Arkansas intelligencer., 1846-10-10
FROM OUR VOLUNTEERS.

FROM OUR VOLUNTEERS.
One Of the wugoners who accompanied the
Arkansas regiment Of Mounted Gunner from
this place. returned from San Antonio. via La
vacca and New Orleans, on Sunday evening last
bringing several letters from tho volunteers, to
their families and friends in this place and vc,n.
uy- They all speak of the regiment being in
good health and in fine spirits, and tho bearer of
them, Mr.. Hill. who left San Antonio on the Sd
ut., conforms their report. As an evidence OF the
good health which prevailed among the troops, It
may not be amiss TO state, that we learn, that
only one death had taken place in the Arkansas
regiment since it was mustered INTO service In
sou Of Mr. John AiEl"nIcr, Of Saline county, vino
died near the Trinity. and, on the day Mr.. Hill
left. every member VI the regiment was preseut
IN camp.
The following is an extract of n letter from
member Of Capt. Pixies company, dated LIST
Sept:
There are great many Lipnn and Tonkawu
Indians camped around US. The Government
tits said) have employed about 500 Of the latter
tribe to accompany US as spies. There arc two
regiment of lIiusis Volunteers cumped with us.
Also, two companies Of US. lnfuntry and three
of U. S. Dragons. making between 1000 and
tbNN NIbpllS, III dll. btl W Ub nus ulIHtu ulu
reviewed US yerterday. We will be paid of. in
few days; and, as soon as The Kentucky Nolun-
tiers arrive, we are all to proceed TO Chihuahua,
IA distance of more than 500 miles farther.)
81 went up to San Antonio on yesterday, 10 see
the town and was glad to get away. Tho houses
are all of mud pnd stone, with straw roofs and
dirt floors. There is no, a street that is so #.
wide, or that is straight for 200 yards they are
] taI l E,r, l,, nd
saw the spot whore CROCKETT was buried, which is
within the RUNS, where he fell. 1t is well worth
seeing. The place was once an old monastery,
has great many cells and dungeons in it, is built
of stone, and covers about an acre Of ground
The front is ornamencd with some splendid car
we'd work, with the date of "l7S6" over the door,"
Some of the other letters intimate that it is not
unlikely tina, Capt. Pixies company Ihe Little
Rock Qua rds'') would be attached 10 the U. 5.
Dragons. They had been drlllng Tor some Time
previous in the exercises of that service aud had
acquired great proficiency in it. The appearance
of they hole regiment, we understand, compared
favorabIy with the other Volunteer ,regimens.-i
The arms and equipments for the Arkansas req.
meBt had not arrived, but were on their way up
from Lovncca, and expected in few days after
our informant fefi.
p. S.-Since the above was written, we have
seen letter received by Wednesday nights mail,
from gentleman at Washington, who had just
returned from San Antonio, and who len that
place several days after Mr.. Hill The only news
he communicates is the following:
capt. Pike (he says and all from your town.
that know: are well:" and, at the close Of his
Io,,er he adds. that "Mal Borand has resigned
he and Yell quarrelled. "-Arkansds Democrat.
BIadenburg Duelling Ground Being called
10 visit this town. SO famous in the annals Of duel
ling, in the discharge of public duty fel, some
curiosity TO visl. the bloody ground. Why this
spot should have been selected, no one can tell
but is famous through all the South. Ii is sltua.
ted about half mile from the village, near the
site on which our troops were stationed IN aniIci.
patton Of the arrival Of the British during the last
war. and from which they so vigorously ran as
soon as they saw the foe. In q secluded spot,
near the et &c of thick wood, rude, wild, uncul.
lva,e1, win no foolpalh leading 10 1t, you stand
on the sol! drenched by the hte.blood OF many
man. Here Decatur, Mason, and Cilley, fell
One of the most ferocious duels on record, was
fought between Gen. Mason and McCarty. Mason
challenged his opponent, but McCarty on the
groun1 that his sight was defective, declined Tight
ing. He was posted asa coward. Being mill.
tary man. Mason's challenge was accepted. Be-
hold the weapons together they must leap from
the dome of the CapitoI or sit each upon keg
of powder. and insert with his own hand, a slow
match in tho bunghoie, or fight with muSkeis at
ten PAGES Mason protested that the conditions
were savage; McCarty persisted in them. The
par,ies met and Mason was literally blown to
pieces. A few weeks ago duel was fought by
two men from North Carolina; DR.. johnson, one
Of the parties, was instantly killed. The stakes
still stand, at ten PAGES apart the marks made
by the fee, al the turning of tho body, and deep
stains of Johnson's blood, are still upon tho earth
The ground is black iii around whe tho tail
rank grass tells Is, as eloquent us at Waterloo,
of the richness of human blood Cor. of The
N. E. Puritan.
From tie N. o. Commercial Times.
Several letters woro yesterday received in the
city from Vera Cruz, dated the 5th inst, brought
by the Princeton, which have been shown us by
the gentlemen TO who they are addressed. From
those We lenrn That the. present Government of