The Arkansas advocate., 1836-09-16

The Captain, whose lidings had led 10 the blunder, was profoundly silent upon the subject afterwards; and as he was nevertheless universally respected, one seemed disposed to annoy him by any ausons to a biunder which certainly very awkward one.
 About week after this incident, we approach ing Dade's battle, or rather massacre-ground. Ira ces of vicinity to 1t to be III shreds of jackets, cartouch-boxes, belts and things o that kind, scattered along the road for some distance before reached the fatal spot. Ihccountry around 1t the reverse of what expected 10 sec. Instead of gloomy wood, or low unsightly botton t was open pine baren with small prairie pond spreading in front of the ground, (he immediate of the horrd tragedy,) which IS in form sosceles triangio. hv- cry thing saye that the and officers had been bu red,1 seemed to lay the Indians had left 1t. Here team that had fallen, and now lay bleaching, the spot where it had been shot. There a hali- burnt carriage, traces and chains lying about 1t. Here a broken cart, dead horse--peces of snged crimson velvet, (from the instrument case of the surgeon,) implements and remains of all sorts and there the imperfect breast porkthe most melan- choly oblectfor it's half finished state reminded you of the nasty hands that in desperate hope had gathered together few logs for protocon, and had been sud- denly stopped in the iororn work-unnerved- iyzed in the fiery death that overlook them! High above all the ttnsuli-for they looked more like huge mounds than gravcs--of the officers and men. We observed some of the pine trees cut by cannon shot at least twenty feet from tho ground. This was afterwards explained 10 us DY one oi tne tnfee men who had escaped the massacre and whom we saw at Fort King. He said the shot fired in order to break the branches of the trees which, falling, might drive the Indians from behind their trunks, under the shelter of which they shot down Dades men,) and in l that way bring them reach of guns oi ie latter.
 It by of the prairie pond m front, that this man, and, think, the other wo enabled to es cape. They lay concealed in the high broom that coy cred it, till the Indians retired, when they made the best of their way down to Tampa.
 The scene altogether most mournul one, and we were glad when the army moved on, taking the road to Volusa-while Major Watson and omsef took tho one to Fort King. They all thought madl and, in truth 1t was not over-wse n us-for we were but two, and without arms having lost pistols. We, however, hailed the piclets, at Camp King, that night, about l2 o'clock having travelled fifty miles in nine hours.
 We carried with us the first intelligence of the army that had been received since it left Fort Drane, one month before Would that tldings had been more fortunate! We were constrained to say that the paign had been faiIre-and all the work to do over again. We never shall forget the rueful conferences which this news occasoned, we'll might; for tho idea of a summer campaign-of being posted out in those feverhauned regions during the intense months of Juno, July and August, far formidable to our officers than would have been the prospect of q hundred fights
 At Micanopy parted with our fearless friend Major Watson, and wended our solitary way back to Picolata, after absence of seven weeks; during which we had experienced privatons and exposure of all sorts--yet congratuatiDg ourselves, upon the whole, with having saved our scalpi
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