No little excitement was caused on Monday morning by the breaking loose of Mr. Alf. GARRETT’s bear.  The bear has been chained up back of Mr. GARRETT’s store for several months, and seemed to be getting tame, but as soon as it found that it was free it made for the river, followed by a large number of people who endeavored to capture it, but not a man got in reach of it until Mr. Ed WINDLEY, a young man with an iron nerve, took the chain and walked up to old bruin with as much grace as he would to a horse, and without any assistance the bear submitted to having the collar put around its neck and to be led back to its place of confinement.

Strange to say that when this animal is raging, and threatens to damage any one who gets in reach of its iron arms, that Mr. WINDLEY can go to it. His voice seems to quiet the angry passion when nothing else will.