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I nRIIHlE OF (LOIDS.
BY A. J. ItEQL’IKK.
.,11'timi’S think, in my rarer hours,
Vlici the spirit is all aglow,
Wl ,riii within this world of ours
it vearns yet fears to know—
the an
eje music and mystic gleams
it the beautiful land of dreams!
. . it-cities of burnished gold
J i„ ti,, lihv/.e >>f the setting sun,
\nd " '
the crystal
lovlincs# caugh
mould
of til*, stars when day is done;
. * t tl iod celestial downward beams
■* ; rmn the beautiful land of dreams!
,ii a glimpse of inspiring eyes,
Through my earthly trials and cares.
tVliif. :i mother's U>uch dispels my sighs
\„,1 wipes away my tears,
\Vitii leaves of halm from the healing
streams
i nthe beautiful land of dreams!
Mid I feel that the struggle with power and
‘ pelf
p a wretched and miraculous rod;
That the .* Dili was created to die unto self
Hi fore it can rise to God—
\ flutter of pinions and flight of gleams
In the beautiful land of dreams!
That joy and grief are the light and shade
of each interwoven endeavor:
And the glory remains when the garment
is made,
The evil expelled forever—
Tie- flowing fabric unsoiled by seams
Of the beautiful land of dreams!
for dark eclipses of dark despair
That makes us shudder and start,
And dimpling transits of Venus there,
In tin- violet depths of the heart.
Hut lead us still to the gate, it seems,
Of the beautiful land of dreams!
The fear of the Lord is the earliest shoot
From seed by the sower (gist;
But wisdom’s completely ripened fruit
is to love Him best at last—
The perfect and triplicate crown which
neams
In the beautiful orli of dreams!
I.A BELLA 9fOBTE.
BY rHABLKS MACKAY.
I dreamed a pleasant dream of Death,
As a lady fair and bright,
Who came to my bedside suddenly
In the stillness of tlie night,
“Art tii/ui afraid of me?" she said.
In tones so sweet and low
That I knew she spoke as a kindly friend,
And not as a vengeful, foe;
And I answered cheerily, und smiled,
“No, my beloved; uo!
“Why should I fear! Thou can'st not come
An hour before t.hv time.
If ti» thine hour, ’twill be thine hour,
Appointed and sublime,
I should have lived my life in vain.
Nor see where all things tend,
If I'd not surely known and felt
That thou would’st he iny friend,
And tha< beginning were but loss
Unless for the blessed end.
“('ome to ine, then, O kindly Death!
I fear thee uot at all!
The Immortal mind can never lie
The mortal body’s thrall,
I see I hoe stretch thy radiant hand
To open wide the door
Through which my spirit, glad to pass,
Shall surge, and spring, and soar,
And learn to learn, and know to know,
Ever and evermore!
“Dear mother! on thy face I look,
And feel myself a child.
And know thou'lt purify my soul
Eroin all that hath detiled,
I've no regrets to leave a world
Whose dothful paths I've trod;
Come when thou wilt; I'm well content
To rest in the quiet sod.
And gowitli thee to the Spirit land.
To my Father and my God!”
A TALE OP THE COAST GUARD
[From an Old Magazine.]
The Rose hsul been becalmed for
several days in Cowes harbor, and
utterly at a loss how else to cheat
time, 1 employed myself, one after
noon in sauntering up and down the
quay, whistling for a breeze, and list-
lessiv watching the slow approach of
a row-boat bringing the mail and a
few passengers from Southampton,
the packet-cutter to which the boat
belonged being as hopelssly immova
ble, except for such drift as the tide
gave her, as tiie Rose. The slowness
of its approach—for I expected a mes
senger with letters—added to my im
patient weariness, and as, according
to my reckoning, it would at least be
an hour before the boat reached the
landing steps, I turned to the Foun
tain Sun in the High street, called
for a glass of negus, and, as I lazily
sipped ii, turned over once more to
the newspapers lying on the table,
though with scarcely a hope of com
ing athwart a line that I had not
read half a dozen times before. I was
mistaken. There was a Cornwall Ga
zette which I had not before seen, and
in one corner of it I lit upon this, to
me in all respects new and extremely
interesting paragraph:
“We copv the following statement from a
cotemporary solely for the purpose of eon-
tradietingit: ‘It is said that the leaders of
the smugglers in the late desperate affray
w itii the coast guard in St. Michaels Bay was
no other than Mr. George Polwhele Hen
drick, or Dost witliiel, formerly, as our read
ers are aware, a lieutenant in the royal na-
vv, and dismissed the king's service by sen
tence of court martial at the close of the
war.’ There is no foundation for this impu
tation. Mrs. Hendrick, of Dostwithiel, re
quests us to state that her son, from whom
she heard about ten days since, eommandsa
first class ship in the merchant navy of the
United States.”
1 was exceedingly astonished. The
court martial I had not heard of, and
having overhauled the Navy List for
such a purpose, the absence of the
name of G. P. Hendrick had escaped
my notice. What could have been
his offense? Some hasty, passionate
act, no doubt; for of misbehaviour
before the enemy or of commission of
deliberate wrong, it was impossible
to suspect him. I had known him
for a short time only, but the few
days of our acquaintance were passed
under circumstances which brings
out the true nature of a man more
prominently and unmistakably than
might twenty years of humdrum, ev
ery day life. * The varnish of preten
sion falls quickly off in presence of
sudden anu extreme peril—peril es-
]ieotally requiring presence of mind
and energy to beat it back. It was in
such a position that I recognized
some of the high qualities of Lieu
tenant Hendrick. The two sloops of
war in which we respectively served
were consorts for a while on the
South African coast, during which
time we fell in with a Franeo-Italian
privateer or pirate, for the distinction
between the two is much more tech-
nichal than real. She was leeward
when we sighted her, and not very
distant from the shore, and so quick
ly did she shoal her water that pur
suit by either of the sloops was out
of the question. Being a stout vessel
of her class, and full of men, four
boats—three of the Scorpion’s and
one of her consort’s—were detached
in pursuit.
The breeze gradually failed, and
we ivere fast coming up with our
friend, when he vanished behind a
headland, on rounding which we
lound he had disappeared up a nar
row, winding river of no great depth
of water. We were of course follow
ed, and after about a quarter of an
hour s hard pull found, on suddenly
turning a sharp elbow of the stream,
) ve had caught a Tarter. We
m fact, come upon a complete
Privateers—ia rendezvous or
‘pot they termed it. The vessel was
already anchored across the channel,
and we were flanked on each shore
by a crowd of desperadoes, well provi
ded with small arms and witn two
or three pieces of light ordinance
among them. The shouts of defiance
with which they greeted us as we
swept into the deadly trap were
instantly followed by a general and
murderous discharge of both musket
ry and artillery, and as the smoke
cleared away I saw that the leading
pinnace, commanded by Hendrick,
had been literally knocked to pieces,
and that the living portion of the
crew were splashing about in the
river.
There was time for but oue look,
for, if we allowed the rascals tune to
reload their guns, our own fate would
inevitably be a similar one. The
men understood this, and, with
loud cheer, swept eagerly on towards
the privateer, while the two remain
ing boats engaged the flanking shore
forces, and I was soon involved in
about the fiercest melee I ever had
the honor of assisting at. The furi
ous struggle on the deck of the pri
vateer lasted but about five minutes
at the end of which all that remained
of us were thrust over the side. Some
tumbled into the boat, others, like
myself, were pitched into the river.
As soon as I came to the surface and
had time to shake my oars and look
about me,I saw Lieutenant Hendrick
who, the instant the pinnace he com
manded was destroyed, had, with
daring and presence of mind, swam
towards the boat at the privateer’s
stern, cut the rope that held her with
the sword lie carried between his
teeth, anil forthwith began picking
up bis half-drowned boat’s crew. This
was already accomplished, and he
now performed the same service for
me and mine. This done, we again
sprang at our ugly cuctomers, he at
the bow and I amidships, Hendrick
was the first to leap on the enemy’s
deck, and so fierce and well sustained
was the attack this time that in less
than ten minutes they »vere undispu
ted victors so far as the vessel was
concerned. The fight on the shore
continued obstinate and bloody, and
it was not till we had twice discharged
the privateer’s guns among the ras
cals that they broke and fled. The
dashing, yet cool and skillful, bravery
evinced by Lieutenant Hendrick in
this brief but tumultuous and san
guinary affair was admirably remark
ed upon by all who witnessed, few
of whom, gazing at the sinewy,active
form, the fine, pale countenance and
dark, thundei’ous eyes of the young
officer—if I may use such a term, for
in their calmest aspect a latent volca
no appeared to slumber in their
gleaming depths—could refuse to sub
scribe to the opinion of a distin
guished admiral who more than once
observed that there M as no more prom
ising officer in the British naval ser
vice than Lieutenant Hendrick.
Well, all this, which has taken me
so many words to relate, flashed be
fore me like a scene in a theater as I
read in the paragraph in the Cornish
paper. The Scorpion and her consort
parted company a few days after this
fight, and I had not since then seen
or heard of Hendrick till now. I was
losing myself in conjecture as to
the probable or possible cause of so
disgraceful a termination to a career
that promised so brilliantly, when
the striking of the bar clock warned
me that by this time the mail boat
had arrived. I sallied forth and
reached the pier steps just a minute
or tM'o before the boat reached there.
The messenger I expected was in her
and I Avas turning aAvay Avith the
parcel he handed me Avhon my atten
tion was arrested by a stout, unwield-
ly fellow, AA’ho stumbled awkwardly
out of the boat, and hurriedly came
up the steps. The man’s face M as
pale, thin, hatchet-shaped anxious,
and the gray, ferrety eyes Avere rest
less and perturbed, Avhile the stout
round body M'as that of a yeoman of
the bulkiest class, but so clumsily
made up that it did not require any
very lengthened scrutiny to perceive
that the shrunken carcass appropriate
to such a lanky and dismal visage oc
cupied but a small space within the
thick casing of padding and extra
garments in which he Avas swathed.
His light broAvn Avig, too, surmoun
ted by a broad-brimmed hat, got a
little awry, dangerously revealing the
scanty locks of iron-gray beneath.
It was not difficult to run up these
little items to’ a pretty accurate sum
total, anil I had little doubt that the
hastening and nervous tra\-eler Avas
flying either from a constable or a
sheriff’s officer. It Avas, however, no
affair of mine, and I Avas soon busy
with the letters just brought me.
The most important tidings they
contained Avas, that Captain Pickard
—the master of a smuggling craft of
of some celebrity called Les Trois
Freres, in which for some tAvelA’e
months or more he had been carrying-
on a daring and successful trade
throughout the M’hole line of the
southern and western coasts—Avas
likely to be found at this particular
time* near a particular spot in the
back of the Wight. This informa
tion Avas from a source in the enemy’s
camp, and it Avas consequently with
great satisfaction that I obsen'ed in
dications of a coming breeze, and in
all probability a stiff one.
I Avas not disappointed ; and in less
than an hour the Rose Avas stretching
her white Avings beneath a brisk
nortliAvester oA'er to Portsmouth,
Avhere I had some slight official busi
ness to transact previous to looking
after friend Pickard. This Avas speed
ily dispatched, and I Avas stepping in
to the boat on my return to the cutter
when a panting ’messenger informed
me that the port admiral desired to
see me instantly!
“The telegraph has just announ
ced,” said the admiral, “that Sparks,
the defaulter, Avho has for some time
successfully aA'oided capture, wiilat-
tenipt to leave the kingdom from the
Wight, as he is known to have been
in communication Avith some of the
smuggling gentry there. He is sup
posed to have a large amount of gov
ernment moneys in his possession.
You Avill, therefore, Lieutenant
Warneford, exert yourself A'igilantly
to secure him.”
“Wliat is his description ?”
“Mr. James,” replied the admiral,
addressing one of the telegraph clerks
“give Lieut. Warneford the descrip
tion transmitted.”
Mr. James did so, and I read: “Is
said to have disguised himself as a
stout countryman, Avears a blue coat
Avith bright; buttons, buff waistcoat,
broAvn Avig and a Quaker’s hat. He
is of a slight, lank figure, five feet
nine inches in height. He has two
pock-marks on his forehead, and lisps
in speech.”
“By Jove, sir,” I exclaimed, “I
saw this felloM’ only about two hours
ago!” I then briefly related AA'hat
had occurred, and was directed not
to lose a moment in basting to secure
the fugitive.
The -wind had considerably increas
ed by this time, and the Rose Avas
soon again off Cowes, where Mr.
Roberts, the first mate and six men,
were sent on shore Avith orders to
make the best of his way to Bon-
church—about which spot I knew, if
anywhere, the brown-wigged gentle-
tleman would endeavor to embark—
while the Rose went round to inter
cept him seaward: which she did at
ing half a gale of wind. EA'ening
had fallen before Ave reached our des
tination, but so clear and bright, with
the moon and stars, that distant ob
jects Avere as visible as by day. I had
rightly guessed hoAV it would be, for
Ave had no sooner opened up Bon-
ehurch shore or beach than Roberts
signalled us that our man Avason
board the cutter and running off at
about a league from us in the direc
tion of Cape La Houge. I kneAv too,
from the cutter’s build and the cut
and set of her sails that she was no
other than Captain Pickard’s boasted
craft, so that there was a chance of
killing two birds with one stone. We
evidently gained, though slowly,upon
Les Trois Freres; and this, after
about a quarter of an hour’s run ap
peared to be her captain’s own opin
ion, for he suddenly changed his
course and stood towards the Chan
nel islands, in the hope, I doubted
not, that I M'ould not follow him, in
such Aveather as Avas likely to come
on, through the dangerous intricacies
of the iron-bound coast about Guern
sey and the adjacent islets. Master
Pickard Avas mistaken ; for knoAving
the extreme probability of being led
such a dance, I had brought a pilot
with me from Cowes as well acquaint
ed with Channel naA-igation as the
smuggler himself. Les Trois Freres
it Mas soon eA-ident, Avas now upon
her best point of sailing, and it was
all that Ave could do to hold our own
with her. This Avas A'exatious but
the aspect of the heavens forbade me
showing more canvas, greatly as I
was tempted to do so.
It Avas lucky I did not. The stars
Avere still shining 0A r er our heads
from an expanse of blue Avithout a
cloud, and the full moon also as yet
held her course unobserved, but there
had gathered round her a glittering
halo-like ring, and aAvay to windward
huge masses of black clouds piled con
fusedly on each other, Avere fast
spreading OA r er the heavens. The
thick darkness had sp read over about
half the visible sky, presenting a sin
gular contrast to the silver brightness
of the other portion, Avhen suddenly
a sheet of vivid flame broke out of the
blackness, instantly folloAved by deaf
ening explosions, as if a thousand
cannon Avere bursting immediately
oA-er our heads. At the same mo
ment the tempest came leaping and
hissing along the white-crested waves
and struck the Rose abeam with such
terrible force that for one startling
moment I doubted if she Avould right
again
It Avas a vain fear; and, in a second
or two, she was tearing through the
water at a tremendous rate. Les
Trois Freres had not been so lucky;
she had carried aAvay her topmast,
and sustained other damage, but so
well and boldly M r as she handled, and
so perfectly under command apppear-
ed her creAV, that these accidents Avere
so far as it Avas possible to do so,
promptly repaired, and so little Avas
she crippled, in comparative speed,
that, although it Avas clear enough
after a time, that the Rose gainec.
something on her, it was so sloAvly
that the issue of the chase con
tinued extremely doubtful.
The race was an exciting one. The
Caskets, Alderney, Avere swiftly pass
ed, and at about tAVO o’clock in the
morning we made the Guernsey
lights. We Avere by this time within
a mile of Les Trois Freres, and she,
determined at all risks to get rid of
her pursuer, A'entured upon passing
through a narroAV opening betAveen
the small islets of Hern* and Gethon,
abreast of Guernsey—the same pas
sage, I belieA’e, by which Captain
(aftenvards Admiral) Lord Sauma-
rez escaped from a Freueh squadron
in the early days of the n-ar.
Fine and light as the night had
again become, the attempt, bloAving
as it did, Avas a perilous and proA’ed
to be a fatal one. Les Trois Freres
struck upon a reef on the side of Ge
thon, a rock with then but one poor
habitation upon it, Avhich one might
throAv a biscuit OA r er; and by the
time the Rose had brought up in the
Guernsey roads, the smuggler, as far
as could be ascertained by our night
glasses, had entirely disappeared
What had become of the creAV and of
the important passenger was the next
point to be ascertained, but although
the wind had by this time somewhat
abated, it AA'as not under the pilot’s
advice till near 8 o’clock that the
Rose’s boat with myself and a stout
crew, pulled off for the scene of the
catastrophe. We needed ndt to have
hurried ourselves. The half-droAvned
smugglers, all but three of Avhom
had escaped Avith life, Avere in a truly
sorry plight, every one of them be
ing more or less maimed, bruised and
bleeding. Les Trois Freres had gone
entirely to pieces, and as there Avas
no possible means of escape from the
desolate place, our arrival Avith the
supplies Ave brought M as looked upon
rather as a deliverance than otlier-
Avise. To my inquiries respecting
their passenger, the men answered
by saying he Avas in the house with
the captain. I immediately proceed
ed thither, and found one of the tAvo
rooms on the ground floor occupied
by four or fiA'e of the AA’orst injured
of the contrabandists and the gentle
man I was chiefly in pursuit of, Mr.
Samuel Sparkes. There was no mis
taking Mr. Sparkes, notAvithstanding
he had substituted the disguise of a
sailor for that of a jolly agriculturist.
“You are, I belieA'e, sir, the Mr.
Samuel Sparkes for whose presence
certain personages in London are just
now rather anxious?”
His deathy face greAV more corpse
like as I spoke, but he nevertheless
managed to stammer out,“No, Samth
Eduard, sir.”
“At all eA'ents, that pretty lisp and
those tAvo marks on the forehead be
long to Samuel Sparks, Esq., and you
must be detained till you satisfactori
ly explain how you came by them.
Stevens, take this person into close
custody and have him searched at
once. And noAV, gentlemen smug
glers,” I continued, “pray inform me
Avhere I may see your renowned cap
tain ?” •
“He is in the next room,” replied
a decent tongued chap sitting near
the fire, “and he desired me to gh-e
his compliments to Lieutenant War
neford, and say that he AA'ished to see
him alone.”
“Very civil and considerate, upon
my word! In this room, did you
say?”
“Yes, sir; in that room.”
I pushed open a rickety door and
found myself in a dingy hole of a
room, a little more than a couple of
yards square, at the further side of
which stood a lithe, sinewy man in a
blue pea-jacket, and Avith a fur cap on
his head. His back was turned to-
toAvards me, and as my entrance did
not cause him to change his position
I said, “You are Captain Pickard, I
am informed?”
He 8M*ung sharply around as I
spoke, threw off nis cap and said,
briefly and sternly: “Yes, Warne-
ford, I am Captain Pickard.”
The sudden unmasking of a loaded
battery immediately in my front
could not have so confounded
and startled me as these words did as
they issued from the lips of the man
before me. The curling black hair,
the dark flashing eyes, the marble
features were those of Lieutenant
Hendrick—of the gallant seaman
whose vigorous arm I had seen turn
U*U1 DVOfTaiUt TTUAVU «1U Mill I fT JUVWV *
a spanking rate, for it was now blow* 1 the tide of battle against desperate
odds on the deck of a privateer.
“Hendrick!” I at length exclaim
ed, for the sudden inrush of painful
emotion choked my speech fora time;
“can it indeed be'you *?”
“Ay, truly, Warneford. The Hen
drick of whom CollingM'ood prophe
sied high things is fallen thus Ioav ;
and Avorse remains behind. There is
a price set upon my capture, as you
know, and escape is I take it, out of
the question.” I comprehended the
sIoav, meaning tone in Avhich the last
sentence Avas spoken, and the keen
glance that accompanied it. Hend
rick, too, instantly read the decisive
though unspoken reply.
“Of course, it is out of the ques
tion,” he went on. “ I Avas but a fool
to even seem to doubt that it was.
You must do your duty, Warneford,
I know; and, since the fatal mishap
M r as to occur, I am glad for many
reasons that I haA’e fallen into your
hands.”
“So am not I; and I Avish Avith all
my soul you had successfully thread
ed the passage you essayed.”
“The felloAv Avho undertook to pi
lot us failed in nerve at the critical
moment. Had he not done so, Les
Trois Freres would haA’e been long
since beyond your reach. But the
past is past, and the future of dark
and bitter time will be sAvift and
brief.”
“What haA’e you especially to dread?
I knoAv a reM’ard has been offered for
your apprehension, but not for Avhat
precise offense.”
“The unfortunate business of St.
Michael’s Bay.”
“Good God! The neAvspaper was
right, then! But neither of the
Avounded men has died, I hear, so
that—that—”
“The mercy of transportation may,
you think, be substituted for the cap
ital penalty.” He laughed bitterly.
“Or—or,” I hesitatingly suggested,
“you may not be identified; that is,
legally so.”
“Easily, easily, Warneford. I must
not trust to that rotten cable. Neither
the coast-guard nor the felloAvs with
me know me, indeed, as Hendrick,
ex-lieutenant of the royal naA’y, and
that is a secret you will, I know, re
ligiously respect.”
I promised to do so; the painful
interview terminated, and in about
tAvo hours the captain and surA’iA'ing
crew of Les Trois Freres and Mr.
Samuel Sparks Avere safely on board
the Rose. Hendrick had papers to
arrange, and as the security of his
person Avas all I Avas responsible for,
he was accommodated in my cabin,
Avhere I left him to confer Avith the
Guernsey authorities, in Avhose ball
Avick Gethon is situated. The matter
of jurisdiction—the offense with
which the prisoners Avere charged
haA-ing been committed in England
—Avas soon arranged, and by 5 o’clock
in the eA’ening the Rose Avas on her
way to England under an eight-knot
breeze from the soutliM’est.
As soon as we Avere fairly under
M r ay I M r ent below to haA’e a last con
ference Avith unfortunate Hendrick.
There Avas a parcel on the table direc
ted to “Mrs. Hendrick, LostAvithiel,
CornM’all, care of Lieutenant Warn
eford.” Placing it in my hands, he
entreated me to see it securely con-
A’eyed to its address unexamined and
unopened. I assured him that I
M ould do so, and tears, roughly dash
ed aAvay, sprang to his eyes as he
grasped ana shook my hand. I felt
half choked, and Avhen lie again sol
emnly adjured me under no circum
stances to disclose the identity of Cap
tain Pickard, and Lieutenant Hend
rick, I could only reply by a seaman’s
hand-grip requiring no additional
pledge of words.
We sat silently down and I order
ed some wine to be brought in. “You
promised to tell me,” I said, “how all
this unhappy business came round.”
“I am about to do so,” he answered
“It was an old tale, of Avhich the last
chapter owes its color, let me frankly
OAvn, to my hot and impatient tem
per as much as to a complication of
adverse circumstances.” He poured
out a glass of wine and proceeded at
first sloAvly and calmly, but gradually
as passion gathered strength and way
upon him, Avith flush and impetuous
eagerness to the close :
I M-as born near Lostwithiel,
Cornwall. My father, a younger and
needy son of no profession, died
when I Avas eight years of age. My
mother had about £80 a year in her
OAvn right, and, Avith that pittance,
helped by self-privation, unfelt be
cause endured for her darling boy,
she gave me a sufficient education
and fitted me out respectably, n’hen,
thanks to PelleAV, I obtained a mid
shipman’s Avarrant in the British ser
vice. This occurred in my sixteenth
year. Dr. Redstone, at Avhose ‘high
school’ I acquired what slight classi
cal learning, long since forgotten, I
once possessed, M’as married in sec
ond nuptials to a A’irago of a Avife,
who brought him, besides her pre
cious self, a red-headed cub by a for
mer marriage. His (the son’s) name
was Kershaw. The doctor had one
child about my own age, a daughter,
Ellen Redstone. I am not about to
prate of the bread-and-butter senti
ment of mere children, nor of Ellen’s
M’onderful graces of mind and per
son. I doubt, indeed, if I thought
her A’ery pretty at the time; but she
AA’as meekness itself, and my boy’s
heart used, I AA’ell remember, to leap
as if it would burst my bosom, at
witnessing her patient submission to
the tyranny of her stepmother, and
one of the greatest pleasures I eA*er
experienced M’as giving young Ker-
shaAV, a much bigger fellow' than my
self, a good thrashing for some bru
tality towards her—an exploit that,
of course, rendered me a remarkable
favorite M’ith the great bumpkin’s
mother.”
“Well, I went to sea, and did not
again see Ellen until seven years af
terwards, Avhen, during absence on
sick leuA-e, I met her at Penzance, in
the neighborhood cf Avhich place the
doctor had resided for some time.
She Avas greatly improved in person,
but was still meek, doA’e-eyed, gentle
Ellen, and pretty nearly as much
dominated by her" step-mother as for
merly. Our child acquaintance Avas
reneAved, and, suffice it to say, that
I soon came to love her Avith a ferven-
cy surprising eA’en to myself. My af
fection M’as reciprocated ; Ave pledged
faith together, and it was agreed that
at the close of the Avar, AvheneA’er
that should be, n*e Avere to marry and
dwell together, like turtle doA’es in
the pretty hermitage that Ellen’s
fancy loved to conjure up, and Avith
her A-oice of music untiringly dilate
upon. I M'as again at sea, and the
answer to my first letter brought the
surprising intelligence that Mrs.
Redstone had become quite reconcil
ed to our future union, and that I
might consequently send my letters
direct to the nigh school. Ellen’s let
ter Avas prettily enough expressed,but
somehow I did not like its tone. It
did not read like her spoken language
at all events. This, however, must, I
concluded, be mere fancy, and our
correspondence continued for two
years—till the peace, in fact—when
•he frigate, of Avhich I was now sec
ond lieutenant, arrived at Plymouth
to be paid off. We were awaiting the
admiral’s inspection, which for some
reason or other was unusually delay
ed, when a bag of letters Avas brought
on board with one for me bearing the
Penzance postmark. I tore it open
and found that it was subscribed by
an old and intimate friend. He had
accidentally met with Ellen Redstone
for the first time since I left. She
looked thin and ill, and in ansAA-er to
his persistent questionings had told
him she had only heard once from
me since I went to sea, and that M'as
to renounce our engagement, and
she added that she Avas going to be
married in a day or tM’o to Rev. Mr..
Williams, a dissenting minister of’
fair means and respectable character.
My friend assured her there must be
some mistake, but she shook her
head incredulously, and A^ith eyes
brim full of tears and trembling
A’oice bade him, when he saw me, say
that she freely forgaA’e me, but that
her heart Avas’ broken. This was the
substance, and, as I read a hurricane
of dismay and rage possessed me.
There was not, I felt, a moment to be
lost. Unfortunately the captain Avas
absent, and the frigate temporarily
under command of the first lieu
tenant. You kneAv Lieutenant ■?”
“I did for one of the most cold
blooded mariners that ever trod
quarter-deck.”
“Well, him I sought and asked
temporary lea\’e of absence. He re
fused. I explained hurriedly—im
ploringly explained the circumstan
ces in M’hich I was placed. He sneer
ingly replied that sentimental non
sense of that kind could not be per
mitted to interfere with the king’s
service. You know, Warneford, 1iom t
naturally hot and impetuous is
my temper, and at that moment my
brain seemed literally aflame. High
Avords folloM’ed, and in a transport of
rage I struck the taunting coAvard a
violent bloM’ in the face, following
up the outrage by drawing my sword
and challenging him to instant com
bat. You may guess the sequel. I
was immediately arrested by the
guard and tried a feAV days afterwards
by court martial. Exmouth stood
my friend, or I knoAv not M’hat sen
tenee might haA-e been passed, and I
Avas dismissed the service.”
“I Avas laid up for several Aveeks by
fever about that time,” I remarked ;
“and it thus happened, doubtless,
that I did not see any report of the
trial.”
“The moment I AA’as liberated I has
tened, literally almost in a state of
madness, to Penzance. It AA’as all
true, and I AA’as too late! Ellen had
been married something more than a
Aveek. It was KershaAV and his
mother’s doings. Him I half killed;
but it is needless to go into details of
the frantic \iolence Avith Avhich I
conducted myself. I broke madly
into the presence of the neAvly mar
ried couple. Ellen sAVOoned with
terror, and her husband, Avhite Avith
consternation and trembling in every
limb, had barely, I remember, suffi
cient power to stammer out that he
would pray for me. The next six
months is a blank. I went to Lon
don, fell into eA’il courses, drank,
gambled; heard after awhile that El
len Avas dead—the shock of Avhich
partially checked my doAvnward pro
gress—partially only. I left off’ drink
ing but not gambling, and ultimate
ly I became connected Avith a num
ber of disreputable persons, among
Avhom Avas our prisoner Sparkes. He
found part of the capital Avith which
I have been carrying on the contra
band trade for the last two years. I
had, hoM’eA’er, fully determined to
withdraw myself from the dangerous
though exciting pursuit. This Avas
to haA’e been my last trip; but you
know,” he added bitterly, “it is al-
AA’ays upon the last turn of the dice
that the devil pins his victims.”
He ceased speaking, and we both
remained silent for several minutes.
What oil my part could be said or
suggested ?
“You hinted just hoav,” I remark
ed, after a Avhile, “that all your re
maining property M’as in this parcel.
You have, lioM’e\’er, of course, reserv
ed sufficient for your defense?”
A strange smile curled his lip, and
a Avild, brief flash of light broke
from his dark eyes, as he ansAA’ered,
“O yes, more than enough—more,
much more than Avill be required.”
“I am glad of that.” We AA’ere
again silent, and I presently exclaim
ed, “Suppose Ave take a turn on deck
—the heat here stifles one.”
“With all my heart,” he ansAA’ered,
and Ave both left the cabin.
We continued to pace the deck
side by side for some time M’ithout
interchanging a syllable. The night
Avas beautifully clear and fine, and
the cool breeze that swept OA’er the
star and moon-lit Avaters gradually al
layed the feA’erish nervousness which
the unfortunate lieutenant’s narra-
tiA'ehad excited.
A beautiful, hoAvev’er illusive
world,” he by and by sadly resumed,
“this death—now so close at my heels
—wrenches us from. And yet you
and I, Warneford, ha\’e seen men
rush to encounter the King of Ter
rors, as he is called, as readily as if
summoned to a bridal.”
“A sense of duty and a habit of
discipline Avill alM’ays overpoAA’er, in
men of our race and profession, the
A’ulgar fear of death.”
“Is it not also, think you, the great
er fear of disgrace and disnonor in
the eyes of the Avorld, Avhich out-
Aveighs the lesser dread?”
‘No doubt that has an immense
influence. What Avould our sweet-
hearts, sisters, mothers say, if they
heard Ave had turned craA’en? What
Avould they say in England? Nelson
Avell understood this feeling, and ap
pealed to it in his last great signal.”
“Ay, to be sure,” he musingly re
plied: “Avhat Avould our mothers
say—feel, rather—at Avitnessing their
sons’ dishonor ? That is the master
chord?”
We once more relapsed into silence
and after another dozen or so turns
on the deck, Hendrick seated himself
on the combings of the main hatch-
Avay. His countenance, I observed,
Avas still pale as marble, but a livelier,
more resolute expression had gradu
ally kindled in his brilliant eyes. He
Avas, I concluded, nerving himself to
meet the chances of his varying con
stancy and fortitude.
“I shall go beloM' again,” I said.
“Come; it may be some Aveeks be
fore we haA’e another glass of Avine
together.”
“I AA’ill be Avith you directly,” he
ansAvered, and I Aveut doAvn. He did
not, hoM’e\ r er, folloAV, and I was about
calling him, Avhen I heard his step
on the stairs. He stopped at the
threshold of the cabin, and there M'as
flashing intensity of expression
about his face M'hich quite startled
me. As if moA’ed by second thought,
he stepped in. “One last glass Avith
you, Warneford; God bless you!” He
drained and set the glass on the ta
ble. “The lights at the corner of the
Wight—are just—made,” he hurried
ly went on. “It is not likely I shall
haA’e an opportunity of again speak
ing with you; and let me again hear
you say that you will, under any cir
cumstances, keep secret from all the
world—my mother especially—that
Captain Pickard and Lieutenant Hen
drick were one person.”
“I will; but why”—
“God bless you!” he broke in. “I
must be on deck again!”
He vanished as he spoke, and a dim
suspicion of his purpose arose in my
mind, but before I could act upon it
a loud, confused outcry arose on the
deck, and as I rushed i|p the cabin
stairs I heard, amid the hurrying to
and fro of feet, the cries of “Man
overboard!” “’Bout ship!” “Down
M’ith the helm!” The cause of the
commotion AA'as soon explained. Hen
drick had sprung oA’erboard; and
looking in the direction pointed out
by the man at the wheel plainly dis
cerned him already considerably
astern of the cutter. His face M’as
turned toM’ards us, and the instant I
appeared he waved one arm Avildly
in the air. I could hear the Avords,
“Your promise!” distinctly, and the
next instant the moonlight played
upon the spot where he had vanished.
Boats Avere loAvered, and Ave passed
and repassed over and near the place,
for nearly half an hour. Vainly; he
did not reappear.
I haA’e only further to add that the
S a reel intrusted to me Avas safely de-
vered and that I have reason to be
lieve Mrs. Hendrick remained to her
last hour ignorant of the sad fate of
her son. It Avas her impression, in
deed, by his last letter, he wus about
to enter the South American service
under Cochrane, and she ultimately
resigned herself to a belief that he had
there met with a braA’e man’s death.
My promise Avas scrupulously kept,
nor is it by this publication in the
slightest degree broken; for both the
names of Hendrick and Pickard are
fictitious, and so is the place assigned
as that of the lieutenant’s birth. That
rascal Sparkes, I am glad to be able
to say—chasing whom made me an
actor in the melancholy affair—M’as
sent OA'er the herring pond for life.
Importance of Good Manner*.
The habit of saying rude things, of
running people down, springs uot so
much from ill-nature as from that
vanity that would rather lose a
friend than a joke. On this point Dr.
Johnson once remarked: “Sir, a man
has no more right to say an uncivil
thing than to act one—no more right
to say a rude thing to another than
to knock him doAvn.” The A’ain ego
tism that disregards others is shoAvn
in various impolite ways; as for in
stance, by neglect of propriety in
dress, by the absence of cleanliness,
or indulging in repulsiA’e habits.
Some think themselA’es so Avell-born,
so clever, so rich, as to be aboA’e car
ing Avhat others may say and think
of them. It is said that the ancient
kings of Egypt used to commence
speeches to their subjects Avith the
formula: “By the head of Pharoah
ye are all SAvine!” We need not won-
der that those Avho take this swine
theory of their neighbors should be
careless of setting their tastes and
feelings at defiance. Contrast such
puppyism with the conduct of DaA’id
Aneilion, a famous Huguenot preach
er, one of Avhose motives for studying
his sermons M’ith the greatest care
M’as “that it Avas shoAving too little
esteem for the public to take no pains
in preparation, and that a man Avho
should appear on a ceremonial day in
his night-cap and dressing-goAvn
could not commit a greater breach of
civility.” “Spite and ill-nature,” it
has been said, are amongst the most
expensive luxuries of life;” and this
is true, for none of us can afford to
surround himself Avith a host of ene
mies we are sure to make if, w’hen
young, we allow ill-nature to produce
in us unmannerly habits. Good
manners, like good Avords, cost noth
ing, and are M’orth everything. What
adA’antage, for instance, did the book
seller on M’hom Dr. Johnson once
called to solicit employment get from
his brutal reply: “Go buy a porter’s
knot and carry trunks ?” The surly
natures of such men prevent them
from eA’er entertaining angels una
wares. It is difficult to see Iioav the
“natural-born fool” can eA’er hope to
be AA’ell mannered, for without good
sense or rather tact, a man must con
tinually make a fool of himself in
society. Why are Avomcn as a rule
better mannered than men ? Because
their greater sympathy aud power of
quicker intuition gh’e to them finer
tact. Nor is talent which knows
what to do of much use, if the tact
be Avanting which should enable us
to see hoAV to do it. He who has tal
ent without tact is like the million
aire Avho neA’er has a penny of ready
money about him. Mr. Smiles i-llus-
trates’the difference betAveen a man
of quick tact and of no tact whatever
by an intervieAV Avhich he says once
took place betAveen Lord Palmerston
and Mr. Behnes the sculptor. At the
last sitting Avhich Lord Palmerston
gaA’e him, Behnes opened the conver-
sation with: “Any neAvs, my lord,
from France? Hoav do Ave stand Avith
Louis Napoleon?” The foreign sec
retary raised his eye'orovv’s for an in
stant, and quietly replied : “Really
Mr. Behnes, I don’t knoAv; I haA’e
not seen the newspapers!” Behnes,
with much talent, was one of the
many men who entirely missed their
Avay in life through want of tact.—
[Chambers's Journal.
BANKING AND INSURANCE.
MadLe Toy tlxo
Notice in Bankruptcy.
No. 1.519.
T HIS is to give notice that on the 19th day
of November, A. D. 1877, a warrant in
Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
F. Emory Catchings. of Georgetown, county
of Quitman, and State of Georgia, who has
been adjudged a Bankrupt on his own peti
tion, and that the payment of any debts,
and the delivery of any property belonging
to said Bankrupt, to him or for his use, and
the transfer of any property by him, are for
bidden by law; that a meeting of the credi
tors of said Bankrupt, to prove their debts
and to choose one or more assignees of his
estate, Avill beheld at a Court of Bankruptcy,
to be hoiden at the Register’s office, Colum
bus, Ga., before Lemuel T. Downing, Esq.,
Register, on the 8th day of December, A.
D. 1877, at 10 o'clock a. m.
W. H. SMYTH,
United States Marshal, as Messenger.
noI7 2t
THE WORLD’S STANDARD
SCALES
RECEIVED HIGHEST MEDALS AT
World’s Fair, London 1851
World’s Fair, New York 1853
World’s Fair, Paris 1867
World’s Fair, Vienna 1873
World’s Fair, Santiago, Chili 1875
World’s Fair, Philadelphia 1876
World’s Fair, Sidney, Australia...1877
ALSO SOLE AGENTS FOR
MILES’ ALARM MONEY DRAWERS.
HANCOCK’S INSPIRATORS*
(The best Feeder known for Stationary, Ma
rine, and Locomotive Boilers.)
ALSO,
OSCILLATING PUMP COM PAM'S PCMPS.
FAIRBANKS & CO.,
311 Broadway. New York.
aul4 d2taw<twlm
For Sale—Cheap.
A FOUR-ROOM DWELLING-HOUSE, cor.
ner Fulton and Troup Streets; one-half
acre lot, good well of water, and kitchen.
Apply to F. REICH.
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A MONTH—Agents wanted every,
’here. Business honorable and firat
G-eorgia Home
INSURANCE COMPANY,
In the State of Georgia, tor the protection of her policy holders.
OUR DPOSIT is ample for the protection of onr patrons.
WE REPRESENT TIIE
HOME OF NEW YORK Capital and Assets $ 6.500,000
LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION « •* “ 14,000,000
MOBILE UNDERWRITERS’ “ “ « 1,250,000
PETERSBURG SAYINGS and INSURANCE... •« “ « 600,000
IS* Bisks will be written at rates as low. Adjustments will be made as liberally, and payments
made as promptly, as by any other first-class company represented in Georgia.
Office in Georgia Home building. sepi6 eodtf
1849. 1877.
Willcox’s Insurance Agency!
Oldest Agency in Western Georgia.
TIME-TRIED 2 FIRE-TESTED 2
tot
$250,000 in U. S. Bonds deposited with the Comptroller General of
Georgia for additional security of Policies is
sued at this Agency.
Just Settlements! Prompt Payments!!
For safe Insurance on Dwellings, Stores, Gin Houses, call on
D. F. WILLCOX,
sep20 eodtf 71 BROAD STPEET.
R. B. MURDOCH’S
INSURANCE AGENCY!
No. 02 Broad Sreet,
Representing Fourteen Million Dollars Capital.
SOUTHERN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Athens, Ga.
PHtENIX INSURANCE COMPANY, Hartford, Conn.
MANHATTAN INSURANCE COMPANY, New York.
LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Manchester, Eng.
SOUTHERN MUTUAL returns fifty per cent, premium to the insured, and
no liability to policy holders.
MANHATTAN will insure Gin Houses at lowest ruling rates.
$25,000 deposited with the State as security for policy holders.
[aug2I ly]
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INSURANCE COMPANY 1
Of Ridunond, Va.
+0+
Cash Capital $250,000; Cash Assets $315,000!
$25,000 in U. S. Bonds deposited in the Treasury of Georgia for FURTHER
Security of Policies!
T HIS well known Company has paid its THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to claimants in
Georgia, by the hands of the undersigned, since the war, and will maintain its well-
earned reputation for skillful, conservative, prompt, just dealing.
^-DWELLINGS, STORES, GIN HOUSES insured at fair rates. J53-Agents at all
prominent points in the State, to whom apply, or to
X>. F. WILLCOX, Gon’l
sep20 eodtf 71 BROAD STREET.
CARRIAGES, WAGONS, &c.
H. C. McKEB,
GUNBY BUILDING, ST. CLAIR STREET,
—DEALER IN—
Carriages, Baggies & Wagons
Of Every Description, at Prices to suit the times.
W HAT you don’t see ask for, and he will exhibit cuts (from
reliable builders) of any Vehicle manufactured, which he
will furnish upon short notice, at manufacturer’s prices. All
work sold and warranted will be protected.
Has now in stock and will continue to receive fresh supplies,
of
Buggy, Carriage and other Harness; Gents’ and
Ladies’ Saddles in great variety; Collars,
Hames, Bridles,&c.; Whips,Curry
Combs, Horse Brushes,&c.
BrtTALL WILL BE SOLD AT CLOSE PRICES.
oct!6 d&wly II. O. McBLDF.
SMITH & MURPHY,
City Carriage Works,
COLUMBUS, GA.,
K EEP constantly on hand and man*
ufactnre to order all styles of
CARRIAGES, ROCKAWAYS, BUG
GIES & SPRING WAGONS.
We gaurantee to giTe a better Vehi
cle for less money than was ever be
fore sold in this market. We will du
plicate any work bronght to this mar
ket. Special attention given to repair-.
ing in all its branches. Satisfaction ganrauteed as to work and price.
Factory on Bryan Street, between Broad and Oglethorpe Streets.
Ware-room Southwest corner Bryan and Oglethorpe Streets.
oct31 d2taw*w6m
RAILROADS.
WESTERN - RAILROAD OF
ALABAMA. -
MILLINERY.
Mrs. Colvin & Miss Donnelly,
Have on hand a most select and complete assortment of
MILLINERY ’ FANCY GOODS!
Embracing all the Novelties of the season in
Ladies’ and Misses’ Fine Shaw, Felt. Plush and Yelvet HATS and
BONNETS.
Also a most varied assortment of Children’s Suits, Sacques, and Infants’
Cloaks, Ladies’ Cloaks from $3 to $20; also a complete line of Corsets, inclu
ding Dr. Warner’s Health Corset, Cooley’s Cork Corset,, and many other
new and approved makes. KID GLOVES from 50c. to $2.
Having purchased our Stock for cash, we can and are determined to 3ell as
low as the lowest. Call and examine our stock before purchasing.
octS eoditwlm
MARK A. BRADFORD,
CARRIAGE,
Bl'GGT und WAG0X
HARNESS,
Bridles, Collars, Whips,
Ladies’ and Gents’
T It U NK 8!
and
SATCHELS.
[Men's Boys’ and La
dies’
■Me
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DEALER IN SADDLES,
SADDLES AND HARNESS !f olc *^r6ash arnc8S
— [leather
Orders by mail promptly attended to.l Enameled cloth.
Saddles and Harness made to order.
aerMR. MIDDLEBROOK U still with me, at his Old Stand, 94 Broad St.
octtt SE3m
COLUMBUS, GA, November 11, 1877.
Trains Leave Columbus Daily,
as follows:
SOUTHERN MAIL.
3:45 P. JI. Arrives at Montgomery.. 8:10 p x
Mobile 3:00 a st
New Orleans.. 8:20 a m
Selma 7:00 a x
Atlanta 7:15 a x
ATLANTA AND NORTHERN MAIL.
7K10 A. M Arrives at Atlanta 2:20 p X
Washington ... 6:35 p at
Baltimore 8:30 P X
Ne\v York 6:45 A X
ALSO BT THIS TBAIN
Arrive at Montgomery 3:50 p x
TRAINS ARRIVE AT COLUMBUS
From Montgomery and Sonthwest..ll:05 a x
From Montgomery and Southwest. 7:10 p x
From Atlanta and Northwest 7:10 p x
Xg-This Train, arriving at Columbns at
7:10 p M, leaves Atlanta at 9:30 A X.
E. P. ALEXANDER, President.
CHAS. PHILLIPS, Agent. declS tf
CENTRAL & SOUTHWESTERN
RAILROADS.
SAVANNAH, GA., October 13,1877.
O N AND AFTFR SUNDAY OCTOBER
14, Passenger Trains on the Ctntnd and
Southwestern Railroads, and Branches, will
run as follows:
TRAIN NO. 1—GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah 9:20 a x
Leaves Augusta 9:15 a x
Arrives at Augusta 4:45 p x
Arrives at Macon 6:45 P X
Leaves Macon for Atlanta 9:16 p x
Arrives at Atlanta 5:02 A X
Leaves Macon for Eufaula (Accom
modation 9:00 P X
Arrives at Eufaula 9:55 A X
Leaves Macon for Columbus (Ac
commodation 8:00 p x
Arrives at Columbus 4:38 A X
Making close connections at Atlanta with
Western and Atlantic Railroad for all points
North and West.
Eufaula Accommodation leaves Macon
daily except Saturday.
Columbus Accommodation train runs
daily except Sunday.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 10:40 p X
Arrives at Macon 5:45 A x
Leaves Eufaula (Accommodation)... 6:00 P x
Arrives at Macon 6:454. X.
Leaves Columbus (Accommodation) 8:lo p X
Arrives at Macon 5:15 A X
Leaves Macon 7:00 a x
Arrives at Milledgeville 9:44 A X
Arrives at Eatonton. 11:30 A M
Arrives at Augusta 4:45 p k
Arrives at Savannah 4:00 p x
Leaves Augusta - 9:15 AX
Making connections at Augusta for the
North and East, and at Savannah with the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad for all points ln
Florida. '
Eufaula Accommodation Leaves Eufaula
daily except Sunday.
Columbns Accommodation Train rune
daily except Sunday.
TRAIN NO. 2-GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah — .' 7:30PX
Arrives at Augusta 6:00 A X
Leaves Augusta 8:05 P X
Arrives at Milledgeville 9:44 A X
Arrives at Eatonton 11:30 A X
Arrives at Macon 8:00 A X
Leaves Macon for Atlanta 8:40 A X
Arrives at Atlanta 2:16 P X
Leaves Macon for Albany and Eu
faula 8:20 A X
Arrives at Eufaula — 3:46 P X
Arrives at Albany 1:50 P X
Leaves Macon for Columbns 11:45 A X
Arrives at Columbus 4:00 P X
Trains on this schedule for Macon,Atlanta,
Columbus, Eufeula and Albany dally, soak
ing close connections at Atlanta with W*ot-’
ern A Atlantic and~Afta*tf»-*JB|pfcnaond
Air-Line. At Eufaula, with Montgomery &
Eufaula Railroad; at Columbus, with West
ern Railroad of Alabama, and Mobile and
Girard Railroad.
Train on Blakely Extension leaves Albany
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fri
days.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leave# Atlanta..- U40 r X
Arrives at Macon from-Atlanta... ^
Leaves Albany ...—vaJPWHfcr
Leaves Eufaula -«■ "ep
Arrives at Macon from Eufaula and*- —■ w 1
Albany 4:47 p X
Leaves Columbus .Ji:29 a x
Arrives at Macon from Columbus.... 3:58 p x
Leaves Macon 7:35 p M
Arrives at Augusta 6:00 A x
Leaves Augusta 88)5 p M
Arrives at Savannah 7:15 A M
Making connections at Savannah with
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad for all points
in Florida.
Passengers for Milledgeville and!Eatonton
will take Train No 2 for Savannah,andTrain
No. 1 from Macon, which trains connect
daily, except Monday, for these points.
WILLIAM ROGERS,
Gen’l Sup’t Central Railroad, Savannah.
W. G. RAOUL,
Sup’t Southwestern Railroad. Macon.
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MOBILE AND GIRARD B, B.
COLUMBUS, GA., October 1,1877.
Doable Daily Passenger Train,
M AKING close connections at Union
Springs with Montgomery and Eufaula
Trains to and from Montgomery and Eu
faula and points beyond.
This is the only line making close connec
tion at Montgomery with South and North
Alabama Train from the Northwest.
Passenger
and Fr’t
Mall Train. Train.
tj OB
£ £®~
I H-5
Leave Columbus...- ; £20 p x $ai) p x
Arrive at Union Springs 5:55 p m 12:25 A x
Arrive at Troy 8:00 p x
Arrive at Eufaula ..10:10 p x 6:00 a X
Arrive at Montgomery... 7:55 p x 6:45 a X
Arrive at Mobile 3:13 a x 6:00 p x
Arrive at New Orleans... 9:00 a X 8:40 a k
Arrive at Nashville 7:50 p x 7-50 p x
Arrive at Louisville 3:45 a X 8*45 a X
Arrive at Cincinnati 8:10 a m 8*-10 a x
Arrive at St. Louis 4:00 p x 4:00 P x
Arrive at Philadelphia... 6:50 p x 6:50 p x
Arrive at New York 10:05 p x 10:05 p x
Leave Troy 1&50 a x
Arrive at Union Springs 2:40 a x
Leave Union Springs 3:10 ax Max
Arrive at Columbns- 7:10 a X 10:55 A X
Arrive at Opelika 9:10 A M
Arrive at Atlanta 2:20 p x
Arrive at Macon 3:06 p x
Arrive at Savannah 7:15 a x
PaiiRengers f Gr Eufaula leaving Columbus
at da i'y. arrive in Eufaula at 10:10 p
ji daily (Sundays excepted). Leaving at 8:30
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Through C°ach with Sleeping Car accom
modation on Mail Train between Columbus
and Montgomery. W. L. CLARK,
_ Superintendent.
D. E. WILLIAMS,
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OIL,
C WESTI ALADDIN
■4 SOUS'1 SECURITY
The Best Household Oil in Use.
Warranted 150 degs. Fire-Test*
Water White in Color.
. Fully Deodorized.
Will Not Explode!
HIGHEST AWARD AT
THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION
FOB EXCELLENCE OF MANUFACTURE
And High Fire-Test l
Endorsed by Insurance Companies!
Read this Certificate—One of Many s
Howard Fire Insurance Co. or Balti-
more, Baltimore, Dec. 23d, 1874.—Messrs. C.
west & Sons—Gentle mem : Having used,
the various oils sold in this city for illumi
nating purposes, 1 take pleasure in recom
mending your “Aladdin Security Oil” ak
the safest and best ever used in onr house
hold. i ours truly,
(Signed) ANDREW REESE, Pres’t.
MANUFACTURED BY
C. WEST & SONS, Baltimore*
Try It, and You will Use no Other.
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NOTICE.
T HE notes and accounts of the iate^flrm of
J. J. WHITTLE A CO. have been placed
in the hands of Messrs. Crawford A McNelH™
for collection. Parties due the firm or th*
J '. T ' McLeod, deceased, will sett!*-. *r
with Crawford A McNeill,or
W. L. SALISBURY, )
no!4 eodlw Administrator,
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