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■ jfil 1 !___ 1 I > /V I L Y ^VimsmsTG ^.3 AVANNAH war jh-v_ •«' r'" HE 1 -*jk j H VOL II.—No. 100. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, K M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING , (Saturday Excepted,) At3 6A 33i5Lir sthest. 11H ,r. STERN. ’I'lie Recorder is served to subscribers, in every part ol the city by careful carriers. Communications must be accompanied by tlic 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 isher. 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 egular rates will be made. All correspondence should be addressed, Re Cobdkr, Savannah, Georgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will take the | iace of the Saturday evening edition, which wilt make six full issues for the week. floT-We do not hold ourselves responsible for tiie opinions expressed oy Correspondents. A STERLING OLD POEM. Who shall judge a man by his manners? Paupers Who shall know li i in by his dress? may lie fit for princes, Princes lit for something less, Crumpled shirts and golden dirty jacket May beciothe the ore Of the deepest thoughts and feelings— Satin vest can do no more. There are streams or crystal nectar Ever flowing out of stone ; These are purple beds and golden, Hidden crushed and overthrown. God, Love who and counts by soul, and not dresses, prosper you highest me, While he values thrones the But as pebbles in the sea. Man upraise above his fellows, Oft forgets li is fellows then ; Masters—rulers—lords, remember That your meanest binds are men ! Men of labor, thought men and of feeling, of fame, Men of men Claiming equal rights to sunshine In man’s ennobling name. Here are foam embroidered oceans, There are little wood-clad rills; There arc feeble inch-high hills. saplings, There are cedars on the God who counts by souls, not stations, Moves and prospers you and me, For him all vain distinctions Are as pebbles in UieSea. Toil lug hands a lone are builders Of a nation’s wealth and fame, Stilted laziness is pensioned, the Fed and fattened on same, By the sweat of others foreheads, Living only to rejoice, ragged freedom While the poor man on Vainly lifts its feeble voice. Truth and justice are eternal, light; Born with loveliness and Secret wrongs shall never prosper While there world-wide is a sunny right. singing God, whose voice is Boundless love to you and me, Links but oppression pebbles in with the his titles As sea. RENEE’S LOVE "Renee! Renee?” The sweet, French name floated out from the open window of tho cottage, and Reneo Courtland came out from the shadow of drooping trees, her broad hat hanging loosely on her shoulder, where she had pushed it back from her face while standing in the shadow. Margaret Gray’s voice had roused the girl from dreams of Lester Sinclair, the handsome, blue eyed stranger vis¬ iting at the house that nestled amid linden trees in the hollow below where the old fashioned cottage of the Grays stood. She had been dreaming of his deep, laughing eyes, his sunny, chesnut curls, las gay, nonchalant man¬ ner, that always changed to tenderness for her. Whatever was the charm of Lester Sinclair’s manner, he had surely won the first love of Renee Courtland’s girlish heart. Years before the father of Renee Courtland had, left her to the care of Margaret Gray—fair, calm Margaret Gray—who had been his girl love in their early youth, and who had never married in memory ot that first love dream. She scarcely knew herselt what had come between them, only it had ended in bitter words and a still more bitter parting, and then, in his passion, Charles Courtland had mar¬ ried a pretty, dark eyed French girl— the mother of Renee. Years after, when his wife died, he had come to his early love and asked her to be his wife and a mother to his child. ... Rut with all her gentleness, Marga ret Gray was prouder than many haughty women, ami she gravely an swered him "No." Gently, almost sorrowfully, He made no yet second still it appeal, was‘;No." knowing how useless it would be But when, 1 ’ three years later, death ca.led 11 J himself, if u lit. Lit Lft bit! In. nrnhanprl oi\ banei, penniless W child to the care of Margaret i he child had grown up to a slender maiden with great gray and a childlike smile, to be the ot Margaret Grays heart and the da% star of Victor Gray’s life. gome distance down the road Gray stood leaning against a tree, his face grave and thoughtful, oven beyond its VVOUt. He handsome tms _ was not a man, Victor than' Gray. But theie was something better beauty in his proud, dark face, for manhood was stamped qu his broad brow. Courage, honor and truth gleamed in his eyes, and though the general expression of his face was stem his smile could be gentle almost as a woman’s, and this man loved pretty childish Bessie with all the strength of his heart, and she—well, she loved Lester Sinclair. He threw' away his half-burned cigar and turned toward the cottage, his face still gravely stern. Renee came to meet him. "Oh, Victor, can’t I go down to Ray¬ mond’s this evening? Kathie is going to have a croquet match. Margaret says no, but you—eh, Victor, may I not go. You might come with me, Victor. Kathie asked you.” He looked at the pretty, childish face. "Yes, I will go, Renee.” Two hours later Renee came down, looking like a wild rose in her pink muslin robes, with clustering flowers in her breast and hair. They were rather early in the cro¬ quet ground, so Kathie and Renee played Victor a game by themselves. Gray watched Renee with passionate, pitying eyes, knowing the pain in store for ber, which he had been too cowardly, he thought bitterly, to warn her of. "I could not tell her," he said, “and yet I wish I had." He watcched her wistfully, turning pale as he saw how her eyes wandered to the gate. She had thrown her hat aside and the soft breeze lifted the short, dark curls off her low brow and deepened the rose tint on her cheeks. He saw the red lips part in smiles and the lovely dark eyes deepen, and, turning toward the gate, he saw Les¬ ter Sinclair coming up the pathway, a lady leaning oil his arm. The one look at Renee’s face told Victor that she never suspected the truth. Her faith, like her love, was un¬ wavering. She believed in Lester Sin¬ clair as she did in her own loyal love. The lady on his arm was a delicate little thing, with a certain kind of beauty of the wax doll order, with big blue eyes, dainty features and cluster¬ ing flaxen hair. They came forward to where Renee stood. "Clare,’’ he said, "this is the young lady I told you of, Miss Courtland, Renee —Miss Courtland, my betrothed wife, Miss Duvane." “His betrothed wife !" The words rang in Renee’s ears, then seemed to die away with a faint, moan¬ ing sound. Remember she was only seventeen, and childish for her age. The bright young face grew pallid as death, and all the sweet light seem¬ ed to fade from her eyes. Victor strode to her side. "Take me home, Victor I—I don’t feel very well! Please take me” — The words died away on her lips, and the next moment Victor held her white and senseless in his arms. * * * * * * * A magnificent room, large, lofty and furnished with almost Oriental splen¬ dor, from the velvet carpet, into which the foot sank noiselessly, the silken, inlaid furniture, the wondrous gems of art that adorned the walls, the rare statutes lhat filled every conceivable nook, to the most minute article in the room. At one of the windows a tall, slen¬ der woman stood holding back with a slender, jeweled hand the foam-like draperies—a woman so radiantly, rare¬ ly beautiful that even the casual passer-by half admiration paused with a look of involuntary on her face. The low, white brow, the great dark eyes, the curving crimson lips and waving masses of blue-black hair made a pictui almost perfect in its rare lovoline And yet it was not a satisfied face ; there was a look of past pain and present longing, strangely mingled, resting upon it. Where the expression lay you could hardly tell, only it was there. And this graceful woman,who seemed born for the wealth that surrounded her, , was Renee Courtland, who had lain so white and still in Victor Gray’s arms six long years before lhe change in her life had come so j suddenly, so unexpectedly. An uncle of iier father’s, who had sever spokan j to him trench after his girl, marriage had with Renee, the pretty seen I and, being childless, had left her all his - wealth tk. j Not lk for ber love, F enoh lie fwd said ; "she ‘,p was lM°t tha t. 'oug.i , tueie ' ' \\as something mo r ot , the Courtland about her as well, but simply md li.s- because she kin. was a Courtland iK,ae>t ot but loyal Renee had never ) her old friends, for m her stately uome Maigaret Gray was with her, md everv summer the little cottage ‘ A e ■cornu, ni an L ' al! o apj.un. - 1 r or weeks and jnom ns alter the die tainted in Victor’s arms, Renee had been the shadow of her self. SAVANNAH, SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1879. Pale and listless, it seemed as if hope would never reassert her sway in the tender young heart, and Victor watched her, suffering almost as much in her great love lor her It seemed at times to Renee Court land as if her heart must break, with its passionate pain, but hearts do not break easily at seventeen, and Renne conquered her love, then buried it out of sight forever, and as time passed on, if it rose to confront her, she put it aside with all the strength of nature. Then came the great change in her life, and smiles came back to the beautiful face, though sometimes the shadow of the old pain darkened it And four years later she met Lester Sinclair again, handsomer, if possible, than ever, with a new gravity about him that became him well. He bad laid his fair young wife to rest in her grave, and was free again. Renee’s face grew pale when she first heaid it, paler still as he bent over her hand, and then the past seemed to be forgotten. Even when he married the wealthy heiress, Clara Duvane, Lester Sinclair knew that the little dark-eyed girl held more of his heart than he would willing]}' acknowledge, and now* see¬ ing her day after day, so regal in her loveliness, the old love deepened, till Renee Courtland held every hope of happiness for him. As time passed on Victor Gray noticed an added restfulness in Renee’s eyes, that the weary look around her mouth deepened, and could scarcely understand it. He perhaps sterner than of old, and the girl came forward to meet him. “You are welcome, Victor," she said, clasping his hand, "and Margaret will be so very glad.” ‘You do not look happy this even ing, Benee,” he said, his eyes on her face. The girl turned away with a quick, impatient gesture. "I am not happy,” she said ; my life has been one mistake." "Which will be righted in time," he answered, quietly, though his face paled slightly. When Victor left her she went back to her place at the window again. ‘‘Will happiness pass me by forever? ’ she cried; "is he blind, or is it that he will not see ?” Only that morning Lester Sinclair had stood before this girl, whom he had wronged in her girlhood, and pleaded for her love as a man might plead for life itself. Coldly, almost haughtily, she had answered him— "No. My love died for you years ago; it could never come to life again." "Renee, Renee !” he cried in a voice of passionate pain, and the girl knew if she wished revenge on Lester Sin¬ clair most tiuly she had it now. ‘‘My love died years ago,” she re¬ peated more gently, half pitying his pain. "No, Lester, it can never be." Victor Gray merely went up to change his business suit and speak a few words to his sister, and in less than an hour he joined Renee again. As he entered the room he saw she held a portrait in her hand. Scarcely conscious of what he was doing he went forward. ‘‘How you do love that man, Renee," he said bitterly. The proud, dark face flushed. "What man ?" she asked, coldly. ' Pardon me, Renee, I was rude; I scarcely knew what I said. You are not angry, Renee?" The girl was silent for a moment; then she crossed over to him. ‘ It you mean Lester Sinclair," she said, "you are wrong, Victor. This morniug he asked me to be his wife and I refused him.” "You refused him? Why Renee?" "I love him no longer,” she said. Was Victor Gray blind ? Looking on the lovely, flushed face, listening to the tremulous voice, could he not uudersand? The lovely dark eyes were raised to his face. He bent his stately head. ‘ Renee, my darling, you love me?" ' The next moment he held her in ! arms and kissed her sweet red lips -Say you love me ’ Renee I have i it jeered v t lr - h aid A 8m , le around W lips. -Anti no one at all said that you j oved me J y lct0l <.t Eov ... ect } OU, Renee ! t 1 think t I must have loved you all my life—long before you smiM on Lesler Sinclair.'' “Tbst is past,” she said gently. "It wag un ] v a girl s first wild love dream; j to * you Victor”_ .. Yo u have given what?” ; "Mv last, my best, my purest love. A re -you content, Victor 0 '’ A nd as he bent and kissed her again all the shadows fled from Reuee Court* i an j’ s face. Her heart had made its choice, and it rested in peace in the 5 0 f Victor Gray’s -m''m lovat ' love. ’ , t* —— 'government, Memphis is now under local military Mail Robber Caught. A Tost Office Clerk Arrested for Stealing Letters Containing Money. Robert B. Crocker, one of the prin¬ cipal clerks in the New London (Conn.) post office, was arrested a few days ago, through the instrumentality of Special Agent Henderson, of Baltimore,charged with robbing the mail. Complaints bad been made almost daily since laqt September from persons who failed to get letters expected. In various cases the letters contained money. All the ingenuity possible was put forth to ferret out the mystery, but without avail. The regular monthly returns were seDt to the Fostmaster General, but the source of the discrepan y could not be discovered. Post office officials, at the suggestion of Mr. Tubbs, Postmaster of New London, some weeks ago ordered Spe¬ cial work Agent Henderson and others to the matter up and, if possible, discover the thief. They at once com¬ menced operations and continued i wo weeks without success. On Satin*my last four decoy letters were sent hum the New York office to fictitious names in New London On Monday morning the letters arrived in the mail and were laid oUt on the table separate from the rest. Crocker and a messenger were the only parties in the office and, con¬ sequently, the theft laid between the two. The chief clerk was asked to borrow money of Crocker, which he did, and Crocker forthwith produced $8, all of which bore the private mark of the detectives. Crocker was immediately charged with the theft, but he denied it, as also the fact that he lent the money. He was arraigned before United States Commissioner Mather, and confessed to the crime. He waiv¬ ed examination, and was bound over in $3,000 bones which he did not furnish. Postmaster Tubbs states that from one to two letters per day have been taken, and no other reason can be as¬ signed than that Crocker had appro¬ priated them. The accused is about twenty-five years of age, and has been in the government employ about seven years. He was lately married to a widow much his senior. Crocker’s greatest forte was his alleged robbing through mails which lay in the office over night. Saturday and Sunday were his favorite nights, being then the least liable to suspicion. Complaints fr-m other offices have of¬ ten of late reached the ears of the offi¬ cials at WashHgton, and probably the detectives were "working up” the New London office before people in the city were aware of it. —Baltimore News. Facts and Fancies. Passing away is written on the world and all the world contains. Good resolutions, like a squawling baby in church, should always be carried out. Immortality opens a large hope that may over pay the most unspeakable bitterness of life. The lemonade hot weath*r is very weaker debilitating. Weaker. Even picnic is growing and The most soothing shade thing a man could do last week was to sit in the and sing the Ninety and Nine, It would just be Simon Cameron’s luck, to have Sara Bernhardt come here and claim him for a husband. More people fail through a multiplicity of talents and pretensions than from absolute po¬ verty of resources. Let us have faith that the right makeg might and dare tr do our duty, for to help is to do the work of the world. “Is Life worth Living?” is the title of a new book by abillious Is death Englishman. worth Let him ask an easy one. dying? When a man goes yachting and comes back with an illuminated nose he’ll tell you the sun did it, and it makes him mad if you don’t believe him. they It’s have warm enough the in this latitude, but in Cuba to tie thermometer down to the floor to keep it from jumping up and knocking the roof off. The fool goeth out in a sailboat when he doesn't know a boom from a breaker, but the wise man picks up pebbles on the shore and flirts with the girl in a pink dress. Political dictionary devised for the use of the French Assembly Seoundrek A writer who bolds a contrary opinion Falsifier A member of an administration that you Idiot: are attacking. One who contradicts. Filth: The paper across the street. i*a trick’s serenade Och And ' Bridget mavourneen, joostopen tLe winder, g,ve me a glance av your beautiful face, My And ancient dudeen is all burnt to a cinder bo02< are quite thick in this murtherin' pke Su ,F m v S ir l. h i no joke for aganioas To walk - alt the day Hath a botherinhod, And thin, m the night, syraaade a young Ya " ' mous, c: le up to his knees in the muddy ouid sol. * m 'R* 0 ’ w id rapture, my jewel of cratures, And niver a lower more willingly howled, Butdo Iet " fa n ‘ ^ e sc orn wrinkleu P y° ur swate * t u r Because your poor Paddy has got such a cowld. The lightnin’ is roarin' the toondei is ftashiu’ The moon is no b than nothin' at all, And such __ splashin* an outragious murtherious I niver did hear since the davs I was small. Then open the Winder, mv queen av aflectiou, Or, what is as good, pUse open the door; ^’°r dhrame that you're sure of escapin'detec ‘ j k ^~ e - [e awaks br the leagtk a? yt - re National Rank Profits. Some Calculations based upon the Interest upon Bonds securing Circulation. Washington, July 23.—The Con troller of the Currency has made a statement which shows that the whole amount of interest received by national banks upon bonds deposited as security for circulation was, on July 1, $16,912,- 736. If fromjthis amount bedeductedlO per cent., ($1,691,273,) which is the bit¬ terest upon that portion of the bonds on which the banks receive no circulation, and also the 1 per cent, lax upon cir¬ culation, ($3,188,298—total, $4,879,* 564,) there will remain $12,033,172, which is the amount of interest receiv¬ ed by the banks upon 90 per cent, of the bonds deposited as security for their circulating notes The national banks now hold about $20,000,000 of 10-40 bonds. If these are converted into 4 per cents, the net amount of interest received by the banks on the 1st of August will be $11,776,207. If all of the bonds held by the national bauks are converted into 4 per cents, and the same deductions made as before, the net amount of interest received by the national banks upon the 90 per cent, of bonds upon which circulation is issued will be $9,564,875. If the present capital of the national banks were loaned upon bonds and mortgages at 8 per cent., it would yield 829,892,051 interest annually, The net income derived by the national banks from United States bonds, if bearing interest at 4 per cent., and from the loan of the amount of circu¬ lation issued upon these bonds at 8 per cent., amounts to $36,412,618, which leaves a difference of $6,520,567 as the profit of national banks upon circula¬ tion, based upon 4 per cent, bonds, which is equal to 1 74-100 per cent, on the capital invested. Under similar circumstances, the profit upon circula¬ tion to the national banks, in places where the rate of interest is 6 per cent., would be about 2 per cent, more than if their entire capital was directly loaned at 6 per cent, upon bonds and mortgages. The Controller.has made a statement showing that the national banks now in existence are entitled to receive upon their present capital, under sec¬ tion 5171 of the Revised Statutes, $389,372,916 of circulating notes. The total amount issued is $313,045,346. The national banks already organized and in operation are, therefore, enti¬ tled to receive, upon the deposit of the necessary amount of United States bonds, $76,327,570 of additional circu¬ lation. In other words, they can in¬ crease their circulation one-fifth if at any time they are in want of the addi¬ tional amount, or if any profit can be made by an additional issue .—N Y. limes. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Rev. Jo. Cook preachod by in¬ vitation in San Francisco on a Sunday evening, and on Monday sent in a bill for one hundred dollars. A little girl at Springfield, which Mass had , was so frightened by a dog she into been set upon her, that went convulsions and died. The discovery of forgeries by Byron A. Robinson, of Cambridge, Mass., is a shock to the Central Baptist Church, of which he was a foiemost member. There are moments when by some strange impulse we contradict our past selves—fatal moments when a fit of passion, like a lava stiearn, lays low the work of half our lives. The Toledo Blade has the unbindest cut of ail. It says that New York had better trade off her detectives for a brace of yellow dogs, and then shoot the dogs. When an engaged couple Bit aside by side, fondly holding each other’s hands, does the momentous question, "What is the proper amount of pare¬ goric to give a six-weeks-old infant? ’ ever enter their mind*!. A dog in the western part of the county recently devoured several of her pups. ‘‘Tis thus that a new of litter-chewer has been developed,” says the Hackensack Republican man, rolling over in delight at the hugeness of the joke. * The coin and bullion in the Bank of England in the last week of June reached $175,717,000, the largest amount ever massed there. At the same time the Bank of France held nearly $450,000,000, and the Bank of Germany $140,000,000. Nothing - is more significant of want of confidence and stagnation. William Squires and his wife agreed to simultaneously commit suicide at Akron, Ohio, in consequence of inabili¬ ty to live happily together. There is reason to believe, however, that Mrs. Squires thought she could jive happily aione, for she took such a light dose of the laudanum husband that she took quickly large recover¬ dose ed, while the a and died. rRICE THREE CENTS. —T For Sale* F OK SALE.—A fine 4 year old COLT; gen¬ tle, and well broken to harness. Apply at this ottiee Jy 2 i C l Y PRESS POSTS,—Black, bard Cypress J will Posts, arrive 8x10 feet long, 5 to 11 iuches at tho top, be In a lew days. Orders lor same will icceived at John Hartman's, No. :S Margaret street, for jytj-lw JOHN F. SCIIRENK. *r $m m fc fl $ent T O RENT.—Nicely without Furnished Rooms, with Privilege or of Bath Bourd, Room. at No. reasonable BRYAN terms. ST. 7li jy25-eod-tf Business Cards* L. FERNAND, M. D »» Office : No. 9 WkitaJxr Street, [UP STAIRS.] Office Hours 8—9 A. M„ 1 2—4nnd7^-8>4 P. M. my 20-1 m W. B. FERRELL’S Agt. RESTAURANT, No. 11 New Market Basement, [Opposite Lippman’s Drug Store,) ian UUt SAVANNAH. GA C. A. CORTINO, Hair Cutting Hair Dressing Curling and SHAVING SALOON. HOT AND COLD BATHS. der iGti'/Z Planters’ Bryan street, opposite the Market, uu Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger man. and English spoken. sel6-tf JOS. H. BAKER, Butcher, STALL No. 60, Savannah Market. Dealer in Beef, Mutton, Pork and All other Meats In their Seasons. Particular attention paid to supplying Ship and Boarding Houses. augl2 HAIli STORE . JOS. E. L0ISEAU & CO., 118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull & Drayton K EEP Switches,Curls, on hand a large Putts, assortment and Fancy of Goods llalr llair combings worked in the latest style. Fancy Costnines, Wigs and Boards for Rent T. J. McELLINN, PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING. Whitaker street, Southwest corner State st N.B. Houses fltted with gas and water at short notice, Jobbing promptly attended to and all work guaranteed, at low prices. :HR:Zgy GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGAltS, TOBACCO, <fec The celebrated Joseph Schiltz’ MILWAU¬ KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22 Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah, Ga. FREE LUNCH every day from II to 1. r-zjl-i v Hotels* SAYAXNAII. JOSEPH HEKSCHBACII, Prop’r. T il LS well known and popular hotel, ho long and favorably establiHhed, as to lie ranked among om: of I lie old landmarks of Savannah Is now thrown open to the public undera new management, and I respectfully solicit the patronage of the public to its old and hospi¬ table doors. Every exertion will he made to put it upon a footing with the best liostelries throughout the State. Its tables will be sup¬ plied with the best the markets afford, JOSEPH IIERSOHBACII. fe26-tf SUPERIOR MANAGEMENT. The Marshall House With Its spacious VESTIBULE ! Extensive autt Elegant PIAZZA ! Affording Ladies aflne view of the Promenadtt. Airy and well ventilated ROOMS, And Unrivalled TABLE ! Is I’ar Excellence the SUMMEE ....... HOTEu of . SAVANNAH, our Motto atm will be, a full house at moder ^'everythin* JOHN BUE SNAN , Manager. OCEAK HOUSE, TEHEE ISLAND, SA rXIHIS JL new and elegant hotel, opened 1 MAY made FIRST, additions, 1S79, has, since the io last last se season, many which make it much more commodious and pleasant. The lessee guarantees its accommodations and cuisine to be first-class in every respect. With broad those piazzas facingthe ocean, light and airy rooms, seeking pleasure or relaxation from business, desired. will And the ‘‘Ocean House” all that can be Board per day 52 00, per week 10 00. Special arrangements ---- “ ----- made made with excursionists. Lunch Ro >m at the Pavilion. Meals at all hours. New Bathing houses, with all conven¬ iences. For further particulars address A. G. YBANEZ, „ P. O. „ address, , , „ Savannah, Proprietor Ocean House. Ga myO-lm CENTRAL EII:JT„a.\ HOUSE IB -A. _K/ ! 160 BRYAN STREET, [near the market,] I S and now domestic stocked Liquors, with the Wines best of and Imported Sugars V Ice Cool Lager always on draught. ree Lunch every day. Open day and night, W+l* f (Rh Chowder every Saturday, fWiib from WEBEB, (L-12 p.m.