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THEFIGHTINTHEBEECHWOODS
A STIMY OF CANADIAN DISTORT,
BY ERNEST
Many eiremnetances connected with th
Ottgegement commonly known tte the Baal
- of the Beechwoods, or Beaver DAVIS, DOM
bine to make it OS0 of the most interestin
epleodes of recent Canadian minter
buttery. It is iedissolubly linked with th
memory a one of the most patriotie and
Courageous women of any age and country.
As a rule, too, it ha been merely regerded
ate e rather notable Instance of a satioessful
ambush accomplished by a very interior
tome, and its important influence upon the
eubsequeut conduct or the war ha been
overlooked.
The campai n of 1812 had resulted in the
;signal dlacomtiture of all attempts at the
invasion of Canada. During the succeeding
Winter the Governtnent of the United State
devoted itself with great energy to the
task of oraniztug three fresh and power
fel apnea with the intention of renewing
the effort in as many different quarters as
aeon as military operations became metal°
able in the spriag. .A force of several thou
sand men was already established on the
aborts of Lake Champlain, within fifty miles
of Montreal. The prineipat object to beat.
rained for the time being, by this corps,
Penally termed the Army of the elate, WAS
simply to deter the Governor-General from
oeinforeing his posts in Upper Canada by
threatening an invasion of the Lower Prov
ince, and in this, it was to a very great
extent successful. Another division, de
eigned to amber ten thousand men, under
Major -el antral Win. Henry Herrison grand-
father to the present President of the
'United States, was being concentrated teen
entrenched Damp near the mouth of
the river Mautnee on Lake Brie,
with instrations to recover Detroit and
enter Canada front that threaten. Tne
force was then hold in Ptak by Colette'
Henry Proutor with less than 500 men of
the get regiment, a few companies of militia
from the counties of Essex and Mout, and
att tencertan and Variable number of fndians.
not third division, officially styled the
Army of the Centre, was composed of
troops neeembled partly at Sackett's Harbor
• and Oswego on Lake Ontario, and partly at
venous posts upon the Niagara Rtver under
the general command of Major-General
HenryDeogborn, a veteran of theRevolution.
.As far as possible it was designed to act in
• conjunction with their squadron whieh had
obtained temporary control of Lake Ontario.
41.0 soon as navigation opened, a strong bri-
gade from Sackett's Harbor made a descent
upon York (Toronto), then almost unforti-
lied and ungarrisoned, in the hope of parte-
lyzing the British naval power on
thelake by the destrnetion of two vessels
that had wintered there and another in
SOUrSe of construction. By weight of over-
whelming numbers they soon obtained pos.
eession of the place, but only partially as.
complished their purpose as the largest of
the two vessels already afloat had sailed a
few days before.
Another month was cecupied in concen.
treeing the entire division on the Niagara
• and making elaborate preparations for trans.
porting it into Canada. The force thus
assembled between Buffalo and Fort
Niagara numbered ahnost eight thousand
mert, all regulars or long service volunteers,
while that opposed to them, under Colonel
<John Vincent, was considerably less than
one quarter of that numbev, including
militia and Indians.
The artillery fire from Feet Niagara and
the adjacent batteries beat down the dea-
f ernes on the 13ritish side of the river, and
on the 27th May, about eve thousand men
were disembarked from a large flotilla of
boats a couple of tniles weet of the village
of Niagara, while & British brigade of less
than 600 tan, that attempted to resist
their landing, was almost exter-
minated by the broadsides of eleven
• Ships of war, anchored within three hun-
dred yards of the shore. Nearly at the same
time another brigade of troops began to
eras the river above Fat George, wall the
evident purpose of cutting off the retreat of
tbe garnson. Perceiving that further resist-
ance was nseless'Vincent retired adroitly
to Queenston, and thenee, after destroying
the batteries there, to the Beaver Dams on
. the Twelve Mile Creek, by the mountain
road. At that place he was joined during
the night by detachments from Chippewa,
Port Them, and Point Abino, and continued
his retreat next morning towards 'emoting.
foon Bay, where he determined to make an.
ether stand, alesedoning the entire Niagara
Peninsula to the enemy. The greeter part
of the militia was disbanded, and the Indians
of the Six Nations withdrew to their vil-
lages on the Grand River, where meny of
them remained quiet through fear of losing
their lands. On the 2nd of June, 'Vincent
enuamped 01 Bezeley's on the high ground
overlooking Burlington Bay. He ,had
been joined by two companies of
the 81h, and his whole division then
mustered 807 of all ranks and arms, of whom
only one hundred were militia. His men
were in good health anol spirits and so Inc
from being discouraged by their recent re-
, verses, they eagerly demanded to be led
I against the enemy. Three days later, two
, brigades of infantry and a regiment of caval.
ey made their appearance in pursuit, and
•encamped foe the night at Seoney Creek,
oven miles distant.
In the course of the afternoon their posi-
tion was earefully reconnoitered by Colonel
<john Harvey, Vincent's chief of staff, and
militiamen in plain clothes, acting under
sle instrations, paged through every part
of their lines, under the pretence of selling
rsupplies. It was ascertained that their en-
campment was scattered and badly om.
ranged for defenee, while their
pickets and sentries< were negligent
en the performance of their duties, The
etrength of the pursuers was roughly
estimated at 3,800 infantry and 280
cavalry, with at, least eight field.guns,
Shortly after midnight Vincent with 700
picked men of the 8th and deth regiments,
trashed the amp, slaughtered the unwary
stentieele at their posts, dispersed the be.
wildered battens:one as they attempted to
form by repeated bayonet charges, and et
day.brak retired to his fotmer position,
earying with him two eapenred fielcianns,
bah the American Generals and upwards of
a hundred other prisoners.
•.rhe Amerfeans wares* much demoralized
By the blow, that they abandoned their
cramp immediately, leaving their dead un- t
CRUIKSKANK,
O almost within eannon.shot of Vert George
e General Deerborn et once diameetled and
• abandoned and
Brie and drew in his °ta-
g , posts from Chan
ippewa d Queenston, eon.
y centreting his °air° force at Niagara, where
e , he began to forma large entrenched °atop.
On the saine day that this was done a small
party of Lincoln militia captured a depot of
arms near Queeneton, and during the night
took possession of the village itself.
Ascertaining, that about six thousand
troops Wer0 then assembled a Fort George,
Vincent did not consider it prudent to itt.
tempt the investment of their camp with a
force etill not exceeding a third of that
number, and contented himself with
sondem detahments of light troops to
O watch thetr movements, eetablished his
headquarters at the Forty Mile Creek
• (Grimsby). Yet he continued to feel so con-
fident of the superiority of his soldiers in
fighting qualities, that he assured the Gov_
• ernor•General that, if he would reinforce
• his division with one thousand mese he
would undertake to drive the enemy out of
the ovary,
While encamped there on the lirth June,
Lieut. James letzgthbon, the adjutaut of
the 49th. Hotted and obtained permission
to organize an independent company of fifty
men to act es rangers, or scouts, in advance
• of the army. So many eligible volunteers
from different battalions itnmediately de-
• eked permission to serve under his corn -
mend, that he was embarrassed by their
nut:abets in making a choice for
Fitzgibbon was already one of the best.
known and most popular offleers in a di.
vision that included many adventurous and
daring leaders. Diseinguished alike for ex.
traordinary physical streneth and ender.
once, and an enterprising and resourcefnl
mind, his poverty alone prevented hirn from
obtaining high rank in his profession at a
time et•hen promotion was rarely attainable
except by purchase, The son of a poor
cottager on the Irish estate of the Knight
of Glynn, be had enlisted at the age tf fif-
teen in $ troop of yeonnattry raised by that
nobleman during the rebellion of 179e.
Having served for two years in this cot s,
he volunteered. into the ranks of the 49 6. e
was rapidly promoted to the rank of ser-
geant, and participated in altnost every en-
gagement during the Duke of York's un.
fortunate expedition into Holland. In the
first year of the present century he was
draf ted as o. marine on board Nelson's squad-
ron, and was engaged in the thickest of the
fight at Copenhagen. While yet a non-
commissioned officer his military knowledge
gained him the appointtnent of actingadjut.
ant to his battalion, and his commissions
were subsequently won by merit and good
conduct alone. For the last ten years he
had been quartered in different parts of
Canada, and had become thoroughly familiar
ized with the habits of the people and life in
the woods.
In tltree days his company of rangers WEIS
fully organized, and accompanied by a few
troopers of Martth's Provincial Dragoons,
he moved forward to the Ten Mile Creek,
and occupied the heights overlooking the
plain of Niagara, Stations established in
the tops of some of the tallest trees enabled
him to keep a close watch upon the move-
ments of the main body of the Americans
near Fat George, while his position at the
junction of three roads leading respectively
to.the mouth of the creek, to Queenston,
and to Niagara Falls would permit him to
move rapidly forward for the purpose of cut-
ting off their foraging parties.
Altliouget the majority, particularly of
the older inhabitants of the uountry, were
unfaltering in their loyelty, it is certain
that there were many p505055, especially
among the more recemm
nt immigrants fro
the United States who were Luke.
warm or even traitorously inclined.
Immediately upon taking possession of
Fort Erie, Colonel Preston, the American
commendant, aimed 5. ean
proclation to the
inhabitants of the surrounding actuary,
prondeingprotection to those NO.() recogniz-
ed the Government of the United Statee,
and enrolled their names, and threatening
those who still remained hostile with dis-
astrous coneequences. During the Rust half-
dozen years of the eighteenth century there
had been a steady ctream of immigration
into this pare of Canada, especially from
the States of New Jersey end Pennsylvania,
mainly composed of Quakers, Mennonites,
and adherents of other seas, whoa religious
tenets forbade them from bearing arms. It
is not surprising, then, thee a considerable
number at persons, some travelling for the
la
pnes°, it is said, even front the
banks of the Grand River, came into the
Antericau lines and signed paroles. The
m
nuber of inhabitants thus enrolled is stat-
ed by American authorities to have exceed-
ed five hundred, among whom, doubtless,
there were many actuated chiefly by a de-
sire to evade service the militia.
But there n ere nem who were altively
and aggressively drt
isto', and professed
their eageruess to assist the invaders in
every tray. Chief among these were Josept
Willeocke, the effitor of the only paper pu -
Balled at Niagara, and representative ito the
Provincial Assembly of the fourth riding of
the County of Lincoln,and Benajah Mallory,
the member for Middlesex. Willeake
was an Irishman, and had been ono a mem-
ber for the revolutionary society, known as
the United Irishmen and letallory was a
native of the United 'States, but had lived
for many years in Cenada. Both were
active and unecrepulous agitators, end
were men of mere than average %lenity
and int elligenee. A letter from an
Americen offieer etationed at Fort
George at this time may be assumed to de.
<scribe truthfully the sentimente of this
small faction. After narrating the °bourn.
F3tmacos connected with the landing of elteir
army, the tatter continues Our friends
hereabouts ere greatly relieved by our pea --
once. They have been terribly persecuted
by the Scotch Myemidone of England. Their
present joy is equal to their past misery,
This is & most chomming country, baits ma
certain destiny together with the vexations
farmers endured by being dragged out in
the militie, left the country in& greet meas.
ure unaltivated." For the moment ft
was confldently assented that Behest) tele
Vrae forever at an ehrl, and that, the speedy
conquest of all Clanado, meat follow. !enter-
prising tradera had already followed in the
rack of the army, and established them -
burled, and continued their retreat Inc
Wave miles over wretched roads when
they encountered two regitnents of infantry
aevarteing to their support. The appear.
mice of the British aquudron upon their
/lank cornpleted their discomfiture, The
retreat became a flight. They abandoned
their boats, ramp furniture, and mash of
their baggage, Major Thomas Evans with
four compames of infantry and a troop of
Provincial deepens followed ewiftly on
heir traces, aud killed or captured many
etragglere. The loyal inhabitants and In-
dian; Were rained and joined with ttleority
teethe pustule., which was Othtintled until
solves lb hileillOSS,rhs fertelity of the soil
and evidences of &comparatively high state
of cultivation before the war excited emo-
tions of unconcealed serpria and' delight
among the invaders,
Finding himself in want of a body of inith
intimately acquainted with the country, to
ea, as guides and scouts, a number of the
disaffected were entolled by tornmend of
General Dearborn in a separate corps for
this purpose, ternied the Canadian Voluns
tare, WillealteendMallory wore rewarded
for their treesonby commissione MI:teams
&et Colonel and hbeyoto, toad at their urgent
alicitatiet it Was decided to bring oar a
body of Indians from New York to aot in
conjunction with them, About the same
time Cyranius Chapin, Sheriff of the Cowley
01 Niagera in the State of New Yerla en.
listed a troop of fifty mounted volunteers
"for the 'teepees of clearing the frontier of
persona ethnical to the United States," and
joined the Amorkan army at Fort George,
Hitherto the inhabitantof the (Beata
poesession of the invading fovea lied
been treated with a °erten degree of louity
fund ansideration, They were assured
probation to their families and property
by both Generals Dearborn and Boyd, Some
a the wouuded militia who had
been taken prisoners were even allowed to
return to their homes upon aigning paroles
pledging themselves not to boar arms against
the United States until regularly °ethane.
ed, But a rigid search for the arms was in-
stituted and paroles exaoted from all per-
sons liable to military service. General
Deorborn, soon after his landing, summoned
the magistrates to appear at his headquart.
ers, and twelve having obeyed, he authoriz-
ed them to continue the exercise of their
funotiona, and several tninor effaces were
subsequently punished by them, A few
days later, however, he received it despatch
from the Secretory of Wee instenetieg him,
in consequence of a disagreement with Sir
Geotgo Prevost and Admiral Warren re.
seating an exchange of prisoners, not only
to remove all genuine prisoners of war,
whether regulers or militia, to seine secure
place of anfinement in the Uuited States,
but also direoting that all male
inhabitants of Canada, subjent to
the militia laws, should be regarded as
prisoners of wee and treated in the sem°
manner. In pursuance of this barbarous
edict, patties of soldiers were sent out to
scour the country bet v,•een Niagara. and
Fort Brie in every direction. On the 19th
of june and the two following clays nearly
one hundred pereons were arrested, chiefly
at their homes, on the roads, or working in
the field's, and removed to 11151:fatted Satan
where they were olosely confined, About a
doxen of the prisoners held commissions in
the militia but at least afty were non-com-
batants, many of them over sixty years of
age and sonie mere children. Among the
number were the Rev. Robert A.ddieen,
rector of Niagara, eVilliern Dickson. a bar-
rister, and Messrs. Baldwin, Edwards,
Grier, Heron, Muirhead and Lymiugton, the
principal merehants of the place. Captains
George Lava and John MeEwen, and the
brothers Kerr, were still helpless from
wounds received in the battle at Niagara.
Captain Jamb Ball was seized at his house
within a hair a mile of Fitzeibhon's adyanc.
ecl picket at dead ot night. The men ete•
pioyed in this service chiefly belonged to
Chapin's and Willa:oak's volunteers, with
whom discipline was lax and mutt outrages
were commated. The inhabitants were 111.
suited, maltreated, and pillaged mere:less.
'T
This line of conduct naturally exo.sper.
ated and alarmed the remaining inhabitants
beyond measure, and they welcomed Fitz.
gibbon's inlvance with the liveliest mani-
festations of joy. The British troops hart
remained almost inactive for several days
owing chiefly to their distressed condition
for want of proper clothing and provisions,
Capt. Fulton, eide de clamp to Sir George
Prevost, who visited their camp upon a
confidential mission at this time, described
the 49th as "literally naked," while the
41st were in rags and without shoes.
Both officers and men were glee
to appropriate articles of clothing
captured from the enemy or stripped from
the bodies of the dead. 'aleanwhile Colonel
Proctor, at Detroit, who had been prom's.
ed that the remitting companies of the lat-
ter reginteut would be sent te his assistance,
was complaining bitterly in almost daily
letters of their detention, and at the same
thne begging that supplies should be sent
him te preserve his men from actual starve -
tion in the face of the enemy. The mili-
tates chest waa absolutely empty. Vireent
had arm been compelled to borrow five
hundred guineas front Colonel Themes
Clara to emtble a party of militia to pur-
chase rattle and drive them overland to Am•
heratintrg, for the temporary relief of the
British garrisons there.
The opportune arrival of Major De Haren
with the two flank companies of the 104th,
or New Brunswick rceeimeut, and a body of
340 Indians from Lower Canada, anct the
evident good dieposibion of the Inhabi-
tants, enoouraged Vincene to push forward
a small brigade of light troops under Lieua •
Colonel Cecil Itisshop, "to feel the pulse of
lhe enemy." He described bis chief objects
n thus advancing, as being to spare the re-
sources of the country in his roar, and to
draw as much of the sepplies as possible
from the dieted in vicinity of his adver-
sary's lines, besides encouraging the inhab•
itants to rise and make prisoners of the
enemy's foraging parties. Deserters from
the American comp estimated General Dear.
bories fora tut 0,000, ot whom many were
sock, o.nd their fears of an attack were stee-
d to be as atrong as ever. Their foraeing
and reoanoiteving puttee although usually
numerous and well mounted, were constant.
ly attacked by the militia and as one of
their officers writing home remarked, " sele
doin gained Tomah in this Bort of warfare, as
the enemy is best acquainted with the
paths, bye -roads, swamps, and the country
n
general." Vincent's effective force at
this time does not Beam to home musit ex-
ceeded two thousand of all ranks, including
militia and Indians.
Oil the 20th June, Bisstiop established his
headquartere at the Twenty Mile Creek, on
the heights above the present village of
Jordan, and Major DeHtteen with his two
companies of New Brunswick mon, the
lighe company of the811o, and the Caugh•
n
wag Indians took up a pcsition in ad-
vance of the Tell Mile ere .k, bevies his
main.gtuted posted On the lake road, near
the mouth a that stream, end a chain of
outposts extending areas the country,
covering a front of about aeven miles, with
his right resting on Turners erass.reads,
near the Carmen meeting.house, within
mile of the site of the present town of
There'd.
Fitzgibbon's snouts on the nplan 1 above,
woe kept constantly in motion, never
eleeping twice in the same place. Oto the
20th they had a sharp skirmish with some
cavalry near Niagara Fells. The next day
it was reported that Chapin's troop was
plundering the inhabitants between Chip.
pawa and Fort Brie, and a farmer living
near Point Abino, was accused of
furnishing them with hiformittion, Aocom.
panted by Captain Merritt and four peeked
tnen, Fitzgibbon itrunediately rode in Seale))
of the maraudees. They surreounded the
house of the suspected mart three hours be-
fore dawn, and raptured him with one of
Chapin' t scouts, who was sleeping there.
While Merritt conveyed tlie prisoners to a
place of safety, Fitzgibbon rejoined his
othepany and advanced swiftly in the direcs
tion of Niagara Fella, in the hope of inter.
coptieg Chemist dtteing hie return to Nate
effia, As he cheered Lundy's Lane he was
informed that the latter had already boon
joined by 150 linemen from Fort George,
Rating forward alone to reeennoiltre, he
was presently recognized by Mrs, <Tema
Kerby, tbe wife of a loyal captain of tniii tia,
Z
Who ran 001 01 her house In a state of groat $0,600,000
aottation, and begged him to retire at once,
as & lerge party of the enemy had just pass-
ed up the road. But swing 11 single cav•
Airy horse standing whiled in front of so
emelt tavern lk libble diatance further tri,
and thinking it probable that only the
rider was within, Ile yielded to the tempta-
tion t °attempt his capture, and dleinounting,
approached the house quietly on look Sud.
deuly an American infantry soldier came
oat and levelliug his entaket, deinauded hie
Surrender. Before he could flee, however,
Fitzgibbon had closed with him, and not
wishing to raise en alarm, attempted to
rat his weapon from hint end throty him
to the ground by main serength. Theo, a
rifleman made his appearance from behind
the house and hurried to the assistance of
lois companion, Fitzgibbon's groat physical
strength alone preserved hen from death
and capture at this eritiool mental a Thrust-
ing his first assailant violeatly back upon
the other, he stumeetied in grasping his rifle
with lois diaengaged hand, and held the
weapons of both in such a position that
neither of them could flre with effect. 41
little knot c f inhabitants had gathered near,
and tho atruggling and overmatched
officer called upon two young men be
observed among thent to come to
his assistance, but although Mrs,
Kerby implored them with tears to ootnply,
their fears proveiled and they slunk away.
An instant later the rifleman snatched
Fitegibbon's sword from his side and had
raised it to strike him, whau Mrs. Defielde,
the innkeeper's wife, sprang forwerd and
struck his uplifted arm with suoh force that
the sword fen from his grasp. Then an old
man named Johnson and a boy only thir-
teen years of age, the son of Dr. Fleming,
memo to the realm, and melt the assistance
of tho women -finally enabled Fitzgibbon to
disarm and tie both his antagonists secure-
ly on the back of the captured horse and
ride away with them in triumph, although a
party of their comrades had already made
their appearance within aoeupls of hundred
yards of the sone of this desperate seam.
gle
net night Fitzgibbon retired to DeCtew's
house near the upper erasing of the Twelve
Mile Creek, so substantial two-story stone
building, which had been selected es a place
of deposit for stores by Vincent prior to the
capture of Fort George, and was cap-
able of a prolonged defence against
any force not provided with artillery. The
owner, Captain John DeCew, was among
the prisoners recently deported le the
United States to be held as hostages, as their
captors anuouttoed, for the good behaviour
of the remelting ithabitants. There, a few
hours later, he was joined by a party of
Can ghnavertga or Indiana under the command
of Captain Dominic -pie Ducharme. This
force had been organized at itiontreal by Sir
Sohn Johnson and originally consisted ef,
160 warriors from the Sault St. Louis, 120
from the Lake of Two Mountains, and 60
from St. Regis village under the geueral
eomtnancl of Duchoatne, misted by Lieu-
tenants J. B. de Lorimier, Gideon Gaucher,
Louis Langlade, Evangeliste Saint Germain
and Isaac LeClair. All of these officers
were experienced WOOderiletl, posseseing the
entire confidence a these people with whose
language and habits of life most of them had
been familiar from childhood. In some
instances their families had been associated
for several generations with the Indian
tribes, both in peace aud in war. As a rule
they had adopted the 101111110 costtone even
the extent of plumes and war -went, and se
their fame were deeply bronzed by years of
exposure to the weather they could scarcely
be distinguithed by rn ordinary observer as
bilonging to a difterent rape from their
folio% era
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In babied& Interests.
Austria -Hungarian millers IIAVO to pay
inere for wheat than the flour front it will
bring.
A 'ulna dealer in Kentuoky has been
fined ;MOO on each one ot 1,877 eases of ille-
gal selling.
St. Paul is the first city to make no dis•
Unction in the wages of male and female
theaters.
The total value of watches made annuelly
throughout the world represents a value of
8185,000,000.
Forty-four families in a town in Kensas
have all their food prepared by a compara-
tive cooking club.
There are no great woolet factories in
Egypt, but looms are scattered iso small
oumbere over the country,
In Corfu sheets of paper pass for money ;
one sheet buys one quart of rice, or twenty
sheets a piece of hemp cloth.
Pennsylvania's woolen mills have a cap.
ital of 336,000,000, turn out 399,000,000 of
product, and employ 55,000 hands.
The largese bee -keeper in the world is
Mr. Harbison, of California, who boa 6,000
hives, producing 200,000 pounds of honey
yearly.
\Pater proof cellulose paper of one and
two colors is beine introduced by a Gorman
firm for table cloths andabook backs, ate.
More men have died and are buried in the
Isthmus of Panama, along the line of the
proposed canal, than on any equal amount
of territory in the world.
A project hes been, set on foot for the
opening of the linen weaving industry in
Kilkenny, Ireland. A house has beenereet.
ed by tho Roman Catholto Bishop of Os -
sores.
Prior to 1056 the horses of England were
never shod, William the Conqueror being
the .person who a given the credit of intro-
&meg horseshoeing in the Britesh Isla.
Over seventy million sewing noecllee are
made weekly in the town of Readich, in
Worcestershire, England, where the most
extensive needle menufactorion in the aid
are situated.
The Battle With the jelitts.
The British and African Stoat Naviga-
tion Companyie Royal Mail steamer Ge,boon
has arrived ab Liverpool from the West
Coast of Atria, and ehe Canary Islands.
The Gaboon brought to lengland °mitten the
Hon. At S. Harding°, Captain Haddon
Smith, and Lieutenant Laweia, R. le., the
spateb service officers eat by t/te Govern.
ment to lead the „operations against the
Jame. Both Captain Hardin ge arid tauten,
ant Lawrie reeeived wounds but only
slight, and on arrival. had thaoughly re.
covered, The Gaboon Also brought from
Lagos to Sierra Leone about 100 men of the
West lndto, Regiment with elajor 'aladden.
The men had done good eervitie ageing the
Jebes. A.bottt a dozen ef them wertt down
with malat•itel fever, while most, if not all,
of the special service of white °Mare had
alp) ettauks, but all got better. The opera-
tions ageing, the Iegbes are to commenee es
Fiona the rainy aeon is over. The Gain
boon alto "nought avert seamen and the
atewaraoes of the Austatiom liner Port
Douglea, whieh was wrecked offiont 16 tnilee
front the Wand of Dakar,
IThe lazy men aline alt nothing and gen-
orally bits it.
Is life worth living if you aro insured for
HAPPY XING OF SIAM 1
in Hot 'leather He Fa 1,4 isintsme Awn
alase ni itao
Orli LIMO.
Among the travellers who arrived from
the Orient by a recent steamer was Ohe
Clark Baal', a namesake but no relative
of the femme novelist of the sea, Mr.
Russell, niede rich by the prudent ore end
aegulaitivenese of his father, a manufacturs
or of calory at Sheffield, ha spent the last
lento years la wandering about the contin•
ent of AMR plating up °dila and ends,
etoientiflo and carious, which it is his ellen.
tiou to enthody in a book. He has been
through Thibet, the dominions of the Great
Lama, traversed Manchuria and Mongolia,
the entre-mural possossione of China, made
ineursions into the unfrequented wilds of
Siberia, and latterly has been touring the
southern regions of the Conti/ma Coati'',
China, Tonk he and Stain. He tweed for a
time at Bangkok, the capital of the king-
dom of Siam, and picked up much interest-
ing information there. There is one story
that he tells that will espeeially oommend
itself to the seekers after the strange and
the novel.
"1 was surprised," los said at the palace
the other day, "0,1 the size and appearance
of Bangkok. It is the Venice of the Bast.
The city lies on both sidee ot the River
Menem. About twenty miles from thecae
and on each side, branching otte from the
stveam, are a great number of canals upon
which the dwellings+ and public builclings
are built. The bnildings, constructed of
wood as in most Eastern cities, stand upon
piles, and the wash of the teeters around
these supports et night makes a most unique
and pleasurable sensation. It is as thee&
you were borne along on a gently moving
river, for the city is OA silent as a necropolis,
and there are no sounds, no clanging of
street -ear bells, no hideous abouting of Sal-
vation hytnns to brae the spell. Further
down the river you see tier upon tier of
fleatieg !tenses moped to the bank, in
which a large part of t he populaion dwell.
"Bub that part of Bangkok which inter-
ests the tourists most is the section set
+Tea for the King. The paleee is enoloaed
in liigh white wane whielt ere a mile in cir-
cumference. Within them are oonrained
temples, nubile alien, seraglios, stables
for the sacred elephant, eccommodations
for 1,000 troops, cavalry, artillery, war
elepharots, an arsenal, and a theatre, The
palace of the King is equipped in tree
Oriental magnificence, Hangings of the
costliest tapestry and mats made ef woven
silver catch the eye at every turn, His
present Majeety—a luxurious fellow—ltad
lately erected a structure of which the like
does not °else in the world. In summer
Bangkok is a steaming sweat -room, and
any contrivance to escape from the heat is
eagerly entertained,
"Some Chinese architect suggested to
the Ring that he have erected a glass pe.
vilion in the great reservoir that occupies
part of the palace grounds. lee drew the
plans and the scheme captured the fancy
otf the Ring. The pavilion is built entirely
of glass—walls, floors, ceiling, and en—
joined by au indissolubie cement. The
plates or slabs of different sorts and thick -
asses and variegated colors were obtained
in France, whither aft agent had been sent
for the purpose. When put together they
formed the prettiest and most unique strum
fare that imagination can picture. The
Chinese arthitece, true to the genesis of his
race, had ornamented It with quaint turrets
and gables that made it seem a toy Imuse.
By mechanical means it WLIS so arranged
that, when empty, the pavilion would nee
to the aerate° of the miniature lake. At se
little distance it resembles nothing so much
aS a pretty conservatory, such as might be
seen in the Jardia des Plants at Pates or in
the gardens at London. Happening along a
little later you might wonder what load be.
come of the pavilion. An attendant would
tell you that the King was taking recreation
with his harem at the bottom of the lake
end point to the spite -like ventilators rising
above the level of the placid surface as eva
dace of the truth of whet, she tells you.
"By one door only can the King enter,
end this closes hermetically after him. At
thee the edifice begins to sink, the valvee
in the tall pipes in elle roof open, and in o.
few minutea te is resting beneath elle placid
waters. There in this cool and perfectly
dry habitation, iiith the softened light
tricleling through the panes of colored and
%erect glass, the Ring spends the hot sum -
me,' days singing, smoking, eating and
drinking, with Ins harem and favorites
about, him."
Horses With Veils,
11(s very comical to eee in the street of
Colorado Springs horses decked out with
veils. etee !ewe grown accustomed to the
jaunty little has worn by many horses in
our own towns to protect thetn from the
heat of the sun, We an even see art
umbrella hestened over their heads without
surprise, but a veil laves to the noble beast
a dandyish look that ia very droll. Some
of these veils, belonging to fine saddles, are
mere fringes of fine strips of leather that
hang befere the eyes ; others aro pieces of
mosquito netting drawn tightly bask and
tastened like a lady's nose veil ; boob tho
most stylish, and altogether effective, are of
netting drawn over a hoop which holds it
away from the eyes yet completely pro.
toots them. Abythieg funnier than a pair
of horses gone gravely alma the streets
wearing these exaggerated goggle arrange.
tnents is rarely seem These veils, how-
ever, though fashionable at the foot of the
Rooky Int:mania, are not worn fur fashions
sake, They are indeed a stern neeessity,
and tho comfort, if not even the life ot the
horse demands it. Colorado, with all its
great attractions, ims one plague—the
plague of files. Flies of all sizee, from the
least up to the enormous bluebottle are
everywliere. Most parts of his body the
horse San himself probed, if not deprived
of hie tail, but his eyes he cannot -Demi there
delicate organs are <Tafel objects of attack
by the fly tribe. It a the least a meth can
do to provide a protecting veil for hie
most faithful servant.
The Mother's Oholoe,
which do .1 hive best—nty curly:haired bey,
taith dark eyealike my own, they say,
Or my dainty, cooing baby girl,
With eyes as blue as the ekes in May
How can 1 tent When into noe' lire,
fake a. Orate 01 muslo grange and eweele
Cane the matutra love and tee mother's Cain
For the busy hands and realms 8001.
I thought t was happy not ould be,
Thu Iffe could bring 108ne more aeon
0 aver can eny be dearer than he,
My drat.botn darling, my prectoue hey!
But my little daughter 5115 500 my knee,
At in baby lore alto 1,0 wenrione tetra;
And. 1 love ha better, I knew, henna
She loots at me with tier fathee's eyes,
To hear me :Teak °am me feat
Will melte hom little 15510 tiejetee
.and the touch 01 hor headers clingier( beetle
Cells for my love like a mighty voles,
As Well could. YOU choose, trom the rays of the
,
Thesunono wheel alone should light yeur way
.as for me to elinoso, from thejey + of my life
The one which /soonest would bid to stay.
le/gaped at, Lew/ease,
T113 SPANISH ZULL RING IN PARIS.
tilSgJs(Iy111011100. bnt Still SitMoiently
lInnnorons to no Inntortlitining.
Forest and SPenni In OnDbber pare of
the Bois is the bull riug Gab was eetabliald
ed at the time et tite.great exposition of '89.
It has been (manned atoll !simmer since, in
spite of the opposition of the Humane So.
Map The company le permitted to carry
on the spore on condition diet the horns of
the bull be puttied, the bones thoroughly
probated in lather mentor, and nothing or
nobody killed. • Although thus shorn ot its
more revolting features, I was warned thee
twenty !Milian of it would be enough for
nto. Boot it. wasn't ; after the first twenty
minutes I became yot more interested, and
staid to the vory hula three hours in
ell, and saw tonne fifteen or twenty
bells baited. Bosh bull was itt ten or fif.
teen minutes, and each inede it hie firs
business to charge the mounted men, who
had a long pike wherewith to protect the
horse. This he usually succeeded in doing
without malt cliffieuity, etherettpon the
bull went off savagely in pustule of the men
on foot, generally clearing the riug by forc-
ing them to vault over the barrier. I never
before realized the enormous serength of a
bullet neck, for though these are of it small
breed, 3 more than once saw ono lift tip
horse and rider together from the ground
on loos horns. 0110 of the horses Wee a tre-
mendous double kicker, and his rider emus -
ed the crowd again and again by turning
him rear on when the bull charged, The
treinendetts whaoks of the horse's heels on
the hull's head and shoulders resounded
afar, and yet did not seem to have any ed
feat on his horned majesty. The safeby of
the mon on fool: lay in the fact thee, ehe
bull will alitays charge the cloak in pref-
erence to the man, and it was common for
these latter to lead the infuriated autmal
right round the ring in a seeies of read
charges at the fluttering red cloth, while
his real enemy stood calmly by at one side.
After the bull was pretty well 'blown there
appeared the +great bullfighter, he who in
Spain would kill the bull. He sits calmly
on a their and tempts the bcoll to charge
him. At the last moment, when within
half an inch of the horns, he adroitly planeo
a ribboned dagger in eaoh of the bars
shoelders and avoids the charge like e
flash. At length he takes a hollow sword
and plants another ribboned dagger that
It contains just on the spot where, if in
Spain, lie would thrust to kill the bell,
After several bulls had been tatted in the
orffinary way, one was turned in, and men
without drake entered to tease him, This
is particularly dangerous, and very popular
as it gives the men some rare chances to
shove their parts. One Retie fellow took a
long pole, and, tempting the bull to charge,
los vaulted up 01/ the pole, and, just as the
bull struck it, he let go and passed over the
bull's back to the ground beyond. He did
this several times and welt several bou-
quets, but the crowd got tired of it, and
wanted something mom ; so he stood empty-
handed, and to the surprise of ovary one,
did not avoid the bull, but at the last mo.
rant seized the horns in his halide, and,
turning a somerset as he was tossed, came
down behind on his toot.
In his next performance. however, a little
le.ter, los came to grief. Be tried to avoid
the bull, but just too late; one horn just
eauglot his eight thigh, and in another in.
stant he was tasted high in the air. The
bull waited, and received him again on his
horns, but he clung on this titne, and how
he escaped I anow not, boot his eomrades
arrived in time to distrant the bull's atten-
tion. To the surprise of every one be was
able to continue in the ring, though he did
not play any more pranks that day.
The Merchant %nee of the World.
The merchant navy of the &Melt Feta
pore still overtop that of the whole of the
rase of the world, the lake and remit vessels
of the United States excepted. The
tonnage of the overarm vessels of that
country does not increase, but the home
vesseis show a steady Morena. ThefoLlowing
are the figures for the principal matitime
countries t --
Connery,
T
British Empire (including U.K...) 89:2046°27060000
United Kinm .gdo
away 1,t0100
61:0000
DS we ntaenrl5
t
Hamburg
831824? °070
11130e:rinlmhrtl 'Empire (total) 1,433,000
leBrealguleuem 76,00
260,000
0
• 892441,010
A 0
ittatslYtri. • a-Htutgany
G204,000
reece
271,000
U.S. Foreign trade 1,006,000
" Lake and coasting 3,079,000
As Englishmen are the great that -own-
ers, so they remain the grime shipbuilders
of the world, the United States alone mak-
ing anything like a good show, Last year
809,000 tons were built in the 'United
Kingdom, and 369,000 tons ho the United,
States. France bent in 1090_24,000 tons,
Devonshire Cream.
Not marly people know what Devonshire t
peen is, supposing ib to be thoparticularly
Mhl
rich eof the counti
ry n question ;
whereas every Atnerican housekeeper may
have Devonshire cram en her own table if
she will take the trouble to prepare it. A
lady who has lived a good deal in England
tells us how it is male. Rich, new milk is
put in a very shallow venal with an ex-
tended surface, and is then set on tho range,
where the milk will be trained, but 011110
account must it boil or even scald. The heat
will cause all the cream to rise to the sur.
fo.ee in a very short time and the pan is •
then taken off and placed ih the ice bee or
in to, cool place. When thoroughly canted,
the cream may be taken off ancl will be
nearly of the consistency of newly =deba-
ter. This ie putin jars, and at breakfast is
helped with s spoon and is delicious with
oat -meal, jams, boatels—everything in
fact that ordinary cream is need for, its
merits being that not only tioes one obtain
the richest of cream, but it will keep for
two or three days without becoming sour.
Why tide leffiglish dainty is nob used in this
country to the same extent Re in Englehd
is to be wondered at, but one dairy folleseem
to know nothing about, it,
•
The Quen'e Throne,
The English throne, used in the ooro.
nation ceremonies of the kluge and queens
of Grant Britain, is simply an old oaken
*hair of °miens pattern end great antiquity,
Agee of U80 (it is triterWil to have been used
in its present equity for more thap 700
ycare) has mado the old frame as hard end
as tough as iron. The magic powers <AMU,
Iliad to the old alio lie in the eat, width
Is a leapt sandstone, Agee beton ft VMS'
trimmed m velvets and gold for the use or
the Stuarts ona the 'redoes it served 00 01
teat for the early kings a Sootlaud; testae:ion
even asserts that 11 1* the identieal stone
non which the petriereh Jectob rested hie
head 1110 night he had hia eanderful dream