.ASSASSINS.OF ARKANSAS. : , A TRUE AND AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE. Of the Celebrated|ayeUenrllle War. - ' (Concluded from our last.) In the meantime, the people appeared absolutely stupificd. They collected in groups, looking sadly into each other’s fa ces, yet scarcely daring to whisper their disapprobation of the damning deed, and taking no stops to arrest the assassins, whose drunken shouts roverberated thro’- oWi the village. If tho truth must be known the citizens were concerned for their own personal safety. They knew that within that grocery wore twenty-five, thorough desperadoes, and more than a hundred loaded maskets. ' The clique had friends, too, in tho south, ern division of tho county, where (he Cano Hill Lynchers; under Captain Mark Bend, had only five days previously, hung six men on the same gallows tree. The con sciousness of these fuels hiing like a rtioun tain of iron on tho hearts of the bewilder ed people, paryTizing all their energies, and fettering their lips to silence. There was an exception,- however, to' this singular stnto of terror—an exception 1 that manifested itself in a strange way. 1 There had recently settled in Fayetter- 1 ville a'young uttnrnoy by tho name of Al-j berf Willis, as might bo read on the small : sign-board hung before the doorof his hum- 1 ble office'; and no one then knew, or cn-- red to know more about the unpretending stranger,'who, with his wjfe and one little! babe, lived jn poor stylo and in utter scclu-1 sion. His face never darkened tho en trance of the grocery ; his voice never' sounded in tho broils of tho gaming table; j he nevor attended tho balls or churches of tho village. , , I But he might often bo seen wandering ! at the evening hour,, with nn open volume 1 in his hand, his gaze alternately glancing! -from its leaves to tho western sky, us if dividing his attention betwixt the thoughts j of the immortal dead and the works of cv-j er living nature. It was reported, nlso, that | tho bacchanals ns they reeled homo near the morning hour, always saw the rays of n candle twinkling from tho window of his study. Indeed. Ball had oracularly called him “a ernzy student,” though few could divine what a student was. During the forenoon of that Sabbath of murders, the young lawyer had been out gathering specimens of botony, and was returning across the public square at the instant the affray commenced, tie stop ped as if thunder-struck, tho flowers fal ling from his hand; and as u statue tilt tho denouement of the trftgedy ; and then, as he beheld tho assassins [fur ry away to t,he grocery, apd witnessed the unaccountable fear and stupefaction of the multitude, his thin lips writhed into o strango smile. He approached the largest group knotted around tho corpses, and be gan to lecture them in u sort of conversa tional speech, and more extraordinary still the burden of bis remarks was a justifica tion of the murderers. “I am astonished, my frienddj”—such wns the substance of his address—“l am! truly astonished at your silence on an oc-, casion so glorious as the present. Your I leaders, tho excellent chiefs and political fathers of your country, men elevated to j high office by your voles, and enriched by < your taxes, have mercifully seen fit to kill, only three men, when they had the power] and right to kill you all. And yet you do ■ not thank them! You penl no loud lutz 7,as ; you do not even follow them to tho j grocery, although the rum is to run freeh for n whole week ! Are you lost to grati-j Hide and all sense of shame, or do you . ■ dare to think they have done wrong ?. Can; vou be such idiots ns,to deem it a crime; to slay poor men? Did they not have suf ficient reason to do it? A common hunter,] dressed in leather, had the presumption toj chastise.one.of theso rich robed gentlemen for insulting his affianced bride J Whatj ri°ht had n hunter to such a beautiful girl? A? 1 beautiful womon ought to be mistresses , for your officers and politicians ! And then .you forgot the honor, accruing to yourj country, by the perpetration of such brave i deeds! The public papers will circulate ]the story over the civilized world, and thus it will read: ,G«eat Achievement at Favettck ville !—One lovely Sabbath in July, while they were worshipping God in their church their bank officers, their peace officers, and their district: Judge, shot down with pistols and hewed to pieces with knives, threo of their brethren; and they, tho aforesaid citizens, viewed the act in silence. Thoy .did not move ;to arrest their gallant lea dera.;' they w'ero too grateful lor the cx ,'omptipn of [their ownprecious lives I” The voice of the speakor was inimitable, r and low, ; but musical, nnd piercing as a trumpet; and had he exhausted imngina tiopTor .meaps to arouse the deep indigna tiop of the popular soul and heart, he could not havo''conceived any better fitted to the end than that feigned justification. . At its clpsa. there swelled up a, hoarse, half sup-| ] ‘pressed , murmer, like the commingled: growl from a menagerie of wild beast - —j ' J,et it burn on in smothered sccresy—tho j conflagration will blaze another.day! As; ’ for the student, be,picked up his botanical .epecitnens, turned- cooly on his heel, and ‘ pursued his course homewards. '; , the next morning, the Goronor’s '.lnquest eat over the dead bodies ; and the ' y]umor [havipg flown on tho wings of the wiijd, ! a thousand were on ' tho, „, By -a practice prevalent . jot Arkahstys, attorneys word; allowed to '.oppearVoo ~oither; side. Am even dozen ‘ ,]wer,h engaged for the assassins. , The gold ‘of the" cliquo had already bought up all but oneand that one was top insignificanf I mr a thought. Y . - 1(1 Ijifthb pride of their wealth and',power, the fymhll office, the sign board ' dha the lustrelesS name of the student, Albert Wjllis; qnd yet he was present.— sat heufthe'hfad of'ihe corpse that 1 had hd6n i! Jqhrt GkifiryV with a' face;aS phi it a-vsiteii'noo r-r;i: < ■■■> A WEEKLY PAPER: DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MORALITY, AND FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ]PmMnsk©<t!l nm ©Ussuri® 11 dlj <a.v®iry--W®<fflm®B<iEgiy M®imimg Iby Bsumfi©ll Wo M®®ir© <& ©llsurlk .Wnle®mo Volume 5, lid as the clay besido him, while a pecu liar smilo writhed like a serpent on his marble lips. He did not spoak or- move once during the examination of the witnesses; but when Gen. Saunders arose, big with-bois terous appeal to the jury, Willis fixed his piercing glance ori the countenance of tho ruffian lawyer, ns if he would look him through. Four others in succession thun dered their anathemas ovqr the victims, while Bill Shelley stood pear nodding his approbation of their biller eloquence. Tho Coroner was then in the uct of sub mitting the caso to tho sworn Inquost, when a clear, ringing voice thrilled like a sum mons to judgment through-every ear and heart. “May it please tho, honorable Court of Inquest, I have a word to say against theso dealers in wholesale murder!’’ \The effect was electrical—agitating— awful. Men leapt to their feet by dozens others started and trembled in mortal ter ror; bravos clutched convulsively their duggers, and wild hunters sprung the trig gers oftheir trusty rifles. Had tho frump of the archangel sounded its last peul, the ustonishment could not have been greater. It was the stranger, the pnlo student, the forgotlon lawyer, Albert Willis, who had uttered the daring sentence j and he fol lowed it up with a splendor of diction, u force of unanswerable logic, nnd a burn ing vehemence of invective, such ns nev er before or since was heard in the back woods. - In his word-futures, the very dead seemed to livo again—causing the living to shudder ns if the air itself were peopled with sheeted ghosts. At Qrto point he re alized the summit of Urn sublime. It was when he mustered all his energies for n final burst of thunder into the souls of the assassins. The appeal was ns the shock of an earthquake. Even Bill Shelley shrunk from it—covering his fuce with his hands, like one blasted with a flash of light ning. And the great multitude, totally phtenzied with rage, uttered a wild shout— “ Tear the murderers in pieces! Blood for blood ! Down with the clique of ty rants !” “To the grocery,” cried Ball, nnd the assassins fled for file. They entered their fortress, barred their he rode like a madman ; and the first gray doors and windows, and protruded twenty- twinkle of daylight gleamed In the east five muskets, before the crowd were all| when he bounded to the earth on his own aware of their esenpe. Bill Shelley, being j threshold He paused to listen; all was keeper of the public arsenal at Fayetter- ! .silent within save the song of the cricket ville, had previously slocked his grocery [ chirping oh the hearth. The tranquil with arms and ammunition, and provided stillness seemed to soothe him and restore each wall with port holes. the reign of reason, as he murmured The people showed a disposition to as- ughe sleeps well. 1 was weak indeed sault and carry the place by storm, but lQ cret ji t the feverish hallucination.” were dissuaded by Albert Willis, who had pj e knocked at the door,-but there was in one brief hour, bocomo the general idol | no answer. und oraclo. He advised the observance of <‘Mary, deafest, awake. It is I. Opep order, and a Scrupulous regard for the uu- , be door m y OUr husband.” thority of tho law. Shall it prove well or j y et thoro was no sound, only the crick ill for him that the counsel was followed. l e{ sung on . jj 0 , ried lhe knob 0 f t ho door In the meantime,a scene was occurring' w j tb |,j s hnnd. It was safely locked, and within the grocery fort, destined to secure/ b(! sa j d t 0 himself — the guilty from the grasp of violated jus-, *<AII is right, but she slcep3 vory pro ticc. The assassins weregiving themselves J f ound |y.” up to the mercy of Judge Ilogo, then in a j j_j e s truck ngain fiercer nrgj. louder— state ofpartinl intoxication, who admitted i onC6) tw i COi thrice, and then with both them to bail in the penalty of tenjhousnnd i )UlK j gi fairly shouting— dollars. “Mury, dear, awake —open ! lam re- Tho fact becoming known, again tho lu rncd \ multitude were excited to madness. They g u ( jpg cricket alone replied with its broke open the United States Arsenal, took morning music, out and loaded two cannons, nnd placed co ld s wcat began to roll 'from his them within two hundred yards of Shel- f orc hcad as he trembled in every limb; ley’s grocery. It needed but the touch of und t j, en , making one desperate effort with a spark to have blown the frail fortress in- a || fij s strength, he dashed the'shutter from to atoms, and hurled its murderous garri- j ts hinges. It was perfectly dark within— son into the dark grave of their numerous nnd as the centre of a grave, victims. ... He groped his way to the bedside,.and But once more yonng Willis interposed t | lrcw j,j a nTm s around the beloved ones. I and prevailed on the peoplo to await pa- • j wero thore 1 He could feel liently tho results of a final trial before the tjj e ( r figure’s beneath the sheet—the full bar of tho next district court. Undenia- b | own rose of queenly benuty, and the bud bly, the homicides that day owed their p o jj C( j ; n her bosom.' Ho stooped fora lives to him. But will they thank him for j c iss of tenderness. Avaunt! tho lips wero (he undeserved boon? Wo shall soon seo, 0 f j ce * * * *. * At sunset the same evening, u fatshand and father might have been seen parting with his wife and child. <‘l go dearest,” said he, “to bo absent fora week. Were I to remain home now, 'my enemies, in the first fury of their pas sion, might provoke me to a personal diffi culty, which I nm nnxious, for many rea sons to avoid. Beforo I return, thoy will have time for reflection; and cannot fail to perceive the folly of farther resort to vio lence.” " , “But, my Albert,” remonstrated a proud faced, magnificent woman, with intensely black eyes, “will they not say you area coward for leaving at this crisis 1” “I would rather be called a coward than actually bo a homoeido,” replied the hus band, mournfully. “But,” persisted the wife, “may ijot the ruffians ayenge“themselves on me and your innocent babe 1” . “Nonsense,'Mary,” replied young Wil lis, with’a smile; “that would-be an act •beneath the meanest of'devils. '.“Well,” 'remined Mary, seeing . all' her arguments uriaVailibg, “kiss us, good bye, and bo sure' you ’come back in. a- week. "' Theft" therp wefo teafs and tender em braces, and the little child’p lip mingled,with j' of ith '.parents';;’ and,men ilio father suddenly vaulted into the saddle and shot awoy over the prairie with the speed of an arrow, as if lie were endeavoring to os capo from tho spectre of some gloomy thought. He took tho road to the Cherokee coun try, intending to visit Fort Gibson and pre fer charges against Bill Shelly, as keeper 1 of the Arsenal at Fayettervillo, in order to procure his removal; and he made the ut most haslo fearing that some emmissary of the clique would anticipate him and preju dice the ear of Gen. Arbuckle. But his mind was ill at ease. The parting words of his beautiful Mury— “May they not avenge themselves on me and your innocent babe?” rang like n knell from eternity through his feverish brain. At midnight ho paused to drink of a crystal spring on the Indian line, thirty miles beyond Fuyettcrvillo. lie stooped down and imbibed a copious draught, and laved his burning brow ; but when ho raised his head he stood transfix ed with horror. A low, hurtling murmur as of busy wings sounded in the air above him,. He looked, and a fiery illuminous vapor the size nnd figure of a coffin was flouting along the nir. Did imagination paint the rest ! or was it a mere'optical il lusion, engendered by the wild heal of the brnin 1 or huve the spirits of the dead at times truly the power to flash their pale laces before the living eyes? These are problems which every one will solve for themselves. But the young at torney saw or thought ho saw an awful group gathered around that coffin of fire us it floated away into eternity. There was VVagnon with his gigantic features all distorted by the death agony ; and Pollock with that palo smile which commonly char acterizes corpses perishing by gun shots. But who wore those in the very centre of tho ghostly circle —those with their faces baptized in clotted blood 1 Could ho credit his eyes that witnessed the appaling terror ? His Mary and her babe were par cels of tho vanishing panorama. He saw no more. Uttering a wild cry of mingled rage and anguish that startled the very wolves from their covert, he leap ed into his saddle and turned his horse’s head homewards. All with u whip and spur ainuin, “Ho!’ fora candle!” It was kindled in a moment, and tho light revealed it all. Tho woman and child were literally torn into pieces by a volloy of ball and buckshot that had been fired through a crevice be hind the bed ! But the herenved uttered no lamentation; not so much as a tear bedewed his glassy eyo. He tossed his wild hands towards Heaven, and swore an awful oath. Ho turned to depart, but as ho was going, tho cricket on the Henrth caught his glance. — Its chirp seemed to his frenzied ear the croaking of some fiend in torture. “Black fievil, what dost thou there ?” he 1 * shouted hoarsely, and ground it beneath his heel, All that day and the following night Albert Willis hurried to and fro 'over the country, detailing the horriblo tragedy,and arousing the people, to vengeance; and the next morning fall eight, hundred men tho roughly armod, mustered at the camp ground,.two. miles*south of Faveltorville, whence they immediately marched tostorm the stronghold of 1 the legalized outlaws. As they entered the village they met Governor Yell, wiio happened to be pass ing- through; and he instantly advised them not to venture on an attack, as the grocery fort was ...garrisoned by; fifty men, with countless loaded muskets, besides four or €}learllelil, I*a., May 10, 1854. five cannon taken from the public arsenal; and the nows tended very much to cool Iho ( ardor of the citizens, although they still, proceeded. They moved forward in solemn columns! till within thirty yards of the grocery, which previously lnd not shown a sign of human lifo, and whero, in fact, nothing was to be seen but the old wooden walls yawn ing with empty port holes, and the four black cannon peering through their rude embrasures. Suddenly tho door was thrown partially open for one brief instant, and tho fear less face of Bill Shelloy appeared, as he shouted in tones of thunder — “If you come one foot we’ll blow you to hell I” Quick as lightning the door was shut, and fifty guns protruded through the port holes. An unaccountable pnnic seized the multitude; every man but one fled jn ut ter confusion and dismay, and many did not pause till they wero miles away in the country. Very different was the conduct of the one single exception. Albert W ill is displayed the daring oT n demon. lie stood firm as a rock ; he tore open his shirt bosom and dnred his foes lotfire ; ho ban tered them to come out and he would en gnge them all at once. His courage awoke one sentiment of honorable feeling in hearts dead to every other. “Fire upon him !” exclaimed Ball. “No, you shall not,” said Bill Shelley, “he is too brave to be shot down like a dog.” * * * For three months afterwards an extra ordinany state of things prevailed in the county of Washington and especinjjy about JFuyetlerville. Albert Willis rode continually over the country, sometimes with one, but generally with u half dozen wild looking ruffians by his side,all armed to the teeth with double barreled shot guns and revolving pistols. Occasionally he was seen near the Indian line ut the head of a hundred Cherokee warriors. A thou sand different rumors were circulated. — Now it was said that ho lay in wait on the roads to assassinate his enemies; again, the news camo that he was mnrehing with a thousand savages to lay the county seal in ashes. Often at the "hour of midnight the guilty citizens of the villngo were start led from their slumbers by the shrill blast of a solilnry trumpet from the centre of tho public square. It seemed as if their foo took a malicious pleasure in putting them to the agonies of u slow torture ; and all the while the companions of that odious clique never left their grocery fort. At length Willis entirely disappeared and was not heard of for a year. Ball, San ders & Company then issued from their fastness, and ventured out to breathe the fresh air. Twolvo months rolled away, when the community was again agitated by the oc -1 currenco of a new catastrophe. Alf Shel ley was slain, when travelling alone on I Cane Ilill ; and, from evory sign, tho deed had not been done till after a.despuruto ; contest. Both his pistols were found discharged, and his knife was broken in two. Tho next week JOhnCoulter was killed near the same spot, and his rifle, 100, lay empty, with the stock annihilated beside him. A fortnight followed, and Matthew beep er was discovered dead in his own office, which stood in the superbs of the village, somo two hundred yards frorij' any other house. This appears the mas£singulur of all. Tho door was locked ; but a window stood open, through which the homicide had evidently made his escape, as the prints of two bloody hands had been left on the blinds. There were also two words traced in blood on tho floor — “The Avenger.” There had obviously been a violent com bat. A strange looking knife, with the point snapped off, lay on the table, while the stiff fingers of the corpse grasped a dagger purple with gore. ■ It is impossible to paint tho, terrors ofthe cliquo at this swift succession of disasters. Ball and the two surviving Shelleys ran away to Texas, never, halting till they reached the.Tripity. An agent sold their farms and grocery, and followed with their numorous slaves. Soon afterwards the fact transpired that Ball had robbed the Bank of which Ijq. was enshior, to the amount of a hundred dollars. Gen. Sanders set put on a trip to Wash ington, and was heard of no more. A long period elapsed without any fur ther incident resulting from tho Fayetter villo war,and men had almost forgotten its horrors. * Ball and tho Shelleys had .be come popular chiefs, in Texas, with im mense cotton 1 furms nnd vast influence. — 4)n the fifth of July, 1849, about ten years after tho Sabbath of murders, they were returning home with a friend from a bar becue given to Gen. Houston, at the town of Crocket tho day before. Jt was sunset when they renched tho right bank of tho Trinity, and they waited a few minutes for the ferryman to row across fropa the op posite side, . , . . | Suddenly ah extraordinary appatftipn 'emerged from the tangled cane, and con- I fronted them at tho water’s-edge.'. 1 ■• _ ■ 1 It was a half makdd figure; \yith long l5. beard and hair, that did not seem to have been shorn for a dozen years ; the faco bronzed ; tho haggard, blood-shot 'oyes blazing with wild delcrious light, and the whole appearance denoting the madness of immeasurcabledespair: And yet thestrange being was thoroughly armed ; his hand grasped a shot-gun, douhle-barreled, und of huge calibre, while his large leathern belt held Dcringcrs and revolvers to the extent of thirty rounds, 110 spoke, and his tones were shrill and piercing as the cry of some bird qf prey. “Villains, I see that you wear your old weapons ! It is well!” Ho said tho truth; tho comrades were amply provided with pistols and knives. “What want you with us?” exclaimed Ball, supposing the intruder to bo some wnndering maniac. “I want to fight, and I mean to fight you all three,” replied the stranger. “In the devil’s name who are you?” cried Bill shelley, as an appalling memory flashed across his soul. “lam the wild man of tho woods, who was Albert Willis!” shrieked the stranger; and the three guilty comrades started as if they had been struck by a thunderbolt. Bill recovered first “You have every advantage,” glancing at the other’s shot gun, with both its ham mers at full cock. Willis rejoinod mournfully “1 killed your brother Alf, und Coulter, and Leepcr, and Saunders, in a fair.fight, and so I will kill you all I” ho - shouted with a hoarse chuckle, as lie tossed his gun into tho river and drew Colt’s patent murderer. There followed n deafening roar, and Ball dropped to tho earth a c<JK]*se. Then came another, like a doublo explosion of lightning, and tho younger Shelley went to his long home. Then two awful doto nalions burst at once—Willis and Shelley both firing at once, and both falling at tho same instant, but still not dead. Blending; almost expiring, their hatred, nevertheless, seemed immortal. Mustering all their dy ing energies, with glaring eyeballs and gnashing teeth', they crnwlcd forward, like! two mangled snakes, till they met, nqd each buried his bowie knife up to the hilt in the other’s bosom! Such wus the finnl consequences of the “Sabbath of Murders” the last battle of the “Fnycttcrvillo War.” Prohibitory Liquor Law. —The Hon. Ross Wilkins, Judge of ilio United States Court, Michigan, has uddressed a letter to Judge Platt of the Supremo Court, of that Slate, pronouncing the prohibitory liquor law unconstitutional. The judges opinion is but n reiteration of a decision o( the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania, delivered by Justice Bell, on an appeal taken up from Allegheny county, the Commonwealth against Purkerel al. The point decided was precisely the same as that of the Michigan question, namely, thut to delegate legislation to the people, by authorizing them to determine what shall be luw al the ballot box, was n palpable violation of tho constitution, rela ting to the powers of tho legislature. The peoplo have parted with the power to make and repeal laws, that power is vested in a particular branch of goverument; and, therefore, any utteinpt to exerciso the law making prerogrative,otherwise than accor ding to the prescribed terms of the consti tution, would be a usurpation, dangerous to those checksmnd balances which are essential to tho* harmonious workings of constitutional government. Harrisburg Union. A Goon Sjiot. —One day last week Mr. C. Myers of Fewsburg, killed 17 pidgeons at ono shot. —Fredonia Censor. Pshaw ! The other day Mr. L. Dean, of Monroe, killed 33 pidgeonsnt ono shot. Con. Reporter. Theso are pretty good shots for New York and Ohio marksmen; but hero in Pennsylvania they are considered ‘no great shakes.’ Proof—Mr. Martin, of Harbor creek township, killed a few days since 63 at one shot, 34 at the second, and tho next ho wquld have brought dowti an acre or. so, but unfortunately his foot slipped just as he touched tho trigger, consequently his aim was a little too low. As it was, about threo pecks of legs was all the return he got. —Erie Observer. A Cask 6iT Consciknck.— A man nq-. med John C. McKinzie, who was impliaa ted with some seven others in the alleged killing of Ebnn.Floyd, in Clinton county, Ohio, over four years ago, and who left the State at that time, returned on Satur day, the 15th inst., and gave himself up to the Sheriff, declaring that he wpuld rather 'suffer whatever penalty the law may .in flict upon him, tliuh to'remain any longer a wandering outcast, away from his homo and his friends. oO”Lynmn Combs, of .Boston, on Mon day night, fell asleep or fainted while feed jpg one of Gleason’s fast cylinder presso3. He Jell upon, tho press, ond one of his arms was drawn in by tho cylinder:till it was crushed to pieces and.stppped tho press.— The type in the form were greatly? battered by, the bones of the? poor Ibllow’s crushed limb. ' An Abduction Indeed. We copy a passage from a paper read before the American Geographical Sbciety by Captain Gibson, lately' returned'freim .■the East Indies, and bringing with, him I some now facts as to tho tribes of Ourang outangs inhabiting the deserts of that part or the world. . He says: “My statement of tho extraordinary peculiarities of those apparenty semi-hu man beings has led to to tho expression of so much curiosity to know more of them by some, mid of skepticism of tho fact of their existence on the part of others, that I havedeeemed it duo to myself and to public curiosity to give some additional facts along witfeall tho coroborativo evi dence that has fallen under my observa tion. !• Wliilo at Mintok, Palembnng, and Bat avia,tl hoard-many romarkablo stories of the agility, audacity and especially of the super-human strength oftheourang-outang. I will tresspass upon your attention by re lating one of the most extraordinary, at tho same timo of. the.best attested, which 1 heard while at Bamvia: Lieutenant Shoch, of tho Dutch East India army, was on a march with a small detachment of troops and coolies on tho southeastern coast of Borneo; he had encamped, on one occas ion, during tho noonduy Heat on tho banks of one ol the small tributaries of the Ban gs rmassin. The lieutenant had with him his domestic establishment, which inclu ded his. daughlor-a playful and interesting little girl of the ago ofthirteen. One day, while" wandering in the jungle beyond the prescribed limits of the camp, and having, from the oppressive heat, loosened her garments and thrown them off almost to nudity, tho beauty of hor person excited the notice of an ourang-outang. Who sprang upon her and carried her off. Her piercing screams rang through the forest' to tho cars of her dozing protectors, und roused every man in the c.amp. Tjipswift bare-footed coolies were foremost in pur suit; and now tho cry rings in the agoni zed futher’s ears that his daughter is.de voured by a biantang —again, that an •burang-oulnng has carried her off.". jHe rushes, half phrenzied, with the whole' company to the thicket from whence tho screams proceeded, and thero, among the topmost limb 3 of an enormous banyan, tho lather beholds his daughter, naked, bleed | ing, and slrugling in tho grasp of a powqr ' ful ourang-outang, who held her tightly, yet easily, with one arm, while he sprang lightly from limb to limb, as if wholly un encumbered. It was vain to think of sbooj ing tho monster, so agile was he. The Dyak coolies, knowing ftio habits of the ourang-outang, and knowing that ho will always plunge into the nearest stream when hard pressed, began a system, of operations to drive him to the water; they set up a great shout throwing missiles of all kinds, agitating the underbrush, while somo proceeded to ascend the treo. By the redoubled exertions of the whole com* pany the monster was gradually .driven to the water, yot still holding tightly to the poor girl. At last tho monster and his victim were seen on nn outstretched limb overhanging the stream ; the coolies, who aro among tho expertest swimmers in tho world, immediately lined tho banks; tho soldiors continued tho outcries arid throw ing of missiles. Ho clasped his prize more tightly, took a survey of tho water and of his upward-gazing enemies, and then leapod into the flood below. He had hard ly touched tho water ore fifty resolute swimmers plunged in pursuit; as he rises a dozed human arms are reached out to wards him ; he is grasped, others lay hold upon the insensible girl; the ourang-out nng used both arms to defend, and after lacerating the bodies of somo of the coolies with his powerful nervous claws, finally succeeded in diving, beyond tho roach of his pursuers, and in escaping down the stream, while the bleeding, insensible Do dah was restored to the arms of her father and nurses, in whose hands sho .was hßL mulelv restored to consciousness, health and strength once moro. This savage version of the classic story of Pluto and Proserpine is well authenticated, and the girl, now n grown up women, is living at Ambonyn, in the Molucns.” OCT A minister, while preparing his next Sunday sermon, stopped occasionally to review what ho had written, and, as a matter of course, to cruso some portions, which, on consideration, seemed to require improvement. While doing so ho.was accosted by his little son, a child, about three years of age, “Father does God tell you whnl to preach?” “Certainly, my child,” “Then what makes you scratch.it out?” ‘ OCrTho steamship Baltic, of the Collius lino is being thoroughly overhauled for the first time since sho was built. During tho last’ three yenis.tho Baltic has crossed the ocean j foilit-Ughi times, running more than one'hundredandJiftytiioasandmilesfiqiiaA to six limes the circumferanco of the world. She has averaged a trip across the ocean every three weeks, and has hot laid in port more than five weeks at ono ’tjrpey . ‘ ” s Q3rDo not envy the violet tHC ( 'd(iu'-drbp of glittier of the sunbeam; do not'enyyjthe bee thq, plunt from which jie drawslsomo sweets. Do not envy man the liitle;gdbds he possesses; for tho earth is for : hibi,the plant from which ho obtains' sdmo sweets, and his mind the dew'-drop which tbe world colors for tin instant,— Leopold Scheffer 1 . Gratitude is the fuirest blossom .which springs from tho soul; and .the heartmf man knowoth npna more fragrant; ■ ;Wjbile its opponent, ingratitude,'is a deadly weed ; not only poisonous in itself, but impregna ting the very nlmosphoro.in which It grows with fetid yamrs.-^lloseaiSullou..]\ -,r/ \ CoAi.moN.-lyMr, MclCeiilic, neatq Council Bluflsj lq'tvq, Ims in.ji.'cqgq a blqck bifd,;,a:-rat; a : cat, ! c mouse livtrtg,qs:,harmbriibusly togotne'r qsjftwVw expected;' 11 ' •' w ?
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