Show i A 110IAMBOK Tim SLIt Iiltllif Allllnlat t A fMtiroonJ troiii In a lIft tinder date of June XS John 1ttln40n of la > son lend Ihe News ihc follow leg story from the far south MM HeM He-M > i I pasted the Mine place In Ie comber of lH6o when rilln boy on a Swedish barque but there nss nu Ice then It was almost like sumo ct no S I bunk and iUlight henl I woke up 1 An extraordinary romance of the lea which probably remind the reader of I Mr Clark Kuucllt motive t of the Frozen Pirate reaches us from San Francisco The story conies lo light In nnoniewhit roundabout tray It waf related by Captain Alklmon who had arrived at San Front Iscrl lo take char Re of the llrithh > I I ship 1 Dual rich I and he had heard It at Uurenitown froin Captain Cap-tain Spurring of the Drumcralg Ac online lo Captain AlUnaun Urn DrumcralR left San rancnco i about abx months ago and had n speedy run ai Y i far as Cape Horn Then the usual westerly winds shifted to dead ahead while I the number of Iceberg 1 encountered nd tered made navigation troublesome and perilous One stormy morning at day lirenk when the snow was foiling so thickly that It was Inipoulble to sec more than a ships length ahead a mountain berg drifted past the vessel 1 It was so near that but for n slight mUlup which had made It ntceiuty lo heave lathe Drum Craig the vessel would have collided I with the berg As It was however the Ice mountain came so nose that the crew were enabled to perciive the grew Home burden that it bore This was a fullrigged barque with call All I Kt froten Into the bet and surrounded by Ice from mainmast top to keel The phantom took fifteen minutes In drilling I I JMSI during which time the astonished spectator liad ample opportunity for 1 nllro nl r frozen studying II The Ice that I wan fro en over the vessel appealed lobe two or I three feet In thickness an the side next to Hie observers Captain Spurring I I thought It could not Iw more than tint 1 I because with Ids glasses he could easily make out the ouillnea throuxh the Ire and could flee that the vessel was of I wood and had n copper bottom 1 He I guessed that she was a silling barque ol ancient pattern of about the me and appearance of n New lledford whaler I Hut there were left neither boats nor I davits nor enough of the rigging I lo decide Ihe iiuclflon while the line mauls net calls the spore mod lire deck ihit gear were only to the completely Ir outlinea could encased Iw in du Ire I tlngulnhed Captain bpurringii u I planallon of the mystery was shot the I hlp moat have grounded iprojril I log ledge of the berg rrlttr over agalmt I the wall and had 1 there relied I until t i l ll was froien w firmly Ihat no I movement of rn berg I could dislodge II Then the Ice had gradually grownup grown-up around It until Imprwonmen wa comnlite Now It will be observed that ni the nrumcralg tncountcred head wind the direction of the Ice mini hare been northward and Improbable at the tory Is It 15 l undoubtedly true Ihat the glac al I drill from the t South Inlar occnn It i this > ear really III access of the normal quantity Indjed the most remarkabln leature of the rrporli received fuel whaling vessels and others Is the un I animlty to Ill whkh They connor In recording I re-cording Hieextraordln r > nmoimt of lie I found In Ihc Atlantic and South Parlfic Supposing therefore that 1 the remarkable remark-able find of Captain Spurring lo be a verilablr experience the question maybe may-be h asked whether it h calculated lo throw any light upon the mystery which surrounds the fate of the Alahnta training train-ing ship which sailed from Portsmouth al the end of 1879 ror n rrui e to the West Indlrs 1 She Is I known to have lefl Ihnnnda Jannarj M iMo on the Mum voyage and II M n von heard from after wards That she cnroumered a hurrl Cane J eatraordmar violence was satisfactorily demon otrated by the letten I Y1 IX of Admiral f Rlcliard and Sir Allen oung and by the Invest olinn of the hydrojtrapher Ihnlnlt nnaence of the alighted I Ill forma 1IOtl at to what befell her It may be allowable lo assume that Ilia crew took to the boats 1 Rod thai the ship drifted Into the glaelal watrn near tin Him The Alalamn was nl feet In le A g Ill n ilh a beam of 40 feet i Inches f iueId 1 rI lheraa IInf and a iitilhlerMtieiiMirenientof qij Ions In many respects she resembled the apparition wh rh mil the slaillrd gaze of Captain Spurilng She was ion sttucled of owl and had a coppered bottom mil she mlghthe roughly den cnbed i m n tailing barque of ancient patlrrn She was also Ihreemasletl and ship ringed Granting therefor that hf became Inrxlrir ably encased in the Smith Polar Ire there is rothlng annulling lrr the I act i shot she I should have remained a prhoner for twelve yearn rang hIIto only within the nre ent > car thai such gigantic bergs aa have hecn reported nave been seen floating so far adrift from their glacial faslnens Hl Is to he fvarel however that what we have said Is a speculation founded upon doubtful premises I |