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THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1887. WASHINGTON OFFICE 13 Fourteenth St. P. S. HtiTH. Corr -aondent. II1E INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following placet: LON DON Amsricwx Exchange ia Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange in Paris. 33 Boulevard da Capncinea. NEW YORK Gedny Hon" and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO Palmer House. CIXCINNATI-J. P. Havrley &. Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C T. Bearing, northwest corner TUrd and Jeffersen streets. BT. LOUIS TJnfon News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C Riggs Bouse and Ebbiit lionae. The Sunday, Journal. has double the circulation of any Sunday paper in Indiana. Price five cents. CUBEEKT TOPICS. The people of St. LouU now propose to pipe Mr. Cleveland there by town meeting. Jacob Sharp, king of the New York boodlers, has lost forty pounds since his trial began, and is still losing flesh daily. Ilia family and attending physician think he will not hold out much longer. Mr. Cyeus W. Field cards the public to the effect that he did sell a large block of Manhattan stock to Jay Gould, and that the latter "acted throughout. the transaction in a .perfectly straightforward manner, and the most friendly feeling exists between ua." It looks as if the fact that Prince Ferdinand is a Roman Catholic will mititate against his recognition by Russia as King of Bulgaria. The Greek religion is established there and Greek orthodoxy will probably be insisted upon as an essential qualification in the estimation of the Czar's government for the occupant of the Bulgarian throne. Ex-Govebnor Shepherd, once notorious as "Boss" Shepherd, is on his way to Washington from Mexico, and will spend somo time in this country to "recuperate his health. There are many people in Washington who think he deserves and will yet be honored with a monument for his services in improving and beautifying that city. Mistakes are sometimes made, even by the best-intentioned mobs. Here is a case in point: In August, 1884, three men were hanged at Scottsboro, Ala., for burning a house. On Friday last a convict in the Alabama penitentiary confessed on his death-bed that the three men executed had nothing to do with the burning of the house, as he had set it on fire himself. ( Oscar J. Harvey, the trusted Treasury clerk who has been caught swindling the , government, said in his confession to the Secretary that he had been driven to it by pecuniary necessities, brought upon him by a yrmz-vit-h whom-he had been in partnership, and who ever sinco he had received his appointment in the Treasury had goaded him on to make the most of his opportunities. It is -the old story of a weak man subjected to temptation which he could not resist. .THE Hon. John-P. Usher, of Lawrence, in his testimony before the Union Pacific Kailroad Commission, said that when the advantages of Omaha as a terminal point of the road were first presented to President Lincoln, he remarked: "I've got a quarter section of land near there, and if I locate the terminus at that point people will say I am personally interested in tthe matter." The fear of this, however, did not prevent President Lincoln from deciding finally in favor of Omaha, "Christian science" is as useless a3 the prayer cure or the faith cure in eases of cancer. A Boston doctor of - the regular variety gives a harrowing account of the sufferings and death of a woman afflicted vrith cancer while under the care of a Christian scientist, ;who insisted that nothing was the matter. Quacks, even f the Christian variety, the doctor insists, caunot cure thi3 disease. It may be added that the success of regular physicians in this direction is not phenomenal. Isaac Keed, late of the Twenty-sixth liegiment, Indiana Volunteers, writes: "There is no hatred between the soldiers North and. South., Brave men always respect, but sever hate each other. . I saw thirty thousand of the reb3 surrender at Vicksburg, Miss., with empty stomachs. You ought to have seen how gladly the boys in blue gave them all they had in their haversacks. There is never one word aid about politics in the Grand Army. They simply attend to their own business, and they are -willing f pr other people to do the same.' Isaac's head seems to be level. Mr. Williams, of the Omaha cable railway company, is surprised that the capitalists of this city have waited for foreign capital to build cable lines here. Mr. Williams, being a stranger, does not understand the situation. The capitalists of Indianapolis have been hoarding up their change for the last ten or fifteen years in order to be ready to save the town from the octopus-like grasp of a foreign tionopoly that actually proposed to furnish the citizens with cheap fuel. The home capitalists will continue the saving" process by piping gas here right away that is to say, as soon as they find seventy-five or a hundred more wells with gaa in them. Thomas Edison's latest alleged discovery In regard to the transmission of messages at sea seems to be of rather doubtful utility, tsven if the plan could be put into actual operation. Sea captains already have a system of signals which is thoroughly underetood and answers every ordinary need for communication between passing vessels. To do away with this and to depend upon the uncertainties of electrical messages would be very unwise and such change is not likely to be reade, though as a mere curiosity and as u amusement for " passengers the Edison transmitters may be attached to steamships. Not lonjj since it was announced, rith a great flourish of trumpets, that this in

ventor had devised a plan by which telegraphic communication could be made between stations and swiftly moving trains, or between trains moving swiftly in opposite directions. If any practical application of this discovery has been made the fact is not generally known, and, indeed, it is difficult to see of what particular value the system would be, save in exceptional cases. -Train telegraphing and ship telegraphing will probably be added to the already long list of ingenious but useless inventions devised by Mr. Edison. It has been discovered that Hon. John Seitz, the Union Labor candidate for Governor in Ohio, introduced a bill in the Senate to abolish the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He explains now by saying he thought it a useless office, that should be abolished in the interests of economy. A man who knows and cares so little about the labor interests as to oppose the collection of statistics on the subject would seem to be a very unfit gubernatorial candidate for the party. Ho is probably a professional demagogue.

Mr. Cleveland complains that his feelings were hurt by the "wanton attacks" which have been made upon him by members of the G. A. R. With his usual failure to comprehend the sentiments of the public, the President assumes that these attacks were instigated by malice or other unworthy motives. It seems never to have- occurred to him that the feelings of the Grand Army men may have been hurt by the brutality of his expressions in the pension vetoes and by his shameful disregard of their rights in proposing to return the rebel flags. What General Tuttle, and General Fairchild, and a thousand others had to say were simple outbursts of righteous indignation, and had no savor of politics or personal enmity. Mr. George Gould went to a Coney island hotel this week and while there was taken ill with what is politely called "cramps" by the newspaper correspondents but what in any other man would have probably been termed a case of plain colic. His little attack is made the text for half column specials sent out over the country to such journals ap are willing to pay for that sort of "news." As much pains is taken to impress upon the public mind ' the fact that the illness was caused by Mr. Gould's injudicious exposure of himself to the very cool breezes of the island while he was still depressed by the heat of New York the suspicion arises that the correspondents were less' deeply concerned for the young man's health than inadvertising a summer resort. The Queen's jjiiiiee is not yet over before the English, people are threatened with anothp:,"and pretty certain to have it, too. This is the silver wadding of the Prince of Wales. The twenty-fifth anniversary of his marriage comes next year; and' it "is proposed to make it the occasion of a popular celebration second only to the 'Queen's, jubilee. The English people are loyal and patient - indeed if they can submit quietly to the suggestion of another ridiculous and expensive "blow out" such as-they are now -going through; The Queen may be said ' to" have done something for England, in-thai -sbe-has-done the figurehead business quite" successfully for half a century and has never brought discredit on her high " position." But as for the Prince ol. Wales, "what has he represented or done, or ever tried to do, that the English people should be expected to shout his praises and foot the bills of a costly silver wedding celebration? The people are beginning to ask themselves such questions as this anc., what is more significant, are beginning to answer them in a spirit of impatience and disgust. On the day following the jubilee ceremonies the Pall Mall Gazette asked the question " Will the fat little bald man in red, who cut so poor a figure in yesterday's procession, ever reign over us?" The reference was to the Prince of Wales But his weakness does not lie in the fact that he is fat or little or bald, or all of these. It is true he represents a system and an idea that are relics of barbarism and bound to become obsolete as the world advances. . Dogs in California have never reached the dignity of being rated as taxable property until within the last year. Now the citizens of San Francisco who are owners of anine pets raise the point that since they p ay taxes on the animals as property the city authorities have no right to impose a license fee in addition. Formerly the license was paid to the city for its protection of their lives. Not being property they would have been at the mercy of any one who chose to kill them and the owners would have had no legal redress; the city for the payment of an annual sum assumed protection of an animal and 'or this purpose the license was willingly paid. Now that the dog is recognized as a piece of property and is under the charge of the State it is argued that the city has no right to impose any additional tax and most assuredly has no right to deprive him of life in ease such license is not secured. A settlement of this question will interest owners of dogs in Indianapolis," where the situation is similar to that in San Francisco. A Maine Sunday-school superintendent lately forbade the bringing of canned lobster to the annual pionio on the grounds that the frequent fatalities arising from the use of that dainty led him to fear that there was death in the can as well as the lobster. Outside of Maine canned lobster is not a pienic staple but ice-cream is, and the severe illness of fifty New Yorkers who partook of that confection on the Fourth suggests a fear that it, too, will soon be prohibited. With ice-cream gone what is left to mate life endurable at the Sunday-school picnics in July! m A writer in the July Cosmopolitan makes the rather surprising statement that Horace Greeley's favorite poet was Robert Browning. If Greeley were alive be could count icon Boston's solid support in a presidential campaign. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Bob Ixgeesoll is said to be writing a life of St. PaoL The eloquent pagan says Paul is one of the greatest and grandest men in history. . W. W. Corcoran is slowly growing stronger at Deer Park, but he will, in all probability, never walk again. His mental faculties areas vigorous as ever. It is said that when the wind blows from the south on Jnne 21 the next three months will be very hot, and the wind was from that quarter on the longest day of this year. J. R. Whipple, proprietor of Young's Hotel, Boston, has recently taken oat $500,000 insurance upon his life. Of this $100,000 is a life poliev. tlOO.000 ia twenty years endowment, and $300,000 is fifteen years endowment He popose.

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to make it hot for the insurance companies w he dies, but a man so well covered ought to a couple of hundred years. Frederick Douglass will return from rope in September, and the colored Peopl Washington are making arrangements him a rousing reception. He will not visi bury Park this year. The family of the late Peter Cooper are amonf the most active and energetic of the charitably disposed people of New York, and connW freely, not only their money, but their time, relieve the deserving poor. There is an old lady in Georgia who will neve send one of her daughters to Vassar Collee "What with their coats an vests an jockey hats," she saya, "women is nigh enough He n now, 'thout makin' bachelors of 'em. -r Boston has a "holiness restaurant," with sign and Bible texts curiously intermingled. "Ha and Eggs. 10 cents" is the inscription which greets the customer's eye on entering, while just Deio is printed, "Blessed are the pure in heart. : P. T. Eabnum celebrated the seventy-seventh anniversary of his birth on the 4th of July Waldmere. where he gave a clam-bake to about thirty of his children, grandclildren nd grandcbildrsn. Mr. Barnum appeared to oe m remarkably good health. Governor Hughes, of Arkansas. gets two suits of clothes a year regularly from Georgia, the material oeing woven and his clothes beiojj made up in that State. He has just received ms summer outfit from the Goober State, n made of checked cottonade. It is reported that ex-Senator Jones, of Florida, has finally left Detroit. He is said to be on his way to Europe, whither Miss Palm has gone before him. There is some surprise xpressea in Detroit at his sudden departure, as many or nis investments in that city are beginning to maze laree returns. The son of Joshua R. Giddings, the old Ohio Abolitionist, lives at Jefferson, the county-seat of Ashtabula county. He practices law and runs a farm, but he takes very little interest in politics. The son of Ben Wade lives in the same town. He gives himself up to horses, ana lets politics alone. A Philadelphia battery, under the general prohibition against saluting the dawning Fourth, wheeled out a wooden ten-pounder in horrible mystery, and there on a vacant lot, in the er'y morn, with two policemen watching well to the rear, exploded paper bags in the cavernous belly of their Quaker gun. A writer in;, the London Literary World quotes Bret Harte as saying of Stedman, Stoddard and others: "Those men get off a new poem about once a month. I . make it a point not to write one oftener than every three months, and I get just about as much for my one poem as they do for three. Two Indian servants, who have been engaged provisionally for a year by the Queen, have arrived in England. One of thorn, Mohamed Buksh, was formerly in the household of the Queen-mother of Dholepore, who sends by him a gold and yak chonnr, or fly-flapper, of great beauty for the Queen's acceptance. , It has been said that Mrs. Langtry was the first woman to take out papers of American citizenship. This is a mistake. Mrs. Brackenridge, of " Brackenridge Place, Pa., is a native of Germany. Some years ago she wished to become one of incorporators of a ferry company. It was decided by legal authority that it was necessary for her to take nut papers of citizenship, which she did on December 16, 1882. She heads the list. Some ingenious chevalier d'industrie in London has hit upon a new way of "raising the wind." He studies the advertising columns of the daily journals, ascertains when a musical professor will be engaged at a concert, and calls at his house during his absence, in the character of a messenger sent for a violin or some other musical instrument He made a good haul at Mr. Charles Gardner's the other day. On asking for one violin he was presented with two. Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil, is said to be losing his mind. His memory has nearly left him and he has lost in great measure his former capacity for dealing with administrative affairs. His medical advisers are, however, of the opinion that this weakening of mind powers is only an effect of the great physical prostration caused by bis severe liver attack and the powerful remedies employed to combat it and that with returning bodily strength the restoration of his mental powers will follow. 1 None of the convicted New York boodle aldermen are treated with severity at Sing Sing. O'Neil and McQuade pack the shirts after they are laundered. They are spared the humiliation of the wash. Jaehne has charge of the tobacco which is issued to the convicts. Ward is in the printing office, where his duties are pnly nominal. In fact, be has but little to dr. All of them receive a box trom their friends once eacn month. These contain creature comforts, which make the rugged prison fare more palatable. With the other prisoners they take the lock-step in their squads to their meals and from their cells to and from their work. Other than this they hold but little communication with their enforced companions. THE INTERSTATE LAW. Receiver McNuIta Decides to Ignore the Fourth Section and Take His Chances. Chicago. Jnly 9. Receiver McNulta, of the Wabash Eastern railway, has decided to ignore Section 4 of the interstate commerce law in so far as it applies to traffic over his lines from Peoria or Chicago to the East To compete for through traffic from Peoria to the East his road, being a circuitous route, is compelled to make the same rate, or less, than is made by other competing lines. The Peoria rate, as now established. Gen. McNulta says, is low enough, and he takes the same position as regards the rate from Jacksonville. He, therefore, has decided to take through business from Peoria at 110 per cent of the Chicago rate, and at the same time to charge 120 per cent from Jacksonville and correspondingly from intermediate stations, thus making the rate for the long haul from Peoria 10 per cent less, than for the shorter one from Jacksonville. He takes the same position as regards east-bound traffic from Chicago. To take business east from Chicago over his line, a circuitous route via Beipent, 111.' has to be taken. He claims that be cannot afford to reduce the intermediate rates this side of Bement He, therefore, will compete for east-bound through traffic from Chicago at the regular traffic rates, but will charge higher rates from local intermediate stations, in accordance with the agreed percentage basis, thus making the rate from Bament, for instance 20 per cent higher than the rate from Chicago. General McNulta claims that, according to his construction of the law, he can do this, although it may look liie a clear violation thereof. He does not believe that the law contemplated the ruination of weaker lines, wicb the strict enforeemeut of it would surely bring about The Wabash, he save, ia no nitnntAil that , ' - ...... nuum I either have to go out of the tbronch traffic from i i. oona or nicago east, or matte enormously low rates from intermediate stations, which ft cannot afford to da He, therefore, proposes to construe the law to meet the exigencies of his road and take his chances to be brought before the commission or the courts for violating it. Fatal Fight Between Farmers. Topeka, Kan.. July 9. Some time ago a dispute trose between Wearon J. Carman, a resident of Harper county, and two neighbors" named Woodruff. The latter contested Carman's claim to land near Meade Centre, on the ground that he had broken a fractional part of an acre less than the law required to make his title clear. The courts sustained Carman, and he returned to his farm and continued the care of his crops. Yesterday the Woodruffs tried to drive hinirom his corn patch, and he refused to go Oldjnan Woodruff thereupon took aim at him with a shotgun, but, before he pulled the trigger. Carman knocked the muzzle up, the chares tearing away part of his scalp. In the fight that ensued Carman worsted the old man. and the young Woodruff came to the rescue, firing two loads of slugs into Carman's body from a doablebarreled ehotgun, inflicting wounds from which Carman died. Tho assailants were arrested. George Gould Very Sick. New York, July 9. George J.Gould was taken violently ill yesterday morning at the Oriental Hotel, Coney island. A physician was summoned, and fqpnd young Mr. Gould prostrated by a sharp attack of intermittent fever. Uo to a late hour to-night Mr. Gould's family wera in constant attendance at his bedside, and his wife is greatly alarmed at the distressing situation. Dr. Sanborn stated to night that it was too earlv to determine how mueh danger there is in hi patient's attack of fever, but he added that Mr Gould is a very sick man, and will not be able to leave his bed for a week or so.

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Printed by Special Arrangement with Author Copyrighted by Associated literary Press. TEXAR'STEVENGE BY JULES VERNE. A Story of tlie American Civil War.

CHAPTER I. " ON BOARD THE "SHANNON." Florida was annexed to the American federation in 1819; it was organized into a State a few years arterwards. By the annexation the area f the Republic was increased by some 67,000 square miles. But the star of Florida shines with second-rate brilliancy in that constellation of thirty-eight which spangle the banner ot the United States of AmericaFlorida seems to be a country apart, with its people half Spaniards, half Americans and its Seminole Indians, so different to their congeners in the West In the South it is arid, sandy, almost entirely bordered by sand-hills formed by successive irruptions of the Atlantic; but in the North its plains are of marvelous fertility. Its name is justified to the letter. The flora is superb, vigorous and of exuberant variety, more especially in that portion watered by the St John's. This river is a broad stream flowing from south to north, over a caurse of some two hundred and fifty miles, of which one hundred and seventeen, up to Lake George, are navigable. I- was the 7th of February, 1862. The steamboat Shannon was running down the St John's. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon she was due at Picolata. On the pier at Picolata there are to-day many more travelers than usual. Some stages, each seating eight persons, drawn by four or six mules, galloping like mad along the road across the marsh, had brought them from St Augustine. It was important for them not to miss the steamboat; to do so would be to risk a delay of at least forty-eight hours in getting back to the towns and villages down the river. For the Shannon made only one passage up or down each day, and she was the only means of transport It was therefore necessary to be at Picolata when she called; and the vehicles had unloaded their passengers ah hour before she was due. There were about fifty men on the gangway at Picolata. While they waited they were talking excitedly. The Shannon soon appeared at the bend of the right bank, half a mile above Picolata. Thick clouls of smoke escaped from her two funnels and crowned the large trees which the sea breeze was shaking on the opposite bank. The moving mas; grew larger rapidly. The tide had just turn ..d, and the current, which for three or four hours had been against her, was now in her favor and taking the waters of the St. John's towards the sea. At length the bell was heard. The wheels going astern stopped the Shannon, and her hawsers brought her alongside the pier. The passengers went on board somewhat hastily. One of the groups went first; the other did not move. It looked as though they were waiting for one or several travelers who ran a chance of being late. Two or three men went up the pier to the place where the road from St Augustine came in; and they looked towards the east, evidently with impatience. And not without reason, for the captain of the Shannon, who was on the bridge, shouted to them: "Now, then! come oe!1 . "In a minute or two," answered one of the men in the group that remained on the gangway, i - ; - "I can't wait, gentlemen." "A few minutes!" "No! not one!" "Only a moment!" "Impossible! The tide is running out, and I may have no water over the bar at Jacksonville." "And besides," said one of those on board, "there is no reason why we should put up with their fancies." "That is what I think, Mr. Burbank,"said the captain. "Duty first Now, then, gentlemen, come on board; I am off." And the sailors began to push away the 6team boat from the pier, while sonorus jets escaped from the Bteam whistle. A shout Btopped the maneuver. "There is Texar! There is Texar!" A earnace came rattling along at full speed and dashed round the turning up to the pier. The four mules, which formed the team, stopped at the gate. A man got down. Those of his companions who bad gone up the road rejoined him at a run. Then ail of them went on board the boat "A moment more, Texar, and you could not have gone. That would have been awkward for you," said one of the group. "Yes! It would have been two days before you got back to where? we shall know when you choose to tell us!" added another. "And if the captain bad listened to that rascal Burbank," said a third, "the Shannon would have been a quarter of a mile down stream by now." Texar had just stepped on to the fore deckhouse, accompanied by his friends. He contented himself with a look at James Burbank from where he was, only separated by the bridge. Although he said not a word, the look he gave him was sufficient to show the implacable hatred that existed between the two men. Burbank looked Texar straight in the face, turned his back on him, and went to sit on the after deck-house, where his friends had already seated themselves. "Burbank is not happy!" said one of Texar's companions. "And no wonder! He lost by his lies, and the recorder did justice to his false witness" "But not to his body," interrupted Texar, "and that justice I will undertake." The Shannon had slacked off the hawsers, Her bow, pushed off by the long poles, took the line of the current, and driven by her powerful wheels, helped by the ebbing tide, she glided rapidly between the banks of the St John's. Texar and the five or six companiems who had embarked with him, had thought well to go below to one of the boxes in the dining-room. There, with throats seasoned to the strongest drinks of American bars, they tossed off whole glasses of gin and Bourbon whisky. They were indeed a rough lot, rude in habit and speech, wearing more leather than cloth, and more accustomed to live in the woods than in cities. Texar appeared to have some right of superiority over them, due, doubtless, to the energy of his character as well as to his position and means. When Texar did not talk, his comrades remained silent and spent the time in drinking. Texar, after carelessly running his eye over one of the newspapers which litterad the diningroom tables, had just thrown it aside, saying: That is all old news.'5 "I believe you," said one of his companions, "the paper is three days olj." "And a good many things happen in three days." added another. j "What is the latest about the war?" asked Texar. "As far as we are concerned, the latest is that 'the federals are preparing an expedition against Florida, and that means we may expect an invasion of Northerners." i 'Is that true?" ! ! don't know, but I heard of it at Savannah, and I heard of it again at St Augustine. 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the glasses and bottles shake. "Yes! let them come! and we shall see if the Florida slave-own-era will allow themselves to be robbed by the abolitionist thieves. An hour afterwards Texar and his comrades, having had quite enough to drink, appeared on the upper deck of the Shannon. As Texar mounted the last of the steDS on to the upper deck, a woman met him on her way down to the interior of the saloon. When she found herself face to face with him, she stepped back. She was a half-breed in the service of the Burbank family; her first movement had been one of unconquerable repulsion at finding herself suddenly face to face with the declared enemy of her master. Texar gave her an evil look as she stepped back, and theu, shrugging his shoulders, he joined his companions. "Yes, it is Zermah." he said; "one of the slaves of Mr. James Burbank, who says he does not approve of slavery." Zermah made no reply. When the way to the saloon was clear she went down it without turning to take notice of the observation. Texar strolled toward the bow of the steamboat; there, after lighting a cigar, he apparently dismissed from his notice the friends who had followed him, and began to watch with some atcention the left bank of the St John's along the border of Pot nam county. Meanwhile, on the after-deck of the Shannon, the conversation had run on the war. When Zermah went, Burbank had remained with two of his friends, who had accompanied him to St Augustine. One was his brother-in-law, Edward Carroll, the other was Mr. Walter Stannard, a Floridan, living at Jacksonville. They were talking with considerable animation of the sanguinary strife of which the issue was a question of life or death to the United States. But, as we shall see, Burbank's opinion of the issue differed considerably from Texar's. "I am anxious," said he, "to get back to Camdless Bay. We have been two days away. Perhaps some news of the war has arrived. Perhaps Dnpont and Sherman are now masters of Port Royal and the islands of South Carolina," "Anyhow, it will not be long before they are," said Carrol, "and I shall be much astonished if President Lincoln does not carry the war into Florida." "And it will not be before it is time," said Burbank. "It is quite time that the will of the Union should be imposed on the Southerners of Georeria and Florida, who fancy they are too far off to be reached. See to what a degree of insolence vagabonds like Texar are led! He feels that he is supported by the slaveholders, and excites them against us Northerners, whose position, which gets more and more difficult every day, lays us open to the back-wash of the war." "Yc-u are right, James," said Edward CarroL "It is of consequence that Florida should return as soon as possible to the authority of the Washington government If the federal army does not come quickly we shall have to abandon our plantations." . "It may be only a question of days, Burbank," said Stannard. "When I left Jacksonville the day before yesterday people were getting uneasy at the news of Commodore Dupont's supposed plans for opening up the St John's, and that would give a pretext for threatening those who do not think with the slave-owners. I am afraid that a rising would turn out the authorities of the town in favor of fellows of the worst description." "I ehould not be surprised if it did," said Burbank. "We shall have had a bad time of it till the federal army comes; but it cannot be helped." "What can we dor asked Walter Stannard. "Supposing there exist at Jacksonville and other places a few brave colonists, who think as we do on this slave question, they are not Btrong enough to withstand the secessionists. We can only reckon for safety on the arrival of the federalists, and wish that when intervention is decided on it will take place without delay." "Yes. Would they were here to deliver us from these blackguards!" The passengers were chiefly Floridans, whose business did not require their crossing the frontier. All of them were dwellers in the towns or villages on the St John's and its affluents, and for the most part lived at St Augustine or Jacksonville. Ac the different places they landed and embarked either by the gangways from wharves, or by piers built out in the Eoelish fashion. One of the passengers intended, however, to quit the steamer in mid-stream. His plan was to leave her at a part of the river where there was no wharf or pier, nor village, nor isolated house, nor even a hunting or fishing hut in sight The passenger was Texar. About 6 o'clock the Shannon gave three sharp screams from her steam whistle. Her wheels were almost immediately stopped, and she began to drift along with the stream, whish hereabouts runs slowly. She was then off the entrance of Black creek. This creek is a deep gash in the left bank, into which flows a small river of the same name, which runs by the foot of Fort Heilman, almost on the boundary between Putnam and Duval counties. Its narrow opening is entirely hidden beneath an arch of boughs and foliage matted together, and as close as the wool of some close tissue. This gloomy lagoon was almost unknown to the people of the country. No one knew that Texar had there his dwelling. The opening of the creek seemed in no way to break into the line of the bank, and as night was falling rapidly, it would require a very skillful boatman to take a boat into such a place. . At the first whistle of the Shannon, a shout had come in answer three times. A light burning among the trees on the bank was put in motion, showing that a canoe was coming out to meet the steamer. It was only a skiff a little bark boat, driven by one paddle. Soon the skiff was half a cablelength from the Shannon. Texar stepped up tothe front of the fore-deck, and making a speaking trumpet with his hands, shouted: "Ahoy!" "Ahoy!" came back in answer. "Is that you, Squambo?" "Yes, master!" ' "Come alongside." Th skiff came alongside. By the light of the lantern attached to its bow the man could be seen who was paddling it He was an Indian, black-headed, naked to the waist, and sturdily built, to judge from the torso revealed in the fitful light Texar returned toward his companions and shook hands with them, bidding them a eignifi cant an revoir. Then, giving a threatening look towards Mr. Burbank, he descended the ladder from the sponson and stepped into the skiff. In a few turns of the paddle-wheels the steamer was out of sight, and no one on board could suspect that the little caaft was about to vanish under the dark thickets on the br.nk. "One scoundrel the less on board," said Carrol, without earing if it were heard by Texar's companions. "Yes," said James Burbank, "and at the same time a dangerous scoundrel. I have no doubt of it myself, although he has always been able

to escape conviction on hi. truly inexplicable ''"Any way," .aid Stannard, "if a crime is cornmi tfed'to-night in the neborbood of J.son ville they cannot accuse him, for he has left the SbATnnt know that," said Burbank, "if they told me he had been stealing or assassinating this very moment fifty miles in the nort b of Florida, I should not be surprised. And if ne managed to prove that he was not the author of the crime. I should not be surprised after what has happened. But it is not worth while to worry ourselves about such a man. You are going back to Jacksonville, Stannard?" "To-niEht" "Is your daughter expecting you?" "Yes, I am going to meet her." "I understand," said Burbank; "and when are you coming to Camdless Bay?" In a day or so." "Then come as soon as you can, my dear fellow. We are on the eve of very "important events, and matters will get worse as the federal troops come nearer. And I fancy your daughter Alice and you would be in greater safety at Castle House than in town, where the Southerners are capable of any excess." "Am I not a Southerner, Burbank?" "Certainly, but you think and act as if you belonged to the North." An hour afterwards the Shannon, carried along by the ebb which became stronger and stronger, passed the little village of Mandarin, placed on its green bilL Then five or six miles further she stopped on the right bank of the river. A quay had been built there for Bhips to load and discharge at A little above was an elegant pier, with a light wooden bridge suspended from two chains. This was the landing-place for Camdless Bay. At the end of the pier were two blacks with lanterns, for the night was now very dark. Burbank took leave of Stannard, and, followed by Edward Carrol, stepped off on to the pier. Behind him went the half-breed Zermah, who answered from a distance to a child's voice. "I am here, Dy! I am here!" "And father?" Father is here, too." The lights receded, and the Shannon continued her voyage, crossing obliquely to the left bank. Three miles beyond Camdless Bay, on the other side of the river, she stopped at the pier of Jacksonville to put ashore most of her passengers. Then Walter Stannard went off with three or four men whom Texar had left an hour and a half before. Only half a dozen passengers were left on board, some for Pablo, a little town near the light-house at the mouth of the St Johns, others for Talbot island, off the coast at the opening of the channels of the same name, and others for the port of Fernandina. The Shannon continued to Peat the waters of the river, and cleared the bar without accident An hour afterwards she disappeared at the turn of Trout creek, where the St. John's mingles its already rough waters with the waves of the ocean. CHAPTER IL cahdless bay. Camdless Bay was the name of the plantation that belonged to James Burbank. There he lived with his family. The name of Camdless came from one of the creeks of the St John's, which runs in a little above Jacksonville, and on the opposite side of the river. Communication with the city was thus easy. A good boat, a north or south wind, and the ebb for going and the flood for returning, and in an hour the three miles could be sailed between Camdless Bay and the chief town of Duval county. Burbank owned one of the finest properties in the country. He was rich himself, and his family was rich, and, in addition to the Florida estates, he held important landed property in the State of New Jersey, which adjoins the State of New York. The site on the right bank of the St John's had been very happily ohosen for the foundation cf a wealthy establishment To its natural conveniences man ltad little to add. The land itself was adapted for all the requirements of extensive works, and the plantation of Camdless Bay, managed by an intelligent man, active and in the prime of life, well helped by his ' staff, and with no want of capital, was in a most flourishing state. The plantation was twelve miles round, and had an area of four thousand acres. There were larger plantations in the Southern States, but there were none better managed. Dwellinghouse, out-buildings, stables, cattle-sheds, cottages for the slaves, farm-buildings, store-rooms for the products of the soil, yards for handling them, workshops and mills, railways converging to the landing-place, and carriage roads everything was marvelously arranged from a practical point of view. That it was a Northerner who had conceived, organized and executed these works could be seen at the first glance. It was only plantations of the first class in Virginia or the Carolinas which could rival Camdless Bay. Besides, the ground consisted of "high hummocks" adapted to the culture of cereals, "low hummocks" specially fitted for coffee shrubs and coeoa trees, and marshes, or salt savannahs, where rice and sugar-cane fields could flourish. Already Burbank had done all he could to .'mprove the lot of his slaves. There were about seven hundred blacks, of both sexes, properly lodged in the large barracoons, well looked after and kindly treated, and worked within their powers. The overseer had orders to treat them all with justice and consideration; and the duties were done none the worre for corporal punishment having for some time been abandoned at Camdless Bayj This was a striking contrast with the custom of the generality of Floridan plantations, and the system was not looked on with favor by James Burbank's neighbors. And, as may be imagined, this made matters somewhat embarrassing, particularly now the fortune of arms had come to the solution of the slavery question. - The slaves dwelt in healthy, comfortable huts. Grouped in fifties, these huts formed a dozen villages, otherwise called barracoons, by the side of a running stream. There the blacks lived with their wive and children. Each family was as much as pssible employed in the same work in the fielf , the forests, or the workshops, so that its m;.bers were not scattered during working houa, j At the head of these villages was a sub-o;er8eer, acting as mayor practically, with his ladquarters in the private grounds of Camdless iay. These grounds were inclosed by a high palisade, of which the pointed stakes rose vertically, half hidden beneath the verdure of the exuberant vegetation. Inside it rose the private house of the Burbank family. Half house and half castle, it had appropriately been called Castle House. For many years Camdless Bay had belonged to the ancestors of James Burbank. When there was a fear ot Indian depredations, the owners had fortified the principal house. The time was not very distant when Gen. Jessup defended Florida against the Seminoles. The colonists had suffered much from these nomads. Not only did they rob them, but they added murder to the burning of their homes. Even the towns were threatened with invasion and pillage. In many a spot rose the ruins that the blood-thirsty Indians left smoking behind them. Less than fifty miles from Camdless Bay there was still to be seen "the house of blood" in which Mr. Motte and his wife and three daughters had been scalped and massacred by the Semmoles. But the war of extermination between the white man and the red man is practically over; the Semmoles were conquered, and sought nSrJ?.?' f th6 U8is8iPPi- People sWlnmed among the marshes of Southern

Tt will, therefore, be understood that tk-

bouses of the colonists were built so as to defy a sudden attaek of the Indians, and hold out na. til the arrival of battalions of volunteers, a. rolled in the towns or neighboring village,. And on this plan Castle House had been a, signed. It stood on a slight rise of the ground, in th center of a small park of about three acres, giv nated a few hundred yards from the St John's. A rather deep watercourse ran round the park, aud the palisading on its inner bank completed, the defense. The only entrance was by a little) bridge thrown across the circular moat Behind the rise, a mass of beautiful trees covered th slopes of the park. An avenue of young bam. ' boos, with stems crossing in pointed arches, formed a long nave, leading from the lawn to the landing place. Beyond, among the trees, were green lawns and wide paths with whits borders, ending in a sandy terrace along tht principal front of Castle House. The eastle was irregularly built, and offered much of the unexpected in its grouping and o! the capricious in its details. But should it assailant ever break through the park palisades it would remain defensible, and could maintaia a siege of some hours. Its windows on th ' ground-floor were protected by iron bars. Tht main door in the front face was as strong as k portcullis. At certain points along the walls,, which were built of a sort of marble, were few turrets, which rendered the defense easier, as they allowed of the ageressors being taken ia flank. In short, with its openings reduced to such only as were strictly necessary, the central tower, on which flew the standard of the United States, its lines of battlements along some of ths ridges, thelslope of its wall at the foot, its high, roof, many pinnacles, the thickness of its inner walls, which here and there were loopholed, th place resembled a fortress much more than a dwelling-house. And we have said, it bad been necessary to build it so for the security of its inhabitants at the time of the Indian troubles in Florida. There was even in existence a sort of eubterrananeaa tunnel which, after passing under th palisade and circular moat put Castle House in communication with a little creek of the StJonn's called Marine creek. This tunnel could serve as a means of secret escape in case of , extreme danger. At the time in question, the Seminoles, having" been driven out of the peninsula twenty years before, were no longer to be feared." But wh could say what was reserved for the future! and might not the danger James Burbank had no reason to fear from the Indians come from his compatriots? Was he not an isolated Northerner at the end of the Southern States, exposed to all the changes of a civil war, which had beea hitherto most sanguinary and fertile in reprisals? But the necessity of providing for the safety of Castle House had in no way interfered with it interior comfort The rooms were large and superbly furnished. The Burbank family wer. blessed with every, comfort, every satisfaction fortune can give when it is united to artistic feeling on the part of its possessor. Behind the hous9, in the private park, were splendid gardens, extending to the palisade. The stakes were hidden beneath climbing shrub, and passion flowers, among which humming birds hopped in myriads. Orange trees, oliV trees, fig trees, pomegranate trees, and ponte derias with blue bouquets, and magnolias with chalices of old ivory perfuming the air, palm trees waving their fans in the breeze, garlands of ' violet-shaded cobceas, clumps of green ro?etted tupeas, yuccas with their sharp clicking sabres; rosy rhododendrons, clumps of myrtle and shaddocks in fact everything produced by the flora of a zone which touches the trouics and could bogathered in its parterres to perfume the air ot please the eye. J At the extremity of the palisading, under ther cypresses and baobabs, were the stables, coachhouses, kennels, dairy and poultry -yard. Undej the thick foliage of these fine trees, impenetrable by the sun, the domestic animals had nothing to fear from the heat of summer, and the running water brought in from the streams close by gave an agreeable and healthy freshness to all. t This private domain was, it will be seen, a marvelously well-arranged nook in the center of James Burbank's establishment No rattle from the cotton-mills, roar from the saw-mills, ring of axes on the tree trunks, nor any of the sounds which are inseparable from such an important concern, could be heard beyond the palisades. The thousands of birds of the Floridan fauns; would pass and flutter from tree to tree. Bnt these winged songsters, whose plumage rivaled the brilliancy of the flowers, were as welcome as the perfumes which the breeze bore with it as it swept over the neighboring woods and prairies. Such was Camdless Bay, the plantation of James Burbank, one of the richest in eastera Florida. TO BE CONTINUED NEXT SUNDAY. j GEORGIA'S CONVICT SISTE3I. Public Attention Ajrain Directed to Its Abuses, and It3 Abolition Likely to Follow. New York, July 9. A special to the Tribun. from Atlanta says: "The convict question in Georgia is again , to the fore, and sensational developments are to be expected afany moment It is now the general opinion that the lease system will be abolished and the convicts all put to work on the public roads. The abuses of the system have justified the Rev. Dr. Fulton's sweeping denunciation. Some of the convicts have been inhumanly treated. One man who lost his shoes was made to walk barefoot over hot bricks,(. and was afterward beaten with a leather trai-strap beeause he complained of tbt keeper's cruelty. In one instance the convicts were frozen so badAy that some of them died and others lost the use of their limbs. In ona case a convict's feet were frozen so that the toes dropped off. Badly cooked rations, spoiled meat, unclean and horribly ventilated quarters made tbs death rate appallingly high at times. Epidemics were, of course, by no means uncommon. Complaint was followed by additionally cruel treatment Men and women were sometimes chained, together, whites and blacks alike, and made to work from daylieht until dark. Fevers and pestilence were not uncommon. These facts are gleaned from reports made by the physicians and from statements made by discharged convicts. The truth will out. it has beea said, but in this matter it has been a long time coming to ! the light Governor Gordon is hiehly commend- ' ed for the attitude he has taken in this matter, and public sentiment is undoubtedly cyrstallizing in favor of the total abolition of the lease system.: "In the meantime the duel between ex-Governor Smith and Dr. Westmoreland is likely to come off at any time, and when it does they will be expected to fight to the death, as both are men of great determination." That Sale of Manhattan Stock. New York, July 9. The following letter which has 3 ust been received, explains itself: . "New York, Jnly a "To the Agent of the Associated Press: "Dear Sir So many conflicting reports having been circulated in regard to the late sale of Manhattan railway stock, I think it proper to give, through yon. the exact facts. Myself and my associates did sell 78.000 shares of Manhatiao Btock to BIr- Jfty Gould, unconditionally, at $1.20 cash per share, and I wish further to state, explicitly, that Mr. Gould has acted throughout the transaction in a perfectly Btraientforward manner, and that the most friendly feeling exists between us. I have no idea of resigning as a director of the Manhattan Railway Company, and my opinion as tothe future development of this property remains unchanged. Yours faithfully, "Cyrus W. Field." Fatal Boiler Kxplosion. Oskaloosa, la-. July 9. Engineer fohn Short and James Hucfcisk were fatally Injured by the explosion of a boiler in the Excelsior mine this afternoon. i'hc cause of the explosion is unknown.