The Arkansas banner., 1847-08-02

-~esN@'s''9 Wtttt " 70 ufe WeSk@ and uf1WlfG rom association with uneulvafed asiure, nosF the rudencss and scnsualism of lhe savage has genuine simplicity and trushGnlness of dis- position, and generosity, bravery. and single heaftedness io degree rarely found in so- elety Although Xii has only become known 10 the reading people of ..the States't and of Europe through FremonG's reports, he was long ago famous in . world as extended. if not as populous; famous for excelling in all the qualiiies that fife in the irackless and vast west requires and deyelopes. He has been celebrated tthougt now aged only about thirty -seyea yearsl as hunter, trappes, guide or pilot of the prairies, and ladian lighter, uniting ts the neCessary chaIacteris-
 ics of that adventurous and sturdy class, kindness of heart and genileness of manner
 that relieves 1t of any possible harshness or aspeFity.
 He is now in s'the States, D having reeeas-
 ly arrived with despatches from California; and hase taken the opportunity io extract
 from hun few incidents ef his eventfni life.
 lie IS worthy of a honorable and more ex-
 tended memoir; and were his adventures
 fully written out, they would possess all in-
 ierest equal to any personal narrative what l eser.
 Christopher Carson was born in Kentucky
 m the year 1910 or lSll, his father having
 been one of the early settlers, and also a
 noted hunter and Indian fighter. In the year following Kits birth the family removed, for 1 the sake of more elhow-room than the ad- vancifsg population of kenfurky left them, 1 Co inc territory of Missouri. On this from tier, bred to border life, Kit remained 10 the age of fifteen, when he joined trading party to Santa Fe. This was his introduction 10 1 the vast plains that stretch beyoLd the state of Missouri. Instead of returning home, Kit found his way. by various adventures. south. through New Mexico, to the copper mines ot Chihuahua, where he was employed some months as ieamsier.
 When but seventeen years old, he made his first expedition as trapper This was with party which had been induced by favorable accounts of fresh trapping grounds on the Rio Colorado of California. to an ad- venture thiiher; so tha. Kits first exploits were ln the same remote and romantic region where, during the last year, he and all his comrades, with their commander. have earned imperishabfe honor. The enterprise was successful, .and Xii relates many n,leres- ling anecdotes of the hardships of the wilder ness and of the encounters Of his party with the Indians. The Mexican authorities and settlers in California were even q; t,lat time jealous of the Americans, and threatened Ia selze even tbfs iuofensive and rowing party of beaver catchers. They made good their return, however, to Taos, in New Mexico; whence, soon afler, Kit ioiaed trapping party to yhe head waters of the Arkansas, Likewise region embraced, since the last published expedition. in the surveys of Capt Fremont) Without re-erossing the praiies, Xii went nor,hward 10 the region of the Rocky mountains that gives rise 10 the Mis- soGri and Columbia rivers, and there remain ed near eight years, engaged in the then in- poFlani occupation of trapping.
 The great demand for the beaver, and the consequent high prices at that time paid for the pelIries, gave an additional stimuius to the west, and drew nearly all who preferred the settlements aud hazards ol life ia the wilderness to queler pursuits, into the recesses of the Rocky Mountains. Here peculiar class was formed: the elements, the sturdy, enterprisihg and uncurbed character of ihe frontier; tue circumstances that in- iluenced and formed t. nature in her widest. toughest, and grandest spects-Savages. both as associates and foes, of every cast, trosn the wrelched Rnoi-sIiggers io the vim diclive Black-leei, and the courageous and Warlike Crows-and vocation uf constant labor, priyation and peril in every shape, vel of gains of nature and degree to give Il somewhat of the characteristics of gamb- ling
 The decrease of Inc beaver before pur- suit of the poor animal ruthless us was thus stimulated, and the substitution of other l commodities for the beaver fur, have left, trapping scarcely worth foliowing as a voca- .ioa: aad the race of trappers has nearly disappeared from the mountain gorges, where they built lheir rude lodges, where they set ihe traps for the wiley bearer, aad whefe there were frequent comhais with the savages, and with wild beasts not less Formidable. In the school of men thus formed by hardship, 1 exposure. peril and temptation, our hero ac- quIred all their virtues and escaped their vices. He became noted through the extent of the trapping grounds and on both sides of the hOtAS -uouhs1ihSs as suNtesStht trap per, an uniaIIing shot, an unefring guide, and for bravery, sagacity and sleadiness in ali circumstances.
 He was chosen to lead in almost all en- terpfises of unusual danger, and in ali at- lacks upon iI.e Indians, Al one time, with party of twelve, he attacked a band of neal sixty Crows, who had stolen some of the horses belonging 10 the iTapoers. cut loose the animals wh.~.l were ted within lea feet of the strong fori of logs in which the h. disns had taken shelter, attacked them, and made good his retreat with the recovered horses, an Indian of another tribe, whc was with the tfappcrs, bringing away Grow scalp as a trophy. h oae combat with .he Biaekieei, Carson received rifle bali ia his Ieli shoulder. breaking ii. Save this. he has