The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-10 00:00:00

CAFFRE IRRUPTION.

( From the Graham's Thum Journal, Jan. 23.)

The most reinatkhble events we have to record during the
past week, relating to the affairs of this froutier, are the arrival
:f his excellency the governorat Grahern's-town, and the return
uf the party under the command of Major Cox (75th regitnent),
which nad been directed to scour a part ofi the Caere territory.
„This :detachment, having crossed the colonial boundary, and
attacked Eno's kraal, as given in our last week's journal, moved
forward to the kraal of the chief Tyali, the most active and
daring ,of the .confederate chiefs. Here they found the place
abandoned, note hum-in being to be seen, nor any cattle, of all
'the lininense herds that. had been swept out of the colony. The
party contented themselves, therefore, with firing the deserted
huts, and then retained to Graham's-town, which they reached
on Sunday last.. Previous to quitting this part of the country,
the-party:some.of were despatched to the' Chumie Institution,
belonging to the. Glasgow Missionary Institution, •for trie -pur-
pose of suggesting to the missionaries resident there (the Rev.
-.Messrs. Chalmers and Weir) the propriety of their withdrawing;
boundary; but these gentlemen. stated that
'hey were then undecided what course it would .be ,most advis-
able for them to pursue under existing eireumstances—danger
threatened theui:,on either hand ; by..stas.ing' they:might pro • .
babfy 'faH the victims of Caere treachery, by attempting to
escape they must incur -the ininiiiient risk+of detection, and. if
the .suspiciees.chiefs were once aroused; vengeance would inevi-
tably'follOw.
_
•• After writing the foregoing, intelligence reached us of the
.escape of, these missionaries front the hands of the perfidious
harbarians. .The following extract of a leiter fron.* Kat
' Rivet-Settlement will 'afford iorne -interesting particulars on
this subject, as well as on the state of that part of the country.
It is dated Fort Adelaide, 19th of January;—" Since my last
•.W. de Kleick's whole croplias been. set on fire, and entirely
destroyed. • fleshed about 2,0(X) sheaves of corn, and 'more than
that of barley. If this mode of warfare is fullowed up, et must
a,,,gravate Our`calainities tenfold;*biat we sincerely hope the ci3-.
linnet tiircesoill soon take the lield,.by which the 'fiendish career
of these barbarians may beehecked. .•Abotit eleven o'clock last
night we were surprised by a visit from Messrs. Chalmers and
Weir; who ,came.-to seek 'aesistance to- bring oiftheir
They were obliged to steal awes,. in the darki.and from the state
of things were uncertain whether the Institution (the Chuntie)
might not be :attacked last- bight:- Captain Armstrong' gave
them sixty_mounted men, with whore -they started about mid-.
' night, so as; if Possible, to reach the station before daybreak, in
order to escape the obserVation'Of the Caffres: They will be,
obliged to abandon everything; as-it would be imprudent to des,
lay for waggous, and thus risk their, own safety. -Mr. and Mri.'
. Bennie are still-at•Loyedalc. I wish eineoula afford them sues
cour, but from this •quattel 'fear it is.:imposeible. Messrs.
Keyser and Ross live retired to Burn's-hill.' We arc-glad to.
.add to this iutelligeuee,that 'Messrs. Cl:lnners aud Weir, with
their families, succeeded in gaining the encampment in safety.
. We ire inforined'also that before Major: Pox' returned with
Ai§ detachment from Tyali's territory, he heard that a post of
,p, nervation; consisting of 45, Caffres, with iiinsketst,- had been
&it lay that ehiefon the-top of the Chinni?. mOuntansi, and in.
_The' forest on .its• side. rn situation totilcf, it appears, have.
been better selected than thi4 for the purpose intended; as from
thence the whole country, for a distance 6(50 miles within the
.colonial -boundary. can he overlooked. MUjer Burney, who
had united himself to Major pox's t'onainarid,.. was directed.,
therefore to dislodge this party, if passible:but' at, present we
have had no: information of -his haVing; effected this object:
. We learn also, from the same source, that the chiefs Tyall and.
Mauna°, and some other chiefs, with a large fo.rce„ have taken
tp a position on the Aniatola, a small.streana miming. into the
Keiskamma, situate in a most difficult mountainous part of
Catireland, full of kloofs and ravines, and where it is exceed-
ingl y difficult for horsemen to act with any effect.
Daring Sunday night an attack was made on the premises of
.Lientenant Griffith, at Burnt Kraal, about four miles Of
. town.-- The .night was dark; with drizzling rain; and althotigh
the place was defended by a party of burghers, Undertheeoin--
. Maud of Field-Caminiandent Van Rooyen, the enemy poured
down in. a manner Se stid'den and impetuous,' that they suc-
ceeded. in-capturing the cattle, about 150 head, and in killing
I two- of Mr. Griffith's men (late emancipated slaves), and one
Bechuana woman. Two Caffres were killed,iii, this affair: A
party of the Graham's-town Mounted Volunteers were ordered
. to. this point immediately On thd receipt of this intelligence,
but the enemy had •plauged into the thicket with ihe boOty, and
hitherto eluded pursuit. • " . •
... The above is -the most important affair which has been re-
ported-during the week. The Caeres appear very evidently
either to have retreated on their-Own territory, in consequenceof the diversion in our favour made by_ Major Cox and his de-
tachment, or to be concealed in the bush,- silently awaiting the
further movements of the British force. Still, althougi the
. larger bodies of the' enemy have not been seen, numerous small
parties have been met'\rith'tu alinost every direction, and all of
them appear very assiduous in carrying en the work of destrues
.tion wherever it bad not been effectually done by those who pre-
ceded them.