntTf 000 n0o |