already said, of a lighter character.

News of this remarkable discovery rapidly spread, and yesterday
when we were there, people were coming and going, from a circuit
of four or five miles around, in farm wagons, carriages and buggies,
and on foot, to see it.

John A. Clarke, Esq., being at Cardiff, Saturday evening to speak
on temperance, took occasion for a lamp-light view. Returning to
the city near midnight, he told the story; and was telling it all
day yesterday. Not one in fifty of his hearers would believe the
counselor, generally esteemed reliable though he is. Still,
before the day was over a dozen or more went out to satisfy their
curiosity, and returned with full confirmation--and more too, and
the "petrified Giant" is now the absorbing topic.

Mr. Newell has stumbled upon an "elephant" in this Giant. His
neighbors say it is a fortune to him. It is averred that he was
offered $5,000, $10,000 and even $20,000 for it; that a clergyman
offered his farm in exchange for the monster--but these offers
were all declined. We talked freely with Mr. N. He was quiet and
modest, and we doubt if he has received any such proposals, except
perhaps jokingly. He indicated no such thing. Yet he seemed
anxious to have the "thing" brought out all right if possible, be
it what it may, and therefore guards it by day and by night.

During Saturday night the surface water had settled in the pit so
as to cover the image. The wise men of Cardiff were consulted. One
said, bail out the water--exposure to the air will do no harm. The
other said, leave it thus until some scientific man comes to decide