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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.