Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-02-18

| ADVENTURES or PARTY OF CANADIANS
| TflRTEES KiLLED.-The Brechin .fdcertiserp ub-
fishes letter from townsman who arrived in
Victoria in October last, "after thirteen months
on the plains among the Indians The writer
saws; "Fifteen of us left St. Paul's, Minnesota,
on the 18TH Of August, 1858, for Fraser River,
with horse each. The first twenty days we
rot along pretty good, but after that our trou-
BILE commenced. The South Indians came on
us in the night. and took our horses and prl-
visions, tied MS hand and foot, and commenced
dancing around us with their knives. One Of
our party could understand little of their Ian
guage: he got them to understand we did not
want to harm them--that we only wanted to
travel through their country, and that we were
going to pay them for it, but they would not
listen to him. They said that some white men
had killed some of their tribe, and their friends
were to be reyengcd on the white men. BY
the time daylight began TO appear they got up
and loosened our feet and made us walk to
where their camp was, and they put us awig-
| yani and left two Indians to guard u.s.
"The second night came but it brought an
| awfll sight. They came and took us out to
the woods. and tied each of us to tree, and
stripped our clothes off, They told us that the
chief was going to burn u.s. After the chlei
came he ordered them to build n fire around
the tree that John Fletch was tied to, (this is
him to death and killed two more, and the rest
Of ns cot away with our lives after they had
kent us about three weeks. We travelled on
for about forty days, and party Of Blackfoot
Indians came on u.s. and wanted to take our
horses, but we could not give them, so they
went off in rage We did not sec any more
of them for three days, but on the fourth about
forty of them came down on us, andhred at us,
killing two and wounding three. We fired on
them and killed four, and then threw part Of
our provisions away to tighten our norses, as
we could travel faster, and trusted to our guns
for meat.
"There is no danger Of man starving on the
plains ii he has good gun and can use it. We
travelled for fifteen days, at about fifty miles
dny, and thought we had got clear of the Black
foot Indians hut they followed us till We came
to n large river, and when VIC were crossing 1t
they fred at us from behind the trees. They
did not hurt any of us then, but the next day
they attacked us in thicket, and killed four
of our party and wounded onc-that was my
self. got a ball through my thigh. There
were now only six of us left, who got on from
them once more and we had no more trouble
with them till we got to the Rocky Mountains.
IN, + sot eiyihing ready for crossing the
No,.ntnins, We saw some Indians come down,
nnl vi, made into the woods. II was too late,
however theyhad seen us, but they happened
to be Coutiue Indians coming to kill their win
ter provisions They gave us some stuff for my
thigh, and il got better.
1--WE started into the mountains and travel
led four days, and then about twenty Blood In
dams came on us and killed three of our num-
Der and wounded the rest, so that we were not
able to walk. They took us to their camp and
dressed our wounds. We there learned that
they took us for Indians, as we were dressed
something like them, for all our clothing had
been worn out. They took care Of u.s. and
doctorcd us up as well as they could, and We
got better again. When they saw we wanted
ID 90 on they sent on for our horses, and guided
us through the mountains, and then returned
back. As we came OH one man died, and that
reduced our number to two, out of fifteen. We
got on slowly, for we were poorly OF our woundsi
md we have now got into civilized country
once more, thank God ! have commenced to
work little, as much rs keeps me in life until
/ get well, and then am thinking of going to
the gold mines on Fraser river"