Litchfield enquirer., 1833-09-12

blankets, which, after great deal of exertiOn, | we succeeded in doing.
 Our thicket now being so much burnt and | scOrched, that it afforded US little or no shel- l ter, we all got into the ring that was made round our wounded men and baggage; and | building our breastw0rk higher, | with the loose rocks from the inside, and dirt l dug up with our knives and sticks During 1 the last fire, the Indians had succeeded in re- 1 moving all their killed and wounded which lay near us. It was 6Ow snndOwn, and we had been warmly engaged with the Indians since sunrise, period of thirteen hours and they seeing us still alive and ready for fight. drew off at distance of three hundred yards. and encamped for the night with their dead and wounded. Our party now commenced raising our fertilization higher, and succeeded in getting it breast high by ten, r. M. We now filled all our vessels and sklns with wa ter, expecting another attack the next morn ing. We could distinctly hear the 1ndlans' nearly all the night, crying over their dead' which is their custom; and at daylight they shot a wounded chief-it heinz also custom to shoot any oftheir tribe that are mortaily wounded. They, after that, set out with their dead and wonntied to g mountain about
 mile distant, wherefhey deposited their dead in a cave On the side of it. At eight in the morning, two of our party went out from the
 forii6caiiOn to the encampmenf, where the
 Indians had lain the night previous. and conn-
 ted forty-eight bloody spots on the grass
 where tine dead and wounded had been lying.
 As near as we cnuld judge, their loss must
 have been forty killed and thirty wounded.*
 Finding ourselves much cut np, having one
 man killed, Thomas M'Caslin-and three
 wounded, ID. Bnchannan, Matthew Doyle, ol- tlA three wOunded4-tbat we recommended strengthening our little fort, and continued our Iabors until one, P. M. when the arrival of thirteen Indians drew us into our fort again. As sOOn as they discovered we were still there. and already for action and well tOrtIi- ed, they put off. We after that remained ln our fort eight days, recruiting our wounded men and horses: at the expiration of which time, being all in pretty good order. we set out on oar return to St. Antonia de Baxar.- We left the fort at dark. and travelled all nlghf and next day until afternoon, when we pick ed out an advantageous spnt and fortified ourselves, where we remained two days, ex-
 pecting the Indians would again, when re-
 cruited, follow our trail but, however, we
 saw nothing more of them
 David Burhannan's wounded leg here nor tificd, and having no surgical instruments, or
 
 we boiled some live oak bark very strong. and thckened it with pounded charcoal and ln-
 dian meal, made a poultice of it. and tied it
 ronn,! his leg, over which we sewed buffalo
 skin, and travelled along five days without
 looking at it, when it was opened. the mortl-
 fled parts had alisdropped of, and itwas in a 1 fair way of healing, which it finally did, and | his leg is as we'll as ever it was. There was
 none of the party hut had his skin cnt in sev-
 ers asfs and ns @ s !6pough
 der with our wounded men and horses. .4at St.
 Antonia de Baxar. 1 We afterwards learned from the Camoncba In.
 dlaas that their loss in killed and woun Loue aud Murder.-Another Clough Affair. "A most atrOci0us nttenlpt at assassination
 was made in this city last e,ening. A young
 German lady about three weeks in this coun
 try, and residing with her friends in Howard st. was walking in company with several per sons ln Fieet-st. near the intersection of Hap Py.aIIey, last evening between five and six o'clock, when she was accosted by young man' lone of her countrymen,) who, after walking few steps by her side, demanded of Der whether she would marry him. She an- swered No! The young man retreated 8 step or two, pulled pistol from his pocket, ana shot inc unfortunate object of his aifec- tion n the back. He was promptly seized ana committed tO prison, and the wounded body taken to the house of Dr. Allen, in Ann st: The wound appeared to have been made wnh duck shots the whole charge entered the ieit shoulder, about equidistant from the yer teDrse. and the arm. to which direction may ne imputed the escape of the victim from i'm
 mediate death. as lhe nuzzle of the pistol Was not more thsBtwO inches from the hody. The report ofthe pistol indicated that it had nee0 heavily charged. as the assassin nnques. iionabty intended to do his business efTectual- ". The writer of this saw inc wounded la- dy last evening, and again this morning, and with much pleasure expresses belief that he wound is not dangerous, and that the an- fortunate young lady will this time escape the fate which the nsaiignity of her pretend ed lover had pfemeditated, --Baitihore. Gag.
 Cold ia VefHoAg, Professor Hitchcock. in his Geological Report. made and. published last winter, and since published in SiIfiman's Journal. says deposite of gold has been found m Somerset. Vermont, and concludes that gold regiou exists in the lower part of that State. of considerable extent and rich. l ness. h bushei of dirt collected in several places, three pennyweighis of gold were ionna. From quarts of dirt, 20 or 30 small pieces weighing about grains were obtain ca. Masses of gold weighing several ounces 1