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^rnamrn . J ' .,.U l l l ! W l I F* ll - » 11 ' ■■"'. ' JJL I D A. I L IT ETVTmNTN’GP Savannah [rf rfl fSJ ■| VOL I.—No. 92. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, % (Saturday Excepted,) -O-t 161 BAY STREET, By J. STERN. The Recorder is served to subscribers, in every part ot the city by careful carriers. Communications must be accompanied by the name of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Remittance by Check or Post Office orders must be made payable to the order of the pub¬ lisher. We will not undertake to preserve or return rejected communications. Correspondence on Local and general mat¬ ters of interest solicited. On Advertisements running three, six, and twelve months a liberal reduction from our regular rates will be made. All correspondence should be addressed, Re¬ corder, Savannah, Georgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will take the moo oi the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full issues for the week. 4 (®*YVc do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. Horatio Seymour. The Words of a Patriot. Truths to be Remembered — Who Advo¬ cated Secession — What Record has the North — Who First Taught State’s Rights .. The folowing letter from Hon. Horatio Seymour was read at the 8th ot January celebration of the Tammany Society of New York : Utica, January 4th, 1879. Dear Sir: I am not able to accept, your invitation to attend the celebra¬ tion ot the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans I am glad only that it is to te so held. It will not recall to men’s minds an event which wili tend to allay sectional prejudices, but it will also recall many facts in our past history which will teach us to be tolerant of others. We are prone to feel that the state of public opinion in different quarters will continue in the future ; that the spirit and of will disunion is of Southern origin, always grow rank upon its soil. THE SEEDS OF TREASON AND CIVIL WAR. When we look back to the 8th day of January, 1815, we are led to study the early history of our country and we learn something which may abate the sectional prejudice pride and which gives birth to .sectional hate. These are seeds from which grow treason and civil war. We shall find that no sec¬ tion is free from imputations of disloy¬ New alty York or of inconsistency would of conduct. for a time not enter the Union. It distrusted the power given to the general Government. The doctrine of State’s rights had its origin with us, and not in Virginia, which at the outset was in favor of a strong central government. Yet in the war of 1812, New York shifted its position and upheld the exert ion of every power claimed by the President of the United States. On the other hand, in the North¬ eastern the States, which had supported John Adams, centralizing doctrine their of free when war harmed commerce upon the oceans, official acts verging upon rebellion marked their policy. While while a foreign enemy walls was of up¬ the on our soil, the Capitol of oui Union were blackened by the smoke of fires kindled by the torches of hostile invaders, open resist¬ ance was threatened to drafts to fill the ranks of our armies. These threats were not made by an excited mob act¬ ing under a sense of wrong, but were put forth as the calm conclusions of men who were then, and whose memories are now honored in the com" inunities in which they lived. As chosen solemnly representatives declared of their States they that, “ Iu this whole series of devices and measures for raising men this Convention dis¬ tion cerns and a total disregard disposition for the Constitu¬ a to violate its vidual provisions, demanding from the indi¬ States a firm and decided opposition.” a chapter from history. At an early day Alexader Hamilton, the great leader of his party, warned bis follow era that they were going too tar. $o thoroughly convinced was he at one time that there was a plan in progress tor the separation of the Union that on June 11th, 1804, on the Safer day previous to his death he said to Colonel John lrumbull, with a look deep meaning, “You are. going to Bos ton. will see the principal men there, loll them from me as my re quest tor God s sake to cease t heir con versations and threatemngs about the separation ot the Union. It must hang together as long as it can be made to. It was & distinguished Northern tor who, at the seat ot government in 1811, first suggested compelled secession. declare it He faid; “1 am to as rnv deliberate opinion that it this bill the bonds ot this Union are vir tuady dissolved; that the States which compose it ar e free irom their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all so it will be the duty of some to prepare definitely for a separa¬ tion—amicablv if they can, violently if they must.” It was-a leading legislative Northern State which placed upon its records the declaration against the ad¬ mission of Texas, which taught that it dissolved the bonds of the Union, and asserted that no authority could make it submit to that act. Alhough it did submit the spirit of rebellion was there. Among the earliest events in Pennsyl¬ vania was the formidable resistance to the laws of Congress, known as the Whisky Rebellion Tax Law, to such proportions that George Washington was forced to call upon other States to give him aid. At this period the South¬ ern States were the firm supporters of the Union. John C. Calhoun was the able Secretary of War, who organized its forces and asserted its power. When we turn to the history of the late civil war we see how time and interest and passion change the position of States— the South waging war upon the Gen¬ eral Government and exciting a South¬ ern rebellion on Northern.principles. At the same time some Northern States demanded the very measures they had denounced as acts which should be resisted. They poured forth blood and treasure to hold States in the -Union whose membership they had declared them no human power should make assent to. States that deemed a war unjust in 1812, because, among other things, it destroyed our carrying trade, now demand a policy more destructive to American shipping upon the which ocean of the world than any embargo could be devised by the genius of Mr. Jefferson. These changes in the posi¬ and tions of States are full of warning full of encouragement. W1IY SECTIONAL HATE SHOULD BE STAMPED OUT. They teach us that there will ever be discontent wherever there are real or fancied wrongs; that it should al¬ ways be the object of political parties and public men to work for the welfare of all parts of our Union ; that tins spirit can alone preserve its life. hostility On the other hand changes from to our Union to its warm support are brought about when the wisdom of our government diffuses prosperity into every section. Unless the spirit of sec¬ tional hate shall be stamped out as a baleful fire we do not know in what quarter it may break out and involve us in civil war. The past warns us that the spirit of patriotism or the spirit of rebellion have no permanent seats or fixed forms for their assertion. Kindling sectional hate at the North to-day is more dangerous to the peace and prosperity of our country than the exhausted passions of rebellion which have burned to ashes at the South. The fact that the principles of disunion were first put forth at the North is no reason why they should not be put down when acted upon at the South. But this fact should make us more tol¬ erant and give us faith that a love of union can grow up there as it did in sections where disloyalty was first dis ulaced, and where treasonable senti¬ ments were first hatched out. 1 be¬ lieve that celebrations of a victory gained for the flag of the Union by the Southern men upon Southern soil will not only promote fraternal feelings, but by contrasts with duty events forbearance, elsewhere will teach all the of of moderation and of devotion to the interests of every section of our great country. All that knowledge teaches a of our history tells us that other sections of the country have virtues as well as our own, and that we have errors to atone for as well as they. These truths make us tolerant and disposed to ad¬ vance the interests and welfare of every section of our Union. I am truly yours, etc., Horatio Seymour. An Experience Dollars. willi the Silver [From the Springfield (.Nluss.) Republican.] of A good story is told of the experience one of our banks and manufactories resuming specie payment. The stock of silver dollars in one of the banks was getting to be pretty large, and a Director proposed that if the bank would put with them enough gold to make up his monthly pay roll, he would pay [them out. Agreed. A messenger lightly from the-shops day stepped into the bank one aud called for “that silver,” the amount which was about 87,000. He was Hit the bag surprised metal, on which attempting weighed to of about 400 pounds averdopois. An ex pressman the was required to took convey day’s it to work counting of all room; it a it the clerks to count the unusual gravity of the procedure the was thought leading to require the presence of partners, the workmen have been distressed for fear of losing the gold pieces, ami finally the story is all around the shops that the em plovers tion. It made will about be the $200 by the probably opera last time that the dollar of the daddies gets a lm from that office. SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17 1879. BY TELEGRAPH NEWS FROM ALL PARTS. Another Mollie Maguire to be Hung. GERMAN DISCIPLINE BILL. ROBESON TESTIFIES. Washington, Jan. 16.—Ex-Secre tary Robeson, who was before the House Naval Committee to-day, defended his course, terial claiming that the sale of old ma¬ to contractors was in the nature of its use for new vessels, and was so considered by the entire Appropriation Committee of the Forty-third Congress, who based their appropriations on the proposed disposition of old material. THE POTTER COMMITTEE. Washington, Jan. 16.—The Potter Committee met and discussed the ques¬ tion whether St. Martin should be called, and whether his affidavit shall be inserted in the minutes. It was finally agreed to insert the date of Shellabar ger’s letter and the offer of the affida¬ vit, and the committee adjourned. GERMANY AND SAMOA. London, Jan. 16. —The Ball Mall Gazettes Berlin dispatch says that the German Government, in consequence of the refusal of the Samoans to comply the with its demands, has instructed corvette Arrodne and the gunboat Nautilus to exact satisfaction by force, if necessary. HONOR TO GRANT. Paris, Jan. 16.—A dinner was given to-night at the Palace de Elysee, the residence of President MaeMahon, in honor of ex-President Grant. FRENCH ADHESION TO REPUBLICANISM Paris, Jan. 16.—A Ministerial dec¬ laration read in the Chamber of Dep¬ uties this afternoon says that the Sen¬ atorial elections are a striking indica¬ tion of the adhesion of the people to republican institutions. PURSUIT OF THE ESCAPING CHEYENNES. Fort Robinson, January 16.— Gen. Crook has ordered the pursuit of the Cheyennes to be continued. Company E of the Third Cavalry, Capt. Lawson commanding, has gone to the front, where Company A, Captain Wessels, will join forces with them to-morrow and the pursuit be resumed with Wes¬ sels commanding the entire force of the troops. ANOTHER MOLLIE MAGUIRE TO BE IIUNG. Pottsville, Pa., Jan. 16.—Martin Bergin murder will be hung at 10:40 for the of Patrick Burns, at Tuscarora, Pa., on April 15, 1879. He is the nineteenth Mollie Maguire hung for murder in this State. OPPO SITION TO THE DISCIPLINE BILL. London, January 16. — A Berlin dispatch says the that it is reported that Bavaria is finest opponent of the Reichstag Council, where discipline hill in the Federal the is strenuous opposition to measure expected. ARCHBISHOP PURCELL. Cincinnati, O., January 16 — The Catholic Telcgraph doubts the truthful¬ ness of the report of Archbishop Pur eel l’s resignation, because Rome would not consider the question of a succes¬ sor until it sent official word of its acceptance of his resignation to Arch¬ bishop Purcell and consulted him and the other Archbishops of the country. SENTENCED to BE HUNG. Kearney, Neb., January 16.— A. D. Richardson, indicted for the murder of six persons, was tried at Mendon, yes¬ terday, be found guilty, and sentenced to hanged on April 26th. government workmen suspended. Norfolk, January 16. — All the workmen employed in the construction day department suspended of the Navy Yard were to¬ for the present. THE COBB CASE GIVEN TO THE JURY. Norwich, Conn., January 16. — The Cobb case was given to the jury at 5:30 this evening, Tobacco for Boys. —Wnen dore Parker lately issued permission ior the naval Cadets to use tobacco, he said that he had concluded to grant “the privilege’ against the opinion ol many people tor whom But, he entertained the highest respect. as smoking was an the expensive practice, did he boys who not use had better not contract the habit. It was really a question of poisoning, and this unthinking Superintendent spending it as a mere matter of money, The boy who smokes cigars or chews tobacco poisons himself. This is ab solutely true, and the teacher who does not know it is unfit to be trusted | boys. with the He who charge permissively and government of smoke chew encourages boys to or is a corrupt or ot youth. Among the charges employed {to excite popular fury against a certain eminent citizen of Greece, and to j him to death, was that he corrupted 1 the youth of the Republic.— Ne:v Ynl Emcs, Our Year. A little less than 300 years ago, January 13th, would have been the first of the new year. The arrange¬ ment which makes New Year's Day come a week after Christmas day dates from 1582. Up to that time the Julian Calendar, by which dates were regula¬ ted throughout Christendom, assumed the solar year to contain 366 days 6 hours; the Gregorian Calendar made the year consist of 365 days 5 hours 49 minutes, an estimate that differs only a few seconds from the true value, and this error is compensated for by the instituticn of leap year. Notwith¬ standing the almost perfection of the calendar introduced by Julius Ctesar 46 B. C., it involved an annual error of ll minutes, a difference which, after the lapse of 1,628 years, had grown to the portentous one of ten days. If this had been allowed to go on, the time would have come when the months would no longer have concluded with the seasons. December would ave fallen in autumn, the month oi May have been most dismal instead of mer¬ ry, June have retrograded into mid winter, and Christmas have been cele¬ brated in the dog days. After consul¬ tation with the leading astronomers and mathematicians of his age, Pope Gregory XII. brought out a new calen¬ dar, which is the one now in use in all countries except Russia. This change was made Oct. 12, 1582; but England clung with such fervor to her Protest ant principles that she continued the use of the old style until 1752. The last Protestant country to abandon the Julian calendar was Sweden. The Eastern or Greek Church still refuses to adopt the new style, although we believe steps have been taken looking toward a change in this respect. Ow¬ ing to the year 1800 not being consid¬ ered as a leap year, the difference be¬ tween the styles is now 12 days, so that the 13th was the beginning of the new year in Russia.— N. Y. Times. A Texas Desperado’s Adventure With a Plucky Boy. [Globe Democrat Letter.] An incident is related of the West Texas desperado, bully and Texas murderer, whom the people of South Bowen last year very properly hung. had long been the terror, and you might say, really a small dictator of the town ot Gonlales, and it is astonishing to know how one murderous rascal can “cow” a whole community. People at last hardly dared to whisper about him, and as to offending, why that was not to be thought of any more than mak¬ ing the Emperor ot Austria mad at you. Bowen did what he pleased, in¬ sulted whom he pleased, went where tie pleased. the He was a sort of “king,’’ conscious of fear his presence in¬ spired. On one occasion, however, the desperado met his match. There came to Gonzales a fourteen-year-old lad— a hoy in years and in looks. In fact, he was a sallow-faced, dirt-eating little fellow; much resembling a Georgia urchin, who occasionally breakfasts off the contents of the old “clay-roots” of his native pine forests. The lad was from the country, and knew nobody in Gonzales, and nobody knew him. He came with his father, and, after selling out their little wagon-load of cotton aud potatoes, the lad proceeded to per¬ ambulate the town and see the sights. He finally fell into a tea-pin-alley, with bar attached. Bowen, the bully, happened in, and | stood at the counter drinking. p[ e eyed the boy with a look of contempt, and out of sport began cursing and no-i damning the lad. The boy knew thing about the supposed dangerous j character into whose company he had j fallen, and he replied in the same lan-j guage as the desperado, with couple who was six; asj usual, well armed a of shooters around his waist. “What is i that you say ?’’ said the murderer, with a look of surprise as weli as contempt.; “Your a scoundrel, d—’n you,” said the boy. The bystanders who knew Bowen ; were amazed, and stood aghast. increased j Their tomshment was. when the big dirt pocket eating of little his fellow maple pulled dyed | t out ot a pointing troweers an old fashioned head Bowen, pistol fired and j ■ it at the ot -1 the ball missing him but a tew inches., This did tor the desperado, who, taking: to his heels, tied, pursued by the pistol,! boy ■ some distance with the empty amid the shouts and laughter of the I crowd. The lad was the most popular person in Gonzales that day. Texas murderers and assassins are in nine , cases out of ten cowards and “low i down’ scamps. i --• • •- There are nowin this country ten Gath i- Archbi-hops and 55 BLhops. against 6 of the former and 27 of the latter in i860. The number priests was then 1,800 and of churches 1,073 ; while there are now 5,634 priests and 5,548 churches. The ; colleges have increased from 17 to 74, and the Roman Catholic population has doubled. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A lucky family is that of the rincrs rings The ine lounaer fV.nnrlpr of or flip me iamny fnmilv u .IS a trader in Exeter, England, a years ago, and now the family holds a Baronetcy, a Barony, a Bishopric and an Earldom, possesses immense wealth, and has sixty livings in its gifts. It has often been remarked that scarcely Queen one of the great lights of Anne's reign had a lineal male representative living in that of Victoria. Marlborough’s only boy died a youth at Addison Cambridge. Swift never married. had but one daughter, of dis¬ ordered intellect. Steel, Prior, Boling broka, Sir Cloudesley Shovel are all without any male lineal representative. The report of the Howard Associa¬ tion of New Orleans for 1878 has been all completed. It shoyvs the receipts from sources to have been $383,449 ; the disbursements were $380,185, of which $287,850 was expended in New Orleans, and the balance for the relief of other yellow fever infected places. There were 21,244 patients relieved, 10,112 of whom were white and 5,132 colored. There is a family residing in Chester, Pa., whose history is somewhat remark¬ able. The father and mother were cousins and bore the same name ; were both born on the same day and year and in the same bout*. They have reared nine children, aud reside in the same "house where the lady was born. Their children are all living and at home with their parents. The superior lightness, convenience, and finish of American implements and tools for the coarser trades and callings are an immediate and strong lecom mendation in their favor wherever foreigners trial. The can Irench, be induced the to give and them a Swiss, the Germans make fine tools for dentists and jewelers, hut no Yankee farmhand could be persuaded to use their clumsy and ill-made hoes or scythes. The first porcelain made in this country was made 62 years ago in Philadelphia whose father, by Benjamin William Tucker, E. Tucker, kept a china shop in Market street, and put up a kiln for his son in its rear. There he painted white china and burned it, and tried sundry experiments with different kinds of clay, making very good queensware. He then experi¬ mented with feldspar and kaolin, and, after repeated efforts and much labor, turned out some small specimens of very creditable porcelain. W. W. McCoy has on exhibition at his place on the Corral de Tierra, Sali¬ nas, a petrified which shell recently of mammoth exhumed pro¬ portions, was near Finch's, in the Tularcitos region. shell, It is shaped somewhat like a clam and is five feet eight inches long, four feet eight inches wide, and two feet six inches deep. It weighs nearly a ton, and was a good load for a team to haul. The Corral de Tierra and Tularcitos region is prolific in petrified that lived remains and of animals, fishes, etc., moved and had their being iu by-gone ages, and presents a rich and attractive field for geological research.— Cal. Ex. It is a great misfortune in Egypt if the Nile does not rise to a certain point, and it is almost as great a one if, as has happened this year, it rises above that point. The river formerly, nowadays over¬ flows much more than incon¬ sequence of the deposits which in cer¬ tain parts have filled in the cavities of the bed. At the first cataract of As¬ souan the bed remains at the original depth, but in the Delta it, has risen . con* ^rably in the past century Between and 1840 the greatest height at tained b y f he wat fJ vas onl y twenty , 18 4 it twenty our P 1CS ’ in 1 was hlx and a aad - Mary A. Danser, daughter of Matt M. Danser, the most fortunate gambler New York ever had, has a chapel monument in Greenwich Cemetery that cost married $25,000. Mr. She was engaged telegraph to be to a Stevens, a operator, and the wedding was to have taken place shortly before she died. Miss Danser, then in good health, drew December 13, 1875; just sixty days from that time she died after a short illness. By her will she $185,000 to her relatives and friends, and $335,000 in legacies, vary ing from $5,000 to $20,000 to thirty one charitable, religious and benevolent institutions in New \ ork, and $25,000 for her monument, Red lead in cayenne pepper; chro mate of lead in mustard; sulphuric acid in vinegar; corrosive sublimate in pick ies; prusic acid in tea; scented and colored clay in coffee ; alum in bread i sand in sugar; marble dust and plaster of Paris in flour; powdered stone in terra alba in cream of tartar; damaged grain in Graham meal chalk baking powders; mercury, arsenic, copper in the colurin" coppe” of candy creosote and salts of in whisky adulterations are only samples of some of the in food and drink pointed the other paper'read day, by Mr. George T. Angell, in a to the Amen can Social Science Association ot 1 Boston. PRICE THREE CENTS. To Rent, ,: A KENT.—A small Farm, on the Whit* l Blurt' Road, ((Similes from Savannah,) containing good fencing, lr , acres of cleared l^na, under and with good Dwelling, store esUennsAiV^app^iying tou Ml11, if. , G e wiVrcAMP dSST‘ °° rQer Business Cards. FKANCELIUS’ COPYING INK. In Pint aud Half Pint Bottles. Doez not mould or thicken when exposed to the air. -Saves the Pen. Copies excellently. TRY IT. F. BINGEL, WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGATtS. Milwaukee and Cincinnati Lager Beer on draught. Free Lunch. Fresh Oysters always on hand. 21 Jefferson st., corner Congress street lane. ’ mchlO-ly C IGAR FACTORY.—F. KOLB, manufactu rer of Cigars, and dealer In Cigars, To¬ Street. bacco, Snuff; Pipes, &c. Call at 121 Broughton 23 gy VAL . BASLE IPS WINES. LIQUORS, SEGARS and TOBACCO The best Lager Beer in the city. The well known TEN PIN ALLEY reopened. Lunch every Square day House, from 11 to 1 o’clock. At the Market 171 BRYAN ST. Savannah, Ga. GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, &c. The celebrated Joseph Sclilitz’ MILWAU¬ KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22 Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah, Ga. FREE LUNCH every day from II to 1. r-z31-lv Clothing. The Popular Clothing House of B. H. LEVY, O FFERS for the next thirty days his en tire stock of all styles Men’s, Youths’ and Children's CLOTHING, at the following re duced prices: 201 Men’s oassimere Suits, dark or light, solid oolors or striped, formerly sold at 310 00 , now $12 50. Dress Diagonal Coats and Vests, ranging from 30 00 and upwards. 500 pairs Cassimore Pants, diflferent colors and 300 Children styles, ranging from 32 00 and upwards. and Boys’ suits from S3 00 and up¬ wards. Great reduction in Overcoats! 800 Overcoats at the low figure of $3 00 and up warde, must be closed out, rather than to carry over the season. Anyone wishing to purchase will rtud it profitable to call at this popular Clothing House. B. H. LEVY, jan3 Cornor Congress and Jorterson sts. .■Mart > Stoves and Tinware. W THOMAS J. DALEY, PRACTICAL TINNER and dealer 111 STOVES Hou.se Furnishing Goods, Willow and Wooden Ware, mami.faeturer of Tin Ware, Tin Rooting, Gutters, Leaders, Ac. 177 Congress Street, SAVANNAH, novI0-6m GEO a, xA Plumbing and Gas Fitting, CHAS. E. WAKEFIELD, Plumbing, Gas & Steam Fitting, No. 18 BARNARD STREET, one door north or Soutli Broad treet. Bath Tubs. Water Closets, Boilers, Iiuuges, Jouoiiig Promptly attended to. ebll Also, Agent of “ BACKUS WATER MOTOR * T. J. McELLIN, PLUMB IN AND G/x.-, FITTING. Whitaker street, One door North of State st,. N.B. Houses fitted with gas and water at short notice, Jobbing promptly attended to and all work guaranteed, at low prices. :«R:Zgy Carriages* A. K. WILSON’S CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY I Corner Bay and West Broad sts. CARRIAGE REPOSITORY . Cor. Bay and Montgouery streets. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. The largest establishment in the city. I keep a full line of Carriages, Rockaways. Buggies, Spring and Farm Wagons, also Canopy alifl line of Top Baby Caniages, llaterlal. engaged carriage in and Wagon I have chanics. Any my factory orders the Host skillful me¬ for naw work, and re¬ pairing and at short will notice. be executed to give satisfaction mayl 2 -ly CENTRAL EUROPEAN HOUSE AND restaurant: 158 and 160 Bryan Street, OPPOSITE THE MARKET SAVANNAH, GEOftGIA. JAMi Lane, Proprietor. The interior of the building has been reno¬ tated throughout, aud is ready to receive guests, on or about January tat, ls79• the F ur~ * uiture and Upholstery being all new- and the pnblic can roly upon the best the market affords to eat or drink. market Terms $1 OO Per Day.