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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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.
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