The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-15 00:00:00

Dreadful Sufferings of a Ship's Crew.

On Saturday the Anchor Line steamer Caledonia arrived
at the Tail of the Bank from New York. She had on board
three of the crew of the brig Ayrshire Lass, of Ardrossan,
which vessel the Caledonian fe 1 in with about 7 p.m. on the
9th inst., in latitude 55 N. longitude 13 W. with a flag of
distress flying. A boat was immediately sent on board the
brig from the steamer, when it was found that the Ayrshire
Lass was a complete wreck and water-logged. The sur-
vivors of the crew of the brig were only three in number,
and were very much exhausted. They were accordingly
sent on board the Caledonia, and the second officer of the
steamer, with a number of men, were left on board the brig.
The Caledonia then took the Ayrshire Lass he tow. Mr
Brown, mate of the Ayrshire Lass, states :--We left
Miramichi•on the 26th September, with a cargo of deals,
bound for Ardrossan, and had proceeded on our passage,
all well, till the forenoon of Sunday, the 23d October, in
latieude 54 30 N. latitude 11 20 W., when the vessel was
struck on the starboard bow with a heavy sea, which
threw her over on her beam ends. The captain and tee)
of the crew were below in the cabin asleep at the time,
and were drowned. After the vessel had been on her
beam ends for about half an hour, the mate managed to
cut away the main topmast backstay, which allowed the
main topmast to break away, and it carried away the
foremast close to the deck. The vessel then righted. The
decks were clean swept of everything ;:and all the beef and
water we had on board, being on the deck, was therefore
lost. The cabin was filled with water and the vessel water.
logged. Next day, Monday, we managed to hook up a
small bag of biscuits from the cabin. They were quite
soft, having been in the water for 28 hours. On the next
Monday the biscuits were about done. Then we killed the
dog, and on it we survived, with a very small portion of
biscuit for other ten days. On the 9 ch, at two p.m. we
had finished the dog, and had nothing to eat, thus having
been 17 days on the wreck. At seven p.m. on the same
night we were picked up by the Caledonia. Last Sunday, a
barque, supposed to be a foreigner, passed us, and although
they saw our signals, no attention was paid to them. Last
Saturday we got the bodies of Capt. James Grant, and one
of the crew, named Andrew Hudson, out of the cabin and
buried them at sea. The body of the other seaman, named
Lawrence Smith, was never seen." The Ayrshire Lass, as
she lies at the Tail of the Bank, is a complete wreck. The
bulwarks are carried away on both sides, and the foremast
is clean away by the ceck. The cabin furniture is all
broken up. The jibboom is broken away, and all the fore
chains-are bent up.—Greenock Telegraph.

PURSUED BY INDIANS.—The Kansas correspon
dent of the New York Times gives an account of the re
treat of an expedition sent a few weeks ago against the
Indians, but suddenly encountered by superior numbers :
"As soon as our party faced about to return, we had a
lively and most exciting exhibition of their peculiar tactics.
Yelling, they circled nearly around us, at a distance of from
50 to 200 yards, each warrior riding at the top of his pony's
speed, circling to the left, always firing, and falling back to
reload. the circle immediately near to us had about 200
warriors in it, and about 300 more reinforced them as need
might be, while from the west hundreds of others, mounted
or on foot, could be seen either hastening to the fight, or
looking on as spectators. Our force consisted of about 60
men. We occupied the cuter, falling back slowly, the rear
or front platoon, as the needs might be, facing about, or right
or left, and by well directed volleys checking the yelling
devils' furious ride and attack. Many of them must have
been killed and wounded, as we could see them fall, be put
on ponies again, and carried to the rear. The scene was ex-
citing beyond description. We retreated in good order for
two or three miles, when the report was circulated that am-
munition was growing scarce. The order to countermarch
became in danger of being a rout. By the strenuous exer-
tions of the officers the men were restrained till the main
command appeared in sight, on the south side of the
stream. Our difficulty was to get across. The banks were
narrow and abrupt. The Inlians knew our object,
and strenuously endeavoured to prevent it. At every
ravine they sought to cut us off, and when we made a stand
they set fire to the prairie, so as to smoke Its out. One of the
Indians made himself conspicuous by his dashing courage
and daring horsemanship. Many of the men made especial
attempts to shoot him, but seemingly he bore a charmed
life. It made no difference, to all appearance, on what part
the horse he rode. The fabled Centaur could not have been
so completely identified with his animal as these Indians
are with theirs. In riding the circle all of their body visible
was one arm and leg where they hung on the cif side.
Under the neck, belly, between the legs, it seemed to make
no difference whence they fired. I know that the balls or
arrows came most unpleasantly close. Riding without
saddle or bridle, lariat loose and trailing, on the ground,
guiding the ponies by voice and limb, if one was dismounted
all he had to do was to grasp the trailing lariat, and ho was
rtmouuted quicker thau it takes to tell the wudel