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 BLOODY AFFRAY NEAR FoRT GtRsoN

 we have been informed that, on Tuesday night last, bloody aflray occurred at small cabin, on Bayou Menard, near Fort Gjbson It seems that number of persons were at this cabin, where illicit traffic in Whiskev is carried on, drinking and carousing. Amonosl others were Wiltiam Nicholson, a mixed blooded Cherokee, and eight or ten of the Onited States soldiers stationed at Gibson- Nicholson, 1t IS said, after many efforts. suc- ceeded in provoking difficulty with the sol dlers, and in the affray which followed kill ed one of them on the spot, and stabbed two others-one, it supposed, mortally. Mich olson succeeded in making his escape. ANOTHER VERsIoN.-Snce the foregoing was III type we have another version of the atfray, which occurred at ..frolic" in the immediate vicinity of the Fort and not. as stated above, on Bayou Menard. Accordino to this version, there were fifteen or twenty soldiers, some of whom created quarrel. that caused considerable noise andinterrnntz ed awhile the dancing, with the view of re- venging pique they cherised against Nch olson, on account of some previous difficulty between them. The quarrel having been. however, apparently quieted, the dance was renewed. While this was going on, the sol dlers, the most of them having crowded into the house and completely blocked up the door, made an assault upon Nicholson, who Ietreated into one corner of the house. He was there beset by the assailants-one of them, attempting to knock him down with a club, he killed instantly by stabbing with a butchers knife

 Others then attacked him, when he wound- ed three of them and made his escape.

 Such Is the substance of the accounts that have reached ns, and we give them without vonchlng for the correctness of either, fur ther than as to the deadly termination of the atiraiy, the whole of which is, no doubt, the result of drunkenness.

 The wounds Of two of the soldiers are slight, utthose of the other mortal. A com mand, we understand, has been despatched in pursuit of Nicholson.-C Cherokee .4drocaLe.