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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1871.
No. 7.
Stonewall Jackson’s Way.
Come, stack arms, men! Tile on the rails,
Stir up the camp lire bri ght!
No matter if the canteen fails—
We 11 make a roaring night.
Here Shenandoah brawls along.
There burly Blue Ridge echoes strong,
To swell the brigade’s rising song,
Of Stonewall Jackson’s way.
We see him now; the queer, slouched hat
Cocked o’er his eye askew ;
The shrewd, dry smile; the speech so pat,
So calm, so blunt, so true !
Hie ’cute old Elder knows them well;
Says he, ‘‘That’s Banks—he’s fond of shell;
Lord save his soul! We ll give him”—Well!
That's Stonewall Jackson’s way.
Silence! Ground arms! Kneel all! Caps on!
Old Blue light's going to pray ;
Strangle the fool that dares to scoff—
Attention! It's his way.
Appealing from his native sod,
In forma pauperis, to God—
"Lay bare Thine arm ! Stretch forth Thy rod 1
Amen!”—that’s Stonewail’s way.
lie’s in the saddle now ; Fall in!
Steady! the whole Brigade.
Hill’s at the ford—cut off. We’ll win
His way out, ball and blade.
What matter if our shoes are worn ?
What matter if our feet are torn ?
Quick step ! \\ e’re with him before mom,
That’s Stonewall Jackson’s way.
The sun's bright lances rout the mists
Of morning; and, by George!
Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists,
Hemmed in an ugly gorge,
Pope and Ins A ankees !—w hipped before,
"Bay’uets and grape !” hear Stonewall roar,
Charge, Stuart.’ Pay off'Ashby’s score.
Rules fur foreclosure oi ja on gages must ?e i l„ Stonewall Jackson’s waj !
published monthly for four montus—tor establish
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MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.,\ It was at U;e rinse of a fine au-
Willpractice in this and the adjoining counties, j lumnal day, and the shades ol’eve
The Magician’s Visiter.
EF Applications for Homestead Exemptions
under the new law, and other business before the
Court of Ordinary, will receive proper attention.
October 13. ISfi.S 41 tf
I mug were beginning to gather over
| trie «itr oi Florence, when a low
I quick rap was heard at the daor of I
i Coriclius Agrij)j>a, and shortly after-1
; xvurd a Stranger was introduced in-1
j to the apartment in which tke Phi-
| l«sophcr was sitting at his studies.
The Stranger, although finely j
j formed, and of courteous demeanor,:
j had a certain indefinable air of mys- !
itery about him, which excited awe,
j if, indeed, it ha«i n»t a repellant ef-
i'ect. His years it was difficult to
j guess, for the marks of youth «nd
— _ , I :, S° wcre blended in his features in a
T or tile Speedy PLelief j most extraordinary manner. There
I was not a furrow in his cheek, nor a
.vrinkle on his brow, and his laree
AND PERU WEST CURE OF
Consu in ption,
ASTHMA, GOLDS,
AND ALL DISEASES OF THE
lings, chest or throat
PHL EXIT.f'TfIRAN'
composed excl
black eye beamed with all the bri 1
liancy and vivacity of youth ; but
his stately figure was bent, appa
rently beneath the weight of years ;
his hair, although thick and cluster-
j big, was gray ; and though his voice
: was feeble and tremulous, yet its
! tones were of the most ravishing and
j soul-searching melody. PI is cos
tume was that of a I lorentine sen
which
af It6 Lungs,
causing them to throw of tin- acrid matter which
collects in the Bronchial Tubes, and at the same
• ••it terms a soothing coating, relieving the irri-
ktjon which produces the cough,
he object to be obtained is to cleanse the organ
a.i impurities; to nourish and strengthen it
on H has heconi impaired and enfeebled by dis-
,f s< , ’ *°'renew and invigorate the circulation of
e '°od, and strengthen the nervous organiza-
He EXPECTORANT docs this to an ns-
ismigdegree, it is active but mild and con
i' m »L imparting functional energy aud natural
m!Tv- j t affords Oxygen to vitalize the blood,
11 ‘ !tr,i Rcn to assimilate the matter—
'iiHi's ihe "nervous influence,'’
producing ijuiet and composure.
1 <> COXhlMPTlVES
-i ns it immediately relieves the dif-
k is invalua'
tf- U f au d harassing cough which at-
ten<l8 ihe disease.
<U
healing
sively ot Herb il and Mucilaginous products, | licmau ; bill lie held a Staff like. that
of a Palmer in his hand, and a silken
sash, inscribed with oriental charac
ters, was bound around his waist.
His face was deadly [tale, but eve
ry feature of it was singularly beau
tiful, and its expression was that of
profound wisdom, mingled with
poignant sorrow.
‘‘Pardon me, learned Sir,” said
he, addressing the philosopher, “but
your fame has travelled into all lands,
and has reached all ears;* and 1
could not leave the ftir city of Flor
ence without seeking an interview
with one who is its greatest boast
and ornament.”
“You are right welcome, Sir,”
icturncd Agrippa; “but I fear tlini
your trouble and curiosity will be
but ill repaid. J am simply one,
who, instead ot devoting my days,
as do the wise, to tlie acquirement
of wealth and honor, have passed
long years in painful and unprofita
ble study, in endeavoring to unravel
the secrets ol Nature, and initialing
myself in the mysteries of the occult
sciences.”
“Talkest thou of long years!”
echoed the Stranger, and a melan-
a tic holy smile played over his fea
tures : “thou who hast scarcely seen
fourscore since thou left’st thy cra
dle, and for whom the quiet grave
is now wailing, eager to clasp thee
in her sheltering arms ! I was among
the tombs to day, the still and sol
emn tombs : 1 saw them smiling in
t:ie last beams of the selling sun.
When I was a boy, 1 used to wish
to be like that sun ; his career was
so iqug, so bright, so glorious! But
La night I thought ‘it is belter to
slumber among those tombs than to
Lc like him.’ To-night he sank be
hind the lulls, apparently to repose,
but to-morrow he must renew his
course, and run the same dull and
unvaried, but toilsome and unquiet
race. There is no grave for him 1
• OR ASTHMA
Ires*' 4 8peci!: ‘—°i>e dose often relieving the dis.
Ktit re'jfys U ^ 11 "’ ai '^ P r °dncii:g calm and pleas-
ro«£ CKOUP
PtC'l'dR 1 " d' 1! ‘d he without a bottle of the EX
ou. iiv ANT the house.
Lavin
host in'evit-ib] 1 ' 5 sutierer '"'h«a death appeared ai-
1,101 1IIAIJS US! ADVISED!
I- : htt p it on Ham!!
,0 °uasTi^ °' se!lse . requires prompt action; as
itemed? loar ® e ’.‘ 10 How cough is heard, apply
We have numer-
relieved, almost in-
Rl-r., OUDUUCU ,
* 1 ^ELAY IS DAKUGKOl’S!
- IZY- 5'^rtie, of the EXPECTORANT
. icei.r. i.:.!ritive, balsamic, soothing and
ducesTi ^ braces the nervous system and pro-
58 Peasant an 1 refreshing sleep.
1 EXHILARATES and relieves
ROOMINESS AND DEPRESSION-
tad ontai »ing all these qualiti es in a convenient
ceutrated form, it has proven to be the
my valuable lung balsam
red to sufferers from Pulmonary diseases.
1 reared by
W- H. TUTT & LAND,
Erery»k^' UtV “' “ A
Sheris, 1870 42 6m
and the night and morning dews are
the tears that he sheds over his tyr
annous destiny.”
Agrippa was a deep observer and
admirer of external nature and of till
her phenomena, and had often gazed
upon the scene which the Stranger
described, but the feelings and ideas
which it awakened in the mind of
the latter were so different from any
thing which he had himself experi
enced, that he could not help, for a
season, gazing upon him in speech
less wonder. His guest, however,
speedily resumed the discourse.
“But I trouble you, I trouble you;
then to my purpose in making you
this visit. I have heard strange talcs
of a wondrous Mirror, which your
potent art has enabled you to con
struct, in winch whosoever looks
may see the distant, or the dead, on
whom he is desirous again to fix his
gaze. M}' eyes see nothing in this
outward visible world which can be
pleasing to their sight; the grave
has closed over all I loved; and
Time has carried down its stream
every thing that once contributed to
my enjoyment. The world is a vale
ot tears; but among all the tears
which water that sad valley, not one
is shed for me! the fountain in my
own heart, too, is dried up. 1 would
once again look upon the face which
I loved ; I would see thar eye mare
bright, ami that step more stately,
than the antelope’s; that brow, the
j broad smooth page on which God
had inscribed his fairest characters.
I would gaze on all I loved, and all
I lost. Such a gaze would be dear
er to my heart than all that the world
has to offer me; except the grave!
except the grave!”
Tite passionate pleading of the
btranger had such an effect uj>on
Agrippa, who was not used to ex
hibit his miracle of art to the eyes of
all who desired to look in it; altho’
he was often lemjRed by exorbitant
presents and high honors to do so,
that he readily consented to grant
the request of his extraordinary vis
iter.
“Whom would’sl thou see?” lie
inquired.
“My child ! my own sweet Miri
am !” answered the Stranger.
Cornelius immediately caused ev
ery ray of the light of heaven to be
excluded from the chamber, placed
the Stranger on his right hand, and
commenced chanting, in a low, soft
tone, and in a strange language,
some lyrical verses, to which the
Stranger thought he heard occasion
ally a response ; but it u’as a sound
so faint and indistinct, that he hard
ly knew whetheritexisted any where
but iu his own fancy. As Cornelius
continued his chant, the room gradu
ally became illuminated, but whence
the light proceeded it was impossi
ble to discover. At length the Stran
ger plainly perceived a large Mir
ror, which covered the whole of the
extreme etui of the apartment, and
over the surface of which a dense
haze, or cloud, seemed to be rapidly
passing.
“Died she in wedlock’s holy
bands?” inquired Cornelius.
“She was a virgin, spotless as the
snow.”
“How many years have passed
away since the grave closed over
her ?”
A cloud gathered on the Stranger’s
brow, and he answered somewhat
impatiently, “Many, many ! more
than I now have time to number.”
“Nay,” said Agrijtpa, “hut I must
know, for every ten years that have
elapsed since her death once must I
wave this wand ; and when I have
waved it for the last time you will
see her figure in yon mirror.”
“Wave on, then,” said the Stran
ger, and groaned bitterly, “wave on ;
and take heed that thou be not
weary.”
Cornelius Agrippa gazed on his
strange guest with something of an
ger, but he excused his want of cour
tesy, on the ground of the probable
extent of his calamities. He then
waved his magic wand many times,
but, to his consternation, it seemed
to have lost its virtue. Turning a-
gain to the Stranger, he exclaimed,
“Who, and what at t thou, man? Thy
presence troubles me. According
to all the rules of my art, this wand
has already described twice two
hundred years: still has the surface
of the mirror experienced no altera
tion. Say, dost thou mock me, and
did no such person ever exist as thou
hast described to me?”
“Wave on, wave on!” was the
stern and only reply which this in
terrogatory extracted from the Stran
ger.
The curiosity of Agrippa, altho’
he was himselfa dealer in wonders,
began now to be excited, and a mys
terious feeling of awe forbade him
to desist from waving his wand,
much as he doubled the sincerity of
his visiter. As his arm grew slack,
he heard the deep solemn tones of
the Stranger, exclaiming, “Wave on,
wave on !” and at length, after his
wand, according to the calculations
of his art, had described a period ol
nearly fifteen hundred years, the
cloud cleared away from th« surface
of the mirror, and the Stranger, with
an exclamation of delight, arose, and
gazed rapturously upon the scene
which was there represented.
An exquisitely rich and romantic
prospect was before him: in the
distance arose lofty mountains
crowned with cedars; a rapid stream
rolled in the centre, and in the fore
ground were seen camels grazing ; a
rill trickling by, in which some sheep
were quenching their thirst: and a
lofty palm tree, beneath whose shade
a young female of exquisite beauty,
and richly habited in the costume
of the East, was sheltering herself
from the of the noontide sun.
“*T:s she I Tis sne!” shouted
the Stranger, and he was rushing to
wards the mirror, hut was prevented
by Cornelius, who said,—
“Forbear, rash man, to quit this
spot! with each step (hat thou ad-
vancest towards the mirror, the im
age will become fainter, and sbouldst
thou approach too near, it will en
tirely vanish.”
Thus warned, he resumed his
station, but his agitation was so ex
cessive, that he was obliged to lean
on the arm of the philosopher for
support; while, from lime to lime,
he uttered incoherent expressions of
wonder, delight anil lamenlalion.
“’Tis she! ’tis she ! even as she
looked while living! How beautiful
she is! Miriam, my child! canst
thou not speak tome? By Heaven,
she moves! she smiles! Oh! speak
to rne a single word ! or only breathe
or sigh ! Alas! all’s silent; dull and
desolate as this cold heart! Again
that smile! that smile, the remem
brance of which a thousand years
have not been able to freeze up in
my heart! Old man, it is in vain to
hold me! I must, will clasp her!”
As lie uttered these last words, he
rushed franticly towards the mirror;
the scene represented within it faded
away; the cloud gathered again over
its surface, and the stranger sank
senseless to the earth !
When he recovered his conscious
ness, he found himself in the arms
of Agrippa, who was chafing his
temples and gazing on him with
looks of fear and wonder. He im
mediately rose on his feet, with re
stored strength, arid, pressing the
hand of his host, he said, “Thanks,
thanks, for thy courtesy and thy
kindness; and for the sweet but
painful sight which thou hast pre
sented to my eyes.”
As he spake these words, he put a
purse into the hand of Cornelius,
but the latter returned it, saving,
“Nay, nay, keep thy gold, friend. I
know not, indeed, that a Christian
man dare take it; but. be that as it
may, I shall esteem myself suffi
ciently rej)aid, if thou wilt tell me
who thou arl.”
“Behold !” said the Stranger,
pointing to a large historical picture
which hung on the left hand of the
room.
“I see,” said the philosopher, “an
exquisite work of art, the production
of one of our best and earliest art
ists, representing oar Saviour carry
ing his cross.”
“But look again!” said the Stran
ger. fixing his keen dark ryes intent
ly on him, and pointing to a figure
on the left hand of the picture.
Cornelius gazed, and saw with
wonder what lie had not observed
before, the extraordinary resem
blance which this figure bore to the
Stranger, of whom, indeed, it might
be said to be a portrait. “That,”
said Cornelius, with an emotion of
horror, “is intended to represent the
unhappy infidel who smote the di
vine Sufferer for not walking faster ;
and was therefore, condemned to
walk the earth himself, until the pe
riod of that Sufferer’s second com
ing.” “’Tis I! ’tis I!” exclaimed
ihe Stranger; and rushing out of
the house, rapidly disappeared.
Then did Cornelius Agrippa know
that he had been conversing with
the Wandeiing Jew !
Fokget Me Not, 1828.
THE GERMAN a ,GT1C Lii EDlTTOS.
In May, a year, the steamer Ger
mania, with a small schooner, the
Hansa, as tender, sailed from Bte-
rnen to exjdore the Arctic Sea, and
push as far as possible toward the
North-Pole. The two having part-
ted in a boisterous gale of wind, the
Germania wintered in latit. 74 deg.
north,on the coast of East Green
land, and sent out sledge parties
which travelled up the coast io77 deg.
north, obtaining addition to geograph
ical science. The shij) rotured last
September to Bremen, all well.
The same good fortune did not
attend the Hansa. After parting
coilj yiny wrh her consort, she was
steerew lo> the north in putsuance of
instructions, and in endeavoring to
force a passage through the ice be
came beset, and on the ISth of Sep
tember was completely frozen in. in
latitude 73° 0’ north, longitude 19°
IS’ west. Amid news of' battles,
sieges, painful diplomacy, this last-
finished adventure in Arctic discov
ery will scarcely he noticed, and
yet it involved conflict with danger
and heroic endurance, which, sim--
ply told in the journals of Dr. Gus
tav Laube, of the University of
Vienna, and Dr. Buchholz, of the
University of Griefswalde, both of
whom were attached to the expedi
tion tor scientific purposes, command
adtniration. Anticipating the pub
lication of these journals in another
of the many books that make uj>
the library of Artie expeditions, let
us translate, from Petermtmn’a
Miil/tcilungen, a sketch of the last
adventurous voyage undertaken to
explore hitherto inaccessible seas
and shores.
Hit- i rim
men who L
(UT^The many admirers of Von
Moltke in America, will doubtless
be giatifled by reading the lollovving
accounts of his appreciation of our
late war. The story is given in a
Versailles letter -* “General Von
Moltke was appealed to by some
gentlemen in society the other even
ing, to settle some disputed pointj in
connection with the history of the
American civil war. ‘I know noth
ing aboul the American civil war,’
was the quid reply, at which more
than one in the room expressed sur
prise. ‘No,’ said the great strate
gist. ‘1 have purposely kept my
self in ignorance upon the subject,
because there was nothing to be
learned from it, War is a science,
and any record of the mere scramb
ling of two armed mobs can only
produce confusion in the mind.”
Tioga, N. Y., has been nearly destroy
ed by fire.
The sledge parties Irom the Ger-
minia were perpetual through last
winter. They were absent on their
respective tours from six to eighty
days, travelling from forty-four to
seven hundred and sixty miles. Of
ten a bear, a wolf, or musk-ox, at
tracted attention around, while re
markable parhelia glittered aloft in
the heavens. Mock suns—arcs con
centric or inverted—and segments
of inverted arcs, showing the bright
est of prismatic colors, are described j
in the journals with mathematical
precision. These phenomena were to uo
most brilliant when the cold was
most intense. An observant Eng
lish tar, who seems to have be<_-n
the Sam Weller of the Germania,
remarked upon these coruscations,
that ‘ when them ’ere sun-dogs shows
themselves we always gets double
allowance from Jack Frost.” The
men cheerfully faced tlie biting gale
and sturdily advanced against the
snow-drift. Often the snow lay-
deep and soft, with a crusted sur
face through which the entire party
sank. Again, the route was over
long waves of suddenly frozen ice,
studded with hemispherical icy
mounds. Some of the [tal lies were
frost-bitten; others had snow-blind
ness in one or both eyes; and all
suffered from aching limbs. Yet no
man’s heart shrunk from the encoun
ter with cold, pain, blindness, and
peril of life. In drawing the sledges
the snow-blinds were placed in the
ieat, as vision only was needed in
the leaders to see the way. • Wine
of opium was ajtplied to the eyes of
the sufferers with good effect, though
it caused excruciating pain. Often,
in drinking, the lips adhered to the
edge of the vessels, and the accu
mulation of ice on the beard contin
ually irritated the mouth. Wash
ing being impracticable, every face
acquired a dark complexion, be
grimed wilh dirt anti soot. The
big toe on the left fool of every one
was frost-bitten. One poor tellow,
refusing remedies, who kept bravely
dragging at a belated sledge all
night, succumed the next day, and
now rests in a grave beneath the
chilled surface of Griffith Island. At
one lime, when the whole party of
nine men and sixteen dogs were
cramped together in a lent, pressed
in by accumulation of snow, the
growl of a white bear was heard
close by. The dogs seemed par
alyzed with fear. Bruin poked his
nose upon the poles and brought
down the canvas on top of dogs and
men together. The position was
imminent. The dogs escaped, howl
ing. Cramped by clothing and
skins, the men with difficulty crawl
ed out from the smothering sur
rounding. All ended safely, how
ever, and it is satisfactory to know
that the beast paid for his temerity
with his life.
The most remarkable of these
journeys was made by Dr. Buch-
haiz, with a party often sailors and
twenty-eight dogs, who reached one
of the western points of Melville Is
land, distant from the Germania
three hundred and sixty miles in a
direct line, which it took eighty
days, going and coming, to accom
plish. The indomitable spirit of tic-
doctor’s associates is well illustra
ted by his own statement, that the
most disagreeable duly he had to
perform was to enforce
to the ship of thos<
received injuries, much greater than
they themselves wcic aware of, and
who evinced the strongest desire to
proceed, even endeavoring to con
ceal from each other their frost
bites and the pain which labor occa
sioned them.
To understand the value of these
sledge-exjieditions, it is necessary
to remember that the eighty-third
parallel bounds our knowledge. Ail
beyond is a blank to geograjdiers.
Parry in IS27 barely leached S2°
45’. Kane in 1S64 touched on!}'
Sl° 22’, sighting at the same lime
a lofty mountain which he estimated
to be in S2° 30’. What lies beyond
is the |*«Llem ic Le solved. Is it
an unbroken wilderness of ice? Is
the great ocean around the North-
Pole forever stiffened into a shape
less mass of untlmwed hummocks
and unchanging icebergs? Or, far
beyond where civilized man has
penetrated, is there, as all authentic
evidence goes to prove, a bound to
the ice, and open ocean, and an out
let to thej mysterious channels be
yond?
The Germania, as has been said,
returned safely to Bremen last Au
gust. She brought no news of her
consort, the Hansa. The two ships
had parted company in August,
1S69. Nothing had been heard af
terward of the stanch lifile tender.
She was last seen making her way
m the midst of a dri\ ing snow-storm
through floes and fields and bergs,
her head bravely facing the north
west. Nothing more. “Quick!
quick! bear a hand everywhere and
with everything!” had been all that
under Providence had saved the
Germania from being crushed be
tween the floating masses on that
fearful August night. The Harisa
disappeared, perhaps to go down in
the gale, perhaps to be driven into
the unknown west which swallowed
uj) Franklin and his one hundred
and thirty-nine [licked seamen.
Friends of the absent began to be
alarmed. The University of Vien
na, which had lost its Dr. Laube,
were urgent to dispatch a ship of
rescue. The committee of manage
ment, hampered by the unexpected
war. were at their wits’ ends what
In the midst of the excite
ment news came from Copenhagen
ot the safety of the officers and crew,
and in October the missing mariners
were all landed, not one lost, at Bre
men. Their story may be shortly
told.
The Hansa, after parting compa
ny wilh the Germania, was steered
northward. In endeavoring to force
a passage through the ice, she be
came beset, and on the 19th of Sep
tember, 1SG9, was completely frozen
in. This wa3 the beginning only of
tribulation. Ice accumulated around
the vessel. Immense pressure from
floating masses in ihe sea beyond
increased. Her timbers began to
crack. The drift of the whole body
of ice perpetually changed her posi
tion. Like wedges driven in one
after the other, lh-2 floes pressed up
on her keel, until nipped beyond all
her limbers could endure, she went
down a shapeless wreck.
The officers and crew, fourteen
persons in all, escaped. They were
twenty miles from land. Provis
ions, cordage and stores, had been
previously taken out of the ship. It
was the last ot October. On the
huge flow they made themselves at
home. There they built a house
with planks and sails; enclosed it
with blocks of ice and snow ; stack
ed around it their barrels of provis
ions ; healed it by a huge fire-place;
contrived to ignite the blocks of coal
that hail been saved ; made of mat
tresses and blankets, buffalo-robes
and skins, a common sleeping-place;
organized themselves into regular
watches ; formed a compact that no
one of their number could break
without consent of the w'hole; and
so passed the winter, trusting to the
southerly drift on which the Arctic
ice is slowdy borne. No discipline
was ever more severe than that to
which these fourteen men voluntari
ly agreed. They formed a commu
nity more perfect than Lebanon or
Oneida. The word of command
from the head became law to all.
Even the bears anil foxes that visit
ed them w'ere not inoles.ed without
previous concurrence.
At the end of December, obser
vations taken four times daily, show
ed that they had drifted more than
five degrees. They had been nipped
at 73 deg. G min.; they had been
carried down to G8 deg.; a distance,
in virtual midwinter, on a solid area
of ice, without perceptible motion, of
more than three hundred miles.
Aboul the middle of April, in storm
and mist, greatly to the surprise of
all the party, the floe began to break'
up. Loud noises, sometimes resemb
ling thunder, sometimes successive
and sharp as volleys of musketry,
were heard all around them. Hum-
mucks were observed to settle. Fis
sures like Alpine crevasses were ob-
fserved. Motion became apparent.
Ufm arm around, which in October
ha 1 c.ujipi -t d many square miles,
was reduei d to rods. Their house
was destroyed, and, taking to their
boats, illy clad and short of provis
ions—so suddenly at last had they
fled from their insecure shelter—
they awaited for five days and nights
the final destruction of the floe. The
southerly drift continued, and the
voyagers were swept along with it.
On the 7th of May the observations
taken showed them to be at G1 deg.
12 min.; Cape Farewell could not
be far distant; steering out there
fore into the dangerous sea, with
leaky boats, scant eoidage, and one
unshipped rudder, w ith half rations
and brackish water, they battled
their way through and over the ice
to the shore. On the thirteenth ot
June, they entered a bay and found
themselves at the Friedriehsial Mis-
ion Station, where their weary and
perilsorne voyage came to an end.
From the mission the adventurers
went on to Julianshaab, w'here thev
found passage to Copenhagen, and
lauded in that port September 1st.
There are novel points about this
expedition which will be studied
with interest by those who are con
templating as well as those engaged
iii filling out another Arctic expedi
tion. The time and distance of the
drilt are, it is believed, the greatest
on record. ?'Juch has probably not
been gained for geography by either
of the voyages. But the observa
tions made by th<* scientific inen on
board both vessels—the meteorolo
gical data collected—and the narra
tive of perils encountered by the he
roic little hand of the Hansa, eveiv
individual of which (to the amaze
ment of the Esquimaux that any one
survived such a weary drift upon a
field of ice.) arrived safely home,
will add an interesting volume to
Arctic voyaccJiterature.
^ Excavation's at Athens, Greece.—
King George, of Greece, is excavating
the ancient Panathenaic Stadium at
Athens. Ho has purchased at hig own
expense, the land supposed to have
been occupied by the race course on
the right bank of the Illyssus, and work
men are engaged in removing the depose
its of earth. At a depth of several feet
a perfect semi • ircular wall of compact
marble has been exposed, and a corres
ponding iut:rior wall of perfect masonry.
Between these the spectators passed, as
cending through marble entrances—two
of which have also been discovered —to
the scats in the ampithe; tre above.
These walls are supposed to have ex
tended around the entire length of the
race ground, and may be still existing.
1 lie upper end is in perfect preservation.
Part6 of columns have been found with
carved work at the bases, and other
marble fragments forming portions of
the doorways and seats. It will not bo
surprising if King Geoige’s discoveries
excel those made along the shores of the
Acropolis, which arc now only second
to the Parthenon and the Tharum. The
length of the Stadium was GOO yards,
the semi-circle end was artificial, and
the natural slope of the banks formed
the ampitheatre, where 40,000 spectators
seated themselves on the turf. Herodes
Atticus constructed the marble steps and
seats, and this is the work now brought
to light. It is described by Pausanius
as Laving been “of white marble, aud
wonderful to behold.” The King in
tends to upturn the earth over the whole
extent ot the plaiu and hill sides, so
that whatever cx;>ts in the way of stone
work maybe revealed.
It is well known that in different
purls of the world there are people
who eat earth; among them are
some of the natives of Java, who eat
a red kind ol earth as a luxry. This
earth, which is soft and smooth to
the touch, has been analyzed by a
German chemist, who finds it very
rich in iron, with a small quantity of
potassa and soda. Some tribes eat
earth to stay the pangs of hunger by
filling their stomachs, and because
at times they can get nothing belter;
but the people in Java eat their
earth, baked in thin cakes, as an
agreeable variety in their genaral
diet. The rakes, when slightly
moistened, arc rich ai d unctuous,
and the enjoyment in eating is sup
posed to consist in the sensation pro
duced by a fatty substance. It is a
curious fact in the history of human
habits.
An escaped menagerie elephant
played burglar in Si. Louis a few
nights ago, forcing open several
houses and frightening the female
occupants, and being driven away
from one of them only by the blows
of a sword on his trunk. He died
of cold in the streets before morn»
ing.
There are nearly seven thousand
French Canadians employed in the
factories and workshops of Connec
ticut. The region along the St.
Lawrence is prolific in quiet, indus
trious laborers; and as it does not
produce very much of anything else,
the young people have emigrated in
large numbers to the adjacent New-
England States.
There is no other town of “ts s’ze, in
the South that is growing so fist as Romo
is,—Rome Courier.
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