Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-14

badly wounded, escaped in the darkness.
Your correspondent, in the excitement
of getting ont, tumbled over his wife and
the drum, but was on the ground in
trice.
Captain Curtiss, a practical butcher,
was on hand in q jiffie, and to disem-
bowel his majesty was the work Of but
few moments. Under the direction OF
Captain Coombs rope was attached to
his horns, and two long files of men,
with Joined hands and preceded by the
band playing Yankee Doodle dragged
him bodily to the front car and hosted
him aboard. We have christened him
Macmillan. Captain Coombs is putting
him through course of embalming, and
when we reach home we propose to
mount him on drsy, and carry him IN
triumphal procession through the streets
of the "historic city"
"Few and short were the prayers we
said last night, and brief the embraces
of Morpheus. Long black lines of buffa-
loes we're galloping all night over the
level plain of our dreamland. Montgom-
ery's howitzer is said to have been dis
charged once during the night. Judge
Banks was detected in a frantic en-.
deavor to fire off the brass drum. There
were several alarms of FIRE" during the
night.
At sunrise we steam away for the
buffalo mirage. Thirty miles at light
ming speed, and we were in sight OF their
advance lines. Hating few moments,
we organized by electing a colonel and
dividing the battalion into companies.
The captains gave few brief instruc..
tions to their men, and then embarked
aboard the train and dashed in among
them, scattering them to the right and
left of the track. Those on our right
flank endeavoring to cut US OF, we gave
chase. A broadside was delivered IN
their midst, and one fell A hundred
hands conveyed him bodily to the cars
and hoisted him aboard, when ne was
provided with berth by Max All
aboard Another charge and we are in
the midst of thousands, dsrkening oil the
plain. From the top of the train. with a
powerful glass, swept the horizon
through 1870 degrees, and the whele haif
circle was literally covered with their
dark masses, looking in the distance like
clumped forest of black jack oaks. The
train halts, and noiselessly the different
platoons dart out on the double-qulck
among the dark masses availipg them
selves of the inequalities of the ground to
keen themselves covered, and seeking the
most thickly covered herds. From our
elevated look out we could take In the
entire field. To a looker-ou the scene
had all the interest of a battle. The plan
was we'll conceived and faithfully exc
cutea. There was suspense OF twenty
minutes preceding the conflict Then
came q shot, then two, then a patterlng
of shots all around the circle, and the
ball was opened. There was confusion
doubly confused among the countless
herd. COMPOUNDED and bewildered, they
dsrted this way and that, and among
each other, like the fantastic, ever
changing Kaleidoscope. Whenever they
tried to break from the fiery column, 1T
was only to meet the deadly rifle and its
death.dealing missile. The tumult over,
and fifteen carcasses are stretched upon
the plain. Enough of gore and glory Tor
one dsy. :.
We steam away homeward 10 high
spirits over the greatest hunt OF the sea-
son, and delighted with our Sheridan
Ride" Seventeen buffaloes are the tro--
phies of our expedition, and locks ef
hair, tips of tail, tufted scalps, and walk
ing sticks will be boarded among our
mementoes