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and Ihe Union na n Confederacy, the right to aecede from the Union in cane of the perversion of its power* to the vftnl injury of one or more of the high a— 1 1 ■■ ■ . THE DARLINGTON FLAG, is prauaHED EVERY TBliRSDAT MORVINQ, AT DAHMXGTOX, C. H., B. C., BY NORWOOD & DE LORHE. terms or auBsciuPTtos: In adeance, (per aimnm,) - • - 1|2 00 At the expiration of six months - 2 50 At the end of the year - ...» 3 00 ADVr.KTISI.M7 : Advertisemehts, inserted at 75 cents a lcnl)llt . u n- |, u „, square (fourteen lines or less,) for the first, | V ,,U,U Vi and 37f cts. for each subst-qiient insertion. 1 ^ ,e h e deral (jovernment f Business Cards, not exceeding ten lines, nserted at 85, a year. Prom the N- Y. Tribune—F>-re Soil. THE BF6BEYR SECESSION South Carolina, it seema mornlly cer tain has put an extinguisher on the liub- hle—disunion. The aignal triumph of “co-operation”—that is, of the party which opposes immediate aeeoaion from tlie Union, and insists that South Caro- liunaiiall consult and co-operate with her sister States of the South with res- C pt to their mutual grievances and the st mentis of redressing them—is a substantial counterpart of the “Union” victories in Georgia, Alabama ami .Mis sissippi. There may be some seces sion triumphs in the plantation (lArislies; but wo know that the mountain dis trict* are almost unanimous against se- “We hare said some strong things of South Carolina ravings, and her lead ing statesmen, Cheves, Orr, Chesnut, and others, have virtually enforced all contracting pe wars, would seem a legit- | we said. We said her ultra ists were imnte iufi reuee from the premises. dictatorial and illiberal, and so they said, But our view of the practical quea- j and so says her people now. tion strips the abstraction of much of iis! “So much we of the South have done, shadowy magnitude and importance. 1 and triumphed. We have fought our Suppose a State to be earnestly con- | fight. Its triumph lights us Georgia, vinced that the Union has beoome a Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, curse to her, and thereupon to have and blazes over all the broad Union it resolved to secede from it, what shall has redeemed from dissolution. South Shall we ! Carolina is not with us altogether, but call out the militia, re-enforce our reg- disunion will not be so glibly syllabled, ulur army, cast cannon, and pour down i and national feeling will be stronger upon the seceding State an avalanche of' in her |imits. bloodshed, devastation and death ? ShalU “The last stone has been rolled up we retain a sister State in the Union by against the sepulchre of disunion. It fire and sword, and compel her to send will know no resurrection. Sleepless members of Congress, and seem to be our associate and equal when she is in fact a vassal ? Wo think not. If a State, by a derided unquestionable ma jority of her people, should resolve to quit the Union, wo should prefer to let her go rather than retain her by mili tary force. This Union is not a slave- pen, though it unhappily contains slave- pens. It would be perfectly fair to in sist that a seceding State should not patriots will guard all that it threaten ed—protect nil that is denounced.— There is no loothojd for secession.— There is no echo for treason. There is no shelter for sectionaj demagogues-’ The 7'rue Della, another print of the same ilk. lias the following paragraph : “Secession is of South Carolina birth. Mississippi and Georgia knocked the life out of it, and it is now unceremoni ously bnried in the land of its origin. cession and their strength added to that willing to remain as a partner of Charleston is decisive. .South Car- We do nt oliua will not secede, nor even make a feint of so doing. Her slaveholders, notwithstanding all the clamor of rest less intriguers for ollice, are quite aware that their slavelioldiug interests are decidedly safer in the Union than they could bo out of it, and they will not bo driven into secession. Her mer chants and capitalists realize that their business is far better and their property worth more in the Union than they would be out of it. And her larger class of |Hior white men, deprived of an equal voice in the government by beV aristocratic constitution, which al lows a small minority of her freemen, residing in the great sluveholding par- permit her territory to be abused to do- ’ITie Union cause is triumphant through- fraud the revenue laws of the Union by out the length and breadth of the repub- smtiggling, or in any way to injure her lie. Thus may it ever he.” neighbors; butdo not have her retained The following extract is from the as a captive and a subject if she is un- j “Courier des Etas Unis,” a French pa per published in the city of New York, date the 16th of October, 18M ‘ “But one of the most conspicuous symptoms is that which has just been developed in South Carolina—the Sc- seuionistM have been beaten in the elec- not believe, if the door of the Union were held wide open, a State could be induced to walk out in the next half century. If any did, she would be glad to walk in again before she had been out two years. Our Union is tion for delegates to a Southern Con- maintained by a force stronger than fortress walls and more impregnable than seried ranks—that of enlightened self-interest and general security. A dozen Rlietts and Jeff Davises could go but a short way towards its disso lution. gress. Their adversaries, who are des ignated by the very outlandish name of co-operaiionuts, have obtained a deci ded advantage. This is the death blow of the disunkmists.” isbes, to overbear the great majority in * m RESPONSES TO TUE ELECTION. We invite attention to the subjoined extracts from some ot the New York and New Orleans papers. They prove con ker legislature, by which hW governor, clusively in what light co-operation is re- presidential electors, Acc.,wire regularly garded abroad: chosen—though these [*>dr whites are The New York Star savs: of little account and h** but a feeble . <That polUon of the vote r. of South ! voice m the usual d.reftt.oy of her pub- Carolina opposed to immediate, nucon- hc Htian-s-wl .nake themselves poten- ditiona] «. C easion, is, in reality, op-I U.ll r heard whenever she shall under- ) t0 disunioll M | to ,r t .ther. They; take to secede from the Un.on Null.- know |u ,| wt , 11 thnt tho entire y out , ^ tic&tion had scarcely n foothold in the eveil a miljoi it ol the Southern States, mountain distr.e s twenty years ago; ca|l| , ot , JL> ra|litid under the btamlaid ol secession is weaker m those districts ^cession, and they therefore uae this now Could the question be subnntted con j ition a8 a ^ape-goat, to gHV e them directly to the whi e freemen of South ftt onc>e from the responsibilities of re- Carolina '•Shall tins State secede from l)dliolli and t | 10 6Ug p icion of d j s | 0V alty the Union-Yea or Nay f —we have fo Southern interests, no doubt that two-thirds would thundej result of , he late delegate elec- out an indignant and determined No; tio|1 ia So utl. Carolina is therefore a sig- he disiiffection is mainly confined to jdticant declaration by the iieople of the great planting distncts; its (omen- that State that they are not prepared to tersare nearly all lawycis and otfice- out loose from the Union unless other seekers, who deemed this the royal road States, which have already defined their to populaiity ami power. But they have poa jtjon, will secede with them; and the been grievously mistaken. slave States may now be considered The people ,. n ol South l arolina, 0 pp 0sed to disunion. South Carolina’s taoitgh they may grumble at this or verait . t hai ^tled the question. When that act ot Congress, or exhibition ol s ij e declines to lead, wbat Southern State will venture to take the iniatiative in rebellion 1” The New Y ork Tribune, too, enjoys Dovlington flag. Northern sentiment, are nt heart at- tarned to the l nion, and do not mean to leave it. The cannon which “the chivalry” have been ordering cast at a liberal cost, will be laid by to rust in the arsenals. The Commanders and Quat- tlebums who seek glory in the tented field, must turn their arms against Cu ba, Northern Mexico, or some other foreign territory which lies temptingly the anti-secession demonstration with a very keen zest. Horace issatified that the Union is perfecctly safe, and that no State could be kicked out of it.— The Tribune says; “The |>eople, even of South Coroli , na, though they may grumble at this or convenient to si lived om. 1 bo list hope that act of Congress, or exhibition of of sece.^siou has vanished, and the bu- Northern sentiment, are at heart at- siness ot iwiug t.ie Union is virtually tached to the Union, and do not mean extinct, j he late ol Gorgech. and the to | eave jt, 'p|, 0 cannon, which “the i\-cue of Jerry has been dinneil into chivalry” have l>een ordering cast at a the drowsy ears ol the South to no liberal cost, will be laid by to rust in purpose. Go%. Johnston s defeat ought, t bo arsenals. The last hope of seces sion has vanished, and the business of DARLINGTON, S. C. J. H. NORWOOD, JLditor. THIRSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10,18»1. saving tho Union is virtually extinct. The fate of Gorsuch and the rescue of Jerry iiave been dinned into the drowsy ears of the South to no purpose. Gov. Johuson’s defeat ought, for the credit of to have occurred sootier. As it is, it can- ibr tho credit of cotton patriotism, to have occurred some weeks sooner. As it is, it cannot well he made the cause of events which took place previously or Simultaneously with itself. The Union w ill endure for some years yet, because no influential party concerned cotton patBotiem, in it lias so much to gain ns to lose by . goIJ1e w-eeks its disruption. Castle Garden may con-; not ue || bo made the eau.se of events tinne to ic oun. with tho notes of which took place previously or simul- Marctzck, rnt ier than the honevH taneoualy with iuelf. Tho Union will tones o. persuasion which foil from the emlurc for some time yet, beenuse no lips of Litllo l ^tors nnt! kindred jufl ue0 (i a l p-nty concerned in it has ns spokosmon ol the I tuon and Safety gain .ns to lose by its disrup- Committee, lor the pei il Ji disunion is (ion. Castle Garden may continue to no ‘jtoMx “Othello s occupation s raaoulK ] with the notes of Mantzek K ol ' e • _ rather than the honeyed tones of |ier- Au now a word on Seceaaieu in the gl , a8 ioii, which fell from the li|is of ‘Lit- abstract, which has held a promiu^nt do Bitters” and kindred s|K>kesmen of place Ui the discussions of the late sum- .. die Union and safety committee,” for mer nt the South, and has enureil large ly to the advantage of the Secession ists, who, by holding up their adversa ries as denying the right of secession under any circumstances, have been able to represent them as cutting off the South from all chauce of redress in case of the infliction of unbearable wrongs upon her by an omnipotent Northern majority. Whether-a State has a constitutional right to secede from our Union, upon the occurrence of circumstances which in her own judgment render such a the peril ofdUuuion is no more. “Othel lo’s occupation’s goner’ “We do not believe, if tho door ot the Union were held wide open, a State could be induced to walk out in the course of the next half century.” The Crescent gives vent to its Union patriotism and gas: “We publish glorious news from South Carolina this morning. The co-opera- doubts or nnti-iinmediate secession men have swept the State by an im mense majority. Disunion has lost its last foothold. Thk Union has won iis step necessary, is a question which we noiilkst TKimrH. Tho excitable and will not now discuss. That she has no excited people of a State, honorable in right. and can have none, to nullify a our history, have felt themselves quick- law' of the land, yet insist on remaining ened by the old spirit of national patri- in the l T nion, was abundantly estab- otism, aud, however reluctantly, have lished by Mr. Webster in Ids great do- j gathered at last, with their breth- bate with Col. Hayne. But if we re- i ren of the Union to rapport our unity gard the several States sovereignties, 1 as a mtUoo. AGENTS FOR TUE DARLINGTON FLAG. 8. D. Hallford, - Camden, S. C. Charles DeIairme, Sumterville, S. C. We have been visited by several frosts during the past week. Ice was to be seen on Monday morning. I-if" The Fall term of our Court clos ed its session on Friday morning last, the business being insufficient to occupy the entire week. His Honor Judge Withers presided, and by his courteous and gentle bearing won the admiration of the Bar, tho jurymen and the audience. The greater part of ihe time wasoccupied with the sessions Docket, which we are a shamed to say seems to increase instead of diminish , with the advancing civili zation and intelligence of our District We hope and believe however this is owing rather to flie active vigilance of our police officers than any multiplica tion of crime. ADELPHIAN SOCIETY. We are requested to invite gantlemen who may be desirous of re-organising the above society, to assemble in the Court House on Friday evening next, at lialf past seven o’clock. DEATH IN PRISON. Jacob Griffiths the unfortunate old man who a few mouths since, was confin ed in jail on the charge of murdering his brother, di. d on the 24th mat, under cir cumstances the most forlorn and wretch ed. For many years he had been afflicted with diseased teet and legs and during bis confinement it is supposed, other diseases were produced from this and other causes. He was so weak and his condition so loath some, that it was impossible for him to be tried at the recant term of our Court An order for bail was granted him some weeks since by Judge Evars, and several of our citizens volunteered to stand his security, but no one could be found who was willing to take him # his helpless and offensive state. It so happened how ever that a kind Providence terminated his sufferings on the last day of the very term at which he expected to have his trial He breathed his last inhis gloomy cell .with no friendly hand except tliat of our Jramane jailer to aaaoothjiis dying pillow or give him a word ofcomfort in his passage through the dark valley of the .Jiadoxr of death. A CASE or DROWNING. We understand that the second mate of the Steamer Marion, which is now ly ing a few miles below Mars Bluff in the Pee Dee river, was drowned on Sunday last iu attempting to cross Jeffries Creek nearfUl moulh, on a small log. A jury of inquest has returned a verdict of acciden tal drawing. RISINGS ON THE PAST AND THE FU TURE. Well the agony is over and it has been exultingly proclaimed from one end of the Union to the other, that South Carolina too has submitted to the late compromise. The last hope of resistance on the part of the South, to any thing that is past is now gone and it will be seen from extracts in another place, that consolidationists and submissionists everywhere are rejoicing over the fact. How could it be other wise? Is not their darling project accom plished? Is not the glorious Union safe? Has not the right of secession which they deny been virtually abandoned ? Y'es one by one the Southern States have struck their colors and abandoned the standard of resistance which they so gallantly rais ed. After declaring that the passage of the Wilmot Proviso, or any kindred measure would be an assumption of power on the part of General government which Virgi nia would resist “ at all hazards and to the last extremity,” (our readers must ex cuse us for using this sickening phrase) and after pledging South Carolina and Georgia to a similar course, she inglori- ously retreated, and begged South Caro lina to follow her example. The legisla ture of Georgia passed a bill authorising the Governor to call a convention of the people, in case that California was admit ted with an anti-slavery Constitution; Ca lifornia was admitted—the Governor call ed the convention and it agreed to sub mit. Mississippi and South Carolina have each called conventions, but it is certain that they will also, acquiesce in the com promise. We say certain because a ma jority ot the delegates in Mississippi, are Union men and from the response which has recently proceeded in trumpet tones from that oracle the ballot box—we have no doubt that South Carolina will fail to do anything. We are pained at the result, but come wbat may ii^future we feel con scious of having discharged our duty, and bow in submission to what we con ceive to be the expressed will of the peo ple. One consolation in reference to the action of our Slate is tlaM she was the last to yield, and that the gilded pill of submission has been forced down the throats of the people under the plausible but false name of co-operation. We yet hope that in the chapter of accidents something may occur to show our people their danger and unite them on a com mon platform of resistance and self pre servation. We have asserted that the right of secession has been virtually aban doned. In proof of tliis, it is but neces sary to refer to the fact that it has been claimed by South Carolina, and denied by tho General Government. South Ca rolina has declared that the time for ar gument had passed and the time for ac tion arrived. She has accordingly taken steps through her legislature to prepare for action, and no sooner than the first note of preparation was sounded, did the Government commence concentrating an unusual number of soldiers and munitions of war upon our coast. For what pur pose it was done, no eane man can doubt, and the verdict will go forth to the world and we fear with too much truth that South Carolina quailed before Federal bayonets and Federal cannon. Hereafter we proclaim ourselves sub- inisbionisLi ex necessitate—we have fought a gainst it as tong as there was a ray of hope —we have been overpowered and compet ed to submit, it is not of our own choosing, lake Proteus Memminger, we have pre- fered and still prefer,” if we are to wear chains that theyshould be put on us by force. We at least will have part in for ging them.” We hold ourselves in readiness how ever to co-operate with our friends who have so strenuously advocated co-opera tion, in any sensible measures which they may projiose for the protection of oursel ves and our -property. We confess though that we have no confidence in any tiling short of disunion—the deceitful calm which is fast stealing upon us will be we fear the calm of despotism—clouds, sha dows, and darkness rest upon the future, but we will yet hope that the power which rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm will appoint all tilings for the best. Thk Cotton Crop.—TlieDenmpo- lia Argus of the 14th instant remarks that the majority of planters expect to be done picking cotton within eight or ten days. When ayen and ordinary crop picking could not be finished bo- fore the 1st December. The Greensboro’ Beacon of the 18th inst presumes that coton pickiag on the sandy lands ia pretty well finiahod.— But on the Mack lands there la work for several weeks. The crop in the section of Greensboro’ will it ia belie ved, slightly exceed that of last year. —* /r -1 ' • —ie From the Eufauh Ala. Spirit ofthe South. SOUTH CAMLINA. Incomparably the severest blew which the cause of the South has |IH received, is the result of the late elec tion for deputies to the Southern Con gress in South Carolina. Neither the total rout in Georgia, nor the disas trous defeat in Mississippi, can at all compare with it. So far as the South ern Congress is concerned, the election was of no moment for it is well known that no other State having chosen de legates that body will never convene But as a trial of stength between the COMMERCIAL CONVENTION AT MACON, At about every seventh year we have in the Sooth the scheme of a convention for the promotion of commerce or agriculture. Another ia to be inaugu rated nt Macon on tlie 25th of this month. This is primarily to be a Cot ton Planter’s Convention bat there is to be combined with it an nuxilarv pro ject for the promotion of direct trade to Europe. W'e have generally very little reliance on the efficacy of con- ventions for the furtherance of com. mercial undertakings. But there are some fentares in tliis Macon scheme friends of serrate State secession and ""d meeting that except it from the the co-operatioaists—between the true i general description of assemblages of resistance men and those who wliate- ver they may say to the contrary are practical submissionists, the election assumes the most overwhelming impor tance—and the event has made it al most certain that South Carolina will follow the bad example of her sister Southern States and virtually aquiesce this character. It appears that Mr. Bayler, our consul as Amsterdam who has lately returned to Washington on leave of absence, and who will at- tend the convention nt Macon, is on a kind of commercial mission from the merchants of Amsterdam, who are said by to be anxious to form a commercial in tlie aggressive and degrading Icgisla- connexion with the cotton-growing tion of the last Congrss, Tliis last States. He pledget! himself and his reverse completes the darkness of the friends in Holland, to furnish the plan- gloom that surrounds us. Had South tei- 8 any amount of capital they may Carolina stooil firm and possessed the need to carry out such a scheme. This certainly would be a good be- ginning, It is the deficiency of capital with that alisence or want of combined interest on both sides of the Atlantic, that obstruct all enterprise to extend direct trade between Europe aud cer tain portions of the United States.— Commercial men possessed of largo moneyed resources and extended tra ding connexion wonld present the most promising initiative to a direct inter course between the Southern States and the European continent The mode of giving effective organization to the means provided would remove tho irreatest impediment We have little faith in the agencies ofcompanies except as to supplying tho capital The work ing of tiie machinery of associations for the promotion of mercantile ends has always ended in disappointment. Nor can wo conciovc in what manner cotton planters can enter into combin ation with merchants for beneficial promotion of common ends. The want of unity, we are fearful would destroy their plans. The interest of cotton planters would in nine cases out of ten be considered antagonistic to that of the merchants which they might hap pen to he associated. Wo have little hope therefore in that form of associa tion which is proposed for deliberation and acceptance at Macon although it is to be desired thnt the offer of these Amsterdam merchants could be secur ed tor the promotion of Southern inter ests.—Ere News. RAIN LIGHTNING AND FIRE. The Greenville Bat riot of October 16, says: “On Saturday night we had a thun der shower sufficient to lay the dust and cool the atmosphere and quite ac ceptable after two months of dry weath er. During tho ruin, the stable of Mr. Smith Bradley outlie Anderson road in this District was struck with light- TIIE LHIIIRER IS WORTHY OF 111.8 HIKE, j uing, a fine mare killed and tho stable The telegraph brings os the news that set on fire by the flash and entirel y Judge Sharkey of Mississippi has rccei- consumed together with some 10,000 ved the place of Consul at Havana vice bundles of (odder, and a small quantity of corn. Mr. Bkadlky’bIoss is near 8500. 'Fbe lire burned so fiercely that it lit up our town though five miles dis- distance and caused the alarm of fire to be given and the fire bell to be rung. We learn that the dwelling house of .Mr. Ashmouk, nine miles below this on the Reedy Fork road was destroyed by fire on Thursday morning last— VVe have not understood the amount ofloss, nor how the fire originated, nerve to make the issue all might yet have been well but when she falters, all Iiojks of successful resistance to past wrongs seems extinguished forever. In spite of the triumplit boasts ofthe submissionists, we have all along fond ly clung to the hope that true to her ancient fame, she wonld yet rise in her might and roll hack the tide which now sweeps on with resistlea force to our destruction. Nothing but tho painful dreary truth itself could have shaken nr faith in her. Submission under the specious guise of co-operation has ed her captive in its train. The spir it of liberty—that spirit which counts nothing so intolerable as voluntary servitude. The unfounded dread of prospective pecuniary losses has prov ed stronger than indignation at the ac tual loss of cherished lights. Exam ple hac been more potent than princi pie, and South Carolina succumbing to influences which she might have suc cessfully resisted, has destroyed the only chance of Southern co-opera tion. To those true men who in spite of the most adverse influence at home and abroad nobly upheld the cause of resis tance we owe a debt of gratitude which can never be forgotten, Unawed by the insolent threats of a tyranicnl gov ernment and unshaken by the denun ciations of a misguided majority thei’, stood, the last Irest hope of a Southern Confederacy and posterity will not fail to do them justice. As to their triumphant and deluded opponents iu whom the mercenary spirit lias extingu ished for a time, the impulses of a no bler feeling we deplore their infatuation and envy neither their victory nor their responsibilities. “O, what a fall was there my country men ; Then I and you aud all of us fell down Whilst Abolition flouri^he’d over us!” Owens of Georgia removed for imper tinently presuming that the President meant what ho said when he denounced the Cuban adventurers for stupidity sup posing that the President would hear the responsibility of what was discovered to he an unpopular act when he had the choice of fastening it upon a subor dinate. We have no sympathy for Mr. Owens. He was to all appear ance the medium by which Georgia was paid for deserting the South. He is now paid in his own coin,—betray al and desertion. But we admire the fortuna of Judge Sharkey! Wbat a dear delightful politi cian be is! Tho President of that hot-headed convention in Mississippi, which blew the first trumpet note of organized resistance to the North, and called into being tho Nashville Convention the writer of private letters to Foote, approving of tho Compro mise, about which on furthur consider ation he was so much concerned, he swore he would cut his (Foote’s) throat if he dared to publish them, and which were nevertheless published without anybody’s throat being cut; the Presi dent of the first Nashville Convention and refusing to attend the second, which met in accordance w ith resolutions he had signed and approved; tlie writer of caustic retorts on tlie National Intelli gencer, vindicating Southern resistance; and finally the active agitator forSiMtb- ern Submission—ever new, fresh, versatile Judge Sharkey ! does he not deserve to bo rewarded for the necromantic activity of his tergiversa tions f—Charleston Mercury. The Houston (Texas) Telegrajih of the 17th inst. learns that the corn crop on the Guadaloupe has been so abun dant that that there will he several hundred thousand bushels for sale in the csmntiea on the river. Some plan ters have actually raised more corn than they could harvest and allowed their neighbors to gather it free of charge. ’ilieSan Antonio Ledger says that CaptThomas W. Grayson, ofthe Sal- ado, has gathered this season from seventy-one acres 4,500 bushels of coni which is a fraction short of sixty four bushels per a era. Mf:lancholy Casualty.—We are pained to learn that on Friday last William Fleming an interesting youth about eighteen years of age son of Mr. James Heniing of Columbia county was shot through the heart and killeil instantly by the accidental discharge of his gun. We have heard no particu lars of this most melancholy event ex cept that young Fleming was ont hun ting and slipped up. In the act of fal ling his gun went ofl^thc w hole load en tering his side. On the same day this event occurred in Columbia county our paper contain ed an account of a similar catastrophe in Liberty comity resulting in the death of Mr. Le Conte. Thus, by these mysterious dispensa tions* two among tho most estimable families-in the State hare been sud denly plunged into the deepest sor row.—Augusta Constitutionalist. LATE FROM THE 110 GRANDE. Tlie steamship Fanny Capt Auld arrived ycsteiday from Brains Santiago which place she left on the 17th inst. Thn report from Brownsville up to thnrsday the Iflth at 2 o’clock p. m. was that Col Carabnj.il was at the head of 1100 men within ten miles of Matainorss, intending to attack the ci ty that night or next morning. Amongst the troops attached to Col. Carnbajal’s command are four hun dred Texans. Capt Ford with a Com pany of Rangers which had been dis charged from tlie United States service also joined the Patriots. Capt Ford received a Lieutenant Colonel’s com mand. A few of the U. 8. troops deserted ’ from Fort Ring gold and joiiifd tho