Amidst the many conflicting si attain n Is 1 ive find if very difficult to arrive even yet !sit the exact truth, hut. we will endeavor to j fiivi* as correct an account of the afliair as i the tact reported to us will allow. Our account. however, will, no doubt, be imper-ifeci, and pro!ably in some particulars in- jcorrect. t*IThe first intimations that the citizens of this place had of the raid was received about 12 o’clock on Thursday night the18th inst., by one of our citizens, but no public report of the matter was received until about 0 o'clock on Friday. At that time a courier j\lr, Frown, arrived fromHardingburg, bringing (ho intelligence thata baud of about 75 ::i:errilias were at that