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Lerers being white men till after the
■termination of the battle, I do not
Iknovv—but such they were soon aseer-
Itained to be. Three brothers and
[two other relatives, who allcdged that
|their father had been killed by the
[Osages on Red River, cauie to seek'
(revenge, and such was the result.
Some of our people expressed a regret
at having killed their fellow creatures;
—but plead, as white people would
do, the urgency of the occasion.
Another interesting occurrence to
us as well as to the Indians, is the
transfer of the country Westward
from Fort Smith, as far as the Neosho,
to the Cherokees, by a treaty recent
ly concluded at Washington. The
removal of the Osages to their reser
vation, seventy miles North ot this,
hitherto delayed from year to year,
will now be carried into effect,—and
the doubtful question with regard to
Khe forbearance with which one tribe
[of Indians will witness the best ol their
lands put into the hands of another,
with whom also they were not long
since at war, will soon be determined,
i How well the United States may be
able to keep the peace amongst those
people, I cannot say: but I am confi
dent that unless some judicious meas-
urns are taken to enable and induce
the Osages to cultivate more laud than
they are likely to do if left to them
selves, nothing but most distressing
•want and wretchedness can result from
crowding them together.”
Yours respectfully,
John Montgomery.
•DREADFUL STEAMBOAT ACCI
DENT.
New-Orleans, August 13.—The
towboat Grampus, Cap. Morrison, as
cending the river yesterday morning
about sunrise, when opposite the plan
tation of Mr. Dusau do la Croix, (hav
ing four vessels in tow, viz: the brig
Thomas and William, Capt. M’lntyre,
the British brig Anastasia, the brig
Louisiana, and the sloop Dos Amigos,)
•burst her boilers.
The top masts, sails, rigging and
bulwark of the Thomas and William
were carried away; her deck cover
ed with pieces of the boiler, bricks
and other rubbish, but no person on
board injured. The Anastasia was
very slightly damaged; tho other ves
sels not at all. Capt. Morrison was
standing on or near the wheel house on
the upper deck, in conversation with
Mr; Wederstrandt, a passenger on
board. They were thrown with the
deck about thirty feet into the air,
and fell upon the forecastle of the boat,
the deck falling over them, but pre
vented from crushing them by falling
on the capstern. Capt. M. is much
bruised; Mr. Wederstandt is also a
good deal bruised and wounded iu the
neck by a splinter. As soon as the
news of this awful catastrophe reach
ed town, Dr. Y. M Daniel hastened
down, on board of the Pilot, taking
with him a medicine chest, to the re
lief of the wounded. The following
is a correct list of the killed, missing
•and wounded;
Joseph Drytlpn, second engineer,
Blissing; Thomas Dodd, steersman,
doA Harry and Frank (black men)
missing; L. Bruce, do; Gporge Moo
ney, do; Jack Smith, a free biack boy,
wounded since dead; George Brown,
Baliz pilot, had his leg broke, and bled
to death before medical aid arrived;
William Taylor, slightly scalded; Pe
ter Smith, dangerously do; John rland-
lin, badly do;, Charles Craig, arm
broke; Robert Watkins, carpenter of
the Anastasia, was struck with the
steaip and thrown overboard, was
picked up and died immediately after
wards: He was lying on the forecas
tle hatch of the boat with another
hand belonging to the Anastasia, who
is very badly scalded.
Capt. Morrison requests us, in be
half ofhimself, his officers, and the
Unfortunate sufferers, to return his
sincere thanks to Mr. Dusau de la
Croix, who humanely sent out his boat
to their assistance. It is disagreea
ble to reflect upon the cause of this
accident. We think it probable that
■o blame can be attached to Capt.
Morrison; but it was undoubtedly ow
ing to a culpable and shocking care
lessness in the engineer, who neglect
ed seeing that the boilers were prop
erly supplied with water.
From the New-IIaven (Conn.) Herald.
Severe Storm.—During the past
week, from Monday night to Friday
l«orning, we have been visited with
heavy and frequent showers, which in
their conclusion, came so powerfully
•qjs to ewelj the streams, both large and
small, much beyond the ordinary
spring floods. Iu our immediate neigh
bourhood vve have heard of no particu
lar damage, but in the interior, from
every quarter, we learn that great
injury has been done, by the carrying
away of bridges, fences, dams, sluices,
&c. and the destruction of cattle and
sheep. The meadows in the valley
at Watertown were one vast sheet of
water; a small bridge between Wa
tertown and Waterbary was carried
away; also the sluiceway to the but
ton factory at Salem Bridge where a
thousand loads of earth were removed.
Mr. A. Goodyear, of Waterbury, lost
about 30 fine ivlerino Sheep, Mr. J-
Buckingnam between 20 or 30, and
several other gentlemen more or less.
All the intervale on the llousaloriio
was overflowed, to the great injury of
the grass and late crops.
Of course the Farmington Canal
has not escaped. Of the extent of the
damage, however, we are not inform
ed, though we believe it is not so great
as under the circumstances, might
have been anticipated. A considera
ble bieach took place at Farmington,
and some damage was done to the cul
vert at Salmon Brook. Between this
and Farmington the damage is hut tri
fling. The canal had just been filled
with water, and boats were loading to
commence operations, which must now
be suspended till the repairs can be
made.
We also learn that the works at En
field Fabs are mostly swept away.—
In attempting to save some timber,
two men (Irish) were swept over Ihe
falls,'one of whom was drowned.
Awful Calamity.—Since the above
was in type, we have been favoured
with the following extract of a letter
from a gentleman in Hartford, to his
friend in this city, dated Sunday morn
ing, Sept. 7, 1828: ,
“You doubtless know something of
our freshet, but the half has not been
told. It is now nearly at the highest,
though still swelling a little. It is a
melancholy spectacle. Probably no
calamity so general has ocurred since
the settlement of tho country border
ing on this valley. It is sickening to
behold our rich meadows, only on Mon
day last groaning with the greatest
crop ever known, now covered as far
as the eye can reach, like one great
sea. Not n vestige of land can be
seen on the Wethersfield road east.
The long East Bridge, next to East
Hartford, on the meadow, was ex
pected to go off. The trussels were
raised, and the water is np to the
floor. Several live oxen floated by
yesterday—one pair yoked. Several
are now standing on the highest part
of south meadow, their backs just out
of water. A red fox and grey rabbit,
probably visitors from Vermont, were
caught just east of Morgan’s bridge.
The timber prepared and laid for the
guard lock at Enfield Falls, went by
two days since; all the embarkment
under water leaving a ripple. The
water is 24 feet above low water mark.
It is superfluous to say, that all the
crops on the meadows are destroyed,
for a hundred or two miles jjp the
country. Farmington Canal is injur
ed in several places, wo hear, and
the culvert partly gone, but your loss
es are a flea-bite to ours.” The same
writer states that the losses and dama
ges cannot be estimated at less than
500,000 dollars.
Raleigh N. C. Sept. 5.
A very unfortunate affair occurred
in this city, on Tuesday last, which
eventuated in the death of one individ
ual and will probably be attended
with consequences equally fatal to
another. A man by the name of
William L. W fc, notorious for the
extent of his villainy and the despera
tion of his character, was ai rested un
der the vagrant act, and sentenced to
ten days imprisonment. On opening
the outer door of the prison, Wolfe ran
up the stairs, towards the debtors a-
partment. The jailor having receiv
ed orders from the sheriff to confine
him in one of the ioiver rooms, order
ed Wolfe to come down. He how-
ev'er having found an iron bar at the
head of the stairs, refused to descend
and avowed his determination to kill
any one who attempted to take him
After ineffectual efforts to come down,
a man by the name of Miller, (a pri
vate attached to the recruiting party
here) went up, on the supposition that
from their intimacy, he could prevail
on Wolfe to surrender. He however,
had no sooner ascended the stairs,
within striking distance, than Wolfe
fulfilled his threats by knocking him
dowu with the bar- ^bout the time
that Miller fell, Colonel Wiatt, the
Jailor, who was standing at the foot of
the step with a loaded pistol, shot
Wolfe in the body. He then retreat
ed to the head of the stairs, but gave
up in about ten minutes, Wolfe ling
ered of the wound about 24 hours and
died. A jury of inquest was held o-
ver his body, who after examining the
evidence, returned the verdict that
the deceased came to his death from
being shot with a pistol by John T. C.
VViatt Jailor, in the discharge of his
official duty.
Miller’s scull is fractured, and but
faint hopes are entertained of his re
covery.
Bank of the United States.—The
Report made by a committee of the
stock-holders at the annual meeting
has been publidied at length. The
stock is in 350.000 shares; it is owned
by 3,818 individuals; and they reside
in 23 States and Territories. The
stock owned in foreign countries is 40,
412 shares, something like an eighth
part of the whole. The capital paid
in is about 35 millions; due to sundries
rising of 0 millions; and the surplus of
fund of reserved profit about a million
and a half of dollars. The aggregate
of these sums is about 69 1-2 millions
of dollars. To meet the above debt,
the bank has Funded debt, nearly 17
millions; discounted paper, 37 millions;
Bills of Exchange, (foreign) a third of
a million; Real estate, 2 1-4 millions;
Banking Houses, one million; specie,
6 1-2 millions; and other property,
5 millions.—J. of Com.
THE AFRICAN COLONY.
It gives us pleasure to learn that
the Board of Managers of the Ameri
can Colonization Society have appoint
ed Dr Richard Randall, a highly
respectable Member of the Board,
Colonial Agent, and that he accepts
the appointment, with the intention of
proceeding forwith to Liberia, to as
sume the administration of its Gov
ernment.
We consider it a most auspicious
circumstance for the continual pros
perity of theColony, and the success
of the noble object of the Society,
that the Managers have been able to
obtain the services of a gentleman so
respectable and every way so well
qualified for the important trust, as
Dr. Randall; and we congratulate the
friends of the Society every where,
that so able a successor has been so
early obtained to supply the place of
the late lamented Agent.—Nut. Ini.
The following letter was lately ad
dressed to the Editors of the States
man:
Gentlemen,—For. two days, as I
walked the streets, I have been accos-
by my fellow-citizens, children, wo
men, and men, what could be the
meaning of a star appearing in the day
time?
I wish you to inform them, that
the planet Venus, while in her peri-
gree sometimes shines so bright, as to
be seen at noonday. The public en
quirers may consult, if they please,
Halley, De la Lande, and YVeidler on
the subject.
The phenomenon every eighth year,
to wit, since 1 have attended to it;
in 1788, 179G, 1804, 1812, 1820, and
now hi 1828, is before them.
Tell them so, and inform them of
the exactitude of Nature’s laws, and
of the good feeling of yodr friend:
SAMUEL MITCHELL.
New York, Sept. 6, 1828.
Sale of a Wife.—One of the scenes
deservedly recorded as a reproach,
even to a barbarous, but doubly dis
graceful, whatever the alleged mis
conduct, in a country with the slight
est pretensions to civilization, was en
acted on Saturday week, in the mar
ket place of lioniton, where (the
town crier having previously given
public notice) a wretch in human
shape, of the name of Henry Broom,
of the parish of Buckercll, after enu
merating her various qualifications in
the language and style of a jocky, put
his wife up at auction. The woman
fine grown & of handsome person, a-
bout twenty-five years of age, and
three years married, stood by his side,
and the first bidding was that of a
painter, who offered 2s 6d; upon which
she said “thank you Sir.” A carpenter
cried 7s Gd; and a knight of the thim
ble2g more. A barber topped the
whole, augmenting the bidding by 8s
at once; upon this Thomas Tremlett,
of Awliscombe, named 1 pound, and
the husband cried “a lucky hit*” the
hammer fell; the money was instantly
paid, transfer of propeity took place
and the pair moved off together,-,Ra//i.
Eng. pap.
An Affecting Story.—One of Major
Hamilton's acquaintances, who was
marching with a body of troops be
tween Gulliakote and Duneewarra,
called on a Bheel villagecr to be his
guide through the wood very early one
morning. The Bheel remonstrated
observing that it was not the custom
of the country to march before day
light, and that it was dangerous to do
so. The officer, supposing this to be
the mere pretext of laziness, was posi
tive, and threatened him if he did not
go on. The man said nothing more,
but took his shield and sword '& walk
ed on along the narrow path overhung
with log grass and bamboos. The
officer followed at the head of his
men, and had moved slowly half asleep
on his saddle for about five miles,
when he heard a hideous roar, and saw
a very large tyger spring past him so
close that he almost brushed his horse.
The poor Bheel lifted up his sword
and shield, but was down in an instant
under the animal’s paws, who turned
round with him in his mouth, growling
like a cat over a mouse, and looked
the officer in the face. He did wliM
could be done and with his men attack
ed the tiger, whom they wounded so
severely that he dropped his prey.—
But the first blow had done its work
effectually, and the poor man’s skull
was mashed in such a manner os lite
rally to be all in pieces. The officer
told Major Hamilton that from that
day forward this scene was seldom ab
sent from his dreams and with the
illness or fever he had ahvays a re
turn of the vision of the tiger with the
unfortunate man in his jaws, whom his
imprudence had sacrificed Bishop
Ilebcr’s Narrative.
The following let ter was addressed
by Mr. O’Connell, to the editor of the
Dublin Evening Post:
Dear Sir—They say it is right to
be accurate even in trifles. If you
think so you will contradict a para
graph which appeared in your last pa
per respecting me. It contains two
mistakes; first, it asserted that I was
born in the year 1774, and, secondly,
that I was intended for Mie Church.
1 was not intended for the Church.
No man respects, loves, or submits
to the Church with more alacrity than
I do; but I was not intended for the
Priesthood. It is not usual for the
Catholic gentry in Ireland to regulate
the religious destiny of their children;
and,, being an eldest son, horn to an in
dependence, the story of my having
been intended for the Church, is a
pure fabrication.
I was not born in the year 1774.—
Be it known to all whom it may con
cern, that I was bom on the 6th Au
gust, 1775, the very year in which the
stupid obstinacy of British oppression
forced the reluctant people of Ameri
ca to seek for security in arms, and to
commence that bloody struggle for
national independence which has been
in its results, beneficial to England,
whilst it has shed glory and conferred
liberty pure and sublime on America.
I have the hoijor to be,
Your faithful fellow laborer in
glorious agitation,
DANIEL O’CONNELL.
New York, Sept. 5.
During Robbery.-—Two little co
loured urchins, scarce of an age to
take care of themselves, were brought
up and charged with having audacious
ly entered the bed room of a sick lady
in Amity street, and while she was ly
ing in bed, stealing a watch from the
mantlepiece, and laughing at her ina
bility to prevent the depredatiou.
The Quarterly Review thinks that
the Afghans arc the descendants of the
lost ten tribes of Israel. According
to the same authority, the number of
Jews in Great Britain and Ireland does
not exceed ten or twelve thousand; at
Constantinople, about forty thousand.
Twenty years ago, there was” at Saf-
fet (the ancient Bethulia) and Jerusa
lem but a small number of them—
some hundreds at the most—there
are now, at the very least, ten thou
sand. About fifty years ago, a Jew
subscribed largely to the rebuilding
of a small town, in the north of Ger
many, which had been bui-nt down; a
year or two later, arriving at its gates,
on his way beyond, he was stopjied at
them by a law of the place forbidding
•he entry of an Israelite. But now
in most parts of Germany, and in the
Netherlands and France, they ar« re*
licved from civil restraints and disa« ,/
bilities.
An extraordinary legacy has recent*
ly been made by the late George Ten
ant, carpenter, of Bethnal Green, viz.
201 a year, which is to be expended
for shaving a number of the above pa
rishioners on a Saturday night, by two
barbers in that parish. The intention
is to facilitate the attendance of the
lower class of people at Divine wor
ship on Sunday.—London paper.
Conscience.—An Indian being among
bis white neighbors, asked for a little
tobacco to smoke, one of them having
some loose in his pocket, gave him a
handful. The following day the In
dian came back inquiring for the do
nor, saying he had found a quarter dol
lar among the tobacco. Being told
it was given him, he might keep it,
he answered, pointing to his breast:
“I got a good and a bad mi n here, and
tlu: good man say it an t mine, Dmust
return to the owner. The bad man
say that, why he give it to you. and it
is your own: the good man say that not
right; tobacco is yours not. the money;
the bad man say never mind, you got
it, go buy some dram: the good man
say no no, you^nust not do so; I don’t
know what to do, I think 1 go sleep;
but the good man and the bad man
keep talking all night, ar.cl trouble me,
and now I bring the money back I fed
good.”
An action was brought before tho
Superior Court, Judge Hoffman pre
siding, in New-York, by Miss Ellen
Yates, to recover damages of Mr.
William Lc Count for not fulfilling a
matrimonial engagement. Courtship
was proved to have been of six or se
ven years continuance. Le Count
was married to another lady last May.
The jury found a verdict against him,
for $1 AGO.—-Rost. Daily Adv.
The Christ-ians.—This sect is said
to number 2G0 ministers and congre
gations, and 20.000 communicants in
this country. Among tlie absurd and
dangerous tenets, to be derived from
their own publications, is the belief
that the true ministers of Christ are
moved by an inward and sensible call
which cannot he misunderstood, which
extends to females as well as males,
and give them an apostolic infallibili
ty, as well ns the power of vrork-
iug miracles: “The jerks,” says one of
their writers, “is a great miracle.”—
“I have seen people jerked, bv an in
visible power, with such velocity,
that if it had been done by an external
force, it would have killed them in a
minute; and still they received no in
jury. Besides all this, there have
been, in the bounds of my acquaint
ance, many miraculous cures perform
ed, in answer (o prayer. / hare been
acquainted with several rf the people who
were healed, and some of these cures
I have seen nv,self . F as firmly btUc"c.
that the elder Deaid I haggard had the gift
af healing, as that the apostles had. Ue
has fallen a sleep; but there are inniy
alive who saw him perform cures—a; d
what I saw myself puts the matter bo
yond doubt with me.”
Quick to understand.—An ignorant
inquisitive fellow, strolling about (1:6
streets of Boston, rambled into a cout>
ting room where two gentlemen were
lool <ing dver seme accounts, and seem
ed engaged in a violent dispute. The
man made his way up to them, peered
over their shoulders, and not seeing so
clearly as he wished, put his liamfbe:
tween them. One of tho gentlemen
springing up, with one blow landed him
across the floor. The fellow got up
immediately, and rubbing himself,
said, “/guess / could sec full as well a
little further off.”
POCKET BOOK LOST.
A BOUT the middle of July last wits
stolen out of my Pocket at my house
a large Washed Leather Pockf.t-Booj,-’
containing one note on the State Bank of
Georgia for $10, one note of hand on Eli
jah Hicks for $85, payable sometime in
October next; a receipt of Henry Megyrof
the State of New York, for two notes on
John Byers of the raid State, and some
other papers not recollected. To any per
son getting &. delivering said Book, papers,
and money |o me; I will give ten dollars,
and five for the apprehension of the rogue
I do hereby forwarn all persons fronitra
ding for said note of Elijah Hicks. And
I also forwarn Elijah Hicks front paying
said note to anyperson excepting myself.
GEORGE HARLIN
Consewavfee Cherokee Natio*, Augjjrt
13. 182S.—24-tf.