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* ..... —’ DAILY* EVENING y ft »» Savannah ffN [Brffl £ Record *0 'V / VOL IV.—No. 96. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER R M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (Saturday Excepted,) 1181 3a-flk-TT STREET* By J. STERN. 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 maue payable to the order of the pu b lisher. We will not undertake to preserve or return rej ected communications. Correspondence on Local and general mat ters of Interest solicited. On Advertisements running three, six, and twelve mouths a liberal reduction from otu regular rates will be made. All correspondence should be addressea Re¬ corder, Savannah, Qeorgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will take the piace of the Saturday evening edition which will make six full issues for the week. iKf-'Wedo not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. 2he Recorder is registered at the Post Office in Savannah as Second Class 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 aW> ’ - -m ^ m- - Poultice.—C ranberries pounded fine in the ............................. raw state are excellent as a poul- r ___ 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 Jranscript —-— ♦ -- 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. ; «• 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. I 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 idon about $1. . . -- - u f 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. 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