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Vol. LII. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY , MARCH 7, 1871. No. 9. T H E SOUTHERN RECORDER. BY 0 rME & HA RBI SON. 4St O?I 31V KICK, Kditcr * erms 55.UJ i'cr annum, in Advance. ^oTisixr.—Per square of ten lines, each ' U,TE jjj oil. Merchants and others forall linert'® 0, twentv-tiveper cent.otf. jiDOiintaJ" 3 gOrdinary I.EGAL ADVERTISING. ,' S .—Citations tor letters oi ad- iinistr'tion guardianship Au... jjl 3 00 Hom-stea jett e rs of dism’n from adm’n 5 i f P Vatioiiior lettersof dism'n of guard’ll 3 50 APP . on fer leave to sell Land 5 00 A . PP ‘ 1C f i‘b'ors and Creditors 3 00 }£o?uU?crs,..r«^ 5 00 **‘ cs f . fV .i . )t »r so., ton Jays 1 50 S»ie of P«'« ‘ 1 of q , ( ,, Unts, or less.. 2 50 Sktn K, Als of ten ttnrs or (css 5 Oh Mortga/v -j per sq. (ii months) 5 00 Tot Colieetoi f san-n. F h v , ' jLi-F^eeiosttre ot mortgage and oth- ‘TU«r-.» w T''° ■ Vjtrav notices.thirty days - 00 Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by Societies , • 0 V, . .vc.-edniff six lines, to be chartered Obituaries. A'; u »* t s transient ad'ei „■ ... „ s . t i eso t Land, by Administrators, Execu- r 7nr Guardian-, ate required by law, to be held ,, l'uesday in the month, between the hours 6 often in the forenoon and three in the af- n ° „ at the Court house in the county in which ernoon. atuiey,o,u the property is situated . Notice of these salts must be given in a public gazette 40 Jays previous to the day of sale. Notice for the sale of personal property must he pitvn inlikemanner 10 days previous to sale day. 8 Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate »ust *l*o be published 40 days Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be published for two months. K Citations for lettersof Administration, Guar dianship. Ai'., must be published 30 days—for dis- mission from Administration, monthly sit months , £ r dismission from guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure oi Mortgages must be published monthly for four months—for establish inelosi papers, for the full space of three months — fsrcompelling titles from Executors or Adminis trators,where bond has been given by the de ceased, the full space of three months. Charge, |l 00 persquare of ten lines for each insertion. Publications will always be continued accord lug to the:,?, tins legal requirements, unless oth- cTnise ordered. ijp.yrrits't). LIFE’S ANSWER. What art thou, Life? I am a treasure, l.nt By many dead, that many living heed not, am the scroll that be.ars a message, sent By many dead, too many living read not. Read thou it w-.ll, for I would have thee know I am no dream, whatever else I be! None read so well as they who read and do—I Who doth his part , he also readeth me. Not for great thing-alone my message Crieth, Nor little things alone for it are meet. The vale close by the mighty mountain lietk; Se, mix' d w th joy, some sorrow too is sweet; Li7e, I lien, thy life, that when this scroll doth end, Its message still tliou shall both keep and lend. L. B. MOORE. Oh, deem not they are blessed alone Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep, For God, who pities man, hath shown A blessing for the eyes that weep. The light of smiles shall fill again The lids that overflow with tear-; And weary hours of woe and pain Are promises of happier years. There is a day rf sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may bide an evening guest. But joy shall come with early light. Nor let the good man's trust depart, Though life its common gifts deny; Though with a pierced and b okeu heait, And spurned of men he goes to die Fur God has marked each sorrowing day, And numbered every secret tear, And heaven’s long age of bliss ihall pay For all his children suffer here. —Bryant- I. W. WHITE, -Iffai-nrti -at-Afaw., M1LLEI)GEVILLE, GA , Will practice in this and the adioining counties. ty Applications for HomesU-ad Exemptions under the new law. and ot.',.- r business before the (Lurtof Ordinary, will receive proper attention. October 13. l-hir! For the Speedy Relief j AND PERMANENT CLUE OF Cons u in p t i o ii, I3roia.clo.itl3, ASTHffiA, COLDS, | AND ALL DISEASES OF THE LINGS, CHEST OB THROAT!! The EXPECTORANT is composed exclu-j J- kively of Herbal and Mucilaginous products, which FfifineaLe ihe vq hi.:, of th Litr, i causing- them to throw of the acrid matter which collects iu the Bronchial 'l ubes, and at the same ! time forms a soothing coating, relieving the irri I t l tion produces the cough. The object to be obtained is to cleanse the organ | •*ill impurities; to nourish and strengthen it! ■wnenii has become impaired and enfeebled by dis- ®* ,e; to renew and invigorate tin- circulation of the blood, am] -• lengthen the nervous organiza- ,lon - r he EXPEC 1 ORAN 1' does this to an as- tomriungdegree. It is active but mild and con- S®mal, imparting functional energy and natural I •treogth. h afi'ords Oxygen to vitalize the blood, *nu Nitrogen to assimilate the matter— izf's tne nervous influence, producing quiet aud composure. TO CO\>l'.?II*TIVES o« invaluable, as it immediately relieves the dil- M,t breathing and harassing cough w hich at ‘•ads the disease. i CIS ASTHAIA p a specific—one dose often relieving the dis. essirig choking, and producing calm and pleas- repose. FOB CBOTP pi.?5 ller should be without a bottle of the LX Bn -RANT in the Lou^e. w e have numer- * ^rfili- atcs of its having relieved, almost in- “t.y.the little sufferer,when death appeared al most inevitable. nOTHEUS BE ADVISED! j Keep u on Band! loo* disease requires prompt action ; as w Uh8 l * i(: hoarse, hollow cough is heard, apply remedy, and it is easily subdued ; 15lT DELAY IS DAKGE!tOl'§! »rf?" P ^ fc properties of the EXPECTORANT l 'nuleent, nutritive, balsamic, soothing and d tl * ' " i braces the nervous system aud pro- ce * pleasant and refreshing sleep. IT EXHILARATES AND RELIEVES gloominess and depression. Containing ail these qualities in a convenient concentrated form, it has proven to he the mi VALUABLE LUNG BALSAM ®ver offered to sufferers iiom Pulmonary diseases Prepared by W. H. TUTT & LAND, j 11 , AUGUSTA, GA sold bi Druijisin Everywhere. October 18,1870 42 Gm TnE MOUNT CEN1S TUNNEL- Auother of those stupendous accom plishments by which the last decade has been tendered singularly glorious has been announced. With the depar ture ol the old year the great tunnel thiongh Mount Cenis was completed, and Fiance and Italy brought into fa cile communication with each other. The project which for many years was the dream ot leading Continental states men, and which the illustrious Count C’avour so warmly promoted, and which has occupied ten years of arduous labor under the direction of the most skillful engineers, has been consummated. The DGth of December dates the time when this great undertaking of piercing a lofty mountain cs.me to its triumphant result, ami the workmen ot both sides sh ok hands in mutual gratulations- The tunnel is seven miles in length; “a work,” in the* language of an intelligent writer, ‘‘ot thirty years, according to the most sanguine expectation, has been crowded into ten by the inventive genius, fidelity, skill, and application of the engineers. Samnieiller, Grattoni, and (’apello.” Alas! that France cab not at once en ter upon the use of this way through the mountain, in the interest of peace aud civilization, now that its completion a result which she so eirnestly longed for, has come. May it herald the dawn ing of a new and better peace for her, an era of freedom and true growth. It cau not be that such an accomplishmest of civilization contrasting ao vividly with the barbarism ol the war now desolating the fertile valleys of France, is no omen of a belter state of affairs, The nation stricken in the midst of its seeming splendor and greatness, and saourged almost Utito death, may derive new courage from I ho nation which il sprin ging into new life and casting aside the baubles and falsities of the past. That is * right spirit which would have us ‘ receive the omen which comes to us in this season, consecrated to sen timents of benevolence, friendliness, aud Christian exultation. Let us ac cept it as an omen of the reality' of Ita ly’s resurrection, a* the assurance to France of a new and nobler aivilization to be borne out of her recent chasten ing any labor pains.” And let the world receive it also as a new omen of the progression of human thought. Mind is accomplishing a victory over matter. Man is asserting now more than ever before bis dominion over na ture. His triumphs ou the battle fields may bring about better things than were known before, but the “baptism of blood and fire,” oh, how terribla! His triumphs in the peaceful, flowery fields ol science and philosophy accom plish a thousand fold more aad challenge only the love and gratitude of nations. Vanity is rather a mark of humility than pride Vain men delight in telling what honors have been done them, what great company they have kept, and the like, by which they plainly confess that these honors were mote than their due, and such as their friends would not be lieve, if they had not been told; where as. a man truly frond, thinks the honons below his merit, and scorns to boast. Those who think themselves high- spirited an will bear least, as they speak, aic often even by that forced to bow most, or to burst under if; while humility and meekness escape many a burden and many a blow, always keep ing peace v,ithiu, and often without, too. The best humor is that which con tains most humanity, that which is fla vored throughout with tenderness and kindness. THE HAUNTED SHIP In the year 1853 I was first mate of the “H.,” a three-decked ship of about fifteen hundred tons burden, lying in Mobile bay waiting for a cargo of cotton. Our sailors, twenty- four in number, were all colored men, pretty fair seamen generally, but, with four or five exceptions, wo- fully ignorant, and correspondingly superstitious. We had been in the bay between three and lour months, so the spars and rigging had been thoroughly overhauled and put to rights. I was sitting in the cabin one evening planning out work for the ensuing day, when my second mate, a rough old seaman of the packet school, requested an audi ence. “Well, Mr. K., what is the mailer now ?” “The matter is, sir, that those darkeys forward there are getting so scared that unless we do something to or for them they won.t be worth shucks; some of them ain’t good for much now, and there’s no use in having the rest of’em spoiled.” “But what are they frightened at ? I have never heard anything of it before now ?” “No! they were afraid to say any thing lo you about it; bu' for the last month they have a yarn about a headless ghost going around the decks at night, groaning at an awful rale. Some of’em say it’s a darkey without a head, and others say it’s a white chap with a black face ; but whatever it is, there they are, afraid to come on deck after dark or stand anchor-watch alone.” “This is a strange piece of busi ness. If there is a ghost aboard 1 should think it would first pay its respects lo the quarter-deck. Do you think any of the rascals are playing tricks ?” “No, sir! the knowingest ones is the most scared. There’s Boh and Jackson ought to knov- better, but they both swear they saw- it in the middle-watch last night; just told the third male so.” “Well, suppose we go and inquire into it.” We went forward together, and came down so suddenly upon the sailors that they evidently thought two ghosts had arrived instead of one. After the alarm and confusion had subsided, I told them what I had already heard, and asked for further information, which was read ily furnished by a dozen eager vol unteers, who, now that their tongues were loosened by auihoriiy, seemed anxious to outrival each other in their tale of horrors It is needless to re- peat their stories ; but about half of them had seen the ghost in one of its forms, and all of them had repeated ly heard the groans. Bob anti Jack- son, my two best men, who were acting as boatswains, positively de clared that they had seen it in the forecastle on the previous night, standing up against the bill where I was then leaning. This bill, a tim ber about a foot square, coming down through from the upper to the main deck, near the middle of the fore castle, was painted black up to with in a foot of the deck, and the re mainder of it lead color. On either side of it, in the spar-deck, was a bull’s eye to admit light, and there were several nails on which were hanging various articles of clothing. “You saw the ghost standing right here, did you “Yes, sir! right where you are now, sir!” “Was the moon shining last night?” “Yes, sir! quite bright in the mid dle watch !” “Did you speak to or try to catch the ghost ?” “No, sir! wouldn’t do such a thing for the world!” “If you had, you would have found out that the ghost was nothing more nor less than this bitt, with the moon shining through the bull’s eyes on it and on the clothing you see hanging there now. I never knew of a ghost that didn’t dwindle into a moonbeam or a piece of linen.” There was a general look of in credulity upon the faces of the crew, and one of them mustered up cour age lo ask: “But how about the groans and noises, sir ? ’* “O, some of you snore loud, and all the rest is imagination.” Finding that argument or persua sion were of B no use in altering the opinions of my crew, I left them af ter giving the following admonition : “Now, men! in the first place, there are no such things as ghosts; and secondly, I wish you to under stand that there is no ghost aboard of this ship; and if you can’t be made to understand it in any other way, I’ll give you the fun of hunting all night for it. You know what I mean. Good night.” Having given the second male his orders for the following day, I sat down Lo think the matter over, and “ask myself a few questions,” as the sailors say. One thing that had puzzled me was now accounted for. Several of the men had come to ine for permission lo be transferred -to other ships that were ready for sea, but this I had attributed to the char acteristic restlessness of the class. My ship was considered a good one for sailors; they were well fed and kindly used so long as they behaved themselves ; had plenty of work to do, so that there was no time lor growling or fomenting discord. It was the ghost that made them anxious to leave the ship. There was no fear of their running away ashore, because, in those days, if a colored man could not show his free papers in the South, he wai presum ably a slave, and held as such; but theie were many ships in the bay that were short-handed, and it was no uncommon thing tor men to be spirited away from one ship to an other, when the latter was going to sea early in the morning. Mates of ships were not very scrupulous about the manner of filling up their crews in those days, as I well knew. Hav ing pondered over all these things carefully, and not seeing any pres ent way out of my troubles, I turned in, trusting to fortune for the future, but at the same time I resolved to keep an extra look-out whenever any ships were about getting ready for sea. Things progressed as usual aboard of the ship for several days, and I heard nothing more about the ghost; but my own time was coming. One evening I had given my junior offi cers permission lo absent themselves from the ship, and was sitting by myself alone in the cabin awaiting their return. Being tired of my book, I sat dozing in a chair, when my reveries were disturbed by a sound like a half-smothered groan, that seemed to come from the for ward part ot the cabin on the star board side. I was wide awake in an instant, though scarcely able to credit my senses. The groans were distinct enough, and were repeated in about the same interval that is required for a human breath; still, my light did not burn blue, nor did the ghost appear. As I listened the sounds came nearer, hut seemed lo rise up from the lower between- decks. 1 felt assured that the men. knowing my officers were absent, had airanged this plan to try my nerves. Without any further con- sideiation, I slipped of! my shoes, trimmed tny dark lantern, armed myself with a good slick and started in search ot the ghost. Going to the main hatch, the only one open, 1 went down between decks, and, hauling the ladder tafter me, pro ceeded aft. where the noises could he distinctly heard; but before reaching the mizzen mast, they came apparently from my feet. This was not pleasant, but my pride was a- roused, and if there was any trick in the matter, it would not do for me to back out without discovering it; so I went back lo the main hatch again, and down to the lower deck; hut this time 1 did not take the ladder away. Flashing the light ahead of me, 1 went caretully along, gu irding against 3urpiise. This was need less, for, upon reaching the locality of the sounds, they were beneath my feet again, coming up from the lower,hold. Matters were assum ing an unpleasant aspect. I will not say that my hair stood on end, but certainly my feet stood still, while my confidence in the super natural ai d myself began to slightly shaken. 1 hesitated, doubted, and finally concluding that it would be better to wait until my officers re turned before pursuing the investi gation, beat a most inglorious retreat to the cabin; but there I could not rest, for now the sounds were appa rently under the cabin floor, as if had followed me up from the lower hold. Suddenly 1 thought of the carpenter, a stalwart Dutchman, and, hurrying lo his room roused him out. “Chips! Do you hear that noise?” “Yes, sir! I pese hear him many tunes, and I shust puts mine head unter mine plankels and says no tings.” “Turn out now, and come down in the hold with me, and will see what it is.” “Dunder unt Blitzen! Ishallnicht go.” “Come along, you fool,” said I, impatiently ; “you are no worse off there than here. I have been down between decks alooe.and now I want you along, so that if any of the men are down in the hold weean cut them off:” This view of the case seemed to reassure him somewhat,and we soon found ourselves in the lower hold. Wending our way aft over the bal last—we finally reached the stern- post, and there, while the groan3 came mournfully from among the limbers of the stern frame, we stood still, no one visible but ourselves. 1 do not know whether 1 was frightened, but my heart never f»eat so fast before; and the poor Dutch man stood tiembling as it struck with palsy, the drops of perspiration starting out like beads. My own nerves were somewhat shaken, but there was the pride of rank and sta tion ; so, after listening lo the un earthly sounds for a few minutes, we returned to the cabin together, for the carpenter would not turn iu again until his room-mate came a- board. When my juniors returned, we all went down into the hold and listened for some time to the sounds, which were apparently traveling a- long through the timbers. Wecould not satisfy ourselves regarding the cause, and finally retired, thinking that the poor darkeys might, after all, have had some foundation for their fears. We remained.some three months longer in the Bay, and as no secret was made of these occurrences the old r ‘H.” received the name of “The Haunted Ship.” Many a merry party we had in the cabin, and then would go down into the hold to list en to the unearthly wailings of the tortured spirit who had chosen my ship for its abiding place. At length our own day of sailing came. Hav ing but little wind in the morning, the steamboat Swan came to tow us outside of Mobile Point. While at my station on the forecastle 1 heard Captain George aboard of the Swan calling out for my harpoon, which was handed to him, and in a few minutes there was a splashing in the water along side, a shouting on board the Swan, and then—our ghost was lying on her forward guards! Work was temporarily suspend ed, so that all hands might see what form the spirit had taken. There lay an immense Jew, or drum-fish, a well known denizen of southern waters, which receives its name from the hollow, drum-like sound it makes when seeking lor its fo<-d- Tlus specimen was of unusual size, being nearly six feet long, and weigh ing over six hundred pounds. Hav ing taken on board about two hun dred pounds weight off is ghostship as an addition to our sea-siock of provisions, we tripped our anchor, made sail, and were soon out in the Gull of Mexico, making the best of our way towards the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to take in a cargo of deals lor London. Nntwithstahding the capture of the drum-fish, aud ihe rational solu tion of the mystery, some of the crew *ere loath to abandon the de lusion; and until the “H.” was lost, two years afterwards, she f ore eve rywhere the ill name of “ The Haunt ed cMiip.” Wuudrrs and HurvrU of Man. While the gastric juice has a mild, bland, sweetish taste, it pos sesses the power of dissolving the hardest food that can be swallowed; it has no influence whatever on the solt and delicate fibers of the living stomach, nor has it any upon the liv ing thing, but, at the moment of death, it begins lo eat them away with the power of the strongest acids. There is dust on sea, on land, in the valley and on ihe mountain-top; there is dust always and everywhere the atmosphere is full of it, it pene trates the noisome dungeon, and visits the deepest, darkest caves of the earth, no palace door can shut it out, nodiawer so ‘‘sccrei” as to es cape its presence; every breath of wind dashes it upon the opon eye, and yet that eye is not blinded; be cause there is a fountain of the blan dest fluid in nature incessantly emp tying itself under the eyelid, which, spreads it over the surface of the ball at every winking, and washes every atom ot dust away. But this liquid, so well adopted to the eye itself, has some acidity, which, un der certain circumstances, becomes so decided as to be scalding to the skin, and would rot away the eye lids were it not that along the edges of them there are litttie oil manu factories, which spread over their surface a coaling as impervious to the liquids necessary for keeping the eyeballs washed clean, as the best varnish is impervious to water. The breath which leaves the lungs has been so perfectly divested of its life-giving properties, that to re- breatne it, unmixed with other air, the moment it escapes from the mouth, would cause immediate death by suffocation: while, if it hover ed about us, a more or less destruc tive influence over health and life would be occasioned; but it is made of a nature so much lighter than the common air, that tbe in stant it escapes the lips and nostrils it ascends to the higher regions above, to be rectified, renovated, and sent back ag^n replete with purity and life. How rapidly it ascends, it beautifully exhibits any frosty morning. But toul and deadly as the expir ed air is, Nature, wisely economical in all her works and ways, turns 11 10 good account in its outward pas sage through the organs ot voice, and makes of it the whisper of love, the soft words of affoction, the len der tones of human sympathy, the sweetest strains oi ravishing music, the persuasive eloquence of the fin ished orator. If a well-made man he extended on the ground, his arms at right an gles with the body, a circle, making the navel th; center, will just take in the head, the finger-ends and feel. The distance jroin “top to toe,” is precisely the same as that between the tips of tbe fingers when the arms are extended. The length of the body is just six times that of the foot; while the dis tance from the edge of the hair on the forehead, to the chin, is one- tenth the length of the whole stat ure. Of the sixty-two primary elements known in nature, only eighteen are found in the human body, and of these seven are metallic. Iron is found iu the blood; phosphorus in the brain; limestone in the bile; lime in the bones; dust and ashes in all. Not only these eighteen elements, but the whole sixty-two, of which the universe is made, h ive their es sential basis in the four substances, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, representing the more familiar names of fire, water, saltpetre and char coal; and such is man, the lord of the darlli! a spark of fire, a drop of water, a grain of gunpowder, an atom of charcoal! But looking at him in another direction, these ele ments shadow forth the highesi qualities of a divine nature, of an immortal existence. In that spark is tbe caloric which speaks of irre pressible activity; in that drop is the water which speaks of purity, in that grain is the force by which he subdues all things* to himself, makes the wide creation the supplier of his wants, and the servitor of his pleas ure; while in that atom of charcoal, there is the diamond, which speaks at once of light, and purity, of in destructibility and of resistless pro gress; for there is nothing which out> shines it; it it purer than the dew- drop “moth and rust corrupt” it not, nor can ordinary fires destroy it; while it cuts its way alike through brass and adamant and' hardest steel. In that light we see an eter nal progression toward omniscience: in that purity the goodness ot that divine nature: in that indestructibility an immortal existence; in that pro gress, a steady accession toward tin home and bosom of God. pulled out three or four handlulls of fits hair! H—tn! Did he squirm any ? Now, if you’d give him one or two in the eye—but as I’ve told you ma ny a litne, fighting is a |>oor busi ness. Won't you—for your father’s sake—won’t you promise to try and remember that! H-m ! Johnny bow did it—ahem—which licked? “Y'ou licked him ! Sho ! Really ? Well now, I had’nt any idea you could .ick that Tommy Kelley! I I don’* be lb \e John Bunyan, at ten years old, could have done it. John ny, my boy, you can’t think how I hate to ha^e you fighting e ery day or two. I wouldn't have had him lick you for five—no, not for ten dol lars! Now sonny go right in and wash up, and tell yer mother to put a rag on yer finger. And Johnny, don’t let me hear of your fighting a- gain !’ ‘ I never see any body so down on fighting as the old man was, but somehow he never could break me from it.” Mark Twain on Juvenile Pngllisis. We find in the Buffalo Express, of the 28lh insl., the following pa^ ternal objurgations by Mark Twain . “Yes, I’ve had a good many fights in my time,” said old John Parky, tenderly manipulating his disman tled nose, “and its kind of queer, loo, for when I was a boy the old man was always telling me better. He was a good man and hated fight ing. When I. would corne home with my nose bleeding, or with rav face scratched up, he used to call me out in the wood shed, and in a sorrowful and discouraging way, say: ‘So, Johnny, you’ve had an other fight, hey ? How many times have I got to tellyc how disgraceful and wicked it is for boys to fight ? It was only yesterday that 1 talked to you an hour about the sin oi fighting and here you’ve been at it again. Who was it with this time ? With Tommy Kelley, hey ? Don’t you know any better than to fight a boy who weighs twenty pounds more than you do, besides being two years older; ain’t ye got a spark of sense about ye ? I can see plainly that you are determined to break your poor father’s heart by your reckless con duct. What ails your finger? Tom my bit it! Drat the little fool! Did’nt ye know enough to keep yer finger out of his mouth ? Was trying to jerk bis cheek off, hey ? Won’t ye never lerrn to quit foolin’ round a boy’s mouth with yet fingers ? You’re bound to disgrace us all by sech wretched behavior. You’re deter mined nevci to be nobody! Did you ever hear of Isaac Watts—that wrote •let dogs delight to bark and bite’— sticking your finger in a boy’s mouth to get it bit, like a fool? 1’in clean discouraged with ye. Why oid’nt yt go for his nore, the way Jonathan Edwards, and George Washington, and Dan’l Webster used to, when they were boys? Could’nt, ’cause he had ye down ! That’s a purty story to tell me. It does beat all that you can’t learn how Socrates and William Penn used to gouge when they was under, after the hours and hours I’ve spent telling you a- bout those gentlemen ! It seems to me sometimes as if I should have to give up in despair. It’s an awful trial to me to have a boy that don't pay any attention to good example nor to what l say. What! You (ET^There is very little money in circulation in St. Domingo, except when a man-of-war is in the harbor, and in the market season. The whole business of the island is con ducted on a system of barter. The farmer, lor instance, when he wants a yard of calico, or a bottle of whis key, gives in exchange for it double its worth in coffee or rice, which is shipped by the trader lo Turk’s Is land and St. Thomas. Some idea of the markets may be obtained from the following prices, which, however must not be taken either as an index ol the cost of living, or of the wealth of the place. There are many of them exorbitant, and were arranged to suit the finances of the American Government. When a ship as large as the Tennesee arrives 111 port and sends her boats to shore for supplies the shopkeeper does not hesitate to make all the money he can. Rice is S3 per barrel, hi the husk; coffee 20 to 25 cents per pound; sweet pota* toes S3 per barrel; oranges from SI to $2 per hundred; bananas 50 cents a bunch, 70 or 100 to a bunch;cod fish 15 cents per pound; sugar 15 cents per pound; chocolate $6.50 per barrel, in the bt-an; beeswax 25 cents per pound; honey 31 per 3 gallons; salt is brought from Turk’s Island; brandy is about $1.50 t»» S2.50 per bo!lie.—xV. Y. Tines. Spontaneous Combustion 0/ C->al.— Th- Board of Sieamitoal Inspectors it S; Louis recommends ihe lot low mg tules tor ihe shipping of coal in mder to prevent spotnati* ous Corn- ust ion. Coal of undue fineness, and accompanied with moisture, should be rejected. Every twelve or twenty-four hours a rod should be thrust down into the coal lo ascei- ? tin its tempt rature. The impuri ties shi.uld be washed out and the co d properly ventilated and dried beiore being shipped. The car go should have its temperature reduce i oy the introduction of a curreiu of atr, which should circu late through the mas3. The road a aim ion travels is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged lor honesty, and tao dark for conscience. » ♦ ♦ The revenue officials in San Fran cisco are making raids upon the Chi namen for the illicit manufacture of cigars. Elmira, N. Y., has two girls in its Post Office and one in its Clerk’s office. The two-headed girl are on exhi« bit ion in Boston. They is eighteen years old, and waltzes together beautifully. She are twin sisters. —- The Ltdia Thompson Troupk. —French Relief Benefit.—A dispatch fro vt I hiladelphia announce that the Lydia Thompson Troupe gave a matinee performance, yesterday, at the Arch-Street Theatre, in that city for the benefit of the wounded and suffering French. The perform ance realized over a thousand dol lars. Death of General Mcigruder.—Gal veston, Texas, February 19.—Gen eral J. B. Magruder died this morn ing, at Houston, Texas. O’ ^ A resident of Taunton., Mass., has obtained his ice for summer use for several winters past, in the fol lowing manner: Procuring about fifty empty flour barrels, at a cost of twenty cents each, he graually pours in water, until each contains a solid mass of ice. The barrels are then put away in his cellar, and en* lirely covered with sawdust. As ice is required, a barrel is lapped. The Tribune, aad New York, Sun are discussing the etiquette of calling each other, “liars” Mark Twain leaves the Gulamy— lie says it is loo hard work to be tunny periodically.