New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-12-06

the foot Of Il will take the left sudn vsrlearirr tEfs
Barney avaiisd himself of this information Following
the chief 70 The fooe Of the mountain he ferud, sure
enough tbst he had taken ths left hand road which hs
asceYtained BY the tracks Of ponay He contnuedhs
journey to the east until about hours before day
break the next morning, when ha sat down atigusa
and hungry; after daylight he killed rsttiesnake sight
feet four inches In length which he roasted and .ss far
breakfast He kept on IN the direction ~hen shout
o'clock he was overloaded by his bTotherinlaEs dog
which he killed immediately and passed On the next
day about o'clock he oyerha afed BY another dor
5eonging 10 the tribe which lie dispatched ia ts sae
manner a. the ohers after which he proceeded without
any moestation travelling four days without daring
ouhu hfes only IN tbs dsy time. He weeks
travelling before he any tribe Of Indians during
Fnch time he had spent week ia despair not travelling
or expecting ever 20 reach habitatfDn Of whites
At the end Of the above time H. came t 4 trite ,ci,
ne css shs Tornahawks He kindly treated by them
or ear q being taken again. he assured them that hs
belonged 70 the Flat Heads and was ia search Of two
crazy Indians who had made their escaue After sskinr
some questlons in English concerning the crazy Indians
he departed and after nine miles travel came f te MIS-;
souri, river He made raft Of loqs and Crossed over
travelling due east he continued his Journey nine weeks
oeiors ne arrived at Lake in Minnesota during
kiled with his bow and arrow He remained there hyat
dsys and sold his accourements for clothing and then
made bis way for this State de arrived 10 the cara
Barney Ia man Of considerable inteIgeree rnd seeus
20 nave vivid recollection Of nearly ali that passed @
rng nis captivity BE seems familiar with Indian life
ana gves many Of their signs for determsribg courses
cures for disease &c. He would Ike 70 zee his cbildrep
would rather crego the pleasure than to 20
oaek and remain with the tribe He married soon
New York where his wife dad sitter which he as ~
" W fgr Company He Is ss years cid bnt still
es aesFe and hardy He describes the country where
be has been as being the handsossst he ever TrlS
ns nas seen ne y and is story Is correct he
can Ten OF more trials trbulatons and adventures than
any one no# nsing lMaeoupin en- Statesman
AN1MAENsE SUBTERRANEAN LAKE IN Mrfr,re1N
appears that Monroe county Michigan is entirely des
itute of springs except thoss Of sulphureous water c
quite along the streams and laEe aorsr
But at the depth Of about twenty ii excseut
Ia fn1In& Ih11rk -
severe drought, several wells began To give ont en
resident the banks Of Stony Greek determined f sink
his ower After some hours laborious digging in hard
PAM on which all pursuit Of had heretofore ended
the pick suddeny broke through and the water bnrs m
With such violence as to compel him to esys the tool Ia
the fssure and hasten ont save himself from drowning
It has been flowing fountain ever since Of unstapcnr
Volume and unvarying tempersture-65 degrees Since
then many have dug and bored through this stratum
y some places 10 the depth Of not than twenty
fest and always with the Same result The deuth Il
uniform and the clearness Of the water almost
objects at twenty feet appearing well
pregnated with ron and has every where the same min
erai quality comes from the depth and flows to the
same height. Fish different from any known in the
country offen appear in these wells.
Not far from these wells in basin surrounded By sand
dykes rising abruptly from the plain Is bed Of sicous
limerick so finely comminutd by natural agent as
to drift in the wind when laid bare the soil Some years
since before the road that it raised By an
emnanknenf the wear Of travel had denudei the rock
and the brilliant white sand had spread over large
surface initiating in the faint moonlight sheet Of water
Lne into the notion that lake obtrueted
nus path People residing it times called
up in the night by strangers to give direction about get
ting around the pond This beautiful silex the best Of
glass material The bed nexhauhie and fuel is album
dant The soil is deep sandy loan, superimpoeed on
eo oi argn caEine varying in thickness with the eleva
non underiying this s stratum Of siicous limerick
correspondent Of the Scientific American says that the
geological formation Of the whole surface Of the State in
cines him to believe that this subtends the entire
peninsula and is always accompanied with water
tain depth It rarely crops out but where that
y bears unmstakable signs of its former aqueous bed