Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-25
DRIFTING FOR TWO YEARS.
The Story of One of the Most Remark
 ahle XoYa@ea Ever Made

The Story of One of the Most Remark. able Voyages Ever Made.
 From the Seattle (W. T.) Post -Intelligencerl Captain J. N. Armstrong, now in com
 mand of the bark Kalakaua, loading lumber l at Pors Blakely for the west coast of South America, was III Seattle yesterday. Captain | Armstrong will be remembered as the com ! mander who brought the ship Templar from New York to San Francisco few years ago l on one of the most remarkable passages on record. After being out for some time the l captain went into foreign port, and for
 some reason his crew, excepting the officers, left. Finally two English ships came in
 and from them Captain Armstrong made
 up a new crew, and after being out four days the entire crew, including the captain and his daughter, were taken down with yellow fever. The first mate died and sev- eral of the sailors. Those who had the disease less violent threw the dead over board one by one. The ship drifted about without pilot navigator for more than year. The captain for two years was so violent from the rayages of the fever that he had to be chaiaed to the deck to keep him from jumping overboord. He wears the scars from the chains and lashings to this day. During the year that the ship drift ed about the second mate and three or four of the sailors recovered, but being out of sight of land and not understanding naviga- tion, they were powerless to do anything with the ship. Finally the daughter re- gained her reason, but not her strength. One day she sent for the second mate and asked him to carry her on deck, which he did She then sent for her fathers instru- ments, and by the aid of these and her knowledge of navigation she figured out the location of the vessel. She then took the charts ha
 a route to San Francisco She then prac- tically took command of the vessel and or dered the second mate and surviving mem bers of the crew to make sail and gave them the direction in which to sail. Every day for months she would be carried on deck to
 take the sun and give her orders.
 Days and weeks passed and the ship con- tinued on her journey. Being so light hand ed the vessel could not be properly handled
 and could carry but little sail, consequently
 her progress was slow. After many weary, dreary months the captain regained his req
 son, and when he learned of what his daugh-
 ter had done he greatly surprised and
 declared that had he been placed in the same
 position he could not have done better. The
 ship loaded with general merchandise,
 the cargo being insured for over two hundred
 thousand dollars. The long absence of the
 ship and tidings from her led the own
 CTS and all interested parties to believe that
 she, with all hands on board, had been
 lost. Imagine their surprise, after the SUD-
 posed fate of the ship had almost passed from
 their minds, when one bright day in summer
 the ship Templar, with her cargo all intact, came sailing into San Francisco bay.
 Blasted Hopes.
 From the Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.] The shining metallic incrustation found upon the teeth of some of the cattle which l are pastured along the banks of the Carson 1 river has been popularly pronounced to be l a coating of gold and silver deposited upon the teeth from the mineral impregnation of the water and grass, attracted through the magnetic action of the animals body. Some of the bullion incrustation or deposit was submitted recently to Professor F. E. Field ing, chief assayer at the Consolidated Cali fornia and Virginia assay office in this city. Upon critical analysis of the material he pronounces it to be pure calcium sulphide, with not the least trace of either gold, silver or quicksilver. Thus another hopeful delu-
 sion is dispelled, and the contemplated
 source of revenue from scraping the animals
 teeth periodically rendered useless and worthless.