The Arkansas advocate., 1834-03-07

I 1IfldhElSD1t dffSWCf iD ifiG ilit5tSi5fi, sshieh appeared in the last Gazette. l replblisll 1t, because have not the slight est desire to conceal any portion of 1t, and Iheeaase by the side of the calumny wish # 4 s--es;yss....ss..s s--e;yss....ss..s s,aessca.
 .'.ai. Ed;tor-Permit me through the
 nedian Of your paper, to say to the .fe2loae Of oif@ skin memory, who has figured so largely of late, in the Advocate. both in ggose sad Usrse, from Los I'enapos dawn to his moe recent publications, that 1t would be aeel3for him to keep an ear to theacind-i sedyd, lest q tale should be told that would make Wen H1M blush. The otter and naties, and also the auhipping- post, may he brought up in Judgment against him. VALE" Tn atswering to the above, have no wish to appeal to the sympathies of inc public. ask ID favor from them, more than l do from tts writer of the islander. demand only iustice and fair hearing. And first. in explanation of the use of the word in3des, So significantly placed in italics, as tho' the simple word was to crush mo into the earth. In September, 1882. bought and gave my note f;,f a trapping outfit, to Richard amp bell, in Taos, q village in New Mexico That outfit consisted, in part, of aAhorse,Fa mule, and five traps. l left Taos in the company of Campbell, and we travelled for 250 miles with Mir. john Harris, who had another company under his comfnand-bbt on approaching the country of the Cuman. ches, the Spaniards hired by Campbell, and .composing his whole company, with tfeex- ception of myself, another American, and a Frenehman, refused to go any further. and took .a different course. Campbell return- cd 10 Taos, and ! joined hlr. Harris, as an ]. independent trapper, over whom he had no control whatever I was at liberty 10 ac- company him as far as l pleased, and to leave him when pleased. owed him mo- thing then-I never did owe him anything l owe him nothing now. My note was giy- en him to collect from me in beapef. He Ei. enc nc through q perfect desert-we starved for food and water--we ate two old hofses-we were on rifer almost as salt as brine.-- 1 We had found no beaver, and We hadano lhopes of finding any. The very aspect of the country forbade 1t, and the event proved it--for after wandering through it six months longer, Mr. Harris found none. In this emergency left the Company. I rode my own horse-I iea mule of my o,ca-I left my traps. What then had to do with mules? Four others accompanied me- I Let them answer for their own sins. have with them nothing to do. When a man is shipwrecked, he looks not with what oonlpa- ny he leaves the wreck. When the boat is lpushed off, he cares not who are his com lpanions. Alone, should have starved, or been murdered. Were l again in the same situation, ] would do as 1 then did. I would not wander in trackless desert, eat horse flesh, and drink salt water, rather than ride my own horse and carry my own gun away. After Mir. Harris came in, 1 sold him my mule, and disposed of my traps to Trimble and Wilson. Enough for that part of the islander.
 ] come now to the offer slsas. Tn the Isumroet of the last year, left an BBureii, I Crawford County. to seek some business by which might live. 1 entered Arkansas poor, literally penniless. I had taught a small school two months, and gave 1t up because 1t was too small toi live by. l paid the iaa cent l received, to the man with whom had boarded. kept not for my own Use one individual dollar. I left the place with one of the men who had accom- panied me from the prairie. He had shop in Van Buren, and had been working in 1t at his trade. He told me that he had three otter slsias which would serve to pay our expensestill we should find something to do. They were sn his shop, where he worked alone, and l naturally supposed them to be lhis--e else why were they thereg We took them with us. It appeared, .afierward, that they had been left in charge of his former partner, by person who had gone down the river -and when that partner sold his stoclt to Irwin the skins remained in the care ief the latter. Of ell this ! knew nothing. He told ne that he had traded for thenl-I had no rfason to suppose that 1t was not the case Irwin could be condemned only of a breach of trust-why then am I &C., cused, and of what? He wore away, also. a vest and pair of boots, which 1t aiter- ward appeareds had been Jeff in his shop. during the high ffeshetin June-leavino his own in iheir place. What had to do with his wearing apparel? He had always been well dressed, and it even now passes my compre'lension,why the .man should have ta- ken articles which did not belong 10 him. when hf had enough of his own, much less
 could ] then suspect such thing.
 We were followed to Fayetteville, and I was there astounded by an accusation of theft. have seen death staring me in the face, from starvation and the sayage--but r fI