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^ v ~V .mm ? 1 w ? -Tar m WEEKLY EDITION. \ WIXNSBORO, 8. C., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 28; 1881. ESTABLISHED IN 1848. ' *- I tttyc ruTrox. | SOUTH SEA SLATES. . THE BLACK ROSE. ; ?? SY WILKIE COLLINS. ?AUTHOK OF? "733 WOMAX IX WHITE," "THE MOOH STONE," "AFTER DASK," "XO NAME," " HAS AXD WIFE," " THE LAW AXD M THB LADY," "THE SEW MAG9^ DALEX," ma, Era " There is no need for me to trouble you with a narrative of what I saw?faX, _ - vored by Doctor Wy brow's introduction v"--v?at the French boy's bedside. It was shbply a repetition of what I had already heard. There he lay at the - / height of the fever asking, in the intervals of relief, intelligent questions relative to the medicines administered to him, and perfectly understanding the answers. He was irritable when we asked birr? to take his memory back to the time before his illness, and then he answered in French: " I haven't got a memoiy.' 44 But I have something else to tell you, which is deserving of your best attention. The envelope and its inclo sures (addressed to 'Bernard "Winter^ field, Esq.'), are in my possession. The Christian name sufficiently identifies the inscription with the TVinterfield whom I know. ; " The circumstances under which the discovery was made were related to me by the proprietor of the asylum. " When the boy was brought to the house, two French ladies (his mother and sister) accompanied him, and meni tioned what had been their own domestic experience of the case. They described the wandering propensities which took the lad away from home, and the odd concealment of his waisicoat on the last occasion, when he had returned from one of his vagrant out breaks. ^ "On his first night at the asylum he became excited by finding himself in a strange place. It was necessary to give him a composing draught. On going to bed he was purposely not prevented from hiding his waistcoat under the pillow as usual. "When the sedative had produced its effect the attendant easily possessed ^ . himself of the hidden garment. It was the plain duty of the master of the house to make sure that nothing likely to be turned to evil uses were concealed by a patient. The seal which had secured the envelope was found on examination to have been broken. ^ <"I would not Lave broken the seal myself,' our host added. 1 But, as thing; were, I thought it my duty to look al the inclosures. They refer to private affairs of 3Ir. Winterfield in which h< is deeply interested, and they ought tc have been long since placed in his pos p0?r session. I reed scarcely say that I con iaits-plaoe-^n'der the lining' when he wo&e. 'lire original envelope and inclosures (with a statement of circum* > stances signed by ray assistant and myself) have been secured under another V v cover, sealed with my own seal. I have done my best to discover Mr. Bernard "Winteriield. He appears not to live in > liondon. At least, I failed to find his name in the directory. I wrote nest, mentioning what had happened, to the ^ EngL~h gentleman to whom I send re* ports of the lad's health. He couldn't help me. A second letter to the French ladies only produced the same result. T ,VTTYT* T ?< ? 1 vnu x ouvuiu UC ^iau LU ^CU X1U Ui UijT responsibility oil honorable terms.' k "All this was said in the boy's pres1^ ence. He lay listening to it as if it had been a story told of some one else. I conld not resist the useless desire to question him. Not speaking French myself?although I can read the lank guage?I asked Doctor Wybrow and his \ friend to interpret for me. " My questions led to nothing. The French boy knew no more about the letter than I did. - There was no discoverable motive, ^ * mind, for suspecting him of imposing on us. When I said: - rerjiicvps yon stole it i * lie answered, quite composedly: " ' Very likely; they tell me I have been mad; I don't remember it myself; |ki but mad people do strange things.' ? " I tried him again: " * Or, perhaps, you took it away out of misehief ?' " 'And yon broke the seal, and looked at the papers?' " ' I dare sav.' ^ "' And then you kept them hidden, { thinking they might be of some use to you? Or, perhaps, feeling ashamed of what you had done, and meaning to rent ore them if you got the opportunity?' " ' You know best, sir.' P* " The same result followed when wo Bgft tried to find out where he had been, and what T>r>rmlA Tiafl triknn rem of liim Ilk during his last vagrant escape from ffjfai home. It was a new revelation to him |li that he had been anywhere. "With evident interest, he applied to tls to teli lim whero he had wandered to, and ||p k?3;at people he .had seen! ' So onr last attempts at enlightenHent ended. We came to the final Hiestion of how to place the papers, Kth the least possible loss of time, in K|r tfinterfield's hands. His absence in Paris having been ^ntioned, I stated plainly my own >ition toward him at the present time. B"Mr. Winter field has made an ap- j Rntment with me to call in a few clays j njMiis hotel in London/ I said. 'I shall BP jPbhably be jhe first friend who sees him on'his ret"rn fro?a faiis. If you will Bp trust me with your sealed packet, in consideration of these circumstances, I will give you a formal receipt for it in K. Doctor V.'vbrcw's presence, and I will add any written pledge that you may reauire on mv r>art. acting as Mr. Winter field's representative and frie.id. Perhaps you would like a reference ?.$ well 'f " He made a courteous reply. * "4 A friend of Doctor "WybroVs,' lie B said. ' requires no other reference.' " 'Excuse me,' I persisted, 'I hid the honor of meeting Doctor "Wybrow for the first time yesterday. Permit me to lefer you to Lord Loring, who lias long known forte me as his spiritual director and friend.' some " This account of myself settled the way matter. I wrote the necessary secui-i- "J ties, and I have all the papers lying be- leav< fore me on my desk at this moment. "You remember how seals were i cate, broken and impressed again, at the i I ms Koman postofSce, in the revolutionary j (as I days when we were both young men ? j the Thanks to the knowledge then obtained, j The [ the extraordinary events which once j line: associated Mr. "Winterfield and Miss bod] Evrecourt are at last plainly revealed to me; me. Copies of the papers are in my read possession, and the originals are sealed be ? again with the crest of the proprietor of real. the asylum, as if nothing had hap- I ai pened. nam "I don't propose to make any prema- ^noture use of the information which I have ^ obtained. The first and foremost me< necessity, as I have already reminded <? you, is to give Penrose the undisturbed i opportunity of completing the converj * crea | sion of Kcmayne. th* * * * * Mr. The Stolen Papers. ^ , Knnibe-r One.?From EmmaWinterfield to y0n* Tim' >1 i-rr/l Wi ? iprHfJii. Tr-r\v " -4, Mai dwell Buildings, Belhaven. 83 1j "How shall I address you? Dear Bvim^rd, or sir? It doesn't matter. I 1 ur ara going to do one of the few good actions of mv life, and familiarities or formalities matter nothing to a woman " who lies on her deathbed. you " Yes; I have met with another acci- this dent. Shortly after the date of our 1 wi separation, you heard, I think, of the tou< fall in the circus that fractured my add skull. ? On that occasion a surgical beli operation, and a bit of silver plate in rep place of the bone, put me right again, pea This time it has been the kick of a horse W0] in the stables. Some internal injury is < the consequence. I may die to-morrow, Vot or live till next week. Anyway, the doctor has confessed it, ny time has Th come. kin "Mind one thing. The drink?that fca vile habit which lost me your love and tha banished me from your house?the drink <jes is not to blame for this last misfortune, the Only the day before it happened I had < taken the pledge, under persuasion of for the good rector here, the Eeverend Mr. V0T Fennick. It is he who has brought mc ? to make this confession, and who takes ^ it down in writing at my bedside. Do ^lfe you remember how I once hated the ^ very name of a parson?and when you ^ proposed, in a joke, to marry me before , the registrar, how I took it in down- ^ ' right earnest, and kept you to your ^ word? We poor horse-riders and aero ' bats only ?new clergymen as mu enemies we liad?always using tlieir in- ^ ^ fluence to keep people out of our show 5 and the bread out of onr mouths. If I ^ : had met with Mr. Fennick in my younger ^ ^ 5 days what a different woman I migh1. ^ J have been. ^ ) "Well, regrets of that kind are use- ^ - less now. I am truly sorry, Bernard, - for the evil that I have done you, and J ^ : tie allowance that you offered me. J i respected your name. For seven yeaa-s e'^ from t.. time of our separation I re turned t? my profession under an as sumed ni^me, and never troubled you. C01 ' The one thing I could not do was to for- ^0I 1 get you. If yon were infatuated by my unlucky beauty .1 loved devotedly on su< ' my side. The well-born gentleman who *a11 ' had sacrificed everything for my sake I? was something more than mortal in my 1 estimation ; he was?no! I won't shock *en the good man who writes this by saying a*ri what he was. Besides, what do you care for my thoughts of you now ? j ' 'If vou had onlv been content to re- j s^a" main as I left you?or if I had not found j f?r you out paying your addresses to Miss j *ie Eyrecourt, when you believed that eeath I van had released you from me?I should j " have lived and died, doing you no other j req. injury th:ci ^.e first great injury of cou-! to i senting to be your wife. j for< :cT"*I made the discovery?it doesn't m!? mzt'jer how. Our circus was in Devon- ani* shire at the time. My jealous rage Pro vrt r\ T _,T I si iXLau.u.^nca JLixv, u~av.i JL uau a >utiicu aumirer in a man who was old enough to mabe my father. I let him suppose that wor the way to my favor lay through help- Pro ing my revenge on the woman who was " about to take my place. He found the van money to have you watched at home and abroad: he T)ut the false announcement c*os of my death in the daily newspapers to Jon complete your delusion; he baffled the " inquiries made through your lawyers to E obtain positive proof of my death. And that last, and (in those wicked days) best *ion service of all, he took me to Brussels ^or 1 and posted me at the door of the English mnc ca r?h vanr loTrrfril rc-if/a /-rrrifl^ i ll6r her marriage certificate in her hand) ^ier was the first person "who met you and an(^ the mock Mrs. "Winterfield on your way *nS from the altar to the weddftog breakfast, was " I own it, to my shame. I triumphed Dev in the miscliief I had done. that "But I had deserved to suffer; and C0UI I did suffer, when I heard that Miss y0U Eyrecourt's mother and her two friends jjaT took her away from you?with her own ^Qn entire approval?at the church-door, gear( and restored her to society without a stain on her reputation. How the Brus- ma^ sels marriage was kept a secret I conld T>rsf -firxl nnf Trliprt T f1'?TV?Mf?>'nprl 0WT1 them with exposure I got a lawyer's let- * ^ ter, and was advised in mv own interests saKC to hold ray tongue. The rector has ?0U1 since told 2".e that the marriage could be lawfully declared null and void, and that the circumstances would excuse vou before anv judge in England. I a*m: nro1. can now well understand that people ^ ^ with rank and money to help them can . * keep their own secrets and avoid ex- . .' posure, to which the poor, in their * places, must submit. '' * /xi._ emii more auiy line last* stzji raw .niinr mains to oe aone. ? or "Idcclare solemnly,on my deathbed, , that yon acted in perfect good faith ^n? when yon married Miss Eyreconrt. Yon have not only been a man cruelly injured SCSs by me, but vilely insulted and misjudged ^ac* by the two Eyrecourrs, and by the lord ^orL and lady who encouraged them to set you down as a villain guilty of heartless now and shameless deceit. is as "It is my conviction that these peo- 6e^a pie might have done more than misin- and T . i 11 -i . . , it .. leiprec your iionorauie suDmission to oe the circumstances iu which you were placed. They might have prosecuted you for bigamy, if they could have got ^ kc to appear against you. I am com- ^ ^ d when I remember that I did make i 1 small amends. I kept out of their i and yours from that day to this. ; [ am told that I owe it to you to i 2 proof of my death behind me. tt'hen the doctor writes my certifihe will mention the mark by which lv be identified, if this reaches you I hope and believe it will) between time of my death and my burial, rector, who will close and seal these 5 as soon as the breath is out of my r, will add what he can to identify and the landlady of this house is y to answer any question that may iut to her. This time yon may be ty assured that you are free. "When n buried, and they show you my eless grave in the churchyard, I w your kind heart ?I die, Bernard, ie firm belief that you will forgive There was one thing more that I to ask of you, relating to a poor ,ture who is in the room with us at moment. But, oh, I am so weary! Fennick will tell you what it is. Say yourself sometimes?perhaps when have married some lady whc is thy of you?there was good as well ad in poor Emma. Farewell." nber Two,?From the Reverend Charles Fennick to Bernard Winter field. " The Rectory, Belhaven. Sir?It is my sad daty to inform that Mrs. Emma Winter-field died morning a little before 5 o'clock, ill add no comment of mine to the firing language in which she has ressed you. God has, I most sincerely ieve, accepted the poor sinner's entance. Her contritu spirit is at j ? ??~ +v,a f/vrmV.in rvnes in the I UCj ttJXllUlg tiio :ld beyond the grave. 'In consideration of her wish that l should see her in death, the coffin 1 be kept open until thu last moment, e medical man in attendance has dly given me a copy of his certitte, which I inclose. You will see t the remains are identified by the icription of a small silver plate on i right parietal bone of the skull. 'I need scarcely add that all the in-1 mation I car give you is willingly at lr service. ' She mentions, poor soul! something ich she had to ask of you. I ^refei > jieqaest which, in her exhausted xe, s>.e was unable to address to yon her own words. ' WVii'Ia the -nprformances of the cir 5 were taking place in tlie nc-xt county ours, a wandering lad. evidently of ficient intelligence, was discovered ing to creep under the tent to see at was going on. He could give no elligible account of himself. The e Mrs. Wintcrfield, whose early life inderstand to have been passed in ance, discovered that the boy was ench, and felt interested in the unrtunate creature, from former happy jociations with kind friends of his " I say ' appeared,' because an invefcite reserve marks one of the peculiaris of the mental affliction from whicl? suffers. Even his benefactress neve* lid persuade him to take her into Ma lfidence. In other respects, her inence, so far as I can learn, had been jcessfully exerted in restraining cera mischievous propensities in him ich occasionally showed themselves, e effect of her death has been to in.sify that reserve to which I have sady alluded. He is sullen and irrile, and the good landlady at the gings does not disguise that she inks from taking care of him even a few days. Until I hear from you will remain under charge of my serits at fTie rectory. ! You have, no doubt, anticipated the uest which the poor sufferer wished tddress to you but a few hours bei her death. She hoped that you jlit be willing to place this friendless . helpless creature under competent tection. Failing your assistance, lall have no alternative, however I r regret it, but to send him to the khouse of this town, on his way, bably, to the public asylum. Believe me. sir. vour faithful ser t. Charles Fexxk^c." i P. S.?I fear my letter and its inures may be delayed in reaching Yesterday evening I had returned ay house before it occurred to me ; Mrs. "Winterlield had not mened your address. My only excuse this forgetfulness is that I was veiy :h distressed while I was writing by bedside. I at once went back to lodgings, but she had fallen asleep, I dare not disturb her. This mornwhen I returned to the house sIia dead. There is an allusion to onshire in her letter, which suggests your residence may be in that ltv; and I think she once spoke of as a person of rank and fortune, ing failed to find jour name in a don directory, I am now about to ch our free library here for a county >ry of Devon, on the chance that it assist me. Let me add, for your satisfaction, that no eyes but mme see these papers. For security's >, I shall seal them at once and write : name on the envelope." ****** Ad'.h'lb'j l4other Benxce'l. How the boy contrived to possess self of the sealed i>acket we shall )ably never know. He was in the n?as the confession mentions? le the rector was writing from the sg woman's dictation. On the next he might have seen Mr. Fcnnicfc 'loved over his own letter, and ht have put the two writings togethin his crazy brain. Anyhow, we w that he must have escaped from rectory with the papers in his posion, and that he did certainly get : to his mother and sister in Lon I With such complete information as 1 liave at my disposal, the prospect ; clear again as we can desire. The .ration of Romayne from his wife, the alteration of his will seem to :ow merely questions of time." THE ESD OF THE TBTIIT) BOOK BOOK THE FOURTH. APTEB I.?THE BREACH IS WIDENED. , fortnight after Father Benwell's ; iliscovery Stella followed lier husband one morning into his study. "Have vou heard from Mr. Penrose ?" she inquired. "Yes. He will be here to-morrow. "To make a long visit?" " I hope so. The longer the better.'' She looked at him with a mingled ex pression of surprise and reproach. '' "Why do you say that?" she asked. "Why do you want bim so much?when you have got me ?" Thus far he had been sitting at his desk, resting his head on his hand, with his downcast eyes fixed on an open book. When she put her last question to him, he suddenly looked up. Through the large window at his side, the morning light fell on his face. The haggard look of suffering which S fella remembered on the day when they met on the deck of the steamboat was again nsiDie, noi softened and chastened now by the touching" resignation of the bygone tims, but intensified by the dogged and despairing'endurance of a man weary oi himself and his life. Her heart ach t for him. She said, softly: "I don'i mean to reproach you." "Are you jealous of Penrose?" he asked, with a bitter smile. She desperately told him the truth "I am afraid of Penrose," she answered He eyed her with a strange expres Bion of suspicions surprise. " "Why an you afraid of Penrose V" It was no time to ran the risk of irri tating him. The torment of the voic< " * * i jl mr . had returned in tiie past nigui. xm old gnawing remorse of the fatal da.y o the duel had betrayed itself in the wile words that escaped him, when he sanl into a broken slumber as the morninj dawned. Feeling the truest pity fo: him, she was still resolute to asser herself against the coming interferenci of Penrose. She tried her ground by i dangerous means?the means of an in direct reply. "Ithink tou miffht have told me,' she said, "that Mr. Penrose vras ; priest." He looked down again at his boot "How did you. know Penrose was priest?" " I had only to look at the directio: on your letters to him." ""Well, and what is there to frighte you in his being a priest ? You told m at the Lorings' ball that you took a mterest in Penrose because I like him-" "I didn't know then, Lewis, that h had concealed his profession from u; I can't he'p distrusting a man who do( that." He laughed?not ^ery kindly. " Yo might as well say you distrust a ma who conceals that he is an author, t writing an anonymous book. Whi Penrose did, he did under orders fro] his superior?and, moreover, he frank] owned to me that he was a priest. If yc blame anybody, you had better blan me for respecting his confidence." diligent toward my errors, even' if la wroner." That simple appeal touched his bett< nature. " I don't mean to'be hard on yoi Stella," he answered. "It's a littJ irritating to hear you say that you di: trust the most . devoted and mos affectionate" friend that man ever hac Why can't I love my wife and love m friend too ? You don't know, when I ai trying to get on with my book, how miss the help and sympathy of Penrose | The very sound of his voice used t | encourage me. Come, Stella, give m I a kiss?and let us, as the children saj J make it up!" He rose from liis writing-table. Sh metliim more than half-way, and presse all her love?and perhaps a little of he fear too?on his lips. . He retnrned th kiss as warmly as it was given, and then unhappily for both of them, he returne to the subjcct. ""My own love," he said, "try to lik my friend, for my sake; and betoleran of other forms of Christianity beside the form which happens to be yours. Her smiling lips closed; she tnrne< from him. "With the sensitive selfish .ness of a woman's love she looked oi Penrose as a robber who had stolen thi sympathies which should have beei wholly hers. As she moved away he: quick observation noticed the opei book on the desk, -with notes and line: in pencil on the margin of the page What had Romayne been reading whicl had interested him in that way ? If hi had remained silent she would hav( iddressed the inquiry to him openly But he was hurt, on his side, by th< sudden manner of her withdrawal iron: him. He spoke, and his tone was colde] than ever. " I won't attempt to combat your prejudices," he said. " But one thing ] must seriously ask of you. When mj friend Penrose comes here to-morrow don't treat him as you treated Mr. Wini ^ 4 ?? ICJLliCJLU. There was a momentary paleness in her face wliich looked like fear, but it passed away again. She confronted liixa firmly, with bright, steady eyes. "Why do yon refer again to that?" she asked. " Is?" (she hesitated and recovered herself)?" is Mr. Winterfield another devoted friend of yours ?' He walked to the door, as if he could scarcely trust his temper if he answered her, stepped, and thinking better of it, turned toward her again. " "We won't quarrel, Stella," he rejoined; "I will only say I am sorry you don't appreciate my forbearance. Your rpccnfion of Mr. Winfprfipln ha*; lost, mp the friendship of a man whom I sincerely iiked. -who might have assisted mj literary labors. You were ill at the time, and anxious about Mrs. Eyrecourt. 1 respected your devotion to your mother. I remembered you telling me when yon first went away to nurse her, that joui conscience accused you of having sometimes thoughtlessly neglected youi mother in her days of health and good spirits, and I admired the motive ci atonement which took you to her bedside. For those reasons I shrank from saying a word that might wound you. But, because I was silent, it is not the less true that you surprised and disappointed me. Don't do it again!" He left the room. She stood, looking after him as he closed the door, like a woman thunderstruck. Never yet had he looked at hei as lie looked when he spoke his last "] warning words. "With a heavy sigh she roused hereeli. The vague dread with A Tl which his tone rather than his words jf had inspired her, strangely associated jrca itself with the momentary curiosity rive which she had felt on noticing the Mar annotated "book that lay on his desk. riye She snatched up the volume and looked at the open page. "With trem- ^ ' bling hands she turned back to tne tocJ title-page. It presented this written the inscription: " To Lewis Eo.najiie from fr?.r his attached friend zr;\ servant, Arthur Penrose." as a "God help me!" she said to herself, yill "the priest has got between tis al- beti ready!" this (To be ccnitinued.) W1; ' reaJ ~ " " thri A Confederate Bond. wrj The New Orleans Democrat says: I The recent rise in Confederate bonds was has caused quice an excitemeniihrough- Loi out the South.vhere many of the bonds mil rials to realize juite a sum of money at i the the present raios. Having been kindly dar ! loaned one of these bonds by a gentle- Q man who had one and perhaps more, can the Democrat publishes the text of it as beg a matter of interest, and also for the cos purpose of enabling any one having the some of the bonds to identify them by mo J comparison. The following is the word- the ing of the bor^d: <3ar No. 7,463. First Series. rar CONFEDERATE STATES OP AJIERICA. bo< ^ Loan authorised Bv section 6 of Feb f0r ; 17, 1864, Act of Congress. as ' On the First day of July, 1894, the est j Confederate States of America, will pay bol to the bearer of this bond at the seat of pe] c government, or at snch place of deposit tfo J as may be appointed by the Secretary the -e J.-U . fVia cnm nf On A Til OH- r\ri r UI LLltJ JL i. oaoiuj) vuv t sand Dollars, with interest thereon from ke, , this at the rate of Six per cent, pei xis< annum, payable semi-annnally on the fei 3 first days of January and Jaly in each by " year. ala The Confederate States have, by an jnt " act approved February 1, 1864, enacted the a that the principal and interest whereof for shall be free from taxation, and for the tb< payment of the interest thereon, the 0f entire net receipts of any export duty tn, a hereafter laid on the value of all cotton, jn( tob:.cco and naval stores, which shall 8ni 1 be exported from the Confederate States, to and the net proceeds of the import du- we ! ties now laid -on so much thereof, as an, b may be necessary to pay annually tfce < e interest, are hereby specially pledged, n provided that the duties now laid tipon <3a ^ imports, and hereby pledged, shall th< hereafter be paid in specie or in ster- gr, 6 ling exchange, or in the coupons of (jr, said bonds. wa 5' Inwitness whereof the Register of the je :s Treasury in pursuance of the said act C?V of Congress, had hereunto set his hand 0fj u and affixed the seal of the treasury at th ? Richmond, this first dav cf March, pr, 'im ' , ? - E. Appersok, cr, ^ For Register of the Treasury. ^ tn Entered R. B. S. Recorded, J. J. W. ca [y On the left of the bond, at a right av ^ angle with the body of the bond, are be the words, "One inousand dollars," and xe on the right, "Six per cent, per annum." cv Attached to the bond are sixty coule ponSj^ payaHe & :,rv,six months, from m i U6ti?1S65: i&?r% mi. tTLo ocs- jjj m Igtalea ol afaierica :J: "J-<oan pnaer m Thirty Dollars for B^r-tirtnfcns*' "uHeTS'^r; due Jan. 1, 1865, on bond No. 7,403 for jQ ;r $1,000. Ko. Tyler, register;" except su the dates, which, of course, are all dif- ^ ferent, beginning at Jan. 1, 1865, and lor 'e ending with July 1, 1894. * c* 3- ? so 5t Odd Tilings Fished Up from Wreck s The Coast Wrecking Company has in of ' its office, New York city, a curious col- ar lection d? relics from old wrecks and so D other odd bits taken from the sea. The T1 3 collection embraces quaint pieces of st< furniture, explosive shells, and shells of sk 0 the ocean, shreds of ladies' dresses, th rude weapons of savage races, hugs foi Starfish, and many curious things, the th use and purpose of which are still un- ha known. The collection contains the of e broken bell brought up from the ill^ fated steamer Atlantic, of the "White ve: Star line, which was wrecked on Golden an r Rule Rock, on the Nova Scotia coast, on he e April 1, 1873, with a loss of 557 out of foi i, 1,007 souls on .board. There is also a tui 3 rusty, hiltless sword, dug out of the sni sand eight yearg ago, near the hulk of an( the British bark Thistle, which was lost; Th e on Squan Beach, N. J., in 181V, There j del t are also several bottles of sweet oil, ass s Holding a pint ana a-nait eacn, witn tne eas ? original corks intact, and the oil aa clear < as crystal, taken in November, 1877, wa from the wreck of the British bark ma - Robert, which went down in 1844, with to 3 a cargo of lead and oil and five of her bol e crew, off the place where Atlantic City ev< j now stands. There is a Sonth Sea Island jnc canteen, ingeniously constructed of co- 1 r coannt shells, which was fished up from the 1 a wreck in seventy feet of water on the Ca 5 coast of Maipei also a mussel shell 0?B firmly embedded four inches in depth f0r j in a well which was found one hundred tec and forty feet above the sea level on the vra: 3 Jersey coast, also a pelican's skull and 0f > bill, measuring^wo feet from back to pai . tip. (making an excellent though wide wh j dipper) which was fouifd near the wreck hac ' of the bark Robert Fletcher, on the south ttet beach of Long Island, and which is said wa! : to have been used to bail out the boat raj< bv the crew when endeavoring to es- fire cape. The jaws of a shark, kibed on the Th ; South Carolina coast, which have been cra . preserved, can easily be placed over the dei shoulders and down the body of a full- np, grown man. One of the most curious hiD ' relics is a lamp chimney taken from j the remains of.the ironclad Merrimac. fig] Oysters three inches long were found jng attached to the glass, and four large bra oysters which .bad grown about the brass bit base of the chimney, form an irregular no square. The hilts of several swords wai and some old firearms are also incrusted xvas with oyster shells. bet ley The Shape of Bells, Aas It is very likely that the shape of bei bells was suggested at first by the sono J Gar rous qualities of certain metallic vessels in household use, which when struck gave forth peculiar sounds. By different W0T practical tests, it was found in time con that the present conical form was the vo^ best adapted for the conveyance of sound cair to a distance. In the catalogue of one of the bell founders it is stated that in fres the single department of church bells, sn0 the establishment has nearly one hundred patterns, extending from the treb- m.a! ble tones adapted to the belfry of the kist wayside chapel to the deep notes that km resound from the massive tower of the eri< cathedral. .< B The patterns which regulate the inside and outside contour of bells are kef< known as "sweepboards." They are the made of pine, and have that part of strT1 their edge which comes in contact with h?l( the mixture of clay and sand -which has C01S been dried on the mold lined with pou polished steel or sheet brass. These ^eai are made to revolve on their pivoted ca1^ ends against the core casing and against ceP the ontside casing, until by tlieir scrap- so 4 ing action they symmetrically fashion the the mold coatings to their proper ^aT curvature. ' tain Being intoxicated three times deprives was a man of the right to vote under the qnii old French law. intc FIRE ONLY AT HORSEMEN*!? the fed. irillinz Account of a Fierce Fight Dur- cav Ids ihe Civil War. SI10 the reader could stand on the great ran bridge which spans the Potomac alr< r at Harper's Ferry, and look upon viand heights towering from the r's brink '2,000 feet into the air, and J rned with a great stone fort, nseful the nf T write. and then ele: UC UUTU V* II M .. 7 i the eje toward the great pile of tho ss on the Virginia side known as are Loudon heights, rising abruptly hig n the Shenandoah river to the ma jht of more than 1,0C0 feet, and the a upon Bolivar heights, standing the , bold background to the desolate anc age of Harper's Ferry, he could vai ter appreciate the situation in which the i little band was placed at the time I cor t introduce them. He could better ste Lize its perils and understand the fro illicg episode of which I am to Jos te. pa; n the winter of 1864 Cole's cavalry ret i encamped on the east face of coi id on heights, a little more than two hir s of the liver, an<f -""position, as mc sequel will show, was a very th< igerous one. bo ?he single road leading past the m< lp toward the point, where at the wa ginning of my story we found this lei amand engaged with Mosby, led up cei i mountain side and at times was al- wl st impassable. Loudon county was caj i home of many of Mosby's most mi icg officers and men. Every path, !}o ine and declivity in the neighbor- rei )d of this isolated camp was, there- wl e, as familiar to Mosby and his men an the high road. The camp was not cl< ablished here without reluctance, for m< th officers and men recognized the va :ils which would surround it an ough the weary winter. For a time th i men were cautious and never un- m! ;ssed at night. Their arms were mi pt always within reach and ready for th ?, but the sense cf danger, which all; se t at first; wore off a9 the weeks went j dc and there was no attack, not even an w< rm. Both officers and men relapsed pe o a feeling of security, which made in ;m more mind ul of their own com- al: t than of the dangers with which th ij were snrrounded. About the 1st st: January there was a heavy snowfall, CO 3 the weather became intensely cold, of fining the men to stow themselves ha agly away at nijjht as though going er at. hnme. I fear also that they re not very careful about their arms th d ammunition. be Ilie Sth of January was very cold and (tl 3 night which followed intensely if rk. The snow carpet which covered uj a camp was the only relief to the Ic eat black veil which seemed to be fo awn over the face of all nature. It bt .s upon this night that Mosby had be termined to attack and if possible se pture this battalion of cavalry, which, n< tener than any other, had met him in 63 e battle and dealt him hard blows, at 3 selected about four hundred of the. st st of his command and left camp, cs ossing the snow-clad mountains to tl - - - - ?- --- Thav T e ngUC 01 luajcr vuxc o taiuf. ? me by by-paths and through ravines, oi oiding the pickets on the Hills- tl irough road and finally capturing c< em from the rear before they had a is Lance to fire a shot or alarm the camp, tl was between 2 and 3 o'clock on tbe d orning of the 10th of January that h osby captured the pickets and pre- ? gited alon^th'e lines- t>f tents1,where' e Union cavalrymen were sleeping 1< fancied security, without even n spicion that an enemy was near, ti : a given signal a deadly fire was s< >ened upon them. Naturally, all was la nfnsion. The vojley, which killed me of the men ia.' their tents and -J.T I juuiieu biic xixou vtaiujuj^ danger. There hud been no call to la ms. Boots and saddles hid not been cl anded to prepare the men for duty, o) le ciack of the enemy's guns was the hi jrn call to arms made upon these n< :eping men, with no time to reach for b< eir clothing and almost less to grope te r their arms in the dark. To be sure, ra ey had been used to hardships, and of d never failed to respond to the call sn duty. Their pluck and endurance b< re now subjected to the se- gi rest test known in modern war, ei d yet they did not flinch or w. sitate. Almost without waiting th the orders of their officers the men a ned out into the bitter cold and le dw, ankle deep, in their night clothes, th I in most instances without shoes, ar rpsnonded to the attack with a to ~v r , termination which astonished their lei iailants, who had expected to haye an be >y capture. de 'Fire at every man on horseback!" at s almost the first order of the com- T1 nding officer. " Men, do not take sn your horses!" The men obeyed ta: th orders and directed their fire upon U] 3ry man on horseback, and this th licious action won them the day. pr 5Vhen the Confederates found that co >y were to be resisted to the death, be ptain Smith, one of the principal co .cers in command of the attacking pn ce, shouted to his men: " Fire the its and shoot 'em by the light!:' He 3 sitting on his horse near the head * a J i n n4 tne row 01 tents occupied oy uom- ?*? ly A. A sergeant of tbat company, kn 0 had been grouping for his carbine, ^ 1 found it, and was just pushing his fr< id through the tent when this order ad 3 given. He dropped on his knees, 3ed his piece to his shoulder, and C9\ id at the officer giving the command. e ball struck him near the eye and wa -shed through his brain, and he fell *es id into the mouth of the tent, almost cei Dn the man whose bullet had killed re! Q. sb ror three-quarters of an hour this iit in the snow continued, with vary- t-hi aam Ac c-n/tAAaa ol( CilrtUUeo tii cuttoai, hum wu i ,ve men whc. were doing battle in the Pe: ter cold, without clothing, suffered 6U1 man can tell, and yet tbev never I c^' rered. The scene dnriDg the light j C3a i simply indescribable. The men on J su^ h sides fought like tigers, and vol- a after volley v^as exchanged, the re8 h of the gnns as each was discharged g the only relief to the somber "ai kness of the night. The shouts of Otl men engaged could be heard above din of battle, and the groans of the mded mingled strangely with the i ^ fusion of the strife. As each fresh j Ley wonia ior a moment iigm up me ip with its sickening, death-like S1X re, some comrade would fall, and a ^e' ill stream of blood crimson the 60, w. How the men fought and how 12, y stood out during that hour was a *or Tel even to themselves, and the ?* ;orv of war within all the tide of P03 e cannot produce a more striking Bo lence of bravery and devotion. ma hardly had the flash from the first 8V^ ev died and the fight actually begun I >re they heard the long-roll beat in s^ camps at Harper's Ferry, and the uve ggling men knew that if they could P01 1 out for a little while relief would ^ ie. The troops at Harper's Ferry -j.g IA can a flash r\f orcrr orm onrl ! . r the crack of every death-dealing ^ sice. There was no relief there ex- , t infantry, and it was two miles off, ^ ' here was for a whole hour and more conflicting emotions of hope and j as to the fate of the courageous ' ? e band of veterans on the moun-1 ^ . The Thirty-fourth Massachusetts ordered to the rescue on a "double q zk " as soon as it could be ordered j hai > line. But before it could reach j nig summit of Loudon neignis ine uonerates had been repulsed and Cole's airy had won the fight upon the Fi, w clad mountain top that added ch to the name and fame it had i ;ady gained.?Philadelphia Press. j What a Corner Is. l stock comer is thu3 explained dv New York Evening Post: The "bear ^ ment" in the market consists of all jI( se who think that prices of securities pe higher than they onght to be, her than they can permanently rein. In order to take advantage of unwarranted "inflation of values" as ;y understand it, they borrow stocks jg 1 sell them at the high prices pre ^ ling, expecting to bo able to buy er ;m in at lower prices before it be- aE nes necessary to return the borrowed 0j urities. For instance, A borrows as m B 1,000 shares of Hannibal & St. <j< seph, which is selling at sixty. A m 73 B $60,000 cash and agrees to urn the stock on demand, when, of 3 irse, the money ^ili be refunded to n. It is for B's interest to lend the as ok, because he gets the interest on .the w the use of the )ney. Under ordinary conditions B, p 3 lender of the stock, will pay A, the jt rrower, something for the use of the 4. )ney, but if the particular stock ^ nted by the bears is scarce, it will be r? it "flat," that is, the borrower will reive nothing for the use of the money K lilo the loan continues. In extreme K ses the lender may even get a comooinn fnr the rise of stock in addition 01 the interest on the money which it ^ presents. If the market fluctuates lile the loan continue?, the borrower ^ d lender settle with each other at the t] jse of each day, so that the amount of ^ Dney shall at all time be exactly equi- g lent to the value of the stock. 0 When the bears, or any portion of a em, have discerned a weak spot in the ^ irket?that is a security selling for 5 ore than it is worth in their opinion? 0 ey borrow and sell it liberally. Their ^ iling has the same effect in putting iwn the price as though the stock Q jre absolutely their own, and their ex- !r sctation is, that other holders observ- t g a decline in the price will become * 8, irmed and pell also, thus putting aown i e prices still more and frightening ? ill other holders. They intend, of urse, to buy enough at the lower scale q quotations to deliver back what they Lve borrowed, pocketing the differice. It sometimes, though rarely, happens at a few persons, discovering what the s ars are about and believing that they > ae bears) are strong enough to stand a y ;avy loss without breaking, quietly buy ) all of a particular stock that exists. , t order that the price may not be . reed up while they are themselves lying, they lend stock freely to the ? 1 j-i ? lofrfoT tr> I jars, ana tuus euuuuiajg mi, II. When tliey have secured all. or c >arly all, of the particular stock that ? ;ists they call in their loans. The bears n e then compelled to buy, and since no ock, or very little, is for sale, the price , m be foi ccd up to any figure at which le cornering party choose to put it. c he "shorts" must come up and settle c 2 such terms as may be dictated to c. lem. The last resort is to leave the 1 jraering party saddled with the whole j sue of the stock in question. Whether ley make or lose by the operation will ' epend upon whether they can extort * om thj bears more than enough to ' smpensate them for the loss they ; 1 1 _ ' iay imgr iu resiling the gtocs to tue \l{ ornenny^fe&a, u.3f^aL S >se money, which has been gained]' lean while by the multitude" who Eave~~| tken advantage of the high prices to ill out. For this reason corners have \ utterly been of rare occurrence. A Great Enterprise. j The tunnel between France and Eng- ^ .nd has been pushed a mile under the ^ lannei from either shore, or one-tenth 1 ['the distance. It proceeds a yard an f our, and it will take two years, from j ow to complete it. The first bore will ^ ?between seven and nine feet in diame- ^ r, and will have to be enlarged fer j. .ilway service. Besides the distance t 1 eighteen and a quarter miles as the c ibmarine line of the tunnel, there will c. i about a mile and one quarter of adnal descent from the surface on ther shore to the bottom of shafts hich are nearly 300 feet deep. From is depth the tunnel will fall away at gentle slope, afterward pursuing a f vel course until a point is reached near I e opposite coast, when there will be lother upward incline. The object is ? keep a depth in the chalk at no time ss than 200 feet beneath the channel ^ id. The entire thickness of the chalk iposit is known to be at least 500 feet ^ each of the two points of departure, lere are scund geological reasons to ppose that this thickness is main- ? ined through the intervening space. . p to this time experiment sustains the eorv, and stockholders in the enter- j ^ ise are delighted.. Money is forth- j ming as fast as required, and will not i , denied white the engineers' reports i J ntinue as encouraging as these now j Lblished. ? I & A LiTely Adventuress. j 0 A young woman who was brought up j ^ Brantford, Canada, without any j ^ owledge of her father and mother, j ? is finally taaen to an insane asyium, i >m which she escaped, and became an " venturess of the most dime-novel & aracter. First she figured as an "es- n ped nun" and found lecturing in 2 at capacity very profitable. Then sne w is a persecuted saint from the Pro- ? stant fold and found that a very sacssful investment. Then she was a j1 ;urned missionary from China, where ^ e had achieved immense success in tc ilding up the Lord's kingdom, .After uj i-3, she tried to elope with a 14-year p 1 boy, the heir of considerable proi**-c H'Vion/^o ^or>linpr? into a crm- ^ caption, deceiving, by means of red ^ emical hid in her cheek, ibe physi- ^ ,ns themselves, who thonght she was j v Dject to hemorrhages. S e has been frequent guest at Rideau Hull, the idence of Lord Lome, and was deited just in time to prevent her marge with a rich and brilliant lawyer of . :awa.?Free Press. el Where Jersey Cows Cosna From. I ^ rersev Island, the place from which j obtain the favorite Jersey cow, is a j f2 all spot of land. If squared, it is j and three- quarter miles each way. j C(: t this little island has a population of j 0 000 human beings, and has over I DC 000 cattle, and has had that cumber ; the last twenty years, for the censas j 1861 gives 12,037. And yet. they ex-1 !3 t on an average annually 2,000 head. ! L, nghly speaking, on this island they I {V nage to support one head of Line to j , ry acre. A good Jersey will yield j ^ f her own weight in butter a year? i rarely exceeds 800 pounds, and her T irage weight at home is about 700 ?a mds. *Q ar Wisconsin has been trying to destroy wolves, wild cats, and foxes by offer- ; of a reward for every one killed, and 1 ta hin six months has expended nearlv t tb 000 in tbis way. But those who ! w< m to know, say that the only result ; la ; been to increase the number of these hi mals, the reward offered for their ! itraction being an incentive to breed Sl i raise mem. ; ?> ? : nt Dhere is one advantage about false wi r?it [never turns white in a single of ht. | ST E zurcs and Facts Relating to the Growth and Manufacture of the Staple. The New York Mail says: "Judging j )m the statistics of cotton raising in r e South, both previous to and since j e civil war, " King Cotton " has held ^ s undisturbed sway in that section, j th only an interregnum of four years, r )m 1861 to 1865, for which stormy ^ riod no record appears. r Tha vipld of cotton in all the v? J rathern States raising it for sixteen ars before the war was 49.106.000 iles, ending with the season of 186061. For the sixteen years since the ir, commencing with 1865-1866, and iding with 1880-1881, the crops aonnted to 63.135.000 bales, an excess yield of 14.029,000 bales, or an aver;e annnal increase of 976,000 bales, he crop in 1865-1866, it is true, was nch smaller than that of 1860 1861. nng but 2,27b UUU Daies, against , 849,000 in the latter season.' This ] lling off, however, is not as mated . \ in some bad years previous tcKhe^ ? ar, considering ail theoggges jjch , ln~lS71-72*?h.e greatesfc^roportionate lling off "in the coHcmfcrop eVei ex sriesiced took place, the"yield amount i g to but 2,974,000 bales against 347,000 the preceding season, which as the second largest 'crop ever ticed in the United States. Since 372 the crop has increased in a regalar itio, with only one retrograde move -n-A rrsr i. is cnfl (inn IvjIos fn lent in xo i st-1 o, tu xj,uuu|uvu vuv. ? 380 81. In both these off-years the rop was affected by drouth and by orms. The former cause of damage probably ill tend to reduce the crop somewhat lis year, as none of the estimates range igherthan 5,505,000 bales, while some o as low as 5,175,000. The estimates f the Agricultural Bureau on acreage ad condition of crop as compared with liose cf last year wonld make it about ,370,000 bales. At the present stage f the crop this seems a fair approximator The entire acreage in the ten cotton ltate=; planted to cotton this year is 5,392,096, a gain over last year of 4,496 acres. In 1S71 the entire acrege was abont 8 666.217, giving an inrease of 6,725,879 acres in ten years. j 'or these ten years Texas shows the I reatest gain. In 1871 Texas liad but 00,937 acres against 2,433,002 this year, - train of 1,642,065 acres. Louisiana is - he only State which bas reduced its j creage in the same period, in which it l hows a loss of 4,060 acres. As compared with last years acreage, ! forth Carolina has increased 4 per cent., | Louisiana 3 per cent., Texas-2 percent., ! nd Arkansas 1 per cent, while in J rioriila, Alabama and Tennessee there i s a fallingoff, in the latter State of 7 ' >er cent., or 57,134. almost as large a j oss in one State as the gain in acreage ! >f all the other States, Florida is the malle.st cotton-growing State, having i rat 244 052 acres. Georgia leads with 1,842,026 acres. j According to the Commercial and financial Chronicle, a journal whose sotton statistics are entitled to pmchj confidence Texas is now the largest ;ot!:on-producing State, having gror. rr n the season of 1880-81, 7^k000 bales, '--- - J 1871. jver unc-iuuu ux us-l\, .bough it then raised tenth jf the crop, or 2S0,0two ;o-called new cotton ind Texas, produce L871, and 1,745,000 baleflH^^^^ lent, prodncingla1^^^^ 2,660,000 in 1880. J The crop of 1S80 was, disposed of as 'ollows: Exports to Great Britain, 1832,000 bales; to the continent, i i-30 mm u?i?? . A ~az i, i UUjUVJV/ 9 uuoai CAI/uivcu) ijuuu* )00 baies; home consumption, Northern nills, 1,713,000 bales; Southern mills, 530,000 bales; total crop, 6,606,000 bales, .'n 1841-42 the entire crop of 1,684,000 )ales was divided in the following proporions: Total exports, including 936,000 >ales to Great Britain and 529,000 bales o the continent, 1,465,000 bales ; home :onsumption, in Northern mills only, ?8,000 bales. Comparing these figures it will be een that in the Southern States there s now nearly as much cotton spinning a in all the Northern States in 18il; ! hat the amount of cotton consumed in ! he Northern mills is larsrer bv several i housand bales than the entire exports if that rear, and that the proportion of xports to the crop is reduced from 86 j er cent, to 69 per cent. In other "words, j re retain and manufacture 31 per cent, j Qstead of 14 per cent, of the crop, a gain : f 15 per cent, only in forty years, 3 per \ ent. of which the Southern States j ained. Great Britain, on the other! and, has increased her cotton manufac- j ares 300 per cent, during the same pe- ! iod upon American cotton alone, of j 'hich she took 2,832.000 bales in 18S0, j ithcut reckoning 573,607 bales of cot- i an from India and 251.000 from Egypt, i tc. The general average of cotton to the i ere throughout the ten States, is about: ne-third of a bale of about 450 pounds ' 'eight. In Arkansas and .Louisiana, owever, the average yield in 1880 was Dnsiderably over one-half bale per 2re. Virginia, Missouri, Indian Terri>ry and Kentucky, not usually rearded as cotton-growing States, had, 1880, is is estimated, an area aggreating 94 378 acres planted to cotton hich produced 49,100 bales. The exsllence of this y:eld is probably due to " ? i i ?1. _ i le iact inac planters who piace ineir : iria dependence upon other stap'es, j ave as a fancy crop a small field of cot-1 >n, which is better cared for than that pon the great cotton plantations can pos- i bly be. As an example of this it may ?added that in Orleans Parish, Louisi- j la, seven acres by superior cultivation , roduced twelve bales of cotton in ! J iSO. j. The question of the cost per pound of .ising cotton, under ordiuarilv favor- j )le conditions of weather has often ! 1 i n discusted, but generally without (( riving at very definite results. At- j j mpts have been made many times to ; ] duce growers of cotton to reckon I ] osfly all the expanses of a crop from ' j ,e time the ground is opened until the j i ilcs are shipped to maiket, but like far- j 2 ers everywhere they are either averse j j the trouble of figuring the detailed i 1 >st of their operations, or are ignorant j what expenditures should or should | )t be taken into a ccount, A corre- j indent of the New York Times, in a j' cent letter from Arlauta, says : " I! i se heard the cost per pound estimated ' i I the way from to 9 cts * * * j < le lower estimate represents a possi-! < hty already realized by a few of the i 1 ist farmers, and open to many ; the j ( gher a discouraging fact, drawn from j < e experience of thousands of cotton i ] isers, why go on year after year pursu- j ] g the same k>ose system of cultivation, ! s id producing one Dale to three or four 11 res." He goes on to enumerate a few ; 1 the debts and credits that should be [ 1 ken into account-, ana concludes with 1^ e assertion, "Nobody has thought it; < :>r:h vhile to make the effort on a j 1 rge scale. The estimates that one j < >ars so frequently from 6 to 9 cents a ' 1 >und a-c bisc-d on limited experience, 1 iw?ses and impressions rather than on ' ill-digested data, but they are at least | < ?ar the truth, as I think will be shown 11 ith hufficient clearness by a comparison 15 the results of two widely different : stems of farming." . i 'conrureiisitExints In the Hawaiian Islands. ?3 The San Francisco Chronicle pnbishes an interview with a gentleman atelv from Honolulu, in which he is eported as saying : "I have read every ine that has appeared recently in regard ; j o the system of slavery now existing^ : n the Sandwich Islaids. There are nany important facts that have not ap- ; )eared in print, and I will give your eaders some of them." . "The Englishman or American who ' mters the port of Honolulu will see ;hree objects there to which his eyes c>HSH md ius attention v?.m uc V/axi^u* amv .irst is the notorious slave pen on Fisherman's Point; the second is the L:| penitentiary, not far distant, -and the ?} ;hird is Dr. Damon's church, the pastor' >f which is commonly known as 'Old Father Damon.' The Honolulu folks ;J point .with pride to the church, look '''M teith veneration upon the penitentiary? J? where most of them ought to be, if vcu ' lave eyer heard them backbite each other - o ?and with regard to the slave pen, that is the latest rotable addition to Havra- ftalian^!^ but it -'s rather its type, that is, it is simply a vast" barracoon where the contract serfs are safe for the time being. The pen incloses & large area of ground. And is sur- ' ^ rounded by a wooden fence apparently 1 from fifteen to twenty feet high. It has .-'.J never been described in your column?, . 3 sojiglpilladd something else. The in- < v| dry and arid, and on hot days tEeSflr there is suffocating. Around the fence, here and- there, are bunks, - y*. common wooden troughs they might be .M called, where the 'contract' creatures . huddle. Some are furnished b^sfchem- 3| selves with "rough bedding, others are 33 filled, with straw, but speakiog moder- j ately, a man who respected his hogs % would furnish them with better quar- . ^ ters. At a significant point in- the pen is a small fortress, we will call it, wnere the guard stands, and from there he is r > in a position to give the alarm or shoot the first serf that revolts. FonxuMBMHtf the serfs were landed at tbeesplalfl H (regular" wharf) and driven thn| B Honolulu, to the pen. It was ifl H that this wonld not do, as the heM looking condition of the 'emigJB attracted the attention of sci^a^er^^^R and produced in some instances pro- - found sympathy for the misprible serfs. 4 from persoEs who had revfer seen such. human degradation befofe. Now thej have built a long w]&rf out into the i shallow which connects with the pen, * and the peons never'pass through the *" "T 1? V*wm? foVon streers ot nuiiuimu, uui> <?.o directly from the slavers to the long -yfwharf, as we will call it. "If you had been in Honolulu in /\ June last you would have seen a characteristic sight, startling in some of its. aspects. -?iving at the old steamboat wiaarf we're two vessels?one ostensibly engaged in saving the sonls of men, ; the other in. enslaving their bodies. i One was the missionary brigantine Morning Star, Capt. Bray commanding, ah<? flying the American flag, the other *v?as what some commomy called the crA?? Pant, Tiernev. flvine 'i j DIOYCi w?j-? ? v # ^ w * the Hawaiian flag. Both vessels lay i alongside of each other. On the I [missionary vessel prayers were said - % j daily, andhjmns were -sung and the i Lord was praised for all his mercies. .? I Everything was in order and the faro and surroundings were luxurious enough r j for, princes of the church.' On the j slaver there was an ominous silence. ,jjSm j Chains, i for the South Seas (Micronesia) to | engage in the work of soul-saving? i that is the correct term for it I suppose. | The slaver went out to sea without | song or hymn; the missionary vessel went out to sea praising the Lord. The very men who sang hymns ctot the ? missionary craft?the 'elite' of Honolulu?were the very men who furnished the chains,the shot-guns and the howitzer for the slaver. Msgyoatsiders, who were moved by the contact-, said: 'This is an infamous burlesque on what ought to be a civilized and Christian community.' The Storm Bird is owned by the Hawaiian Government. The Morning Strvr xras naid fr,r T VipKava trif.li ten r&nt contributions from the Protestant school children in the United States. " Here let me ask the sympathies of all people for the poor South Sea Islanders, .who are held as degraded slaves on the Sandwich Islands. The other serfs can in some way be heard. The Chinese coolies are, perhaps, better off than they were in Ghina; anyway,^ they are able to take care of themselves and they have more than once thrown defiance in the face of the Hawaiian . Government; the Portuguese have a sort of Consul in Honolulu and also the bishop of the Catholic Church to whom they can appeal in some respects; the Mexicans, and there are quite a number on the islands now, have also a Consul. I don't know how it is about the Norwegians and others, but beine white men they can probably be heard. But no 4 hearing can alleviate their galling servitude. They may be simply counseled to obedience. It is different with the Sonth Sea Islanders. They have no Consal, nobody to represent them, and as they are ignorant of both the Hawaiian and English languages, they are * ' virtually deaf and dumb, and are driven about by signs, precisely like beasts of burden. In their own islands they never labored beyond nshing and picking cocoanut? enough to nustain life. Tiiey were free and independent men, subject alone to the call of their chief. When arriving cn the plantations they ? -J i.1 -j. i. X J -Li. i... uuu nicy xuusb wur* lrum uajngut vu dark and their food is not fit for hogs They are a simple, child-like race, aaft-y^" not being inared to hardship they find their chains catting intb them. The mortality among them, both on the slavers while coming to the islands and :<n the plantations, is frightful. They it times die olT like sheep that have the rot. They are a sad sight as they arrive, and to see them wirh tin labels iround their necks, and numbers ;hereon to designate them, as tbey^Wy ilong, dejected and aimless lookin i sigh!; that would more any heart ( lardened) with pity. | - ? A Slayer of Seventy Mem j According to the Express of Atla f Cesas.the champion wielder of the p: n a close fight is Captain Joe Pee ormerly a citizen of Arkansas, resi- '! Vfl ;lose to the Choctaw line. He ^ leputy United State3 marshal i -'M ong time, and often had the command >f a posse when that was more dangervn<5 V>rj<in#?:s thin it is in Viae? V/v?-Tr Daring the war he was arrested by the federal troops on the charge of being a ;pv, court-martialed, and sentenced to oe shot. He made his escape, and from ;hat time until the downfall of the Confederacy h:s name and daring deeds s'ere well known in both armies. Sev- . jntv men have fallen at the report of lis pistol, and yet in all his personal encounters he was known only once to oe wounded, and that was while tiring io arrest a desperado in the Indian lerritory. Captain Peevy is now & citizen of Oregon, where he is reported to have killed five ronghs who recently it tacked him. Yet with all this he is aid to be a pleasant companion and &n mswerving friend.