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About Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1879)
D A. I L Y EVENING Savannah Recorder. VOL I.—No. 156. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, {Saturday Excepted,) 1161 BAY STREET, By J. STERN. The Recorder 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 |.jace ol the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full issues for the week. *®-W e do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed oy Correspondents. Letter from Colorado. Leadville, Col., March 13,1879. Editor Times, Eastman, Ga .: Dear Sir —I left home on Monday, the 3d inst., for this mining camp, and arrived here on Tuesday evening last, Ihe 11th inst., about 7 o’clock ; and as I promised several that I would write to them and give them some informa¬ tion in regard to this section of country. Where now stands the city of Lead ville, eighteen months ago there was nothing to be .seen except the earth, rocks, snow-capped mountains and the heavens. At present thgre are from ten to fifteen thousand inhabitants, and still they come from all directions. Building is going on rapidly, and the property is being rented just as soon as it is made tenautable, at very high fig¬ ures. A three room house rents here readily at $35 per month. My brother and myself pay $60 per month for our office, (two rooms.) Board is worth from $7 to $15 per week, washing $2.50 per dozen and everything else in proportion. On the other hand, money is plentiful, aud flows like water. Everybody and everything business and is on the jump, and life, bustle is the order of the day. Carpenters are in demand at $5 per day and board. Experienced min¬ ers are getting $4 per day, common hands $3.50, and green hands $2.50 per d2y and board. Railroad hands get $1.50 per day and board, and are in demand. Lumber is worth $60 per thousand—brick the same. A man can procure all the comforts of a metropol¬ itan city here. Everything in the shape of building material and living will become much cheaper in the spring as soon as the railroad reaches here, which will be about the first of June next. There is plenty of room here for all who desire to come, and those who are need willing and not afraid to work not remain idle long after striking the “ camp,” as it is called. New and valuable discoveries are being made every day. There were many here who, twelve months ago, were not worth a dollar, to-day are worth from $10,000 to $500,000. Excitement and speculation are at fever heat. Town lots that went begging for purchasers at five dollars apiece twelve months ago, are now held at, and readily sell for, from $5,000 to $10,000 each. The altitude of Leadville is 10,025 feet above the level of the sea. It is situated west of the Musquito range, which is covered always with perpetual enow, which was one and a-half feet deep when I crossed last Tuesday, though the main range is west of us. Everything plentiful, is life and business, and money more if anything, than it was with us during the latter years of the Confederacy. It is no exaggera¬ tion to say that there is more capital and money here at present than in any fifty places of the same size on the western continent. The income of the Mayor of thousand the city, through his mines, is four dollars per day. Wm. B. Thomas. The whole number of State convicts in • the whole United States, employed i*r mechanical industries, is 13.1S6, of a State prison population ol-9.19, says the Trenton State Gazette, aud they earn on the average forty labor cents per day, the average price for outside of prisons hese men earn $8,122,57b. The products of he mechanical industries of the United States amount to over $5,000,000,000 annnually. The total product of the State prisons of the United States, taking labor at $2 a day, cannot be over $20,000,000 per annum . not great burden on the industries of a na tion worth producing of goods annually. over ^.000,000,<X» An American Princess. [Paris LettarJn New York Tribune.] The late'Princess Murat was one of the many links belween the United States of America and the Imperial Court of France, where she was allowed to rank as wife of a prince of the blood She made a love match. The year she exchanged the name of Fraser for that of Murat, the fortunes of the Bona¬ parte family were at a low ebb. Caro¬ line, the widow of King Joachim, the youngest sister of Napoleon, and the mother-in-law of Miss Fraser, was dying in poverty at Trieste, Louis Napoleon was a mooning adventurer, in debt and difficulties, and dependent for nerve and sustenance on the beau¬ tiful Mrs. Gordon, whom at Ham he charged Louis Blanc to kiss for him. Charlotte, the widow of Louis Charles, the eldest son of the King of Holland and Queen Hortense, and the daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, was following her scandalous downhill career in the Eter¬ nal City. She had been the Delilah of Leopold Robert, the painter, who died in a paroxysm of jealousy which she excited. The Pope contemplated banishing her from the States of the Church. Mme. Bonaparte Wyse was the para mour of an Irish officer, Captain John ston, in a garret in the Rue de Rivoli along with her two daughters—now Mme. Ratazzi and Mme. Turr. Lu cien’s sons, Pierre and Antoine, were filibusters with no fixed home, and held in opprobrium wheiever they went. The one bright spot in the darkened sky was the marriage, at Florence, of Jerome Napoleon’s daughter, Mathilde, then a young woman of superb beauty and brilliant accomplishments', came with her wealthy and barbarous Rus¬ sian husband to Paris to agitate for her family, and to open a Bonapartist salon to which Thiers promised to bring his friends. Whilst she was shining in Parisian society, and as a subject of Czar Nicho¬ las and a cousin of his son-in-law, de¬ fying the police of Louis Phillippe to expel her, Lucien Murat was trying to eke out a subsistence for himself and his young wife by teaching French to American Quakers. She was an esti¬ mable but not lovable woman. The Scot is the mostl respectable but the least amiable member of the Celtic family, and there was much of Scotland in the mental complexion and the in¬ stincts of this princess of the blood that was to be. She was imbued with the prose of the Quakers amongst whom she lived. The Caledonian redness had faded into drab at Philadelphia. She was very prim and reserved, and a sharper woman about money never lived. The rapacity of the Murat family, of which, after Prince Achillea death, she was the head, pressed severely on the lazy Princess. Lucien profited by the favor which her daughter Anna enjoyed at the Tuileries to make hauls and enrich herself and her other children, one of whom had married a Mr. Garden. It is to the honor of the Princess that she never abandoned the religious principles of her youth, when stupid Spanish super¬ stition, which was incarnate in the Empress, reigned at the Tuileries. The American Princess brought her children up to believe in a rational form of Christianity, but was not able to induce her sons to practice it. They are sad scamps, with the vices of the different countries by which they are connected by blood and education, and few of the virtues. One of them hav¬ ing outrun the constables of France, has gone to. live off his wife’s relatives, in Mongrelia. Another serves as a soldier in Algeria. Their mother lived in communion with the Reformed it iLj!? wonld^bA 1 nf thf th ® n £ decide< J. ‘ 7 th ^ -° her to V m order take hpr ’ ordei to to take her remains remains to tn«U- St. Angus tins and have mass, attended by Bona partists, celebrated for her soul’s re pose. Anna, her youngest daughter, anti at the present time Duchess de Mouchy, to disarm the jealousy of the | Empress Eugenie, embraced the Cath¬ olic religion. As a neophyte she was I instructed in it by the ill-starred Abbe Duguerry, tlie who, at the same time, cate chised Prince Imperial, and prepar-: ed him for the first communion. i The American Princess and her sis-j ter, Miss Fraser, resided together after; the breakdown of the Empire. Their | lodgings were near the town house of the Duchess de Mouchv, for whom the 0 id ladies overhauled the butler’s cook’s accounts, looked after the nurses; and governess, aud saw that the chej applied his skill in the interests of econ omy. --- The Boston Transcript says ; Julius H. Ward's preaching at Union Hall, Sunday afternoons, isan interest ] n g attempt to humor the modern lyoung creeds man’s desire and to escape from to facts, still bring him up under the historic authority of Mother Church. Mr. Ward’s manlv and *ju» the re day dealing withi him the imjuicing listeners. spirit secures many SAVANNAH WEDNESDAY, APEIL 2, 1879. Madame Bonaparte. No woman in the United States and none perhaps in all the world has had a more eventful and romantic history than an old lady in Baltimore who is allude now reported to be lying very ill. We to Madame Patterson-Bonaparte, the deserted wife of Napoleon’s brother Jerome,who became Kingof Wesnphalia by the power of the mighty Corsican’s sword. The old Madame is now in her ninety-seventh year. She has always proclaimed that she would live to be one hundred, but the chances are sorely against her, although her will is domi¬ nant and the goal not far off. But what tremendous changes has she wit¬ nessed ! She was married to Jerome when the empire of Napoleon was in its birth. She was deserted when little more than a child. She outlived the man whose cruel edict banish her from love and home. She saw him humbled and crushed. She survived the un¬ worthy man who won her heart, tram¬ pled upon it, and, at the despotic bid¬ ding of his imperial brother, unlawful¬ ly wedded another. She had the satis¬ faction of meeting this recreant and craven husband in the art galleries of Florence and withering him with one contemptuous glance. She beheld the whole fabric of the great empire of Bonaparte perish like Jonah’s gourd. She had the grim sat¬ isfaction of knowing that a mock Napoleon, Bonaparte’s who had not one drop of blood—the offspring of Josephine’s daughter and a Dutch A d* miral—sat upon the throne and from it was toppled headlong in disgrace and ruin. It must have made the old Madame “grin a ghastly smile” when the newspapers recorded that the so called Prince Imperial had gone to hunt negroes in Zululand for England. Alongside that brat her progeny can hold up a high head, There is no doubt of her marriage being valid. The church settled that, although venal laws and judges endeavored to mock it. But Nature herself vindi cated her algo. Her son, now dead, was the perfect image of Napoleon. We have often seen him posed like the Emperor and the effect was startling. It was not only a voice from St. Helena but a revelation from the tomb. The old Madame bas for many years dwelt penuriously in a boarding house. She has, from all accounts, lived an uncanny life, without religion, and feeding on the dry husks of the past. She accumulated a vast fortune for her eldest grandson, who distinguished himself at West Point, in the Crimea, and during the Franco-German war. But when that idolized man, in his maturity, turning aside from the nobility of France, married a Boston widow of wealth and fashion, her in¬ dignation was said to have been ter¬ rific, and she threatened to transfer her propeity, as well as her affections, to his younger brother, who is a lawyer of small reputation, and aspiring to be a judge. If it will do the old Madame any good to live to her hundredth year, we trust that her wish may be gratified and her prediction fulfilled In her father’s will she was practically disin¬ herited for disobedience and perversity. It would be sad indeed if the Heaven¬ ly Father, who gave her length of days, in spite of her waywardness to her parents, and many vindications, as well as prodigious wealth, should have cause at last to withdraw His counten¬ ance from a deathbed that has no angel to hover over it .—Augusta Sentinel. Story of Mr. Stansbury’s Con-1 $1, 000, and a Jersey Thief’s SCIClltlOUS • a- Wife. Several nights ago a burglar entered ; the house of William C. Stansbury, $1.4* in ; Westfield, N. J., and stole in j mone y- ^ esterday afternoon Mr. Stans bury received a letter, dropped in the Westfield Post Office and bfock nrinted with a i ea d pencil in rough, charac- j ters; the letter told him that if he would visit at midnight a certain apple tree on h is place he would find near it a . otftmuniUL wX arlvf-prl ; ii „ K'X j •, Mr Stansbnrv’s L to wait until midniaht 8 hnt to mediately as no one would dare place the monev there after he received the letter for fear of detection might and if it ™ there already some one accident a ]] y overturn the stone and find it. Mr. Stansbury went by the desig nated place, found a stone roil turned lt over ;. and there lav a of bank note There was $1,000 in the roil, The letter said that the writer was a woman; that her husband bad stolen lhe money while drunk, and that she would pay back the remaining $400 as soon as she could. Mr Stansbury is elated over the return of the bulk of the stolen monev ^ ^ Of 24,612 clergymen belonging to the Church of England, 3,615 were graduated at the University of Cam bridge, 7,682 at Oxford, 1,701 at Dub lin, 655 *at Durham, 176 at the Uni versity of London, and 1,646 are en rolled as non-graduates. From Washington. Position of the Senate Towards the Presi¬ dent—Items for Officeholders, etc. [From the Baltimore Sue.] THE CURRENT OF LEGISLATION. Washington, March 30.—It is not now unlikely bill that the debate on the army in the House may last for the whole or the greater part of next week. It is the sentiment among the Demo¬ crats that the Republicans shall be iven a fair and full opportunity to iscuss all the political aspects of the case, and it is expected that in the House the Republicans will make pretty much all their political fight on the army bill. When the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill is brought forward it is expected that it will be disposed of in a corn siderations paratively short time. The same con political exactly enter into the measures to be attached to that bill as in those on the army bill, and it is held that the debate can very properly bill. exhaust itself on tl e latter The adjournment of the House over to-morrow was carried for the purpose of preventing the introduction of the batch of crude, financial schemes which the Greenbackers have in hand to be launched during the the morning hour of Monday, that being only time when they can have an opportunity of getting them in. THE GREENBACKERS THREATEN RE VENGE. The Greenbackers say they will have revenge for this. They calculate that the Democrats will not be able to com¬ mand a quorum any more during this session, and they say that if they are not allowed the chance to put iu their bills they will act with theRepublicans in refusing to vote onDemocratic meas¬ ures, and this brings everything to a standstill. Some of the leading Repub¬ licans say, however, that while they intend to fight the political measures of the Democrats with all the energy they are capable of exerting, they are not satisfied that it will be the proper thing to resort to fillibustering in order to break up a quorum. If the views of these should prevail the Greenbackers will have no chance to attempt to drive bargains with the Democrats. As seve¬ ral of the Greenbackers were elected with the distinct promise that they would act with the Democrats, their present attitude cannot be classed as strictly honorable. THE SENATE AND THE PRESIDENT. Since the meeting of Congress very few indeed of the Democratic Senators have visited the White House, and the proportion of them who will enter the portals of be the Executive Mansion is likely to quite as small for the re¬ maining two years of Mr. Hayes’ term as it was for the past two years. While for obvious reasons the majority of the Democrats of the two houses do not care to hold any personal relations with the President, there is no disposi¬ tion at all in either house, as has been* falsely stated, to embarrass his admin¬ istration in the slightest degree in the proper carrying on of the government. POLITICAL DICKERING. A day or two before the meeting of Congress it was widely circulated through the partisan press that the Senate Democrats wonld confirm no nominations of the President except such as be were bargained for. Nothing could more basely mendacious thau this. No Democratic Senator has ever dreamed of bargaining iu this connec¬ tion, and a batch of Presidential nomi¬ nations, including some of the most pronounced be of radical Republicans, has alrea,i ? ?' 1 co,l ?. rmed ; A8 to > r ' . the matter of nominations . saining in and confirmations the most shameful tra ffi c w „ s carried on by Republican Senators during the administration of Andrew Johnson. For a longtime there was scarcely a confirmation made by t the Senate that was not the result a- i j * PLACE AND PREFERMENT. It has been notorious for some time that a large number of departments clerks, residents of Northern States and °f fk® District of Columbia, are credlted on tlie b °oke of the depart ment Congressmen t0 lhe Southern have always States. been Southern restive | 0Ter thia matter - The South Carolina members have uow llie promise of the Treasury credlted Department that all clerks ^ tl ^ ens 5 lf to tilat ^ State Caro shad £ i:n .f be ' vho removed, are 1 nd ® r t he la ' v thelr places can then be g* e State. W1 ^ The b de °°, a egations fide residents from other of - outhe rn states wnl ask that the same Ig™ be P u rsued with regard to their Glce Prea 4. ldent n ^ heele Sena whetker ‘°f, aak f ke d ' r would not f °PP 0Se a °y changes , that 4 the new Secretary and the new Sergeant j at-Arms of the Senate might desire to maiie - ^ r - Wheeler hesitated for a: p omen ^ au d then said, “Would you kave me act as undertaker at the , ^ , friends :unera °t my ? ’ A ruse for policy. Monday During the debate in the Senate last on the change of officers* for that body Mr. Conkhng, in the course of his speech, held up in his hand a list, as he said, of thirty or forty Democrats who were then hold¬ ing office under the Republican Serge ant-at-Arms of the Senate. This Mr. Oonkling evidently considered a telling point, and it is charitable to suppose that he was not aware of the fact that these Democrats bad mostly been ap¬ pointed by the Sergeant-at-Arms with¬ in the last few weeks, in the vain hope him¬ that he would thereby ingratiate self with the incoming Democratic ma¬ jority. In regard to the offices under the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, it does not seem to be generally known that the Democratic candidate committee has taken this subject in charge, and that whatever removals are made will be subject to the direction of the caucus. The im¬ pression is that removals will be made with deliberation. THE HOUSE COMMITTEES. Speaker Randall has been laboring very for industriously on his committees think several days past, and some he will announce this week. It is rumored as among the possibilities that Mr. McLane will be made chairman of the Committee on Commerce. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Augusta, with a population of near 28,000 souls, has been during the past few years achieving progress, rapid and decided, in growth and wealth. Charles Wing, a Chinese cigar-maker and member of the Episcopalian church, was naturalized in New York city ou Saturday. His witness was Wong Zee, who has already been naturalized. A windfall of 818,000 has just come from England to Samuel Mousley, one of Wellington’s soldiers at Waterloo, who has been living humbly at Oxford, N. H., for the past thirty years. Virginia alone since the war, has paid in internal than revenue on her tobac¬ co more enough to cancel her en¬ tire state debt, now amounting to over $44,000,000. An old fashioned bookcase and sec¬ retary was recently purchased at auc¬ tion in Cincinnati for $5, that had a secret drawer containing $16,000 in old bank bills, counterfeit coin and various articles dating back to 1820. It has been decided in New York that a white necktie will be considered full dress the coming season. But a fellow would feel rather uncomfortable in case there should be a sea-turn or a sadden nor’wester. Clemenceau, the leader of the Radi¬ cal Left, in the Versailles Assembly, is a small man, cold-looking and clear headed. His speeches are pointed and brilliant, but he never rises to the fer¬ vor of Gambetta. A war in which 130,000 English were killed iu a year would be looked upon as a terribly destructive war, bnt lung disease kills that number annually in England and Wales and 120,000 in United States. It is rumored that Dr. Newman will to Rome in the middle of Lent to the high dignity to which he has been appointed by Leo XIII.— There will then be a triad of English in the Holy City—namely, Manning, Howard and Newman. Peroration by a Hart county lawyer: “What! believe that a lady, one of God’s brightest creations, would perjure herself, swear falsely before this honor¬ able Court. No!” he thundered.— “Sooner would I believe my little black sow would root down Stone Mountain— and she is a good rooter.” In 1776 there were in the United States but thirty-seven newspapers of all grades. Seven were in Massachu¬ setts, four in New York and nine in Pennsylvania. One was a semi-weekly, the remainder were weeklies. To-day there are over 8,000 newspapers of all grades published in the country. One of the votes cast in the French chamber of deputies in favor of re moving the seat of government to Paris was that of the imperialist writer and fighter, Paul de Cassagnac. He de fends the assistance he gave the com munist by this vote, on the ground that the return to Paris will be tantamount to the suicide of the republic, There are fifty million acres of land in California fit for cultivation, but not over five million are in actual use for that purpose, and not over eight mil lion are enclosed. Over twenty million acres are held by land rings or indivi dual monopolists for speculative pur p08es> in tracta of 0 ne hundred and twenty-five thousand to three hundred thousand acres. Th Blue _ Hen . g chickeng St,r ^ ed - * P ‘ W ,lmin S°? j " 01 * T ear8 ,° # c0 ^h lc t, p i^ gis - a * ure as ordered , rt * e co ^ rom v- ., . w ., 1 ming . on he New \ , , , j cra P. e ° divTd^ng n n . rJ there'thk^tout Newcastle lawyers 8 county PRICE THREE CENTS. Wanted* ___ to A. ■s "W" A Sw Hcfli 'p7e^a%rt b t° dy servo to know my customers, that I am with Ton i C °m Broad & Harrison sts., ♦ to which I have now removed. 1 THEO. RADERICK. mh21tf Business Cards* 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 Wh itakor streets. SAVANNAH, GA. T EETH extracted without pain, All work respectfully guaranteed, I beg to refer to any of my patrons. octl-bmo W. B. FERRELL’S Agt. RESTAURANT, No. New 11 Market Basement, (Opposite Lippman’s Drug Store.) lanlSt.i SAVANNAH. GA C. A. CORTJ.NO, Bair Cutting, Bair Bressinz, Curlinz ail SHAVING SALOON. HOT AND COLD BATHS. 16614 Bryan street, opposite the Market, uu der Flanters’ and English Hotel. spokon. Spanish, Italian, sck>-tf Get man. J I i A FINE stock of Cigars on hand, Prices to suit anybody, Call and examine my stock before purchasing, and save money. H. J. RIESER, mh2S Cor. Whitak er and Bryan sts. JOS. H. baker. BUTCHEB, STALL No. 66, Savannah Market. Dealer in Beef, Mutton, Pork nd All other Meats in their Seasons. Particular attention paid to supplying Ship a nd Board i ng Houses. augJ2 HAIR store: JOS. £. L0ISEAU & C0., 118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull * Drayton K EEP on hand a largo assortment of Hair Switches, Curls, Puffs, and Fancy Goods Hair combings worked in the latest style. Fancy Costumes, Wigs and Beards for Rent GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, Ac. The celebrated Joseph Schlitz’ MILWAU¬ LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22 FREE Street, LUNCH Lyons’ Block, Savannah, r-z81-]v every day from 11 to 1. Carriages* A. K. WILSON’S Corner Ray and MANUFACTORY, West Broad sts. REPOSITORY . Cor. Bay and Montgomery streets. GEORGIA The largest establishment In the city. 1 keep a full line of Carriages, Rockaways, Falling Spring Top and Farm Wagons. Canopy u of Carriage and Baby Wagon Carilages, also a full Material. I have in my factory the most skillful me¬ Any orders for new work, and re¬ will be executed to give satisfaction at short notice raayl2-ly EAST END Manufactory. P. O’COOTOR, East Broad, Savannah, President and York sts. Ga. public beg leave to inform my friends and the in general that I always keep on afull supply of the best seasoned mate¬ and am prepared to execute orders for Buggies, Drays, Trucks, with promptness and dispatch, guaran¬ teeing all work turned out from my shops to be as represented. Re pairing inall Its branches. Painting, Var¬ nishing. In polishing, lettering and trimming a workmanlike manner. Horse-shoeing a specialty. mch2tf Ice* f Ice Company. Wholesale and Shippers Retail Dealers' in' and of EASTERN ICE. -DEPOT; III BAY STREET. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, J. F. CAVANAUGH, Manager. mchi-6m Candies* ESTABLISHED 1850. M. FITZGERALD —Manufacturer of— PURE, PLAIN AND FINE CANDIES. Factory and Store, 178 BRYAN STREET Branch Store, No. 132 BROUGHTON ST., Uae door ?ant or tr*. \ GA) SA
