AMERICAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 997, 6 October 1871, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

A man on trial for murder in Alabama went to sleep in the Courfc-robm. ; : ' The telegraph circuit around the globe will be completed this summer. ; Thirteen millions of money sat down to a breakfast at Saratoga recently* .-- - Sun-baths have recently effected complete cures in paralysis at Piqua, Ohio; For every 35 white people in South Carolina, there are ninety negroes. Lightning killed a cat in the lap of a girl at Quebec and did not injure the girl. A number of rude images of the human body, carved in stone, and strange heads in clay, and stones cut in the shape of cannon balls, have been dug up near Cordova. The Ottawa Times believes there is little doubt that the Princess Louise and thfr Marquis of Lome will visit Canada and* the United States in the course of the pw- ' sent year. . ; Rev. H. Wilson, a successful preacher in Illinois, is in gaol for being too much married. Seven of his wives have beem discovered, and a few more are believed to be extant. ... . . About four miles from Cincinnati re^ side 3 a hermit. He lives in a cave in the 'ground. He refuses to be domesticated, yet is not wild, and appears friendly to all those who call on him. Charleston is to give a grand torchlight procession in honor of the bigamist Bo wen, that is to say, his party friends there are to give it. . . . : .-. The remains of DalFs mill, Washoe Valley, with the grounds, tailings, &c., have been sold to the Bank of California for 72,000d01. The same amount is said to have been paid by insurance companies for damages by the late fire, by which the 1 owners have realised l44,ooo dbls; : - The Greeley colonists, out in Colorado, . refused to allow a circus company to pitch' their tent in the corporation limits. The circus fellows pitched it one foot beyond the limits. While the' circus remained, the town of Greeley was deserted and the circus was crowded. i j ' The States of Puebla, Oaxaca, and San* - Luis -Potosij threaten revolt,-and the pro»>> pects of the country are gloomy. A revolution has begun in Tobas. A report was current at Los Augelos on the 4th ult. that a heavy shower of meat had fallen from the clouds, upon the corn fields of El Monte. About this time last year a similar shower fell in . Los Nietos, with these differences, then it was raw, now it is said to be "boiled ;" then the blades of . the standing corn . were "drenched with blood," now they are, moisted by a kind of homeopathic soup. ". Captain John Melks, who in 1867 crossed the Atlantic on an India-rubber life-raft, has another raft made fifteen feet long and twelve feet wide, on which 1 he intends to go to Europe, accompanied only by a boy. He will be ready to start about the middle of August, ; and will carry with him sixty days' provisions. He will take the direct steamer's, track. A private letter by the last steamer from an . American resident at Par*, Brazil, dated the 4th July, says :— " The. cholera has assumed a very malignant form at Para. Nearly every' stranger in . the city has died. The English Coriajtf died a few days ago, and to-day his wife is doing. Drs Lamos, Walcher, Guardror, andLabon, and all other Brazilian physicians are losing nearly all their patients with fever. All strangers are liable totake the fever, in Para, and nearly every Portuguese who emigrated to Para within ' the past six or eight months has died. Several steamers which lately arrived ■at New York from Para have been quarantined in the lower bay, but the. last steamer from Rio was permitted to reach her dock, though she had touched at' Para. The superintendent of the Meg. Davis Mine requests us to state that the custom of pitching Chinamen and Injuns down the shaft will have to be stopped, as he has resumed work in the mine. The old well at the _ back of Jo Bowman's is juat'.^ as good, and is* even more centrally located. The Carson Register relates the following: — The Enterprise tells a good story on a young man resident not a thousand miles from the milk ranch on the upper road to Virginia, two miles north-east of this city. It says that on Sunday last two couples (the young ladies being sisters) went from this city for Virginia for the purpose of being matrimonially spliced, and that while the first couple faced the music and the ceremony took place all right and things looked bright, the young lady of the second couple backed square out. The would-be husband pleaded with the wouldn't-be bride with tears in his eyes as large as horse "' apples, but to no purpose. The story it good as the Enterprise has it ; but it is better as it really occurred. The wouldbe husband procured a license in this city, without the knowledge of * the wouldn't- be bride, and without even ■ 'having consulted her on the subject of a matrimonial alliance — flattering * himself that he was " putting up a job" on her, and that in the excitement of her sister's marriage he would spring the question on her and she would consent to follow suit. But she didn't. And. now there is an Ormsby county license for sale at a ruinous discount. Few people will experience astonishment at "thegates of hell" being ; dis- r covered in California. According to the report, they do not conform to the ancient and accepted description of that i inviting .<■ spot. Dante's famous inscription jp wanting on the portals, whioh, in foot, ; : "V

are noHportals at all. ~ It is a rugged, rocky N*asm, surrounded by a desolate country, cleft with deep valleys and precipitous cliffs. Snakes, reptiles, and vermin abound in untold numbers, while the air is heavy with sulphurous odors and noxious gases. The ground shakes and groans, grinding the rocks and stones together like the gnashing of damned ones' teeth. Muffled explosions and ghastly flashes of etectric light pierce the inky pall which hovers over it, and at ni^ht the saturnalia of horrible sounds and sights intensifies and deepens. Even the Indians cannot be induced to approach it, although to those of the Keweah tribe are we indebted for its discovery. Judging from the state of society in the mining regions, it never required a great stretch of the imagination to believe the realms of Sathanus somewhere in that neighborhood, but we were not quite prepared to have the fact so soon determined. If it prove true, Satan is to be greatly pitied, since it will not T)e long before filibustering expeditions of adventurous miners will root him out and take possession. No doubt the people of California, with their vast resources, energies, and wonderful mechanical appliances, imagine themselves more than a match for Old Nick, and if they take a fancy to his territory, the snakes and natural phenomena with which he has sought to guard the entrance to his dominions will prove but a poor defence against American enterprise. All that sort of thing California miners would unhesitatingly pronounce " played out " long ago. We trust the savans of that region will make a close examination thereof and report upon it fully. . W. H. Dall, formerly connected with the W. U. Telegraph Expedition, who made, in conjunction with F. Whymper, a journey of 1200 miles into the heart of Alaska, and who subsequently spent a year in that country at his own expense, is now in New Tork, and will Bhortly start on a new expedition. Mr Dall's services in the cause of science, culminating in the production of an excellent book, and the enrichment of the museums of the Smithsonian Institute, at Washington, with his scientific labors since, entitle him to a high place in public regard. The new expedition is under his charge. Professor W. Harrington, of Michigan University, is his associate as astronomer. The expedition is organised' under the auspices of the United States Coast Survey; for the purpose of correcting the existing coast lines on the charts ; more especially those of the Aleutian Islands. The Coast Survey schooner Humboldt, now at Astoria, will be employed in the service. In addition to large- collections of ' minerals, and . every variety of specimens which are sure to be gathered, the deep sea soundings to be made will add much to our knowledge of the lower depths of mother ocean. Professor Agassiz's new expedetion will start from Boston in September next, and proceed to the Paci6c via the straits of Magellan. . Deep seen soundings is to be one of the main features of this expedition, and the results of the two combined will be looked forward to with deep interest by men of science. Mr Dall will examine the coasts as far north as Cape Ronianzoff. He takes with him a quantity of se^ds, tQiteat in the soil of our northern territory.