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Concerning a person who has been attracting a great deal of attention in London, the Arkansas Traveler, by methods of its own, secures the following information ostensibly from the Court Journal: "Hon. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) was a close companion of a man named Boone, who discovered Kentucky in 1869. Mr. Cody married a granddaughter of a distinguished gentleman, known as Sitting Bull-frog Cody was twice Governor of Chicago, and was at one time mayor of the Arkansas Legislature. He served in the Confederate army, in the command of Gen. Butler, who so "gallantly defended New Orleans against the threatened invasion of the Federal general, Longstreet. After the war, Mr. Cody went to Congress from the province of Detroit, and introduced a measure for the relief of the citizens, of Buffalo, which gained for him the name of Buffalo Bill. He has contributed largely to the Atlantic Monthly, a newspaper: edited by Mark Twain and Uncle Tom Cabin, a man who is mainly noted for his negro dialect sketches. Mr. Cody has a ranch of many acres in St. Louis, where he keeps a large lot of India [?] and ponies constantly on hand."