. Historic towns of the Southern States. it fromGeneral Howe. Savannah then containedabout twenty thousand people. To-day it hasover sixty thousand, is the largest and busiestseaport on the South Atlantic, ships more thana million bales of cotton a year, and handlesmore than a million packages of naval Tybee Roads, where Oglethorpe firstanchored his good ship Ann; where the Savannah 325 English fleet halted before attacking the town ;where DEstaino- moored his French frio-atesand waited for the Americans to join him;where the colonists captured the powder shipfrom the Enp;lish, the f
. Historic towns of the Southern States. it fromGeneral Howe. Savannah then containedabout twenty thousand people. To-day it hasover sixty thousand, is the largest and busiestseaport on the South Atlantic, ships more thana million bales of cotton a year, and handlesmore than a million packages of naval Tybee Roads, where Oglethorpe firstanchored his good ship Ann; where the Savannah 325 English fleet halted before attacking the town ;where DEstaino- moored his French frio-atesand waited for the Americans to join him;where the colonists captured the powder shipfrom the Enp;lish, the first naval enoraeementof the Revolution ; where the sturdy Southernironclad met the invulnerable monitors of theUnion, ships of every flag now ride and alone the little square-rigged vesselswhich Washinofton saw, but biof ocean steam-ships, of which the Savannah was the pioneer,now plow their way to foreign and domesticports. The shipping of Savannah exceedsthat of all the South Atlantic and Gulf portsfrom Baltimore to MOBILE THE GULF CITY By peter J. HAMILTON PERHAPS Mobile is the only Americancity which has seen five flags wave as em-blems of the peaceful rule of as many civilizedpowers. She has been French, English, Span-ish, American and Confederate by turn, andher street names perpetuate her varied the original Creole limits, we find Dauphinand Royal, of the French era ; Government,St. Joseph, and Conception, of the Spanish ;just without, come many American names likeJackson, Franklin, Monroe, and Congress ; andthe Mexican War produced Monterey ; whileBeauregard, Davis Avenue, and CharlestonStreet, among others, point to Confederatetimes and feelings. The Latin element ismerged in the Teutonic, but it is still shownby the narrow thoroughfares, in the character of 327 o 28 Mobile the people, and in some of their institutionsand diversions. Steam, electricity, sewers,waterworks, shell roads and handsome build-ings have caused a long and romantic hi
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