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D A. I E Y e viiizsriisr q Savannah loTTc] Recorder. VOL I.—No. 98. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (Saturday Excepted,) -A-t 1GI BAY STREET, By ,7. STERJT. The Hecordkr is served to subscribers, in every part ol 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. DS-We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. A Romantic Record. [St. Louis Globe Democrat.] The career of James Shields, for the third time a successful candidate for the position of United State senator, reads like a chapter of wild romance. There is nothing like it in the history of this country. Without exceptional advantages or abilities of any kind, he has gained a brilliant record as a soldier, fair fame as a politician, and and a fine re¬ putation as an.honest His public man beginning patriot¬ ic citizen. life, in 1840, covers the most momentous period of our national existence. He has outlived all his more famous friends and associates of the Mexican war period, and now goes back to haunt, like a ghost, the halls in which, as a senator, he mingled on terms of fellow¬ ship Cass, with Seward, Webster, Chase, Clay, Calhoun, Ben ^Tom ton, Douglas and Corwin. When a young man, with poverty and law, in he was the intimate friend of and Lincoln. He has seen all great men pass away, full of if not of years, and now returns the scense of their triumphs, clothed with a dignity that any of them might have envied. It may be said of him, in the words of Dr. Johnson: s Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. But, this is not wholly true. Mr. Shields is not an old man. Born iu 1810, he is six years younger than Lord Beaconsfield, twelve years young¬ er than that wiliest of living diplomats, Gortschakoff, thirteen years younger than Kaiser Wilhelm, two years younger than Marshal MacMahon, and but five years the senior of the man of blood and iron. He seems old because of the extent and variety of his public life. He took kindly to politics while yet a mere boy. He was state auditor of Illinois in 1840. Six years later, though by no means a distinguished the lawyer, he was elected Under to President Supreme Bench he of the State. Polk was appoint¬ ed land commissioner. He left this position to take command of the Illi¬ nois volunteers in the Mexican war, with commission of brigad’er-general. As a soldier he was even luckier than as a civil officeholder. Without any marked capacity for command, he won great bravery renown as a fighter. His personal was only equalled by his tenacity of life. At Cerro Gordo he was shot through the body while charging through a battery. A grape-shot tore his right lung and passed out near his spine. The surgeon gave him up, and his death was reported. Yet in ten weeks he was again at the head oi his brigade, as ready for a fight or a frolic as any man in the army. At Chapultepec But he he was wounded again. held a charmed life, and came out of the war covered with scars and glory. He was not a great general in any sense ot the word, but he was a fearless and intrepid warrior. He never asked his men to go where he feared to venture. With him the post of duty was the front ot battle always. . In a fit of enthusiasm, the people ot Illinois made him the colleague of Stephen A. Douglas in It the United States Senate iu 1849. is no injus¬ tice to him to sav that he nevei did anything Always to distinguish Democrat, himself he in stood that body. a all with his party on questions; have his speeches, it he made any, been long since forgotten. When his term expired he was not returned. But he was a born office-holder, and we next find him a resident of the young State of Minnessota, and a candidate lor United States Senator. He was elected in 1857, one of the first two Senators elected, and drew the short term. He served tor two years, and after his retirement, he took up his residence in California His record in the late war is familiar to all. In the honor valley of the de Shenandoah he had the ol feating Stonewall Jackson, though the victory was of brief duration. Too war-broken for active duty, he retired from the command of the army of West Virginia, and was sent by Presi¬ dent Lincoln to California, where he remained till the close of the war, when he came East Missouri. and bought a farm in Carroll county, Through all he remained honest and poor. Indeed, these qualities physical bravery seem as natural to him as his and tenacity of life. Few men could have survived such wounds as he re¬ ceived at Mexico, and as few would have let his opportunities for amassing wealth slip by unimproved. In 1874 he enjoyed the dubious honor of bership in the State Legislature. political resurrection at this time due in a large measure to the audacious attempt of Mr. B. F- Butler to his last election as door-keeper of the house Winter, when Mr. Polk was moved from that positin. Dawn on the Moon. The Lunar Wonders Revealed by the vancing Sunlight. [From the Rochester Express.; A Rochester journalist who visited Prof. Swift the other evening, and had a view of the moon, says: The telescope with a power of thirty-six diameters, was turned upon the moon. At first the flood of light was blinding, and the view was very cursory. The moon looked like a shield of embossed silver, the shield of Achilles, hung by his goddess mother in the azure of the heavens. Prof, Swift looked over the field, and noted as he looked many of the interesting points, and suggested that we follow the sunrise on the moon. On the moon the dawn advanced ten miles an hour, lightning up new fields and furnishing to him an changing panorama. Still, there is naught but desolation, yawning|c raters, peaks waUswith of volcanic perpendicular mountains and sides that surround deep pits. The moon is dead, to all appearances—burned out with volcanic fires. No water laves the desolate aud rugged shores of its great sea bottoms. But in the gray plains, where some spread, astronomers think an ocean once craters are seen with The perpendicular plains walla. beiseen with gray can he naked eye forming what is ca led •the man m the moon, on a map like the eastern continent. Under the tel escope we could trace what seemed at first to be shore lines on the borders of this plain. On closer inspection, instead of wave-washed1 sand, these lines appear to be bu rounded steps formed by the successive plain lava bursts spreading oyer and making, by the lessening flow, the gradual ex haustion of the volcanic force. From one of the largest craters rise three volcanic cones, the summits of which are tipped with sunlight before the floor of the crater is lighted. In an other large crater two cones arise.— From the larger craters rays spread out, as though firm the volcanic force cracked the crust in its upheaval, injecting through the broken surface ridges of like dazzling white lava that spread out the arms of cuttle-fish covering a vast surface. served he grandest following phenomena are ob by the sun on the moon. The advancing dawn forms a ragged darkness. crescent hue upon the surface still in The suns rays pass over dark chasms and low fields, light ing up ragged mountain tope far in advance. Ihey appear like little of light lying off the coast of an illuminated sea. High mountains and walls near the shore of light deep shadows. The circular rims crater are illuminated, and shine rings of silver, glittering upon a of darkness. The advancing now lights up the bases of the mountains that but a moment ago showed but a speck of light, an 1 new mountain tops are tipped with far in advance. The sunlight wall strikes upon the side of a circular of a crater, and there is a silver crescent, with a black space between it and the sea of light. Slowly the summit of other portions of the sunlight wall invades are lighted the depths up, and of then the the crater, while the shadow of the wall nearest the sun stretches half across the lloor ot the chasm. Frequently great gaps are broken in the crater walls, streaks jagged of light stream across cold the floor, The rocks, in calm, beauty, shine and glitter in the fierce white light. The mountains are mountains of desolation, and the valleys are val leys of silence and death. They are wrinkled with the flow ol lava and dead. torn with upheavals. The moon is No air.no sea, no forest shade, failing or living thing. The moon is a never awful in source its suggestions of delight. of It is also power and in its loneliness oi utter desolation. * • * The Governor of Delaware has not the veto power, but he has the appoint ment ot various State and county officers without the advice and consent of the Senate. SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24. 1879. BY TELEGRAPH. NEWS FROM ALT. A Suspicious Affair At SWINDLER The Vatican And FLORIDA ELECTION FRAUDS. Jacksonville, Fla., January In the United States Court to-day, the County Clerk of Brevard was sentenced to three years in Albany penitentiary, and Sheriff, and Johns, Justice of the to one year. Lee is also State from Brevard. The court has adjourned. Hull’s case was continued until May term. The Alachua prisoners all gave bail. MORMON WOMEN ANXIOUS FOR AMY. Washington, January 23.—The morial of Emeline B. Wells and Young Williams, daughter of the Brigham Young, was presented to House by the Speaker to-day and ferred to the Committee on Judiciary. It asks for the repeal of the anti¬ polygamy law of 1862 and for tion to protect the women and children of Utah. INDIANS KILLED. Fort Robinson, January 23.- -Later news from the field states that only nine Cheyennes, all of them wounded, were captured. The balance of the party (twenty-three iu number) were killed. Seventeen are still unaccounted for. It is supposed that some are dead from their wounds and the others have es¬ caped. BREATHITT county troubles. Cincinnati, January 23.—Governor McCreary has ordered the return of the cavalry company sent to Breathitt county. They accomplished the arrest of William Fletcher, who murdered Judge Barnett, A suspicious affair at sea. Lohdoh, [ Jan / 2 3.-The Q„[ Captain f „ hj [: ecentl arriv(id at ens . town w ites t0 Lloyds J that he saw, ’ fifty ' mlles west of Fast et otl the 10th inat .’ a The <te>mel . alongside g rdered of a burning g wrcck etenmer 0 b , m to £ 0Q his r3e and ' DOthi “ b , ff; d the nalt ot bei als0 burned . The steamer Bad not the ap nc(! of be , a merchantman or war . She had i50 or 200 men on toard apparentiy u J EngUsh & . swindler arrested. New York, January 23. — The Chief of Police received several days ago from the Chief of Police of Dallas, Texas, a communication asking for the arrest of A. Ellis, of that city, who is under indictment for swindling mimer ous leather firms in Texas. This morn ing the detectives arrested Ellis. the Vatican and Mexico. Rome, January 26,-The Vatican will shortly take steps to re-establish relations with the Mexican Govern men t Negotiations prove unsuccessful, the wants of the Mexican Church will be supplied $ in the best manner possi ble t hout the intervention of the government m y_ Ameriean an(1 J a , 1 )a „ ese Children. It i . a generally thought, and with _ good reason, that American children are the worst-behaved and, consequent ly, the most disagreeable to everybody, except their parents, of any children of f-be globe. Their ill-behavior is usually ascribed to their spoiling by excessive indulgence, to their incessant coddling; kut Japanese children, who are said to ke also treated with extraordinary deference and made a vast deal of, are reputed to be ot the quietest and pleasantest. Travelers in Japan say that nothing . denied there to child; his her is a or question receives a ready answer from the most silent, and his request is granted by the most churlish. All sons folks in every grade ot life show little uniform courtesy and gentleness ; aud why these do not take advantage 01 this over-regard and tenderness, as they do in the L nited States, is beyond explanation, umess we admit that there 1S a marked difference in race. D seems, however, that in that country that the mother is so wholly subordinated to the child as to be j injured and degraded. The father : 0Iten beats her because the child has fallen dowu or met with an accident. *he has only two functions in his eyes —to bear children and enslave herself for them alter their birth. - ---- Boston's fine Masonic Temple is mort gaged for ^265,000, and the Masons of tkat city dislike to either shoulder the burden or sacrifice the property. The Japanese Government has en gaged, at a high salary, a German military bandmaster at Metz. The Feminine Mystery. Why Women Marry—Something that Fellow Seems to be Able to Find Out. [Vanity Fair.] The question which we last week Why Men Marry,” is interesting one; but it must be nounced inferior in interest to the tion “Why Women Marry” in the gree in which men are in all Tess interesting than women. The ingness of women to marry is and more patent than that of men; we will add, that it is a great more wonderful. That women to use a colloquial phrase, the worst it all through life, we entertain doubt, and that the matrimonial as understood by experience has, as rule, fewer attractions for them for men, we also believe to be Yet, while there are many men from choice, abstain from and still more who put off till the last practicable moment, doubt if there are any women mentioning who refuse the state from option and deliberation, not many who postpone marrying a late period of life from a general pugnance to having a husband. That womau refuse individual and sometimes go on refusing after their man, is true enough ; but then objection is to the man and not the condition of life that man proposes; or not unfrequently, their refusal arises from mere skittishness, from feeling they may do better, cr from cheerful conviction that there is plenty of time to “ think about it.” As a rule, however, women who have the chance of marrying, marry, and they would marry yet more that promptly than they do were it not they are frequently h id back from taking a foolish step by wise parents or dissuading friends. How is this apparent paradox to be ex¬ plained There ? induce is less to a woman to marry than to induce men; yet men hesitate to marry and women jump at marriage. Some will answer that man is a rational and woman an irrational animal; but over and above the dis¬ tinction being too uncomplimentary to be true, it is one of those plausible ex¬ planations that explain nothing.. Again, it is sometimes affirmed that, in marrying, men sacrifice liberty, whereas women in marrying acquire it. But this is an epigram easily disposed of. V hen men sacrifice what is called their liberty by marrying, they are already tired of their liberty, or that particular hood enjoys, form and, of it where which bachelor¬ the point thoroughly examined, we suspect it would be found that they abandoned a form of liberty of which they are weary for another form they have not yet possessed. Due-half to the Informant. An “Old Doctor” contributed to the Charlottesville (Ya.) Chronicle the fol lowing amusing story : "In colonial times, when Col. Archi bald Cary was a magistrate, living at Williamsburg, neighbors a man who was much dis on account hls vmdl citiveness and general mean ness, came before the old Colonel, and informed him that his neighbor, John Brown, had violated the game law, by killing a deer before the 1st oi Septem her. Now, although Brown was a good, honest poor man, much esteemed ^ h ‘ 3 a c 1 uaintan<!es - Esquire Cary bound . to warrant for his was issue a arrest, and when Brown appeared be fore him he confessed that lie had killed the deer, knowing at the time that he was’violating the law, but that his wife had a great longing for venison, and knowing that deer daily frequented bis corn-field, she gave him no pence. He had begged her to wait a little while, till the 1st of September, but she vowed she could not wait, So he killed the deer. The old magistrate, seeming full 0 f compassion, said : “Brown, the law is explicit; you will have to pay the fine, which is £5.” “Lord bless your heart, Col. Cary, ga jj Brown,’ ‘all I have on earth would not sell for £5.’’ “Well, then,’ said the Justice, turn j j^g j 0 tlie j a w, an ff reading, without paying strict attention to punctuation 0 r the exact position of words : “Who j ever shall be guilty of shooting, suar j i Jeer n g, trapping, this, or in his any way killing a within Majesty’s colony of Virginia, at any time between 1st of May and the 1st of September, p a y a fine of £5, and if he is un a ]q e ffo this, the punishment shall be awarded by thirty-nine lashes on the bare back, well laid on, one-half to ke given to the informant, and other halftothe King.” “Mr.Constable,” said his Honor, “as we are enjoined to do justice " and love mercy, and where au odd amount, which is not divided capable of between an equal division is to be a rich man and a poor maQ) j always give the poor man larger share;' you will, therefore, give the informant in this case the twenty flashes, and whenever you catch his Majesty, the King, in this colony, you will then give him the nineteen.” So the majesty of the law was maintained, much to the satisfaction of all who knew the odious informant. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Paris Univers says : “The Catho¬ lic Bishop Reinkens is about to marry in Boppard.” The capacity of the Chicago elevators is 14,375,000 bushels, and on the 11th of January they contained 10,462,994 capacity bushels of grain, leaving an unoccupied of 3,912,006 bushels. England wants to buy out and and out certain Crown lands in Cyprus, offers Turkey £15, 00 for them. The Turks, however, pay Fngland the com¬ pliment of asking £150,000, on the ground that the value of. the lands will largely increase under a beneficent British administration. Governor Smith, of Wisconsin, in his recent message says : “If we con¬ tinually assert and hear asserted that we are poor, that the times are dull and hard, it is the inevil able law that we shall come to think so without re¬ gard to facts or reason. ” The Governor believes in looking at the bright side, of things. The imperial ideas are being sown broadcast in the Dominion. The title of violinist to Her Royal Highness has been conferred upon Mr. Deseve, of Montreal. The Governor-General, moreover, has had an aviary constructed &t Rideau Hall, in which the birds from the woods adjoining the Government House are housed and fed. Hard times in Berlin. More than 200,000 persons, according to a state¬ ment prepared by Herr Zimmermann, were last year prosecuted and for the non-pay¬ ment of income tax, in great majority of cases a seizure of the effects of the defaulters yielded nothing. More than 120,000 persons were prose¬ cuted for having failed to pay their rent. A co-operative store has been estab¬ lished iu Paris by English capitalists, which employs about ninety persons, and deals in almost everything required by housekeepers. The capital is $500, 000. The London co-operative One socie¬ ties report handsome profits. con¬ cern, upon sales of $5,200,000, is said to have realized $130,000 clear of ex¬ penses, though selling about twenty per cent, below the ordinary retail prices. The Austrian newspapers remark upon the extraordinary diminution which has taken place in the number of marriages concluded in Vienna. The disinclination on the part of the men to in marry district has risen to such marriage a pitch that the of Wieden por¬ tions provided by charitable foundations are now actually going a-begging. There are plenty of female applicants to claim them, but they can find no mates. f he official . to permission marry given by the Old Catholics, led by Dr Boihnger, to their priests, is accom P aniec * with such restrictions as must Extended 0 B e h 0D ? must S be consulted h e fi tn ess of the woman ge j 0( , tef j f or connu bial honors by the ecc j es j ast j c an j aeC ondlv she must it j 8 Sion jj ^ please the raaiority of the con OD b re g aaon ovtl wuicn ne presides. A touching begging story with a good moral is told' by the P«fai«rp Telegraph. three-days’ A young debauch man who wander- had been on a ed into the reading-room of a hotel, where he was well known, sat down, add stared moodily into of the about street, Presently a little looked girl timidly about ten years came in and the room. She was dressed in rags, but 1 she had a eweet. intelligent face that could scarcely fail to excite sympathy, There were five persons in the room, and she went to each begging. One gentleman gave her a five cent piece, and she then went to the gentleman spoken of and asked him for a penny, adding, “I haven’t had anything gentleman to eat for a whole day. ’ and The he said crossly was out of humor, : “Don’t bother me; go away! I haven’t had anything to eat for three days.”— shy The child opened stared her him eyes in wonder and at for a mo ment, and then ■walked slowly toward the door. She turned the knob, and after hesitating for a few seconds, up to she him, and received gently laying the five cents had on his knee, said with a tone of true girlish pity in her voice. “If you haven’t had anything to eat for three days, you take this and go and buy some bread. Perhaps I can get some more some where.” The young fellow blushed to the roots of his hair, and lifting the I Sister of Charity in his arms, kissed 1 her two or three times in delight. in^the Then ; he took her to the persons room, and to those in the corridors and the and told the story and asked contributions, giving himself all the money he had with him. He succeeded in raising over $40 and sent the little one on her way rejoicing. PRICE THREE CENTS. To Rent* -— SSKiYUf Blacksmith Shop. Can be rented at the low¬ est terms, by applying to C. IT. G. WITTCAMP at Mr. C. Mehrtens’ Grist Mill, corner Jeffer¬ son and Charlton streets. decSl Wanted W ANTED—Two Furnished ROOMS with ft stove, for a Professional man and his sister, with privilege of cook stove. Centrally located. References exchanged. Address J. E. C. 136 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 day from II to l o’clock. At the Market Square House, 174 BRYAN ST. Savannah, Ga. JOS. H. BAKER, B TT LJ HP I J— v«/ “HIT * * - HP ■■■ImLJ HP. iii t-W y STALL No. 66, Savann Market. Denier In Beef, Muttou, Pork nd All other Meats in their Seasons. Particular attention paid to supplying Ship and Boarding Houses. nug!2 Theodor Gronwald, X 1 A-ILOJR. 3VTo. 30 1-2 WHitaltor St. Suits made to order In the latest styJ-js. Clothing cleaned and repaired. / J orders will meet wMrh prompt attention. * Janl8-lm W. B. FERRELL’S Agt. RESTAURANT, No. 11 New Market Basement, (Opposite Lippman’s Drug Store,) laiilHt.l HAVA.NNAH, GA* FRANCELIUS’ COPYING INK. In Pint and Half Pin t Bottlft fcw 1 Doez not mould or thicken when excellently. exposed to the air. Saves the Pen. Copies TRY IT.___ GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, *0. The celebrated JLosoph Schlitz’ MILWAU¬ KEE LAGER BEtKR, a speciality. No. 22 Whitaker street, Levons’ Block, Savannah, Ga. FREE LUNCH dwery day from 11 to 1. Clothing^ The Popular ClotliiiigVi House of B. H. levy; /^VFFERS for the next thirty days liis entire Children’s 1/ stock of all stylos Men’s, following Youths’ and duced prices: CLOTHING, at the re¬ 203 Men’s Casstmore Suits, (lark or light, solid colors or striped, formerly sold at 116 00. now |12 50. Dress Diagonal Coats and Vests, ranging from $6 00 and upwards. 500 pairs Cassimerc Pants, dilferont colors and 300 Children styles, ranging from In 00 and upwards. and Joys’ suits from S3 00 and up¬ wards. Great reduction In Overcoats! 300 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 this purchase will find it profitable to call at jan3 popular Clothing House. B. II. LEVY, Corner Congress and Jefferson sts. Stoves and Tinware* v sg; THOMAS J. DALE IT, PRACTICAL TINNER and dealer in HTOVE8 House Furnishing Goods, Willow and Wooden Ware, manufacturer of Tin Ware. Tin Roofing, Gutters, Leaders, Ac 177 Congress Street, SAVANNAH, GEOrv l A novlO-Om Plumbing and Gas Pitting* CHAS. E. WAKEFIELD, Plumbing, Gas & Steam Fitting, No. 48 BARNARD South STREET, Broad one door north ol treet. Bath Tubs. Water Closets, Boilers, Ranges Jobolng Promptly attended to. ebll Also, Agent of “BACKUS WATER MOTOR.’ T. J. McELLIN, PLUM BIN AND UaS FITTING. Whitaker street, One door North of Htate at. N.B. Houses fitted with gas and water at short notice, Jobbing promptly attended to. and all work guaranteed, at low prices. ^_ 33B:Zgy Carriages* A. K. WILS IN’S GAnnIAljt p ADDlAPr .. IY1 AN . Ur Ao TOR n T« Corner Bay and West Broad sts na-o-orA CARRIAGE REPOSITORY . Cor. Bay and Montgoi,»ry atreeta. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. The largest establishment in the city. I keep a full line of Carriages, Rockawavs Bu and Farm Wagons, Canopy an line d of Falling Carriage lop Baby Carilages, also a fuU and Wagon Material. I have engaged in my factory the neost skillful me¬ chanics. Any orders for new work, and re ami pa ff in at .*\ short wlu notice. be executed to give satisfaction mayiZ-Iy