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Show Ye Noble UanoHch. Washington, 16. Letter received from Wilson, member of the Hayden enrveyiog party, gives particular! aa to the capture ot mules belonging to that party by the Bannack ludians. On the 25th the Indians surprised us at Henry's Lake, at 8.30. We were biuine round the camp lire when we wtrc firt-U on by ludians who were not more than Beventy feet distant Slrange to ay, lhey hurt none o( us hy the tire We made au ineffectual ' effort to protect ourselves and con eluded Lht nothing could hp done but lo ft away alive. We he.uU die Indiana driving off our animals iml tti'-u knew that our party wati, in rrtthiy, ai'.'ot. Taking provisions (or three, iit lour days, aud our blankets hihI fcUn:'. we gt away undercover) I.' i.tjict, itiid moving oil about a mile! in (tie w-.vxia, wa remained their until Utyhiiht, when the Indians reopened . fire mi n-ir deserted camp, and we acrd i. r the upper geysers. Alter n h;tnl rf.i le of three Uaya. we re;teln-d Uierean'i It.und Jack-:-:i i n G mnetts there and alt a to. Leaven vitrtb, lti. A apuciiil to the Tun-, today, true Fort Wadace, nuva: From advice j-ut received it is lf(tnitd tii.tl the rtr:-v'a !e Clu-yennta will be f tpturcd. Tuey havo been itrrtsted ou their march by our i roopa at a poiul about I wenty miles distant from the tort. ' |