The Night Wind.
' a lonalT inn among tha ptnas
1 it alon* In tha firelight's glow,
in<? myself in tha backlog's mines,
id hearing tha night wind coma and gof
And now it tliraaiana. and now it gricvaa.
Pie ids at tha lintal. or alama a Wind .
Now it prowls, anllan. abont tha aaraa
Thin protaan, hittar autumn wind.
Fiercely it awoopa on tha dooraida yaw,
A* a rultnra dropa upon ita pray ;
And now in tha thfoat of tha aooty fins
I hear it howl, lika a iaat at hay.
Now it flies shrieking serosa tha down a.
And now, like a ghost, it whispers ma
Of people atari iug to death in towna.
And of wreak* a thonaand laaguaa at tea I
A Midsummer Song.
Oh, father'* gone to ma-ket town ; h *u op
before the day,
And Jamie'* after rohine, and Uie man i*
making hay.
And whistling down llie hollow go* the hoy
that mind* (he mill.
While mother from i .<■ kuchen door i* calling
with a will—
" Potty ! —Tolly ' The cow* are in the
corn!
, Oil. where'a Polly ?"
From all the m.*ty morning air there ivms* a
slimmer otuid- -
A tummitr as of waleia fioni skies, and trees.
and grou d.
The turd* they slug upon the wing, the
pigeons hill and coo.
And over hill and hollow rings again tlie loud
halloo—
••Polly' P !l\ !-The cows are iu the
oorn !
v>\ where e Polly ?"
Above the tress t< . ' ney bets swarm by with
I uxa and b via, .
And in the field n*l > an ten a hundred flowers
t loom.
Within the faronr's meadow a brown eyed
daisy h' s
Aud Cewu a; t! • e-'ge Of the hollow a red and
tootny nee.
Rut Polly 'Ply; The oowa are m
the ecru
Ob, w here's Polly ?
How *'range a; euch a t.iue of day the null
> -lollld sti ;> :1 ciat'er !
Ttio farmers wn'. i ' - ei.it g now, and won-
era what * : ea. t r.
Oh, ai d the ; uda ar -u gug m the wood and
ou the tail!,
Vihi'e whtatiirg up the hollow goes the boy
l ira' minds ;lie tci 1.
Rut Pol y ' Pv Uy !—The cows are m
the ooi u '.
l>h, wheres Polly ?
.Hrrihasr /or AujtL
THE MASSACRE AT HO LI All.
As trrssal b. the tnl* IJilu .Was whs
Kuflllrd 11.
S&i'ta Anna invaded Texas in Febru
ary, 1886, with 10, iOO men. The army
entered by two route*, the larger divi
sion, commanded . y Santa Anna, g"iug
from New Leon, crossed the river at the
Presidio del Rio Grande, and taking the
main road, ma le forced marches toward
San Antonio dc Bexar The other divi
sion, under Gen. D m Jose Urea, ex
governor of Dnrango, crossed the Rio
Grande at or near the city of Mat*
morns, and entered Texas at San Patri
cio, on the Rio de las Nueces.
The two sections advanced, having
several engagement* marked by cruel
r.laughter. Col. Fannin was at Ctoliad,
thirty miles distant, with Texan troops.
The fortress of Goliad stood on an
eminence. It was a large square build
ing of stone, inclosing about wu acre.
It was rather a series of buildings, hav
ing an arsenal, a barrack and a church.
It had three strong bastions of solid
masonry, two of which weie turret**.!.
The place had a formidable appearance,
bnt was not really so, as the walls were
thin, having l>een designed to resi*t the
attacks of Indians only. Two or three
good field pieces could 1 ave breached
any section of the structure, save the
bastions, in an hoar. Faunui's force in
the place amounted to i.ot more than
325 men. The country was open, and
an army conld march past it on either
side unmolested.
When Gen. Urea reached Goliad, in
stead of besieging he marched around,
crowed the San Antonio river above.
Fannin then set fire to th ■ fo' trees, and
I* gnu his retreat towaid Goadalnpe
Victoria, but soon surrendered. The
terms offered by Urea were : That the
Texaua should be received an t treated
as prisoners of war; that private prop
erty should be respected and restored;
that the side arms of the officers should
be given tip; that the mm should be
sent to Oapauo. and thenoe in eight dava
to the United States, BTKI thst the r.ffi
cers should be parole.L No written
copy of this agreement was ever found;
but Capt. Shock leford said it was re
duced in writing in both languages. He
made this assertion in my presence at
Goliad on the day of the massacre. Hut
written or unwritten, the stipulations
should have been equally binding.
There is no kind of doubt that the
M 'xican officers destroyed the docu
ments.
Fannin aud his fellow prisoners were
then remanded to Goliad, and General
Urea went to Victoria. The prisoner**
wrre huddled at Goliad into the old
church, a place not half large enongh for
them, with bnt one window that I can
remember. They wers kept there two
days, and then allowed to go out into the
open area of the fort.
On the twenty-third of March Miller's
command, to which I belonged, reached
Goliad. The oompany consisted of
seventy men. who had been captnr* d at
Capano. We were allowed to mingle
freely with the other prisoners, but were
assigned sr-parnte quarters at nightfall.
Next day Ward's tstPahon, which had
escaped from the mission, and had been
captured near the GuaJalnp* river, were
brought into G Viiad, making iu all
nearly 500 prisoners.
On the morning of onr arrival at Goli
ad, we m**t two gen tie man ard a squad
of lancer". One of t!;e gentlemen was
CoL Fannin, who, although wounded,
was on horseback; the other was Col.
Holzinger, a Mexican artillery officer.
Fannin said he bad fonght a hard liattle
on the nineteenth, and had nrrendered
noon honorable terms the next morning.
De was then on his way to Capano, to
procure a "vessel to transport bis men to
New Orleans. This is proof positive
that Fannin surrendered upon honorable
termH, and not at discretion, as Santa
Anna always insisted, and, doubtless, be
lieved. I have read Urea's dispatch to
Hants Anna from near A'ictoria, in which
he gives a full account of his proceed
ings since leaving the Rio Grande, tells
of all prisoners at Goliad, but says not
one word about any agn-ement with
Fannin relative to terms of surrender,
leaving the commander-in-chief in the
belief that Fannin surrendered at dis
cretion. I know, from Almonte'#
diary, that this is the only dispatch re
ceived hy Santa Anna fr >m Urea since
he hail left the Rio Grande.
The courier from Santa Anna arrived
at Goliad on the twenty sixth, having
left San Antonio the morning of the
same day, distant one hundred miles.
D m J. N. Partilln, the commandante,
glanced at the superscription,then at the
bl ickseal be'iring the president's a ms,
an npright arm and dagger, with the
legend "Maao v Clavo," aud sat down
on bis camp stool to read the missive,
uttering something like a groan. Its
purport was that he bad certain prison
ers in charge, that he knew what his
hitj was, and r*ust execute that duty
tid promptly rejoin his commander,
ortilla threw down the dispatch in dis-
Ist. " Duty, indeed," he muttered,
Ining his head upon the table.
I young woman entered the room,
t<k np the letter, aud read it through
t T i beginning to end. Partilla looked
Ufnci discovered the intruder with the
di*tch in her hand.
' see you have been reading my dis
pat " siid the commandante.
I have. I came here with that
▼Purpose," she replied.
" suppose you know what it
xneor."
FRKD. VCl T l£ 1 Alitor and 1 *i**j>i*itt<i*.
IX.
"I understand it* weaning perfectly'
It mean* the death of ever* American
not* iu tkilisd. I have watched for the
eonrter amor daybreak, atid win resolved
to kuow the contents of hi* dispatch at
any peril. What are your intentional"
'' To obey the president's lualruetioita
to the letter."
" There ta one company among the
prisoners in there of whose capture the
preaideut could uot hare Ihhui advised
whan he wrote that diapatoh. 1 meau
the men from Oapatio."
" I dou't know that"
" Suppose yon assume that he was
not aware of their presenile. He doe*
not mention the company in his letter."
•• Well, what then f It would only
prolong their live* for a few days."
•' Vroxuiae me that you will do a* I
wish. Much ivui be doue in a few daya
1 have friend* near the pre indent whom
he oanuot afford to disoblige ; uor can
they well afford to slight me. Promise
me thin, aud Francisco, my hu*t>aiiii's
orderly, shall start for Bexar to-night."
•• It -hall Ie a* you desire. They call
mo Indian, Seuora Alavesqtie ; but were
I president 1 would not write that letter
for all the land* your father owns , not
for all the gold that ever the
mint of Mexico."
The colonel leaned his brouxed Axteo
face ujnm the table, weeping like a
child.
Donna Pachita Alavesque, a lovely
women of twenty, was the wife of a
colonel of the Mexican army, a man of
great wealth and power. Siie had fol
lowed him to Texas, partly from whim,
but chiefly iu the hope of doing good.
Her visit that night to the commander
saved scveutv lives.
001. Portilla sent a courier that uight
at nine o'clock to Victoria, informing
Gen. Urea of the receipt of Santa Anna's
note, and of the plan he should pursue.
He also informed him of his intention
iu respect to the company to be pre
served.
On that same evening ihe rumor got
abroad among the prisoners iuside the
fortress that the commander iu chief
had beeu heard from, aud that all would
march in the moruiug forCapano, where
ships were waiting to trausport us to
New Orleans. Nearly all were youug
men, most of whom had pleasant homes,
iud friends who would welcome them
home with joy. Mauy were siugiug
gleeful songs, or telling pleasant stories
and talking of their frieud*. A youug
mau asked some one, apparently among
Ward's men, if he remembered Jack
Fellows- I think Hint was the name.
The answer was: "Yes." And the first
voice continued: "Do you mind how
he n-Hsl to sit up theo> in the bastion
evening* and sing aud talk of his moth
ers and sisters at home 1"
"I do right well. That chap used to
make me cry sometime?."
"Well, he'll never sing any more.
He's as dead as Julius Ciesar, He wa
the first man killed in the Eucinal. Poor
fellow ! I helped to bury him in the
ditch. 1 wish he was here tonight."
A flute in the hands of a (skillful ier
former had beeu playing all the evening
such airs as "Auld Lang Syne," aud
"Home, Swist Home." Every one
around me appeared to be happy aui
spoke in pleasant tones. At length all
the voices were silent, and nothing was
heard bat the cries ot the Indian sen
tries as they paced to and fro on the
walls yelling in most unearthly accents:
"Centinella Alerts!" "Ceutiuella"—
something else, which I have loug ago
forgotten. At daylight the reveille con
sisted of simply a few drum traps and u
bngle blast. Soon lines w> re formed
and the rolls called. There were no sol
diers inside the fort, only a few officers,
who were counting the prisoners, and
making preparations of some sort in a
very quiet way. Now and then some
thing was said about the early release
and departure of the prisoners; about
the necessity for slaughtering beeves,
and other preparations for a voyage.
Soon a nnmtar of prisoners, I should
say at least 150, moved out of the mam
gateway, in the direction of the south
ern taction. An officer came np t<
where we were standing in line and or
dared us to move. As we passed through
the gateway, the party that hail gone
out ahead of us hail turned the corner
of the fortress, going apparently toward
the river. We turned the opposite way,
and entered a small peach orchard,
where we were told to sit down on the
grass and keep quiet
On one Ride of this orchard, facing
the Matamoras road, was a line of
officers' tents. The other side was pro
tcctcd by a cactus hedge, beyond which
was an old graveyard, mnoh dilapidated.
The western side was an open prairie,
with here and there a tree. The rest of
the prisoners then came out of the fort,
one-half going three or four hundred
yards westward along the Matamora
rad, and the others in the direction we
had hik- n. The latter passed up the
road, aud, turning round the orchard
hedge, lialted just beyond tho grave
yard. A line of soldiers marched on
either side. A tall young fellow walked
at the head of this party, with a Mexi
can blanket about his shoulders. He
looked toward us, smiling pleasantly.
I had conversed with him the day pre
vious, when he spoke hopefully of an
"early departnre for his home in Penn
sylvania. This party had barely turn# d
the cactus hedge when a prolonged roar
of musketry was hoard in the direction
of the river beyond tho fort. The cry
then arose among our m n that they
were shooting the prisoners. The firing
was kept np for several minutes, and
then it die-1 aw.iy in occasional shots.
The firing oommfluood at the grave
yard. Tho intervening bushes pre
vented our seeing anything save the
occasional gleam of a Imyonet, but I
could hear the trampling of feet and
the shouts and groans of dying men
distinctly.
Meanwhile my attention was directed
to the party that had marched ont on
the ro.id in front of the fort. They
were in plain view. Some accounts of
this massacre say that the prisoners
were shot while in sitting postures,
i'his was not the fact as to the party
coming under my notice. They halted,
when fairly out on the open prairie, the
soldiers forming a line facing down the
road. The prisoners were then placed
in a single line facing the aoldiers. The
soldiers then faced the prisonera, and
at the command leveled their pieties,
and each soldier fired at the man direct
ly in front of him. About a third of
the prisoners fell, others stool appar
eutly astounded until bayoneted, bnt
about forty of them ran iu various di
rections. Not one of these fugitives
e-tcaped, however, as all were pursued
and either sabered by the dragoons or
killed by the lancers.
The wounded prisoners, about thirty
in number,* were murdered in the open
area, inside the fortification. Major
Domingnez, a yellow, pink eyed man, a
refugee from Ban Domingo, had charge
of this part of the massacre. He ob
tained it by request, being a friend of
Gen. Oaray. This is the man who, at
Agua Duloe, caused Capt. Grant to be
placed on the back of a wild horse, with
a lasso ronnd bis neck. The horse was
then whipped till, maddened, he dashed
away, dragging Capt. Grant through a
thorny chapanal. Grant was left dead
upon the ground and mangled in a hor
rible maimer. This miscreant that
morning hacked a wounded boy to
death while the lad was on his knees
praying. He and his assistants then
stabbed the wounded men to death, first
dragging them from the hospital floor.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
Meanwhile Father Maloney, the curat*'
of San Patricio, pushed the three Ameri
can physicians and their assistant* into
the vestry, and shut the door. He had
hardly done so when Meuora IVtchila
Alavosouo entered, atul asked if they
were atiil alive. The priest answered
that they were in the Vestry, but that
he expected Domiugues for them every
moiueuE "Give him tin* note," she
said, "and if he dares to treat it with
he shall never pass that door
alive.' Soon Dominguex entered.
"Show hiui the note, father," said
Pachita. l>omiugu<£ ra<t the note,
which was signed "Garay," and it di
nvtsd that the three physicians ami
their assist ints should bo reserved from
execution. Domingtiex walked away
with an air of disappointment.
The last assassination was that of Col.
Fanuin. The colonel Wing wounded,
was led out and seated iu a chair. An
interpreter, Capt. Splan. had l>een left
for the purjvvse of explaining anything
that the colonel might have to say. Tha
colonel t<H>k from hi* jKH-ket a letter aud
a watch, ami asked that they bo seut to
his wife. He then handed the officer
some doubloous, which he Wgged him
to aocept, requesting that he would have
him shot through the heart ami decently
buried. All t±ii* was promised, the offi
cer pocketing the uiouey. Fauuiu was
then blindfolded, shot through the
head, his clothes stripped off, and the
body dragged 'out through the mam
gateway, aud left lying on the grass.
After Fannin was murdered, the offi
cer ordered Spiau to take his seat iu
the chair, a* he also was going to shoot
him. Capt Splan replied that he had
been reserved a* an interpreter.
"We have no further use for inter
preters now," said the officer, "all the
Americans have beeu shot Take your
seat" 0
At that critical moment an officer with
whom Splau had a slight acquaintance
wa* pn-siug. Splan hailed him, and
they commenced talking aWut the exe
cution of Fannin, which had ju*t taken
place. Becoming impatient, the officer
ordered Splau once more to t.iko the
chair. The officer told the oommauder
of the tiring |>arty that he would W re
sponsible for Splan, and taking him by
tlie arm, they walked away together.
The i ftieer conducted the captain to
where we were statioued, and then 1. ft
hi in t- seek the commander. It was
here, from ('apt. Splau'* own lips, that
1 learned the particulars i f Fnuuiu'a
death. Ho had scarcely finished hi*
narrative, when an orderly came up and
told him he wa* want d by the com
mander. He bade u* an affectionate
adieu, saying he had no doubt tint he
vni* going to l>e shot, and walked off
with the orderly. Happily, he na.* mis
taken. The next morning he wa* started
ff u> Mstameras with a returning pro
vision train.
The soldiers stripped the clothing
from the dead bodies of their victims,
and, making a bundle of the gory vest
rueuts, hung them oil tlieir bayonets,
and thus marched back to their qttar
ters. As they came past where we were,
one fellow raised his guu, shaking his
bloody bundle at us. Some of tle-m got
tank notes out of the prisoner's clothe*,
of the value of which they knew nothuig.
l'lflit afternoon a man came to our quar
ters and offered a twenty dollar United
States tank note for fifty cents. He
succeeded in effecting a sale. A lancer
came with a jair of boot* banging t >
his saddle, which he offered for " ilos
reals." Davy Strong wanted lsots very
(sully, and thought they would fit him.
Many of the men cried ont " shame " to
l>avy, but he paid the mouey and pulled
them on.
The I todies < f the murdered men were
burnt Ht the places where they died,
l'he cremation occupied three or four
•lays. Whatever may have been the
motive for this, the result was lienefl
eial, as it spared us from the .st- tich tiiat
would have arisen.
Eight days after the niss-acie an or
der arriv.wt at Goliad to shoot the re
maining prisoners, but liefore it could
he carried into effect it was counter
manded. And this, Don Manuel Talsa
told me, was the result of Senorn
AUvesqne's influence at headquarters.
Al>ont the close of April following
Setiora A lav esq tie <nime to our quarters
>ue day with the don, her husband, who
look*d like a good heaths! man, but
dreadful stiff and dignified. Puchita
Iwde ns all good bye, and said she was
going home to Duraego. There was a
very handsome young Kentocki.tn named
Allen iu our company, who used to talk
iti French with the senora. Oti taking
tier fit al departure Allen was the hud
man she spoke to. It was plain to me,
boy that I was, as I watched their part
ug, that there was a special cause for
her great interest in our fate.
Allen was young, about twenty five, n
blue eyed, handsome fellow, with a
quiet, well bred air. The nenora was
hardly twenty, a black eyed, high-bred
beauty. God bless her. Hhe saved my
life and the lives of my companions.
Seuor Alavesqne was a man of middle
ige, a self contained, quiet person, who
was never seen without his cigarette.
A Hoarding House in an Uproar.
This is how the rumpus occnrrrd :
Biggins, who is a top-fl< Hirer, came home
late, bringing a friend with him. As
the ways leading to Hipginn' apartments
are tortuous, he left his friend in the
hall and ascended alone to illuminate.
Having struck a light, he gave a low
whistle as a signal to his friend to ascend.
This little circnmstance was fatal to the
peace and well-being of the establish
ment. The old gentleman Battles, who
has the first floor front, was in a half
wakeful state, aud hearing the sibilant
signal sounded on an upper landing was
ooiivinoed that it was a thief's method of
communicating with his fellow. Battles
is energetic, and in a very brief space of
time bang went his pistol out of the
front window, accompanied by a volley
of cries of ''Police!" "Fire!" "Bob
bers!" Bnd "Murder!" This demonstra
tion ha<l its effect ail along the line. The
lioarders, rn deshabille to a greater or
lesser degree—it was a warm night—ap
peared on the landing, aud the boldest
of them invaded Battles' nppartmeut.
The ueiglilsirs rushed out or put their
heads out of the windows, and the great
est oommotion prevailed throughout the
street. The . olioe began to arrive, re
enforced by a squad from the station
house, and the fire patrol rushed around
the corner. It took some time to ex
plain matters and to restore quiet to
the neighborhood. The most fright
eued individual of all was the strange
gentleman Biggins had brought home
with him. He was set upon by the in
furiated boarders as the supposed bnrg
lar, and narrowly escaped demolition.
RENOUWCINO. The lute Dr. ,
being one of the moderator*, did not
satisfy by his preaching the Calvinistic
portion of his flock. " Why, sir," said
they, "we think you diuna tell OH
enough abont renouncing our ain right
eousness." ''Renouncing your ain
righteousness!" vociferated the aston
ished doctor; " I never saw any ye had
to renounce I"
A conple of thieves entered the house
of Mrs. Wright, a pyor widow, mar
Knoxville, and finding nothing of value
there, went into the yard, killed her only
cow, stripped it of it* skin, and cursing
the woman for being poor, took the hide
to Kuoiville and sold it to a tanner.
CENTRE 11A EE, CENTRE CO., FA.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 17. 1870.
THE UNITED STATES.
*•■!> Inlrrrallna Slsllsllrs.
The area of the United States is 3,578,-
.T.i'J sqiiure miles, which were acquired
as follow* :
IfllM
I'MrllOrjf (Svlrwl by Pti|lt>il 111 1?W
I A-UtaUtia, A* t,<|Ul!cl friHM Krklu* 111 1S
noruU. •• mjiittnl fiom IU IWJI
IfllM, a* •.tiullfv I Id Ihr t uuU IU IMS. AlT>*
(kMiitiu, by ifvMtly iu lMfi Jia tiA
t'kiituroi*, t*ht< trvxu Mnh-o iu Im:.
Ar u.'ua, fr\tu \lni.o by *rriy iu tvM
AiMkA, fiom Humia by Itrjkly lu iM? >77,W
InUi |>rpfbt im. ..... S.ftiR.JWJ
lu ltl'2o there were but HOO white s-t
tier* m New F.tigUud. le<as than '250
year* ago New York city consisted of one
d> 2eu log cabins, and all the laud uow
comprising the city ami couuty of New
York was purchased fur £li One hun
drtsl years ago we were thirteen feeble
colonn s aud d.tKKl.lkkl |>eople ; now we
consist of thirty seven sovereign aud
mdejH'Uvleut Stat*** ami twelve Territor
ies. The thirb'en original colouies, iu
the order in which the names of their
repreaentatives are appended to tile
Divlaratiou of lude|H'udeiioe, were as
follows: New llam|>Hhire, Massaclm* ttM,
Rhode Island, (Vmnectiont, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, V'lrgiuia, North Carolina,
South faruluiaaml Georgia. The entire
list of our present Statea, arranged
alphal>etically, with the date of their ad
mission into the Union, is here append
ed :
at.ras >u raaaiTeaias.
imu */ iwi
Nal#4 iJNMrtv. .V 4iM JJIWH.-a
Alihamß il* MIMPUH Jiil
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('4lifi>rtiUi !5o Sovkvl* iptai
t'oUUrcUv'Ut • Nfit
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HofbU. 15*:. New York
tkrortfta North C*rv>Uua
IUIHOU .litis Ofclo lßk .
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i im i m A'
luiuu ~IMI HhvKle I*l*l*l
Kr tit tick) ITy) South
IxRUIUUI 1"U IrUUrwAcsr
NtaiUe 1""X IrUs ...... I**4>
M*ryl*u<l \ crtDriut .....!TIP!
Mmb*. tiiisriu. . ...... YLrgUil*
VI.. Um*tt |*J7 tkewt Vlfgiulh* ..
\llkUrw<U INV-. Wlmnoutili .I*4*
I*l7
Our twelve Territories, under similar
arrangement, are a.* follows :
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AUk* ... .Nvt vrt or fc **uir<si
Ariio&t*. I*sl
tV r*4o *. I
iMetrU! . f .
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lti4l*to territory Not jH or^aiilirU
MotiUku* ...... .iwii
Mi lev uc
I Ukh. If&t
W Ah. tlATlOtl 1
WyutuUi* I^*
* Just admitted a* a tilate, making tie
numlsr of State.-, thirty eight.
The Erupt inn of Volrajoe>.
The A'm uup p S'.rntiri'ju' contains an
iutereetiog A q.t, r quoted from a work
ou volcanoes by M. K. Fncli*. The au
thor, aftor reviewing all the different
theories hitherto in vogue, distinctly re
pudiHte* the notion that vulcanot * are
m ts>mmunicatioii with the center of the
earth. The real cause of eruptions, he
s-avH, l* still a mystery ; the modern hy
p diiesis, which supjH>.ssl the center of
the earh to lw solid, but euvel 'jssl by
■ stratum of rts-k* iu a wlate of aqni'ou*
fusion, over which lies the hardeutsi
crust we inhabit, answer* pretty nearly
to the facta brought to light by recent
investigation. li 11 not to l>o doubted
that eruptions are owing to a struggle
t*<twecu the va|M>ra contained IU the vol
otitic focus and the masae* of lava that
"top their isaue. These will abaorb a
large quantity of the former, but in the
end they get saturated, and the remain
ing vapors force a passage to the terrea
trial surface. The origin of tlieae vapor*
is stated to l*i the se-i, which provide*
the volcanic force with the requisite
steam. In support of thia view the an
thor point* to the fact that active volca
n.** are almost exclusively situated near
.1 sea coast. Out of 1311 that have ha I
eruptions since the middle of the la-t
cutnry, ninety-eight are insular, and
nearly all the other* are close to the
onset. Another argument in favor o
the infiltration of sea water is this: tint
the chemical constitution of volcanio va
pors comprises all the suls-tsnoea that
distinguish sea water from fresh, and
even iu the same projairtioos. The real
volcano i-* the invisible toon* situated in
the entrails of the earth, and not the
mere crater < zposed to view. The menu
tain is nothing but a sort of chimticv
formed by and for the passage of the
lava, and it incloses a vast space where
the lava accumulate* from time to time
until it is expelled by the steam. We
may h re ste'e tliat these news coincide
with time-* explained by I>r. Montncci
in his (jun.ti.in* Scirntifitjur*, in which
he considers the various focuses of vul
canic activity as so many "uloera" of
the terrestrial globe, aud not r* aching
further down than a couple of miles be
low the level of th<- sea
lien the Sioux Fight,
The ,Sioux, when on the warpath,
black their faces from their cy*s down,
the forehead I wing colored a bright rod.
When in mourning and when veiy eager
t'i avenge the death of friend-* or rela
tions, they cut their hair short and daub
their faces with white earth. Their
teats of horsemanship aro wonderful.
Tboy consider the greatest act of valor
to IM* the striking of their enemy with
some hand instrument when alive, and,
whether alive or dead, it is the first one
that strides the fallen foe that "counts
the coup," and not the one that shoots
him. They do not always scalp. Their
object of scalping is t > furnish proof of
their deed and give them to their women
to dance over. They always attack iu a
sweeping, circling line, cagle-liko, give
a volley, pass on, circle and return on a
different angle. When they kill one of
the enemy there is always a ruh Pi get
the first crack at him so as to "count
tho coup," and then some Indian who
was disappointed in getting a cut at the
victim while alive scalps him, Tho
Hionx always camp with tepees (lodges)
in a circle, making, as it were, a stock
ade, ami when on dangerous ground
they picket their jKinics in tho center.
Mr. Keller is familiar with the ground
where tho disastrous engagement of
Custer occurred. Concerning this be
said: "My idea of the Ouster slang li
ter is that the India* s had no women
and children in their lodges, ami had
parapets <iug under the lodges ont of
sight. Custer, thinking it a family
camp, rnhed in the center of the fort,
where resistance would neoMMrily prove
fatal."
An Old Time lllrl.
We saw her on the street yesterday,
says the St. Louis Journal. She wore n
neatly fitting, plainly out nml modestly
trimmed calico dress. Her modest face
beamed with youth and beauty beneath
the graceful folds of a gauzy green veil,
aud her rosy cheeks shone through it
like a pair of large cherries Slio didn't
carry one-half of her dress in her hand
high up to gratify the vulgar gaze of
blackguards or to drnw forth lndierons
and ungentlemunly remarks of oorner
loafers. Nor was she pinned back so
tight she couldn't Htop, and her heels
didn't kick her tilteras high as the small
of her back. She didn't walk like a
mule with a loose set of harness on and
flies ba*l. No; she wasn't dressed in a
style calculated to attract the attention
of any but true gentlemen, and of these
she commanded the utmost respect, and
it was paid her by all who, in meeting,
admired her.
THK MM AN SINIXI BILL.
% ( •rrrt>ouilrHi Tell* • wfeit lie le—l*ee
llurtl Ira af like Indiana.
The Chicago Tribume oorroep indent
wiv he lian learned almost t complete
history of thm hostile warrior, Hitting
I Hull. He in u Teton Sioux aud only
thirty five yen re of age. Captain Mo
lurry, of the steamer Benton, tells ue
he has known Sitting Bull about the
upper Missouri trading IHMUI for many
! yearn. HIN principal bartering plaoe
wan at Fort Peek, though of late yeam
he ami hia liaiut have followed the buf
falo north on the Souris and Pembina
livera, ami have bartered their robes and
touguea for guna ami ammunition with
tin# French half Lreeds of Manitolia.
Sitting Bull was a convert and friend of
l ather de Hmet, who taught him to read
and write French. He haa always scorned
to learn Kngliah. but is a fair Freuch
scholar. In the Dakota language he is
also Tewed, ami declared to be a greater
orator than Little Pheasant, chief of the
Yanktuuuaia. Captain Mi Garry says he
knows that Sitting Bull lias read the
Freuch history of Napoleon's wars, and
believes that tie has modeled his general
ship after the little Comicaii corporal.
Sitting Bull has never accepted an over
ture of peace, the report that he gave m
his adhesion to Sully to the contrary
notwithstanding. 11" haa always been
ttu unrelenting and vindictive savage, to
the Americans what Schamyl was to
the ltusnian. Father de Smet kept
the Teton Sioux from the war;>ath until
IN6B. He then left the upper Missouri
and Sitting Bull tiecauie a chief. No
organised ellort was made to array the
Sioux nation against the whites until
sftcr the Minnesota massacre of lHftd,
a lieu the Sioux were driven West of the
Mis.ouri into the bud lauds and moun
tains of Dakota. Sitting Bull aspired
to the leadership, but lied Cloud, Spd
ted Tall, Little Pheasant and the Ogalalla
Sitting Bull chiefs repudiated him.
From tliat time lie has been a malcon
tent, and at war with the chiefs of the
Sioux nation, though he has by his jier
s.nisive arts of oratory seduced many
hundreds of their young braves into his
ranks. He in also largely re enforced by
young braves front the Croos ami Assmi
bonis of Mauitolm. Every summer for
five years he has l> n up north smoug
these trilx s. and now tin y are hocking
to his standard. If these r# ports veto
lie l*lieved, and I have no reason to
question tin m, when he next aiukm s
-land against the Federal troop- he will
have in the neighborhood of 5,000 war
nor*, every otie aruied with repeating
rifL-a. A print ib ait* <- x jiectixl from
Silting Bull's inability" ti take care of
the wounded already ou his hands, ami
which i- a sacred duty auioug the In
dians. If he ha* not *eut hi* wounded
north among hi* Man Ito tat friends, ho
will do so !efore he hazards another
fight. The telegraphing report of Cap
tain Smith, who brought Hello"* wounded
town, that T rrv had found the biers of
nine chiefs killed in the engsgi meut
with Custer i* a mi-take. They w< re
the remains of sub chiefs and braves
killed by Cu*ter when ho *!• with
Stanley iu 1871. The Sictyx custom is
to carry off their ikawi braves to a se
cluded valley, and after their customary
ruouruing J ri<*l has xpired, to lay out
the dead Drives on a platform high
enough to be beyond the reach of
wolves or coyotes.
An Kxpov.
A remarkable feature of the gnat in
ter collegiate rowing matches, such a*
that which took place at Saratoga, is the
freedom of costume permitted to the
contestant*. Nowhere, outside of the
art studio, are the l>cAtitic of the living
manly form so completely exhibited. A
cap and lmthiug drawer* not much loss
-canty than the conventional tig leaf,
urn the only drawlaicks to complete nu
dity. Dur ug the race the bare bodies
of th* rowers writhe and glisten nuder
th eyes of the sp-ctatorw, and wheu it
is ov r tin* victors arc carried on the
-hotilders of their friends through the
idmiring crowds on shore, so that all
may observe their masculine figures and
their muscular devclopmrnt. One of
the rowers, stretched at full length in a
boat und smoking a cigar, was leisurely
paraded up and down before the grand
stand, naif courting admiration. Women
as well as men are regaled with the spec
tacle, and both sexes seem to witness it
with equal satisfaction. We have here
an illustration of the purely artificial
nature of the current laws of modesty.
Just a* it i* immodest in a woman to be
-een in her nightgown or in her corset,
but quite proper for her to show herself
in n lull dress, which covers her form
jn-t as little if not leas, so a man who is,
or who jlist lias leen in a boat, and
wielding a pair of oars, may strip him
self before the public to a degree which
"U tiv other occasion would subject
him to arrest by the police.— Hun.
Itnportaure of Peat Bed*.
In some remarks on the climatology
of New Hampshire, Prof. Huntington
states that the preservation of the vege
tation on onr mountains is of greet im
portance, not only in modifying the dis
tribution of rain, but also 111 modifying
the extreme of cold iu winter. Our
mountains, especially the higher sum
mits, are ooveredtoaconsiderable depth,
except where it has IM*CII destroyed by
fire*, by peat, formed chiefly from moss
ami lichens. Now, it has been found by
experiment that i**at m<*ss can alisorn
more than twice its own weight of
water; dry clay, nearly its own weight;
dry earth or garden mold, more than
half its own weight, ami dry sntul a little
more than a third of its own weight.
With equal times of drying, under the
same circumstances, therefore, j>r*Ht moss
lows two thirds of all the water it oon
t lined; clay and earth more than three
fonrths, and sand more than nine tenths.
Thus, iu a dry season, beds of peat ninst
form nn invaluable reservoir of water
for the supply of springs and streams.
Wherever it or vegetable mold abounds,
the soil retains its moisture, being only
gradually evnj>ornted,a high relative hu
midity is maintained, ami springs gush
forth from the SIO]HS of the mountains,
and a slight change in the P*ni|M*ratnro
causes rain to fall in gentle showers. It
is nupsl that on the mountains of New
Hampshire * l res in general spread only
over their eastern slopes.
Marched Too Rapidly
As further fact** are brought to boar
upon Gcu. Custer's disaster it licooines
more evident that his swiftness iu
marching against the Indians out
stripped calculation as to the forces that
were to have supported him. Had his
march been extended, as it was expected
Pi be, liy the exploration of some lateral
valleys, delaying it a single day, Gen.
Gibbons would have been with him in
the attack.
A now grape fungus, which first ap
pears oil the loavs of the grapevino in
tho form of i miunte yellow Hpot, was
described ly Dr. Eagclmann at a recent
meeting of the St. Louis Academy of
Science. It uiak<s its appearance just
before and during tho flowering period,
as far nsknown attackingonly the leaves,
or rarely the petioles and peduncles. It
kills the leaves and thus cripples the
plant, and attacka all varieties indis
criminately.
CHARLIE ROSS.
Aawlber Ulmb mi ll.r~Tfc • DsrUrsS
Alive >4 Well.
The Philadelphia /rujuirer haa the
following: In the office of a relative of
Mr. Christian K. Boas, ou Walnut
street, there was assembled a knot of
men who listened closely and anilousiy
to the answers given by a mulatto man
to questions put by Oaptaiu Ileitis, who
lias had cliarge of the ltoss abducttou
twse ou behalf of the city pallet! depart
ment ever since the tlr*t infoimatlou of
the curly haired boy's disappearance
was left at Fifth and Chestnut streets.
I The mulatto came to Philadelphia and
was discovered in tlie vicinity of Mr.
Boas' former office aud store tuqutiiug
where Mr. ltoss could be found. The
man says his name is (Aeorgu, and that
he was born and raised in Ctuia, N. Y.
He is tall, powerfully built, about
i twenty-eight or thirty years of age, with
complexion very light, even for a inn
latto, and keen, dark eyes. His manner
is simple aud quiet, but earnest. He
-ays that he was the cook of a gang of
thieves which was a branch of the gen
eral organization of which Moshsr and
Douglass were the leaders. The latU-r
were with " Division No. 1," which had
its quarters here iu the Northeast, and
ho was with "Division No. 2," which
located and operated in the Houth aud
West. Charlie ltoss wus stolen on the
first of July, and three days afterward
he was m the custody of " Division No.
'2," then at u point near Cincinnati, O.
George says that Charlie was turned
over to his care, and the first thiug he
was ordered to do was to clip the curls
from Charlie's head; that ho did so, and
another man then went "over the work
again and cut ttie child's hair very close
to the scalp. The party with the child
in their possession soon moved South,
and for nine months constantly shifted
their quarters, but kept Bouth all the
time.
He asserts that he saw the child alive
and well within five weeks, and that,
within u week, if the facilities he asks
are afforded him, he will recover the
long lost boy safe and sound. George
alleges *.o fine feelings of humanity as
the motive which promoted hira to now
• ek to r store Charlie ltoss to his heart
crushed parents, but says plainly that
he is afu r the reward, which he would
have moved after sooner had he dared.
He claims that he hail no hand in the
abduction, and that he never did any
crooked work with the gang. It is said
tliat he was able to give very straight
answers concert ing the names of leaders
of the latter, detailed information as to
work done by them, etc., in response to
questions put to Captain Heine and
others, together with other information
which would implv tliat he has seen
Charlie Boss since tiie Letter's abduction.
The mulatto solemnly protests that
every word he utter* at>out the matter is
the truth, aud says he only want* his
assertion* tested, and that he is ready to
do what he promises or forfeit hia life.
Mr. Boss has been summoned to the
city, and when b" arrives there will tw
another < xauiination of George in his
presence. There are three theories re
garding this man's act on : First, the
man may be simply a " beat," to use an
expressive slang term, mh-aTuring to
make a f< w dollars out of Mr. Boss or
*t cure free ttaua]Mirtation to a certain
distant p>iut he is auxiotia to reach;
second, he msy le commissioned liy
men having p>aao**iou of the child,
which lias grown a burden <u their
hand*, to play the game he I* trying ou,
with the object of securing the reward
and sharing it with tle-m ; third, he is
telling the truth aud i* really able and
willing to do what he proposes. The
popular hope will prove uuiverwal that
he msy, iu any event, prove the meat*
of clearing up the " Chr rhe Iluas"
mystery."
A Trudltlon of Saratoga Lake.
There ia an Indian superstition at
tached to this lake which probably had
its source in its remarkable loneliness
and tranquillity. The Mohawks lie
lieved that its stillness was *acrd to the
Great Spirit, and that if a human voice
uttered a sound upon it* waters, the
canoe of the offender would instantly
nink. A story is fold of an Engli-h
woman, in the early days of the find set
tiers, who ha<l occasion toctxxs this lake
with a party of Indians, who, before
embarking, warned her m at impressive
ly of the *}> ell. It wa a silent, breath
less day, and the canoe shot over the
surface of the lake like an arrow. Al*>ut
half n mile from the t-hore, near the
center of the lake, toe woman, wishing
to convince the Indian* of theerruneona-
IK"*S of their *np rstition, uttered a low
crv. The countenances of the Indians
f> il iustaiitlv to the de<q>ont gloom.
After a minute's pause, however, they
redoubled their < xertions, and iu frown
ing silence drove the light tark swiftly
over the w.iter.u They reach's! the
shore in sifi ty. and licw up the cstioe,
when the womau rallied the chi< f ou hi*
credulity. "i h Oreat Spirit is merci
ful," nnswered the roomful Mohawk ;
•' ho know* tliat a white woman aannot
hold her tongue t"
Suspension bridge.
When the first suspension bridge st
Niagara Falls was projected, in IKIH,
Mr. Charles Eliot offered a reward of
tlvo dollars to any person who would get
a string across the chasm. The next
windy day all the boys in the neighbor
hood were kite-flying ; and, belore
night, n lucky youth landed his kits* on
the opposite shore and secured the re
ward. Of this little string was lioru the
large cables which supjKirt the present
vast structure. Rut the first successor
of the string was a small wire rope,
seven eighths of an inch iu diameter.
To tins was suspended n wire basket, iu
which two persons oould cross the chasm.
To this was attached an endless rope
that was worked by a windlass on each
bank. The ride down to the center was
rapid and exhilarating, but the pauae
over the center, while the slack of the
rope was being taken up, was apt to
make the coolest person a little nervons,
ami the jerky motion up the opjiosiP*
slope wns rather annoying. The pres
ent bridge, with its railroad track and
carriage way, was built by the late Mr.
John A. Roeblitig. It is 800 feet lon*,
aud 200 feet above the water.—Scrib
ncr't Monthly.
Table Rock.
On the twenty-fifth of June, 1850, oc
curred the Rri-ut downfall which reduced
Table Rick, at Niagara Fulls, to aimrrow
bonch along the lutuk. The portion
which fell was one immense solid rock
two hundred feet long, sixty feet wide
anil one hundred feet deep, when* it
separated from the bank. lortuuately,
it fell at noonday, when but few people
were out, and no lives were lost. The
driver of an omnibus who had taken off
his horses for their midday feed, aud
was washing his vehicle, feltthe prelimi
nary cracking and escaped, the vehicle
itself being plunged into the gulf below.
ROME FIGURES. —There are in the
UniPnl BtaPs 6,000.000 farmers, 1,200,-
000 trades people, 9, 700,000 mechanics,
2,600,000 professional men, 43,000
clergymen, 40,000 lawyers, 126,822
teachers, 62,000 doctors, 2,000 actors,
5,200 journalists, 1,000,000 laborers and
75,000 domestic seivanta.
TERMS: S'-i.OO a Year, in Advance.
A Wise Furniture Car Driver.
One of the gayest hearted men in ML
Louis is a furniture oar driver, whom,
by wy of |let name, wn will nail Curly
Jim, usually contracted into Curly. He
has away of always lookingao contented
and so entirely at peace with all the
w 'fid that the rest of mankind (vide
Preai lent Taylor's rnnwags) are ever
disposed to trout with hint ou the most
trieiiuly torms, and he is OUI Popularity
himself with the female portion of the
moving world.
Curly'a wagon always seems to be
loaded with the lietter daiw of furuiture,
ah if he were employed only by genteel
families, and he has a knack of piling it
ou ao as to present a ahioshape, if not
an artistic appearance. He i* quite a
philosopher, too, in bis way, and has a
pretty good insight into the labyrinths
of the human heart.
" How is it. Curly, that you get tho
moving of all the millionaires in town t"
said a tttfmbliran reporter to htm the
other day.
" Well, you're a little out of plumb
there," replied Curly; " milliomuree
never move. I get pretty nice loads, to
be sure, and that ia partly luck ami part
ly a little knack that theae common fel
lows don t understand,"
1 must lie oue of the common fellows,
too, replied the reporter, for I dou't un
derstand either. Explain.
"Did you ever buy a box of strawber
ries in the market f" .
" Many a time."
" And didn't you always fiud the nice,
plump berries on top t"
" Always."
" Well, that is the way 1 make np my
load*. Now most families have got a
few nice things, and nearly all, even the
very beet, have got an awful sight of
tranh; and suppose you have got to
move them, and is there any sense in
piling all the nice things in the bottom
and covering them up with traah so as to
look as if you were moving a j uuk ahop
or around hand furniture store f For
instance, here's this load I've got on
now. The only nice things the people
have are thx wardrobe, bureau and
washstaud. As I pass along the street
vou don't notice anything else on the
load but them, do you ? That's owing
to the way they're put on. When we get
to the house they are living moved to
the lxv>t things will all stand on the
sidewalk, while the old traps aud rub
bish will be fetched into the house as
fast as it can be taken from the wagon.
The neighbors, of course, will all be
l>eepiug through the bliuds and out of
the comers of the windows, and will
say: 'That is a very genteel family
moving iu; they have got pretty nice
things.' Don't you see i"
"That all looks very plausible; but
do people who are moving care, as a
general thing, for the appearance their
traps will xnake in being moved f"
" l'ou bet they do. The other day I
was moving a family into a row and an
other carman wan moving a family into
next door. I accidentally overboard the
lady at this house say: • How provok
ing" ! That atiominable carman seems
to take hj-ecial pains to make as much
display an possible of every broken
legged chair and rickety piece of furni
ture we've got. Our things arc nicer
than those next door folks, but while
theii * look an gentarl one might think
we were moving from the poorbouae.' "
" Then you believe iu always putting
vour I*-*t foot foremost, as the saying
ia I"
"True for you. It's the grand secret
of succt-sa in the world. And when 1
put other people's best foot foremost for
them they like it, and that ia the way I
keep my business."
An Anecdote of Forrest.
The little old theater in Albany, N.
Y., bun been made the ace ne of many
carious theatrical etoriea. On one oc
casion Mr. Edwin Forrmt, then a young
man, and mere famous for his muncle
than hi* genius, gave a tremendous dis
play of really powerful acting, lie was
supposed to represent a Roman war
rior, and to be attacked by MI minions
of a detested tyrant. At the rehearsal
Mr. Forrest found a great deal of fault
with the snpes who condescended to
play the minions. Tboy were too tame.
They didn't lay hold of him. They
wouldn't go in as if it were a real fight.
Mr. Forrest stormed and threatened; the
supe* sulked and consulted. At length
the captain of the snpes inquired iu his
local slang: " Yer want this to be a
bully fight, eh f" " I do," replied
Mr. Forrest " All right," rejoined
the captain, and the rehearsal quietly
proceeded.
In the evening the little theater was
crowded, and Mr. Forrest was enthusi
astically received. When the fighting
scene occurred the great tragedian took
the center of the stage*, and die six min
ions entered rapidly and deployed in
skirmishing order. At the cue " Seize
him !" one minion assumed a pugilistic
attitude, and struck a blow straight from
the shoulder upou the prominent nose
of the Roman lie.ro; another raised him
atsiut su inches from the stage by a
well directed kick, and the others made
ready to rush in for a decisive tussle.
For s moment Mi. Forrest stood as
tounded, his broad chest heaving with
rage, his great eyes flashing like fire,
his sturdy legs planted like columns
upon the stage. Then came the few
momenta of powerful acting, at the end
of which one supo was seen sticking
head foremost in the bast* drum in the
orchestra, fonr were having their wonnds
dressed in the green room, and one,
finding himself iu the flies, rnahed ont
upon the roof of the theater and ahonted
" Fire !" at the top of his voioe; while
Mr. Forrest, called before the curtain,
bowed his thanks pantiuglv to the ap
plandiug i ndience, who looked upon the
whole atlair a* part of the piece, and
" had never seen Forrest act so splen
didly."
ruin Funerals.
The undertaker received an order to
have everything as plain as possible at
the burial of Mr. (lamer and his wife,
victims of tho Mohawk disaster in New
York hartwir. Here is a proof of good
sense and task* on the part of Mr. (lar
uer'a friends. " Sated with the pomp
ons follies of this world, of which I
have had an uncommon share, I desire
have no posthumous diaplav," wrote
the c**U*brated Lord Chesterfield, and
ordered lit* liody to be buried in the
nearest graveyard, and his funeral ex
penses to IM* limited to a small sum.
His example had great effect in England
iu pntting down foolish funeral pomp.
Iu this country it is among people who
aro uot rich that funeral folly ia carried
to its highest pitch. People who can
scarcely see a month's food ahead, will
s|HUid what is to them a little fortune at
a funeral, and the hard earned savings
of friends are expended in a dreary
procession of hacks to a distant oeme
tery. " What possible connection can
there be between my drinking s glasi of
wine, and that fellow's health ?" asked a
man when urged to drink a toast; and
what possible satisfaction can there be to
the dead in a long retinne of haoks at
$lO apiece filled with mourners, whoso
grief is not always as palpable as it
ought to lie, following him to Green
wood f If people want to give proof of
affection after bereavement, let them
subscribe to help widow or children, if
they need aid, and not to the hack pro
pi ietor and undertaker, who BOW alone
benefit— New York Sim.
NUMBER 33.
THE TKKBOK OP DEATH.
.Waa MaSafaraalrallaWafct l>aa*r—Tfc#
Marnlaa al Ik* St, Clair*.
J. B. Baiphin, of Minneapolis, was
on board the propeller Hi. Claire, which
was destroyed by fire off Fourteen-Mile
Point, Lake Huperior, and is one of the
Ore (and the <uly peswmger) who es
caped with their lives.
The Ht. Chure left Doluth with four
iNMeengera and a crew of fourt.mi men.
At Ontonagon another man wa* added to
the crow, and twelve or thirteen more
|taMnugt-r* were taken on board. At
about two a. M.. when eighteen miles
from Gutonaguu, an J seven and one half
from land, fire was discovered in the
hold, near the engine. The captain at
once aroused the pansc-rigcm and crew,
and unavailing efforts wore made to oon
trol the fiams. In five minntes from
the firt alarm the entire vessel was
wrapped in a aheet of fire. An effort
was made to lauch the yawl, but the in
tense heat prevented, wnen ths veseei
waa hemled to the wind ward, toMrive the
dames aft, and all hands went forward
to the bows, where the metallic lifeboat
hung. It was immediately launched,
bat had no sooner touched ths water
than sixteen or eighteen men jumped
into and about it, swamping it instantly.
There were no ladies on the vesseL
Must of the men wore provided with life
preservers, and if reason ouuld have pre
vailed might have been saved, but the
groat majority of them were filled with
fear and frenzy, and the lifeboat would
no sooner right than their wild struggles
to climb into it would again upset it,
and every time the boat turned over
some poor fellow, thoroughly chilled and
exhausted, would lose his bold and dis
appear. The water was intensely cold,
and the unfortunate men Buffered tern
biy from it. The captain and several
others maintained their presence of
mind, and endeavored to oalm the fears
of the drowning men, assuring them
that if they would but remain quietly in
the water for a few momenta they ooald
ride safely in their life preservers, the
boat ouuld be bailt d out, and they could
be taken in and saved; but reason had
lost its sway, and the poor fellows would
hear to nothing. lin-v kept the boat,
turning over nnti), one by one, chilled
and In-numbed, they were unable to
longer retain their hold upon it, and
linseed out of sight, dead or dying. At
last, after having been in the water two
and a half hours—it seemed an age to
them—the only three who survived,
(apt. It by waa,' First Engineer Daniel
S. Stringer and Mr. Butphin, righted
and bailed the boat, and got safely into 1
it When the lost was first launched
the find mate, Thomas C. Boothman,
sod wheelsman, Thomas Fortaer, had
thrown a hatchway overboard, and with
another man h.vd climbed upon it
Toward these men the three in the
lifeboat turned, and took in the mate
and Ihe wheelsman. The third person
had perished from exposure. The party
then consisted of five, and with one
oar, and poddies obtained by splitting
up the scats, they made for land, which
was reached, through s heavy sea, at
half-past ten o. a. They landed at a
•bibing shanty, near bleeping river, got
a gcoa breakfast, procured a sailboat
sua ran down to Portage On the fol
lowing day a tug wegt cr 1 and recovered
four toco at the dead bodies.
OB the Argentine Frontier.
The nolo mesas of < list en oe possessed
by the noiusd tribes on the Argentine
1 rentier in South America, since their
hunting grounds hare been well nigh
exhausted, is marauding upon a large
scale. In this way they supply them
selves with horses, on wlrirh they rely
for locomotion and nouri-kiaent, hot
which they seem to be unable, or unwil
ling, to rear. Vast herds of horped cat
tle likewise are driven sway from the
Argentine plains, to be bartered in
Chili for brandy or other articles ac
counted of prime necessity. These ex
peditions are usually undertaken by
small detachments, but now and then by
veritable armies of two to three thou
sand lances. In the great raid of De
cember of last rear s company of Indians
took part whi h hail traveled from the
Andes, a distance of VUO miles. In the
pocket of one of them, killed in s.slur
inish, was found s short pipe, s handful
' of tobacco, and a little tinder. This wan
all the provision deemed essential for
his journey.
In the life of privations which he
leads under his toldo, or rude tent of
bull's hide, the native of the pampas
has one constant occupation, the selec
tion and training of horsee for the oner
ous demands of Indian warfare. His
tlrst business upon returning from s
foray is to install the animals falling to
his share in a good pasture where they
may gain weight Their strength and
endurance are next severely tested by
binding on each a heavier load than he
is likely to tsar in action, and them
driving him at full gallop through
swamps where the mire comee up to tos
belly. Those who survive this treatment
may be trusted to carry their riders
ninety miles a day, but usually a native
takes* with him five or six, sometimes s
dosen, in his incursions, and is suffi
ciently agile to leap without dismount
ing from one horse to another. The
marvelous speed which an Indian is able
to compass under these circumstances
constitutes in fact his foroe, for his fa
vorite weajKms, the lance and knife, arw
of course 1 utile against regular soldiers.
Unlike the tnbee of our esleru plains,
tlieee nomads have never learned to use
firearms effectively and to this day fly
panic stricken upon the discharge of
musketry. Male prisoners are invariably
massacred, but white women, whenever
it is practicable, are carried home to the
captor's lodge.
According to trustworthy calculations,
the total fighting strength of the South
ern races does not exceed 20,000 lances,
yet the devastations of these inconsider
able hordes subject s country, which in
the revolution of September, 1874,
placed 60,000 soldiers in the field within
u week, to an annual loss of more than
two millions of dollars. Moreover, they
compel the republic to station on the
frontier a military force whose mainte
nance for the same period represents at
least an equal mm.
A Female Fire Company.
Thero is a female fire company at
Wcllcsley College, Mass., for it is be
lieved that, however incombustible the
college building may be, the students
should l>o taught how to put ont fires in
their own homes, and be trained to pres
ence of mind, to familiarity with the
thought of what is to be done in case of
tire, and to a full realization of the most
important fact that any fire can be put
out at the beginning. Twenty hand
pnmps are distributed throughout the
building, each supplemented by six
pails filled with water. Every pnmp
has its captain and company of six
girls, one of whom is lieutenant, and all
the companies are drilled at convenient
opportunities in handling the pumps, in
forming lines and in passing the pails.
The whole organisation is officered by a
superintendent and secretary. Hose
oompanies for operating the great steam
tire pnmp are organized in a similar
manner.
A girl was killed near Danville, Va.,
the other morning while milking a oow.
If girls would ouly learn to play the
piano and maze worsted dogs such acci
dents would never happen.
I IMB * f lateral*
It is a bad night when monquitoeß *n
gfft iimp
Hrt to a naor that lake* bold well
hi ahßvtng, on* that tela go eeay *■ moil
doetatble.
Why IN KINMB like the Creation t
Because thay are made of nolbing, and
are wry good,
A ebild wu drowned ia a street gat
tor daring a thunder shower at New
Orieana the other day.
A Spanish proverb : The man who, on
hii wedding day, atarte ae a lieutenant in
hi* family, will never get promoted,
Man may learn wiadom from a poteage
stamp it sticks to ita legitimate busi
ness. Letter* profit by it.
Bait Lake papera aay that 10,000 miner*
have left Utah thi* seasonto assist in the
Han Joan excitement.
llow 000 l and nice it would be to fail
down a well! Provided you are careful
not to kiek the bucket.
George Eliot aay* that " what we aee
exclusively we are apt to aee with iome
mistake of proportion*."
A modern eaosyist defines "goeaip "
to be the " putting of two and two to
gether and making five of them."
Two W*" Fraaciaoo butchers own 700 <
000 acre* of land and employ 1,000 men.
Both these oapitalsts are German*.
A borae committed suicide in Lake
Village, N. H., the other day, by drown
ing himself. He waa nick, aid became
despondent.
A giri of thirteen, in Guildford, Eng
land, was reovntly caught by gypsies,
.tripped of all her clothing, and aent
home unhurt.
In 1759, George Washington, in send
ing to London for some goods, put upon
the memorandum: " Nine pounds of
Mogar candy."
The Missouri Pacific railroad baa ud
deolr discovered that train conductors
have robbed it of SBO,OOO during the
hut twelve months.
An Indiana lady sent a letter to her
brother in California, toiling him that
the family had smallpox, and in a few
days he had it, too.
A Liverpool magistrate estimates tliat
$14,157,000 are annually spent in that
city for intoxicating liquors. There are
1,410 drinking houses.
An exehange aays: "It takes thi- ty
men a mouth to make one camel's hair
ahawL" Tea! and it often takes one
man thirty months to pay for it.
To feed sparingly and irtvgulaiiy is to
lose all you give to fowls ; but to study
into their want* and anticipate them is
to render them very profitable.
It ia estiaxatod that there are about
S0 American youths, aged from twelve
to twenty years, who are engaged ia the
business of ••amateur journalism."
In 1857, while Lewis and Clark were
crossing the It'why mountains, a number
of Indians followed them for several
days in order to restore soma articles
that they had lout.
A wife in Han Joae, OaL, became wild
ly jealous of her husband, and killed her
4lf, which left the husband free to mar
ry the woman who canoed the jealousy,
and he did it within three months.
Troy papers aay that the firing of
can no a on tie- night of July 3d deafened
the bones of Trojan hook and ladder
company, and when the alarm sounds
the horns have to be led to their places.
In this matter of preserving health by
eating at regular hours, it ia interesting
to note that a vigorous old lowa tramp
of ninety years has lived for the past
thirty-five years of hts time entirely on
catch meals.
The numlier of visitors to the Centen
nial Exhibition since the opening to July
18th, aggregates 2,254,074. and tie cash
receipts $743,576.50. The number of
" deadhead " or non-paying visitors is,
therefore, 166,921.
A- gentleman of Jersey City, N. J.,
has token the fourth of July deooraiiuos
from hi* house and sealed them in a
packet, which is to be opened by his de
scendants in order that the same decora
tions may be used by them in 1976.
On® of the fruit* of the Ot-tenuial
Exhibition win be that yon can buy a
dosen different makes of erwicg ma
chine* next year, and eaeh one will have
received th< *• tint" premium for excel
lence, light raiming, and such.
Edward Ttmmons, father of Louise
Hawthorne, the actress who was killed
by falling from a hotel window in Chi
cago, h" committed suicide in Middle
town, Conn. He was greatly depressed
hy his daughter * death, and at length
' -coame demm< d.
The Centennial sash of red, white, and
blue ribbon six or seven inches wide is
<ioe of the pvtr.otic fancies of the year,
ft costs $1.75 a yard, and is worn tied
low down around the hips, with two
deep loops an 1 • nda hanging behind in
stead of a at fi bow.
A horseman passed through Lafayette,
Mo., the otter day, on his way from
Trass to Michigan. He was mounted
j oa a mustang, which had carried him all
the wav. 1.500 miles, with nothing to
ret except what it picked up along the
roadside. The man's entire baggage
consisted of a blanket and a lariat.
Kansas is complaining that her crop
of cereals this year is too enormously
heavy for utilisation. Millions of bush
els of wheat will have to be lost, the
farmers say, because it ripens too fist,
and cannot be got to market; and as to
com, the yield is so great that vast
quantities will have to be used as fuel
during the winter.
He was an applicant for the position
of writing teacher in a public school.
They gave him a copy book and asked
him for a specimen of what he oould do.
He took up the pen, and in s handwrit
ing that looked like a flash of light niog
that had mistaken the direct road, wrote
as follows: ♦'Sorter doesn't kill folkes
sa fast as green goosebnrya."
At the closing of s concert, while a
young man was struggling with his cane,
overcoat, opera glass, and his young
lady's fan, all of which he was trying to
retain on his lap, a suspicions looking
black bottle fell on the floor with a thud.
*• There," he exclaimed to his compan
ion, I shall lose my cough medicine."
That was presence of mind for yon.
A colored man began business as a
physician at Oxford, N. C., some years
ago, but was not very successful, except
pecuniarily. The mortality among his
patients seemed greater than the cir
cumstances justified, and recently his
neighbors, convinced that he knew
nothing about doctoring, took him into
the woods and whipped him soundly.
A foreign innkeeper poets at bin door
this notice : " English, German, Italian
and Spanish epoken here." Arrives an
Englishman and in fantastic French asks
for the interpreter. "Monsieur," re
plied the waiter, "there is none."
" What, no interpreter f And yet you
My on your sign tnat all the langnages
are spoken here." " Yes, sir, by the
travelers."
The well known French earthenware
manufacturer, Emilie Coilinot, has just
discovered a new mode of decoration for
private dwellings and public buildings.
Instead of applying the decorated faience
to the wall he proposes enameling the
stone itself by putting up a light scaffold
and using the blowpipe instead of the
oven. The advantages of tbo tcbsxne
are principally cheapness and durability,
A bad boy's father at Mile End, Lon
don, was fined for his son's truancy from
school, and imprisoned for three days
because he was too poor to pay the fine.
The boy repeated the offense, where
upon the unfortunate parent, hearing ha
was to be summoned once more, de
clared he would rather make • bole in
the water than be imprisoned again for
his graceless child, and drowned himself
in the Regent's canal.
The early Massachusetts fathers did
not believe in paii.t. ihe Be*- Thomas
Allen, of Oharlestown, was brought up
in 1680 for "having paint about his
dwelling," and only escaped by showing
that it was done before his trm e >
that he disapproved of it. The first
Boston church was ne*f a
list of Boston meoharfcY m 1670 does
not include a painter. This abominate
did not become oommoc unti. after the
Revolution.