Dan Hemingray is back from his 7 week trip out west

Dan Hemingray's Wild West Experience — Mouth of

Licking Improvement.

COVINGTON, Oct. 27. — ED. COM. GAZ.: Dan Hemingray got back to the bosom of his family last night after seven weeks' absence in the "wild and woolly West," and tells the most miraculous tales of how many "b'ar" he killed, and of hundreds of Indians he slew with the jaw-bone of a buffalo within three miles of the post-office at Kansas City. He is dressed like a "cowboy" — buckskin vest, slouched hat (that once might have been white), a revolver in each boot and a frog-sticker in his necktie. The only thing that gives him away is the fact that he can not "drink red liquor and swear." Otherwise he has things "down fine," and is playing them for all they are worth upon the astonished populace of this great and thriving city. The Government is pushing the improvements at the mouth of the Licking River in a manner that shows the contractor is up to snuff. This first hole made there by Uncle Sam, you will remember, was carried off, but was afterwards returned, and was "hand-painted" and put in position, but later on a mud turtle, making its pilgrimage to the C. & O. Bridge, stepped in in it and punched the bottom out and broke off the handle, which made it useless for the purpose it was intended for. This hole will be entirely different, as it is hemmed in on three sides with a "cob fence," and after the contractor put his "foot in it," with a No. 18 Congress gaiter on, he drew it forth and boldly proclaimed that the excavation left after the said foot was withdrawn from the water was all the one that could be made by the last appropriation. In my opinion, the child is not born that will see the end of this great improvement, which, when finished, may allow light-draft catfish to get up the stream a couple of lengths. The money foolishly expended here, if used to remove the point of the bar opposite the Cincinnati wharf, would be of great benefit, and be much more likely to improve the Licking, but then there would be no red tape about it. We mention this to call attention of the river men and the Water-way delegates to this nonsense.                                                    HIS X MARK.