Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-12-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

GAME IX AIIICIIIOI4.—The Feed says: Arnold, who died more than a generation ago, wee of ten heard to lament over the exceedingwastef ulnese of American civilisation, and foretold that a continent 'Ai* above all others abounds in 'the rich gifts of nature wonid be exhausted of itc matchless -resoarces long before the "clow-going 'progress of the Sclavonian empire had arrived at minority. Is confirmation of this view, it is but two years since the President of the United States addressed a special messagetothestandingcommiCteof thellauseof Repreeentatixee upon public land% communicating informs.titan respecting the rapidly-approanbing exhaustion of tees upon the North Amortizes continent, and priging them to provide by legislative enactments for thetcultivation of timber and the preservation if forests. Within the last quarter of a century it used , to be boasted that the tireber of theZinited Sterne we. ' practically inegisaustible, and, therefore, the confea. mons contained in the rvort put forth in answer-to the President's message are tantamount to an admissioe that Doctor Arnold 'was correct 'ix his anticipations. Similarly; it is imponsible to read the books—and their same is legion— put 'forth by Begin* sportsmen whoikave been in the habit of visiting the less-frequented -Mates and territories of the :Union in pursuit of big game, without perce:ving that the day is not far distant when the Bison americanus or buffalo, the Cerra aloes or m 0062, the °VII MOntntaa or mountain sheep, the Antilocapra or prong-horn, and the Ursus torribilis or grimly bear, will have disappeared front a continent of which they were by no means the least interesting and valuable features.' " Yet, oh, the pity of -it!" exclaims the agonised , Othello, and his heartrending cry will be echoed by every naturalist, when he reflects that the buffalo might readily be °inverted into one of the strongest and hardiest beasts of draught in the world, and that he is au-easily tamed as the wild horse of the Pampas. But, although the eleven* hour of the buffalo has come, it is not now even too late for eome patriotic , Americans, who lore their noble native land, to make such urgent representations a Witesington that further indifference as to the fate of a magnificent quadruped shall henceforth be impossible. Tuts MonAtON 31Lteeacien.—A San Franchnio corrmpondent writes under date November 7: "In passing sentence on John D. Lee for participation in , the Mountain Meadow, massacre (which occurred in 'Utah nineteen yeare ago), Judge Boreman celled attention to the atrocity of the crime, the inability of the authorities heretofore to procure evidence, and to the fact that the conspiracy to murder was wide- spread. He stated that Lee was finally offered up as , a sacrifice to popular indignation, but that others equally guilty might hereafter expect punishment The prisoner having the right under the laws of the territory to choose death by hanging, shooting, or beheadiog, hoe, chosen to ,he shot, awl he was accordingly sentenced to be shot to death on January 211, 1877. Lee was at one time Bishop of the Mormon Church, but when it was found hkely that he would aitimatety be convictd of the! crime charged against Illin, he man sluietly,deoppedby the Church. On his first trial with a Mormon jury it] was found irepositible to convict Him, in his second .1 OW he was ,unsupperved the Mormons, and ip is naturally supposed that he has been sacrificed as a scepegolte to alloy popiilan indignation, but, that many othera concocted with his Church are implicated in the crime. His nldninte'' eotifesi.ion, if made, will phice the history of.the dreadful crone beyond doubt., The old man, however. nhito denouncing the Conspiracy against him by Those of his own faith, proteets that he will be faithful nod not turn dates' evidence. He says that in the event of his detail he has forty eons who will avenge-it. and ' sit on the graves of hie,