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LOOKINU INTO SOKE MYSTERIES OF THE REALS OP • UBEASS. H. H. CARLTON & CO. DEVOTED TO OUR POLITICAL, EDUCATIONAL, AGRICULTURAL^AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS. Two Dollars per annum, In advance. VOL- 4. NO. 17. .u ♦ i . * -h ■ , y; — ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1876. GOING AFTER THE COWS. 11... .1 11 J • ,• • . " A ' .. OLD SERIES, VOL. 55. ||t ^%«s (Scotgtau. H |i. CARLTON & CO., Proprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: —jo;— one COPY, Ono Year, S 2 OO FIVE COPIES, One Year,..—— ...... 8 70 TEN COPIES, Ono Year, __ >8 OO Rates of Advertisl Trj! .lent adT.rtU.ment,, of one squire or m ptr Miairr far the first insertion, end to cent! for < juare or more SI 00 eschenb- Iriurtl insertion. »*_ All edrertUemenU considered tnaeleot except wliprr ■ pedal rtmtrecU ere made. Tm line, or 100 word, make one square, •r Liberal contract, made with pearl; adrertlien. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Ciullon or Administration or Ouaidianalilp 00 APPlicaUnaforDUmlmlon AdmlnUtrater or Guardian too application for Uaee to Sell Land, notice to Debtor, end Creditor....... Lend. do., per equal,... Sale, Periahable Prnpertp, 10 days, per sq i:.lrar Notice. SO dir* — — Phrrilf Sale,, per oquere - - r,t Colleetore Selee, per aquere. ►■nrrcloture MorlfU*. P*J equere.eech lime Kzeiuptlon Notice, (in advance) — ....... Buie SUi*,, pec «quare. each time 400 Business and Professional Cards. B. E. THRASHER, A 22 021JYBY A2 TA W, watkinsville, ga. itiEce in former Ordittarj’e Office. jan25-ly REMOVAL! 7. A. SAZB, 2)EJY2IS2, AS KKMOVED to the office lately occupied by Dr. J. i. Morrell. SAll*taction guaranteed in both Work and Pricea. jan.Mf ; COBB, ERWIN A COBB, attorneys at law, ATHENS, GA. i itfice in the Drupree Building. G. I). HILL, AT1021JYEY AT ZAW, ATHENS, GEORGIA. Vrompt attention given to all bnaineea and the aarne peri fully »olicUd. Janll-lv They waitod there, by tbs pasture bare— Dapple, and Dour, and Dan, 6o I afip the bar, in the well-worn peato, And drop them one by one; Bat 1 do not go, at 1 always go, To tee the milkiug done. 1 lean my cheek on the paitare ban, And watch the atan come oat; Perhaps they will miss me, np at the honte, And wander wbat 1 am about; Bat Pro somethin? to think of here to-night While I watch the stars come onL Last night when I came for the beauties, Willie was walking with me. And he asked me if I thought ever A former’s wife I could be ; For I am a city girl, you know, And a former’s son is be. Willie wear, home-span trowsen, And snob a ooarae straw hat! But the face that looks from nnder the rim, la handsome and bnve, for all that; And hia eyes, they look at roe so queer That my heart goes pit-s-pat. Every night, when the work Is dons, We art in the twilight gray— Willis and I, in the ivied porch, And ting the boon away; I think it’s better than opera, Or theatre, any day. He said last night, the summer Is brighter because I am here, That his work wss never to easy As it is when I am near— And he said—bat there, I won’t tell, Saoh words are too sacred and dear. How pare is the breath of the clover, That comet from the meadows mown 1 How holy the sky ahovs me, With tLc twinkling lights foil sown! No wonder that Willie is better Than men who live in town. So I think I will stay in the country, With Dolly, and Dapple, and Dun; Perhaps in the for, sweet summers, They would know should I foil to come, In the dewy eve, to the pasture bars, To drop them, one bv one. POPE BARROW, ATTOTIJYEY A2 Z/ADTy ATHENS, GA. office in Mr. J. II. Newton’* new building. jan4.lv. AUGUST DORR, iMEll CHANT TAILOR, ljironrsn or Fix* Cunns asp Dorsxucs, |i ATS, READY-MADE CLOTHING, AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, febU.Sm. 222 Broad 8treet, Augusta, Gm. W. R. LITTLE, \t t o r ney al Jjair, CABNESVILLE, GA. PATRIOTIC LETTER FROM HON. B. H. HILL TO HON. H. H. CARLTON. UR. IIILL’s VIEWS ON STATE AID TO RAROADS —THE RULE AND THE EXCEPTION—MARI ETTA AND NORTH GEORGIA HOAD—WHAT TIIK PEOPLE HAVE DONE—WHAT THESTATB SHOULD DO—PRIVATE CAPITAL EXHAUSTED —THE STATE CAN LOSE NOTHING—THE STATE WILL GAIN MUCH—THE HOPE OF THE SOUTH—WHAT NORTHERN MEN SAY—“THE STATE I I.OVK AND THE PEOPLE I SERVE.” [From Dsily Chronicle and Sentinel, Feb. 9th.] Hon. II. II. Carlton's Letter. House of Representatives, Atlanta, Feb. 7, 187(5. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: Enclosed please find letter which I have this day received from the Hon. B. H. Hill. Will you please do me the favor and Mr. Hill the honor and justice to give this pa triotic letter space in your valuable coltuns. Very respectfully and truly, II. H. Carlton. 'swig aw inu iu cosjr reach of railroads. It is astonishing to what an extent the characters of our people, as a civilized people have been misunderstood by the masses of the country. They have been taught by a licentious press, in the pay of miserable demagogues, to regard us as bru* tal and cruel, and as having no regard for what are called “human rights.” These false impressions cannot last The masses of the Northern people are not only willing to know the truth concerning us, but they will be really glad to know it, and this knowledge will bring great numbers of the best of the laboring classes to settle among us. I could say much on this suhject that would be interesting which I have learned in the last three weeks; but I am not writ ing a political letter. The Northeastern Road must a! o he built, but I am glad to lean that the present legislation is sufficient for that. There ought also to be a branch from either the Air Line or the Marietta Road to Dahlonega, hut these branches will follow if the main line is secured. Now, my dear Doctor, I know you love Georgia, and will do all you can to promote her prosperity. Mark what I tell you, there is honor, wealth and power for our glorious old State in the work to which I now call your attention. Don’t be afraid. In five years, every man who helps in this work will have cause to rejoice. Every dollar so applied will come back to the State bringing a troop for its companions. The good will be returned “pressed down, shaken together and running over.” I have not been informed what measures or proposition (if any) have been presented to the General Assembly on this subject. My mind voluntarily turned to work this evening, and my interest is so awakened in its behalf, and in behalf of the whole State on aecount of it, that I could not retire un til I wrote you this letter. And I close it feeling I have discharged one more duty to the State I love and to the people I'serve. With high regards, I am Your friend. [ Signed ] Benj. H. Hill. J. S. DORTCH, Attorney al hair, CABNESVILLE, 8 A. • A G. McCURRY, ./ TT O II .V JE r .< T i. -* If, HARTWELL, GEORGIA. kll.l. give utrict peraonxl attention to all buaineaa en isled to hi, ear*. Aug. 4—40—ly. M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas JACKSON A THOMAS, Attorneys at Law, Athens, Georgia. JOHN W. OWEN, Attorney at Law, toccoa nmr, oa. I 'V»ll practice in all the countie* of the Western Cir- pit, Hart and Madison of the Northern Circuit. Will e Uncial atteuion to all claim* entruated to hi* care, P. fi. THOMPSON, Attorney at Law, cial attention paid to criminal practice. For refer- * app.v to Kx. Gov. T. 11. Watta and Hon. David pton, 5j,nt*omery Ala. Office over Barry’a Store, Feb. S—tC FRANK HARRALSON, ATTORNEY AT W, CLEVELAND, GA. 6'-l practice iu the countiea of White, Union, Lnm- , Town,, and Fanning, and the Supreme Court at Will give .pedal a * ” * , ‘ l pled t.» hi, c to all claim* ra il 1878—41—tf. E. SCHAEFER, COTTON B UYER, TOOCOA CITY, OA. [lig!ie«i Col, 1‘ric. paid foe Cottoo. *Gin, ,-id Free,. Agent for Win oetSOsrti. E. A. WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL [atciimaker and jeweller, |lh. King’, Drug Store, Broad Street, Athena, Ga. 1 *urk done in a enperior manner and warranted to ** satisfaction. Jan. 3— tf. A. A. WINN, -With- 100VER, STUBBS & CO., Cotton Kactors, —And— general Commission Merchants, Savannah, Ga. Tie,. Rope and other euppliea furnished. . hberal eaah advances made on consignment* for “ r •‘“proeot to Liverpool or NortLern porta. May S0-tf. AVERY AND ULE STABLE. r-m Baggies and Horses for Hire. terms reasonable ,,1TEIIEAD ’ Washington, Wilke, Co., Ga. MEDICAL NOTICE. ^•■citation of many of my former petrona, I a^tioo of Medicine 1 will pay eepecial attention to the dia- ™ ,to u>d Children, and the Cbronio DUeaaes WM. KING, M. D "* 'nt-u-iy, K A GARDNER, “ tera and General Jobbers, xnlaa to the oitixrn of Athena rwemi Location, two doors east of ^ h rh„^„^ March id. 18T8-ly. Miss C. Potts, s ^^°^ a Ll Q Dressmaker j J° T " Uairanlty Baak.) & street ' • - ” Athens. ^ *'***•• tad her Iritnda ^A8H r °NABLE styles. t boaineaa, she fteU ■ore of May 14, 1S78—28-tf. Hon. B. II. Hill’s Letter. , House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., Feb. 4, 1876. Hon. II. II. Carlton, House of Represent tatives, Atlanta, Ga.: My Dear Sir—I write this letter from a sense of duty to the people of Georgia, and address it to you because you are the repre sentative from the county of my residence. As a general proposition, I have opposed indiscriminate State aid to railroads. The abuso of the system has justly made it un popular. But there are exceptions to all rules, and the exceptions usually stand on the same basis of wisdom with the rule. Indiscriminate aid to corporations impoverishes, ami oppresses the people, but the exceptions are cases where a wise and prudent aid will enrich the State—and les sen the burdens of the people. Precisely such an exception is that to which I now call vour attention. The present session of the Legislature should not adjourn without extending such aid as will ensure the com pletion of the Marietta and 'North Georgia Railroad to the State line, or at least to Mor- S tnton in the county of Fannin. In the ret place the people of the counties through which the road will run have shown the will to do all they are able to do to complete the work, and no people have struggled more nobly to accomplish it. This is conclusive proof that private capital would build the road if the private capital existed, aud es tablishes the fact that it must be a desirable enterprise. In the second place the amuuut of aid needed to enable these struggling peo ple to accomplish the task, will be small when compared to amounts usualy demand ed for like enterprises. I doubt whether as much work hns ever been done with so small means as has already been done on this road, and this will give assurance that the aid ex tended by the State will be honestly and eco nomically applied. Again ; in no event can the State posssibly lose one dollar. Suppose the State shall appropriate a given sum to ensure the road’s completion, 1 venture now to put on record my conviction that in less than five years the additional taxes raised upon the great increase of wealth and popu lation in that portion of the State, will return to the Treasury a sum annually equal to the whole sum appropriated, and in ten years the sum so returned will annually double the sum so appropriated. Or, suppose the State shall endorse the bonds of the Company. The amount of capital invested, and the value of the road when built, will more than secure the State against possible loss, aud the same result in the way of increased taxes mentioned above would also follow. Every dollar thus applied will be returned ten fold to the present generation, and to the future generations of our people a thousand fold. Even then upon the mere question of a money investment, every suggestion of pru dence and wisdom favors the proposition. But the half has not been told. , We must recover our material power. Our people must get up from their proverty. There are but two ways to do it First, we must multiply our industries; and, secondly, we must raise our own supplies of every kind possible, and make cotton exclusively a sur plus crop. We shall be forever poor and finally helpless if we.heed not those two things. With railroad facilities through North Geor gia, we shall develop a field for multiplied industries, not surpassed on thi’ continent. The active appropriation by skilled labor of this portion of Georgia, will add to the value of every acre of laud in the State, and will increase the profits of every buxi nes*. Such a region iu a Northern State would be permeated by railroads in twelve months. Then again the addition to our population would add so greatly to our polit ical power. Since the debate on the amnes ty bill, I have been the recipient of letters in great quantities from every State in the Umon. Quite a number of the writers ex press a great desire to move to Georgia, aud the occupations.they wish to follow point to North Georgia as the region that will admit Extracts from Washington City corre spondence Telegraph and Messenger: Josh Bilungs.—This “antoosin cuss” made fun at Lincoln Hall last night to an audience that came with their mouths plainly prepared for a series of grins and guffaws. • Notwithstanding other attrac tions, among them a sumptuous spread by Boss” Shepherd, at which Grant and some six hundred other snobs did honor to the great developer, Josh had a good audience, which broke into a ripple of cacliination when a side door opened and in sneaked a tall, unshaved, cadaverous-looking, long haired, spectacled, bent-up chap, looking as though he had stolen the book he carried nnder his arm, and everybody knew at once that Josh had arrived'. Without any introduction lie rose up, rolled up his eye balls, stretched out his neck, plunged both hands into his pockets and let himself loose. He was dressed in black to his chin, wore a narrow white collar without any neck-tie, and looked ns if he had just come from the funeral of his last relative, and had brought the ritual of the burial rite with him; but when he opened ' his mouth the audience began to titter and finally wound tip with a regular guffaw. Josh never smiled once, however, and for more than an hour kept the mouths of the audience on the stretch. He is undoubtedly a decided success in his “ pccooliar” line, and if he gets down South, you may say to your renders that it will pav to hear him. fedwin Booth lias lately made a pretty comfort blc contract with Manager Ford of this city and Baltimore. He is to receive 8600 per night, for fifty nights. One of the terms is that he (Booth) is never to do any night travel, and is never to leave a stop ping place botnre 11a. m., unless he chooses to do so. This would seem to leave little margin of profit for the manag r, but he calculates upon netting at least 85,000. Boo h will make no contract, on any terms, to play in this city, on account of it painful associations, nor will he play on Friday night, because it was on that night that ins brother killed Lincoln. He is very popu lar, however, with Washington play-goers, who always attend in large numbers at Baltimore whenever he is billed in that city. Washington is getting its handkerchiefs and lachrymal ducts ready for the coming of that eminent humbug, Hammond, the professional revivalist, who will descend u]>on the people next Saturday night. He will hold two or three meetings daily for three weeks, and doubtless leave with his pockets comfortably flush. R. Aatoaiahlar Coincidences. If Nothing Authenticated Stories or Xarrelions Vis ions—Phenomena that have Baaed the Most Skilful „and Intelligent or Savants. [Extract from N«w York Ban.) Dr. Hibbert has sliown that spectriea are nothing more than ideas or the recollected images of the mind, which, in certain states ot bodily indisposition have been rendered mftre vivid than actual impressions, and that pictures of the “ mind’s eye” are more vivid than the pictures of the body’s eire. Sir David Brewster, ia bit “ Natural Magic,” goes further than this, and shows that the “ mind’s eye” is actually the body’s eye, and that the retina is-tbe%6m>j6f tablet on which both dasns of Impresrious are pain ted, are by means of which they receive their visual existance under the same optical laws. He thinks that this is not only true in the case of spectral illusions, but that it holds good of all ideas recalled by the memory or created by the imagination, and that it may be regarded as the fundamental law in the science of pneumatology. Robert Dale Owen in his “Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World,” tells a mar vellous story ot coincidences that one can hardly believe were brought about by* no other agency titan chance. Mr. Owen says that the story was communicated to him in July, 1859, by Capt. J. S. Clarke of the schooner John Hallock, then lying at Rut gers slip, who had it direct from Mr. Bruce himself. He adds that the Johu Hallock was then trading between New York and Santiage, Cuba. Mr. Robert Bruce, bom at Torbay, iu the south of England, and there bred up to a sea faring life, in 1828, when about 30 years old, was first mate on a bark trading between Liverpool and St. John, N. B. On one of her voyages bound westward, being then five or six weeks out and having neared the eastern portion of the banks of Newfound land, the Captain and mate had been on deck at neon, taking an observation of the sun ; after which they both descended to cal culate their day’s work. The cabin, a small one, was immediately at the stem ot the vessel, and the short stairway descending to it ran athwaruhips. Immediately opposite to this stairway, just beyond a small square lauding, was the mate’s state room; and from that landing there were two doors, close to each other, the one opening alt into the cabin, the other fronting the stairway into the state room. .. THE VISION. The desk was in the forward part of the room, close to the door; so that auy one sit ting at it and looking over his shoulder could see into the cabin. The mate, absorbed in his calculations, which did not result as he expected, varying considerably from the dead reckoning, had not noticed the captain’s motions. Having completed his calcula tions, he called out, without lookiac around, I make our latitude and longitude so and Can that be right?- How is yours?” As there was no reply, he repeated his ques tion, glancing over his shoulder and seeing, as he thought, the Captain busy writing on his slate. .Still no answer. Thereupon he arose; and, as he fronted the cabin door, Ilarrls-lsnu. An emigration agent accosted an old negro in Columbus the other day : “ I say, old man, don’t you want to make some money ?” “ Dat’s jest what I’m a sarchin’ roun’ fer boss. 1 hongry right now.” “Well, in Missippi, the planters are paying mighty high prices for good work hands, and if you .” “ Hole on dar, boss Jes wait I’m a Middle Georgia nigge done been out dar. I’m a good wuk hand, too. I wuk my seif, out dar, an’ den turn ronn’ an’ wuk myself back agin’, an’ right here I’m gwine ter stay, if de Lord spars me. When I dies I wants ter have a belly spang full o’ bread an’ meat, an* I wants ter be berried in a seminary whar I’m ’quainted wid de folks. You hecred my horn!” A Georgia editor remarks: “Lendus your ears.” Hanged if we know what he wants with anybody else’s whenjiis own are as big as door mats. General Young is invited to deliver the address before the Florida State Fair Asso ciation. Mr. Charles Herbst has brought the Macon library at once to his feet. The institution is out of debt, and has several hundred dollars in the treasury. The Hinesville Gazette says that there seems to be a perfect exodus of people from the interior in Bulloch, Tattnall and Montgomery to the coast of Bryan, liberty and McIntosh. Every week some one passes with his goods aud chattels, seeking home «n the islands or main along the coast. The attractions arc the mild cli mate, the fertile soil and the abundance of fish and game.—Savannah News. the figure he had mistaken for the Captain raised its head and disclosed to the astonished mate the features of an entire stranger. Bruce was not a coward; but, as he, met that fixed gaze looking upon him in grave silence, and became assured that it was no one whom he bad ever seen, it was too much for him; he rushed up to the deck in such evident alarm that it instantly attracted she Cap tain’s attention. “ Why, Mr. Bruce,” said the latter. “ what in the world is the matter with you ?” The matter, sir ? Who is that, fU your desk ?” “ No one, that I know of.” “But there is sir; there’s a stranger there." .. A stranger! Why, man, you must be dreaming. Yon must have seen the steward there or the second mate. Who else would venture down without orders ?” “ But sir, he was sitting in your arm chair, fronting the door, writing on your slate. Then he looked up full in my face; and, if ever I saw a man plainly and dis tinctly in this world, I saw him.” Him! Who?” God knows, sir; I don’t. I saw a man, and a man I never in my life saw before. " You must be going crazy, Mr. Bruce. A stranger, and we nearly six weeks out 1” “ I know, sir but then I saw him.” “ Go down and see who it is.” Bruce hesitated. “I never was believer in ghosts,” he said, “ but, if the truth must be told, sir, I’d rather not face it alone.” Come, come, man. Go down at once, and don't make a fool of yourself before the crew.” “ I hope you’ve always found me willing to do what’s reasonable,” Bruce replied, changing color; “ but if it’s all the same to you, sir, Fd rather we should go down to gether.” SOMETHING TO BE EXPLAINED. The Captain descended the stairs, and the mate followed him. Nobody in the cab in I They examined the rooms. Not a soul to be found f “Well, Mr. Bruce,” sain the Captain, did not I tell you you had been dream ing?” “It’s all very well to say so, sir; but if I did’nt see that man writing on your slate, may I never see my home and family again I” _ “Ah! writing on the slate 1 Then it should be there still,” aud the Captain took up the s’ate. “ My God!” he exclaimed, “ here’s »me- thing sure enough 1 Is that your writing, Mr. Bruce?” The mate took the date; and there, in plain legible characters, were the words, “ Steer to nor’west." “ Have you been trifling with'fee, dr?” inquired the Captain, sternly. “On my .word as a man, dr,” replied Bruce, “ I know no more of this matter than you do. I liave told yoa the exact truth* The Captain sat down ait bis desk in deep thought, the date before him. At,la*t, turn ing • the date over and pushing it toward Bruce, he said. *’ Write down, ’Steer to nor’west.’” The mate complied; and the Captain, af, ter narrowly comparing the handwriting, said. “Mr. Brucergo and tell the second mate to come down here." . He came; and. at the Captain’s request he also wrote the words* 8o did the steward. So, in succes sion, did evety man of the crew who could write at all. But not one resembled, in any After the The Cincinnati 8outoeiw.—Colum bus, O., February 9.—In the Senate today a bill was passed to allow Cincinnati to issue six million dollars of bonds to complete the Southern railroad. The Chicago Liter-Ocean says that there is an old threadbare, snuff colored, thin-locked, spindle-shanked, pepper-and-sault, weazened, rum-drinking fossil, bidden away somewhere - in Washington, who has written more Con- degree, the mysterious writing, gressional speeches than all the members of crew bad retired, the Captain sat deep in the present House put together. | thought. “ " ^ “ Well, we’ll see. Go on deck and give the course nor’west. And, Mr. Bruce,” he added, as the mate arose to go, “ have a lookout aloft, and let it be a hand you can depend ou.” A DISCOVERY. At about 8 o’clock the lookout reported an iceberg nearly ahead, and shortly afterward what he thought was a vessel close to it As they approached, the Captain’s glass dis closed the fact that it was a dismantled ship, apparently frozen to the ice, aud many hu man beings on it. Shortly afterward they hove to, and senfcout the boats to the relief the sufferers. It proved to be a vessel fr jm Quebec, bound to Liverpool, with passen gers. As one of the meu who had been brought away in the third boat that had reached the wreck was ascending the ship’s side, the mate, catching a glimpse of his face, started back in consideration. It was the very face that he saw three or four hours before, look ing up at him from the Captain’s desk. The exhausted crew and famished passen gers having been cared for, the mate called the Captain aside. “ It seems that was not a ghost I saw to-day^ sir; the man’s alive. 1 “ What do you mean? Who’s alive.” “ Why, sir, one of the passengers we have just saved is the same man I saw writing on your slate at noon. I would swear to it in a court of justice,” Upon my word, Mr. Bruce.” replied the Captain,•“ this gets more and more sin gular. Let us gojand see this man.” Thy found him in conversation with the Captain of the rescued ship. They both stepped forward, and expressed in the war mest terms their gratitude for deliverance from a horrible fate—slow death by expo sure and starralion. The Captain replied that he had done only what ha was certain they would have done for him under the same circumstances, and asked them both to step down iuto the cabin. Then turning to the passenger, he said: “I hope, sir, ;rou will not think*I am trifling with you; hut I would be much obliged if you would write a few words on this slate,” and he handed him the state, with that side up oa which the mysterious writing was not “I will do anything you ask,” replied the pas senger; “but what shall I write ?” “Suppose you write ‘Steer nor’west.’" The passenger cheerfully complied. The Captain took up the slate aod examined it closely; then, stepping aside so as to conceal the slate from the passenger, he turned it aud gave it to'him again with the other side up. You sav that is your handwriting?*’ said he. “I need not say so,” rejoined the other, looking at it, “for you saw me write it.” “And this ?” said the captain, turning the slate over. The man looked first at one side of the slate, then at the uther, puzzled. At last, “What is the meaning of this?*’ said he. “I wrote only one ot these. Who wrote the other ?” “That is more than I can tell you, sir. My mate here says you wrote it, sitting at desk, at noon to-day.” A DR AM. The Captain of the wreck and passonger looked at each other, exchanging glances of intelligence and surprise; and tlio former asked the latter: “Did you dream that you wrote on this slate ?•’ “ No, sir, not that I remember.’ “ You speak of dreaming,” said the Cap tain of the bark. “ What was this gentle inan about at noon to-day ?” “ Captain,” rejoined the other, “ tlie whole thing is most mysterious, and I had intended to speak to yon about it as soon as we got a little quiet. This gentleman (pointing to the passenger) being much exhausted, fell into a heavy sleep, or what seemed sleep, some time before noon. After an hour or more he awoke, and said: “Cap tain, we shall be relieved this very day.” When I asked him what reason he had for saying so, he replied that he had dreamed that lie was on board a bark, and that she was coming to our rescue. He described her appearance and rig, and, to our utter astonishment, when yonr vessel hovered in sight, she corresponded exactly to his de scription of her. We had not thought much of what be had said, yet still we hoped there might be something in it, for drowning men, you know, will catch at straws. As it has turned out, I cannot doubt that it was all arranged, in some in comprehensible way, by an overruling Providence, so that we might be saved.” “ I got the impression that the bark I saw in my dream was going to rescue us,” said the passenger, “but how that impres sion came, I cannot tell. Everything here on board seems to me quite familiar; yet I am very sure that I waa never in your ves sel before. It is all a puzzle to me. A MESSAGE FROM A WIFE. Jqng Stilling, in his “ Theorie der Geixtcr- knnde,” tells of a remarkable story that was told by a German who had emigrated to the United States, and had been for many year* manager of some mills on the Delaware. The events are said to have occurred between 1750 and 1760. There Uved at that time, near Philadelphia, lonely and retired, a bcncvolen. and pious man, who was suspected ot having some occult power of disclosing hidden events. A sea Captain had been long absent, and no let ter bad been received from him. His wife, who Uved ucar this man, and who bad be oorae alarmed and anxious, was advised to consult him. Having beard her story, he made her wait a little and he would bring her an answer. Thereupon, he went into another room, shutting the door; and there lie stayed so long that, moTed by curioeky, die looked through an aperture in the door to ascertain what he was abort him lying motionless on a sola, she quickly returned to her place. Soon lie canto out, and told the woman that her husband was at that time in London, in a certain coffee house which he named, and that he would he had not written to her; and she went home somewhat re-assured. When her husband did return, they found, on compar ing notes, that everything she had been told was strictly true. But the strangest part of the story remains. When she took ner husband to see the seer, he started back in surprise, and afterward told his wife that ou a certain day (the same on which she had consulted the seer) he was in a coffee house in London (the same that had been named to her), and that this very man had there accosted him, and had told him that his wife was in great anxiety about him; that then the sea Captain had repUed. informing the stranger why his re turn had been delayed and why he had not written, whereupon, the man tamed away, and be lost right of him in the crowd. : GENERAL NEWS. Mrs. M. A. N. Pollard, wife of the Con federate historian, is in California, and proposes soon to give readings there. The net expenditures for. the last fiscal year, exclusive of interest on the public debt, are reported by the Secretary of the Treasury to be $171,529,848 27. Dka : h in Congress.—The death of Hod. Henry H. Starkweather, the solitary Re publican member of the House of Repre sentatives from Connecticut, is announced. In France the postal cards appear in great variety because it is legal for any man to make his own, the payment being by an ad hesive stamp. The result is that some are ornamented with elaborate designs on card board of various colors and materials. Reverdy Johnson, the distinguished states man and* jurist, was found dead on the 10 inst. at 8:15, in the grounds surrounding the Executive Mansion at Aunapolis. Mr, Johnson was the guest of Governor Carroll and (fined this afternoon with other gentle men at the Executive Mansion. He was found dead in the yard by a servant. According to the Almanach de Gotha the subjects of Queen Victoria, exclusive of those in the British Islands, number 203,- 000,000. Ot these there are upward of __ 5,000,000 in America, n«riy 2,300,000 in beA“From.OTt Wrat" were’ afraicfhe would Australia, etc., nearly 2,000,000 in Africa, carry them around without their knowing It. !ZS£0® m Europe, and u> Asia near- ( The Ume when , mn ' u fu „ y rcaJize3 that woman’s sphere should be enlarged, is when The Centennial Legion.—The Now I he finds that his washerman has mistaken Blaine is getting fat. The Rothschilds are estimated to be worth $3,300,000,000. Wet stems of wiltiog flowers in hot wa ter, so os to restore the flowers. An English book tries to prove that State aid to paupers really produces pauperism. The Prussian government compels bakers to keep their bread at least one day before selling. Our late Minister to Pern had so littlrf to do that he went into business in Lima as a pawnbroker. President Hill, formerly of Harvard, says that a child should cot be taught to reason until it is twelve years. California’s Senate wants a law providing thateveiy article in a newspaper shall be aigneiNtith the name of the writer. A Reading canary sings “Home, Sweet Home,” which it learned from a musical box and which it thought came from another canary that it saw in a mirror. A beautiful and aristocratic Louisville girl of seventeen, smokes a short black clay pipe filled with the strongest plug tobacco. She imitates Carlyle. A St. Louis womau tried to commit sui cide by taking a dose of pins, evidently thinking she’d want them to pin back her angel overskirt in the other world. It was Prince John Van Buren who, boing stopped by highwaymen one night in the City Hall Park, * said, “Gentlemen, I haven’t got any money, but I’ll give you my note for three months.” American industry triumphs. A Michi gan town last season shipped sixty tons of limburger cheese, which was so loud that people along the railroad thought it was hurrahing for the Centennial. A poor family, of Bangor, Me., applied to a charitable society for clothes. The next day the whole family dressed up, went down town aud got their pictures taken. On Wednesday morning Theodore Tilton occupied General Banks' scat in the House of Representatives; and several sleepy mem- York Times says there has been introdneed his stockings for his shirt bosom and starch- into the Senate by Senator Robertson a peti- ed them accordingly, tinn from the Washington Light Infantry, For young men about to marry. Marry of Charleston, S. C., and the Clinch Rifles, on February 29, and you will only have to of Georgia, elaborately gotten up, accom- give anniversary presents once in four years, panted by letters of recommendation from But to enjoy a golden wedding a couple the Governor of South Carolina and the would have to live 200 years. Governor of Georgia, asking that the Secre- Jame3 Part0 who married his 8tep . tary of War bo directed to issue to those da ht ot knowing tha t he violated a companies 240 stand of new 8pnngfield M^chusetts law, will, if refused a breech-load mg rifles to use in attending the act 0 fL^; g i a ture sanctioning ??L e £ n,al ^' ebrat, ° n “ Pb,1 « d * l P h '*’ J" 1 -* have the ceremony repeated 4, 1876. These are two companies of what - * . :™-„.t a,\AJ »i*. said a rich heiress to the thirteen original States of the Union, v 50 . “r® 10 “ and are the offspring of the Centennial cele-1 btation ment was some Federal officers for the organization of such a military display. Gloomy State of Affairs in Havana, an Irish gentleman “What would ;rB31nrwLro~ra^: I- takeme for then?” “For gtter or ras made by Fit* Hugh Lee and I™®- re P 1,ed th ® 8on of the Emera,d lufaval ndinAM frtl> tlia nxndniVatmn rtf I *8lC, Donna Lulalia Guillen Is the oldest lady in California. She has lived 140 years, and not satisfied with that, has recently moved —Private letters from Havana, up to the t0 Sa n Jose Valley for her healthl If she 15th of December, state that the receipts of a ^nt anywhere, send her to the Centennial, the treasury are not equal to the demand* Aq American in Liver pool said :-“I’ve made upon it. Inconsequence of thw the : ked >em wher0 th t theJr barber troops inthe field had not received their N. They told me there was one on tho foT A °,u ob ? r .\ ^‘® troo P* ,n . tb ® opposite side of tho square. They call this son and thec.v.l 8erv.ce are only partmUy ^ hote , ^ ia a ^.try, paid to July, and the contractors for military ... - , • *» 1 supplies had received nothing, and had rep- th “ u 1 * sn 1 „ resented to Conde De Valmweda that they Dr- Von Bulow said in Chicago :-“I tell should cease to furnish provisions unless they y 0 * 1 l ^ e only reason why I play Beethoveni were soon paid. It is also represented that Schumann, Mendelssohn and nil three, is be- the erowdea hospitals were in a state 0 f «use the gigantic ignoramus with the mevit- penury and almost of abandonment, and *1*1® glass the German music teacher that the condition of the treasury was such, ,n America—has intepretedso many of these by reason of want of method and order, and ^ r d 'y* 1 ™ u ! d ~ther from tho.ee play of dishonesty of the public service, that ex- Wagner and Liszt. treme discouragement prevailed at Havana. Gen. Robert E. Lee wrote in 1867.—“I ■*** believe every one who has investigated tho Several papers in the State are suggesting afflictions of the federal prisoners of the General Lawton as a suitable candidate for opinion that they were incident to their con- Governor. A writer in the Griffin News, dition as prisoners as war, and to the dis noticing this movement, expresses the opins tressed state of the whole Southern country; ion that he is “an aristocrat of the first wa- and I fear they were fully shared by the ter. and the masses in their severe distress Confederate prisoners in federal prisons.” V —. Bulq. yd, -M|-**A.yW ton takes a pardonable pride in clean linen, th,D .S is neat as to his dress generally, and bears “® 19 th ® 8 ’“ and ^ a ^^® ea ^-J h f himself as a gentleman ia M companies 19 on ® of ‘. h ® fir8t ‘ h '“8 8 and on all occfons, is evidence otaristocra- 8 ® m ® °"“ a *°? de jf? I l f “ cy, He, Lawton is an aristocrat ot the n ? an *„J|Y^® n ,s v '® , ? biuret blood. We may add that it is a pity chiselled it is a magnet to any man of taste. Georgia has not more such aristocrats and While we are having a snowless winter, fewer vulgar demagogues and pot-house the South of Europe has had an experience politicians.—Chronicle and SentinaL of the other extreme. On tho 10th inst., — there was snow a foot deep in Madrid, a The Deepest Sea Soundings yet affected circumstance almost unprecedented, and it by the Challenger, were obtained last year wa * still snowing. At the same date the inthe abysses of New Guinea, where the town of Mende, in the department of Lozere, lead struck bottom at the great depth of France, was completely surrounded by it, 4,575 fathoms, or 27,450 feet. an d all access had been cut off for three Makino Centennial Rates.—Louis- P 1 *-”’ . , , — ... vii.Le, February 9.-The Convention of! Her ® u an ? t \ ie f 8to 7 from Washington: General Railroad Ticket Agents of America There is a rebel door-keeper whose duty it begun its session here to-day. It was called >* to hoist the flag over the House, which together to adopt tho rates to be charged dreignatre whether that bodj is in session, during the Centennial session. Nearly all The memories of the glonous past are so the pnncipal roads in America are represen- overmastering to this fisjthful devotee of the ted, and one hundred agents were in atten- lostcause thathe will not raise the flag in dance. It is thought a reduction of 25 per pe«®“ 5 ‘ hat ^7 » performed by • negro cent from the regular rates will be made. at . ten a When tt comre to lows —-— enng the flag the Confederate performs that The New York Fire.— $3,000,000 proud and grateful office himself. The sobs Loss.—New York. February 9.—Addi- ject is said to worry the Speaker, tional and late details of the fire hit night A letter from St. Petersburg, in tho Bor- PTS***® ® W8: Eesh* r ’ ten Zetitung, says tho Russian government & Co., $1,000,000—insured for about half 1 decided to increase the strength of tho that amount in one hundred and fifty com- a rmy and navy contingent this year by 30,- panira: Cartin, Brundette 4 Co., from qoq men> co that it will now consist of 180, $400,000 to $450,000—insurance, $395,000, qqo men instead of 150,000, as fixed daring Snideker, Wttroas 4 Boynton, clothing, I ^ but five years. The number of men $120,000; _ I entitled to claim exemntion in Poland, ow- E. L. Merrifield, Continental Hotel, $30,-1 [ng to the superior education of the people, 000: . . . . s 4AA is so large that in 1874-aevend of them had The lore on the buildings is fixedat $400,- to ^ pangj to to the army, although they 000. Several days will be required to seen- were Wally exempt. nSl**? .1 e i erm *l n ~,; t n,«,^ r i« A*. Chinese doctor says that Americans non OOO* xnd foil 1 insurance at ^ tevand thereby lore the flavor, while and lb ® ,otal ,D8ur * nc ® ,t the Chinese make it by infusion. They ®£,uuu,uw. , I plaoe a small quantity of tea leaves in a A lady in Paris is introducing a new fash- bow), poor boiling water npon it. and then km in regard to furniture. She ia having all cover the bowl. The strength of the tea her chain, sofas, and even her earriagea depends on the Ume the tea Is allowed to stuffed with aromatic herbs, which fill the draw. “And,” said The speaker, “when air with an agreeable botnottoo powerful making an infusion do not boil the water perfume. The fashion is derived from the hastily at first Milk or sugar should never Eastern nations, and prevails extensively be used with tea.”—N.^Y. Herald. over a c maidarabie part of Asia. “See here, conductor,' uhy don’t you have “Shrinkage’’ in thePalmetto State, a fire in this car?” “ Well, you see, one of Reduction of expenses in State Government, the directors is a clothing roan, and another will reduce salaries from $190,600 to $118,-1 ia a doctor, and another is a drug store keep- “Could any one have been stowed soon return. He also stated the reasons iHl 66b; Legislative expenses from $128,000 to er, and another runs a tombstone factory, $64,000. We congratulate our friends “across and you know in this world people must — ” I • live and let live.’” the river.”