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 REBELLION. ,. Recollectioaa of the Af- Is**-' fair of 1838. Hvp of the St Louis RepMi- lireP^'tt week fell in with Mr. W. S â-  joe'lar f tijesurvivors of the so-called '"'Vo burned the British steimer »"' p»p1 ill American waters on the '^^^ ^^a of May. 1838. Only ' two !toit^«-^rticipated ia that affair are Xichols is a saloon-keeper at â-  %^in county, NY and his «^ Patriot in the raid is Marshall â- ^«^'°rno" at Rochester. N. Y., ^CSies on a large planing-miU and eve lumber-yard. rMrt Peel, it will be remember- l^=* „r now living, was burned m re- fnr the destruction of the American 'â- ^1"C Otoe, Dec. 29 1837, by a party " under Capt, Drew, who board- 'wt at Schlosser, and after killing f'Xm" several of the crew, set fi.e r^ratau°d sent her adrift over liagara " i3 outrage, combining, as it did, of murder and arson committed '^BrSh armed force on iimei ican wat- iroduced •^'"•- â-  â- â-  'â- . ;.-i""*sr-" Ihii pn tremeuilous excitement from Detroit to the entire frontier 1 Preside- 1 Van Buren made it .jectof '\,PECUL MKSSA'.IE TO CONGRESS. Jlexander McLeod, a British subject, • '.iireevi'ars after the event, in a spirit of Int Jedance, returned to the county of r where the outrage had been com- J 'anil foolishly boasted that he had "foce of the destroyers of the Carolina.- sted, indicted, and tried. After lesasarres-- ., trial, and the assumption by the 'Guverniuent of McLeod's offence, Id a prolonged diplomatic controversy, l-itta the tvvo nations that threatened to 111 war, it turned out that McLeod was â- '-rtreas he I'.ad boasted, and he was ^cii'XJn aciiuittud by the jury. â-  ;• â- ,' curious to remark on lire btatement ii- f. B. Hough, of the bureau of forestry, t"lVasliiii"tuii, who wa.s in St. Louis re- that the Caroline was built on a tiJboa^tin^ sail vessel ia South Carolina leaceheruame), and her timber was the â- oak ui that section. At Troy, N. Y., was chiii-'ed into a small steamer, and .jracnin;' between Troy and Albany she L tikeu through the Erie canal to Lake Lx;o aad through the Welland canal to J-iifilt' where she was employed in the ;r:,iL service until she was seized and burn- bvtiie British. f;.c wiioie frontier was in a blaze of ex- Lir.cat, public meetings were held iU j.uut the country to express an hon- :jiis,'iiation at the outrage and invoke l;:ia:iunal goverument to avenge the in- A'ivautaae was taken of this inflamed ta;e [I tlie public mind by \Yilliam Lyon LKcnzie and other Canadian refugees to li/ii foot expeiiitious fur the invasion of L'anailas. "â-  Hunters' lodges" were In.u in tile large towns, to organize a hos- tciiinvenifu:. Tli3 state arsenal at Water- |cn. N. v., was robbed, and other means I gather arms and munitions of war. :nMiUi)iig tiie height of this excitement ti.L- Sir Uobert I'eel, on her passage I'lesecitt to the head of the lake, while iiE^'oa luel at Wells, or Wellesley's Is- bimthe St. Lawrence, was boarded by a ;:aiiy of armed men, all Canadian re- :=s, under the leadership of the celebrat- si!:ilJohnsou, who, after driving the crew ?. set rire to the stoainer. There were â-  c:iit!icting accounts of the affair at ::iie, but the following statement, as â-  by ;i participant lo a. Republican re- ' and made alter the lapse of so many ' when the feedings engendered I'iJtteily dieil out, may Ije accepted as Ml;. NlCIlnl/s STORY. Nichols Slid " Tnere w-ere twenty- iis in the party. We rendezvoused on itone Island (one of the Thousand Is- and were concealed by one Scanlon, lactioueer from Kingston. We were I'anaiiaus. I Itft Ugdensburj?h for b'ecli Creek, where I met friends who told â- "â- aere was soma enterprise on foot, and "i'l int.- to join them. I did not then know y^wect or that Bill Johnson was the •W, and I did not see him at our place of ffwtzvoas. Scanlon said he was the lead- â- iS'l wanted -i. competent person to act as in coniniand. He placed a barrel F'v'tun its hca 1 and leaped over it at a Fad.^ He then said that the man who â- .i"iuntlie feat without, touching the bar- 'â- â-  bo hii first lieutenant. I jumped barrel with perfect case, clearing it tor:ching it. JJi the the night of the 23th of May the â- '•"srt Peel was observed coming up the ;â- â-  ar-'l preparations were made to board ;;,.»e Were (iis^ui.vjdâ€" some with hand- -^•;e;3 on nur taces and others with what- ^^. â- aaterial was at-tianl. The boat tied ;tik. 'â- "'"'â- ^ °" W'^Wa' island '.^ â- '"" "°°'^- •'est before we came up, '^5.subs"(jui;Qtlylearnei, our enterprise ;-;^tryneai- proving a failure. As the ;^.^f being made fast to shore Capt. ..tron^r, -tij., commander of the Peel, -^as..oi-e an 1 was observe 1 in conversa- kV \i -^^-'l^^n^^'-^l. the owner of the [. ' -MacDonald intimated to tne captain '--ere were " patriots" under Bill John- wound who no doubt were intent on J„. â- ' .^"' .he was cautioned to beware. wMin, with an affectation of contempt, ^, "P m a loud voice so as to be beard Idiel'^^^f'-l'nS around, that he had 100 '"4,1* ' '^^l^l or" his boat, but t\ J. '"'^^ " not havj the efifect intend- '"" "OT INTIMIDATE ANYONE. â- "i\ifr^^ "'^^ ^« â„¢shed on board with " mltfl'T'?^" *^« Caroline," and in It. -^Yg^^^ "^d con^plete control ot the ^CiT, 4,*^"" *° take their baigage S ill " ^^^* they would not be "«8nDDn«,i " ® passengers and crew, as SWait "" P"t on shore, except the l^d to mn'L-\^^^^'l°^ed to remain on r^^nancCH „ f'" ""S' '^^^ '^* ^^ l^"^the whir "" t^e stream, a few rods l^dnotdS' '?v*^^* ^*^"« b"^^'^^ i' «ricana w^ '^^ P'operty belonging to h'SldYn £!."^« chambermail. who Ismt „ *,'^«^ on board nnf;i ♦!.„ i. ' -«.» r,â„¢ ' *• "ouna asleep, ana, «^ered by the boarding-party, was only awakened by the crackling of the flames a«d made a ""« «» we HARItOW KSCAP*. It P«l i.^?"^^ °**^« â- '*o* bo^iTgthe ^1^* approve of it now. SfciU it was a foolhardy attempt. Tnat very thing led to the letting np of the tyranny that Great Britain wa, Llding OYerSJdT^Oa^S! ject was not plunder. The valuables that were saved from the flames were deUvercd np to the owners. I give the folbwing in- Stance: Mr. Forward foand in the ctrk's oace a package of money which was con- signed topartiea in Toronto, and he secured L ^® "° nothing about it, but after ar- rest and the preliminary trial at DepauviUe he did not want the money found on him, so he put the roll into BiU Smith's bed. Smith, on roUing round, found something hard under hun, and finding the package called in the constable, and handing him the pack- age saymg that somebody had been making game of him. The packajre was delivered by the constable to the justice of the peace who, on opening it found it, to contain four thousand and odd dollars, which was im- mediately forwarded to the parties in To- ronto to whom it was consigned. After our arrest we were taken to Watertown, N Y and put in ail. One of our party, Anderson' was put on trial as a test case. Three in- dictments were found against him. He was tried on the first indictment, that of arson for settmg fire to a boatwhile the clerk was asleep on board, but the testimony of Capt Armstrong, who swore that the boat was boarded by the attacking party, with loud shouts and yells, an admission that was adroitly used by the defence, went to show that the noise was sufiicient to awaken the clerk, and Anderson was cleared on that charge. He was admitted to bail on the second and third indictments. The trial was before Judge Isaac H. Bronson, of the United States district court, the only Judge who had jurisdiction. He resigned to run for Congress, and was subsequently appoint- ed by President Van Buren a judge in Flori- da, where he died. After he left. District Judge Gridley, of Utica, the" stem judge," came on to try the cases. THE TRIALS were reopened on the 12th of November, when the district attorney, George C. Sher- man, said he was not ready, he claiming that Bill Johnson, still at large, was keeping the witnesseH back, ruchasDr. Scott, who was a passenger on the Peel, and others, from tes- tifying. Judge Gridley then said "If you are not ready for trial I will discharge the first in- dictment and admit the prisoners to bail on the other indictments. " At the regular term he came on to try us, and the district attor- ney again was not ready. The judge then let US out, subject to rearrest whenever the district attorney was ready with his witness- es. Our attorneys were Bernard B. Bagley, Charles E. Clark, Thorn. s C. Chitteniien, and JudgeMason, the most eminent lawyers in the State. The popular feeling was strong- ly in our favor, and in some of the towns on the road to Auburn the stages were stopped with the object of rescuing those concerned in burning the Peel, had they been sentenced and en route to prison. A bigamist sentenced at Auburn was subjected to considerable annoying delay by the stop- ping of the stage all along the road by the sympathizers who wanted lo know if he was one of the Peelprisoaers. The above is Mr. Nichol's statement in nearly his language. He would have made a first-class Fenian, thoueh the part he took in resiting oppression of the "tyranny of Great Britain" long preceded the raids of that class of patriots on Canadian soil. He said that the uprising of 183S in Canada grew oat of the feelins; of oppression. It was, he said, to get a change of go'vemment, but the Re- formers were betrayed by the Methodist church. Ia 1S3S the Tories held the power through the INTRIGCE.S OF THE BRITISH METHODISTS. Their leader was Charles Egerson Ryerson, editor of the Christian Guardian, at Hamil- ton. He and his church had been with the Reform party up to that time. Sir John Colborne, the Governor General, was re- called and Sir Francis Bond H ead sent out to take his place. He convened parliament at Toronto. The parliament passed a reform measure to test the sincerity of the Governor General,and he vetoed it. Again to try him, they passed a second and a third reform measure, and he vetoed tiiem. The parlia- ment then voted to stop supplies, when the Governor dissolved them and orJered a new election. Then it was that Ryerson came out with a leader recommending hischurch to rally to the support ot the Governor. That church, obeying the dcctum of their leader, voted the Tcry ticket. WiUiam Lyon Mc- Kenzie, of the third riding of York, was three times elected by the Reformers, and was three times expelled from parliament. McKenzie then raised the standard of revolt in Toronto, but was expelled by MclSaband sought refuge on Navy Island. All subsequent attempts for the mvasion of Canada proved abortive. As a stquel to Nichol's statement of the burning ot the Peel, it may be added that the old faulkr of the boat was a conspicuous object in the St. Lawrence near Mullet creek to P^smg steamers for twenty-five years after the boat was burned. Bill Johnson, the leader of tie gang, with eight others, baffled all attempts to capture them, although a joint search among the islands was made by bothGovern- mentf under Maj. Gen. Macomb, of the United States, and Col. Dundas, ?f t^.^^nt- ish army. Kate, the daughter of Ei^l John- son, known as the heroine of the Tkousand Islands, conveyed intelligence and piovisions -^the father. Jonnson publicly acknowledg- ed the act, with the motives that u-fluenced hjn, in a proclamation, stating th»t be was a latural-bom citizen of Canada, an 1 certi- fync that he held a commissi » m tie parfot service of Upper Canada as com- ^der-inchief of the naval ff^Jf^ floilla, and as such he commanded the ex- peffin that attacked and destroyed ^he steaner Sir Robert Peek Head«ied: The mennnder my command m that e^ped'tion wer«nearlyall English subjects. My head xneoMpcBu j^^ I am not at waf with ScTSppertyofciti^ofthe rgg^'i. aita^S^e 10th. l-aciamawo^ e^entoaUy captured L diJS^^':t'::^^I'ii Sf ^^^'*^°" ^^ Conkling, the father neutraU^ laws, and acquittei He ww rorted, toed, andscmtenced to a year in iaU and a fine of J250. His daurfiter Kate oWf^;^P?*"»»«^ Onthle^iif^ of half of his tane of Sentence he JLin es- ca^ one nisfht, and walked forty SS h^ „® J^* ,*° W*»luwrton with a petition. ^T^^ ««^?d asking for a^rdon^ ^tjr^^' ^y ^»° »««». but whiS Bir?„f*^! '^^ ^7 HaiSon. father £S^i°?J^"â„¢ ^»^'*da, his dlS in pA^â„¢^*°^ mother DntchT He years. He had been for some yea^ light- w^u^r^S"'^*'^^-*^-*^-*^- the feel lieut. Lucius O'Brien, of thf 8th United the famous army song. "Bennv Havens, " Zv% "i^"^,^^^ Y^^" "^^^ i*^" quoted • ^^^ following is TO MISS KATK J0HK8T0S. fof'il?^' ^^°^ "'eve her outlawed Iti Jfuâ„¢' *^^ P«"^« o* " and the dan- pers ot the storm, are on record in thedetaUs 01 the Canadian rebeUion of 1838. Unaccom- panied she would venture in the most tempestous weather, in her little skiff to find his hidmg place and minister to his necessi- ties. No night too dark, no lightning too vivid, for her labors of love." ay with thy bark, lovely maid, o'er sea. On thy heaven-bom mission, away Undeterred by the sentinels' watchfulness, flee. Where a father regrets thy delay. Oh, who but a daughter, the purest, sincerest. Would brave the vexed elements' strife The frowns of the stern, and the sigha of tha dearest. To watch o'er a doomed father's life Kate Johnson, the beautiful heroine so oft- en mentioned in connection with the events oft that i)eriod, married Mr. Charles H. Hawes, and died at French Creek in Marc h, 1878, aged nearly 60 years. â-  â-  ^m m I m Prime Donne and tbelr Clothes. Emma Abbott, according to Tlie St.Louff' Globe-Democrat, is always ready for an inter- view. A reporter met her behind the scenes at the opera house the other night.Jas happy as a lark, and when questioned by the news- paper man about the cause of her happy frame of mind answered that she had won a diamond ling from her husband' on Cleve- land's majority. She wagered that the de- mocratic candidate for governor of New York woulrl get over 50,000 majority he got over 150,000, and she got the ring, a five karat solitaire, which sparkled upon one of her fingers. " If I had lost, ' said Miss Abbott, " I would now feel very much as Mme. Gerster used to feel just about this time when she sang Amina. How is that W«ll, she got very mad. The costumer who made dresses for her when she with Strakosch â€" NinaCerbi â€" told me that Mme. Gerster always tore the bridal veil she wore in 'Sonnambula' to pieces. So, too, when she sang Lucia she kept pick- ing at the wait of her peasant dress until it was in ribbons, and when she came off the stage took a scissors and cut the front. She wouldn't wear the same dress twice. Stra- kosch paid for her wardrobe, so that it did not cost her anything to indulge her passion to destroy the garments. Cerbi said Gerster was very sweet ofi'the stage, but always got mad as a hornet when she appeared in opera; she couldn't sing without first netting mad. As Cerbi said, • I'he more she get mad, the more good she sing, ' ' " Mme. Cerbi, I suppose, knew all the prime donne " the reporter suggested. " Oh yes, and told maay stories about them. Nihson, she said, was greatly feared by the costumers, because she was lo ex- tremely hard to please. Patti was just the contrary very easy to suit; she took every- thing j ust as it came. Minnie Hauk was par- ticular only about h«r boots; she hked pretty boot and was fond of showing her nicely- shaped feet. " " I am glad to see," said the prima, "that Salvini has met with such a nice reception in New York. He is an old and dear friend of mine. I met him in Florence when I was studying" iu 1875, and he took me to his home on the Arno, where I saw his sweet little English wife, with her blue eyes and fair hair, worshipping her husband as if he were a god, Why, one day he fixed up a very ordinary pedestal, in one of the rooms and covered it with green baize and had brass tacks stick- ing out at every point. A cheap carpenter could have fixed it up ten times more artisti- cally, jet the tragedian's wife went into ecstacies over it, and thought and said there was nothing like it. A very simple thing but it shows how much she thought of him and of what he did. Bat I ought not to talk of Salvini in this way. He was very good to me, and gave me letter" that proved of great service. He also encouraged me to work hard, saying that all his o *n success had come only from the hardest kind of labor. He told me he had studied Othello four years before attempting to play it on the stage and I see by the papers that he gave his King Lear the same lengthy study and attention." MLss Abbott wanted to say something about her own success the present season, and the excellence of her compviy, but the rejwrter cut her short, and was moving away when the prima called out "Be kind enough to say that Denver baby does not exist. It is a first-class myth. We have nothing of the infant caliber in our com- pany although Gus Hall and John Gilbert whom we call Jumbo and Bolivar, have asked to be cast for the babies in ' Norma, ' which we are soon to produce. " TEE JOIOE MASSACRE Although as regards the interior I fe of the Spanish Court King Alphoneo has made, in accordance with the spirit of the times, very liberal modifications of the extremely rigid etiquette observed in past years, the pomp which has always been characteristic of Spain with regard to public ceremomes m whichthe Kinii takes part oontmucs to bo exercised on the reccptiMi of the newly-ac- credited representatatives of foreign coun- tries The etiquette of the ceremony a pre- cisely the same now as was obsojved in Spain's palmiest days, when nothmg that the wealth and the love of ostentation oonid do to enhottoe the solemnity of sach oe^snu ond'siTe the new comer an imposiag idea of the pttwer of the Spanish moMMXjhs wa« ne- glected. fryers STOBY or THB CBUKK. A WiliilL»eatt^. tmmm •fOwic A Tnvlbto Mi^t,-rmo6. tut I»»9. The terriUs locality in which the aime was committed, on the niicht of the 27th of August last, lies in the wildest and loneliest distoct of the most remote regions of the Joyce country. Connemara, and is almost inaccessible, owing to the mountain fastness- es and miles of lake around which it is situ- ated. From Cong it is over twelve miles dis- tant, and from Maam it is nearly an equal distance, these beio^ l^e two nearest vil- lages to the scene of the murder. Within views are the water of Lough Mask, be- neath whose glassy surface were last Janu- ary found the bodies of Joseph anl John Huddy, the two bailifiEs who were captured by a band lying in ambush and tied together â€" whether first killed remains unknown â€" placed in a sack and flung in the lough. Here, also, Mr. George Robinson, the agent of Colonel Clemente (Lord Leitrim's heir,) was fired at, but ESCAFEO ASSASSINATION, and yet, ten miles distant lies the ground where Lord Montmorres was shot dead and the place where the boy Gibson was assass- inated. The cabin lies in a hollow at the mountain ranges, the situation bein7 one of the loneliest and most inaccessible imagin- able. The land here forms a portion of the estate of Colonel Clements, whose tenantry in the Joyce country, numbering some three or four hundred, have with one or two exceptions, not paid a single farthing of rent for the past three years. John Joyce was one of these tenants- He was a man of about forty-five years of age, and some con- siderable time ago held a farm from the mur- dered Earl of Leitrim at a district in the Joyce country called Derry Park, but had been evicted. In 1877, then being a widow- er with four children, he married the poor woman WHO SHARED HIS TRAGIC FATE, She was a widow, and, at the time of the wedding, was in possession of a farm at Maamtrassna. Since then he had lived peaceably upon the farm, his mother, Mar- garet Jioyce, eighty five years of age his dauchter, Margaret Joyce, eighteen years of age, and his sons, Michael Joyce, sixteen years ot age, and Patrick Joyce, eleven years of age, res ding in the same house with hims.lf and his wife Bridget. His oldest son, Martin, a young man of about twenty years, lived at Clenbur, being a ser- vant in the employment of George Mare, a farmer, and to this circumstance he owes his escape from being one of the victims of the bloody tragedy. It appears that the Joyce family retired to bed at their usual hour, John Joyce and his wife sleeping on a miserable little bed composed of rags and straw and placed in a slight recess in the wall, a few feet from the door, on the left hand side as the cabin is entered. THE REST OF THE FAMILY slept in one bed, a wretched couch in the inner apartment, the old woman and one of her grandsons lying with their heads to- wards the little window, and Margaret and her older brother lying in a contrary direc- tion. All wasquiet for the first few hours, till about one o'clock in the morning, when as Michael related with his dying breath, he heard shots. The door was taken off its hinges and a number of armed assassins poured into the cabin. The father was shot on the floor, having sprung out of bed the wife was bludgeoned to death, and then the inner room wa^ entered. The feeble old grandmother was attacked and her skull was crushed in by a rain of blows which left bone, blood and brain one mass of pulp. Michael was shot in the head tmd stomach his sister was struck on the head by a blow which left her a corpse, and Patrif*k, the younger child was badly beaten over the head and face with a stick. Michael, wound- ed fatally and HIS BOWELS PROTRUDING, through a bullet rent in the stomach, crawl- ed out of the bed in which lay the corpses of his grandmother and his sister. He found his father lying dead on the floor and his step mother dying in her bed. Terrified and faint, afraid to return to that horrible bed, reefing with core and ghastly with its dead, than he had ]^:[u in the inner room, trembling with dread to remain bj' the naked corpse of his father, feeling the pangs of death himself, he crept in by the side of his father's wife. She Jay till morninji, but though her head and face had been beaten into a bloody mass she did not die till some time subsequently. Hours slowly passed before assistance came. At length the son of a farmer named Collins, accompanied by two women named O'Brien, who were coming to the cabin to borrow a pair of cattle for woollen spinning, arrived at the door, and Collins entered. Horrified at what he saw he did not advance further, but raised the alarm in the village, which lies in a scattered, straggling form along the valley and mountain sides. The villagers soon collected, and a body of them entered the cabin. There they beheld a spectacle which beggars description. At half-past nine o'clock eleven men went to the police hut at Finney, a distance of two miles across the mountains,and toldwhatthey had seen and heard. Two constabulary men returned with them and visited the cabin, when they beheld a sight of the most terri- ble character. Two dogs were in the bed where the bo-dies of the grandmother and granddaughter were lying, and THEY HAD EATEN ALL THE FLESH off the left iirm of the old woman, which n as hanging over the bedside. The police eodeavored to drive away the animals, which were a sort of sheep dcg, but they, had the greatest difficulty in doing so. The dogs ran under the bed, evidently reluc- tant to leave this'horrible feast of human flesh. When at length they were driven away they are said to have become mad, and were destroyed by the inhabitants of the place. The following story is current in the West of Ireland Mra. Joyce, one of the mnrdor- ed family, witnessed the sinking in the lake of tiie bodies of Lord Ardilami's baffigi, but was so terrified that f6r some time she did notTentoreto tell tnyone what she had mm mmmM^^ ' mam. Chw a^t, however, she oobld no Iwgv 1em» i* to kacadf and dMcribed to her BostMod what «he had seen certainmen do. TliiBwasoveriieaidbyher son. whosbc after, being bnllied at school by another "** •**» " xiippow you want to mnidor me abd throw me into the lake as TOUT father did the bailiffi." The bey hav- ing rc^^ted this to his tether, tiie latter and hu eonfederatss determined upon their dreadfnl crime of massacring the whole fa- mily of the Joyces in order to put out of the way snch awkward witnesses of their former goilt. The story seems too circumstantial to be untrue, nor is it easy to see why it should be invented. At any rate, it offers a yeiy sufficient explanation of the massacre, the motives for which hsa never be«i very clea'-ly made out A OAMNXBAI. PJCASt. How Some Sxplorera on a Colombian ttXver were Cooked and Xaten. PA2fAMA.â€" Dr. Agnozzi, Papal delegate to Colombia, has addressed a circular to the Archbishop and the bishops begging them to obtain all possible information respect- ing the number and condition of the savages in the interior. This measure is consequent on a massacre and cannibal f ast which have recently taken place, and which is thus de- scribed: â€" The River Putumayo is one of many which run from the ea%tem slope of the Colombian Andes, about which little is known. Rising in the moimtainous districts of the upper altitudes of Pasto, in the State of Cauca, it runs nearly one thousand miles, receiving in its course the tribut iry waters of more than thirty streams. Within the past few years adventurous residents in Pasto have endeavoured to turn the riches of the river to account It is navigable even in the upper part by canoes. After frequent petitioning Congress passed a Law permitting the entrance of merchandise by the river free of all duty, with the result that some portion of the importe came by way of the Atlantic, were carried 2,000 miles up the Amazon by steamer, and thence by launch and canoe un- til they reached their market, within 300 miles, as the crow flies, of the Pacific ocean. Messrs. Reyes were the first to engage in this enterprise, and, by treating the Indians well along the route, have been establishing a very fair trade, exporting ivory, nuts, india rubber, vanilla, cascarilla, sarsaparilla, and other raw products in return for the goods brought in by them. Their success induced a young merchant of Barbacoas, named Portes, to engage in the same enterprise, and in company with some friends he es- tablished himself on the banks of the Putu- mayo, among the virgin forests which there cover every foot of ground. They bad erect- ed a house, made a small clearii^, and al- ready saw their way to a profitable business, when they were visited by a number of Jevenetos Indians, who came ostensibly to trade. They were received well, and were apparently satisfied, but suddenly they at- tacked and killed the Colombians, and after- ward cooked and ate them. The Indians have never visited the Putumayo before, and no one has ever fallen in with them on the Amazon. Other tribes have also made their appearanc i in different places, and it is be- lieved that some other powerful tribes are driving the weaker ones from the heart of the unknown forest regions, cr that they are voluntary emigrants who will murder and plunder whenever opportunity offers. Residents on the frontier also suggest that they may have been driven from their homes, wherever these may be, by th slavers, whose vessels a.scended s-.veral of" the tributaries of the Amazon a few months ago in search of slaves and produce. This supposition will appear exaggerated to all who are not aware that Indians are captured on all the interioi rivers and carried off to difierent out-of-the-way regions, where they are compe Ifd to •work on the plantations which have been established far away from anything bearing even a semblance to civil- ization. It is probable the death of Senor Portes and his friends will attract the atten- tion of the Colombian government to those long neglected regions of the R^ipub'ic. Tbe snah's Lesson. A young French painter was showing the Shah of Persia his picture of Herodias bring- ing in the head of John the Baptist. The Shah asked him how many minutes were supposed to have passed since the head was cut off " Two minutes," said the painter. The Shah then told him that the lips ought to be wide open and of an ashy white. As the artist was unwilling to be convinced, the Shah clapppd his hands and, a slave ap- pearing, drew his 6word, and with one tre- mendous sweep severed his head from his body. He then pulled out his wateh and two minutes after stooped down, picked up the bleeding head, and, walking to the pic- ture, he'd the real head by the side of the painted one, and said to the Frenchman "Monsieur, you can see for yourself that the lips ought to be ashy white and wide apart, and you will learn to believe the Shah in future." Then he tossed away the head and firmly walked out, leaving the pa nter more dead than alive to take himself and his un- fortunate picture back to his own apart- ments. The shock was so severe to the painter's nerves that he beoame hysterical and remained so for months, unable to do any work. The Shah conferred decorations and titles upon him, which cost nothing, and, giving him just enough money to take him home, allowed him to leave Persia, and he now occupies a studio in the Palais Royal in Paris. A Novelty Fnr. A novelty in fur garmente is a cape espe- cially designed to protect the chest. It fastens at the back instead of in front, and the opening is so arranged as to be imper- ceptible. For sleighing it is especially suit- able, as there is no cliance for a cold blast to strike the chest as the wind blows open the cape. Besides its recommendation of comfort, it has that of being very becom- ing to the average figure and .^eing a style of garment now fashionable. â-  ^m .m The reason why some of the street lamps bum all night is because the light is so small it is afraid to go out alone in the dark. The Dakota town of Pierre has a new jul, and some people wonder because a local newKpaper man praises it as "» substantial wooden structur e." Even a pint jail oof^ to hold a man until the neighb»B can get arspe. m\i ,1 'I ^i â- ^â- k '•£ 'tm «â- *-» » liii'ihiiliifh liifrii