A RISING CITY OF THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 801, 30 June 1865, Page 3

A RISING CITY OF THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The correspondent of BlachwoocVs Magazine, who has been making a tour of the Southern States in war time, thus writes of Savannah, as it was: — Savannah is the largest city of Georgia, on the south bank of the Savannah Eiver, eighteen miles from the sea, and has apopulatiou of about 16,000 whites and 12,000 blacks. A city with less than 30,000 inhabitants in the Northern and North-Western States of America is at the utmost considered a rising and promising young place; but it is different in the South, where population does not congregate at commercial centres, and the comparatively ancient town of Savannah is an important city. It was founded by General Oglethorpe in 1732, and, like most of the seaboard towns, was in the hands of the British during almost the whole of the Eevolutionary War. It is a beautiful place; and, to quote an American guide-book, " regularly built, with streets so wide and so unpaved, so densely shaded with trees, and so full of little parks, that but for the extent and elegance of its public edifices, it might seem to be a score of villages rolled into one. There are no less than twenty-four little green squares scattered through the city, and most of the trees are lined with the fragrant flowering tree, or or the Pride of India, while some of them hare four grand rows of trees, there being a double carriage way, with broad walks on the outer sides, and a promenade between." The neighbourhood is exceedingly pretty, with drives on the banks of the river, and avenues of live oaks, bay trees, inangolias, and orange trees. A favourite drive is the Cemetery of Bonaventure, which was originally a private estate, laid out in broad avenues; and these avenues of live oak, now grown to an immense size, with their huge branches sweeping to the ground, and carrying heavy festoons of the hanging Spanish moss, are magnificent.