Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-10
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA.
The Southwark Travels OF Northern In
yalids and Tourists.

vaIids and Tourists.
The Savannah correspondent of the Bal
timore Sun, writing under date Of Feb
ruarv 4th. produces the following letter:
passengers for the South, who left Wash
ington on Friday afternoon with heavy
TOP coats, buttoned to the chin, to keep
out the biting February blast, awakened
on Saturday morning at Wilmington and
found themselves in al atmosphere as
gentle as that of May. Through North
and South Carolina, as the train sped
along, the temperature mounted higher
and higher, and when Savannah was
reached, the open doors and windows,
which are the rule in Baltimore and
Washington in July, greeted the new
corners, and there was scarcely any evil
dence Of fires.
'All through this section of country
there have been heavy rains for month
past. and the ground is thoroughly satu-
rated. so much so that agriculturistS are
praying for a little spell of the drought
which has been the cause of so much
lamentatiOn in New England for several
months past.
The travel Southwark of Northern in
valids and pleasure-seekers has been
greater this year than ever. According
to the hotel registers here it is shown that
an average of 0people lay over at Savan-
nah daily en- route to Florida, and prob
ably half as many more pass through
without stopping. Of these many are
old visitors, but many more are
making the trip for the first time,
and are exceedingly interested in
everything they see and hear. A
gentleman fleeing from the icy winds of
Minnesota, and accompanied by his sons
and daughters, was on the Atlantic Coast
Line train which left Washington on Fri
day. When the borders of South Caro-
lima were reached the whole family were
on the alert at every stopping place %
catch glimpse of the redshirted Ku-
KluX, and were much disappointed to
find that they did not have a mounted
dress parade every day. They were some
what consoled for their disappointment
at witnessing the antics of the coal
black half-grOwn urchins who crowded
around the cars whenever opportunity
offered and beSOught passengers to throw
nickels into the deep sand which lines the
road, that they might scramble and dig
for them. Such yelling and screaming,
tumbling and pushing, laughing and grim
ming, all showing content and absence
from care, were quite sufficient to con-
vince the strangers from the far North
west that these idle, happy-gO-lucky chill
dren of nature had no apprehension for
/ themselves or those who were near to
them of being served up ON the half-shell
or brOiled for the delectatiOn of the red
riders.
"All Savannah is agog over the APP
preaching celebration on the 18th instant
of the Sesqui-Centennial anniversary of
| the settlement of Georgia. The pro-
| gramme is extensive and elaborate, COW
ering period of two days, and beginning
/ on the first day with ringing of all the
bells in the city one hundred and fifty
| times. There will be military, trade and
/ civic professions, fireworks, addresses by
/ Governor Stephens and others, a water
! pageant, in which all the shipping in port
1 will take part; the landing of General
4 Oglethorpe and his cOlOnists, in imitation
I of the landing of Lord Baltimore at the
| last celebration in Baltimore, and his re-
/ ceptiOn by the Indians of the olden time.
/ The business men and citizens have sub
! scribed a very handsome sum for the ex-
/ penses of the occasion, and an animated
and interesting time is expected.
''The hotels have already engagements
/ TO their utmost capacity. There are COM
mittees in charge of the celebration al
most without number, and such bushels
/ of Colonies, Generals and Judges are of
the personnel as to almost induce the be-
/ lief that there must have been an impor.
I tatiOn from Washington of the ineXhaust-
IDLE supply of titled individuals always
kept on hand there, if it were not that this
is land of titles. During a promenade
] around the city to-day, as the churches
were emptying, l was presented TO more
Generals and COlOnels than were required
to command the entire quota which
Georgia furnished to the Confederate
army.
"Shipping interests here are just now
stirred up over the question of the State
pilOtage laws. Ship-Owners and naviga-
tors object here, as they have for a long
time elsewhere, to compulsory pilOtage.
The Georgia Supreme Court, in a case
brought before it, has just decided that
the compulsory pilot clause of the State
navigation laws is constitutional, and
also that the clause requiring the pilot
who first signals a vessel to be taken
aboard in preference to any other, is also
constitutional The ship owners have de-
termined to appeal to the Supreme Court
of the United States for final determine
ton of the VeXed question: