Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-05
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Topics Which Are Most in Mind i'm the
City of BOoms.

ing independence Day" Unfortunately
we have at present no other way to get
up a crowd and gather in the ''nimble
penny" By-and-bye we shall have
"Grant's Park and the Guv'nor's 'Oss
Guards. and then the white people can
celebrate in style.
The City Fathers have ''gone and done
| it," cleaning out all the old officers ex.
/ cept Clerk Goldsmith, who owes the city
4 for money lost in the Citizens Bank fail
ure. AS the deed is done it is now toe
! late to cry out against it, but the better
/ class of citizens will no doubt be heard
| from at the next election of City Papas.
! From the report of the City Sexton for
! the past three months it appears that
/ there were 1874 burials, or over 130 per
/ month. OF these 135 were paupers, 16
white, 119 cOlored. This shows that our
city is filled up with worthless class OF
| negroes who prefer to live in poverty and
| filth, and be buried at last in pauper
! graves.
The election of Col. VIM. S. Shepherd,
| the popular Captain of the Columbus
| Guards as Lieutenant Colonel of the new
Sixth Georgia Battalion, will serve to put
that organization on a pretty good basis
for future success. Capt. Voolfolk is a
most excellent gentleman and accom-
| plished officer, but Col. Shepherd had won
the right to promotion on account of long
and unselfish service for the military of
/ Columbus.
Much to the regret of a host of friends,
| Major o. Frank Miller, late chief clerk of
| the Brown House, in Macon. and the
Markham House, in Atlanta, has removed
| with his wife to Louisville, Ky, where he
has taken half interest in the new Hotel
| Brunswick, with Mr.. ID. w. Allen, for
merly of this city.
| do not indorse the suggestion which
| see in an exchange that the Legislative
/ Committee shall purchase all the rival
/ portraits now offered of Senator Hill. 1t
will be enough to select one-the best of
| the lot-and put it in the capitol. Geor-
| gia's first duty is to secure an unbroken
| collection of portraits of her Governors,
| from Oglethorpe to Mcdaniel, and then
| she can spend her surplus funds on pOr-
/ traits of other distinguished sons. This
much can be said without any reflection
| upon Senator HilPs memory. If any So
! cieties or institutions desire his portrait
] they will have an excellent chance to get
one cheap after the committee has made
! its selection of the portrait ordered by the
| General Assembly.
! Governor Mcdaniel has made a very
! wise selection of Commissioner to the
! Santa Fe TertiO- Millennial Exposition, to
| be held at Santa Fe, in New Mexico, the
| present month. DIR. Joseph p. Logan, of
this city, will represent Georgia, his
| adopted State, with dignity, ability and
| rare intelligence. Being a distinguished
! physician, and greatly interested in sani-
tary matters, and clImatOlOgy, he will
| doubtless bring home some interesting
facts connected with these now important
! subjects. 1t is well to learn how cities
may grow venerable with years and yet
retain healthfulness.
The Governor has also appointed the
Atlanta correspondent of, the MORNING
NEWS an Honorary Commissioner to the
Louisville and Boston eXpOsitiOns. This
appointment is simply an honorary one,
and given to enable Major Herbert to en-
joy all the privileges necessary to a thor
Ough inspection of both eXpOsitiOns,
which he is to write up for the leading
agricultural journal of the South and the
MORNING NEWS.
Postmaster Conley is greatly enlarging
the working facilities of the post office
here, and when MeSSrs. Shumate, of the
Registry Department, and Seifert, of the
Carrier Department, get settled in their
new quarters, we shall probably have less
cause to complain of any kind of DELAYS
or errors. More room and better arrange
ments were sadly needed, and have been
too long delayed.
United States Marshal Locke and Dis
trict Attorney Darnell are in the city,
both looking smiling and healthy, show
ing that change of climate has not
done them any harm, and that Savannah
must be a good place to 1--we in. Judge
Erskine has also been here, but left yes
terday for a trip up the country. He will
hardly shed his sold shoes Immediately,
and when he does. l think they will be
filled by tirst-class lawyer, several of
which are anXi0usly awaiting his vOlun-
t1,O
so long hOnOred.
The promised stir in the literary
world" in regard to the Daughters of Men,
doZa, with ''a tale'' connected with the
subject, will hardly occur. The gentle
man alluded to in a recent letter simply
sends me late copy of the Detroit Free
Press containing "IHe Dduqhter of
NendOzd," credited to George w. Cable,
and also the same poem, clipped from some
paper published during the late war,
which is prefaced with this note: ga wan
derer in Nicaragua, while passing through
the village of Pueblo NueVo, discovered
relic of General Mirabeau B. Lamar, late
American Minister to that country, iii
the form Of pOetical effusion, dedicated
to the belle of pOsddu, the THE Daughter
of Mendoza The poem, however, is not
in eight verses of four lines each, but in
four stauZas, properly arranged accord
ing to rhyme and measure, as follows:
so lend to me, sweet nightingale,
Your music by the fountains
And lend to me your cadences,
OH river of the mountains,
That | may sing my gay brunette
A diamond spark, in coral set,
Gem for princes cOrOnet-
The daughter of Mendoza"
A press telegram in the MORNING
News of yesterday states that the cadets
at the Virginia Military Institute are
gong to New York, to return to a regi-
ment of volunteers of that State the flag
captured from them at Newmarket,
Va, during the late war. Oh! how
much of sorrow, carnage and valor
lies hidden in this brief telegram.
Nothing, in all the bloody and terrible
history of the fierce conflicts of 1S61-5, can
rival the record of those boy soldiers who,
in response to a sudden and urgent
appeal from Gen. Breckinridge, shoul-
dered their muskets in the early
dawn of a May morning in 1864.
and bravely marched "Over the hills and
far away" to Staunton, from which point
they passed on to Newmarket, forty-fve
miles distant. Scarcely had they arrived
on quiet Sabbath at noOnday-May 10
when the enemy appeared in force, and
knapsacks were thrown aside and the
battle commenced. There were 223 ca
diets, formed into four companies, Col.
Ship commanding until he was wounded,
when Capt. Henry A. Wise, Jr., sue
eeedad him Rev Otis Glazehrnnk late
of Macon, Ga, was a corporal in Com
pany Sd" and proved himself a
fine soldier. Eight were killed
and forty-eight wounded, and many
of the boys were barefoot when the
command returned to StauntOn flushed
with a glorious victory. The Confederate
Congress passed vote of thanks. the
Governor of Virginia gave them an ele-
CANT State flag, and poetry and song and
fervid elOquence have embalmed the
forced march and glorious deeds of this
corps of boy soldiers, and over the graves
of their heroic dead rise monuments COM
memorative of their unfiinching meeting
of death at the cannOn's mouth. The
dead rest in peace and undying glory, the
survivors have been scattered, and many
are at rest in hOnOred graves. But July
10, 1888, is near at hand, and the return of
this captured flag in New York, nineteen
years after its capture, will bring to the
hearts of the living survivors a pulsation
of pride and pleasure. In the quick glow
of youth their heroic conduct won this flag
on a bloody field of battle; in the cooler
years of manhood their generous patriot
ism prompts them 10 return it to the de-
feated foe, but with a modesty tempered
by long years of peace and good will be-
tween the sold Dominion and the "Em-
pire State" Let us have more of this
kind of ''returnin" and this kind of re-
union-but let each side preserve its self
respect and refrain from ''gush." A SOL
dier who cannot respect himself need not
look for respect from any worthy foe.
CHATHAM.