The true Democrat., 1854-06-27
Adventures of an Elephant.

Tho elephant, besides being the most saga
 of animals so much so as to have been oons;dored almost gifted with reasoning powers, ~ neculiarly initiative brute. He can be srbt easily and never forgets lesson. A re- U'"rrabe proof of this faculty has just been ~n;sbed us in the case of the elephant attach I +o . menagerie that has lately been exhibit . eu in Providence, R. l., and which few days D7 o performed the most strange and alarming Tho geological collection, of which he was to ,,rincipal attraction 1t seems was on It's way .-'l cns tho small townof Pawtucket to the larger Ho"' of Fall river, in Massachusetts. Before on, r+iY,a his keeper made him lift the hinder 'art of 2 wagon, loaded with $500 pounds, for lI'o I nnrpose of getting 1t into line. To this ,.o .. of lifting. and sometimes of draught, the ,+ranoth of these powerful animals IS often put, ,n emergency, by their keepers 1t IS suppos- "a I tbat this. though not unusual, might have '" ',,+o.tod to him the mode of attack which he I,;tod afterwards upon different vehicles- 1DIlI, obout seven miles from Pawtucket, he '" froo from the control of his keeper, and 6'otino 2 horse and wagon he thrust hls tusk !"totbe horse, and lifted horse, wagon and rlder intotbe air lie mangled the horse terrible,
 5 couied him about fifty feet and threw the laa1 hodv into pond The wagon was brok- o, +o neces. and the driver considerably hurt. Tbo eIonhant broke one of his enormous tusks : +bis encounter. A mile further, the elepnant ,,o,, crown more furious, attacked III the same rn.nner horse and wagon, in which were a l.an+loman and his son. He broke the wagon I oond wounded the horse, which ran away. The 9antleman was pretty badly hurt in the hip.
 While the keepers were engaged ln securing inc smaller elephant, who had not, however ,r,onifastod any sions of insubordinatlon, the 1,rror ana oot offfrom them and went on through RaTncvville. when Mir. Barney and another man mounted their horses and kept on hls track os near to him as was prudent giving warning of the danger to the passengers whom they met on the way The elephant would occasionally turn to look at them, but did not molest them.
 The nextman in the path was one who was ri4inr with his little son in a one horse wagon. He was coming towards the elephant, and being warned by Mr. Barney, turned around and put the horse to his speed, but the elephant over took him, and sezmg the wagon, threw It in the air, dashingit it to pieces, and breaking the collar bone and arm of the driver. The horse, disengaged from the wagon, escaped with the fore wheels, and the elephant gave chase for eicht miles, but did not catch him. The ele- p6ant came back from his unsuccessful pursuit and took up his march again on the main road where he next encountered Mr. Eddy, with a horse and wagon. He threw up the whole es- tablishment in the same way as before, smash ed the wagon, killed the horse, and wounded Mr. Eddy He threw the horse twenty feet over fence into an adjoining lot, then broke down the fence went over and picked up the dead horse and deposited himn the road, where he had first met him.
 He killed one horse and pursued another, who aed to a barn. The elephant followed, but at the door was met by a fierce bull dog, which bit his leg and drove him off
 Once on the route, the keeper being ahead ot him saw him plunge over the wall and make for house. The keeper got into the house first, hurried the frightened people within te the upper story, and providing himself with al axe, succeeded in driving off the furious beast
 The elephant finally exhausted his strength and laid himself down inthe bushes about two miles from Sade's Ferry. Here he was secur ed with chains, and carried over Fall River l part of the time (says the Providence Jour nal, from which highly reliable source, we have taken this strange account) he ran at the rate of a mile in three minutes-N 0. Pjcag20ae.