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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 187, 10 August 1870, Page 4

An enterprisiug Missourian cut out a sheet of ice two hundred and fifty feet long, and one hundred and sixty-five feet wide, and ten inches thick, and started to raft it en masse, down the Mississippi to St. Louis, one hundred and nine miles distant. Oue end of the field was sharpened to serve as bows, and the other end rounded for a stern. A skiff was fastened to each side to give the requisite sheer when necessary, and a cook stove and provisions were taken on the ice. After a prosperous voyage of twenty miles, the concern unfortunately ran into an ice-bound point of land and broke into three pieces. Although it was dark at the time all the men and the cook stove were saved, but the ice broke rapidly up and disappeared in the darkness. The projector of the scheme will try it again, and is confident that he can do better next time. Piekrb Bonaparte is said to intend a visit to this country. He will probably settle in New York, where he can shoot as many men as he likes without troublesome i n terference .—PhiladeiphiaJ^dger.