Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-05-10
Selertea Steries.
TEE DREAM ar SEA.

The wealthy mercantile house Of GARNER
& Co., had given the charge Of the good
ship .Albatross to Capt John. Manysrs, q
perfect sailor, and a master whose many
successful voyages had given him areputa-
.tion sigpifcant of good luck to all ventures
under his control. =
>. The wife of Capt. ManYers, though an
accomplished lady, and woman ofsound
common sense in. other rnatters was frn,
belieyeria dreams, not altogether without
reason, she having experienced the fulfil
ment of many dream, remarkable in itself,
and moro remarkable in its having been the
prophecy. ofaruth, 81 sso.si.,
well, wife,' said Captain Mangersat
parting, will my voyage bea prosperous
ons2 What hasesgou dresmed about i z
1knov you smile incredulously John
shessa swheneyerI speak of my dreams
coming to pass, and SO often. I will otre-
late.them to you, singular as my experience
ssbeen. Atthis time, for wonder, I
have no dream to speak Of; but let me eau.
ton you=and i hope yen will not think
the warning visionary one-against too
much confidence in some of those foreign
ers whom you have enlisted insy5ur crew.
Ihage seer. them, as you know, aboard,
sRd if there is q man among them all whom
you should fear, it is your first mate,that
dark-browed, mischievous looking Luigi,
the Portuguese. Hszlooks like a pirate,
andI believe that f!he ever has chance,
he viii be one. ~
sButsthe others?' e
ssHalf s dozen Of those swarthy country
men Of his, to me appeared like beartless
and MISUNDERSTANDING, the yerysight
of whom made by blood cardle.'
astPooh !pooh y exclaimed Capt. Manvers,
syou must not judge hard working men by
their exterior. Some of thesbest and bra
vest seamen I ever commanded have been
ill.looking fellows-atl least not calculated
to please lady's eye. They are all right
enough, never fear. And don't let super
stition make you so nervously SUSPICIOUS
Il rely so much upon my superstition, as
you call It, replied the wife; gravely, shat
I wish ] had dreamed about your voyage;
but letme propose this to you. For curl.
osity's sake, suppose that on the fourteenth
day out, we recall this moment, aod you
give heed to the dream which you chance
to have that night. And whatever it may
be, receive it as. an ipdex of what is to fol-
low, and be governed aocordiugly.'
BE it so,' replied Captain Manvers. q
shall not be sforgetfnl; but I promise you !
sleep very soundly on the water, and it as
likely as not that I shall not dream at all
The ship Albatross set sail, and was soon
filling her white wings over the blue waters,
bound to a tropical port.
The ships crew numbered twenty, oil
told, aud OF, these but seven were Ameri-
cans, about as many, including Luigi, were
Spanish or Portuguese, and the remainder
English aud Irish. The Spanish and Por-
tuguese had shipped ostensibly for the pun
pose of a conveyance to the first port at
which they we're to touch, where they were
to re.ship for home, if chance should offer,
as Was expected. " So
a few days after they had sailed, it was
discovered that much of the stock of pro.
visions was in such bad condition, that it
was foundneeessary to put all on short al
ioWanee, and this caused no1tlittle -discon.
tent among portion of the crew, making
them very bellicose, particularly the Span
iards and Portuguese, to whom, the captain
expected that Luigi bad made false repre-
sentations about the matter, as he gathered
from their broken accents that they attrib-
uted the bad provision to meanness and de-
sign on the part of Captain Manvers. This
dissatisfaction was shared by others Of the
crew, though not to SO great an extent; yet
there was such dissatisfaction evinced at
mess, and when the men we're about their
work, that the captains uneaslness daily
grew greater. All he could do was to pro-
test that he was innocent of any such In
tentiop, and to extort them to be content
with the misfortune.
But numbers of the crew shook their
heads ineredulously, and when they had an
opportunity, conversed zsulkily together in
knots, or went about their work tafdily and
with Ilnature, oftenrequiring orders to be
several times repeated, before they would
perform them.
Luigi, the captain remarked, seemed
daily to be gaining ground in the favor Of
the men, most Of them treating him with
more respect than they did the captain
and Luigi himself took frequent occasion
to exhibit to his superior officer signs of
dislike, and disrespect for his authority !;
all of which, under the circumstances, the
latter felt himself obliged to put up with,
anxionsly yearning for arrival st the port
where be could gesrid ofso troublesome
SET - =.
Before he was ten days out, Captain Man
vers came to the conclusion that Luigi was
the real master of the Albatross, and oEer-
matched him in the good will of the crew
and this he attributed chiefly to theill luck
about the provisions though the more Ia
miliarized be became with the first mate,
the more be suspected that he was incess.
antiy intriguing with the men, and the
more he loathed the snake.like expression
of his small, dark, sunken, glittering eye.
sMy, wife was right, thought he; tand
never have had such: vile set OF fellows
Eo, deal with. Butt will be wary with