The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-07-28
Monstrocities on Demand.

MOnstrocities on Demand.
It is rather singular coincidence that
now the Worl's Fair is finally inaugural
ed, and crowds of sight-seers are congre-
eating at New York; there should be such
swarm of monstrocities, suddenly an
nounced in different parts of the country
First there is the horned toad from New
Mexico, alledged to have been found alive
in solid rock, where he must have existed,
if this is true, for thousands of years.
Next, there is out in Hooslerdom a two
legged calf, which walks about at its ease.
But, on reflection, this may not be such a
curiosity after all. Then, from the same
State, is advertised a family of six rats
with their tails nicely plated together by
natures handiwork Besides these, some
lucky fellow in. our own State has horse
perfectly hairless, and colt of the same
breed. But the strangest of all is a lusue
nature lately hatched in Columbia, Pa
a Shanghai chicken which toddles about
on four legs, and gets on very comfortab-
ly, though at first it did not know which
pair to so upon.
The hind pair made him rear up, and
the front pair made him kick up. But af-
ter balancing the thing in his mind over
night, he settled down next morning on
his call fours'' boldly, and persists in that
mode of locomotion.
I To crown all, while we are writing, a
tall Kentuckian enters the Office, and
hands out what looks like the petrifaction
of an infants head, considerably heavier
than lead, and SO ugly that it must have
been made at time when the 'Fhuman
: face divine" was tha human face diaboli-
cal. The eye, mouth, nose and ear could
easily be made out. Part of the skull
was gone, and the convolutions of the
brain were as perceptible as in an anato-
mical subject He picked it up yester-
day afternoon, while gathering paving
boulders, down in Boone county We
sent the man to Dr. Locke, as more com
petent than ourselves to decide onits char
acter.
Putting all these things together, we
think the visitors to the Worlds fare arc
likely to find some things there, not pu
down in the programme.
Rio Grande.
We clip the following item from the
Brownsville (Texas) Flag of the 29th ult
''IND1AN D1FF1oULr1Es.-By passengers
from above, arrived on the steamer Cam
anche on Sunday last, we learn the fol
lowing:
con the 10Th inst, information was re
ceived by Capt. Granger Of the Rifles
{ stationed at Bellsville opposite the Mexi
can town of Guerrero, that party of IL
or 90 Indians had crossed the Mexican
side, about eight miles above his post
He Immediately dispatched party of me1
to follow their trail, and dividing the re
mainder of his company into parties sta
toned them in such manner as to inter
cept the Indians on their return. No
more than 36 hours had elapsed from the
time of their crossing the river when ont
of the divided parties discovered the In
dians' return trail, which satisfied then
that they were making for the pass in the
river at full speed. The troops overtool
them while crossing their animals; five In
dians were killed on the spot; some five
or six wounded; horses, arrows, bows
guns, blankets, &C., were taken from
them, and those who escaped, swan the
river entirely naked. It would appear
that there Indians were fully aware of the
presence of the Rifles of Bellsville. They
travelled 1856 miles in 36 hours, despoiling
the rancheros from the place of thei1
crossing down to Jack Everitt's rancho
They returned by way Of Sous.
"Much credit is due to Capt Granger
for the admirable tact displayed by him or
this occasion, and which resulted in sc
complete route.
Reinforcement of Mexican Troops on this
Frontier.
i Troops are continually arriving at the
/ Mexican towns on the frontier, numbers
as we have never before seen on this line
Military encampments are also being es-
tablished at points on the Rio Grande