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Sawmmlj fcilg VOL. 6.—NO. 130. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. LATEST EVENTS BY CABLE AND WIRE. Disastrous Fire In Now York—A Number of Families Rendered Homeless—Sur render of Chief Poundmaker- Con tinuation of the Defense in the Cluverius Trial—Cause of the Delay of the Afgho-Rus sian Negotiations. New York, May 27—The vast furniture factory of H. Herman & Bros., at Mangin and Tomkins streets was discovered to be on fire at 3:30 a. m. It was an old building occupied by the Singer Sewing Machine Factory and was saturated with oil. The building is surrounded by miserable tene ment house occupied by the poorest classes in the city. The fire was intensely hot and nearly a hundred families were driven from their homes. They rushed out in their night clothes and were com pelled to camp on the riverside where they shivered in the chilly wind of morning. The flames spread so rapidly that the firemen gave up trying to save the factory, and directed their efforls toward the surrounding property, which setmed in im minent danger of being consumed. Several extra alarms were sent out. The factory was filled with furniture and the loss will be very heavy. This being the busy season, over 3,000 persons will be out of work. At 5-30 special calls were sent out for more engines. THE CLUVERIUS TRIAL. Continuing; the Testimony for the Defence Richmond, Va, May 27—Soon after court met this morning, in the Cluverius case, counsel for the defense moved that the place of holding court be changer > that it was necessary to do so for the bene fit of the health of all concerned in the trial. It was suggested that the hall of the House of Delegates could be obtained. The court stated it would look into the matter and decide. The defense offered as evidence a written Statement of Miss Millie B-ay, that she had been engaged to be married to the prisoner for two years, and that Miss Lilian Madison was fully aware of it. Wm. B. Cluverius, brother of the prison er, testified that his brother came to Rich mond March 12th to attend to legal business. Had never known his brother to wear any watch key but the one given him by his aunt. His brother had not worn the key for a longtime. Witness brought the key and the pie:e of charm chain to Richmond, as he had seen in the papers that a key had been found at the reservoir. His brother had made no effort to conceal the piece of chain, but simply took it from his long chain and threw it on the table. The key found at the reservoir witness had never seen; nor had he ever seen one like it. Witness was subjected to a rigid cross ex fUwißStiop, but he stood the test remarka bly well. AN IMPORTANT DECISION. Interesting to Americati Residents in Mexico. LAREbo, Mex., 27. —A decision of the Supreme Court of Mexico received here yesterday is of utmost importance to for eigners owning property in that country. In 1884 the municipal authorities of Laredo, Mexico, Confiscated real estate in that city owned by Mr. Thus. Wilsb, alleging that he Could not hold property in Mexico, being a foreigner. An injunction to stay proceedings was obtained from the District Judge of Laredo who ruled that the seizure was illegal. The case was appealed to the Supreme court of Mexico which affirmed the ruling of the District Judge, also declaring that the feder al government could not appropriate the property of foreigners without directly vio lating the constitution, much less a munici pality. Yesterday Mr. Walsh crossed the river and his property was restored to him by the Municipality. THE SAVAGE APACHES. A Number of Murders Committed by Them Denning, N. M., May 27 —News has ar rived from Alma that the Apaches have killed there an old man named Benton, two brothers named Sutler, Pete and Ornon, Jim Montgomery, M. Smith, W. R. Lyon, a part ner of Mr. Harris, name unknown, and a number of others who can’t be identified. A letter received here says that 24 bodies have been found within a radius of 24 miles. OUTRAGE BY INDIANS. Troops in Hot Pursuit. Denning, N. M., May 27.—Thirty In dians have passed near here heading for Mexico, with cavalry in close pursuit. The bodies of five Americans, killed by the In dians, were found at Blue river on Monday. The stage running from Eagle to Grafton Mining Camp, in Black Range, has not been heard from. It is supposed it has been taken by Indians. Russia Still Making Demands. London, May 27.—1 tis reported in Ber lin that the settlement of the Afghan diffi culty is still delayed by Russia’s demand for Zulfikar, a claim which has the approval of Germany. Miss Cleveland on Temperance. New York, May 27.—The Sun publishes a long commentary by Miss Elizabeth Cleve land, s'ster of the President, upon Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby’s well-known work in favor of temperance. WESTERN PRODUCE. Wheat Lower Than for Twenty-Two Years—Very Little Outside Business, and the Market Tired. Special Dispatch to the Daily Times. Chicago, May 27. —Everybody has looked at the almanac and chart, and everybody knows, or thinks he knows, that there is no good in bulling wheat in June. Nobody pays any attention to the facts that during the past 10 years wheat in June has been lower than in May only four years, and that only once in 22 years has wheat sold so low in June as it is to-day. The market acts tired. There is very little outside business done now, and the activity of the pit is laigely a series of skirmishes between scalp ers.and privilege men. A good deal of grain is being sold out for country holders who have held on so long, hoping against hope, that they have become discouraged and are quitting the deal in disgust. Reports that the Minneapolis Millers’ Association has made a further reduction of 2c in their buying prices and that many mills in that section were closing, also helps along the weakness and has emboldened the bears to organize a raiding party. “Exces sive supply” is their cry and the speculative mind as well as eye and ear, has grasped and clings to the fact that “stocks are large.” When they say this, they of course mean wheat, for stocks of grain in Chicago are 2,000,000 for less than a year ago, and the same is true as to the visible supply. The other great bear argument is “lack of for eign demand” and a belief that Europe can get along without American wheat. Exports since July Ist, however, have footed up in round figures 125,000,000 bushels of wheat which is way above the average for any group of years; and notwithstanding the stocks abroad are small. “It is because general business is bad, be cause speculation is dead and because every body has become a bear by recent expe rience, that wheat is on a lower export basis than it has been in 200 years prior to the present crop year —that wheat in Chi cago is 90 cents instead cf $1 40,” said Ludlow to-night. Corn is depressed by increased receipts and the expectation that they will grow i rapidly from this time on. It must be re membered however, that there has been this same promise cf big arrivals several times before, and each time it has proven a d'sappointing allusion. There ought to be some increase at this time of year, but just st present it is hard to see what it is to ::ome from, as railroad officials declare that there is little corn cribbed in Kansas, Missouri or Nebraska. Long, Leopold, Bloom and Jones have lately been heavy sellers. Baxter also talks bearish, but it is noticed he sells but little. Still the crowd have about conclueded that the tide is turning and are inclined to get on the “short” side. Official figures of the amount of com in store here are this week the biggest bur lesque yet issued. La«t week official stocks were published at 594,000 bushels. Re ceipts for the week are given at 607,700 bushels, and shipments at 1,408,700 bushels. If these figures are correct, the elevators are 200,000 bushels worse than empty. Provisions show no improvement. The fear of large receipts of hogs makes the number of buyers swel l . A NEGRO INSURRECTIONIST. Desolating Valuable Plantations in Ctiba. Havana, May 27.—Limbano Sanchez, who leads a filibustering party which landfed in Cuban sail May 19, is a negro who has won a reputation as a daring participant in former insurrections. He has begun a re lentless use of the torch, and the sugar plan ters of the Santiago district arc in dispair. New York Stock Market. New York, May 27.—At 1:30 p. m. to day quotations were: Union Pacific f’4'4 Missouri Pacific - 95% Western Union Telegraph Co G'% Louisville and Nashville 33 Texas Pacific l.zs Denver and RioJGrande ■>% Michigan Central 48}-? Delaware. Lackawanna & West’n 102■ „ Northwestern 93% St. Paul 88% Chicago, Bnrlfnaton and Quincy 121% Oregon Transcontinental 13% Northern Pacific - 35% Rock Island 114% Jersey Central 36% Memphis and Charleston 36 East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (coin) 21% East Tennessee, Va. <t Ga. (pld) 5% Philadelphia and Reading 14 Omaha (com) - 20 Omaha ipfd) 71 New York Central 84% Kansas and Texas 18 Erie 9% Surrender of Poundmaker and His Braves. Chicago, May 37. —A dispatch to the United Press from Battleford, says: “Chief Pountfmaker and thirty of his braves sur rendered to General Middleton at midnight with 200 stands of arms. They are now held as prisoners of war.” England’s Prospects Rejected. London, Mar 27.—A dispatch trom Con stantinople says that the Turkish Govern ment has rejected Euglind’s proposal for the occupation of Suakim. Jell'erson C. Davis Shot Dead. East Liverpool, O„ May 27.—August Bratt shot Jefferson C. Davis, a drummer, dead at the Ca’dwell Hose last uight for the betrayal of Bratt’s daughter. Hunt’s Remedy cures speedily bilious head ache, costiveness, dyspepsia, strengthens the stomach and purifies the blood. For fancy white and colored shirts, open front, L. Ereid’s is the place. To convince yourself that 15 or 20 per cent, can be saved, two or three dealings, call at L. Freid’s. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27. 1885. FROM WASHINGTON A GLOWING TRIBUTE TO VICE PRESIDENT HENDRICKS. A Man Combining all the Qualities of a Patriot and Statesman His War Record All that the Most Loyal Could Desire —His Visit to the White House and His Relation With the President. Special Dispatch to the Savannah Daily Times Washington, May 27.—One of our well known judges speaking of. the slighting manner in which many papers have been speaking of the Vice President, said to day: “In the possession of all those superior qualities that combine to make a superior man—large intellect, culture, refinement, generous heart, equable disposition, courage, patriotism, honesty of purpose, integrity, faithfulness to friends, appreciation of merit in others and good wishes fcr all his fellow men —Thomas A. Hendricks stands dis tin guished and pre-eminent, far above many leaders of the party whom I could name. It is folly and absurd to say that the great Republic is in danger with such a man at the helm. Mr. Hendricks is a man of conservative mind and action, a statesman of much public experience, a good lawyer and solid citizen with an atfactive charac ter in domestic life. During the late cam paign some of the Republican papers pur sued Mr. Hendricks in season and out of season with the charge that he was ‘dis loyal’ to his country during the war and that he declared he would never vote a man for the National Army, nor a dollar to feed it. That is, that he said this in the United States Senate during the war. Mr. Hendricks informed the writer that when in the Senate from 1863, onward for six years, he deemed it his patriotic duty, however much he might criticise minor de tails of the administration, and the conduct of the war to vote men and money without stint to whip the organized Confederate armies and restore the Union intact, and that he so voted on every bill appropriating money and calling for men for that war purpose. During the late campaign a well-known partisan spent a whole day at the Capitol library searching for one word in the Con gressional debates from Mr. Hendrick’s lips, ; while Senator, antagonistic to the war fur the Union, or expressing sympathy, remc-1 tedly or directly, for the South, and no such word was found. The record fu’ly sustains the assertion of Mr. Hendricks to the writer. McPherson’s committee tried to blast Mr. Hendricks with some such record, but failed to find a foot hold. With a man of such brilliant attain ments and admirable character, utterly in capable of a mean and dishonorable act, of sober and refined habits, noted for his gal lantlry and courtesy and high honor for womanhood, consoled by a nolle and intel lectual wife, as Vice President, the country is satisfied. It is true that Mr. Hendricks visits the departments frequently and is often a caller at the White House, but why should he not? It is sneeringly said that he interests himself in obtaining offices for his friends. He has urged the appointment of not more than half a dozen persons, two of them have been given good positions, and he is satisfied. Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks have gone to Indiana to spend several weeks. ATLANTA FLASHES. Pathetic Scene in Court—Minor Mention. Special Dispatch to the Daily Times. Atlanta, May 27.—One of the most pathetic incidents ever seen in a court room in Atlanta occurred yesterday after noon in the City Court. Judge Marshall J. Clarke was presiding, and a habeas corpus case was on trial involving the cus tody of a little child. The parties to the suit were all well-to-do people of good social position. Four years ago the wife of Jas. T. Miller, a railway postal clerk, died, leaving a little girl. The baby was com mitted to the care of the maternal grand mother, Mrs. William Wallace, and the father regularly supplied money to defray the expenses cf his baby. The child is now a pretty little .blue-eyed girl of four and a half years, with an unusually bright and sunny face. Several days ago the father took the child, and the grandmother brought this suit to recover possession. After two or three days hearing of the case Judge Clarke, about 6 o’clock yesterday afternoon, awarded the custody of the child to the grandmother. The child was in the father’s possession during the trial. His counsel made a strong effort to induce the Judge to let the father keep her until the end of the litigation, but the judge declined. The part ing of the father and his child was one of the most painful scenes ever witnessed in any court room. After kissing her aunts and other relatives on the paternal side her smiling face showing that she did not realize the situation, the little girl said, “good-bye papa” and put her arms tenderly about her fathers neck. The father kissed his little daughter affectionately, three or four time but said nothing; and she was led away by her grand mother. The new officers of the Young Men’s Literary Association were installed last night. ; The railroad commission is still consid ering the application of the railroads on an increase in the rates on local freights. Probabilities. Washington, May 27. —For the South Atlantic States, local rains and partly cloudy weather, southwesterly winds, sta tionary temperature. ROUGH ON PAIN. Cures colic, cramps, diarrhoea; externally for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neural gia, rheumatism. For man or beast. 20 andsoc. At L. Freid’s you will always be treated right, as he tries to please all. THE FAILURE OF PRIVATE ADVER USING. Why Cards, Circulars and the Like Are Failures as Advertising Mediums. New York Commercial Bulletin. Within the last few years it has become the fashion with some people to do their advertising in their own private way, in stead of through the newspapers. Some distribute cards, some circulars, some pamphlets, some almanacs, and some in conceivable monstrosities of oddity, circu lating them by the hundreds and thousands through the mails. The printer’s art has been taxed to the utmost to gratify the tastes of these advertisers. Some of the finest, as well as some of the basest, speci mens of the art of engraving, of chromo lithographing and of color printing are being produced for these purposes and every conceivable style of fancy paper it brought into requisition. The advertisers vie with each other in the elegance of their designs and the ccsthness of their devices, taking it for granted that the receivers will conform their estimate as to the status of the advertiser to the artistic pretensions of his advertisement. .Some people may regret that the noble art of printing, at the period of its highest achievements, should be sub jected to such debasing uses; but to those who thus employ the art, it should be equally a matter of concern that the debase ment so completely fails of the object for which it is intended. With him who notices such advertisements at all, the first feeling on receiving one of these superb specimens or typography of engrav ing is apt to be one of disgust that it relates to the artistic pursuits of his butcher or his bootmaker, or that the subjects of its elegant illustrations are chairs and tables, refrigera tors and brooms, he throws'it down with an indefinable grudge against the man who has beeri guilty of such a ridiculous prostitution of art, and without exactly knowing it, he is distinctly convinced that a tradesman who spends so much money in such an incon gruous way is not likely to be endowed with the common sense of a good man of business or to sell cheaply’. In truth, however, those who take any notice whatever of this flood of announce ments form but a very small percentage of those who receive them. They have come to be the nuisance of both the parlor and the counting room. At home they are never opened but with disappointment, be cause they qome in the place of letters really hoped for. In the office the merchant finds his morning mail stuffed with these intru sions upon the serious affairs of his business, which he inwardly curses or impatiently consigns to his waste paper heap. In short, if a public vote could be taken, it would unanimously’ declare these drumming miss ives to be an intolerable nuisance that should be denied the privilege of the mails. Men of business who resort to this method of advertising cannot be ignorant of the fact that the people whom they would reach have become nauseated with it. They must be aware that they themselves disre garded all such appeals for p? r mage; and what reason have they to suppose that others receive their applications with more patience? Sagacious advertisers are begin ning to see this and are returning to the old method of public announcement. The newspaper is, in every sense, the best medi um for advertising; and, for a given result, it is by much the cheapest also. It reaches a far greater number of possible cus tomers than any private announcement can; and it is more certain to receive attention. The private circular is thrown aside as a thing which people have come to regard as a bore, and which is neglected be cause its recipients have no time to attend tp it. The newspaper is used in each hour of leisure, and readers find interest in read ing its advertisements as well as the news, because of the variety they present and the infoimation they convey respecting a wide diversity of interests. It may be safely esti mated that an announcement made through the press is noticed by fifty readers, where, made in a private way, it would reach but one. If, therefore, the same amount were ex pended in either cage, the result would be fifty-fold better from the former method than from the latter. There are, undoubt edly, cases in which the circular is a bet ter medium than a newspaper. Such for instance, as were the matter is unnecessarily lengthy, apd the cost of newspaper space would therefore be very large. But such casesare quite exceptionable, and the sooner advertisers learn the folly of their present large expenditures in seeking publicity through private means, the better for their pockets and their success. REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING COM PANY. A New and Beneficial 00-operative Enter prise. By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that a meeting is to be held to-night at Metropolitan Hall at 8:30 o’clock for, the purpose of or ganizing the above Association. This is a new enterprise in Savannah and presents many features which are a decided improve ment upon the old Building and Loan Asso ciations. The objects and work ings of this Association will be fully explained at the meeting by Mr. M. J. Solomons, who has had large experience in building and loan associa tions, and who is an active promoter of the movement. A splendid opportunity is offered stockholders in an association of this character to secure a home on easy and rea sonable terms, and no doubt the meeting will be largely attended. City Court. Hon. Wm. D. Harden, Judge presiding Court convened this morning at 10 o’clock, when the following proceedings were had: Venable & Hayman vs. James G. Watts. Suit on draft. The plaintiff confessed judg ment, which the court entered up for the sum of SBO3 40 principal, $1 50 interest,(and $lO 50 costs of suit. Lawton & Cunningham for plaintiff's. Myers & Appell vs. James G. Watts. Suit on account. Plaintiff confessed judgment for the sum of $585 principal, and $lO 50 costs. Richards & Heywood lor plaintiff. TERRIBLE DISASTER. SUDDEN COLLAPSE OF A TENE MENT HOUSE- It Sinks and Closes Like a Telescope- Four Lives Lost and an Unknown Number of Persons Wounded—The House a Mass of Ruins Before the Occupants Could Escape. Jersey, City, N. J., May 27 —A terri ble disaster causing the loss of four lives and more or less serious wounding of as yet unknown numbers of persons, occurred about 6:30 this morning. The four families in Patrick Anderson’s 4-story tenement house, situated on the west side of Colgate street, between First and Second streets, were about their usual avocations at that hour, when they were startled by a low roar as of a cannon at a distance. Then fol lowed the creaking of timbers and the building began to tremble. In arother instant and before the now thoroughly ter rified occupants of the building cot Id rea lize what was happening THE BUILDING HAD COLLAPSED. It sunk down in the centre like a tele scope and a cloud of dust went up in the air. The shrieks of women and cries of children alarmed the neighborhood, and the vicinity was soon swarming with humanity. Strong hands and wiring hearts were speedily en gaged in the work of dragging away the timbers, receiving the living and taking out the dead. The screams of the wounded who were pinioned down and crushed be tween the timbers, were organizing. Immediately after the disaster occurred an alarm was given on the fire bell, and the firemen quickly got to work and took out the dead and these who had by a miracle es caped. It has been ascertained at this writ ing that FOUR HAVE BEEN KILLED, three children of Mr. Anderson, owner of the building, and a young man named Hayes, 17 years old. Mrs Anderson, who lived on the first floor had goqe to a neighboring grocery to get something for breakfast. When she returned her house was wrecked, and the three children composing her entire family dead. Her husband who is a. baker at State Hill prison was absent at the time. The number of wounded and the nature and extent of their injuries has not yet been as curtained. AN INTERESTING CASE Against the Knights of the Golden Rule. On the 6th day of December, 1882, Ste jihen Newton, a well-known citizen, who lived on Belton and Jefferson street, com mitted suicide by shooting himself, at a point near Cemetery street. He was a member of Knights of the Golden Rule, and was insured for $2,000. The association refused to pay the widow of deceased, Mrs. Laura Newton on the ground that deceased had violated one of the rules which said that if any member of the organization died by his own hand, or in other words committed suicide, he would forfeit the insurance. Mrs. Laura Newton and J. F Shuptrine, guardian, et. al., sued the Knights of the Golden Rule for the recovery of $4,000 based on a contract. The case came up to-day in the City Court before Hon. William D. Harden and a jury. C. W. West, Eq. ap peared for the plaintiffs and Colonel 8. M. Bernhardt, of Louisville, Ky., geneial at torney for the Knights throughout the United States, and Isaac Beckett, Esq. for the Association. The points for the plaintiff were that the deceased was of unsound mind and mentally diseased when he committed the act, and that when he signed the contract and sub scribed to the rules of the Knights of the Golden Rule, the suicide clause was not in the by-laws. The defendant alleged gener ally by the laws of Georgia, Alabama and this place, that suicide vitiates a policy, etc. When the evidence was concluded, his honor, Judge Harden gave lucid explana tion to the jury of sanity and insanity, and held that in his opinion the suicide clause in the articles of the Knights cf the Golden Rule did not apply to deceased inasmuch as it was interpolated alter he had subscribed as a member. The court gave a clear and exhaustive charge, and the jury took the case at 2 o’clock this afternoon for consider ation. It is an interesting case. Grand Open Air Concert at Tybee. On Thursday afternoon and evening Man ager Breskan, of the Ocean House,has made arrangements to entertain his guests with a grand open air concert, which will eclipse anything ever before beard on the island. It is determined to make the occasion a grand gala affair. As an addition to the concert there will be dancing, and refreshments will also be served at reasonable prices. A fine programme has been arranged for the con cert, which will be rendered by a brass band of fifteen pieces. There will also be an excellent string band on hand. The tide will suit for bathing, and those who wish to revel in the billowy waves can do so to their heart’s contents. In fact, this occa sion premises to be a grand one,and as an ex cursion will be made to Tybee that day, the steamer leaving her wharf at 10 o’clock. The opportunity will be offered all who wish to go. Remember this will be the event of the season at Tybee, and don’t you miss it. Manager Bresnan proposes tomake it a big time for all who come. Port Grape Wine for the Sick. We can confidently recommend Speer’s Port Grape Wine, which was awarded the highest premium at the World’s Fair, a su perior article of wine for the sick and debili tated. The vineyard and cellars are at Passaic, New Jersey, near New York City.—Medical Review. For sale by Osceola Butler, Druggist, corner Bull and Congress streets. Lisle thread shirts_ for sale L. Freid’s. S6OO A YE AR RAILROAD RATES. Savannah Merchants and Business Men Oppose an Advance* On the 29th day of last month the sev eral railroads doing business in Georgia met before the Railroad Commissioners and advocated the increase of rates on grain and flour to the figures in force prior to the issuance of circular No. 20, February 10, 1882., Arguments were heard and speeches made on that subject, but no action was taken by the Railroad Commissioners. Yes* terday was designated for a hearing by ths merchants and business men of the State in opposition to the views of the railroads on this matter. When the Board met yester day there were present I. G. Haas, Esq., representing the Savannah Boaid of Trade, Colonel John N. Dunn, of the Atlanta Board of Trade, J. R; Mobley, of Social Circle; D. S. Hall and J. B. Park er, of Greensboro; and J. W. Barrett, of Dal ton. Col. Dunn first addressed the Board of Railroad Commissioners in a strong and forcible speech. He was followed by Mr- Haas, of Savannah, who, in the first place, took the position that the roads were adopt ing a short-sighted pci icy in endeavoring to advance the rates on flour and grain. He said that the Central Railroad, for instance, brings into Savannah probably three-fourths of our supply of these articles, while they do not distribute ten per cent of the amount taken in. He adds if local rates be ad vanced they will simply throw the traffic in these articles in other markets, and corres pondingly curtail our ability to buy. Mr. Haas- said the main competi tor now for the business of Southwest Georgia was New Orleans, which has already come witbin eighty miles of us. He urged upon the Commis sioners' to consider what the effect of the advance contemplated by the roads would have upon Savannah trade, while we have reason to believe that the rates from New Orleans are being constantly reduced. Mr, Haas called attention to the faet that Jacksonville and Fernandina having equal facilities for the trade of South Western Georgia as Savannah threatens us in tie same direction. The speaker then t ook up the report of Major Green, Mmager cf the Georgia Rail road, showing a net decreae in the earnings of the road for twelve moots, ending March 31st, of 2.36 per cent. He then challenged 95 per cent. of the merchants of Georgia, to make such a gratifying showing for that years business, as this is more a reduction, not an advance, as the tendency of every thing is downward. He closed his argu ments with a strong presentation of facts and made a good showing why the local rates should not be advanced. In this matter of flour and grain alone were the representa tives of the business men were Irefore the Georgia Railroad Com missioners as opposed to railroads. Mr. Haas arrived in Savannah this morn ing and was greeted by many of his friends and numbers of the Board of Trade, who were anxious to ascertain what the Commis sion would do. He was unable to tell what the body would do. Nothing was said or intimated as to the course they would take. OFF TO THE CONVICT CAMP. A Number of Recruits to the Penitentiary Force. Mr. G. H. Williams, guard of Old Town Camp No. 10 on the Central Railroad, came into Savannah last evening for the purpose of carrying some prisoners to the points where the Penitentiary lessees designated them to be apportioned. He took away with him this morning Daniel Armighton, s negro who stole two gold watches from a colored man named McUliffe. He fled to Macon, was recaptured, and Constable James Sullivan brought him back to Sa vannah. Judge Adams, on May 15th,sen tenced him to imprisonment for a term of ten years. Armighton pretended to have a fit yesterday, but Dr. Bulloch, who at tended him, said that he was shamming, and he went away this morning firmly in the belief that a change of air and a term of bard labor would benefit him. Philip J. Herndon, a white man, was also taken away. He was foundguilty of killing a negro named Thomas near Baxley,-Ap pling county, Ga., eight years ago. He was recommended to imprisonment for life and was sentenced by Judge M. L. Menhon ac cordingly on may 15th. Titus Alvin and Scipio Alvin, negroes from Liberty county, also accompanied Mr. Williams. They are father and son and exhibited such a maiked tendency for taking hogs belonging to others that they were arrested and sentenced by Judge Adams May 20ih to two years. Ben Howard, a negro horn the same place, wanted to go the whole heg, too. He was caught and will assist the Alvins in laboring for the State for the next two years. The guard and his prisoners left this morning on the Central Railroad for their destination. Mr. Williams said that all the prisoners from Chatham county and elsewere at Old Town, are doing well, and are as contented as men can be under such circumstances.; BASE BALL. A Match Game To-morrow Afternoon. A match game of base ball will be played to morrow afternoon at four o’clock between the Amateurs and Warrens on the ground at Whitaker and Anderson streets. It will be for the junior championship of the city, This will be a fine game as both clubs will play their best to win the first gatiie of the season. The Warrens will hate the fol lowing players: , • ■ Mack, s. s.; Harrigan, c.; Cleary, I. f.; Smifh, 3 b.; Quint, 1 b.; Brown, 1. f.; Houli han, p.; Brennan, 2 h.; Sullivan, c. f. The Amateurs will consist of the follow ing: Burnham, c.; Harinan, 1 b.; Dawson, 3 b.; Nungeaer, p.; Cann, s. s.; Oppenheimer, c. f% Dalton, 2 b.; Ennis, 1. f.; Stiuss, r. f. The next game will be between the Hus ears and Chatham Artillery on Friday next.