Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 17, Number 23, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 July 1875 — Page 3

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C. DOWZ, Publisher. - INDIANA. JASl'Klt. i i i;ms of in i:ki;m. I'rmoual and Literary. Lcland Stanford, ol California, is taiel to le worth twenty million. The Princes Margin rite, of Italy, mill tin Princess Victoria, ol (lermany, are very fond of each other. Prince Bismarck has rn to hi. Lan-t-nburg estate, where correspondence is never allowed to reach Iiim. It I reported that the Princes Louise mid the Marquis of Lome will vi-ilCan-htia ami ttie I nited States this summer. It cost Ih nrl Matile an imprisonment ..'two month lr shaking disrespectfully ol PrciJcnt MacMahon. Twenty-one letters of Holiesplerrc, which are said to eontain home startling lad.-, have l een found in Pari, ami are .(Mill to lie published. Longfellow in sutlcring (severely with a, 11 ! neuralgia, ami is said to he in such pri-cadou- health that lie does no literary work whatever. The Pope wai lorn a little after midnight. Smithy, May 13, 17U3. He revived eight hundred telegrams on his lat hirthday. Hi gnat age preclude any pru-peet fit' hi calling a second session of lie late Ken menieal Council. The Hon. Alphniio Taflt wa the irishman tutor of Chit-l-Justie-o Waite, in Yah- College, utid between the two mo-t irilial per-oual Icla'ioiis have existed nice their lht acquaintance, now lorty .ar ago. One of Tennyson 's friend quoted : iic ot Tenny-ou's line, in the poet' ; ri M in e, as a happy in-t tin e of the nu!i;ral cxpre ion ol a spontaneous thought, l the poet -ai I. I smoked a dozen ci.'ar over that line." Mi Alice M. Singer, daughter ot 1 Mr. I. M. M nirer, the sewing in .chine j . veiitor, will Mxui le married in I Kagland to Mr. V. A. 1'. La- ; iiuve. a former resident ot llrn k-i si. The lui le' dower i to he $1.00 ,-; o, and ..he I to receive $10,000 worth of ! :.iinoii'ii. The value of color in journuli-in ha i 't t-en f!'"(f('?r tested oi:f.-i.!c t.l liin t. w here a Shanghai journal lately ubled i sale by printing it daily edi- i iion verinillioii pajx-r. By announcing ' d'-atli of I'rl'K'f T''V'r-ei:'' iv. ' "

of orange blossom to Iat the m rfuun rs ol Cannes and Nice a single year. During the ytar i tiding April 1, ls7,, there were exported irem Franc; to foreign countries l.,3ls buttle of chaiiipaifiie. France herself consume.

y,0iO.OKJ bottk". A bridge is to lie built over the Firth of Forth. Scotland, which will be the largest in the World. 'I lie height w ill be loOlcct, and the number of ppaim nearly 1MJ. The largest epan in the iwiiter U to 1m 1,.MM) leet, or nearly one-tbinl of a mile, in width, and the Hmalli r (j:Uih I'M leet. It will iijtl alout $10,000,000. The discovery of '-plate-Us," which Win accidental, wjnina lein iheyeiir IfWS, by a man named Thevart. It i- intributed to the breakH'o cf a pot containing Mme or the meln d iiiateiial, a portion of w hich Ho wed under a larjjc nij-Ktone, which, when Hibscijiieiitly reniov-d? wan found iiithefurm of u plate. Tin Mijretttd the idea of casting the niaU rial in plates; a patent wa mmhi obtained, and work were established in I'aris. A machine lor writing upoken woid liaK iM-eu invented by M. 11. II uppiner. The Herur. liduntrulle tleccrilx! tiiw mahine a U irir about the iize of the band. It wa put in eonm ction with the vocul oryan, the instrument reMrtlin their inovemeiiN upni a moving bain! ot paper in dot arid dahcp. The erMri to whom the iuHtrument i attached i-iiii ply repeats the words ot tJie fxaker alter him inaudibly. Thi lip lanyiue 1 then faithlully written out. Setting tvpe by telejiiHjih i- the latest invention. The London Timtt is said to have the machine, and to lie ierl'ectiii a system by which the pa-r will Is et simultanetuly in rach ol tiie I a rye cities where it ha a larre cireulatittii. They will coiiik ct the London otllcc with otlires i-! Livcrpoc!. ilur.cl.cti r, 11 etc., Hiid a ix r.-on operating Iriij'.H-luiii, i th- keys of I the machine in Loudon will set tlie tvix there and In all the other otllees at the same time. f course the paper will he delivered simtiltaticomdy in all the cities w here thrre are brain h ollle s. In IlifchcockV tinal rejrt tn the reolorr ol New llamphire is un litter t irt chapter on thedi-tiibution ot inject lit-' in that Ma'e, with e-is-cial re fen n-e to the Alpiiif inct, by Mr. S-u 1 ! r. The author dicuc in a very thomuli maiiiier the relation of the taun.'e (Alpine, SutiA I j in-'. ( anadian and Allcyiianuin) w hit li have their n-preM-ntatives in that Mat. This ih ij t r is i::;i-tr .;. d by nt pof thai Sate, show ;ny the relations l the t'anadiaii and Atlcybanian aeii,tilaire ot inserts, ami another ol the Alpine and Subl'ine region of the Wide Moimtain. data are drawn from a study of the "cniic. ami "rast-iioi.iirr-. Oil.lt antl I'.ikN. -A (ivrmuii figure of sj'e h N ln. singular T se-a garden walk. -The third v man who. in the dark, i a swi'' from u pitcher of iiik. ha e Ix-cn s nt to the home for Ink-cwer-s. Why I a the most provident of nalsr l' cause hr alwavs rarries a e-rib or about him. The tallies jii-t inw are controlled lv uek-reiyn. Uut they ou't kick," ii bit. They c .n't. V New Orleans lu.ban 1 never tvll wile that he is "iroinir down to the -otlice this evening." Tliere are seven clerks in that institution. A Minnesota editor aniiounei that agricultural leparinient of his paper U eondiicte'l bv a suin-rHiuuted oyer from Iowh, whose life ha Ix-en t try. n to rralt the inanyi l wurt.el ie burr oak. His first article will apin his next number, entitle!, "The f-oil for Ibdnna sausape." A Touny ladv wa yesterday tandinir bew harl nt the loot of Second Street in? her handkerchief at a schooner lviii the stream. " Know any to.lv rd?" quetieil h-r companion a lie' e alon "No. I don't, nut tliev are ing tln ir liamlkerchiefs at me."' he i liMl. " Hand (ha !) kcr (boo) chiefs .' " I exclaim'!, dropping Ids basket am! j Ing nirainst a woo (pile ; ' w hy, them'n I un n shirts hung up to drv. She cd into a warehouse. Vtirvit hYee The engineer of a last train was Utelr ted bv tlie authoiitiea of a oi.e-horse i out West, at a locality which shall nameless, lor running through tho e at a greater rate of speed than is ald ny tlie ordinances. It was very anng. but w hen the case was brought re the cairt It was decided that havneglecteil to give proper publicity to " ordinance, they could not Impose fine. Their di-omtlture was further avah-d Uv the excuse of the engineer. iaid, ' Hedidn't know there was anr ii th. re!" A Sixth Street landlord warned a disc.tblc tenant nut of one d hi lnue8 ithT day, nnd the tenant replied that ould te out by a certain day. Two or I- daya alter the time had expired the lord called, and tlmling that no move been made toward vacating, lie ex iled: "Here! I thmnrht vou turinl out o' here last Tuesday ?" 1 tli 1." ly replied the man, but everywhere nt they wanted a month rent In a Iantl I guess I'll have to stay ti- re all mer if I doll t lllld a lost poekct-book rlke some one who wants to lend cy !" rfrt Free IWss. t a court in Durham, England, a old lady, w ho had brought an action amuges a;nlnt aiieighlxir, w being linetl, w hen the Judge mgested a roinise, ami instructed counsel toask she would take to nettle the matter. iat will you take?" a-ketl the entleof the ohl U ly. She shook her head. ig she w.i very hard of hearing. , lordship want to know what you taker tiawied ttie rounci at the top voice. i thank lil lordship kindthe ancient dame answered ; and it o inconvenience to him, I'll take a warm ale!" The Judge gae up ffort in despair. I'orrlcn !otr. Hie Crown l'rince of Uertnanv saya apa w ill Ik th-tirst Oermati 'Kmpeisiting Italy hi a friend and not a a Iter. M.Escandon, a Mexican billionaire. iad a colossal utatue of Christopher mbu. by Cordier, erected In front of 'alacede lTndustrie, in Faris. n 1S30 the average individual owntionof wine in France annually was

in 1;'J, 1m) quarts, and In ls,4, JI quarts. In Lnubanly the iiinlU-rrv leaves are Ibjurl-hiiiy, an.I the silk worms are having a busy time tullhij thnn away in their atdoincn in order to make nik dresses lor the ladies. The insrrlaire of a priest lias Imii dlded tub; lejMl by an Italian court. This decision strike at the root if tho.e (Tiurch regulations which have U ei, n. U rw oven with the whole fabric of Italian laws and customs. On May-0 there wa issued at Ilerlin another voluuje if Vn Moltke'i bijf history of the war ol 170, jrivln an aeunt of the battle of Sedan and a lac simile of Napoleon lll.'s. letter accompanying tin; surrender of bis sword to Kinr William. The (ieriiiuns lost in the battle ,) kills.l and wounded, and the French 17.000 ditto. Under the ruins of the old cattle of Kinjf Dayobert the Abbe Denis found a hen's nest full of esrsrs. They had Is-cn there 1,20() years, hidden from the liyht and the nir and the ehanjreH of temix ratare, and the hen herself had, pehraps, barely -soaM-d when the falling wall s'il4 her eyy hernieticall y for future times. Abbe I eni put three eys uin der a hen, and tiiey w-re hatched. The front of the Ihmi.m in which Michael Anyelo lived in Via (ihibeiliua, Florence, will Ihj shortly lresco (l by a society of distinguished painter. The necessary scfl'oldii)y has Inrn put up and the tre-co desi-'us are bciny empletel by the arti-ts in the Academy ol" Fine Art. The entire dec iratinn U t lx- completed lor the lestival tif the sculi. tor's centen nial. On the occasion of the late pilrfiuayc. to tin- aquarium of ().stai ker, nearlilient, in llcluium, a voun la.lv. .dad in blue and paid ner r-fpet to the J1S hop ol i bent while be was standi ny near the aquanui. I hi has rutei in the vilI lair- mar Ohcnt the lsli t that the : Virsrin M ry ha appearel to the KNhop, I and difli-rent vTsion c f her t'ouuimnicaj lion to him are already cumnt. I After their rvtit imjMTi-tl interview : at Berlin, iort.ehakott' took the Fn i.ah ! Amtia-sador a-ile and imparted to Mm j tlie scen t that he and the t'z tr, in order to pr serve the j. ac. had l--n sn-ei lly j obliged to cont nd w irh Count M..!tke. w ho l.ryued the m-ce-sity of war i. the i int.-re-t ot Germany; that while Trincc Ki-mnrck, ntrary to expectation, had j laikeil ic efuiiv. he wa still very cx- ! eit d. and the Frein h pre would tle-ie-j fore do well not to irritate him any ftirtber, as lie llli'ht ill the e-ie prove a- 1111- ' niariayeable a a hull in a china "hop, Moltke, oiK-e havinjr had a ta-te of blood, j i in the pr-li''ain -nt d tli" it liM.kinx' att r the cn am iot; hut Ii-nur k. xit ioent, w hether P al or put on. i, a worry sjK-ctaele fir the ;od that dwell on iiirh Olympus. llapa and MUliapa. I The mother of Hon. .luhn C. New. r.f i Indianapolis, gel 77 y-ar. atridentally I If.ll out of a win. low to the ground, one j i day rec ntly, and wit riouly injureJ. I ! .John S-egar, a newspnper ,omp.i:ir, ; w bile sk la'king w it li a cunpanion on the 1 dtM-k at Milwaiike-. a few day a.'o, avi dently fell into the river and w ;ts drw n-d. j I Kil. Barkinsoii. outsi-le guard at the' I Nebraska nitentiarv at Lincoln, wa ao-! cideiiuilly killel a few ilav since by the dcbargt of his gnu w bile leaning iipon I the iuu.le. During a late storm at Milford, Ohio.a chihl of 1'. B. Kl-tun win killed, an 1 two dauirbters of K. Kdwaril seven ly bunied by a stroke of lightning. At BloomhVl.l, Iowa, the other diy, while a funeral pntccssioTi wa croing"a bridge, the structure gave way. precipitating several carriage into the river, ( hie lady wa killed outright. anotlK-r fatally imured. w bilcavoun-'irentlcinaii wa also seriously injured. M itthew ILdliway, son of the Key. AU 1 Holiiwav. of Pal a Count v. Iowa. one lar revnt!y went to l.-ed thest'-k. Not returning as sixm a exin-cted, a little child was sent to see w hy, and found him u ad In tlie tiehl. A Vicitu bull Was standing neile nun. naving gon-i and trampled btm to it lull satidaction. nn aWing ev-rv tsme in hi bHly, and tearing out Id entrails. The suicide record for the we k ended June 19 comprise, among many others, the following: At S.niuky, Ohio. Frank Ward, by shontinir; at Bofton. Joseih I. (rdiicr, a wajjthy citizen, by shooting; at Trenton, N. J., John (Jrilon, red 00. by lrow ninz; at (feorgtown, Mass.. IMward A. Maon, by hanging; at Sto. kbridge. W i . Mr. Flanders, by hanging; at As.hf.trd, Wi John I'oel, by hanging; at Milwauke, Wis., Mr. Matz, by slnxitJng ; at Portsmouth. B. I.. I'obert Caey first kilbil his wife and then hot hiin'!l ; in New York. Arthur Dwyer, a highly eluit-l young man and a newspaper w riter, hv slnKitinir. (Hgantir Ice-I ieM. A late Newfoundland letter say : There i no record of uch Ice-field a have iM-en sliding past ur shores thi season. The sealing captain report the ice in many lnstaiir-s 2d feet in thickness, and hard as floating masse of granite. Had the M-aon been a stormy one this ice would have played sa l havoc among our fleet. From the Sthof January, when the ice Urst aptearcd h re, till the 11th of May, it was never out of siirht a huge river of ice slowly floating past. Shlo that came through it rejMrt d it to lie 2m miles in breadth. It length i unknown, hut m all probability It extended from Its (11 n hav to the Oiilf St ream, a distance of I..VM) to 2,(KMJ mile. The lnU-nectdt! of thi winter atetnoto have converted the whole surf icof t!ie sea alon? (imnland into k'-llehl, antl no fooikt w a one borne away on the Im-oin of the Arctic current than another one wan form!. One would uppoe that audi an enormous ice delivery would temporarily lower the temperature of the (iulf Mr-earn itself and give u a cold ummsr. Even at this date, vast quantitie of ice are passing south, though not insight. The tirst two outward-bound uutil-stcamcrs from Liverpool were unable to cnt .he lrt ot St. Loui owing to the ice, and had to run on tollslifax; and the same Is true of the two lirsf. homcward-bournl Meainers. The third oidward-bound mail-steamer, by which this letter should be conveyed, is overdue, ami may aave pasel u by. The "oldest inhabitant" remembers no such sca'on as this.

I2 quarts ; In InM, si quart ;

TIIK MOIX.

A Nation nt Noma Thirty Thouaantl I'miilc-Tlir (nuMlrjr "Ibry Aavr I h. halIl- lirrr Th 4 amr Kroiu Tl. Jiands aia H,Uh Tliy Arc IMt i.lr.l-l l,, .aalt Itrally llnltd, ot l,y 1,1,1, ,ut by Morir(rs of mr. rlora. sjH ial Corn-sjK.n.lciit ol Uie ChlcafJTriliuiti Omaha. June 12. Now that Ked Cloud, and.sfiorted Tail, and Am. Mean Horse, and sitting Hull, with hi thrcc-knived war-club audhUimw ritle Iroui the president, have hied then back to the land Irom which tiiey -auie, the public is be'i lining to inquire. "Who are these Sioux, anyhow? And who are thee people that would dely tbe nation and exc.ude the American j.eople irom a portion of it own domain ? Where do they come from i What is their history? An 1 how manv do they number:" 7HK SIOI X NATION consists of 2"3"J people divided into twelve triU-s, connected by blo.l-relation-ship, and all ol which speak the same language. With them are alli.il, I iation and Intermarriage, '2.701) Northen Cheycni.es and Arapahoe, relatives of the southern Cheyenne and Arapahoea ol Southern Kareas and Northern Texas. Of theM- 31,0i lU.sio ix and atliii iting tribes. lU.OOO are able-bodied warriors, wll mounted on Indian ponis of great ndurance, and partially armed w im reneati ing and breech-loading arms obuiued j from w bite trader, Irom the Oovcrimieut j a pre-ent, on the war-path, or intrude I with Northern Indians, who in turn procured them from British trailers beyond our northern lioundary. '1 hey iMxupy the t country y.. nded on ti.e north bvthe'p'.tn j ih gre- of north latitu le, on the outh by j the nortlieru iKiundary line .! the State ! of Nebraska, on tb; ea-t bv the Ii-..nri ICivcr, and on the west by the lMh degr-e ! of longitude we-t trotn "(ireeuw ich m- ! bracing mi area of ld."70 sqmre miles, or L'.V i;i niv acre d land, so cially set aside for lie-in a fie Si'ux !!ervatio.i , ' by the treaty of l""'.'; ami. by authority granted thnn in the same treaty, th v roam and hunt ov r th- country tiom the j riai;e Bivcr on the south t t;,. Yellow, i stone and Mi-ouri lliwt o:i the north, i and Irom the Missouri lliver m the east to the summit ot the B:g Horn Mountain on tlie w st. TIIK Sll X CAVK Oliir.JNAI.LV Irom tin- eoun'ry bur 1-nng . i tin- I'pper Mi"i-- ;;i Biur, wl.. i.ee il.- y were driven bv the (,'hipjH va int- ' .utiieni a:. I Wi-.t-rn MtiiLe....fa "ihe land of the Dakota-"-from which latter locality they ero--d the M.ouri Biver, driving ts lore tin 111 the Fawnies. Che lilies, Arnpa-Ins--. Crows, alls' snakes or Sho-honcs. In tin: year K!.. the Sioux and ("heylines, 1'u hiing f or pos-e-sion o the cmi'itry, had a great battle on the Chug Biver. :t-" mile- south tit the prt.-cllt site of Fort Laramie, at which large numlnis wvre killed on both silts. Alter the light, an understanding lMf,ve-n the contending forces wa ariivt d at, resulting in the ( VZ sion to the Sioux ol the territory hing north of the I'latte Biver, and ti e retention by the Cheyenne, of the country south th-ieof. The Cbt-vennts. and Arapa-Ikh-s thru iN'cauie :vs.iK-iafed toyetl.-r. sn.l livttl ia coii.parative harmony til WJ, when, a stM-ial feud breakin ' eat anion them, 1M hhlgis (or wigwiiuis) 1 the Ch yenr.es ami 0J of the Arapahoe went north and assimilated with the sioux. In 1"41, a similar feud had broken out in the Sioux camp, when 17."i lodge of Sioux went souin. and ranged with the Cheyenne in thw Valley of the Bepublicaii Biver. in Nebraska and Kanst, and were calltd "CIT-OFF," a name which they hold to tl.i day. A lodge i estimated by lhee Intilan-j'tt six xr.-on, two ol them warnoi. These s--s.ling northern Clieyeniies and Aranahoes and southern Sioux have, iroui 1 41 to the present time, been, continually changing a parties have joined th. ir n-sp-cLive taud- from the parent trite. or have h it them to return to their old attiliations. For a wl::le. in 1 ;'., the northern Arapahoe Ikchi- tstraiigtl Irotn their Sioux relative, and made overture tthe eastern Snoshones, or Snake., to join them on their reservation in tlie Wind Biver Valley, and to form an alliance witli them, offensive and defensive, agaiut the Sioux; but Washakie, the Chief ol the Mjoshoti s, b aring treachery upon the part ol ttie Arapahoe, rrfu-ed tit listen to their proposition, ami they remained with Sioux, with whom they are now in jarb ct harmony. The Sioux are at constant war with the Fawiu-e, lite., Crows, Snakes, and Arickarcc. thk tw elve triuks of the Sious are the Brule, the Ogtllallab. the mixel Bruit s and OalUllah, the Yanctonnai. the Minnecottjoux. the I'ncpapa. the San Area, the Oyochpa, the Blackfce', the Two Kettle, the CutHeads, and tlie Sunfees. Ttiese triN-s are again diide into band, which embrace at times manv shif.ing inetntHT from the sever il grand dUision of thw sioux, after the fa-1 ion f the Cut-OHs, the Cheyenne, ami the Arapahoes. The Brule consi-t of Bod Cloud's band, which iiundsrs 7st) K-ron9; of Iron Shell's band, of 240: ami Spitted Tail's band, ol 1,2'. Tlie ( ).'Hllallah einsist of Bti Cloud's l and of '; of Man-Airaid-of-his-llor-e's band, of of the KitM'sia or Cut-Orts, unth r l awine Killer, Bull j Bear, and Little Wound. iiundM-ring KX); ami the Loafers. niiiuU ring W. From I this it appMr that B. tl Cloud ha a h i-1 low ing partly of Brule and partly of, Ogadallah, w hich form a dii-iou of j themselve know n a " the Mixed Brule ' and Ogal.'allatis." The Oyocha. umb-r j Stainling Bui ami Bed Dog. number 7-Vh I 1 h"se liidiaii an governed by the same i law a the Ogallallali. ami have the same ! stK-letvorortU rof " Warrior of the White j Sa-h," and are in.le-d Ogallallali; but I they band by themselve, and have a dis- j tinctive name of their ow n. The Vancton nai nuiiiU-r J,.')d; and the Minneconjoux, ii'nler Iuie Horn. Hma.n Nose, and White Bull, are 3.000 strong. The Minneconjoux have an organizatnm or ' Stsrlety of Warriors of the Brave Heart," which control the tribe. The Sans Arcs, under Scabby Bull, Yellow Horse, am! Four Crows, numtier 5,400. They have few horse, ami are poor warriors. The I'ncpapa number 4. SK), under (irahbing Bear, Seven strokes, ami Weael Eagle. These Indians are poor In horses, but are good warrior. The Black feet number 4.200 ; the Two Kettle, 1.2HU ; thcSantees, !s7 ; and the Cut-Heads, 100. The north-

em Cln yenm-F, under Medicine Man of the Cbeymues. nuiiifx-r 1 Nut; and the northern Arapahoe, under Friday and Millcine Man of the Arapahoe, ViuniU-r 1KW. Total ol Sioux. 2VJ17. Total of Sioux, Arapahoe, and Cheycnrief, 31,H7. The-e In-liiUis, Inc'liidimr the Araj aho-t and Cheyeiii.es winter in the country Ahoixn thk ulackVilm, where timber and game are found in abundant e and upon the stream flowing into the lellowstone and Little Missouri Biv ( its. Bed Clou 1 i not a ben diurv Chi f. but a succ s,lul soMier. who has achieved retainers by nrowes, in battle and by force ot character; American Horse sucled to hisChieftainship bv inheritance ; w bile Spotted Tuil did not, "but was appointed to his position Ly (Jen. Harney, ten years ajro. The power of the Chiefs, except la their own villages, U limited and the tribe over which they preside are ino-tly goveriMsl by rccieties of warriors, su. h a "The Society of the White Sash," or "The Society of the Braw Heart!" These soci ties make the law lur their tnbes, and decide on w ar or M-aee. Their decision are mandatory, and they are indeed the chief rulers of their n'sjctive triln s, and, through general coui.cils, of the entire Sioux .Nation. Sitting Bull poke truly when he s-id here, while t n route to Washington, that neither Bed Cloud nor Spottd Tail, nor any of the party, had any power whatever to conclude a tre ity ; that any tr aty which they might attempt to make" would I rejected by their nation ; and that the treaty must In; made in their own country, " THEIR OWS 1'KOI'LE. in council with Commissioner sent to that country by th-ir Or at Father, the l'ic-idcnt.

The visits of Ind;an delegation to men a Bed do not seem, as tin iii forcibly and commercial Valiiiigi4iii even such CI. ud and Spotted Tail a g ncril rule, to impress with the gn-at va!th strt iigth M the American jnople; but when thest; Chiefs, some years ?.t. attemlcd 'he Cooper Institute, in New York City, an 1 noticed before thnn the sea of upturried faces, and then slip-tl quietly down and out into the streets, to l'u.d that the passing crowd there were in no wise diiiiinidied in nutmVrs by the presence of the crowd within, they Ugan fir the first time to think that the white are in number as the grain of sand upon the seashore, the leaves upon the In. s ol the forc.'t, or the Ll.i.h .-of i,i.s ojmui the prairie. Ami when they have come into their own country, and would tell their people ol this thing that they have s- n. then do their tribe turn upon them, and sav to tin in that they hae taken bad medicine from the white man; that they taa no longer see straight ; and tbut tl.'t-y lie, for they talk ; not the truth ! Thus is it that these Chief are in danger ol lo-ing their iniluetice w ith their ople, and, in or d r to retain that infitici.ee ami to save their reputation, they dark not tell their nation that which, bv direct ocular demonstration, they actually know to b tin- fact. And thus these Sioux, a a body, do not believe, and wiil not U-iieve." that the whites are a powerful a themselves. They think their prowess compelled the government of the I'nited States to evacuate and abandon Die mi.itarv pots .l Fort B-no. Fort C. F. Smith.' and Fort l'hil Kearny, in the Powder Biv-r country in lvj'j, under the treaty of DN. To them Ignorance i blis, in that they recognize not t he certain dtiorn that await them ; for their land i coveted by the whites, who are already standing "upon their Imrders and exclaiming in rejrard to this enplc, "Why cimlsr they tlie ground r"' Jlaking Shinglea Durable. Frotn many exjTimi-tits tried lor the purjo-e if rendering shingle roof durable, we have found two modes result in eminent succe, namely, soaking in lime wash, and upplying jKtroleum. Twelve year ago, havin'g oeea-ion to erect a brick buildin21 x fiOfeet, we had all the shingles (which were sawed pin') well soaked in lime-wash before application. The lime used was fresh, or caustic, and wa made int a rather thin mixture, so that the liquid iniffht penetrate the pores of the wood. This wa done two or three dava I beforehand, so a to !eeome dry. The carpenters complained or the cau-tlc nature of the lime, but on thi cauUe character the success of the exjieriinent de!iidei. We have just examined thi roof n the pre-emvof two builder, who pronounce the shingles "as good as new." They were perfectly sound and quite hard, and the only appearance of age, was the wearing of the upter surface to an amouut about equal to the thickness of paper. The experiment wa thoroughly success, ful. Another roof, on an adjoining building, put on a vear later without lime, was partly covered w ith mo-s and ino-t of the shingles wre rotten. In applying lime for lid purpose, it i very essential that it lie fresh and caustic, and t at the shingles Ise well soaked in a thin wash that shall iKiietrafc the ports. In perlonning the w ork, a few fdnngle were taken at a time in the hand, and dipped Into a tub of the wash, and then place i to dry. I The other mode of preserving Milngle j i the application of crude jerroU-uin. j This costs a little more than lime, but i may be applied more easily, by uing a 1 coarse brush after the shingle are laid, I the penetrating character of the oil cauj ing it to pa through the shinsrle, and to run an inch upward through the pore, j Several roof to which it was applied eight ; yiarsago, appear to be in pertect condiiion. From the experiments made, we j handy know to which of these two appliI c.ttloii to give the pre ference, but are inI clinetl to recommend the petroleum most ! strongly. The experiment witn lime shows it preservative character, and the importamv and value of using It for buildin ' and board fence, provided fresh or I caustic lime I employed, when petroleum cannot be conveniently obtained. It hould N- thin, or liquid enough to pene trate the pores Of the wood. Country Gentleman. Col. Long, the American officer in the service of the Khedive of Fg'ptwnoe ! discoveries in the African lake region have made him quite noted, ft.i Just returned to Kg vpt from the land of the Niani Niam. He denies that they are cannibals, a they were reported to N', though they an warlike, and ue poisoned arrows with more tkill than is plaa!Jt.