| Show tamm A A 1 H i D ca N or OF foet FORT pilip ap ARN prie 0 OF inh THE R late LATH X MA massacre r from the army and my cowal wal Jo mal mat this ibis new post in the centra of the mountain district Df strict department of the platte and also in the heart of the chief hunting ground of the hostile sioux and being also cx ex of the first substantial occupation of the new short route coite to montana deserves notice the expedition W lidl 1101 wig was seni sent to establish it left fort keanny kearny may xay 19 under command f col H B garrington ington L eighteenth united states infantry fort reno keno eno was reinforced re additional defenses defences de fences erected and two companies were advanced to the big hom horn river that post receiving the name of C P F smith fort philip kearny has been erected bacol carrington in fin f ring itt ITI ton 0 n under finder his nis personal alim and V haily ally aily supervision it 1 i jr n inn ift atho lre ire forks of th the ePiney piney cr creeks ee k a on a natural na urs I 1 plateau by feet with a rih tia natural tural slope or glacis on all sides the stockade is of pine heirn to a touching surface pointed loop holed and after the general plan of mahan mahar attao at two corners are blockhouses block houses of 18 inch pine logs the parade ground is feet feel squares nid ad was surveyed and laid out oat turf E acuti p teu 4 by any wagon walks 12 n feet wide cross the parade bending around a circle of 15 feet radius mere where a flagstaff of feet displays the national colors A graded street stieg of 0 Q feet ibar ders ane parade ane additional 60 by feet is a quartermasters quarter masters yard with warehouses and shops east of the fort and alyd taking in little pin piney eyl cyl is is a corral for stock hay wood ac with pali palli ade aade 10 feet high and quarters for teamsters citizen employed emp loyes ac twelve double cabins a blacksmith and wagon shop and a portion of the stabling for mules have been completed two tco o quartermaster and commissary buildings 84 by ag 25 feet with ten foot ceiling and similar buildings in point of size for four com corn panics of have been completed and occupied guardhouse guard house and band quarters 00 by bly 25 95 feet are also ia in use the hospital 81 by 25 feet with high cei cel ceiling ling is before this ready for occupation four hundred and fifty tons of hay have been cut two steam saw sawmill mallk mill are in operation over twelve thousand pine logs have llave been cut cui hauled and used and every part of the work has been in the face of indians indiana who have re repeat e a edly attacked hay and timber V parties panties anes ages and have ade dashes at the pickets picket J within half haifa a mile of the hae bhe fae post the work has lias never stopped except for the sabbath and it is not within all the powers of the indians of the northwest to assail the place tho magazine on the parade is 16 by 16 10 feet eight feet in the clear of fourteen inches thickness of jimb timber er water proof proa f and thoroughly ven ventilated ti hav ing double doors and turf glacis sloping from front the eaves the flagstaff flag staf staff I 1 is octagonal for eight f feet of eighteen luches inches dia din diameter eter painted e black the next twelve feet has six teen facin facings gs dying out to a perfect round I 1 returning to a square at the cross cros crosstrees dregs the gates fates are twelve feet wide of heavy plank with a small wicket in the right valve through which one man only call can pass stooping all have locks and the wickets are closed at retreat coal ia is found at th ast gate of the wall I 1 and vind kind lind spruce sprueL are without limit we have been thus particular about this new fort so rapidly approaching completion as a prominent army officer who recen recently made it an off omm leial official visit pronounced the we stockade the best he had met except one built by bythe the hudson bay fur company he command reached the site of the fort jul jui july 15 so 80 that all has been done in three months so constant have been indian trespasses that the men alter alternated hated guard duty and had but evely evel every evers y other night for sleep this nat disturbed by night firing upon the pickets the she main work of the expedition has had been successfully accomplished and the tho permanent er manent occupation of the route is a axed nixed fixed fact supplies for a year yean are aro in store and the groundwork ground work 13 assured for a secure and land rapid emigration to this new territory aisy recently not many miles distant from washington a couple whom we will indicate as mr bir J and aud miss H i were to be married and aud the somewhat slow siow going elder eider fitas 7 afro called aponto upon to perform the ceremony the parties all being ready the elder proceeded as follows 4 gentlemen and ladies I 1 hold in my hand authority from the state of maryland to unite mr J and miss H in the bonds of matrimony doubtless you all expect some sort of ceremony this evening but my voice is weak my health is bad and I 1 have had di disease gease of the throat for a year or more DI different churches have different forms and different people have dif dlf different forms t foh for amy my part I 1 have DO no form I 1 do remember any ans form in ili some countries it is not so easy to get married as in this once free and happy country and ia ila some states they marry wit without holit bolit a licence in lome some countries it is required that the marriage shall shail take place at the hour bour gur of midnight just as the idock clock strikes twelve the company take ther their lamps and go jo forth to meet the bridegroom and then they all go into the house and the door is shut and if you come then you yon may e cry ry your eaps out and you may wear your knees out praying but never get in for the doon door is shut but this lanot the case in our once free and happy country As I 1 said before my lungs are weak andl and I 1 must make the ceremony as short possible as pa isible my friends it gives me much ranch pleasure to see ayoung and lovin iovin loving i couple like this with their hearts united unite d im int the bonds of affection come to be joined in marri marni marriage aoe age and you mut must recollect my young soung bounk friends that you cannot live together always one of you will be talen taken b by the cold ley icy fingers of death and laid in the dark and narrow grave and the other will bo be left to weep over the dear remains marriage is an in old institution ibis spoken of in the first parl par of the bible it ife is an old institution it Is a honorato honor amo aWo institution it is is a moral institution all of you like it and you all encourage it all of the young people like it the old would bould like to be young again might once more feel the influence of cupids cupida darts come on all of you I 1 do not remember ber any ceremony cei emony but I 1 reckon I 1 know enough to join these two together I 1 suppose before I 1 proceed I 1 must ask the usual questions Is there any one ole present who knows any just cause why mr J and miss H may not lawfully be joined in the tho bonds of matrimony after a pause no one says anything as I 1 suppose there is no reason mr J and miss H will please give your right hand mr J will yoa you take the lady whose hand band you hold to be your lawful and wedded wife will you love cherish and protect her yes ye sir 01 miss will you take the gentle gentie gentleman mau man whose right hand you hold to be e your lawful and wedded husband will you love honor and obey him in all his reasonable requests 1 I will I 1 now pronounce you husband and wife man and wipe wife or man and his helpmate in ate which I 1 much prefer reter refer the ceremony was cone conc concluded lud iud ex with a long pra brayer er in which he prayed for all ali ailman allman man mau kin ind collectively and individually and at the end the contracting parties and the f guests bests jol joi joined in ed with considerable heartiness in the amen tim COHOES MASTODON l the albany aty journal says the remains of the m mastodon todon lately disinterred with so much labor and expense at cohoes have reached their new home bome in the state geological museum mr alfred wild of the harmony mills milis disrel disregarding mard gard the eagerness of institutions elsewhere to secure the possession of relies relics 90 so so 90 rare in their con comparative ip apatite completeness from the first had devoted the permanent possession of them to the stale state and has made an u u conditional gift of them to the cabinet of natural history while in transit to this city they were allowed to be exhibited a while at troy in aid of local sunday schools but the drying effect of the air in softening and disintegrating some of the bones bone rendered it necessary to put them speedily under the scientific teare leare care of prof hall it may be necessary to subject subject the tusk to boiling in glue or in 0 oil oli ah to restore them to some measure of their original hardness the latter method was empio employed ed in in ringing bringing baek back almost to their or original ginal pe perfection refection the ivory orn ornaments aments agents brou brought by layard from NI nineveh some time e must elapse before the necessary of the ak skeleton eleton will wil allow lallow obile of Us bpi in the exhibition halls balls 06 of tee the e museum lif lurd new york is the more indebted to the generosity of mr wild from the consideration that although five out of six known skeletons of the mastodon were found within the state every one of them except this has been transferred to cabinets in euro europe e or in other states those discovered in in new york have been so 0 far complete that scie scle scientific men have declared that the scientific namo name odthe of the species might moat properly be the the tile al albany y ills liis institute ll 11 tut e I 1 in n bohi boht behalf 1 I f of f s science clence h has q F gratefully a t c fu y a acknowledged P 0 I 1 e d e d Mr r wilds gift by y appropriate re resolutions 0 1 ut 1 0 i the oldest lunation lunati cn record d Time tinie out of mind i |
