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•6. ;,. f. (Jr r Vol. T il E SOUTHERN RECORDER. BV o 11 .'I E & II A R I! I S 0 X. BASCONI MVKICK, Editor Terills $ 2,00 per annum, in Advance. t . f{r isiNC—I’er.square of ten lines, each A ■ *i 00. Merchants and others forall lUSe ,-a:5 )ver $ -23,twenty-five per cent. off. LEGAL advertising. s .—Citations tor letters ol ad- uardianship ,&c $3 00 2 00 letters of disin’n from adm’n 5 00 'n of ffuard’n yjOrdinary s ministration.S Hom- stead notice AiDlicati"ntor Application for letters oldism Application for leave to sell Land v c ., in Debtors and Creditors Land, per square of ten lines ® , s .. '..li ncr sq., ten days c. e o persouat pci > - Ml». P" *1- 0* months) 1 -Foreclosure of mortgage and otn- per square 3 i»0 r> oo 3 oo 5 00 1 50 2 50 5 00 5 00 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 iaelast papers, for the full space of three months- : Ah. maiden ! wait, and watch, and yearn forc*)iiip* J lli n £ t,lt ^ es ^ ruin Executors or Aairuiiis- AKor news from Stonevvall's band; trators,where bond has been given by the de-i h. widow ! read with eyes that burn. c easftd.the full space ot three months. Char£«*, j That ring? upon f\iy hand; a| iij par square ot ten lines lor each insertion. I All, wife ! sew on, pray on, hope on! Piblici-ioas will always be continued accord Thy life shall not be all forlorn. ; [jrr to thes-. the legal requirements, unless oth- j I he foe had better ne’er been born erwise ordered. Cl' r e r montiny Estray Tribut Obituaries 1 00 3 00 of Respect, Resolutions by Societies, Ate..,exceeding sir. lutes,to be charged , transient advertising. f^Sales of Laud, by Administrators, Execu- ,Jsr Ohus, are required by law, to be held tors or (fiiaui.• *. t , , . t -fuesdav m the month, between the 1 ' e in the "forenoon aud three in the af- heursoiteu in t . , . . . • i eruoon, attheCouri-h-use m tne county in which the property is Notice ot these gazette 40 days pr Notice for es mustbegiven in a public ioustothe day r of sale. ■ sale of personal property must be j jjemanner 10 days previous to sale day. P\Z. , , , .li-btors aud creditors of an estate must also be published 40 days. \ ,ticc that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be published for tw o mouths 'citations for letters of Administration, Guar dianship- Ac.,must be published 30days—for dis mission from Administration, monthly si c months , Dr dismission from guardianship, 40 days. foreclosure of Mortgages must be I establish j I bst falls in Stone wall's wav. WHITE J T. Yv 4U±artl£LL-CLt-^£aLl, 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. MNHMM