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"TheTBeaufort Republican. ' 5 AN INDEPENDENT fAMILT NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT . ' ~ ( $2.00 FEB ABHUM. r+ . ? ? . _ . _ . \ Singlo Copy, 6 Cttt* ? VOL. III. NO. 31. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1873. Together. "Within a garden shade. A garden sweet and dim, Two happy children played ? Together; he was made , For God, and she for him. Beyond the garden's shade, In deserts drear and dim, Two outcast children strayed Together, he betrayed By her, and she by him. Together, girl and boy, They waudered, ne'er apart; Each wrought to each annoy, Yet each kuew never joy Save in the other's heart. By her so oft deceived, By him so sore oppressed. Thjy each the other grieved; Yet each of each was best Beloved, and still caressed. And she was in his sight Pound fairest, s'ill his prize, His constant chief delight; Sl?e raised to him her eye* That led her not aright. w And ever by his side A patient huntress ran Through fores',* dark and wide, And still til* woman's pride And glory was the Man. Whvjn her he would despise, She kept him captive bound; Forbidding her to rise, By many cords and ties, She held him to the ground. At length, in stature grown, He stands erect and free; Yet stands he not alone, For his beloved would bo Like him she loveth wise, like him she loveth free. So wins she her desire, Yet stand they not apart; For as the dof.u aspire He growa, nor stands she higher Than her Beloved's heart. % A lfAUIfcLUirS S1UK1. I am an old bachelor. At sixty-five I can say I shall never be anything else ; * but, like all other men?all I have ever met, at least?I have loved, and once hoped to be happy with my chosen bride. That passion, and those hopes, faded forty years ago. Since then I have done fenance for the hasty act of one night. have shunp.ed the society of women, and forbade myself the shadow of a hope that I might patch my shattered joys with new ones. ' To none who know me liavo I ever told the tale. I should have been esteemed a liar, or a mndman, and no one would willingly accept such a reputation. To you, unknown reader, I dare recite the events of those four and twenty hours?events which turned my life into its now well-worn channel, and made me the lonely, hopeless man I am. At the age of twenty-four I was clerk in the establishment of Messrs. Carp & Cavil, lawyers. I had energy and amliifinn lipnlth nrwl nnnorfnnifv?AVPrv. thing, in fact, that could be wished for by a man who hoped to fight his way up in the world and win wealth and reputation. I was engaged to a young lady by the name of Grace Hunter, a pretty, delicate creature, so quiet that her pet name, Snowfluke, seemed to be the only one suitable for her. Her step was noiseless, her movements soft, her voice sweet and low. She never herself eu* tertained a large company by her conversation, nor did any of those things that give a woman a reputation for brilliancy ; but her mental powers were very fine, and in a tete-a-tete she was enchanting. A lady to the heart's core, in my eyes, at least, a perfect beauty, she might vet have been forgotten by most men in a room full of giggling, chatting girls. I adored her. I had felt that herlove was a jewel worthy of an emperor's wearing, and I scarcely dared to utter the words that told her all I felt. Even now her high bred reserve kept me at a distance. I was proud of her. I felt unworthy of her. She was at once the saint whom I revered, and the being whom it was to bo my delight to cherish and protect until death should part us. Six months had passed since she had promised to be mine. At the end of six more she was to give me her hand. I had a small salary, but my grandmother had left me a legacy winch would enable me to go to housekeeping in plain but comfortable style, and Grace was willing to fight life's battles by my side. Life seemed bright and joyous to me on that night of midwinter, forty years ago, when I walked through the city streets with Grace upon my arm, and looking down at her in her white wrap pings, with gleams of frostv starlight touching her black hair, wondered it the angels were fairer than she was. We were going to spend the evening at a mutual friend's residence. There was to be music and dancing and cards, and a sociable supper. I went because Grace desired to go. Her sole society at her own home was more delightful to me thanjany other company ; but I was young and light of heart, and when I had once entered the lighted parlors I did not sit silent in the corner. I talked ; I sang ; I turned the music for musical ladies; I walked through the Lancers. At last I found myself flirting with one of the female guests. There are women a mau is obliged to flirt with. He does not admire them, respect them, or love them one whit; he does not even desire their society ; but he must be more than man ere he can refuse to respond to their advances. One of these women I know now, having played the looker-on for so many years, can make any man appear to other women desperately in love with her, while he almost detests her. A woman of that kind was among the company. She had hands that delighted in soft touches of hands masculine; eyes that could cast glances bright and entrancing. She possessed attraction rather than beauty. What she said was nothing; her conversation had no interest, but I kaew that I seemed absorbed by her? that I really was absorbed ; in two-words, that I flirted abominably with her. Grace, meanwhile, sat apart from me. She talked to others in her low sweet tones. Once she sang a pretty love song. Quite calm and self-possessed^ with no appearance of noticing my conduct, the thought that it troubled her never occurred to me. So that when the evening was over, and we had left the house together, I was astonished beyond measure to see an offending look upon her face, and to hear an offended tone in her voice. I offered her my arm. She rejected it, replying that the ground was damp, and that her hands were occupied with her dress, but, I knew this was merely an excuse ; and feeling myself in the wrong, and having swallowed more wine than I should at the supper table, I grew very angry. "May I ask what I have done? " I said. "You know," said Grace. "i know!" I repeated. "Nay, I know nothing of womnn's fancies. You must explain." " I scarcely think it -worth while," said she. "If you do not know that you have done wrong to-night, I really should not care. You have neglected me, and devoted yourself to that vulgar woman. I heard a lady near me say that you seemed to be tired of your bargain. She thought that you were in love with that creature. So did other people. Under the circumstances, I have a right to feel offended, insulted." Perhaps she thought I would deny her charge. Perhaps she expected me to plead for pardon. God knows what possessed me. I answered only: " May I not talk to a pretty woman because I hope to marry you some day ?" " You were flirtting?almost making love to her," she replied. "She is the sort of woman with whom men fall in love," I said; "irresistible in her manner, I've heard she makes conquests everywhere; I don't doubt it." Grace looked at me with a stern face ?white in the starlight as a marble statue. " Other women are always jealous ol such women," I added. " I am not jealous of her," she said. "I would not be like her for a kingdom. She is a terrible woman. But since you admire her so you are free to tell her so after vou have seen me to my I door." I n i99 r j "" urace ! 1 sum. " Miss Hunter, if you please, Mr. Rutherford," said she." "We have both made a little mistake easily rectified ; that is all." I felt, as I stood looking at her, that the effect of the wine I had drank upon me was stronger thai) I had thnyght.but I gave no heed to the warning of my giddy head and rapid pulse. " Just as you please," I said. " I should think that a jealous woman would curse any man's life. " I'll go now. I won't trouble you longer. Goodbye." We were not at the door of her home ?we were about half a block from it; but I turned on my heel then and there, and left her. I staggered a little as I walked, and I was hot and angry. I made my way home, and without undressing fell upon my bed and dropped asleep. In two hours I awakened sober. I sat up and looked about me. The scenes of the evening recurred to me vividly. 1 I saw how blameworthy I had been, aiid I a terrible grief oppressed me. I put i mv head down uuon mv hands and burst into bitter tears. I had lost her, i and with her all that made life precious. Then hope dawned upon mj soul. I ' would write to her; tell her how, unURed to liquor as I was, the wine had i affected me. I would tell her that to ; my sober self there was no charm in the woman who had seemed to enchant me the evening before. I would draw the I comparison I felt so keenly between her pure self and that of the bold-eyed flirt. ; I would pray for forgiveness and she | would forgive me. Springing to my feet I rushed to my desk. I drew from it pen and paper, j I wrote a letter overflowing with remorse I and tenderness. I read it and re-read | it. Then, leaving it upon the spot i where it was written, I stood at the window wniting for the tardy dawn, very jealous of the slow hours that kept my missive from my darling. I had put out my candle when I left i my desk, and the room should have been dark ; but as I turned my head, after a long and anxious reverie, I saw it was full of a pale radiance like that of a moonlight. It startled me. Whence did the light come ? Had a miracle occurred?had the moon risen again ? Suddenly, amid the silvery light appeared a still whiter radiance. It slowly took form. A female figure, in white garments so bright that they dazzled the eyes, stood bending over my letter. I remained motionless?to speak or , stir was not in my power?and gazed on the strange object with terrified intensity. The figure seemed to turn the pages ol my leuer wun us transparent linnd. I heard a gentle sigh ; then the head turned toward me, and I saw a face I knew?the face that seemed the loveliest of all on earth to me, endowed with a mysterious divine beauty for 1 which no man could find words?the glorified face of sweet Grace Hunter. At the sight I burst the bonds which held me?bonds as tangible as though I j could have seen them?and rushed for: ward. I strove to clasp my love, or her shadow, in my arms. A shock such as one might experience from an electrical ' machine flashed through me, and I fell powerless to the floor. When I recovered, the day had dawned, and under the blue looming sky the city had awakened ; but my day j never dawned again. My heart never awoke to life's sweetness. To end the story in a very few words. Grace Huuter never reached her home that night, and never was heard of again. The family imagined that she had remained with her friends, and were ho! anxious about her. I had left her within the sight of her own door, and why she did not reach it I shall never know. But I do know that in some woeful manner she died that night, and ; that her parting spirit paused in its 1 flight to bid me a long farewell. { I have outlived my youth, and the suspicion that fell upon me and embittered many years of my existence ; but I shall never outlive my love for , Grace Hunter, or my remorse for that Q night's woeful work. I shall never outlive the knowledge that in the madness ? caused by wine and an evil woman's enchantment, I was the cause of my dar? t] ling's death. j == i] An Odd Wooing. c The Milly Sisters are the mulatto girls ? who are grown together, like the Si amese Twins, and whom nature has endowed with fair voices and a very fine musical ear. After being exhibited in this coun- . try, they have been starring it in Germany, and they are now in Berlin. They have there found an admirer, a Russian Baron Nerger, a man of con siderable wealth, who has, by an in- ^ sane freak, fallen in love with one of . them. J The Milly Sisters stop at the Hotel de Rome, the most fashionable caravansery ^ in Berlin ; but live in the strictest re- . tiremeut. They never go out in the daytime, and the^ receive absolutely no visitors except tneir agent, rreaericn * Hunt, of Cincinnati. Consequently, when the oddly enamored Baron von Nerger sent his card up to the two sis- f ters with an urgent request to be per- t mitted to make their acquaintance, he r was politely informed that that was im possible. He next sent a handsome _ diamend ring to the one whom he was * enamored of, describing her in an ac companying note accurately enough for the two sisters to know which of them the present was destined for. But they c sent the ring back, too, and an effort ? of the Baron to obtain an introduction j , to the object of his passion behind the v scenes at the Victoria Theatre, where ?. the Milly Sisters are singing, proved ? equally unsuccessful. The baron ascertained that the sisters j were anxious to appear during the im, pending universal Exposition at Vien- ^ , na ; and that they had found it difficult to obtain an engagement there. He a , wrote to the manage^ of the Leopold j, i Stadt Theatre in Vienna, and offered to ^ pay their compensation out of his own r > pocket. The manager did not hesitate to accept so tempting an offer. He sent j: Baron von Nerger at ofice a formal con tract for a two-months' engagement. t i The baron communicated this to the , agent of the Milly Sisters, and on the following day he was introduced to them, and the contract with the Vienna manager was signed. Since that time the two sisters have appeared every day t in the baron's sumptuous carriage in ^ the Thiergarten Park. The crnzy fellow has repeatedly declared in public that he will marry the object of his admiration. Struck by a Whale. c When the New York apprentice ship H was in the Gulf Stream on its way j home from a voyage, a singular circum- v stance occurred to the vessel. The , Dosition of the ship at the time was latitude 36 degrees 10 minutes north, c longitude 74 degrees 17 minutes west, j heading north, with a fresh breeze from , the east north-east. About 10J o'clock y a. m several large whales, of the species { known as finbacks, were observed pass- y ing toward the south-west, appearing E above the water to blow at regular T intervals. A few minutes later, while r several persons, including the captain, were on the poop observing them, a severe shock was felt, as though the ship had struck bottom, and immediately an enormous whale passed the t port-quarter, the water about him being 8 red with his blood, and showing by his ^ furious movements that he had been injured. The shock was felt by all on c board, and so distinctly that the ship c was hove to to ascertain if any injury p had been done. It was then discovered f that our cut-water had struck the whale, { carrying away the false stem from the . water line to the depth of about twelve ( feet, and stripping the copper from y each side for some distance. The copper bolts, about an inch in diameter, e which secured the false stem to the ves- y sel were bent double, and showed plain- c ly how violent must have been tlje con, tact. Whales are in general very shy, y and the circumstance can only be ac- l counted for on the supposition that the ? , animal was moving but slowly, and that 11 the ripples and constant agitation 01 ; the water usual on the Gulf Stream prevented it hearing our approach. The animal that caused this damage was at | least fifty feet in length, with a proportionate girth, and when he threw up his flukes as he sunk below they appearto measure at least twenty-five or thirty feet across. To judge from the writhing of the animal, he must have been severely injured, but if the force with which the ship struck him can be judged from the damage she sustained, , lie must have subsequently died. The ship was going at the rate of nine knots an hour, and the force with which she struck the monster must have been fatal to him. Libel Law in Pennsylvania. 1 The Philadelphia Telegram says, a t i writer or publisher in Pennsylvania who ( , undertakes to discuss the doings of 1 public officials is entirely at the mercy * , of any judge who may happen to be on 1 the bench, and any twelve men who 1 i may happen to be put into the jury-box, * in case exception is taken to his utter- 1 ances by the person or persons criti- * ' cized. Unfort unately judges are some- f times venal, and are oftcner prejudiced, I while, especially in cases in which 8 i prominent politicians are interested, 8 the jury-box is frequently packed with ( i men who go into it with their minds c already made up with regard to the ver- | [ diet to be rendered. The present status ; of the law of libel is, therefore, most I unjust and most injurious to the public 1 interests. No matter how outrageous may be the conduct of a man in public } station, the newspapers cannot de- 1 s uounce him without risking a libel suit; i and that justice does not always rule in 1 . the issue of audi suits is a fact too well f ; known to need demonstration. In the * matter of libel, journalists do not ask 4 [ for any other privileges than are granted ' to other citizens, but they do ask that s it shall be allowable to prove, as a jus1 tiflcation, the truths of an alleged libel, t i and that it was published from proper 3 motives and in the public interests, and 1 not from private spite. 1 Pile Driving by Gunpowder. A recent number of the Liverpool ourier gives the following description I an experinaent at driving piles by i unpowder: The pile is placed, aa in an ordinary lachine. between the guides in which he monkey, or "tup, moves. Workag between the same guides, and restag on the top of the pile, is a cast-iron ap of a ton weight, the upper part of rhich has a cylindrical hole of seven aches diameter, bored to the depth of bout two feet. This cap, or cannon, eats on and follows down the pile with ach stroke of the monkey, which is of ,800 pounds weight, and works in the ame guides as the cannon. This lonkey is of cast-iron, with a stem of wo feet in length made of wronghtron, with a steel expansion ring at its termination, and this stem enters easily 0 the extreme depth of the bore of the annon below it, when the monkey is llowed to descend. Into the cannon tore is thrown a cartridge of compressed lasting powder, one to two ounces reight, which is coated with tinfoil or (lumbago, so that it will only explode mderhigh heat, the greatest success eeming to be attainable by the slowest iowder. The monkey being raised to ts place about ten to fifteen feet above ho top of the pile, or, rather, the canion resting on it, an operator throws nto the cannon bore a cartride, and the arty at the base pressing on the brake llowe the monkey to fall with its stem nto the cannon's mouth, when, by the udden compression of the air in it, nough heat is generated to explode the artridce. the effect of which is, first, to orce down the pile by a pressure simiar to that of a hydraulic machine, and nth a power enhanced from ten to welve times greater than the impact orce duo to the weight and fall of the aonkey alone when no cartridge is used. addition to which the monkey itself ,t the same moment is thrown up above he cannon from ten to thirty feet, acording to weight of cartxidge, and is .utomatically caught by the brake at ts highest point, and remains there teld until another pressure of the brake erases it for the next blow. Thus the ?owder is made to do a double duty in orcing the pile down while the menkey s forced up to the requisite point for he next blow. The advantages obtainid are: First?Rapidity of work and perfect ondition in which the pile is left, as, .lthough it is forced down with so great lespateh, yet no rings are ever used on he head of the pile, as it is never in he slightest degree split or shattered, hue utilizing the entire pile, and only n extremely stony ground is it necesary even to shoe it, while in soft ground the pile drives well even when :ut square off at the end. - , Second?The cheapness by whicn uch machines can be made to do the luty assigned to them will be apparent vhen we state that each cartridgo will lot average a cost of over a halfpenny. In the experiment of yesterday it is inly just to state the first four and a lalf feet of ground into which the piles vere driven was composed of bricklats. stones, cinders, <fcc., with about iighteen inches of original soil followng it, while the substrata above the red landstone was seven feet of marly clay, vith boulders?an exceedingly resistant Material to penetrate. Newspaper Postage. The misunderstanding relative to the iction of the last session of Congress is regards newspaper postage is general. Che old law read as follows : Sec. 159. That on newspapers and >ther periodicals sent from a known >ffice of publication to regular subscribers, the postage shall be paid beore delivery, for not less than one luarter, uor more than one year ; which jayment may be made either at the iffice of mailing or delivery, commencug at any time. The amendment to the old law finally iettled upon by Congress was attached o an appropriation bill approved March t, 1873, and was as follows : Provided, That all laws and parts of aws permitting the transmission by nail of any free matter whatever be md the same hereby are repealed from ind after June 30, 1873. By this amendment newspapers were !ut off from the privilege of sending papers free in the county, and all exjlianges between newspaper offices must jay postage. It is still left optional with newspapers or their subscribers to prepay lie postage. One or the other must prepay it, either quarterly or yearly in idvance, at the old rates?five cents per jnarter for weekly papers. It is Lot pbligatory upon publishers of papers o prepay the postage under the law vhich goes into effect June 30th any noro than it is now. The Peach Crop. Some time ago house-keepers were cd to believe that the peach trees in he different States had been so seri msly affected by the frost that the peach crop would not be large enough o furnish them with anything like a lecent supply this season. Subsequenty a well-known tree culturist announced hat most of the States would have no rop at all. A third story now comes, ,o the effect that " the peacn-growere ind traders of the Delaware and Chesapeake Peninsula have held a meeting, tnd have arrived at the conclusion that mother market than New York must be ound." The immediate cause of this letermiuation has, it appears, to be atributed to the fact that last year "the STew York market was so glutted with peaches that growers and traders be:ame convinced that it would be unsafe o trust it any longer." Philadelphia, Baltimore. Boston, and other cities, are n future to be the points of destination or the peach product of Delaware. It vill be observed that nothing further is mid on the subject of "short crop," so hat, all things considered, we think ,hat the house-keepers have no cause or alarm on this point. The trial of Mrs. Anna Adair, for the dleged poisoning of her husband, in [moraine, 111., last January, resulted in ler acquittal, it being clearly proven hat Mr. Adair co&mitted suicide. Hon Dirorce Evidence is Obtained. A young man sometimes fond of a " lark," but generally speaking honest, and otherwise respectable, had amused himself a little too freely of late, and found himself in th6 bar-room of a wellknown Cincinnati hotel rather late, and rather tipsy. Here he Was accosted by " a dark-complexioned man With piercing eyes," who asked him if his name was not G . That being, in fact, his name, he assented, and the stranger proceeded to say that he had heard oi him, and thought he could put him in the way of making some money. To this usually agreeableproposition Mr. G lent a not unwilling ear, and invited further disclosures. The dark man thereupon, plunging in mediae rce, announced that he had a divorce case on hand in Aurora, Ind., and that he wanted some testimony. " Now, you," proceeding, with delicate appreciation, " are just the man to give it." To this G artlessly objected that he had never been in Aurora?or, indeed, ic the State of Indiana?in all his life : and that he neither knew, nor had evei heard of, either of the parties to the divorce case. To this the lawyer, whe called himself Shaeffer, made sweet re spouse that these facts were rather ol advanage than otherwise to the purpose in view. He then began to look meditatively al a new ten-dollar bill, which, soon after found its way into Mr. G 's waist coast pocket. " The fact is," Shaeffei presently said, with an outburst of af fectionate candor, " we've got the whole 11 ' V*" ati/3 V?t tiling written uuu hoi oj ?uuu <uv brought forth a long document writtei on law cap?"and all you've got to d< is to fill in this blank with your name or any name you like, with your age and then sign your name at the bottom That's all. You'll have to go dowi with me to Aurora day after to-morrow and?just as a matter of form, yoi know?go before a notary there, b< sworn, and fill out the paper." At thii Mr. G mildly demurred. H< thought there might be some risk abou the business. Perjury was no joke and ten dollars . "Just so," sai( Mr. Shaeffer ; " but then you'll get tei more at the depot before we start, am ten more as soon as you sign the paper Besides," he added, by way of a clinch er, "you can drink nil you please whili you're there, and we'll pay all expenses." This adroit shot soon brought abou capitulation. At least Mr. Shaeffe thought it did, which was principally to the purpose. For the bibulous, bu Eliant G thereupon agreed to mee is tempter as arranged, to take trail on the Ohio and Mistissippi Radiou two days after at 6 o'clock, and to star for Aurora. Thus, rubbing his hand with satisfaction, as over a good dee< worthily accomplished, Mr. Shaeffer re tired. But "the best laid plans o' mice am men gang aft aglee." The fertile mini of Mr. G? hit oh a variation from th contemplated scheme, which he forth with carried into effect. This was notli ing less than to take the affidavit?whicl proved to be one of the most scoundrel iy exercises in lying aver put togetlie by an unscrupulous attorney?straigh to the office of the Cincinnati nnqutrct in the columns of which sheet it appeal ed in full on the day appointed for th meeting with Shaeffer. The astonish ment of that gentleman over this nea turn given to the situation may be easil imagined; but whether his surprise wo increased, as it ought to have been, b finding himself locked up to answer charge of subornation of perjury, w have been unable to ascertain. Ther can be little doubt that the infamou kind of work, of whicli this is so pr? cious a sample, has been practiced i Indiana to a shameful extent of late and we shall be glad to be able to r< cord some instances of sharp and whole some punishment. Wouldn't Marry for Life. Albert Knight, a graduate of the Noi mal School of Albany, N. Y., was t have been married to one of Malta' (Saratoga county) fairest daughter! and witliul a woman of some pecuniar means, as well as of unblemished repi tntion. The guests were all assembled The would-be bride and bridegrooi were decked in their gayest attire fc the occasion, and the Rev. M. Webste of Jonesville, jnst arrived to put on th finishing touch to the nuptial knol when Mr. Knight wished a private ir terview with tlio minister. The intei view being granted, ho refused to b married unless Mr. Webster would leav off the part of the ceremouy where i rends, "as long as you doth live. For, says Mr. Knight, the laws of th State grant a divorce for certain reasons and I do not know as I can live wit her all my life, aud I do not want t take vows upon myself that I might nr be able to fulfill. Mr. Webster rcplie that he was not there as a lawyer. H had come only in an ecclesinstical wai and if ho wished to be married he woui marry him according to the rules of th church. Whereupon Mr. Knight cntei ed into a logical discussion of the sul ject, until the divine, becoming dif gusted, sought the woman's mother an informed her that Knight did not wis to marry her daughter, and left fc home. The tired guests then sat dow | to what was to have been the bridi feast, which had been kept waitiu r1nrinc the lone discussion. I A Boston Gibl's Devotion. ? Th following passage occurred in Ml Bartol's Fast Day sermon at Boston " ' I shall die of consumption,' said beautiful daughter, ' in two years if htay in this climate.' 'Does your fathf know it ?' 'I would not have hii know it for the world, for it is for hi sake I do it, as he needs me in his ol age.' That was a fast from life itse worthy of the name?the self-denii t and joyful sacrifice that God loves. TL1 daughter died as she said. She onr sat in yonder seat. The old man ou lived her a score of years, and has i last just gone, scattering charities b< hind, showing that the unpretendin James Savage was a good man." The Bidwells and Macdonnel, no under arrest in New York city, are no positively deolared to be theperpetmtoi of the Bank of England forgeries. Incidents of the Atlantic. Daring the voyage of the Atlantic Sout there had been but twelve of us at the lators. Cuptain's table. The Captain sat at the Mast head of the table, and the purser at retired the foot. The twelve were Miss ^ y Scrymser, Miss Barker, Miss Brodie, an(j'an Mr. Sumner, Mr. Kruger, Mr. Merritt, Mrs. Merritt, Mr. Price, Mr. Camacho, , Bug? i and myself. Miss Merritt had been ducetl i sick during the voyage, and had remain- A m ed in her stateroom. On Monday she way fr< was better, and had came out to dine wives, with us, making thirteen in all. Mr. j)ani Price said, in a half-jocular, half-serious 2 065 ; way, 111 won't sit at this table ; there ? is thirteen at it." A lady replied, smiling, " We don't want you here." Mr. Q I? Price moved to another table. Of the , i thirteen at the Captain's table, Capt. cue9 rc Williams, Mr. Brandt, and Mr. Camacho The survive, and thirteen is the number of been f< , saloon passengers saved. 1*?^ P< i Themostinterestingcouplein the cab- The 1 in were Mr. and Mrs. Sheat, of Nevade. ain las i Th?y wore jewelry to the value of about for eat ; $30,000. Mr. Sheat talked of nothing less than millions, and poor, lamented ian(j8 ! Kruger of Exchange plnce, New York, are dy ) used to joke with Mr. Sheat by talking m, millions back. Mr. and Mrs. Sheat and ., i? F their $30,000 worth of diamonds are J, ??yj s floating around in the cabin yet. Miss Davidson, whose mother, oppressed by A y t some strnnge ioreboding, hud sewed in quires , her daughter's dress directions what to *or h?: - do in case of her own death, was a hap- Two r py school-girl, who said she loved the likely ocean, and seemed to consider the offenn i boundless waste of sea a relief from the The * pent-up boundaries of a ladies' board- 0pinee ) ing-house. She said she was going to exemp ) California, after stopping a few days^n ? j , New York. On Sunday, her body lay - fi , beside that of her mother on the rocks A , f1 . at Meagher's Island. * ) Capt. Williams calmly told a reporter , that he felt he was ruined for life, and . A i he expected that his certificate would indict i be revoked, but before God and in his judgei 3 own conscience he felt that he had done "iau 4 J nothing unworthy of a seaman. "But A j t I will notblame them," he added, "if blown , they take away my license. Tho loss have 1 of life has been so terrible that an ex- his sw 1 ample must be made. People 6eem to gch 1 think that I had goge to bed. I had once , . lain down in the wheel-house, where I their j - could touch the man at the wheel, and their i s was within hailing of the man at the " bridge. I had given orders to be aroused " t at three, but was not aroused until the v r vessel struck on the rocks. It seems to just si f me like a terrible nightmare," he added, t " from which I would fain awake." father t Tho first 164 steerage passengers did A v 3 not average more than $0 to each, when who < 1 rescued from the plunderers and search- been t ed under the eye of the magistrate, and of tho s from the 31 steerage passengers fished divide 3 up by the divers on Sunday, more than The 1- the whole amount taken from the 164 deton who obtained. This makes it evident Jay G 3 the bodies washed ashore and picked the bi i up the day alter tue wreca muss nave to tlie e been most ruthlessly plundered. The , i- fishermen are not alone to blame. Ras- orQ ' i- cals belonging to the crew of the Atlan- jjjnn h tic helped. It was a bad crew, "as 1- good" said Capt. Williams, "as crews jjeen r are nowadays." J it _: , ,Th< tnct A California Zephyr. 000, h e Joseph Johnson, for a long time a i- school teacher in Sacramento, Califor- tt it nia, now liveB on a large ranch in Sur- enn8' y prise Valley, in Siskivou county, near A d e Englesville. On the night of Jan. 6 since y last, he, with his wife, was sitting by a partnc a roaring stove in the lower room to their two ri e story and a half house, and listening Nine e with serenity to the storm that was seven is roaring along the valley on the outside. An i- Two boys, brothers of Mrs. Johnson, tainet n were snugly abed up stairs. of pa^ ;, Suddenly, Jchn and his wife heard a husbi !- sound of a wilder tempest than had courti been blowing all the night. It was like ages, the hoarse roar of the ocean on a lee spons shore, and increased with frightful speed. With a presentiment of coming ^auel evil, Johnson grasped his wife in his t() r- arms, and at that very moment the jftW p o whirlwind swooped down on the build- o?ni! a ing. It lifted it high in the air, car?, ried it many feet, turned it completely jggjj y upside down, and threw its roof to the i- ground with an awful crash. The ceil- , , I. ing fell on the roof, the boys being "J n saved from death only by the bed, now 18tr! ?r turned bottom up. Mr. Johnson and r his wife lit on their heads among the f;' e debris on the roof. feyt, The floor was torn out and blown "l re i- many rods away, one wall was torn out " and blown forty yards one way, and ane other sixty yards in an exactly opposite Tin e direction. A can of coal oil wjis burst, Islnw it and spoiled the winter's provisions, cembi The fire from the stove fell into a trunk are ni e and burned the clothing and papers nativi ?, therein. In fact, the house and its Durii h conteuts were an utter wreck, and that the r o all should escapo unhurt except Mr. Then >t Johnson, whose left hand was very bad- menn d ly burned in keeping the stove off his men e wife, is miricnlous. islam \ The frightened people extricated An it themselves from the ruins, and through eonsu e the awful tempest felt their way to a Scoth r- neighbor's. The next dny the wind resuli >- having abaited, the residents turned to tea, c i- and temporarily rebuilt the broken more d house. Mr. Johnson took account of pies < h stock; and found that of household rnm, furniture wherewith to commence the ation n winter anew, the hurricane had left him ftt lea il unbroken three teacups and a lamp tage < g chimney. one b A Post and Rail Fence.?Set a row reccn e of posts about a foot nearer together for r r than the length of your rails; then readi: J spike on a rail to the post, near the assuc a ground, with forty-penny spikes, then "Jac I drive a stake outside tne ran ana Dina and s ,r it to the post with a No. 9 wire near Newg n the top; then lay in your rails between tence j? post and stake, end over end. The w],icl d height of rail from the ground will de- i0us i ]f pond on the kind of stock kept therein. J Five rails to the panel make a good rCBCn ie fence for so small amount of material warn ,e Posts may be sharpened and driven jyve, t_ down with a heavy maul, in the spring wj,er, when the ground is soft. e<j f 2- muti] B In 1869 Great Britain possessed 26,- broui 367 mercantile vessels; Italy, 18,822; termi France, 15,778 ; Germany, 5,710 ; Nor- tims w way, 6,833; Holland, 1,985; Austro- The w Hungary, 3,114; Sweden, 3,357; Greece, band rs i 5,512 ; Spain, 1,414 ; Russia, 2,648 ; hosti j Denmark, 2,853; and Turkey, 2,200. venti iiems ui xaicioaw h Carolina has 101 colored legislachusetts refuses to pension its judges. annke is a Milwaukee German, alderman to boot, tr duty in England is to be re50 per cent, in May. imber of Mormons are en their jm Utah to Arizona, without any ng the year ending March 31, more people died than were born -ago. ieae boys now "play horse" in rancisco by using each other's ir reins. latest heiress to a fortune has Dr some years living in the Cleve- s jorhouee. total meat supply of Great Britt year was seventy-eight pounds :h person. people an d the sheep on the isori the Irish coast, off Galway, ing of starvation. New York city charter passed by ate Senate retains all the present of Departments. onng lady of Lewiston, Me., re60,000 grains of opium per annum r own consumption, of twelve good men and true are to get into trouble in Chicago for g to sell a verdict for $2.. Attorney-denerai 01 asqbk i that it was unconstitutional to >t mortgages from taxation, laine man asked to be excused erring on a jury, saying he is "so aat he cannot hear it thunder, and very ambitious." ,, [emph'is (Tenn.) grand jury has ed all but four of the county i for drawing 150 per cent, more heir legul compensation, roung man of Peoria, 111., has out what in another man would been called his brains, because eetheart would none of him. uylkill Valley farmers are for satisfied with the appearance of jrain crops, and have adopted as notto, " Wheat rye to please." ite neckties for full dress are rorn very wide ; our fathers wore ach neckties, and we shall soon :k to the "stock" of our grand8. rill made by a citizen of Amenis, lied thirteen years ago, has just discovered, much to the disgust se among whom the property was id. i New York State Assembly has nined to bring William M. Tweed, ould, and JonnF. Dutcher before ? ir for contempt in not responding Erie inquiry case, ts related, as an instance of Westnergy, that a man at St. Paul, , sneezed the other day, and so ed his spinal column that he has helpless ever since. ) quarry inen of the Enghien disJn TT?rtnniilt,_ to the number of 2. lave struck work for higher wages. f attempted to make demonstrations, le gendarmerie dispersed all gathJ. esperatc fight occnrred a few dajf in the small town of Olonne, Delent of Vendee, Francp, between ival companies of strolling actors, of the contestants were killed and d injured. Indianapolis landlady who de1 the trunk of a .woman in default pment for the board of herself and ind, has been compelled by the s to give it up and to pay $10 damthe husband alone being held reible for the bill. ' r althy Americans with handsome iters, whom they are about to take trope, should know that a French rovides that sons-in-luw may claim >rt from their fathers-in-law. Paris I of "barons," very baudsome, and edly impecunious. Chinese servant was brought home c gentleman of the house, and his pR8 inquired his name. "Yung Wing." " Oh," said she, " I canill you that: I will call you Char" What your name ?" he asked turn. " My name is Mrs. John ning." " Welle, I calle you John!" med the Celestial. i total population of the Sandwich Is, according to the census of Deer, 1872, is 56,807, of whom 51,531 itives. This is a decrease of the 9 population since 1866 of 7,234. tg the same time the increase in mmber of foreigners was 1,172. i are over eighteen hundred Chinand about one hundred Chinese woincluded in the population of the Is. analysis of the food and drink med by the citizens of Dundee, ind, has produced some startling TVorir onmnlo nf bread, butter. offee, and cocoa was found to bo or less adulterate*, while the snmof claret, port, 6herry, porter, ale, and brandy were free from adulter- ' > ; which shows that in this city at st the drunkards have the advan>ver the temperance men. 0 boys of respectable parentage, eing the son of a clergyman, were tly tried in Manchester, England, obbing a church. Inflamed by ng tales of highwaymen, they had aed the names of " Dick Turpin," k Sheppard," and "Claude Duval," trove to imitate those heroes of the fate calendar. They wore send to short terms of imprisonment, 1 may perhaps oool their burglarurdor. patches mention the return of the e party sent out to protect and the surveyors on the Cimarron r. The party reached the spot - B t06 I our SUrveyum were uiuiumtnd found their bodies horribly lated. Denning's remains were ;ht back to Arkansas City for insnt. The remains of the other viowere buried where they were slain, rescue party encountered several s of Cheyennes, all of whom made le demonstrations, bnt did not ire an attack. ?