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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1876. No..16. THE.HERALDI IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING$ At Newberry, S. C. BY THOS, F. GRENEKER Editor and Proprietor.I Terats, $2.50. perelinnum, Invariably in Advance. SThe paper is stopped at the expiration of~ time for which it is paid. T,?- The >4 mark denotes expiration of sub criptiou. APRIL. I listen for the voice of soDg And hear a murmur in the trees Of April in a fitful breeze, Who says the growing wings are strong. Rise! Barn thy win, ter robe to-day! Thus did the poet Omar sing: The Bird of time is on the wing, He flatters bat a little way. Behold a dawning of a voice! -Hold hard the sorrow of #.hy heart, For music keener makes the smart; The singer waits not on our choice. In tbo new dawn I bear his note; He lingers while the roses blow. Then goes-oh, where?-I do not know On what bright waves my darUings float:* -A. F., in Harper's Magazine for April. AftREMARKABLE BREAM. 0 0 Some few years ago I was a resi traitors, and also from the hordec of pirates that continually infes1 the China seas, notwithstanding our gunboats. and the havoc they make of them whenever they com( within range. "Well, gentlemen, upon thal evening my thoughts were especi ally turned upon home, and tc a dear mother from whom I hac received a letter by the last mail and who was then in a very delicat utate of health. I had answered her letter only that morning. "I must have been on the pool about three-quarters of an boui after Mr. Spencer had left me, anc was thinking of returning to th< cabin to look over some papers cornected with the ship,when I ob. served a sampan, or Chinese boat: hovering round the stern. I call ed out to the men Tin the boat, and inquired what they wanted there; but their only answer when they found they were observed, was to pull away from the ship in the direction of the middle of the bar bor. Their movements I did not at all like, and, leaning on the taffrail, I watched them until they were lost in the darkness. I suppose I must have remained in this posi tion-that is, with my arms on the taffrail-about ten minutes, when, without warning, I felt my self lifted off my legs, and some one behind me endeavoring to throw me overboard. I am by no means a light weight, gentle men, as you can see, weighing, I should say, then something over 200 pounds; but the person evi dently depended upon the sudden. ness of the attack to accomplish his purpose. I struggled violent ly, holding on by my hands to the rail, and letting fly riightr and: left with my feet; and in the end I was successful. The Chinaman tripped, and lay upon the deck in my power. Without a thought. Without* a moment's hesitation, I laid hold of him by the trousers with one hand, and took a couple of turns of his pigtail by the other, and threw him over board. After I ha.d accomplished this, I made for the caddy. Ar. rived there, I at once went to Mr. Spencer's cabin; but upon trying the door found it locked I I gave one or two good kicks, at the same time calling out -to him to open the door. He sprang from his berth, and called out in reply that it was locked from the out side. I told him to stand clear, and with a good one, two, three, from the shoulder, I burst the door in. There is no doubt ] must have looked very pale and very excited, as his first question 'to me was: "'Why, Mr. Topham, what ir the name of goodness is the mat ter? You look as pale as death.' "I told him all that had hap pened, and likewise my suspicions that we had not seen the end o: the affair, and tha1 our best plar would be at once to arm ourselves I told him to dress himself, whilsl I went on deck to rouse our twc English sailors, whom we coulc depend upon, and bring them t< the cabin. I had planted one foot in the saloon, the other being still in Mr. Spencer's cabin, and hac my eyes directed to the stairs o the companion way, when, in th< shade, I thought IL descried Chinaman. Thinking t h a t i might be the steward, I called ou t him by name, 'A Tong;' but n< reply came, when I felt prett certain that it was not the steward in which belief 1 was not long lef in doubt. I had turned my heat into Mr. Spencer's cabin to tel him of my suspicions, when. thought I heard steps stealthil: approaching me. I gave a rapi glance and there not four fee from w here I stood,. were so~me fly or six as villainous looking Chine men as I had ever beheld, armed some with bamboos about ten fee long,and others with swords. In a instant I had sprung into the cal in and closed and bolted the doo1 With a yell the whole of the gan made one simultaneous rush to war the door; but they had missed thei mark by a second. I had plantes my back against the door, an thanks to my weight and tL bolt: it resisted their combined effor' Ito force it. Other measures, hov ever, I knew must be at once re sorted to, and that instantly. Call ing upon Mr. Spencer to move his chest of drawers against the door, and placing two trunks on the top of them, we patiently awaited the coming events. Spencer very fortunately had a couple of Colt's revolvers in his chest of drawers, with which we armed ourselves. The gang outside were evidently in deep consultation as to their next mode of attack. One voice I heard raised above all the others, and that one voice was without a doubt A Tong, our much respect. ed steward. From the little Chi nese I was acquainted with I gathered that they were bent up. on the treasure, which had come on board from the Oriental Bank only that afternoon. It had been stowed away in the captain's cab in, and was safely lodged in one of Milner's fire and t h i e f proof safes. "They proceeded to the captain's cabin, but in a very short time re turned, and knocking at the door with their bamboos, demanded it to be opened. At first they used threats, then entreaties, promising us that not a hair of our heads should be hurt. But though we feared their threats, we had no faith in their promises, and fully determined - that, if. t h e. worst came to the worst, we would sell our lives dearly. Ob, how we longed for eleven o'cloc , for Cap cain Wilkes' return. How pa tiently and eagerly we listened for the splash of the oars of the six stalwart boatmen. We heard four bells from the different ships in the harbor, some not a couple of hundred yards away; but it was imposstte to rea-r sigWal them. Instead of a large port-hole, there was only the small dead light, through which we could.not even manage to thrust our heads, much less our bodies. Well, sirs, when they found that neither threats nor promises would avail them, they at once commenced their work. I was standing on a camp stool, endeavoring to see what they were doing by looking through the iron .grating on the top of the door, when I saw one of them with a spear, at what in military phraseology would . be termed, 'shorten arms'-that is, with the spear drawn back to its fullest extent, ready to thrust through the door. igave one spring -from the stool, and lucky indeed 1 did, so for the next moment the point of a spear grazed my cheek. Another inch to the left, and 1~would have been a dead man. We both then retired to the further end of the cabin, so as to keep out of harm's way. We knew that they dared not use firearms, for fear of attracting the attention of the ships in the neigh borhood; and no doubt this was our salva tion. Spear after spear wa s thrust through,some almost reach ing us as we, crouched down on the floor of the cabin, when all at once we heard a crash, and look ing up to our horror saw that one of the panels of the door had been forced in sufficiently for a man to thrist his body through. We both immediately sprang up on our feet gra.sping our revol vers more firmly, expecting that in desperation some of t h e m would be hardy enough to try and force their way into the cabin. But they were too cunning for that. T wo of them now got upon chairs, but taking care to keep out of the line of the fire of our revolv ers,and by side-thrusts-by which they were adepts in the use of t h e weapon-compelled us to kneel and crouch behind the cbest of drawers one moment, into the berths the next, and, at lat, ne the bottom of' them, where we were for some time comparatively safe. But, emboldened by their success, they now faced the broken panel ing and we could plainly see that, in another minute or two, the matter would end by our both be ing speared like wild boars. I whispered to Spencer to fire at the first head that showed itself at the paneling, and I would do the same -he to take the right, and I the left, so that we should not waste 5 ammunition through both of us a iigat the same person. I1 re minutes ago, two heads suddenly appearing, and myselfand Spencer in the act of presenting o u r revolvers at t h e i, when, as a flash of lightning, two spears were suddenly thrust through the aperture, and the next instant I felt a twinge in the right side." Here the narrator paused for a few moments and after a good stiff pull at the punch, continued: "I remember no more until six weeks afterwards, when I was ly ing in bed in a strange roo m,very weak and very faint. There was my servant keeping me nice and cool with a large fan. whilst on my forehead was a cloth steepe.d in vinegar. By degreessome slight recollection came back to mind of the events that had happened on thatfearful night; but when I inter rogated my Chinese nurse, I could only obtain from him such replies as, 'Me no sabby; doctor berry angry me talkee that pigeon.' By which he meant that he knew nothing about the matter, and that if he did, he was enjoined by the doctor to silence, otherwise he would be very angry with him. However with a good constitution and careful attention, I was soou> able to leave my roon ; and then, and not before, I gathered from my old friend, Charles Lawrence, one quiet afternoon, the following farther rambling account of the af fair: "'I have no occasion,' said Char ley, 'to ask you to remember the 8th of March, for that you will do to the end of your days ; but I have also reason t o remember it; for on that day, as I .learned by a letter from home by the last mail, an -only brother was kill ed on the Great Weiterff Ray in the collision near Reading. Well, if you remember that eve ning, we were to have a great spread at Douglas'. Thompson, Wilkinson,and some twenty others wer.e invited, including Captain Wilkes. Of course,you kno w what a jovial fellow Wilkes is, good for a story or a song, and can take his part in an argument with the best them. Everything went off well of during dinner ; and after the cloth had been removed, and one or two songs had been given, the call was for Wilkes. He, however, who is usually so ready and will ing to oblige, made some excuse about hoarseness, which, ho wever, was so palpably fictitious, that we all burst out laughing; and up on being pressed again by some of us, including old Douglas, he positively refused and intimated his intention of going on board at once. We could see that some thing had occurred to irritate him, but'for the life of us none of us could guess. Before leaving the room, however, Douglas called him to one side, and asked him the cause of his going away so early. He replied that he was uneasy in his mind; that a depression of spir its such as he had never felt before had come over him within the last half hour, but for which he could not account ; and asked Douglas kindly not to detain him, as he wanted to go on board to see that everything was all right ; and if he felt better, they might expect to see him in the course of an hour or so. And in an hour's time he did return, not to join our party, but to horrify as with the details of what had occurred on board the Wild Dayrell. Dr. Anderson, whbo was one of our party, went on board immediately, to atten'd to you; and Capt. Wilkes and two or three of us proceeded to the police station to report the, matter. The police took the matter .up vigorous ly ; and thanks to a large reward offered by the owners, one of the gang turned Queen's evidence; and in the course of three or four days the whole gang was safely lodged in the Victoria jail. They were brought up before the mag istrate, and remanded until you are able to appear against them.' "But I asked: 'What time did Capt. Wilkes arrive o n board the Wild Dayrell ? It was some time after ten o'clock-oi that I am sure.' "'Yes,' ho replied : 'I believe it was just half past ten when he pulled alongside, for five bells,w ere struck from all the other ships lying alongside of himjbut not from his Own, which at the time he no ticed as very singular. As he ap proached the ship he saw two boats coming from the direction of ber, but at tbo time he took no notice of them; but there is no doubt, he thinks. that these very boats contained the gang.' "'But did they succeed in ob taining any of the treasure?' I again asked. "'No; not a cent of it, thanks to Chubb. They had tried to pick the lock and found that they could not succeed in that, they tried gunpowder, but with the 3ame result. The two English 3eamen were found tied in heir banks, and quite drunk. They acknowledged that the stew a.rd had given them three bot tIes of brandy early-, in the eve aing as a present; and they made yood use of it, for they were half drunk the next morning. The est of the crew were too much ifraid of their own necks to offer iny resistance or give the alarm. rhe Wild Dayrell sailed a couple )f days afterwards,but with a fresh re w.' And so ended Charloy's ac oun t. "About a a week after this con 7ersation," continued the narrator, 'I appeared at the police court, nd swore to every one of the Yang, eight in number. They ere sent for trial at the High Jourt, and were all found guilty )f mutiny and conspiracy; and sen enced, four of them to penal sur itude for life, two for fourteen ears, and the remaining two for seven years each. "Amongst my lettersfrom home Lwas nt lont in noticigm' one n the handwriting of my mother; 'his,singular though it may appear, [ kept until the last, and toyed and played with it for a minute or two before I opened it. In that etter, gentlemen, occurs the fol owing passage, 'What w e r e you doing, dear John, on the night af the 8th of March at about ten 'clock, from that to half-past ? I will tell you my reason for asking. I had been very poorly during the whole of the day; so much so, that, after a eup of tea, about six o'clock, I retired for the night. I ell asleep very soon, but it was a isturbed sleep, and I awoke two or three times. At about eight o'clock Jane brought me a cup of Docoa, and very soon afterwards [ again fell asleep, and did not wake until about half-past ten, when 1 awoke with a fright. I dreamed that I had seen you walk ing along some strange street; nd following you were three or our Chinamen. All at once they rushed towards you, at which you ran but they ran faster than yon did, and were rapidly gaining on you when you at once made for the river, which was some hun dred yards distant. Y onu had gone about half-way when you slipped and fell down ; immedi ately the Chinamen were upon you, and one I saw with a long knife ready to- strike you; but with tbat I awoke with a scream.' "Now, gentlemen, I wish to draw your attention to the fact that the 8th of March, as mentioned in my mother's letter, was the same day that the Wild Dayrell affair happened, and also that the time from ten o'clock to half-past was thbe exact time that we were placed in the most imminent peril by the smashing in of thbe door-panel. You can call it whbat you like-asingular coincidence, or anything else you please ;. but the fact remains that, while on the very day and hour I was placed in great danger of my life, my mother, fourteen thousan d miles away, in dear old England, had a dream in which I figured conspicuously; and although the the incidents of the dream did not exactly tally with the actual facts of the case, yet they were so near the truth, that 1 think you will bear me out gentlemen when I state that it was a most extra ordinary and remarkable dream." ([English Magazine. Sir Daniel Gooch, manager ofI the Great Wostern railway, hopes to be able to run trains at the rate of aeventy miles an hour soon. 010sagllantaus.II FION. 3ONTGOME,Y BLAIR'S LETTER 0 N T II E PRESI DENCY. WASMrNGTON, March 18, 1876. DEAR Sm: I have your letter re :resting for publication the views expressed by me in a recent conver ation with respect to the pending Presidential contest. The sum of them was that we ought to contin ae the contest as we began in 1872, when we agreed to forego all other issues save that of reform in the xdministration of the Government. The adversary then struggled and still strives, with the help of the Hon. Ben. Hill, to keep alive the issues of the war for the purpose of prolonging abuses which, however great, go unchecked while sectional strife holds the public mind. We did not carry the elections in 1872, because we were not fully success Eul in making the issue of reform. But we made such a beginning that bhe victory of our adversaries has pro.ved a barren one. We so far succeeded that a show of investiga bion had to be made. The Credit Nobilier fraud, which, though well known before to all public men, 0ould not command public atten bion, now absorbs it. Spoliation as checked. Jay Cooke & Co., who had largely advanced the mo ey to carry the elections, could not be reimbursed by Congressional 'ndorsement of the Northern Pa 3ific Railroad bonds, and therefore ailed. The so-called investigating s,ommittees, organized not to con vict, were experts in finding out aow not to do it, and the Depart amats. heled them assiduously; buAthe Indaependen 3:ress m a work so effectually that a large Democratic majority was returned Lo the -present House of Represent tives. Unfortunately this tide >f success, which assured the re ormers of the Government, this year has been arrested and turned back by the intrusion into the can vass, last fall, of another issue, of which the Radioals have eagerly mad successfully availed themselves. .nd their effort is to hold on b that issue, and make the Pres idential election turn on the ques bion of resumption, upon which bhey have won, instead of upon bhe question of reform, u p o n which they have lost the day. [f they succeed in this, the result will invariably be unfortunate for 1s. Our friends having been beaten an this issue, last fall, in the States where anti-nesumption was strong est, our vote in New York, even (without which success for us'would be hopeless,) having been largely ffected by the attitude of our friends in those States, no rational mind can fail to see that such an issue would defeat us. It is plain, from this brief state ment of the situation, that our suc cess depends upon our ability to re instate the issue of reform as the issue of the canvass; and it is equal ly plain that this is not to be done by resolution, but by such action as will not only proclaim it, but will of itself verify it as the issue to all The nomination of Tilden will, of itself, force this issue, and make the election turn upon it. The friends of other candidates object to the jiomination of a citizen of New York and claim.the nomina tion for the West. But Jackson was not selected because he was a citizen of Tennessee,- or Jefferson because he was a citizen of Virgin ia, or Grant because he was for a short time in Illinois. Selection on such ground has no political signifi cance, and - ignores altogether the only consideration upon which a candidate ought to be selected, viz., as the representative of the idea sought to be advanced. My pre ference~ for Tilden is only because his nomination would of itself force on the issue of reform, which is our sure card in the pending canvass I do not doubt that the other gen tlemen spoken of would prove vigo rous reformers, and I have no per sonal preference for Tilden over any one of them; but neither of them is so identified with "reform" in the public mind as Tilden.' They have either not had the opportuni ty o hae not availed themselves of it, to manifest the resolute pur pose he has shown to purge the State of frand and jobbing. They have not joined hands with political dversaries to overthrow and ar raign and convict as criminals the master spirits of their own party whilst they seemed to be impregna bly intrenched in the control of its rganization, and have not by such onduct been lifted into power by Lhe support of large bodies of politi al opponents, even against- a re publican whose integrity was not questioned, but who had not mani fested the same zeal in the cause of reform. Nor have they, after reach ing power,-so signalized their ad ministration by unsparing war on jobbery. By this course Tilden has made himself, more than any other man of our day, the representative man of the idea to which the Democratic party so emphatically pledged itself in 1872, an 1 his nomination would. be accepted, not only by the Liberal Republicans, who then acted with us, but by thousands who then held back, as a sure guarantee that the pledge would be faithfully redeem ed ; and - his war record and his financial views would effectually prevent diversion by false issues. The active enmity which Tilden has provoked, in his own party, serves only to attest his fitness for the occasion. No man ever drove more men out of the Democratic party than Jackson ; but no man ever recruited it so rapidly from the true men in the ranks of his oppo nents at the same time. And this vitalizing process must be renewed. The curse of the Democratic party has been its Tweeds. The strength of its opponents, who use the Gov is derived from vast expenditure, by corrupting the people- in one form or another with their own money, and by misleading them with false issues. But Old Bullion never said anything more true than that "The democratic party, to be strong, must be clean." Tilden is the type Qf the men who were honored by the party in the days of its strength; and his nomination being a sure bond for~ a return to their policy, will in sure its return to power. Yours truly, MONTGOMERY BTATR. Samu M. Saw, Editor Free man's Jour., Cooperstown, N. Y. EDITRS SHOULD BE PaAYnn Foa -From a discourse by the Rev. Dr. Pritchard, of Raleigh, Nor th Carolina,we take the following ex tract, as something of no little in terest to the~fraternity: Who prays for editors ? They are just as necessary, just as use ful, just as indispensible as any class of men in all our society; and who, I ask again, ever thinks of praying for them? We all know the power of the press,-the great book of civil and religious liberty; yet few, if any, remem ber in their prayers the editors, who stand, like the ministers, on the public watch towers, to warn, to reprove, to commend and to condemn-the mighty conserva tors of the nation's liberties and morals. Many people are ever ready to abuse them, but how few ever raise a petition to Heaven for them. Brethren they need our prayers. They labor day and night for the publ'ic enlightenment, the public good ; arnd the Chris tians of our community and the whole land should esteem it a duty and a privilege to pray for them. Reading, Pa., is a bad place for tramps. An old maid of that place recently married one who applied for aid. Thirty-two sales of shorthorns took place in Kentucky last year, in wvhich 1,553 animals were sold for $665,946. Time is incalculably long, and every day is a vessel into which much may be poured, if one only wishes to fill it up. All the employees of the Con cord. (N. H.) railroad have been compelled to sign the temperance plde. ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 .00 per square-one inch-for first insertion, and 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Double :olumn advertisements ten per cent on abe ve. Notices of' meetings, obituaries and tr1bi-* 2 )f respect, same rates per square as ordinary tdvertisements. Special notices-in local column 15 cent s 3erline, Advertisements not-marked with- the numn - )er of insertions will be, kepr In till forbid ind charged accordingly. Special contracts. mae with- large adver isers, with 1[beral deductiobs on above rates Done with Neatness and Dispatch Terms Cash. C~HE WRECK OF A STERN ENDEAVOR. Two old prospectors- Chloride Foe and Bedrock Bill-cabin to ,ether in the northern part of his city, says the Virginia ( ev.) Mronicle. They have no womaa bout their establishment. They lo their own cookiog, wsi mnd mending. They spend mnosi. of their time in the mountains,look ng for veins of silver and gold. Nhen the weather is good they Lre off amoug the * hills. In bad veather they remain in doors and 6ttend to household affairs. Chloride tells how old Bedrock )ayePqu-*te an amusing joke oi, . iimself the other day. He had wo pair., of pantaloons made of he same material. Both were a - rood deal dilapidated,' but 8ed ock, after viewing the situation, hought that cut of the* two he night make one pair of tolerably erviceable pan taloons. His plaln v'as to cut-the legs off one pair