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storm and the darkness. The little ves- follow! lie was my traveling ootnpan-sel shivered, staggered, and careened ! ion. I loved him as it he had been myupon her side.She had struck upon a rock.A moment later crew and passengers were struggling in the waters.A few moments of buffettinirs and tossings, of vain sts^- ggles and agonized,involuntary prayer, and then Jasper Lowder felt his senses slip from him, and became unconscious.When he came to himself, he was lying upon a rocky beach of the Sicilian shore, sore bruised, and weak as achild.lie opened his eves. The wind had spent its fury, and now moaned alongthe coast with a desolate, despairing wail. The waves heat against thejrocks. Lowder struggled to his elbow. “Wrecked!” he muttered. “I am cast ashore, while the others are drowned ! Uh, this is terrible! 1 have lost my best friend to-night!”He moaned and wrung his hands.“lie is dead, who would have doneso much for me, and 1 so worthless am jbrother instead of only my hired attendant! Poor Jasper!”The two Sicillians lifted the helpless form of poor young Tressilian, and carried it between them toward their cottage. Jasper Lowder followed them, bewailing his loss. The above we publish as a specimen chapter; but the continuation of this story will be found only in the X. V. Ledger. Ask for the number dated January 7th, which can be found at any news oflice or bookstore. If you are not within reach of a news office, you can have the Ledgermailed to vou for one vear by sending• * | - 'three dollars to Robert Ronner, publisher, 1() William street, New York. The Ledger pays more for original contributions than any other periodical in the world. It will publish none but the verv, verv best. Its moral tone isV ' *the purest, and its circulation the largest. Everybody who takes it is happier for bavinsaved!All my hopes of an easy and luxurious life must be resigned now!'’At that moment lie beheld a dark object against the projecting head of a sunken rock. At the same instantLate War News.Lowder recognized it as the body of aman.He crept toward if, and the waters dashed the body on the shore at hisfeet. He put his hands 011 the face. How cold and wet it was! It felt like the face of a dead man ! Lowder’s lingers came in eontack with the soft, silken mustache, and he knew that thebodv was that of Guv Tressilian !• %Of the live who ha 1 stood on the sloop's dock a half-hour earlier, these two alone were left. The captain and his crew had found their deaths among the cruel, yawning waters.Lowder thrust his hand under thewaistcoat of his triend, but he could not perceive the beating of his heart. Despair took possesion of him. “Deal! lie said shrillv. “Dead!ftAnd he would have done so much for me if he had lived ! And his father and the voting girl he was to have marriedHiswill wait in vain for his coming! place at Tressilian Court, is empty.Who can fill it C It seemed to him that some demon at his side echoed the question: 117/erouhl ti!l the ))/i(i‘i' li/'t vacant by tioblt(/ uy J'rcxxildin. /A thought came (o him—a thought so strange and sinister that he shivered involuntarily. Again he felt of i’res-siliun’s heart. It gave no throb against his hand. He pa- ml his hand over Tressilian’s head and discovered a gaping wound in the skull. The hair was clot tod with blood..Tutting liis hand into his breast pocket, Lowder drew out his little waterproof match-safe, lie opened it with trembling lingers and struck a light.The red dicker dance 1 011 young ires-*siiiaifs lace.How ghatly and terrible it looked !The eves were clo'cl, the smile wasgone. Tin; seal of death seemed set on %the noble features.Lowib-r examine 1 the wound. It had been made by con* u-t with the sharp rock, and even Lowder perceived its TerriIde character.Jl lie is not dead, he soon will be,” lie muttered. '*Iii- brain has received an awful injury, lb* will never know who he i- again, lie won't live till morning and lie is perhaps dead already ! ib* must be dead tAgain it seenn* 1 to him as though some demon echoed bis words.Hie match dropped from his fingers into the water. 1 or a littlo while he crouched on the wet stones in silence, battling it may be with the better andnobler instincts of hi- nature.At last, with sudden and abrupt stealthiness, his hands stole into the breast pocket of Tressilian and drew out his private note-book, a packet of letters and a few trinkets. Ib* secured these among Ids own wet garments. Their possession seemed to give1 him courage, and his face hardened, and he knelt beside the bodv of his friend and rilled liis garments of all they contained, bestowing bis plunder on ins own person.Then he took his ow n purse, his notebook, a few receipts and trifles from his own pockets, and put them in the pockets of Tressilian.w,It is done!5 he whispered to himself, looking with wild detiant eves%through the darkness. *vNo one is harmed. He is dead. If he had lived, he would have provided for me. As lie is dying or dead, 1 must provi le for myself. This lllm*.v* luftreeti us trill 7nuk' mjf fortune. His friends will he I spared a terrible grief, and I—I shall Jive at last ! Fortune gives me a(* c(ilt;chance to gain name and wealth at one Jucky stroke !'7As if to give himself no chance for repentance, he arose to his feet andturned his searching glances in an in-I fland direction. A light, as from a cottage window, glimmering faintly thro' the thick haze, caught his gaze.liaising his voice, he called loudly:Help ! Ho, t here1! help 1The wind had abated, and his cries r ink out through the night with startling di-tin diu*-s. Tie* light he had seen moved and disappeared. A minute later, answering cries reached Low-der's cars, and lie heard hasty steps, and saw the approaching light oi a lantern, borne aloft by a man's upraised arm.“This way !' shouted Lowder.^ “ We are wrecked on the rocks! for theJove of Heaven, hasten !'?The bearer of the lantern, attended by a male companion, came running to him, and was soon at Jii- side. I he lantern bearer was a rough Sicilian fisherman, a grade above his class. His companion was also Sicilian, but evidently of somewhat higher degree. Toth were all excitement, a tonishmtmt and sympathy.In as few words as possible Lowder told the story of the shipwreck, and | called attention to the condition of his noble young employer.“ I think he js dead!” he said, in a choking voice, “Harry him to your cabin. Let everything be done thatBoirnwaw w Dec. 31.—The towns ofAuferres, Gray and Yesoul have boonevacuated by the Prussians before the%advance of the French under (iencruls Bressalles, Bremer and Garibaldi.The army of Bordeaux is to march directly on I’aris. As the French a 1-vance the inhabitants hasten to their ranks, and the army increases rapidly in numbers.The smaller towns now resist the enemy, as in the case of Tours, which, in consequence of a combat at Moural, was not occupied by the Germans. At Argent and (Jog the Prussians were repulsed bv the population.London, Doc. 31.—The intensely cold weather causes fearful mortality among the German wounded. Nearlv all theftoccupants of fifty carriages, filled with soldiers wounded at the assault upon Belfort on the Ulst of December, were frozen to death before the train reach-1 ed Chantenos. \A dispatch from Bcsancon reportsthat another unsuccessful assault, had been made bv the Germans on the for-tifieations of Belfort, in which the besiegers lost 1,400 killed and wounded.Paris, Dec. 31.—The losses which were sustained by (ion. Ducrott’s armyft •during the late sorties of the garrison forces from the city, have been so lieavv and serious as to render it noc-ftessary to reconstruct the armv of (le-fense. With this object in view, Gen.Blanchard’s division lias been brokenup; Gen. Do Mallory's division transferred to and amalgamated with the third army corps, under Gen Vinoy, both Gens. Vinoy and Blanchard still holding important commands.Madrid, Dec.31.—Gen. Prim died this7morning at 1 o’clock. All those engaged in his assassination—six in number! lt;—have escaped. iThe Duke of Aosta landed at Carte-nation Friday, was received with on- j thuiasm by the people, and departed! soon afterwar Is for Madrid.The death of General Prim has produced a profound sensation of grief, and everywhere great indignation is manifested against the assassins.Tranquility prevails in the capitaland throughout the provinces.Komi;, Dec. 31.— Fine: Victor Emanuel has entered the city. 11 is reception was enthusiastic. He appeared on the balcony of the Qtiirinal Palace,• ft*and was cheered by an immense as-ftsembly.Florence, December 31.—Ivina: Victor Emmanuel and the principal Ministers of the Italian Cabinet have to Rome.Mult itudes of people attended the funeral of Gen. Prim, at, Madrid.A dispatch from Berlin, of the 2‘Jthult., savs:• _The Prussians are now sending to the front the Landwchr of the second ban, j f aged lbrtv-two and forty-three years, j« “ ft ftII is considered that the utmost effort 1 which Germany is capable of making, is being made. Though the system of supplying the vast army is admitted to j , be admirable, it cannot obviate the dis ! satisfaction and distrust which exists : in considerable sections of territory, jt Notwithstanding the ollieial statements ! \ concerning the victualing and clothing ,(. Jt v I ■of the troops, the popular instinct ap-1 preciates the difficulty of the situation j 1 in its proper light. Although no sign , of discouragement is preceptible, the ; former enthusiasm has ceased to exist, and a strong desire for peace is expressed. A rose color tint is given to all ollieial accounts, so that only from private sources do we learn that the hospitals around Versailles contain eight thousand sick and wounded. The visit of the delegation of the Koich-stage to Versailles, it is now admitted, was premature. They received an in-delinite reply from the King. The threatening aspect ot the Luxembourg question had somewhat diminished, when difficulties with Switzerland arose, the Germans demanding the strictest neutrality.The Germans have destroyed the railroad from St. Louis to Hasle, and have stopped all traffic with the lront-ier. The oppression of correspondents of the various journals is worse than ever, and the least complaint on their part is visited by wholesale confiscation. Gen. Falkenstein lias made a chain sweep of Danish newspapers found in his coast district.1gone(sc!t.(ieccib1itlt;aAB.J LDICIAL, long aCo n sr i .t ation.—Judgeside judge under theft ftepaulet'' system, when the real judge was Hanked on each side by a man who was no lawyer, was asked if Judge Morrell ever consulted him in respect to any question.isoI)uft ft()nVes,” growled the old gentleman. 11 [ the ninth day of -Macdonald’s trialfor murder, he asked me it my bonesdidn't ache.”—Lansing Republican.scAt a christening, while the minister was making his certificate, he inquiredwCcan He done t o* 4ie him. J will payyou well for any kindn ess to him. l’oorthe day of the month, and happened to say, “ Let me see, this is the 30th.” i “The thirtieth,” exclaimed the indig-j nant mother, “indeed, but its only tliejthirteenth.”ofar
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