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M. QUAD’S-STORY. ROBBED AT SEA. (Copyright, 1813. by Charles B. Lewis.] The English trading firm of Parshall, White & Enderby at Yokohama, with a branch hou.se at Kelung, in the island of Formosa, owned a fleet of small coast ing vessels, ahd upon a certain' date, when it was desired to transfer $20,000 ■in silver from the former to the latter port, the brig Dolphin was selected. The money could have been sent by steamer, but the brig was bound down and con sidered just as safe, and there would be no charges to pgy. The money was put jjp in boxes. SI,OOO to a bos. and each rbox was then headed up in a barrel of J flour. This was of course done in the warehouse and very secretly, as that sum of money would have tempted the most honest trader to turn pirate. The crew of the Dolphin consisted of captain, mate, cook, four able aeaifieiT ahd an apprentice. Mr. Hope, 7 the cap tain: Mr. Williams, the mate, and. the apprentice boy who tells you the story were English, while the cook and fo’mast hands were Japs. While they understood orders given in English, the mate alone understood bheir language. This man Williams had joined the brig at Kelung on her trip up. He owned to being a de ■serter from a whaleship, and though 1 [wondered grea’ly that the captain should Live him a berth ho got the place with out trouble. He wasn't a villainousjook ing man by any means, but he had the furtive look of the fugitive and the sly. sneaking ways of a cat. His demeanor Hjl in 1 t ’ .< —— HALF A DOZEN MEN SPRANG OVER OUR RAIL, produced an unfavorable impression on *■ all hands except the captain, who seemed to be attracted to him from the first glance. A sailor instinctively feels that there is something wrong with an officer who doesn’t do more or less cursing and growling, and when we were three days out of Kelungand Mr. Williamshad not uttered an oath nor threatened a man with a belaying pin, it was the general verdict *of the fo’castle that he was a queer man and probably a bad one. We f hoped he would leave us at Yokohama, ' but if he had any such idea the captain persuaded him to remain. When the2o barrels of flour came down with the oth er cargo, they created no suspicion among the hands, although we earned < L < v ,. ? •’;> ca'.y :i> of h p. thl.t V, : 1.1 .■ . and two night/in We left Yokohama one morning with a fair wind for a direct run to Kelung, and for four days all went well. Every body aboard the brig had noticed a Chi nese lorcha hanging in our wake, but she might be as honest a trader as the Dol phin, and no particular interest was tak en in her except by myself. There were several reasons for this. The Dolphin was a slow sailer, and the lorcha ought to have come up hand over hand. She was not a pleasure craft taking things easy, and after she had hung to us for three or four days I began to wonder at heractions. Lwasin Mr. Williams’watch. He had to make one of the working force and take his trick at the wheel. On the third watch, when he took his trick from 10 so 12 o'clock, I accidentally discovered that he had hung a lantern on the stern as if for a beacon. 1 relieved him at mid night. apd the light was still there. Just before 2 o’clock he took the wheel and sent me forward, and when we turned in the lantern had disappeared. On the fourth day the sight of the lorcha astern, following us like a hungry wolf, excited considerable comment forward, but our captain seemed to give her PQ attention. The mate was nervous and jjneasy all day, and when night came on cloudy and dark, but with no increase of wind. I was almost determined to go to the captain and state my suspicions, Had 1 done so 1 should have been kicked put of the cabin for my trouble. Feeling assured of this. 1 prepared for what I inspected would happen, A* Kelnpg I had bought a revolver of el American sailor for a couple of dol . . F®- I P u t this in my pocket, and just Emy watch was turned out 1 got the jiyes pf three pf (.he fo'castie men 1 4ft pot mean the sheathknife which every Iftijor carries, but the weapon pf offense }tpl defense yhich the lower class of aps make pse pf as the American negro does the razor. I added tp the knives a double barreled pistol belonging to the cook, which I knew to bo loaded, and 10 minute* after going on deck I hwi i.ia. 1 TffE WEEKLY TRIBUNE uen an vne weapons in the yawlboat hangitig at the davits. .* One of the natives took the wheel as the other watch turned in, but after a few minutes the mate relieved him. 1 •vas stationed on the bows as lookout »nd could see aft. but neverthe less I felt sure "that the lantern went over the stern within a short time after the n_jte took the wheel. We were loiaiug our course ana jogging along at she rate of five or six miles an bom - , and a couple of hours had passed since camo on deck, when I suddenly hear the flap of canvas, followed by a shock I had no need to run aft to know wha had happened. Guided by the lantern the lorcha had crept up and run along side of ns, and the first thing I saw wa; men working to make her fast. to us. She was Hot as long as the brig, and grapnels were thrown from her rail to make her fast to onr main shrouds. She came alongside with only a liglr shock, and I hadn't fairly made up mind what was going on when half r. dozen men sprang over our starboard rail. There was no shooting, shouting or knocking down. Williams called to me to relieve hin at the wheel, and as 1 took his place he shook hands with the men, jabbered away for a minute, and then all went into the cabin. The cap tain had been asleep, but aroused by the shock was preparing to go on deck when confronted by his mate and the stran gers. When he demanded’to knowwhal was going on, Williams answered him in a civil way: ••Captain Hope. I and my friends have taken possession of the brig and that $20,000, but no one has been hurt or wil. be unless we are driven to it. You an perfectly helpless in the matter, and the best thing you can do is to keep quiet.’’ Thereupon the captain of course pro -ceeded to raise a row and was knocket senseless for his foolishness. The stran gers were Chinese and a hard lookini lot, but they had no desire to shed blood They left a guard over the captain and came on deck and threw the brig up inti' the wind, and then proceeded to break out the barrels of flour and transfer them to their own craft. While I believe the plot was unknown to any of the crew, they were only tern porarily surprised at the capture of oui craft. When told that there was a thou sand dollars in each barrel, they begged permission to join the pirates, and ah but the cook were accepted. He had sailed with Capttiin Hope for several years and was not to be tempted from duty. When the fellows began break ing our cargo, the mate ordered me to put a bag of biscuits and a breaker ol fresh water into the yawl. As soon a the last barrel was over the rail the mate and one of the crew went below and bored boles in the brig’s bottom! When they returned to the deck, Mr. Williams said to the captain, who was on his feet again: “Captain Hope, I have scuttled the Dolphin. My idea was to leave you and the boy aboard to go down with her. bu; as we have got the money so easily, and as there is no possible show of onr being captur^^^hal^-gf wind and sea had drifted us out of sight ' into the darkness, and we never saw the , brig again. The lorcha probably remain ed near until it was certain she would go down. i For about half an hour after we were set afloat the captain hadn’t a word to say, appearing to be stunned by the dis aster which had overtaken him. Then Wsy Ksgt* TH$ CAPTAIN WAS KNOCKED SENSELESS, he began cursing anu raving ana Kept 11 up for a long hour. He blamed the mat< every one of us, though his own ini prudence had caused all the trouble When he had disgusted himself with hi ravings, he began to figure on pur posi tion. The noon observation had put u to the west of the Bonin islands by 20 miles. Wt were now drifting before : northwest breeze. Wo tore out a tliwar to make a couple of paddles, bnt as th sea was not heavy enough to bo dang i pus one after another sank down an went to sleep, and it was 7 o'clock nex morning by the captain's watch befor auv one oneued his eves. •inewma naa then named into tne west and was stronger, and we were obliged to make a drag and bring the boat head to the Sea to prevent disaster. Lying thus, she drifted along at the rate of four or five miles an hour. The cap tain was silent and sulky, and during the entire day scarcely uttered a word. We sighted several sails, but they were too distant to observe a signal. The breeze increased at night, but all of us slept as before. On this second morn ing tne captain was m better spirits, telling ns that if the breeze held on we should make one of the Bonin group by night. He also had great hope of being picked up during the day, and the cook and I took kurus acting as lookout. Twice that day we were within three miles of sailing vessels which did not see us, ami a uig treigui .steamer piowea along considerably nearer than that Without paying any attention to our sig nal of distress. It was about 4 o’clock in the afternoon when we sighted Sun flower island, the southernmost of the group and one of three lying about five miles apart. We should have been driven ashoj<i~uTrrtNx>bal>lv drowned in the'surf tut for our paddles. We finally got a anding on the south side of the island and had scarcely set foot on shore when we heard the report of firearms. Knowing the island to be uninhabited, we at first thought a trading craft or a whaler might be anchored in the bay on the east side. Captain Hope ordered the two of us to remain by the boat while he entered the woods to investigate. This was about sundown. In the course of an hour he returned and reported that the lorcha of the piratical gang was anchored in the bay and the crew mak ing merry ashore. He could not sei Williams, and two of our sailors who had joined were also missing. Every thing went to show that the men ashor meant to stop there all night. Then were nine of them, and they were feast ing and drinking by the light of a bip fire. 1 had not yet told Captain Hope of the weapons I had stowed away in the yawl When he observed that if he had a couple of men with him he would try to capture tbe lorcha, I brought out the weapons and offered my assistifhee. The cook also volunteered, and within 15 minutes*& had determined on a plan. We launchW our boat and paddled her around to til bay, which was about three miles dil tant. The bay extended inland for ir mile, and we found the lorcha anchored within 200 feet of the beach. It was 10 o'clock when we sighted her, and the men ashore were still awake. We hung ofa and on for them to get quiet, and it was after midnight before we moved. They had gone ashore in a boat, and our first move was to secure it. We landed the cook half a mile away, and he crept along the beach to the boat and set her afloat just as the tide turned. When we had picked him up again, we headed for the lorcha and made fast to her bows without being challenged. Re moving our shoes and the captain lead ing, we boarded her, to find she was tak ing care of herself. There was no one in the fo'castle, but lying fast asleep on the floor of the cabin were two men who had been left as anchor watch. They were not made prisoners, butai ere killed by the captain and cook i. ’ f- ? ...... in ii"]i‘ vl :-,r. an English man-of-war on from Formosa, and in her companyT® ran back to the bay. A landing was made, but only one of the gang was captured. He stated that Williams and two of our sailors had been murdered before the lorcha entered the bay, tne object being to make a larger divide with the rest of the gang. They also intended to kill two others. They intended to land and bury the money next day, and remain on the island for several weeks before making any further move. The fellow went up to the yardarm as soon as his story was finished, and the island being covered with a dense growth of 'forest, which at that season wgs dry as tinder, the cap tain of the man-of-war contented him self with starting a conflagration, which swept the island as bare as a rock. The flames must have driven every man of the gang into the sea and to his death. We got two men from the naval vessel to make up otircrew, and the spe cie was safely landed at Kelung. The firm lost about $3,000 on tho difference between the value of the brig and the lorcha, but there tyore no complaints. Captain Hope was made a hero of for a year or two subsequently, and though I heard him relate the story twice and have read portions of it a dozen time? in the papers, I never could hear pr find any Uamo but his own. Tho cook and 1 shared his misfortunes, but when it camo to the glory we were referred to a the “cook and u boy.” ADAIRSVILLE NEWS. Tfwo Moonshine'S C»ptnr<d on Pina tog Crick-Other Items, Spool’! to th« Tribune. Adairsville. D»c. 12.—Oar deputy Uiibel States marsh’ls are successful n larding a moonshiner occasionally. Messrs. Ward and Bailey went out oa Jto »• tfi nA., TH (JrtJSD ay, DhCEMBErL 14, 1 Blue Log creek and captured a util) and 'wo of the operators this week. Tney cirriedtbe still and eveiytbing to At anta. The operators are supposed ti belong to the bend of men who burned the barns of Lewis, at Fait mount, and Turner at Calhoun; also the same band have been sending threatening letter* to 'he < ffirials in Atlanta. S<> long as ibei fry to make moonshine whi.ky, ju«t tba long will Ware and Bailey locate and cap'ure them. Various new enterprises are being talked of for the near future, them a manufacturing enterprise of vast proportions with large capital. If the p-oprr arrangemenis are made Ad ail s viile will surprise the native?. Mr. George Veach baa had an elegant glass front placed in bis lower Broad srreei store, wb ch improves the appear ance of that part of the business ‘Wee'. We hear that, a numb<r of bu-iuess changes will be made at the beginning of be new year. S >tue new firms will go into business, some old ones wdl dis solve and others will move to other quar tei s. The social world of our vicini’y is taking an acivity in anticipation its th holidays. Numerous dinings and?teas are being arranged. A swell ball i» down on the programme. The newly formed literary club will give a Christmas entertainment that will draw the social lights from the neighbor ing towns. This club is of recent birth nut the child gives promise of vigorous growth. Miss Watts, of Igo, is with her sister, Mrs. Dodd. Ms- Emma Piice is at the borne of her brother. Judge A. J. Price. Mi<s Price is one of he most charming daugutert of o'd Ca-svi'le Mbs Cunnirgham, a ve*y beautiful and accomplished young lady of AtlAntr, has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Ged, A. Veach. Mrs. Veach has been entertaing other visiting young ladies, also. Mrs. A jock and daughter, of Tennes see, are visiting friends here. Mathews, of Dalton, was ip m, Ol id a. 80rue timo ‘ D Our j , of twoefiW d b? the U.S MreV® . ' nei ' lu the past f, w ■ Hf.er being l(Bra . hz di >i Bui ( ti . . K a the i" 3 , T dltdai ‘d bu.ied ■fafc I ."’ r ■* '“"i and pai U f U | illness oid young people of this iu need of mst uccion as that of G.-oigia history. They do not know it because there is no book of convenient s>zs which is accessible, and parents usually know ’ little more than ths children. The creat I work of Colonel Charles C. Jones is too ponderous for the average adulr, and as yet it remains unfinished. Lawton Elans’ history has uevar come ipto-gen eral nse. Uuder those circumstances Major C. b. Smith set himself to the task o writing a school history of Georgia. The task is done and the book is issued from the press of Ginn and Company, who have printed the little volume beauti fully and put it on the market for the modera'e piioe of sixty cents. I'he narrative of the important events of Georgia his ory is 11'd io simple lan guage in US pages. The style is suited to school boys and school girls and this part of the book makes no preteu ions to carry the philosophy of history. It deal* mainly with mn and events up to the p-riod preceding the war, when the causes of the grrat controversy are set forthwith some detajl and much c»re. Ths principles of the second revolut on are made So clear that he who runs mat raad. The outline of even’s i» not lour pnouszh tq life anyone, yet it will fix in the minds of the young the salieut p dale of Georgia his’Qry, and haying got h taste for it, they miyata mature age s-udy the m gnifloent work of Colonel Jims.- This litre bonk will d übtles' be read by many more than the big one to which we have alluded, and on J aha account it is fortunate that &LJ ir Smi'h has tut out with such clearness the grouuds upon which Gaorg'a left ths union. He shows that only 14 pes esnt. of her people were slave owners, i wd ui mntaiu counties which did not nave a bun ired slaves sent whole regi men's to rhe war. It was for statoe right* that Giorgta c intended. Lt is equally fortqaste that he empha -1 sis stn this boek the sac s brought ou bv G :u. lleury ti-. Jackson :n his famous •d -ireas to tbr Youug Mau’s Library io Atlanta several years ago, oouceruiug the b-giuuiug of slavery in America. It wae uot generally known area co our own p-'Spte, rbat ar, the va y time when I'Sucle Tom’s Cabin” was creating sueb a furor >n this country, a Now England skipper brought a slave ship across the eeeau from Africa, with all the horrors of the middle passage. The historical readings which follow the narrative are the best part of the hook. The obapteis on the aristocracy rod the common people are iiitereating, a,.d instructive. The appeudix is fail of valuable information very clearly and a tucisely stated and tbe chapters on ths penitentiary and tbe causes of crime is nil of atrikiug facts brought together in a suggestive w»y. ROUTEDTHE ENEMY- , Confederate Veterans Correct a Report in the Chattanooga Times. Romm:, Ga., Deo. 11,1893. Editor Tribune. We desire to correct a statement in a recent issue of tbe Chattanooga Times [t mentions tbe battle of Chickamauga diff-irently from what the undersigned saw it and know it to be. Allow us to correct it through your paper. The skir - mishing commenced on Thursday ev-- tiiog. We drove the enemy from thei< position near Ringgold, Gt., and oo :upied that tii vn about 5 p. m,, by Johnson’? Tennessee brigade of infantry. La’er the enemy were tolowed some twelve mil* s and our artillery shelled their camp at midntg'ir. Friday we fought the in fantry and at night we crossed over Chickamauga creek. Saturday we drove ifie Fedora's all along the line for at least loneAa f-d. mile. Sunday we met them ■ " ■ ■ •' W Goveriimeui.) Gamm v. Cap*. Co. 1,01-d Tann . Kegonen., Kegu lar and Volun-eer. S Married sunday. Mr. W. J SnuwHu! Wl„L. loy R lchardgOu * tinned m Matrim iny. Mr. W. J. s lOV aad {uc R _ ch ardson were married Sunday afternoon oy Justic .' W. p Teat. The couple drove up t 0 the home of and w lth mt d day the cere I S K£o 9rforni ’’ d ’ ThH brido ■ 1 a- in vjj.y ■or (. A i •if the sonfl continues south.”—KlloxvraM Piuk'rewshi'h Inc M. Paderewski, the WJ vital in London. practicXfl at least, until 3:30 a. iMfl ing after the recital he went to.. " ham, where he played the same life-. ’ noon before a densely packed audience? He exhibited no fatigue.—New York Sun. ' - New Concrete For Roads. A successful application has been ujade, it appears, of the newly invented road concrete, some time ago described in the papers of Germany, and its use fulness in various directions seems to be assured. Curious enough, shavings and planing mill chips, either of common or fancy woods, and which may be stained before use if desired, are mixed with cheese—or rather, casein—calcined mag nesian limestone, glycerin, silicate of spda and a little linseed oil, and this combination of substances is forced by • hydraulic pressure into molds, where it is allowed sufficient time to harden. When dry, the composition is strong and solid and can be sawed, planed, polished and varnished. Among its various pro posed uses are panels and wall surface coverings, etc.—New York ' Sun. 1 he chap kickn tor open oars in snnanjtr >s now the loudest in yelling a* t ie c,(mduo‘or tn that door.’i When a febow is ar, death’s door, he i» anxious to be pulled through; but he wants to know vynich way. THE LEGISLATURE. IT ADJOURNED YESTERDAY. : -peci»l to the Tribune. Atlanta, Dec. 11 —The bond qnes iou was d*finitely settled this morning by tbe senate vot’ng against reconsidera tion of its action Saturday. The motion to reconsider failed a passage and all is d-ad. There is a very general sentiment m the senate and the house and those W io have studied this question, that a grave mistake has been made and one 'hat will iejiire the credit of Georgia. A tn «j irity of the house voted for the pay ment of the fundi, believing, after a care ful study that they are valid, unpaid outstanding obligations of the state and tnat they should be paid. There is no question whatever about the Hays bonds aud the question tbat has been, not raised exactly, but insinuated against the Scott bonds does not seem tenable. It looks like repudiation and there is danger that it tnay hurt tbe state of Georgia. * Hr. Clay’s Wlthd'awal. The withdrawal of Mr. Uiav from tbe gubernatorial race—or rathSMftMM| would n,tbe in it—was tbe W ' /. i-' 'be legisla'ive balls todaylM g probable that s > far as tbe tbe present >egißlatur<i are c nc tbe withdrawal of Clay has rial strength to tbe chances of Atkinson. It is only uatur. 1 tbJH . ■" should ba the cue am >ng the of the senate aud the house who oeeu thiown closely with tbe speakßJ This cannot be taken of course as Citiveof the strength of the two daces in the counties represented b]H these man, buc as a rule these men pretty strong in ttieir own comiuujiities. \ There is one thing that mty ba taken j as a fact aud that is that tre intimate I friends of Steve Clay are outgoing to sup-1 port Atkinson. While they endeavor to bids it, there is no d >ubi that tbe strong Olay men are sore at Atkinson for bis de- the race. While it is true j-in any deal I bc- , Palled on* of ■' ri> " I| . I , -«uge arren .•„ mere gossip, however, and has no stronger basis than t.haL The State Banks, A strong <if , rt , n . . to re-cousider the a OUoD B . e ° a i, te state bank bill, g veralsk ' ’" ° ' he bill were absent aodir ' BrB of the tbat they WonJ<Uu\2 ed • ~ ° r “ tlme tio i which wunl * “ In re -considera- the bdl b!H til r 6 UQdout,ted ly killed notary al £ t r ‘° ~' d - did . airy, and the Veach bill will g o to toe governor for Rinnarure. K A Sensible Measure. Ihe house pas,ed cue bill of tt ■ «l™« —Pap.*. tb . make corrections of mistake upon which hey are sue d f or ]lbe( . ■ md,Ce In thes e mistakes after the cor i eouon is made the cotnplatnant can only ' actual damages. This will put a I ‘ deal of blackmail from ‘ |jf have to Sl)f y, r t Through BuslnesH. V tiouae W. re btlsv b of tlesr. ' lj ' WMHI c I',i.’ I.'l * • H'i a* ’*< r.m iota v. u. changes are largely dueitSH Mr. Hatcher, who L» ievedfflßHH| should be no closing of the sob who is responsible for the that feature. Mr. Hatcher also cirriedl his point about the appropriation ot $300,030 to be advanced from other funds and placed to the credit of the ►otiool fund at the first of April. This it is believed, will be sufiijitnc to provide for quirterly payments. Conferences have been the rule today, There have been conference committees on the school bill, on the libel bill, on the qu ’stiou of codification of the laws ano lotfiei matters of disagreement. The senate this morning adopted Maj. Bison’s substitute for the resolutions ou national subjots. The substitute was adopted witbout any discussion. T iese are the days when the chairmen of the c immittees and presiding < fifleers coma la for presents from lhe members, president Clay was presented this morn- 1 lie with an elegant solid silver tea aad coffee set. In the house, Joe Camp, who i« co be married tomorrow, was given a haadsome present; so was Dr. Stewart, chairman of the asylum committee ; so was Mr. Boynton, chairman of the •en rolling committee, and Mr. Bloodworth, .of Monroe, chairman of the corporation committee. The senate refused to vote the appro priation for the geological board for printing its report. Also a handbook of the resources of Georgia. The bill of Mr. Jenkins to prohibit the negotiation or sale of liquors in prohibi liotf counties passed the house thia mormng. Persons made the presentation speech to Clay. Buifeuillet to Atkinson. The senate finally passtd the libel Mt as passed by the house. Whoa it first oatne to the senate that body/ on advice of the j idiciary committee.yput on some amendments thatdestroyed the the bill. The house IjmmKheconferfncn comnjjH '■S ■■ ’ s ’’ y W' .»ud W.-.- uateeiw upon, 1 to tn tke' tie had i was diafl o’clock- atl » 2 e ' . AT yP , e» Country Road. Who B nin r « !i ae ago “ Mr - Waterman, I 711 , the a^on express between ’ and Schenectady, N Y whiu ’ on his trip between two horses, i tir? 1 ; Waterman had to unload hisen- I tire cargo and carry it piece bv over the entire distance of 200 feet after which his team managedX his ln a Ti F y Bnccee <led in putting a on° on h£ WagOn aM aiong on his journey. This is th« „i 5 stage road and should be one of the best m the world, but for many years S been entirely neglected and L now thS°r t . Btate - Waterman that road has cost him more work we« tear and trouble than the road S would amount to on all the farms in A? bany county.-Exchange. A Good Road Would Bo Cheauor Harvey M. Sigafoos, a milkman read mg near Carpenter vi lie. N. Y. while the public highways leading fcrg recently, had his arm la w '.'■•dKjjSj > .iiMSi 11. W||| pflH W ikJHj Tra'M in a t> us fl and flhim Haire’s i many les only S4OO.