Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-04-18

closed! Is there not in this setting forthR,
majesty and energy that recall the heroic DIG
nifty Of one OF Napoleon's general orders %
that, for instance, ISSUED upon the eve of the
battle OF the Pyramids? s'Soldiers! from the
SUBMITS OF those vast structures three thous-
and centuries are looking down upon your
"Are you ready for the contestf Are YOU
fully organized 10 meet and beat the Wings p
Now's the day and now's theS houri Sac
the front of battle lower! What's he that
wishes for more men from England? Nor
Alps nor Appenine shall keep us out nor for.
titled redoubt! Forward rlet'us door clie !
And then, Dalhousie the great good of war /!
Lieutenant general to the Earl Of Mar &c.
vive Ia bss"telle.-lNat. Intel.
sr ADVENTURES WITH A BOA CON
oIklCdOK.-Captaip 49,, of her maj
esty's Sith Foot, was one.G The most indie
fatigable sportsmen r Fever met with, and the
entire of his time th4t could be spared from
reegimental duty waspassed in the jungles.--
lie was a man OF vasf personal strength, could
undergo any degree Of fatigue; i'm short DOS
sessed a perfectly iron constitution. When
upon one of his excursions, Capt. c
happened to be passing the night at a small
village in the Wynaud jungle, when a ryit
who had.been out very late searching for a
stray oGqiock, camea.to tell him of aslarge
cheerful or spottedV Ter, which he had watch
ed TO its lair. He chad also heard from the
erai'times I'm that neighborhood. He started
accordingly after, his game az daybreak. ac.
comPanied BY the yillager and a ~favorite dog,
winch rarely left bis heels unless ordered.o-
Aiter proceeding about half a mile through
very dense Juhgles, and being, as the ~vfsaeer
supposed, near the spot where the cheerful
mad laid down, Captain C of a sudden
missed his dog, and hearing a ~rustlimg in the
bushes about ten yatds of, accompanied by a
whimpeIing noise, he turned i'm that direc-
ton, and saw wharhe at first glance took
for a tiger, frdhrits color, a mixture of blacI
npnster realS "a huge enor% mms. b tne
INSTRUCTOR, Yhfcfaad seized his Door Juno.
and was at thatemoment crushing her to at
oms in its terrible coils. T~heSnafiye who
was with him sawistiat it waS likewise, and
immediateiy Ned. Capt.C-.af afterwards
described the appearance of the reptile, when
thus coiled round his dog, as somewhat re-
sembling a barrel, every portion in violent
muscular motion, and he distinctly heard the
bones OF the poor animal crack i'm succession.
within its terrible embrace. AT last the mon,
ster raised its head, and fixed two glaring
eyes OH captain -, who i'm another
moment might, Perchance, have been ~fascina-
aim he placed two Ills in it's s' fors ImsIIlng
Their effect was not, however, as he expected.
iatal' and the snake instantly uncoiling itself
rom It's victim, c4he straight at Captain
C,.--, who, OF course, took to flight. but
so thick was the jungle that he found the an
lmai gaining onhinL from the noise il made
among the bushes; aud therefore sought shell
ter IN a tree, reloadihg his gun with all posi-
oie expedition. Whether the reptile followed
nm by sight or smell, he could not Judge, but
Captain C--was only lust prepared for n
second discharge when the boa reached the
tree, and Instantly twining itself round the
stem, would have soon seized him, but fortu-
nately at the next shot he blew out both its ,
eyes with a charge of BIB; vet though the
snake appeared Tor a moment stunned, il still
continued its efforts to reach him, until by
repeated shots II was incapacitated from RI
sing, not, though, till Captain Chad
completely emptied his powder flask, and
even 'heh olu not venture To descend, as the
reptile continued coiled around the tree or.
casionally by a muscular movement showing
tlai Its vital powers were not wholly extinct.
NJ length, after some hours solitary confine-
ment ON his perch, and shouting until he was
hoarsc Tor aid, Capt. C had the salts.
faction to see a number Of villagers arrive, by
whom the monstrous animal was completely
destroyed. Capt. - had no means Of
accurately measuring its length but by a piece
OIL stick which the natives said was a cubit
long, and he declared it measured upwards
oil thirty OF these, and was much thicker than
one OF his own thighs, which were of a make
That would have well become the.leather fie-
ior-shames of any Lifeguardsman! The head
Oh the boa was cut of by his orders, and semi
TO the Hon. Mr.. Cole, then resident at Mys.
ore: and Its enormous jaw still may possibly
DC III existence at the Mysore residence.
MADRAS u. s. Gazette.