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THE IXMIANS (IF Till; PLAINS.
The special correspondent n' (lie SI.
Louis l,nirr,i'lt wlin ; 1 -(. 1 1 1 J 1 1 1 i -1 1 dm,
lliirncv on march (ci l'';i!i, cives the
following rcf-iiws of events mi the wnv
Inane:
"Ten l:iy - was (he term which (ieinial
Ilnrncy had agroi-d t . wait for i.e Chey
enncs, mid on the tenth tiny ti.ey iinu'le
their appearance, having IrnvYlled desper
ately to keep t(. .vriuiii!iiiii,i. Tl.cv
have the reputation of being (lie bravest
tribe this side of I ho mountains, and the
iinpearanoo imil bearing ol' the delegation
(liil not lielie their reputation. Tiio"laik"
was conducted in (he same style jinil
ffilli tho sinio etiquette 11s the talk with
t lie Millall:is. They eulne up, one i.v mie,
in ft ni.tnl v numer, each shaking hands
with the General, ivli'i sat in the Amo of
11 tree, nnd those whites' who v.'e.o willi
liim. They seated themselves in r. eir, le,
Mid proceeded to light their pipes. Till'
orutur of the occasion was as faithful to
the rules (if his in t as if he had studied in
the schools. Jle commenced l.y savin--'
that the fame of Gi lu ral Hal licy a- a gi eat
chief was known to them, an I that they
were all exceedingly glad to sec him.---The
substance of the di -course, was that
they were desirous of being at (aro w ith
the whites; that the success of t h 3 mis
sion oflircat Bear brought happim ss ind
ponce of mind to the w hole ti il.e ; that
they were also desirous of being at peace
with other Indian tribes, hut that tlio
Pawnees were always rohlin' tiiein.
"I thought (ien. lla,irv's ciiuncl to
them judicious and humane. He remind
l them of their outraL'es upon the w hites,
litlt told them if henceforth they acted
ri'lit li, would ask tho (Ireat l ather at
Washington to foiyive tlieui. He had not
cnine to make a treaty with them, as Ids
imsiiicss w as to chastise w hile childci n of
tlio (In nt Father, w ho had hecn acting
liadly, hut that these whitechildreii, know
ing the power that was arrayed aainst
thein, they suhinitte.l. 'I'iio ( leneral's
liilll was to iinpre.-- them with the iih'a
that if they tiaiisgresscd tiley ecnld not
escape punishment, arid tliat they would
receive justice if w hites committed any
outrages upon them. He promised to he
their friend if their conduct continued
;ood, hut that otherwise they would lind
him a 'devil.'
"In the propre-M of the talk it was learn
ed that a party had gone out airainst the
lVwiiees hefore t he return of (rood Hear,
and this the warriors present regreted, as
the counsel of their (.'ran Ifalhor (so they
I'.illOcn. Harney) inclined them to peace,
with tho Indians as well as whiles.
"Tho talk was protracted for a eonid
cruhle time, or rather there were two
talks one on their arriv d and the other
in tho evening tho l it tor tlio morn im
portant. They wore treated hospitahly,
and in addition to lucad and meat, got
weak groj? to drink nnd tohaccoto Hinoke;
but the condition of the commissariat and
the circumstances of tho meeting did not
warrant ihc giving to them of any presents.
From what transpired, it is certain that
llicy will not molest tho whites this year
i t least, and that they have a .salutary
dread of (ien. Harney. )t was noticed
that the old chiefs laid the Maine of past
mutters upon tho 'yotin
just ns
liriuhaiu Young and the apologists of
Kansas ra-scalities lay the blauio ol'ail inii--ilocds
upon tho 'boys.'
"Next day (tlio P.Uli) Gen. Harney re
Mimed h's homeward march. Ho had been
within sight of tho crossing of the South
Fork of the Platte, -fiill miles west of Leav
enworth, when the dispatch notifying him
of the restoration of "peace in I' tali," and
the new disposition of the forces conse
quent thereon, reached him. On the 'Jlst
wo reached fort Kearney, mid when ap
proaching that uncomfortable place, heard
that battle was raging between the Sioux
and tho Pawnees. It turned outthat it was
tho Cheyenncs the war party which had
gone out from tho Republican Fork and
not tint Sioux, who had tho audacity to
nllack their eneruy w ithin sight of tho Hag
of the United Slates. Tho CI icvennes,
who had been hovering in tho vicinity for
two or threo days, swooped down upon
tho Pawnees, whilo a branch of their iia
tion, called tho Loup Pawnees, werechang
ing their camp. The assailants succeeded
in stainpeeding three or four hundred
horses, and tlio contest then was really
for tho spoils. The pawnees, though taken
by surprise, were soon mounted and in
pursuit of tlio Clieyennes, w ho were not
more than forty. As wo pnssed out east
of the fort, some, of tho attendant circum
Ftanee of Indian warfare presented them
selves to our notice. Naked warriors
armeil with nnliimtol puns, or bows and
quivers, galloped ceaselessly towards the
Fort. Tlieso were all Pawnees. They
Were perturbed, but not with fear, nnd in
answer to nil questions put to them, said
the 'Sioux' had come upon them nnd
took away a 'lienp' of their horses. It was
impossible to know the truth ubout the
mtlle until evening. It was learned that
t lie heyennes had killed ono J'awnoa
chlcl, named the French chief n, man be
loved and admired l.y his trihe, w ho rode
learlesv ln among the Cheyennes nnd
turned the stampeded horses, but Who
while thus engaged was speared to death.
I here were some thrco or four wounded,
but none of them mortally. All the hors
es were rescued nt least the Taw-nccs say
f. Tim Cheyenne did not even succeed
11 taking the scalp of the .shun Pawned,
who wan hurried the samo day with loud
wail nnd lamentation, nnd as befitted the
dignity of a chief, with many weapons and
bitlhdo robes and vengeful 'vows, tho last
ol u hich are destined ton speedy rpsur
rection in bloody deeds.
"(ien. Harney had 11 talk with tho Paw
nees, also. He lectured them severely 11
bout their thievillL'. but thev defended
themselves by accusing tho' Cheycinics j
and Sioux of various murders and robber-1
I ies. He also advised them not to retaliate 1
j upon tho Cheyenncs, as the latter were j
disposed to make peace. Their knitted 1
! brows and unbroken silence gave evidence I
that they did not much relish this advice, I
nut yet 111 their reply they promised to re-!
main quiet, allhomh Hie perfidy and '
blood-thirstiness of the Cheyenncs was the
topic upon whi. h they most elaborately1
dwelt, One of them, who had been lit !
Washington, and who displayed the med
als which he received there, urged with
gi cat skill tiie atrocious nature of tho in-
suit given to tho whites by the Cheyenncs
in spilling blood under the walls "of tins
fort. I in Iced, (it'ii. Harney himself thought
thai the ( 'heyennes should have been pre
vented JVom attacking the Pawnees or any
any other nation in sight of tho Hag staff; j
and Col. May, w ho is now in command at '
Foi l Kuiniev, promised that if tho Chey.'
(mie-; should venture to make war near!
the fort, ho would chastise thom. The
link wiih the Pawnees was tho most for-
mal and impics.-ive of tho three, and all
the chiefs, without exception, gavo mani-'
festat ions of the weight which the (icner
al's counsel had with them, and of tlio ,
fear with which they regard him. 1
"We remained a day at Fort Kearney, '
cliing out on tie; ":jd ultimo, nnd accom
plishing tlie journey to Leavenworth in1
ten days. Wo hoard that wo should find I
a band of Arrapahoes on Little Blue, but
wncn we came ncro wo louiul merely tlio
traces of their camp, o learned aftcr-
ward that they had entered into unnlli-i
aiice il h the Cheyenncs to make war on '
the Pawnees, but thatthey had not arrived !
at the rendezvous in time. Tho reckless1
I ,!;! ',r' iV tlin I 'Iifii'iMTnnu intr 1 s, (rii.tu.nl I
at from the fact that forty of them j.rovok
cd a battle with over a thousand Pawnee
warriors, and in close proximity to the
I'nted Stales troops, both in fort and
camp. It deserves to be l icntioncd that
a Pawnee boy, fifteen years of age, was
the person that rescued most of the hors
os."
. Til K TLLKGKAPIIIC SYSTKM.
On tiio sea-walls between Venice and
the Adriatic, erected by the City of tho
Sea when she was yet a proud republic,
Nacoi.kon I. put tho inscription "Ausu
leniiaiio a ro Veneto" truly indicating
that Vcniiian money with lionutn enter
prise had raised tlieso remarkable bulwark.-,
rescuing tho harbor, ns it were,
from being absorbed in tho Lagune.
Without much strainingof wordsor mean
ing, we might take some such similar in
scription as a motto for the Atlantic Tel
egraph, w hich certainly is the offspring of
Fnglish worn ,i and American sciriici:
A con-iderablo portion of tho capital
was Knglish. Put tho suggestion, of car
rying Moiisk's telegraph across tho Atlan
tic, was wholly American, and Mr. Cyrus
West Fif.i.ii is eminently entitled to im
mortal credit for tho part which ho has
taken in it, with equal energy and perse-!
verance. Four years have elapsed since he
first devoted himself to this great project
four years of bodily as well as mental la
bor. Ho had the fatigues and peril of
much travel to encounter; he had to per
suade legislatures as well individuals; ho
had to interest capitalists in bis scheme;
1 e had to engage iho servioo of eminent
men of science ; he had to make contracts
with General and State Governments;
he had to superintc-nd everything and
supci vi.-e every body employed on or con
nected with the ontcrpriso; worse than
all, he had to sustain repeated failures.
At last canio that crowning cunsumation
of success, which places his name, forever,
on the roll of fame. J'roln the AVw Ym k,
Tiim-A of yesterday, we tako the following
biographical memoranda, knowing how
great and hyw natural must bo thecurios
ity to learn particulars respecting such a
man:
"Cyrus WV.-t Field, who w ill bo remem
bered in nil time for his connection with
the Oceanic Telegraph, was born nt Stock
bridge in tho year 1S22. Upon arriving
at a proper age ho eamo to tho city of
New York, and commenced business un
der the training of A, T. Stewart, the emij
in-lit merchant. 1 to subsequently became
tho head of one of tho largest houses in
the city engaged in Iho manufacture and
sale of paper. Four years ngo, in a social
party, composed of some four or fivo of
our eminent business men, tho subject of
connecting F.uropo with America was
broached. Mr. Field tit onco became im
pressed w ith tho idea of its feasibility, and
turned the whole energies of his mind to
bear upon tho subject, lie very soon,
with others, formed nn association in this
city, 'composed of Peter Cooper, Moses
Taylor, Marshal O. lioberts, Chandler
Wiu'to, iS. F. P. Morse, and David Dudley.
Field, for tho purpose ell'ecting a commu
nication between tho Eastern and West
ern world. Asa first step Mr. Cvrus W.
Field, with his brother, David Dudley and
Chandler White, went to Newfoundland,
nnd after overcoming many legislative dif
(lenities, procured a charter, under which
they constructed h line of telegraph from
"i:xr'i:i.sinit."
CLKAKF1KU), I'A. WKDMvSI) AV AIJCSUST I, m.
I St. .lohnl Newfoundland, nctrturt (lit,
island of more than ,'!(H miles, through a '
sterile wilderness, composed of rock'or- '
est, anJ morass. Then followed tin! huIi
marino telegraph ncross the (iulf of S,
Lawrence, the first one attempted to be'
laid, ns our readers will remember, being
lost. Hen-eitis that Mr. Field trained
himself for future triumphs, for undis
mayed, he immediately ordered a new ca
ble ; then, ngnilist all seeming possibility
of Kiieecsn, oeeillTd the one at the bottom i
of tho dull", nnd thus llnnllv ri leived (he
company against nny material loss. A teb
egrnphie communication with Capo Hie
ton was thus accomplished, connecting!
with the then existing lines in Nova Sco- j
tia. The company then procured grants
and charters for 'linos from Prince F.d- j
ward's Island, Nova Scotia. New p,m,is-!
wick, Maine, nnd Canada, All these j
things accomplished, Mr. Fieldstarted fori
r.iigiand, and there, unremitting efforts,
succeeded in establishing the Atlantic Tel
egraph Company for tho purpose of cm
necting the F.uroponn and American con
tinents. What Mr. Field has done to
bring about this wonderful ('(insinuation is
familiar to the world. Failure nlier fail
ure never dampened his ardor, or lessened
his enthusiasm, and on the memorable oc
casion when tho cable, apparently w ithout
cause, untwisted ns it was paying out from
the Agamemnon, when all were despond
ent, it was stated that Mr. Field alone was
sanguine nnd sure of success. Such en
ergy, such deteriiimntion to triumph, has
creative power, and is only to be found in
elm meters illustrated by Columbus, Frank
lin, and other discoverers, who have led
tho way in tho advancement of civiliza
tion, and been tho eyes, as it were, of
the world in which they lived and had
material association."
Ton days niter the Telegraph Fleet had
sailed, on the last and fortunate attempt
to lay the Cable, the jCI.OUO .-hares of the
Company were ollcred, on the London
Stock Exchange, at '".() to OJD each
butMcr.i were no buyers. No one di e uncd
that this last effort would succoe l. It
will be singular should shareholders, who
were compelled to hold on their stock be
cause nobody would purchase, eventually
realize largely by the enterprise.
We anticipate, as a matter of prudence
and necessity, that early step will bo ta
ken for laying a trami cable. It w ill nev
er answer to havo tho noivly-established
relations between the two continents de
pending wholly upon a single line, sn at
tenuated as that which has now been
placed. Nobody can say w hat unexpected
accident may occur to undo, in an instant
ol time, what it has taken so many years
and so much capital to complete.
Tho greatest reliance can bo placed up
on Lieutenant Mauhv's statement, the re
sult of numerous soundings, that tho
greater part of tho plateau at tho bottom
of the Atlantic, between Newfoundland
nnd Ireland, is smooth, and that it is too
deeply placed to bo disturbed by the influ
ences of currents or winds. Hut theiW.
route is not thus favorable. The two or
three hundred miles nearest to Ireland
arc of variable depth, and certainly not
even smooth or undisturbed at iho bot
tom. Wo can readily fancy tho cable
placed upon tho jagged summits of the
sharp rocks which abound in that part of
the Atlantic, nnd the thought naturally
arises, is a single telegraphic line, which
mny so easily bo chafed, strained, or cut
upon these rocks, to bo ihc sod connecting
link between the Old World and the
New? It is evident that a second cable
must bo laid, and tho sooner the better.
If not, wo may awake some line morning
and find that, from somo cause or other,
tho Atlantic Telegraph is hw ir oimLit,
and that we aro thrown back, for an in
definite period, upon tho old communi
cation of "ten days from England by mail
steamer." It is satisfactory to add that
hitherto the sub-ma?ino telegraphs have
invariably worked more reliably than those
upon tho land.
It is astonishing to find how much has
been dono by the Magnetic Telegraph
within the last one and twenty years. In
IS!!", Professor Mouse filed a caveat for
what ha called Tho American Electro
Magnetic Telegraph, took out a French
patunt in 1H',)X, and an American in IS III.
Tho first Telegraphic line, actually in
practical operation, was that between
Baltimore and Washington, completed in
144, and extending forty miles. From
that small commencement arose a system
of intercommunication so great that, in
the United States alone, there nre now
33,000 miles of Telegraph communication,
all of which will bo connected with the At
lantic Telegraph. In tho whole of Europe
there aro only liS.OOO miles of telegraph
viz: (ireat Britain 38,000 ; Germany and
Austria, 10,000; Franco, M.llOOj Prussia,
5,700; Italy, 2,500; Switzerland, 1,mKI;
Spain and Portugal, GOO ; Holland, COO; I
and Belgium, 50(1.
Tho Atlantic Telegraph is nearly two
thousand miles in length, an unbroken '
line. All over tho rest of tho world, sub-
marino telegraphing is not one thousand i
miles. Tho earliest w ns that between 1 o-1
vcr and Calais, established Jn ls.M), and '
only twenty-lour miles long, J lie longest
across tho Black Sea, is under four hun
dred miles it was on this line that Lord
Pan Mr he, War Minister of England, con
veyed that messago about young Dou;n;
uen, his nephew, "Tako care of Dow b."
Tho triumph of American science and
skill is rerceptiblo in the Telegraph sys
tem. Morse would seem the successor of
Fkanki.in, who snatched Iho lightning
from heaven, just as Fui.Tn.v completing
what Watt had done with steam, applied
that great power to the purposes of navi
gation. That Stephenson should subse
quently have applied tho same motive
power to land travelling was but an induc
tion from Fulton's application. The won
der is that il did not follow earlier. But
tho telegraphic system, put to actual work, 1
is undeniably American, and wu may bu
doubly proud of it, as such. l'ui l. ';v-.v.
Frnzcr River-Tho NcwEldoiatlo.
A correspondent at St. Paul, Minnesota,
writing to an exchange paper in reference
t'Mho razcr Kivcr gold di-covery, says:
The recent fold discoveries iit Fia'.cr
Liver have awakened quite a lively inter
est i II t his com iniinil v, as We believe the
feasible route to he ',,,. , St. Paul, for
that region of country, as another M-aoii
will make evident.
Thai pin t (lf I'.rilMi America lying inn h
ol this, and extending (,, t. p,,eilie, has,
Ulilll within a late dale, l.ren a ten-it ..-
"''' l" l!1""t il'tcllig.-nt pie, owin:' to
the care which I he lliid-on'.-. Par Compa
ny has exercised in suppres-in-r'nll infor
mation of Hie riclui.-s. Icilililv and exu
berance of the soil and saluhritv of the cli
mate of the huge tcrrilorv over Inch
their chartered rights have extended.
From the little knowled gained of that
tract, the (loire to know more of il. has
been quickened, and has thu- far resulted
in the organization of two exploring expe
ditions bv the British Government one of
wdiicn will proceed from (he east, ..nd iho
other Iron, the wc-t. The excitement oc
casioned by the di-eovery of the rich au
riferous valley of FraZeS' ' h'ivi-r in British
Oregon, will very much ha-tcn thoo'ovel-
o, IIIOIlls ol'lhe va t le, unices of the lilo-t
favorable route to the PaeiHic ,.,,a for ci
ther rail o wagon road.
With a desire to give to the public tin
most reliable information in regard to the
country over w hich emigrant train Irom
this point to the gold bearing portions of
Oregon will have to pass, several meeiings
have been held in this city, and reports
made u hich give to any one wishing infor
mation all the know ledge they can desire.
From these reports we learn that the
di.lamo from St. Paul to the Gobi .Mines
mi Frn.'.er Liver i- as follows :
St. Paul to Pembina, IVI mile -.
Pembina to ( 'ai lton House, I'lOii miles.
( arlton House to Edmondton, hill miles.
Ediiion.lton to Thompson Kiver.
(a branch of the Fra.cr,) 2' HI miles.
Total, L'.'iO miles.
It is estimated that in vie'.' of the facil
ities aUbrdeil by the face of the country,
and a continuous line of Hudson's Bay
Company posts, this journey can bo ac
complished in seventy days, at an expense
to a company of ton persons of slsil each.
There are niaity reasons why the above
mentioned route is the best from the val
ley ol the Mississippi to tin- Paclic. One
is, il has moi'e water, timber and game
than those which start from the Miss nni.
Another is, there is no danger of molesta
tion from the Indians on this northern
route. Another, and a very important
one is, that the i idge of iho Pocky .Moun
tains, which, west of Missouri, hunches up
like a (.unci's back, gradually llallcns out
so t he i rails! I on the northern route is com
pnritively easy.
The fact inn-! be kept ill mind, also,
which is vciilied by "Blodget's Clinialo-
logv, that there is a rapid increase of
heat in going westward from Minnesota
on a line of latitude, and this, even w hero
Hie elevation increases, so thai the climate
of St. Paul is carried Jar north into the
Valley of the Saskatchewan, to the Pocky
Mountains, beyond w hich We find u cli
mate very similar to that of England,
mild and humid.
The region of country through which
this route to the Pacific passes, besides be
ing well watered, well timbered, and a
boimding in game, ns well as being most
easy in crossing tho mountains, is also the
healthiest of any which has been travers
ed, In the report of Gov. Stevens to tho
War Department, of tho runic ho survey
ed for a railroad to tho Pacific, taking this
point as our terminus, is tho report of t ho
Surgeon of the Expedition, in which he
says tho climate on the line of this survey
is so highly salubrious that the average
amount of sickness, with all I ho exposures
incident to a constant inarch, are far less
than when the ti ps are in garrison.
Such, in tenor, is also the report of the
explorers, surveyors and voyagers on the
northern route.
It would not. be at all surprising if the
F razor liiver gold tract, which Go v. St ovens
states extends into our posses- ions as far
down as Southern Oregon, be found the
richest on the continent. The discoveries
and yield thus far warrant siului belief.
Then, there must ol necessity be some di
rect communication with the Pacific than
we now have with California, and, as an
enthusiast io railroad projector once said of
another route, "Thejinger of the Almighty
lias indicated the route" by way of St. i'aui,
tho valleys of the Bed and Sackatchewan
llivcrs, over the the great depression of
the Pocky Mountoins, in about the 5 2d
(leg. of north latitude, as the most feasible,
and in all rcspeels desirable, to the aurif
erous regions of the Paclic.
Tiik Gukit Covrr come at i,si'. The
A' Ymk Jleriiil makes the following in
teresting announcmcnl, of which we see
no confirmation elsewhere.
"Wo learn from our despatches by the
Arago that the great Comet of Charles Y .
as it is somo times called, but. better
know n to Astronomers as that of Fiilu ici
us. has at last made its npprnrancc, nnd
will very shortly bo visible tho naked eye.
It has been seen from the Paris Observato
ry through its telescopes, nnd is pronoun
ced by Arago the genuine article. A sharp
lookout has been kept up for it for a year
or two past by the European comet seek
ers. It is not yet know n whether it will
appear as it once did, like a very large
and bright star, or w ith a tail one hundred
degrees in length, Tho curious hope that
it will its "wondrous tail unfold." Its lirst
appearance was in 12i'il, and it-disappearance
took place on thn 2n 1 of October ol
that year, tho day on w hich Popo Urban
IV died, nnd as tho world thought, in
strange coincidence. In LVili it re-nppenr-cd
and was observed by Pnnl Fabi icius,
astronomer to HunKs V, who executed u
map of its path, which was published In
November of t It ii t year. Tho Emperor
coii-Hcrcd it ns a special omen of his own
approaching death; but he lived for some
veai altenvards. It was then described
as a great and brilliant star. Its course was
"tii t - .ti "I i 'ir.'o and Cassiopci." The cel
ebrated Dr. Ilalley calculated its elements
more than a century aferw.irdi, and sever
al others aller him. The calculations of
Mr. Bommo ,,f Middleburg, of the Neth
erlands, of recent date, nre more precise,
mid more generally suppo-ed In bo relia
ble than tho.-e of his pre.eces-oi-.-. This
I astronomer fiuallv came to the conclusion
that in thoyoar 120 I its eclipse had a peri
od of."(l2.!2years, expedited bv planetary
disturbances by -l.nTT d iys, and that, iii
IS. iii its moan motion corresponded to a
peiiod of ;!liN.lt; years, lis present revo
lution he calculated would be .shortened
by perturbations il..s years, and the com
et should reach its periholon about the
2nd of August, s,"s.
J'oWEh'oF A BO. CoNHTh'ICToi:.
From the Sporting Soeiioi am ng the
K.illirs ol South Africa, by Captain A. W.
Drayson, K. A., we lake iho following:
""i lo of attack gave inc an insight
ill'.-, t le- met ho 1 by which I iii ; specie-, of
snake do.troys animals. The tooth of the
boa cousin, tor being long, bent and turn
ed back, something in ii fish hook shape
tho snake darts out and seizes held of its,
prey Th drawing luck agiin. i; pulh
tho animal to the ground at once, and coil
ing lou.-d it, it c uiiiiiouivs the crush
ing process. This power of squeezing must
bo enormous. On at tempting to skin this
reptile, the muscles in-.ide had the appear
ance ol a stringof rope extending from tho
head to the tail : these he .-.-ems to havo
the power of contracting or extending, so
that a part that might bo three foot loin.'
as he coiled hiuneli' roan 1 yo,u- body,
could bo instanly reduced to about a foot,
by Ihis means giving any one in his em
brace a very tolerable squeeze. I have
before rem irked that these sn ikes aro not
consideied dangerous to man, as they are
not poisonous; and if those attacked have
a sharp knife and m urage to keep their
arms free, Mr. Snake would gel tin- worst
of it. If one happened to bo asleep, and
a boa constrictor then became, familiar, he
might so wind himself round arms and bo
dy as to prevent a knife from being used.
I have no doubt, that they have power suf
lieoint to crush.- ny man to death in a ve
ry f-'-v seconds, did they onco get them
selves comfortably settled round his ribs
but I never hoard of such a case during
my rc-siileiice at Natal, although I made
every inquiry from the Kio'lhs. Formerly
there was a great superstition among the
Kaflirs with regard to this snake, and a
person who killed ono had to go through
a quarantine of purifying: now howorcr,
the Kaflirs do not seem to care much a
bout them. I saw an old fellow near Um
bilo river pinning a largo Ina constrictor
to the ground with several assngies to pro
vent its wriggling; bo had about a dozen
dillercnt ones drove into bib' body, and
seemed to think a few moie would do him
no harm. He told :no that tiie snake was
a great rascal, and had killed a calf of his
soiuthne before; that he had long watched
for an opportunity of catching it out of its
hole, and at last found it so, when a smart
race of somey an Is ended in tho Kaflir's as
saying tho veal-cater.
Anlutarestinj DhcDvcry.
Wo see it stated, upon w hat may be
considered reliable authority, that thirty
thousand Christians have recently been
found upon an island north of Celebes.
Il has been rumored for a time that there
win there a Christi-m people forgotten and
forsaken, which however, yet possessed
threoli-l.ler.aiid contihued steadfast in the
faith. When missionaries first landed on
Hie island, they met with a seho.-1-teaelier
and his 1 upils, who icpalcd in theM.d.iy
im tongue, "As the heart pauteth after
the water br-ioks, so pauteth my soul after
thee, O Lord"
No Bibles were found, but the most
precious promises of the Bibleweio written
upon tho bark of trees. They knew tho
Apostles Creed, and the Heidelberg
Catechism customs. Twenty churches and
schools yet existed. Through tho instru
mentality of Pastor Heldring, founder of
the Mag-lalon As luui at Liellbeek, and
chief patron of Inner Missions in Holland
our missonariiM, who had been educated
under the vrnerablo Gossncr, were sent
out, and three thousand persons baptised.
This i; certainly a most interest ?ng dis
covery. The Island on which thoso Chris
tians wore found belongs to the East Indi
an Archipelago. Tho Dutch havo for
years had political rub) in thoso regions.
This may account for tho original intro
duction of Christianity among this jx-oplo,
and for the fact '.hat the Heidelberg Cate
chism win still found in their possession.
But still the particular time and circum
stances in which this introduction took
calk-nipl ace may woh lls.'pecial attention.
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I $1 25 per Annum.
NKVSKi;iKSV()L in. mo 3lf
and elicit investigation from thoso whrt
have tho leisure and facilities for prosecu
ting it. tlmuim lliftirmeil Mesnniirr.
Cmmus pitciieuT Prominent among
the curiosities m the Hermitage., once tho
home of General Jackson, is a woodeit
pitcher remarkable both on aoeountof tho
artistic skill. displayed and tho celebrity of
the treo from which the wood was procur
ed. It was made of tio wood from theelni
tree under which William Ponn mado the
celebrated Indian treaty. Tho pitcher was
re-ented by the coopers of Philadelphia;
and, although it is no larger than a com
mon cream-jug, it contains seven hundred
lifty staves. Tho hoops, lid and handle,
are of silver ; the bottom is a magnifying
glass, by looking through which ono is en
abled to sec tho joints, which arc invisible
to tho naked eye.
GiwAN'i'ic Su;l .etons. Wm. 1). I'Vazor
writes to tlio Cinehmatti "Gazette" from
Winchester, Indiana, that half a mile nor'
east of that place, there is an old fort, in
cluding a'loul thirty acres of ground with
in the fortification. Tho tnottnd in Iho
centre is about twenty five feet high,
while the fort or breastwork is only about
fifteen feet. Directly east and west of tho
mound are openings or gateways, around
w hich aro other forts. A quarter of it
mile northwest of the fort is the burying
ground, where hones have boon exhumed,
of men that wore perhnjin ton feet high'
Any ono who'doubts the lattor statement,
the wi iter says, can call at his office ami
see the evidence.
A Female River Piratj.
The CUavland i'.'.e'i..vi',:,, of the 19th,
says.- "The notorious Maria Keys, alias
Faulkner, was arrested on la.vt Saturday
by Marshal Gallagher and his aids, on il
charge of stealing some ?70() worth of ex
tra gin from the warehouse of Mix & Mop
l is, Kiver .street, a fcv mouths since. Min
was ordered to give bail in tho sum of
si. .1(1(1, which she promptly did. This
Maria Keys is tho (nocii of a gang of a
bout twenty dock pirates. Her hovel on
the west side, near the Old Exchange, is
their rendezvous. T here the dock pirated
j secure their 'swag,' thoro Maria gives or
! dels, plans thieving expeditions, nnd is
IJueen. Frequently, the police tell US,
she heads tho banditti in person, dressing
herself in men's clothes. She lifts all ex
ten -ivo wardrobe, and can appear in any
character that she deems necessary for
the successful consummation ot her plans.
i She has been known to rig herself up iit
tho character of a sailor, a canal boatman,
a verdant young man from the country,
an old gray haired and deerepid man, &C.
All alono she has 'cracked' many a ware
house along the docks in the night. Nlio
is, in short, a regular feinalo Jack Khep
pard, and would make a splendid heroine
for ono of Ainswoi th's novels.
IcX-An exchange! says adivino out west
is trying to persuade girls to forego mar
riago. It says ho has succeeded so far m
to persuade one, and sho is about 70 years
old.
fi-A Physician once advised Sidney
Smith to tako a walk on an empty stonl
ach. "Whose stomach?" asked the wit
InfX man in Kentucky killed a coV
a few days since, in whoso stomach wcro
found a largo brass ring, a hair pin, and a
quantity of hooks nnd eyes. Brindlw had
probably swallowed the milk maid,
A unit for divorce is now pending
in liochoster, w hich originated in a dis
pute between Mr. P.. and his Wife as to
whether they should havo broiled beef
steak or fried oysters for break fast.
Our young friend John A. drier lias?
been promoted to tho rank of second as
sistant engineer in tho U. S. Navy. Item,
( 'hrnnicli'.
Purr rou a Postmaster. A coteni-.
porary noticing tho appointment of ajpost'
master, says: "I f ho attends to tho ulrti 1st
as well as ho does to the females, ho will
make a very at tontiveand efficient oflicer.''
Fashions Now ani.JTiien. An old gen
t Ionian furnishes tho Philadelphia ' Even,
ing Bulletin' with tho following interest
ing reminiscences of fashion :
"In 1708 tho ladies woro a single hoop(
which was ns largo as tlio lower one now
D worn. Thojhoopwai worn ns high as tho
hips, an -1 below it depended a train five or
six yards long, that was carried by waiting-maids
or hoys. Tho old gentleman
recollects seeing Mrs. Robert Morris walk
along Broadway, New York, in company
with Aaron Burr, while ho rlrain was car
ried by six tnustee women, richly dressed,
nnd with turbans on their heads. Tho
women all woro stays, nnd shoes with
heels two or three inches high immonso
silver buckels being on tho shoes. Siik
dresses were not then common, and mus
lin ones worn, wore admired according to
tho ize of tho flowers on thom rosea a
largo ns one's hat being considered most
elegant and tasteful. At that time, cnor
moils head-dresses woro worn, towering
far above the head of tho woiiror. Tho"
head-gear (or the street was n sort of cap,
which was placed upon tho top
the head-dress, with a curtain of copar
to tho sides and back, which hung down
tothe shoulders."
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