Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1857-06-20

10 MT call tue tru!n an ,DSnlt I,
exclai ned FL is. with a shing eyes, aDc
slight nervous mott OF the righ
! hand, as if he, too, was b coming ex.
cited.
Then you will not apologize ?
1 Il have nothing to apologize for an
swered the preacher, as his right b nd
was raised slowly. and t. all appear
anc-s involuntarily, and glided under
his vest.
| Then I will take an apology out Of
your hide!' tuund red the Major, as
ne drew a horsfwhip from his boot, and
began the brutal work OF e g .llation.
But the duelist had only time to
strlk ono blow for before he c,uld
accompi sh the second, Ellis drew from
bis b .>o.n long, deuble-edg. d dagger,
and plung d it up to the handle in h,s
.nemy's hea t. The latter fell and
expired without uttering groan!
Size the rascal; Shoot the hypo-
critic = with various other menacing
exclamatinns cri d he friends of Sn ed.
And dozen knives few from their
sea bards, and the young minister
b ard the clicking of scare of pistol
locks nearly all around him. Not an
instant was 10 be lost. With the
speed Of thu wind, he f in an oblique
direction to wh-re his horse vas last
ened. seized the bi lie, and spr,nglng
into the saddle at bound, spu,rea the
n BIZ animal t" his utmost speed, and
a Though severl shots were fred after
him, he e-ca oed without injury.
The perils that environ hin,, how
ever, had only just commenced, for his
foes, also Oh horseback, set off in hot
purs lit, and the chase cnniinu d with
out int-I missioa along the road which
led to the Missouri riv,r. There. as
Ellis found that his ,nemies we're bout
to over axe hun, he plunged into th
wo,d., and making considerable OF a
circuit, at length struck tn river at Il
pom, higher up than h had first IN
tended to reach. Her the bank un
fortunately was open, aud mis- pursuers
coming in sigh although it was grow.
ing k, de-c ed him, ard, giving IA
nurdefous shout, hurried f r"ard to
satiate heir vengeance in his blood
He had hut one allernaiive--to stand
be sho, down Ike wolf, or take til
water; but even this latter choice a
horrible, on account of the tr, m nd rus
rapidly of tina, 6ercels ungovernablt
str. am, which, in addition to its orein-
ary ierrors, at th.t tine was thick
with a ating ice, that after dark even
boats dared not venture across.
However, he had no other resou ce,
he goad d bis hor,e to the d sprrate
leap, aud in mo nent the latter was
ST juggling Nth the powerful win'ry
curr mt. Hi. d stppointed enemies
came up the instant afterwards. and
watched him moving f"rwards slowly,
bot floating do~nwards by The ST. cam
with fatal f cility, until he man aud
n,mal dwindle.I to mere black speck
hardly visible on the water, and ,oo4
werr swallowed up and totally disap
pa ed in the darkeni"g night Mt a
behold-r not one pers who bse-
quen'l. heard the Occurrence rrla ed
doubted that Seaaorn Ellis had gone to
the bottom of the swift rolling Mis-
souri,.
Not ing more was said concerning
| him for Years. and hen his fame
again began to fill mems mou his, it was
not as a preachr, but as a most infu.
entail member of the Texan Congr SIS.
and an esp cial friend of Gen. Houston,
AID he is NV, has been for st.e al
yea S, n the Senate OF thu State. II
is almost universally admired and IS
teemed for many excellent qualiti S !,
and he only fault which can be alleg d
in his character is that his wrath, hen
aroused is terrible as tornado 1t is
rommonl so with persons who have
once shed blood. Their hands va der
inv luntarily to their knives upon the
instant, and they never can endure TO
see their beloved wes pons removed
fr m their reach. They sl-ep with
the cold steel under the heads, they
wear it in their Dos ms. Can it b
po-sible, then, that there is ,ntoxica-
Il Il, m ntal witchery more p werful
than Wise, in the Grim 'on cup of nun
de,i o, what fell infatuation is thai
which blinds the eyes of the bravest to
the agonies of the torn an bl Ing
b art that quiv-rs beneath their dagg
points for tn last ii ne, and whica shuts
up their ears ag inst the IN urnfui ere:
. AMI wild lamentati It's of fathers anc
! mothers, Of wives and chiidren-tne be
) reaved relatives Of tn. vaDquished foe
: N. Y Sunday Times.
. A SATIR,cAL SENioR.-One of thos,
old gentlemen whose aye is suppose'
to tn tile them to Say an. thing. mad,
the follow ing rude and personal remarl
2 to a young officer in distinguished re
siment about o proceed 10 China:
We'll. sir. you're going to Canton
eh. sirl We'll, l can only say. | hop
o you ont fal. into the hands of tn
i Cinnamon, alive or dead for, if your
alive they'll kill you, md if your
|, dead, or whe. you're dead, they'll ca
y.,n Sir I b..lieve IT'S an undpu pt,.