New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-18

A DESPERATE FIGHT WITH lND1ANs.-FrOm the
St. Louis Republican of the 18th We extract the
following:
A rambling, and somewhat confused letter has
reached us from GAINESVILLE, Texas, under date of
the 10th September, giving us the particulars of
fight with Indians, in which Dir. d. j. Hinkle and
several others were engaged and killed. We give
the substance of it. The writer met DR.. Hinkle,
who is said to have been from Missouri, at the
mouth of Walnut creek, the Arkansas river, four
hundred miles above Fort Smith. They went up
the river to where the road to Pixies Peak crosses
it, intending to wait for addition to their party,
as the Indians were hostile. Their provisions were
soon exhausted, and they had to go out in search
of game. They found it, but We're in constant
dread of being discovered by Indians. After a
while fight did take place-seventeen Indians on
one side, and five Americans, two unarmed, ON the
other. AT the end, eleven Indians We're killed, and
Pool, an American, was shot with an arrow and
died. Dr.. Hinkle was wounded in the leg by an
arrow, which he had to cut out and after per-
forming incredible feats, he was finally killed in a
third attack. Sawyers and Bradley, of the same
party, shared the same fate, and the writer alone
escaped. DR.. Hinkle stated that he had six BROTH
ers and four or five sisters and a mother living.
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NAVAL NrELLIGEScE.-From the Norfolk Her
aid of the 18th we copy the following:
The United States steamer Wyandotte returned
to the Brooklyn Navy-Yard on Thursday evening,
in consequence Of the illness of Lieut.. Duva, for
whose trial, as already announced, court-martial
is in session. The composition plates of the Wyan-
duttes guns having been removed, and replaced
by better arrangement, that vessels departure
for sea is only delayed until the appointment of
substitute for Lieut.. Duva The following vessels
on foreign squadrons ordered home: Steam
frigate Wabash of the Mediterranean squadron;
steam trigate Merrimac and sloop of war Wanda
lia on the Pacific. The officers and crew of the
Saranac, also on the Pacific, are soon to return.
The terms of service of the soop Vincennes, on
the coast of Africa of the sloop Germantown, and
steam rigate Mississippi, in the East lndes and of
have nearly expired and each of them will be
homeward bound, and some in the United States
before New Years day.
RATTLEsNAKE BITE CuRED-The WATERFORD Is.
CO Sun says:
Our young townsman, John D. Edwards, ESQ.,
while hunting in Beaufort District a few days ago,
was bitten by Rattesnake. He was re-foading
his gum and in reaching down to recover wad he
had dropped he was bitten on finger of the
right hand.
We are happy to say though that, by the
timely and judicious use of antdotes among which
brandy was pretty freely administered, the fatal
effects Of the poison were arrested and that he is
now getting well.
THE SAN JUAN ArFAIR.-A dispatch of the llth
inst. from Washington, says:
1t is understood that the British Minister, Lord
Lyons, has received a peremptory and important
dispatch from his government demanding eNpla.
nations from government OF tne course OF
Gen. Harvey in the San Juan affair, to which the
Secretary Of State is now preparing reply, which
will yindicate fully our rights, and doubtless cover
the whole ground of the controversy to the salts
faction of the American people. The whole matter
will be laid before the President on his return to-
morrow.