Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-27
DARIEN.
Christmas-The Needs of Navigation
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| DAR1EN, GA, Dec. 23.-Editor Mornin1
| Neaos: Everybody and everything is looking
| forward TO and working for the successful
! celebration of our glorious Christmas holiday.
the holy nativity of our Blessed Lord and
| Saviour, when the hearts of all men seem to
| open spontaneously, both in sending forth and
receiving ''peaee and good will" Whatever
| the occult combinations may have in store for
us we know not, but from the clouds that still
! hang low, and the very springlike softness of
the air, the rain that commonly falls at this
festival may be expected. Our Presbyterian
and Methodist friends have combined for the
occasion, and intend to give the children of
both Sunday schools a grand Christmas tree,
hung fun of pretty things. The St. Andrews
Sunday school tree will be postponed until
''HOly Innocents' day" giving the little ones
full time to enjoy all that is in store for them
all around. The Episcopalians have been-Eery
busy every evening during the week forming
garlands, ETC., of evergreens for the decora-
tiOn of their church, and the working rector
happily struck the key note on Sunday last,
when he proposed that the Christmas Offering
should go towards purchasing bell, and St.
Anrdew's bell ring out the Easter chimes
Apropos, is it not somewhat singular that
no st. Andrews Society exists here? The ac-
counts Of the honors paid the day elsewhere
gave us in his own parish some strong twinges
OF heart, and of conscience too, that the church
service, being the only public observance, is
so sparlngly partaken of, unless it should hap
pen on Sunday; but coming, as it did this year,
on the day appointed for general thanksgiv-
ing, it was really a matter Of astonisbment
that so few paid heed to the call.
The David Clark on Thursday morning left
for Savannah, loaded with the old staple
which reigned supreme over the sea islands
and over most of the low country about the
time of Geo. p. Morris visit to Savannah
when, in compliment to his friend. Collector
Boston" he paid homage to ''King Cotton in
verse, longer lived than the many crowns that
have fallen since that day.
An extract from the memorial to Congress in
BrunsWlcks behalf is stirring our blood again,
but we quote only one little clause now: "And
whereas, the harbOr of Brunswick and its de-
Velopment is matter of deep concern, not
only to all Georglans, but also to the people of
the whole country. etc" Yes, it is. We are
not jealous nor envious, but we are hungry for
some notice-sOme help, too. SO little is ac-
tually known of GeOrgia's seabOard below Sa-
vannah, and so persistently do our merchants
oppose any effort to link ourselves with iron
ties to the world abroad, that unless we. like
Rasselas, venture forth from the ''Happy Val
ley OF our pride and speak for ourselves. we
will be forgotten. The present seems particu-
larly appropriate time, for we, many of us lin
cal descendants of those English gentleman and
sturdy Highlanders who came over with Gen
Oglethorpe and settled in this part of the col
ony, may well share with you, in spirit at
least, the hOnOrs of the Sesqui- Centennial.
though prevented, perhaps, from assisting at
its celebration The century itself rolled US
back to our beginnings, for not only did we
enter Its closing years amid the horrors of war,
but WITH the hardships and priYatiOns of the
colonlsts almost repeated. Delcately reared
women at last, as at first, met and overcame
tests and trials, showing the power that lies
in devoted affection and patriotic principle to
cope successfully with toll and want.
At the close of the century slavery
was thing of the past, but a very
few years before its beginning
slave labor bnf r.
introduction positively prohibited by the laws
governing the colony. Advancing in years
we have literally pushed our way into the
ranks OF busy places, and to-day in the middle
of our second century we lay clam to a prOm-
nent position as the largest timber market on
the Atlantic coast-the strong and beautiful
yellow pine parting the way for us, our
pioneer of introduction to the commercial
circles of the world. The early cOlonists tried
grain, necessarily, with silk culture and the
vine, but they soon found out the rich reward
of well-spent labor in the pine timber suited
to every CLINE and for almost every purpose,
and that in the bountiful yield of naval stores
lay lasting source of wealth. Rice and cot
ton were then and ever since largely and sue
cessfully cultivated, but for many years, ever
since the civil war in fact, cotton in this
especial section has given way before the
encroachments of the Forest King who,
usurping the falling sceptre, sways it with
autocratlc power over reconciled subjects.
VtCe Le roll
\ large Norwegian bark of LOO tons is re-
ported for J. X. Clarke Il Co., and will load at
SapelO. Only eight vessels are in port Prob
ably the anticipated tidal wave prevents own
ers from ehartering for long voyages. Nellie
Brown and Daisy will be placed on the line
between Darien and Hammersmith's Landing
before long. There are plenty of steamers
around and about us now, and If timber men
come down faster they viii not be detained.
There was a report that the roof of the Mag
nolla House caught on fire again few days
back. Courage The meeting preliminary
has been held about the fire engine. Don't
burn until it comes, please.
There are doubts in some minds whether the
new trial will be granted Toney James.
Somehow it seems almost hard that mans
mind should be distracted with illus "
hopes, if indeed there is no foundation for
them.
The building fever is as high as it has ever
been known here, ,and new Methodist Church
will be among the forthcoming substantial
proofs of prosperity.
Religious services at st. Andrews Episco-
pal Church in town and at the Roman CathO-
lie Chapel on the Ridge on Christmas day.
The fantasies speak of turning out. and they
always take church time for it, tantalizing the
good people who would like to take peep at
them anyhow.
Merry Christmas to the NEWS, and a long
life nj nd nj