Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-26
Rattle of Pyramid Lake,

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some interesting particulars to the Saeramen-
to Standard. One thing that strikes us in his
account is the statement that Seuea giite men
were seen in company with the Indians
These white men were probably Mormons
Two of them were killed in the fight 10y
brave fellow named Elliott, who was himself
mortally wounded soon after. Among other
incidents related is the following:
William Arlington, Of the Sutter Rifles,
possessed as noble a spirit as ever animated
the human form He remained with the gal
liant Meredith and the few rifles under his
command, until he was mortally wounded.
He, too, was only armed with shot gun. !
found him at the close of the fight shot
through and through ! helped him to mount
his mule, and supported him for seventy
miles to Carson City, where l hoped to pro
cure the timely aid of a surgeon for the woun'
ded man. We rode all night, and many was
the time, such was the pain he endured, that
he begged me to lay him upon his blanket
and let him die. | encouraged him and sup
ported him until about daylight, when we
arrived at Buckner's station, PONY EXpress,)
fifteen or twenty miles from Carson City
Mr.. Plummer, who is connected with the ex-
press, very kindly, as / thought, volunteered
/ to take poor Arlington into Carson City in
"A stage, which he did and for which he very
| h,tmanelv charged ahcrwaId the sum of fifty
dollars-much good may it do him When
we arrived in Carson City, the hotel keeper
refused to receive the dying man, because, he
said, nobody would sleep upon bed upon
which man had died, and he couldn't afford
| to throw it away. 1t was with much diff
Guilty could find quarters for my wounded
comrade and after his death we were made
/ to pay hundred dollars for the plain coffin
in which he was buried. | am sorry to say
of the people of Carson City, generally, that
| they seemed to consider that our misfortune
was rather a subject for eXtortion than for
sympathy, and their conduct toward us had
no tendency to elevate my opinion of human
nature, at least of the trading portion of it.
We blush for humanity, when we read such
soullessness Of conduct as is related above.
An important fact, as bearing upon the
lately mooted question as 20 whether the In
dians showed a flag of truce, the bearer of
which was fired upon, is stated by Captain
Mcdonald, as follows;
A. II. Elliott, from Clear Lake, has been
accused of firing upon the bearer of flag of
truce This is libel upon as brave man as
ever lived. The Indian fired upon was riding
up and down in front of the main body with
a large tin banner at the end of staff cut
into the shape of tomahawk. He was evil
IDENTIFY leader, and Elliott fired at him by
my order after consultation with Major
Opmsby. Elliott was armed with telescope
rifle, and was an excellent shot.
The Indian we believe was killed, but
Capt. Mcdonald does not say so.
A STORM OF IcB.-An ice storm flor such it
is called,) recently visited the town of Leroy
and vicinity in Kansas. A writer in the
Neosho Register says it lasted about fifteen
minutes, during which time the ground was
covered with ice-balls from the size of a hens
egg to common sized table bowls. While the
storm was raging, some balls were picked up
near the doors of some houses in town, and
one weighed ten ounces and another one
pound and half 1t occurred about six
o'clock in the evening, and during its con-
tinuance it was as dark in town as a moonless
midnight. A young man who happened to
be out, was so severely injured that his life
was despaired Of The writer mentions a
house through the roof of which the balls
effected passage. But it is useless, he adds
/ to attempt to enumerate the various acci-
dents and incidents which resulted from this
storm. We hear of horses, cattle and pigs
being killed, and men severely pumneled.
A MOTHER KILLS HERSELF AND CmLD.-In
the vicinity of the town of Momoe, in Hi
nois, the dead bodies of Mrs. Ardilla s. Earl,
and her little daughter about fourteen
months old, were found recently in a small
stream. The Agile County Reporter says
that the hoop skirt of Mrs Earl was dis
covered on the bank, and the bodies were
nearly together in a small hole in the stream,
in which the water was about two feet deep
The arms of the child were tied together
with black tape, and its head mufled up,
but the limbs of the mother were free. The
COroner's jury found verdict to the effect
that the deceased came TO their death by
means unknown, but by the act of the mother