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THE DEATH OF LOGAN FONTANELLE,
THE OMAHA CHIEF.

The following interesting narrative we have
just received from America, and is an apt illus-
tration of the oft repeated statement that
" truth is stranger than fiction."

Logan Fontanelle, chief of the Omahas, has just
been slain and scalped at Loup Fork, by a band of
Sioux. Logan was a noble fellow, and in this last mor-
tal conflict he despatched several of the enemy to the
spirit land before, to herald the coming of his own
brave soul. He fought long, desperately, and with
great effect, but numbers finally overcame him, and his
life departed through a hundred wounds. He died a
martyr for his people, and his name should be carved
upon fame's brightest tablet.
_ _ . _ .

-He was on his annual hunt with his nation. A num-
ber of his lodges were pitched upon the plains near
Loup Fork. As a young warrior rode around the adja-
cent hills, he espied a powerful band of Sioux encamped
along a stream in a sequestered vale. Ile hastened to
inform Logan of the propinquity and power of their
natural foe. Logan ordered his people to pack imme-
diately, and proceed in a straight line and with all speed
for home, while he would remain behind, and divert the
Sioux by false camp fires and other devices, from a di-
rect pursuit of them. This was about twilight. The
people got under way as quickly as possible, but not too
soon ; for scarcely had they turned a highland, when
several Sioux warriors came in sight and discovered the
place of their recent encampment. They examined it,
and found that Omahas had been there, and then they
returned to notify their chief, and bring an adequate
force to pursue and slaughter them. Logan, from a
biding-place, saw all, and knew that no time was to be
lost in drawing their attention from the trail, which they
would soon discover and follow, and mounting his horse,
he dashed away at full speed across the prairie, at right
angles with the route his tribe had taken, and struck a
fire about eight miles distant, on an eminence where
the Sioux could distinctly see it. He had scarcely done
so before a powerful band were upon the spot that he
and his people had so lately left, and who, without stop-
ping to distinguish the trail, started for the tire which
they saw rising against the clear, blue sky, and where
they expected in another moment to imbrue their hands
in the gore of their unguarded victims. But Logan
had not been unwary. As soon as the fire was lighted,

he again mounted and rode on eight or ten miles fur-
ther, and kindled another fire just as they reached the
first. This rather bewildered them. They dismounted
and examined the ground. Logan, anticipating this,
had trotted and walked his horse around it, so as to

make the appearance upon the grass of the treading of
a dozen horses ; and this drew them into the belief that
a small body had lingered behind and kindled this fire,
and then gone on to where they could see the new fire
burning ; and so they followed with renewed avidity.
The same thing happened as before. Logan had gone
on, and another fire met their astonished gaze, while the

were now gathered. Their suspicions were

They examined the ground more
closely, both far and near, and discovered that a solitary
horseman bad deceived them, and th

knew it was for

the sole purpose of leading them off from the pursuit
of the party whose encampment they had first dis-

Logan saw them going round with glaring torch,

nd understood their object, and knew that his only

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could retrace their way to their place of startin
find the trail that his own people had taken, they
would be beyond the reach of danger.
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pursue the Omahas, and the others to endeavour to cap-
ture the one who had misled them. They knew
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nation in a straight line ; and, therefore, one party went
on a little further, and the others spread out towards

the Omaha country for the purpose of intercepting him.
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DREADFUL MURDER IN IRPLAND.

A murder of the most atrocious character tOO%
place at Ballyhaise, within four miles of Cavan, some
time between the Soth of August and the 6th of Sep-
tember. The victim, James Smyth, known as the
" Counsellor," from the frequent suits at law in which
he had been engaged, was an old man, numbei ing
sixty-six years, and looking ten years older; he was
lame, and poor as poverty itself. lie was at the fair of
Ballyhaise on last Thursday week, was seen returning
to his wretched home in the evening, and on Thursday
last he was found dead in Lisagoan-wood by the ranger
of Mr. Ilumphrys, who was raising game fur two
young gentlemen at the time. lie lay upon his face as
if he were asleep, but it was the sleep of death in
which he slumbered. The ranger went up to his
head, and a sad spectacle was there presented to him.
The head was split from the nose on nearly to the back
of the neck ; on the top was a hole some three inches
in diameter, out of which the brains fell when the
body was stirred, and the piece of the skull that left
the vacuum was found at some yards' distance, bare as
if it had lain there for years, for the unfortunate old
man was bald. It seemed as if the heavy instrument
with which the foul deed was perpetrated had been
used as a wedge to rend the skull when it was dashed
into it, for the head was fearfully opened. After the
discovery of the body it was carried up to the market-
house, that an inquest might be held upon it. The
deceased was too old to have been the victim of any
factious feeling; he was too poor to have been the
object of plunder; his years, the force with which the
fatal blow was struck, the pistol barrel got beside his
body, the few shillings found upon his person, are all
powerful to demonstrate that he was not murdered by
prostitutes, as the Rev. Mr. Moneypenny suggested.
If we include the suit about land for which he was
a claimant, which was adjudged for him on the merits
at last Cavan sessions, no motive, urging to the murder,
can be thought of. It is believed about Ballyhaise
that Smyth was decoyed into the wood, when he was
passing it, that his days might be ended there, where
there was no probability of interruption or &discovery ;
and the fact that the spot in which the body was
found was a place of no resort gives a foundation for
the belief.

MR. LAYARD, M.P.—The hon. member for
Aylesbury, who has so intimate a knowledge of the
affairs of the East, and who brought it so succes-

fully to bear upon passing events in the last session
of Parliament, has gone out to the Crimea, for the
purpose of collecting information which will be
useful to him as a member of the House of Com-
mons, next session. Mr. Layard is not expected
to return to England until after Christmas.

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