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33 A. I L Y EVENING Savannah a VOL ].—No. 141. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (Saturday Excepted,) -A-t 2 61 BAY STREET, By J. STMtH. 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 ^,ace <>i the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full issues for the week. flTWedo not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. [Written for the Savannah Recorder.] Sappho’s Lament For Fhaon. BY JOHN D. DONEBAN. Ah ! would that lovely voice again, That sent such pleasure to my heart, But once more sing the loving strain, Which to my breast did love impart; Oh ! how would all life’s former hours, Come back unto my heart once more, And in these dull and lonely bowers, My happiness of youth restore. But ah! that strain is hushed and still, Not in the grave, but to my ears; Another’s bosom now doth thrill, With Phaon’s voice, midst pleasant tears. But who could list unto its tone, And not awake to ecstasy ? Alas! its memory must own The tears now dimming all I see. For I have listened to his voice, Which seemed to me so pure and true, And with wild rapture did rejoice, Of future bliss which must ensue. But could thou see my tearful eye, And gaze upon my paling cheek, Oh! then perchance thou would’st descry, How deep Is the woe of which I speak. For Phaon’s voice had sought my ear, And I unconscious of its aim, Sat a pleased listener, with the fear, That now too truly has its claim. But why those tears, since yonder wave Allures me on to seek relief? And in its cold and watery grave, End the deep anguish of my grief. There's naught on earth to glad me now, Or ease my aching heart’s distress; Another kisses Phaon’s brow, And soothes him with Love's fond caress. Ah Death! I’m thine; in thee alone, From yonder rock I’ll find my peace, Since Phaon’s love from mo has flown, Naught but thee can my woo appease.. AN ODD STORY. “And you ask me to believe this?” “1 ask you to believe nothing; I sim¬ ply tell you the truth.” My last hope vanished. Bitterly I looked up at Philip Barringer, dress. bitterly down at my mourning Twice only had I seen this man; three weeks since, when he brought the news of my lover’s death; to-day, bringing—a harsh supplement—the news of his perfidy. official, speak; This was so to sealed by his dying lips. “Tell Yinniejthe truth,” he said; “tell her the treacherous part 1 have been playing, that she may shed no tears for me.” It was the old story—absence; a fair¬ er face had broken former ties. Had Hart Whitney lived, he would have been worse than dead to me. A shock, bewilderment, and then I would not believe I clung defiantly to the memories that sanctifies my dead. What more natural ? On the one hand, the living letters ouly a few weeks old; on the other, a stranger's story, unsustained by proof. And yet instinctively I felt it true. Standing folded, before me, with arms hautily with Philip eyes flashing beneath my suspicion, disbelieve. Barringer was not a man to With his proud an¬ swer looked my last hope him, vanished. bitterly Bitterly I up at down at my mourning robes. “You might have spared me this,” I murmured; “but for you I would have never known.” Ere I finished, his hand had closed on mine, he answered hurriedly. “It is not right that a woman should honor a false lover, even though he be dead. You will come to forget Hart Whitney; to smile at his perfidy. There are-” He paused, abruptly dropping the theme. “My views do not matter' ’—I would never have known his voice aud tor Philip low— Barringer’s, it grew so soft “believe me, I never meant to tell you. I have a<'ted to-day from an impulse I cannot too much regret; because to you I must always be the bird of ill-omen, coming only to cause you pain.” Swiftly He left no room for answer. I heard his footsteps receding fiom me forever; I thought, gratefully, Philip Barringer was right; he was a bird of ill-omen, bringing only pain to me. It was a relief to have him drop out of my life. I would forget Hart Whitney, I would come to smile at his perfidy.— Philip Barringer be. was a poor prophet; that might Nevertheless, I pon¬ dered: Not to me, but to the fair girl in the Indies belonged the sanctifying memories, the heritage of tears. And so I brought the letters, the dark lock, the miniature, upon which I dared not look, and I made them a funeral pile, watching with stoic countenance till it dwindled down to ash. And so but gladly in I would have buried memory, vain; my love for Hart Whitney had been too strong, too abid¬ ing, to die with his perfidy; and though daily my faith grew in Philip Barrin¬ ger’s story, it was but to wound deeper the poor heart unto which love was doubly dead. As usual, man’s falsity wrought its work; I grew skeptical, distrustful; there was henceforth no truth, no beau¬ ty, in life for me. Moreover, there was dissatisfaction: I had lost a wo¬ man’s hopes, a woman’s mission, The still life of womanhood lost its charm for me. I must have work, action— what, it mattered little, so I was saved from torpidity. sought In various ways I it, but fate seemed contrary, there was no opening for me. So I pondered wearily one morning as I unfolded the county pa¬ per, when suddenly my eyes met an ad¬ vertisement. It read : “Mrs. Ethbert Thorne desires a gov¬ erness. Box 23, Wabash.” I had grasped vainly after similar straws, but this time my application proved successful, and a week latter found me whirling away to the distant kingdom wherein I was to rule. It was at the close of a dull, drizzly day that I reached Wabash. Drearily enough I stepped upon the platform and stood in the dim light waiting to be recognized. “My brother will meet you,” had written Mrs. Ethbert Thome. What would he be like? What would be my fiist impressions of the household 01 ? I had not long to speculate, for pres¬ my wraps were taken from me. I was conscious of a tall man beside me speaking words which the wild shriek of the engine sunk into nothingness. Then I took the arm offered and went where the carriage stood. Was I dreaming ? Had I seen a vision in the dim light ? Mechanically I entered the carriage, mechanically made room for the one who was to fol¬ low me. But the figure without did not enter; the door closed, and a crisp voice said : “Drive on, Peters ; I will walk.” This time there was no mistaking ; there was but one such voice in my memory, and that was Philip Barrin¬ ger’s. “My brother will meet you,” had written Mrs. Ethbert Thorne. “I am living on his estates,” she had previous¬ ly explained. This, then, was Philip Barringer’s sister, and I was going to his home. With the man whom I had rejoiced to see destined dropping from my life forever, I was to pass months in the in¬ timacy of his own hearth. So fate had ordered, and rationally I must abide. But fate seemed hard. I had never been able to forgive Philip Barringer ; my bitterness had grown toward him with the days. He might have spared me Hart Whitney’s perfidy; but for him I might be only a woman mourning a lover, not the wreck I was. He was always the bird of ill-omen, pain to me. He knew of my hither; he might have spared to me. There was one comfort; he had not ; he had chosen to walk on in' drizzly darkness ; he would keep from me. A night at Sunnybank brought wis dom ; I descended to breakfast in a calmer frame of mind. Philip Barrin ger must be naught to me ; that he had made life harder for me, I must tern porarily torget. My business was with Mrs. Ethbert Thorne. I found that lady alone in the break lastjroom ; a gay little lady she proved full, OU acquaintance, especially, of so Philip full oi Barringer gossip, so j s praises, I that business must wait. had not been many minutes in her society before I began to be exceeding, ly annoyed; not at her rhapsodies; to these I had quietly resigned myself, But there was something marked in her glances, What a searching scrutiny. Was I did it mean? I questioned. liked? ! younger, fairer than she Did she fear dispossession of Philip Barringer But ? Ethbert Mrs, Thorne was not one to talk long with eyes. really “My dear," she said suddenly, but tbe “I should not speak at all, resemblance is so very marked.” W hat did it mean ? I stared at her °r “Y'ou en }y- do not understand, of course,” continued, merrily ; “there’s a por trait of a beautiful young girl iu Phil’s SAVANNAH SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1879. parlor—much more beautiful than you —pardon like. It me, my dear ; but, oh, so very is such a mysterious picture, too. Who is it ? I have asked Phil a dozen times, if once. ‘A lady whojwas engaged Indies,’ to his a invariable friend of mine in the is reply. My dear I really wish you could see it; only I would not dare take you in Phil’s private parlor ; he never allows strangers there.” I had begun listening to a gossip’s story; I sat, at its ending, pale and still. There was, then, in this house, a pic¬ ture of Evelyn Marston; 1 somewhere the face so fatal to me smiled down from the walls. How I had longed to look upon her—what riches I would have sacrificed at this moment to see her painted Much self. more beautiful than you, but, oh, so very like ! Was this, then, the key to Hart Whitney’s perfidy; was it but a fairer copy that had won his fickle heart ? What did Evelyn Marton on Philip Bartnger’s walls a queen enthroned in his private apartment on which no stranger’s eye might look ? Perhaps he accepted was her hopeless lover; perhaps the one she soon would wed. I was roused by a light touch on my shoulder; Mrs. Ethbert Thorne was finally delayed. awake to the business so long “You will teach the children, of course, my dear. I will take you to my studyroom.” I followed her down the broad hall, striving distracted to still the emotion that had so and pointed me. Suddenly she turned to a door. “That is Phil’s parlor,” she whisper¬ ed; “if we only dare go in.” I gave but a furtive glance at it, but from that moment it haunted me. Daily, as I passed it, my pulse quick¬ ened; ever rebeliously JI went by. Who more than I had a right to see Evelyn Marston, to know how fair she was? Three months, and this longing had become a mania, with difficulty sup¬ pressed. Thrice I had stood by the wooden Cerberus, with my hand upon the knob. Shame hitherto had de¬ terred me; but the time had com# to see Evelyn Marston even at the risk of shame. So I decided, one day in autumn, when opportunity seemed ripe. Chil¬ dren, Philip Barringer, had just van¬ ished down the roadway ; Mrs. Efil¬ bert Thorne was dozing sweetly ; Sun¬ nybank was mute. The time had come. I would steal in, lock upon the face that had won my lover, and be forever satisfied. With beating heart I crept down the hallway; with hushed breath crept in. It were easy finding Evelyn Mars¬ ton ; there was but one picture on the walls. In the far corner I descried it, with strained eyes hurrying onward, looking up finally to see—to look again and stare. For the face befor e me was not Evelyn Marston's but my own—mine as it had looked in the old girl days when Hart Whitney went away. There was no mistake. I remem¬ bered the picture well; one of the many I had given him, one I had wondered not to find among the article Philip Barringer brought back to me. Much more beautiful, but, oh, so very like! One mystery was solved. But one. What was it doing here ? I could only stand with giddy brain repeating the question, and staring at my painted face. How dream long, I know not; it was all a till I saw a shadow in the sunlight and Philip Barringer. I had but little thought for him, little wonder for the look he w’ore. The circumstances of my pres¬ ence even were nothing now ; I knew but the present mysterj, and he could me. “What-” Eagerly I began the query, but he anticipated “I it. know your question. I saw this face in the Indies; I dreamed of it, i day and night. When Hart Whitney j died I kept this picture, as one unlikely ! to be missed. I was only dreaming j then, but with presence came realiza-j tion ; a passion quickly killed, but a| passion until death. Hopeless, but I would hope; you should know Hart Whitney s perfidy; you would surely j then forget him ; in time-' He paused, and his voice sunk to the soft cadence ot that other day. i “I told yon, and what fruit? You doubted me, you might come home to hate me, I must drop out of your life. Fate brought us again together, but I, have never forgotten this ; my sole hope now is that you will let me keep this picture, that you will not take it away; from me. Truly a day of amazements, a day of mysteries solved but to precipitate fresh ones. Was this Philip Barringer, the formal master of Sunnybank, talking thus to me ? Was this the cold creature Hart Whitney bidding him bad keep fashioned, this woman her portrait, since it seemed so much to him ? Is it an odd story 0 Odd then, but true. From that day I grew to forget Hart Whitney, to smile at his perfidy. And when the spring put forth its buds and blossoms, I put my hand in Philip Barringer’s and went out to be¬ come his wife. HON. WM. H. FELTON. His Reply to Senator John B. Gordon’s Re¬ cent Letter, Cartersville, Ga., March 8, 1879. To the Chronicle and Constitutionalist : Messrs. Editors : I have just read the letter of Gen. Gordon, addressed to you, and dated Washington, March 4th, 1879. I understood before I left Washing¬ ton that a grand consultation was held to conclude the attack commenced on my wife in the Macon Telegraph and Messenger If some weeks ago. this manifesto, signed by Senator Gordon, embodies all the strength and strategy that the organize* can command, after full consultatii.ii with both visiting and resident stau men, then we are surprised at the weakness, malice and impotency of such a war¬ fare. Gen. Gordon ignores my wife in this communication. It is a pity that this sober second thought had not oc¬ curred to his mind at an earlier stage of this controversy. I wish it distinctly understood that Gen. Gordon was the real author and instigator of the attack on my wife in the Macon lelegraph and Messenger. He was the man who commenced the search for the letter in the city of icitude Washington, and expressed great sol¬ to be placed in possession of its contents, and knowing these things my wife dealt with him, rather than Reese, the nominal author. When Gen. Gordon instituted this search for my wife’s letter, that fact was soon made known to me. He went in person to Senator Ferry and applied for her letter. He begged to know its contents, and gave as a reason for this meddlesome interference, “that Felton was his bitterest foe.” He states in the letter before me, that he did not go into the Seventh district of his own choice, but went at the call of “ his party.” Did “his par¬ ty” send him on this errand likewise? About as soon as his pliant tool could send a letter to the paper in Macon, my wife’s name was emblazon¬ ed over Georgia, charging that she “plead in piteously pathetic terms for radical money” to help my election. When Gen. Gordon talks about slanders on his good name it will be well for him to recollect who dragged my wife’s name into the public prints. Yielding to her earnest request, and satisfied that no mind in the State was more thoroughly competent, I, as her urotector, acceded to her wishes, when she proposed to measure foils with a United States Senator who was too prudent to appear- in an assault which he engaged A. W. Reese to make With a soul filled with righteous in¬ dignation she repelled the charge in a way that these maligners and revenge¬ ful slanderers of a noble wife will not soon forget. Gen. Gordon had no personal interest in her letter that he sought. It did not allude to him directly or indirectly. His search after it was a work of malice born only of hatred. I have her original letter. Others have seen it. Not one dollar was asked for—no pecuniary aid was requested, and the false allegation recoils on the heads of those who promulgated the slander. When the howling political dervishes of the Seventh Congressional district, had slandered every member of my family; and when their foul tongues and filthy pen were insufficient for the oc casion, there was no other man in the State, outside the district, whose pro clivities for falsehood promised them so much “aid and comfort," as did Gen. Gordon. He rushed to the res cue and became the leader of these calumniators of the wife, who was struggling for the success of her bus band. Not satisfied with this effort in Geor gia, he has carried the war into Con gressional circles. From the capitol of the United States he continues the dir work begun in the seventh district last fall. A woman’s quick intellect and deep; sense of wrong has made her punish her assailants with merited severity. Gen. Gordon stated in a public speech, that “he had met Blaine, Mor- ! ton and Conkling and blackest in the Senate, the; meanest that body, but Felton Republicans in was meaner than all.” He stated also, “that one more success for Felton would make him and his friends respectable,” implying by the expression that they had not yet attained to respectability. He also said “the independents must be pushed to the wall and crushed enternally.” He wound up this tissue of slanders in his Atlanta speech by saying that my success in the seventh district was the result of “repeating negro votes,” all of which assertions he knew was false. When I spoke in Atlanta, less a week before his re-election to Senate, I was urged by my friends retaliate upon him for his assaults upon my character and name, and to denounce publicly one the most vulnerable political ever made by a Georgia Senator. I steadily refrained in the interest harmony and good will, and my heart craved peace. When his final attack upon my constrains her to turn like the and sting the foot that seeks to it, what does he say? Does he deny charges? No. He explains. He varicates. He apologizes. She charged him with being a of state conyicts, working them for ney. Does he come out like a man say “ 'tis false !” No. chosen He says legislature” “the law of was passed by our “own pie,” “without his knowledge or ey.” If we are correctly informed Yazoo frauds were passed by a similar body, manipulated by a United senator, and like some of the statesmen of that time, it seems that Gen. Gordon stands ready to reap the profits of such favorable legislation. She charged that Gen. Gordon bor¬ rowed the scanty earnings of a holy man of God and deposited with him security certain worthless' collaterals. Does he deny it? No. He says “he stands ready to make good every of loss.” Ah! the good man is gone and does not need this generous propo¬ sal to become an [honest man. If he had applied a pittance of his large in¬ come liquidation from insurance debt companies during the to the of this life¬ time of the good bishop; he might stand up and say to the world, “ ’tis false!” She charged that he could manipu¬ late a southern insurance company and a southern university publishing the com¬ pany, in which the money of sub¬ scribers disappeared forever. Does he deny the charge ? No. In the insurance matter he says every “death policy was fully paid.” Ah! it was the money of the living policy holders, she asserted, had disappeared forever. He persuaded hundreds, by his oily tongue and de¬ ceptive pen, to invest their money drew in this company, from which he an immense salary while these unfortunate policy holders know that their money has disappeared forever. pub¬ As for the southern university lishing the company, he attempts desired to plaster fraud by saying he to give the country southern books that did not slander “our people.” Soon after the war this distinguished General ascertained that an appeal to southern pride and sectional honor was the short road to the pockets of south¬ ern men, and he has traveled that road in pursuit of his own emoluments until it is worn smooth. The charge was not about southern books, their value or quality. It was not whether General Lee had approved or that disapproved invested of the enterprise, the but the money in concern through General Gordon’s influence had left the pockets of the ubscribers and has never returned. I heard a distinguished member of Congress from Georgia say, some days ago, that he had several hundred dol¬ lars of this worthless university scrip, which he had advised his wife to burn as waste paper. All the way from Baltimore, down south, we hear of men who invested in this south sea bubble, and up to the present time, General Gordon admits, it has made no money for the stockhold¬ ers. Did he get no percentage—no profits? Again, my wife reported the fact that his name in connection with the money of Jay Gould and Huntingdon was the street talk of Washington city, and some of this talk mortified and as tonished two prominent Georgians who were at that time visiting the city, He replies that this was the mere gabble of the friends and advocates of two opposing railroad companies, and goes off into an extended explanation of his vote which he seems to think gave rise to this gabble. Since Geu. Gordon, by his humble tool Reese, did not hesitate to publish my wife’s name to the general public in connection with “radical money,” she decided to give him the benefit of a general criticism on the money of Jay Gould and Huntingdon. In a spirit of candor and fairness, she referred him to the distinguished Georgians who heard from strangers these damaging charg es. proof When he gives as satisfactory of his innocence as she has furnished of her innocenee he may congratulate that himself, but it is my impression work of much his vindication will be a greater Allow magnitude. just here, that it me to say, would be a novel sight in any other State to see a lady of the highest social standing, thus attacked openly and by name, and then to be lectured by a venal press for allowing her name to in print in reply, peroration, Gen. Gordon, in his says PEICE THREE CENTS. “that I was false to my people in war and begrimed with a wicked and cor rupt alliance with the enemies of my party, section and people.” He knows that after uttering these foul slanders at every cross road and county gressional precinct district in the Seventh Con last fall, the purest and best citizens of that district with a unanimity and zeal unparalleled in the history of Georgia politics, placed the seal of falsehood and condemnation upon his statements. Now, having shown in the outset of this letter that he was guilty of a base falsehood against my innocent and noble wife, and after a succinct review of all the facts involved in the controversy, I close with the full conviction that the country will award a just and impar tial decision. Like the great Duke of Marlborough, he has besmirched a brilliant war re cord with financial and official compli cations, until Georgians blush that the grand highest old State is represented in the councils of the nation by such a man. Respectfully, W. H. Felton. L OST Tools. suitably —A Paints TRUNK, and containing Pictures, The Artist’s Under will be rewarded. Address. Prof. J. EDWIN CHURCHILL, Artist. Business Cards* —— F. BINGEL, WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGARS. Milwaukee and Cincinnati Lager Beer on draught. hand. Free Lunch. Fresh Oysters always on 21 Jefferson st., corner Con tigress street lane..__ mchio-ly JAMES RAY, —Manufacturer and Bottler— Mineral Waters, Soda, Porter and Ale, 15 Houston St., Savannah, Ga. feb23-3m Dr. A. H. BEST, DENTIST Cor. Congress and Whitaker streets. SAVANNAH, GA. T EETH extracted without pain. All work I guaranteed. patrons. respectfully beg to refer to an y of my oo itl-brao C. A. CORTINO, Bair Cutting Bair Dressing, Curling and SHAVING SALOON. 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I have engaged in my factory the most skillful me chanies. Any orders for new work, and re¬ pairing, aud short will be executed to give satisfaction at notice. raay!2-ly Carriages; EAST END Carriage Manufactory. P. O’COIOTOB, Corner East Broad, President and York sts. Savannah, Ga. I beg leave to inform my frtends and the public in general that I always keep ou hand a full supply of the best seasoned mate¬ rial and am prepared to execute orders for Wagons, Buggies, Drays, Trucks, Etc., with promptness and dispatch, guaran¬ teeing all work turned out from my shops to be as represented. In all Its branches. Repairing polishing, lettering Painting, Var¬ nishing. aud trimming done in a workmanlike manner. Horse-shoeing a specialty. mch2tf Leather and Findings* STER\ & HUM, COMMISSION MERCHANTS And Dealers in HIDES, LEATHER Hi! FINDINGS, 166 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, H IGHEST Market Price paid for Hides. Wool. Sheep Skins, Furs, Deer Skins Beeswax and Tallow. ’ A full supply of the best French and Ameri¬ can Liberal Tannages advances constantly kept on hand. No made on consignments. business transacted on Saturday,