Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-09-26

the woods, while she would mount his
horse and lead his pursuers away. He
obeyed her. and she mounted his horse
and dashed on in a serpentine way
through the woods, leaving marks along
the bushes by which she could be traced.
The pursuers soon followed. When she
had gotten some distance down the
branch she rode into the water and fol-
lowed its descending course for few
steps, making her horse touch its sides
and leave footprints in that direction,
and then turned up the bed of the stream,
and rode above the place at which she
entered, without leaving trace, and back
to where Logan was concealed. She
told him to mount and speed away, while
his pursuers were going in a contrary di-
rection down the ravine. He did so,
and got Il long distance out of sight, and
again thought himself out of danger,
when in the valley just in front OF him,
he saw fifty braves coming up the hill and
meeting him. They were some of those
who were returning from the pursuit Of
his people. He changed his course and
tried to escape, but his poor horse was too
much exhausted to bear him with sufi-
cient speed. With savage yells they
plunged their rowels into their horses
sides and dashed upon him. AS the
foreman approached within good shoot
ing distance. Logan turned suddenly, and
sent bullet through his brain. Then
loading as he galloped on. he soon made
another bite the dust and then another
and another, until four were strewed
along the plain. Just then, however, as
he was re-loading his horse stumbled
and fell, and the band rushed upon him
before he had we'll recovered from the
shock. lie was shot with bullets and
arrows, and gashed with tomahawks, and
pierced with lanccs j; notwithstanding all
which, he arose amidst his foes, and with
his dubbed rifle and hunting knife, he
piled around him five PROSTATE bodies,
and fell with his back on their corpses,
and expired. still lighting.
He was scalpcd, and hundreds Of war
riOrs held great war dance over him.
Thus Logan Fontanellc departed, and
his noble spirit was followed to the spirit
land by the Sighs and lamentations of his
nation and the sympathies and aspira>
tons OF the brave Of every land.
Promotion in the British Army.
a letter from London to the National
| lntGIligenCer contains the following -
Some statements have been lately pub
lishrd showing The prices at which COM
missions in the British army have been
lately purchased. The cornetcy or first
/ commission in all mounted corps, save
/ the Life Guards and Blues, costs f84O.-
! The lieutenancy can never be obtained for
less than EI,7OO or II, 800. The usual
sum paid for Il troop or captaincy is from
| .E5.5OO to $1,000; for a majority $4,000
TO 1000, and from ElO,OUO to fl2,OOO
! for the command of Il corps. 1t is com.
monty reported in military circles that
! Lords Cardigan and Lucan did, several
! years ago, in order to obtain their rank
/ Of lieutenant cOIOneIS of cavalry quickly,
sink sums Of from 100000 to El2,OOO
each. 1t is fact that the pay Of each
officer in the commission ranks of cavalry
does not yield him five per cent. of the
money ne has spent on promotion ; that
the style OF living in the cavalry regiments
is most expensive that the uniforms,
horse accoutrements, &C., cost very large
sums and it is universally acknowledged
that no officer can live in any of the cav~
airy regiments with less than from G40O
to ,EGOO per year. When all these things
are taken into consideration, it will be al
lowed that Il cavalry commission is not to
be thought of for poor man. On tie con-
trary, according to the present custom,
which has been supreme since the last
war, the regiments of Dragons, dragoon
guards. light dragons, lancers and hus>
sars, are intended solely as colleges where
rich young men pass away pleasantly the
six or seven years which intervene be-
tween their leaving public schools and
setting down to marry or look after the
paternal acres. Every cavalry corps has
an adjutant and a riding master, men who,
in most cases. have risen from the ranks.
These two officers assist the colonel to
look after the regiment. The captains
and subalterns hunt, dress, shoot. go on
leave, and, from first to last, duty is made
as easy as possible for all parties. Is it
possible that "a regiment so organized, SO
otficcred, should be fit for action in the
field, or equal TO the hazards, the labors,
and the privations Of severe campaign
And yet is it not wonderful that the Brit.
) ish cavalry have done so much, and doue
it so we'll, wherever they have had g
chance of doing anything during the last
year"
BUFFALO SrAMpEDE.-A correspondent
of the Nebraskian. printed at Omaha
Bluffs, writes that an exploring party tc
which be was attached saw immense
numbers OF buffalo between Ash Hollow
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