The weekly Butte record., 1863-04-18
A Wild Elephant.


Did ever meet wild elephant? Yes,
have; and ugly customers they are TO meet.
too. l remember one old fellow of the Parish
cast Of elephants. | caught sight Of him
once, and heard his insane trumpeting. | am
happy to say, at safe elevation above his fix
ed promenade. Despite all his terociiy, he was
amazingly partial to sugar candy as many Il
mess secretary would testify on reference To-
the loss book in mess supplies For years this
elephant escaped retribution. His vile aud re
vengeful disposition finally brought him to an
abrupt and violent end. Travelling up the
Bangalore to the Neilgherrie bills, there came
up corpulent subaltern of cavalry. to whose.
dsorganized digestive powers the shaking of a
palanquin journey and change of air had been
recommended by his doctor. The unsuspecting
traveller was doing away the warm hours of
noontide to the droning " hum hi. how hum.
be came to the ground with a shock, and the
palanqnin bearers were scattered TO the four
winds, as though she'll had burst in their
midst Scrambliug ont as well as he could,
the horrifed traveller SOW the mischievious
twnkling little eyes of huge elephant gla-
ring at him from beside tree not ten YARDS
distant. To turn and run faster than he had
ever done before in his life was the work of an
instant, and in another the elephant was tear
n e.,lf
continued for at least ten minutes or more, un-
til poor r, who could as soon climb up
into the moon as get up into a tree, began to
get winded and in sheer despair took to dodg
ing the elephant round and round a teak tree
of gigantic proportions. This kind of sport
continued for some few minutes, Gntl the vci-
Gus brute, quite exasperated, retreated few
yards and made a terrific dash at the trunk of
the tree, thinking, doubtless, to bring it down
by the run. The shock was so great, that it
threw the terrified subaltern clean off his legs,
whilst the elephant had literally trans6xed it
self-the extreme points of lis prodigious tusks
protruding on the opposite side, and rendering
all the animals gigantic struggles TO disengage
himself unavailing, till, finally worn ont with
fury and exhaustion, it sank down upon its
knees, and groaned horribly. II was now the
stout Leutenants turn to be the aggressor.-
Running back TO his paanquin, be brought his
ready loaded Manton, and, adding TO the
charge an extra bullet, fred both barrels into
the ear Of the elephant. The report of FIRE
arms attracted some wood cutters who were,
not far distant, and with whom most of the,
paanqun bearers had found refuge. These.
coming up, the teak tree was soon leveled with
the ground, the tusks disentangled and cut out
of the elephants head, and with these trophies
of his proves safely secured to the top of the
palanquin, r pursued his journey, and
reached bis destination without further adven-
ture.- Leisure Hours.
DEsrRUcrIvENEss OF MusKEr AND CANNoN
BALLs-The full official report of General
Rosecrans of the series of battles about Stone
river and MurfreesboTo is noticeable for its
and for the niceity with which
he has calculated the percentage of killed and
wounded in each division, and the quantities of
ammunition expended necessary TO accomplish
such results In the report he estimates that
of 0,000 rounds of artillery fired by the Union
forces only 728 bit the enemy and of 2,000,-
600 rounds of musketry only 1882 were eEec-
tual. This would show that u eaBnon shots
or l55 musket shots were required to bit one
man-averaging the latter at one ounce each,
the weight cf lead required in bringing down
one enemy would be nine pounds, while of the
former it would require weight of iron of 235
pounds or one and half times the weight Of
the human body. As, however, the proportion
killed or dying of wounds among those bit is
not more than one in four. the figures above
must be increased in the same degree. For
example, $40 mdsket shots are required to kill
one rebel and los cannon shots are necessary
to a similar result Calculations also makes
it apparent that more destruction is dealt by
the musket than by the caDnou-even with
shrapnel or other newly invented kinds Of shell
A soldier, therefore has many more chances Of
coming out of battle with a whole skin than
he supposes. Let all take comfort. therefore
and stop deserting, and let civilians not be
afraid Of the oncoming draft. Rosecrans is the
only general in our armies who seems to regard
and study out the scientific details and results
of war.
WEEN THIEVES FALL OUr, ETc.'-The
Nevada Transcript says: " Probably more
Internal liar than the editor of the Sacrament
Bee cannot be found on this coast
THAT was triumphant appeal OF lover OF
antiquity, who, ia arguing the superiority Of
old architecture over the new. said When