Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-07-02

An ADVENTUROUS VIReINIAN. - Mr..
Ficktin, a native of Albemarle county,
has rendered very valuable services to
the army in Utah. We have frequently
seen his name mentioned in connection
with exploits demanding great courage
and endurance. The following from the
army correspondence Of the Baltimore
Exchange will be read with interest:
An arrival OF more interest to the army
which occurred today. is that of Mr..
Ficklin. who was dispatched with party
of men soon after our arrival here last
fall on an expedition to the Northwest,
among the Flat-heads, for the purpose of
procuring horses. His journey extended
nearly TO the frontier of British America,
and has not been wholly unsuccessful; a
considerable number Of animals have
been secured for the ensuing campaign.
He has lost but one of his own animals,
and even that one was eaten BY himself
and party. He at length became very
much Strengthened for provisions, and at
one time laid himself under obligations to
a Digger Indian for small quantity of
wheat, which the Indian had somewhere
found among the Jesuit missions in that
region. A pint of this served as a ration
per dsy-not for horse but for man. This
Mr.. Ficklin is young man who has the
energy and endurance of bar Of steel.
He is graduate of the Virginia Military
Institute, and does honor, not only to his
State and her military institution. but al
so to West Point, from which that insti-
tuition ia legitimate ramifcation. He
formerly belonged to Magraw'> survey
ing party, when, with few revolvers
hung from his waist. he used to thread
these mountain valleys alone with as
much uncogcern as If they were city
streets. On the breaking up of the sur
yeying party he offered his services to the
army, and they were gladly accepted.
He says that the Fat-heads have lost a
great many Of their horses during the last
year from distemper.
EUROPEANS AND AMERGcANs-A Con.
TRAsT -Thackeray. in his last number
Of the 'Virginians." says:
"There lived, during the last century,
certain French duke and marquis, who
distinguished himself in Europe, and
America likewise, aud has obliged pos
terity by leaving behind him choice
volume of memoirs, which the gentle rea.
der is specially warned not to consult.
Having performed the the part of Don
Juan in his country. in ours, and in 9th
or parts OF Europe, he has kindly noted
down the names of many court beauties
who fell victims to his powers of fascina-
tion, and very pleasant reading, no doubt,
1t must be for the grandsons and descend
ants Of the fashionable persons among
whom our brilliant nobleman moved, to
find the a'uames of their ancestresses
adjoining NJ. lie Dues sprightly pages, and
their frallties recorded by the candid wri-
ter who caused them.
"1n the course of the peregrinations Of
this nobleman. he visited North America,
where, according to his custom in Eu.
rope, he proceeded straightway to fall in
love. Aud curious it is to contrast the
elegant refnements of European society.
where according to Monsiegneur, he had
but to lay seige to a woman in order to
Vanquish her, with the simple lives and
habits Of the colonial folks, among whom
this European enslaver of hearts dill not,
It appears. make a SINCE conquest. Had
he done SO, he would as certainly have
narrated his victories in Pennsylvania
and Few England. as, he described his
success in this and his own country.
Travellers in America have cried out
quite loudly enough against the rudeness
and barbarism of transatlantic manners:
let the present writer give the humble
testimony of his experience that the con-
Versation of American. gentlemen is gen.
orally modest, and, to the best Of his be-
lief. the lives of the women pure"
The Civil WAR IN MEx1co.-From
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