The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-08-09
The missouri Meetings--.Humbug:

The Missouri Meetings---Humhug
Some Of the Fusion papers are attempting
20 get up an excitement about the meetings
which have been held in the western part
OF Missouri. which resolved that they would
take their slaves into Kansas and hold them.
Nav, such procedure as this would be IN
entire disregard Of law, and against IL the
Missouri Compromise would have been no
arner ifit hal been suffered to remain up
on the statute book. kausas Is free ter
rtory, and every human chattel which is
taken there will become tree the same MS II
he was landed in Ohio. The slave hold
ers understand this and will not risk
risk their property by emigrating into a ter
ritory where slavery has not been authorized
by statute.
These meetings were sheer humbuts and
will amount TO no hing. he Abolitionlsts
and Wings who wish To see Kansas become
slave territory in order to make political.
Capital, will be very sorry tn read the iol-
lowing, which We take from the Agraridn
Democratic paper published at lndepend-
encc, Mo, which thus allades to the meet
ings referred to:
"TnE WEsTpURT AND INDEPENDENCE Res
oLUTIoNs.
More than week has now elapsed since
the two meetings were held, and men have
had an opportunity of comparing notes aud
of forming some correct opinion respecting
the nature, origin, and tendency of the pro-
ceedings. The atmosphere is wei nigh
cleared up, and the sulphTous sounds and
scents with which it was lately charged have
imperceptibly died away. The whole turns
out to have been nothing else than little
party maneuvre, gotten up and played ott
by one or two enterprising spirits in the
hope of gaining notolety not otherwise at
tainable. The resolutions having been Sc
cretly prepared, were sprung unexpe ctedly
upon the audience, and carried by few
previouslg secured votes, for the greater
number of those present taking no part in
the matter. We feel assured that not one
man IN twenty in this community partakes
of the inhammatory spirit breathed in the
resolution, or is willing to give his counte-
nance to the reckless measures rccommen-
ded by them. - Gin. En-.
A Bloody Battle with the Indians.
We have before announced the fight be-
tween Captain Van Buren and party OF
Camanches, in which the captain was woun-
ded, as was supposed, mortally; but the
following letter from Corpus Christi to the
True Delta, in addition to the particulars
OF the combat, gives the gratifying intelli-
gence that hopes are now entertained OF
thiS brave officers recovery:
"CoRpUs CHRISTI, TEXAS, July 10, 81.
con the I1th instant, Captain Van Buren,
and twelve men of the mounted rifles, ever
took party of twenty-five Camancbe In
dians, and whipped them handsomely.
Captain King and party Of infantry noun
ted ON mules first got on their trail near Las
Moras, on the El Paso road, and pursued
them four days, when the mules gave out.
Fortunately, al out this time he met Cap
tain Van Buren,, who was out from Fort
Inge on a scout, and put him on the trail.
He followed it up for six days, and travelled
over 800 miles, when he overlook the In
dians. To avoid pursuit, they crossed the
Nueces three times, and also large lake.
Captain Van Buren swan his horses 400
Yards across this lake, and struck the trail
on the opposite side.
"The two parties discovered each other as
the Indians were turning hill, and when
the captain got around the Hill he-tennd the
Indians drawn up in line Of battle ready TO
receive him-they having taken their sad
dies and everything off their horses, except
the brides, and put the in pile. The
Indians opened the fight with arrows, and
when they supposed ,hey had drawn the fire
of the captains party, charged it, The cap
tain Immediately ordered his men to dis
mount and take their iihes--befoTe this they
h i'd used only their revolvers, without much
effect. When some five or six Indians had
been knocked off their horses, they broke,
and the captain charged them.
| The Indians left one of their number dead
on the ground, but succeeded in carrying the
other dead and wounded off. They left their
saddles, &c. Captain Van Buren, and three
of his men were wounded. In the COM
mencement of the fight the captain received
wound in his sword arm, which ble& pro-
fusely, and in the charge he attacked pow.
erful young Indian, who was on foot, and
after having made several cuts at him, the
Indian suddenly sprung from under his
horses neck, with his bow already drawn,
and shot the arrow through his body. 1t
entered on the right side, about six inches
above the naval and below the ribs. and the
iron heaG came out on the left side of the
spine, having cut through his sword belt be-
hind. He drew the arrow out with both
hands, and, believing the wound mortal,
lay down to die. He, however sent an ex-
press to Fort Ewell, and in the course of
two or three days an ambulance and DR..
Head arrived, and he was taken to this place,
some fifty or sixty miles flom the battle
field.
Its now the eighth day since he was
wounded, and the three distinguished army
surgeons who are attending him, { DrS. Tur-
ner, Head, and McParlin, are Of opinion,
to-day, that he will recover, but until the
last day or two they had scarcely any hope
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