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Legal advertisements must be accompanied by the cishor secured, as we cannot always wait the issue of protracted settlements lor the printer's fee3. O-All Coramunications from t distance abomllbe addressed, Post-Paid, to the Editor. For the Baaaer. ÄCS0ST1C There is en ensirti waiving free. High an its folds inscribed we see, Each motto good and true. Pure may its tentiments e'er le, Long n.ay it bless a reople free, Yes gladden every heart. May it a moral light still shed On those who helped to rear its head, Up where we see it now; Till all who look, its light may seeHigh, streaming forth in brilliancy. Be it thy lot to lead the way A beacon light to all that strayNeeding thy friendly aid. None should receive this friendly light; Eae, peace nor plenty, day or nightRest, till the printer's paid. LILLIE. ADVENTURE WITII A BUFFALO. BY A FROSTIER '1 RAPPER. I was travelling witli B' ill's train from Independence to Santa Fe. One evening after ths wigons had carralled, an I my animal had gut some rest anl a bile of corn, I leaped into the saddle, an I s-t out to see if I cotfld find something fresh for my own sapper. It was a rolling prairie. the camp was soon hidden from my sight - as ii lay irr a hollow bitwven two twells. Trusting to ihe sky for my direction, therefore, f continued on. After riding abrouta mile I should think, I came npou buffalo signs, ft waj not the first time for m, and I saw at a glance tht the signs were fresh. There were several wallow?, and I could tell ty the. tracks in the dust there had been nothing but bulls in that quartet. A cow track would have pleased me better, but after II, 1 thought a fresh bull's tongue for a change Jg better than salt bacon; so I followed the trail in hopes of getting one. Shortlr after. I came to a place where the ground was ploughed up as if a drove of hogs had been rooting it. Hire tnere had been a terrible fight among the bulls it was the rutting season, when such confiicts occur. Thi argued well. Perhaps there are cows in the neighborhood, reaoned t. a9 I gave the spur to my horse, end followed the trail with more spirit. 1 hid ridJen full five miles from camp, -when my attention was attracted by an oM noisa ahead of me. There was a ridge in front that prevented me from seeing what prodaced the noise: but 1 knew what it was it was the hallowing of a buffalo bull. At intervals there were quick shocks as if two hard substance? were coming in violent contact with each other. I mounted the ridge with caution, and looked over its crest. There was a vallty beyond; a cloud of dust was rising out of its bottom, and in the midst of this I could distinguish two high forms dark and hirsute. I saw at once that they were a pair of bufialo bulls engaged in a fierce fight. They were alone; there were no others in sight, either in the valley or on the valley beyond. I did not halt longer than to see that the cap was on my rifle, and ti cock the piece. Occupied as the animals wer, I did not imagine they would heed me; or, they should attempt flight. I knew I could easily overtake one or the other; so without further hesitation or precaution, I rode towards them. Contrary to my expectation, they both winded me and started off. The wind was blowing freshly towards them, and the sun ha4 thrown my shadow between thera so as to draw their attention. They did not run, however, as if badly scared; on the contrary, they went off apparently iudignant at being disturbed in their fight, and every now and then both came round with short turnings, snorted, and struck the prairie with their hoofs in a violent and angry manner. Once or twice, I fancied they wart going to charge upon me; and had I been otherwise than well mounted, I should hava been chary of risking such an encounter. A more formidable pair of antagonists, as far as appearance weut, could not have been well c-aceived. Their huge size, their shaggy fronts and flerco glaring eyeballs, gave them a wild and malicious sieming. which was heightened by their bellowing, and the threatening attitudes in which they placed thtmstlves. Feeling rjuite safe in my saddle, I gal

loped up to the nearest, and sent my bullet into his ribs. It did the work. He fell to his kn es rose again spread out his legs as if to prevent a second fallrocked from side to side like a cradle, again come to his knees; and after remaining in this position for some minutes with the blood running from his nostrils, rolled quietly over on his shoulder and lay dead. I had watched these manccvers with interest, and permitted the second bull to make his escape, a side glance had showed me the latter disappearing on the crest ef the swell. I did not care to follow him. as my horse was somewhat jaded, and 1 knew it would cost me a sharp gallop to come up with him again; so I thought no more of him at the time, but alighted aud prepared to deal with the one already slain. There stood a solitary tree near the spot, it was a stunted elm. There were others upon the prairie but they were distant; this one was not twenty yards from the carcass. I led my horse up to it, and taking the trail-rope from the horn of the saddle, made one end fast to the bit-ring and the other ;o the tree. I then went back, drew my knife, and proceeded to cut the buffalo. I had hardly whetted my blade, when a noise from behind caused me to leap to an upright attitude, and look round; at the first glance I comprehended all. A huge dark object was passing the crest of the ridge, and rushing down the hill toward Ihe spot where I stood. It was the buffalo bull, the same that had just left me. The sight at the first thought rather pleased me than otherwise. Although I did not want any more meat, I should

have the triumph of carrying two tongues instead of one to camp; I therefore hur riedly sheathed my knife and laid hold of my line, which according to custom, I had taken the precaution to re-load. I hesitated a moment whether to run to my horse and mount him. or to fire from where I stood; that question, however, was settled by the buffalo. The tree and the horse were to one side of the direction in which he was running; but being attracted by the loud snorting of the latter, which had begun to pilch and plunge liolently, and deemingtt perhaps a challenge, he suddenly swerved from his course, aud ran full tilt upon the horse. Thd1 latter shot out instantly to the full length of the trail-rope; a heavy "pluck" sounded in my ears, and the next instant I S3 w my horse part from the tree, end scour off over the prairie, as if thrre had been a thistle under his tail. I had knotted the rope negligently upon the bitrin. and the knot had curne undone. I was chagrined, but not alarmed, as yet. My horse would no doubt follow back his own trail, and at the worst I should only have to walk to the camp. I should have the satisfaction of punishing the buffalo for the trick he bad served me; and with tbi design I turned towards him. I s-tw that he had not followed the horse, but wasagin heading himself in my direction. Now. for the first time, it appeared to me that I waff in something of a ccripe. The hull waff coming furiously on". Should rrry shot miss, or even should it only wound him, how was I to escape? 1 knew that he could overtake me in three njinirtei' sirttcb, knew that well. I had not mucTi trrrre for reflection not a moment in fact; the infuriated an'imal was within ten paces of me. I raised my rifle aimd at his foreshoulder. and firvd. I saw that 1 had hit him; but. to my dismiy. he neither fell nor stumbled, but continued to charge forward mure fu riously than ever. Tore-load was im possible. My pistols had gene off with my hor3e and holsters. Even to reach the tree was impossible; the bull was be tween it and me. Itight in the opposite direction was the only thing that held out any prospect of five minutes' safety. W . 1 i turnen ana ran. i can run as last as most men, and upon that occasion I did my best. It would have put "Gildersleeve" into a white sweat to have dis Unced me; I had not been two minutes at it, when I felt conscious that the buf falo gained upon me, and was almost treading upon my heels. I knew it only by my ears I dared not spare time to look back. At this moment, an object appeared before me, that promised, one wayoranother, to interrupt the chase; it was a ditch or gully, that intersected my path at right angles. It was several feet in depth, dry at the bottom, and with perpendicular sides. I was almost upon its edge before I noticed it, but the moment it came under my eye, I saw that it offered the means of a temporary safety at least. If I could only leap this gully, I felt satisfied that the buffalo could not. It was a sharp leip at least, seventeen feet from cheek to cheek; but I had done more than that in my time; and, without halting in my gait, I ran forward to the edge and sprang over. I alighted cleverly upon the opposite bank, where I stopped and turned round to watch my pursuer. I now ascertained how near my end I had been; the bull was already up to the gully, had I not made my leap the instant I did. 1 should have been by that time daucing upon his horns. He himself had balked at the leap; the deep chasm-like cleft had cowed him. He saw that he could not clear it, and now stood upon the opposite bank with head lowered, end spread nostrils, his tail lashing his smooth flanks, while his glaring black eyes expressed the full measure of his baflled rage. I remaiked that my shot had taken effect in his shoulder, as the blood trickled from his long hair. I had almost began to congratulate myself on having escaped, when a hurried glance to the right, and another to the left, cut short my happiness. I saw that on both

sides, at a t'istance cf less than fifty paces, the gully shallowed out into the plain where it ended; at either end it was, of course, passable. The bull observed this almost at the same time as mystlf; and suddenly turning away from the brink, he ran along the edge of the chasm, evijdently with the intention of turning it. I In less than a minute's time, we were once more on the same side, and my sit1 uation appeared as terrible as ever, but J stepping back for a short run, I re-leaped j the chasm, and again we stood on oppoj site Eides.

During all these manccvers. I had held on to my rifle and seeing now that I might have time to load it. I commenced feeling for my powder-horn. To my astonishment I could no, lay my hands upon it; I looked down to mybreast for the sling it was not there; belt and bulletpouch too were all gone! I remembered lifting them over my head, when I set about cutting the dead bull. They were lying by the carcass. This new discovery was a new source of chagrin; but for my negligence, I could now have mastered my antagonist. To reach the ammunition would be impossible, I should be overtaken before I got half way to it. I was not allowed much time, to indulge in my regrets; the bull again turned the ditch, and was once more upon the same side with me, and I was compelled to take another leap. I really do not know how often I sprang backwards and forwards across that chasm; I should think a score at times at least; I became wearied with the exercise. The leap was just as much as I could do at my best; and I was crowing weaker at each fresh spring. I ber.sme satisfied that I should soon leap short and crush myself against the steep rockv side3 of the chasm. Should I fall to the bottom, my pursuer could easily reach me by entering at eilher end, and I began to dread such a finale. The tengeful brute showed no symptoms of retiring, on the contrary, the numerous disappointments seemed to render him more determined in his resentment. An idea now suggested itself to my mind. I had looked all around to see if there might not be something that offered a better security. There were trees, but they were too distant, the only one near was that to which my horse had been tied. Ii wag a small one; and. like all of it3 species (it was an elm tree,) there were no branches near the root. I knew I could clamber up it by embracing the trunk, which was not over ten inches in diameter. Could I only succeed in reching it, it would at least shelter me better than the ditch, of which I was getting heartily tired. But the question was, could I reach it before the bull? It was about three hundred yards off. By proper manccvering, I should have a start of fifty. Even at that it would be a "close thave," and it proved so. I arrived at the tree and sprang up it like a mount-bank, but the hot breath of the buffalo steamed after me as I ascended, and the coucussion of his heavy skull against the trunk almost shook me back upon his horns. After a severe effort, I succeeded in lodging myself among its hranches. I wns now safe from all immediate danger, but how was the affair to end? I knew from Ihe experience of others, that my enemy might stay for hours by the trea perhaps for days. Hours would be enough. I could not atand it leJng. I hun-gered. but a worse appetite tortured me: thirst. The hot situ, the dust, and the violent exercise of the past hour, all contributed to make me thirsty. Evert then. I would have risked my life for a draught of water. What would 1 come to should I not be relierd? I had but one hope that my companions would come to my relief; but I knew that would not be before morning. They would mis re of course. Perhaps my horse would fettrrr ICcamp, that would send them out fa search of me but not before night had fallen. In the darkness they couldnt fgllow my trail. Could they do so iu the light? This last question, which I had put to myself, startled me. I was just in a condition to look upon the dark side of everything, and it now occurred to me that they might never find me! There were many possibilities that they might not. There were numerous horse-trails on the prarie, where Indians had passed. I saw this when tracking the buffalo. Besides, it might rain in the night, and obliterate them all my own with the rest. They were not likely to find me by chance. A circle of ten miles diameter is a large track. It was a rolling prairie, full of inequalities; ridges with vallsys between. The tree upon which I was perched stood in the bottom of one of the valleys it could not be seen from any point over 300 yards distant. Those searching for me might pass within hail without perceiving eilher the tree or the valley. I remained for along time busied with such gloomy thoughts aod forebodings. Night was coming on, but the fierce and obstinate brute showed uo disposition to raise the siege. IU remained watchful as ever, walking round and round at intervals, lashing his tail, and uttering that snorting sound so well known to the prairie-hunter, and which so much resembles the snufiings of hogs when suddenly alarmed. While watching his various manccvers, an object on the ground drew my attention it was the trail-rope left "by my horse. One end of it was fastened rouud the trunk by a firm knot the other lay far out upon the prairie where it had been dragged. My attention had been drawn to it by the bull himself, which in crossing he had tioticed, and now end then pawed it with his hoofs. All at once a bright idea flashed upon me a sudden !xpe arose within me a plan of eicope reseuted itself, so feasi

ble and possible that 1 leaped in my perch as the thought struck me. The first step waj to get in possession of the rope. Thi3 was not such an easy matter. The rope was fastened around the tree, but the knot had slipped down the trunk and lay upon the ground. I dared not descend for it. Necessity soon suggested a plan. My "picker" a piece of straight wire, with a ring-end hung from one of my breast buttons. This I took hold of and bent into the shape of a grappling hook. 1 had no cord, but my knife was still in its sheath, and. drawing this, I cut several thongs from the skiit of my buckskin shirt, and knotted them together until they formed a string long enough to reach the ground. To one end I attached the picker; and thej,-.Jetting it down, I commenced angling for the rope. After a few transverse drags, the hook caught the latter, and I pulled it up into the tree. taking the whole of it in until I held the loose end in my hands. The othr end I permitted to remain as it was; I saw it was securely knotted around the trunk, and that was ju?t what I wanted. It was my intention to lasso the bull; and for that purpose I proceeded to make a running-noose on the end of the trail rope. This I executed with great care, and with all mj skill. I could defend upon the rope; it was raw hide, and a better one was never twisted; but I knew that if anything should chance to slip at the critical moment, it might cost me my life. With this knowledge, therefore, I spliced the eye and made the knot as firm as possible, and then the loop was reeved through, and the thing was ready. I could throw a lasso tolerably well, but the branches prevented me from winding it. It was necesdary, therefore, to get the animal in a certain position under the tree, which, by shouts and other demonstrations, I at length succeeded in ef

fecting. The moment of success had arrived. He stood almost directly below mc. The noose was shot down I had the gratification to see it settle around his nerk, and with o quick jerk I tightened it. The rope ran beautifully through the eye, until both rye and loop were buried beneath the shaggy hair of the animal's neck. It embraced his throat in the right place, and I felt confident that it woj:ild hold. The moment the bull felt the jerk upon his throat, he dashed madly out from the tree, and then commenced running in circles around it. Contrary to my intention, the rnp had slipped from my hands at the first drag upon it. My position wag rather an un steady one, for the branches were slender and I could not manage matters as well as I could have wished. But I now felt confident enough. The bull was tethered, and it only remained for me to get out beyond the length of his tether, and take to my heels. My gun lay on one side, near the tree, where I had dropped it in rnj race; this 6f coarse I meant to carfy off with me. I waited, therefore, Until the animal, in one of his circles, had got rorrrid to the opposite side, and then slipping down the trunk, I sprang out, picked tin my rifl, and ran. I knew the trail rope to be about twenty yards in length,- but I ran one hundred at least before making a halt. I had even thoughts of continuing on, as I still could not help some misgivings about the rope. The boll was one of the largest and strongest I had ever seen. The rope might break, the knot upon the tree might give way, or the noose might flip oter his head. Curiosity; however, or rather a desire to be assured of my safety, prompted rhe tor look round, when, to my joy, I beheld the huge monster stretched upon the plain. I could see the rope, as tight as b bow-string,- and the tongue protruding from the animal jaws showed me that he was strangling himself as fast as I could desire. At the sight, the idea of buffalo tongue for supper, returned with all its vigor, a.id it now occerred to me that I should eat that very tongne, and no other. I immediately turned in my tracks ran towards my powder and balls, which in eagerness to escape, I had forgotten all about, seized the horn and pouch, poured in a charge, rammed down a bullet, aud then stealing nimbly up behind the still struggling bull, I placed the muzzle within three feet of his brisket, and fired. He gave a death kick or two, and then lay quiet; it was all over with him. I hid Ihe tongue from between his teeth in a twinkling; and proceeding to the other bull, I finished the operations I had commenced upon him. I was loo tired to think of carrying a very heavy load, so I contented myself with the tongues, and slinging these over the Varrel of my rifle, I shouldered it, and commenced groping my way back to camp. The moon had risen, and I had no difficulty in following my own trail; but before I had got half way, I met several of ray companions. My horse had got back little before sunset. His appearance had of course produced alarm, and half the camp had turned out in serch of me. Several who had a relish for fresh meat, galloped back to strip the bulls of the remaining titbits; but before midnight all had returned; and to accompaniment of the hump-ribs spurting in the cheerful blaze, 1 recounted to my companions the details of my adtenture. An Irishman who wns onco on n journoy, said lie never liked to see tables full of books and newspapers where ho stopped over night, 'for.' said he), I can never find nny whiskey in such plnces. Modest Kewaro. A Kentucky exchange eays; 'We picked up a lady's Cuff Tin in the street, the other day. The owner can have it by describing it and kissing the editor's baby.'

Nebraska Its Himatf, elf. and the 'steady habits had been successAt this time, when the Nebraska qiies- fully planted upon afresh soil, and now lion is so prominently before the coun- the time came to look try, it will be interesting to know some- "To fresh fields and p.utures new." thing of Ihe climate, geography, &c. of And those fields were now looked for, in the territory. We Tecollect meeting with what wos then looked upon as the 'Far m intelligent gentleman, some fifteen f W(;Stt' of the wilds of western Ohio bemonths since, who had just returned from came to be looked upon as an 'eastern a jaunt of several hundred miles through State She became an exporter to the that country. He was perfectly enchant- j east; h'er citizens refused to be looked uped with it; and declared the country and ; on as western men her lands rose above climate to be the most delightful he had ( the reach of government purcha sers the ever seen. tone of her citizens became exclusive and The information on Nebraska is mea- uninviting, and emigration sought a new gre at most. Altogether the fullest and -field. Then it was that the spirit of most accurate account that has met our speculation became rife. The actual setee, is that to be found in the large vol-: Her with his wife, his bedside and camp ume of Col Fremont, containing reports ketile were thrown in the shad, and his of his expeditions to California and Ore- j place was taken by the dollar and a quargon in 1812-3 and 4. The velume con-; ter man, who looked to western lands only tains in addition to Fremont's narrative, j as a means of getting gain upon the efforts reports on the botany of the country, by : and enterprise of other men. It was then those having charge of these departments; the tide of emigration stimulated rath also astronomical observations, &c Jer than restrained by the influence of Horn's overland guide to California is a ; speculators, again flowed westward in thin book, and its information is confined j great volume, and passing over the gladto the routes pursued by emigrants. Ow-'gome waves of Lake Erie. Huron and en's Geological Survey gives information Michigan, in the halcyon hours of golden on the Geology of Nebraska, and School-, speculation, pressed forward to the pleas craft's large work on the Indians, gives ! ant prairies of Indiana, Michigan aud II

quite iuii statistics on me inaian triDes of the territory. Nebraska is named from one of its three largest rivers, the Nebraska, or Platte. According to the returns of the last censua. it contains 130,700 Square miles, or territory a large 'as New England, New York and South Carolina. It should be stated, however, taking the fcouthern line at 27 deg., as Mr. Douglass proposes the territory as ihus organized will be much larger than the proportion that has usually been designated as Nebraska, em bracing a large portion of the Indian Territory, and most of the Indian tribes, except the Choctaws. the Creeks, the Cbickasaws, the Seminoles, and a portion of the Cherokees. Nebraska, as proposed to be organized, w ill be a vast region, having the various climates that are enjoyed in Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota, that lie on its Eastern borders; only the climate, like the face of the country, is more Asiatic. The eastern portion of it is chiefly prairie and rich alluvial. The middle is more sandy and barren, containing the Great American Desert; and the western is mountainous, the highest mountains being covered with almost parpetual snow. The inhabitants of Nebraska may be 75,000, mostly Indians. The whites are military men. Indian agents, and missionaries. Within a week, paragraphs have appeared in the papers, announcing that a newspaper is about to be published at old Fort Kearney, called the Nebraska Democrat, and that a post-office is to be established some forty miles from it, for the accommodation of the emigrants two important elements to begin the work of civilizing the territory. Nebraska is, and must ever be, mainly an agricultural region. It is far from the oceans, and has no great lakes. The Platte river, though from one to three miles wide, is only navigable for steamboats forty miles. From what even the Indians have ac complished in agriculture, the country seems to hold out great hopes to the farmer. The Indians there are mostly supported by agriculture, and according to returns before me, four tribes if Christain Indians on the northern and outhcrn banks of the Kansas, cultivate four thousand acres. From these they raised, in a late year, 50,000 bushels of com, 2.690 bnshels of wheat, and 12,000 bushels of oats, 4,000 hogs, and 300,000 melons of different kinds. They kept COO working osen, and a large number of horses. The annual value of their product is put down at $31,000. The number of these Indians is placed at 2,700. The territory is not well wooded. Poplar, elm, birch, willow, pines, white oak, maple and other trees are found there in moderate numbers. The cotton wood tree much abounds oh the rivers. Wild animals, 6uch as buffaloes, deer, wild horses, mountain sheep, prairie dogs, wolves, elks, and antelopes, aboond in this country. The territory is capable of supporting a large population. The people are impatient to have an organized Territory, that they may make State after Slate of it. No wonder that the question, whether these shall be free or slave States, should greatly elcite the various sections of our land. Where is the West? From the year 1819 anl forward, it was the lot of those who dwelt near the Atlantic coast, to hear Ohio spoken of a6 the 'far west Day by day, wagons of the style used for ordinary farming operations, covered with sheeting stretched upon hoops reaching from side to side, were seen to pass, loaded with household furniture, kitchen utensils, farming implements, and hopeful looking women, and rosy cheeked children, on their way to what was then looked upon as the West, with their destination "For Ohio," marked upon them. This was the first wave of the great tide, which commencing upon the Atlantic, flowed towards the great west. This plain style of emigration, carrying with it the means of simple life the bed, the table, the kitchen Utensils, and the farming implements loaded upon a farm wagon; and drawn by the farm horses, constituted the first wave; commencing upon the shores ef the Atlantic, and dying away upon the wilds of the western reserve. Time passed on; western New York had been settled by the hardy pioneers of Massachusetts. Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maine and Rhode Island. The simple, frugal habit of life tho places of worship and education the town meeting

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Once, Western New York was called 'the west;' afterwards Ohio rejoiud in that designation; then followed Michigan : Indiana and Illinois, Wisconsin next j took her turn for that enviable notoriety, , then followed Iowa, and Minncsfota; and now, where short of the rotk bound shores j of the Pacific, shall we loi k for the , 'West Looking back to the dale of the Ordi nance of 17S7, when the organ te la w which for the time being exclusivtlv gov erned that immense tract of countrv. ard which to this day. in an important dej gree controls its jurisprudence it seems like a dream, that powerful, influential, sovereign States have grown up, one after another, upon a territory of land about which ihe attention of Congress at that time could with difficulty be drawn. Yet so it is; so little do we know to day of what the next few years may bring forth. We, the sons of the men and women who settled Western New York, and the State of Ohio, calling it the far west, aud considering themselves as pioneers, are now inhabiting a union of States extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, holding within the limits of the so called western Slates 27,000.000 acres of improved land, 4,472 miles of raiiroid, SSS miles of canal. 1,420 miles of lake coast. 3,000 miles of navigable rivers, and 3,000,000 square miles of land. This area embraces over 6.000,000 inhabitants, 70 colleges and 800 newspapers. Looking to there facts as a precedent, in view of what is past and gone, and what is manifestly to come, it may well be asked" Where is the Wat?" Detroit Inq. ARRIVAL OK THE NASHVILLE, New York, March 6. Steamer Nashville, from Havre, arrived yesterday. Liverpool., 15 Flour moved al about Is decline. Wheat closed at about last week's tales. London. 15 American flour is lower. Barley, oats and other grains flat and lower. The Nashville brings London dates 15th having left Cowcs on the ICth. Off I'ot tsinoutli ßlio passed through the Knglish fleet. Il was lo sail to the seat of war. Steamer Washington touched off Cowes on 11th. Preperations for the Eastern war still active. Il is stated lhai in addition to the steamers already taken, it wns decided to lake iho remainder of the Cum ad steamers a:, fast as they arrived, leaving the company to carry the mails in the smaller steamers. Many East India vessels have also been taken by the admiralty io carry stores, troops &c, to all the naval stations. Tho preparations are on a stupendous scale. Tho Baltic fleet of 26 ships, cliicfl v of tho line, and powerful steam frigale, was assembled in the Cowes on the (ith, where it would bo joined by len French vessels, chiefly of 100 guns each. The whole fleet which was lo bo under direction of Sir Chas. Napier, is intended for operations ogainst St. Petersburg, The steamer llecla had already loft for the Baltic lo make surveys and soundings. Rumora of peace, however, were still in circulation. The Paris correspondent of the Tnues mentions rumors of Iresh negotiations, and hopds are generally cnlertamcd thr.t they will be successful. In House of Lords on the 14th there was a long debate on the Eastern question, nothing new was elicited. In I 'aris, 14th, the French funds foil considerably, owing lo unfavorable tiews from St. Petersburg. Steamer Great Britain, from Australia, with $165,000 in gold on freight, had arrived. The Russians are committing dreadful outrages on tho peasants of Wallachia, who had refused to submit to the burdona imposed upon them. The women and children of their village have been massacred. The French government had addressed a note to. King Otho, in consequence of ihe discovery of Greek correspondence. Advices from Asia state that Schamyl was pushing forwotd his armaments wijh great energy. The first battallion of the Cold Stream guards marched thrpugh London on the y 4th, on their way to Chester, previous to embarking to the Mediterranean, und were

received by the people wilh extraordinary demonstrations of enthusiasm. The autogrnph letter of the Emperor Napoleon to the Czar, proposes a treaty of peace on the basis of the Vienna noto modified by Turkey, and that negotiations take place direct between Russian and Turkish ambassadors. The French squadron under Admiral ßenate was to take on board 12.000 troops and proceeded to Toulon to join the English squadron nwahing them there, tatake on board 4,000 more troops, when both squadrons were to sail for Levant. Nothing from Kalalat. WASHI5QTON, MaTch 3, The jury in the Gardner caee returned a verdict of guilty this morning, after twenty-two hours deliberation; the court then sentenced Gardner to ten years in the penitentiary, being the longest term allowed by law. Gardner was then placed in the custody of Ihe United States Marshall, a stay of sentence having been granted until a bill of exceptions could be heard; but this afternoon the prisoner was found dead in his room, having, as is supposed, poisoned himself. The coroner's jury commenced an investigation. and adjourned till morning, when a fott mortem examination will be made. It is not certain that the case is one of suicide. Over-wrought feeling, it is thought, may have been the cause. Further Particulars. On entering the cell where Gardner was confined, he was observed to drink some water, throwing hia head back, and it is supposrd he took poison. He was seized with convulsions immediately. After giving a letter to his brother, he remarked he was

going before a Judge who would not proi "ounce him guilty, and then expired in 6reat 80ny- JIe was 50 )fars u 'iad nit: ruucaiion ouu uiauuns ui a .rnucman, and was engaged to be married to a lady in Georgetown. Strang" Incident. Richard Slors Willis gives the following in the New York Musical Times: The following strange incident happened while 1 was living in Germnny. In the neighborhood of Vienna, there dwelt a young peasant woman, ho supported herself by tho cultivation of vegetables, which she disposed of in the Vienna market. She inhabited a small house, nttaclied to which is her vegetable garden. Young, as she was, she had been married; but her husband had died, leaving a little girl who was now able to run about nnd play with the other children of the neighborhood The mother was still handsome and desirous of a second marriaga. About this lime, indeed, there wns visiting her a young man for whom she had conceived an affection, and whose proposition of marriage tho was now somewhat impatient to await. Kut no proposal was made. A dark thought crossed tho young woman's mind lhatthero must be somo obsta clo in the way, and this olstacle was, in all probability, lh child. An unnatural struggle of jealousy took place, which rosullcd in a fearful determination fhe would make way wilh the child! Beneath her house was a deep cellar, in which she occasionally stowed her vegetables. Taking her child by the hand one day she led it down stairs, snd thrusting it inside, closed the door, locked it, and hurried up stairs. Tho same evening her lover came, they sat chatting together, but no mention wns made of tho little absentee. I he next day, after a desertion of twenty -four hours ihe mother went softly down and listened at the door. The quick ear of tho child caught her mothers step, and sho implored her to take her cut cf that dark place, sho was so cold and very hungry. No answer was returntd.and the mother crept quietly up stairs. In the evening the lover came r.gain. They took supper together, and passed a pleasant evening. After tho second twenty-four hour had passed, the mother made mother Mt to the child. Again the little sufferer heard her, and with feblo voice begged for & crust of bread. This pulled a little on her motheis hcatt but her purpose was fixed. Another day passed. The mother went quietly down fctairs and ltstened. All wos silent Sho opened softly tho door the child lay dead. Taking swiftly the body up stairs, she laid il upon the bed, and immediately making a great outcry, called tho neighbors together, telling them that her child had suddenly died. And so it seemed. The day nfter ihcre was n funeral. The child was lying in its coffin bestrewn wilh flower, brought by the li. lie playmates of the neighborhood who had come to attend the funeral of the lost favorite. Tho procession moved towards Goitesacker, (God's acre,) where was to be planted this little seed of an immortal flower. A clergyman was in attendance. Tho mother stood looking down into the grave, over which stood the holy man, repeating with a solemn voice, "Our Father who nrt in Heaven, hallowed bo thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will bo dono on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread " A piercing shriek, end the mother fell with a groan to the earth. Looking wildly nround her, sho then, in gibbering accents, related to the shuddermg crowd at the grave the very deed her own hands had committed. She lived not long after. Crazed and smitten by the hand of God, she miserably died & signal instance of jelribulion, . and . a startling lesson upon the words, "Give us this day our daily bread." CGrast jear there were conveyed between the United States and Europe, by the British and American mail s teeners, 4,600,000 letters. : and 1,380,000'newspapers, ' -

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