Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18
GATE CITY GOSSIP.
LOCAL, GENERAL, PERSONAL
AND POLITICAL.
This, That and the Other-A Worthy
Example-MinOr TOpics-The Sesqui-
Centennial-Various Jottings-The At
lanta Cotton Factory.

ATLANTA, Jan. l6.-I told you So The
election contests have been compromised-as
well as the purity of the ballot -box-and our
only hope of reform is now in securing reg
istratiOn law at the July session of the General
Assembly.
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER.
Miss Charlotte Thompson, despite her lib
eral and fiashy advertisements, failed to draw
paying houses here, and our hospitals held
bag about as empty as the one the Macon fire.
men held.
l do uot blame people for not turning out to
are "tricks of trade" The expenses are
made TO eat up the receipts, and those who
work and sell tickets get nothing for chari-
table purposes.
Our Board of Education has finally cut off
married women from the reserved list of
teachers. Hereafter none will be employed,
but the few now engaged will be retained.
This is wise, as it would indeed be hard to
supply the places of such superior educators
as Mrs. Col. John S. Prather and her married
associates.
The Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Cave
Springs, Ga, has had a hard road to travel
ever since knew anything about its history
Every year ii has had hard work to get needed
aid from the General Assembly, and at the
November session it was sharply criticised in
its management. And now complaints come
to the Governor and to the press that the pu-
pills are not gwen sufficient food.
think the NEWS is in error as to Mrs. Frank
Leslie's proposed visit to the South being her
first trip since the war. | have pictures of
Savannah in my scrap book made by her
artists few years ago as she came up the
river on an ''Ocean" steamship from New
York. | am sure, however. that her second
visit will be more pleasant to her, and proflta-
Bile to the beautiful Forest City," which fur
nishes so much for the pencil of the artist.
PRESERVING CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAGS.
The Hon. S. r. Mallory, of Pensacola, de-
serves the thanks of every patriotic citizen
and gallant soldier of Florida for the intro
ductiOn in the Senate of bill looking to the
preservation of the battle flags of the Florida
regiments engaged in the last war, and be-
heve there is not true soldier in all the land
who wore the "blue" who will not second
such movement. Let every tattered and
blood stained flag be gathered within the
capitol of the State, and there let them hang
as mute but thrilling witnesses to the heroic
endurance and sublime valor of the soldiers
who bore them-SOmetimes to death. some
times to defeat, and not unfrequently to vic
tory.
And why has not Georgia moved in this
same matter? Where are the bullet -riddled
flags under which fell the impetuOus Barlow,
the brave Walker the fiery Girardy, the gal
liant Willis, the heroic Semmes, the knightly
Cobb, the gifted Tracy, the chivalrous Bowen
and host of heroic young soldiers to whom
death came in the storm of battle before they
could win the deserved stars that glittered
upon the uniforms of their commanding Gen
erals? have seen bullet-ridded battle flags
in Georgia that brought tears to my eyes as L
thought of the heroic souls that saved them at
the cost of their precious lives. Has the great
State of Georgia no place in which to put such
priceless legacies of her heroic dead that
future generations may see that patriotism
and val0r are their legacy from the COnfeder-
ate dead?
MINOR TOPICS.
An exchange says it is gratifying to know
that the farmers of Georgia are ''less disposed
the old State than ever" This sounds well,
but the truth is quite the reverse. | have
never before seen such wholesale emf
grafton from Atlanta. We send off to
of CarOlinians and GeOrgians, and nearly
every family has from six to ten children. ]
have referred to this matter so often that am
almost ashamed to mention it again.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Athens
Chronicle does both Major Warren and the
Governor, under whom he has served, great
injustice in a recent letter. Major Warren is
not the government" nor would Governor
stephens being disabled cause the State to
''sufer less" have never known more
faithful, efficient and modest public official
than Major Warren, but he never usurped the
functions of Governor Smith, of Governor
COlquitt, or of Governor Stephens. He will
be greatly missed from his desk, but the State
will not ''sutfer" by his absence, nor Governor
Stephens be unable to fill his place.
There seems to be waking up all over the
country on the part of rich men who want to
do something handsome" for the cause of
education. The latest is the liberal donation
of Paul Tulane, Esq, to found ''Tulane Uni
versity,' in Louisiana, which Senator-elect
Gibson has in hand. Several eminent North
ern educators are spoken of as Chancellor.
but it is to be hoped that President William
Preston Johnston, of the Louisiana State Uni
versity, will be rendered the position. Col.
Johnston is worthy son of one of the grand
est soldiers this country ever produced, Gen.
Albert Sidney Johnston, and his career as an
educator has added new renOwn to his already
established reputation as gentleman of fine
scholarship and thorough literary culture.
The Wesleyan Christian AdUOcIte, of Macon,
while 1t copies my complimentary notice of
the faithful and finished work done ON the
new Code by the Hon. Walter B. Hill, of the
Law Department of Mercer University, pro-
tests in a mild but just manner against the
the editor, and deeply regret that the present
new Code has already been amended a score of
times at the NOvem ber session of the General
Assembly, and probably fifty other amend
ments will be made at the July session. Not
a few of these amendments are made for per-
sOnal ends, and to meet certain cases in
which particular lawyers are interested. He
will be a wise man and patriotic benefactor
who shall invent some plan by which to sup
press this growing evil
Our health officials suddenly aroused them
selves from their state of 'masterly inactivi-
ty," and are now making peculiar efforts to
suppress the small pOX. say Suddenly be-
cause, with several week days in which to
operate, they started out long line of mule
teams on Sunday morning loaded with lum-
Der, shingles, doors and windows for the erec-
ton of better pest house accommodations. |
use the term peculiar" because they have
opened two public vaccination stations on the
main fashionable thorOughfare of the city. The
negro station is at corner of Marietta and
Peachtree, the most pOpulOus corner in the
city, and the white station over Keeley's dry
goods store, corner of Whitehall and Hunter.
Thus all who may have been exposed, and de-
sire free vaccination, are brought together in
the very heart of the city to expose others.
MILITARY PERSONALS.
Gen. Henry d. Wallen, U. S. A. (retired),
native OF Savannah, is now residing with his
family at No. l44 Madison avenue, New York
city.
The Northern Republicans are needlessly
alarmed at the proposed election of a new
Confederate Brigadier" to Congress. Seen"
Edward I. Lewis, of Louisiana, never rose
higher than Captain, but he was a gallant
soldier all the same.
1t is Major John j. Coppinger, of the Tenth
Infantry, who is to marry the daughter of ex-
senator James q. Blaine. He was born in
Ireland, and entered the army from New York
as Captain in 1861. He was Colonel of vol
unteers, and is Brevet Colonel in the regular
army.
Major Charles A. Reynolds, Brevet Lieuten-
ant Colonel, has been assigned to duty as per-
manent Quartermaster at Atlanta, and has es-
tablished his quarters in the handsome build
ing of the Atlanta Home Insurance Company
on Broad street. Col. Reynolds is an old vet
eran, having served as a private with the
his family here. HissOn, Lieut.. VIM. B. Rey-
nOds. of the Fourteenth Infantry, is now Wis
ltlng him with charming young wife.
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
Mention is frequently made of the ssoldest''
eX-United States Senators, including Hon.
Joseph Cilley, of New Hampshire, and Hon.
David l.. Yulee, of Florida. But no refer
ence is made TO the venerable Judge John p
King, of Augusta, Ga, one of the oldest and
most respected of the eX-SenatOrs now living.
1t is strange, too, that so few people here in
our own State are aware of the fact that this
hOnored citizen was Senator from 1884 to
1888, and the sole survivor of Georgia Sena-
tors down to 1855, at which lime Gen. Robert
TOOmbs was first elected.
Hon. n. B. Drewry, of Spalding, in draw
ing up his resolution to provide for the paint
ing Of a portrait for the State of the late
Senator B. III. Hill, very unwisely prefaced it
with long 'whereas" that had nothing TO do
however, had the courage to do
what the House and Senate failed to perform,
and declined to approve the preamble. This
is his official Endorsement: 'fWithout reference
to the preamble, the resolution is approved by
me. Alexander ii. Stephens, Governor" II |
is not often that Governor has the backbone
to act according to his convictions of duty.
The exclusion of Col. jefferson Davis from
the benefits of the Mexican War pensions is,
to say the least of it, a very despicable act on
the part of the powers that be at Washington.
There was no more gallant officer than the |
young commander of the Mississippi Rifles at |
Monterey and Buena Vista, and on the latter |
field of conflict he shed his blood freely in his
cause, and afterwards declined |
Generals commission in the regular |
army. The events of lS61-5 have very little to |
do with the heroic conduct of 1S47, and only |
small souls can so connect them as to deprive |
Col Davis of a dearly earned pension. 1t re- /
minds me of the first time / ever saw this dis |
tnguished gentleman, then in the United |
States Senate. He visited Maine, where he |
was most enthusiastically received, and upon |
whose people he made deep impression Old |
BOwdoin College conferred upon him the de-
served degree Of Doctor of Laws. and felt |
proud to thus honor him. And vet she sought. |
after the late war cOmmenced to revoke fhe |
degree. Could anything be more absurd?