The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

survived the introduction of artesian.
Such Is the vitality of colonial traditions.
And so it goes, page after page of the
Journal covered with complaints and
abuse, until the Earl, in sheer
WEAKNESS of spirit after forgiving the
Salzburgers a small debt for the reason
that they We're the only colonsts who had
ever repaid their loans, inscribed it as his
opinion that the rest were given over to
drunkenness and laziness-a view in
which, in the MAN, Whitfield coincided
How small it appears at this interval Of
time. But light began to break at last
The disconnected gradually found their
way to Carolina where they kept up fire
at long range-and the colony thus purified
began to prepare itself for the crisis which
was upon it.
In England, Georgia's fate had long
hung in the balance. In the Parliament
and in court circles, it had well-nigh been
determined to give over the struggle and
yield to Spain's contention, but pride saved
the day at last. So on July S, 1888, Ogle-
thorpe having received his commission
from the King as general and commander
in-chief of the forces in Carolina and
Georgia, set sail from Portsmouth, with
most of his regiment, arriving in Jekyl
sound on Sept. 1S-a detachment OF his
troops having previously sailed on May
T. With these latter came George WHIT
field, an earnest and brilliant man, the
successor of John Wesley, whose lasting
memorial still exists in the Bethesda Or
phans' Home. Fixing his headquarters
at Fort st. Andrews on Cumberland
Oglethorpe at once proceeded to establish
communications between Frederick and
the fort at the south end of St. Simons,
and beset with many anxieties and under
the necessity of increasing vigilence to
detect and Illustrate the designs OF the
Spanards, he was suddenly confronted
with a mutiny in his regiment, which came
near being fatal to him. For few months
after their arrival extra provisions had
been issued to the troops. This, some OF
them came to regard as a part OF their
pay, and upon the discontinuance of the
allowance, a conspiracy was formed to
kill the general. He was insolently APP
preached by a soldier, who upon
being rebuked, ran to his quarters, and
arming himself, returned with some four
or five associates. Approaching Ogle-
thorpe, he fired at point blank range, the
powder scorching the generals face ana
clothes, and the bullet narrowly missing
his head The musket of a second con-
spirator missed fire, whereupon thlrl
drew his hanger and endeavored to stdo
his chief who, having drawn his sword
parted the blow, and before it could be
repeated, the soldier had been run through
by an officer, who had fastened 10 inc
spot. The remaining conspirators were
seized, court-martiaed and executed, ana
the affair there ended. The general SIT
uatiOn was becoming each day more ON
NOUS Fomented by the Spaniards,
slave instruction had broken out in car
olina, and large company of negroes Were
making their way toward Florida muir
dering and plundering as they Went roI o.
tunately, this was suppressed before lho
Georgia line was reached. But the He
quency of these attempts to arouse llo
Indians and negroes against the EhSisp
persuaded Oglethorpe of the necessity u
immediate action toward securing lIo
friendship and alliance of the great Green
nation. Setting out in July 1883, WIN q
retinue of three or four officers. he pusheu
his way for three hundred miles throu5"
the wilderness and swamps of Georsla'
probably to the neighborhood of WHeI99
Columbus now stands. There he touuu
the Creeks assembled and considering llo
expediency of war upon the whites ouen
was the impression made upon them w
Oglethorpe-particula his boldness ~
coming among them with so few follow
ers-that they renewed their relations VIZ
the English, and pledged their co-oPeii.h
ton in the approaching hostilitles WIZ
Spain. This secured the neutrality
least, of seven thousand warriors an
was magnificent Illustration of the iol
titude, skill and powers of endurance =.
the general. On his return he learned 'ueS
war had been declared between Engldnp
and Spain. In the midst of these mn
tary preparations and anxieties' deaSs
took from him one of his truest frlenuo
and most loyal allies. on ia
18th of October, 1883, NV