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At a given signal we rushed on board with shouts of “Remember the Caroline,” and in five minutes had complete control ot the boat. We ordered the passengers to go on shore, allowing them to take their baggage 7 and assuring them that they would not be fitmlested. All. the passengers and crew, as was supposed, were put on shore, except the chambermaid, who was allowed to remain on board to pack her things. The boat was then anchored out in the stream, a few rods from the wharf, so that while burning it would not destroy the property belonging to Americans. \Ve putthe chambermaid, who had remained on board until the anchor was cast, on the jolly-boat and sent her ashore. The clerk, who had been on a spree at Brock- ville the night before, was sound asleep, and, not being discovered by the boarding-party, On the the night of the 284.11 of May the Sir Robert Peel was observed coming up the river, and preparations were made to board her, \Ve were disguisedâ€"some with hand- kerchiefs on our faces and others withwhat- 7‘! ever material was at hand. ne boat tied up at MacDonald’s wharf on W'eils’ island to take 011 wood. Just before we came up, as was subsequently learned, our enterprise came very near proving a failure. As the boat was being made fast to shore Capt. Armstrong, the commander oi the Peel, went ashore and was observed in converse.- tion with MacDonald, the owner of the wharf. MacDonald intimated t0 the captain that there were “ patriots” under Bill John- ston around, who no doubt were intent on mischief, and he was cautioned to beware. The captain, with an aifcctation of contempt, spoke up in a. loud voice so as to be heard by those standing around, that he had 100 soldiers in the hold of his boat, but the assertion did not have the effect intend- ed. 15 Mr. Nichols said: “ There were twenty- six of us in the party. We rendezvouscd on Grindstone Island (one of the Thousand Is- lands), and were concealed by one Scanlon, an auctioneer from Kingston. We were all Canadians. I left Ugdensburgh for French Greek, where I metirienas who told me there was some enterprise on foot, and asked me to join them. I did not then know the object, or that Bill Johnson was the leader, and I did not see him at; our place of rendezvous. Scanlon said he was the lead- er, and wanted a competent person to act as second in command. He placed a barrel upright on its head and leaped over it at a. bound. He then said that the man who could do the feat without touching the bar- rel should be his first lieutenant. I jumped over the barrel with perfect case, clearing it without touching it. _ in 605 finder the leadership of the celebrat- e Biii Johnson, Whore-fixer driving the crew ashore, set fire to the steamer. There \Aorc many conflicting accounts of the affair at the time, but the following statement, as given by a, partici ant to aflepublican re- porter, and made a 'ter the lapse of so many years, when the feelings engender-M have utterly died out, may be accepted as truthful : It is curious to remark on the statement of Dr. F. B. Hough, of the bureau of forestry, at \Vashington, who was in St. Louis re- cently, thth the Caroline was built on a small boasting sail vessel in South Carolina. (hence her name), and her timber was the live-oak of that section. At Troy, N. Y., she was changed into a. small steamer, and after running between Troy and Albany she was taken through the Erie canal to Lake Ontario and through the \Velland canal to Buffalo, Where she was employed in the patriot service until she was seized and burn- ed by the British. The whole frontier was in a. blaze of ex- citement, public meetings were held throughout the country to express an hon- est indignation at the outrage and invoke the national government to avenge the in- snlt. Advantage was taken of this inflamed state of the public mind by \Villizun Lyon McKenzie and other Canadian refugees to set on foot expeditions for the invasion of the Canadas. “ Hunters’ lodges” were formed in the large towns, to organize a hos- tile movement. The state arsenal at \Vater- town, N. Y., was robbed, and other means used to gather arms and munitions of war. It was during the height of this excitement that the Sir Robert feel, on her passage from Prescott to the head of the lake, while taking on fuel at \Vells, or \Vellesle ’s Is- land in the St. Lawrence. was boarde by a company of armed men, all Canadian re- A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. One Alexander McLeod, a. British subject, some threeyuars after the event, in a spirit of insolent defiance, returned to the county of Niagara, where the outrage had been com- mitted, and foolishly boasted that he had been one of the destroyers of the Carolina. He was arrested, indicted, and tried. After a. lengthy trial, and the assumption by the British Government of McLeod’s offence, and a, prolonged diplomatic controversy, between the two nations that threatened to end in war, it turned out that McLeod was not there as he had boasted, and he was thereupon acquitted by the jury. The Sir Robert Peel, it will be remember- ed by many now living, was burned in re- taliation for the destruction of the American steamer Caroline, Dec. 29, 1837, by a party of Canadians under Capt, Drew, who board- ed the beat at Schlosser, and after killing and drowning several of the crew, set fine to the boat and sent her adrift over Niagara Falls. This outrage, combining, as it did, the crimes of murder and arson committed by a. British armed force on Ameiican wat- ers, produced a. tremendous emitement along the entire frontier from Detroit to Maine, and President Van Bureu made it the subject of THE CANADMN REBELLION. A‘Suszor's Recollections of the Ar- fair of 1838. A representative of the St. Louis Ifflpubfii- can one day last week fell in with Mr. \V. S. Nichols, one of the survivors of the so-called briginfls, who burned the British stemmer Sir Robert Peel in American waters on the night ofthe 22nd of May. 1833. Only two persons who participated in that affair are alive. Mr. Nichols is a saloon-keeper at Theresa, Jefferson county, N. Y., and his surviving compatriot in the raid is Marshall \V. Forward, now at Rochester, N. Y., where he carries on a large planing-mill and an extensnve lumber-yard. DID NOT INTIMIDATE AXYONE. MR. 310110133 STORY. All subsequent attempts for the invasion of Canada proved abortive. As a scquel to Nichol’s statement of the burning of the feel, it may be added that the old hulk of the boat was a conspicuous object in the St. Lawrence near Mullet creek to passing steamers for twenty-five years after the boat 1 was burned. Bill Johnson, the leader of the gang, with eight others, bcfiled all attempts to capture them, although a. joint search among the islands was made by bothGovern- mcnts under Maj. Gen. Macoml), of the United States, and 001. Dundas, of the Brit ish army. Kate, the daughter of Bill John- son, known as the heroine of the Thousand Islands, conveyed intelligence and provisions tothc father. Johnson publicly acknowledg- ed the act, with the motives that influenced him, in a proclamation, stating that he was a natural-born citizen of Canada, an] certi- fying that he held a commis-ai Jr. in the patriot service of Upper Canada as com- mander-in chief of the naval forces and flotilla, and as such he commanded the ex- pedition that attacked and destroyed the steamer Sir Robert Peel. He added ; “ The men under my command in that expedition were nearly all English subjects. My head- quarters were on an island in the St. Law- rence, withoutthejurisdictionof the United States,lat a. place named by me Fort \Vallace. It was British territory. I yet hold posses- sion of that station. I act under orders. The object of my movement is the independ- ence of the Canaries. I am not at war with the commerce or property of citizens of the United States. The roclamation is dated June 10th, 1838. ohnston was eventually captured Their leader was Charles Egerson Ryerson, editor of the Christian Guardian, at Hamil- ton. He and his church had been with the Reform party up to that time. Sir John Colborne, the Governor General, was re- called and Sir Francis Bond Head sent out to take his place. He convened parliament at Toronto. T he parliament passed a reform measure to test the sincerity of the Governor General,and he vetoed it. Again to try him, they passed a second and a third reform measure, and he vetoed them. The parlia- ment then voted to stop supplies, when the Governor dissolved them and ordered a. new election. Then it was that Ryerson came outwith a leader recommending his church to rally to the support 0! the Governor. That church, obeying the dictum of their leader, voted the Tory ticket. William Lyon Mc- Kenzie. of the third riding of York, was three times elected by the Rel'ormers, and was three times expelled from parliament. McKenzie then raised the standard of revolt in Toronto, but was expelled by MoNab and sought refuge on Navy Island. The above is Mr. N ichol’s statement in nearly his language. He would have made a first-class Fenian, though the part he took in resitiug oppression of the “tyranny of Great Britain” long preceded the X‘aidu o: elm-A! 0,125.“ of patriots on Canadian soil. He said that the uprising of 1838 in Canada grew out 'of the feeling of oppression. b was, he send, to get a changn of government, but the Re- formers were betrayed by the Methodist church. In 1838 the Tories held the power through the us- out, subject to rearrest whenever the district attorney was ready with his witness- es. Our attorneys were Bernard B. Bagley, Charles E. Clark Thomls C. Chittenhen, and Judge Mason, the most eminent lawyers in the State. The popular feeling wasstrong- ly in our favor, and in some of the towns on the road to Auburn the stages were stopped with the object of rescuing those concerned in burning the Peel, had they been sentenced and en route to prison. A Ingamist sentenced at Auburn was subjected to considerable annoying delay by the stop- ping of the stage all along the road by the sympathizers who wanted to know if he was one of the Peel prisoners. Yes. I approved of the act of burning the Peel, and I approve of it now. Still it was a foolhardy attempt. That very thing led to the letting up of the tyranny that Great Britain was holding over Canada. Our ob- ject was not plunder. The valuables that were saved from the flames were delivered up to the owners. I give the following in- stance: Mr. Forward found in the clrrk‘s office a package of money which was con- signed to parties in Toronto, and he secured it. He said nothing about it, but after ar- rest and the preliminary trial at Depanville he did not want the money found on him, so he put the roll into Bill Smith’s bed. Smith, on rolling round, found something hard under him, and finding the package called in the constable, and handing him the pack- age saying that somebody had been making game of him. The package was delivered by the constable to the justice of the peace, who, on opening it found it, to contain four thousand and odd dollars, which was im- mediately forwarded to the parties in To- ronto to whom it was consigned. After our arrest we were taken to Wateriown, N. Y., and put in ail. One of our party, Anderson, was put on trial as atest case. Three in- dictmeuts were found against him. He was tried on the first indictment, that of arson, for setting fire to a. boatwhile the clerk was asleep on board, but the testimony of Capt. Armstrong, who swore that the boat was boarded by the attacking party, with loud shunts and yells, an admission that was adroitly used by the defence, went to show that the noise was sufficient to awaken the clerk, and Anderson was cleared on that charge. He was admitted to bail on the second and third indictments. The trial was before J udgc Isaac H. Bronson, of the United States district court, the only Judge who had jurisdiction. He resigned to run for Congress, and was subsequently appoint- ed by President Van Buren a judge in Flori- da, where he died. After he left, District Judge Gridley. of Utica, the “ stem judge,” came on to try the cases, THE TRIALS were reopened on the 12th of November, when the district attorney, George C. 81101"- man, said he was not ready, he claiming that Bill Johnson, still at large, was keeping the witnesses back, such asDr. Scott, who wasa passenger on the Peel, and others, from tes- tifying. Judyge Gridley then said ; “If you are not ready for trial I will discharge the first in- dictment and admlt the prisoners to bail on the other indictments. ” At the regular term he came on to try us, and the district attor- ney again was not ready. The judge then let was only awakened by the crackling of the flames and made a NTRIGUES OF THE BRITISH ME’I‘IIODISTS. NARROW ESCAPE . Although as regards the interior life of the Spanish Court King Alphoan has made, in accordance with the spirit of the times, very liberal modifications of the extremely rigid etiquette observed in past years, the pomp which has always been characteristic of Spain with regard to public ceremonies in which the King takes part continues to be exercised on the reception of the newly-ac- credited representatatives of foreign coun- tries, The etiquette of the ceremony is re- cisely the same now as was observe( in Spain’s palmiest daysnvhen nothing that the wealth and the love of ostentation could do to enhance the solemnity of such occasions and give the new comer an imposing idea. of the power of the Spanish monarchs was no- gieeted. “Be kind enough to say that Denver baby (1023 not exist. It is a. first-class myth. ‘Ve have nothing of the infant caliber in our com- pany, although Gus Hall and John Gilbert, whom we call Jumbo and Bolivar, have asked to be cast for the babies in ‘ Norma, ’ which we are soon to produce. ” ' "J pedestal, in one of the rooms and covered with green baize and had brass tacks stick- ing out at every point. A cheap carpenter could have fixed it up ten times more artisti- cally, )et the tragedian’s wife went into ecstaeies over it, and thought and said there was nothing like it. A very simple thing but it shows how much she thought of him and of what he did. But I oughtnot to talk of Salvini in this way. He was very good to me, and gave me letters that proved of great service. He also encouraged me to work hard, saying that all his own success had come only from the hardest kind of labor. He lcold me he had studied Othello four years before attempting toplay it on the stage anal I see by the papers that he gave his King Lear the same lengthy study and attention.” Miss Abbott wanted tosay something about her own success the present season, and the excellence of her company, but the reporter cut her short, and was moving away when the prime, called Ont: “-I am glad to see, ” said the prima, “that Salvini has met with suCh a nice reception in New York. He is an old and dear friend of mine. 1 met him in Florence when I was studying‘iu 1875, and he took me to his home on the Arno, where I saw his sweet litizle English wife, with her blue eyes and fair hair, worshipping her husband as if he were a. god, \Vhy, one day he fixed up a. very ordinary “AAANLAI 2.. “n” .1' LL, ,,, V V, .130 ...... - “ 0h ! yes, and told many stories about them. Nllason, she said, was greatly feared. by the costumers, because she was so ex- tremely hard to please. Patti was just the contrary very easy to suit; she took every- thing just as it came. Minnie Hauk was par- ticular only about her boots; she liked pretty boots. and was fond of showing her nicely- sthpgd feet: ’: ‘V‘ If I had lost, ’ said Miss Abbott, “ I would now feel very much as Mme. Gerster used to feelfiust about this time when she sang Amiua. How is that ? Well, she got very marl. The costumer who made dresses for her when she with Strakoschâ€"Nina Cerbi ~told me that Mme. Gerster always tore the bridal veil she worein ‘Sonnambulu’to pieces. So, too, when she sang Lucia. she kept pick- ing at the waist of her peasant: dress until it was in ribbons, and when she came ofl' the stage took a scissors and out the front. She wouldn’t wear the same dress twice. Stra- koach paid for her wardrobe, so that it did not cos-t her anything to indillge to destroy the garments. Cerbi said Gerster was very sweet_ofl"_ the s_mge, by}; @1972?“ 80+- n mu v VII-J M n Vvll vu UAAV thfic, UH}! XIV)?" Eu“ um; M, a. Larges when aha wppea're m opera; she couldn’t sing without first getting mad. As Cerbi said, ' l‘he more she get mad, the more good she sing.’ ’ “ Myrna Cerhi. 10-S\1pp089, knew all the prime donne ‘3 ” the regorter suggesyed. _ u A], t Emma, Abbott, according to The SLLouéB Globe-Democrat, is always ready for an inter- View. A reporter met her behind the scenes at the opera house the other nightJfias happy as a lark, and when questioned by the news- paper man about the cause of her happy frame of mind answered that she had won a diamond ring from her husband on Cleve- land’s majority. She wagered that the de- mocratic candidate for governor of New York would get over 50,000 majority ; he got over 150,000, and she got the ring, a five karat solitaire, which sparkled upon one of her fingefe; » “ Her efl'orts to relieve her outlawed father, amld the perils of war and the dau- gers of the storm, are on record in the details of the Canadian rebellion of 1838. Unaccom- panied she would venture in the most tempestous weather. in her little skiff to find his hiding place and minister to his necessi- ties; No night too dark, no lightning too Vlvul, for her labors of love.” ay with thy bark, lovely maid, o‘er see, On thy heaven-born mission, away ; Undetferred by the sentinels’ watchfulness, 68, \Vhere a father regrets thy delay. 0h, who but a daughter. the purest. sincerest, Would brave the vexed elements’ strife; The frowns of the stern, and the sighs of the dearest. To watch o’er a doomed father's life Kate Johnson, the beautiful heroine so oft- en mentioned in connection with the even ts of ithat period, married Mr. Charles H. Hawes, and died at French Creek in Mitre 11, 1878, aged nearly 60 years. and tried before Alfred Conkling, the father of Roscoe, on' a charge of violating the neutrality laws, and acquitted. He was again arrested, escaped, and a reward offered for his apprehension. He was finally ar- rested, tried, and sentenced to a year in jail and a fine of $250. His daughter Kate shared his imprisonment. On the expiration of half of his time of sentence he again es- caped one night, and walked forty miles be- fore morning. After tranquility was restored he went to Washington with a petition, numeroust signed, asking for a pardon, whieh was refused by Van Buren, but which was soon after granted by Harrison. 11“! T 1 Bill Johnston was born in Canada, his father being Irish and mother Dutch. He died in February, 1870, at the age of 88 years. He had been for some years light- house keeper in the vicinity where the Peel was burned. Lieut. Lucius O'Brien, of the 8th United States mfantry, the poet: soldier, author of the famous army song, “Benny Havens, O 1" Wrote a poem dated French Greek, Decem- ber 16, 1838. from which the following is quoted : Prune Donne and their Clothes. T0 MISS KATE JOHNSTON. The following story is current in the West of Ireland ; Mrs. J oycc, me of the murder- ed family, witnessed the sinking in the lake of the bodies of Lord Ardilaun’s bailiffs, but was so terrified that for some time she did not venture to tell anyone what she had THEY HAD EATEN ALL TIIE FLESH off the left arm of the old woman, which was hanging over the bedside. The police endeavored to drive away the animals, which were asort of sheep dcg, but they had the greatest difficulty in doing so. The (logs ran under the bed, evidently reluc- tant to leave this horrible feast of human flesh. \Vhen at length they were driven away they are said to have become mad, and were destroyed by the inhabitants of the place. ' flours slowly passed before basal we came. At length the son of a farmer IL‘LIIlC’l Collins, accompanied by two women named O’Brien, who were coming to the cabin to borrow a. pair of cattle for woollen spinning, arrived at the door, and Collins entered. Horrified at What he saw he did not advance lurther, but raised the alarm in the village, which lies in a. scattered, straggling form along the valley and mountain Sides. The villagers soon collectezi, and a. body of them entered the cabin. There they behold a. s‘pectacle which beggars descriptijn. At half-past nine o’clock eleven men went to the police hut at Finney, a distance of two milesacross the Inotintziins,andtold What they had seen and heard. Two constabulm‘ymen returned with them and visited the cabin, when they behold a sight of the most terri- ble character. Two dogs were in the bed where tlze bodies of the grandmother and granddaughter were lying, and l through a. bullet rent in the stomach, crawl- ed out of the bed in which lay the corpses of his grandmother and his sister. He found his father lying dead on the floor and his step-mother dying in her bed. Terrified and faint, afraid to return to that horrible bed, reeling With gore and ghastly with its dead, than he had left in the inner room, trembling with dread to remain by the naked corpse of his father, feeling the pangs of death himself, he crept in by the side of his father’s wife. She Jay till morning, but: though her head and face had been beaten into a bloody mass she did not die till some time subsequently. A Wild Localityâ€"Scenes ofDark Deeds.â€" A Terrible Nightâ€"Food for Dogs. The terrible locality in which the crime was committed, on the night of the 27th of August last, lies in the Wildest and loneliest district of the most remote regions of the Joyce country, Connemara, and is almost inaccessible, owing to the mountain fastness- es and miles of lake around which it is situ- ated. From Cong it is over twelve miles dis- tant, and from Mnam it is nearly an equal distance, these being the two nearest vil- lages to the scene of the murder. Within views are the water of Lough Mask, be- neath whose glassy surface were last Janu- ary found the bodies of Joseph anal John Huddy, the two bailiffs who were captured by a band lying in ambush and tied together â€"-whether first killed remains unknownâ€" placed inasack and flung in the lough. Here, also, Mr. George Robinson, the agent of Colonel Clements (Lord Leitrim’s heir,) was fired at, but THE J OYOE MASSACRE ESCAPED ASSASSINATION, and yet, ten miles distant lies the ground where Lord Montmorres was shot dead and the place where the boy Gibson was assass- inated. The cabin lies in a. hollow at the mountain ranges, the situation being one of the loneliest and most inaccessible imagin- able. The land here forms a portion of the estate of Colonel Clements, whose tenantry in the Joyce country, numbering some three or four hundred, have with one or two exceptions, not paid a single farthing of rent for the past three years. John Joyce was one of these tenants- He was a. man of about forty-five years of age, and some con- sid erable time ago held a farm from the mur- dered Earl of Leitrim at a district in the Joyce country called Derry Park, but had been evicted. In 1877, then being a widow- er with four children, he married the poor woman slept in one bed, awretched couch in the inner apartment, the old woman and one of her grandsons lying with their heads to- wards the little Window, and Margaret and her older brother lying in a contrary direc- tion. All wasquiet for the first few hours, till about one o’clock in the morning, when as Michael. relmthtlfhxs dying breath, he heard shots. The door was taken off its hinges and a. number of armed assassins poured into the cabin. The fathwr was shot on the floor, having sprung out of bed ; the wife was hlurlgeoned to death, and then the inner room was entered. The feeble old grandmother was attacked and her skull was crushed in by a rain of blows which left bone, blood and brain one mass of pulp. Michael was shot in the head and stomach ; his sister was struck on the head by a blow which left her a, corpse, and Patrick, the younger child was badly beaten over the head and face With a. Stick. Micheel, wound- ed fatally and She was a. Widow, and, at the time of the wedding, was in possession of a farm at Maamtrassna. Since then he had lived peaceably upon the farm, his mother, Mar- garet Joyce, eighty five years of age; his daughter, Margaret Joyce, eighteen years of age, and his sons, Michael Joyce, sixteen years ot age, and Patrick Joyce, eleven years of age, res ding in the same h0usa with himself and his wife Bridget. His oldest son, Martin, a. young man of about twenty years, lived at Clenbur, being a. ser- vent in the employment of George Hare, a. farmer, and to this circumstance he owes his escape from being one of the victims of the bloody tragedy. it appears that the Joyce family retired to bed at their usual hour, John Joyce and his wife sleeping on a. miserable little bed composed of rags and straw and placed in a. slight recess in the wall, a few feet: from the door, on the left hand side as the cabm is entered. THE STORY OF THE CREME. “'HO SHARED HIS TRAGIC FATE. THE REST OF THE FAMILY HIS BOVVELS PROTRUDING, _â€"- J... uuauv to hold a man until the fiéighbors can get a rope. The Dakota, town of Pierre has a, new jail, and some people wonder because a local neWspaper man praises it as “a substantial wooden structure.” Even a. pin. jail ought +n LnlJ .. w...‘ .___a.:1 L1,, ,, The reason why some of the street lamps burn all night is because the light; is so small ibis afraid to go out alone in the dark. Moo-40>OQH ‘ A Novelty Fur. A novelty in fur garments is a cape espe- cially designed to protect the chest. It fastens at the back instead of in front, and. the opening is so arranged as to be imper- ceptible. For sleighing it is especially suit- able, as there is no chance for an cold blast to strike the chest as the wind blows open the cape. Besides its recommendation of comfort, it has that of being very becom- ing to the average figure and being a. style of garment now fashionable. A young French painter was showing the Shah of Persia his picture of llerodias bring- ing in the head of John the Baptist. The Shah asked him how many minutes were supposed to have passed since the head was cut off. “ Two minutes,” said the painter. The Shah then told him that the lips ought to be wide open and of an ashy white. As the artist was unwilling to be convinced, the Shah clapped his hands and, a. slave ap- pearing, drew his sword, and with one tre- mendous sweep severed his head from his body. He then pulled out his watch and two minutes after stooped down, picked up the bleeding head, and, walkinér to the pic- ture, he'd the real head by the side of the painted one, and said to the Frenchman : “Monsieur, you cam see for yourself that the lips ought to be ashy white and wide apart, and you will learn to believe the Shah in future.” Then he tossed away the head and firmly walked out, leaving the pa nter more dead than alive to take himself and his un- fortunate picture back to his own aperi- ments. The shock was so severe to the painter’s nerves that he bcemnc hysterical and remained so for months, unable to do any work. The Shah conferred decorations and titles upon him, which cost nothing, and, giving him just enough money to take him home, allowed him to leave Persia, and he now occupies astudio in the Palais Royal in Paris. seen. One night, however, she could no longer keep it to herself and described to her husband what she had seen certain men do. This was overheard by her son, who shortly after, being bullied at school by another boy, cried out, “I suppose you want to murder me and throw me into the lake as your father did the bailiffs.” The boy hav‘ ing repeated this to his father, the latter and his confederates determined upon their dreadful crime of messaering the whole fa- mily of the J oyces in order to put out of the way such awkward witnesses of their former guilt. The story seems too circumstantial to be untrue, nor is it easy to see why it should be invented. At any rate, it offers a very sufficient explanation of the massacre, the motives for which has never been very clearly made out. How Some Explorers on a Colombian River were Cooked and Eaton. PANAMA.â€"â€"DX‘. Agnozzi, Papal delegate to Colombia, has addressed a circular to the Archbishop and the bishops begging them to obtain all possible information respect- ing the number and condition of the savages in the interior. This measure is consequent on a massacre and cannibal f. ast which have recently taken place, and which is thus de- scribed :â€"The River Putumayo is one of many which run from the eastern slope of the Colombian Andes, about which little is known. Rising in the mountainous districts of the upper altitudes of Pasto, in the State of Canon, it runs nearly one thousand miles, receiving in its course the tributary Waters of more than thirty streams. Within the past few years adventurous residents in l’asto have endeavoured to turn the riches of the river to account ‘ It is navigable even in the upper part by canoes. After frequent petitioning Congress passed a law permitting the entrance of merchandise by the river free of all duty, with the result that some portion of the imports came by way of the Atlantic, were carried 2,000 miles up the Amazon by steamer, and thence by launch and canoe un- til they reached their market, within 300 miles, as the crow flies, of the Pacific ocean. Messrs. Reyes were the first to engage in this enterprise, and, by treating the Indians well along the route, have been establishing a. very fair trade, exporting ivory, nuts, india rubber, vanilla, cascarilla, sarsaparilla, and other raw products in return for the goods brought in by them. Their success induced a young merchant of Barbacoas, named Portes, to engage in the same enterprise, and in company with some friends he es- tablished himself on the banks of the Putu- mayo, among the virgin forests which there cover every foot of ground. They had erect- ed ahouse, made a small clearing, and al- ready saw their way to a profitable business, when they were visited by a number of J evenetos Indians, who came ostensibly to trade. They were received well, and were apparently satisfied, but suddenly they at- tacked antl killed the Colombians, and after- ward cooked and ate them. The Indians have never visited the Putumayo before, and no one has ever fallen in with them on the Amazon. Other tribes have also made their appearanc: in different places, and it is be- lieved that some other powerful tribes are driving the weaker ones from the heart of the unknown forest regions, (1' that they are voluntary emigrants who will murder and plunder Whenever opportunity offers. Residents on the frontier also suggest that they may have been driven from their homes, wherever these may he, by th slavers, whose vessels ascended several of the tributaries of the Amazon a few months ago in search of slaves and produce. ' This supposition will appear exaggerated to all who are not aware that Indians are captured on all the interior rivers and carried off to difl'erent ont~of-the-way regions, where they are compelled to Work on the plantations which have been established far away from anything bearing even a semblance to civil- ization. It is probable the death of Senor l’ortes and his riends will attract the atten- tion of the Colombian government to those lorg neglected regions of the Republic. A CANNIBAL FEAST. The Shah's Lemon