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TPS PART THIRD A 1 i1 PAGES 17 TO 20 1 ft Si -4 -ik IS SUNDAY APRIL 15, 1891. It II tuft you sometnmg should happen? I he DEVIL WORSHIP, HEY WANT MOOT LAST CARED, casual observation. Scarcely had the vessel dropped ber anchor she was boarded bv parties eager to "make trade." Ono hundred and sevc-nty-five slaves were contracted for, all able-bodied men and women, in the proportion cf about two of the former to one oi' the latter. IHS VRICK PAID. For the number ststed, the price paid was 93 tsks of rum, 8 cases of cot- boat arrived at Montgomery, where they I were placed oa the cars, sent directly to New York, there paid orT, and scat- tered.

They could, of course, be de- peuded on not to tetl the story of their last cruise. The negroes had been landed, but the troubles of tbeir importer were not I over. His vessel had not been an- nouoced at the cuatom house, and, of course, the revenue oihcers were boon I aearchiug for her. Tho atory of the importation soon became public, and the officers of the Slates court joined in the hunt. The location of the negroes ws several times chinged and the gang; was brokeu into email squads for easier concealment.

Day after day tho cauebrakes along the rivers were scrutinized, but, though old camps were found, ncne could he reached prior to abandonment. But so much valid informal ion wan obtained regarding tbe mitter, and changes. At onetime "Old Tio-a," as he is known in tho mailing division, wants $30,000, aud at another his claim has jumped to millions. Most of his letters are torn up. He 5s au illiterate man, and he has his envelopes addressed by someone of intelligence, for they come with the name of "lion.

John G. Carlisle" ia due form. "Oid Tioga" is supposed to ha a colored man. One of the strangest of the odd claims which come to the treasury department is that of a man living in a small town iu Pennsylvania. lie was one time in the consular service, and evidently fancies that his commission has not expired.

His communications are usuaUy written on postal cards, and in so fine a baud tbat each card carries as much as would ordinarily fill a sheet of note paper. These "reports," as he labels them, are very formal. They are carefully paragraphed, aud each paragraph has its title. The burden of them is that ho haa received no remittance for bis last month's work. Strangely enough, he doe3 not wriie to the state departmeat.

i km Story of How the Final Lot of Slaves Was Brought Into America. TV OAST THAT 111 FULFILLED. Vl iJ Tb Mm Who Made It, fever, Lest 4 'r 11 1 PA A VISIT TO THE SURVIVORS. Arnoug the passengers cf the Iloger E. Taney, Captain Timothy Meaher, plying between Mobil and Moctom-c-y, ia April, 1S53, were number of northern geatiernea rtttirninz to ibeir ho.cn alter a vlater spent at the south.

The trip occupied several days, sr.d as raieht have beeu expected, the slavery question w3 a fruitful theme of discussion; Captain Meaner, though torn iu Gardiner, had removed, hen a mere lad; to the gulf states and quite fortune lor these Si lilt: yf, i I i -s y- -s i 7 i I i i i oaorr oi the mpobted afkicass. Dbler stared, then pulled trie blankets over his he-id aud burst out ia a howl that obliged tho negotiator to br.t an abrupt resreat. In those days a sermon on the wiles of tha archfiend often set the whole congregation, a-groauing, while nowadays -sign of the times the mere mention of Old Nick is pretty sura to bring oa a tittering fit. The troheraalog, or "Black Ghost," the Slavonic nations, was. however, too formidable an ogre to fado so THE H1SPOO SEBrlT WITCH- sooa into the role of a nursery bugbear.

The polish peasants stili fortify the doors of their cabins consecrated ribbons, and during the Twelfth Xigfct period keep children and dcs iadoors after dark to avoid tue consequences cf an encounter with tbe dread Bog, whose hoof marks can often be seen near the t-ceae of his nocturnal revels. Oa tbe west shores of the Baltic, too, the rustics set ouc little dishes oi milk stew at night as a peace offtring to stray epooks, but it is m'r ibsa 'probable that many cf those nori-bem superstitions are mere ecbos cf tbe time when tie Ail-father Wcdea was worshiped in tbe form of a forest od. The Wild Iluntsmaa, for iastaace, Las clearly identified with the Tv orkl Hunter (Welt Jager) cf' the old Druids, whose gods were as feud of boar steaks 3 the Grecian ieties of amorous adveutures. "Der Wod Ziehr," "Oid Wod is a-traveliag," whispeja tbe Westphalian pater-tamilias when the voices cf migratory birds mingle with the bowls of the night wind, and tbe children in the chimney comr huddle closer together; aad tbe houaJ, black horse aui ravens of the Wild Iluntsmaa were as many attributes of the old Saxoa woodiand god. The Mohammedans do not marshal theirdeviis by regiments, but their heads make up in quality what they lack iu quantity.

Their sataa, El Eblis, with his liou head and bat ings, as big as a circus tent, is a prodigious spook, and -needs no assistance In managing eoavoy of lost souls. At his headquarters he employs gnomes for mining bituminous fuel, and tbe Moslem traders wbo visit the shore? of the Cas- pun hint that tae euirance oi tee superheated pic is not far from Baku, where black fumes oitea rise from tbe crevices of thf- pitch soil, and tho fire-worshipors have fo? 1.U-Same on natural gates. The gbouis and afxits of the Arab-iu desett are icdepeadeat orgaeizaiiGua, but powerful enough to destroy whole caravans that have been imprudent enough to trespass upon their pro-scr'ptive haunts, la the or sea of shiftiug sands, southeast of Mecca, there is a territory as large as the rtate of Ohio, which travel ers avoid w.ta a areau, aau which not the explorer Earkbarut could enter tor lace oi gumes. though he offered more than aoubic the customary wages. "Do you thick our bones are made of iron?" asked one of his Arab companioas; "there are hundreds of cases on record of the afrits lifting up trespasser, catae-i aad all, to a height of three milss aud yy i OKMtmz Ayr ah rot an.

thca hurling him doxa oa th9 rocks." The sand tornadoes of that land of des-olatioa may partly explain such traditions. Our Noiih- American Indians had sorcerers and ghouls, but their spooks cannot compare with taose of their cousins ia the tropics; tbe ar devil of the ancient Mexicans, and the West Braziliaa Wood demvn, roaming the primeval forests ia the shape of a giant, with a big club and a bundle of cat-throat implements. A3 a rule, it wou'. seem as if all nations represent the beneficent gods like men of their owa race, and the fiends as strikingly different from the national type, for oa ttie eld sculptures of Persepolis Ormudz resemDies a Persian priest, aad the Head Ahriman, a cross betweea a witch and a vulture. The Australian savages have a rather vazue mythology, tut their list of supernatural beings includes ft white- faced aevil, aud in tbeir mystery dramas the uatives always represent the bugbear as a white hunter with tremendous lyhisiiers.

THE riBAHIft or DASHFtC. SI I) Sforrfto Claims Jlre fovrl Its Entrance. London Times. M. de Morgan claims have made tie discovery of the lorg-scugtt entracca to the mysterious brisk, pyramid of Dasbur, near Ban-jar.

After iumsrovi borings ia tbe ground sarrcuocirg the pyramid he fouml, 7 feet bslow the surface, a gallsry 250 feet ior.g cut ia the reck aad iadia-ing upward toward tho pyTaa.id. Fii'teea chambers wie focad, numerous tombs asd erccpbssi cf high functionaries (amutig tzam tlse sar-copbsKUa of queen), all cf the Twelfth dyrasty, over 2.000 years bsfcre Ctrist. It is expected tbat further researches will reveal tta sarcophagus of r. Us utresen ITT. EEK ytkiOS.

"'IU strasjre that it e.y is easy For a maa wCea lie's il'itinr. you knew, To swear to a vosnaa te iovca ner, By all that's above and leio'w. But when be is trnly in earnest, Tetl me the rf.orv-j, 1 pay, Xis- fully hard to utter The words taat be would say' he replied as her dimples der eTi'd, 'The reason is sicipie, fers.otU 11 because It is hard, sir, i cr a taaa to utter tie truth." HUeoJf, Various Demons That Have Claimed Attention From Mortal Man. ARCH-FIENDS AKD MISIOHS GALORE. Strange Legends cf Diabolical Apparitions Are Plentiful.

SAVAGE AFRITS A5D GHOULS hundred years ago the existence of devil worshipers was either denied or considered aa altogether exceptional monstrosity of the barbarous east, but the study of comparative mythology has since revealed the remarkable fact that the dread of. evil spirits was once far more general than tbe belief in beneficial deities. Thousands of years before the dawn of European civilization our Aryan ancestors employed priests to propitiate malignant gods, and tbe old tale of Troy and the abductioa of Helen is merely the rehash of a farmore ancient fes? OLD NICK OF SEW SOUTH WALES. East Indian myth about tbe cows of India that were stolen by the spirits of darkness and recovered by the aid of the light-angels and the cunning of sacied dogs and tpes, says F. L.

Oswald ia the Ciaoinnati Enquirer. The pantheon of Brahmanlsm includes some 40 different kinds of rdgbt-gods who tried to counteract the mercies of Vishnoo, and sometimes held tho trump cards cf f.ite so often, indeed, that, oa the whole, creation wa considered a failure and the end of life its most fortunate event. Buddhism denied the gods of the Brahmins, but emphatically ladorsed ihir devils, aad in Buddha Sakyamunls, 'Osigut of Re-Girth," the tempter ap-pearc with successive legions' of assistants, each following levy more hideous aud frightful than tne last. optimistic Greeks got along with, a minimum cf such ogres, but it is a suggestive fact tbat the gay gods of Olympus were preceded by an elder dynasty of less jreaial supreme being, the Cabiri, or Kabyres. supposed to have established their headquarters ia the mountains of Samothrace, and visiting the haunts of maa strictly for the purpose of annoying him.

The Furies, cr Eryayes, were probably a remnant of the sinister brood, and the Greeks of the Platonic era tried to fcrget tbera, or mention them only cuiwriainix name tne "Lumen- i It ides, K'aeious ones aad stiii later cy aicknames euri- I otislv similar tothe devil svnonvms i 01T1 skePtical g- Theliomaus, tbe.r gclden age of success, had nf, ntrt u.j VUo iiiouuta jace, seen ou some of their shields, is, with all its serpent braids, still the face of a beautiful woman. The guostics taught the existence of malevolent spirits, but their "demons" were mere hobgoblins compared with the bell monsters of the middle ages, whea morbid fancy peopled the uuil verse with Mend3 that coatiaued to multiply till earth, air and ocean bad become a vast pandemonium. AU the gods, nymphs tad fauas of iaganism were metamorphosed into demons. St. Thomas, of Aquinas, distinguishes 82 varieties cf nightmare fiends alca3.

aud TOE HEAD OF MEDUSA. mentions the deathbed tribulations of an Abotten, whose couch was sur rounded by 4,502, 000 chatteting devil- St. Danstaa (like Dr. Luther) was freoucntly aaaoved by the tricks demons who improvised all sorts of pranks for interrupting his studies, till tie great scholar, wbo himself ss something of a wag, devised a and, the next time his tormentors came aloug, grabbed one of thera by the nose with a pair of redhot pi.uers, hidden ia the embers for that purpose. Tho roars of the trapped imp shook the house, but the saint hold oa till his prisoner vowed, by the hoefs and boms of his era nd mother, to be have biraself in the future and labor for the reform of all his feliow-uiisuhief-ia alters.

One of the first fruits of xylography was an illustrated treatise on Die Haupt Artea der Teufbl "Tho Principal Varieties of Demose," ilayeuce, with 24 portraits cf devils, over as many oiiTerent vices. But more thaa 500 years later the belief ia the possibility of diabolic apparitions -was still so firmly rooted that Prof. Haller, of Gottingen, once came near frizhtening a sick shoemaker out of his wits by suddenly appearing at his bedside ia a big fur Tho greit anatomist was iu need or a sub-Tec and, of tho serious illness of a sub urban cobbler, thought a good plan to drive his owa bargsia, aad introduced himself with the question: "Ear, ray friend, are you ia need of money? For Lot- sx'a caa I got, 'yi vx vp of 1 Mi ny People Write to Treasury Dapsrtmant for Millions. the A FEW OF THEM RECEIVE ANSWERS. Bi tho Majority, Being Cranks, Get but Little Attention.

SOME QUEER CLAIMS ARE MADE. COKRE 6POSDESC1 CT TnsFOST. Washington, April 18. press dispatch from Charleston, recently told of the activity of Sirs. C.

11. Bis- seli, one oi the heirs to several minions, which Jacob de Haven, a Frenchman, left the United States iu the days of the revolution." Mrs. Iiissell'i share of these millions was said to be The paragraph said further that Mrs. iSisseil was ''preparing papers to substantiate ter cbiira." This is not the tirst time the treasury department has heard from the De llaveu iaraily. When I showed Acting Secretary Curtis this dispatch the other day he told me that he baa re- i ceived a letter trom a Biinton de Haven, of Beatrice, about the 1st of March speak'ug of the De Haven claim.

Mr. Curtis's aosrvers to this inquiry took the form of answers to such inquiries, of which not few come to tbe secretary of the treasury in tho course of a year. Mr. Curtis wrote to Mr. de Haven asking for further particulars, answer to the letter haa yet been received.

There is nothing on file in the treasury department to support the claim of the De Ilavon family. So far as the present administration knows there has never been a "De Haven claim" on the files of the department. If Mr. De Havea or Mrs. Bisseil should send papers showing tha ground ou which they base their c'airu the matter will ba fully investigated.

But the department people have no Idea that the claiai has any substance. It probably grows out of some family tradition that at some time somo remote ancestor assisted the revolutionists of 1775 ia carrying on their war with Great Britain. CHA5TK CLAIMS. In the case of the Da Haven family, the department has treated the claim with great consideration in giving any reply at ail. That is.

tho secretary ox the treasury has taken it out of the class of crank claims and has replied to tbe inquiries made on the theory that, however much mistaken, the Dellavea people are honest ia their statements and really believe that something is oviingto them, and that they are not only honest but sane. -Not all of th letters about claims which. come to the department are answered. There is a divisiia in the treasury department known as the "mailing division." All of the secretary's road goes to this division and is there sorted. Each letter is referred to the cfiice where it is supposed to belong.

A great deal of the mall of the department comes addressed "Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. and a great deal more comes addressed in "The Secretary of the Treasury." This mail may concern the treasurer's ofiice or the register's ofiice, cr the comptroller's ofiice. vhen a letter is opened in the mailing division aud assigned to the otiice where it belongs, it is rejr stered in a book, aad the olhce to which it is seat is held accountable for it. There is no division of oilice charged with the responsibility of answering crank communications, so a letter hich is evidently a crank letter is seldom sent beyond the office where tbe mail is opened.

Sometimes one of these crank letters is sent to the secretary for his amusement. STKVAKl'3 EtMAKlBE CLAIM. One of the most remarkable claims which has come before the treasury department was that of a maa uraed Stewart, who lives in Canada. This maa irot into his head the notion that he had been engaged for many years in preserving the peace between Great Britain aud tha United States. How he bad done this he never stated in any of his letters.

But that the occupation was continuous was proved by tha fact that his claim against the United States was a little larger every time it was proseuted. lie rendered a very prettily written account which camo to the treasury department monthly. None of Stewart's letters has been preserved and ao one at the department remembers just huvv much ha wanted from the government; but his claim was in the millions. No attention was pail to his letters, but they continued to come for many years. As they have ceased, the treasury people believe that he is dead.

A claim contemporary with, that of Stewart came r'roin a maa named Hall who lived ia Philadelphia. Hall had a notion tbat he settled the war ot the rebellion ia some way. This claim, too, vas for some millions of dollars. His letters cme to tbe department at ghort intervals. Noue of them was answered.

A claimant named D'aisdell, who lived in Illinois, came here not mauy years ago to presa bis claim in person. Ha thought that a large sum of money was due bim for assisting in the bonding of Pacific railroads. Ila was very positive that during Secretary Folger's term the secretary of state, tho attorney-general aud some other high offi cials cf the government had got to- srether at the treasury department aad agreed to bis claim. lie was not seen at tbe departmeat alter the day ot his first visit; but letters from his country home continue to come. One was re- I ceived only a few days ago.

YABTES AMOL'XI. A crank in county, Y.f believes that his eiira against tbe rov-ernmeut has been allowed and that a check has been sent him; aad a tbrs check never ccrnes, be i firmly convinced that It is stolen from the mails. He writes frequently to tbe depart-niert, asking that it be investigated. In mauy of the letters he incloses checks which he has had printed, pay-abla to his order, and which be wishes tte aecrolary of the treasury to sign. The amuunl ia tbe body of this check at he of is to I i Captaiu Meaiier's share' ia it, that he was indicted by the grand jury at the next term of the united Mates court and tdaced on trial for piracy, the epeclne chargo beiutr that be had personally imported the cargo, but be was able easily to prove au alibi.

But the captain's boast cost hira a smad foituue. Friirhlened by the hunt and trial, several who had agreed to purchase a number withdrew from their contract: the trial, with its accompanying expenses, absorbed money and the schooner and its outfit had cost him about OUT $100,000. When he balanced his accounts of the transaction he found the sum of the wrong sida of his profit-aud-loss account. He had previously owned over 200 sla vas and now found himself burdened (f jr they were really burden with about loU more. When the war broke out some of them were impressed to work for the oonicderate government, put many were in a measure left to shift for themselves.

After the surrender a man cf the captain's energy would not remain idle, arid he resumed employing as frpedusen roost of those still near his home. iln.uy of them bought from him small tracts of land about three i miles from Mobile, ou which thev have erected cottages, thus obtaining homes of their own, perhaps sooner than any others of their race in the vicinity. On a hot Sabbath afternoon in June drovo out from Mobile to the village. found it located on high, broken ground, half a mile or more from the Mobile river. About 30 small bouses are scattered irregularly over an area of 40 or HO acres, many of them quite comfortable structures, compared with tlie ordinary cabins of tbe country.

Two churches are located in the settlement, ono a frequented by the outsiders, tbe other a Baptist "mission chape!" of a city church, the resort of "the Africans." THEIR MOBALS GOOIJ. In appearance there is not much to distinguish these from other colored persons ia the vicinity. One thing can be in their favor, I siwuo mulatto children amoug them, and their morals are said to be better than those cf their race longer in slavery, though Low much of this may be due to feel-iugs at first euteitained against them as "barbarians" is problematical. They are good workers, and their honesty is for by Mr. Meaher aud others who employ cr trade with tbem.

They support a day school, taught by a young colored woman from the city, and during a conversation with some of the original ones, relatiig to their locations Africa, a piil of 11, ho acted as interpreter, hen their English failed, showed not only a knowledge of African geography, but of tbe United States as well, ud used good language in her translations, and her name, written in my rote-book, was clear, legible, it. well-formed letters. Most of the colony were Irora Dahomey, or, as they pronounce the name, "Dah-iio-mah, ana wnen cou-Versing with each other use their native language, harsh and guttarai in sound, but still with more labials than that of the American Indian. It is difficult to tell from their pronunciation of the names from what portion of the surrounding country those not of Dahomey came. One, "Zuma," states that she was from LoandL captured f.r.-;t by "L'Ascatha" (probably name of raiding chief) and sold twice before ship mem.

FKOM DIFFKET BLACKS. Others call themselves "Tekki," and say that they came from the mountains north of Dahomey, captured in. a raid by chiefs of that country. Another, "Maum Poke," who says, she was 19 at the time she was brought over, and who differs in appearance from ail the ethers, ssavs she was "A'tarco" (query. "Tan aud came "long way from ua muy 1 1 I In former years most of them looked up to one woman, said to have been the wife of a chief, a kind of queen or head woman, and now one old Dahonian named Peter Oooliah is regarded a--: headman, together nit 'a "Cudjce," both shrewd tuousrh somewhat comical individuals ho must llave been men in middle life when brought over.

Tl.A.-.nV. on.l col, I ta Peter still has a warm spot iu his heart for his ijatia land. In reply to he a qnestioa as preferred Le so to vrhlch or.ce re- piiea otn-BO-SEtD, repea- c-s answer three or four times, and having it echoed by one of the women, who added, "lu Dah-ho-mah, lau' ii free, bo buyee any, no payee any tax, go wok any lan' you want, uobody eise wok," adding whea reminded cl slave raids. "Uh, r.o catchee seeming to entertain the feeling -it was oalv my bad luck." Peter wears a belt of tattooing about bia waist, elaboi ately put on. 8ome cf the others have bits of tattooinjr oa faco and amis.

One man's cheeks are tcarred by parallel lines about two inches in length. Captain Meaher uijd iu 1891. -ivssft. A wonderful nugget of tin has baea discovered in the mines of Korth Dundss, Tasmania. It is estimated to weigh pounds.

The as.say of a small piece snows thr.t the lare cf ore contains C7 per ctut mstailio tin. Til iK ttvei ourt fiumt, "Art ht.avil tbe cry- l.M to tee door, iis-e an Anl drew tne bolt, luen tutieu to ut i ot the pi CuricOju. He reports regularly to the secretary the treasury. Of course uo attention paid to his letters- I-OES NOT WANT JircH. A man named Emerich writes to the secretary of the treasury at brief intervals for Some gold which be believes be on deposit; subject to the orders of hmisfllf and his iamily.

He speaks of it al ways as "the Emerich or the "Imerich gold" for be says tbat both ways of spelling the name correct. In his last letter he spoke of $30,000,000 worth of the "Imerich gold" which bad been seat to ihe treasury from Saa Francisco and which he wanted shipped to him by express at Toledo immediately. "Ezra the King of Heaven" is a constant correspondent of the secretary of tha treasury and baa been for a number of years. He writes on postal cards with pencil usually aad sands in orders for labulous sums. "The United States treasurer will pay the bearer on demand thirty-six thousand dollars Ezra, United States," is tho form of one of his orders.

Under this order was written: "Please send me the change in small bills, as I need tbe money to pay my lawyer's fees ia the quo warranto proceedings intend to commence against; you and all the rest of yon at Ezra does not confine Lis attention to finance. He takes an active terest ia religion; and Mr. Simpson, who has chanre of the letter files iu tbe mailing division, was much, amused during the Presbyterian assembly meeting ia this city a year or two ago to hud iu the assemblv mail a number of postal cards from Ezra civiug advice iu tho matter of Dr. Brigqrs. Ezra lives ia Indiana.

Two foreign princes used to communicate with the treasury department at intervals. One of them wrote from Baltimore oa postal cards calling for "the ilo.oOO.OOO iu gold from uglaud" in the name of Henry V. This money, he said, was the Geaeva award. The other prince was a man living at il-lard, ZST. who sent letters from "The Priaco of Spain ia America," iu tch'ca he "ordered and requested" SOME SCI CKASKS.

Of course the greater number of the letters concerning claims which come to the mailing division, are of the "crauk" class. The register of the treasury not long ago made up a Rtate-meut of the money owing by tbe United States and owed to tho United States in the iist of unsettled accounts. If, as ia tbe D-j Havea case, there is no nf KocrrUrr cf th treasury auswers tae inquiry with a re- quest for mora information. Tho ad- ditional informaticu seldom comes, Family tradition is not a good groundwork on which to base a claim againtt Uncle Sam. l(UOWIG MA I IIS.

How They Are Formed and Kow Iher Mt RemoTed. Attention is called to a condition of ingrowing hairs which presents itself in the form cf bluish-white pimples, varying ia site from a pin's head to a emsil psa, situate usually about the chin where tiie beaid grows the thickest. Caxeful iespec-tion of tbe unshaved chin and cheeks wi.l show here and there the preface cf "giaut hairs." These are dark in eoler, aad as thick as hog's bristles. The slightest traction with forceps suffices to painlessly remove them. The thickening is due to the deposit of a dark, soft matsriai which envelops the hair throughout its extent.

This layer can be scraped oa, and is soluble in liquor potass The hair itself is lso thickened, ar its structure is blurred and indistinct. 1. is -probable tbat tbe little bluish-wbite pimples form by tUo growing -witiiin tho hair-icllicle ot" what remains of a broken, thickened and brit'la hair. The condition occurs most commonly on the bearded face, but it is sometimes observed in other situations, as tbe axilla, the pubes, the periphery of the hairy seal p. Under lbs, latter circumstances the condition is depenopnt rather cn a blockage of the ounce ot tho iiair-iouic than uiXiU tha disease of the hair its If.

"Wheii the little nodules have fo d. be overlying surfaee should Le andan incision made with a sharp tenotomy kcife. A pordon of hair will pis-sant, and can easily be extracted. AITKOES AND PRISfTilKS VXITE. Australian Talent and Mhlll a on aiurican Coinnelt(iH.

Australian autliors and printers are strongly against the competition of A meriean atereotype piata laat-kr, American syndicste literary matter of ail kinus is unlealsl in this marner on Australian readers, and at a nominal price, to the great detriment of local talent and skill. The customs department nit Aikrtil interfere t. Ttretcct uative indnstrr. but found that the ht.ad under whicii the plate matter could be taxed was that of "manufactured metal The American invoice pt.ee is only 23 cent a plata, which makta tbe d-ty tcil cf to valu wtateyer as a protection. ISow ii Watrtt Thelf Wm taajhl.

A number of years ago a watob -was stolan in a Parisrn theater. The loser complained la a load roice and sail, "It is just about nine; iu a minute my watch wid strike, aad as the soucd is vry stioag we shall by that means instantly ascertain where it ia" 'lhe, theif, teni-ed at this, aad tbickitg be had unwlil. ingly stolen sir: king wafeb, ttt-nivtftd fc escape, but by bis agitation wt. dis-covetnd, and the watch, a common one in every retjiaet, was it-gaiasd by its cv-aer. ZCMA, AST ORIG1XAL.

ten cloths and in gold, the latter the share of the Portuguese middle man. The new cargo was brought olf ia the long, narrow dugouts of the coast, clad ia nature's full dress, and stow ed away between dcks, the sexe3 separated, arid all ironed at the ankles. A lookout iva3 at the masthead to watch foe cruisers, cue of which, carrying the English colors, was knowh to be on the coast, liot far distant, and bad cuce paid tha Chlotilde a visit, but had respected tbe llag, and not searched her. Leading proceeded with all possible haste, and all but one canoe load wcrs onboard, and that h3d left the shore, wbtn early one 3Iarch morning, the lookout gave the warning, "Sail, ho!" Springing into the rigging, the supercargo was soon at Lis side, and saw not cniy one, but two vessels, slowly creeping out from behind a point, not more than six miles distant, and knew them to be cruisers. Uis information caused a flurry below.

Most of the crew wanted ostco to abandon ship and try to shore, and wera proceeding reaca the to launch tha boats when he reached the deck. lie at once assumed command, ordered the cabls cut, aud, pistol in band, drove the crew to tbe work of making sail, confident, as he Lad the wind iahis favor, of outsailing tha patrolling vessels. SHE GGI AWAY. la a very short time the schooner bad "steeriag way" on her, and in 10 minutes more was pulling off the coast at an 1 1-knot rate, and in less than three hours Lad passed out of view of the pursuers. JNot another sail was sighted during tho passage.

One hundred and sixty-four slaves had been taken on board. Of these but two died cu the passage. As soon as fairly off the coast the caro was aivideci into one of vas allowed to go on deck at a time, for an hour each afternoon, the water allowance, about ona and one-half pints each, was issued, and the portion of tho vessel occupied by that company washed, the work beiug done by the members of the gang. Food was issued twice each day, and judging from the accounts of the present survivors, mora than usual care seems to hava been taken to keep tuem in good condition. Of course nothing had been heard of the schooner since her departure, and her arrival was scarcely yet expected, when one fine Sabbath morning iu early April, four mouths and nine days from the date of her departure, a foam-rleeked horse was pulled up at the gate of Captain Meaher's house, throe miles north of Mobile, and his rider announced her arriva.1 iu the lower bay-.

Though unexpected at so early a date, her return had been provided tor. Of course ber cargo could rot be publicly landed, but must be hidden till other evidences of the voyage could be dis- pesed of. to vsvoad. Tha captain of a fast tug was hastily cilled from his pew iu church and told that the services of his boat were re quired to land a perishable cargo wait- ing for him down the bay. 1 he Czar, a steamer owned by Captain Meaher, was fired up and ordered to proieed to a point below the lBOU'h of the forabigbee, keep steam up, and wait for orders.

Tho regular Montgomery packet, tha Taney, which Captain Meaher commanded in person, was ordered to leave at her regular evening hour, under charge of her mate, but not to have supper served until Captain Meaher came oa beard. The Chlotilde was towed past the city, presumably to a fresh water anchor- age above, but as soon as the i leit her, was taken in tow by and hauled over into Spanish tus had uo Czar river (aa rru ot the i hay oa its arm oi trie emptying into tub eastern side), her iiviug freight trausterred to tbe Czar, ana vas then fired and scuttled, with a guard left to watch the spot and see that no wreckage iloatocl down tha channel. I The Czar mado all possible speed up the Torabigbee, Ler fuel principally baeon, which, to aid deception, Lai been taken on as freight. The Afri cans were landed in a dense canebrako ou a plantation of General DabDey jiaury, a guaru ptacei over luma, auu with the crew of the Chlotilde cn board, i the Czar, r.i the darkntss ot the eariy night sped down to he junction of tho rivers Vj meet tbe Taney. SCATTSXTSG THE CKEW.

Ou meoiug ber, the crew of the fdaver'were trauslerred to tbo Texia, supplied with supper, caidj; aud whiskey, aad ke-t looked ia till the a I I 1 days, large portion of -hich was in "chattels" employed on his half-dozen fcteamboats, or on cotton plantations in tha Interior of the state, and in among tha pino and cypress lands near the coast. Of course be was a defeLier of "the institution," and la reply to tbe expressed bIIsf of ore of hi3 passengers that "with the supply by importation from Africa cut ok, and any further spread ia the territories denied, the thins ras doomed," declared that despite tbe stringent measures taken by moftc the civil'ed powers to crush cut the cvorsea tr2ic, it could be still carried on succesafully, and ia response to the disbelief expressed by bis opponent, -oifcrei socager ery amount of money that he wouiu "import a earco in. les tiaa two years, ana cue b3 lor a HE FS'Ei' A.F.ATIC.V. Uavirsg mads his boast, he prepared to make it good; aud proceeded to sound soma of his friends, on hora he thought he could rely, ppoa the of market for cargo, writes Captain Jienry Ticmeyii in the New Orleans Tirt.i-Dr,nocrat. Ho found hut little trouble in engaging places for 100 or more, assd decided to hold about 20 for bis own sse.

table easel, The next thing was a i i reiernug to budd rather than bur, as attracting loss at tention, he engaged the services of a younsr Canadian shipwright, and the feeel of the schooner Chlotildt, of 327 toes, wai laid in the Jlobile river, a short distance above iLa city, bhe was briit with a view to spaed, and was claimed by her buildsr to ba tho fastest teiisei ever Du-it Work CFA.MA, AX OaiOIK.AI,. wa3 pushed on her, and in November she -k as re.ady i'v sea. Lying wh-jre she did, her loading attracted no attention, although when she clfired "for St. Thomas and a ostensibly with a cargo of lacnberj her "ground tier" was composed of filled water asks, topped with barrels of natal, fariaa. grits aud salt with a covering of lumber fcUi'fic-ient to hde from casual inspection all belc it, and make temporary decks and partitions for stowing tha jxptcted live cargo.

Duplicate papers were prepared for use on the African coast if overhauled by cruisers, also others making a fictitious transfer of the vessel at Loando, ou that shore. THE CAPITAL. For capital oa which to trade, she carried 00 casks of rum, 20 cases cot-tin cloth tad about in gold. Her went iu ber as supercargo, aud none of ber crew, picked up at tiuak.n till at sea, aud even theu sup- thev were on a leual trading age. random ia the city, itaew oi tbtir ues- Caught ia a terrific storm, which tas near sending all to the bottom, th.

ciptaiu was forced to put iuto Porto I'raya, A tores islands, to repair damages, but was socu again under weigh, in. 40 days trom uate ot was ttS Loando. This pors was too closely watched for auy trade to be effected, but the fictitious change of ownership vas gone through aud the sailed for the Gumea coast, nor th aud west of the mouths oi tha Aiger. Its was really an open roadstead, exposed to winds aud Lesry seas, sd the Chlotilde wis- obliged to drop ter anchor two miles from thore, asd depend for coaciunicatloa entirely upa native boats and boatmen. Tho "barracooas," where the live icerchaadiseof the Dark wre about five miles iLind, to bif frcia cniisera fir or if i.