Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-11

Light canvas tents are not very desirable
for quarantine purposes in cold, wet weather,
and such are the accommodations provided for
families and persons who have been exposed
and are now at quarantine.
As predicted In previous letters, the foul
disease has spread in all directions, and is
really epidemic at this time although not
| officially declared so by the Health Board. The
City Council acted upon this idea last night by
adopting the most stringent ordinances in re-
gard to the matter.
might fill column with cases where the
| health officials have acted with great negli-
| gence, and the disease has been allowed to
| spread without opposition.
| For myself and family l have given up in
despair, and settled down to meet the worst.
| We now have
Smallpox to the right Of US.
Smallpox to the left Of us,
Smallpox to the rear Of us,
Smallpox in front of us.
And six or eight times day the pest house
ambulance or the city carts carry the disease
by my residence. ! cannot move without COM
| ing in contact with 1t in some manner
Only last night, a few doors from me. and
| secretary of Senator Joseph E. Brown. white
| family slipped away quietly and left young
man In the house with smallpox.
Thus it is spreading and being spread among
cases hid out and suppressed from public at
| tention.
! OF course the disease is more prevalent
| among the negroes, and has not taken foot
hold in every part of the city generally as in
| the Fourth ward, yet few days will serve to
develop it throughout the entire city.
Vaccination is not a safeguard unless pure
virus is used and the vaccination properly per-
| formed A great deal of the vaccination here
has been cheaply and Intellectually performed,
and now that the disease is spreading so vigor-
ously the people are being re-vaccfnated in a
more effectual manner.
NV first vaccination failed, but am now suf-
fering from a vaccination sufficiently effective
to keep OF score or epidemics. IL Is next 10
having the disease itself.
As both white and colored people, who have
been exposed, are leaving the city, it would be
well for the authorities Of Savannah and other
Georgia cities to commence the work OF pro
lection at once. Atlanta waited too long. and
now she is suffering in all her business inter-
ests from the fearful spread of the disease.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
Suffering, as am, from a second and very
effective vaccination, this letter will hardly
contain much newsy matter, as am not feel
ing very lively this morning.
Gov. ColQuitt has returned from New York,
and is again at the Executive Department. A
fine pair of matched horses, purchased in Ten
nessee at s., ,0O0 greeted his return home.
have several times alluded to the imposing
and elegant new edif1ce of st. Phillips Episco
pal Church, and regret to announce that the
not agree in regard to creating debt lien upon
the building, and he has applied to the Supe-
rior Court for an injunction.
The real estate boom is still booming, and
has reached the highest points in speculative
| operations. First purchasers Of large tracts,
however resell in small lots at big profit.
Quick sales is the motto, but large profits the
accompanying rule. or course there will be an
end of all this bye and bye.
The case of G. J. Barton, the young lawyer
convicted of perjury some months ago, is q sad
one indeed. After being convicted and SEN
fenced to four years in the penitentiary he
| jumped his bond, but was finally brought back
mere, and yesterday left for the convict camps
of the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad
He married a mos excellent young lady not
many months ago, and her rare devotion TO
him has touched even the hardest hearts. She
deserved better fate than the sad one to
| which his conduct has consigned her.
We are soon to have the final act In the At
lanta Cotton Factory case. l remember well
how Mayor English, at the stockholders meet
upon III. /. Kimball that he intended to steal
the factory in the end. / also attended the
hearing of the case Of the Lowell Machine
Shop, when they stepped in and kept Kimhall
from gobbling up the machinery, purchased
under certain conditions. Judge Mckay then
declared that he thought he detected ex-Gov-
ernor Bullock's hand in the movement. And
now comes the denOIenlent. Bullock is receiver,
and his father-iR-law and other parties have Sc
cured an order of the court for the sale of the
property. Mayor English and Judge Mckay
may LdFC opOACA PAOPACOiSohJs
MINOR TOPICS.
1t is quite probable that the spread of small
pox will seriously interfere with the proposed
Liberal Convention to be held here next month
The statement now going the rounds of the
press that General Lees son, General FitZhugh
Lee is writing History of the Army
Northern Virginia, needs correction. Gener al
''Fitz'' Lee is not General Lees son, who is
General VIM. Henry Fitzhugh Lee.
Latest reports from Senator Hill to-day are
of a Respondent character, his family having
given up all hope Of his improvement, much
| less recovery, at Eureka Springs. His death
may be looked for at any moment
| The city is lively this morning with Baptist
| preachers en- route to Greenville, s. c.. to
attend the Southern Baptist Convention, but
don't see many editors here on their way to
| the Press Convention in Augusta. Baptist
preachers as a rule are not as much afraid of
small-pox as the more worIdlv-minded editor
Capt. J. NJ Lancaster, of the Third United
States Artillery, ON duty at st. Francis Bar
racks. in st. Augustine, Fla, has been ordered
to Charleston, ). c., to act as judge Of the
competitive drill of the artillery and infantry
commands of the Fourth Brigade, of which
Gen. @. !. Walker is the commander. The drill
takes place on the 18th, and will be unusually
spirited and attractive.
The National Exchange Bank has levied on
the Lawn Terrace" place of II. ]. Kimbal, on
Peachtree street, and it is to be sold at Sheriffs
sale on the first Tuesday in June, to satisfy a
Fl. ia. from Fulton Superior Court, as the pro-
pertY of Mrs. Mary q. Kimball. the original
purchaser. This is but another chapter in the
history of the "Great Developers" career in
Atlanta-the Cotton Factory and his late home
both advertised to be sold under the hammer
for the benefit of creditors. 81 ply refer to
this in reply to editors who claim great f1nan-
cial ability, etc., for KimbaH.
DEATH OF A GALLANT SOLDIER
There are many old army officers In the
South who will feel deep interest in what
am about to write in regard to gallant soldier
who has recently died at Houlton, Maine.
l refer to Lieutenant Colonel George w. Pat
ten. of the Second Infantry, who was retired in
1854 for disability resulting from long and
faithful service, and from wound and exposure
in the time of duty.
In the class OF 1880, at West Point Military
Academy, of which Colonel Patten was a mem
Der, was Lieutenant William E. Basinger, of
Georgia, who stood second In a class of cadets
that furnished to the country three eminent
divines-Rev, Drs. Francis Vfnton, (Gen VIM
N. Pendleton and A. T. Bledsoe-and such dis
tinguished soldiers as Generals John B. Ma
gruder, T. h. K. Whitley, Lloi J. Beall Mer-
riwether L. Clark, r. G. Buchanan and Colonel
7. i. Alexander.
Nearly all of these officers served in Florida.
Lieutenant Basinger bravelY meeting his
slaughter of December g. 1885. BY reference
to my bound volume Of the ATmu and Nduu
Chronicle Of 1887, 1 find that Lieutenant Pat
ten served nearly five years in the Florida
campaigns, and won merited distinction for
his conduct in action. Although of small
stature and modest demeanor, he was as brave
as lion on the battle field.
The same heroic spirit was displayed by him
in the Mexican war. and while bravely storm
ing the heights of Cerro Gordo he lost his left
hand. remember well, although but boy
then, how proudly we welcomed the modest
little hero home. and how grateful we felt for
the brevet OF Major bestowed upon our gallant
Captain.
l had often declaimed in school his thrilling
poem, 1.-The seminole's Reply" and wondered
how such a delicate, mid-mannered gentle
man OF poetic culture could have been such
brave Indian fighter in the Everglades of
Florida, and such a hero on the plains of
Mexico.
Colonel Patten wrote many poems Of more
than ordinary merit, some Of which will be
long preserved in literary circles. But his
greatest fame has grown out of THE Semi
nole's Reply" the most spirited Of all his mar
tial lyrics
AS happen to have in my possession a CODY
OF this poem as IL was originally published in
the New York american, of 1887, l will copy it
here for the benefit of the Florida readers of
the MORNING NEWS, many Of whom, perhaps
have never seen the poem in any form:
Blaze! with your serried columns
will not bend the kneel
The shackles ne'er again shall bind
The arm that 1lOlC is free:
I've mail'd it with the thunder
When the tempest mutterd low;
And where it falls, ye yet may dread
The lightning Of its blow.
I've scared ye in the city,
I've scalped ye on the plain
Go, count your c1osen where they fell
Beneath my leaden rain
scorn your preferred treaty,
The pale face defy;
Revenge i stamp'd upon my spear,
And blood" my battle cry.
Some strike for hope Of booty,
Some to defend their all,