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"lHi nui itiue!) l'llmnrrtnl To niiu wiioui lltjAvm hall provide." The Nne-fyed iuililen had her way, Hhe married oue both rich nd ftry, ' And when he Hied Mietuok his pride, w But liiut to all she toot they aity A handsome lover caine, one day. " .. . And bore the brown-eyed maid away. He wao her life, and she his wile; ij What wore is there to atb, or nay ; TluAUIwauutatHttru-Hw the Farmer 8nak tike latter One t the Uwlekest, SlMtrpeat Kaval Battle t '; tiwwwu. , . (.Detroit Free Press.) ' . ; ; The career of ever" Confederate privateer which Vscaiied to sea was lull of romance and darinir. The idea of privateering came witlr jrbe outbreak of the war ut- it w:ik long uioutliH before theCAn&cterate Has W33' hoisted at sea by' aVcralt designed to prey upon Federal com? merre. , Jo sentiineut beyond r. thus of adventure, eneouragwl: enlist ments ou board these- vessels. A bond given by a capturetl cnut was not worth tlie paper it was written on. . Prize uld not be taken, into port and condemned,' and the pri vateer could not load herselC down with any of the cargo. . 2fow. and then a lew thousand dollars in cash may have been captured in the cabin, bat it is not on record that the crews profited by . it. . They were clothed and fed and paid pif in nionev worth ten or fifteen cents on the dollar at home and represenf ing so much blank paper abroatL Tlie natural desire to injure an enemy,-con pled with a knowledge tlmt a. privateering 'craft would meet with many strange adven tures, kept full crew aboard of all. The l'ss inflicted on Federal com merce amounted to ? millions, and yet it may be argued that the money paid out by the Confederates to i nd ict t his loss would have secured them more beuetits in vtMme other direction. ' ' a - .-.'-.:' ' ; 1 ; the'. At abamaI;'. g ; The terror inspired by this fa mous Coufetlerate cruiser was well founded. She was not only very fast, but well armed,' well found, and commanded by a man who did not know what fear ,wa. Semmes has been slandered and abused, be cause he was a Confederate. He was a gentleman, in social life, a coiujKitent comnmnder ou : board his ship, and those who refer to him as a pirate take a silly way of venting their spleen. Jeff Davis' commissions were as good ,111 ; the eyes of uationsat tliatJdate.asAbra ham Lincoln's, belligerency' hav ing been recognized, and the Feder al Governmentwas one of the powers recognizing this fact. Semmes has been called a coward for capturing unarmed merchantmen.- That rwas the object of his cruising, and he did not make a dollar out of it where Paul Jones and other naval heroes of our own and other nations made hundreds., If Semmes had uot been a brave man, and if there had been any of tlie skulk in his composition he would not have challenged the Kearsargo to sail outside of Cherbourg and give hiin a fair light. lie did this knowing that it would be an even thing and a square battle, and he fought until the Alabama-went down. , ' - SraklSG THK.HATTEttA& Vt One of the quickest ' ami hottest naval fights of the world was that which took place 'on January 11, 1863,- off Galveston,' between the Alabama and the Hatteras, the lat ter being one of tire blockading fleet. The statements f ! three differeut members of tho crew; of the Ala bama agree, in all - particulars, and full particulars ou the Federal Hide are given in official reports. The Alabama appeared ft. .Galveston not to run the blockade, as Federal historians hastily concludebut to attack .anything offeruig her a chance or success.-. She bad a fnll supply of provisions and ammuni tion, a large crew, and "could have no exense for desiring- to ruu into iiort. The hope aboard was in' be ing able to destroy Federal trans ports; or in coming up with a single Federal man-of-war. . .. '- - f SKJIITINa Tim: FLEET ' ' '.There were six or eight" men-of- war off the bar. at Galvestou on the lltb, having previously been en- gagetl in bombarding the Confeder ate works. Tlie. Aliuama arrived within sight in the afternoon, her Intention being to- carefully locate each Federal vessel, and then stand off till dark. - It was .known; all through the ship that when night came .down . Semmes intended to run in and hare a tilt at the: entire fleet, bat the Alabama had crept in so close .that, she bad been sighted by several of .the vessels. - Taking her for some blockade runner which could be, easily overhauled, the flagship ordered the llatteras in chase. -, ; FOOLING" A" TANKEE. Nothing j conldV have ' pleasetl Semmes; more than this movement, lie knew the ' Alabama to have more speed than any of the block aders.'and be "believed her arma ment to- be equal : to any. His ol- ject tberefore was to entice the Hatteras out to sea beyoud the aid f the fleet wal then have it out with her. . A pirate would uot have shown, bis ship to that fleet ' and a coward would have avoided a fight. " When it was seen that the Alabama could steam faster than the Hat teras, ' her 4 engines were slowed down, and tar and other' stuff was used to create smoke and an im pression that she was using every effort to make steam and get away. In his official report the coinmauder of the Hatteras said that his suspi cions were aroused long enough before be closed in, but, if so, lie acted in a very recKiess manner in closing up within 200 feet of the stra Direr lie fore hailing, and like wise occupy in g a position in which ! be could be raked. j . . j : ; THE FIEST GUS. : Uaviug drawn the Hatteras atj least twenty miles away from tlie ! fleet,' and darkness being ready to fall, the Alabama stopped her en-1 gines, and waited. She. bad leeii ' 'yiS M this"! pdsftkni! twenty min- lltCS 'WheU the Hattrt8 steamed up within bnudred yards anrt hailed $The iiBswerstands against Semtues .as seekillST to 8tClir8 gome unfair advantage-at the start. The reply wan that the. .Alabama: was" the British ship Vixen.- In. the gloom of the evening, and having never set eyes on the Alabama, the com mander of the Hatteras could not dispute the informal ion. He called out ..that he would seud a boat aboard - and the boat was piped away, 1 but before it touched the water the Alabama gave her true name and opened fire. - - a TERRIFIC FIGHT. The advantage from first to last was with the Confederate. He was at quarters long before the Hatteras came up, hild his broadside ready with -suells- tuned and men at the guns and bis .fii-st . lire i was - a snr prist' The;;Alabaina had ? nine guns the Hatteras eight, and the advantage, bf metal was-with the Alabama. The first shot from the cruiser,-! being ;, that" froniv the .105 iKiunder rille gun, peeled six feet of iron plating on the Hatteras as a man might nll up a map, and. went through her side and lodged in the hold. Every one of the first broad side shots took effect somewhere, as the vessels were scarce 200 feet apart. -;V1 ; ir .. -.' - . - boarders away. Before.the'.: Alabama's shot had found resting places the- Hatteras was steaming straight at her, de termined tocome to close quarters and board her. , She was not speedy enongh to accomplish this move ment. The best she could do : was to preveut the cruiser from secur ing, a raking fire ; and fight her broadsjde on. Alter the second broadside", the - vessels drilled ' so close that . muskets andcpistols could be nsed, and the - gunners yelled taunts at each other, across the water. . fiftj-firey seconds from the time she was ' fired on' the Hatteras was replying- Inside? of two minutes she had increased her broadside by shifting over another gun. In three minutes it had set tled down to a square fight between two men-of-war . so ' close together that a good shot witlr a revolver could have killed his man every time. - " '. .i j ,, TEERIBLE "WORK. Z -.'- ' In five' minutes fronf the ojeiiing of the fight a shell from the - Ala bama started a fire in the hold of the Hatteras, and three shells had assed entirely through both sides of tho vessel, leaving holes through which a man could' crawl. From tlirce to live shells had crasluJ into the Alabama, one of .them- ripping open her side, and another tearing up six feet of decking. ,1 In eigtit minntes -the llatteras. was on fire in two places,!nnd the Alabama .bad' ' been 1 struck ' ten times, and the ships were so close together at this moment, that one could have tossed an apple from the Hatteras to the "Alabama. '; 4 '' ; . In ten minutes a shot struck the cylinder of the llatteras and filled her with steam,- nnd the very f next missile demolished her - valking beam. She was still fighting, when the carpenter reported ,-jthat ';she coald not fioat ten minutes longer. She was already wallowing from side to side. with, the water in her bold, and tho light was oter. A gun fired to leeward was the signal that she had surrendered, and even before' the Alabama bad approach ed, the Hatteras had thrown several of her guns, overboard to prevent herself going down like a stone. Tne Alabama worked rapidly to save the crew of the blockader, and she had scarcely taken the last man off, when the Hatteras went down. Only thirteen or i'ourteeu , 'minutes had elapsed from the firing of the first gun - to the surrender, thus making it next to the quickest naval battle on record. ' THE WORK OF THE SHELLS. Xothing but shells were fired by either ship, and thedamage inflicted iu that hrtf time was appalling. The Alabama . was struck twenty four times, and bad from ten to twelve '.ugly holes in her hull. Over 100 muskets '".and revolvers were fired at her, but not a mau was hit. Indeed, she had but one man wonnded, and that by an iron splin ter from a shell. The shell which ripped up her deck threw two, men high in .the f air' without disabling them, and a sailor who was knocked overlxnird by concussion was 011 deck Again within two minutes. One of the last shots fired by the Hatteras struck a gun full in the mouth, tearing off one side of it and shoving the gun and truck ten feet backwards by the force. A shell which exploded among her coal scattered the stuff from end to end of the craft and knocked down fire men and engineers without wound ing them. Semmes was ever free to assert that for a vessel caught as the Hatteras was she made a tight which wilt ever stand a credit to the American navy. It was the idea oit hoard the Alabama that the first broadside would end the fight. Never was a ship left in a worse state than the Hatteras. Not a single shot had missed her. Three minutes Iietbre the surrender she hadn't enough standing rigging left lor a sailor to shin up on. Scarcely a whole iron plate was left on her broadside. Some were splin rteed like pine sliinjrles, and others hung by a rivet or two and trailed iu t lie' water. There was one sjiot above the water line where a horse could have been led aboard. Her engine-room was a complete wreck, her coal-bunkers torn open and the contents heaved about, and every part of the vessel had been scorched by pieces of shell. She struck with her eugiues disabled, two tires in her hold, her sails useless, her rud der gone, her magazine flooded, three guns overboard and seven feet of water in hold. The annals of naval warfare for the last 200 years do not furnish a parallel case. A COf-L PKOWD. There was no more excitement n hoard the vessels than as if two excursion boats had lieen apprcvach- ing each other. Everv man was at his station.' and he remained there, unless disabled. The tires in the hold of the Hatteras were reported to the commanding officer: "tire iu the hold amidships, sir Has cool ly as if speaking of a i boat coming alongside. When the engine room was knocked into space, filled . with kindling wood, the engineer gravely reported: 'Engines disabled, sir!" and the reply,: was: "Very well sir !" Even when the Hatteras had less than a quarter of an hour , to float orders were issued and obeyed with the utmost coolness. The same cool conduct was ob served on board the Alabama, although the gunners . were' more inclined to cheer and hurrah. , Not a man flinched from his post, -. and the excitement was far greater after the fight was over. In olden days heroes did Bot hesitate to lay two sailing vessels broadside to broad side and fire away until one or the other was disabled. . In those fights shells were unknown or scarcely ever used, and a sixty-four-pounder was considered tremendous ord- nauce. This - was a fight between two Vessels moved by steaui,having l ' j 1 .1 xl... a uozeu vuai poiuis,iiiu iue piujeu tiles used wonld have dumb-founded Paul "Jones or any ether ' old-time fighter. These - monster shells could not be turned - aside by a beam ' less : than a foot square. Four and six-inch braces were cut square in two,, six inches oi solid planking pierced as if they were paper, and iron plates three inches thick were rent into strips or rolled np like manuscript. So close was the fightin g th at shells went through either craft with the fuse still burn ing and exploded on the surface of the sea beyond. v ; ' ; : "- THE LOSS. . ' !i As stated before, the Alabama had only one . mau wounded, . but the , Hatteras had two fireman killed by the same shell, and seven other people more or less severely wounded.' Five or six more were reported missing, and it could, not be determined whether they leaped overboard or were in some manner detained on board until the . vessel went down. -Orders were given on board the Alabama before the Hat teras came np to disable her engines if possible, and the gunners gave her walking-beam and engine-room their first attention. ' , ' , , M. QUAD. 1 The Land of Flowers- i Of late there has been a Florida fever, on' many of the. people in Eas tern North Carolina. : Some Kin stoiY merchants have their orange groves from which, in a few years, they expect to draw ; in a golden harvest, and from La Grange-, emi grants have recently been going forth to seek health and wealth in the "land of flowers." A writer iu the New York Jim draws a differ ent picture and from it we quote: "Florida is not healthy. No part of it is free from malaria. Two thirds of the State is under water, by actual survey. Yet we are told that the air is dry. The State is covered with swamps. H The land is flat and difficult to drain. The highest' iHiint. of the ' peninsula, eighty miles from the coast, is not more than loO HJet above sea level. Physicians, however, are frequent ly employed by land agents to write up reports of, the extreme. ''health fulness of the country. A man in Jacksonville has attained great no toriety for his ability in this line. There are no correct bills of mor tality Deaths constantly occur without a record. , The natives and long-time? residents exhibit few signs of health, and old people are few. . .-- "lb the pamphlet recently pub lished by the Agricultural Depart ment we are told that 'the trade winds of the Atlantic sweep over the lauds from east to west by day,' and the equally astonishing state ment is added that they return from the Gulf by night. It is in timated that the climate is tropical, and a lisfc-f tropical fruits is given as the ordinary products of the country. Florida is not tropical, as was rightly explained in the Of ficial lieport for 1870. If any trop ical fruits can by dint of care lie grown there, it does not pay to grow them. No part of the State is exempt from frost. In 1879 the thermometer fell to 32 at Key West, and south of St. Augustine it reached Hi. Ice was three inch es thick. vIn a previous winter icicles a foot long were seen. Ex cept in the extreme south, where fevers are more acute, and insects fill the air and soil, even the bana na exceptionally remains green through the winter. Oranges can not safely be left on the trees, as they are along the Mediterranean or in New South Wales and many other localities, but should be gath ered as soon as ripe to escape the effects of cold. A night's frost does not affect their appearance, but it prevents their keeping, and ren ders them unfit for shipment. Yet nowhere may tlie orange be growu to greater perfection, if a suitable locality be chosen, and a good or ange grove is certainly a desirable property. Herein lies the real at traction of Florida. Anyone who thinks that the orange can be grown without much trouble and iu any part of the State is much mistaken. The owners of one of the finest groves on the St. John's Uiver spent 30,000 before he be gan to succeed. It is, however, true that a healthy tree in lull bear ing ought to be worth $30 a year to its owner. 'For tlie possession of two or three hundred such trees iu a country where land can be bought for f 1.25 an acre, though dear at the price, it may be thought worth while to wait a few years and to incur some discomfort, possibly much ill health. Hut is this within the reach of a small capitalist f Speculators say that it is. The Agricultural De partment, in the new pamphlet, says that it is, but the official re ports, and the haul experience of thousands, warn us that it is not. "Truck farming will not afford a living. Florida cannot supply it self with vegetables. The large hotels depend upon Northern mark ets, and importations from New York or Philadelphia are to be found in almost every town. ..Tomatoes cucumbers, and watermelons are the chief local products, and of these the first two are lincertain. Climate and soil are unfavorable. The irregularity of the one and the poverty of the other are serious ob stacles. The Florida New Yorker once published the assertion that two persons can clear five acres in February, which in the fall would be worth from $500 to $1,000, . af ter having, yieulea 5400 pront Probably no more disgraceful bait to catch settlers was ever laid. An other agent says that land can be cleared for from $13 to $15 per acre. The Florida, Immigration Depart ment sets the cost at from ' $40 to $50, and the truth lies somewhere between $70 and ,$100. But the clearing is the quickest part of the work: Major Elton, Presi dent of the Farmers' Club in the State, has de;lared thirt the soil cannot be. got. into ? fair - condition for a crop in less than three years and by steady cultivation. Expe rience has proved the truth of that statement. The soil is very "poor. Seven analyses of samples taken from different localities yielded the writer an average of 90 per cent of pure sand, and only about 7 ier cent, of organic-matter. An offi cial analysis made in Washington by the Government chemist gave nearly the same results: that is, 89,35 per cent: of white sand, and 7 per cent, of organic matter. Tins tells its own story. No farmer or horticulturist would expect large crops from such soil until at least a considerable amount of money and labor had been expended. : "jxo man can go onronewianum Florida and earn a living from it at the. outset. He must work hard, spend money, and wait. If he cannot do this he must starve or leave,' and there are always at hand land speculators ready to - take ad vantage of his distress and put the value ot Ins improvements into their pockets. ' ' "But let ns suppose that he is able to wait and to work 'his land into fine order, wdiat may he ex pect! It has been said that a speculator paid to the Government of Florida $1.25 " per acre for four million acres. The taxpayers are a little curious about the locality Of that money, but that is their affair. It is represented that these lands are sugar lands, and that they will yield not less than 4,000 pounds to the acre. Louisiana produces ten- elevenths of all the sugar grown in the United States, and the produce of tho rich alluvial ' lands per. acre there was 1,710 pounds per acre in 1880. How is the laud of Florida to surpass Lonisianaf ' "But this is equalled by other exaggerations. The speculator as sures us that in Florida the yield of corn ; fertile-acre is. from 75 to 100 bushels, with proper cultiva tion. The actual yield as given in the official reports is less than 9 bushels, and -it cannot easily be more. Texas gives zo bushels, California 32, and Tennessee 22. The yield of oats is less . than one third of what it is iu New York or New Jersey. A recent writer, working in the interests of the Floridian Government, insists that 500 pounds of cotton may be grown to the acre. , The actual yield is only 142 pounds. In Texas it is 230. "In whatever way Florida is compared with other States, from an agricultural point Of view, it ap pears to a disadvantage. The average cash value of all its crops taken together ier acre is but 1.85, that of Texas beiug $16.15: Louisiana, $22.52; Mississippi, $13.- 7, and so on. The average value of cows is $12.21; of oxen, $7.51, and these estimates are lower than for any other portion of the country. This is the direct and necessary consequence of an unfertile soil and 111 unfavorable climate. They are facts which the most unscrupulous laud speculators cannot contra dict." ;ilioiisiics. Almost every person is familiar with this ailment, either as exper ienced in himself or as seen iu oth ers. Yet the best medical experts do not certainly know its nature or seat. People do not die of bilious ness, however long or much they may suffer from it, and lor this reas on post-mortem examinations do not certainly reveal its origin. Probably, however, it is a mild sort of jaundice, due to some dis turbance of the liver. The liver is the largest gland in the body, and one of its offices is to strain tlie blood. It ' cannot, therefore, be even slightly deranged without disturbing more or less the entire system. All persons are not equally liable to attacks of biliousness. They are often the result of a certain inheri ted tendency. Says Sir Lionel Beale, "The bilious habit seems to be due to an unusually sensitive, irritable stomach and liver, which will discharge their functions fairly in a moderate degree, b! which canuot be made to do more than this amount of work without get ting much out of order. "Most of the organs taking part' in the digestioiand assimilation of food seem to strike work when the bilious attack comes on. If food be taken, the suffering becomes great er. "The fact seems to be that the digestive organs require rest for a time, and if, when an attack comes on, this rest is given, the bilious state .passes off, and then the pa tient feels extremely well perhaps lor a considerable time." The same high authority con denins for persons suffering from biliousness, rich food, fatty soups, fried dishes and most forms of al cohol. He advises but little meat; commends vegetables, fruits and vegetable acids, particularly lemon juice, and plenty of bread. Seven cases require medicines for the liv er. liiut to subscribers: Subscribers of the Hoomermui who find cross bones and skull with crest of me tallic bunal casket drawn iu blood on the wrapper of their paper, will know that their subscription has expired and that something has got o be done. Lamm iv Boomerang. Slor's ilioi t Animals.. A gray Iioi-m- used by, the St Louis Tiau&ler Company in one of its teams .1 an habitual tobacco chewer. A terrier dog at Ga.,has forsaken his home and taked up his lot with a herd of goats, refusing to associate wit h other canines. .'v Jealousy recently induced a large Berlin dog to attack a five-year old boy. The boy was petting a liew lap dog when the big dog jumped upon him and threw him down. The lap dog, going to the boy's as sistance, was killed. ; : A novel fight occured in a stable in Council Bluffs between a stallion and a bulldog. The fight lasted more t han an hour, and was so fu rious that 110 one dared enter to interfere. After fatally ' bruising the dog the horse threw it outside the stall with its teeth. : , W: Ii. F. Daniel of Duplin, GaM was , deer hunting recently His dogcanght a fawn. Danniel :at tempted to secure it, aud the doe came to the rescue. He dropped the fawn to catch the mother, but after a desperate struggle she slip ped from his grasp and got away, ; A lady at Branchville, N. J., one day fed a common brook turtle that had approached her door. ' There after the turtle paid frequent visits Ibis season the animal brought a mate with it, and the ; two make frequent excursions from , the brook; to , the house to obtain food. ;: - :-- A light between a toad and a larger black spider was recently witnessed at Merrick, L. I - Alter each'round the toad hopped to a plantain leaf, bit off a piece, and then returned to the fray; After this had I occurred several -'times the leaf was taken away, and the toad, failing to find the "leaf, soon rolled over and died. ' ' The distasteful odor of asafcetida that a Virginia lady had placed under the eaves of the poreh as a disinfectant drove away a -.wren that had just gone to housekeeping. For some days the bird and her mate were observed that they had moved their nest twig by twig to ijie opposite side of the portico.'-- -V.. ..' ' - - ' - '- ' At a wayside inn iu the south of France, is a roasting jack moved by animal power. Two dogs turn the machine, working alternately.; One day the dog whose proper turn it was being absent, the other was caught and put in the wheel. He flatly refused, however, to work, and neither coaxing, threats nor chastisement produced any effect. After some, delay the missing dbg was found and set to the task. Af ter he had nearly completeiit the job 'lie was released and the first tried .again,, and the animal so late ly recusant .now offered no oppo sition and made the wheel revolve with a hearty good will till the roast. was finished.-.. ; -- '- The blue jay is the boldest and most mischievous of wild birds. Near Knoxville, Teuu., recently, one was seen to fly a number of times to a high picket fence' to at tract a pair of kittens playing ou the lawn. The kittens finally mounted the fence, and began a cautious approach , from picket to picket. The jay let the. first get to within eighteen inches, then hopped over between the two. The second kitten approached; the bird hopped over it. It t-uruud, and the jay hopped back aud between. The first kitten approached, and the jay hopped back over it, and so kept it up till one kitten got disgusted and left, and the other followed soon j after. Once or twice after tlie jay tried to inveigle the kittens to an other frolic, but failed. Abe Simmons, of ltoseudale, N. Y., has a wonderful dog named Jack. Jack used to toss a silver piece placed upon his nose, and turn around once and catch it in his! mouth, but some one put a hot penny .011 his nose one day and that spoiled the trick. Iu tlie wiuter time he is the dread of all the school children who have sleighs, for lie j will rush out when a loy is going along, grab the rope of the sleigh, j pull it. loose from the boy and run off with it as fast as he can go. Finally the boys combined against him.. When Jack decides that he wants a sleigh they let him have i the rope, but five or six boys jump on the sleigh, and Jack very soon tires of drawing them. Jack, when a cork is thrown up in the air, will jump up, turn a summersault, aud catch it in his mouth. Au interesting account of the af fectionate attentions of a hen for a j brood of kittens is given in the j hi a loft, in Tayinloan Inn, Kiutyre, were five kittens aud a setting hen. A day or two after the kittens were born the hen removed from the nest in which she was and took posses sion of them, but the cat removed the kittens from a loft to a small enclosure in another house. The hen soon found out the place to which her adopted family had been carried, and took to nursing them as before. On this an understand ing was come to between the real and the. foster mother. The hen allowed the cat to come at intervals and nurse them. The hen has never left the kittens, but devotes to them her whole time, ami has always trusted to food being brought to her. She takes them under her wings, clucks to them, and works about them with her bill, and now, when they are beginning to move about, she permits them to climb on her and amuse themselves, as . kittens will. On the other hand j the kittens return to the hen with the greatest fondness, and seem to regard their real mother as nothing more than a creature to supply them with food. "iiiiderbiit's l-'ttst Time by Kitil. Chicago, Oct. 17. The fastest long run by railway ever made west of this city wiis that by the Bur lington special train which brought the. Vamlerbilt party from Burling ton, 207 miles, at the average rate of 59 miles per hour. Father Eyan, the Southern poet, is lecturing for a Confederate mon ument fund. The Old Time 'Mammy' An Itc- membeied li 14111 Aru. ' - V, ... ..... ' . ?y.-. The Ker erthe Oldem Day Cmtrutol . with the HejrroorTo'iU- Hli Lm4 - . tug Traits amd Characteristic. - '.. " '(Southern. Cultivator.) ' ; . The goof) old plantation times are gone, The times when the family servants felt an affectionate abiding interest in the family, when our good mothers nursed their sick and old and helpless ones, and their good mothers, waited so kindly upon, their "mistis,'? as they called her, and took care of the little children by d.iy and night. . Our old black mammy was mighty dear to ns children, and we loved her, or Bhe was always doing something to please nsj .and ' -: screened lis from many whippings. : It would seem an nnnatnral wonder, but nevertheless it is true, that these faithful old domestics gloved I tbeira. master's children better than their own,' and they showed it in numberless ways without any hypocrisy. Our chil dren Ifrolicked with theirs. " They all played together; by day and hunted together by night, and . it beat the Arabin Nights to go to the old darkey's cabin of a winter night and hear him tell of ghosts iand witches j and jack-o-Iauterns and wild cats and graveyards, aud we wonld -listen with faith and admira tion until we dideut dare look ronud, and wouldn't have gone .', back to the big house alone for a world full of gold,."'-; - 'v , ... v - The old-fashioned nigger ; is no more like the new generation than a well trained horse is like : a wild mustang, a Before ' the war ; there was hardly ever a darkey arraigned for crime, and now there f are six teen hundred in the chain-gang, and numbers are hung every . year for rape and arson and iuurder,and they are not the old-time darkeys, bnt the new ones who knew little or nothing of slavery, and most of whom have ' learned : to read, and write. "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.; Jtaces of people have traits and instincts and habits of nature jfist , like animals have them, i The Ipegro is : an affection ate, docile ereatare, . and when in close contact with the white man and under his control is a useful institution, but when free from that control he relapses' -into - all the original traits of his race and be comes a vagabond and ; follows his lusts. ' II has no concern for yes terday or to-morrow, but lives for to-day. He has v no goadings of conscience when he commits a crime, no s moral ' repentance, and lives under bnt one fear, and that is fear of the law, and no great amount of fear of that. He has bnt a confused idea of gratitude. : He can love you and respect f you, but is. never grateful to yon, consequently be has no revenge, in his nature, ? for ' re venge, aud gratitude are 'V.' twin borthers in a 1 man's bosom. The Indian has both in a remarkable degree.1- He will go through swamps and a wilderness to befriend a man who has befriended him, and he will do the same thing to revenge him self upon an enemy; The average negro will not rob yon, but he will steal from you and go to meeting and sing and go off that night and steal agaia,bnt he will not steal on a large scale. If he found a thousand dollars iu the road he would take it to his employer, but he would take a dollar from the drawer or a broast-piu.ifrom the bureau with perfect satisfaction. An Old Trick. , . While a crowd of men. Were engaged yesterday in- contests - of skill, in' the shooting gallery on Clinton street, there entered a tall and sinister-looking stranger, who stood with folded arms watching the marksmen. - Pretty soon, when there was 4 lull in the shooting, he stepped, up to, the counter, against which the shooters always stand, and picked up one of the. guns, loaded it, laid down a nickle for the shot, and firing off-hand at the smallest and most difficult target, hit the bullseye with ease. Then - he examined ' the' ' gun closely, and with a sneer asked the pro prietor why he kept ' such worthless rifles to shoot with. This query nettled the boss of the minature rifle range, and he retorted ' that they were "good enough guns for anyone to shoot with' "That may be," responded the soof fling visitor, "but they are perfect toys, and I would not be afraid to be shot at forty times a day. with such old pop guns. Why," and he picked upa cart ridge and mserted it in the breach of the rifle he held, "yon cant shoot through a sheet of paper with this, and r . L..I j tl 1 11 - , ii. : . 1 1IUJU 1.113 LHUl 111 1118 Ultl UllUg w 1U1 my finger. It is loaded now; as you see. and I will put my thumb over the muzzle and your old popgun cant drive the ball out." The shooting gallery man looked at the stranger with an expression that plainly said that he thought of callind the police to take charge of an escaped lunatic, and then there came into his eye a steady glitter which boded no good to the man who jeered at his guns, and he began to fumble around the trigger of the rifle, over the muzzle of which the scoffer held his thumb. "Pull the trigger if you want to, urged the Btr anger. "All right," said the owner of the weapon: "you fellers here are witness that if I blow his whole hand off it is his own fault." and he pressed the little curved piece of iron that released the hammer There was a very faint and dull report totally unlike the sharp, whip-like crack a rifle ordinarily makes, not a particle of smoke was seen, the stranger's thumb was intact over the muzzle, and the bul let was heard to rattle back in the bar rel. The spectators stood aghast, and slowly fell back as though the stranger was something uncanny, while the pro prietor of the gallery was as pale as a ghost. "Are you the devil !" he finally gasped, while the stranger smiled and, removing his thumb, turned up the gun, let the bullet roll out on the floor, set it up against the wall and walked out. The stranger had simply performed an old trick, showing the resistance of the air to guns. His thumb prevented the air from escaping from the barrel of the weapon, and the air acted as a cush ion between the thumb and the bullet. Kjc. I General Stephen I). Lee says thoi first gun at Sumpter was fired by George S. Gaines, of South Caro-j lina, who was alterward it Lieu- j leuani -ooitmei ami Kiueu in jiary - ictiiii. .tit. iiuiitii, or v iitniii, mm tired the first shot from the iron battery, blew out his brains after 1 the war. Auyuxta Chronicle. Western Texas has situations for 100 female school teachers, with every chance that every one :' them will have a husband before the first quarter is out. ' Fish Foutls OtM mail I'urj . : . .. (Ashe vllle CHUrn.) - A day or two since we rode with Capt. Cocke to see. bis new fish pond. It is withiu the corporate limits, bnt so secluded, so buried in woods, so enveloped hi hills, ns to have all the charms of primitive nature. , It lies between the range of hills umiu which Aseh illo finds a foothold, and those that border the river. The jMnd itself, when full, will be nltom 1 acres inVxleiit and when all the present toughuofcs of artificial labor shall have cov ered a present certain rawnos of asiiect, and when all the ornamental adornments of rustic seats and t . , . . 1 ui luges, projecieu uy me proprie-1 tor snail nave been icrtecteu, .llieu nature will resume her reign in a lovely sequestered iiook,aud another thing of .beauty .will, have been prepared far the artistic eye, - . ;w But it is not altogether fora-stliM-tic use that Capt. Cocke has exercised his taste or expended his labor. He has au eye to the useful and practical, and is about to present to t he consid eration of the (teopleof this section a mode combining both pleasure and profit. The Muds aretO be stocked with German Carp, exclusively. Ex perience has proved them the most hardy, the most prolific, the most rapidly growing of nil fish, ami therefore the most profitable. Ex perience everywhere has shown that fish put in or the size of min nows, in less than two years, attain the length of from 18 to 20 inches, and a weight of from 5 to 10 itounds. Mr. Deake, -of this place, is able, irom his experience, to authenticate the fact.- The growing fish are almost self supporting. If the lot tom of the pond is seeded or rooted with grasses, : the mosses or the pond lilies or all: ami if a daily supply of Vegetable food, scrajw from the table or the garden, fruits, Sc., is given, the progress of growth is rapid, 'and the fish becomes fat, fleshy and well flavored. A pond such as that of Capt. Cocke canrcad ily maintain 50,000 fish. , By regu ar fceding,they are made so tame as to be taken'out by the baud orscoo ed up in dipnets. They are more rapidly taken than t he chicken from the coop. They will always find a market when not needed for home 11801 At the rates at -which fresh fish always have sold here, a inind of the capacity of the one under notice in two years will produce n revenue anywhere lietwcen $2,000 and $10,000. The example is presented lo the consideration of all the landowner this side of the mountains. No where are tho facilities for the con struction ; of ! ponds , so , great. Streams of the proper size abound everywhere, aud the steepness of the hills will reduce the extent aud cost of dams. The bidding of the dam, the construction of draining ditches to carry off hill sale washing aud other expenses will . make the cost of a pond from $150 to $300, according to the abundance and rates of labor. ...The experiment is no new one, and is everywhere ..succcsslul. Iu Georgia there are now in pro til able existence 2,000 carp omls; and the number increases pvery day. Why should our iieople bo be hindt . , . v : Don't Bite that Wwy. ' (Detroit Free Press.) - . 'As the old mau came crutching alone ' yesterday morning he was hailed by a group in f rout of 11 Woodward avenue grocery, . and when be had halted one of them said : , - ;,' ' ;. r :" - ' -.v. ' -"Uncle Billy, they say you' were one of the pioneers of Michigan." "Yes, sir,. I came to this State over sixty years ago." "And you must have seen wild timest" J :i 'r- "Wild enough, I tell you. Noth ing but wildness here then." ' . , ; "It is said that yon killed thirteen Indiana during your first five years in Territory.'' i ,M, ..? 'V .'u m , "Well, It was about that number, bnt 1 don't care to brag over the fact. Might have been a dozen more or a few less, but I guess thir teen is a good, enough figure." "And you were once thased . by wolves ?" "I was. A pack of thirty or forty of the varmints chased me over a a mile, and 1 came near beiugmeat for them." "Were you bitten !" "Bless you, yes ! I was bitten seven times on the right leg and five on the left." . , . . "That's what I've been told, and I've been wanting to see you for a week or two. ' I want to Bee how the scar of a wolf's bite looks, and if you will show me oue of the bites on either of your legs 1 will buy! you a $6 plug hat. ' -' The old man turned red in the face and swallowed a lump of some-' thing, and then raising his crutch ou high he waved it around and shouted out : . - "Go on with you, Vyou gang of ' noodle heads 1 Do suppose that I I stopped and sat down OU a log and gave them wolves a chance to make scars which would hand on for fifty-five years f Take yonr plug hats to Halifax, and don't yon dare to stop me on the street again I" - ?.'-.-- ; ," snstaininiiifr tlie liKellijcence ot a Hay wood Jury. During last week a citizen of Waynesville was on trial for the reckless handling of a shot gun by which nine lives were lost. He killed a cat belonging to the family of Col. Lee, colored, a shining light in the Liberal party in Hay wood. An iiiqiortaiit point in the case, was the distance the cat was from the residence of t he aforesaid Lee when shot, lee was tin the stand, and was lieing questioned by L;nvVer Slmford siiuford: "Tell the distance from lhe where thecal was shot to Vour dour " .v,v M,-. Shuford, Mill klHtws joss as good as I doe.-." S."Well, IkiI we want the J'".v over l Here know." Lee. "Dat jiu.vf Why every one ot 'tu knttwH jess iis good as as you d (ley lias mi ik'cii dar, didn't I e to sell spent thu r ,Thi filled the tli taiuv. the court imil the ca Anrillr Cifi- ' ZCH, V.'ashicgton Letter. (rruiu r-irular tvrrM4jMMnit-iitj . WASHIM.roN.D. C..O t. 18, 1 2. Theieare certain signs in arid the. Capitol 1 tint siirf-'-M near spirwh ll. e bit. 1 1 eminent. The I' true, has not ret htm- I ti excursion. The 1- 1 acHtU'reti over the - I . ' i of them strucK'"1" ' 'r " ' 48th Conprwi. I.ut t in here; many in-. , : , en ts have returned i WaxhinKton lias come I..,, k ' mer report mid in in ti;..i eraij mother for anoilur 1 matrimonial cup. A ti n ornate but uwIuni li i.m . piny their faiillli'HH ii!,i i. hi -on tlie drive ami j.r"tn . contiugent of yoin army i oliieera at Waliint. .11 nen-r , 1 " tit, continually prirm wi.i.... Point aud the NhvnI A- .. s. v them out with tlia rw)iility i t chine. The many lu-tclH of the cii v I... . ruovated and mn l.-l. Tt. I houHttN and rtwi.itminlH i-hii t good timet, uritl ), ;.- t.. , 1 I: vego, have im-rcaM-d l.: -ir everything in lu inr I ui in 1 tlie ad vent of tlie ( .1 mi t , Tlie m-amm wjil ,.n weeks earlier than um the (lurlinlil ll.iiuiiru 1 great preparation was oi ipirmll v int.-ii-i-should bo held onlv the CBjiitol, and '( V special net 1:0 (1 rotumla for nn ln.lu , for the purpose of n. o.l on t 1 .. r 1 1 t ,.: 1:1 t : 1 e r t ... M I I' I! ,-1 no ! -. 1 I 1 Art Is fol ii'K tin- ! t 1 n s j , I - 1 erectiou of a mormon 1 to the memory of (,.n: mand for Kpaen lin 1 . . It has been fou ml m-i . iv Maaonic Hull ami tin- ' annexes. The lair wi.l 1 . tract many viHiloi-H, ami t;.i. nection with the j imnner t 1 and muHeumsof V;i.iiTi, t .., occaaion of a nlj.-r inoo-e 1 . 1 try 's Capitol ninny who I here before. Every year n.-. inUm better worth Men -. menu are coiiKtunt !y j. Capitol haH not the Vooi,! finixh, and the nol id ii v of i (tela or l'aria, hut to to 1 . may with K'et jrot j. 1 v Uiby w t ami promine to 1 showing when it ih 1.,..: i. yonngeat city of 1 nr. pe. 1; jiriwe many who lme m-ii only from the rout it e ho-w large a tuition of t , pied by aharitM H and 1 - , i txndilion of I1I1I1 m l would diHrace a li ! Thone who proioin;i i. avenue and ( ' 1 : 1 drive throii) h t . ... limrble jialm en t built, know n-.t : ral iwradox: hot cannot drive. I lit Kill lied at reels of they v. ill be a-tii I 111 t auds of J'itf-htv In. I . 1 -women there. 'II . 1 i 1 hU'.tdy em-ioiu linn i t on 1 better reKidetict-H and t; 1. tod improvement jm i..- I I terpriae i aroii 1. , ,-; 1 city than ( iover hum 1 t i,t ; .1 , llltiitiiiiriind I'isi.i,.-r , j Two brothers imini d 1 kofch went hunting, and tru a.-, -ally killed the other. On tho flrl day of I he oo -r.it salmon aoaaou 111 ('alifm ma. , . 20 000 IImIi were taken liom t! -luento River. As Henry Youtii: of Iile (' La., wua teaching I m Hon. n; d swim, the boy hIi) ; I fiom .ih and was drowned. While fiKhing in Ijike "-'.l. - atla, the lUsv. rutin r fl.i.... four Indians were ilioo m I I y 1 setting of their canoe. In a iiK-oti niati h ut l oo m l .! of the birds flew towai I I . ;. 1 1 1 id t .. t. I, 11, 1 " i Hiram Ne,mwinter fired id ts.e 1 killed l'arker. By the accidental ti 1 lnu ri- i f t1 Runs, while linnting. M.J. Amherst and Llii ha 'hitinan of land were recently killed. As Timothy Newton, of s.tit ner, Maul., anivl bO ji-nm. at:. .,, 1 I I laud a Hah front a imil (lain. I 1 . ward into the jund ami William Coggahidl w um tin, i . the Ban Antonio Kiver while tt ii. save hi little daiiejil cr, who v. ai. I Ii tug. Uhe clilld wua rem ued. While huntinif near Vi!!iiiriiMnl. Pa., Henry Mali iiry at-ooped to i n k , his game, and liis nun, flt)-.io..r from a tog, was diacharged, killing hun. In the Blue Juniata, near llnr f n don, l'a., three bathers lot tin 11 lives Minnie Paddock. aj.-ed 12; 1 'lot a t'u. Iey,aged ll'.and Martha Crowdcy, sje I 14. ' The largest flah ever taken out of Green River, Kentucky, with hook and line, wu caught by Tom Miller of l.iv ermore. It was a yellow cat,, and weighed 614 pounds. A shower caused Jacob Col up ot Vin oennea, who was hunting, to step into the bouse of Jacob Lawrenre. iia pulled his gun toward him, and it ex ploded and killed him. The 8-year-old son of J. M. K eerie went fishing near East Hasina"-, float ing on a log. On getting a bile he jerked back, the log rolled over, and be rolled under aud was drowned. Ben. Franklin of Pharnalia attempted to shoot a squirrel on Tuesday lat, and his gun exploded and blew off bis foot. .John Hunter of Atlanta went hunting and returned with his chin shattered, his shoulder dialocated, his noae blown away, and three fingers severed from his left hand. Ilia gun burnt as he fired at a bird. Edward Moore, a brakctnnn on the Susquehanna diviaion of 1 .0 l.rie Rail road, went squirrel huntim;, and struck at a squirrel with the butt of lux run. The gun went off aud lodged a charge of shot in Moore's thigh. John J. Schoonmaker wrr t irrel shooting near blaterville iSjn u , and, mistaking Henry Vandermark s $ry head for a squirrel, hastily lird at iu Vandermark leaves a wife and four children, and bchoon maker Is insane with remorse.' A Sweet IJttl (ilrl JlttrgUr. Mary Morris, a petite fonrfen-year-old girl, with a . rcmarkalrly sweet lace, which seemed to beam with childlike innocence, was sen tenced by Judge Moran, at Chica go, to two years in 11 the House of Correction, she having plead guilty to f our tec u indictments for burglu. ry and larceny. The Judge re marked that (his was one of the most astounding casea of which he had ever hoard, and that the sweet little darling was the most remark, able burglar of modern times. For the past two years she has plied her vocation, commit! ing innumerable daring burglaries by' night, and well tilling the house of her parent with dress goods, Jewelry, diamonds and article aggregating ten thous and dollars in value. A large part of the plunder Jnul Im-cii lisMsciI of, the revenue supplying (he entire family's want. - Light hundred tu tliciiiieiits could have lavn ionud against her. Tho story of her crimes and escapade would lill a jHUnler oils voltiine. Her mot her, Helen Morris, was sciitcnci'd to three and a half yeain to the jM-nitruliury as au aeott-Mory.
New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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