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VOL. XIX.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1877.
NO. 221 *
SKYE.
My heart is yearning to thee, O Skye!
' ' Dearest of islands!
There first the sunshine gladdened my eye,
Ou tlie sea sparkling;
i here doth the dust o" my dear ones lie,
In the old graveyard.
Hr; -ht are the golden green fields to me,
Here in the Lowlands;
Ciree t sings the mavis in the thorn tree,
fcuowy with lragrance;
But oh for a breath of the great North Sea,
Girding the mountains!
I ,1 is the smell of the brine that laves
lllaek rack and skerry,
M b re the gr. at jialm-loaved tangle waves
D,.«a in the green depths
Au l round the craggy bluff, pierced with caves
h agulls are screaming.
Where tie ini sinks beyond Ilunish Head,
Swim ring in glory,'
AL'l he goes down to his oeean bed
Studded with islands,
Flushing the Coolin with royal red,
Would I were sailing!
jinny a hearth round that friendly shore
(iivetli Warm w lcjme;
Charms -till are tier-, as in days of yore,
More than of mountains;
But hearths and faces are i ecu no more,
Once of the brightest.
j] a uv a poor black cottage is there,
Grimy with pe t smoke,
Sending up in the soft evening air
Purest blue incense,
While tb low music of psalm and prayer
Jiises to lleaien.
Kind wire the voids I used to hear
Hound such a fireside,
Si' aking the mother tongue old and dear,
Making the heart boat
With cudless tales of wonder and fear
Or plaintive singing.
Great were the marvelous stories told
Of Oseiau’s h roes,
Giants add witcius, end young men bold,
Sin king adventures,
Winni: g Kings daughters and guarded gold
Only with \alor.
Re and In those dwellings have brave ones been;
ltrave ones are still there,
lurili from their darkness on Sunday I've seen
Cotniug pure linen,
And, like the lim n, the souls were clean
Of them that wore it.
gee that thou kindly use them, 0 man!
To whom God givcth|
Stewardship over them, in thy short span,
dint for thy pleasure!
Woe lie to them wtio choose /or a clan
Four-footed people!
llh -sings be with ye, both now and aye,
Dear human creatures!
Yours is the love that no gold ban buy
Nor time can wither,
peace be to tbee and tliy children, O Skye!
Dearest of islands!
—Good Words.
Bill and the Widow.
“Wife,” snid Ed. Wilbur, one morn
ing as bo sat stirring his coffee with one
band and holding a plum-cake on bis
knee with the other; and looked across
the table into the bright eyes of his little
wife, “wouldn't it be a good joke to get
bachelor Bill Suiiley to take widow Wat
son to Barnum's Show next week?”
“You can’t do it Ed.; he won’t ask her,
he’s so awful shy. Why, he came by
here the other morning when I was hang
ing out the clothes, and looked over the
fence and spoke, but when I shook out a
night-gown he blushed like a girl and
went away.”
“I think I can manage it,” said E j; “but
I’ll have to lie just a little. But then it
wouldn’t be much harm under the cir
cumstances, for I know she likes him,
and he don’t dislike her, but just as you
say, he’s so shy. I'll just go over to his
place to borrow some bags of him, and if
I don’t bag him before I come back don’t
kiNS mo for a week, Nelly."
So saying, Ed. started, and while he is
mowing the fields we will take a look at
Bill Smiley. He was rather a good look
ing fellow, though his hair and whiskers
showed some gray hairs, and he had got
in a set of false teeth. But every one said
he was a good soul, and so he was. He
had as good a hundred acre farm as
any in Norwich, with a new house and
everything comfortable, and if he wanted
a wife many a girl would have jumped at
the chance like a rooster on a grasshop
per. But Bill was so bashful—always
was—and when Susan Sherrybottle,
whom he was so sweet on, though he nev
er said “boo” to her, got married to old
Matson, he just drew his head in like a
wudturtle into his shell, and there was
ho getting him out again, though it had
been noticed that since Susan had become
a widow, he paid more attention to his
clothes, and had been very regular in his
attendance at the church where the fair
widow attended.
But here comes Ed Wilbur.
“Good morning, Mr. Smiley.”
“Good morning, Mr. Wilbur; what's
the news your way?”
"Oh, nothing particular that I know of”
R aia £d, “only Barnum’s show that eve
rybody is talking about, and everybody
and his girl are going to. I was over to
°‘d Sockrider's last night, and I see his
son Gas has got a new buggy and was
scrubbing up his harness, and he’s got
that white-faced colt of his as slick as a
seal. I understand he thinks of taking
Midow Watson to the show. He’s been
hanging around there a good deal of late,
hat I’d just like to cut him out I would.
Susan is a nice little woman,and deserves
a better man than that young pup of a
'show, though I would not blame her
much either if she takes him, for she
^ust be dreadfully lonesome, and then
she has to let her farm out on shares, and
11 isn t half worked, and no one else
seems to have the spunk to speak up to
her. By jingo! if I were a single man
* d show you a trick or two.
bo saying, Ed borrowed some bags and
started arounl the corner of the barn,
w here he had left Bill sweeping, and put
his ear to a knot hole and listened, know-
lu g the bachelor had a habit of talking to
himself when anything worried him.
Lonfonnd that young bagrider!” said
hiill, “what business has he there, I’d
hke to know? Got a new buggy has he?
^ ell, so have I and a new harness, too;
an d his horse can’t get sight of mine; and
h declare I have half a mind to—yes, I
I d go this very night and ask her
t° go to the show with me. I’ll show Ed
M llbur that I ain't such a calf as he thinks
* am > if 1 did let old Watson get the
start of me in the first place!”
Ul. could scarce help laughiDg outright
but he hastily hitched the bags on his
Moulder, and with a low ohuokle at his
success, started home to tell the news to
Nelly; and at about 5 o’clock that even-
ing they saw Bill go by with his horse and
Btiggy, on his way to the widow’s. He
jogged along quietly, thinking of the old
singing school days—and what a pretty
girl Susan was then, and wondering in
wardly if he would have more courage
now to talk up to her—until, at a distance
of about a mile from her house, he came
to a bridge, he gave a tremendous sneeze
and blew his teeth out of his mouth, and
clear over the dashboard, and striking on
the planks, they rolled over the Bide of
the bridge, and dropped into four feet of
water.
Words cannot do full justice to poor
Bill, or paint the expression of his face
as he sat there—completely dumbfound
ed at his startling piece of ill luck. After
a while he stepped out of his buggy, and
getting down on bis hands and knees,
looked over into the water. Yes, there
they were at the bottom, with a crowd of
little fishes rubbing their noses against
them, and Bill wished to goodness that
his nose was as close for one second. His
beautiful teeth that had cost him so much
and the show coming on and no time to
get another set—and the widow and
young Sockrider. Well, he must try and
get them somehow—and no time to be
lost, for some one might come along and
ask him what he was fooling aronnd there
for. He had no notion of spoiling his
clothes by wading in with them on; and
besides, if he did he could not go to the
widow’s that night, so he took a look up
and down the road to see that no one was
in sight, and then qaickly undressed him
self, laying his clotheB in the buggy to
keep them clean. Then he ran around
the bank and waded into the almost ice-
cold water, but his teeth did not chatter
in his head—he only wished they could.
Quietly he waded along so as not to stir
the mud up, and when be got to the right
spot he dropped under the water, and
came ont with his teeth in his band, and
replaced them in his month. But hark!
What noise is that? A wagon and a dog
barking with all his might, and his horse
is starting. “Whoa, whoa! Stop, you
brute, you, stop!” But stop he would not,
but went off at a spanking pace, with the
unfortunate bachelor after him. Bill was
certainly in capita! running costnme, bnt
though he strained every nerve, he could
not touch the buggy or reach the lines
that were dragging on the ground.
After a while his plug hat shook off the
seat, and the hind wheel went over it,
making it flat as a pancake. Bill snatch
ed it as he ran. and after jamming his
fist into it, stuck it, all dusty and dimpled,
on his head. And now he saw the wid
ow’s house on the top of the hill, and
what, oh what will he do? Then his coat
fell out and he slipped it on, and then
making a desperate splnrt he clutched the
back of the seat and scrambled
in, and pulling the buffalo
robe over his legs, staffed the other
thing beneath. Now the horse happened
to be one he got of ’Squire Moore, and
he got it from the widow, and he took it
into his head to stop at her gate which
Bill had no power to prevent, as he was
too busy buttoning his coat np to his chin
to think of doing much else. The wid
ow heard the rattling of wheels and look
ed ont, and seeing that it was Smiley,and
that he didn’t offer to get out, she went
to see. what he wanted, and there she
stood chatting with her white arms on
the top of her gate, and her face toward
him, while the chills ran down his shirt
less back, clear to his bare feet beneath
the buffalo robe, and the water from his
hair and the dust from his bat had com
bined to make some nice little streams of
mud that came trickling down his face.
She asked him to come in. No, he
was in a hurry, he said. Still he did not
offer to go. He did like to ask her to
pick up his reins for him, but he did not
know what excuse to make just now. At
length, however, he sighed at the sight of
his Sunday boots, and turning to the wid
ow, said:
“Just pick up the lines, wiil you please;
his brnte of a horse is always switching
them out of my hands.’
The widow complied, then he pulled
the corner of the robe cautiously down
as she got in.
“What a lovely evening,” said she,
“and so warm I don’t think we want the
robe over up, do we?”
(You see she had on a nice new dress (
and a pair of new gaiters, and she wanted
to show them.)
“Oh, my!” said Bill, earnestly, you’ll
find it chilly riding, and I wouldn’t have
you catch cold for the world.
She seemed ploased at this tender care
for her . health, and contented herself
with sticking one of her little feet out
with a long silk neck tie over the end of
it.
“What is that, Mr. Smiley, a neck-tie?”
“Yes,” said he, “I bought it the other
day and 1 must have left it in the buggy.
Never mind it.”
“Bat,” said she, “it was careless;” and
stooping over she picked it np, and made
a motion to stuff it between them.
Bill felt her hand going down, and ma
king a dive after it, clutched _it in his
and held it bard and fast.
Then they went on quite a distance, he
still holding her hand in his and wonder
ing what he should do when they got to
Green's and she wondered why he did
not say something nice to her as well as
squeeze her hand, why his coat was but
toned np so tightly on such a warm even
ing, and what made his face and hat so
dirty, until they were going down a little
hill and one of the traces came unhitched
and they had to stop.
“Ob, murder!” exclaimed Bill, “what
next?”
“What is the matter, Mr. Smiley?’
said the widow, with a start which came
near jerking the robe off his knees.
“One of the traces is off,” answered he.
“Well, why don’t you get out and put
it on!”
“I can’t," said Bill; “I’ve got—that is
I haven’t got—oh, dear, I’m so dick!
What shall I do!”
“Why, Willie,” said she tenderly,
“what is the matter! do tell me.” She
gave his hand a little squeeze, and looked
into his pale face; she thought he was
going to faint, so she got out her smelling
bottle with her left hand, and pulling the
stopper out with her teeth, she stuck it
to his nose.
Bill was jnst taking in breath for a migh
ty sigh, and the pnngent odor made him
throw back his head so far that he lost
his balance and went over the low back
Baggy. The little woman gave a low
scream as his bare feet flew past he head;
and covering her face with her hands
gave way to tears or smiles—it is hard to
tell which. ^Jill was “right side up” in a
moment, and leaning over the back of the
seat humbly apologizing and explaining
when Ed. Wilbur and his wife and baby
drove up behind and stopped. Poor Bill
felt that he would rather have been shot
than had Ed. Wilbnr catch him in snob a
scrape, bat there was no help for it now,
so he called Ed. to him and whispered in
his ear. Ed. was like to burst with sup
pressed laughter, but he beckoned to his
wife to draw np, and, after saying some
thing to her, he helped the widow out of
Bill’s buggy and into his, and the two
women went on, leaving the men behind.
Bill lost no time in arranging his toilet
ns well as he conld, and then with great
persnasion Ed. got him to go home with
him, and hunting up slipperB and socks,
and getting him washed and combed, had
him quite presentable when the ladies
arrived. I need not tell you how the sto
ry was all wormed out of bashful Bill,
and how they all laughed as they sat
around the tea-table that night, bnt will
conclude by saying that they went to the
show together, and Bill has no fear of
Gus Sockrider now.
This is the story abont Bill and the
widow, just as I had it from Ed. Wilbur,
and if there is anything unsatisfactory
abont it, ask him.
Cokn Fbittkbs.—Cut the corn from 12
ears into a deep dish; mix in three eggs
and one teacupful flour; fry in a skillet
or spider, as they require considerable
fat. If the corn is grated it will be as
good.
A Beeaktast Luxury.—Take eight ears
corn, grate them, carefully scraping off
cobs with a knife, so as to get all the
milk. Peel one quart of good ripe to
matoes, and cut them into the corn. Sea
son them with salt and pepper. Pnt in
butter, and $oll in three soda crackers.
Let them stew steadily for one hoar.
To Bleach Linsex and Stocking
Yaen.—Saturate them well with water
made soft with borax. A tablespoonful
of pulverized borax to a basin of tepid
water. Bleach in the sun.
To Remove Gbease Spots fbom Black
Velveteen.—Have a bowl of hot water, a
tooth-brush, and some pulverized borax.
Dip the brush into the water, then into
the borax, and sccnr the spots, when the
grease has disappeared rinse the places
with fresh hot water, nsing the brush to
do so; rub dry with a black cloth; shake
well; when quite dry brush the places
with a dry brush.
Indelible Ink Spots.—Cyanide of
potassinm will remove indelible ink, but
being a deadly poison it mast be careful
ly bandied. A druggist will give the nec
essary information. Try a mixture of
lemon juice and salt; keep the spots wet
with it, and bleach in the sun.
Relief fob Catabbh.—Inhale the
smoke from pine-tar; get a pint or more
of pure pine tar (not the oil) from the
ship chandler; heat a poker red hot and
stir the tar with it; a thick smoke will
rise, bold your head over it, keep your
month shut and inhale through nostrils
—heat the poker three or four times, un
til the room is filled with smoke, shut the
doors and windows, remain in the room
as long as possible. In two weeks get
fresh tar. It is a good plafl to smoke it
in one’s bedroom, just before retiring;
after smoking, open a window from the
top; the smoke slowly escapes, but
enough remains to be of some benefit.
Cobn Bbead.—Put into a quart meas
ure two tablespoonfuls wheat flour, fill it
up with Indian meal, pnt this into a sieve
with two teaspoonfnis sugar, half tea-
spoonfnl salt, two teaspoonfuls cream tar
tar, one teaspoonful soda; sift all into a
bowl, mix it with one quart milk,one egg,
and two teaspoonsfnls melted butter; beat
well, pour into a medium-sized dripping
paD, well greased; when baked cut in
squares and serve hot for breakfast.
Fbogs—For one doz3n frogs allow a
piece of butter the size of an egg, set it
on fire, and when it melts put in the'
frogs, stir and fry them till they begin to
take color; then take them out, sprinkle
in a teaspoonful of flour, a little chopped
parsley, and a little very finely minced
onion; when well mixed pour in one and
a half gills of soup stock, milk or white
wine, return the frogs to the pan and
stew gently till done; pnt the frog legs on
a dish, boil the sauce a few minntes more
add pepper, salt, and the yolk of an egg
to it, pour it on the frogs and serve at
once.
Tomato Catsup.—One peck ripe toma
toes, one teacupful salt, half teaonpfnl
black pepper, two tablespoonfuls ground
cloves, two tablespoonfuls ground allspice
six small red peppers, and four onions
chopped together fine; half teaonpfnl cel
ery seed; wash and wipe the tomatoes,
cut them up, and put in preserving ket
tle; add all the above ingredients except
ing the celery seed; boil two hours, Btir-
ring frequently; then remove it from the
fire, and strain through a sieve; add cele
ry seed and boil half an hoar longer; be
fore taking it from the fire add one quart
good vinegar; bottle and seal.
A STORY OF THE BLUCKABE.
From the Hartford Times.
In the early part of the war there were
frequent accounts of dashing affairs in
which the Harriet Lane took the Lion’s
share. The papers were all the time giv
ing spirited descriptions of some of her
brilliant adventnres. Some of these ac
counts were mere grapevine stories, but
then she had a fall share in all the opera
tions that were going on np to the bom
bardment of the forts on the Hatteras
cape—she was in the revenue service up
to that time, but in going in to receive
the surrender of the forts she got aground
in the channels, and received such dam
age that she was turnrd over to the navy
department, and was eventually captur
ed by the rebels in Galveston Bay.
At the time, and before the bombard-
ment of Snmter, I was a seamen in this
vessel. She was commanded by a well-
known New Yorker, Captain Fannoe, a who
had a fancy of having none but old man-
of-wars-men make np his crew. The
crew were well treated, had abundant
food, regular leave of abseooe on shore,
and good wages. Their duties were light
and the decipline of the navy was carried
out iu every detail.
A few days before the attack on Fort
Sumter the steamer Baltic received a full
load of troops from the different for
tresses in the bay, and the Harriet Lane
was detailed to convey them South. It
soon beoame known that the destination
of the troops was Charleston harbor, and
by the time the Harriet Lane was ready
to trip her anchor the battery was crowd
ed with people, who gave her cheer af
ter cheer as Bhe swung around and got
nnderweigb.
The passage down to Charleston was
rather rongh, bnt the two ships arrived
off that place in the early hoars of a Fri
day morning, and the rebels opened fire
on Fort Snmter at daybreak. For awhile
the cannonading was, fast and fnrions,
but in the coarse of a few hoars it had
settled down to a regular hammering.
The fort replied rather deliberately, and
it never entered into the imagination of
the sailors in the harbor that the banner
that floated so gallantly over it wonld be
hauled down so soon. Daring the day
the Pawnee and the Pocahontas, both
new gunboats, arrived, so that there was
qaite a respectable little force to lock on,
and, if required, to lend a hand in any
occasion that might tnrn np. Daring
the day the flag on Fort Snmter was rnn
np and down for a considerable time,
carrying the impression to those on
the bar that Anderson, the major com
manding, wanted to communicate. There
was no code of signals at that time for
both arms of the service, and so those
on the bar conld not make out the mean
ing of the signals beyond that he wanted
to attract attention. Towards night ar
rangements were made to oommnnicate
with the fort, and agree on the best way
to throw the reinforcements that were in
the Baltic into it. Volunteers offered
themselves for the boat service, and the
boats were prepared to slip in after dark.
The night, however, proved very stormy,
and the attempt was pnt off until the
next night, bnt before the next night
came the fort had been surrendered, and
the following Snnday morning witnessed
the evacuation of the fort, and the trans
fer of its garrison to the Baltic. The
ceremony of receiving the garrison, and
then the hoisting of the tattered flag to
the foremast-head of the Baltic being
ended, the little squadron steamed north
to tell the sad, sad story.
Thus yon see, the Harriet Lane was
present when the first gnn of the “new
order of affairs” thundered defiance to
government, and from that time until
her desperate struggle with a “catting
ont party” in Galveston, she was a con
stant theme for the papers.
There was one affait, however, that has
never been told, and it will certainly be
worth while to give it to yonr readers, as
it is a true story of .one of the most ex
citing races that occurred on the block
ade.
After the surrender of Snmter, and the
call for troops, the Harriet Lane was ten
dered to the government, and her service
was at once accepted and she was detail
ed to proceed south and watoh the shores
of Sonth Carolina, and capture all vessels
entering into any of those ports on that
coast. She proceeded down to Charles
ton and made it a point to watch that
place especially. At that time the block
ade was a mere paper one, and the Har
riet Lane was the only vessel of war at
that point.
One morning, after a rongh and disa
greeable night spent in beating about
the entrance to Charleston bay, a large,
fall-rigged ship was seen to the sonth’ard,
beating np, and clear in shore. The
Harriet Lane being hid in a thick bank
of a fog, the ship did not see her until the
Lane had steamed ont of the fog and was
distant about three miles, and then she
at once wore ship and began to pack on
the maslin...
It was beantifnl to see how promptly
the fellow in command of the ship got
her before the wind aud began to “crack
on.” The wind was blowing fresh from
the nor’west—jnst enonghto carry a main-
to-gallant sail; bnt, while we were look
ing, we saw his three royals drop, and
before they had time to flatter, they were
sheeted home and hoisted.
“Hook her on,” shouted the comman
der of the Harriet Lane; that fellow is
fall of war material, and he must be a
fast one that gets away from Harriet.
Come, Harriet, ole gal, do yonr level best
this morning, for I do want to range
alongside of that ship ahead.”
“Ob, we can heave him to pretty soon
with the long thirty-two, forward. Shall I
dear it away and send him oar compli-
Inents?” pat in the executive, who had
jnst made his appearance.
“Yes, sir; but yon need not hit him.
Jnst let him know that we want him to
shorten sail. ”
The executive went forward to super
intend the operation of sighting and firing
the big gun on the forecastle.
At that time our navy did not carry
the effective and accnrate Parrot guns
that afterward became noted for their
long range and fighting qualities. Eight
and eleven-inch Dahlgren guns were then
the most formidable weapons on onr
ships of war. They were clumsy things,
and on a light vessel like the Harriet Lane
were unserviceable. She carried at that
time a battery of four thirty-twos for
ward and abaft her wheel-house, a long
thirty-two on her forecastle, and two
brass twelve pounders on her quarter
deck, working on carronade slides. It
was called a heavy battery in those days,
and it was, as far as weight went; but a
vessel with a thirty-potlnd Parrot gun
could keep ont of her range and sink her
with ease.
Meanwhile the chase hoisted the Span
ish flag and ran out fore and main top
mast stndding-sails. With the glass we
coaid see hei;crew swaying at the baliards
and checking at the yards. The enor-
mons pressure on her masts canted them
over her bows, and in the smooth water
close in shore she was going through the
water faster than an average steamer.
Presently the long thirty-two blazed
away and the ronnd shot went humming
away towards the ship. Rising higher
and higher it at last reached its highest
speed and then began to descend in a
graceful curve. It was a good line shot
but it fell short, taking the water half a
mile from the chase. The chase lowered
his Spanish ensign and in its place the
“meteor flag” was run np and “dipped”
three times as an acknowledgement for
the honor, but he did not mean to stop by
the way, for presently we saw something
white go flattering aloft and in a twink
ling a top-gallant studding sail was set. A
ronnd shot or two was not going to scare
this British seaman with the nimble legs,
and a bine cartrigde was slipped into the
forecastle gnn and a ronnd shot, careful
ly grummeted, was rammed on top of it.
Then the gun was elevated a trifle, care
fully trained, and the lockstring palled.
The gun recoiled the whole length of the
slide, and the shot went roaring up iu the
air, and presently took the water a little
to the right of the ship and a considera
ble distance beyond her. Again the me
teor flag acknowledged “honors easy”,
bnt declined to heave to.
Both ships were now passing North
Edisto inlet, and the Harriet.Lane, a lit
tle to seaward, was slowly gaining. Ev
ery sail that conld pull was set, and down
below the firemen were working liko bea
vers to keep a steady pressure of steam
up. Every little while the long thirtyh
two roared out to stop, aud though the
shots fell all about him he seemed to be
one of the lucky chaps that never are hit.
As the morning wore along Stono inlet
was passed, the Ghase still bowling along
at the rate of fourteen miles an hour and
the two vessels abont two miles apart.
She conld not very well get outside the
Harriet Lane, because that vessel was
outside of her, but she hugged the shore
pretty close and seemed to know the bot
tom better than those on the erniser.
Towards noon the chase was a mile and
a half ahead, and we conld hear the voice
of the seamen in her chains calling the
depth of water. The wind had freshen
ed, and it gave an advantage to the chase
who was keen enough to know it. Every
little while we could see her crew make
rounds of the sheets aud haliards, when
they had nothing else to do they wonld
cluster aft and watch ns. There was no
regular dinner on the Harriet Lane, bnt
the men drew on the scnttle-bntt to keep
calm. Already some of them were buil
ding castles on the prize-money they
were going to have, and those not direct-
ly engaged either at the wheel or the
long Tom, were discussing the gameness
of the chase and the cool daring he dis
played.
After two bells the low sandy shores of
Hilton Head became visible on the star
board bow, and the long reach of coast
that trends a little easterly to the bay in
to which the Savannah river empties be
gan to appear. Here was a chance to
head him off and shorten the pursuit. He
would scarcely run into Port Hoyal be
cause that would end in his capture, and
his only hope of escape would be to keep
on until night, that is if he could keep
out of our reach until the shades of night
should hide him.
Accordingly the same course was kept
well to seaward until just off Port Royal,
when to our astonishment the chase hand
ed her light sails, and braced up to run
up the bay.
.“By gracious! The damn fool! Now
we have him!” and such like expressions
were freely vented by those on the Har-
Lane, but her head swung around
promptly after the stranger and away the
two vessels went booming up the bay.
The two vessels at this time were hard
ly 1,200 yards apart, and the captain of
the cutter had given orders to cease firing
as he was afraid it would injure his prize.
Besides to most people it was hardly ship
shape to train a shotted gnn on a man
who could not retaliate. It looked cow
ardly, and so ever since noon the chase
had quite a peaceable time. Now, how
ever, when it seemed plain that he was
sailing into a trap, aod, at best, conld
not go any farther than the head of the
bay, every one began to feel that in a few
moments the stranger would let go sheets
and haliards and “come to.”
Presently a light whiff of smoke shot
ont of a ridge of sand on Hilton Head
and a shot sioging in a high key fell be
tween us and the chase. The chase clew
ed np his top-gallant sails and boldly
stood in towards Head, then an
other whiff of smoke and a ten inch
round shot came screaming over us and
struck the water three hundred yards be
yond ns.
“The devil! Stop her,” roared the
captain, and each face on board the Har
riet Lane became visibly sad. The “Se«
cesh” had already fortified Port Royal
and while astonishment had complete
possession of vs the rattliDg of the chain
cable on board the chase tool us he had
come to anchor. Then the Harriet Lane
was turned aronnd and made her way
back to Charleston, which place was
reached the next day.
A few days after we overhauled a small
schooner trying to get out, and learned
that while the Harriet Lane was chasing
the ship half a dozen steamers had run
in with valuable cargoes; that the ship
was a mere decoy and flying light to draw
ns away so that the steamers could run
in. The schooner people also said that
the ship belonged to Savannah, and was
worked through Scull creek to Port Roy
al, and that a man named Tatnall sailed
her. At all events, Tatnall got the credit
for it, whether it was be or some other
body.
J. T, Goldbick,
—Affection which is never reciprocated
—neuralgic affection.
—A colored postmaster is now called a
blackmailer.
—Of what color is grass covered with
snow. Invisible green.
—Adam missed one of the luxuries of
life. He couldn’t laugh in his sleeve.
—How does a cow become landed es
tate? By turning her into a field.
—The loveliest faces are to be seen by
moonlight, when one sees half with the
eye and half with the fancy.
—A man declares that it is impossible
for him to keep out of trouble, for in the
best times his bnsiness drives him to the
wall. He is a bill poster.
—In New Jersey, when they want to
praise a man they say “He has snch a
mean-looking face that a fly wouldn’t
light on it.”
—Why is a young lady who has jnst
left boarding school like a building com
mittee? Because she is ready to receive
proposals.
—Sign at a tavern near the cemetery of
St. Ouen: “The Mourner’s Return!
Choice wines and liquors. Private rooms
for guests who wish to weep in private.”
—“Why don’t you mount a clean col
lar, Brown? I do three times a day.”
“Yes," replied Brown to the boaster, but
every one’s mother isn’t a washerwoman.”
—It is suggested that one reason why
Californians hate Chinese is because the
latter introduced the fashion of having
shirts washed at least once a week.
—An Irish pilot being asked if he knew
the rocks in the harbor, replied with con
fidence, “I do, your honor, ivery wan of
thim. That’s wan,” he added calmly as
the ship struck it, filled and sank.
—It cast a gloom over an entire chnreh
fair, the other night, when the minister’s
son walked up to the grab bag and prize
cake table, and demanded that the game
be explained to him before he bought
his chips.
—“Jimmy,” said an Englewood father
yesterday morning, “the doctor has just
brought you a beautiful, new little sis
ter.” “No he didn’t neither,” said Jim
my; “fur I seen him when he kum in, an’
he had a cane in one hand and nuthin in
the other.”
—“There is one thing about babies,”
said a late traveler—“they never change.
We have girls of the period, men of the
world bnt the baby is the same self-pos
sessed, fearless, {laughing, voracious lit
tle heathen in all ages and in all conn-
tries.
—A baker once into his basket did
peep, and perceived a young child in it
asleep. A wit passing by his astonish
ment heeded, and archly observed, “He
found more than he kneaded.” The ba
ker replied, “Nought on earth can be
truer, for he who needs bread, needs no
children, I’m sure,”
—A young Hibernian being asked if
he intended taking a lady with him to the
theater on Whit-Monday, replied if he
went by himself he should, but if he
went with any one else he should not.”
—Harry Turn recently married his
consiu of the same name. When inter
rogated as to why he did so, he replied
that it had always been a maxim of his
that “one good Turn deserves another.”
Useful Quality.—A wag purchased a
very fine horse. Returning from a ride
a few days afterward, he said he had dis
covered a quality in his animal which ad
ded a few pounds to value—“he shied at
a lawyer.”
—Top and Bottom.—“Is there much
water in the cistern, Biddy?” inquired a
gentleman of his Irish servant girl, as
she came up from the kitchen. “It is
fall on the bottom, sir, bat there’s none
at all on the top,” was the reply.
—A lady that would please herself in
marrying was warned that her intended,
although a good sort of man, was very
singular. “Well,” replied the lady,
“if he is very much unlike other men,
he is much more likely to be a good hus
band. ”
—A maiden of twenty-five was lately
throwing out some affected sneers at mat
rimony, when a grave friend in company
observed that “marriages were made in
heaven.” “Can you tell me, sir,” rejoin
ed the sly nymph, “why they are so slow
in coming down?"
—A Cheshire auctioneer, while engag
ed in his vocation the other day, thus ex
alted the merits of a carpet: “Gentle
men and ladies, some folks sell carpets
for Brussels which are not Brussels; but
I can most positively assure you that t his
elegant article was made by Mr. Brussels
himself.”
—Throwing Away Jewels.—A woman
once called her little boy ‘a jewel’ for do
ing something that pleased her, but a lit
tle while after she chased him out of the
house for doing something bad, when the
little fellow pnt his head in at the win
dow, and cried out, “You’ll never get
rich, ma, if you throw away your jewels
like that!”
—A lawyer, in cross-examining a wit
ness, asked him, among other questions,
where he was on a particular day, to
which he replied. “In company with
two friends.” “Friends!” exclaimed the
lawyer, “two thieves, I suppose yon
mean.” “They may be so,” replied the
witness, “for they are both lawyers.”
A Witty HEggar.—A gentleman saun
tering along the shore at Dooagbade
thought to take a ‘rise’ out of a poor beg
gar, dressed in the garb of a sailor. Com
ing np to him he addressed him in the
nsnal sea-faring language, with “What
ship, mate?” The broken down sailor,
looking slyly at his questioner, sharply
replied, “Hardship,”
BOOTS AND SHOES.
RAILROADS.
CHEAP
BOOTS and SHOES
AT THE
NEW STORE!
Call and Examine Stock.
G ENTS’ FINE OLOTH
and GLOVE-TOP BUT
TON CONGRESS, Ladies’
FINE KID BUTTON,Ladies’
KID and PEBBLE FOX,
Misses’ and Child’s PROTECTION TOE.
For Country Merchants and Farmers.
Large Stock of
BROGANS,
PLOW SHOES
KIP and PALP FOOTS,
WORKS’S POLKAS
and PALP St HOES,
Cheap FOX & PLOTH G AITKKN.
Child's POPPEK-TIP SHOES,
All bought with the cash, and shall be sold
at BOTTOM BKICES !
T. J. HINES/
(At the Old Stand of Bedell 11 Ware),
«sp8 2}*m No. 148 Broad St,
NEW SHOES
—AT—
The Old Shoe Store.
FALL and WINTER STOCK
Just Received!
NEW AND ATTRACTIVE STVLESgg
Gents’ Shoes, J§k
Brown Clotl-Top Button Congress,
“FIFTH AVENUE” CONGRESS,
And all other Styles, in Hand and Machine
Sewed, and Fine Pegged Work.
Ladies & Misses’ Fine Shoes,
Kid and Pebble-Button Side Lace
AND
FOXED WORK!
A large lot of Ladles’ KID FOXED BUT
TON SHOES—Very Stylish—at #2.25 to #3.
The best Misses’ PROTECTION-TOE
SCHOOL SHOES ever offered in this market.
An extra large stock of
BROGANS,
PLOW SHOE#,
KIP ROOTS,
WOMEN’S PLOW SHOES, Ac.,
for Farmers. Our stock for the WUOLE-
8A.L/E TBABE is being daily received, and
in quantity, quality and prices is unsurpassed
in the city. Wc Invite the attention of Coun
try Merchants.
4®- For anything you want in the Slu e and
Leather Line, at bottom prices, call at
No. 73 Broad Street,
(Sign of the Big Boot.)
WELLS & CURTIS.
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EDUCATIONAL.
Mount de Sales Academy
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
MACON, - - G-A.
This Insitution, under the direction of the
Sisters of Mercy, is connected with
St. Joseph’s Academy,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
Whose reputation for educational
advantages is unsurpassed through
out the States.
It is delightfully situated on an
eminence, commanding an exten
sive view of the surrounding coun
try, and only twenty minutes ride lrom Pio
Nono College, so that parents sending their
daughters to the Mount and having sons at the
College, can visit both without additional trav
eling expenses. The street cars pass in imme
diate vicinity. The spacious recreation grounds
afford ample space for exercise. The new
building comprises study halls, refectory, re
creation halls and dormitories
Terms moderate, to suit the times.
Young ladies not connected with the Acade
my who wish to enjoy the advantages of Mu
sic, Needle Work, etc., will be received as pri
vate pupils.
Studies will he resumed on Tuesday, Sep
tember 25th.
AS“ For prospectus and further particulars
address
DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY.
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State Agricultural and Mechanical
COLLEGE.
Mobile & Girard R. R.
It* '
frar^araap’SlrM’' w
Columbus, Ga. t Sept. 1,1877.
Double Daily Passenger Train
M AKING close connection at Union
Springs with Montgomery and Eufaula
Trains to and from Eufaula and Montgomery
anil points beyond.
This is the only line making close connection
at Montgomery with S. & N. Alabama Train
for the
Northwest.
J'assengen
ger and
Mail Train
Fr't Train
Leave
8:30 P M
Arrive
at Union Springs.
. 6:56 P H
12:25 A u
“
Troy
. 8:00 P M
44
Eufaula
. 6:00 A M
6 (HI A M
it
Montgomery ...
. 7:55 P M
6:40 P M
44
Mobile
4:00 P M
44
New Orleans...
.11:26 A M
9:30 P M
it
Nashville
. 7:60 P M
7:60 P M
44
Louisville
. 3:45 A M
3 45 A M
44
Cincinnati
. 8:10 A M
8:10 A tf
44
St. Louis
4.00 P M
44
Philadelphia....
, 0:50 P M
6:50 p tf
44
New York
.10:06 P M
10:06 P M
Arrive
at Union Springs.
. 2:40 A M
—
Leave Union Springs
. 3:10 A M
6:40 P M
Arrive at Columbus
. 7:10 a M
11:5a A M
44
Opelika
44
Macou
. 3:06 P M
44
Savannah
. 7:16 A M
Passengers for Eufaula leaving Columbus
at 8;30 p m daily arrive in Eufaula at 6 o’clock
a m daily. Through Coach with Sleeping Car
accommodation on Mail Traiu between Colum
bus and Montgomery.
W. L. CLARK,
Superintendent.
D. E. WILLIAMS,
General Ticket Agent.my9 tf
Central and Southwestern
Railroads.
Savannah, Ga., March 8, 1877.
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, March
11, Passenger Trains on the Central ana
Southwestern Railroads and Branches will
run as follows:
TRAIN NO. 1, GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah 9:20 a m
Leaves Augusta — 9:15 a m
Arrives at Augusta 4:45 p m
Arrives at Macon 0:45 r m
Leaves Macon for Atlanta 9:16 p m
Arrives at Atlanta 6:03 a tf
Making close connections at Atlanta with
Western and Atlantio Railroad for all points
North and West.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 10:40 p u
Arrives at Macon 6:45 a m
Leaves Macon 7:00 am
Arrives at Milledgeville 9:44 a m
Arrives at Eatonton II .30 a sc
Arrives at Augusta 4 45 p m
Arrives at Savannah 4:00 p m
Leaves Augusta 9:15 a tf
Making connections at Augusta for the
North and East, and at Savannah with the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad for all points in
Florida.
TRAIN NO. 2, GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah 7:30 F K
Arrives at Augusta 6:0u a m
j eaves Augusta 8:05 p M
Arrives at Milledgeville 9:44 a m
Arrives at Eatonton 11:30 AM
Arrives at Macon 8:00 a m
Leaves Macon for Atlanta 8:40 a m
Arrives at Atlanta 2:16 p m
Leaves Macon for Albany and Eu-
iaula 8:20 a m
Arrives at Eufaula 3:49 p m
Arrives at Albany 2:10 p m
Leaves Macon for Columbus 9:33 a m
Arrives at Columbus 1:13 p m
Trains on this schedule for Macon, Atlanta,
Columbus, Fufaula and Albany daily, making
close connection at Atlanta with Western A
Atlantio and Atlanta A Richmond Air Line.
At Eufaula with Montgomery and Eulaula
Railroad; at Columbus with Western Rail
road of Alabama, and Mobile and Girard
Railroad.
Train on Blakely Extension Leaves Albany
Mondays,Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 1:40 p m
Arrives at Macon from Atlanta 6:65 p m
Leaves Albany 10:00 a m
Leaves Eafaula 8:05 p M
Arrives at Maoon from Eufaula and
Albany 4:10 p M
Leaves Columbus 11:19 a m
Arrives at Macon from Columbus.... 3:11 p m
Eeaves Macon ....7:36 pm
Arrives at Augusta 6:0<i a m
Leaves Augusta 8:06 p m
Arrives at Savannah 7:15 a m
Making connections at Savannah with At-
antic ana Gulf Railroad for all points in Flor
ida.
Passengers for Milledgeville and Eatonton
will take train No. 2 from Savannah and train
No. 1 from Macon, which trains connect daily
except Monday, for these points.
WILLIAM ROGERS,
General Supt. Central Railroad, Savannah.
W. G. RAOUL,
Supt. Southwestern Railroad, Macon.
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T IX E
Atlantic Coast Line
T HE FIRST TERM or h
the Academic year, I
will begin WEDNESDAY,
TEMBER 26th, 1877. Tin
cipline is Military. Tuitic
residents of Alabama or any
State or Territory Is fee*.
Each Cadet from Alabama, or elsewhere, at
the beginning of ■ ach term or half year, must
deposit with the Treasurer—
Contingent Fee $5 00
Surgeon’s Fee 2 50
Total College Fees, per term $7 50
EXPENSES PER TERM :
Tuition, free.
Board and Lodging $40 50 to $58 50
Washing 4 50 4 60
Fuel, Lights and attendance 9 oo 9 00
Surgeon’s Fee 2 50 2 5o
Contingent Fee 5 00 5 00
Total $61 50 $79 50
Cadet Uniforms are furnished in Auburn at
the lowest possible rate.
Board, washing, fuel, lights, and attendance,
are paid for at the beginning of each month.
For further information seha for Catalogues.
Addiess any member of the Faculty, or
L T. TICHENOR, President.
Auburn, Ala., July 20th, 1877.
augll til octl
B altimore south
ern HOME SCHOOL,
lor 'Young Ladies and Little Girls. 1
Established in 1842.
Principals—Mrs. Wilson M.
Caby, Mrs Gen. John Peoram,
Nos .197 and 199 North Charles street, ireneh
the Language spoken. jyi8 eod2m
NOTICE i
One Hundred
Cooking Stoves!
FOR SALE for 30 DAYS
For less money than they
were ever sold at in Columbus, at 151 Broad
Street, Columbus, Ga. E. N. HAYS.
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GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL,
Hot Springs, Ark.
FIRST-CLASS IN EYERT RESPECT
This House has Bath-Rooms under
same root, supplied from the Hot Springs.
D. BALLENTINE,
mh27d6m Proprietor.
Each week to Agents. Goods Staple. lO.Wi
testimonials received.Terms liberal.Par>
titulars free. J • Worth X Co .St.Louis,Mo
Passenger Routes
TO ALL POINTS NORTH and EAST
Reorganized for the summsr of
1877.
Present the following attractive Lines to the
attention of all North-bound Tourists and
Travelers:
Route No. 1—All Rail.
Via Macon, Augusta, Wilmington and Rich
mond. 43 Hears 25 minutes
Columbus to New York.
This being 4 Hours Quicker Time
than by any other Line.
Solid Day Trains from Columbus to Augusta,
with Pullman Sleeping Car attached at
Macon ior Wilmington. Through
train Wilmington to Rich
mond and New York,
with Pullman Sleeping Cars attached at Rich
mond for New York.
ALLCHANGES at SEASON ABLE HOURS
and into CLEAN and PROPERLY
VENTILATED CARS.
Route No. 2-—Bay Line.
Over the same Lines to Wilmington as bv
Route No. 1. Thence by Through Train tb
Portsmouth, Va. Thence at 6:40 p at daily
(except Sunday) by the magnificent Steamers
of the Bay Line to Baltimore. Thence by New
York Express—arriving in New York at 2:05
P M.
A 51 hours run, only 7 hours in excess of all
rail time, with the advantage of undisturbed
night’s rest, and superior accommodations ou
the Chesapeake Bay.
Route No. 3--The Old Do
minion Line.
The same Lines to Wilmington and Ports
mouth 4s Routes 1 and 2. Thence on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Saturdays at 5 4o p m by tho
magnificent side-wheel Steamships ot the Old
Dominion Company, which invariably arrive
at their New York wharves by 9 p m.
A through run of 59 hours, combining the es
sential elements of cheapness, speed and com
fort.
i-a-sengers should leave Columbus Sundays,
Tuesdays and Fridays to connect closely with
this Line.
For Tickets, Checks, Time-cards, and all in
formation, apply to W H WILLIAMS, Ticket
Agent, at Passenger Depot, Southwestern
Railroad. A POPE,
General Passenger Agent.
J H WHITE, Southern Passenger Agent.
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W- F. TICNER. Dentist.
Over Mason’s Decs Store, j
Randolph Street, Columbus, Ga.
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