The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-11-06
Latest news from the chicken Stealcrs.

ferlnqs Of one of the lost fTt7ty-kee1s0fhd0te
escape from ,oiA bsasts-1ona loses an eye
Charley is ptzene1 on eye acater- Getting the
asaks-H Hunting Pecans-Alarnsing accident
Charley hung himself 300 feet from the :
0rouad-s7sot dolclo-aOaSbes an the Wabast-
oil right The hull thing doptpay.
TEN MILES Up THE LITTLE WABAsH,)
Oct. 80, 1855.
DEAR ADD:-Here we are! all sound and
safe in mind and limb, and would be much
more so IS it had not been for the many mis-
haps, accidents, plumbers, and misadventures
attending our well planned, well advised, but I
i'll timed adventures in wild goose chase"
Well to our story! Here were are, as said
before, out of provisions, whisky and lucifer
matches. AS long as they lasted, we had any
quantity of fun and fine times, and have ira
versed many mile of forest hitherto untrod- !
den by the foot of white man, and which
would be still in the same prineval state if 1t
had not been for our presence on this expedl-
ton You recollect having stated that there
was something we had forgotten and sure
enough there was, and it was a compass, .
and mariners one at that; for on the ever.
| ing of the 2sth we were just three days hunt
ing head quarters, and but for the ever to be
rem embered kindness of long legged Wa
bash fellow, we should have most likely to
dispatch for the assistance of DR.. Kane to ex-
plore the regions of the little Wabash for the
remains of our small but adventurous band.
AS for the success in the game line we SAP
any quantity, and indeed if we had horse
along (Which was another thing we forgot) we
could have saved any quantity to distribute
among our friends ON our return, but most Of
our game and particularly the venison, was
slaughtered long distance from any shipping
point The saddle" with your name on it was
Sacrificed last night to appease the voracious
appetite of our friend Hy. M.-who return
ed to camp last night two hours after sun
down. having been lost since the evening of
the 28th, on which day we lay some half mile
apart at various clicks" cracks" &C., and
were to return at given hour to camp if un-
successful in bringing down our game which
we were sadly in need off Poor Hy lost his
way, took the wrong direction, and at night
the screams of the owls, bowling of Bears,
Panthers &C., he describes as awful in the ex-
IRENE, from which, however he was somewhat
protected by roosting some sixteen stories up
big outrageous cottonwood.
On the 9th, we had some glorious sport.
/ "Tom,'' ON whom we depended So much fo1
great exploits, had on the second day out his
"sight eye" rendered useless in little difficult
4 ty, and came near poisoning Charley (nearly
like old Joe g. by leaving bottle of eye
wash composed of sugar of lead, in the seuttle
f in close proximity to Gharley's private
Y "Schnapps." Charley took horn, but as he
didn't ta;e sugar in his whisky the sugar didn't
e hurt him, and the lead-(We cut our cores
e pondent short hereD
We have suffered many privations and hard
ships from wet, cold, hunger, want Of spirits
&c. particularly our friend Nc. N. and Char
4 ley, who with myself have suffered with the
chills to an awful extent, in fact so bad thai
for the awful "cut'' we might make on our re
turn, and the reproach and hard feelings of tht
: rest of the company.
l almost forgot to tell you that being totally
: out of provisions, Charley and myself started
: out on a pecan expedition. Charley as you may
! be aware, brought his telegraph climbers, and
pecans have been known to keep several per-
(. sons from death by starvation Charley climbed
= a monstrous tree, and would have succeeded
in knocking many a pecan but in throwing
his rope the rope threw him, and to my hor
: ror, there was Charley suspended mid air, ant
a in most perilous condition at fearful alti
If tude! Probably his bleached bones would
have hung there for many year, sad warn
: ing to pecan spectators in the climbing bust
ness, if it were not for the unerring aim of oul
! now left-eyed friend Tom S., who bringing his
9 rifle to bear on the almost fatal rope, severed
two strands at the first fire, and brought oul
esteemed and faithful Charley to the ground
fortunately sound in limb but in very nasty
4 condition, which, however, the waters of the
little Wabash soon remedied. Charley hints
t that we ought to have brought along at leas
one metallic burial case, and says if ever he
goes on another ''sich like he will surely
bring one on his own account.
This is great game country and as veni-
f son is only three cents per pound, I don't see
the use in risking ones life and comfortable
feelings for such small amount, when it is
g combined with such bad lodgings, no whisky,
. tobacco, andss the Company Of such rascally
s looking fellows as we all are, for we also for