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RAIL-ROAD GUIDE.
Southwestern Railroad.
WM. HOLT, Pres. | VIRGIL POWERS, Sup
Leaves Macon 8 Aif i arrives at Eu
faula 6 30, P M ; Leaves Eufaula 7 20, A M ;
Arrives at Macon 4 60, P M.
ALBANY BRANCH.
Leaves Smithville l 46, P M ; Arrives at
Albany 3 11, P M ; Leaves Albany 9 35, A M;
Arrives at Smithville 11, A M.
NlacoM dfc Westena Railroad.
A. J. WHITE, President.
E. B. WALKER, Superintendent.
day passenger train.
Leaves Macon . • • 730A. M.
Arrives at Atlanta . • . 167 P. M.
Leaves Atlanta . • * 6 55 A. M.
Arrives at Macon . • . 180 P. M.
NIGHT TRAIN.
Leaves Macon . ■ • 845 P. M.
Arrives at Atlanta • . . 450A. M.
Leaves Atlanta . . • 810 P. M.
Arrives at Macon . . . 125A. M ■
Western A Atlantic Railroad.
CAMPBELL WALLACE, Sup’t.
BAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta • • • 8.45 A. M.
Leave Dalton .... 2.30 P. M.
Arrive at Chattanooga . . 5.25 P. M.
Leave Chattanooga . • 8.20 A. M.
Ariive at Atlanta . . . 12.U5P.M.
NIOIIT TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta . . • 7 00 P. M.
Arrive a*. Chattanooga . • 4.10 A. M.
Leave Chattanooga . • 4.80 P. M
Arrive at Dalton . . . 7.80 P. M.
Arrive at Atlanta . . . 1.41 A. M.
SIMMONS & HOYL,
ATTORNEYS at law,
DJt IKSO.r, - - GEORGIA.
V, a. wotl. jan2s Iy. u. v. si muons.
C. B. WOOTEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
21y Dawson, Ga.
IV 0. PARKS J M. WATSON.
PARKS & WATSON,
• .Attorneys at Law,
DAMSON .... «A.
octlU.ly
J. P. ALLEN,
WATCH AND
REPAIRER JEWELER.
Dawson, Oa.,
IS prepared to do anjr work in his line in
the very best style. feb‘23 ts
J. G. S. SMITH,
GEITTST SMITH aAd
Machinist,
njtmaojr, Georgia.
Repairs all kinds of Guns, Fistols, Sewing
■shine*, etc., etc. 2 ly.
WOOTEN & BECK,
Attorneys at Law,
.ftorgan. Ga.,
Will give prompt attention to ell business
•■trusted to their care.
C. W. WARWRck7
•Attorney at I.tnr and Solicitor
in Equity.
n.niTttriEEE - - - geo.,
WILL practice in Lee, Sumter, Terrell
and Webster.
i- E. HIGGINBOTHAM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
eVorgan, Calhoun Cos., Ga.,
-Will practice in all the Courts of the South
weetern and PataulaCircuits. June 1
SoTICIL
IK compilerce with general Orders No. 25,
JL from Gen. Pope’i Headquarters, requiring
Mayor*, Sheriffs, &c., to Uke proper step,
Tor the prevention of Riote or disturbances
nn.'l* b a C l . a “ embl ' ei '’ * U P‘‘ r "“ n « •ro hereby
omied that no public assembly for political
purpose, w ,u allowed to convene in Ter.
... Coßnt 7, until one day’s notice has been
w “‘ i '*g-prevlou. to
Citiaens of the county will govern them.
*l»cs accordingly. S. F. LASSETEH,
jluj 6:tf Sb ff.
THE DAWSON JOURNAL.
Yol. 11.
W. R. & N. M. THORNTON
Practical Dentists,
DA ii'SO.V, C..L
Ijy Office in Harden’s new building, West
Side, Depot Street. Dec. 14,
STEVENS HOUSE, ~
21, 23, 25 &27 BROADWAY, N. Y.
Opposite Bowling Green.
ON THU EUROPEAN PEAM.
fit HE STEVENS HOUSE is well and widely
I known to the public. The location is es
pecially suitable to merchants and business
men ; it is in close proximity to the business
part of the city—is on the highway of South
ern and Western travel—and adjacent to all
tho principal Railroad and Steamboat depots.
THE STEVENS HOUSE has liberal ac
commodation for over 200 guests—it is well
furnished, and possesses every modern im
provement for tho comfort and entertainment
of its inmates. The rooms are spacious and
well ventilated —provided with gus and wa
ter —the attandanca is prompt and respectful
—and the table is generously provided with
every delicacy of the season—at moderate
rates.
The rooms having been refurnished and re
modeled, we are enabled to offer extra facii
ilies for lire comfort and pleasure of our
Guests.
GEO. K. CHAPE &CO.
■ Proprietors.
Terrell Superior Court, May
Term, ISMS.
Jesse J. Gilt, )
vs. J- Libel for Divorce.
Elcnor B. Gill. )
IT appearing to th% Court by the return of
the Sheriff that the defendant, Elenor B.
Gill, is not to be found in the county of Ter
rell : It is ordered that the said Elenor B.
Gill be and appear at. the next Superior court
to be held in and for the county aforesaid, on
the 4th Monday in November next, and an
swer said libel, if any au-wer she has to make
—and further, that service of said libel be
perfected on her by publication of lids order
once a month for three months before the
next terni of this court in ’Dawson Journal.’
A true extract from the minutes of the Su
perior Court, Juue 19, 18fi7.
J. C. F. CLARK, Clerk.
Jam.s Spkncf, Att’yfor Libelant. »u?G
IMPORTANT TO THE STOCKHOLDERS
OF THE
SOUTHWESTERN R, R. CO,
THE PtocUholders of this Company are re
quested to attend a called meeting, to be
convened at the office of the Company in this
city on the 4ih day of December nex\ at
noon, for the purpose of considering the pro
priety of amalgamating the Muscogee and
Southwestern Railroad Companies, as author
ized bv an Act. of the General Assembly of
the State of Georgia, pasted during the scs
sion of 1866.
As the meeting is one of importance, all
the Stockholders are requested to be repre
sented either iu person oi bv proxy.
Stockholders attending the above meeting
will he pissed fiee over ihe line of tl i< R od
bv exhibiting their certificate of S>o, k to the
Conductor. JNO. T. RQIFEUILLKT,
Macon, Ga., Nov. 1, 1667-td S.-c’y.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
Nearly opposite Passenger Depot
MACON GA..
St, F. DENSE SO^’,
(Late oi Granite Hall,)
Proprietors.
BROWN HOUSE,
E. E. BROWN A. SON,
Fomrth St., Opposite Passenger Depot,
.Itaeon. Georgia.
IAROM the Ist of July the business of this
’ House will be conducted by E. E. Drown
& Son, tiie Senior haviao associated his son,
Wm. F. Brown, in tho mauagemeut and in
terest cf the Hotel.
The hou’e contains sixty rooms, which are
reserved chiefly for the use of travellers aud
transient guests. Competent assistants have
been se- cured in every department, and eve
ry attention will be paid to ensure comfort
te their customers. Rooms clean and airy, and
the table always supplied with the best the
oeuntrv affords. Porters attend arrival and
departure of all trains to convey baggage
and conduct passengers across the street to
their quarters. july27,tf
W. H. TISON. w. W. GORDON.
TISON & CORDON,
COTTON FACTORS,
AND GENERAL
Commission Merchants,
flay Si., Seicanneih, Ga.
Also offer their services for receiving nnd
forwarding Cotton and Goods of all kinds, to
which prompt attention will be given.
Liberal advancements made on Consign
ments for sale in Savannah, New York or Liv
erpool, having several reliable correapon..
dents in both the latter cities.
This old established House, so liberally pa
tronized in the past, will spare no effort to
continue to merit public confidence, sept 13
DENTISTRY!
D’’. R. NOBLE, of Americus, has es
tablished, a permanent branch office, at
Dawson, Ga., at his residence on South side
of the Publ c Square, where may be found
at all times, prepared to perform all op
erations belonging to the profession of Den
tistry —both Surgical and Mechanical. lie
has the * . ' • t ,
NITROUS OXIDE GENER VTOR,
with which he manufactures pure NITROUS
OXIDE GAS, as plea>ant to breathe as ihe
air, and safer to use than any other anmathet
io known. He keeps always on hand a plen
tiful and good stock of this gtts, with tiie use
of which he extracts teeth without pain. As
he has had twelve years' experience in the
practice of I>ErtTISTRY, and keeps
up with all the late improvements in his pro
fession, he feels confident of giving entire sst
isfaction to all who may favor him with their
patronage.
He also has the Local Anaesthetic, for ex
tracting teeth without pain > by a freezing pro
cess.
lie takes this method to return thanks to
ail former patrons for their liberal patronage;
at tho same time solicits a continuance ot the
Xante. june7:6m R NOBLE.
HAVENS & BROWN,
Wholesale and Retail
BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS,
And General Ncwa Dealesj—j/iangula
Clock, Cherry Street, .Hucon, Ga.
DAWSON, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER tJS, |Srt7.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Scottish Highlands.
An Exciting Tale.
THE WRAITH OF BEN DOUICH
It is an old story now, and is told
where the household crouch round the
great peat fire, and listen to the snow
storm without as it sweeps down Hell’s
glen and out upon the dark waters of
the lake. Unlike most ghost stories, it
is a true story, and they show you as
you pass upon ihe top of Bt. Katarine’s
stage coach, the ruins of Mark Fuger
son’s house at the foot e f the hill. Fif
ty years ago the silk mercers and Btock
iogs weavers of Glassgow were a con
servatively domestic race and greatly
disinclined to step beyond their shop
counter in search of adveoture. At
this time it was not possible, as it is
now, to procure all the “comforts cl the
Saut Afarket” in (lie remotest parts of
the Highlands; ai.d the present univer
sal j raetie of leaviog business during a
portion of the summer, fur the purpose
of sniffing the fresh air on the margin
of the Holland lech, or at the mouth oi
the Highland glen, would have then
been considered a definite and danger
ous fo.m of monomania Where there
are now l.mg strings of pretty villages,
fifteen years ago there were but scatter
ed hovels; especially in so remote a
spot as the shores of Locbgoil. Here,
iudeed, the few people who have dared
to eieet their dwellings in the face of
the tempestuous wind which in winter
time tore up and down the mountain
passes, seemed shut out from curnmu
nicaiim with the rest of the world;
hemmed round by tali and craggy hills
fronted by the capricious aud changea
ble waters of the lake, and liable during
certain months in the year to the fierce
storms which ' probably won 4 for the
biggest ravine in the neighborhood the
title of Hell’s Glen.
At the mouth of tbisjglcn, and by
the bide of a small burn which trickles
down a ch ft on the side of Ben Douich,
Donald Fergusou had built his house
a small mean looking place, which bare
ly sheltered himself, his wife arid daugh
ter Mary, from the wind and the rain.
Bui a man who had been brought up to
the hording of sheep on a Scottish
bill side, learned not to bo too particu
lar whether or not a few drops of mois
ture drips through thereof at night;
and his wife and daughter were in want
of do better water proof garments thaD
ixceediogly good health and spirits.
And Mary Ferguson was of tho age
of eighteen, and had eyes big and blue
enough to drive all the young men be
tween Aaron and Ahan crazy, and her
father was very fond of her, aud she
had two Lvers, and she considered that
it was very easy to read in fictitious
books of someone more favored by
Providence than herself, but that to
meet such a one in real life was a clear
impossibility.
One very bleak »m3 cold winter even
ing both these lovers happened to drop
in ; and old Diniei Furguson having
gathered his she p into the fold, had als >
come home. As. they eat arouud the
fire, it was noted by every one that
John Mcßean, the suitor who Mary fa
vored least, was even more than usually
morose and silent. He stared intu the
peats, and when ralied by Fergus' n,
would start up with a sudden wonder
in his face as though be had been dream
ing By and by the geueral talk had
died down, Mcßean turned to Mary’s
father and asked how many years -had
passed since the wraith of Djuich had
been seen. The conversation being
thus turned, there was nothing heard of
during the remainder of the evening
but stories of appsrations, and visions
of headless figure.-, and tales of the aw
ful second sight, and so forth, while
the wind outside howled above the
long flats of white snow that lay along
every valley and hill side.
“I want to hear nae mair of the
Wraith,” said old Ferguson, who had
the genuine northern dread of even
sneaking of such things; ‘in my moth
er’s time it u«ed to cime down the dill,
and when a man would try to overtake
it, he was found the next morniDg dead
in the glen.’
The wrai'h of which he spoke was
not the apparition of the person about
to die, but a spirit which was supposed
to come down in the likones3 of a man,
from the top of Ben-Louicb, and ap
pear in front of the houso of the per
son whose death was imminent. Tho
wraith then walked slowly back to the
hill and ascended ; but according to the
popular belief, if any person in the
house that had boou visited, at once
rushed out and climbed the hill befire
the wraith, tho spirit on reaching the
summit would immediately vanish, and
no harm could befall the person whose
life had been endangered.
‘I wud try a race up Beo-Douieh wi’
the quickest wraith teat ever run,’said
Alec Inglis, laughing and looked very
bravo.
But Mary’s father did not like this
joking with the supernatural, especial
ly as the wind outside still moaned
down the glen, and seemed to echoe
words and cries as it passed overhead.
The old man proceeded to give such in
stances as were on record of men and
women having successfully striven with
the apparition ; John Mcßean all the
whilo staring gloomily and silently in
the glowing peat.
•Well do I remember the mornin’’
said old Bonal; you was but a child,
Mary, and mabe you eanoa remember
Duncan McQilivray knockin’ at our
door one night, and his cornin’ in with
his face as white as snow outside, to
tell u« bow he had seen the wraith.— j
And he went out, and he ran up the
hill but his feet slippit, and slippit, as |
they had never done afore, and when
hey had near got to the top o’ Ben-
Douicb tho wraith turns and looked
down on him wi’ a cold glittering laugh
in its eyes, anil Duncan fell down on
the heather, and lay there nacbody
knows Low long. I made him lie
down in the big chair until the morn
ing, and sent him to his house and told
him not to mind what had happened.
We never spoke o’ the wraith to him
after that—never. But Duncan Mc-
Gilivray was a dead man in three days,
and as his wife was sittia’ by tho bed
side he gave a little cry and sunk back
dead, and then she heard a laugh out
side the house, and there was a white
thing that flew past the window.’
‘Mary’s eyes were now big and sol
emn; and even Inglis did not venture
upon another jest. As for John . Me-
Bcan, he rose to his feet and said be
should go, whereupon Inglis agreed to
accompany him down to his home by
the side of the loch.
When they went to tho door and
looked out, a bright moonlight lay up
on the clear snow. On the south ti le
of the glen great shadows hid the moun
tains; but on the Ben Douich side the
white radiance sparkled from base to
summit an successive snow covered
plains and shoulders ; while away in the
east a few suaky lines of diamonds
twinkled on the black bosom of ths
Lichgi.il.
Tho wind bowled down through the
mountain gullies; but not a cloud was
to be seen iu that great still vault above
where the stars glimmered tnrough the
clear, Irosty air. Their faiewclls hav
ing been spoke in Gaelic (as being more
affectionate than the cold, artificial Eng
lish the natives bal begun to talk) the
two young meo disappeared down the
valley, aud Donald, with his daughter,
returned into the house.
It was about an hour afterward, as
the story goes, that Mary Furguson re
tired to her own little room, the win
dow of which was but a single pane of
glass in a wooden frame fixed into a
ttone wall. Lamps and caudles were
a luxury uuknown, except on rarcoo
casions, to her father’s house ; and all
the light admitted iDto her little apart
ment was the light reflected from the
snow outside. It is supposed that she
had either casually glanced outside in
passing the window, or bad purposely
been looking out to observe the beauti
ful moonlight tints of the snow ; at all
events, an object met her eyes which
from infancy, she bad been taught to
regard with the utmost horror and
dread.
Ttio bouse stood on a little slope
above the bank of the stream, aud a lit
tle above the outer bank was a small
fur wood. It was in front of this
wood, that she beheld, in the cl ar
moonlight a whi'o figure racing up and
down, at times looking in under the
shadow of the fire over across at the
house.
No on’can fell wliat sudden instinct
of fear or temporary insanity cuused
her to act as she did—whether she be
lieved thut*ho wraith was the foretell
er of her father's death, and could on
ly be thwarted by herself, or whether
the shoes to her nerves had deprived
her of her senses ; but she immediately
sto’e out of the house without waking
her father and mother
The snow was lying thick nnd soft
upon tfie little cabbage yard on the
river banks, and on the marshy hillside,
covering treacherous pits and holes, so
that it was impos-ible to foretell what
one’s next step might lead to. With
a apidity which showed how reck'e a
her terror had made her, she ran dotvn
the slope, crossed a 6mall wood oridge
which here spanned the stream and
with the same eager impetuosity made
her way through the deep snow which
lay around the outskirts of the wood
It was at this moment that her father
having been roused by the noise of
her shutting a small gate at the foot of
the cabbage garden, rushed to the door
and saw her disappear behind the firs.
Thinking that his daughter was the
victim of some sudden attack of som
naubuliani or insanity, he hastily threw
on a Lw articles of clothing and ran off
in pursuit.
Crossing the bridgo and rounding
the wool, he saw two f-rins the
fartherest off being clothed in white
Tho nearest he imtrediately recogn z
ed as his daughter. And the other?
Tim dreadful superstitution of which
they had been talking, at once flashed
acro-e his mind, and paralysed with
fear, he could only stop and watch the
two moving things up anioDgst tho cold
white snow.
kle saw her struggle on and on,
gra°ping at the tough bieckens which
protruded above the sriow, someJmes
slipped down into some concealed hol
low, at another climbing bravely up
the faceofstme glistening piece of
lock. Thfn with a sense of dull blind
ness, and with a cold weight Up'n his
heart, be saw that she was drawing
ing nigh to the brink ot the gorge down
which the stream be had just crossed
flowed.
Uttering a wild cry, he started once
more iri pursuit, love for his daughter
overcoming all terror and fear. He fol
lowed her foot tracks, but the undula
tions of the bill soon shut her out from
his sight, and he could on’y stumble
on in the tcriible hope that he would
be there in time to avert her destruc
tion
Suddenly a shriek, shrill as the death
cry of a drowning man, rang through
the air, aod repeated itself iu lnnumer
able echoes aloDg the glen. Tbe pext
moment he heard a rapid rushing
souod right in front of bun, the wind
blew in his face a lot of loose snow,
and then all was silent again But
with a fearful presentiment, ho left tho
track ho had been following, and bear-1
ing down to the left, he soon found I
him elf in tbe bed of a stream.
Hero progression was even more
difficult ; but tin ungovernable impulse
drove him to straggle over the bowl
ders aud fragments of rock which fill
ed the valley Presently ho heard, or
thought he hoard, a slight moan, and
stumbling on in the direction whence
tho sound proceeded, a beam of moon
light allowed him, almost at bis feet,
the apparently lifeless form of Lis
daughter. Kneeling down, lie caught
her in his arms and wiped the snow
from her still warm face, himself ua
ron-ciously moaning
Tiiero was anotber'sonnd broke the
I perfect stillness of the place; the figure
of a man came rapidly down the glen
tide, scattering the snow os'he leaped
f:om rock to rock, and there was now
! another added to the group, John Me
] Bean.
Old Ferguson did no, ask him how
■ lie came there, nor did he speak any
I way ; it seemed as if his, reason had
I left him. The young man pale and
trembling, came forward to look in
the face of the giil, and then these
two, silently, os if awe struck by the
j dreadful silence around, lifted up the
j dead body and bore it lit.me.
| Donald Furgersoo kneltjdown in
prayer by her side. When he arose
John Mcßean w as gone, and theie w«s
no one to answer tho frantic cries of the
girl’s mother.
Next morning, hov ever when the
circumstances of tho case began to be
inquired into, when Mary's father told
the neighbors who came to osier him
their sympathy, everything that ho
had seen on tho previous night, there
was more than one man gave vent to a
suspicion of John Mcßean having been
the wiaith Young Inglis, spying noth
ing, left the house and-made his way
up tiie mountain alone.
Half an hour afterward be returned
to tho village and walked into the
house of his brother in-law. He threw
down on the fl or alar 6 e w lute sheet
and cap
“These,” said he in Gaeb’c, “are John
Mcßeau’s. I found them on the hill
side. It was he who killed her. Lend
me your gun.’’
“For what ?’
“There is a heron in tho marshes on
the other side of the loch, and I am go
ing tp shoot her.”
“Why should you go now to shoot a
heron ? Take these things round to
Donald Furguson’s.”
“I’ll take them on my way.”
He got the gun and wont around to
the other side of the lock. But he did
not go down into the marshes; he w«mt
into the house of John Mcßoan whom
lie found sitting moodily by his fire.—
He flung down before him the white
sheet and cap, and said :
“I did not,” replied Joha Mcßean,
starting up. “It was a j st. I was not
near her when she foil—l inteuded to
And here be tumb’ed heavily on the
I floor, shot through the beart In jlis
| tied to St. Katharine’s, got a boat theie,
! nnd crossed Invury, and subsequently,
| it was supposed thence from the coun
try.
The solution of the mystery died
w ith John Mcßean, though, they who
now tell the story can Vtry easily fur
nish you with two or three reasons
why he was tempted upon that right
to assume the guise of the Wraith of
Bun -Douich.
A Plea for Plumpness —What
will the women think of this, the con
clusion of an editorial in the New York
Gazette, on the text, ‘Let us have Plump
Women ?’ “This country has no great
er want at the present time than plump
girls and plump women. Let us have
them and healthy, whether they know
anything or not. We can teach their
children what they don’t know, if nec
essary ; but by all means let us have ro
sy, blooming;, soled women. The Pa
cific Railroad is not half so Important
property of thb country, as the aggre
gate avoirlupnis of its wemen. The f>-
i male sex of America ought to Weigh at
; least half again as much as it docs
now.”
An auctioneer was selling a library
l at auction He was not very well read
in books, but he scanned the titles,
trusted to luck, arid went on.
‘Here you have,’ho said,‘Bnnyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress j how much rn )
: offered for it? How much do I hear
! for the Pilgrim’s Progress, by John
; Bunyan ? ’Tie a first-rate boob, gen
j demon, witn six superior illustraticns ;
! bow much do I hear? All about the
I Pilgrims. Tells where they came from,
an' where they landed, an’ wh t they
i done after they landed ! Here’s ape i-
I din’, with a pack on Lis back !’
| An ingmneus Frenchman has pat
| ented an illuminating cane fur those
who return home late at uigbt. It is
Ito be used exclusively by bachelors.—
■ There afe some persons in our city who
I returns home ‘late at night’—light
j headed —not ‘exclu ivdy bachelors.’’
j A Norfolk paper does not see whv
so much applause should be bes omed
l on Sheridan, the hero of only Fivo
Forks_ whereas Butler is notoriously
' the hero of Five Thousand Fpootis.
I
; “I say, Jones, hew ij it that your
I wife dressov so magnificently, ajid you
always appear out at the elbows ?”
“ I on see, Thomp-on, my wife dress
es according to the Gazette of Fashion,
! and I diets according to my ledger.”
A lady having aceidentally
broken a smelling bottle, her husband,
who was very petulant, said to h r, l
declare my dear, everything that be
longs to you is mere or lets broken.
"J rtie,” replied the lady, “for even
you are a little cracked.”
TVo. 43-
Sixly Foot Under llie Snow.
A GRAniIC STORY OF I.AIIRABOR.
In ono cf the interesting series of pa
pers on Terra Nova, or Coast Lifo in
Newfoundland, by “Harry Boling
broko,” which appears monthly in the
Riverside Magazine, “Skipper Nat” thus
tells how he was snowed up in Labrador :
“In the fall of ’37, I volunteered to
remain on the Labrador all the winter,
because there was a good deal of stuff of
one kind and another that our vessel
could not take away. As there was a
small settlement further down the coast,
I thought I shouldn’t want for company,
although, indeed, it was a dreary pros
pect I had before me, and not without
considerable danger. However, when
the sohooner put to sea, and I found
myself all alone, I contrived to make
the best of it, and went about preparing
things for the long winter.
“My tilt was built under the brow of
a steep hill, not far from the shoie ; and
with a little fixing up—such as covering
the roof with sods and stopping the
scams with moss—l contrived to make
it a snug little nest enough. Then I
had a good stock of wood, plenty of am
munition, a Bible, and some other books,
with a large supply of provisions. I
soon began to like my Crusoe mode of
life, and enjoyed myself much more
than one could suppose. Sometimes—
just about tea time mrstly a fit of lone
liness would come over me; but it grad
ually wore away, until it seemed like a
dream that ever I had mingled with my
follow-creatures io a civilized land. It
took me somo weeks to get my hut in
order, my wood cut, mv provisions
stowed away, and everything put ship
shape in comfortable trim against the
dreary days ahead.
“It was well I didn’t dally in my la
bor; for no sooner was I in a condition
to face the winter than he began to face
me, and almost every day he assailed
my fort with winJ, frost, aud buow, hail,
sleet, and rain.
“About the first week in December it
began to come down in real earnest, and
the wind being low, there was, in two
days, an even fall of some six or eight
feet, which, indeed, was almost level
with the eaves of my house. By hard
shoveling, I kept an open path to my
well, that gushed up at the foot of a
rock, and, betrg a spring, never was
much frozen. I thought it a wise thing,
however, to set up a pole, with a rem
nant of au old sail near by, so that in
case tho well were covered up, I should
know just where to search for it.
“On the third night of the storm the
snow came down thicker and faster than
ever, the wind increasing from the north
east—a perfect hurricane. I got in a
good supply of water, piled up a roaring
fire, and sat down to listen to the howl
ing wind, to read my books, smoke my
pipe, mend my togs, and cook my meal
—such being my in-door employments.
Somehow, l did feel low spirited that
night. I couldn’t help thinking cf
those who were so far away from me.—
1 fell nty utter loneliness weigh upon
me, till I actually began to pity myself,
as if I was some poor, forlorn creature,
cast adrift from the world, and all its
cares and comforts. Tears came into
my eyes ; aud I almost repented that I
had undertaken to remain at all. How
ever, when l began to consider that the
same God who was watching my loved
ones at home, was also present in my
humble abode, amid the storms and
snows and night; I say, wboo 1 thought
of this, I gained oomfort, and, wrapping
myself up in my blankets, lay down to
rest like a little child bolding its moth
er’s finger's in its fist.
“But oh, huw the wind roared, and
howled, and whistled ! Sometimes a
great gus. would come, carrying a show
er of bright sparks up my chimney, and
then howl down as if it was some de
mon that wanted to get into my house
Then again the gale would moan and
whine like someone id pain J or pant
and shriek, as though some poor crea
tures were perishing in the drifts ; then
would como a roar like a furious wild
beast t
‘ At length the sounds grew gradual
ly fainter and fainter ; the wind seemed
to be dying away, until at last all was
still and silent as the gr.ve, except, it
may be, a low, muffled scowl, Very, very
far off.
“I dropped to sleep. H w long I
slept I know not; but when I woke all
was dark and my fire was nearly out
I jumped up, laid tome splits on the
ashes; but there was not draught enough
to kindle them, and the room was full
of smoke. When Irp-ncd the door,
I found ono solid wall of snow filling up
the entire doorway. This,- however,
was no more than I expected. Going
back to my fi e-place, I looked up the
flue, and the snow s eaued t> form an
arch over it. Gan it bo possible, thought
I, that 1 am buried alive beneath the
snow ? et
“Taking my shovel, I dng into the
while mas- that blocked my door j but,
after excavating some five or six feet, no
daylight appiared ! It wa3 evident that
the tilt was many feet beneath the sur
face; being situated at the foot of the
bill, which ross some sixty or seventy
feet in the rear. I came to the conclu
sion that from the brow of the hill out
to perhaps the wall, or even beyond,
was all ouc solid block of snow, which I
ct uld not expect to see removed for
three or four months ! To dig my wav
out would be difficult, if not imp. ssiblc,
and certainly samewhat dangerous j for,
should the tunnel cave In, where was I?
Smothered 1 To remain idle would nev
er answer, on the ether hand; for my
fire would n;t burn but only smolder,
and till the premises with smoke, bad
enough to blind one; aud then my stock
ot water would soon be exhausted.
“After pondering tho matter over for
a long time, I resolved at last to risk a
tunnel, at any rate. 1 thought, aa I had
ao difficulty in breathing, and as my
lamp burned pr.’tty well, that air muat
como in Lorn somo hole cr corner, and
and perhaps the drift might not go so
high, after all. So, tying a string
around my waist, and fastening tho
other end to the staple of the door look,
I commcncd to work my way along. It
was dreadful hard wtrk, and no mistake
—that it was ; for as I oould not remove
•he snow, I had to trample it down and
press it each side, and melt it, and so
make way with it as best I oould. And
then the air was so close and hot, that
I was in a bath of perspiration all tha
while. One night I woke up with the
oold shivers: and Ihe next day if I may
call it day—l was proper vio
lent cold. The way I cured myself
was to got up and dig for dear life at
at the snow tunnel, until I was dripping
wet, aud as hot as plum pudding just
out of the pot.
“In a day or two, I began to hear
a faint roaring sound of wind, and then
tho light grow stronger and stronger,
whieh gave mo hopes that I must bo
coming out.
This caused me to renew my labor
with fresh vigor. At every shovelful
almost, the noise of the wind and the
glimmer of light increased until, at
last, all at tmee, the top ol the tunnel
caved in ; and, after considerable strug
gling, and puffing, I came out once
more to the blessed light of day !
Snaking the snow from’myself, I
found it was ns I supposed. Then
was a snow-drift of sixtyject foiled
over my house, from the brow of the
hill to within a few feet of the well.
I had occasion to rejoice that I had
myself tied to tho door post, otherwise
I should never have found my way
back, or, at loast, not for a lowg time.
As I said before there was a settle
ment down the const; as soon as I
could, I set off, and got some men to
come and help me dig out the house.
But I can tell you that the Dext year
when we came back to the Labrador,
there was a good heap of that drift in
that valley still, and, for that matter,
it remained all the summer.”
FUNAGKAPHIC*
Why was Desdemor.a the most dis
contented of all women ? Because the
Moor she had—the Moor she want
ed.
Prentice doubts whether “tho pleas
ures of the Chase” w ill include running
for the Pre idency.
Precocious girl that who took as the
theme of her graduating es ay at a
fashionable seminary “The Education
of our Boys.”
Josh Billings says a man running
for office puts him in mind of a dog
that’s lost —he smells of everything
he meets and then wags hiinse f all
over.
Since brunett comp’exions have be
come the style, Ihe pale-faced fashion
ables complain tl at they do not tan
fust enough.
“1 ROV, boy, u tbera at ytbing to
shoot about here ? ’ asked a sportsman
of a boy be met.
“Well,” replied the boy, “nothing
just about here, but our scTioolmas'er
is just over the frill there cutting birch
rods; you might walk up and pop tiiin
over.”
A Postmaster near Columbus recent
ly forwarded a package to that office
with the endorsement, ‘ rong cent ”
As the boy said, if that don’t spell
wrong sent, “what do it spel' ?”
An editor who married a MissChureh
says, he has enjoyed more bapjtiness
since joining the church than he ever
did in hi# life belore.
A Western paper thus notices a mar
ring t: _
“Spliced —On the Ist,at the resi
dence of the old cock, Sal. Cbowder to
Dobyn Dnrnit. May their mug of hap
pino.-s be filled to the tip, and the
glim of their merriueos never be dous
ed.”
A friend says he would have no ob
jections to being sent to gsass, if‘a grass
widow might not bo considered as fill
ing the bill.
‘Faith,’ said an Irishman, who could
not get io!o his cabin at Ballingnrrv,
bis wife having turned the key upon him
‘faith it’s myself that’# regularly locked
in.’
‘ln,’ said his companion, ‘in where?’
‘Why, in the street!’
The Philadelphia Press has an ar
ticle headed “Btevens Gone to Seed.”
Wo trust that seed may poon be plan
ted, and m y it never come up.
Chicago is annoyed by fast driving
on Sunday. Ihe Chicago women are
said to be faster than the horses.
A New Yo-k correspondent says
the Germans and other Radicals are at
I -gerheuda.
Petroleum V. Naeby and Brick
Pomeroy were employed together on
the Corning [New York] Journal in
1850f the former as foreman, and the
latter as devil.
A few years ago the Indies wore n
kind of hood called “kiss-me-if you
dare.” ’J he present style of bonnet
might be oalleG, with equal propriety,
“kiss-ine-iDyou wunt-to ”
The marine losses during October,
caused by fire, wnck, collision or oth
er disa ters at sea, amounted to forty
four vessel', valued at $1,297 500.
i here were 4,784 bales of cotton
shipped over the Louisvi le and Nash
ville rai’road lust month, against 3,943
snipped curing the same month last
year.
American Black Pudding. —lhtlf
pi .tof molasses, half pint of water,
two tea-spoonfuls of snleratus, one tea
cup of raisins, rolled ii: fl ur : or, a
teacupfu! of plums, cherries, or cur
rants, dried with sugar. Put in a
mould, crock or pail, large enough to
lei ve one half swelling. If boiled in
an o}>eii crook, lie a thick cloth ov,. r
tee top. Boil steadily three hours.