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 ramparts of Frederica had beaten back the invading Spaniards at "Bloody Marsh." He had sought no reward. The highest philanthropy brought him to these shores to share the lot of the emigrant. The friend of Hannah More, the companion of Pope, the patron of Sothern, Dr. Johnson wished to write his life, and Edmund Burke regarded him as the most extraordinary person of whom he had ever read. There is no specific monument to Oglethorpe in Georgia. Why should there be? A tablet in Cranham Church in England proclaims his excellence; but here, in the language of Chas. C. Jones, "The Savannah repeats to the Altamaha the stories of his virtues and his valor."

GENERAL OGLETHORPE.

Savannah during the Revolution recalls a story of blood and suffering. If her people