Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 November 1868 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT.

PLYMOUTH. INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1868. NUMBER 12. VOLUME 14.

From the New Orleans Crescent. HUNTED BY WOLVES.

A right for Life Ur nnwprful CUiar, power , One of the most mus full-limbed settlers on the New York fron-: a: .... . Hflinrich Kauo-

' m ' vk j ton rods 'spring aside, and plunge into the snow, strength remained. The next instant he lamentable ignorancelof the public in ! Bailey, of West point, and those able mitu an Ills arms were .i p I . ... i si. i i...n r u ,,- i ,. .i L j.I r it s . s-i i i

, , , v i c. , . i. . . ..i . - an e cou r 0 ' sMmmnrtni momentum as to ien an ox as if stricken by a thunderbolt. It is said that ho was once caught by tWO ir0n-muaclcl Mobwt, aok ariucl v mmm w ... i with knives, while Heinrich bad neither; Ml at the first onset he fractured the skull . r,.- ftndhore the secmd o the earth as if he were nothing but j ma infant. That Indian never resumed , toe perpendicular again. All this by way of introduction to an adventure that Kaupman once had with a j pack of wolves, and which came fearfully nirh having a fatal result for him. The winter of 17 was an unusually ievero one throughout the northern states, nd many deaths from exposure and starv-1 occurred before the opening of i

epring. The wolves, bears and wild ani- j access so long as they remained in the were gon, and he leaned upon Mary like Kals became nearly famished from hunger ! track, and they now began springing aside a helpless child. und, as a consequence, were unusually and attempting to get abreast of the horse. The arrival of the affrighted horse fierce and courageous. They camo down j In every instance they fell behind; each aroused the wifo, and the dog, the mofrom the mountain?, and woo to the sheep effort revealed them to the terrified mare, nient she opened the door, ruahed forth, fold that was unprotected in the night. ( and the furious plunges she was now ma-! led by his kindly instinct, Mary fled They were sure to be invaded by the starv-j king filled Heinrich with the greatest anx- j wildly after him, not pausing to bring the

tirn ing animals, and not a sheep would live to . tell the tale. There were tracks around ths barna where the wolves had trotted all , night in their icarch for means of en-j trance. Their howls could be heard all j through the tili, cold hours, and more i than one housewife had been chased to j ber very door by imprudently venturing furth at night. M&nv of the settlers sat in the upper Ury of their houses, and amused them-j elves by shooting the wolves, for whose j ealps the government had a standing knnnfv of VPrx shilling ! Heinrich Kaupman remained at home, rmlv venturing forth to attend to Iiis ; J - - c dumb animals, and to see that they were t . . i s t r..i properly protecteu uuring :ne uTgui. jjui j e iii- i t, nnrc , 1 fror on hi p in etnrk or rneeriös uecame M . . V . -i a.. low, and finally gave out altogether. True, he and his family could live on the poultrv. sheeD and animals they owned, but it was rather unpleasant to be without tea, 1 coffee, sugar, salt, and many other articles j that were more necessities than they were Juxories. With a want of foresight which he nev- j or could explain, he started upon his journy without any weapon except a kecnedged hatchet, which he carried in case the sled should give out. In the house hone his trusty rifle, but neither he nor his wife seemed to imagine that there would ! br. any call for it, and he drove cheerily away, bidding his wife a merry good-bye, as his mare went at a spanking gait down tl i road toward the village; The latter place, which might more properly be termed a settlement, was reached in due time, the groceries all purchased, and everything was in readiness to start homeward. Heinrich had been storm-bound so long in his house that he found the companion ship of his friends at the village tavern Tery agreeable. There was so much to talk about, so much news to listen to, such ft quantity of gossip regarding the affairs of the noighborluod, that the time sped unconsciously by, until, when he aroso to go, he found it almost dark. Still, he had no tears, as his wife would understand that he had remained at the village, and there was no necessity for his immediate return. Aa he turned homeward and left the tillage behind, and noticed that the dim light by which he was traveling belonged to the moon, it flashed upon him that he might perhaps encounter danger before reaching home, and he regretted, for the twentieth time, that he had left ;his rifle behind. Tha road, deep between the drifts of now, was of just sufficient width for the little mare and aled, and the spirited little animal went forward at a swift rate, while Heinrich somewhat stupefied and weary, was beguiled into drowsiness by tho easy, gliding motion of sled. He was half asleep and half conscious, m V a r Tin Viaaa ni An.:!.!- . 1 . TT 01 tuo increase in. i ii"" m mo sieu. Ue fdt it jerk flereral timq Kononfli Tim i n . . v ,IIUJ; auu a1 at OQCo A fl a m r iartr Vi n m 1 ... - f- " ccompan.ed by ane.gnor terror, etlectnally. routed him, and he sat bolt upright and looked around, II looked in front; all wore its r.,ni,..l . wore wonted .ppe.rnnce a wild, .tra-gling piece of wood, standing two feet deep in now, the narrow traek twi.,ed throuh it; the han. cold and elear, tbe earth white b.l! .lo.. behind the a!.d were three gannt an I in..!., cantering h,.,iy, Ztrik MM fast gaining behind The jaw, of the le.din -wolf owin- to J WUII, OWini? tO the lowness of the sled, were within reh . ' "c,c wunin reach or Heinrich s shoulders. But the latter cared little for this. The brutes were after the marc, and upon courage and fortitude depended the escape of horse and mrr.

If the alarmed creature could have the) one wolf retreating, and the other two atnerve to keep onward in the track, she j tacking his dauntless dog. He turned to had a good chance of eluding her pur- j help him, and a bright object caught his

suers ; for the moment the wolves sprang outside to pas's the sleigh, the snow so ' 'diminished their speed that thty fell ber j But should the mare, in her terror, V 1 11 (A. il rvaupman Knew a was un wim mem Knunmin k new nil waj nn with them guch a proceeding would disentangle her r o from the sled, and before she could noun-! . . .. . . . der a dozen yards through the snow the ' rorannin Wolves WOllld V 'oring liar to ,snr'as - . ! Reaching forward he Pat.cd the mare with the han(1 that he held the reins, while he held the hatchet in the other, , kept bis eye upon the brutes behind, j However, he did not use the weapon, for , r the closer the wolves kept to the sled the less they were seen by the horse, and, as a ' consequence there was less prooaDinty 01 the terror becoming uncontrollable, and her breaking aside from the path into the ;saow It was not long before the wolves dis- ( covered that there was little prospect of iety One of the wolves was very larjre, straight-limbe J, and showed a speed supenor to the rest. More than once when he sprung out into the snow, he advanced nearer abreast of the horse than did the others. Upon this gaunt creature Heinrich fixed his eye, and caught the light that played froji his eyelids. By and by, the snow became flatter, and j oe nuge won sprang asiae. me speeu , of lhee animals is extraordinary, and he : i ! mi ll inea rapidly, lieinncn waitea nntn ne i S0t JU9t T whCQ r'äiDS t0 li5s t, he circled the hatchet over his head, and brought it down with the quickness of lightning. The head was cleft in twain, and with a dvins vein, he doubled over in - r' the snow, and w.is quickly left behind. 7 ' J One of the dreaded animals was dispatched; there wre three left as furious for blood as him. and these never abated thir "Ped io tle least. Nad they got a .l 11

taste ot toeir companion, they would have , ied t0 cec. forged themselves on hin? before seeking Xh Doctor regretted his hasty threat, the torSe' but lie whisked off tbe Obut told Joba that he could not suffer him life 80 suddenly that they scarcely noticed j to whi,rer or escape tbe punishment, and

his absence. The distance from home rras rapidly diminishing beneath the quick steps of his i l' J . &S S 1 -. I - n,are - wmmm wnoMW lo carry u,e 8,eu 01 ! ful1 sr)Ced' until the fear of overturnin became aSain a of anxiety-' Heinrich, too, had learned by thii time, that these were no ordinary animals witli which he had to deal, but sharp set, courageous and determined brutes, to which man or beast would ba alike welcome, their preference, however, as manifested by their actions, being for horse-flesh. Thsy had now approached the very edge of the wood, and the wolves began gaining ; ' 6 I on each side. The terror-stricken horse I became uncontrollable, and bounding ter-1 rifically forward, caught the sled against the stump of a tree, overturned it, and galloped away at a full run, leaving Hein- ' rich alone in the snow. Before he could rise, he felt the brutes clawing at his throat, but his garments were eo thick that he was saved from in jury; and rising to his feet, threw them off. His hatchet had been jerked from h'u hand as he fell, and La lookpd dnn. rately around for it, but it was not to be found. By this time tho mare was nearl out of sight, and two of the wolves were upon the defenseless man, and the other, deserting the animal, bounded back. Heinrich faced the foremost, and the ncit moment was surrounded. The powerful man now called into play all the strength for which he was to renowned. He struck furiously at the leaping, narline; brutes, and flung them off when they attempted to cling to him; Had he a weapon, cvan a club, it is not impossible that he might have saved himself. A blow, with a club in his hand, would have cracked the skull of the largest brute, and with a knife ho would have ripped I them open But there was no hope fighting with his naked hand. His blood had already dyed the snow, and the smell and taste of it had raadc the brutes ferocious. Their lithe heavy bodies were hurled against him, as ;c i i u . ,f impelled by dome power not their own and In ally pul ed him down, ,. , , , , , , ' T I ,T e'a'ed 0T" V'f '""g 'hrat ,0'i"" ', 5 , Strn,eJ ' rcl"5 hL" Kra,p on '"' ll,roat w" ellük"'S ' i hie "22 I Üa! St "hi"inr ft ...o(...r .innr it. I . 1- ! a CT I TZTZ ? ' shtit in amonrr tho iiimiUnit ,1 rnr.t i o v. laaicucn itself on the chief. The wolves for an instant relaxed their fury; Heinrich reeled giddy to his feet, and recognised his brave dog. For a momeot he etood bewildered, when he paw

eye; it was his hatchet lying in the snow, within aft arm's length of his last terrible ;

struggle. Heinrich snatched it up, and . ... . ne was nimseii again. His arms were bleeding, but the giant nau spin u:e suii oi uue ui iuc num;. and he now turned like a mad man that ..... ne was upon tne nerce miwu uiut uuu . 1 . 1 C T 111. -11 I borne his faithful dog In the ground Tfi firot blow hud bare the paunl back bone ; tli3 next his throat, a terrible gash, and the third loosened his fearful grij on the dog. Still, he struggled fiercely, and Heinrich sprang upon the animal, and cut and hacked and slashed until the wolf was mince meat, .-... . . As Heinrich arose, a hand was on his shoulder, and turning, a head Wfti on his mmvm. " Heinrich u r- i Look did tl le young people stand in speeclilcss embrace, but the weaker supported the stronger, for Heinrich's nerves , rifle. But fhis was not needed. Terdlct of a. Jury of Bteys. When Dr. Nathaniel Prentice taucrht a public school in Iioxbury, he vas very much a favorite ; but his patience, at tunes, would get very much exhausted by I tke infrnetione of tin school rules by the I scholars. On one occasion, in rather a wrathy way he tbrejtfentd to punish with i gix blüWS of a heayy femle tile first boy delected in whispering, and appointed some as detectives. Shortly afterward one of the detectives shouted out, u Master, John Zciglcr is whispering." John wis called up and asked ii it was a fact. (John, by the way, was a favorite, both with his teacher and school-mates.) ' Yes," answered John, UI was not aware of what I was about ; I was intent on woikiug out a ran, and requested the boy who tat next to me to hand me the arithmetic that contained the rule which I continued : 11 1 whh 1 could avoid it, but I cannot, without a forfeiture of my word. I will I leave it to any three scholars you may choose t(y nj wbther or net I bhall omit the punishment." John said he agreed to that, and immediately called out threeof his school-mates. The doctor told them to return a verdict which they did, after a consultation, as follows : M The master's word must be kept inviolate. John must receive the threatened six blowa of the ferule, but it must be in t j i . , . nictcd on voluntary proxies, aud we, tbe i ?.... -m . .t . , arbitrators, will share the punishment bv receiving each of us two of the blows." John, who had listened to the verdict, stepped up to the doctor, and, with outstretched hand, exclaimed : " Master, here is my hand ; I will receive the puoishment." The doctor, under pretence of wiping hil face sl,ie,JeJ his eyes, and, telling the boy t0 lheir scats sai(1 he wouM think about it, I believe he did think of it to his dying day, but the punishment was never inflicted. CurSoua Divorce Kclaircissnaeut. A curious matrimonial affair has just transpired in Brooklyn; the parties are not in high life or known to fame, but their history is nevertheless interesting. Ten yeors ago, a couple recently married, moved from Itoston to the city of churches, where the husband get up in business and prospered. His business at his office was bett3r than at home, for his married life was unhappy, aud about five years ago the parties mand to procure a divorce. They gradually lost trace.11 of each other, and during the past year each of them married, and each to a person who had been divorced. The two husbands were thrown together, aud a few weeks ago the one who had married the divorced womau invited the other home to dinner. Ima"ice the cmbarasr-ment when the happy husband introduced his wife to hit, friend. Both were too well bred to have a scene, aud so the diuner passe 1 over somewhat frigidly, but with no actual unpleasantness. The recipient of the dining courtesv invited the other to go home with him, soon after, and partake id" a family diuner, little thinking, as it happened, that he was to return tho compliment in every particular. It turnod out that each had maarried the il i tr rf r cn rnAiiae (' I.. 1 . '.I ', vi me uiuer, and it was nu.re Satisfactory to them to know that each was entirely pleased with the arrangement. 80 much for the intriencies of I matrimony,

The Stamene Tirins. Newspaper editors are again speculatin

and writing romantic r-ticles on the above 6uojeet, incited by tue assertion that Messrs. Chang and Eng are about visiting j Paris to find a surgeon bold enough to . Sr.. tu r 1 I uaaertake their sepal tion. lhe whole ; movement is but anoillr evidence of the ! meuicai raauers, anu "i me prurient ue-.

light which the worl 1 alwavs takes in ! was almost entirely composed of skeletons ..... . ..

wrapping ever ining i mecieu wun me S .1' . i- .L il.. humau system in the grossest mystery. There never has been rutestion among the medical men eirhcr in thl country or in Europe, in regard U he feasibility of the separation of tlne ro individuals; that they are two being having distinct segrcgrated and perfect organization, one j frum the other, as any her two Individ-1 uals; that there is no lijsicftl, Dtorftl or I mental unity between i m, the only connection being a short artil.iginous aud integumcntal band com ni to the two, ! the severance of which ould, in all probability, be entirely ham see; that no sensations, nervous im pi -siuns, physical, morbid, mental, or nervimcntal conditiou ever exhibited a phjsici unity in their dual corporal existence , that they have no uuity of conception , thoughts, kt. that it never was the pr feesional opinion

that the deatbofoneof t. e brothers would ; sounded very much like one of the imposinstantly be followed y iiat of the other, j siblc things which the young prince in or that their separation was surrounded i the Fairy Tales h ordered to do before he by fearful difficulties ; end that the link j can obtain the hand of the princess. IIownow binding them tOgftthef is not a means ever, in the month of June and July, of perfect physical union by which seusa- i 1857, the task assigned to him was portions or impre.-bions are conveyed from j formed with great precision. The specione to the other. There is, in fact, noth-1 mens of Atlantic mud which he produced ing more common between these Siamese were examined and reported upon, than what would have been acquired by The resell of all these operations is that

any olher iwins indbsolubly united by a . hemPen r metallic cord, and subjected, as they have ever been, to precisely simi lar circumstances from their birth. Indeed, the band uniting them is almost insensible so much so that, on shipboard they were pullc-J about bv a rope tied to it. No pulsatiug vessel has ever been dctected in it, though, undoubtedly, it is j just here and nowhere el.-e, in the ceutcr of this cord, made up of gristle and skin, and for about an iuch aft tiiiher side, that there are vessels and nerves commuaicating from one to the other. Here, but nowhere else, a touch ou the space indicatcd is felt by both. Precisely here, aud by both. Precisely here alone, in the band uniting them, there i0- sensation at;d nothing cl.-e whatever common to both. If tiioy ar inclined lo eat, sleep. &e., and perform the functions of life with great .similarity and agree j always in their tastes and habits, we must raoollees that their surroundings, position, I

&c, have all been precisely alike. Peo-, 01 the waterunon it varies lrom 10,000 to pie focget, too, that oue of them is irritable ; 15,000 feet ; and there are places where and the other mild; one of them is the j Mont Blanc might be sunk without showlarger and stronger and more intelligent, I ng its peak above water. Beyond this, and he controls the other. His slightest ! the ascent on the American side commen-

movement is ful lowed by tbe weaker one, from necessity, and not, a ia generally supposed, from unity of will or harmanious action. They play games, oue against the other, and have quarreled just like other good brethren, and more than once. While at sea, one winted to take a cold bath, to which the other objected, and the captain had to interfere to produce a reconciliation. How absurd, then, to talk of perfect consentaneous thought, action, kc, between them. The decision given by the profession in Europe and America, thirty-eight year ago, when this case was fir-t put on exhibition, was thai the ligament of union was cartilaginous, probably a prolongation of the ensiform cartilage from tho stemm, and the chiet if not the onlv objection to its- division, has been that the peritoneum might be involved iu the operation. It was morcuveriiot on- demanded by surgery, for the twins had lived and might yet live for years; the question ot separation, thorafore, was with themselves ortheir guardians, and not the profession There were no disagreements, no differences among the doctors ou this subject. The case was involved in no mystery, and the diagnosis was easily made ; the London Lancet, 1830 even declared that it wns more rare than curious. By the ccraseur or knife, any student w!io has attended a course of lectures may perform this operation with success, and which, moreover, should be attended even by any on; in case of death, taking caro to divide the parts nearer the one deceased. It would appear, then, that inert are no good reasons why these naturalized Asiatics should hftft been permitted to Violate the seventh commandment, by common conscut, without even a rebuke, As there exists no academy of physicians and surgeons in Paris, the Siamese may bo oti a wild goose chase, whieh their family physician might have prevented, as well as the wild nnd

fancifulspeculations regarding them which hold of the vyM whihj anothcr thnnts are now crowding our daily papers, fhftj ihm fak sUntiof in hj side of the hill, scientific world, too, especially those' en- L hen, with tho aid of a pull on the vines . I iL -1.. I . P . V 1

gagea in me iuuy in mr.nemc mi'i surgery, as the press is kind enough to observe, may not, therefore, be intensely interested after all. and the public may be froe again to direct their attention to omething more important and better understood thnn tho contemplated separation of Chung aud Eng.

The Bottom ot the Ocean. In 1SÖ3 Lieutenant Brooke obtained

ruud from the North Atlantic, between Newioundianu and tue Azores, at ft depth 0f more than ten thousand feet, or two miles, by the help of his sounding appara rr., . . r tus. The specimens were sent for exanii nation to Ehrenberg, of Berlin, and to croscopisis iouuu uiai mis aeep sea muu of living organism the greater portion of these bwing just like the Glob;gerinio already known to occur ia the chalk. Thus far the work has been carried on simply in the interests of scioncs, but Lieutenant Brooke's method of sounding acquired a high commercial value when the enterprise of laying down the telegraphte cable was undertaken. For it became a matter of immense importance to know, not only the depth of tht sea over the whole line along which the cable was to run. but the exact nature of the bottom, so as to guard against cinnces of cutting or fraying the strands cf that costly rope. The admiralty consequently ordered Captain Dayman to ascertain the depth of the whole line of the cable, and to bring back specimens of the bottom. Id former days such a command as this might have we know the contours and nature of the surfaee soil covered by the North Atlantic for a distance of 1,700 miles from cast to west, as well as we know that of any part of the dry land. It is a prodigious plain, one of the widcst and most even plains Id the world. If the sea were drained off you might drive a wagon all the way from 'alentia, on the west coftst of Ireland, to Trinity Bay, in Newfoundland. And, except one sharp inciiue, about two hundred miles from Valentia, 1 am uot quite sure that it j would even be necessary to put the skid ion, so gentle arc t'ie ascents and descents upon that route. From Valentia i 1 .l ....11 l:.. .1 l "ii ..1 . . iu l l . nuuiu ilts UU V U Hill l(Jl ilUUUt UTO hundred milcj to the point at which the bottom ia now covered by 1 ,700 fathoms if j sea water. Tlirn wr.nlil rnmA din ooninl Iseawftter. Then would come the central plain, more thun 1,000 miles wide, the inequalities of the surface of which would he hardly pereeptible, though the depth ces, and gradually leads, for about three hundred miles, to the Newfoundland ; bore. Ahnest the whole of the bottom of this central pbiin which extends for many huudred miles in a north aud south direction is covered by a fine mud, which when brought to the surface, dries into a grayish white friable substance. You can write with this on a blackboard, if you are so inclined, and to the eye it is quite like very soft, grayish chalk. Examined chemically, it proved to be composed al- ' most wholly of carbonate of lime ; and if you make a section of it in the same way as that of a piece of chalk was made, and i view it with, the microscope, it presents innumerable globigerioaj imo'fdded in the granular matrix. Thus this deep sea mud is substantially chalk. Substantially, because there are a j tfood many minor differences; but as these liavc "o bearing upon the question lmmcdiately before us which is the nature of the globigerin.-c of the chalk it is unnecessary to speak of them. The secretary of tho Xcw England Female Medical college recommends that latly physicians uso the abbreviation of Dm to designate their sex. M As a prefix, doctress (abbreviated Drss.) ia much bet ter thau the clumsy circumlocutions cmployed to inform people that a doctor is of the female sex, as Drss. Brown, instoad (of Dr. Elizabeth Brown, Miss Dr. Brown, or Mrs. Dr. Brown; which latter may mean the wife of a doctor of that uame, or a female physician. Andk if we say Mrs. Dr. Brown, consistency requlreslthak we ne Miss Di Brawn; one is ns pftopec as the other." A correspondent of the Country Gentleman thinks a four tincd dungfork is much better for digging potatoes than a spade or shovel. lit has a bov or man take tho whole hill can be raised and scattered on tho surface. A broad tincd fork made for the purpose is much better than the common fork. The word Charlestown may be separated into over two hundred different I words.

A .1 list C rIIU'iitii on Colfax.

The Boston Post in commenting upon a late effort of the vice president elect, thus excoriates it and him : A low, scurrilous, demagogical speech was that of Schuyler Colfax at Pittsburg, and if he has any latent sense of shame he will some day hang his head for it. Such a speech, in the hour of triumph, when, if ; ever, a man's better nature is warmed and ! expanded, marks the wretched unworthinc?s of the individual making it. The volibility of the vice president elect has , been iuoculatcd with fresh venom. Prosperity brio3 his character out to view, and a pitiful exhibition it is. The reople cannot feel at all proud of a public officer ! who thus shows that he cannot rise above j his lowest prejudices. They will look to j General Grant to smother such a mean spirit as this at once, aud to declare that the new administration is not to proceed after the Colfax plan. That a phraseological rantipole should insult nearly one half of the citizens of the Uuitcd States by charging them with being euemies of country's government is of ho account except from his having been lifted to a prominence he shows he does not deserve. Th democratic party will s irvive his pr i 1 ctions, his advice and himself. He hid an opportunity to rie ab.vo the pos ition o the partisan wh ch hi hns hit lerto ccu" pied, and as nullit have been expected of a man of his caiibre and .-once't, hs has thrown it away. lie has the branded word " partisan " on his forehead with his own hau 1, and that is the little all there is of the man. The above is certainly a true estimate of Colfix. His speech at Pittsburg is only equalled by his abuse of foreigners, when a know nothi.ig in 1855. The Herald's denial of Colfax's know nothing speech on the ground that it was not hi style, produced a smile upon the countenances ot those who are better acquainted with Colfax and his style than is the cowardly cur who will not make a direct attack for fear of a controversy. For Farmer asad Uousetrive. H. C. Haskell, of DeerGeld, Mass., raised 104 bushels of Harrison potatoes from two barrels of seed. St. Joseph, Michigan, shipped 400,000 baskets of peaches this year, up to Sept. 29th. Fine black Hamburgh grapes are selling in ?an i- rancisco at only 75 cents per p0unc Lyon?. Michigan, has a hundred acres of peppermint under cultivation, and has made this year a thousand pounds of pure oil, worth $S per pound. The corn of the west, though covering a large area, is said to be less in sound grain than that of 1SG0. Much of the crop this year was injured by the early frosts. Farmers will do well to have in mind, as winter approaches, that poorly fed stock does not pay. Good shelter aud ample food are the great requisites in wintering stock. Mrs. Wns. Soulc, of Grass Lake, Wis.. i the owner of a turkey which, in one season, laid 74 eggs, from which, after hatching, Mrs. S. realized ?49for turkeys sold. A correspondent of the Canada Farmer has been prospecting over the Queen's estate of Balmoral, in Scotland. It contains twenty thousand acres, only five hundred of which arc tillable. If fence posts, on being set, were braced in their places by Inlm the opening about them with a OOBpftct mass of clay, the water would be excluded and the durabil: ty of the post be greatly increased. Where suitable clay is readily obtained, the ope ration would prove very remunerative " Boned turkey " is a favorite dish at eveniug parties, and may be thus prepared Boil a turkey in a.s little water as may be, uitil the bones can be easily separated from the meat. Remove all the skin ; sli:e, mixing together the light aud dark parts. Season with salt and pepper. Take the liquid in which the turkey was boiled, having kept it warm, pour it on the meat, and mix it well. Shape it like a loaf of bread, wrap it in cloth, and press with t heavy ireighj for a few hours. When served up it is cut to thin slices. Chickens can be prepajed in the same way. -M-a President Giant is uow in Washing ton. Xcw York has 210 miles of t incut. (uizot has alrculy completed L ia '2d year. Jenny Lind intends to re visit the u. s. Australia lus over 3,000 Odd Fellows. . A heavy cottou crop Ii Texas this year. Perfumed tooth-picks are uow in vogue. Kmigrauis are pouring into the sUue! of Iowa. A bountiful pea nut crop in Texas tfctfl year.

The Iloosao Tunnel.

village with the above name has grown up at the eastern end of the Hoosac funnel. It has a postofEce, several stores, a couple of hotels, and a h.juc of worship, This village is in the town of Florida, and has principally grown up since the work begun on the tunnel in the year 1851. About that time a mammoth machine was TOa(je at Boston, a' a cost of scmo 820,000. which the projector hoped would bore through the mountain ; but, after pushing iat0 the rock twenty or thirty feet.making a hole so large that it receives a building, it was shaken to pieces. Then dnllingby han(i was rcsor0,i to and blasting in the oM way At the present unie the drilling is accomplished by steam power. For seventeen years the work has gone on, -itft mnnv mli mtmm hnth c;,1n nf the mountain, until the rock has been penetrated for a mile from this joint westward, and three fourths of a miles from the western end of the tunnel, and three miles more tunnel remain to be bored. But in view of the fact that full preparations and experiments have been made to carry on the work, it may be truly said to be half done. It is now four years since the state of Massachusetts began to carry on this work on its own account. Last winter the legislature voted $4,000,000 in money, or bonds, to complete the innel. Tbe work is now partially suspended until contractors can be found to complete the enterprise, and who are wilbng to give bonds to the amount of $500,000. This enterprise has been persistently opposed by the Boston and Albany, or the old Western railroad manager, and some others. But if the taxpayers f Massachusetts could exaoiioc the work ac complished, forty-nine out of every fifty would say, 11 It ought to be finished at the earliest possible day." The state having expanded so much it would be folly yea, madness, to take any step backward, since the railroad lino from Boston to Troy is uow completed, with the exception of this tunnel; The Hoosac tunnel is now a matter of national interest, since it is the greatest enterprise of the kind th t was ever un dertaken in tbis or any other counrty, with the tingle exception of the Mont Ceuis tunnel, under the Alps, and ofa!t the curiosities to be seen in the states, if we bielvde the mountain and DeerfieM river scenery, this tunnel is by far the greatest event, even while only in part completed. So it is regarded ; and hence excursion parties come to this end and to the western section of tho tunnel, to see this, one of the greatest wonders of the are. Forest Fires in Washington Territory. The Oregonian, of September 21. gives the following account cf the forest fires in that state : A correspondent at M.ntiu's Biuff. Washington Territory, sends us the following information concerning the drs tructive fires in the woods on the north side of the Columbia river. The fire is more destructive and extends over a larger area thau has ever bef-re been known. On the morniug of the 14th, as the family of our correspondent were sitting down to breakfast, a neighbor rushed in and informed them that the fire was rapidly approaching the dwelling. Leaving their breakfast untouched they ran fur a placo 01 Iftfetj and were barely in time to escape being cut ofT frout retreat by the fire. 1 hey reached the residence of Mr. Mariiu on the bluff. The woo.- tor miles around the residence of Mr. Martin were a n of flames Men, women aud children ail went to work with a will to save the buildings. The mill and other buildings belonging to Mr. Martin took fire a great mauy times; one of the buildings had a large hole burnt in t.ie roof, and it wai ou'y by the mo-t strenuous efforts that any thing was saved. The fire r-n through the orchard ami burned nearly h!1 I the tences on the place. Mr. .luti"e. whose pljcc is halt a mile from that of Mr. Martin's, lost t very thing h s Iu use, fence, crops and everything completely swept away. The telegraph line is burned down for miles, and in some plac?s the wires have been melted for several feet by the heat. The wiud created by the fire tore up fruit trees by the roots. Mr. Burk Lst tome feuces, aud had the hardest kind of work to save hit buildings I learn that 3. Love had to sit up all night nnd watch his house, etc. M. Lewis Miller's place iu the tiiubt r is all burut up rails, fences and house 3, etc; John Bogarth had a hard time to save his place. The th e traveled at the rate of at leat five miles an h ut for a time in the dry timber. Tho tire in still raging aud there is no telling the amouut ftf daumge it will de. The road are filled with fallen tim ber. The wind carried large pieces uf bark fully one mi'e ; leaves were carried in some ftneftf a disiance exceediug three miles. Dr. Bellowi denounces the planch-ette.