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A.G. MURRAY,
VOLUME IX.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
THE GRANARY.
A Tale that Every Person Will Read.
BY A. C. THOMAS.
Jonathan Homespun having purchased an ex
tensive farm, and provided himself with every
thing requisite to prosperous husbandry, pro
posed to furnish subscribers witli one quart of
wheat weekly, for one year, at the'low price of
two dollars and fifty cents, if paid after six weeks.
The facilities offered by government for the
transportation of wheat to every section of the
Union and the adjacent provinces, such as must
prove satisfactory to every subscriber; and the
proprietor of the Granary assures all who may
p i-i onize him, that he will exert himself to sup
ply an article of the best quality. N. B. Agents
will li allowed a generous per centage. Ad
’ dress (post paid) Proprietor of the Granary,
Hopewell.
Such was the prospectus issued by my friend,
Mr. Homespun. Feeling a lively interest in bis
welfare, I visited bis farm, although it was a
long journey from my borne, and was pleased to
find everything in a nice order, lie informed
me that he had contracted a large debt, in the
purchase of the premises, stock, and implements
of husbandry but lie had no doubt of his ability
to discharge every obligation in a few years; He
also stated that lie hail received many hundred
subscribers, anil that in four or five weeks he
would commence the delivery ot the wheat ac
cording to his proposals.
Tile scheme appeared plausable. and my friend
\va so confident of success that I had not the
slightest doubt of his prosperity. I entered my
name its a subscriber and when I left him lie
was preparing many quart sacks.
Every week, for the space of two years. I re
ceived my quart of wheat, and concluded from
its excellent quality and prompt delivery, that
everything was prosperous with Jonathan Home
spun and his farm. So I gave myself no con
cern about my indebtedness to him —“for,” said
I, “to a farmer so extensively patronized as he
is, the small pittance of two years’ arrearages
Would be but a drop in the bucket.” It is true,
there was occasionally printed on the sacks a
general notice to delinquents —but I never sus
pected that this was intended for his friends.
The notice, however, became more frequent,
and having leisure, I concluded I would visit
nvy friend, the proprietor of the Granary. lie
greeted me cordially—but I saw there had been
trouble. He was evidently worn with toil and
anxiety—-and in the conversation of the evening
he entered into particulars.
“ Here I have been laboring day and night al
most years —and am more in debt now than
when I began. My creditors are pressing for
payment —I am conscious of my inability to
meet the demands, and I can perceive no results
hut bankru|>tcy and ruin.”
M But you have a large list of subscribers,”
said I.
** Yes, a very large list,” was the reply, “ but
too many of them are like you.”
“ Pardon me,” said ray friend in a melancholy
tone—“ Pardon me, for oppression will make
even a wise man mad. You have had a quart
of wheat weekly for two years—l have a large
list of the same kind of patrons scattered here
and there over a thousand miles. If they would
pay me the several trifles they owe me, I should
tie directly freed from embarrassment and go on
my way rejoicing. But they reason as you rea
soned—and among you, lam brought to the
door f poverty and ruin,”
I feK the whole force of the rebuke, and prompt
ly paying arrearages at the increased price named
in the prospectus, aed efcojnyear in advance, I
shortly bade adieu to the and wronged
wbkTtldS SLEZZ
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“Til see that one and go five
following which we clip from the Spirit of the
Timm , is not from the pen of the author of “The
Arkansas Gentleman,” we lose our guess;
D ■■ , being in the West, and short of
cash could not tell where to get the necessary
Wilmot Proviso for internal improvement, but
finding a widow who had shot one husband
dead, and wounded several others, he conclu
ded to marry her in order to get a boarding
bouse.
Shortly after the yellow garlands of Hymen
were foded, D came in one night slightly
muggy, as the Choctaw poets express it, and
found his new spouse awaiting his arrival. She
pitched into D. like a thousand of brick, and
spread herself like a fan-tail pigeon, drawing a
single-barrelled pistol upon D., who, instead of
travelling, pulled out a revolver, and remarked,
as gently as the sigh of an Jfolian harp:
Mrs. D., I see that one (hkVand go five bet
ter.” * ■ -
A Beene from Real Life—Woman’s Love.
We saw last evening an apt illustration of the
affection of woman. A poor inebriate wretch in
the afternoon bad been taken to the calaboose.
His conduct on the street, and after lie was placed
in the cell, was of such a violent character that
it became necessary to handcuff him. The de
mon of rum had possession of his soul, and he
gave vent to his ravings in curses so profane as
to shock the senses of bis fellow prisoners, one
of whom in the same cell, at his own solicitation,
was placed in a separate apartment. A woman
appeared at the grating, and in her hands she
had a rude tray, upon which was placed some
slices of bread fresh from the hearth-stone, and
other little delicacies for her erring husband.—
She stood at the bar gazing intensely into the
thick gloom where her manacled companion
wildly raved. Her voice was low and soft, and
as she called his name its utterance was as plain
tive as the melodv of a fond and crushed spirit.
The tears streamed from her eyes, and there,
in the dark prison house, the abode of the most
wretched and depraved, the tones of her voice
found their way into that wicked man’s heart,
and he knelt in .sorrow and in silence before the
voting and injured wife, while li is heart found
relief in tears such only as man can weep. —
Thcugkthe iron still bound bis wrists, bo placed
bis hands with their heavy insignia of degrada
tion, confidingly and affectionately upon the
brow of his fair companion and exclaimed, “ Ka
ty, I will be a better man.” There upon a rude
seat she bad spread the humble meal which she
had prepared with her own hands, and after he
had finished, site rose to depart, bidding him lie
calm and resigned for her sake, with the assu
rance that she would bring a friend to go on his
bond, and that she would return and take him
home. And she left him, a strong man, with
his head drooping upon his breast, a veey cow
ard humiliated before the weak and tender be
ing whose presence and affections had stilled
tli— passions of his soul. True to the instincts
of her love and promise, she did return with one
who went on his bond for his appearance next
morning, and with his hand clasped in that of
his loving wife, she led him away a penitent,
and we trust, a better man. There were those
who laughed as that pale, meek woman-bore off
her erring husband, but she heeded thorn not,
and her self-sacrificing heart knew or cared for
nothing in its holy and heaven born instincts,
but, to preserve and protect him whom she loved
with all the devotion of a wife and woman. — St.
Louis Republican.
*..•
A CIRKOYMAN VOTIN' ION OF the Nkwsv.wkh
Press.— The Rev. Mr. Bacon, in a Sermon on
Sunday evening, at the Church of the Messiah,
Philadclphinypronouneed the newspaper as sec
ond to tlio Bible in a representative government ’
ns a moral force. With its twenty-five millions ■
of papers issued annually,-it penetrates every
house and reac hes every reader. If the prea- h j
er with his hundred hearers, has a commanding
influence for good upon his congregation, mould
ing their morals and enlightening their under
standings, how much greater must be the inffii
enee and responsibility of the press, which talks
daily to its fifty or an hundred thousand readers?
It is a good sign to see the preacher recogn -ing
the importance of the secular press, and taking
liberal views of its usefulness, and the purposes
which it subserves in promoting the great work
of civilization, and of human rights and happi
ness. The following remarks from the sermon
are appropriate and just:
The newspaper, quite as much as our public
schools, is in America the great orator of a na
tion of thinkers and debaters. The American
editor aims not at the choice diction of an essay
ist, and pays iittle attention to mere abstractions
and vain theories. He writes as if he would
give the greatest quantity of thoughts in the
briefest space. He excels in paragraphs which
are like the sharp shooting of riflemen; his heavy
artillery he reserves for occasional editorials, but
he seldom plies the cannon where a bullet w ill
do the work. But, as a characteristic of our
■people, he is evfer ready to lay aside his editorial
matter to make room for news. He knows men
and not deeds. Ilis language possesses a clear
and concise utterance. Every writer and public
speaker might find a model of style in the pro
ductions of the American editor.
The pulpit must first labor to effect an im
provement in the character of the religious press.
The religious newspapers were far behind the
secular press, iu breadth of views and compre
hensiveness and liberality of action, and. he
might venture to say in religion itself. They
take most of their news from the daily press,
and even tlieif reports of religious meetings—
while it is not unfrequent for them to turn around
and charge the reporters with irreligion. The
religious press is too often narrow-minded—it
does not seem to understand its true policy and
duties; and the violence and animosity that per
vades its columns are even worse than that of
political editors on the eve of an election.
Our Doctor’s Opinion. —An experienced
physician of the old school, acknowledged to us
just now, that thirty years of practice had served
to convince him that the general health of Chris
tendom would be for better at the present time
if there was not a drug or a doctor in the world.
We lifted our spectacles, and looked at him un
der the bows in astonishment, more than half
suspecting a joke—foe the doctor is something
f ‘But I'm in earnest sir,’ cried musumiUk
friend, slappfigpbur knse—rather harder,Nve
thought, than he would haws slapped his own.
‘To be sure ; no doubt of it,’ we answered,
hitching our chair a little further off. “Only
give us your reason for coming to such a conclu
sion.’
The doctor hitched his chair towards us as we
retreated and opened his band for another em
phatic slap. We at the same time cunningly de
vised a defence against his manual arguments,
by hanging one leg over the other, and balanc
ing our empty tumbler —we had been drinking
weak lemonade —on the projecting knee. _
‘lt is plain and simple —perfectly so,’ cried the
doctor. ‘ln the first place, nine tenths of what
we call confirmed invalids, have been brought
to that hopeless state, from small beginning*,
through eating drugs. The patient world’—the
doctor was sometimes guilty of a poor pun —
‘sits stiff and naffer* as to poison it with our pro
sorptions. Suffers ns, do I say T cried the doc
• • Prove all things I ksli test thnt which Is fw4.”-Pm
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1854.
tor, menacing us with a slap, but desisting at
the sight of the tumbler. ‘lt compels us P hit
ting the table instead—for the doctor could not
talk without hitting something from time to
time. ‘lt is not satisfied, if we don’t feed it plen
tifully with minerals, roots and herbs. If I should
say to the young lady lain about to viait this af
ternoon, ‘You don’t want any medicine, my dear
friend; not a grain. Only be careful of your di
et, keep your head cool and your feet warm, take
a bath, and walk around the common before
sundown,’ —do you think she would like it 1 Not
she! Instead of ordering the bath, she would or
der another physician within an hour !’
So saying, the doctor hit us a rousing slap on
our left sholdcr, which we had neglected to for
tify and afterwards rubbed bis strong hands with
immense satisfaction. By way of precaution
against another such assault, we carelessly took
up his knotty cane, shouldered it, and requested
him to proceed.
‘But the principal harm done by physicians,
and drugs is this:—people know that they exist,
and put—alas for the credulity of weak man—un
liounded confidence in our most uncertain of arts
If no such thing as a medical remedy was known,
men would lie careful how they abuse nature -
They would study ber laws and shrink from in
curring the sure penalties of transgression. They
would avoid tea, coffee, alcohol, tobacco, and all
such destroyers of nerve and digestion. They
would learn to shun the dead a r of close rooms,
and the poisoned air of crowded rooms; they
would abandon a thousand evil practices which
they know injure the constitution ; and live
more purely and simple. But now if any pleas
ant sin tempts your pleasure seeker, he eats the
apple, although he knows it came direct from
the devil, relying upon us to dissipate its effects.
You know that your hot suppers and the precious
bottle you keep hid in your closet,’ —we protested
against the bottle but the doctor went on, —‘and
even your business habits, undermine your health;
but you imagine rccklesly, because there exist pos
sible remedies for indigestion, fevers and the gout.
•Now,’ said the doctor, growing enthusiastic
and making the table furniture rattle with his
powerful fist, ‘a thirty years’ practice has taught
me that there is but one true remedy for disease.
This is nature herself. Give her a chance in
season and she will cure the worst cases. Throw
physic to the dogs—l sav,’ said the doctor, low
ering his voice, ‘not professionally, but privately
and confidentially—throw physic to the dogs, I
say ; eat wholesome food, at proper times and in
proper quantities ; avoid this fever of pleasure;
be cheerful, pity your debt*, and keep a dear con
science; drink cold water, and bathe in cold wa
ter every day ; live in the sunshine, and breathe
the fresh air from the hills; go to bed early
and g'-t up early ; love your tieighW and re
■ speet vonr neighbor’s wife; shout for jov, and
j sing, and play with children every chance you
| can get; do these simple things,’ cried the doe-
I tor. ‘and you will have health. Never mind
money, and pretty luxuries, and selfish pleasures
—they are nothing in comparison with the hap
piness. the luxury, the glory and delight of
health. But —’ the doctor’s tone and manner
changed from the enthusiastic to the professional
—‘if.’ said he stringing our button hole on his
fore finger, and drawing ns towards him, ‘if you
ibuse nature—as I know you will, in snite of all
1 sav; if you will have medicine —as I know you
will when you fall sick; and if you then would
see a kind, jolly, blunt, sensible, indulgent, hon
est old doctor, why,’ said he, knocking the tum
bler off our knee, and giving us a tremendous
slap, ‘I am your man! But as a friend let me
advise you to employ no doctor; therefore, don’t
go to being sick ; therefore.’ added the doctor,
slapping our hack as we bent down to pick up
the tumbler, ‘let nature have her way —’
‘And beware,’ we added, as soon as we could
speak—‘beware how you suffer heavy hands to
beat the breath out of'our body in moments of
enthusiasm.’
The doctor laughed and bade us good morn
ing ; whereupon we sat down and wrote out our
conversation. [True Flag.
The Washington Monument.— We learn
(says the Washington Globe.) that the work
men engaged in the erection of this noble struc
ture commenced laying the first stone in the sea
son only a few days ago, the usual inclemency
of the weather having prevented operations. The
height of the column is at present one hundred
and fifty-two feet. Owing to the smallness of
the force employed —there being but thirty men,
including masons and stone-cutters —and the
want of funds, the work does not progress so
rapidly as it ought. Last year but twenty-six
feet was added to the height of the monument,
and this year will be added probably not more
than thirty or thirty-five feet. At such a rate
ten years at least will be required to complete
its erection.
The height oftbeobelisk, when finished, will
be five hundred feet; and it will be fifty-five feet
square at the base, and thirty-three foet square
at the tcp. The wall is of the most substantial
character, being fifteen feet in thickness at the
base, and gradually decreasing to a thickness off
four feet at the summit. At the present eleva
tion, the thickness of the well is about twelve
foet three innhns -
The monument will be lighted by get from
pipes attached to the winding iron staircase that
wul amend to the top. It, nut yet known
pnfefbly be afongemais of glass, bearing upon
n some patriotic device. . i
The number of stones contributed by
erent States, associations, Ac., up to the prcsßlrt
time, is al>out a hundred and ninety, of which
there are seventy in the obelisk. The *e are arrang
ed in a conspicuous and systematic manner, and
will be visible to the visitor, who, as he ascends
the staircase can examine them at bis leisure.
All the States, we believe, hare now contributed
blocks.
The stones, mortar, &C-, are raised to their
place by means of an engine below and derricks
above, the latter have attached to them bells,
which serve as signals to apprize the engineer of
the safe arrival from terra firms of some impor
tant body essential to the progress of the work.
As an instance of the facility with which dif
ferent articles are hoisted we would mention,
that the Massachusetts Mode, weighing four tons,
was lifted to a height of one hundred and four
feet, swung round and set is its place in five
minutes from the time it left the ground
Alexander Hamilton on the Powers of the
Government.
It has often been intimated by politicians not
familiar with the early history of the country,
that Gen. Alexander Hamilton was an advo
cate of a strong Government, and favored the
idea of a President for life. 1 his imputation is
occasionally repeated with an air of confidence
which gives its credence with the multitude. —
But the charge was controverted in a positive
planner more than fifty years ago by the distin
fuished statesman himself. A letter to Timothy
‘ickering, first published in 1812, is of sufficient
interest to be reproduced at this time. We ex
tract it from a late nutnberof the National In
telligencer :
New York, Septcmtar 10, 1803.
My Dear Sir —l will make no a|iology for
my delay in answering your inquiry some time
since made, because I could offer none which
would satisfy myself. I pray you only to believe
that it proceeded from anything rather than
want of respect or regard. I shall now comply
witli your request.
The highest-toned propositions which I made
in the Convention were for a President. Senate,
and Judges during good behavior ; a House of
Representatives for three years. Though I would
have enlarged the legislative jiower of the Gen<-r
----al Government, yet I never contemplated the
abolition of the State Governments ; but, on the
contrary, they were in some particulars, constitu
ent parts of my plan.
This plan was in my conception, conformable
with the strict theory of a Government purely
republican ; the essential criteira of which are,
that the principal organs of the executive and
legislative departments lie elected by the peo
ple, and hold the offices by a respectable and
temporary or defeasible nature.
A vote was taken on the proposition respect
ing the ex cutive. Five States were in favor of
it, among these Virginia; and though, from the
manner of voting by delegations, individuals!
were not distinguished, it was morally certain, j
from the known situation of die Virginia mem- ’
hers, (six in number, two of them. Mason and!
Randolph, professing popular doctrines), that;
Malison must have concurred in the vote of I
Virginia. Thus, if I sinned against republican
ism, Mr. Madison is not less guilty.
I may truly, then, say that I never proposed
cither a President or Senate for life; and
that I neither recommended nor meditated the
annihilation of the State Governments.
And 1 may add that, in a course of the dismis
sion.-in the Convention, neither the proposition
thrown out for debate, nor even those voted in
the earlier stages of deliberation, were consider
ed as evidence of a definite opinion in the propo
ser or voter. It aj>|f-ared to l>e in some sort
understood that, with a view to free investiga
tion, experienced propositions might be made,!
which were to be received merely as suggestions
for consideration. Accordingly, it is a fact that 1
my final opinion was against an Executive du
ring good behaviour, on account of the increased
danger to the public tranquility incident to the
election of a magistrate of his degree of perma
nency. In (lie plan of a constitution which II
drew up while the convention was silting, and
which I communicated to Mr. Madison about!
the close of it, perhaps a day or two after, the
office of President has no longer duration than
for three years.
This plan was predicted upon these bases : 1.
That the political principles of the people of this
country would endure nothing but a Republican
Government 2. That in the actual situation
of the country, it was itself right and proper that
the Republican theory should have a full and
fair trial. 3. That to such a trial it was essen
tial that the Government should be so constructed
as togiveitalltheenergy and the stability recou
cilablc with the principles of that theory. These
were the genuine sentiments of my heart, and
upon them I then acted.
I sincerely hope that it may not hereafter be
discovered that, through want of sufficient atten
tion to the last idea, the experiment of Republi
can Government even in this country, has not
been as complete, as satisfactory, and as decisive
as could be wished.
Very truly, dear sir, your friend and servant,
A. HAMILTON.
Timothy Pickering, Esq.
Playing ok the Jackass. —On board the
Steamer Indiana, in one of her trips down the
Mississippi, were a large narober of good-natur
ed passengers. They were seeking to while
away the honra, according to their several no
tions of pleasure, and would have got on very
well but for one annoyance. There happened to
be on board a Hoosier from the Wabash, who
was going, down to “Orleans,” and be had pro*,
ruled himself with an old violin, fancying that
he could fiddle as well as the best man, and
plantinghlttßdf where he could attract notion,
scraped away. The fellow coakfat Addle My
more than a setting ben. isAtbr torribte wohe
J? q --L -A L* /-li*-* - A
awinroea dis ienow psM**g*?i nnwwT* a
Frenchman, off very Aritorta mir aad
fine musical ear, was especially annoyed. He
fluttered, fidgetted and swore at fete *%■■<•*’Ad
dle. The passengers tried various expedient* to
rid themselves off the Booster aad Ms Addle, fcl
d— d please.* i Apt a big Kentuckian sprang
Ifroos ik hCImA “I reckon I’ll fix him,”
placed bin •IT near the amateur fiddler and
oosaaseaead Maying with all bis might. The
iffTtu|[gfilwmii iii 11 was beyond description. “Old
ftgfttnck” brayed so loud that he drowned the
screeching of the fiddle, and amid the shouts
of the passengers, the discotnfitted Hoosier re
treated below, leaving the victory of the une
qual contest with the Kentuckian and his sin-
Slar impromtu imitati m, of Balaam’s friend.
e delight Os the Frehchtnan knew no bounds—
quiet was restored forthe day. Dnringtbe night
the Kentuckian left the boat. The next morn
ing after breakfast the passengers were startled
by the discordant sound of their old tormentor;
Hoosier had discovered that the coast was clear,
and was bound to revenge himself on the pas
sengers. Load and worse than ever screamed
the fiddle. The Frenchman, just seated to read
his paper, on the first sound looked anxiously
around, shrugged his shoulders and then shout
ed, ‘Ware is he! rare is kef Qoeeck—qoeeck,
Man Dieuf Van n Monsieur Ken tuck, de man
vet play on the jackass”
From the Missouri lirpublican, StUais. May 27. j |
LATER FROM HEW MEXICO.
Full Details of the Different Battles with the \
Indians — Military Operations of (Jen. Gar- \
land.
The mail from Santa Fe arrived last night, i
bringing us very important news from New
Mexico. The following letter from our well in
formed corresjiondent at Independence is very
interesting:
Independence, May 20, 1854.
The Santa Fe mail arrived here to-day —as I
telegraphed to you —bring* little additional news
from the former mouth, other than the details v*F j
the Indian buttles. From the official reports, j
as you will see in the Strata Fe papers, there j
were killed of Lieut. DuSldson’s command 22
men, and 27 wounded. For this, as well
as oilier deeds of theirs. Gen. Garland, aided by
the civil authorities, is determined to destroy, or
in the language of Kit Carson, wi/teotitlWl* Isold
ofjicarilla Apache*. Acting Gov. Messcrvy ha*
issued his proclamation, threatening those who
aid or assist these Indians with all the nmii.sli
ment he is authorized inflict. Col. C<a>kc has
recovered some of the pro|iertv lost l>v the 1 ni- j
ted States troops in their former battles, and, at
last accounts was in close pursuit of the retreat
ing savages. A failure here will prove disastrous j
to the Americans and Mexieaus throughout New
Mexico, ns well as those who cross the plains to :
Oregon or California. In fact, the emigrants
have been threatened already and before the
season is over we may hear of many depreda
tions, if not loss of life. ;
The returning mail party were nt one time
entirely in the power of a hand of Cheyenne-a,
and if the conductor and his men had not show
ed some bravery, their lives would have paid the
forfeit, and it would have been attributed to
some of the hostile tribes. Near Cedar-Spring, at
noon-time the mules were just turned loose, (not i
an Indian or anything els® in sight,) and they had j
; commenced staking them out when as quick as ■
thought, ami before the party could get to the !
stage for their guns, (their pistols they had.) the ,
mules were swept off from before their eyes, and j
j had not a gun been levelled at the Chief j
no doubt they would never have been returned. .
This act urged him to cry out that lie was a j
friend. They then were very hungry, and want-1
ed all the provisions, dec. This was refused un
til the mules were brought back. The Indians
even after this were very insolent, and would not
suffer the party to move until they pleased to
let them go, taking off the bridles as fast as the
! men put them on. Every day discloses more;
. and more of their treachery, and unless punish |
merit, even to the best of them, is soon adminis
tered. we shall hear of more trouble in every
| quarter.
j To small parties going out or coming in. pro
| tection must bo afforded, but not such pro
I tection as was furnished the mail that went into
Mexico month before last—three or four men on
jaded horses and some footmen. The mail par
ty coming in could not get an escort; it was
asked for, but none could be had. I would not
trouble you with this statement of facts only
i that this partial disclosure of that which we have
j every week or two, may eventually lie the means
of doing more good to those who are compelled
by necessity or otherwise to cross the plains
west of u*. They must learn to take care of
themselves by travelling in greater numbers or
else expect to be cut down without a moment’s
warning, for Government does not, or cannot
render them any aid.*—Yours, Ac., in haste.
From the Santa Fo Gazette, of April 15, we
make these extracts: ,
THE rrollT AT UtENEOUtLLA BETWEEN. TOE JtCA
RII.TA APACUES AND THE UNITED STATES DRAG
OONS.
Through the kindness of Gen. Garland, atid
Assist Adi. Gen. Niche’s, we have been permit
ted to read the official report of the firfht at Cie
deguilla, between the Apaches and the Uuited
States dragoons, and we now have the pleasure
to place au account of the same before our read
ers.
After the between Lieut. Bell aud Robe’s
party, tbe Indians crossed the mountains, and
showed themselves on the road between Taos
and Santa Fe. Oh the the 29th ull.,
Maj. Blake, commanding at Cantonmeul Burg
wine, ordered Lieut, John W. Davidson, with
sixty men of companies “ F.” and “ l,” fir** reg
iment of United States dragoons to make a
scout in search of the enemy. He left the can
tonment (lie same evening, and was accompa
nied by Assistant Surgeon D. L Magruder.—•
The next morning Dent D., with his command,
came upon a party of Apaches, supposed to num
ber some two hundred warriors, at the foot of
the north slope of the mountains, and not far
from the email Mexican village of Cicnegmlln.
When the troops appeared in sight the Indians
immediately raised tne war-whoop, and manifest
ed a disposition to make an attack.
Tbe camp of the Apaches waxsttaated upon
• moeotain ridge, and in a position naturally
an/I AaJftjusts a/>/maa f 1 laxtAmii
•wooz *oa flnßCwi oi cce. Loeuw usvKpoa
saw iLrt an sedon could not be avaUM, and
htefroiCslith the yggfc m£k
balance of hisMMiMwi, 8
strong, he made an of tQ|
Indians. The up the
ridge, and carried the Apaches,
who were forced to retreat They rallied, how
ever, almost immediately, and attacked tbe troops
at close quarters, with great desperation; they
were several times repulsed, and upon each occa
sion, seven in all, rallied agaiii to the charge, in
every instance exhibiting the utmost determina
tion and bravery. The troops maintained this
unequal contest for nearly three hoars, when
they were forced to give way and retreat, which
they succeeded in doing, and reached Taos the
same afternoon, with their wounded.
Tbe loee on the part of the troops was very se
vere. The official report shows twenty-two kill
ed upon the field, twenty-three wounded, some of
them badly; and upwards of forty-five horses
killed and lost in the action. Os the Indians it
is not known how many were killed, but Lieut.
Davidson t iiteks they must have lost at least fifty
or sixty. On the arrival of tha troops at Taos,
Major Blake immediately started for the scene of
notion to bring ia the deed bodies, and took with
him twenty soldiers, all he COnM moaat ■< few
Mexicans and Americans, and a small pOftf 0 1
Puebla Indian*. They succeeded is lewfeshmf
the dead bodies of those kilted, which they too*
This is one of the severest battles that ever l
took place between the American troops and the
Indians, and our lorn was much greater ia pro
jiortiun to the number* engaged. The Apaches
fought with a bravery almost unprecedented, ana
we are convinced that nothing hot die stubborn
bravery of Col. Davidson atid his men, saved tha
command from entire destruction.- The tPeops
had greatly the disadvantage. The Indians an*
leeted their own position ott M raggid Tn~nntatn
ridge, and the dragoons had to charge tip a steep
slope to reach them. Tbe latter were encaan’
be red with their horses, which it reoOired aamfo
a fourth part of tbe cofnmand to tax* dtl Off J .
and the valley in which the troops were at tha
time they commenced (he attack, is SO filled
with largo boulder* as to render tbe movement
of horse* almost impossible. We are sorry to
learn that Lieut Davidson and Dr. Magruder
were both slightly wounded.
Since the figlit at Cieneguilla, tbe Indians
have retreated to the west side of Rio del Nort%
1 and are now hotly pursued by Col. Cook% with
nearly 2UO dragoon* and riflemen, and a ate
company of citizens and I‘uebla Indiana, taote
the command of Mr. James A. Quinn, of Tam*
The troops are on their trail, which leads among
the mountains to the north, and as thn In
dian* are encumbered with their women and
children, ami are reported in low spiriti, we
think there is Rome chance of their being onto
taken.
Ucn. Garland has taken the most prompt Md
vigorous means to bring the war to n Speedy
and successful termination. A large nnmhte of
troops under the command of gallant and OOpn
rienced officers, have been ordered to the noteh,
: and are now in rapid pursuit of the enemy. We
: cannot conclude this article without signifying
i our approbation of the gallant conduct of Lteßti
1 Davidson and Dr. Magruder,and towbosebotee
i ry ami good conduct i> justly attributed the anil
] retreat of the survivors of the command. If bre
i vet* were everearned, they were earned ea this
occasion.
ANOTHER THE APACUES —SATTUI Off
AOCA CALIENTX CREEK.
Major Nichols, Assistant Adjutant Genemt,
has kindly placed in our hands the official report
of Lieut. Colonel Crooke, of his fight with too
Apaches, at Agna Culicnte Greek, Saturday, Ate
j 7th iitst. The report was brought in by a dtete
; oon who b-ft the camp the same evening of tM
battle, and arrived ill Santa Fc Wednesday the
Ittrh inst. ;
Lieut. Colonel Cooke, with nearly 200 teOn,
bad been following the trail of the Apaebee for
some days, on the west side of the Rio del Horte,
now and then obtaining information of feeoa—
From (>jo Calieitte, where lnet beard from, ha
marched in a northwest direction, until tlw 4*
ternoon of the Bth inst., when be earn* in fedM
of the enemy’s camp. It waa almost a MMprtNt
a* he got very Hear them before be waa dieeew
ered. They Lad only time to send off their tee
men and children and part of their bafgge hte
fore the lroo| were down npon them.
They immediately took poet ill fc very rtwfcff
and almost inacc-ossabie mountain positxm; |tt
the troops bravely charged them, drove thrta
from it. nnd pursued them for about fc telle fcoi
a half, fording a very difficult stream, pteteifcff
over a very broken country and keeping np a
running fight. All the lodges and camp Ofdp
ages, a large quantity of provision*, aad Oteoy
of the horses or the enemy foil into the ltetete
of tho troops; and they also left behind • ■*-
her of the arms nnd equipments lately Upland
at Cieneguilla, which were recovered by Colafcsl
Cooke. Six dead Indians Were found aa fete
field, but it is not known whether they snsteiaad
anv further lose. Os thetroope tele Baa tlto
! killed—private Casey,company O FWrt tfogg
non*, and one man of the Second Artillery a*e
erely wounded. The <hs off the fight the tmapfc
marched through snow two feet dtop, aad tHNte
also snowing some of the tiOtei
Major Cbarleton, with a rei nforcetoefct,jeiaed
Col. Cooke, about an hohr after the bfctffa, im|
will unite with him in the (tether yteaafe rffirt
enemy. Froth the crippled Coedittefc eftfre fte
emy’s resources. We have every reaeen tobfcApto
they will again be overtaken and brought hfcer
general engagement, Which We hop! wfll Wig
the war to a close.
■ ■ -** “
Tttr. Pat Notihko*.—Another new evAgjgfc
been established in New York, .-
> illation of “The Pay Nothings.” The tehilipP 1
qualifications are that tbs candidate for britettfete
shall owe every body end pfcf tefclip.^
They hold their conclaveare
there being no building in tbe city huge
to contain them.
Unfortunately for ua, we hats tefcdfc-4tef|--:^p^ : -
quaintance of a number of these
Frying Pan3.—A sioria
Ms: I!TM IF on thffiret •hgJj
January, 1854, tv the OoM
States be broken up and sold for aid itete,3fep
that no more be manufactured beneefertfe fete
ever. Frying i* tho ratal unwbvleeatefc tef Ml
modes of coofeiug. Everything cooked Jbgflßfe
method is saturated with fat or butter,
tough, covered with empyreans eel,
as unfit as possible for the human stocsedfei JgirT
dyspeptic should ever eat anything fried, oaf
one should ever-do so who would avoid heMfe
ing a dyspeptic. Let jour food ha MtereF
roasted, or tooiled, or baked oiH WjfttMT
but fried. Frying meat ia tha wont ftttfWd
mode of eookiog; deetroyiag whatever gnl
qualities it may pwete > and exMgtea*fc|ttHte
badness. And au this come* off lnfcieg fftghtep
pans, spiders, and other cut boo ahouktetetete
for making food aawholmdtete. Good {M&
beware of the frying pas. beware of tha set
which it scorches; and beware of the mate. Oad
fish, and eggs, which it renders mufti for feoff
and difficult of digs* fi pa, that toot due IfclgAfc -
long ia <he foadj-^ffidiifi'^lteHiiil^
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