JDcuoki to DoIitic5, literature, Qtgti culture, Science, ittoralitn, aub eueral ntclliijeucc. VOL IS. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. JULY 23, IS59. NQ. 30. Published by Theodore Sciioch. ! feeding, others lying 3owd, others paw- rows at them as they went down to drink. .trrms.-Two dollars ncrntmum in advance-Two ng hp'the earth, rolling on it, &o. Tbe If they feed in the grass of -the narrow novo! fpectaolo . was tlolUrs and a quarter, half yearly and if not paid be lore me end 01 the year, two dollars ami a nail. No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option of the Editor. ID" Advertisements of one sqnarc ten lines) or less, one or three msc.rtio.ns.. $1 00. Each additional inser tioii, 23 cents. Longer ones in proportion. JOB Having a general assortment of large, plain and or namental Type, we arc prepared to execute every de 5Cription of Owls, Circulars, Hill Heads Notes. DIank Receipts, Justices, Legal and other lilauks, Pamphlets, fee.., priii ted with neatness and despatch, on roasunable terms at this office. JOHN HAYJf. J. Q. DUCKWORTH. To C::s:lry JRcnlcrs. . DUCKWORTH & HAYN", WHOLUSALE DEALERS IN Groceries, Provisions, Liquors,&c. No. 80 Dcy street, New York. June 1G, 1859. iy. AN OVERLAND JOURNEY. VIT. The Home of the Buffalo. Station 11, Pike's Peak Express, too attempting tor valley? and ravines, they are carerui to our sportsmen. Ihe wagons were stop- nave a part or tbe herd on the ridges ped, and two nieu walked quietly tomnrd which overlook them, and with them the the center of the front of the herd. F.i- surrounding country for miles. And, , vorcd by a watercourse, they crept up to when an alurm is given, they all rush fu , within fifty rods of the Buffalo, and fired riously olf.in the direction which the lea eight or Un shots into the herd, with no ders presume that of safety. 1 m a l . fl w m . It visible eiiect. ine auinials nearest the; lins is what gives us sucn excellent I hunters retreated as they advanced, but opportunities for regarding them to the ' the great body of the herd was do moro best advantage. They are moving north disturbed or conscious of danger than if ward, aod are still mainly south of our a couple of mo-quitos had alighted among track. Whenever alarmed, they set off them. After an hour of this fruitless of- on their awkward but effective canter to fort, tho hunters gave it up, alleging that the great herds still south, or to haunts their rifle wait so foul and badly sighted with which they are comparatively famil j as to be worthless. They rejoined us, I liar,and wherein they have hitherto found ' and we came away, leaving nine-tenths ' safety. Of course, this sends those north J of the vast herd exactly where we found of us across our way, often but a few rods them. And there tbey doubtless are in front of us, even when tbey. had start- about three ed a mile away. Then a herd will com Jmonce running across a hundred rods a of the Buffalo head of us, and, the whole blindly follow tho West that ing their leader, we will be close upon met us hero this evening report the siirht them before the last will have cleared the of millions within the last two days track. Of course, they sometimes stop Thvir trails chequer the prairie in every and tack, or, seeing us, sheer off and cross direction. A company of Pike's Peak-1 further ahead, or split into two lines; but ers tilled thirfeeu near this point a few tbe general impulse, when alarmed, is to ! sleeping at this moment, j miles from us. We are near the heart 1 he stages from region. their revolvers right and left to.save their ' ravines and orcek timber so far as pos.i- formerly bad but on, and will eventual lives and their mules. -j ble; and wo to the unlucky calf that strays ly have none. For .'till tbe soil is wash Tho superintendent of this division, Mr. t (which he seldom docs) outside of the ex- ing away and running off te the Gulf" of Fuller, had a narrow escapo day before terior line of defense formed by the bulls. Mexico; and if this country should ever yesterday Ho was riding his mule along If very larjie and hungry, the Gray Wolf be cultivated, the progress of this disaster mm moA nHnln ,irtsric...;m... C A n-Ml . - . . IT 1.1 1 . - II 1 "l T . wouiu oc materially accucraiea ic needs to be timbered before it can be St for the habitation of civilized man. But f till a few low Cottonwood and Elms a long the margins of tho larger streams not a cord of wood in all to every hun dred acres 1 had almost said to each square mile is all that is to be seen. I hear of some poor Oak on the broader White Aeb, our road, utterly unconscious of danger, will sometimes manage to cut a cow off when a herd of buffalo north of the road from the herd, and, interposing between were stampeded by an emigrant train and her and her companions, detain or drive set off full gallop in a south westerly di- her further away, until she is beyond tlie rection, as usual. A slight ridge hid hope of rescue, when her doomed is seal- them from Mr. F.'s sight till their leader ed. His liveliest hone, however, is that camo full tilt against his mule, knocking him down and going over bim at full speed. Mr F. of course fell with the dy ing mule, and I presume lay very snug by his side while the buffaloes made a clear sweep over the concern he firing strings taking excellent care to keep his revolver rapidly, and thus inducing of the way of his horns, insures that many of the herd to sheer off on one side ; victim will have ceased to be a buffalo, or the other. De rose stunned and bruis- ; and become mere wolf-meat before an ed, but still able to make his way to the other morning. station with an increased respect for It is impossible for a stranger to tho of finding a buffalo whom some hunter has wounded, so that he cannot keep up with the herd, especially should it bo stampeded. Let him once get suoh a one ( streams, and an occasional by himself, and a few snaps at her ham-1 but do not see them. outj "he prairie wind, shaking tho. wagon the so that I write in it with difficulty, , be speaks a storm at hand. Adieu! Horace Greeley. Tho Evening Post Clear Creek, May 129, IS59 T ceased writing No. YI. last night at ! daJ3 slDCC Eight were killed yesterday ; follow blindly and at full speed, seeming tnidntfibt at btation U the storm which had been threatened since bursting in wind and raiu was a gale, but upset neither tents nor wagons: the rain fell for about an hour, then ceased, though a little more fell this inornin"'. and we have bad thunder and lightning at intervals through the day, and have it still, threatening .-howers bo fore dawn. We rose early from our wagonbed this moruing, had breakfast at G, and soon bade adieu to Pipe Creek, with its fringe of low elms and cotton woods, sneh as thin v streak all the streams we at the next station west of this by impl v ' not to inquire or consider from what quar dark, just ! stampeding a herd and driving them over ter danger is to be apprehended. Tbe wind ' a n'u creek-bank, where so many broke! What strikes the stranger with t.: !.. rri- : . 1 ? ! . .1 i - rushing which so nrnn nrl t Km M . on Often, to save our mules from a stampede. either hand ! But the teams have returned with I isome approach to an idea of their COUnt- finally name nrnr to thn watoranf tlm "R. cut and washed out by shallow remember that our cookery is of the most; less millions. I doubt whether the domes- publican, which river we are to strike some limestone nguin, which ha been theouly rock visible for the laxt forty miles, aud this but sparingly. The soil is of course improved, but I think not equal to that of Eastern Kansas. The face of the coun try is sdightly rolling iG one place a lev el prairie eleven miles wide nut even this is Xater-oourscs, probably dry a good part of each Summer. We have crossed many streams to-day, all making south for Sol omon's Fork, which has throughout been from two to fcix miles from us on our left, its narrow belt of timber couhtantly send ing out longer or shorter purs up the creeks which feed it on either fide. The route has been from 50 to 200 feet above the bed of the Fork, keeping out of all bottoms and marshes, but continually cut Ly water-courses, often with abrupt bauks and miry beds, in one of which only were we stalled until an estra span of mules Was sent from the . other wagon to our aid. (The Express wagons always go in pairs lor reciprocal aid and sccurily). I pre sume all the timber we have pa&t-ed through ince we left the Hepublican at Junction, (and we are now 111) miles from it by our route, and perhaps 100 in a straight line) would not form a belt half a mile wide, with but a few white oaks to render it of any value except for fuel. A low, long-limbed, twi.-t.y Elm, forms three fourths of all tho wood we have seen this side of Junction; the resi due is mainly Cottonwood. The trearns arc uually clear, except where riled by receut frhowers. and htringc are not in- most their necks. Buffalo-meat is hanging or ! amazement is their immense numbers I lying all around us, and a calf two or know a million is a great many, but I am 1 fired into them before they could be turn three mouths old is tied to a stake just confident we saw that number yesterday, ed. And now, our Mation-maBter has betide our wagons. lie was taken by Certainly, all we saw could not have stood just taken his gun to scare them off so as a herd up a steep creek-bank; on ten square miles of many could not possibly climb i the country for miles at once; this one was picked out in the 'seemed quite black with them. The soil the missing coaoh, and I must break off melee as most worth having, and taken is rich, and well matted with their favor- ' and pack to go on. with a rope. Though fast tied and with , itc grass. Yet it is all (except a very lit-1 : but a short tether, he is true game, and ; tie on tho creek bottoms, near to timber) Station 15, Prairie Boa Creek, makes at whoever goes near him with eaten down like an overtaxed sheen-pas- Mav 31. evening. ( ft 1 i a J Cousider that wo 1 We have made 55 miles since we star than one hundred ted about 9 this morninjr. and or present we fir-t struck them, encampment is on a creek running to the three oxen or steers, stampeded last night J aud that for the most of this distance the Republican, so that we have bid a final by herds of Buff ilo. The mules at the : Buffalo havo been constantly in siglft,and adie to Solomon's Fork and all other af- Express station- have to be carefully 1 that they continue for some twenty-five watched to preserve them from a similar miles further on this being the breadth isunaio, l ianoy, and a disposition to give , prairies to realize the impudence ot these Yankee in Arkansas whose wife, a few them a reasonably wide berth hereafter. . prairie lawyers- Of some twenty of them weeka aftcr marrja2C, became the mother But he has gone out this morning m quest that I have seen within the last two days, 1 0f a qaadroon. The husband went at ui iuv iiiiiuu uuuuu, aim uur waiting tor his return gives me this chance to write without encroaching on the hours due to sleep. Two nights ago, an immense herd came down upon a party of Pike's Peakers eamped just across the creek from this station, and (it being dark) were with difficulty prevented from ttampedingtents, cattle and people. Somo fifty shots were have paed to day that are large enough j desperate intent to butt the inturder over, ture in a dry August, to protect timber from prairie fires. Ve- I We met or Passcd ,0-Uoy two parties of ; have traversed more ry soon, wc were off the sand.tone upon 1 P,k,s Iaker. who had respectively lost, miles in width since w catastrophe to their owners. I do not like tbe flesh of this wild ox It is tough and not juicy. .Of course of their present range, which has a length of porhaps a thousand miles, and jou havo fluents of the Smoky Hill branch of tbe Kansas. We traveled on the divide be sween this and the northern branch of the Kansas for some miles to-day. aud um-ophL-ticated pattern carrying usback ' ticated homed cattle of tbe United Stales to the age of the building of the Pyra-'equal the numbers, while they must fall mids. at least but I would rnucb rath-! considerable short in weight, of these wild ones. Margaret .Fuller long ago ob served that the Illinois prairies seemed to repel the idea of being new to civilized life aud industry that they, with their borders of trees and belts of .timber, re minded thetraveler rather of the parks and day. but not, like us. bvhi"h water: their beyond tbe usual haunts ; spacious fields of an old country like Eng- bother was with wild Indians Arapa- Jhe santa he trail 1.1 i land that you were constantly on the hnns mninlv wlmm i.Iipv rpnnrt. tn h in involuntary look .out for the chateaux or great numbers on our route not hostile at least tbe humble larm-uouses, which to us, but intent on bcinf or stea i .... . oa o should diversify such a scene. lrue er see an immense herd of Buffalo on the prairie than eat the best of them. The herbage hereabout is nearly all the J-.hoit, fine gras, knowu as the buffalo grass, and is closely fed down; we are far beyond the stakes of the land-.'jrveyor-of white men. far south of u; the California is con fidcrably north. Yery probably, the Buffalo on Solomou's Fork were never hunted by white men till this Spring. Should one of these countless herds take a fancy for a man-hunt, our riflemen would find even the Express wagons no protection. Though our road is hardly two months old, yet wo passed two graves on it to day. One is ihnt of an infant, born iu a tent of the wife of one of the t-tation-muster? on her way to his pot-t, and which lived but a day; the other that of a Mis souriau ou his way to Pike's Peak, who was accidentally bhot in taking a rifle from his wagon.-. Hi party seems to have been piugularly unfortunate. A camp or two further on, a hurricane over took them and tore their six able to uiako 80 miles further on. Wo are now just half way from Leavenworth to Denver, and our coach has been a week making this distance, so that with equal good for tune wo may expect to reach the Land of Gold in another week. The coaches we met hero to night have been just a wees on the way, having (UKe u-) lost a w W r x miufc uo6 aix nave rcanv run irom us. . i r i ..t. - One we saw just before us two hours ago, ' pi,ajn case said the altornejJ ..we wjH kept on his way across the prairie, ftop-'make out tll0 papers at 0DCC) &nd oltain ping occasionly to take a good look at us, ! J0U a (jTorCG. .That isn't what I am but not hurrying himself in the least on alcT 6aid tbe Yankee; JI want to know our account, though for some minutes .un .i, n within good rifle range. Ouce to-dav. - tJ w" A gentleman of Newberryport, Mass,. " j has something like one hundred toads, which he keeps in bis garden to destroy insects. He has a bouse built for them, , keeping them as he would chickens, and ithey are so tame that they will come at bis call. JJSfln a grave-yard in New Jersey, there is a tombstone of a child on which is the following simple, yet touching epi taph: "He was a good egg." J32?A man made his last will and tes tament in words few, but significant: "I have nothing, I owe notbiDg, and I give tbe rest to the poorl" Vanity minds. It is wagons into a scene. lrue as this is or was in Illinois, the resemblance is far more striking here, where the grass is all to closely pastured and tbe cattle are seen in such vast herds on overy ridge. The timber, too, aids the resem blance, seeming to havo been reduced to the last degree consistent with the wants of a grazing country, and to have been left only on the steep croek-banks where grass would not grow. It is hard to re alize that this is tho center of a region of wilderness and solitude, so far as the la bors of civilized man are concerned that the first wagon passed through it some two months ago. But the utter absence of houses or buildings of any kind, and our unabridged, unworked road.jwinding on fronuont. If well timbered, this countrv would bo rather uniting. It is largely ovenwoou; they were ahle to inaKo Out-its way lor hundreds ol miles without a covered w;,h the dead stalks of the wild t'110 passable wagons out of the remains. 1 track, other than of Buffalo, intersecting sunflower which is said to indicate a i ue.r ioh in ouicr property was scnou; or icauing away irom it on eiiner nanu, good soil for Corn. The sunflower plant ar,d thcy sustained much bodily harm. has not Etarted this sca-on. and slopping the wagons peremptorily till their demands are complied with. They arc at war with tbe Pawnees, and most of their men are now on the war-path ; their women and children are largely en camped around the Express Company's Stations, living as thoy best may. The Pawnees, I believe, are mainly or entire ly south of our road. Tbe Arapaboes boast of triumphs and slaughters which, it is to be hoped, bave.beeu or will be re cipcocated. Indian wars with each other are in our day cruel and cowardly plun dering forays, fitted to excite only dis gust. As we left station 14 this morning and rose from tho creek bottom to the high prairie, a great beard of Buffalo were On rising our first ridgo this morn ing, a herd of Buffalo was seen grazing on tho prairie some three miles toward the Solomon; soon more were visible; then others. At length, a herd of per haps a hundred appeared on the north the only one we saw ou that side of our road during tho day. They were head ing down the valley of a small creek to- t One moro of them was hurried a camp or two further on. Those whom we met here coming down confirm the worst news w have had from tho Peak. There u scarcely any gold there; those who dig cannot av-;a9 soon erage two shillings per day; all who canjoxeD get away are leaving; uenever ana au raria arejuearly deserted; terrible suffer ing; have been endured on tho Plains, brings us back to the reality. I shall pass lightly over tho hunting seen in and around our road, who neguu 1 to run first north, then south, mauyKtan , ding as if confused and undecided which ! course to take, and when at last thcy ail ' started southward, we were so near them exploits of our party. shots have been fired of course not by even were I in the habit of making 1 XT 1 l 1 T" 1 war ou wild iNatures chiiuren, 1 would think of shooting my neighbor . .t ii as these crcat, clumsy, harmless A good many that our driver stopped his mules to let the Buffalo pass without doing us any harm. Our sportsman's Sharp was not loaded at tho time; ii afterward was, and fired into a herd at fair distance, but I did not see anything drop. After this our division superintendent sent a ball af ter one who was making very deliberate time away from us, hitting him in a quar ter where the compliment should have expedited hi motion; but it did not seem' to have that effect. It is very common for these wolves to follow at night a man traveling the road on a mule, not making belligerent demontrations, but waiting for whatever may turn up. Sometimes, the Express wagons have been followed in this way, but I think that uuusual. But this creature is up to anything where in there is a chauce for'game. The Prairie-Dog is the funny fellow ofJ these parts frisky himself and a source of merriment to others. He dens on any dry, grassy ground usually on the dry est part of the high prairie and his bole i? "-1t 1 i 1-11 . T is superncia.ty a very large am-nm, wun hj 6hould ra5rriage bo spokcn ur uv-vu , . J lu u"-4- vu,of as a tender tie when it is so confound- this ant-hill sits the proprictor--often ed 1 0Qgh that nothing but death can cat size between a gray squirrel and a rab bit say about half a woodohuck. When we approach, he raises the cry of danger no bark at all, but something between the piping of a frog on a warm Spring e- Jning, and the noiso made by a very young puppy then drops into his hole, and is trileut and invisible. Ihe holes are not very regularly placed, but some thir tbirty feet apart, and when I say that I believe wc have to day passed within sight ofatleast three square miles of these holes, the reader can guess how many of these animals must exist here, even sup- posing that there is usually nut one to each hole. I judge that there cannot be less than a huudred square miles of Prairie-Dog towns within the present Buffalo range. That the Prairie-Dog and the Owl of a small, brown-backed, white-bellied spe cies do live harmoniously in the same hole, I know, for I have seen it. I pre sume the Owl pays for his lodgings like a gentleman, probably by turning iu ttomc provisions toward the supply of tbe com-: oion table. If so, this is the most suc cessful example of Industrial and House hold Association yet furnished. That tho Rattlesnake is ever admitted as a is the produce of light the growth of all climes and of all countries; it is a plant, often nourished and fostered, yet it never bears fruit pleasing to the taste of an intelli gent man. jgSrBoys, If you don't want to fall in love, keep away from muslin. You can no more play with girls without loosing yonr heart, than you can play with gam blers without loosing your money. The heartstrings of a woman, like tbe tendrils of a vine, are always reaching out for something to cling to. The consequence is, that before you know you are going you are gone, like a lot at an auction. JBSf A beautiful flupcr.-titon prevails a moug tbe Seneca tribe of Indians. When an Indian maiden dies, they imprison a young bird until it first begins to try its power of song, and then loading it with kisses and caresses, they loose its bonds near the grave, in belief that it will not fold its wings nor close its eyes until it has flown to tho spirit land and delivered its precioui burden of affection to tho loved aud lost. It is not unfrequent to sec twenty birds let loose over one grave. ward the Solomon. Just thon, the tents ' and n,orc must Jet be encountered; bun- and wagons of a body of encamped Pike's Peakers appeared just across that stream; two men running across the prairie on foot to get a shot at the buffalo; another mountiug a horso with- like iutent. The herd passcd on a long, awkward gallop north of the tents and struck southwest across our road some forty rods ahead of us. A .Sharp's rifle was leveled and fired at them by one of our party, but seemed rather to hasten than arret their pro gress. But one old bull shambled along behind in a knock-kneed fashion (having probably been lamed by somo former party); and be was fired at twice by our marksman as he attempted to cross tbe road once when only fifteen rods dis tant. They thought tbey wounded him fatally, but he vanished from our sight behind a low bill, and their hasty search for him proved unsuccessful. Nearly all day, the Buffalo in greater or less numbers were visible among tbe bot toms of Solomon on our right usually two to three miles distant. At length, about 5 p. m., we reached the crest of a dreds would gladly work for their board, thousands must of their days. Such is the teuor of our latest advices. I have received none this side of Leavenworth that contradict them. My informant pays all are gettiog away who can, and that wc shall find the region -w m -w . a ' a 1 1 creatures. 11 they were scarce, I might , they were seen in greater or less numners comprehend the idea of hunting them for ion the ridges and high prairie, mainly pport; here, they are so abundant that you south of us, but they either kept a respect might as well hunt your neighbor's geese. ful distance or Boon took ono.. Wc have Aud. while there have been shots fired not seen one for the last tweuty-five miles; but cannot find employment in short, niir narfr nt nmnf.hln.lr fi;inn T but thev are now several miles farther Pike's Peak is an exploded buble, which j j,ave reason for my hope that no Buffalo this way than thcy were a few days since, uuicriy rue to tno enu ,j,a8 esperienccd any personal ineonveni- ' and as every foot of the way thus Jar, and ence therefrom, hor this impunity, tho (L hear) turther is carpeted with Uutt foulness of the rifle has had to answer in ! alo grass, not here eaten down, and as part; tho greenness of the sportsmen is j Buffalo patha and other evidences that perhaps equally answerable for it. But this is their favorite feeding ground are then we have had no horso or mule out of . everywhere present. I presume they will A Discouraged Iffan. The other night a landlord discovering one of his customers drunk, "sloshing a bout" in the mire, went to hia assistance, and petting him up on his feet inquired if he was nick, or what was the matter. "No,,' replied the boozy customer, ,4I aiu't sick, nor I ain't drunk but Via al mighty diacouragedl" nearly deserted. That is likely, but we our rcular teams, aod tbe candid will ad- j bo here in tho course of a week. But e t il- I O 1--. ... . shall see. VIII. LAST OF THE BUFFALO. Kisinger's Creek, Station No. 13. Pike's Peak Express Co., May 31, 1859 $ I would rather not bore tho public with Buffalo. I fully realize that the subject' hastily-improvised table), .with the is mit that a coach-and-fpur is not precisely the fittest turn-out for a hunting party I write in the station tent (having been driven from our wagon by the operation of greasing its wheels, which was found to interfere with the steadiness of my Buff- not novel that Irving and Cooper, alo vissible on tho ridges nouth and every and many others, have written fully and way but north of us. They were very admirably upon it; and that tbe travelers close down to us at daylight, and so till- enthusiastic recital falls coldly on the ear the increasing light revealed distinctly of the distant, critical, unsympathising our position, nince which tbey havo kept reader. Yet I iusist on writing this ouce a respectful distance. But a party of our more .on the Buffalo, promising then to drivers, who went back seven miles on drop the subject, as we pass out of the mules last evening, to help or rear wagon range of the Buffalo before night. All out of a gully iu which it had mired and "divide," whence we looked down on the day yesterday, they darkened the earth stuck fast, from which expeditioun tbey valley of a creek running to the Solomon : around us,olten seeming to be drawuP returned at midnight, report that they somethree miles distant, and saw tbe whole ! like an army in battle array on the ridg- found the road absolutely dangerous with region from half a mile to three miles !cs and adown their slopes a mile or so crowds of Buffalo feeding on either side south of our road, and for an extent of at , south of us often on the north as well, and running across it-s that, the night least four miles east and west, fairly alive ; They are rather shy of tbe little screens being quite dark, they were often ip great with Buffalo. There certainly were not of straggling timber on the creek bottoms dunger of being run over and run down less than ten thousand of them; I be- ! doubtless from their sore experience of by tho headlong brutes. Tbey were o lieyc there were many more. Some were 'Indians lurking therein to discharge ar- bliged to stand still for minutes, and fire nough of them. And let mo here proffer my acknowledgements to sundry other quadrupeds with whom I have recently formed a passing acquaintance, The Prairie Wolf was the first of theso gentry to pay his respects to us. He is a sneaking, cowardly little wretch, of a dull or dirty white color, much resembling a small short-bodied dog set up on pretty long legs. I believe his only feat entitling him to rank as a heat of prey consists third partr.er, I indignantly deny. No doubt, he has been found iu tho Prairie Dog's home it would be just like him to seek so cosy a nest but he doubtless en tered like a true Border llufllan, and con trived to make himself a deal more free than welcome. Politeness, or (if you pleose) prudence, may havo induced the rightful owndr to submit to a joint ten ancy at will tho will of the tenant, not that of the rightful landlord but no con- CD sent was ever given, unless uuder con straint of that potent logio which the in truder carries at the tip of his tail. Of Antelope, I hove seen many, but not so near at hand as I could wish. I defer speaking of them in the hope of a better acquaintance. A word now of the face of the country: For more than a hundred miles back I I.nt. a rnnn nn ctnnn nnrl Hi in 1.' thnrf IS I ci,.rt'J fiSrThe Winstcd (Conn.) Ilcraid tella ' 1 ' . I IHa fn lAmtn.B rt i in FAtn-H T s f hit Fork, where we left its vicinity, is now a;-'"- """"'"S uu -k-" stream two rods wide, running but four proceedings of a congregation in that vil to six inches of water over a bed of pure lng- 1 was considerable disposition sand, at a depth of some three or four j mannestea mere to seme as pastor an hundred feet below the high prairie level j JS m who had ju.t left a theologi- of the country. I infer that there h no(' j- 'U"K rock in place for at least that depth. Theje result of the conference might havo , ., r, : . u i been m favor of the voung man, but a aiinami ni r.rin iiriin iua n L'cuciu 11 a iuh- . . . - . ,.! mtL n a bed of sand. The P,ain old farmcr Sot UP' J ' J o . violent though not frequent rams of )jThe growth of tho Methodist E. Church in the United States is uncqualcd. It has become one of the most powerful and wealthy churches in the country. In 185S the accession to its membership reached the number of 133,000. this r.Mion form sheets of water, which rush - e down, tho slopes into tbo water-courses, which they rapidly swell into torrents, which, meeting no resistance from rocks or roots of trees, arc constantly deepen ing or widening the ravines which run l hese and in a blunt way suggested that "lor his pare he nan got sick of breaking steers." The pro ject was dropped. in sometimes, when hard pressed by hun- down to tho creeks on everyside, ger, digging out a prairio-dog and ma-1 gullies or gorges have, originally steep, king a meal of him. His usual proven- ' perpendicular banks, over which, in times den is the carcasn no matter bow putrid 0f heavy rain, sheets of water go tumbling of anv dead' buffalo, mule or ox that t he may find exposed on the prairies. He is a paltry creature. But the Gray Wolf who is also a den- izen or tne prairies ii iuiois we nave and roaring into the bottom of tbo ravines, washing down the sodden, banks, and sending them' to waters of tho Kanias and the Missouri, A Nice Calculation. It has been calculated that the hairs on the tip of a dog's tail of the average length of thirteen inohes tail not hair are made to travers.0 25,433 .miles byitho simple act of wagging, during an or.di narily happy life of nine years two months and eleven days, which is the,.- somi-liouidimean lifetime of thicken the dog. The latest dog story is of two dogS-who fell to fighting in a saw mill. In tho course of tho tussle, one of the dogi went Thus tho prairie, Bavo some narrow j,r(i,ri irmnnlnr ridpcs or 'divides, is grad- v J ' i ..D i .1 !.. 1,- l.'.L.n.n nnmnc a Rnw in rnnirl tnnftnn is a scoundrel of a much more inipo- ! ually ecoopea ami wum .mu "fT. r m ,..'' sing caliber. He delights to lurk around or narrower valleys, some of whichj which cut him in-o in.tnnter. The bind Outskirts of a herd8 of Buffalo, keep- havo three or four little precipices , legs ran away ing out of sight and uninspected in the at intervals up their hides, where they , the fight and whipped out the other dog.
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