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Matter.
The Turkish Slave Trade.
How it is Carried On—The Market Rates—Bar¬
gaining with a Dealer.
A Geneva letter to the Manchester
Examiner says: “Slavery is still an
trade, institution all in Europe, and the slave
assertions to the confrary
notwithstanding, still flourishes in the
City of the Sultan. The Sultan has
Sheik-ul-Islam, slaves in his palace, the Pashas, the
the Uiemas, the great
officers of State, of the army, and well
to-do tradespeople have slaves in
their houses, all of whom have been
bought in Constantinople, and when
they want to replenish their stock
they know where to go. Domestic
slavery, in fact, is a necessary adjunct
of the Mohammedan religion and the
social system of Turkey. The institu¬
tion of the harem demands it. With¬
out slavery it is hard to see how a
supply of eunuchs could be forth¬
coming. Women who do the menial
work of a household must almost of
necessity be slaves, for no free woman
is allowed to appear nnveiled in the
presence of a man.
A Pasha, for instance, who had no
female slaves, would not be able to
enter his own harem without giving
notice of his invention, so that the ser¬
vants might cover their faces, an in¬
convenience—in his eyes a degrada¬
tion—to which he would probably
rather die than submit. The
Irades against slavery have been issued
solely under foreign pressure; they
were never intended to become effective
and all the Ottoman world conniveB ai
their evasion. Though the public slave
market of Constantinople has been long
suppressed, and there about the are capital various private
marts i i where a
brisk business in black and wl-ite slaves
young and old, is constantly carried
on. It is, however, difficult almost to
impossibility for an infidel to find out
their whereabouts, or obtain trust
worthy information on the subject.
Nevertheless, an adventurous German
contrived not long ago to obtain access
to a slave shop, and to his account of
what he saw and hoard on the occa
sioti subsequently l published in a
German paper am mainly indebted
for the following facts :
The headquarters of the white ... slave
trade are in the Bostandchi quarter,
which comprises a number ot small,
narrow streets, between Pera, Galata
and Tophane. This trade is conducted
almost exclusively by a tribe of Tcber
kessea knowu as Tarsirdchis. Fami¬
lies generally work together. One bro¬
ther, for example, stops at home aud
minds the shops while the other goes
abroad and purchases raw material of
the commerce. Negotiations with pur¬
chasers are conducted through the in¬
termediary of Arab brokers, who call
regularly on their patrons to inquire if
they are wanting anything in black
eunuchs or white girls. The rendez¬
vous of these gentry is a coffee-house
in the Bostandchi quarter, the eutry to
whieh is strictly forbidden to all save
followers of the I vophet. A white
in good health, from S to 14 years old,
costs 40 to ‘*0 lire, (it this means Ital
lan lire, the English equivalent would
be oOs. to 40s.,) if he has any acquire
meuta, euch, tor instance, as a kuowl
edge of cookery or other housework, he
will command twice as much. A girl
under 10 years may be bad for 20
while a maiden between 12 and 16, es
pecially if she cun read and write and
strum a little on the Attar, is w-orth
£T800. A temale slave of exceptional
beauty, . . young, . c „ white ________virgiu— and a virgin —
the style most m vogue are blondes
With black eye®—fetches from £T1,-
000 to £T1,500. For a very choice
specimen, with a smattering ol French
and able to play a few airs on the
piano, a rich amateur has been known
to pay as much as £T2,700. But, as
may be supposed, the demand for
articles of this description the has greatly
fallen off since halcyon time of
perpetual loans and profuse furniture.
Black slaves, who are brought princi¬
pally from the from Africa, are either sold
direct by importers to the proprie¬
tors of harems or to dealers, two of
whom have extensive private marts in
Stamboul. These two generally keep
on hand 100 to 120 slaves each.
There are also depots iu Scutari and
in several villages on the Bosphorous.
A strong, black slave sells ior about
£T20; a black maiden, £Tl5 to £T18;
a full eunuch, £T70 to £T90, and
eunuch, £T30 to £T50.
Ihe Rights of a Finder of Lost
Property,
[From the New York Sun.]
The legal proposition urged in behalf
of the persons who found the securities
recently lost by Messrs. Bray ton Ives
& Co., that “a finder is pot obliged to
return property where 'a reward has
beeD offered,” forms a somewhat start¬
ling exposition of the law. We quote
this language of their counsel from the
report in the New York limes , accord¬
ing to which he also said that in the
Crook diamond case it was held
“that the finder had a legal lien on the
property found.” Certainly, neither
of these statements conveys a correct
idea of the law, without important
qualifications; and so far as they are
intended to create the impression that
a finder of lost property may lawfully
conceal the fact of its discovery and
possession, and thus acquire a lien on
it for the payment of a reward, they
must be rejected who as finds erroneous. lost
A person property if
must deliver it to the owner, he
*nows or has the means of knowing
who the owner is. As against all
others except the owner, he is entitled
to retain possession of the thing found.
When the rightful ownership is ascer¬
tained, the finder of property on land
has no lien upon it for the labor or
cost of preservation ; and the courts
havo euggoatod that it ho wanM m.
for his trouble and expense, it
be by suit, a d he cannot hold
the goods as security. This is the gen¬
rule. Au exception has been
however, in the case of a specific
reward which requires notice.
Where a stated sum of money is
offered as a reward to induce others
to find and restore lost property, and
in consequance of the offer so made
the property is returned, the courts
in several States have held the case
to be one of labor performed at the
re quest of the owner, entitling the
finder to a lien upon the goods for
the compensation offered. But this
has been upon the assumption that
tbe proffered reward, acted upon in
0(1 faitb> ba8 stimulated search for
the j 03t property and brought about
discovery and restoration. No such
a , 8ump ii on would be permissible prior
wber0 tbe facta 8 bowed a
knowledge of the true ownership on
tbe paJt 0 f the finder and a wilful
ne „ lect to deliver the properly as
goon a8 practicable, be ascertained
of course it is yet to
how far tbe pnneiplea of law which
we bave pointed out are applicable
^ be ac ^ 3 0 f ^ be young men whose
case ba8 0cca8 : 0 ned these remarks
Tbafc can ba determined only upon a
disclosure of all the facts. Our pur
p 0se now j s merely to show that a
finder of lost pioperty, who has known
j be ^ rue 0JVuer from the first cannot,
by concealing the fact that he has
f oun d if, acquire any lien thereon for
a rewar 6.
A Fool Once More.
"For ten years my wife was confined
to her bed with such a complication
ailments that no doctor could tell what
was the matter or cure her, and I used
up a small fortune in humbug stuff.
Six months ago I saw a United States
flag with Hop Bitters on it, and I
thought I would be a fool once more.
I tried it, but my folly proved to be
wisdom. Two bottles cured her, ehe is
now as well and strong as any man’s
wife, and it cost me only two dollars.
Such folly pays.— E. TF. Detroit, Mich.
Rhode Island has the following sta
tute : “All marriages between a white
person and a negro shall be absolutely
null and void, and the person joining
them in mairiage shall be subject to a
penalty ot $200.” Samuel D. Dorrel,
a full-blooded negro, was lately map
ried at Providence to Ellen Carrington,
a white girl. Tbe Rev. George B.
Smith, who performed the ceremony,
j ]§ to prosecuted in order to test the
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tice to allay inflammation of the skin,
They are said to be specially adapted
for this purpose iu case of erysipelas.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1880.
Hanging a Chinaman;
Startling Statement Contained in his Alleged
Confession.
The San Francisco Chronicle describes
the hanging of a Chinaman at Portland,
Oregon, as follows:
Fully three hundred people were
admitted to witness the execution, and
crowds gathered around on the bouse
tops. At the conclusion of the read¬
ing of the death warrant Sheriff Nor
den asked Ah Lee if he had anything
to say. He responded that he had.
The dying statement of Ah Lee was as
folows:
“The Lee company ordered Cheung
Sui Ying to be killed, and made an
offer to any member of the company
who would murder him, and I was to
be paid a good sum of money, and the
company guaranteed I should not be
hanged. If I had to go to the peniten
tentiary my family in China would
be paid $20 per month as long as I was
in prison. All the companies promised
to raise money enough to get me out
of the penitentiary after being there a
little while. If it turned out that I was
to be hanged after all, then my family
in China was to receive a sum of
money sufficient to keep them f or life
I and Charley Lee Quong and Lee
Yung killed Cheung Sui Ying in the
J 088 house. After killing him I went
to the wash house on Taylor street and
laid down on a bed and said I was
sick. Chung Bo told the policeman I
was there sick, but the policeman
knew I was not, for he had seen me in
the Joss house. Chung Bo and Dong
Gong told where I was hid, and are
the cause of my being here now. I
want yon to tell all the Lee company
to try and kill Chung Bo and Dong
Gong. Ah nong told me yesterday
that he had made up his mind to have
this done. I want them killed. All
the jurors were against me. They hang
two white men for killing a man, and
I am satisfied to die. I die now, but
I want Chung Bo and Doug Gong killed
for what they have done. I am going
to a good place, and will be a young
man again. Good by.”
At the conclusion of the above Ah
Lee spoke in English, saying: "Good
by, which boys, good by, all good man,” to
an reeponaea, urntnug iao mur¬
derous heathen farewell.
Bob Ingersoll a Mere Innocent
Compared to Sir Isaac Newton.
The cultivated sin of R G. Ingersoll
against the bible is small compared
with Sir Isaac Newton’s rin of science
against the bible. J. W. Draper, M.
D, LL. D , understands Newton’s
“Principia” in its clear sense, as the
argument of nature, teaching the phy¬
sical impossibility of the existence of
the God of Abraham, and the “fool
ishness” of Christ’s divinity, and the
potency of this argument forbids faith
in the Saviour, and all the clergy are
with Draper, and receive Newton’s
“Principia” as the voice of nature. If
then, the clergy in silence are in league
with the renowned author of the "Con¬
flict Between Religion and Science,”
and they accept the father of atheism
in science as true to nature, Christians
have no just cause to condemn Bob
Ingersoll. He strikes hard, but his
blows are the bunts of a calf compared
with those of Newton, the father of
atheism. If any Christian scientist has
the temerity to deny this, I appeal to
the verdict of a jury to be gathered
in some hall or theatre in this city.
Yours obediently,
Rev. W. Isaac Loomis.
His Name Was Smith. —Iu the
grammar department of one of our
public schools a few days since, the
teacher, after talking with her class
on the subject of mythology, read to
them as follows:
‘ “Vulcan, smith, architect and chari
ot builder for the gods of Mount
Olympus, built their houses, construct
ed their furniture,” etc.
The followihg day the subject of the
preceding and, day waa given as a made
lesson, as no mention waa
of Vulcan, the teaoher asked the
who built the houses for the gods on
Mount Olympus? For a while the
ren seemed lost in profound thought,
when suddenly a gleam of intelligence little girl,
illumined the face of one
and she replied :
"I can’t think of his first name,
his last name is Smith!’’— Boston
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Poison.
It is an understood fact that Yellow
j Fever and its companions, Intermittent
and Remittent Fevers, are the results
of poisoned blood, made impure by
! breathing infected atmosphere. No
an
medicine in existence will so quickly Kid
purity the blood, as Warner s Safe
ne y aD ff Liver Cure, used in connection
< w ith Warner s Safe Piils.
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Of one hundred patents issued from
the government office in Washington,
ninety-eight never pay back the amount
I of the fee to the owners.
The Twentieth Day.
Dr. Tanner Regrets that He Abstained So LoDg
from Water—Good Health and Spirits.
Of the many changes in the physi¬
cal and mental condition of Dr. Tanner
which have been effected by his freely
drinking water none is more striking
than the sudden transition from fever¬
ish restlessness to profound sleep.
Those whose duty it has been to watch
him through the long hours of the
night saw the man grow worse and
worse up to last Tuesday; they saw
that he could not last much longer at
the rate at which he was failing. His
sleep at night became less and less
restful; be dozed or.ly, or slept by fits
and starts, waking up every half hour
or less and calling for water to bathe
his head or rinse his mouth with the
hungry avidity of a fever patient.
A sponge saturated with ice water
was constantly in his hand, his pillow
was wetted, wet towels were put around
his head, and his neck and arms were
constantly kept moist. All was in¬
sufficient, and a burning thirst seemed
constantly consuming the man, while
he gradually grew irritable and morose
to a degree that made attendance on
him anything but agreeable. This has
all changed since he began to drink the
water instead of merely rinsirg his
mouth with it and using it externally.
His irritability is gone. He is cheer¬
ful and lively, and his sleep has be¬
come long and profound. He no long¬
er calls for wet towels; he has no use for
the sponge, aod instead of tossing un¬
easily on his cot through the night and
waking up at frequent intervals with a
hoarse cry for water, when he goes to
bed he takes a good drink and sleeps
soundly and almost without movement
for hours at a stretch. For example,
on Friday night he went to bed at ten
o’clock, almost immediately fell asleep,
and slept profoundly till nearly two
yesterday morning. During these four
hours the sleeper scarcely moved from
position in which he first lay, nor
did any noise in the gallery or hall
him, though a few nights before
slightest sound was followed by a
or unconscious movement
the man seemed scarcely to sleep
all.
w A TIP“-*“"•** - H l lit
When he awoke he refreshed himself
s ; x ounces of spring water. One
the medical watchers observed that
opposite an open window
bring on a cold, to which remark
faster replied afraid : of the draught
“I am not ;
mote air there is the better I like
Air and sleep are my salvation,
whether I am to get through with
wo i. k or not depends altogether
the circumstances in which I am
"But you do not think, Doctor,”
his interlocutor, "that you
do your work without using
water ?”
“I was wrong not to have taken water
along ; the first ten days with¬
it did me more harm than the rest
of the time will.”
"The water has helped a good deal
to keep up your strength ?”
"Oh, yes. It is not possible for a
man to exist very long without water ;
the tissues must be moistened. He can
do better without food than without
water. There was that man in Phila¬
delphia who swallowed the set of false
teeth ; he lived seven weeks without
taking anything, it being impossible to
force food or drink into his stomach.”
To Cure Fits of Sneezing. —A
friend informs us that tbe most instan
taneousand sure cure for fits of sneezing
is to be iound in plugging the nostrils
with cotton-wool. He has tried it
peatedly, and it has never yet failed to
allay the fit. In his own language, he
says; "Again and again I tested the
efficacy of thissimple remedy,
with the same result. However
I was to sneeze, the introduction ot
pledgets stopped it at once, Nor
their any inconvenisnce from their
making -them sufficiently
not to tickle, and yet leaving
loose to easily
through.
This is really worth knowing,
sneezing is among the
or smaller ills, and it seems only
rational conclusion to hope that in
simple plan we have the most
remedy against one of the most
treesing systems of hay fever.
Dr. Tanner has kinks in other
ters than fasting. One of his
aired for the benefit of three
visitors, is that people shall eat
two meals a day,-‘a,, that they need,
to the end that ‘women may have
third more time for intellecutal
ment. As things are at present
Doctor tninks that women “take
much care to please the stomachs
men.”
A New York party of anglers is
. w
to have paid $31,00u for a loog
.amounting almost to a purcLaee of
salmon stream.
PRICE THREE CENTS.
“High-Toned” Executions in Eng¬
land.
In the course of 140 years only some
half a dozen men of social position
have been convicted of murder and
hanged in England. Chief among these
were Lord Ferrers, who is notorious ;
Mr. Parsons, eldest son of a baronet,
whose baronetcy is extinct; Captain
Donellan and Captain Moir. The case
of the last, though much the latest, is
little known. He was a Scotchman,
brother-in-law to Sir James Baird,
baronet, a near relative of Sir David
Baird, who of preceded Peninsular Wellington in
command the army, and
first cousin to Sir William Rae, at the
date of the fatal occurrence lord advo¬
cate of Scotland. He had served sev¬
enteen years in the army, and while at
Gibraltar nearly died from the yellow
fever. This affected bis brain, and
while in Canada he inflicted wounds on
himself with a hatchet; in fact, from
the date of his illness he was a changed
naan, and from having been cheerful
and amiable, became morose and vio¬
lent. In 1828 be left the army and
took a farm in Essex, and in March,
1830, on discovering a fisherman, whom
he had found repeatedly poaching, at
it again, notwithstanding repeated
warnings, he fired at him. The shot
broke the man’s arm, and he ultimately
died from lockjaw. A petition with
1,000 signatures was forwarded in his
behalf to George IV., but in vain.
Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
The case of Alton Angier vs. Macon
and Brunswick Railroad Company et
al. was called yesterday in the United
States Circuit Court before Judge Wm.
B. Woods, and the hearing of the ap¬
plication for an injunction and receiver
was postponed until the 16th of Sep¬
tember next. The bill is filed by the
complainant on behalf of himself and
all of the holders of the bonds of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad Com¬
pany issued under an act of the Legis¬
lature in 1870 and indorsed by the
State. These bonds the State recog¬
nized as valid by a resolution of the
Legislature in 1872, but subsequently
repudiated her indorsement on the
stitution of 1868. The State subse¬
quently seized and sold the road in
1875, buying it in herself, and in 1880
sold it to the present Macon and Bruns¬
wick Railroad Company. This case
will bring up all the questions involved
in the repudiation, including the ques¬
tions as to the constitutionality of the
State’s indorsement and the validity of
their subsequent sales. The complain¬
ant was represented by Messrs. E. A.
Angier and Alex. C. King. The road
was represented by Messrs. Evarts,
Southmayd & Choate, of Now York;
Judge W. S. Chisolm, ofSavannah, and
Hon. N. J. Hammond, of Atlanta. We
understand Colonel George S. Thomson
is also one of the counsel for the com¬
plainant .—Atlanta Constitution.
Contemptible Nobiliiy.
Of the kind of "nobility” that exists
only in name, France, like Poland anil
Italy, seems to have demands, a supply suffi¬
cient to meet the for years
to come, of American girls arnbi'ious
to support some impecunious count,
and to live in titled happiness. Here
is a sample advertisement from a
Paris paper : "An honorable English
lady, married to a French nobleman,
is well acquainted with three Jukes,
four marquises and five ror.nts, beloDg
ing to the highest French nobility,
who are desirous to marry English or
American ladies having enough io
come to keep np a high rank in the
St. Geimain Society of Pari-. The
titled persons in question are trom
thirty to sixty years old- They do
require titled ladies, but honor
ones. The same English lady can
the title of a marquis and the
title of a count to geitlernen of for*
aged from thirty to thirty-two or
if they consent to marry
young ladies who, by contract, can
that title to themselves an 1 *rt
I their descendants. Tbe gre; ateoi Uii
is promised and will be ob
Apply, during a fortnight to
Restante,” etc.
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A New York man named Sanger
recently attempted to shoot his wife.
He failed and was arrested. The wife
agreed not to prosecute upon condition
that her murderous huoo.ind should en¬
list in the United States army. The
m agistrate agreed and sent Sanger and
der guard to a recruiting station
had him mustered in. The question
naturally arises—is fi e years in the
army considered a fan punishtnen‘ for
attempted wifi murder ?
The Astor library at New York sends
its 11 books to be bound iQ England, for
economy. rp, ihe price OI r L• binding 1 an Or
_ thick volume
dinary octavo in
in New York ^ Lon
moroco is i>U; iu id jjju
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Business Cards*
JAS. McGINLEY,
C jARPETSTTER.
YORK STREET, second door east of Bull.
furnished Jobbing promptly attended to. Estimates
when desired. jol l-0m
BEEF, VEAL AND LAMB.
JOS. H. BAKER,
BUTCHER,
STALL No. 66, Savannah Market.
A LL market other moats rates, in orders their season promptly at lowest filled
and delivered. Will victual sbipsthroughont.
Give him a trial. ocai-tf
ANDERSON STREET MARKET
AND ICE HOUSE,
J F. kinds nriLLIPS, Meats, Ruteller, and dealer In al
* Produce. ot Fish, Poultry and Mar¬
ket JfeiP Families supplied at their
residences, and dispatch. all orders executed with
promptness and Satisfaction guar¬
anteed. apti 6m
C. A. CORTXNO,
Saif Cutting Hair tain?, Curling and
SHAVING SALOON.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
V'.iV nryan street, epposite the Market, un
der Planters’ Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger
man. and English spoknn. selH-tf
W. B. FERRELL’S Agt.
RESTAURANT,
No. 11 New Market Basement,
(Opposite Lippmau’s Drug Store,)
Inniatf SAVANNAH. GA
Plumbing and Gas Fitting*
~ WAKEFIELD,^
CHAS E.
Plumbing, Gas & Steam Fitting,
No. *8 BARNARD STREET, one door north
ol South Broad treet.
Bath Tubs. Water Closets, Boilers, Ranges■
Joboiug Promptly uttendod to.
ebll Also, Agent of “ BACKUS WATER MOTOR
McELLINN & McFALL,
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING.
Na.46 Whitaker street, corner York st. Lane
N.B. Houses fitted with gas and water at
short Knort notioe, notioo, Jobbing Jobbing promptly attended to
andwork guaranteed, at low prioea.
W. H. COSGROVE,
East side of Bull street, one door from York,
Practical Plumber and Gas Fitter*
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
All work guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Prices to suit the times. mb7tf
Paints, Oils and Glass*
JOHN a BUTLER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
WHITE LEADS COLORS, OILS, GLASS,
VARNISH, ETC.
Ready Mixed Paints, Railroad, Steamer and
MiH'.supplien. .Sole Agent for Georgia Lime
Calcined Plaster, Cements, Hair and Land
Plaster. No. 22 Drayton street,
jin..... 1 HA VANN AH, GA
ANDREW HANLEY,
—Dealer iu—
Doors, Saties, Blinds, Mouldings
Lime, Plaster, Hair and Cement,
STEAMBOAT,
Railroad and Mill Supplies,
paints, oils, varnishes, glass, ao.
No. 6 Whitaker <St 171 Bay St.,
8A VA NX A II, GEORGIy.
my2ri-t.l
JOHN OLIVER.
— Dealer In —
Steamboat, Rail Road and Mill Supplies,
PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, &c •»
DOORS, SASHES, BLINDS, MOULDING
Balusters, Blind Trimminqs, &o
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