The Arkansas advocate., 1836-09-09

try. The justice of this remark seemed assented to by all present.
 This was on the 24th March. On the 18th we were 10 take up the line of march for the Outhlacoochy- Under pelting shower flor the clouds, as Il comms- stoned to "throw cold water' upon the ardor ot our troops continued from day to day to pour down tor rents upon tis, we proceeded on to Camp smith, some miles beyond the fort. Here found them m breast work-and here, too, were the Louisiana volunteers, who had been with Ganeshad lived on dog ana horse fiesh-had been the burers of Dade's men nad t"ice seen the Ouithlacoochy and were now agan aDout 10 taste its waters. finer, irmer, more cheerlu gal lant set of men. never graced an army-they were soldiers every inch of them.
 On passing the tent of one of them the next morn ing, we were attracted by the appearance o saddle lying at the door of the tent. It was new--strongy and well made; and, stamped Tn large letters upon It, we read---"Janles Izard, Unitcd States Dragons. It was the pac-sadde of the young and gallant soldier whose name it bore-poor lizard who, the head of his men, fell by an Indian bullet, while defilng along the eastern shore of :he Ouithlacoochy. There was something inexpressiby melancholy ln the memorial before us. In the midst of thronged aud animated camp-the hum of an hundred voices-there lay all, 1t were, that remained of one who but little while before, had himself been moving Ill scene like that his eye quck-his hand as frm--hls soul as true .Now, that eye eosed-that hand was cold!-bat we could not help thinking that if the soul of lzard was permitted to feel pang in another world II would, be prompted by the knowledge of how soon-heee, near the very scene where his gallant daring might have averted his early doom here in the midst of former friends and companions in arms--he had been--forgotten! 1t did seem to us, that f-lnstead ef :e visible of young and heroic spirit, so lately one of their number-- had been the collar Of horse dog that had been shot, it could scarcely have excited less notce--less comment !-Perhaps we had not been sufficiently brazed by the habits of the soldiers life--but whatever might be the cause, we turned away from the sight of poor Izards pack-sadde with sickness of feeling which we have disposition to recur to, much less to dwell upon. The day pass ed heavily enough, at least to us for, from some cause, that sarly spirit melancholy, had taken complete possession of us
 With the morning of the next day, however, all was hustle at an early hour; tents were struck, and the whole camp i'll motion, for that day the army tt march About l2 o'clock, accordingly, General Scott with the entire right wing, 2000 men, 100 baggag, wagons, and as many bees, had arrived. The rgh wing, with the artillery, under Col. B., and the lett consisting Of infantry, under General s. of Louisian --the commander in-chief, with his staff and bod guard, (2S Dfagoons} together with the wagons, cat tie, and two flats for crossing the river, occupying the centre, and with hankers sent out, marel was sounded live moved slowly, heavily, and in posingy and, altogether the spectacle parook of Ih sublime! We camped that night within mile or tw, of OMathlas town, and such scene An hundred fires had suddenly blazed forth, and the immemoria wood, lit up by eonAagration, appeared to guat beneath the glare, and cower above is secrets, thus invaded in dark domnions And then there was th, voice of great multitude that rose as the rushing wind and seemed to shake the solitude of night and of th wilderness. Our steeds appeared to snuff the fresl breeze of the forest as something new 10 them; ant the frequent and shril neigh proclaimed that to them too, there startling strangeness in the scene Our encampment covered space of fully ten acres, il the form of square and if you imagined its circun l. .Iz- up by thousand groups of men, their glistenng arm stacked near at hand, with here and there batch 0 friendly Indians, in their wild but picturesque attire the formidable cam constituting 1t were, the nucleus around which all this was gahered the whole lighted up by countless res and deriving strong relief from the dark background of dense woods either hanC
 -and tat and dewy eve,o the ''doubling drum sending up its stormy music high above this world O yeerng heads--while, standing out aloof from all the rest, upon the very verge and limit of lines, ht different sentines, walking their soney rounds" am occasionally sending deep into the camp the echo o the startling hol! which all must heed--of 'sWho zoe there ?"-you have some tant idea of all encampmen III the wilderness.
 Glad, whenever we dismouued for the night, to lav aside the heavy double barrrelled gun, pistol powde and ball, we had accordingly placed them under cove of the tent, and stroled out to survey Ee scene. At tracted by the appearance of group of friendly Indians we walked up, and were engaged n noting their varou attitudes before the enormous re they had kIndled when, far upon our left We heard sudden and contus ed sound of voices, which we should not however have been likely to heed, (supposng to proceed iron party of our men engaged in making some of tn various arrangements of the nght) but for the in which the Indians suddenly pricked up their and as suddenly rose to their feet. This movemen at once convinced us that they understood better thai we did the nature of the sounds on our left; and in moment more, we heard the words, "Fall in, men fall in P! in clear steady voice directly at elbow It was alarm !--and in instant the whole cam appeared to catch the sound. There is something i the tone of he officer, when he pronounces those em sapds ch