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KISS ME SWEET. BY MBS. C. H. BCBAMTOW. Put your arms around me, darling. Little arms ao dimpled, fair; it't your little face ao charming, Framed in rings of golden hair. Kiss me sweet, my precious treasure, Look love from your eyes so true—tolen rays they are, of azure, Bits of heaven's own cloudless blue. herry lips, that oft caress me, Give mo one Sweet kiss to-night; ou are all on earth that’s left me, Do not love's own prayer slight. Only just two years, my darling, Since-with folded wings you came: Years I thought would be so charming, But instead were full of pain— Yea, and utter desolation. Save for you, my fair-haired boy', Give me, then, in salutation, Kisses sweet, without alloy. You will never know, my dear one, How that mild September day Lett my heart so sad and lonesome, As winged angels bore away, Far beyond our earthly vision, Far up through the ether blue, Took to bask in fields elysian, Papa’s spirit, tried and true. But, my darling, he was ready. Waiting for the summons, too— Oft he said, in voice unsteady, “ Why dost bind me so to you ’ “Don’t 1 long to be with Jesus, Free from earthly care and pain. And you know, if Him it pleases, Very soon we’ll meet again.” Ho the angels ope'd the gateway, Pearly gates, with bars of gold. And in arms of love they straightway Bore him to the heavenly fold. Kiss me, then, my baby treasure; Drive the sadness from my brow; Give me always, without measure, Love signs just as you do now. . And when the baby love’s outgrown, And you're a strong and sturdy youth Or, later yet, a bronze-faced man, o! love me still, in very truth. M AiiisoN, Ct.

BACK FROM THE DEAD.

BY GERAINT. CHAPTER I. RESCUED FROM RUFFIANS. Maurice Courtland was a young bachelor of about 30. He had been in love an unlimited number of times, and had not yet met his affinity. He was tolerably good-looking, and earned a comfortable salary as leading man of the Lucian Theater. He lived very quietly, and had no relations except a mother, who made Bachelor Hall— as he termed his rooms—a cozy and inviting little place. He was not a dreamer; in fact, he wholly disbelieved all the marvelous stories he had heard relating to night visions and dreamland phantasies. One night, after returning home, he sat up rather late, studying anew part he had received that day. He grew exhausted and fell asleep. While in the voluptuous arms of Moqiheus, he had a very curious vision. He dreamed that he was in a lonely street late at night, and witnessed a lady struggling with two men. He rescued her from their clutches, and as they vanished a voice whispered in his ear:

“You have at last met your fate. Win her if you can!” “What an absurd dream,” said Maurice, the next day, as he laughed at the recollection of it. “And, still, stranger things than that have happened. Pshaw! what an ass lam to give a moment’s thought to such an affair.” Time glided on, and the memory of the dream had almost faded from his mind. The Lucian threw open its doors for the fall and winter campaign. It was the first night, and the curtain fell upon the final act close upon 11 o'clock. Maurice left the theater and strolled leisurely homeward. It was a glorious night in early autumn, and the air was deliciously cool and refreshing. While enjoying a cigar a piercing scream resounded on his ears, aud, turning around, he beheld a lady trying to free herself from the savage hold of two ruffians. Promptly arraying himself upon the weaker side, he dealt ope of them a stunning blow on the right temple, felling him to the sidtfwalk. The other, seeing how the tide of battle had changed, disappeared around the corner.

“How cun I ever thank yon, sir, for your timely assistance?” exclaimed the lady, in grateful tones. “There is no occasion for thanks,” ho replied; “I am only glad that I was so near at hand. Did you recognize your assailants?” “No, sir. As I stood here waiting for a car they accosted me with pitiful stories of sick wives and starved children. As I was about to take some money from my purse they grew bold and demanded it. I, of course, refused, and they laid violent hands upon me. I screamed for assistance, and vou know the rest.” “Would it be impolite to inquire yonr name?” “Certainly not; I will tell it with pleasure. I was christened Frances Linton.” “Not the leading lady of the Farringford Theater?” “The same, sir.” “ What a curious coincidence, Miss Linton. I am, like yourself, a professional. lam called Maurice Courtland, and I insist upon seeing you safely home.” “1 am causing you a great deal of unnecessary trouble, Mr. Courtland.” “ Nonsense; it is a duty man owes to woman to protect her from injury.” She accepted his arm, and, after a brisk walk, they arrived ata neat row of frame villas. “ My home,” said Miss Linton, with a sigh of relief, halting before one of them. “I would invite you in, Mr. Courtland, but etiquette and the lateness of the hour precludes such hospitality. Will you honor us with a visit some day? Papa would be glad to meet you.” “ Nothing would afford me greater pleasure.” “ Don’t fail. Good-night.” He pressed the hand extended him and th® door closed abruptly. CHAPTER 11. FRANCES LINTON AT HOME. Frances Linton was an exceedingly beautiful woman. Her age was probably 23. She was a queenly,statuesque creature, with a figure resembling a Canova statue, surprised into life. She had line little hands and dainty little feet; a full, white neck, delicate and graceful ; a face pure and innocent in its iresh beauty—such a one as Correggio would have given to the angels—framed in silky, luxuriant hair, brown in shade and golden in the sunlight; a mouth a trifle large, with well-formed lips, dewy and red. Her mother was dead and she lived with her father, a retired army officer, in an elegant little house in a sechided part of the city. “You were very late last night, miss,” said Maj. Linton the next morning at the breakfast table. “Yes, papa,"'answered the young lady, demurely chopping her egg, and she related the events of the preceding night. “A fine young fellow,” said the Major as she concluded. “A brave and honorable man,” rejoined Frances. “Take care, my dear. Don’t fail in love with h:m?” lou foolish old papa, cannot one admire a gentleman without falling in love with him.” One afternoon as Miss Linton was

cuddled in an arm-chair, enjoying the last new novel, the door-bell rang. “Good gracious! who can that be?” said she, somewhat annoyed at the interruption, and opening the door she admitted Manrice Courtland.

“Welcome,” she exclaimed um a pleased voice “I almost persuaded myself that you had forgotten us.” “You were doing me a great injustice, Miss Linton,” he replied. “Papa, this is Mr. Courtland,” said Frances, introducing him to her father. “How are you, sir? Proud to know you,” said the Major, giving Maurice a cordial, old-fashioned hand-shaking. “I consider it the greatest pleasure in the world to have the opportunity of thanking you for your efforts in behalf of my daughter.” “Don’t mention it, sir.” “But begad, sir, I will,” he continued. “Any man who protects a helpless girl from insult is my friend. Sit down, my boy, and make yourself comfortable.” “The weather has been very sultry of late,” said Maurice to Miss Linton, as he revived the old hackneyed subject for wart of a better one. “Perfectly miserable,” she replied. “I spent the summer with a friend at the seaside and I actually pine again for the bracing breezes of old ocean.” “The new play at the Farringford is a success.”

“Yes; and it is a horrible affair, and only could have emanated from a disordered imagination.” “Indeed! Why so severe? ” “I play the heroine, Rosalie De Courcey, and after being drugged, poisoned and shipwrecked, I am resuscitated, and brought back to life again in the last act to confound villainy and punish vice. ’ It’s quite a remarkable production, I assure you.” During this conversation the Major emerged from the other room, bringing with him a decanter of sherry and a few choice cigars. “ Now, my boy, help yourself,” he said. Maurice filled three tiny glasses and handed one of them to Miss Linton. “ Excuse me,” she said. “ I do not touch it.” “Frances,” said the Major, “sing that favorite song of yours for Mr. Courtland.” “Perhaps Mr. Courtland objects to being bored.” “That is an unkind remark,” replied the young man. She seated herself at the piano, and sang that very pretty ballad of Patti’s called “Come when you will, I’ve a welcome for thee.” Maurice turned the leaves for her, and, as she was singing the last words, their eyes met. She blushed, and he felt slightly embarrassed.

“ Play something operatic,” said the Major, autocratically. “ Yes, papa,” answered Frances, dutifully, and she sang an aria from “ Lucia” in an exquisite and finished manner. “ Miss Linton, you are a true artist,” said Maurice, enthusiastically. “ I fear that you are a flatterer,” she replied. “ You cannot call the truth flattery.” “Why this haste?” said the Major, as the young man was about to take his leave. “Stay and dine with us.” “Come again,” said Miss Linton. “ Remember we shall expect you.” “Don’t forget, my boy, that you are at all times an honored guest at my house.” Maurice departed with the impression that he had had a very pleasant afternoon of it, and that Miss Linton’s paternal relation was a jolly old brick. CHAPTER 111. “ BY THE SAD SEA WAVES. ” The dramatic season was over, and the players, like birds of passage, had flown in all directions. Miss Linton was summering at the seaside, and, as chance or fate would have it, Maurice Courtland was endeavoring to while away the fleeing hours the same place. As he was writing his name with his cane upon the white, wet sand he beheld the figure of a lady approaching him.

” This is a rare stroke of luck,” he exclaimed mentally, as he recognized the face of Miss Linton. “I am delighted to see you.” “ Thank you,” she replied. “It is a pleasure to meet somebody down here.” “ What fortunate star, drifted . you here?” “ Say, rather, unfortunate star, who closed the theater two weeks in advance of the ending of the season.” “ How do you like this place ?” “ It’s nice, although sometimes the hours drag.” “ My own case, exactly. I had serious thoughts of going elsewhere, but I have now changed my mind.” “ I don’t blame you if this is all the pleasure you have.” And the young lady’s gaze wandered upon the name in the sand. “ You are too sarcastic, Miss Linton. Do you know that I have made some of the most dreadful efforts to kill time. I have committed to memory every poem of Owen Meredith’s. I have indulged in yachting, fishing and bathing, and it’s all of no avail.”

“ Your case is, indeed, hopeless.” “ 1 agree with you. By the way, I trust that Maj. Linton is in the best of health. Is he with you ?” “ Papa is very well, thank you. He never takes a vacation. He prefers city to country.” “ Where are you staying?” “At Barnacle Cottage, a quaint little rookery, kept by two maiden ladies of uncertain age. If you have no engagement this evening, may I look for you!” “ I accept your invitation willingly, nay, eagerly.” They sauntered along the beach gathering shells, as Miss Linton was an amateur conchologist, and after a delightful ramble they separated, as the lady’s apron was becoming too heavy to carry. Maurice became a frequent visitor at Barnacle Cottage. There wae a dangerous fascination in Miss Linton’s society. Summer was waning fast, and she was about to start for home. “ Why do you avoid me so much of late ? ” said he to her the night before her departure. “ What an absurd question! Really, Mr. Courtland, do you wish to quarrel with me ? ” “ Heaven forbid I ” he rejoined impetuously. “ Frances, I love you. Let me call you by that name. Become my wife and you shall never know a moment of sorrow. Give me the right to protect and cherish you—don’t refuse me, for without you my life wi)i be a blank, a dreary desert with only one green spot in it—the memory of your face. Why do you turn away from ine! Have I insulted you ? ”

Frances was weeping softly. “ Maurice,” she murmured, “ I thank you for the honor you would confer upon me, but Ido not deserve it. Forget this scene and leave me— seek some other girl worthier of you than myself, and my daily prayers will be for your happiness.” “Why do you give me this advice? I swear to you, Frances Linton, that no other woman shall ever usurp your place in my heart. I see how it is. I am only a friend, after all, and you do not love me.” “Love you! My God! how your words wrong me. I love you so deeply that I would be the meanest creature in the world to take advantage of yoqr noble

nature and Hnk your destiny with mine. There is a hitter seciet attached to my life, and I cannot accept the devotion you offer me.” “Frances, what does all this mean? Surely you would not willfully deceive me. Are you not free to give your heart to whom you please—and you have committed nothing that a true woman would blush to conceal ? Look me in the face and end this terrible suspense.” He placed his hands upon her shoulders and looked into her beautiful eyes, bedimmed with tears. “I have never forgotten my mother’s teachings,” she replied. “There is not one hour in my life that I would blush to conceal. The sin I was speaking of was another’s— a person who was very dear to me once.” “There is no one upon this earth shall step between us,” he said, clasping her to his breast. “Let this secret be buried in oblivion, Frances; I do not wish to hear it. Will you have me? I will not release you until the answer is yes.” “How this man loves me!”, she thought. “Shall I make him happy by becoming his wife? Will it atone for the past?” “I am waiting patiently, Frances.” “It is useless to resist longer; I surrender,” said Frances, smiling through her tears. “ My darling, ycur future life will be Elysium,” he said, kissing her tenderly, as she slipped through his arms. “ It’s time for you to go, Maurice. It is growing very late.” “ Well, by Jove, young woman, you are frank in name and nature, to say the least. Parting is such sweet sorrow that I could say ” “Lamps cost money, Miss Linton,” cried one of the venerable vestals upon the staircase. “ Miss Lucinda is calling. Please go.” she pleaded. “ Good-night, sweetheart,” said Maurice, imprinting another kiss upon her scarlet lips. “ Pleasant dreams.’’ The young man walked to his hotel in a jubilant frame of mind. He was so happy that he could have forgiven his worst foe had he met him. Sleep was out of the question. Everywhere he looked and everything he thought of merged itself into one dear name— Frances. “Curse the spinster!” he exclaimed, as he lit a fresh weed to quiet his nerves and solace his meditations.

CHAPTER IV. BACK FROM THE DEAD. A seedily-dressed aud dissipatedlooking man ascended the steps of Maj. Linton’s residence. “ This must be the house,” he muttered, as he pulled the bell.' “ Is your mistress in ? ” he inquired of the servant girl, and, receiving a reply in the affirmative, he brushed past her and entered the parlor in a rude and unannounced fashion. Frances arose indignantly, and as she turned face to face with the intruder she uttered as harp, low cry of pain, and, clutching a chair for support, she gasped: “My God! does the grave give up its dead?” “Well, my lady, how are you?” said the stranger, throwing himself into a seat and crossing his legs in a more methodical than graceful style. “Surprised to see me, I dare say.” “What evil spirit sends you here, Philip Jennings?” “That’s a nice welcome for a man to receive from his wife. Why don’t you rush into my armsand smother me with caresses? It was only by the merest chance iu the world I discovered your whereabouts. I arrived here a week ago from—well, it doesn’t matter where —and went to the Farringford last night. Picture to yourself my astonishment on seeing you. By jingo, you make a rattling good actress, Frances; I waited for the end of the show, and followed you home, determining to call upon you the next day, and here I am. Kiss me.” “Don’t COme near mo I” abx> UAclalmeU, shrinking from him. “No mock heroics—we are not acting now—sit down, and I’ll tell you all my adventures since I left you. As you are aware, I was convicted, and received a light sentence of three years for that little piece of forgery. I served it out like a man, and crossed the ocean to America. I found the country plunged in civil war; I enlisted in the Federal army under the assumed name of George Graham, as my letter informed you, and after the battle of Chancellorsville my name appeared on the dead list. Did you not see it?” “Yes.”

“It was incorrect. I was taken ‘prisoner by the Confederates, and, being cosmopolitan in my tastes, I became an ardent supporter of the lost cause. After leading a somewhat nomadic and checkered existence, I have turned up all right ready to claim my wife and commence life anew.” “ You have no claim upon me. I was but a girl of 16 when we were married. I eloped from my boardingschool with you, and it broke a fond mother’s heart to see her darling wedded to a villain. For you I forsook home, friends and a brilliant career. How did you repay all these sacrifices? Ere your love vows were cold you basely fled and left me all alone, unprotected, and friendless. Shall I ever forget that unmanly act? Not while a breath of life remains with me. I was too proud to make my wants known to my father, who would have succored me willingly. I must have means of livelihood, so I adopted the stage more from necessity than conviction, and it was a good friend to me when starvation stared me in the face. I thought we should never meet again upon this earth, but Heaven has decreed it otherwise. Take care, sir, I owe you nothing. Do not attempt to press your fancied authority. Remember that selfdefense is a desperate woman’s first law.”

Frances’ eyes flashed fire, and her swelling bosom heaved convulsively. “ I forgot to mention the fact,” said Jennings, apparently unnoticing her last words, “ that I had quite a conversation with the garrulous old doorkeeper at the Farringford. He told me that you were shortly to be married to an actor named Maurice Courtland. I regret to interfere with these arrangements, but the law, madame, does not permit bigamy.” “Don’t pollute his name with your lips. If he only knew the events of the past hour I might be a widow.” “Pshaw! I’m sick of all this talk. Let me have some money.” “Give you my hard earnings to squander? I have no money for such as yon.” “That ring on your finger will answer.” “Maurice’s gift,” murmured Frances, tenderly. “No; I will never part with it.” “Come, I can’t stay here all day. Do you hesitate to give your lover’s trinket?” he said, in sneering tones. “Take this,” she replied, handing him her purse. “Leave my house! I loathe and despise you!” “Don’t get insolent, my beauty, or I may be compelled to clip your wings.” “I am accursed!” moaned Frances, after his departure. “Oh, Maurice, the thought of losing you will drive me mad. Heaven pity me! I have been justly punished. I looked forward to so much joy, and the cup of bliss has been dashed from my lips and shattered

to atoms. Why don’t I die? There is nothing left to live for now.” “Hello, Frances!” greeted Maurice, bursting into the room. “Why, you are crying. What is the matter? Has the Major been scolding you?” “Maurice, my poor boy, be brave for my sake. F have something to tell which you should have known before.” “Nothing serious, I trust?” “We can never be married.” “ Frances, you are jesting.” She confessed everything; how she had married a scoundrel when she was 16; his cruel desertion, and his subsequent career. “This if*, indeed, a heavy blow,” said the young man, in a dazed way. “I can hardly realize if. I cannot stand quietly by and see the woman I love wrested from me. Frances, I will never yield you to this man. I will kill him first.” “No, Maurice; for the love you bear me, do not stain your hands with his blood. Leave him to a higher Judge.” “ The law shall break your chains.” “ I must go to your arms a free, unfettered woman. I prefer a lifetime of private sorrow to one hour of public shame.”

“You are my own true Frances. Forgive my wild words. Good-by. When next we meet parting will never come again.” “ Good-by, dear; be patient. We cannot read the future. We only know that duty, with its stern, inflexible finger, points out our different paths.” “Do you remember that song, Frances, you sang when first we met ? I have never forgotten it. Sing, it once again, sweetheart. It may be for the last time.” “ Maurice, my heart is breaking,” sobbed Frances. He put his arm around her waist and led her to the piano, and, though her eyes were blinded with tears, she sang it in a wild and impassioned voice, and, as she was dwelling upon the last line: Como when you will, I’ve a welcome for thee, she felt herself in his strong, passionate embrace and his burning lips pressed fiercely to hers, and in a short minute afterward she was alone. ( HAPTER V. FRANCES LINTON A WIDOW. “ There is no hope, you say ? ” •“Not the faintest, sir,” replied ihe physician. “ You will be dead in an hour.” “If I lived they would hang me, I suppose,” said Jennings with a grim humor. He had a brawl with a man in a gambling hell aud killed him, receiving in return a pktol-sbot through the lungs. “ Have you a pen and some paper,” he asked:

The materials were furnished him, and, after writing a few lines, he sealed the envelope and inscribed upon it, “ Miss Linton, No. 32 Golden Terrace.” This man with all his faults was a stoic, and his vitality and grit were remarkable. “ How far is the distance? ” he said. “In fifteen minutes your letter will have reached its destination,” responded the attendant. “Thank you —give me some liquor. I must see her before I go.” Frances arrived in due time, and as she beheld him lying upon the cot the memory of her dead love crept into her heart, and throwing herself at his bedside she cried: “Oh, Philip, I am so sorry.” “So you really pity me, Frances. Well, this is heaping coals of fire upon an enemy’s head. Why don’t you hate me? I deserve it more than your sympathy.” “I hated you bitterly yesterday, but that has passed.’ “Frances, I want your forgiveness,” he whispered as he was growing gradually weaker. “I have caused you a great deal of trouble and disgrace, and my death will be but a slight expiation for it. Marry the man you love, and may your new life tiiuu me gio. one." She was praying silently for him. He observed it and gasped painfully: “Farewell, Frances.” A torrent of blood gushed from his mouth, and, giving her one last look, his features contracted and his limbs grew rigid. Philip Jennings’ soul had gone before the great Tribunal and Frances Linton was a widow.

Terrible Accident at Adrian, Mich.

A heartrending accident occurred on the Lenawee Fair Grounds, at Adrian, Mich., on the afternoon of Thursday, Oct. 2. The grounds were a perfect jam, and the grand s'and, newly erected, was packed with people to witness the exercises on the track. A class of gentlemen’s driving horses, double teams, had just been sent around the track, and the band, occupying the front and center of the grand stand, had just begun to play, while the judges were affixing premium-ribbons, when, with a terrible crash, the stand bioke down. It gave way first in the center, then the front fell outward to the track, and the back fell into the river. At once ensued a scene of indescribable confusion. Buggies were overturned, horses dashed frantically up the track only to meet a crowd of people flocking to the s ene of the disaster. Those who were only slightly injured came crawlingout of themassof ruins, showing numerous contusions, and then began the work of dragging from the debris those who were more severely injured. There were in the neighborhood of 2,000 people on the grand stand, and a large crowd were in the space beneath. Six people were taken out dead, and about 100 others were fatally or seriously wounded. As soon as possible the Opera House was opened, and many of the dead and wounded taken there. Many of the wounded were carried off by their frantic friends as soon as they could, aod until nights fall carriages containing injured men, women and children were noted passing out into the country. The excitement in the city immediately succeeding the accident was indescribable. Parents were frantically looking for their children and children looking for their parents; women went into hysterics, and strongmen cried on the streets as they heard the terrible news. Many of the injured are among the best citizens of Adrian. Adrian, Mich., Oct 3. It is hardly possible yet to appreciate fully the extent of the appalling calamity which has fallen on this city and county. The shadow of suffering and death resting on so many homes involves the whole community, and nothing is talked of but the calamity and its victims. The scene in the fair grounds, when the grand stand went crashing to the ground, with its burden of men, women, and children, was one never to be forgetten. Every heart stood still for a moment, and then scores of men rushed to release those lying under the heavy roof and timbers. Nothing that could be done to relieve the wants of the suffering was left undone. The wounded were carried away, and medical attendance secured as quickly as possible. The physicians of the city, and those present from other parts of the country, labored like giants. Men and women vied in rendering aid wherever it was needed. Dry-goods stores gave, without stint, of the material necessary for bandages, while drug-stores for hours resembled a fieldhospital in a general engagement, many of the minor wounded flocking thither for attention. The city is in mourning to-day; crape and other insignia of sorrow are displayed from offices, public buildings and every’ bus.ne-s house. Tins morning nearly all the ctor s were closed, out of respect to the memoiy of those who perished in the disaster. Street rumors place the number of dead at from fifteen to twenty, but careful inquiry among physicians, undertakers and frieudi would prove the following to be a correct statement: J. F. Merick, a German, resident of the Second Ward, 55 years old; died a few minutes after coming out of the ruins. Mrs. John Hubbard. Jasper; breathed but a few times after being taken out David Plumador, Petersburg. William Mulzer, city; aged 12. Peter Hyde, city; a boy 12 years of age. John Johnson, German, whose home is at Attica, Ohio, and who worked for a Dover farmer named Clemerson. Ashael Henderson, 70 years of age; Plum river, Jo Daviess county, 111. Christy Eagen, Manchester; 12 years of age died during the night. Henry Hart died at 5 o’clock this morning

A boy named Willie Hall is reported dead, but not authenticated. R R Home, Medina; punctured through the lunge, died at the Central House. Irving Powers, living io the adjoining town of Madison; died at half-past 3 to-day. Reuben Ferguson, of Borne; aged 40, died this afternoon. The number of wounded who have received medical treatinent foots up this evening to 224, taking no account of the minor injuries, and those taken to their homes in the country. Over one-half are fractures and dislocations or limbs, and it will not be a matter of surprise if the percentage <rf deaths should be doubled inside of fortyeight hours. Thirteen outbf sixteen members of the band are badly hurt, and their instruments,'bought July 4, are irreparably wrecked. Public attention is now fixed upon the inquest, and the people intend that the responsibility for building such a death-trap shall be properly located.

The Massacre of Maj. Thornburgh’s Command.

On Sept 29, Maj. Thornburgh’s command, which was out after the hostile Ute Indians, was suddenly corraled and attacked by several hundred Ute Indians, near Milk river, in the vicinity of the Ute Reservation, in Colorado. Maj. Thornburgh was killed and a large number of men wounded, and the command entirely surrounded. The whole story of the massacre is told in the following dispatch from Rawlins, WyomingTer.: ‘‘Maj. Thornburgh’s expedition against the hostile Ute Indians, when within seventy miles of the agency, baited for the night of the 26th inst., ana the Major sent Grafton Lowry, one of his sooute, to the agency to communicate with Agent Meeker, and to see how matters stood. He found the utmost excitement and confusion prevailing. The Indians had sent all their old men, women and children south toward the Blue river. The warriors were decorated and painted in the usual war style. They were about to murder Mr. Meeker, but Mr. Lowry Srevailed on them not to commit the deed. Mr. [eeker told Lowry that he attempted to leavethe agency with his family, but was prevented by the Indians; that they, the Indians, signified their readiness for war, and seemed anxious for the approach of the troops. They then made another move to kill Meeker and fire the buildings, but were a second time prevailed upon to desist. Lowry now attempted to return to the command, but was informed that he must remain; but, after giving them a number of assurances of his peaceable mission, he was allowed to depart, but was accompanied by about thirty warriors, who rode with him a number of miles and then left him. Lowry arrived at the command, then near Milk creek, on the evening of the 28tb, and gave Maj. Thornburgh the above information.

“ The next morning, Sept. 29, the command advanced, under the guidance of Joe Rankin, who is well acquainted with the country. About" 9 o’clock a. m. Rankin discovered fresh Indian signs, and, having arrived at a canyon through which thej’oad passed, and which would afford an excellent opportunity for ambush, he led the command around over the hill, over an old trail well known to him. By this movement he saved the lives of the command, for, on arriving on the top of the hill, he discovered the Indians in ambush on either side of the canyon through which the road passed. “ Thornburgh formed his men in line and awaited the coming attack. He was repeatedly urged to fire on the Indians, but persistently refused to do so, saying that his orders would not justify an attack. Two Indians now rode up to within a hundred yards, dismounted and, with a savage yell, fired, shooting Capt Payne through the arm. At this signal the Indians gave a war-whoop and the battle commenced. Thornburgh now found that he was surrounded. He ordered a charge, which he gallantly led in person, and succeeded in cutting his way out, and, when within about 500 yards of his wagon, he fell dead with two bullets through his brain. Capt Payne now took command, and the battle was carried on until 8 o’clock, p. m., the troops using the wagons and animals as breastworks. The Indians fell back a short distance and went into camp. During the engag' ment Lowry was killed. “The casualties are about as follows: Rilled—Maj. Thornburgh, Lowry, and thirteen enlisted men, the Wagon-Master McKinstry, and one teamster. Wounded—Capt. Payne, Capt Lawson, Surgeon Grimes, Lieuts. Paddock and Wolf, and thirty-five men. “ Maj. Thornburgh’s body had not been recovered when Rinkm left with the dispatches. “Capt Payne bad fortified his position, and thought he could possibly hold it until the arrival of reinforcements, in case they were sent promptly.

“It is now reported that Agent Meeker and his family and all employes have been murdered, and the agency building destroyed, but this report lacks confirmation. “Settlers from Snake and Bear rivers are flocking in here for safety, and considerable excitement prevails. “Troops have been ordered forward from Forts Sanders, McPherson, Fetterman and Robinson, and will leave for the seat of war as soon as they reach the railroad, by special train. Gen. Meryitt, to whom the command of the expedition is given, is one of the best Indian fighters in the country, and his troops have accomplished wonderful things. “The Utes are a warlike tribe, and have from 500 to GOO warriors. They started out on the war-path because they became dissatisfied mo treatment reoeiveu irom tneir Agent, who, they claim, was starving them. “A hunting party, composed of Gen. Tyner, Assistant Postmaster General; J. W. Hoyt,Governor of Wyoming; J. K. Hay ford, Postmaster at Laramie < ity, and editor of the Laramie Sentinel; two cooks, and an escort of eight soldiers, are with the beleaguered troops on Milk river.” —A Cheyenne dispatch of the 3d inst. says: “Gov. Hoyt and Gen. Tyner returned to Laramie City this afternoon from their hunting expedition in North Park. They saw no Indians, and were unsuspecting of danger when notified by courier that the Utes had attacked Thornburgh’s expedition. “A hunter has arrived in Colorado from Middle Park. He notified the citizens of the park of Thornburgh’s defeat, and they are getting to a safe place as rapidly as possible. He says the colored company of the Ninth cavalry had left Steamboat Springs, and fears were entertained that they ■were .massacred by the Utes, as nothing has been heard of them since the battle, and Agent Meeker had forwarded orders to come to the agency two davs previous to that time. Douglass, the Ute chief, had threatened their lives before hostilities commenced, and stated that negro troops must keep off the reservation, as his people had a hatred for them. “ Gov. Pitkin, of Colorado, is holding his organized militia companies in readiness for an emergency, and says that as soon as the Indians commence bu chering settlers he will take the matter in his own hands and settle it in his own wav.

“The Arapahoe Indiana, in Wyoming,are reported making their way to the Utes in squads and joining the hostiles, but this Jacks confirmation, though not altogether improbable. “No news has been received from Meeker or the Thornburgh garrison;” Cheyenne, Oct. 6. There is every indication that the Ute Indian war is to be a bloody one. Scouts and others who have arrived at various posts and cities from the scene of hostilities report that the country is swarming with savages belonging to tribes not directly interested in this campaign. Gen. Hatch is advancing from the south with 800 men, and troops are concentrating with great rapidity at several points near the seat of war. Fresh murders and outrages committed by the bloodthirsty Utts have occurred in the vicinity of the outbreak, and settlers and prospectors for many miles around are hurriedly returning to the towns on the Union Pacific rai road. A report has been received at Los Pinos, Col.-that Agent Meeker and all the employes at White River Agency have been killed; that another fight has taken place in which all the officers in command weie killed, and the troops surrounded at a point where no water is to be had, and their trains captured. Chief Ouray, head of the Ute nation, has sent to the hostiles at White river an order commanding them to cease their war on the whites, but he has little faith in the result of this attempt to exercise bis authority and influence, for he has given notice to the whites that he is powerless to stay the tide of war, and they must depend on their own resources for protection.

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