Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-07-12

Deu'un' anu lew succeeding days, are graph
ically told by Carson himself, in an article fur
nished to the Washington Union Of June 10Th,
1917, from which we make the following ex-
tract
"'Mr Gillespie had brought the Colonel let
tcrs from home-the first he had bad since leay-
I ing the states the year beforehand he was up,
and kep, large ERE burning until srier mid
night; the rest Of Us were tired out, and all
weai to sleep. This was the only night in all
our travels. except the one nigh, on the island
in the Salt Lake, that we failed to keep guard:
and as the men were so tired, and we expected
no attack now that we bad sixteen in the party
the Colonel didn't like to ask il Of them but
sat up late himself. Owens and were sleep
ing together, and we were walked al the same
time by the licks OF the AK that killed our tnen.
AT first. didn't know il was that but call
ed TO Basil, who was that sidc-'Whai's the
matter there WHATS that fuss about The
never answered, for he was dead then, poor fel-
low, and he never knew what killed hm--his
head lad been Gu. in, in his sleep the other
groaned little as he died The Delawares
I've had four with ns) were sleeping at that fire.
and they sprang up as the Tlamaths charged
them. Que Of them caught up gun, which was
unloaded; but, although he could do no execu-
tion, he kept them at bay, lighting like a SOL
der, and didn't give up until he was shot full
Of arows-ihree entering his heart; he died
brayely. As soon as had called out, saw il
was Indians in the camp, and | and Owens TO.
gether cried out 'lndiaas.' There were no or
ders given: things went oa too fast, and the
Colonel had men with him that didn't need to
be told their duty. The Colonel and I, Max
we'll, Owens, Cooley and Siepp, jumped togeth-
cr, We six, and ran to the assistance Of our
/ Delawares ! don't know who fred and who
didnt but think it was Stepp's shot that
killed the Tlsmaih chief; for il was at the
crack Of Stepp's gun that he fell. He had an
English half axe slnng to his wrist by cord,
and there were forty arrows left in his qoiver
the most beautiful and warlike arrows | ever
saw. He must have been the bravest man
among them, from The way he was armed, and
judging by his cap. When the TIamalhs saw
him fall, they ran bui We lay, every man
with his rife cooked, until daylight, expecting
another attack.
ala the morning we found By The tracks
that IRON fifteen TO twenty Of the Tlsmaihs had
attacked US. They had killed three Of our
men. and wounded one of the Delawares, who
scalped the chief, whom we lefi where be fell.
/ Our dead men we carried on mules but after
going about ten miles, We found il impossible
to get them any farther through the thick tim
Der, and finding a sscret place, we buried them
under logs and chunks, having no way to dig a
grave. Il was only few days before this
/ fight that some Of these same Indians had come
into our camp; and, although we had only
meat for two days, and felt ssre that we should
have 10 eat mules for ten or fifteen days to
conc, the Colonel divided with them, and even
had mule unpaeked to give them some iobac-
co and knives
The party then retFaced its way into Cali
fornia, and two days after this rencounier they
met large village Of Tlamaths-more than a
hundred warriors. Carson was ahead with ten
j men, but one Of them having been discovered,
he could not follow his orders. which were to
send back word and let Fremont come mp with
the rest 10 case they found Indians. But as
they had been seen, it only remained to charge
the village, which they did, killing many, and
pni,iog the rest to fight. The women and
children, Carson says, we didn't interfere with;
but they burnt the village, together with their
canoes and fishing nets. 10 subsequent ca
counter, tiie same day, Carson's life vas immi.
nently expused. As they ealloped up he was
rather in advance, when he observed an Indian
fixing his arrow to let fly at hinl. Carson lev.
elled his rife, but il snapped, and ia an instant
the arrow would have pierced him, had moi
Fremont, seeing the Danger, dashed his horse
on The Indian and knocked him down. Il owe
my life 10 them two,' says Carson-.the Colo
mel and Sacramento saved me- Sacramento is
noble Californian horse which Captain Suttel
gave to Col. Fremont in 1874, and which has
twice made the distance between Kentucky and
his native valley, where he earned his name BY
swimming the river after which he is called. al
the close Of long days journey. No,wiih
Standing all his haldships--for he has travelled
everywhere with his msster--he Is sill The IA
voriie horse of Col. Fremont
We resume the extract from Benton's 'Thir
ty Years View ,
SIT was in the midst Of such dangers a,
these, that science was pursued by Mr.. Ere
mont; that the telescope was carried to reaC
the heavens; the barometer to measure the ell
evations OF the earth; the thermometer IL
gauge the temperature Of the air. the pencil
to sketch the grandeur of mountains, aud ts
paiut the beauty of flowers; the pen to writ,
down whatever was new, or strange, or usefu
in the works Of nature. II was in the mids, o
such dangers and such occupations as these
and in the widest regions Of the FaIihest West
that MIR. Fremont was pursuing science anS
7 stunning war, when The arrival Of Lieutenant
Gillespie, and his communications from Wash
ington, suddenly changed all his plans, lurnei
him back from Oregon, and opened new AM
! splendid field Of operations in California itself
/, He arrived in the valleys Of the Sacramento i
the month Of May, 1876, and found the conntr
alarmingly and critically situated. Thre
great operations, fatal TO American interests
were then going on, and without remedy, il no
arrested al once. These were-i. The massa
ere Of the Americans, and the destruction Q
! their settlements, In the vslley Of the Sacra