Year: 1865




SAVANNAH, June %, 1865.


Savannah is situated on beautiful bluff or
table land The streets are lined with the most beau.
tfu trees dense that the scarcely shines on the
streets The China tree and the water oak predomi.
nate There many magnolias, Morus Multicauhs'
and other rare kinds Some Of the streets are laid out
with two carriage drives with row Of trees along
either edge Of the sdewalks, and two rows between
the carriage ways with strip Of grass between them
The China tree Is in beautiful blossom Of lively red.
The water oak Is beautiful wide.sprcadng tree. and
Is evergreen 1t is species Of the Live oak, being at
least first cousiu


There many beautiful parks but the grand PARK
at the head Of Bu-st is saperb Around the fountain
luxurant dahlas in full bloom. Mockng birds are
a native here and the parks are alive With them.


Bull st. is the fashionable promenade, and strange to
say not house fronts this street. The frontage Is
on the street crossing Bull.st with high brick walls
incosing shrubbery and fig trees back to alleys, along
which are the stables over which the negroes, when
slaves. lived. 1t was a remarkable fact that not one


lady was seen OH the during the whole afternoon
and there was a dress parade and drill Of soldiers on
the common lust outside the park They were black
soldiers. Perhaps that viii account for It,


Trade 10 nowhere. There is no money. and this fact
"e
no country was ever subjected TO- has drained all its
resources and the laseness Of the caviug in Of the Re
beon ooo late to pant) with the disorganizaion Of


Labor vi lengthen the period Of suffering TO two
years before the people here win begin 70 hve. The


tsle there s In The country to seu cannot bv got "a
market, for want Of means Of transportation. The
lGaf Railroad IL destroyed for 70 nDes The Georgis
Central s totally destroyed to waynesboroogh over ~
miles The river is low and there boats here TO
navigate it,


! The Government has two boats, gone away
for repairs and the other only transport troops
and supplies, and do nothing for suffering hu'
manity here for those up the country alike suffering.
The Central has been put under contract 10 be com.
peted in 90 days II the iron can be procured Verify
the way Of the ransgressor Is hard and never was
more fully illustrated than here to-day.


The freedmen incline to leave their former masters
because they will pay them. There s disposition
to make the condition Of the freedmen hard as posi-
Bile. This was to be expected. But their former own
ers make II hare for themselves by taking that course
few planters wiser than the rest say Come. boys
we must make crop. have no money 10 pay you.
but nv credit is good enough TO obtain provisions FOR
YOU and me- and when the crop Is made you shall have


certain share This is always satisfactory, and the
freedmen generally stay and work well One gentle
man. from the district 100 miles south Of this told me
this morning that ont Of 40 slaves only two had left,
and he only able to give them five quaits OF meal
per head per week. He had promised them when the
crop was made to do right by them. After breakfast
be wished me TO isif down and have talk. found
him bitter against the North, saying that they had
brought on the war; agreat advocate for States rights
and hostile to the Government every point. i said
as the days and feathers and the halter are over


beg to tell you plain truths. and before we par.
ted the subject was well ventilated.


This city is full Of coored people, and much destitu'


ton exists yet they jolly under difficulties, aud in
much better spirits than their former masters.


There is great antipathy among the people here to
having colored soldiers right In their midst. have
heard great complaint made land much fault found
with the Government on this score.


There was dress parade and drill Of colored sol
dlers on tle Common adjoining the Park The only
white spectators were three gentlemen from New.
York, one being your humble servant Ii was decided
that they equaed any NewYork regiment in precision
and accurncy of drill. There some qualities pos
sessed by the coored man. which preemimently seem
10 qualify bin for soldier. As their former masters
seem disposed to turn them out to starve. hopo the
Government will make them soldiers and thus for
them On our return to the Hotel through the Park
there were many colored persons also returning.
asked them II they could walk through the park before
the war; One answered, "No massa, not without we
had a white child by the hand"


The question OF the right Of franchise for tho freed
men is a grave onc perhaps 1t is not best 70 grant II
tno suddenly But this know is right Dsfranchise
every prominent and leading man engaged In the late
Rebellion for least 10 years This s only Justice at
which none can justly complain This, President
johnson has clearly the right 10 do. Every true Union
man prays deyouty that it may be done. Better dis
franchise than hang them Let us pray that wisdom
be shown IN tho settlement Vi tho great questions oi
to-day LE"EiLiA'