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In 3S2S I was Hecond mate of the
brig Isabel. We bad been freighting
for bIx or eight months among the
West India Islands, and picking up
a good deal of money. At last the
hot weather came on, freights grew
dull, and we made readj to sail for
home. In the meantime there came
on board four Spaniards, who wished
to engage passage to the North, and
being able to accommodate just that
number, we accepted them. They
were all sinster-loobing fellows, and
and one in particular was so much bo,
that I wondered why Captain Hill
man entertained so little distrust of
him.
Neither myself nor the chief mate
liked the arrangement : for in those
days every sailor had the dread of pi
rates pretty deeply impressed upon
his mind. And, indeed, we had only
a few months previous been chas
ed by the murderous scoundrels off
the Isle of Pines.
We apt sail, and I must oonfess that
I passed the first night in some un
easiness. The passengers spoke but
little Eugiidh, and their conversation
was therefore, mostly between them
selves. During such colloquies, it
seemed to me that I could detect in
them the manner of guilty men a
constaut look of distrust and watch
fulness; but as the second day wore
on, and I became accustomed to the
appearance of their well-dressed fig
gures at my side, my anxiety abated.
Towards the evening of this day
however, my attention was drawn to
a slight oltercation between the cook
and the Spaniard, Bacalardo, the
man whom I had remarked as the
most villianous-looking of the four.
Drawing near them, I asked what had
happened.
'Why, sir,' replied the negro cook,
'while I was out ob de galley, di&
Spauish gemman sprikled something
on de meat. I scrape it off beat way
I could. I doesn't want no interfer
unce in de 'fairs ob my galley.'
The faithful old negro looksd an
gry ; nor was this all his glance and
tone told me that a grim and dread
ful suspicion had entered his mind.
The Spaniard, however, remarked
that he had merely intended to sea
on the meat with a kind of pepper
highly esteemed in Cuba; but, upon
my expressing a curiosity to see it he
regretted ihat he had none remaining.
I was about to order the cook not to
produce ttie uicutat nappcr, when tlio
captain, approaching us, made light
of the aiFair, laughing at the old ne
gro's jealousy of encroachment upon
hi3 peculiar province; and as the
mysterious substance seemed to have
been wholly removed by the cook's
knife, I hoped 4that no harm might
result.
The captain ate freel' of the meat;
the mate was evidently affected at
what had transpired, yet his appetite
prevailed. I avoided it entirely ; and
as to the Spaniards, the circumstance
of their leaving it untaxed seemed
not remarkable, as we had learned on
the day previous that they were not
in the habit of eating animal food at
supper.
Shortly afterward, the captain,
mate, and three of the crew became
dreadfully sick. I felt a terrible pre
sentiment of the worst, yet what was
I to do? The captain was helpless
on his berth ; the mate lay in agony
upon the transom ; the only foremast
hand able to come on deck was at the
wheel; the cook was paraylyzed with
fear; and my ideas of what ought to
be done, were confused by the sud
denness and appalling difficulty of my
position.
Should I arm and attack the vil
lains? Whom should I arm, and
how commence? Were the helms
man to stir from his station, a kuife
would beat his heart; and were the
cook to leave hifc galley, he would not
walk to the end of it.
I went to the cabin, where the cap
tain and mate were vomiting in great
distress; and while overhauling the
medicine, from that sense of restless
ness which we all feel in the presence
of sickness, than from hope of afford
ing relief, the companion doors were
shut upon me, and the slide shoved to
its place. At the same moment there
was a slight struggle on deck, a groan
and a fall ; and the next came a heavy
splash in the water under the Htern.
I had felt that I could easily defeud
myself in the cabin as elsewhere, for
upon the deck I had been entirely at
the meroy of the pirates, momentari
ly expecting them to strike; but rea
son for their not doing eo sooh became
evident.
Bacalardo came to the slide and or
dered me to come on deck. I refused,
and expressed a determination to de
fend myself.
'We no kill you,' he eaid ; 'we want
you for riavigate
'What have you done with the
cook?1 IthenaBked.
'We stab him ; he Is overboard ; so
Is other man. All men in the fore
castle dead ; we stab them all.'
Then I knew that the three villains
had killed the three men whom the
poison had rendered helpless, and that
only myself and the two fearfully sick
officers remained. The latter were al
ready at the point of death.
I told Bacalardo that I would come
on deck when the captain and mate
ehould have passed all suffering. It
Beemed dreadful that the impatient
wretohes should murder them with
knives; and hence I could not bear
to leave them. My refusal to do eo.
however, availed nothing, for crowd-
Ing into the cabin, the pirates at once
dispatched their victim3, and passed
the bodies out of the window.
The pirates divided the money
about ten thousand dollars; and they
informed me that I must navigate the
vessel to South America. They were
all sailors, and the brig being easily
handled the task would not be very
difficult. But to think of heading for
distant seas, with the sickening hor
ror upon my heart! There were blood
stains upon the deck, in the cabin,
and in the forecastle and how could
x remuiu in sucn a vessel jut no
one knows what he can do until suf
fering has taught him.
We were now becalmed, and with
the full strength of the Gulf Stream
were drifting northerly at the rate of
four miles an hour. The ignorant
pirates, whose operations had never
brought them much to the northward
of Cuba, had no idea that the current
was thus bearing us along, while it
was upon this fact that I built almost
my only hope.
In high spirits at the success of
their enterprise, they laughed over
their gold, and were continually boast
ing of the murders they hud at one
or auother time committed. Bacalar
do remarked that he had probably
sent more persons into eternity than
any other living man ; aud I had lit
doubtof my being added to the list,
whenever my servies should no long
er be required.
Three days were passed in this man
ner; auu in the meantime I had as
sured the Spaniards that it was mad
ness to proceed on the South Ameri
can vo3age withouta further supply of
water. I had at a favorable opportu
nity, let out the contents of two casks
in the hold. At the end of this time,
wind sprang up, and it was decided to
enter an inlet which I described to
them as upon a wild portion of the
southern coast, with which they were
entirely unacquainted, and there ob
tain the needed supply.
Though it was in the month of Au
gust, the weather now, fortunately
for my purpose, became tempestuous,
with squalls aud heavy gales from the
south and west. We were obliged to
shorten sail, and sometimes to lie to ;
all the while I managed to keep the
brig in the Gulf Stream, so that evn
while lying with her head to the west
ward, she had a northerly drift. The
pirates kept me almost all the time at
the helm dared not let them suspect
that this was the very thing I could
.have .wished and two or three timea
wedged The compass so that It couiu
not play, x yuaa atraid they would
discover that wo were making
too much northing, aud though
their ignorunce of the lay of
Uid coast was u most hope
ful circumstance in this connection, I
dared not wholly trust to it.
At last I ran out of the Gulf Stream,
and, just after I had taken an obser
vation of the sun, which till theu
ha 1 not shown itself for several days,
leaving me to be guided by the Gulf
wet?d and tne water's teuieperature
the wind came out northeast, pip
ing in right good earnest. .My heart
beat quickly, for the hydrunt had
shown me that my hour had come. I
was in latitude thirty-six, ten ; longi
tude seventy-four, eight.
Our water casks were almost empty,
and the pirates, who bad all this time,
supposed me to be beating and bang
ing about to gain the southern inlet,
were very glad when I told them that
we should reach the coast in a few
hours. And I you cannot imagine
my sensations. Oh, if the wind
should die out if it should head us
off if morning should dawn, and my
plan be only half accomplished! Of
ten had the villains drawn their
knives across my throat, in significa
tion of what would come should I
play them false ; and now it was suc
cess or death.
Headed west-north-west the little
brig bounded along, aud you may
well believe that I watched every va
riation of the breeze, aud the draw
ing of every Bail, as I had never
watched before, over and over I re
volved my prerious reckoning Yes,
yesterday I struck out for the Gulf
Stream; last night I headed thus and
thus; to-day I wassureof my figures.
It must be so I have made no mis
take. Yet, how, if I cannot manage
at last? A single error, a shadow of
suspicion, and a knife will end all.'
Thus I mentally conversed with my
self. Here and there were vessels sailing
upon various, courses, but I daied
not approach, dared hardly look at
them.
As evening approached I saw tfie
land. It would be dark ere we should
reach it; and thus far all went hope
fully. Yet never had the blood-stains
upon the deck looked more hideous
than now. Hope had in a measure
broken the nightmare of horror, and
more fully than before I realized the
awfulness of the tragedy which bad
been peretrated.
Strongly the northeaster, piped It
would not fail me now and the
clouds were thick, and the night
would be very dark. Then upon the
lee bow gleamed a light, and present
ly away off on the weather bow shone
faintly another. Oh, the anxiety of
that moment! I was right. There
they were, the two beautiful lights
yes, they were beautiful indeed to
me. But the hour of greatest peril
was at hand ; and like a dramatic au
thor who fears for his last act, I stud
ied again and again the various con
tingencies that might cross lay plans,
and reveal my intentions to the mur
derous Spaniards..
We passed between- the lights, at a
considerable distance from both, and
many were the inquiries of the pi
rates as to our position. I told them
that we bad a few miles further to run,
when we should reach the anchorage
at the watering-place. Darkness pre
vented them from seeing the land,
and they had not the most distant
idea of the surroundings. The lights
the3r imagined to be npou two Islands
at least, they took my word for it,
and had no suspicion of our real
whereabouts.
On and on flew the Isabel ; and if
ever, at one time more than another,
I have tried to exert my nautical
judgment aud forethought, it was
then. We saw other lights ; but the
pirates suppose them to be on the
ocean coast, along which they believ
ed themselves sailing. At length, I
requested them to take in the light
sails and the courses. This completed,
I called out and it was with a dread
ful thrill at my heart, I assure you,
'Let go the top-sail hazards, and
clew up !'
It was done ; and I could see that
a dark bank was rising under the lee
bow.
'Stand bj' to let go anchor,' I
shouted, 'while-I bring her up in the
wind !
I flapped the helm hard down, while
the four pirates ran to obey my last di
rection. Oh, heaven ! how my blood
seemed to suffocate me ! They were all
away forward. It must be now, if ever.
A hundred times that day I had
glanced at the yawl, and tackles that
held it; and now, quickly, but with
a steady hand, I sprang to the davits
falls. First the larboard, then the
starboard, I seized ; but was careful to
lower away with both simultaneously
that the boat might not be swamped.
Then, clapping my hands on the
taffrail, I dropped into her, unhooked
the tackles, aud with my hands
against the brig, pushed with a force
that sent the pawl shooting from un
der the counter. At this moment I
heard the anchor go overboard. I
had just time to grasp an oar, and
commence sculling with all my might
when the pirates ran aft. Bacalardo'a
tones rang tierce and loud. His hor
rid Spanish oaths might at auother
time have curdled my blood ; but now
I had him upon my hip.
'Ahoy the fort." I shouted ; 'ahoy
there the fort!' For well I knew the
dark bank so close at hand.
A Beautiful
and Affectionate
Letter.
LoTe
The voice that answered waB the
moat blcsactl sound I ever beard. It
was from one of the United States'
sentinels, and I was gliding under the
walls at old Point Comfort! Escape
for the pirates was impossible, for the
strong easterly wind must preclude all
hope of getting to sea. while the fort
could have disabled the brig in an in
stant. A boat, with armed soldiers,
now boarded her. Three of the pirates
were taken into custodj-, but Bacalar
do was found dead in the cabin. Dis
may, disappointment, and the certain
ty of his doom, had impelled him to
draw his Spanish knife across his
throat. The others, when brought to
triul, had the effrontery to profess
themselves innocent. Bacalardo had
duped them Bacalardo had done all
they had injured no one; but the
United States Court thought different
ly, and they were hung at Norfolk.
THE JUDGMENT DAY.
A Terrible Tragedy Under the Influ
ence of theJL'clipse.
In the dark path of the late eclipse
across Texas, 116 miles in width, there
were thousands of ignorant people,
both white and black, who had not
heard that auythiug peculiar wasabout
to happen. Mauy of these people the
eclipsesurprisedat work in their Gelds.
Many ludicrous scenes are reported.
Especially on the plantation of United
States Senator Coke, near Waco, was it
that the negroes went to praying, be
lieving verily that the day of judg
ment had come. A terrible tragedy
in Johnson county may be set down
to the eclipse. Ephraim Miller, col
ored with his family of wife and four
children, lived near Buchanan, in that
county, vhither he had removed from
Tennessee six mouths ago. On the
morning of the eclipse he said he had
heard the world was coming to.an end
that evening, and if so he intended to
be so sound asleep that the trumpet of
the Angel Gabriel could not awaken
him. When the eclipse commenced,
and the darkness of totality came on,
he ran from the field to his house with
a hatchet in his hand. He was follow
ed b a negro woman named Nancy
Ellison, who also thought the world
was coming to an end. As she got to
the house Miller's wife rushed out un
der the same delusion, and looking up
at the beautiful corona of light around
the black moon screamed, 'Come sweet
chariot!' at the gams time rushing
across a cotton field wringing her
hands. Inthe meantime, Miller, wish
ing to take his ten year old boy with
him to the other side of Jordan raised
his hatchet and split his son's head
open. Leaving the latter weltering in
his blood and struggling in the last
thoes of death, the father, on a ladder,
ascended to the top of the house. Here
with a new razor he cut his throat
from ear to ear, and hefell to the ground
a corpse. His two little daughters es
caped by hiding under a bed. Globe
Democrat.
Salt applied to cabbage plants as
they begin to head will save them
from the lavages of the cabbage
worm.
Who, after reading the epistle be
low, addressed to one of the "fast
young men" of Dyersburg, Is pre
pared to say that the art sf telling a
love story in tropes and figures of
speech has become one of the lost
arts? No one, we opine. If there Is
another charming and suggestive
simile that can be added to the long
list called into requisition by the fair
writer, we would like to know what
it is.
Dyersburg, Aug. 5, 1S7S.
My Own Dear Pleas : Every time
I think of you my heart flops up and
down like a churn dasher. Sensations
of utterable joy caper over it like
young goats over a stable roof, and
thrills through it like Spanish need
les through tow-linen trowsers. Asa
gosling swimeth with delight in a
mud-puddle, so swimlin a sea of glo
ry. Visions of eotatio rapture, thick
er than the hair of a blacking brush,
and brighter than the hues a hum
ming birds pinions, visit me in my
slumbers and borne on their invisible
wings, your image stands before me
and I reach out to grasp it, like an old
pointer suappeth at a blue butter-ily.
When I first beheld your saintly per
fections I was bewildered, and my
brain whirled round like a bumble
bee under a glass tumbler; my eyes
stood open like cellar doors in coun
try towns. And I lifted up my ears
to catch the silvery accents of your
voice. My tongue refused to wag, and
in silent admiration I drank in sweet
influence of love, as a thirsty man
swalloweth a tumbler of hot whisky
punch. Since the light of your face
fell upon my life I sometimes feel as
if I could lift myself by my shoe
straps to the top of a church steeple.
Day and night you are my thoughts.
When 'Aurora,' blushing like a bride
riaes from her saffron couch ; when
the ja3'-bird pipes his tuuefulIa3s in
the apple tree by the spring house;
when the chanticleer's shrill clarion
heralds the coming morn ; when the
awakened pig arisetb from his bed,
and goeth forth for his morning re
freshments; when the drowsy beetle
wheels his droning flight at sultry
noontide, and when the lowing cows
come home at milking time, I think
of thee. And like a piece of gum
elastic my heart seems to stretch clear
across 013- bosom. Your hair is like
the mane of a sorrel horse painted
-rrith gold, auu" tne Grass slide to your
immaculate necktie fills me with un
bounded awe. Your forehead is
smoother than an old coat, and whit
er than seventeen hundred linen.
Your eyes are glorious to behold. In
their liquid depths I see legions of
little cupids battling and fighting like
cohorts of ants in an old army crack
er. When their lire hit full in the
womanly breast, it perforated ru3 en
tire anatomy like a load of bird shot
would go through a rotten apple.
Your nose is from a chunk of parian
marble, and your dear mouth puckers
with sweetness. Nectar lingers on
3'our lips like honey on a bears paw,
and mvriads of unfledged kisses are
ready to fly out and light some where
like blue-birds out of their parent
nest. Your laugh rings on my ears
like the windharp's strain, or the
bleat of a stra3 lamb on the bleak hill
side. The dimples in yor cheeks are
like bowers in beds of roses, or like
hollows in cakes of home-made su
gar. I am dying to fly to your presence
and to pourout the burning eloquence
of my love as a thrifty house-wife
pours out the hot coffee. Away from
you I am as melancholy as a sick rat.
Sometimes I can hear the June bug
of despondency buzzing in my ears,
and feel the cold lizzards of despair
crawliug down m3 back. Uncouth
fears like a thousand minnows, nib
bling at my spirits, and va soul is
pierced through with doubts as an old
cheese is bored with skippers. My
love is stronger for you than the smell
of old butter, sweitzer kase, or the
kick of a mule. It is purer than the
breath of a young cow, and more un
selfish than the kittens first catter-
waul. As the song bird hungers for
the light of day, the cautious mousa
for the fresh bacon in the trap, as a
lean pup hankers after new milk, so
1 1 ong for thee. You are fairer than
a speckled pullet, sweeter than a Yan
kee doughnut fixed in sorgum molas
ses, brighter than the topnot plumage
on the head of Muscovy duok. You are
candy kisses, raisins, pound cake, and
sweetened toddy, altogether. If these
few remarks will enable you to see
the inside of my soul, and me to win
yonr affections, I shall be as happy as
a wood pecker in a cherry tree or a
stage horsein a green pasture. If you
cannot reciprocate my thrilling pas
sion, I will feel terrible bad, and I
will pine away like a poisoned bed
bug, and fall from the flourishing
vine of life, an untimely branch.
And in coming years when the shad
ows grow long from the hills, and the
philosophic frog Bings hi3 evening
hymn, you happy in another's love,
can come and drop a tear and toss a
clod upon the last resting place of
EciiiA.
Tlie Two Brave Girls of Swansea.
On Friday last, as we learn, at an
hour when the mercury in the ther
mometersat Swansea, which had been
measuring heat between the ninetieth
and one hundredth degrees for twelve
mortal hours, was slowly descending
under the refrigerating influences of
the evening air, two very respectable
young ladies, daughters of prominent
citizens of that place, walked down to
a secluded spot on the pebbly shore of
Preston Lake for the purpose of bath
ing in the good old fashioned way.
Selecting a sequestered nook in the
thick foliage that lines the beach for
disrobing, they laid aside their gar
ments,and after the usual preliminary
of "cooling off" plunged into the lim
pid water aad proceeded to enjoy
themselves as girls best know how to
do when such opportunities are afford
ed them. For a long time they be
sported themselves in the invigorating
element, rolling and plunging about
in real girl fashion and filling the air
with their merry peafe of laughter.
Suddenly, in the midst of their en
joyment, to their great surprise, they
beheld the form of a man, iudesha
bflle, moving from a clump of bushes
toward the very spot where they were
standing half way up to their ohinsin
the water. The most natural thing
for two defenceless girls to do under
such circumstances would be to rush
wildly toward the shore shrieking for
help; but these j-oung ladies, be it
said to their credit, do not belong to
that class of females, Instead of show
ing signs of consternation, they stood
composedly in their tracks and wait
ed for that graceless dog to come up,
and when he had got near enough,
just reached for him and chucked him
under water, where they held him
until he bad swallowed all of the
fluid that he oould hold, then sent
him ashore on the crest of a wave, a
sadder if not a wiser man. Gtoneoa
lieffister.
Passion Items.
Braceletsre either very broad or
very narrow.
Very small buttons are again used
on dress waists.
For plain woolen dresses bunting
and debege are the mos.t popular.
It is fashiouable for ladles to knl
silk socks as gifts to gentlemen.
Narrow satin ribbons of dark red
are worn with black grenadine dress
00. Polonaises are seen laced In the
back aud opening half way up the
front with ravers.
Belts, when fastened to the front
of the baque, shorten the appearance
of the waist.
Nearl3' all the new flowers for bon
nets have birds among them in eome
form or other.
It is predieted that plaited polon
aises with yokes and wide belts will
be worn this winter.
Pins of fronted siiver in the form of
a single plume are used to fasten black
lace around ths throat.
Breasts and heads of birds and
whole birds will be much used this
winter in all garnitures.
It is the fashion now to line white
muslin curtains with a oolor, and to
tie back with a strip of the same as
the lining.
Feathers will be most used for fulL
bonnets, but it is predieted that flow
ers will displnce them almost entirely
later in the season.
Among new imported millinery
goods is a velvet called the Medicis
velvet, which comes in several shades
or colors combined in one piece.
White muslin curtains are fashion
able lined with a color, and looped
dock witu a rtouon 01 tbe seme.
Sometimes they are looped with a
scarf of another color.
An attractive feature in :ue autumn
modes is the presence of beautiful
mixed fabrics, and often the colors
belonging to the famity of red dyea
predominate.
Young ladies sometimes turn the
broad brim of their hats back from
the forehead, and fasten it to the
crown with a pin that has gold heads,
and is looped together with a chain.
Bouquet-bows are made of twelve
loops of six different colors, two
loops of each color being used. They
are of an inch-wide satin ribbon, and
are loops of an inch and a half deep,
masked together like the petals of a
rose, and form an irregular rosette
when sewed on.
Farmer Jones caught a rooster steal
ing hia com, wrung his neck, and
claims to have killed a. cock robbin'.
Boston Transcript.
I have seen men who had worn oat
their vices, and aapposed, of course,
that they were living on their virtues.
Josh Billings.
The Key. Henry Ward Beechera
while ago went to a hotel in a city of
New Jersey for a night's stay. He
ordered supper, and after takinga few
sips of coffee called the colored" waiter
and said: "Can you give me your
services this evening?" "Yes, sah,'
said the waiter briskly. "The mat
ter is one of importance," Eald Mr.
Beecher solemnly. Perhaps I had
better speak to the landlord myself
about it." "Oh no, sab," said the
sable attendant, fearful of losing the
thumping fee that the preaoher's
earnestness foreshadowed ; "I can
then," said Mr. Beecher, with added
solemnity, "I want you to sit op to
night with this coffee. Ib Is so weak
It is going to die before .morning."
There was a moment of pathetic si
lence, and the waiter withdrew.
The beauty of a man's partlnghla
hair in the middle appears to be that
it gives both ears an equal chance to
flap.
A good thing to have round a circle.
