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BMIlin .ii'1ITrfifclilr.rHliniBlla;iTll - HATES.- 01! AD V T UTI ? I ! G Out iqn.ri(tea lioes or Jesf oa Uasiliva '1 13 Business cajds.sU lines or le, tt8Tcr ion NEBRASKA-ADVERTISER. v r CXUHID ITIIT THCIIDAT IT GEO'. Y7.-HILL & CO,, .jTertlier BlocVjMftin S't Between 1st k 2d' ' (- It' fT nna half column, one year. CO M 13 00 ti 0 60 C9 10 Uil tl 04 11 ei 50 69 51 09 1 CO 19 te 1 si Oua fourth column, one jear, one eigh?h coluiun, odo year. One column six tuoDtba One naif eolomnsn months . One fourth cot o inn sixiDotafes One eijL t icoolumaiix moasin One column three months One half coinmn three bjoI hs. One forti colniua three moaihe One eighth column ibrct months Annonncice esnolOalesft-r 3c , to- r. A. Ay Ay Ay Ay A.y TERM: Stray sales charge! as trancient adrert islm" ti .'.nr-.&nt vfirtiiemsnta mitt be Vaiil la a4 vance. Tearly adYertisaments quarter ly ia adraso "LIBERTY AND UNION, ONE AND .INSEPARABLE NOW AND .F OREVER.' All kinds of Jjb, Boot and Card pristine, dae la 'ii best itjte oa short notice and reasonable terms. BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, THUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1,1866; VOL. XI. mm AyA Ay ivyy ;a fil' I X E S S CARDS. aTsholladay, m. d. raduatcil In Located in Ilrownvlllc in lS5r. riTUEUB man AND OBSTETKIC T A1ST " i.r. 11. t.n e .u.;lcte icti tf Atuputtt- tr ."TiM.bii.insar.iObstttri"al inrtruments. ohec. Hullatlar A' Co's Drur: Store 7Vo Doors Lad of rod OJJlce. a- u.-iftlst:er,ti'.n eirea to Obstttricand ac fl wjtuen ard rinictren. x.-i-ijr CIIAVa.ES HELLMER, W!A ..aa JJ Main Ln. 2 doora below Erownvillo House, '. CTIOWNVJLLE N. T- J!,.. Ui J a niprri-jr stc k i.f Boots and Sbres l! '1 e I" at luttmal and ability for doinj CUSTOM-WORK : 1 1 fii f dun? vilth nraint&s and dispatch ,.-y Torxia CtxruTx. " un I FRANZ HELMER, (ri 'MTi:r)Et'si;u's tin shop, u::burn.M:, xcniiAsui. n'f;oNs, nuoc'ira. tlowp cuiti- VITo its. a.c , KrHt el ua tlioi t nti e, a- iow tiea, ti.r !.:"lt'i'iUiU'"U. x-U-iu nn AT.iERICAN USEr AGood Iced and Livery Stable luc .r.nci-tlon eitb tbe lluase. L D. RDB1HS0M. PKOl'KlETOK. f i;.t Street, telween Main and Water, .'IHIOWXVILLE, XI!RASKA. '"May.30;h ISM. 103Gly EDWARD "W."THOMAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AKt) SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY, , 'ri4r of slain and Firt Streets. liROWN VILLE. NEBRASKA. mVSeiUellleijCmCU, Millinery & Fancy Goods OTOIIE. S-.rt et cue door west ol the Post Office 11 11 0 K WILLI', . K 1 1 R 4 S K A . A nj-n.r t k of fall aim Wiater tionds ;u-!;r-f.vrt. Evrjtbinj in the Millinery lice ''"-!i:.t!j on bund- Drefg-Making, linnet ":f anl TriinmiDj; dt ne to order. .".. Ur,:i IMS. Ti"-n--2Sly MARSH & CO., iCl i EOBS TO MAE?U & I00K, Cra-Ll Xevrs A;:cii!s and Staiioners, Vost Onico lliilltllnsr, 1 ; K ) 'N VHA. I :. N 113 IIASKA- l''ti'o:i ban! anl are ronstanllj receiving ,rr' U in .t It ..ks. IVriodi.-aN, Statiunsrjr, 'U '. U A 1 l-.i to-, Sbil liooki ;also Cunfec II '""J. if iri", TtLi-., and a cboi.ve clccii n f i.t. r tir-ri. i gt tiraliy.to a bich tbey in vitc tbe t-t.'i u ,f tfc . citinn of Nemaha coaty, and j t b, -ip?r.i-t tttt-r.tijn t business, and fair i-iiif tv, n,. nt a sbare if tbe i-ublif atr't,aje. i :.l'.MaK-H. nlJ ly J.W.UL1SS. A. H0B1NS0N, 711 - Bct-fn lt k ll Street Tkr th;, tt.. ,h, d .1 ii.n.rn.inif tbe fullictbat - U j., t.kai a ,,.Und,.l !..rtnnt of Uccfs aud - M - jr ,t CbUdrrns'j JOO'lS. WM c:it-m. K !' U lth eallit'SS fctid (litCi 10-au tDun CAT-J& BOUSriELD, BRICK L YE US P L A ST E R E R S . Hrouniiiir, clirahka. IJ Uk.t r"-,r-" IiikUyii.f, I'U.tcrins, " ' 't-rn, and do arjtbir-n thir line Al -ti.f.ctorj aiid i.rko,aiilike iiwuttr. -Vr 'll 47-1, .. JAMES MEDFOUD, AND CABINET - MAKER A V t Com-r LVj ar.,1 Mni, H.rw.7 on iBROVniVILLE HOUSE, COR. MAIN AND-XDSJS., Ilrou nvlllc. Xcbrasjta. n..W. PCDICORD, Propjietor, Ttitlljuselai been ftfurnhhed and newly fitted P a.d rarLibd under ilsj roeoct enterrris'mc . rjj,u, wbti gnrratt-ei latiifsctfon to si! who x-51y giutf ittttl.iboe 4 ' V-:v a, a K 11 am am v - n t niTTfi ttt a t nmnn 11 111, ilousc-SIsfl & Ornamental Glizicr, Gilder, Grainer, PApBRHANGER etc. All work done in a workman like manner, and on stricklj O l 3E3I TE EMS. OSI DOOR WEST Or BB0WSTILL1 HOBt JACOB MAROIIN, MERCHANT f A MUNT STREET, BRO VNVILLE, NEBRASKA 353 "W i IT C3r Auj. 23a G6 KfCIIAUD F. BARRET, AIID ppAJ.BH I3T LAND WARRANTS & LAND SCRIPT, rer$onal attention given to muling Location. Qfflce in J. Li. Carson's Ranking: House. BROWNVILLE, NKBRASKA. Xfli ly fr-nn t t JOSEPH S II U T 2 Ha just received and will constantly keep on Land a large and well selected stock of genuine ar ticles it) is line. One Door west of Grant's Sore, Brown ville, Jfebraska. Of Clocks; Vatchesand Jewelry done on the short est Notice. WORK WARRANTED. Brownville, Neb.. March 15th. 1866. 10-26 ly Q. F. STEWRT. TvJ- 5T South East corner of Main and First Street? BROIVXULLE, NEBRASKA. OrricK HorK? 7 to 9 a. m. and 1 to 2 and 6 to BrownTil!e, Nebraska, May $th, lg65 No 34, ly. CHARLES G. DORSE Y ATTORNEY AT LAW jftxt Door to Carson's Ban:, MAIN STREET TIPTON & HEWETT, ttontcti0 at CalU, BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. March 1st, '6. ly. RESTAURANT OYSTER SALOON. WILLIAM ROSSELL takes this method of Informing the public that he has just oponcd,on Main street, between 1st and 2nd, imOH.WILLE, NEBRASKA. a Restaurant and Oyster Saloon. Also, Confectionaries, Canned Froit, Dried Fruit, Spices of-xll kinds. Tea, Coffee, bugar Tobacco, Potatoes, ijreet Potatoes and eTerytbing usnally kept in a retain giocery store. TMEALS SERVED AT ALL BOUBS.Jl FRKSII OYSTERg-x-15-ly - Evan Worthing, Wholesale & Retail Dealer in Choice Liquor Win.es, Ale, Bcear, PITTS IlIIFrALOTXIRASHIXC II ACIIIXE, XEv YORK SELF RA KIXCJ REAPER. .QIAKKK 3IOT ER and IllCIt EYE CULTIVA i v f ii-H-iiia 14 :1 J HUM LSI AfflT. TOR. TTIIITXEY'S 3EOC1X, Main Street, Brownrille Kar, I7hl lallyfr."a THE SI0B OF A HlillO. fcY O MASVILLE TE5N. And I don't think Lever shall get to take it as a matter of course, sir taking it coollv's out cf the question. Here e are living about as excitecj a life as a man can lead always on duty, and ready at a moment to nave a set-to wim me worst . i i fire that ever, broke out. No; I shall never get to take it as a matter of course ; for it's all dark, rush and excitement; and I love it, sir. Flash comes the news to us bv telegraph, most likely ; out comes the horses; there's a light put to the ready trimmed fire; fiqd then, wjih a train of sparks flying out behind us, as the fire roars, rind the steams getting up away gallop ihe horses. Ay, it's "Hi ho ! hallo !'' and they clear the pad for us, and away we go full gallop down the streets, with the horse's hoofs striking fire, the crowd shouting, and the running mob increasinz at every step. There's something in it as warm3 . one's blood ; and as to the dangrer well, of coarse, its dangerous ; but when we feel that W 14 1 " weer doing our duty, and know what's before us, why, somehow we don't re member the danger, but go at it ia earn est. . , '- Now, there was only last week,' sitting as I was waiting for a callthere it was at last, late on in the night, when the streets jyerg clear ; and away we tore at something like a pace. . Oxford street, Holborn, down the Hill, up Skinner street and Newgaie street whoop ! and away full gallop, with the horses enjoying it, bless you, and lashing out till it's hard to . W I ' 1 . say . wnemer tney aian t mak-e more sparks than the fire under the boiler. We wanted no more instructions, for there was the red glow on ahead ; and as we got nearer we could almost see the sparks; and at last we did see them co.e pouring and rolling along, with the smoke, and being a heavy, hot night, hanging like a thick starspanled cloud just over our heads. engines were there, and as it happened so late there was not so many people as might have been expected ; but , as soon as I gpi tjiere I siw as something particular was the matter, and this is what jt was. The fire was in quite a narrow court, where they couldn't get the escapes, and there was people burning to death; while above the shouting of the mob and clanking of the engine hard at work you could hear, their awful cries for help. j Now, don't you suppose that I'm proud of all this I'm going to tell you because! I'm nol. Now, if you were to dash in ' and gave any one's life, why; no doubt it' would be braye and gallant, because you would haye done it out of true compas sion for a suffering fellow creature ; but j then with me its quite different. I'm; paid 'so-much a week to satre life and property from fire ; consequently, I only do what's my duty to do. I runs up to the court axe in hand, and soon see? the state of affairs. One house was in a blaze from top to bottom, and the flames had worked through into the next, and were attacking the one oppo site, while, with their escape regularly cut off", there was abo,ut a half a dozeu people at the upper windows of the sec ond house, and no way of getting to them. There .ws no bck door to the place, being in one of those crowded city pla- ces while the door in ...front and stair case were now fast getting into state of a glow, off which the water squirted and steamed without making any impression. There was no time for ladder or any- thing else but the sheets, and them we got stretched for the people to jump into. but, poor things, they, dared not, and what to do I could not tell. There was the fire blazing up higher and higher. and lighting up two of their old city churches that you see lost down those old courts, and looking as if they'd been put there out of the way because people didn't have any use for them now. There hey were lit up and glowing, and the pigeons .that lived up'thero scared od flying round and round the fire; there was the' rush and roar of the wind along the court as it set towards the fire ; and there were the flames leaping up..ihe clouds of srarks rising, the clouds of I i u smoke rollin? awav. and the crackling spatter of the slates as they flw with the heat, and then slid rattling of into the court beneath, smash upon the pavement. Every now and then came a louder roar - - . - i rit and a crasu as a rarter cr .ueam .icu u, and sent Ihe sparks up Jn a whirlwind, And there all that lime were those poor creatures, uttering the wildest piercing shrieks for hIp you ever . heard. Now. I've heard so much of that sort of thing that you'd expect I shouldn't mind it ; but I do though; and as I said abou fires, I don't think I ever shall get to take it as a matter of course; for there s some thing very awful in seeing a fellow crea ture strong and beany, and yet dying before your eyes, and you not "able to save them. " But I wasn't idle ?11 this time-not a bit of it, for every minute's worth some thing, at a fire, and if you give it much time it will beat you. Under the circum stances the first ihing was to save life, and whilst them as had the branches did their best to keep tbe fire back from them at the 'jhi'rd floor window, I .got hoi J of a rope, and in at the 1 house opposite, and made my way up stairs to the third floor, which, like the rest of the place, yyas used as a sort of a warehouse and cramed full of packages. . t .. .Being a strange House it wasn't easy to find your way, but I got up at last, and opposite to tne rooniiwnere tne poor things were all now huddled together at one window, for the fire was gaining on them so that unless they were eoon helped they wouldn't want it. .. "Crash ! crash !" Didn't I let my lit tle axe play rqund the sashes of that window, ad soon have a clearance, for it was nailed up, and then when the poor things heard me, and saw the light fhin ing on my helrnet. how they did shriek or help. . . '; : ' Just then I looked down at the depth; and I caught sight ct a fellow standing below with a si ort ladder in his hand, which might have been of use if the poor things had been in . the first floor ; and then I made ready to throw my rope across, when just as I was going to let go, and then going to try and catch it, a thought struck me, and I let the coil of the rope fall down into the court, all but one end as I kept hold of, and then when the poor thing saw it let down tbey shrieked again, and one of them fell back from the window. "Tie cn that ladder," I shouted, ."and some of ycu come up;' and one of my mates soon tied the rope to one of the rounds, and then with two or three more run into the house, while I hauled away until I got hold of the bottom of the lad der, for they sent the heaviest end up first, and then dragged it in at the. win dow, and balancing the other end up con tinued to push it across and into the win dow of the other house across tne court, and so make a sort of bridge, only jt was all askew for.the houses were not quite opposite to one another.. Just as I'd done this in cornes my mate with two more men, and I sets them to work to hold the ladder while I took hold of he rope, and then made ready to crawl across on the thin bridge I'd rig ged up. It was for life and death, or I wouldn't have ventured on the slight, bending wood ; for ihojgh a ladder set nearly upright. may be strong enough, it makes it a deal weaker to lay it down evel and then go and crawl along it. I know how it would be, though, so I tied the rope around my body, and made a mate hitch the other end . round a big hook in the wall, used for a puliy, so that in the event cf- a fall, if the rope held f ood, I shouldn't have gone' all the way. They tied one end of the ladder, tpo, for too keep it steady, and then there I was scrambling across with the ladder bend ing and quivering and the crowd under neat hurrying and clapping their hands just as if I was doing a bit of Blondin to please them. . . : . ...... ' How that ladder did'jbendj so that I . . . , .- thought it must give way, and me go crash into the court: but it didn't! and the next moment I was iq the window of the burn ing house with the trembling iwjmen clinging to me. ' !j - - "Now then," I says to one man, -"you can creep across," and I pqjnted to the ladder. . - "I can't leave my wife,", he says holding a half fainting .woman against the window, where the smoke wasn't quite so dense. "You're a trump, , you are," I thinks; and then 1 hauled more of tbe rope over, and makes it fast -round the poor wom an's waist; and then we laid her cn the ladder, end the three on the other side hauled, and we held on to the rqpe this end, and so we got hsr Jialf across, when she slipped off the ladder, and hung right over the court, while there arrose a reg ular shriek of horror. Bat there was people.you see atteach end of the rope peuyie.uu s .vm i w and we JPpP as we oll3er3 kaule(, tna so they. soon had her in at' the other window, though the rope was so-, tight thitt it must haye hurt the poor thing ter rible;- . , Then: they loosened the rope again. and we sent another woman .oyer, and she was insensible with fear, and we got her over all right, though she, too, slip ped off the ladder. , Then there were two little girls, one after the other; and it was sad to see how they trembled and shook too much frightened ' to cry, as well they might be,' for the Heft was awful ; and I knew that another quarter of an hour would find the room we were in red hot.. ' '"' ' ' ' ' " Ve "got another oveN a young man -and he wa3 dragged over too, for he dare not try to crawl acrjss, and I suppose to a man as ain't used to such things to creep over a place like that, all those feet over the pavement, and when you've been frightened to death nearly by waking out of your sleep to find the next place on fire, is rather trying; and now there was only that-chap whose wife was sent over first, and who had worked all he could to help me end another cowardly 1 chap, whom I had quite a set to with to keep back ; so as to save the women and chil dren first. And now thfs ch?.p as I've just spoke about made a rush to get to the ladder. and he was in such a horrid fright that I don't believe he'd got over safe," and besides I knew there was time for us all to get away if things were done quietly ; so, considering as it wasn't his turn, held him back for the married man to go first to his wife, when' the other one al most shrieked out with rage and fear. 'Let him go first," says the married man. - "I'll watt." 1 'Tain't his turn," I says, rather obsti nate like. "Over you go !" and at such a time one cin't be interfered with, and having made my- plans so far I didn't want them altered so, "Over you go !" I saysr-'- i- - :' ': I think I can crawl," he says, and he got out on the ladder ; but instead of crawling he sat astride of it and worked himself along, with the crowd hurraying and cheering him tremendous. And up came the flame and smoke-, and the roar and crackle and falling in of timber was getting terrible. ''Every place' was jight as day. while-as to the heat, I declare it seemed to scorch fear fully. : - ' ' ' "The sooner you're across and me with you the better I shall like it," I -says. and then I took a look round to see how matters were, when there' eame a crash and a puff, and in a moment the flames came wreathing and twirling up from underneath where I stood, and just as the last chap had his leg on the window sill and I was going to tie th,e rope around him, gave a yell and fell back or rather I pulled him back into the smoky room, and -he fainted dead away. He must have gone down crash mt o the court if I hadn't dragged at him ; but there was no time to loose. I made the rope fa3t and got hire on to the lad der with the flames darting by through the rounds and burning his hair; and then I shouted to them to haul, and haul they did, with me trying to steady him with my end of the rope, but before he was quite across something went snap. and I staggered back into the room, hold- inf on by the piece of burnt through rope, and with my heart sinking as I felt my own salvation was partly gone. Just then the flames was wafted on one side, and I saw that tbey were drag ging in the last of the seven, and I felt now as if I'd done a good night's work, and it was now time to save myself. I'm not ashamed to own it, I did feel fright ened as 1 threw down that piece of rope, and it must haye been something like a cry of horror I gave when I got hold of the ladder and felt it burn my hands, and then as I tried to bear upon it, felt it crumble away, and that' I was without a way to escape. Par above the noise of the -fire and water came the shriek of the crowd as the burnt ladder fell away and hung blaz ing by one end against the opposite house, while there came up such a rush of flame past the window that I could not look out but directly after I heard the fierce rush of the water and could see that four branches were deluging the window, and all beneath , for my mates knew what a danger I was in. ; I ran to th window, and was beaten back by the water, while the smoke tha,t come up was quite .blinding. Then I tried through the hot vapor in the room to see if I could get out of the door and Teach the roof, but "just at that moment there came a dull flash through the smoke, 'and' I could see that the back of ihe house was all on fire, while from the way the flames rushed up again in front and filled the court, Lknsw that there was no help to be had from opposite, for they must be beaten from the window. I'd been in some danger in my lime ; but till now there has always seemed a road out, and as 1 tpre furious around the place with the sweat dripping off me nd th'6 hofribla feaj of death so. close at hand, I seemed to be regularly unnerved and fell to shrieking und crying out that my mates had deserted me ; w-hen they were cn the pof and had let down a rope to tne, but I could not see it; and then at last one of them was let down and tried to get in at the window, hut the flames beat him back; and a groan came from the people as they saw all that had been djjpg. ; As I told you, I seemed quite to lose my nerve, and ran about shrieking for a few minutes, and then I fell down on my face upon the- floor ; but directly af ter my mind seemed to come to again, and I felt that if I must die I should have done my duty, and I had saved seven poor creatures; and as I thought that, I rose to my knees, and some words came to my lips words that came to my heart as I ; thought of those : who were once saved from the heat of the burning, fiery furnace; and I sprayed that I too might be saved, . : . And ah 1 it was hard to pray there to keep your thoughts jn the midst of that fierce, suffocating heat of smoke and steam from the water pouring into the rojra. And how everything else but. the words of prayer care into one's mino) ; and it was as if devils desparing, blaspheming devils were hissing in my ears to curse and shreak oaths.. The), too came he thought of those at home, and the little golden culls that I should play with no mere ; and how I could cow understand the dread my wife always, had of what she called my frightful buisness. Yes, I had saved seven that night; but it was hard to die hard to give up life at eight and twenty, and su,er the death from which I had saved so many I coulden't help it just then, for a grim smile came- over my face as I thought it was my old enemy the fire being reven-- w 1 t a gna upon me; nut directly alter i tried to pray once more, and then in tbe midft of the smoke I gave a wild cry, dashed off my helmet, dragged my belt undone, and kicked off my "heavy boots, half suf focated, and had off my thick coat, too; and then, with my heart beating, with hope, I thanked God for the thought, and the next moment I was ever th gate b'ars and jn the big chimney cf the old house. It was full of smoke and I could hard ly breath ; but it was a sure way of , es cape to the roof ; and though I coul d feel that I was tearing the skin from my el bows and knees, , 1 managed to' climi higher and higher, slowly and painfully, but soon I could feel a current of sweet, refreshing air setting down to me, and every breath gave me fresh strength till I reached the top, when my heart sank, as I found it would be impossible to get any farther on account f the chimney pot. ' ' '! To shout was usless, and for a while I was in despair, but. at last I got my hands well above me, and tried to move the pot. I tried again, and then to fnrce myself through,' till I was so wedged in that I had loosened the pot, and at latt completely forced it off, and raised my self to a sitting position on the chimney- stack but afraid to move, for my head was wedged in the pot, which was fixed down upon my shoulders. . . , ,, I knew that I could ".not stay where I was for long, and tried once more' to jret rid of my awkward helmet j and now, having both hands at liberty, I. loosened it. and it fell with a crash' into a ouri beneath. '; - ' ,f ; Just then there rose a cheer, for some one had made me out. torn below; and sick and faint as L was I managed -to wave myhaud. and try to cheer'; but it stuck in my -throat and I could not get down- wivhouthelp. ; And I suppose En-, glish people must be fond of cheering, for how they did cheer; for how thejdid shout when I got down through another hoase and were amongst them ; and after all it was only one's day. rLor.dcn Jlorning Star. Li;-.'- ...--.. ..-:! A great shower cf.itfetecf J is predict ed occur on tbs night of the 12ih of No vember. There periodic-recurrence at intervals tof 33 years is the basis of this prediction. Lookout! .. , .. A Jlbdest Man. in a Predicament. Mr. Tom Loughrin is noted all over the city for his modesty. . He stands six feet two in his stockings, and at J??st Sj5 feet of him is made up of mode's'. At an early hour yesterday morning ..Sir. L. was making his toilet at ht3 residence on Pratt Avenue and Walnut streeV; he was standing in front uf his mirrur with only one garment on and that a rathep short cne--an'd had lathered his face prepara tory to removing hia.bcar&.Ivy.Hen i he was stariled by a shrill scream from BidJy, his servent girl, and his wife called to him that Bridget was , en fire. Mr. L. with an admirable presence of mini, seized a quilt from the bed, an reached the bottom of the, stairs at two jumjj, soon enveloped the flaming damserin tha folds of the quilt before she-was jerious ly injured.' While Mr. L. was thai 'en gaged,' some dozen ladies from adjoining" houseshearing the screains'qf xi girl, rushed into see what waa" the malter. They arrived in time to see the till form of Mr. L. bending over the girl and in stead cf retreating tyhen they noticed his Georgia cosioftle.'they stood 'looking at him with admiting eyes. aTorn iooked aroqttd and satv the ladies 'and "remem bering that he bad not finished his toilet, went up stairs ri little faster than he had come down." The IidieS tittered; 'and at every titter he increased his " speed and when he reached his room he was cov ered -vith a profuse perspiration. He says it was the most embarrassing posi tion he was ever placed' in, and' hopes never to be caught in such a reditamant again. St Louis Democrat. : In a letter fron Smith's Fork ofJSreen River, dated 24th ult., to the Videite, wo learn that a terrible explosion occured in the train of Mr. Joseph Faiyre .rof thij city, nine miles fron the junction , of the Bridget and Ham's Fork road oa Rock Creek, between the two summits;.) Tha train was loaded with powder,, and one wagon containing 5,000.. pounds hnv up at 1:15 o'clock, on the 12th cf S?f i?mler. a hub was the larr?ci r 3 cf wood p . . ... ' ffn n A ort1 A., A... r- . ' r P ! . Art r t cf iron. in fact every part of the on was broketj into fragments rid ijwa hundreds of is. TL? wagon ,wa3 drawn, .by. five cxen, three of which were ihrowri into f.'.s:, als) one yoke ot u:5 aisM one voxe ot team in a A m . W ibVrear, and two other: ydke were, badly burned. All that could be found of .tha driver 'was a piece of one of . his feet, joint of a finger and a email piece ;of his skuIjY Tha estimated loss of property is $9,000. Leavenworth, Times . , , . Death or John Van Burerf, - "New York, October 1,5. The steamer Scotia brings 3 Cfueens- town dates to the l?th. ' Hon.: John Var - -. ' Buren died on board on the I4th instant, two' days before the steamer arrived at this"pbrt: ' ' -; ' ' ' " 1 ' The Commercial. says of the death of Mr. Van Buren ; He had returned from a tour in Scotland, -tvhither he had rcno . - i K' for the benefit cf his health which1' for some time past had been visibly declin ing; During his tour he caught a sever cold, which caused ipamatic of the kid neys, and when- he cajie" On board' ths Scotia he was very ill. -He at once- re tired to his state room, where he remain ed until iho morning. ' when fie' got up and walkeLabout the : deck 'contrary to the advice of his medical adviser?. ' Re turning to his stateroom", Mr. Van Barea was seized with a cute infiamation-of tha kidneys, and his1 suffering- was- intense. During this time he talked incessantly but incoherently, chiefly on.politis- aff airs.' ' - " -' Ou Sunday morning he commenced to sink visibly, and his daughter and nieCJ with Capt; Wilkins of the ' ScolU were summoned to his stateroom they "with Drr. Price and Crane Temairid'wT.Ithini nearly the whole day, and 'about 11 o'clock p m, when the vessel was off Cape. Race Mr, ran Buren expire.' : A ccfno tvas at once made for the ' bod-y, ;arld it was placed in one cf the ship's boats, where it now remain?, i'- J - ; ' : , ; mm.i: ; 3 : i ' fhe proposition made ' to' scd- Yrom California a section of-the' 'OifJ2in.il big Tree1,, to the World's Fair al Paris, is said by Dr. Macgowan to be impractica ble, for want of a saw long nouoffo cut .... p . O j it.' The cutting will require a saw forty feet long.'. ; : - 7.4 - Uz:l Wizi - ; "Does ihe.fazor ..take .hoJ; well ?" inr quired a barber who waj t?,ving- gen tleman from the country... vV.esr'' eblied the customer with tears ,iA his eys, "i; takes hold first rale, tut- jt'ciA jt go worth a cent.";. ; ; , ' ;, ii
