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SI? t!)g I .el]i:arp.e <£rW. SUBSCRIPTION. OXE YEAH &•> no SIX MONTHS 1 do THREE MONTHS *3O CLUB RATES. liyipsSQKl or leHB 4fcan 10, each... 1.75 lt -' LOUIES or more, each 1.50 Tkiuis Cash in advance. No paper sent * itil money received.* pai>ers slopped at expiration of time, unless renewed. J MARK FIITIRF. A Antonio (Texas) correspondent of the Chicago limes, writes as follows of the conduct and character of the negro regiments of the Federal army stationed in this section : Asa soldier he is., generally speaking, the least warlike, the most corrupt, the most ignorant, and the most dishonest defender that ever disgraced the uniform of a nation, This may be said, with the customary reservations, of the average negro who enlists in the four regiments of our natioual army devoted to his use and benefit. He is forever speculating. His officers cannot trust him with gov ernment property. Not alone will he sell his equipments, but often his clothes, to procure whiskey. Inr liquor he is a beast. No woman—white or black, brown or yellow—is safe in his neighbor hood. He prefers the white and when properly roused and fired by drink and stimulated by opportunity his officers’ wives would hardly be held sacred by him although watchfulness and the special interposition of Divine Providence have, so liir, prevented him from consummat ing outrage upon them. No sensible ofncdi 1 would leave his wife unprotected at a post guarded solely by black sol diers. Sent upon a scout and lying around the ranches looking after cattle thieves, the drunken soldier’s first impulse is to ravish some unfortunate woman. Asa natural result he gets shot or stabbed, or creates some terrible disturbance which necessitates a court martial. Some of his officers are afraid of the military ne gro. When intoxicated he is often muti nous, and cases have been known where commanders were compelled to shoot black sergents down like dogs by way of example. The negro causes more courts martial than any other element in the army. The Inspector-General of this de partment, under Gen. Augur, made a re port to the Secretary which showed that the black regiments committed three times as many crimes, in proportion to their numbers, as the white. i 'ovjs'u .ti/;.v, /*,/1• ./rTA'.vr/w.v; Don’t be a loafer, don’t call yourself a loafer, don’t hang around loafing places. Better work for nothing and board your-, self, than to sit around corners with your hands in your pockets. Better for your own mind, for your own respect. Bus* tie about if you mean to have anything to bustle about for. Many a poor physi cian has obtained a real patient by rid ing hard to attend an imaginary one. A quire of old paper, tied with red tape, carried under a lawyer’s arm, may pro cure him his first case, and make his fortune. Such is the world; to him that hath shall be given. Quit droning and complaining; keep by and mind your chances. Let the business of every one alone, and attend to your own. Don’t buy what you don’t want. Use every hour to advantage, and study to make even !< isure hours useful. Think twice before Jou spend a shilling—remcm er you will have another to make for it. Buy low, sell fair and take cate of the profits. Look over your books regularly, and if you find an error trace it out. Should a stroke of misfortune come upon you in trade, retrench, work harder, but never fly the track. Confront difficul ties with unflinching perseverance, and they will disappear at last. Though you fail in the struggle, you will be honored, but shrink and you will be dispised. Tin; l.izzinl. [Essay on the Lizzud, read before the Hawkeye Association for the benefit of cruelty to animals, by a boy of 40.] The Lizzud is a dry land aligatoron a small skale. He is a male and a female. He has four legs and one tale and two eyes and can climb a tree. Ilis principal busines is settin on fense rales and ketch in of flize and skerrin of horses by run nin threw the leves. Wun skecred my horse yistiddy.—Lizzuds is principally negative animals.—They doant go to skule, doant belong to returning bodes, doant set on lectoral coinmishuns and doant be presidents. Uv all the beasts that fly in the air, The horse, the cow, the buzzud, The duck, the junny hug, the hare, I’d rather be a Lizzud. Hopin these few lines may find you all enjoyin the same blessiu. Samson anti the Jawbone. When I traveled, in 1871,in Palestine, an old se. vant from the monastery of Ramleh, showed me the supposed place where Samson killed one thousand Philis tines with the jawbone of an ass. When I expressed my doubts as to the length and strength of a jawbone, considering the great number of surrounding enemies, the good man explained the case in the following manner: “ Well, he took hold of the ass by the tail and swung the ani mal against the Philistines in such a manner that only his head, and of this especially the jawbone, struck the Phil istines, keeping off in this way the sur rounding warriors, and giving the blow the necsessary force to kill. I affirm that in this manner Samson could have slain a million Philistines, provided the tail of the ass did not break.”—Sacramen to Journal. Ctaldn'l Manage the Pantaloons. A woman out in Polk county become ing converted to the doctrines of Ur. Mary Walker, took advantage of her husband’s absence to array herself in his clothes. She put on the coat first, and Snoring the buttous, pinned it up from in down. Then she put on the vest, back in front, and toilsomely buttoned it up behind. That was about 3 o’clock in the afternoon. At about half-past six her husband found her seated on the side of the bed in a disordered room, weeping, her hair down, face red, eyes in flamed,and her whole mental being con vulsed with fretful exciteineut,impatieuce and anger. She held his Sunday panta loons in her hands, and all those three mortal hours she had been trying to put them on over her head. A Cnre for Rheumatism. An agricultural journal recommends the following recipe as a simple and in valuable remedy for rheumatism : ‘‘Take a pint of spirits of turpentine, to which add half ounce of camphor : let it stand till the camphor is dissolved, rub it ou the part affected, and it will never fail of removing the complaint. Flannel should be applied after the part is well fomented wiwh turpentine, liepeat the application morning and evening.” It is said to be equally available to burns, scalds, bruises *nd sprains, never failing of success. a!;c #|idl)orpe Cdj®. BY T. L. GANTT. Hi: turn ./ rn.i H,ni:n j.iff. A Strange Incident in the Career of Stonewall Jackson—The Vain Efforts of a Northern Kifleman to Stay the Silent Hero of Manassas—A Strange Reminiscence of the Wilderness. From, the Detroit Free Press. That was an awful day when that Con federate lion, Stonewall Jackson, crept upon poor Hooker hidden in the Wilder ness. Lee on one side—Jackson on the other, and the woods around Chancellors ville shook and trembled, and were almost 3wept from the face of the earth by the whirring round-shot, the hissing shell and the screaming grape-shot. Men were struck stone dead as the battle-line ad vanced or retreated. White-faced re cruits and bronze-faced veterans were torn to fragments and hurled againt the liv ing. Wounded men fell in their tracks to be crushed in the earth by the great limbs cut from the trees by shot and shell. The roar of guns, the crackle of musket ry, the fierce shouts and awful groans made such a hell upon earth of that bat tle-field as was never seen before nor af ter. Fighting Joe Hooker was in a box,but not a man in his great army dreamed that it was so until the long gray line of Stonewall Jackson came creeping through the quiet forest at three o’clock ou that ever to be remembered 2d day of May, 1863. The light earthworks had been thrown up to face anothei way, towards Lee. All lines faced Lee, all men were looking for Lee, when three division of Confederates, moving with soft step, took Hooker’s army in the rear and drove one brigade pell mell into and over another until veteran soldiers were without strength or presence of mind. That aw ful night when the wounded were being buried ALIVE in the woods, and the dead were thicker than the leaves just broadening into full life, a report ran through the reorganized ranks that the great Stonewall Jackson had been killed. Thousands believed it, but three of us, lying side by side in the new battle line born after night came down, put no faith in the rumor. Why we did not is what I started to write about. Stuart’s cavalry had been following up by Hooker’s army,but it wasllike a rat fol lowing in the footsteps of a horse. Lee was so far away and coming up so slowly that Hooker had time to throw up light earthworks, seize the best ground, fell trees to pretect his flanks, and make ready to shatter and hurl back the ex pected attack. On that second day of May his soldiers, hidden in the woods or lying in the fields, washed their clothing, wrote letters home, made comfortable beds for themselves, and were not in the least troubled about what another week would bring forth. Asa deep river sud denly bends to avoid a bluff,so did that great army of Loo’s bend to avoid the wilderness, it split in two to attack at a given hour on both sides, and Joe Hooker satin his tent and congratulated himself on liis impregnable position—considered impregnable by him when two great highways ran along the’rearof half of his army. So universal was the feeling of security that soon after noon three in fantrymen start >d out to BEG, BUY OR FORAGE FOOD. Sigel’s corps was on Hooker’s west flank, and commanded that day by Howard. Part of this corps faced the old turnpike and plunk road, part faced the other way. Most of the men were hidden in the woods and behind ridges, and up the broad highways which should have been first looked to Stuart was pushing his cavalrymen as skirmishers. We three men were ".beyond Sigel’s corps, and on the point of entering a farm house from which everybody had fled, when, less than rifle-shot away, we caught sight of the Confederate advance. The cavalry men were advancing slowly evidently expecting to find a heavy guard at some point, but at the time we imagined that less than a regiment ofStuart’s men were feeling along up to pick up stragglers, locate positions, etc. We, at least, did not fear them, and the proposition to enter the house and secure a better view of the roads speedily conveyed us to a chamber window. We could see but little more from the past, but we did see, soon after reaching it, THAT SAME STONEWALL JACKSON ride from shelter out upon the turnpike in full view, attended by only three or four officers. He had come out there to make observations. Like a eat, before she destroys the mouse, he was wondering at what point he should strike to disable his victim soonest. Grim-minded and sour-tempered was the third man of us, and war’s horrors delighted him. When he had takeu the second look at the little party sitting on their horses in the open road, a wicked smile crossed his face, and he whispered: “ Bv the hundred gods of the heathen ! but that chap ou the left there is old Stonewall Jackson, and I’m going to drop him !” Old Fete, our sour-tempered compan ion, had a first-class Minie rifle with him. He had carried it for several months, in some way escaping the attention of the inspector, and in some way always se cured ammunition for it. I saw him, in at least a half dozen instances, shoot down videtts or skirmishers who seemed to be half a mile away, and he was known throughout the regiment as a dead shot. There was considerable firing around us from foragers, stragglers and men cleaning their guns, and a shot from the window might uot attract particular at tention. Besting the heavy gun across the window sill, and having as'steady rest as a hunter ever asked for, “ Old Pete” was ready to keep his word. IT SEEMED LIKE COLD-BLOODED ASSAS SINATION. I could almost count the buttons on Jackson’s coat, _and there seemed no escape for him. I was watching him when the rifle cracked. He had a field glass to his eye, aud the only movement we could see was a quick motion of the head, as if the bullet had cut close to his ear. The glass was uot even lowered. “ Old Pete” swore a terrible long string of oaths as he realized his failure, but iu a minute was ready again. “ I hope never to draw auother breath if I don’t kill him stone dead !” he mut tered as he knelt down. Jackson did not face us as before, yet was* a good mark eveu fora musket. We watened him as before, and this time the bullet must have swept past his face, as he dodged his head backwards. The glass was dowu theu but he raised it iu an instant and went ou with his survey. “ Have I got to be a fool ? or have I grown bliud ?” howled “ Old Pete,” as he LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1877. looked down upon his unharmed victim. “I’ll kill him this time, or shoot myself in this chamber?” It was dangerous to remain there lon ger as the cavalry had crept nearer, and Jackson’s aides seemed to have got the idea that a sharp-shooter was posted near by. Yet “ Old Pete” would have had a third shot if the Confederates had been in the house. THE TARGET WAS AS FAIR AS BEFORE. He took a more careful aim, and yet when he fired he saw splinters fly from a railway over beyond the General. The cavalry were then close upon us, and our two muskets were lost in the hurried flight from the house. Half au hour after that, Jackson was driving our brigade and divisions as he willed. “ I’ll measure off the same distance, shoot ofl-hand, and bet my life that I can hit a soldier’s cap nine times out of ten !” growled “ Old Pete” as he hurried forward, and suddenly overcome by in dignation and chagrin he battered his cherished gun against a tree and destroy ed it. As if seeking personal revenge, Jack son’s legions passed right by us. The nearest brigade of Sigel’s corpse was picked up and dashed to pieces as a strong man would lift and hurl a child. Running along with the amazed and frightened men, but bearing off towards our own division, we picked up other muskets to replace our lost ones. Reach ing a knoll from which we had another view of the turnpike, we halted for a last look ; over the heads of the frightened, fleeing soldiers—over the ground strewn with arms and accoutrements—over the blue smoke just now beginiug to rise, WE SAW JACKSON AGAIN. He was far away, but it whs Jackson. “ Curse him! but he has got a guardian angel,” howled Old Pete as he shook his fist toward the turnpike. No other man ever had a rifle drawn on him at such fair range and escaped three cool, carefully aimed bullets. His escape sent a thrill of superstition through each mind, and from that hour to this moment, when the news of Jack son’s death reached us, “ Old Pete” never spoke a word. It was a puzzle that he could not solve. As we lay in line, every musket barrel still hot and every eye peer ing through the darness to catch sight of the grey line coming on again, an aide came hurrying along and shouted out: “ We’re all right boys; Stonewall Jack son has been killed up the road there 1” “ Old Pere” leaped up, whirled around to face the bearer of the news, and sav agely shouted back: “ You lie! you lie I you lie! Stonewall Jackson can’t be hurt by shell or killed by bullet I” BUT IT WAS SO. Lying in the arms of those who loved him, so near us that the cries of our wounded must have reached his ea/s, was the mortally wounded General, whose skill Hnd strength had no match. While the white- faced up to tin 1 torn aim sfiirttef&u foreifc trees —while the wounded crawled here and there in their awful agony—while the living looked into each other’s anxious faces and wondered if another night would find any of us there, the legions of Jackson were strangely silent. Now and then came the sudden boom of some great gun, sounding like a deep groan of dispair, but there was nothing more to break the silence. While men rested in line of bat tle, having- the awful horror of war on every side, there was one who gave up his life as he whispered, “ Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees. kjbcej\'T liisco /.v jvompeii That comparatively so little of the treasures of the Pompeiani is found is ea sily explained by the fact that the inhab itants who had escaped and thieves broke into the houses, especially betweeu the earthquake and the eruption, and carried off all articles of value. Mostofthe houses have indications of these visits in the modern mason work which closed a hole. lam not aware that what are called the “ water castles” have been sufficiently noted, perhaps for the reason that most have been carelessly distroyed. One how ever, has [lately been discovered, and propped up and bound round with iron. They were buildings tjpr supplying the neighboring.houses with water. The top was a large vasca to which water was carried up by leaden pipes, a great number of which still lie under the level of the ground. By pipes the water was again distributed from house to house from the vasca. The Sarno, which sup plied it, still runs underneath Pompeii, and impurity is evident from the deposits which have been formed on the walls of the castle; its continued dropping has covered them with a kind of stalactite. Further examination shows that these deposits correspond exactly with the stone with which a great part of Pompeii was built. The stone was brought from Sarno, on the river of the same name, which thus supplied the inhabitants with building material and drinking water. The spot on which excavation are actu ally carried on now is called the bathing establishment. It is an imense hall, and is still half full of pumice-stone ; but iu the very center of the mass, after many feet of soil had been moved, there were found, last month, four human skeletons, one of a woman, and by them were the following precious objects, which they were evidently carrying off: In gold, two necklaces, consisting of ninety four pieces, representing ivy leaves, two ear-rings, a chain with an emerald. In silver, two casseroles, a large looking glass, three vases, a ladle, six large spoons, sixteen smaller spoons, two forms for making pastry, like scallope shell; all are well preserred and highly decora ted. They have been sent to the museum, but are uot yet exhibited to the public. A max who was too rneau to advertise laud he wanted to sell,put a written notice in the post office. A man who was in quiring for a small farm was referred to the written notice, when he replied, “ I can’t buy laud at a fair price from any man who does his advertising in that way. He would steal the fence, the well bucket and the stable doors before he gave up possession. Two men were ridrng iu the cars the other morning, when one asked the other if he had a pleasant place of residence. “ Yes,” was the reply ; ‘‘we have seven nice large rooms over a store.” “ Over a store! I shouldn’t think that would be a quiet place. ” “Oh ! it is quiet enough. The folks don’t advertise. J t Jl.II" TER OF FIRST THIJF&B. The first almanac was printed by Geo. Yon Purbach, in 1460. The first copper cent was coined in New Haven in 1787. First watches were made at Nurenburg in 1477. The omnibus was built in Paris in 1827. The first college in the United States was founded in 1636. The first compass was used in France in 1150, though the Chinese are said to have used loadstone earlier. The first chimneys were introduced in to Rome from Padua in 1268. The first newspaper advertisement ap peared in 1652. The first air pump was made in 1650. The first algebra originated with Dio phontus, in either the fourth or sixth ceu tury. The first balloon ascension was made in 1783. The first natioual bank in the United States was incorporated by Congress De cember 31, 1781. The first attempt to manufacture pins in this country was soon after the war of 1812. The first printing press in the United States was introduced in 1692. Coaches were first used in England in 1568. Gas was first used as an illuminating agent in 1702. Its first use in New York was in 1827. The first glass factory in the United States, of which we have definite knowl edge, was built in 17S0. Gold was discovered in California in 1848. The first use of a locomotive in this country was in 1829. The first horse railroad was built in 1826-27. The first daily newspaper in the United State was published in Boston, Septem ber 25, 1690. The first religious new pa per, the Boston Record, was established in 1815. Organs are said to have been first in troduced into churches by Pope Yitalianu about A. D. 670. The first steel pen was made in 1803. The first machine for carding, roving and spinning cotton, made in the United States, was manufactured in 1786. Envelopes were first used iu 1839. The first complete sewing machine was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1846. The first iron steamship was built in 1830. Ships were first ‘ copper bottomed’ in 1783. The first telegraph instrument success fully operated by S. F. Morse, the inven tor, in 1835, though its utility was not demonstrated to the wo.’ -util 1844. The first lucifer match was made in 1829. The first steamboat plied on the Hud sau in 1807. The entire Hebrew Bible was printed in 1488. The first society for the exclusive pur pose of circulating the Bible was organ ized in 1805, under the name Lithe Brit ish and Foreign Bible society. The first society for the promotion of Chistian knowledge was organized in 1698. Kerosene was first used for lighting purposes in 1826. The first Union flag was unfurled on the first of January, 1776, over the camp at Cambridge. It had thirteen stripes of white and red, and retained the English cross in one corner. The first steam engine on this conti nent was brought from England in 1753. The first saw-maker’s anvil was brought to America in 1819. The first temperance society in this country organized in Saratoga county, N. Y., in March, 1808. Glass was early discovered. Glass beads were found on mummies over 3,000 years old. Glass windows were introduced into England in the eighth century. The first telescope was probably used in Englaud in 1008. Every family should keep a box of DR. DURHAM’S VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS. For sale by Smith & Young, Lexington, and all dealers in medicines. myll-6m. coj\'Ffssi ©. v of a step .norm:it. Being present at the bed of a sick lady once, I heard things that utterly con founded me. Said she: “ I married Mr. Gale when I was seven teen. He then was the father of two lit tle children, Alice and Green—beautiful children indeed. For a while after we were married, I doated on them and lov ed them intensely ; but by degrees my love for them abated, and in a couple of years it was changed into downright hatred. Mr. Gale often looked very thoughtful and serious, for he was a man of very acute discernment, but he never remonstrated with me—he kept his keen mental anguish within the private recess of'his own bosom. As my affection di minished, of course my actions were more morose and tyrannical towards his children. My own two children, Ida and Martin, took up all my care. Every thing that could be done towards dress ing, food and spoiling was done by me; and even Mr. Gale often joined me in it in a degree, perhaps more to diminish my asperity towards his own, than to ca ress mine. But he signally failed, if that was his intention. Afted a while the children—ail four—were sent to school, and now on my dying bed I confess my partiality with a burning blush and a deep pungent pain of conscience. There were two baskets prepared, and with strict orders for each couple to eat out of their own basket. I gave my children fowl, pies, sweetbread, waffles, etc., but his had nothing but corn bread, and fat meat. Once I remember, Alice asked me to put a bit of chicken in her basket for she was sick; but I gave her cheek | such a slap that she never repeated the request. My children were well dressed, but his were obliged to wear coarse and patched clothes. I then thought that no one would notice the difference that was made;. aud I learn that it is common neighborhood talk. I shall soon die, and I want all the neighbors to know that I am sorry for my past aets, and if I could live I would certainly do better.” She then called Green and Alice to her bed | side, and asked their forgiveness for treating them so, and especially when | going to school. Alice with tears in her ! eyes replied : “ Never mind that ma; for Itta and Martin always let us eat with them. And asto the clothing, brother aud I were 'ajjfeys clad better than we de iserved.” .VA'fl BtATi/AA’. A Blotxi anti Ttimnler Romance On! of His Own Life. Selma (Ala.) Times. Your brief allusion a few days past to “ Ned Buntline” (E. C. Judson) has fresh ened my recollection of some startling incidents in his career that appear to have dropped through the seive of the public memory. In early life “ Ned Buntliue” was an officer in the United States navy, but was dismissed by Presi dent Polk, as I now remember, for drunkenness. In 1846 “ Ned Bunt liue” turned up in Nashville, Tennessee, which was, at that time, a mere inland city, hanging loosely on the circumfer ence of civilization, and was without railroad or telegragh. How and why he came there is an enigma he only can solve. After getting there, he was em ployed by Mr. Tannahill assist him in editing the Orthopolitan, a literary paper recently started on the usual starvation principle. There was nothing particu larly spicy or brilliaut in the Orthopoli tan, which gave up the ghost after a lan guishing existence of some eighteen months, without leaving any aching void or being followed by a first-class funeral. Ned Buntline, while acting as assistant editor of the Orthopolitan, was received socially at the house of Mr. Porterfield, a respectable merchant of Nashville, but abused the hospitality of Mr. Porterfield by seducing his wife—a handsome, but vain and showy woman, whose ailment was admiration. When the infidelity of his wife came to Mr. Porterfield’s knowledge, he armed himself and set out to hunt up the seducer, and, seeing him on the street, fired at him twice without effect. Judson drew his pistol, rested on his left wrist, and killed Porterfield at the first fire. He surrendered himself at once and was placed on preliminary trial almost instantaneously in the court house. # The news of the seduction of Mrs. Por terfield and the killing ot her husband by the seducer was soon known all over the city, and aroused very great indignation. Nashville was in a ferment, and poured into the court-house to watch the progress of the trial. So indignant, incensed and excited were the people that they re quired but a spark to fan them into a blaze, and this spark fell unexpectedly among the combustible materials ready collected. A brother of the deceased, armed with two old-fashioned revolvers, suddenly entered while the trial was in progress, and proceeded to ffpen fire on Judson, who was defenseless and in cus tody of the law. Everybody looked upon this attack of Porterfield as just and pro per, and left Judson to liis fate. Finding everybody was against him, Judson, at length, darted through the crowd and ran for his life with the nu>b close at his heels, some shooting at him with pis tols and others pelting him with stones. In this plight he reached the City Hall and fled up stairs, with the mob in full cry after him. He finally reached a room in third story, and hidliimself from his pursuers by standing up in the win- J dow and dropping'the curtain in front of him; but a he was in plain view of the crowd in the street below, his pursuers pretty soon were apprised of his hiding place. The window was raised and look ed out upon the public square, crammed and jammed with the mob that was thirsting for his blood, yet as soon as his pursuers drew the curtain out and thrust his pistol at him, Judson leaped from the third-story window, intending to grasp in bis descent the iron balus trade belonging to the second story. It was a fearful leap. No matter which way he turned, there seemed no loop hole though which he could escape a violent death. The mob was past all control, lie struck the iron baluscade in his descent, but failing to grasp it, he fell into the pavement below, bruised and senseless, in the midst of the mob. At first he was believed to have been killed by the fall, but upon subsequently showing some vitality such as were op posed to mob violence hastened to carry him to the jail as being the place where he would be most secure. After night fall a rumor got into circulation that Jud son was not seriously hurt; that he had fully revived, and was to be secretly con veyed from the jail and put upon a steam boat then ready to leave the city, and this rumor so excited and infuriated the mob that it rushed fantically for the jail and got Judson out of t in no time. He coidd neither stand nor walk, yet was he carried off to the public square tc be hung to an awning post. Three times was he hung up by he mob, and as often was he cur down by some unknown per son in the crowd. At last he was sarried back to jail in an insensible state; the mob, having been made to believe he was sure to die in a few hours from the effects of his, fall dispersed. To the general surprise, “Ned Bunt line” got well. It was wonderful how he “ pulled through” such a emash-up. He was put on his trial previous to the day given out for it, and was acquitted upon the ground that he killed Porterfield in self-defense. He was conveyed se cretely on board of a steamboat, and had got off ere the mob suspected what was going on. Subsequently, he turned his attention to the writing of seusational and “ flash” novels, and started a newspaper iu New York City. “ Ned Buntline” was public ly cow-hided in 1851 by Kate Hastings, in consequence of something said about her in his newspaper ; but even this con temptuous and rough handling by an outcast of society had hardly the least damaging effect on Judson’s social or lit erary rank, since he had been regarded as a “ spoiled egg” for many years. The Happy Mother of Four Boueiiig liable*. Last Friday night Mrs. Milton Barrs, who lives twelve miles south of town, gave birth to a pair of babies, and on Saturday gave birth to another pair. The first two were born just before 12 o’clock at uight and the latter two just after 12 the same night, which gives two of them Friday, the 2-ith, for their birth day, and the other two Saturday, the 25th, for their birthday. Two of the new comers are boys weighing four and a half pounds each, and the other t\yo girls— one weighing four pounds and other three. The news of this marvelous child birth spread rapidly through the coun try, and large numbers of Mr. and Mrs. Barr’s friends hastened to their residence to see four babies alive. Sunday 150 or 200 persons visited Mr. Barr’s residence to see the babies. The mother is doing well. The children are all perfect in shape and healthy to all appearance.— f.tbanou ; J/o.) Journal. jl. i VOL. Ill —NO. 52. thi: no.y'Fs of .no.y'sTFßs. Wonderful DismcrieN in flic Sand stone Rocks ol' Colorado “Nature has borne strange children in her day,” says Shakspeare, aud he is not far wrong if we may judge from some recent discoveries in the- rocks of our neighborhood. While exploring some rocks in the white sandstone hog-back of the cretaceous period, near Morrison, Bear Creek—the same stratum as at Colorado Springs, a few yards west of Old Colorado City—we came suddenly upon a lmge vertebra?, lying as it were carved out in bas relief or a slab of sand stone. It was so heavy that it required two men to lift it. Its circumference was thirty-three inches. We stood for some moments looking in astonishment at this prodigy, and then hunted around for more relics. Presently one of the party, a little in advance cried out, “ Why, this beats all 1” At his feet lay a huge bone, resembling a Hercules war club, ten inches in diameter by two feet long. On digging beneath it a number of smaller vertebra were discovered, aud at the base of a cliff two enormous frag ments, reminding one of the broken col umns of some ancient temple, or a couple of saw logs, lay on the ground, possible thigh bones, fifteen inches in diameter at the but end ; and in the cliff above them was another fragment sticking out like the stump of a tree. With help of a sledge-hammer and crowbar the rock was removed around it, and underneath lay some ribs three inches in diameter with other bones. The rocks in the vicinity were full of fragments. Selecting one of these, we lifted off a large cap of sandstone above it and disclosed a perfect shoulder, ulna aud radius, of another somewhat smaller animal, the thickness of the bones aver aging about five or six inches. This, lying as it were like a beautiful sculpture on the sandstone, we succeeding in re moving it exactly as we found it. Sever al smaller bones of animals of various si7.es were discovered, but as the sun was fast setting behind the mountains we de ferred moving our trophies till the fol lowing day. During the night it snowed heavily, but next morning we succeeded in dragging our priz.es on temporary sleds down the cliff to the road, aud bringing home to the neighboring village a wagon load of bones and depositing them in a shanty, preparatory to packing them off East to Prof. Marsh of Yale Uollege for identification. The monster to whom the bones belonged could not have been less than sixty or even eighty feet long. In the cliff above these bones, impress ions of leaves were found (Dakota group) of dicotyledonous trees of every singular shape, some resembling a lyre, and oth ers the leaves of the tulip tree, willow, conifers, etc. These trees grew probably ou the shores of small islands in the ere tacious ocean in which the marine mon sters roamed, and not far off oysters (os trea congesta), clams (inoceramus), bac ulites and ammonites, and other marine shells were found in abundance. ___ - Along the shore of this ancientTsea squatted and leapt’Ehe dinosaurus or the terrible lizards, one of whom, the lcelaps, was 24 feet long. From the length of his hind legs, it is supposed that he was able to walk upright like a biped, carry ing his head 12 feet in the air. There was snother still larger, 35 feet long, and of the same habits. In the air overhead, hngh bat-like creatures ( Pterodactyls ), combining a lizard, a crocodile and a bat, flapped their leathery wings (25 feet from tip to tip) over the sea plunging every now and then in the water for a fish. There were birds, too; a diver ( Perperornis), five and one-half feet high, and some, strauge to say, with spinal vertebra like a fish, and armed with pointed teeth; iu both jaws. Enormous tortoises and turtle were the boatmen of the age. One discovered by Cope, in Kansas, was fifteeu feet across the end of one flapper to the end of the other. Huge clams also lay scattered over those ancient shores twenty-six inches in di ameter. Our saurian did not fall short of the biggest of these monsters; he could not have been less than sixty to seventy feet long, and probably either a mosa saurus or lizard allied to the clasmosau rus. The ocean in which these creatures lived was gradually enclosed by the up heaval of the sea bottom on the west, and soon became almost an inland sea. As the elevation continued and its area was contracted, ridges would rise, isolating portions of the sea into salt lakes and imprisoning the life in them. The stronger soon destroyed the weaker, till the water by evaporation becomiug shal lower, all life finally died, became skele tons, aud, in course of ages, fossils in sandstone.— Colorado Springs- Gazette. Tin: nott’s jvobmlitw I think it was in ’SO or ’sl when I was crossing the plains to reach the gold field. There were only three of us, and wc were all the time on the lookout for Indians. 1 believe Mormons had only settled at Balt Lake about four years previous; and to cross the plains was in those days a risky undertaking. We rode all day aud at night one always stow! guard. There was an awful silence in those plains, and sometimes thesileuce weigh ed down upon up strangly that we would ride on for hours without speaking and you never even heard the barking of a cayote. The air was rare and transparent, and the expanse about as level as a vast sea, with occasional billowy heaves which one could see at a distance of twenty miles. It was nearly always the same, except when the buffalo skulls were very thickly strewn, or where those queer Indian graves raised ou poles stood out against the horizon, like old black insect with long legs. So we came at last to the head of the Sweetwater, then nearly a thousand miles from any settlement; and the skulls lay very thickly theie—thick as boulders in a toreut-bed sometimes; and there were little mounds all over the plains, and these mounds were all graves. *vi Each grave had a great buffalo or elk skull—all white and bleached and ghast ly-looking —at one end of it. I remem ber some of the elk skulls must have measured five feet between th* tips of the horns, and the bone ws* white and dry as salt. Aud on every skull that was placed on a mound had b§en written im pencil or scratched in’witb name of the dead innn_/below, ■ \S, : . .. Lii ivlin years, Pii The^ ADVERTISE MTS: First insertion (per inch space) .|1 UQt Each subsetffrent iusVrtion... ..... j ~S- A liberal discount allowed those advertising for a longer jH.-riotl than three months. Cara of lowest contract rules cart be had ou appli cation to the Proprietor: Local Notices 15b. per liue first iasarQok and Uhr. per line thereafter. TribtrSrs of Respect, t etc., 50*; per inch—half price. Announcements, K* in advatneo. sfv many of them. Tlier* were other skulls lying along the road here ami therewith little sentences written on them in pencil, stating that so-aud-srf ami so-and-so had passed by at sack *ntf sach a day. We use to pick up clean skull ourselves,:, once in a while, and write something of this kind ou it, so that we might leave * sort of clause as to what had become of us if we should get killed. Well, as we were tumbling over the.' graves and reading the inscriptions oi* the skulls, I suddenly saw a great dog rise from a mound at some distance and slowly retreat to another mound still? further oft) when he turned and stared at us. He was one of those huge English mastitis, and must have belonged to one of the dead men. You could see through him ;no starving wolf could have been! gaunter, and his great protruding eves* had the wildest look you ever saw. lie seemed to have leet his voice aud hi* ftesh together, and looked like the Very phantom of a dog. We called and whis-- tied to him but lie never barked—only stared at us with the same wild look.- Then we went to the grave lie had been lying on, and it was nameless —there was . no skull except the long coffin-shape of the mound. We tried for ever so long to coax the" dog even to come and eat something but he vvomd not come near us, and would run off in a weak, shy way, if we tried to* approach him. God knows how long he had been there! we remained ar whole afternoon, just to dig a little hole' for water for the dog; you could strike* water there at four or five feet, right among the graves. Then we left some crackers and dry meat for him and rode' away west. As I went i turned and saw him re turning to the gravejand liedownon it at full length as though trying to guard it.- And I watched him, until at last, whenr I turned in my saddle, I could see noth ing except the white skulls all behind me, and a few weird Indian graves oiv the edge of the horizon where the. night was creeping up. TOUT MS&MSSiM New Madrid, September 19.—Tbe river monster which has been seen at many different points above here, creat ing great coustination and devouring, horses and cattle that swim the river,, has uudontedly reached this neighbor hood, and there is considerable excite-- ment over Us arrival. This morning about 8 o’clock, while the ferry-boat,, which contained two wagons and three horsemeu, was crossing to the eastern* shore, and while in the middle of the* river, there was a violent shaking of the boat, the movement being so sudden that one man who was seated on the gunwale was throne into the water, hot, grasping, the side of the boat,was drawn further damage than a ing. The first shock " It 'find lifted thi and almost c: a standing p| culty. The 1 whirlpool, tlj high and wad prow to stern tant, the occl an immense water with i undoubtedly the euormol ing of the ifl tiou of its ta stream oX wa noise that wl After this tS neath the wj pn hv thrwp en oy tnose nrw scared out of thd row to the shore! When the story] great the. village, anJF fifty ora hi went down to tfie river to cal ble, a sight of ol e gigantic reptilefl is considerable excitementun the si] and it is probable and expedition organized here \lo watch the rivei i.:ii ♦i. t* • * kill the. monster. Besides. Ihe fcrryil there w$ re five /persons in the boat,! follows: Williajjm Ferris and wife, Qfol Smith, B. \Y . Vv’illiams and Henry He meyer. The ldtier is tbe travellingaai for a St. Louis firm, and tbe oth| people well known for there ! ■bienn Xan. * Some gentWTnan were talking afl meanness, yesterday, writes “ Eli■ kins,” when one said lie knew a m.™ Lexington avenue who was the mea* man in New'York. 1 “ Jlow mean is that?” I asked. - j “ Why, Eli,’” he said, he is so tra that he keeps a five cent piece will string tied to it to give to beggars, I then when their backs are turned fee ■ it out of tjieir pockets !” ■ “ Why, this man is so coizfoun mean,” continued the gentleman, *‘l he gives his children ten cents api every night for going to bed wit ii their supper, but during the night, vl th,ey were asldep, he wcot up stairs, I ehe money out of their clothes, audJ whipped them in the-morning fjflflßj “ Does he do anything else ?i “ Yes, the other day I dined and I noticed the poor littlesr whistled all the way upslaiflß! dessert, and when f ask< 1 scamp wlmt made her he said: “ Why, I keep her can’t eat the raisins ou A NtrangCj A convict in the tralira undergoing ; meat for stelfcij'a^ living by i ■ g jM||| < msl might select, of which he" swallowed, swallow a prisoner is a thJ All chain of the swalh it iM