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-■C D A. I L Y EVENING ANNAH Recorder. I.—No. 96. If THE SAVANHAH RECORDER, R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING , (Saturday Excepted,) At 161 BAY STREET. Tty 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 piace of the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full issues for the week. W"¥c do not hold ourselves responsible for 1 the opinions expressed by Correspondents. Virginia Demands Protection. Alleging Usurpation of State Bights by United States Judge Bives—The Civil Bights Bill and the Enforcement Act As¬ serted to be Unconstitutional. Richmond, Va., January 18.—The Senate Special Committee Federal Relations, and the House Committee on acting jointly, to-day submitted a long report and a series of resolutions in re~ gard to alleged usurpation of State rights by District Federal Judge Rives, of the Western declare: of Virginia. The resolutions First—That the Constitution of the United States is in as full force and vigor Second—That as when adopted Virginia, and in ratified. re-enter¬ ing the Union after the civil war, re¬ sumed all her relations to the govern¬ ment on perfect equality with every other Stale, and is entitled to the same rights and powers and is bound by the same duties and obligations as every other State, and that her citizens are equal in every respect, under the Con¬ stitution, with all other citizens of the United States. Third—That the United States can only exercise the powers delegated to • them in the Constitution. Within the scope of these powers the government is supreme; beyond them it has no ex¬ istence. Fourth—That preservation of the States and maintenance of their gov¬ ernments are as much within the de¬ sign and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union andemainte nance of the Federal Government, and separate and independent autonomy of States is necessary to the Union under the Constitution. Fifth—That the essential and funda¬ mental right reserved by the people of the States is to organize each State as a separate and distinct political society, to constitute therein such government as best suits their will and pleasure, and to change the same whenever their convenience requires it, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and laws and treaties made in pursu¬ ance thereof. Sixth—That the necessary and in¬ herent condition of this reserved right of local self-government is the right and duty of the State to protect life, and property within her jurisdiction by laws of her own creation, and by officers of her own selection. Seventh—That the Constitution of the United States grants certain pow¬ ers and imposes consequent duties upon the United States which thev are bound to execuse and perform, and that the rights reserved to the States imp ose on them certain other functions and duties which they are equally bound to exe¬ cute and perform, and the United States and can no more rightfully interfere with, attempt to execute, the pow¬ ers and perform the functions of, the States than the States can those of the United States, and any attempt by either to interfere with the rights of the other will be usurpation and uncon¬ stitutional and void. have Eighth—That the United States only the right to prevent the ex¬ ercise by the States of powers prohibit* ed to them by the Constitution by pronouncing such forbidden action void through the judiciary power, but in no case can the United States take to perform any duty which it is incumbent upon the State to perform, Congress, Ninth—That, therefore, all acts of and particularly those known as the Civil Rights bill and the En forcemeat act, which attempt or profess to attempt to provide for the perfor mauee by the United States of duties and obligations belonging to the States, are unconstitutional and void. _ lenth Ihat therefore the action of the Judge ot the District Court of the United States tor the V estern District of Virginia iu assuming jurisdiction of SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 1879. the cases of Lee Reynolds and Burwell Reynolds, parties charged this with crime against the laws of Commonwealth, and held to answer therefor, is an attempt to execute the laws of this Commonwealth and to regulate her internal policy in the courts and by officers of the United States, is unwar¬ ranted by the Constitution, is destruc¬ tive of the rights life, of liberty, people and of each State to protect pro¬ perty in their own way, by their own courts and officers, and ought at once too be remedied by proper judicial action, any recurrence of the same pre¬ vented by appropriate legislation. Eleventh—That proper provision by law ought to be made for the prompt and effective supervision by the Su¬ preme Court of the United States of all proceedings of the Judges United States. of the in¬ ferior courts of the Twelfth—That the Governor is in¬ structed to direct the Attorney General this to instute Commonwealth proceedings in the name of before the Supreme Court of the United States, and de¬ mand such protection and redress as that tribunal can afford in the premises. From Washington. Secretary Sherman and the Pension Bill —Its Probable Veto by the President— Work in the Treasury—The Missouri Senatorship—The Texas Pacific Subsidy, Etc. [Sepcial Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] THE PENSION BILL. Washington, Jan. 19.—Secretary Sherman' when in the Senate spoke against and voted against the bun¬ combe bill to pay arrearages of pen¬ sions. He expresses much regret that it has passed, as he does not think the treasury can stand the drain upon it. He will advise the President to veto it. If this is done, it may be possible to prevent the bill from becoming a law by delaying action on it. There was twenty-eight day Senators absent on Thurs¬ last when the bill passed the Sen¬ ate, among them Mr. Edmunds, who does not favor it, and who is exceed¬ ingly adroit in devising dilatory tac¬ tics. Secretary Sherman says if the bill is made a law, and the treasury cannot meet the demands upon it, as he is pretty sure it cannot, Congress will have to provide the means either by an increase of taxation or an in orease of the bonded debt. It is be¬ lieved now that the bill will involve an expenditure of at least $50,000,000. Several prominent Ohio Greenb ack¬ ers, who have lately arrived here, aver that the Greenback vote of Ohio next fall will be at least 150,000, and they declare that it will not be possible to elect a hard-money man for Governor. PLENTY OP WORK. The force in the loan division of the Treasury Department has for the last few weeks been worked night and day. Ninety million dollars of six per cent, bonds have been called in since the first of the month, and the recent calls up to that time were also very heavy. The consequence is that the labor en¬ tailed on the clerks in the loan, is enormous, and the force will have to be increased temporarily at least. THE NEW MISSOURI SENATOR. Gen. Shields, who has been elected as Senator from Missouri for the balance of the term, expiring on the fourth of March next, will take his seat in a day or two. There is some talk of giving him a public reception on his arrival here. Friends of his say they would be glad to have him made sergeant-at-arms of the Senate after the fourth of March, but Mr. L. Q. Washington, who has been making an active canvass for the position, in¬ forms his friends that he feels satisfied he has enough votes already pledged to elect him. TEXAS FACIFIC. If the Texas Pacific subsidy people are to be believed they propose to¬ morrow to try chances in the House of Representatives on a motion to suspend the rules. WAR OF 1812 CLAIMS. It is understood that the Virginia members of the House have agreed among themselves to move to insert as an amendment to the sundry civil bill the amount of the claim of that State for advances in the war of 1812- As a number of other States have similar claims, the expectation is that a combi¬ nation may be formed to get them all through as a part of the sundry civil bill. the sugar tariff bill. It is stated very decidedly at the treasury that the department is not in favor of the sugar tariff bid agreed upon by the Committee on Ways and Means. The department the prefers committee’s the present sugar tariff to bill, and will exert whatever influence it can bring to bear against the passage of the bill, EX-SENATOR BOUTWF.LL. Ex-Senator Boucwell wants to be made assistant treasurer at Boston. He is a chronic officeholder, as fast as he loses one office always striking for an* tiier. BY TELEGRAPH. NEWS FROM ALL PARTS. A Celebrated Irish Murderer Released. LOSS OF A STEAMSHIP The Case of Marshal Turner. A CELEBRATED IRISH MURDERER RE LEASED FROM PRISON. Queenstown, January 21. — Dr. Kerwin, the famous Ireland’s Eye murderer, was released from Spike Island prison, in this harbor, on Satur¬ day, after twenty-seven years of incar¬ ceration. The murder for which this man was convicted in 1851 was one of the most celebrated criminal cases Ireland has ever known. Dr. Kerwin was a wealthy and very distinguished physician in Dublin. During the early summer of 1851 he visited the Island in the harbor of Dublin, known as Ireland’s Eye. Soon after the body of his wife was found on the beach of this Island. The woman had been stabbed to death with the blade of a sword* cane. The visit of the Doctor to the Island was readily established, but there was little or no evidence going to that his wife had accompanied Indeed, the evidence throughout was a circumstantial nature, and the put forth by the Doctor’s many wealthy friends to save his life were and multiform. The ablest talent in Great Britain defended The jury, after a protracted trial, Dr. Kerwin of murder in, first degree and was sentenced to The Queen, taking into con¬ the fact that the evidence which the prisoner was convicted wholly circumstantial, commuted sentence to penal servitude for life. this sentence he was released as before stated, but the secrecy is maintained among prison officials regarding his de¬ from the jail. LOSS OF A STEAMSHIP. Queenstown, January 21.—There is no chance of saving the steamship Oberon, bound from New Orleans to Liverpool, which has stranded off Kin sale. Captain Campbell explains having the loss of his vessel by stating that the propeller broken the Oberon steered with great difficulty, and that as she was making port she was struck by a heavy gale and driven ashore on the rocks. No lives were lost. Efforts are being made to discharge her cargo at high water, with some hope of success. INAUGURATION OF THE GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA. Harrisburg, Pa., Jauuary 21.— Henry M. Hoyt was inaugurated Gov¬ ernor of Pennsylvania this moved morning. The inaugural procession at 10:30. It was the largest ever seen in this city. On reaching the capital, prayer was offered by the Rev. Thomas N. Boyle, of Pittsburg. The Clerk of the Senate read the certificate of elec¬ tion, and the oath of office was admin¬ istered by Justice The Woodward, of the Supreme read Court. followed inaugural by address was then the benedic¬ tion and a national salute. CASE OF MARSHAL TURNER. Washington, January 21.—The De¬ partment of Justice this evening had not received any information from Ala¬ bama respecting the release from jail of United States Marshal Turner. Should the application to the City Court at Selma for his release on habeas corpus not be successful, it is under stood that a similar application will be made to the United States Circuit Court. This would in all probability be granted without delay, and in that event, a prominent officer of the government remarked this evening, there can be no doubt whatever as to the power of the government to command obedience to the mandate of its courts. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Elizabeth, N. J., Jauuary 21.— The Arcade is now on fire. The structure is owned . by , ei-Congressman ~ Amos Clark, Jr. The First National Bank, post office, Western Union graph office, Conservatory of Masonic Hall, Opera House and four stores and fifteen offices are all located in the building. A RARE INCIDENT. Harrisburg, Pa., January 21.—A rare incident in the history of this State occurred to-day. delayed Owing to the inaugu* ration being until 1:20 p. m., the State was without a Governor one hour and twenty minutes, Hartranft s term having expired at noon. GOVERNOR VANCE ELECTED. Raleigh, N. C., January 21. - The Legislature has elected Z. F. Yance United States Senator for six years from March 4th. He received 110 votes Judge R. P. Buxton, Republican, re¬ ceived 51 votes. bismarck’s discipline bill. London, January 21. A Berlin dispatch to^the Pall Mall Gazette , says it is stated that Bismarck has decided to withdraw his parliamentary dis¬ cipline Reichstag. bill, leaving the matter to the Cooked Air. Some of the Cold-weather Follies of the American People. [Philadelphia Ledger.] There is one very good reason why people “take cold” in winter time. Most of the well-to-do spend their lives, when indoors, in cooked air. The lower down the thermometer goes tli-i higher the burning coal is piled; all the chinks and cracks are stopped that would let any fresh air in, and its main chance, indeed, is when the front door opens for twenty seconds, or when the beds are made in the sleeping-rooms. In the living rooms of the family there is no occasion, many people think, to raise the windows ever, except to wash them, on periodical cleaning days, or to shut in the shutters. So carpets and furni¬ ture and people, lungs and skin, are dried and baked in the hot, dry rooms, until ingenious persons can bring out electric sparks from their finger ends by skating rapidly up and down the room in their woolen slippers. Out from this kiln-dried atmosphere into the winter streets and into the very cold or very damp air plunge the folks who live in these air-tight rooms. They put on plenty of wraps, but they wear the same foot-gear and they carry the same lungs out into the streets with them and the same sensitive skin. They go into friends’ houses and sit in other hot rooms with all their wrapt on, or they sit heavily in church pews, the women, at least, muffled in furs antk wool¬ ens, for a matter of two hours. (Why a man will take off his coat in church and women cling to their jackets as to an article of faith is among the puzzles hundred for the wise to settle, or for thd next questions of an inquiring world.) Again, they go out in the damp streets, ana it is a wonder to all doctors and thinkers that they do not “take,” and keep, too, the congested state of lungs, and membranes, and chilled blood vessels that we class under this one con¬ venient term of “cold.” Perhaps the houses are not kept any warmer than they ought to be, when people are tak¬ ing but little exercise. But they cer¬ tainly are nearly all of them too dry and lacking in constantly renewed air. It has been before remarked in the Ledger that folks are extremely parti¬ cular about wearing their own clothes, arid who would by no means consent to take the cast off garments of a neighbor —one and all of them are perfectly com¬ fortable to breathe over and over again the cast off and soiled air from each others’ lungs, when it is cooked especial¬ ly; for in summer and time do they their do insist on a change of it, get houses ventilated. Janitors of public build¬ ings, will shut in a short-sighted economy of fuel, up all the apertures by which fresh air might get in, lest they should suffer some heat to escape thereby, and are rewarded by sleepy audiences, es¬ pecially when the gas burners are at work, also drainingl the cooked air of what little life it has. There are some people—many, inch it is to be hoped—who open an or two of their bedroom windows every night to insure a modi* cum of fresh air to sleep by. But these do not in the least bare to have fresh air to be awake in, it seems, for they are content to have their furnance draw all its supplies from the tightly sealed cellar, and from the stale atmosphere of the ash boxes and vegetable bins in that subterranean apartment. When we we live in fresh air within doors as without, with its proper prop ortion of moisture for the skin and their d reathing healthy apparatus to keep up tone, it is likely we shall have found out one way at least of how not to take cold. Two little boys in Ceylon have found a sapphire weighing, says the report, two whole pounds ; ‘ its value is esti mated at $50,000, and it is, if the report be true, the largest sapphire yet found, Ceylon was a famous place for sapphires in old times, so that those who know 1 ju bist sho J Id are haTS not beenpic sllrprised k .d that there. tbi , 8t<me Dp A writer in the Telegraph (London) reports that the island has for ages been a vast treasure store of gems, and that even the energetic rapacity of the old Roman adventurers failed to ex¬ haust its riches. Of all the brilliant gems extracted from the soil of this richly endowed island, hardly any was more highly esteemed by the ancients than the sapphire. Its exquisite tint recalled to the exiled Roman the clear, cloudless azure of the heavens over the Imperial City. Victoria’s Tastes and Habits. [From the London Truth, Jauuary 2. Most Premiers have been extremely deferential towards the Queen, and the only one who was not so—Lord John Russell—had no reason to congratulate himself upon his crabbedness, for he got into very ill odor at Court, and found no support there in trying times. He was one of the very few statesmen who ever received a downright sharp answer from the Queen. This was in 1860, after the Italian revolution, when the different Grand Dukes were being dispossessed. in The Duchess of Parma, great distress, wrote to the Queen, Emmanuel, beseeching her that to intercede with Victor so her private proper¬ ty Queen, might not be confiscated, and the what compassionately asked, showed willing to do was the letter to Earl Russell. “The Carnstitushion de¬ mands that I should answer that,” remarked his lordship, in his piping, ungenial voice. “Well, then, answer it,” said the Queen curtly, and turned away much offended. It has often been said that the Queen liked Lord Palmerston, but this, is an error. Her favorite Ministers have been Lords Melbourne and Aberdeen. Sir Robert Peel she at first disliked intensely, but her aversion wore off when she came to know him better ; and exactly the same thing occurred in the case of Mr. Disraeli. Lord Beaconsfield is perhaps not aware that until he acceded to the Premiership in 1828 the Queen had only read one of his novels—“Henrietta Temple.” She read all the others in the course of the three months after Mr. Disraeli had become her chief adviser, and in due time en¬ joyed “Lothair,” though the present Premier has never ranked among the favorite authors For th ; s that his lordship may console himself, seeing Thack¬ eray and the late Lord Lytton are under the same ban as himself. The Queen likes Dickens’ novels, one or two of George Eliot’s, but chiefly Wilkie Collins’ and Mr. Black’s—the latter’s descriptions dear rf her. Scotch scenery being very to The Queen also reads and re-reads Walter Scott’s novels—which is more than most of her subjects do now, more’s the pity. On the whole, though, she inclines rather toward the serious reading of history and theology, and richly the libraries stocked at all her palaces are with books of chronicles and memories, though it has been noticed having that she never calls for a French book, a deep all objection to French literature in its branches. Every one who has conversed with the Queen on theologi¬ cal or historical subjects has remarked how thoroughly Protestant is her re¬ ligiousness, and how she yet keeps up quite a sentimental feeling of sympathy with the Stuarts. Going one day into the Library at Windsor Castle, she dis¬ covered the librarian engaged in read¬ ing “Oh, some strongly Jacobite memoirs. you need not put them away,” she said with a pleasant smile, You know I am Jacobite myself.” This does not quite tally with the story which Macaulay used to tell of the Queen’s opinion about James II. The historian being on a visit to Windsor, her Majesty observed : “I have been reading your history, Mr. Macaulay, and am afraid I cannot say much for my ancestor, James II.” “Y< our Majes* ty*s predecessor, historian, not who ancestor,” apparently an¬ swered the thought that the Queen had not been well informed about her own lineage. and The Queen leads a very quiet, yet a busy life, and few great ladies find time to compress so many occupa¬ tions into a daytime as she does. She breakfasts at 9, lunches at 2, and dines at 8. From 3 to 5 she generally drives or walks out; but the remainder of her houra is devoted to State busi¬ ness, study, or wide-spread correspondence family. with members of her All the Queen’s private letters are written in English, not in German, as many think; and, in fact, German is so little spoken among the royal family that even when the Crown Prince of Germany comes over he speaks English The at Court like the wife’s relatives. Queen reads all the daily newspapers, Daily Tele¬ and the proprietors of the graph , with the vein of toadyism that distinguishes them, print several royal palaces copies of their journal, for the on special paper. The Queen’s devo¬ tion to State affairs is well known, and her intervention in them, particularly when religious questions are involved, is not at all half-hearted. She also exercises her own discretion very freely in the appointment of Bishops and Peers. Dr. Tait was nominated by her to the See of 'Canterbury before Mr. Disraeli had recommended any one; and about a year previously her Majes¬ ty had flatly refused to bestow a mitre on Dr. Wordsworth, owing lo the pro¬ tests which this divine bad emitted when Dr. Stanley was made Dean of Westminster. The sofa upon which the sixth Presi¬ dent, John Quincy Adam3, died, is now the well-preserved property of a gentleman in Georgetown. i PRICE THREE CENTS. To Rent* T O RENT.—A small Farm, on the White Bluff Road, (0J4 miles from Savannah,) containing good fencing, lo with acres of cleared land, under Blacksmith Shop. good Dwelling, Store and Can be rented at the low¬ at est Mr. terms, Mehrtens’ by applying Grist to C. H. G. WITTCAMP O. Mill, corner Jeffer¬ son and Charlton streets. dec31 Wanted W ANTED—Two with stove, privilege for a Professional Furnished ROOMS man and with bis a sister, located. of cook stove. Centrally References exchanged. Address J. E. C. 186 HULL ST., Savannah, Ga. Business Cards* VAL. BASLER’S WINES. LIQUORS, SEGARS and TOBACCO The best Lager Beer in the city, The well known TEN PIN ALLEY reopened, Lunch every Square day from II to 1 o’clock. At the Market House, 174 BRYAN ST. Savannah, Ga. JOS. H. BAKER. BuTOHEB, STALL No. 66, Savann Market. Dealer in JBeef, Mutton, Pork ml All other Meats in their Seasons. Particular attention paid to supplying Ship and Boarding Houses. aug!2 Theodor Gronwald, TAILOR 3\To.ao 1-2 Wliitalior St. Suits made to order in the latest styles. will Clothing cleaned and repaired. All orders meet wMfli prompt attention. Janl8-lm W. B. FERRELL’S Agt. RESTAURANT, No. 11 New Market Basement, (Opposite Lippman’s Drug Store,) |anl8t,r SAVANNAH. OA. COPYING INK. In Pint and Half Pint Bottles. Doez not mould or thicken when exposed the air. Saves the Pen. Copies excellently. TRY IT. GEORGE FEY, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, &c. The celebrated Joseph Schlitz’ MILWAU¬ KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22 If REE Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah, li LUNCH every day from to I. r-z31-i v Clothing* The Popular Clothing House of B. H. LEVY, O ldren’s FFERS stock of CLOTHING, for all the styles next thirty at Men’s, the days following Youths’ Ills entire and re¬ duced prices: 20J Men’s Cassimere Suits, dark or light, solid colors or striped, formerly sold at 816 00. now 812 50. Dress Diagonal Coats and Vests, ranging from 86 00 and upwards. 500 pairs Cassimere Pants, different colors and Children styles, ranging from 82 00 and upwards. and Boys’ suits from 83 00 and up¬ wards. Great reduction in Overcoats! 300 Overcoats at the low figure of 83 00 and up warde, must be closed out, rather than to carry over the season. Anyone wishing to purchase will find it profitable to call at this popular Clothinfe House. B. H. LEVY, Jan3 Corner Congress and Jefferson sts. Stoves and Tinware. ■555^ It r. THOMAS J. DALEY, TINNER and dealer in STOVES House Furnishing Goods, Willow and Wooden Ware, manufacturer of Ware, Tin Roofing, Gutters, Leaders, <fcc 177 Congress Street, GEOA lA novl0-6m Plumbing and Gas Fitting* CHAS. E. WAKEFIELD, Gas & Steam Fitting, 48 Barnard street, one door north OI SouUl Broad treet. Bath Tubs Water Closet*, Boilers, Ranges Joboing Promptly attended to. Also, Agent or “ backus water motor.* 1 T. J. McELLIN, PLUMBIN AND OaS FITTING. street, One door North of State st. v£;?V^ notice, OUSe8 Jobbing , fitted with promptly gas and attended water to, at all work guaranteed, at low prices. ■ 33R:Zgy Carriages* A. K. WILSON’S* CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, Corner Bay and West Broad sts. CARRIAGE REPOSITORY . Cor. Bay and Montgoi ary streets. GEORGIA. The largest establishment in the city. I keep a full line of Carriages, Rockaways, Falling Spring Top and Farm wagons. Canopy line of Carriage and Baby Wagon Caniages, also a full Material. I have en gaged in my factory the most skillful me¬ chanics. Any orders for new work, and re¬ and pairing, at short will notice. be executed tc» give satisfaction mayJX-ly