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THE QUICKEST TRIP ON
RECORD.
BY JOHN MUSS.
Tom Marline and I wore brought
together by a chain of coincidences,
j Our parents resided in different parts
of the country, and though not riel),
were in easy circumstances. Our
health being delicate, wo were .sent
to the sca-coast to recuperate and to
educate. The beautiful city of Tor
quay, partially situated on the heights
which overlook Torbay, was selected
for our residence pro lorn. Two other
j such punv hoys, who almost resem
bled living spectres, were not to he
found, and it was generally remarked
that flic tender care of a nurse and
the attention f the physician were
more requisite than culture of mind,
which would he of little advantage to
us iu this world, as wo were evidently
on a short cruise to another. To
make a long story short, appearances
were deceptive; beneath the weak ex
terior underlied the strongest (I may
say) iron constitutions that men are
'ever blessed with, and it was not long
ere Tom and I, linked together by
similar temperaments, became insep
arable and were noted as being the
most rollicking and devil me care
fellows in town. Our jokes, though
frequent, were never to say practical
or injurious, and wo wore general
favorites not only amongst the youths,
hut also the belles of the city, and
frequent were the invitations we re
ceived to friendly and social visits. I
have said we were inseparable; we
were, in fact, like the Siamese Twins —
always together, hut not by a similar
connexion.
During our holidays and. spare
time we were invariably among the
shipping in port, having a thousand
and one questions to ask about nauti
cal life, this tiling, that and the other
about the vessel, which always met
with a ready reply, for even the old
salty’s took a fancy to us and seemed
to take pleasure in gratifying our
curiosity. Mere our inclination for a
nautical life first displayed itself, and
our wishes were made known to our
parents, who, to show their disap
proval of our whims, as they called
them, ordered us home by the first
coach, railways not being common in
those primitive days. Fancy the con
sternation of a ship’s crew under a
lec shore in a heavy gale, the vessel
making lee way all the time, and you
approximate to the condition of Torn
and I. Our minds were made up,
and at parting wo fully resolved never
to give up the ship.
Once again under the parental roof
our folly was depicted in most gloomy
colors; the inconveniences, dangers
and hardships of a seafaring life wen
skillfully portrayed, but, to spirits
like ours, it only added fuel to the
flame, and as the picture presented
all night and no day, wo considered
it a one-sided affair, to say the least,
of it. Tom was intended to study
medicine, hut he would rather that
physic was thrown to the dogs, for he
would have nothing to do with it. I
was intended for the counting-house,
hut my kind padre counted without
his host, and finding eventually that
entreaty, threats, Ac., were unavail
ing, it was determined that I should
go to some seaport and study Korin
and other celebrities on nautical sci
ence. It was not long before Tom
and I embraced each other again, for
our correspondence had been regular
and uninterrupted, and things went
on as smoothly as a marriage bell;
and notwithstanding our proclivities
for enjoyment—of which wo had our
share—we neglected not our studies.
In a short time we were well uq> in
geometry, masters of qilaiu and trav
erse sailing, the working of courses
and distances, and tlm chronometer;
could adjust our quadrant and take a
meridian altitude when wo were or
dered to join our respective vessels.
Years passed and Tom and I occa
sionally met when in port together,
and a jolly time ensued only to be
ended by a cruel separation. We
both occupied the position of second
mate on our vessels previous to the
expiration of our time, the ending of
which we waited for with the greatest
anxiety, well knowing that our re
spective captains would give us such
recommendations as would insure to
us a speedy rise in our profession.
Wo were not disappointed, and after
a few years’ experience as chief offi
cers we each became masters and
commanded two of tho finest ships
that ever left wake in salt water. Iu
one of our rollicking moods I told
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1877.
Tom that if ever the fates permitted,
I would give him a cruise in a vessel
which then only existed in iny imagi
nation, hut which I eventually ex
pected partly to own and wholly to
command. Tom hound me to this
and there the matter rested.
Still the years rolled on and the
hoys of tho past are tho men of the
present. It was the evening of a
beautiful day. I was fatigued by the
exercise and exertion I had taken,
and I was sitting with my feet ex
tended before mo and crossed, my
elbow on the table and my head re
clining upon the palm of my hand; a
glowing tiro occupied the cheerful
grate, and thus surrounded by do
mestic comfort, 1 was revolving iu my
mind that which I have just written,
when “Ship a hoy !” was called in a
stentorian and well known voice at
the gate. The latch lifted and in
rushed Tom, as fresh, hearty and rol
licking as when last I saw liim. lie
shook my hand with warmth, and
said:
“Come, my hoy, here I am and
ready for that cruise. Time is pre
cious with mo, so let us hurry on
hoard.”
I requested him to he seated, to let
j time go by the hoard and rest until
. the morrow, when we would go on
board and prepare for the cruise.
“Sit down, man, and let us sqiliee
I the main brace; I know you have a
i yarn as long as a main toqi how-line
| to—”
Tic interrupted mo and replied:
| “My dear follow, yon must excuse
i mo—l can do neither now. The gig
j is ashore awaiting ns, tho hands on
j hoard are heaving short, and if you
do not come at once,,l shall he com
! polled, ugipnst my own inclinations,
to take the cruise alone, which you
remember would not he strictly filling
the contract on your part, hut which
you intend to do. Bo come, Captain,
put on your hat; we’li hoard the craft
and take a lively trip together.”
From tho first of his appearance
vague ideas flitted through my brain;
there was an iuoo'ir’rehcu:- ’bilily
which I could not define, and I was
under an impulse that I could not
control. I mechanically obeyed his
request and we walked to the boat
together, in which we were no sooner
seated than it, by the exertion of four
stout hands, made rapid way towards
the ship, whoso beautiful qirooortious
caused an involuntary exclamation of
qiride from me and admiration from
him at the same time.
“There, Tom,” said I, “is tho craft
I spoke about years ago. Look at her
proportions, her rig and general out
fit, and tell'me if your criticism can
find a flaw. That foro-foot, if it does
not hold her to windward, I know not
what will. Then her water line—can
anything be more perfect or beautiful ?
Her run is faultless, and if she allows
any dead water to clog her heels she
is not the Porpoise I intended her
to he.”
“Stop !” said Tom. “If I can’t find
fault with the craft, 1 can with her
name. The idea of calling a creature
(for she looks a thing of life) a sea
hog! This is descending from the
sublime to the ridiculous with a ven
geance.”
“Well, Master Tom, I submit to
your raillery, hut you will please to
remember that the porpoise is an
ugly fish only iu tho imagination,
mainly caused by appearances, for
many suppose, as they jump or appear
to roll in the water, that they had
been educated in a submarine circus
■and turned somersaults at each gam
bol; hut you know as well as myself
it is no such thing, and that they are
acknowledged to he the swiftest fish
in the sea, and as this craft was in
tended to be the swiftest on the
ocean, the name is not inappropriate
after all. If her hull is faultless, look
at the symmetry of her spars, her
massive and square yards, and con
jecture her spread of canvas, which
will give her a speed only to be
equalled by her motive power—tho
wind.”
Tom’s eyes shone with unusual
brightness, his breast heaved with
rapture as he calmly surveyed the
faultless model of this noble specimen
of naval architecture and nautical
genius.
We were now alongside, the hand
ropes were handed, we mounted the
ladder and once more we stood on
deck together. Tho mate informed
me the anchor was short. Eyeing
him keenly, I asked:
“By whoso orders, sir ?”
He looked at me with evident sur
prise, and thou ut Tom. I understood
matters nt once—l conjectured them
before. Tom si,id:
“Captain, you must not ho angry
with Mr. Halyard. Ho is in precisely
tho same predicament with yourself:
your heads are not much better than
empty goblets, nor your bruins more
solid than spiders’ webs.”
I laughed and thanked him for tho
compliment, and gave orders to loose
gaskets and mi ke sail. What ap
peared to me as remarkable was that
the orders were no sooner given than
they were exec fled, and that, too,
| without any uni. ,ml exertion of the
' crew. There se sued to ho a mystery
! iu every act, and even about the ship
I herself; yet a iff pi reality manifested
| itself at every point. Tho topsails
| were sheeted homo and the yards
hoisted, and the anchor brought to a
j cockbill. The wind was hut as a
breath, and abaft, and the sea smooth.
! I set the fore course and fore topsail,
; tho main topsail and toqi-gnllaut sail,
. and mizzen topsail, under which she
| began to move as graceful as a swan,
| hut to which I added the lower, miz-
I zeu topsail and main top-gallant, as
well as mizzen topmast studding sails,
tho pressure of which she seemed to
feel, for under what might ho con
sidered a four-knot breeze, she was
going at tho rate of niue. The gig
was hanging secured at the davits,
the anchor fished and catted, tiic
cable stowed and the decks cleared,
and we were fairly in for the cruise.
Tom, in tho meantime, was all life;
joke, anecdote and repartee and his
own adventures followed each other
in rapid succession, hut I observed
a peculiar twinkling of the eye which
I had never seen before, nor could I
account for on the present occasion,
and a feeling of uneasiness prevailed
on my part which I had never ex
perienced and knew not the cause o;
it now. We bad not proceeded far
ou our course when the wind shifted
to the quarter with a considerable
increase. The studding sails were
taken in, the main course and mizzen
crotchic and fore and mizzen top
gallant sails were u ct, as also all the
foro and aft sails, a perfect, cloud of
canvas, which, with the well trimmed
yards, laid her lee scuppers iu the
water, and she was reeling off nine
teen knots by the log. Elated with
quid.., I said:
“Tom, with another capful of wind i
and a little more speed it would not j
take us long to run round the world !” j
“No,” replied Tom, “and I move j
we nrake the trip !”
This was said with so much earn-!
estness that I burst into a hearty fit
of laughter that’ such a preposterous |
idea should have emanated from the
brain of a sensible man, and that he, i
the man with whom time was so qire-1
clous, should so heartily accede to it. j
Tom maintained his gravity, and
mystery followed upon mystery. There
was a slight increase in the wind, hut |
I was not necessitated to shorten sail,
but the ship moved with more than
quadrupled velocity. From some un
known impulse I shaqied her course
for the Equator. We passed to the
eastward of the Rock of St. Paul with
fearful rapidity, and were running
down the trades, which were qvut to
their utmost tension to keep pace
with us.
“Well, Tom,” said I, “this craft
surpasses my most sanguine expecta
tions. I did not couceive that a ves
sel under canvas, or moved by any
other power, could ever attain such a
speed. She beats the Living Dutch
man. I shall not attempt to make
the Cape of Good Hope, for if we
come in contact with that gentleman,
we shall run right through him and
send him and his spectral crow to tho
home of spirits, to where they prop
erly belong.”
Tom thought it would serve him
right, too, if he had not sense enough
to keep out of the way.
“Another reason is that if I run
down to about 40 degrees South, I
may carry this breeze across the
Southern Ocean, and perhaps hold it
to the Horn.”
Tom acquiesced and I found tho pre
diction verified. We passed through
Bass Strait at tho Southern extremity
of Australia and sighted New Zea
land, varying tuy course to enable me
to run as low as tho 54th degree of
south latitude. The broad and mighty
Pacific was soon on our weather
beam, the Horn was reached, and
weather for a wonder moderate.
“Hero,” said Tom, as wo neared
the spot, "just years ago, while
rounding this Cape in a tremendous
gale, I was washed overboard and
kept myself afloat by swimming for
two long hours. The devotion of my
crow alone saved me. I shall never
forgot it!”
Of this fact I was well aware, hav
ing soon a statement of the case and
j his miraculous preservation in the
! papers of that period.
The Horn qmssed and a good ofiing
t made, we were once again in tho
South Atlantic stemming our way
| with tho same undiminished speed’ to
j tho hay we had started from. But
j here I have a word for skeptics who
j doubt the rotundity of tho planet on
I which they live. It will he remem
bered that when I shaped my course
! at about 40 degrees South, I took an
i easterly direction, leaving Capo Horn
: to the Southward and Westward; that
I deviated not from my course save
a point or so to the Southward after
i I qmssed New Zealand, to enable me
| to weather the Horn, and that by
i continuing in tho same direction I, as
; von sec, pass tho very Cape I lmd
I left behind me. I think it will be
i readily admitted that this could not
J possibly be unless the earth is spheri-
I cal.
I now began to observe that as we
approached our haven, Tom’s buoy
ancy became gradually less, his ao
j thins betokened a degree of nervous
! ness I had never previously observed,
I and although still affable and gen
erous, something had occurred to mai
j the happy tendency of iiis disnosition
|to mirth. I was pained and-I was
! sad, hut my duties called for my at
tention. We were nearing tho hay
I and I shortened sail, and eventually
; under easy canvas rounded her to
[ ami let go tho nuclior near to the
i same spot that we had left. The gi
was lowered, and after some instruc
! tions to .my chief mate, I and Tom
j descended into the boat and was
rapidly rowed ashore. We walked
j arm in arm to the house, talking in i
serious mood of adventures by the i
; way.
i “Yes,” said Tom, in sadness, “there
is undoubtedly a sweet little cherub
j that sits up aloft to keep a look out'
' for the life of qioor Jack, hut who is
1 not always at his post. Fancy,” said !
i he, “my being in the water for two
! hours at the Horn, and then miracu
lously saved. My time was evidently
I not yet come; but that years after, 1
I whilst in the channel, on my hist trip ■
: and almost within sight of my own
| home, 1 found a watery grave.”
i At this juncture I laid my hand on !
the latch of my gate, hut Tom was i
; non nst. He had mysteriously dis-!
appeared, hut whether he had sunk
into the earth or vanished into thin
air, I could not determine, but stood :
looking about me in mute astonish- j
meut aud with feelings indescribable, j
when a gentle hand was laid upon j
my shoulder and in tender accents
my cara spas ;a informed mo that suqi-1
per was waiting. The mystery was j
now exqilained—it was all a dream |
From over fatigue I had slept, and !
the mind, ever active, had called up !
scenes of earlier years. But, gentle :
reader, during that brief sleep of two j
hours I had sailed round the world, j
which I think you will unhesitatingly I
admit is “the shortest trip on record.” j
Good Advance.
Before you start from homo pin
this bit of earnest, well meant inten
tion of truthful suggestion iu “your
hat:
The market for loafers is always
glutted. The greater tho loafer the
less reward.
Any boy who wishes can become a
gentleman. And there are a few
things a gentleman never does. He
will always lie tidy iu his dress. He
will be as careful not to offend per
sons ns he is to keep his face clean.
Ho will not make it a habit of telling
profane and ugly stories. He will
never be loud mouthed or overbear
ing to his inferiors. This character
always marks the snob and disagree
able egotist. He will never lift his
voice iu a small room as though he
was in tho field driving oxen. Ho
will never speak so as to wound or
pain the heart of his inferiors, lie
will never boast that ho is
is better than his companions, and
thus incur the disgust of men of
sense. He will never boast his supe
rior family connections or give those
ho is with to understand that lie is of
more consequence than they. Ho will
never pry into the secret affairs of any
other person. He will be above the
petty suspicions born of ignorance
and proof of bad breeding. He will
never try to bully and beat his way
nor assume a superiority that is en
tirely lost the moment it is boasted
of. He is never obsequious or syco
phantic, but prompt, polite, discreet
and courteous to all with whom he
comes in contact. He will never
quarrel with a servant or use profane
language to any inferiors. The g. <-
tleman always has friends even un
der adverse circumstances, because be
deserves them. The success of the j
true man is ulwavs lasting.
Gov. Geo. F. Drew was inaugurated
ion the 2nd instant, and the Legi ,la
ture has gone to work in earnest.
Atlantic and Gulp Road. —Wo are
sorry to sec that Pr< sklent Screven,
[ of this road, has found it necessary to
address a circular to bondholder:), an
nouncing a suspension of payment on
interest coupons due the Ist instant,
j The business of the road, he states,
suffered grievously from the effects of
lhe epidemic in Savannah last sum
mer.
I , *
The trustees of the Peabody Edu
cational Fund announces that no
! more money from that fund can ho
applied to Louisiana, Florida or
South Carolina. The reason is, that
I it is all regularly stolen by tho Cham
j berlain, Stearns and Kellogg earqiet
- baggers, aud little or none of it has
ever gone to the schools. One of the
returning board hold-over Senators
in Louisiana, by tho name of David
Young, a colored patriot, has been
; found guilty of stealing twenty-one
thousand dollars of the school money
j for Concordia parish. But Kellogg
: shields him, and says ho is innocent,
j Been bulldozed, no doubt.
The seven States of Connecticut, j
I New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, j
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, stretching !
from Narragansett Bay to tho Missis-1
! sipqii in un unbroken line, are the!
| controlling States of the Union. They
| contain nearly half its population and I
I wealth. They have over nineteen 1
millions of people. These States gave
1 Grant a majority of 237,121 in 1872.
j Four of them this year gave Tildon
53,662, and the other three gave
Hayes a majority of 37,51(1, or, taking
; the whole seven, a majority in them >
| of 1(5,140 for Tilden, making a change
; since 1872 in these great cential
States of 313,270. It is evident that
these States have been badly “bull-!
dozed.”
The Next Senate.— Tho terms o!
twenty-seven Senators expires on the
4th of March. A number of them
will not he re-elected. Tho Republi
can majority in the next Senate will
in any event be smaller than it has
been for many years, and should a
Democrat be elected from Illinois and
two Democratic Senators he admitted
from South Carolina and Louisiana
the body would stand thirty-eight
Republicans to thirty-eight Demo
crats, counting tho Republican lude
pendents amongst the regular Repub
licans. Should tho curpot-l>:ig Sena
tors from the two last named States
be admitted and a Republican be cho
sen from Illinois the Senate will stand
Republicans forty-two, Democrats
thirty-four, giving a Republican ma
jority of eight, the smallest since
1801.
Gov. Haves on Hetukxinci Boabds. 1
—ln his aunual message to tho Ohio j
Legislature in 1869 Gov. Hayes wrote [
as follows, which is as true of Louisi
ana in 187 G as of Ohio at the timo it j
was written:
“There is much opposition to the j
enactment ofa registry law. Without
yielding my own settled convictions!
in favor of such a law, I content my- j
self iu this communication with urg
ing upon your attention a measure of
reform iu tho manner of conducting
elections, the importance aud justice
of which no one ventures to deny.
The conduct of the officers whose
duty at elections is to receive and
count the ballots, and to make returns
of the result, ought to he above sus
pioion. This cun rarely he the ease
when they all belong to tho same po- j
litical party. A fair representation of
the minority will go far, not only to
lire vent fraud, but, what is almost of
equal importance, to remove the sus
picion of fraud.”
The Louisiana returning hoard,
which violated the law by refusing to
fill a vacancy because they would
have had to choose a Democrat, was
evidently not disturbed by .suspicion
of fraud.
Four hundred firms and business
men of New Orleans print a card re
citing that the liberty and welfare of
Louisiana depend on the establish
ment and lnaintaiuence of the law
fully elected Governor of that State,
Nicholls. liut alas! Grant has his
heel upon the commonwealth, and
Sheridan is not so far away that he
cannot rush to the rescue of Kellogg
and Packard, tho President’s pets.—
Constitution.
A maiukn lady said to her little
nephew: “Now, Johnny, you go to
bed early, and always do sci, and
you’ll be rosy-cheeked and handsome
when you grow up.” Johnny thought
of this a few minutes, and then ob
served : “Well, aunty, you must have
set up a good deal when you were
young.”
Com jonoitr, Vandebbilt’s property
amounts t . eighty-five millions of
dollars.
Kx-Gov. Joseph I’ Brown's Letter.
W’o clip tho following synopsis of
ex-Gov. Brown's letter from the
Morning Xruv, and ask that our read
ers give it a close perusal:
Un our first page this morning will
he found tho reply of ex-Governor
Joseph il. Brown to a letter in which
a number of prominent citizens of At
lanta united in soliciting from him
an expression of his views on tho uo
litical situation for publication. Gov.
; Brown speaks tho honest convictions
| of every fairminded man in the couu
;rv who has taken the pains to inform
i himself on tho subject, when he says
| he does “not onterlain the shadow of
a doubt that Tilden and Hendricks
were legally and fairly elected Presi
dent ami \ ice-Pivsidtmt of the United
I States at the election held on tho 7th
iof November last.” Ho is equally
i confident that the Radicals “by a false
i fraudulent canvass of the votes of
South Carolina, Florida and Louisi
ana,” will attempt to overrule and set
at defiance the verdict of the people
at the ballot box. Under these con
victions he believes that it is the duty
of the Democracy of the whole Union
—to resolutely and firmly resist tho
contemplated usurpation, and that
they should stand firmly by the can
didates fairly elected, and see .hat
they arc inaugurated and placed in
the full possession ofal! tho authority
and rights resulting from such elec
tion.” He believes that “our Demo
cratic brethren of the Northern States
concur in this opiuiou, and arc ready
to stand by and vindicate the right.”
The Democracy of the South, solicit
ous as they are for a peaceful solu
tion oi the difficulty, “should do no
rash act.” They “should ho quiet,
dignities) and cautions, ’ but they
should “he firm and true” to princi
ple. Leaving the Northern Democ
racy to lead, we “ >!iou!d give them
assurances of our confidence” in their
patriotism and integrity, and that “we
will, during the emergency, stand by
them with immovable firmness, bo tho
consequences what they may.”
Such is the issue as presented by
Gov. Brown, and such is the prudent,
consistent, hut firm and patriotic
course recommended by him ns the
only possible ’ way to avert the im
pending evil, and defeat an usurpa
tion which threatens tho destruction
of tlu republic.
We comm: and Governor Brown’s
lett-r !•> our renders, confident ihat
his conch'e ..! the arguments by
which he sustains the policy which he
urges, will meet the cordial approval
of every reflecting patriot, who is not
willing to be defrauded and bullied
out of his birth-right—liberty aud tho
right of self-government.
Hampton and linyas.
The following telegraphic corres
pondence appears in the Charleston
A'tii.’.s and Courier:
Cincinnati. Docon.bor 20. 187(1.
Governor Wail- ffCUumhia,
S. (’.— A telegram from Columbus,
Ohio, aunouuces that Judge Mackey,
in your behalf, has umdt) propositions
to Gov. Hayes to support liim for
President against. Governor Tilden,
recognizing Hayes a legally elected,
and offering to support him against
the Northern Democracy. This Ido
not believe, but it is injuring the De
mocracy hero. Your wise nod noble
course has strengthened my frieud
sbipfor you. In my judgment there
should b a pr. nipt hauial, and this
I submit to your decision.
W ii.:.ia: ; Presto' .
Cm : sniiA, S. C . December 20,187(1.
—-To Urn. Wdu ini TV.vma, Cincin
nati, Ohio: No cue is authorized to
make declarations for me or for my
party here. We abide the decision of
legitimate authority, r.nd hope fora
peaceful solution.
\YHampton.
The New* an:! Courier remarks:
“The representative of the Herald
misunderstood Judge Mackey, or at
tributed to Gov. Hamilton the opin
ions held by Judge Mackey himself.
It is highly probable that Judge
Mackey feels that Hayes is elected,
but this is not the feeling of Gov.
Hampton and other leading men iu
South Carolina. No attempt what
ever has been made to make terms
with Governor Haves, or with the
Republican party. The South Caro
lina Conservatives stand on their
rights under the election. They ask
for nothing morn, and will accept
nothing less. This is Gov. Hamp
ton’s position, and he lias, with deci
sive brevity, di. avowed the opinions
and purposes imputed to him by tho
zealous correspondent at Columbus.
The side on which the people of the
Caroliuas will he found, in the unlike
ly event of a war growing out of u
contested Presidency, is the side where
the Constitution and the laws shall
be. Governor Vance, in his inaugu
ral address, gave voice to wlmt we be
lievo to be the feeling of the people of
tho Caroliuas, and of the whole
South.”
Tho other night a Washington ave
nue man went home very late and let
himself in with his Hitch key (kitchen
wiudow)nnd crept up stairs and dis
robed and was sneaking into bed
without disturbing his wife, whom ho
know must be tired,noor thing. And
he stuck his legs under the blanket
and laid his foot up against a red-hot
brick and lie wailed and sprung out of
bed and tried to climb out of the win
dow,and his wife had the hardest kind
of work to assure him that he wasn’t a
victim in the Brooklyn holucust.
No. 46.