Daily Wabash Express, Volume 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 March 1869 — Page 2

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DAILY.-,- EXCESS

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The April Election.

Xa few-days the April Election will be upon us. If is highly important tjmt

Republicans throughout the coaolj+-*nfl indeed, throughout the State—should fully appreciate the importanc9 of making a good report on that oceasion. Are the organizations, perfected during the recent campaign, etill in good working order Are they industriously employed in the important duties of such organizations?— We fear these questions cannot be an» swered affirmatively.' It is very probable that there is not a single live, efficient Republican organization in Vigo county^

We hear from the Democracy, in fcvery township where that party is in the minority, the old, old story, "Politics should sot control local elections,". By this they mean thai ^Republicans should not insist on having the offices io which their numerical strength entitles them. It is certain that Democrats will Tote for Demo* crats only. Such has been the usage of the party from time immemorial.

No party can long i^ajntakHls ascendancy in any State, unless it ba? spirit enough to contest, with vigor, the township and municipal election An army, split up into small detachments, and beaten in skirmishes, soon becomes utterly demoralized. The Republican parly of? '.Indiana, beaten in local contests, would be in bad condition for that great struggle which it must make in the next Bearers! election. The opposition expect to control Indiana within two years. Every -little local victory gives them fresh cotirage, inspires them for further conquests..

The Republicans of Vigo have fought tihis enemy too long, have sacrificed too much," to forego all that has been gained. Let) «us go to work in earnest, determined to aucce.ed, leaving no honorable means unemployed that may tend to insure victory.

Remember that every triumph of the opposition, however insignificant, will be Mieraided from Maine to Texas, from "^Florida to Oregon, as "a great Democratic victory," and will furnish inspiration afor an enemy that countless defeats have failed to dishearten.

SOME of the Eastern papers are urging that as the Sultan of Turkey has juet settled a pension of $16,000 a year upon the widow of his Grand Yizier, our Congressmen should settle a pension of $5,000 ia tyearnpon Mrs. LINCOLN. The Cincinnati Times remarks'that the logic of this is that Congressmen have aright to imitate Turft if they wish to do so. If this is the fact then Washington morality is "no longer-an enigma. |j|

IT IS agitated in New York medical circles that perhaps persons who eat pork muchly are more subject than others to typhoid fever, cholera, and epidemics generally. On thii subject aNew York paper •ays: 'JDuring the prevalence of cholera in one of our Western cities, where tlj.e morality from that disease alone in two consecutive years exbeeiedi six thousand, the interments in -Hebrew cebieWfies were disproportionately small in numbeji and could only be accounted for by" the fact that the Jewish population, which in that city vras quite large, did not partake of the meat wbichxis the peculiar, diet of Christians, and especially of the] poorer classes of Christians, in We3tern towns.11 1

Tax Inaugural Address of President GRAKT has made a very favorable 'Tin-! pression abroad.. The London Times My of that part referring to the public daJ^l: "General GBANT'B expressions, eolfpljd with the recent action of the Legislature on the subject, will have a good effect in maintaining American credit. The President argues that -if itbe well undsra£bdti ihat not a: single farthing of lhepublic debt is to be repudiated, the national credit will be so much strengthened as to enable the Union to replace the debt with bond* paying'less interest than is now paid. Nothing can be more certain than Ibis and we can well understand an American looking with jealousy at the eaay terms on which a country likeErtgland it able to obtain money on.occasii —the consequence of honorably beari immense burdens throughout along series of years. Happily, the,principle. .of the party, of dishonesty have been disowed by the nation, which will find, as all States whicjj have tried it kave,(fpu^d that there is no resource in time of trial like a reputation -f°T punctual payment.'

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THK United States Marshal,-:o£'Atlan-«ta,3a., has mysteriously disappeared

SKCBXTABY BotmvKLt is a graduate of the public i^hools. RAYMOND, of the New York Times recently refused an offor of $1,000,000 for his paper and iti/acccrtapanving real es'tate. I:' as

ELLIS AMES is menuonea as the probable successor of Judge Hoar «afibusetts Supreme Bench.

YOUNG Roiiisi. son of the former proprietor of the famoua Delevan House, Albany, has been arrested, charged with forging his father's name.

GU)«OH

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BISHOP LITTLWOHS, of Broo^n, bitterly denounces the practice of Expending thousands of dollars annually on church music. He contends that music In God's servio© should be free, not hired

Ex-GoYXBNOB STRAQOX, of Rhode Island, has a fine farm in the" south b{ the State, on which he keeps mammoth oxen. He has now one jpair weighing ^1Q0 pounds, and two others weighing 3,000 pounds each.

Riv. DR. EDDT, OVCHIC^,^3LIINED the nomination of Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives in advance, having accepted the pastorate of the Charles street church in Baltimore.

Tffijc .#§S^£teia t-blnki |fert to Wafbingtou for foreign serv

iyjjscakte*..4bijulhtjce

^general*.dispp&t.

tion on the part of office seekers to quit t£»~eou»try. IF tbii is really the ssplmation of the hitherto inexplicable, aboat the best thing that can be done in the way of legislation for the country will be ^eeeUblk^e^tf-«^iba*»*SAndcoD*ul-abips in a few pi the fever-tainted and can-nibal-inhabited portions of the world, where aquick rotation in office will be most likely to diminish the rapacious horde.— We make the soggeiion In good faith.

Humorouts.

A great "Composer"—Chloroform^ Not a good way to rise in the world— by the gallows. 5 Men injured whtte rSding velocipedes are literally broken on the wheel.

Paragraphs relating to women are in sorted in the Vicksburg Herald under the head of "Grecian Bend Bureau."

"Look welt before you leap.'' Very good advice in its way, but how can sick-ly-looking people follow it?

Why is a baby like wheat Because it is first cradled, then thrashed, and finally becomes the flower of the family..

It has been said that it must be easy to break into an old man's house, because his gait is broken and his locks are few."

Bald-headed men take a joke more .easily, because they are not at the trouble of getting it through their hair.

A professional philanthropist proposes to make soup from the pigeon wings cut in the ball-room, and feed the poor on it,

•Why is a man who is deceived by a girl like another girl in leading-strings He is miss-led (misled.)

There is, perhaps, no mechanism equal to that of the beer pump in its power of elevating the masses. ,»

Josh Billings says one live man in a village "iz like a case ov itch at a district school—he Bets everybody sketching, at

A%1e®o¥ilm§lli^Bcl4daI was under discussion at a tea-table. "Well, let us think the best of her we can," said an elderly spinster. "Yes," said another, and say the worst."

"I hope," pathetically said a favorite New York burlesquS actress, to a friend, "that the public will some day permit me to put on clothes again, and let me act once more,"

A young man wants a situation where the only heavy thing is the Salary. He i9 willing to dispense with any amount of work if this can be guaranteed.

One who has lost tremendously, says that the oid slaw, ^'Exchange no robbery," must have been invented before theStock Exchange existed.

Do you think that raw oysters ire healthy, asked a lady of her physician: "Yes,' he replied, "I never knew one to complain of being out pf^|e^tJ|^iFi my

A debating society had under consider ation the question, "Is it wrong to cheat a lawyer?" The decision arrived at was,

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"Ten Bears," Indian Chief of the Kio was of Dacotah, in illustrating what a •'heap of squaw" his mother was, said that she was always on horseback. She got off long enough to give "Ton Bears" birtb,v httt^kt once remounted.

A circus manager in the South foots his show-bills with the terms of ad mis sion, a& follows: "Tickets fifty cents children and White folks half price/?

William Wright's last earthly resi dence, in Toledo, Ohio, is thus marked "Kere lies tha body of W. W., Who never mot# will trouble yon, trouble you.

Advice to those who Are about to go to law—first, aSfc yourself the'question: "Are you'tnorally in the right If the answ.or ta "No," go to law by all .means you'll be sure to .win.— Tomahawk.

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Contributions to the Press. The Boston Transcript truthfully say? "Persgna who send communications to editors t"e help them 'fill UD! ^ni^m^elitmirea low hai for the fratornity to get their own articles printed." Nearly every day, when the forma are ^dJosed up,'finds enojugh matter excluded to make up another entire paper, much of which must go into the wa»t^basket, never to rfappear. The selecttdni# made by* preference are those which appear to be of most immediate interest to some class of readers, although they may not interest all. No newspaper can contain all tbe interesting matter thai «rtftds for ad mission to Its columns, and the chief work of the editor is to se lect from the mass. His judgment may err, but it is Very doubtful whether an un practiced hand would do the work as well as themselves. There are thousands who think they could do it beter—until they come to make the experiment and in that tbe ablest and most learned have most lamentably failed ,j|nA5 \i

me Farmers of the West and those ofSurope. Sydenhartf/ Wlten Tie made his home closo by^ Western villagefntered what to tira was a new world—a world differ* iqg more widely from that which swarms in our Atlantic citias than the people of these cities differ from ihote of the towns and villages of England. Still, greater, however, was the contrast between the farmers and farm-laborers around Chis kauga and the same classes on the conti nerit .et Europe.

The young Philadelphian, when he first crossed to the Old World, had spent months ih A pedestrian tour-?-for a time in, the yegricultural portions of England afterward among the peasantry ot Prance and of Germany. He had often^ found among ilienri stmplte goSfnessj patience under neath

hopeless griovous

toil, res burdens

met a cheerlul^fimtle, a ready^welcbma But the spirit of the man was not there— the spirit that' caa Jo6K_ up with all honest canfidence an'd feel that while ft is no man's master neither is it any man's slave. On%felt—they felt—that between themselves and the favored of fortune there-was., fixed an almost impassable gulf.

How great tbe deference he found in the loweet cabin of our rural West I Humble often the tneane homely the ferine blunt, nor usually grammatical, the manner of speech but a certain rude independence, natural, not assuibed, shone through—a quiet sense of equality in political rights and in tbe pursuit of honors and office. The tone in which hospitality was tendered assured one of this. Seldom any apology ft' rough fare or poor lodging or, if such was made, not in tq$. lone, of humility -one meets with oS the Rhine oi Fh the French ct tf&IRE.—ROBRBT DALX OWKH, tn Lijp\ pincot^s Magazine for April. liisi iew •, v" 5=5—=-=—

THK FRAORANT BREATH OF BEAUTY attests the matchless purifying properties of SCZSDON*. Every lady" who has ever used it proclaims, it a perfect antidote to dental decay. Pure teeth are essential to a pun breath, and both are enjoyed by all ^ho resort to this agreeable, wholesome and invaluable vegetable compounds- 23,dlw.

RED KNIFE

KIT CARS0S'8_LAST TRAIL

BY IEOH LEWIS,

AUTHOR O* "TH* Wtam T*AI»,"

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The eocple were evidently father and daughter. The man was in the prime of lite, hale and hearty, with a large frame, which was sfbewy and athletic, without c®asiDg to be refined and prepossessing. He had the keen, shrewd look peculiar to the ad-vance-guards of civilization, and there was an honest, frank expression on his sun-browned face that proclaimed bis integrity and courage.

In her way, his daughter was equally picturesque and attractive. In the early flush of womanhood, with a pure, sweet, and tender face, with eyes darkly .glowing, with coral-tinted lips, and cheeks softly flushed with the hue of the rose, with amber curls floating behind her, she was as graceful as a gazelle, as light-hearted as a bird, as lovely as flower, and as spirited as an untamed an. telope.

The stream by which the eouple had haltrd was Wood river, a branch of the Platte, in Nebraska, at a point fifty miles northwest of Port Kearney. 'Are you tired, Miriam?' asked the hunter, George Dane, with fatherly so licitude. 'Tired, father?" rejoined the maiden with a happy laugh. 'Oh, no! How could I be tired after a day like this Every minute has been filled with pleasure and excitement. I feel as fresh si yonder bird.'

The father smiled understanding^, with a look full of the fondest Bffection. 'I oan guess the cause of your lightness of heart,' said be, smilingly. 'The return, now daily expected, of a pertain Hubert Earle, from the mines of Idaho, may account, I suspect, for your present ad

A heightened color appeared on Ml riam's face, for tbe name mentioned was that of her lover. She answered her fa ther, however, with a frankness that at tested his entire sympathy with her, and said: 'True, father, my heart has been unusu ally light for sever*! days past. How could it be otherwise, since I know that Hubert is coming

Mr. Dane did not reply. He was look1 ing with kindling eye?, over the fair flower dotted plain, and his next remark showed bow widely his thoughts had strayed. "I wonder what mother has been doing without us all day, Miriam. She must be lonely, with no cue to speak to or share her ipoals. I shouldn't wonder we could see our home from this point,' and his face lighted up with a soulful glow. 'Our cottage is not mote seven miles distant let me see?'

Ho drew from his coat a pocket-glass, adjusted it to ble sight, pointing it in a northerly direction, and gazed through it long and earnestly, towards his ranqhe upon BArrey's Pork. 'Yes, I see it,'he said, at last, with long, deep, and joyful inspiration, as if the sight refreshed him in every nerve. 'There is our cettage, as plain as day. can even see the vines you planted be' fore the windows, Miriam. And there, on the grapejvine bench,-under, the big elm, sits your mother busy at her sewing Bless her 1 She does not imagine we are looking at her. Look, Miriam.'

He yielded the imtrument to his daughter, who obeyed his injunction her lovely face glowing with #miles as she regarded the distant home-scene. 'Dear mother 1' she murmured. 'It is a treat to her to be able to sit out under the trees without fear of molestation. There are no hoitile Indians hereabouts now— are there, father?' 'No. Red Knife, as you have already heard, was killed yesterday by a settler, and his band has retreated towards the mountains. I will confess, Miriam, that during all the time we have been In tbe West, I have not felt BO light-hearted and care-free as since we received news of Red Knife's death. Ycu have just seen how this joy bubbles over in meT* Red Knife was a demon rather than a sav

ageMiriam shuddered, and even paled at the memory of the Indian mentioned. 'He never spared a pale face,' she said, striving to spoak calmly. 'Desolation and oruelty marked his path. Por more than three years he has raged to and fro upon the plains like a ravening wolf. He was the terror of the border.' •You have named him appropriately, Miriam,' said the hunter. 'He had fiendish hatred of the white race, and his victims have been many.'

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"CHAPTER 1.

UK OLOBIOUSLT STAKIS.

Toward the close of a beautiful day in June, 1867, a man and woman, mounted upon fleet horses, came galloping over one of the great plains of the West, and drew rein in the shade of a olunp of cot-ton-woods upon the bank of a beautiful river. They had ridden far and rapidly. Their steeds were panting, and covered with sweat and foam. •We must give the horses a breathing ing spell,' said tbe former, slipping to tbe ground and his companion nodded graceful assent, as she followed his exa

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Mr. Dane held out his hand for the glass, and Miriam was in tbe act of re storing it, when a strange, gasping, panting soand startled them both, and sent them quickly to their saddles.

The hunter wheeled his horse and looked down upon the river-bank, from which direction the sound had come, his manner self-possessed, but his counlen anoe indicative of alarm. Tbe maiden followed bis extmple.

Her eyes were the first to discover the cauBe of the sound that had Btartled them detecting a man's figure creeping along through the undergrowth of bushes lining the ahore.

At the' same moment, their presence in turn was detected, for the man drooped suddenly among the protecting bushes, as if he bad been shot. •An Indian?' whispered Miriam, drawing frem her bosom a revolver.

The hunter shook his head, continuing to watch the spot at whieh the man had fallen, his hand on his rifle, his .manner ttat of one ready for action.

Suddenly, as the man showed a I gard face peering cautiously from his Malasent. Mr.. Dane's anxious coun tenaace broke jnto a smile, and he cried out:

Hallo I Is that you Tlfompsoa? Do you take us for Indians, that you skulk there in the bushea?'

The individual addressed was silent a Ml minute, as it seemed from sheer amazement then he sprang out from his hiding-place with a cry of relief, and ad» vsnced swifUy towards the father and daughter.

He was a man of middle age, of tbe ordinary type of backwoodsmen, strong aqd brown and stalwart, of the rude, rough type that seems to belong to the border. His faee was haggard and white although covered with presperation. His breath came through his parted lips in qntek, uneven gasps. He had rem fir ond swiftly, anl looked es if about to drop from fatigue. •What has happened Thompson?' asked Dane, with keen anxiety, the man's singular appearance giving him a sudden shock of alarm.

The Indians I' gasped Thompson, scarcely""fcble to command his "voice. They are coming 1 Red Knife, and fair band—divided—my wife—my children Help me I Help me 1' 'What talk is this?' cried Dane agitated

'He was en'y^ yoqaflaa,' Interrupted ^*Me is oomtng to take his

Thompson vengeance on as settlers. Be bee divided his band lnto two. Tkiy at the Deer Fork this morning, acd are now struek are your

My God I' ejaculated Dane, as his !nfbrmantp*iis«y^ narration.

A horse a horse I* cried Thosspson reelibg with fatigue. 'l ean go fur* thereon foot. 'My_wifei my j&ildren— God pity and save them!'

He looked from the hnittor to his daughter in agonlnd and mot* snpplieation.

Dane snatched the glees fcem Miriam's hands and placed it to hie eyes. He looked to the northward—eaw his, pretty cottage, his wife busy at her needle under the trees—and glanced at the dim line of the horizon stretching away eastward and westward from his hone.

Suddenly the glass dropped from his hands—his face blanched to the hue of snow. Prom the west, seeming to emerge from the clouds of scarlet and cold, he had beheld abend of mounted Indians riding boldly towards that unprotected home, towards that unconicioos and helpless woman.

With a frenzied cry, he pat spots to his horse, and dashed away like a mad man, shouting t» his daughter to follow him:

As she spoke, the leapei from her saddle, and, with a gesture, commended him to take her place.

Miriam

again

The horse broke furiously over the plain, giving Thompson only tbpe enougl to flash a look of gratitude towards th maiden, as dashed away, to the northeast, towards his menaced home.

A moment later, Mr. Dane looked over his shoulder—took in at a glance the situation of affairs, recognizing the peril as well as tbe heroism of his ehUd—bowed head solemnly, as one submits to the inevitable, in approbation of her conduct and theh he swept on to the rescue of his wife, his soul torn by such- emotions as are seldom brought to battle together.

Miriam, threw herself flst upon the plaio, in the very path of a score of mounted Indians, who Were galloping toward her with the switness of the wind"

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the same instant Thompson stag-.

gored forward Mid fell Io ^6 n&iitai path, holding up his hands in aegaisb. 'My wife I my children 1' he groaned.

There was no hesitation in the soul of the brave Miriam. Mine is but a single life he has seven depending on him,' she said, aloud.

CHAPTER IHA**'

a crcxaious ip erA-aTLiifo irrsfcnaTl Skirting the Black Hills, forty miles west of Fort Laramie, a party of horsemen were riding eastward.

They had left Fort Bridger eight days before, taking the route of the North Piatt, and now following the Oregon em dry igrant road, among those long ridges, beds of riverl', And sterile pltins, which the region of the Black Hills distinguished.

The bulk of. the patty odnsisted of tan cavalrymen, under a lieutenant, who were returning to Fort Laramie,' their post of duty. They well mounted and had several led hones in their train, loaded with their provisions and appurtenances of travel.

The balance of the party comprised three civilians, who ban seized the opportunity of crossing the mountains under military esaort. Two of these were emigrants who had settled near Fort Bridger1 but who had tired of the gnat solitude, or been frightened by the indiansj and were now returning eastward insearch of homes nearer the haunts of civilization..

The third civilian was Hubert Earle, the lover of Miriam Dana the settler's daughter, whom we have jast left in such deadly peril.

He was a splendid specimen of Ameri can manhood, magnificiently I formed broad-shouldered, deep-chested, es vigorous as an athlete, and rode' his horse, fiery Mexican steed, with the grace and ease of a Centaur.

At the moment of his introduction to the reader, he was riding Hi the rear of the little train, busy witkhis own reflections, which were evidently as, bright as the morning itselfr^tbe forenoon preceding the events we ha?e recorded.

His thoughts were wreped in the sweet memory, of Miriah), who had WepVao bit* terly at bis departure, and who, he expected, would smile so joyously at his return. •The dear little soul,!' be murmured aloud. 'Where Is she nowT'

His eyee darkened with tend** tftwet ness, his lips quivered *ith the lneffabie love that flooded his being, wtth a bappi ness akin to pain. He pictured their meeting, the pretty home they wohld shair together, the yeare they would spend in eaoh other's society,*!** tfndn mutual love and care that would bless all their coming days.

He had left her a poor idvisntarer, tt seek his fortune among tftb miaea ot Idaho. He was returning to has a more than moderatelyjrfch man with bills of exchange in his chamois money-belt of Efficient value to support theflr both in hixury as long^as th«y might live. 0

It was not to be Wonderedrefc ttSt hiS' 4houghte were: pMesabt. -f Suddenljr hr wisft aroused Jfl* trance-like silencabycries ofiiaiightAtpi his companion*, awd by the fscSMlkSf hbd checked-their speed.

Looking arotind fclxn quickly, be b^htfld cause of the unusual excitement. Xfr the the southward, hfMo gnat distance,* erasing 3arily, seemingly n(A at all alanaediby the near presence of a formidable aaaOay-

The wiad waa blowing from them, tfia horses wen freifc^ aid, as he lookefttil fk* tempting game,-Harlert felt tbe spitik of the hunter giow siring within hlto-: et

Giving rein 'ta'his horse, he galloped along the line to speak to the lieutenant, SflL-CI 1

Sea 'What do you say to an hour's sport, XrrXM^^&oawaibriientsaa&iraahe bore down upon hie friend, for Hubert

eomiag~thJs wear. .The prints be*j wasa dwdedjevrote ^itlyevery ne% are four bouU and mine.' party. fi 'I think it would be a downright shame

'But—your danger!' faltered .Thompson. •The Indians—'

pointed to the saddle.

*Go,' she commanded.. 'Think only of your family, and be gone I' Still Thompson hesitated, sweeping the horizon with esger glances, to essure him-

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ed. A change came over bis face as he looked, and he uttered a wild cry, catching up the glass Mr. Dane had let fall, and looking through it.

The sight he beheld convulsed him with terror. Not a mile away, ta the west, he saw coming over a ridge ih the plein, and approaching rapidly, a considerable body of mounted saveges. 'They're coming—a band of red-skins —directly towards us I' he gesped. 'I'm lost 1 Fly, Miriam, wfrile you have the timei'

The maiden took the glees and geaed through it in an instant at the approaching foe* A strange light appeered in her eyes—a light possessed only by thoie upon whom

GOD

has bestowed a conscious

ness of His great protection—the light of a heroism which death itself cannot mas ter. 'Sure enough,' she murmured. •Tbey are coming 1 J!be leader is Red Knife Go, neighbor Thompson—on the instant/' 'We can ride together cried Thompson. 'No! The horse is tired. We have been to Willow Islend. We should fee overtaken before wa had gone two miseel' 'Then we'll die together l' 'No I noi You must mount)'

With a grasp so attdden and firm that it startled him, the maiden poshed him towards the horse, and in another instant he found himself more by instinct than by thought, seated in the ssddle. 'Away, Seliml' cried Miriam to her steed, with an imperative gesture.— 'Away I'

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quick response. "Who could eat

a dinner of salt pork, with those fkt buffaloes so near us?" The Heeteaant smiled, glanced np and down the line, readihg eager loging hi the fade* of his men aim resolved to earry out his own and the general desire.

At a word of command from him, the party set out at a quick galloped for the scene of action.

The buffatosa allowed the enemy to approach quite near, the "Wind favoring the hunters but at length b^gan ta ahake their heads, and to look for tbe cause of their apprehensions

A moment 'a'ter they had beheld they enemy, and with frightful bellowings and mighty tramp, had began their wild, mad flight to the southward.

The chase was along one and it was net till the hunters had run the buffaloes upon a spur of the Blaok Hills that they got a good chance at them. Tbey then brought down several plump young buffaloes, i*nd. dinner speedily became the watchword. 'It is noon, and we'll have "dinner,' Said the lieutenant, observing that the baggsge animals with their drivers'were approaehing. 'Kindle a Are, boys, and we'll have steaks and roastsin abundance.

While tbia order was being carried into effeot, Hubert and several others were engaged in surveying the scene. 'A lonely and desolate spot,' said Hubert, thoughtfully. 'It looks as if man had never before visited it.' •And no wonder,' returned Brydges, •since it's five miles off the route. What could any man want here, unless he might be in pursuit of buffaloes?'

Then being no answer to this question, Hubert proceeded to find en exQollcnt grazing spot for his horse, tethered him. and flung himself on the ground in the shadow of the hill. Tbe. lieutenant and a portion of the men followed bis example.

Plenty of low bushes were found dry enough to burn, and several fires wore soon .kindled. The choicest portions of the buffaloes were readily prepared for cooking, end it was1 not long before tbe odor, of burning flesh was diffused on the air four or Ave hungry Boldiers serving aaoooks. -V"

It was a wild pionio eoen'e' tin those lonely wilds, and every man there enjoyed it with true gipsy zest.

Suddenly a shout from one of the men who were strolling around, arrosted the attention of the others. •Hallo, boys I' be cried 'I'm blest if here isn't a oave in the bill! Come, see the hole under the bushes. Yon never saw anything- bidden neater in your lives.' 'Jones thinks nobody evef' s*w a cave before,' said one of tbe loungers. 'For my part, I think more of something to eat, than of a hole in the ground.'

This seniment wss echoed by the othorsj but tbe inquisitive cave discoverer, nothing daunted, approached the fire, took from it a torch, returned te the butte, parted the bushes, revealing a dark aperture in the face of the rock, and disappeared within it, his light giving back a yellow glare for a second after he had ceased-to be seen**

The camp revelry went on the cooking progressed the minutes passed, and Jones did not reappear. •If that fellow had found a gold mine in there, he wouldn't call one of us,' growled the lounger Who had before spoken. 'I wonder what Jones has found I'll just take a look, as dibner isn't ready.'

He arose lazily, Abstracted a stick of burning wood for a torch, proceeded to the cavern entrance, and ^disappeared Worn view. 'Probably,' said Hubert, 'there's a large cavern under that hill. If we had time, it might pay to explore it. Under the present circumstances^ I am like Brown, and prefer my dinner to scientiffc explorations.'

The meal seemed to be nearly reedy, for the rattling of tin cups and dishes began to be heard the lieutenant's small camp-ohest was unpacked, and the cooks shouted to the stroller* to eome to din--Aj-iCiviril "ft 'Hava Jones and Brown came back asked the l'eutenant, as he rose to a sit ting position, and glaijced towards the cavern.

The men replied in the negative. 'Go after them, then, King, and hurry them up,' said the officer. 'We must resume tne march after dinner, and qfcnnot afford to waste time here.'

King, a fine young soldier, took a torch and entered the cave. The ,dinner was dealt out—hot, savory steaks and roasts—the coffee measured, and the meal commenced, but none of menr who had entered the cavo made their appearance 'How singular l' ejaculated Brydges, tetfiltr and impatiently. 'What can keep tliMA men King has been gone ten minutes. Here,- Sergeant Halsey, hurry those men tip

Tbe sergeant, a brown, strong man of middle age, hesitated, and- ventured to Stammer: 'I beg your pardon, Lieutenant, but I think there's something wrong inside the cave. There's three men in there—all hungry and knpwing that dinner's now ready. Surely they'd come back if tbey could. Perhaps there's wild beasts, or some strange-kind of gas that smothers 'em, or—' 'Nonsense, Sergeant!' interrupted the lteutehent, frowning. 'I give you flve minutes to bring those men back. Go 1'

Tbe sergeant's .face paled, but, without another i-ord, h% took up a torch and entered ,ttM cave, disappearing from the gaze of friends.

The. ir.inutea passed, tl?e lieutenant and men r.te their diirner mechanically, awai'jng-fcnxiously the expected return ye£ lone of the four came oack.

T.ie words of the sergeant had made a deep impression on the minds of his hearers. A general gloom fell upon the camp, and £he men c^st frequent and fciuful glances in the'direction of the cavikti- 4ven the tteutenant and Hubert felt a strange depression creeping over tbe#, Which neither could resistat eanbe the matter ?'at length demanded be officer. "The sergeant is in trouble I shobld judge, by this long' absence. There can't be gas-in tbe cave, or if so, be would probably hare had time to ocy ftiC TOverejcan'V

wild beasts, for

those four men wete all well armed, and would at least have fifed. Wihobtf all you men will go into tbe cave and. »earn wha^tha jsatter is $bgre was a general shrinking back. Evary. soldier was hrave in an Indian fight, but not one daped to face a mjst^r rrohi anf unknown danger. Not on* wished to risk the complete: asd total

missing men shaH J^ceive from mw a-hun-dred dollars in goldr'axcjaiaung Hurbert, In his clear, rihging tones. "Who speaks tmfor the maXeyt*

The.offep w^s temptingi but 1r««not accepted. .Nat a word of reply was msds to it, •. fartK»t* hesiu^fjftk* lrief thongbt to Miriam^ his loved add waiting Miriam! His fee? then glowed with a heroic light, aqd. hes&id,4a. toh$s thai didaot &kiter:. rv,4fc •*&- •I will ge in search of the men, Lieunow

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wni», and If tne ilt"V&«ve orii*,v"They may need help," replied Hubert, it«ld"T *™They may haveaoeenntered*^ well, God knows what, 1 can't imagSner If I fin my riflfc oome to ma- If I foil to retnra wit4w~ilM, time appointed, move on I"

He went BP to the nearest fire, picking

instant use appreaohed the month of the cave, peeped intp.U cautiously, and listened intently for some sound pf life within.

No sound came. All was as still as death witnin the cavern The next instant Hubert h^! vanished therein.

All was now breathless suspense.. The lieutenant "and his mon gathered around to listen for the repio?t of the rifle. The minutes passed, -but It came not. Five minutes dragged by—ten—fifteen, and still no sound reached their ears. They could see a brief space into the cavern, by the lightaf their own torches bnt nothing but rocky walls mat their gasw.

Twenty minutes were thus passed. Tho time was up, and Hubert had not returaed.

The men looked at one another ,wit}i pallid faces. As if turned to stone, they stood an awe-stricken group About the cavern'a mouth, until the minutes bad more than made up an hour—and still they lingered..

During this time they had cleared away the bushes from the month of the cave. They hsd tried again and again to peer into the dark depths of the opening, but could not. The lieutenant had called repeatedly to Hubert, bi^treceived no answer. At length he proposed to tie a rope around his waist and descend into the sinister abysss, but bis men objected unanimously. •What's tbe use asked one. 'There's something hen that no mortal man can conquer.' 'We can't risk your life, lieutenant,' said another. 'Just think hew few there are of us£ ,,

The time continued to drag on.

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Tnis is horrible—terrible beyond expression! We have lost four of our comrades and this noble young stranger, whom I loved as a brother. This fearful cave must hold the secret of their fate, be it what it may. Let us go.'

Without a word, but with white faces —in a sortof mute terror, the men mounted their horses and resumed their jvjurney. The above is all of this story that will be published in our columns. The continu ation of it from where it leaves off here «an be found only in the New York Ledger, which is for sale at all the bookstores and news depots. Ask for the number dated April 10,1869, and in it you will find the continuation of this beautiful tale. The Ledger is mailed to subscribers at three dollars a year. The publication of Rev. Dr. Tyng's great story, whioh has been written expressly for thei Ledger, is commenced in the Ledger, so that our readers will get the will get the whole of these two etorie§ in It. The Ledger has the best stories of of any paper io- the.world and "Henry Ward Beecher, James Parton and Fanny Fern, have articles in every number. ,i,. SHHSBHHB5SSSS5 .i ..

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