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The Beaufort Republican, -V > " . , i f, ,..... . ... . U - V. J M- ' mi 'gc- ' i" 11 v. - : ' " ' ' , I . , ft i * H i :>i I AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO., IS-^TRUTH WITHQUT FEAR. ' T' ? * - ' I? VOL. III. NO. 37. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1873. r ^mm ?? j ' . NEW SPRING GOODS. C. BAILIE & BRO., Respectfully ask your attentiou to the following DESIRABLE GOODS offered by them for sale: english and american floor oil cloths. 2* feet wide, and of the best quality of goods manufactured. Do yeu want a real good Oil Cloth T If so, come now and get the very best. Oil Cloths cut any size and laid promptly. A full line of cheap FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, from 00c. a yard up. Table cloths all widths and colors. |t_ carpets. Brussels, three-ply and ingrain Carpets of new designs. A full stock of low-priced egrpets from) 30c. a yard up. Carpets measured for, made and laid with dispatch. lace curtains. French Tambourd Lace, " Exquisites." Nottingham Lace, " Beautiful." Tamboured Muslin, durable and cheap, from $2.50 a pair and upwards. CORNICES AND BANDS. Rosewood and Gilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut and Oilt Cornices, with or without centre*. Curtain Bands, Pins and Loop*. Cornices cut and made to fit windows and put up. WINDOW SHADES. 1,000 Window Shades in all the new tints of co.or. nOi Beautiful Oold Baud Shades, Sl-50, with all trlmHM mings. Beautiful Shades 20c. each. |K Store Window Shades any color and any aize. H Window Shades squared and put up promptly. j^H Walnut and painted wood Shades. H RUGS AND DOOR MATS. New and besutifol Rugs. W Door Msts, from 50c. up to the bc?t English Cocoa, f that wear three years. I 100 set? Table Mats, assorted. MATTINGS. New Matting, Plain and Fancy, in all the different widths made. Mattings laid with dispatch. WALL PAPERS AND BORDERS. 3,000 Rolls Wall Paj>ers and Borders in new patterns. in gold, panels, hall. oaks, marbles, chintzes. Ac., in every variety of colore?beautiful, good aud cheap. I'ajK-r hung if desired. HAIR CLOTHS lu all widths required lor Upholstering. Buttons, (.limps and Tacks for same. CURTAIN DAMASKS. Plain and Striped French-Terrys for Curtain* and Upholstering purposes. Gimp*, Fringe, Tassel*, Loop* and Buttons. Moreens and Table Damasks. Curtains uud Lambraquins made and put up. PIANO AND TABLK COVERS. English Embroidered-Cloth and Piano Table Cover*. Embossed Felt Piano aud Table Cover*. Plain aud gold baud Flocked Piano Cover*. German Fringed Table Cover*. CRUMB CLOTHS AND DRCUGKTS. New patterua iu any size or width wanted. To all of which we ask your attention. All work done well and in season, by James G. Bailie & Brothers, AUGUSTA, GA. apl-17-ly. H. M. Stuart, M. D., Corner of Bay and Eighth Streets, Beaufort, S. C. D1ALEK IN , DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, FA MIL Y MEDICIXES, FAXCYAXD TOILET ARTICLES, CT 4 TI/1 XTDI' nPDrr*I/t'D\r oi.iii i/.? i , riinr j BRUSHES, Ac., dr., Ac. Together with many other articles too numerous to mention. All of which will be sold at the lowest price for cash. Physicians prescriptions carefully oni pounded. feb.lt. PIERCE L WIGGIN, ATTORNEY AND CODNSELOR AT LAW. Solicitor Second Circuit. * Beaufort, S. C. Scpt.l-l.v. JERRY SAVAGE & CO., Wheelwrights & Carpenters. Carte, Wacons and Carriages rejiaired in the best manner at low prices. All kinds of jobbing promptly attended to. MAGrNOLIA St.. BEAUFORT, S. C. J. K. Goethe, M. D. Pr. G Oct he offers his professional services to the public. He may be fouud at his residence. Gams Hill, near Varnsvillo, Beaufort Co., S. C. Jan. 1-1 y. A. S. HITCHCOCK, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, BOUNTY, PENSION AND CLAIM AGENT. BEAUFORT, H. C. Dee.l-yr. , YKMA8SEE Eating Saloon, AT THE P. R. ii S. A ('. R. R. JUNCTION, The : raveling piAilic will here find good meant oil the arr.val of trains. Also accommodations for man and Waft, near the depot. ? 13. T. SELiLiEnS, YEMASSEE, S. C. Nov.21-ly. W. H. CALVERT, PRACTICAL Tin. Sheet-Iron, Copper & Zinc Worker. DEALER IN Japanned and Stamped Tiu Wart*. Constantly on hand. Cooking, Parlor and Box Stoves. TEKJIS CASH. Thankful for paid favors, and hoping by strict attention to business in th? future to merit your kind . favor. W. H. CALVERT, Ray St., between Sth and 9th Stn., BE A UFORT, S. C. Api.3-ly. CHARLESTON HOTEL, CHARLESTOX, .V. T mch25-ly E. H. JACKSON. Ledeem Your Lands. The Acts of Congress and the Regulations of the Treasury Department in regard to the Redemption of Lands now in the possession of the United States by reason of the Direct Tax Commissioners sales can be had at this office. Price ten cents, fiy mail Altec CSfitB. PAUL BRODIE, -A. R CHIT ECT, BEAU FORT, S.CDrawings of Models prepared for Patent Office. 8tudies for special purposes, made at short notice. Box 31, P. O. decl-ly William Gurney, COTTON FACTOR AKD Commission Merchant, * NO. 102 EAST BAY * AKD NORTH ATLANTIC WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Particular attention given to- the sale of and shipment of Sea Island and Upland Cotton. Liberal advances made on consignments. dccT-ly JOHN BRODIE, Contractor & House Builder, Jobbing Punctually Attenaea xo. OFFICE) Comer Bay and Ninth Street, BEAUFORT, S. U. deel-tf PORT ROY ATi SAW & PLANING MILL, Beaufort, S. C. D. C. WILSON & CO., manufacturers of and dealers in Yellow Pine Timber and Limber, and CYPRESS SHINGLES. alkot Builders & Contractors. Plaster Lathes, ALL KINDS OP JOB SAWING Promptly Done. Flooring and Ceiling Boards Always on Hand. Order* (or Lumber and Timber by the carjo promptly filled. Teriua Cash. D. C. WILSON & CO. novM-ly THE BEAUFORT H0R0L0GIST! P. M. WHITMAN, Watchmaker and Engraver, Mayo's Building, Bay Street. Will give bin personal attention to the repairing oi WATCHES, CLOCKS and JEWELRY. Ornamental and plain Engraving done at abort notice. Gentlemen having flue Watches can test them at this establishment by one of HOWARD & CO.*8 1500 REGULATORS. Having added to my stock one of J. BLISS A CO.'S flue Transit Instruments, I am now prepared to furnish Beaufort time to the fraction of a second. Alfred Williams, TRIAL JUSTICE, Crofut's Building, BAY STREET. BEAUFORT, S. C. Ji. B.?Court will be held every Friday at Brick Church, St. Helena Island. mch2S-ly A. MARK, BOOTMAKER, Bay Street, Beaufort, S. C. ti.i-ino owned . abort niton Bav Street. I am lire pared to"do,Sr?t-cla?s work. mehftMy A. MARK. PURE WATER Guaranteed by the use of the AMERICAN DRIVEN WELL, Now being put down lu this County. They are Clio?p ancl Durable, I And give universal satisfaction. I'ure Water can be introduced into any house by the AMERICAN DRIVEN WELL in a few hours. Apply to M. L. MAINE. Sea Island Hotel, or to E. G. NICHOLS. Permanent Agent. Ifeb27-6m S. MAYO, RAY STRFFT RFAllFflRT. S. H.. HARDWARE, Liquors, Segars and Tobacco, yet Yarns, Pish Lines d* Cordage, ! Glass, Paints and Oils, White Lead and Turpentine. Special attention given to mixing Paint*, and I oia?? cut to order of ray f?*l>ll M. POLLITZER, Cotton Pact or AND Commission Merchant, BEAUFORT, S. C. | Scpt4 The Savannah Independent, A FAMILY NEWSPAPER, I Established on the cheap cash plan, at the low rate of only I ONE DOLLAR A YEAR; Addrae, INDEPENDENT, ; p. o. Box 865. Savannah, Oa. W. Gr. CAPERS, Upholsterer and Repairer. 1 Old Furniture put in good order, Picture Frames made. Mattresses stuffed at the shortest notice. Corner Bay and S'lnth Streets. feblMy Sonnets, TO ONB WHO ASKED HIM OF A LADY'S GBACB. I like her brown small hand that some time etrays, To find the place, through the same booke with mine. I like her feet?and 0, her eyes are fine; And when I say farewell, perhaps she stays With downward look, awhile, love lingeringThen quick, as she would have that pain soon over. I like the mandolin whereon she plays ; I like her voice better than anything. Yet I like, too, the scarf her neck doth cover; Also the little ribbon in her hair. I like to see her stepping down a stair, And well I like the door that she comes through. And then you know I am that lady's lover, And every new day there is something new. OF HIS LOVE FOB A LADY. I know not if I love her overmuch? But this I know, that when unto her face She lifts her hand, which rests there still a space. Then slowly falls?'tis I who feel that touch. And ti-lion ah? anddan nhnken her head with such A look, I soon her secret meaning trace; So when she runs I tliink 'tis I who race. Like a poor cripple who has lost his crutch I am if she is gone; and when she goes, I know not why?for that is a strange art, As if myself should from myself depart. I know not if I love her more than those, Her lovers. But when she shall fall asleep, It is not I who will bo left to weep. LOST AND FOUND. A proud, stern man was Goeffrey Peyton, and rich withal, in wealth and honors. He had won distinction at the bar and on the bench, and had filled the executive chair of his state. How deeply hiB proud heart had suffered, those familiar only with his cold and haughty bearing would have been surprised to know. Not .very early in life he married one whom he had long loved with an ardent devotion, often characteristic of men iike him, and of which weaker natures are incapable. In hi# early struggles with poverty, he had kept his love a secret. He would have suffered his heart to break sooner than have had it whispered he was seeking advancement through an alliance with rich old Ronald Mason's daughter. But when he oould hold up his head with the highest in the land, he no longer hesitated to speak the words he had been so many years waiting to utter, and which Alice Mason had been waiting to hear. A few years of unalloyed felicity followed tneir marriage. Though proud and stern as ever to the outside world, not the 6ame man was Geoffrey Peyton at home, his wife by his side and* his bright-eyed boy prattling on his knee. There he forgot his pride, save that he felt in those he loved, forgot fame and ambition and greatness, and remembered only that he was happy. Then came a blow which fell none the lighter on the proud man's head because he gave no sign of yielding. Death crossed his threshold and took from him first his wife and then his child. The last of these bereavements was peculiarly distressing. The child had gone for a walk with his nurse by the fiver side, and in a moment of inattention on the part of the nurse, had strayed out of sight. Soon after, his hat was .found floating on the water. Alarm was given; search was made; the river was dragged; but in vain. The child was no where to be found. The body, in all likelihood, had been borne * "i? *i... *:.i? UUb UV bllU ilUU, Geoffrey Peyton bore his loss in silence. What his grief was no one knew, for no one was permitted to look upon it, and sympathy he would have resented ns an impertinenoe. ******* Years sped, and Geoffrey Peyton had become an old man. At his death, his large fortune would descend by law to a distant relative, a young man whose avarice kept him free from all costly vices, and who, most vices being costly enjoyed, in consequence, an excellent reputation. But Mr. Peyton had opinions of his own as to the disposition of his property. Like mauy men of his caste, he had an aversion to the division of e,states ; 1 and while not inclined to disinherit his kinsman, of whom he knew nothing but his reputation, which, we have already said, was good, there was one other whose claims he felt it would be unjust to overlook. He had brought up in his house, and in some sort adopted, Gertrude Gray, the orphan daughter of au old friend to whom he had been beholden in his days of struggle, and who had died leaving his only child destitute. iur. .reyion s pian, amy sei ionu iu his will, was to settle his property, iu equal portions, 011 Gertrude and his kinsman, provided they married each other in a given period. If either de, clined the match, the share of the one declining was to go to the other ; and if both declined, the whole of his fortune was given in trust for certain char| ities. Three years before the occurrences of which we are now to speak, George Hayne had sought and obtained employment of Mr. Peyton as hie secretary. The young man proved faithful and diligent, manifesting, moreover, qualities of intellect which induced his employer to encourage the devotion of his leisure time to a course of legal study. . George made so good use of his opportunities, that by the end of three years he was prepared for admission to the bar. He had learned other things besides the law in the mean time. He had learned, for instance, how pretty Gertrude Gray was, and how devotedly he loved her; though he was too straightforward to tell her so without first asking permission of Mr. Peyton, with whom, at last, he sought an interview for that purpose, Modestly, but unreservedly, the young man explained the state of his feelings, and was about to express the hope that he migt be allowed to speak to Gertrude herself on the subject, when Mr. Peyton cut him short. " Is.this the return you make for my confidence," he exclaimed?" you whom I have trusted and taken so much interest in ?" "I am unconscious, sir, of having abused your trust, or ill-requited your kindness," replied the youth, with a touch of the other's pride in his manner; ' nor can I perceive aught that is reprehensible in the honest attachment I have this day declared for Gertrnde Gray." " Would you do her a real service ?" " I would die for her !" said George earnestly. " You can do her a greater favor at less cost," returned the other dryly. "Name it." " Never see her?never speak to her. I am not one lightly to make or break a promise ; and I solemnly promise that, shou'.d you repeat your foolish avowal to Gertrude, and should she be weak enough to listen to it, instead of bringing you the fortune with which it has . 3 1 _t._ | been my purpose to enuow uer, ouwn shall come to you a beggar like your- 1 self." " You <lo me rank injustice," replied George, whose cheek flushed, " by the intimation which has just escaped you, I have never thought of Miss Gray with an eye to any prospects she may have in connection with your fortune. I have loved her for her own sake." "Then for her sake desist from a scheme which, if successful, must reduce her to beggary. If you possess a tithe of the unselfishness you profess, you will heed this warning and go your J way. I have other plans for Gertrude."1 A moment's reflection convinced George that, harsh as Mr. Peyton's words were, in one respect they were just. It would be selfishness to persist in seeking happiness at the cost of her whom he pretended to love. " I shall leave this place to-morrow," he said, and turn^l away. ***** * * The morning papers announced the loss of a great steamer, bound for San Francisco. Nearly all on board had {)erished ; and among the names of the ost was that of George Hayne. Gertrude Gray swooned when she read it, and Mr. Peyton felt not quite easy in his conscience. That evening, as he stood moodily in his study, he was interrupted by a visitor, a woman, whose form, once tall, was bent with age, and whose wrinkled tana or,/i wiM rJnrlr ava bad something sinister in' them. h " Pray be seated and explain the reason of your visit, madam," said Mr. Peyton, pointing to a chair. Taking the proffered seat, Bhe remained for a time silent, gazing intently on the face before her. Time had graven deep lineB upon it, and sorrow deeper Still. As she perused them, a smile of satisfaction, more like a shadow than a smile, flitted over her countenance. " You had a son once," she said. The lines grew deeper on the face > she was studying, and a pained expression come over. " I, too, had a son," she continued, " an only one, as yours was. In a sudden affray, he had the misfortune, in a moment of passion, to slay his antagonist, who was quite as blamable as himself. The jury decided it murder, but recommended him to mercy. The judge joined in a petition for clemency. My boys's life was in your hands. I begged it of you on my knees. The law had intrusted you with the dispensation of mercy, but you had no mercy. You turned aside from my prayers, and my son was left to die a felon's death." Geoffrey Peyton remembered now the face that had often haunted him since the day it had been turned pleadingly upon him, and vividly recalled the look of anguish it had worn when he spoke the relentless words that crushed hope out of a mother's heart. "That day," she resumed, "I took an outh to make you feel, if possible, all that I felt. I Btole away your child?" "My child !?is he alive?" "Listen. I stole away your child, and left you to mourn him as dead. I took him to a distance and reared him as my own. I bore no malice toward him. I only hated you. I brought him up tenderly, educated him as my moderate means would allow, and felt thankful that in inflicting punishment on the father, I had been enabled to do it with so little injury to the child." " Is he alive ?" cried the old man, piteously. "Speak, woman!?have you no mercy ?" " You had none when I sought to appeal to it," she answered. " That your son isnotalive, and that your conscience may accuse you of his death, is the reason I am here. The young man you drove away because he presumed to love I one for whom your pride had prepared j other plans, was your own son ! Before he went, he confided to me the cause of his going; and on reading the announcement of his fate, I resolved th^t you I should feel over again the agony of a ' parent's bereavement, heightened now ! by the sting of remorse." " Your story is false!" he cried, ' ?<<a /lotriliuli l'ntronfi'nn Hpriiigilig uy n uvtttiou amvwmwawm, | gotten up to torture me! But I will j put you to the proof. My son bore a mark upon his person, put there clandestinely by an old nurse in India, when we traveled in that country, who attached some superstition to it. If the child you say you reared was my son, you must have seen and can describe that mark." " A serpent's head and some strange characters, in India ink, on the left arm ; below the elbow," was the answer. Geoffrey Peyton staggered, and fell into the chair from which he had risen. He seemed as one stunned by a terrible j blow. The woman stood over him for a moment, peering down into his anguish-stricken face with jl look of triumph, and then walked quietly away. "Good news! good news I" cried Gertrude, bursting into the room. " The evening paper corrects the report > of this morning. George Hayne is i among the saved, and has already reached New York!" But her words were heeded not. The old man lay In his chair unconscious. He was placed upon his bed ; and on returning to himself, and being informed of George's safety? " Send for him, he whispered eagerly, v " let there be no delay." Then he called for his will, and when it was brought kept it in his hand. p " Has he come yet ?" was the question he repeated, as often as he had * strength. \ When at last the young man came, si and was conducted to his late employ- jj er's bedside, the latter with eager trem- , blirig hands turned back the sleeve of George's coat so as to expose the left w arm. p " My Ernest!?my son !" he ex- B| claimed ; and raising himself with sud- w den strength, he clasped the young man ^ to his breast. -j "Bear witness, all," he said; "this is my son. These .marks," pointing to certain devices tattooed on George's t] arm, " prove it, as does the testimony w of the woman who stole him away and j( reared him as her own, and whom I saw s) and conversed with last night. It now Cl only remains to cancel this taking n his will and tearing it in fragments. Geogrev Peyton would fain have Cj lived for his son's sake, but it was not f, so to be. The recent shock proved too p much for his strength, and not many q days after he sank to rest in Ernest's t| arms. D Our story would be incomplete if we n failed to mention that Ernest Peyton w and Gertrudge Gray, in due time, were happily married. What became of the ^ distant relative we don't know, and ^ don't suppose anybody cares.?iV. Y. Ledger. 0 A Joke on a Biihop. A good story is told of a well-known a Episcopal Bishop of a neighboring dio- * cese. We refrain from giving the name, ^ from appreciable motives of delicacy, fj The Bishop is a very staid, glum sort of ^ a good man, and the last one in the 0] world to enjoy a joke, especially one on 0 himself. A waggish friend, meeting him w the other day in a car, astonished him ^ by exclaiming, after a reference to his high-church principles: "Why, Bishop, I hear that on Easter j( yon appeared in your pulpit with acrown e and a palm !" tl "What!" exclaimed the Bishop, in a astonishment. "Nonsense 1 You know t] better." tj "Yes," repeated the other, "with a crown on your head and a palm in your D hand." ; "It is a libel 1 Who could have started such a story ?" responded the dis- ^ tinguished prelate, warmly. " But, ^ pshaw ! it is idle to talk about it; it is p so absurd." J The conversation was changed, but B the Bishop did not forget his friend's t, words ; they preyed on his mind and p worried him; he was afraid thelibelious, ^ afrnniniiB ror?nrt ?hnill(l cet into the Da f>ers, and then it would become a popu- tl arly accepted fact which there would n be no denying. p He sought his friend the next day at j his office, for the purpose of learning Cl the origin of the outrageous story; but e, the other, who is considerable of a wag, w sorely vexed the spirit of the accom- n plished prelate before he would make a any satisfactory explanation, and then, C( with a laugh and a twinkle of the eyes, p he exclaimed: ll "Why, Bishop, haven't yon a orown p on your head, and a palm fnyour hand ? See?" t] The Bishop was so much pleased with the explanation that he succeeded in ^ raising a laugh; though the expression M of fierce solemnity that settled on, his v features as he left shortly after leads c his friend to believe that he did not ? thoroughly enjoy the joke. j ? v Soldiers' Homesteads. C The old law allowed soldiers who had been in service ninety days, a homestead ^ of 160 acres within railroad limits, o where other persons could get only 80 F acres. ^ The new law of April, 1872, gives 1 homesteads to soldiers and their un-j ? married widows, or minor orphans, a sooner than others can get them. 8 It deducts from the five years' resi- P dence required for perfect title of other c homesteaders, all the time, up to four c years, that a soldier, or sailor, hns been J1 in the United States service. If a soldier was discharged bv reason j of wounds or disability, or diea in the * service?his whole term of enlistment 5 is deducted. 0 In the case of soldiers now enlisted, ? service is constructive residence. Ac- 1 tual residence must follow within six P months after the date of entry. * If a soldier's homestead, already * taken, is less than 160 acres, he may 1 enter enough more to make up that N quantity, if any public land remains T contiguous to the tract embraced by his c first entry. J A claim may be filed by an agent in- J vested with a power of attorney, as well * as in person, and then improved by the J soldier at any time within six months. | Man I j 1 lit" nCUIIClKU .UUUI The henpecked man iz most generally t married ; but there are instances on the j record of single men being harassed by the pullets. ] You can alwus tell one ov these kind t ov men, espeshily if they are in the c company af their wives. They look as resighned tew thair fate az a hen turkey in a wet day. There aint nothing that will take the starch out ov a man like being pecked t by a woman. It is wus than a seven c months' of the fever and agy. The wives of henpecked husbands 1 most alwus outliv thair victims, and I 1 hav known them to get married again ; 1 and git hold ov a man that time (thank t the Lord!) who understands all the i henpeck dodges. i The henpecked man, when he gits out i amnngst men, puts on an air ov bravery < and defiance, and once in a while git a < leetle drank, and then go home with a 1 firm resolve that he will be captain ov < I his household; but the old woman soon < takes the glory oat of him, and handles I him just as she would a haff grown chicken, who had fell into a swill barrel, and had to be jerked out awful > quiok.?Jo*h Billings.- i Why Capt, Hall Turned Back. mblii Four Day?' 8*11 of the Open Polar Sea and the Polaris la Put About. Captain Hall, says one of the rescued 'olaris officers, was devoted to his ork, and all his efforts were strenuoust exerted towards the North Pole, or tich a high latitude as would determine le possibility of arriving at that long lierished object of his ambition. The inter of 1871 was favorable to his purose, and he had reached, as already ;ated, the highest known latitude, here the difficulties which obstructed is progress did not materially increase, hey had passed what Kane supposed ) be the Polar Sea, which now proved > be a sound. Beyond this they penerated into Robeson's Channel and ere there on the lost day of August, 371. The admissions of some, and the :atements of all, prove that had they Dntinued here and pressed on they light at that time have penetrated into le sea beyond. Some idea of their loilif.v mftv be criven bv the fact that "** V " tf O v t om tlie observatory erected in Polaris lay, in latitude 81 degrees 38 minutes, lape Leber bore west 5 degrees south, istant about forty-fife miles, whilt leir present latitude was 82 degrees 16 linutes. Bnt a few miles from here as a body of clear water, stretching as ir as the eye could reach?it is estimajd about eighty or ninety miles. Many nportant circumstances unmistakably ldicated the existence of an unfrozen cean beyond the channeh Mild weather, with fogs and mints rought down by northerly winds, could ome from no other source. Land was isible to the north and west of this ody of water a great distance. Now as the moment to embrace the present ivorable opportunity, which was liable > be defeated by the slightest sudden liange, and, by a prompt continuation f their hitherto successful adventure, chieve the glorious goal for which they ad liazurded so much. But here, on the eve of an easy viciry, arose that fatal difference of opinio, which blasted all the heroic explores prospects and rendered fruitless lat mighty energy and labor which had Iready led him Buch a distance over lie barren and inhospitable regions of lie ui^known north. The sailing mas3T, Buddington, had several times stressed his anxiety to go no further, nd strongly urged the necessity of re?P?i4. TTnna in 1 at.i - rcutiug lu niiibCi uv a w*w ade 78 degrees 20 minutes nearly two nndred and forty miles south of their resent highly advantageous position, tall was determined to proceed, if posible, and would not consent to this latjr proposition. Buddington, however, ersisted, grossly misrepresented the ifflcultien and dangers of pressing furlier north or even remaining where liey were. Buddington, being the avigator, was the judge of these exediencies, and Hall believing whut luddington had reported, at length onsented to yield, and the ship returud and put up at Polaris Bay for the inter. The roscued crew say they ever could see any good reason for dopting this course; there was no neessity, and, although the intelligent ortion of them admit that there was tie usual amount of peril to be anticiated from venturing further, such as is icident at all times to an expedition of tie kind, yet, they say, that it was their uty to pursue the object for which it ra8 instituted unmindfalof the danger, 'hich was in fact not greater than preiously. Before they retreated Hall ailed a council, consisting of himself, 'aptain Tyson, Chester (the mate) and luddington, to consider which course ras most advisable. At this council Japtain Tyson strongly advocated Capnin Hall's views, and urged the impropriety of desisting. The brave and the right cause was verruled, to which aircumstance it is possible that Captain Hall owed his leath. If the vessel had continued 011 ts course, as Captain Hall desired and irged, the expedition would in all probbility have been crowned with success, " * - - 1 J nd the dreams ol geograpuers auu dorers been realized; but an nnacountable timidity, the off-spring of a raven cowardice or other improper aotive, annihilated the hopes of Capain Hall. Buddiogton, from the posiion which he occupied, was master of he situation ; he said " Thus far have 'ou gone?and you shall go no further," ,ud' he was obeyed, reluctantly of ourse, as a matter of necessity. It is mpossible to analyze the motive which ircmpted Buddington. From his mowledge of the Arctic regions he must tave known that it was as dangerous to urn back as to proceed, and that, if the 'easel was to be frozen in, she might as veil be frozen in at one place as an>ther. The fact that Captain Tyson mpported the views of Captain Hall uruiihes additional confirmation that he latter was right and Buddington was rrong. Great expeditions have often ailed through the ignorance, incompeence or obstinacy of subordinates, and t was so in this particular instance. Hie blame, if there is blame attending lie failure of the expedition, will cleave o Buddington, unless he can, if still iving, satisfactorily explain what now teem? to be his unaccountable conduct. !t is not too much to say that his acion blasted all the hopes of his superi>r. Exhalation of Moisture by Plants. Dr. Deitrich, the superintendent ol he experimental station near Cossel, :ommunicates the following results oi ,'xperiments to determine the amonnl >f moisture exhaled by plants: First, or the same species of plant the imount of vegetable matter produced s in direct proportion to the amount ol vater exhaled;s third, the amount oi noisture exhaled varies with the differ' :nt species of plants. Aocording to the imounts exlialed, the experiment eatab ishes the following order; buckwheat iloverj then lupines, beans, and oati ?qual; summer rye and wheat equal ind last, barley. A New Hampshire man has the leathe: strap which nas thrased the famil; through three generations. <? Facto and Fancies. Albany is to have a Temperance State Convention on the 24th of Jnne. ' Chicago has a clergyman named Sullivan who objects to have his sermons r#- ** ported. . . Pennsylvania lawyers are petitioning for the abolition of the grand jury system. Weisser, of Pittsburgh, is astonished that, in America, a man may not thrash his wife. It costs the Illinois farmers two bushels of ripe corn to buy a can of the preserved article. They call them "boiler ascensions" in Cincinnati. In the last one a horse and two men were killed. The Chicago gamblers have subscribed 9500 for a monument to a deceased member of their craft. The women of Philadelphia are to 00 onn wsrrth nf utock in the WiiktT 90|WV|WV nv??? ? ? "T - - r Centennial Expedition. The young lady who turns up her nose at a shoemaker is apt to marry a man who takes a cobbler down.,,. >, The Vienna Exposition will cost nearly 88,500,000. It will require the contributions of nearly twenty millions of lookers on in Vienna to make it pay." ? A chap given to statistics estimated that over two thousand toes were frozen during the last winter by young ladies keeping their beaux lingering at the gate, instead of asking them into the parlor. " ' ' The best doctrine to teach a child is, that he must labor for what he wants. Is it riches? Let him stop envying those who made money, and go to work and make it himself. Is it the position which character gives ? Let him build up a good reputation for himself. '< A Paris correspondent says : " Every one knows with what cautious gradations Prench women pass from the black dresses of widowheod to the brighter toilettes for balls and parties. At first they introduce a little white, then a little violet, gray, mauve, after which they pass boldly to blue, green, or pink. The St. Albans Messenger gives these reasons for not fearing an outbreak in the Green Mountain State: "In the * * ?" AMAil. ninth and last census, v ermuuv u> uw ited with an aggregate Indian p9pulation of fourteen, but they are so scattered that we need entertain no fear's''Uf a general Indian war. Essex oowJty has three, Grand Isle six, and Latdeiile . I*ft* 1* ?? " Do you like chiokens ?" asked markably modest Nashville youth of his sweetness, as he was walking about two feet from her on his way to1 church, Sunday night. ' "Certainly I do, 'f she replied ; "why do you ask puck a question as that ? " Because I thought if you liked chickens, you wouldn't oD{ect to taking a wing, and he crooked lis arm in an irresistible manner.Sweetness took a wing. An Ohio postmaster has received a letter wherein the writer proffers a carious request, as follows : "If you can & will ascertain the names of some rich old maid or widow worth from 5 thousand to 50,000 or more let me know by return mail and I will pitch in and if I make it tio the Knot, it is a 1 hundred dollars in your pocket Keep this a profound secret between us two if ' it gets nut all is snoiled I am pour but want to marry rich." "Hosea Blgelow" Abroad. A Boston correspondent of the St. Louis Olobc is responsible for th}g anecdote of the author of "Tho.Bigalow Papers:" James Russell Lowell went to Europe, and arriving in London, deposited certain evidences of credit with Baring Brothers. Now, "Hosea" is a poor hand at figures, and does not like the worries incidental to a strict debit and credit account, so leaving England he instructed Messrs. * B. Bros, to notify him when he should have drawn down the funds in their hands to a certain sum mentioned. Ia the course of time "Hosea" received a polite epistle, stating tliut his deposit was depleted to the amount mentioned as his limit, and he very dutifully returned to England, and soon after to this country, takiBg the complicated ac-, count rendered as quite satisfactory as regarding his money transactions with his bankers while in Europe. Now, sometime after reaching home, he one day received a solid-looking letter from England, which proved to be from the great bankers. Baring Bros., which | notified him of a mistake in his nccouut . with the house, and explained it some| thing as follows: Certain of their | clerks, being loreigners, pruuuunvcu <* | with the long sound, very like r, and one of these, in calling off the amounts to be | debited to the customers of the bouse , ut the close of banking hours one day, t called "James A. Lowell, ?500," and , gave his pronunciation of the A. which caused the entry clerk to charge that amount to James li. Lowell, or "Hosea." , This mistake they wished to rectify by J some means, and after informing him I that the amount and interest thereon , was subject to his drait, intimated that should it be his desire they would invest the balance in a way that would be advantageous to himself. Now, "Hosea" thought he had spent the money, and looked upon his credit at Messrs. Barings' in the light of an extra not counted upon, so he signified his willingness ! to accede to the proposal of the bankers. A few months later he received notice , that the snug little-Jmm of thirty-seven hundred and some odd dollars awaited u: -J? i? Ui? hands of his bankers, ) The Train Cue. | The case of George Francis Train, | which has for some months been before . the oourts of New York, has had a posi> tire settlement. Train was charged with sending immoral literature through , the mails, and the jury wu instructed ) by Judge Daiws tawMwa verdict ac; quitting the prisoner on the ground, of insanity. This was done, and Judge Davis at once ordered Train sent te the r lunatio asylum at Utice, New York. J. j writ of habeas corpus wu granted in tlwcaae. M k .