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_ W|OD , G» , Ftbruary 6, IS6B -If
THE DAWSON JOURNAL
Vol. 111.
POKTIIV.
dlnipMm of 1 rulli.
BT JOHN 0. SAX*.
The following has a moral which requires
but little thought to discover:
It was six men of Ilindoostan,
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see tbe Elephant,
Though all of them were blind,
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
The First approaehed the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
“O bless me ! —but the Elephant
Is very like a wall."
The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried ‘‘Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp 1
To me ’tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear.”
The Third approached tbe aumial
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within bis bauds,
Thus boldly up and spake :
“I see,’’ quoth he, ‘‘the Elephant
Is very like a snake."
The Fourth reached out his eager hand,
And fell above his knee ;
“What most this mighty beast is like
Is mighty plain," quoth be;
“ ’Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree.’’
The fifth , who chanced to touch the ear,
Said, “E’en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact w jo can,
This marvel ol the Elephant
Is very like a fan 1"
The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Thau, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell wuhin bis scope,
“I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
Is very like a rope!"
And so these men of Ilindoostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly iu the right
Aud partly in the wrong.
A Mandat'd Time to tlic Whole
W oi l J.
A correspondent, writing to the Sci
evt.fir American upon the subject of a
standard time fur the whole world, says:
Tbe annihilation tl distance by ihc
telegraph must have forcid upon inaDy
minds (he necessity of establishing at
some point a time piece which shall gov
ern all the rest ol the world, a time dis
tinct from the ‘‘local,” and which shall
poiut to twelve o’clock at the same ic
staut all over this sphere. '1 he hour
must be numbered from one to twenty
four, inclusive, in order to distinguish it
from local time, thus doing away en
tirely with A. M end P. M- (wbcD
using standard or universal time;)
twelve then would mean midnight only
at the geverning point, while twenty
four would mean noon at th it point
For the rest of mankind it
would be a certain guide for all official
purposes. Railroad time cards w.uld
no longer perplex the public, and trains
would run on uniform time everywhere.
Every watch would have its two sets of
hands, one for the local and or.e for the
universal time.
A telegram sent from Lord n to Sa
Francisco, bearing the standard time at
staiting, would show to the recipient
thcriof exactly how long it took to reach
him, how much actual time actually
consumed. As it is now, no one can
have a near idea without considerable
figuring, and then he may be figu'iug
twenty-four hours too early or too late
Every telegraph and railway once would
receive its time daily, so that nowhere
would the “tiroes” be a minute “out of
joint.” January 31, 1868, one o’clock,
would be January 31, 1868, one o’clock,
all over tbe official world.
What a fine regulator of local time
this would be; we should always have
one right by having the other correct,
there being always the same difference,
so that should we know one we would
know the other Suppose, then, that
Greenwich be the staudaid time as well
as the calculating point for longitude.
There is still a better 'ime than this,
but it so entirely supplants so many
familiar terms, such as “noon,” ‘‘morn
ing,” “evening,” when used in connec
tion with breakfast, dinner and tea,
that it would go a little bard at first,
though I have no doubt that, at some
time, there will be but one time, and at
a future day it will be perfectly easy to
say “dinner at six o’clock,” which would
mean somewhere near oui present time.
C3T. ‘John,’ inquired the master of j
a hopeful pupil, what is a nailer!’
‘A mau-who makes nails,’ answered
John.
‘Very good. What is a tailor !’
‘A man who makes tails.’
,Oh, you stupid fellow,’ said the mas
ter, biting hi# lips ; 'a man who makes
tails ?’
,Yes, master,’ replied John, 'if the
talor did not put tails to the coats he
made, they would be all jackets.’
DAWSON, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 8«, 186S.
Uertionl in Georgia.
Headqr’s 3d Mil itary Dist I
Georgia, Alabama and For id , >
Atlanta, Ga., March 9, 1868 )
General Order No. 39.
I. Whereas, The Constitutional Con
vention of the State of Georgia, which
assembled in Atlanta, in compliance
with General Orders No. 89, issued
from these headquarters November 19,
1867, did, in pursuance of tbe acti of
Congress specified in said General Or
ders, proceed to frame a Constitution
aud civil government for the State of
Georgia, and provide for the publica
tion ol said Constitution ; and did fur
ther, by an ordinance of said Conven
tion adopted March 11, 1868, submit
for ratification to tbe persons in said
State registered anti to be registered as
voters under the aots of C tigress afore
| said, at an election to begin on the 20 h
day of April, 1868. and to be kept open
from day to day, at the discretion of
the General C< remanding, as such pla
ces as he may designate.
11. And Whereas, by an act of Con
gress which became a law March 12,
1868, it is provided that, hereafter, any
election, authorized by the acts of Con
gress aforesaid, shall be decided by a
majority of the votes actually cast; and
at the election, in which the question
of the adoption or rejection of any Con
stitution is submitted, any person duly
registered in tbe State may vote in the
election district where he offers to vo'e,
when he has resided therein for ten
days next proceeding such election, up
on presentation of his certificate of
registration, bis affidavit, or other satis
factory evidence of registration, under
such regulations as the District Com
mander may prescribe.
111. And W’hcreas, said acts of Con
gress provide that the election for rati-,
fication of said Constitution shall be
conducted by the officers or poisons ap
pointed or to be appointed by the com
manding General, and at tho day fixed
by said Convention :
IV. It is ordered, That an election
he held iu the State of Georgia, com
mencing on Monday, the 2 f th day of
April, 1868, and continuing four d.:y-,
at which the rtg : str-rc.d voters of said
State may vote for or against the C i
stitu'ion submitted to them by the or
dinancc aforesaid. Those voting in fa
vor of the Constitution shall have wiit—
ten or printed on their ballots the words
“For the Constitution,” and those vot
ing against the Constitution, shall have
written cr printed upon their la'lots
tbe words, “Against the Constitution.”
V. It stall be tbe duty of the Boards
of Registration in Georgia, in accor
dance with said acts, commencing four
teen days prior to the election herein
ordered, and giving reasonable public
uotice of the time and place thereof, to
revise, for a period of five days, the reg
istration lists, and upon beiDg satisfied
that any person, not entitled tbereto
bag been registered, to strike the name
of such person front the list, and such
person shall not be allowed to vote.—
And such Boards shall' also, during
tbe same period, add to such registry
the Dames of all persons, who at that
time, possess the qualifications required
by said acts, wbo have not been already
•gistered.
In dcoiding who arc to be stricken
from or added to the registration lists,
the Board will guided by the aets cf
Congress relating to reconstruction, and
iheir attention is especially called to
the Supplementary act which became a
law July 19, 1867
VI Said election shall be held in
each county in the State under the ?u
periotendence of the Boards of R gin—
tration, as provided by law, and polls
will be opened, af'er due an 1 sufficient
noti e, at as many points in each coun
ty, not exceeding tbree, as, in tho opin
ion of said boards, may be required lor
>he convenience of voters. And in any
city, or other place, where there is a
Jarge cumber of voters, it is hereby
made the duty of said boards to open as
many polls as may be necessary to ena
ble tbe voter* to cast their votes with
out unreasonable delay.
VII. Auy person duly registered in
the State as a voter, may vote in any
county in the State where he offers to
vote, when he has resided therein for
ten days next proceeding the election.
V hen he offers to vote in the county
where he was registered, and his name
appears on the list, of registered voters,
he shall not be subject to question or
challenge, except for the purpose ot
identification, or as to residence. And
any person so registered, who may have
removed from the corn ty from which
he was registered, shall be permitted to
vote in any oounty in the State to which
he has removed, when he has resided
therein for ten days next proceeding
the election, upon presentation of bis
certificate of registration, or upon mak
ing affidavit before a member of tbe
Board of registration, or a judge or
manager of tho election, that he is reg
istered as a voter, naming the county
in which he is so registered; that ho
hus resided in the county whero he of
fers to vote for ten days next proceed
ing the election, and that be has not
voted at this election. Blanks for such
uffidavits will be supplied by the Boards
of registration, and the name of tbe vo
ter making oath must be endorsed on
his ballot, and, all such affidavits
must be forwarded with the returns of
the election.
VIII. The polls stall be opened at
eaoh voting place during tbe days of
election at 7 o’clock, A M., and olose
at 6 o’clock P. M , and shall be kept
open between those hours without in
termission or adj' urnment.
IX All public bar-rooms, saloon&a
and other places fur the sale of liquor
at retail, at the seve al county seats,
and at other polling places, shall be
dosed from six o’clock or the evening
proceeding tbe election un*il 6 o’clock
of the morning after the last day of the
election Any person relating this
order shall be subject to fine or impris
onment Sueriffs and thier deputies
and municipal ■ ffieers will be held re
sponsible fur tbe strict enforcement of
this prohibition, by the aireßt of all per
sons who may transgress the same.
X The sheriff of each oounty is here
by ri quired to be present at the oounty
scat, aud to appoint deputies to be
present at each polling place in his
county, during the whole time that the
polls are kept open and until the elec
tion is completed, and is made responsi
ble that no interference with the judges
or election or other interruption of good
order shall occur. And aDy sheriff or
Deputy Sheriff, or other civil officer,
failing to perform, with energy and
good faith, the duty required of him by
this order, will, upon report made by
the judges of the eleotion, be arrested
and dealt with by military authority,
and punishel by fine or imprisonment.
XI The commanding officer of the
District of Georgia will issue, through
the Superintendent of registration for
this State, such detailed instructions as
may be necessary to tue craduct of said
oleetions in conformity with the act of
Congress.
XI The returns required by law to
be made the results of said election to
the commanding general of this milita
ry District, will bo rend red by the per
sons appointed to superintend the panK,
through the commanding officer of the
District of Georgia, and in accordance
with the detailed instructions already
referred to.
XIII. No officer who is a candidate
for office at said election shall act as
register, judge, inspector, manager,
clerk, nr in any official capacity connect
ed with conducting the election.
XIV. Violence of threats of violence,
or any oppressive or fraudulent means
employed to prevent every person from
exercising the right of suffrage, is posi
tively prohibited, and every person guil
ty of using the same, shall on conviction
thereof before a military commission, be
punished by fine or imprisonment-
XV. No contract or agreement with
laborers made for tbe purpose of oou
troling their votes, or of restraining
them from voting, will be permitted to
be enforced against them ia this Dis
trict.
By Older of Major General Meade.
R. C. Drum,
Assistant Adjutant General'
Headq’rs 3d Military District, Y
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, >
Atlanta, March 16, 1868 y
Genera! Orders No. 42
All civil officers in this military dis
trict are hereby required to obey all
the orders issued from these Headquar
ters relating to tbe performance of their
rffieial du ies; and any officer refusing
to obey any such order, shall, on con
viction thereof before a Military Com
mission, be punished by fine or impris
onment, or both.
By order ot Major General Meade.
R. C. Drum, A. A. G.
Dastardly Outrage.— The partic
u'ars of a meet atrocious outrage upon
the person of a young girl, nsimd Em
f ily Ledbetter, aged 16. years, by tbe
negro outlaw, Henry Brown, havo
been furnished us by (’apt Ed Mur
phy, of the police The fiendish act
was perpetrated about dusk on Hon
da*, on the Peach ree road, 21 miles
fro*m town, while Miss Ledbot'er was
passing ultjiig the road to her honu-.
Bhe was violently seized by tbe helliun,
and there being no assistance at hand,
she was powerless to resist his hellish
designs Brown, escaped in'o the
woods, and returned to the city, where,
at a late hour r.l the nigh , he was ar
rested by Capt Ed Murphy and Lieu.
Johnson, of the poliee; af er which, he
was taken betore his victim who at
once recognized him as the guilty par
ty The case was up before Judge
Smith yesterday, and we hope that
Henry Brown, who has long been a
pest in It is , oftiinuiiily will speedily
find the (Dd of that rope which he hns
merited. —Atlanta IsteUtgencer, 10 th
test.
Fiom the New York World.
'Burning of Barunui’i Museum.
STATEMENT OF THE (JIANT OlltL.
“I am twenty years of agi ; my uamc
is Ann Swaiu ; I weigh 413, and wa#
born in Nova Scotia.”
Reporter “Are you married Miss
Swain
Giantess. “No, but I could if I bad
wanted to, easy .”
Reporter “Where were you at the
time of the fire?” (Here tho giant
ess smoothed her hair, threw out her
noble legs, and shook her dress, look
ing very nice all over )
Giautess. “I was in tbe fourth floor
between the lecture room and tbo gal
lery, aud it was just about half-past
twelve o’clock, aud had got everything
off me except my chemise and stockings
when 1 heard a scream —and such a
scream ! J?ays 1, ‘Sakes alive, what
oan that be, Ido wonder?’ The po
licemen begau to holler, and tho fire and
smoke came up stairs into my room.
What, was a poor woman to do in
such a trouble ? I was iu a tremor
and a flutter, but I grabetd iny j wel
ry; arid then I heard a womau’a voice
cry, ‘l’ve lost my child.’ And sakes
alive, I took my jowelry, aud throwing
my dress over my shoulders, turned to
make my way dowu stairs with all my
portable property in the folds of my
dress tucked up; but I did not know
where to go, when up came two big po
licemen, with their clubs in their hands,
and baid to me, ‘'Come this wav, roy
heavy Old Gai,’ and I went dowu stairs
with the impudences, but not before I
thought to rescue a pet pelican of mine ;
hut us I was going down stairs, a po
liceman took hold of me aud pulled
the dress, wilh my watch, jowelry, aud
a beautiful Muiratnique dress, off my
body, aud away tbey went into the smoiie
and flumes, and I ueversaw them again
aud 1 had to go out into the street the
way I was born almost, aud I got over
to the hotel, aud her# I um aud my loss
is 3,000 for my wardrobe aud jewelry.
I saw no reporters that night and made
no statement to them.’
Reporter. “Were you as much
frightened as you were at tbo last fire
iu the old museum, Miss Swain ?”
Giantess. “Bakes alive y»uug man
—I was twico as skeered. You know
that was in the daytime and this was
iu the night—sakes alive, and I had
nothing on me but my chemise. What
was a poor woman to do?”
STATEMENT OF THE BEAUTIFUL CIRCAS
SIAN,
This young lady is very pretty, and
quitt a c quette. Her large lustrous
eyes opened wide when our reporter
asked her a question as to her expeti
cnee, and she laughed loudly, and stop
pel flirting wilh a your,g man wearing a
suock of red i.air, when question
Reporter (with a sigh. “How (lid
you escape the devastating element ?’’
Zulcima. “Well, I’ll tell ye how,
hut please don’t make fun of me in the
world, will ye ?”
Reporter. “Do not be afraid, miss,
I shall not.”
“Well, you see I was on the top floor,
and I had all my biautiful hair uudone,
aud Iwa goiug to bed. Just so. I
-was thinking ot all the nice yuuug men
with curly hair that 1 bad seen iu tho
museum during the day, and looking
(laughing) at my thirty thousaud < ollar
necklace which Queuu Victoria gave
me at Buckingham Palace, when all at
once I heard such a scream. I even
hear it now, and it makes me feel as if
a cold key was put down my back. And
then I knew nothing until I was pulled
down stairs some way or the other, and
I would have fainted hut I was afraid
of beiug burned up Then 1 had h >(h
--oo me hardly, and I felt ashamed
(laughter.) Ye#, indeed, I did. Aud
then when 1 got to the doer I was all
in a shiver, aud a young man, Mr. Har
ris, gallantly tiled to carry me across
the snow and slu-b and I lost my shoes.
I wear twos and Mr. Harris teus, end
be took off his boots and put them on
me, but they wou.d not fit. And then
he took me avross, and here 1 am. I
was so afraid of losing my beautifu
hair (with a sigh), aud have lost every
thing Including the necklace given me
by Queen Vtout!ia. And I thiuk Mr.
Harris is a good young man for saviug
me,”
Reporter. “Did you lose any dress
es ?”
Zn'cima. “Yes, I lost a splendid
clarer colored silk that cost me 392 at
Btewart’s. Didn’t 1 Zuruby ?”
Zuruby Hannum. “Yes, of coarse
you did, dear.”
Zu'eima. “I never saw tho Tribune
reporter, and never gave him any state
ment at all. It isn’t true. You are
tbe only one I would give it to.”
STATEMENT OF TIIE FAT WOMAN.
My name is Adelaide Powers I
weigh four hundred pounds I am
heavier than the young elephant I was
born in Shelby oounty, Kentucky 1
can eat my meals, thank God, and am
married. I was on the same floor with
Miss Swain, where they have the kitch
en and the daguerrean gallery About
half pa t twevle I was silting in the bed
but had not gone to bed, when I beard
the policemen shouting, and they came
running up stairs to save me. One of
them said “D>you want to be burnt
up ?’ and I said “Nn,” when another
said ‘Ain’t she fat?’ and hero they
caught hold of my leg and they pulled
me down stairs, aud I bad no dress on,
and when tbey got me across to the ho
tel t hey put tny dress on, but they
w«re men, and they put it on tbe wrong |
side, and hooked it wrong. Tbey also j
hooked my corset for me. 1 lost $lO
in money, aDd my entire losa is SSOO,
wardrobe and all.
Why Bre good resolutions like faint
ing ladies ? Because tbey want- ‘carry
ing out.’
ivo. r.
“Home Sweet Home.”
Night dropped her shadowy vail
over London, and the man le of mists
that ait day long; had enveloped the
citv grew more dense and fell n bead
ed drops of ruin Tbe gas lights burn
od brightly at tbe corners, but it was
u dreary night to be out in. Yet
crows filled the streets for fven in tho
night storms, the great thorough seres
ore never deserted Guilt and wretch
edness are always wakeful and abroad.
To realize the desolation of loneliness,
one must be a stranger in a crowded
city, with a sensitive nature, and a re
finement that shru b from rude con
tac’s, and uncongenial companion
ship.
Alor.e in the court.ry with the blue
sky above us, and the green grass be
neath our feet, there are charms that
woo us to forge fulness. There is mu
sic in the running stream and beutny
in the flowers that grow upon its banks.
Bom# German w riter, I have forgotten
who, calls flowers the stars of the
earth and B'ars the flowers of heaven.
Fair and radiant flowers they are and
shed their brigh -ness on the smoka
wreathed city, but in their mutculess,
sos ened aud mellow ed light seem to
linger more pleasantly ou green fields
and waving corn.
Alone in London ? Drenry and des
olate reality, that swelled almost to
bursting u weary and aching heart
The stranger gathered his thin cloak
around his shivering form, and drew
his hat over hie face, with a sensitive
shrinking from the crowd that rudely
jostled past h>m. He was alone in
London and very poor, not ev. u a shill
ing to procure a scanty supper.
Bomowhere in a dark part of the
city, where the gas lights were few, up
man; pair of stairs, was the garret in
which he slept; but in it there was
nothing save the darkness, one broken
ebair and a wretched bed wiib it scan
ty covering.
When he entered the desolate cham
ber in nights like this an unseen com
pany sutrounded him, Uie spirits of the
viewless air. and iu the wailing of the
wind, they tolu him strange mysteri
ous ta'es of wretchedness and dread,
until, hall wild with dark imaginings,
he rushed forth in the night and the
pelting storm. Thus through the chill
ing sleet and rain he walked the
streets, looking into the hard faces of
the passers by and wondering if in all
London there was another man who
hud no one to care for him, no one to
love him. And then he thought how
deliciously s r nge it would seem to
him—a strung! r and a wanderer for
many years—to be loved.
He hoped tbe b eased light would
dawn upon him, but in the ifurkne sos
this night it seemed a great way of.—
The cloud of poverty and gloom that
wrapped his heart was too cold and
deep, he feared, for human sympathy ;
and love to penetrate. He seemed to j
see before him, Fate, with weird fin
gers, weaving the mystic web of his i
lonely destiny and as he watched the
phanLum hands with feveriah intensity,
he wondered if at some future day
that a mantle of brightness might fall
upon him instead of a pall A strain
of sweet music broke in upon his lone
ly musings. Over ail refined na urea
music has an absorbing power, and
though it often fills the son! with sad
ness it casts upon it tho spell of an ir
resi6table fascination ; and the string *r
paused in his desolate w alk to listen to
the sing Tbe windows of the prince
ly mansion were bul half vailed, and
be could see the happy group that sur
rounded the piano, and the fair girl
that sang the s ft minor air which sauk
into the !istenet s heart
He was a poet, and had written
songs of tenderness and love for others
to sing. Himself, he couldn’t sing with :
such a weight upon his heart The
light of genius was in his eye, and the
imagery of a fervid imagination gath
ered round his brain, and the poet’s
native impulse, loving, warm and tru.e,
lived within bis heart.
Id the sensitive and gif ed the long
ing for sympathy and love is far more
intense than in ruder Qetures, and all
his life long his heart bad yearned
w ith passionate eagerness for the puro
delights ol home and the bliss of sym
pathy und love
The song was over but still he line
gered, watching the firelight’s fi ful
glow, as it shed its ruddy sheen upon
the changing group.
Again the fair girl took her seat at
the piano and sang wi>b inmitable
grace and beauty. “Home, Bweet
Horae.
It, was his song !
He, the homeless wanderer, bad
written “Home, SweetiAiome ”
lie stood out in the dsi knees and
night, listening to his song, the child
ol his own heart and brain, locking in
a' the window of‘Home, Sweet Home,'
knew that in all the world there was
no home for him
Thu song ended. He "eat down on
the store steps cf the stately mansion,
. with the raiu beating heavily upon him,!
and burying his face in his hands, wept j
in the bitterness of hie heart
Years passed away, and still he was
a homeless wanderer. Often in the
streets of London, Berlin, and Paris,
he heard -‘Home, Sweet Home,”
wt.ich in aH lands and all hea ts had
become a household word
Later in life he became Consul to
Tunis, and dud a stranger in a strange
land. Never, save in bis dreams, had
ho known the bliss of “Home, tiweet
Home 1”
‘Largo bodies movfg slo/ This prov
erb dou’t apply to lies, for the bigger
tha ar the faster tha go.
Barnum fcas left the mureum bu*i
cea forever.
Josh Rilling# oil Bed Bags-
I never see ennybody yet but wbat
desp sed bed bugs, f hey tire the mean*
est uv awl crawling, creeping, hopping
or biting things
They dussunt tackle a yiau bidalitn.
but sneuk in, after dark aud chaw him
while he iz fast usluep
A muske-to will ffght you in broad
duliio, at short runge, and give yoy n
chance to knock his sides—lhe flea is a
game bug, and will make a dash at yoi*
even in Broudway ; hut the heu bug# in
a garroter, who waits tin you s rip and
then picks out r mellow p uce to ea|
you
II l waz ever in the habit of
ing, I would not hesi'ate to damn a
bed hug rignt tew hU face.
Bed hugs arc uncommon smart w A
"ttiall way— one puirofthem will stock
a hair mattra..s in 2 weeks with bug*
enufl iew lay: a small family a whole
year
It don’t do enny good to pray when
bed bugs are in seas in ; the only way
tu gut rid <>v them i-. to bile up the
whole bed in aqut-fortis aud tuou heave
it away and buy anew on-.
Bed-hugs v. hen they hav grown an!
they intend to, aro about the sizs ot r
blue jay's eye, and hav a brown com-'
plexion, and when they start out to
garrot are uz a grteae spot, but when
they gi' thru garroting thry are swelU
ed up like a blister.
It takes them three day# iew git the
swellin out >v them.
II bed bugs hav enny destroy tew fill
it must be their stummuks, but it seem#
to me that they must have been made
by acksident, just as a ivvets arc, lew
stick into sutnbtxly.
If they was got up for #oni9 wise par*
pose, they must have took the wrong,
for there kant be enny wisdom in chaw
ing a man aul night lo»g and ruziu a
family besides, tew totter the same
trade
If there iz some wisdom in aul this,
I hope the bugs will chaw them folk#
who kail see it, and leave me be, btc
kuuz l am one ov the heriticks.
Terrible Adveulnre on tkt
Plain*.
The St. Paul Pioneer relate# tba fol
lowing case ot tx' raurdiuary hardship
on the D.kota prairies :
A M'. Ciieever, in oompaa; with
two half-breeds (mail carriers,) left Fori
Totten, on Devil’s Lake, for this poiot,
about January Ist. They had with
them a dog train, for the purpose of
transporting their rations and the mail.
After havt::g proceeded about half w#y
from the fort to B it a Chicaux, a mail
Ration (or campim; place,) about equi
distant betwoen Fort Tott#a *ud Bib
ley’s old crossing of the Cheyenne river,
they were ove>taken by ouo of those
terrible storms known only to thyso who
have been favored wi h the opportunity
of enjoying a winter of frontier life in
this particular latitude The little par
ty suocecdcl in battling with the ele
meets until tbey arrived within about
three miles of Bdt a Cuieaux, when
Cheever, having become much exhaust
ed, vtat compelled to take refuge in a
coolie. The and, gs were also left behind,
as they were much fatigued and tinablu
to proceed. The two half-breeds went
ahead to the station fur tho purpose of
obtaining relief, but were unable to re
turn until the expiration of three day#
—the storm continuing in full blast all
the tiu o While ou their way to the
relief of Cheever, they met him coming
in—aod in what manner ! Two of the
dogs, half starved, were crawling xt hi#
bee s, wfiiie by a string be drsggi and what
was left of their mate, a portion of which
he bad devoured rato (for he had no
means of making a tiro,) to save him
-clf from starvation. The and gs, in th#>r
d< speratioD, had destroyed all his pro
visions on the first night he remained
in the coolie, aud to kill aud eat ons of
them was his -sly safety. On arrivieg
n carap both his hands and feet were
Sound to be hbdty fn-z n, and tbe flesh
has since commpuced failing eff.
Strange Occurrence at a Death
in Canada. —One day during the latter
part of last week a middle-aged man
named Isaac Currie, of the township ot
Mono, C. W., went to Toronto on a vis
it, with his wife. There she was taken
sick, and Mr Currie returned home
alone. He did not go to bed till 2A.
M on Saturday morning, having eaten
nothing for some time, and suffered
much from cold and exposure. After
retiring he was attacked wi'b cramps
and was unable to get up On Saturday
grew rapidly worse, and by
night was totally insensible, breathless
and apparently dead. He lay in that
condition till the Monday following,
when he was buried. It was noticed
previous to his interment that the board
on whioh he lay was warm, tbit his hand
was cloned and sweaty, while his faoe
lost its rigidity and assumed a pleasant
: smile. This was soon noised abroad,
and parties were bold to affirm that he
was still alive I Immediately a party
weut to the grave and hastily broke
open the coffin. No signs of life, how
ever, were then visible, and ooroner’a
i inquest being heidupon vho body, » ver
l diet was returned of “death from ex
haustion and exposure ” He was in the
grave about an hour before disinterment.
Broke ms Agreement.— “ How
much do you charge, inassa 'magis
trate to marry me and Miss Dinah ?”
“Why, Clem, I’ll marry you for two
dollars.”
“Two dollars ! What da yon charge
to marry White folks, trussa?” asked
Clem. ’ * „
“Five dollars.”
“Well, you marry us like white
folks anl I’ll give you five dollars
too ”
■‘Why, Clem, that’s a curious bo
tiou, but as you desire it I’ll marry
you like the white Jolks for five dol
lars,”
The ceremony being over, Clem and
Dinah being one, the mag’strate asked
for his fee.
Oh 1 no massa, you no cum up to de
greement, you no kiss dc brida.”
“Get out of tny effi’e, bla k