Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-02

DARIEN April 29.-Editor MoTnfno Netos: Nc
postmaster appointed yet, and though Col
Farrow has visited us there has been no change
In custom house officials. With the exception
or some disappointment among the blacks
there is little said, and but small interest and
very little motion exists in political matters
1t is certain that the women down here dc
not desire to vote Content with their oppor-
tunities of broad culture and social apprecia
ton, real Southern women will never agitate
the question Of privilege to the discomfort OF
present incumbentsi in ofice, their desideratum
being Church and Home, not Church and
State. The fight, the scratch, the pot calling
the kettle black, and Uice UerSa, Is enough to
disgust human nature.
Isn't 1t pleasant to see the limbs stretching
over the Darien claims for an appropriation,
and the lethargy disappearing? We feel better
Now, like the fly on the wheel, let me
urge our friends to pound away and get
little for the Altamaha too. Why not.
when in al or thereabouts steamers navi-
gated the river from here to Macon?-as
can be shown, and will be, after the examina-
ton of some old Darien GazetteS, which bring
this and other items and matters of local and
puolc interest forward; Why notf VIII n in
wants and pdSse officials as though we owed
them hereditary allegiance, and they were the
salaried drones in monarchical hive whom
the working people were bound to maintain
Let us use little more of the public money
for the commoners' welfare all round.
You will regret to hear of the serious il l'ness
of DIR. Bullie" since Monday last. On Thurs
day he was better but on Friday not so bright
Last year and the year before he was at the
quarantine station on Doboy, by April 1St, as
port physician. This year he has been super
seeded by younger man, who will go down
the first OF May though why the danger from
the West Indies and othe tropical ports is not
as great in April as in May, passes our under
standing.
1t is said that fisherman was probably lost
last week in his ATTEMPT to get to Blackboard
before that storm. He was last seen in Tea
kettle creek. and, though instructed TO return,
would not listen. AS he had never failed to
return before at the appointed time, his wife
and friends up to Friday last were very I'M
easy. Since then have not heard
The long expected ship. the Celina. with a
cargo OF ice, arrived in port few days ago to
the delight Of everybody. The great milky
BLOCKS nave refreshingly cool look as they
are hoisted one moment aloft before sliding
down the planks into the thirsty depths Of that
long empty ice-house.
There is rumOr abroad. which surely will
come to naught that an appeal will be made
TO the next Legislature for the repeal of our
commissioner act. Too much money. and too
much valuable time, public and private, has
tion.
Mr.. Grubb long ago very courteously sug-
gested that the timber and shipping news for
these letters be obtained from the Gazette by
this means saving much time and trouble and
1t gives me pleasure to thus acknowledge the
source of my accurate information, as we'll as
my indebtedness for the permission to CLEAN
for my Saturdays letters There are now in
port twenty-stx vessels. Since last Saturday
there have been eleven arrivals and thirteen
clearances. Of these A. Schmidt 1, Jas. Hunter
2. James K. Clarke 4, Hilton Timber and Lumber
Company b. The cargoeS were of hewn, sawn
and resawn timber and deals, for GERMANY
Ireland, Wales, England, Nova Scotia, New
York, Maine and Massachusetts, Prices Of
timber about the same.
The Dragons" in addition to their other
anticipated gayeties, are to be speciallyhonored,
as We see by the Gazette, with a call from the
Adjutant General, and an inspection of arms,
etc on the 18th or Goth of NAV. The boys will
spruce up, and Colonel Baird will find this
troop the best looking and one Of the best
drilled of all his provincial corps. Trust them
to make the promise good. The entertainment
latter Lent" seems to be lent Out-and, so far
we can neither buy, beg nor borrow a rector to
work in this hot field 1t is very strange that the
men who undertake Christs work are so much
more afraid of malaria than those entering
any other business. One thousand or twelve
hundred dollars might surely pay good man
to try us. He Is no more liable to fall victim
to fever than are those noble men who go into
fever districts in times of distress to comfort
and nurse the sick and dying. But we comfort
ourselves with the knowledge that we are as
much in the hands of the living God as if
paid clergyman stood up weekly to tell us so; I;
yet we miss the beautiful unity of the service
the harmonious lifting of the soul. at the same
hour with the millions everywhere of Gods
people. H. S. B.