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"V J-J ' \ ' ' ?*2/r . ? * - i-'.-' * I VOLUME 3rn CAil DEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, AUGUST 20, 1852. NUMBER 67. ^ BWBKffiVIISiA _ ..ui.lij. .,i. wc ?! mfr:-- j^m.Lr?v^rr?~ f _ - . \--r> .\zr\- g!rrr>.t/my,-.au:. c^?r--:^c3K^3Trt3irrarr3Lrxi?.v - Baeaai -"?i ir^'w^sinBflBBnnaHBar 3m ; THE 'CAMDEN JOURNAL. _ published semi-weekly and weekly by THOMAS J. WARREN. TERMS. The Semi-Weekly Journal is published at "Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Four Dollars if payment is delayed three months. The Weekly Jocrsal is published at Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if payment he delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not oaid till the expiration of the year. A TWUOTTQVVfPVTQ iv-;il lie. inserted at the follow trig terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in the 8eini-weeklv, one dollar for the first, and twentv-fivc cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, seventy-five cents per square for the first, and thirty-seven and* half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. 23^"The number of insertions desired, and the edi. tion to be published in must be noted on the margin of ?tll advertisements, or they will be published semi-week* ly until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly From the Baltimore Weekly Sun. THE LAST OF THE FAIRY RACE. ^ BY MRS, H . In the days of yore a fairy sat Beside a chrystal spring, And in her arms site held a babe A young and tiny thing; SjgM^^^nd with its little ruby lips, KHBvTo its mother's breast did cling. HRfSSMHon its form she fondly gazed, BWEoH^V-nd on its cheek so fair, tear-drops gathered in her eye Asshe smoothed its golden hair, slowly move ' her quivering lips, As if in silent prayer. Farewell, farewell, to the bright green earth, It is a lovely land; ^ But I will go to a brighter home, To join my elfin band, And the crystal waters sparkled bright? She sank 'neath the golden sand. KINDNESS. As stars upon the tranquil sea, In mimic glory shine, So words of kindness in the heart, Reflect the source divine. O, then, be kind, whoe'er thou art, That breathest mortal breath; And it shall brighten all thy life, And sweeten even death. *?? JOHN ALCOHOL, MY JOE. John Alcohol, my Joe John, When we were first acquaint, I'd money in my pockets John, Which now you know there ain't, I spent it all in treating, John, Because I loved you so; But mark me how you have treated me, John Alcohol, my Joe. John Alcohol, my Joo John, We've been too long together, " So you must take one road, John, And I will take the other; - lor we must tumble down John, If hand in hand we go, And I will have the bill to foot, John Anderson my Joe, Home. Is there any other word in the vocabulary o' j nations that is so expressive, so suggestive. so I gentle and so important? in its widest signification as that which heads our article? Home! "What a talisman it is, what a spell, what an invocation ! Is there any heart, old or young, that ^oes not beat responsive to the sound of that one word? Is there any brain so dull into which it does not flash with a gush of suggestive congruous fascinations? We have all had a Home.? "Perhaps we have not all got one; but we have, certainly, all bad one. Change of time and circumstances may have so buffeted us about the great world, that we feel too ^cosmopolitan ; and in an easy adaptation to all places, and to all sorts of men, we lose that home-feeling which makes some spot an individuality, as it were, * which nothing else shall belike. Perhaps there w1m uitb .1 liliiliKonliie reach above I iliu iimiij " ,,v? ^ j . common feeling, liokl aloof from the domesticity ' I of society, and with a self-inflicted l'nriahi.-tn, if fc. we may be allowed the expression, will not be of a home homely; but these arc the eccentricities L of human nature. We speak of, and we speak fcyto tlr masses, and to them wc say you have all j Homes, or you laid all I Tomes. All men, then, have lost a Home, are trying I to make a Home, or are striving to keep one that the}- have. Everybody has his or her ideal of somewhere, or some place of rest, of complete satisfaction, where the roar and the din of the great world may not enter, or if heard at all, | would be esteemed for its contrast to the scrotii_ty within?a Home, in fact, for without serenity there is no Home. \\e used to think in ourvei ? 'lova flint thi> biirlif.^t fitl.. flint ninti ' IV young - -O - - could give to man was Ills Most Xante Iligh1 ne>s; and wc now think that a man who is happy in his Ilomc, at his own fireside, with the ) partner of his heart smilinggently upon him,and t his little children looking like shining content (a* k some author has it,) is to all intents and purpo- ! ses a Serene Jlighncss. If such a one be no(. ^ why then, as Othello says, "chaos has came | again. [ Let us look at that busy merchant upon the ^ mart of nations?fire in his eye, keen calcuiation in every muscle of his face, his brow tinted 2 with something of the color of the yellow ore he P struggles and pants for. He has his moments i when with moistened eyes and faint sighs h thinks of his childhood's h<>mc, of his father's lire side; and when there will rise tip before him th aim spectral band of past companions, of pas affections?his mother's tender glance, his father' counsel, the playful tenderness of a sister's lovi and in comparison with that lost Home, not !o.; through fault or fully of his, but swallowed up i the vortex of time, he w ill for the moment thin lightly of his bills, and bonds, and balances, hi usuries, and his cash accounts; and his dreai will be yet to make a Home where there shall b smiles and peace. For what is it that yonder pale student con sunies the midnight oil? It is for tame? Th empty applause of those whom in his heart < I.1..-. l.io Ah. no?he i striving- fur a home, lie pictures to himself t!; vine-clad porch of .some simple cottage, and him self upon the threshold, with the hand of he whom he loves in his, and all the world boyoni them banished from theircontemplation. The? men, then, are striving to make a home. The; may never reach the goal of their ambition.? They may, when the goal of refuge is withii their sight, sink fainting by the way; or the; may find that habit is as strong as this first as pi ration after a home, and they go on then stri ving until the grave closes the account, and give them a quiet home indeed. But still they linv happiness in the pursuit, if to them it were bu an ignis fatuus which they never much cared t' reach. Some are battling to regain a lost Home.? They have had the blessing, and treated it lib a humble until it slipped from them, only tliei showing itself to them, as the shadows of ad verse circumstances roll between them and it wlin a jewel they have lost; and Home is something akin to love, in the respect that once lost, it i not easily recovered again. But such person will commence their pursuit, and through tic crowds of humanity, as though feasibly l.xikim forsome remembered but lost face, they willsearel for another Home like unto the one that has lef them. Iloine is the revivifying spell that braces ma ny a heart to do its duty. The mariner on tli< wide ocean, as lie clings to the frail spar that i alone between him and eternity, thinks of hi Home, and his grasp tightens, for lie feels thn the spirit of that holy word has given him strength The soldier, upon the scorching nlains of India dreams of a home at last in his native land: ant as the watch-lire pales at his feet, he smiles a the visions of his native village rises before hi mind's eye. The veriest vagrant that begs from door t< dour lias liis Home, if it be but some desertu. hovel into which to crawl at night, when tie blasting wind is Jdgli and mighty. Tic II nno spell is around and about u< all. Give the getlest urchin you can liud in the great city ai aims of unwonted amount, and ten to one bu lie shuffles home with it. The profane and vu] gar are accustomed, wh'-n they wi-h tliar an rude blusterer, upon a public occasion, should l? quiet, to advise him to "Go I lot no." Even the know that J loin.; is tin; i;i:iir<ii'iii < ! uio r; ami in the thatch d cottage, throujjh-whieh t!i IudloW win..] whistles. as well a- in tl??* uv.r^i'oit palatial pile. redolent of \var;:il!i ami p-rlium > the lluinc-spell lingers, ami there is no pine like it. A Happy Home! Oil, what a spoil there i in the words! Can human ambition point to : higher hope than that, unless it abandons ihi oroat sphere and fixes its ?\a>:e upon immortality And after all, what is immortality, and theCod like hope of Christianity, hut a Map]} II >>n forever? Is there anything in the wide w-.i'd - gracious to tlx; heart as the lloine tiivsi-le'? Homo voices, their <iyhs ami sound-? 11 in tears ever have in them a rede niiny j>y li.a makes t.heiii all but celestial! The man who with humble means and rjuio wishes, the man with a mind attuned to th harmonies, and to the beauties of nature, wb has a J ionic, wnoiv en\y auci unuiaiiKiuim final no place, where dear domestic hoe ami yen tloni'ss arc the pre-idiny anyep, is indeed a Sf rcnc llij;liiif .?>; and loiiy may lie ?- >iitiim<' so, am may our happy country he ever celebrati 1 a- l!i land of Home and Hearts. ? ?.??. Soaic Fad*, relative lo 22t?' il'aatmoli Cave of liciilnclis. Col. Croyhan, to whose family it belongs, wa a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, lie went t< Europe twenty years ago, and, as an Ainericai: found himself frequently questioned oft lie wmi dels of tlie Mammoth Cave?a place lie Ii:i< never visited, and of wliieli, at home, thoug! living within ninety miles of it. lie had hear, very little. He went lln re immediately nn hi return, and the idea strnek hiin t<> purrliase am make it a family inlieritanee. In 1."> minutebargaining lie bought it lor *510,000, tii"iig] shortly after, he was offered ?100,000 f.?r th purchase. In his will he tied it up in sneli ; u-.iv th;it it. must remain in his familv for tv.< generations, tluis appending its ecl.brily 1<? hi name. There are nineteen hundred acres in ill cslate?three square miles al??.?vc ground, thougl the cave probably runs under (he property of great number of other laud owners. For lean those who might dig down and establish an en trance to the cave on their own properly, ( man's farm extending up to the /. nil h anddowi to the nadir,) great vigilance is exercised to pre vent subterranean surveys and measurements a wouid enable them to sink a shall with any cei tainty- The cave extends ten or twelve miJes ji several directions, and there is probably niaiiv; backwoodsman silting in bis log hut within i'ei miles of tho cave, quite unconscious that th most fashionable ladies and gent lemen ofEuropi and America are walking, without leave, undo his corn and potatoes! 'I lie equable air and the good health of th miners, who were at one time emploved in dig ging saltpetre from near the entrance, started ai * * * * '' ' i - i r ...... Kk'.'i, some tunc siik'<\ urn ;i ii>r (. on o [ suuipiivc patients might be profitably cstablishi 0(1 in the cave. Stone huts were accordingly c constructed, in the dark haiis beyond the reach t : of external air, and, among those who tried the s experiment, were two consumptive gentlemen, who, with tlioii healthy wives, passed six weeks t. in this hideolnis seclusion from daylight. One n of the gentlemen died there, and the other rek i ccivcd 110 bcin lit?but the devotion of (hose volis untai ily buried wives >hotild chronicle their name n in the cave's hi>tory. Another patient, who e went, in and remained some weeks, was attended j by friends and a servant, but his end approach * il.ii'l* 111 -1 alK.nt 11 live Ll!" Slt'll'.' Ill UKib UIIII\ c became so appalling, that thc-y fled in tenor, ?f friends and si rvaiit, anil Ielt the dying man alone, s i Nothing couM induce them to return, and, when 3 i others went in, the poor man was found dead i- with an expression of indescribable horror upon r his features. Those who have seen these dreary I huts, miles away from the sunshine, who have e smelt the grave like air, barren of the pervading y vitality which vegetation gives the atmosphere - above ground, and who have realized the intense i) silence and darkness that reign there like mcti) j stcrs whose presence is felt, can appreciate the i horror of being loft alone at the last hour in such - J a place. s j The side avenues of the cave, into which visite | ors are not usually taken, are said to be labyt | rinths of interminable perplexity, and the guides i | are instructed to let none enter t.hein alone. A I gentleman who left bis party a year or two ago, - and ventured to explore for himself, lost his way. 3 and was only found l?v Stephen, after many long i and vain researches. lie had stumbled and put - out his lamp, and had been forty-three hours t alone in the darktuss. When discovered, he I was lying on his face, benumbed and insensible, s Stephen brought him out, several miles, upon his s hack, and lie recovered ; but he had the experi3 eiu-cof a death in darkness and solitude. j ) The Mammoth Cave is as large as a county, . I.iif fin/'.fln.v ...uniti- ton of it it t , represented, I believe i;i the Keutuekv Legisla, ture. Tn the country's literature it will bestrong ; ly represented, sonic day, for there is scenery for e j a magnificent poem, a new 1 Junto's Inferno, in s ; its wondrous depths. It is a Western prairie of > ' imagination, still wild and unoccupied.? Willi* t Litters. _ From the A mcrican Former. j PKIZb ESSAY, v On the Coinpnrotire adeantayrs of Drill JL/iss bnnlry neve tin' oht system, (to whirl) the 1'rein ium of the Mary/owl Stab Agricultural -j Society was awarded.) By Edward Stahlkk, 1 of Montgomery Co. Aid. The importance of the subject., and believing - ?Tot a rif-rf exten.l d ! \r.v I.-.iof (lie advan ta-e in tie-use of the 1 hill, ov- r tlie old method i of se> diu^ broad-cast, would prove benelicial to t tlie A gricukural community, 1. am induced to - give my own experience, and also the result of v coii-id rabl ob-ervatioii oil its use, by others. e In tlnory at I a.-.t, this subject has long been far miliar to nv-; but fr<.ni tlichbrh price of thcim: ; plcnii-!;!. u' li-ually about -slOo.oo, doubts were ; eu tort ailed win titer small farm.is,? those who s or .w from ten to tw. uty-tive acres in wheat. . were ju-fiti d in incurring so much expense, e ' J'r. .iotis how* \<r t ehaugiiiLf inv plan of seed i in-- win at. ami i-MVoniiif Willi ciMirr l lie harrow, - ! cuhivsitwr, ?.r small j>!oii-]i, I ?-ar? 'nily ?'X:imiin-?! i iii-iiiv iifla- v.it?? tin- wln-at iliiii.-.! in, in ailj.>ia ! i;i'' niiiiiiiis in inv own, .ami o(li.-r States : ami j . * . . . : with the oj'j'Mitunity in many eases u!' o iiijui tin-- the -t .will, ;iti< 1 ;i tual results, in the same e I liirMs. 1 Within the ]i.a-t tlii-i-o y\*trs. tlioso oh-w.'itioii-i - . ha\( o.\t?-i:.l?-il ov. r drill- .1 lieMs i-i t Ii?- n---'ive Uf.iN* to ftillv 8 t;t to l(HM) neivs : exdn-ive of t } ?l: i!!iii-_r h-i-t y. :ir :ih..nt Ion jnavs in my own ' nil'] lor - -vi-rnl of my neighbors. This venr we t ! -hall ti-e it to i^i'i cxti-nt, should tlio season '' j <-nnil la'e .- . diii^, i? ia no in-frnm1, either in mv own, or the expeS ri. nee of ?.1 !:< !>. wli- iv the P-sults have been - carefully no-ertaim-d and i-?;tin>:iivd. ha- tin-drill' ^->.1 %. .1 ii? t.t'.iv.i (In* iit/twl i t'. >f tl-il iL' :'" " " i;? - i ? ! fir.-l. in tin- saving iif srftl; and s eoiidlv, in t!i< ; increased product nf uiniu : ;m?] varying IV ?in iin.*, l?i six "i- seven lui-dii'U in tin? aero. In a in-1" ea < only have I hear 1 the drilling a ! eoiid'miied. Thv ""loand all < 1, was the oivati r liability l?i net,and lal-airss of maturity ; hut tVoiu an examination into the ease. there were other causes too apparent to lie overlooked, and " j ijuite snllieieiii to jirodnee tliis result, without ' ! a'tnlialiiiij il to the use of the drill ; the wheat " ' was seed. 1 i;j |.,\v. wet land, and several weeks ! later than il should have heen. J lad a portion 1 of the >a:in land hee;i seeded hroad-e.i.4. and under similar eireiiiu-tainvs, it. is eonlid nllv he7 li>Mil ill-- latter w.iul'l have heen .juiteas inueli J ailed ed with nw!. and |>roh.iMy a lighter cro^i | also, lo lw thus aliioted. I w i!l proceed in some of the ad vantages, and ?lis:iflv:i ilrijLTi-s. a- I 1 1v. found. nltfinlin.vT '' i'.-u'Ii method. Tin' most common mode of eov" fiiiiLT wheat in h road-cast sowing, is wiili the harrow ; anil if tho land is well prepared prefv viou-ly, i. e. in lin^iitli and 1< vol surface, 1 !o* I harrow will so impWeetly perform the operation, '' j as { nave much of tho seed uncovered ; or so ' J ii'Virtli" surface, (lint tlie first so!tlinirrain thereafi-r will expose noinconsMeral?!< portion of the ,l jjraiii.?True, some of this will sprout and lake II lee hie ro?.{ ; hut it is m norallv thrown out and killed hv tiio. winter's frosts;?together with another portion, covered. though too shallow; heinv the necessity of adding an increased jii;in1 tity of se. ,1 to e-uard against, this coutiiujeiiev. 1 do provide against this loss of seed, my hroad1 ca-l seeding has usually heen from 2 1-2 to a ' le.idicls to the acre; and it harrowed in, rarely '* - 1-! ?<w. L- .,1 It" ill., shovel 1 |'IoiiltIi, or small l>ar share is used instead of the harrow. .1 considerable i>orlion of the seed is e covered 1.?r? deep, and is necessarily irregular in " vegetal intr;?even if some <loe.s not fail out'rely 1 to force through the ground ; and this im oulari iv continues, l>olh in length of head, and main' ritv until harvest. "When cut, the crop is iuter-por-od throughout with green heads, unless the host wheat is permitted to stand too Jong, and to sliatter oil' in llic harvesting. There is also another objection to broad cast sowing; it is not possible, citlior to distribute on tlie ground, (particularly even in m< dcrately windy weather) or cover the seed with regularity ; in places it is (pike too thick, and in others again as much tou thin. This disadvantage, J have with others long heen aware of; though without practical knowledge, could not fully compare ami appreciate the 4i advantages of the drill husbandry, over the old system" of broad-cast seeding. We will now compare the two methods, by stating what are. in my opinion, the advantages of using the drill. If the seeding is performed early, so as to admit of the branching or " tillering" of the grain in the fall, live peeks properly drilled oil land of medium quality, will generally prove sufficient; hut as it is unsafe on account j of the depredations of the Hessian fly to seed j most varieties of wheat early, 1 drill 1 1-2 bu-h; els, and sow broad-cast not less than 2 1-2 hushels to the aero; of course there is a saving of of one bushel of seed ; hut as most persons perhaps would only sow 2 bushels broad-cast, and drill live pecks, we will assume a clear saving of seed of three pocks to the acre. This would more than pay lbr the hire of a drill, at the usual charge of .10 cents an acre; and the same team will diill near or quite two acres to one over the harrow, and probably four or five to one over the shovel or small seeding ploughs. ? * . .t ... 1 1 .Assuming t;i>"? cost or rnc team, Jianu aim harrow, at *1.7.5 per day, the account will stand nearly as follows lor fifty acres of wheat? Jtmul-cast 100 bushels of seed at SI $100.00 10 days team, Ac. at $1.75 17.50?$117.50 Drill. C21 drilled 5 p $62.50 Sdavs^cam A drill 1.75 $.75 71.25 Difference in favor of Drill $16.25 If fo the above we add only one bushel to tli aoree increase by drilling, here is a savin-' in a 1 single season, of near or'juite the cost of the best drill in the country, in seeding and growing a crop on fifty acres. it may he urged that live acres is rather too sma'! an allowance for a day's work with the i harrow, in a largo field with comparatively little > turning of the team : granted ; but in a large j field the drill will seed I d to 1G acres a day with j the same team that would proptyly harrow in, by lapping over the previous course?seven to j eight acres of wheat. I assume the increase at! one bushel only ; when my own experience, and also of those on whom I can rely for correct details. go to prove that from three to four bushels j is much nearer ad average increase. i ...? - .--i i." .a- .i11: r | i run i iml .>uiih; iftiiiuiMir tut-uihiim- *?i j ! two.;111<i ev?-:i two and half bushels to llio ;icre; J and with their unusually productive lands, it , may )< , and 1 ss i- justified by experience; j but where there is one a.-if that produces 33 to 10 bish-.ls ot' wheat, ih -re -ire probably tlioit: sands seeded that do not yield the half, it'tie' third ?.?t' it : lmt v V-lh.-r driilvd or broad-ca>t, it j is It li.-vt ! less seed will sutriee in the one than i i:i the other mode, to prodti e at least an Oipial; omp; with tli" b.-t coielnct.'d broad-east oj?*ra-, j tioiis. there is usually, if not always more or less j i lo->, if not an actual wn<te of seed. Those who j It may be ashed by tlio-^'nol familiarwitb the ; drill why there should be a saving in seed and ; an increased product, by its use.' In the lirst j ! place, the seed i* all lvpdarly di-tribut? d, and; ! to a v? m depth, 1, *2 or o iiuhcs, by an arrange-1 ; m.'iil for the purpose, and at the pleasure of the ; ; far nit r: and.it is all utiilbrmiy covered; consequently. having an equal start in V'-^.-tatiiitr. and Jail liable alilo' to the chants of moisture ami ' temperature, it all arrives at maturity more e<jiial-1 j ly. The same causes also operat" to produce j ; more similarity and lar?r<-r heads; for from lai-p- j and heavy heads only, can we expect to reap! heavy crops. \\'h<'ii the pain is sown irregular-! J lv. .and covered at dillhretit depths, with ].ortiolis j ! of it crowded together, all our< xperieiice proves I ! it...i .!>.? , f lli.i lni'i.lj iI'.i <111ill 'iii.l *:m*il] ! ! j.i .?rly filled, arid iat" in ninlurino. I Airain. this j.laii of seeling loaves the earth : J rid ded hi> i>? t \veeii (lie diills, which is gradually ! j ?-rui111>!<* 1 down by llie fV'-sts ; and as the alternate 1'ieeziiiir and thawing lias a iicces>an* tendency l'> throw init the y<?un^ plants, this process ?>f feeding them, as it may l?e termed, rarci iy fails in this way to | rotect the lender growth, . and to prevent serioii> h>s from seed in tr in low I wet lands; and which would otherwise he half lost in some eases. Tin iv is how. vor another advantage, and an j important one; the open spac"s between the ! drills. :itlt.nl a jjivatly iiiereased c-liaiiee to i^et :i I ! mio'l stand of oia-s seed ;?clover, timothy, or: . other varieties, wincli sliouM always l>o literally j J >">\\'ii oil tin' wheal. tli.it finishes tin; rotation "ofi grain crops In the course of my investigations, j inaiiv cases might In* referred to, in which the results raivlnllv ascertained, ami comparing the yield I'V liutli methods. has shown the increase l?v tlrillin^r t?? average several luisln Is to the acre: and if to this he aihleil the saving in seed and the greater facility, and economy in labour, the saving is still more : lntt mat having permission to use the names of individuals,?some of whom I Veil prefer Hot to have tl.elll made public?it would he unsatisfactory perhaps to state results, without giving nanus. to uk coxtintkd. j i nkw YoIIK CoNKKKKXCIi ok t1ik mintioiust Kciscoi'ai. Cm nc'ti.?< >u Thursday afternoon this body, which has heen in session since the 9th inst., adjourned. Towards the close of the session resolutions in favor of the Main law were ' * < i *.i.l i i. . . j adopted. I liore are connected wun un. ciuhvihs of I lie conference 9H.5G1 teachers and j scholars in the Snhhath m-Ikh.N. In the libraries, 1,2(50,558 volumes. In the last tire years j there has I>i-on an increase of .'32,771 teachers I and 152.(jsl (scholars. 1 with Indiana. Santa Fg, June IT.?The El Paso mail arrived here this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and before I liral time to read Ilenry Granger's letter, the other came in from Independence. I will first briefly state all of Henry's Indian tight Dave Khinchart was sent to Corilitas with a stock of goods amounting to $4,000. lie sold the whole for $2,000 and ran away with it. As soon as Henry heard this, he left after him in hot pursuit?caught him, and on returning, at about forty-five miles this side of Corilitas, four of thein, tlm \vliiil.> iioHv nfOir-t-f.rl hv n lvirwl /it' . V..V <" ? -V """"" v" sixty Gila Apaches. They succeeded in taking J possession of a mound close by. In the first j charge of the Indians, the mules were all taken but one, and Grand Jean desperately wounded in the thigh, while endeavoring to save his riding mules. He fell, and the other three men ran out and fetched, or dragged him up to the top of the mound before the Indians could scalp him alive. Jn doing this, two of the men were badly wounded, the Indians using slugs instead of balls. Night coining on, the Indians retired out of gun shot of the mound, and built fires all around this little hand of truly courageous men. They, all wounded but one, spent the night in fearful anxiety and constant watchfulness. With morning's dawn, hostility on the part of the red devils was recommenced with active and vigorous charges. At every charge, they met with a deadly and well directed fire from this little band. On the second charge, they saw three fall dead and two badly wounded. On the third charge, they came up the mound within pi.-tu! range, and then they dealt at them with Colt's army revolvers. At this juncture, they Hod to some distance, still watching them, and with great coolness, commenecd^eating the provisions and drinking the water belonging to this little band on the mound. About 3, P. M., the Indians again commenced, and with determined <s ambition to wipe them out, (in Indian parlance.) They made a charge in -several places. In the meantime, our heroes had piled up rocks that were handy by, and formed a broken kind of breastwork on one side of the mound, and were now in wait, their rage and thirst having mado them desperate. At the fourth charge, the party used their revolvers as before, with terrible effect. -Still the devils persisted, until they in utter consternation tied, not knowing how they could lire so many times, and evidently from one piece. In the fifth charge, the man not-wounded (by name Daly) had his clothing, even to the soles of his slices, shot and riddled by slugs, but in no wise injured except by concussion; the oilier tlirt-e also were in this fix. Henry, at this charge, received a slug in his left leg, in front, direct on his portomonnaie, which was at the time filled with doubloons and silver to the amount of *400. This saved his leg from being broken, but the concussion was so great as to cripple him completely. The Indians again retired, and again kindled their fires, evidently intended as a decoy, for this was done and the sun yet an hour and a half high. In this movement they were out generalled. Ify some means they got a log or stick of wood and dressed it up in a coat, pants and hat, and then limping and endeavoring to get -i .. i .. .i?..i ,^. o.,i^ +1..1 T..n: 'r.iill.r Jil.ii.iu ?i uriiPm^tiauuii ivtuuuo uiu niuians. At once they charged on them, firing; down dropped the dressed log, and iu the meantime awny went Daly on the only mule in camp, (slightly wounded at that,) for Carrisal for assistance; and U-fore the Indians could get back to their camp and make ready to follow Daly in pursuit, lie was some distance off, all this time the three wounded ones pouring it into them with their titles. Grand Joan's rifie was a Swiss - tie. and carried an ounce and a half ball at least one thousand yards. Night set in and put an end to hostilities.? 1 Ittt the same ordeal of constant guard had to be gone over with. The three men fatigued and worn down with want of water and provisions, their thirst became so great that they had recourse to powder eating,to allay their extreme dilemma. ' At 11, p.m., Henry made up his mind to reach Carrisal or perish. And with this determination he set out, limiting and dragging his wounded leg after him; the other two, it seems, left soon alter, and made their escape. Grand .lean, a'ter travelling some distance, felt his wound commence Weeding afresh; and he says lie was completely lost, and knowing well his situation, lie consigned his soul to his maker, and foil asleep, as lie thought, but he had fainted. The other three reached Carrisal, and soon found that Grand Jean was missing. At this, Daly offered three hundred dollars to a party of Mexicans to so and bring him in, dead or alive. Al arty of seventeen started in search of him; found him insensible about six miles off the road, ...1 i? .. a.i i.:.? i ?UKl inJ; i HI. iu;i ui 11111wuu.^viuuaucaa induced liim to believe all was a dream. lie so<?n recovered lar cuough to ascertain how lie was saved. Si on the others proceeded on their journey to El 1'aso; leaving liim to the care of his salvators. 1 Ie agreed to pay them the threo hundred dollars, hut they, the scoundrels, put him in prison and threatened him with death, and iu this way extorted from hin the sum of five hundred and twenty-five dollars: and not satisfied with this, stole all the moveable property he had, and tlim stalled him off out of their town, still weak from the immense loss of blood occasioned l>v the wound in his thigh, lie met his boon and courageous companion Daly with a carriage, in uhicli were the two other wounded men, and he, with the others were soon in El Paso. Ho was live days without drinking a drop of water or eating a morsel of provisions, deperately wounded at thai. He is now safe in the Paso, hut very far from being well, and is in quite a critical situation. It will be some time before he can sufficiently recover his strength to travel. As soon as lie is able he will he up, and then I will immediately embark for Kansas and St. Louis. Jeanerelt or myself will go daw n l?v the mail to the Paso. i????