The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-09-27 00:00:00

faisctUantowl.

PUGILIIII.—A fight for £4OO to £2OO took place on
Tuesday in a field a few males from Tunbridge, between
uSaiwyegrhs., the. cllitatnexcipi o
t.dou
much
uErchiglanintedr, and
eiriamßreattl, e
large.t
her of persons were present. Sayers was seconded by
Macdonald and Brunton, and Hodgkins and Keene acted
for Brettle. Only six rounds were fought, and the con-
test terminated in a quarter of an hour in favour of Say-
ers. At the commencement of the fight the first blood
Wag drawn by Sayers. In the second round, however,
&WM appeared to have the advantage, and there were
cries of "the first knock-down blow," but it was not al-
lowed. In the fourth round, however, Brettle gave Say-
ers such a tremendous hit that lie fell, and it was then
admitted that the Birmingham man had knocked his
adversary down. Brettle in the fifth round had • fall
which dislocated his shoulder, and this accident virtually
temiinated the fight. Brettle, however, stood up for a
sixth round. but he was so powerless from the injury to
hie shoulder that his blows produced no effect upon
Sayers. Sayers then struck Mettle a tremendous right
handed hit upon his left shoulder, and he fell down sud-
denly with great force. His backers and the surgeon
then decided that 'ironic was no longer able to continue
the fight, and Sayers was therefore the winner in 15
minutes only. Both the men had been well trained, and
were in excellent

SOHTHWOLD, SEPT. 18.—Information wmui received
1 last night at 10 o'clock, from the officer of the Milner
' Haven Station. that • large Prussian brig was on
shore near their watchroom, and asked for the *saint-
ance of the Southwold lifeboat, which belongs to the
'loyal National Lifeboat lustitution, to save the lives
of the CIVVf. A volunteer crew was immediately
assembled, who succeeded in getting the lifeboat off
through a heavy surf at 10 30 p.m. The wind had
by this time considerably abated, having been blow.
lug a gale of wind from the north-east the whole day,
and had then veered round to the north by west.
The wind, however, increased again before they
reached the vessel, and they found the surf and sea
very heavy where the vessel was lying, and making
a complete breach over her. The lifeboat behaved
nobly, being for a considerable time completely buried
in the sea, and after some time and great difficulty
(haviiig missed the veseel from the darkness of the
night in the first attempt) succeeded in boarding her
and saving the civic, nine in !milder, and the cap-
tain's wife, who was quite exhausted. They were all
safely landed at :dimmer Haven at 1 o'clock in the
'Horning. The character of the sea wry be judged of
when it is stated that the sea, which struck the boat
on landing, knocked the second coxswain, who had ,
the charge of the lifeboat. overboard. He fortunately
kept firm hula of the tiller and succeeded in again I
getting on board. The vessel proved to be the
Luchele, of Memel, 11. Eobert &ether master, frum
Memel for Rochester, with sleepers. The crew con-
sisted of ten, but one man was unfortunately drowned
in attempting to get on shore by • line before the life-
boat arrived,
CROSSING GENESEE FALLS ON THE TicHT ROPE.—
A visit to the Genesee Falls is at any time a treat in
itself ; but the additional attraction of a tight rope per-
formance on the brink of the cataract greatly enhances
the interest felt by the visitor, and it is probable that
many who were present here to-day bad this very
preseion. Be that suit may, M. Belay° advertised that
he would cruse on hie rope over the Falls, and the an-
nounceineut naturally brought a crowd to the spot. Ho
had crossed twice before, and why not try once more,
so as to convince the public that he is little, if any-
thing, inferior to Blondin, who has certainly a longer,
but by no means a more dangerous walk, when it is
considered that ladave's narrow and seemingly slender
pathway is on the very edge of the Falls, and partially
amid the spray! The place selected is the best that
could be found for • " rope walk," and the height of
the bank above the river may be 130 feet, the rope
inclining about 30 feet towards the centre, thus mak•
ing the height of the rope above the water 100 feet, or
50 feet lower than Illondin's. The cable is • Manilla
rope an inch in diameter, and 70 feet long, guyed froin
each side with a number of small cords. On one side of
the river it is fastened to a largo post, and on the
other it is tied to the outer beam of • saw-mill. It
runs in • diagonal direction, and partly crosses the fall
of water, which is now precipitated over the rocks for
less than half its former width. The beauty of the
place has been greatly narred by the quarrying away a
twit of the rock on the cast side of the river. The rock
here is completely bare, the water having been forced
into its orwient course. Thus is a shameful act of dese-
crattost, and oitzht to be stepped in time. The sky
wore a threatening aspect, and by 1 o'clock p.m., a
blight shower fell. An hour later it came on much
heavier, and it really looked as if the fete would have
to be postponed. It cleared up beautifully, however,
and began to blow quite • strong breeze, causing the
spray to rise up far above the rope. The crowd com-
menced to and numbers were assembled in the bed
,d the river, both above and below the Falls; in the latter
the number was not much short of 1,000. The seats in
"Falls Field" were filled, and vast numbers occupied the
open space; every available spot was taken up, including
roofs, windows, and other prominent positions. The
gathering was immense, and probably reached 15,000.
The sun now shone out brilliantly, and the wind calmed
somewhat ' • still it was a little too breezy for rope-
walking. The crowd waited very patiently for the
appearance of the acrobat; meanwhile the wind rose
e again, but, nothing daunted, the acrobat came to the
spot, and with a chair on his back, and his balancing
pule in his hand, he started from the north side of the
river, and proceeding to the middle lie fastened his pole,
n,ljusted the chair 011 the rope, and sat down upon it,
the wind blowing strongly all the tune. Here he coolly
took his lunch, remained for about three minutes, then
dropping the chair into the river, he took up his pole
and walked backwards along the remaining length of the
rope to the opposite side, resting once, lying down on his
back and bolding the pole above his head. Stopping
only a few seconds, he cennmenced his return trip, and
proceeding rapidly for a short distance, lowered one end
et his pole to the brink of the Fall, and fastening the
other end to the rope, he performed • few antics. Just
at this time the cry was raised of " A man over the
Falls." It proved but too true; some poor fellow either
lied his balanced or was jostled off the platforms at the
mew-mill, and toppling down over nearly the same spot
as the famous Sam Patch jumped from manyyearsagO, lie
fell a distance of about 90 feet. He was, of swerve, dead
when taken up. A rush was made to the spot where lie
was found, and the lifele.s body was carried away by the
crowd below. The acrobat went on with liii performance
i nevertheless' and, having adjosted his pole, he descended
to the brink of the Fall, a depth of :ri feet, and, taking
a drink from the falling sheet, ascended to the rope.
This is by far the most datageroue feat Delave has
attempted. It was unquestionably a daring movement,
but lie seemed to be perfectly at home, and played
several antics even on the pole when suspended in front
of the cataract. Releasing his pole, he started for the
opposite bank, and, makieg a feint of its being difficult
to climb to the bank he reached terra firma amid the
loud acclamations of the multitude.
TWENTY•SIN YEARS AIIONG 'rue INDIANS.—One of
the most extraonlinary narratives that we have hail the
fortune to relate has just come under our notice. It was
j told us by the hero himself, and the most searching in-
vestigation fails to shake the truth of the story, astonish-
ing as it may Leon to be. If there is any deception
in the case, we fail to WC its object. About 20 years
ago seine Canada Indians were in Cleveland, and did
some trading with the people. In the count.: of HQ trade
the Indians fancied they had been cheateel. and in order
to revenge themselves stole a three year old boy front the
city, and carried him off to Canada. As far as can be
learned, the child was stolen from a small brown hoes...,
but in what part of the city, or any further particulars
!f the theft, cannot be learned. The captors kept the
, boy in Canada for a few days, and thee, fearing his re-
covery by the whites, sold hint to a party of Puttawota-
inies, who kept him about a month. By these lie was
again sold to the Pawpaws, in which tribe he remained •
month, but ais there were some fears that he would be
traced and taken by the whites he was traded off to the
Winnebagoes of Illinois and Wisconsin. How long lie
remained in the keeping of this tribe has not been ascer-
tained, but lie was eventually transferred from them to
the Chippewss of Wisconsin, who again sold him to the
Sioux Indians of Minnesota, n years ago lie was sold
by the Chippewas to the Snakes and Copperheads of
' lowa. When this tribe removed to Missoun he accom-
panied them, and afterwards went with them in their
migrations through Caleforria and Oregon. That por-
tion of the tribe with which he remained finally pro-
ceeded as far north as the Russian poseessions near
Behring's Straits, and there, with portions of the Creeks,
Uttles, and other large bands of Indians, they at present
! remain. Their principal point of settlement is
about 3f)CO miles from the North Pacific Ocean, and
about 2.2(10 miles to the north-west of St. Paul.
I Me of the point* in the Russian territory where the
' tribes occasionally visits is" Rte.ian Fort," which
jis laid down on the map as near the Cluville
1 River. The hero of this strange adventure says the '
fort is in the vicinity of a small river, the name of
which other than that given by this tribe, be does not
know. The Snake and Copperhead Indians trade with
St. Paul, having a semi-annual train to that piece.
The train has about '',OUU Indians. One party starts
from St. Paul almut true same time that the other starts
from their limiting grounds, thus meeting about half-
way. The furs are packed on ponies, elks, and dogs.
(In their last seini-annual trip the hero of these adven-
tures receive-1 a pass from one Of the chiefs (Ma-00-chew-
a-wa) to se,k out hie relatives, and, if found, to remain
with them awhile. The pans requires his presence in
St. Paul's at their next trip in 1860, seven of the
tribe accompanied " Mu-kos-e-que-qua "--for that is the
Indian name of the young man—to Chicago. From
that place he has footed it most of the way, and arrived
here yesterday. At Fremont Lis features were recog-
nized by a man as bearing a Ntrung resemblance to one
Joseph Todd, who is said to have resided in Cleveland
about 30 years since. For some time past the young
WKS has been itilligently engaged in tracing up his hie-
tory, and what we have given above is the result of his
inquiries. He says lie has no desire to leave his Indian
associates, as lie hens a wife and two children among
them. He speaks English well, having learnt it, lie
says, in his traslitig at St. Paul. He says that his hair
was cut, and hie clothes chenged to conform to white
usages before leaving St. Paul. We have given his nar-
rative as he told it us this morning. It seems extra-
ordinary, but a close and rigid crovo-examination failed
nait'aires-jel
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deceptionu;allliudae: learn,
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search for roots, he can cure hinvelf.
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tlme
white Indian " is not the son of one Joseph Todd.— I
Clerelauti Herald, Aug 30.

Tne ancient Cathedral at rialxbarg has been greatly
damaged by Are.
Lord Derby has had another attack of his ancient
enemy the gout.
Sir Baldwin Leighton has been elected M.P. for South
Sli ropsh ire.
The Lord Chancellor has presented LIO to the News-
paper Press Fund.
Mr. Charles Kingsley is said to be engaged in the
composition of • new histotiail novel.
" Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the vale," is •dser.
used in the Dublin papers as to let.
Mr. Cobden is on • visit to Sir Stephen Glynne, bro.
ther•in-law of the Chancellor or the Exchequer.
There is no truth in the report that Mr. and Mrs.
Matthews are about to return to the United States.
The Town Council of Aberdeen have resolved to con.
far the freedom of that city on Lord John Russell
The town of Shirvan, in the Government of Tiflis, 4/
been buried beneath a mountain thrown on it by &recent
shock of earthquake.
Sir David Brewster has been appointed Principal of
the University of Edinburgh in the room of the late
Very Rev. Dr. Lee.
The Times suggests that young men brought up in
workhouses and other charitable institutions should be
made to serve as soldiers.

A battue for wolves took place two days back in the
woods in the arrondissements of Pont Andemer (Eur) ;
it resulted in the destruction of three cubs.
A dividend of DI 10s. for the half-year deeliired at a
meeting of proprietors of the Bank of Eagiand, haa
been confirmed by ballot.
Some Irish gentlemen of New York have resolved to
present Marshal .ll'Malion with a handsome American
hove. It is to cost a thousand dollars.
. _

About a thousand Persian nianuscripts have been pre-
sented to the Bodleian Library by Mr. John Bas-doe
Elliot, late of the Esst India Company's civil service.
The Padiliain weavers resumed work conditionally on
Monday. A fortnight's trial was to be given in order
to te,t the terius on which work has been resumed.
. . . .

Good-servico pensions of 1:100 each have been assigned
by tho Coniniander-in-Claief to Major-General Sir
/Award Luganl. K.C.1.1., and Colonel James Creagh.
A boat containing ten persons, most of them dock
labourers, was run down by a steam-boat on the Thames
on Satunlay week. Two men were drowned.
Hope. who comminuted and was wounded in
the expedition to Peiho, is brother-in-law to Lord Kin.

The desire for the formation of Volunteer Rife Corps
has eatended to Australia, and the authorities are en-
couraging the movement with vigour.
The death of the Itev. Charles Wesley, DD., Sub-
dean of her Majesty's Chapel Royal at St. James's
Palace, and Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty, is
announced.
At the General Post Office there is a letter from Ma-
genta addressed to "Signor Dearest Brother, London."
It need hardly be said that the authorities have not LUC-
ceeded in delivering it.
Lord Clyde retires from the command of the Indian
army at the close of this year. He will be succeeded by
General Sir Hugh fl. Rose, who recently acquired dia-
tinetion.in repressing the rebellion in Central India.

The Government "Contemplate issuing a further supply
of 25 per cent of rifles to the Volunteer NU Corps as
soon as they are in a position to do so. This will in-
crook: the existing grant to 50 per cent.
Prince Fredcnck William and the Princess left
Berlin f r Silesia on Tuesday week. It is understood
that their stay in Silesia will be only of fourteen days'
duration.

Apricot named Dentin hu been convicted, at the
Assize Court of St. Homer, of child-murder, and sen-
tenced to imprisonment with hard labour for life. The
mother of the child (his servant) was acquitted.
The editor of the Cork Constitution, who is at pre-
sent travelling in Italy, hu been severely handled by
brigands. He was slightly stabbed in several pieces,
and stunned by a blow from a heavy stick.
A vigorous church-rate contest was carried on last
week in the somewhat notorious parish of St. Sidwell,
Exeter. The poll closed on Thursday, the numbers
being For the rate, 354; against, : majority, 6.
Sir James Stephen, Professor of Modern History at
the University of Cambridge, and'formerly under Secre-
tary for the Colonies, died at Cublents on Friday week,
in the 71st year of his age.
The Liferure Chaette says that on Mr. Kean's return
to town lie will continence his engagement with Mr.
Douglass, lessee of the Standard and Pavilion Theatres,
A London cabman, not having taken enough money
one day last week, and fearing that he might be dia.
charged by his master, attempted to commit suicide in
St. James's Park: he WU found lying senseless on the
ground, and was conveyed to an hospital.
A man named Wright, • British subject, is said by
the Smrinam ria:rtir to have purchased 234 slaves. The
Anti-Slavery Society lies memorialized the Government,
and Lord Wodehouse has called upon the British Consul
to make a report.
A report that the wife of Captain Gordon, of the
42nd Regiment, had eloped from the Bridge of Stirling
with Captain Callan, 71st Regiment, is indignantly de-
nied by the lady's relatives, who states that she is in
India with her husband.

An old t%-pounder gun, said to have belonged to the
man-of-war brig Peliaii, which upwards of ninety years
ago capsized in the Mersey, has been fished up by some
men dredging the river. Several rare specimens of
shell were found adhering to the old war-engine.
The small steam yacht belonging to the Thames Con-
servancy, which iS noted as being • very fast boat,
found herself completely distanced by the Great Eastern
in her paasage from Purfieet, when the latter was going
at only half-speed.
A ship of the line, to be called the Magenta, which is
to be steel-plated, and the largest vessel in the French
navy, has been put upon the stocks at Brest. The Mi-
nister of Marine has ordered 290,000 bombshells for the
navy, and :10,000 rifles for the marines.
Several New York papers mention the rumour of an
expected visit of our poet Laureate to America next
Antonin. It is stated that Mr. Tennyson's health is
very feeble, and that his inedie.al advisers have coun-
selled • voyage across the Atlantic.
The Canadian papers have it quit the Prince of Wales
is to marry the Princess Alexandria of Prussia, daughter
of Prince Albrecht, broths-r of the King. "The nup-
tial.' arc to take place in the autunin of next year, and
all the preliutinaries of the contract are already settled."
The Wallace 3lontuneut Committee have awarded the
first premium (fifty guineas) to Mr. J. G. Rochead,
architect, Glasgow. The design represents a medneval
Scottish tower, the proposed height of which will be
229 feet.. with a staircase leading to the summit.

The iterlin conrradicts the report that
the library of Alexander Von numb°let has been sold
to Lonl Bloomfield for the Itritish Museum. The paper
adds that several gentlemen are still busy making a
eataliwu„ e of the library, which is larger than wan at
first believed.

The Great Western. and most of the Midland Railway
and Canal Companies, have advertised that, on and
after the Ist of October nest, all goods carried by them
will be charged on the actual gross weight at 2,240 lb.
to the too, except iron, which will be charged at 2,400
lb. to the ton.

Eighteen gun-boats of superior tonnage are now being
built to reinforce our navy. These vessels will consti-
tute a larger class of gun-boats than thole at present
in the service, as they will range between 400 and 700
tons burden, and will be fitted with powerful screw
engines.3lEmile de Girardin has come forth with a new pam-
phlet, entitled " Le Dfitarmement Europfen." The only
chances of preserving peace, according to the author, lie
in a general and immediate disarnunent of all the
nations of Europe. But how this is to be brought about
he abstains front saying.
Madame Mario and her husband have been released
from custody by the Bologna governor, and have gone
to Switzerland. The governor must have been very
polite to his prisoners, for he apologised for their deten-
tion, and acquitted them entirely of any revolutionary
scheme.

The new reform agitation will be inaugurated at
Liverpool in November next, when Messrs. Cobden and
Bright will address a "monster meeting" upon reform
in general, and financial reform in particular. Meet-
ings on the same subject will afterwards be held
throughout the kingdom. .
The artisans employed in Chatham dockyard intend
to present a piece of plate to the Right Hon. Mr. WU-
s n, as an acknowledgement of his services in procuring
the extension of the Civil Service Superannuation Bill
to the workmen employed in the dockyards and the
other public establishments.
An American swindler, one Johnson, alias Williams,
advertised for fifteen young ladies to "go south" as
music-teachers in private families. He was soon suited;
assembled the ladies at an hotel, got their luggage to-
gether, collected from them their passage-money, and
then made off with it, luggage and all.
The ten-Let (Texas) Printer contains the following
items of intelligence: 1. There has been quits a lively
time here lately, hunting runaway negroes. 2. An ani-
mated time exists with the churches in this town among
the searchers after spiritual truths. 3. The corn crop
is made and is very abundant.
Mr. Jobard, of Brussels, has invented an artificial
statury marble which is to be prepared for sculptors in
a liquid state, and can be moulded like the plaster
figure. It is said to be pure and spotless as Carrara—
transparent, polished, and hard as the real substance
taken from the quarry.
Signor Verdi, the musician, was one of the depute,-
Von from Patin& who proceeded to Turin to ask ictor
Emmanuel to accept the annexation of Panua to Pied-
mont. It was under the cry of "Viva Verdi !" that
the people of Italy, before the war, expressed their
wish to have Victor Emmanuel as their Kintettett
alette,.ziolthr eEnwnontuNe'lerrdeid.Ttatniipaina.„ the initial
An anti-sporting spirit has sprung up at Doncaster
among the inhabitants. A certain section of them en-
tered a solemn protest against the late anniversary of
St. Leger, and issued • rebuke to profane pleasure.
seekers. Blinds of private houses were drawn down in
order to shut out the sight of the revellers, and in the
windows Scriptural quotations were displayed in large
letters.

The Tea Plane, like the myrtle, yields hares of a dark once
hue ; all Intended for Green are rapidly dried In irons pans and
retain the natural dire colour. Bina Tea owes Its subdued
dm "Ur and more sombre appearance to • slight fermentation
brought let hy covering up the fresh leases In heaps, and ale,
from the rime drying WWI. (ilk art always undergoes.
Neither mtrts thil, prviared are oniforio in colour, especially
If any"( the have. are 41 the atm: or impoverished AIIIIIIIIn
mouth : therefore the Chint,e, (for the Braytian market ), (In,
wally aid a "faeiny" of pondered t,loUrs,—uallor Prins'an
blue to the Itreen. and Plumbago to the Blacla—this makes all
qualities 1.4 alike and enables them to increase the profit ll)
lotalisg off aithoet deketion. Grown uithered leaves. The
only stay to prevent the consumer having this worthic. .'rt
--- ins.ol off, Is to purchase Ton imported trillio,4 any parnlereel
Cull Or DlATalliellail COrOU IT Int, LoOnCiell PrLIMNIC enloor ma its surface. linnsima a .4. 6,:e AIMS'S, as Ust Weer-
W•ral".-11"" Ja". BecaleY4 Fanner, Illoverky. "Gentle- Used, supply Tea perfectly Pure, secured in Paeketa
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enjoy. Last sinter I was troubled with a very vi..hun cough
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, obtained (runt all nwpectahle Grocers alleiod as cheap as the
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