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THE REPUBLICAN.
Saturday Evening, April 9, 1814.
BY FREDERICK. S. FELL,
OH THE BAT, SLAB TBS BXCHAKQB.
PRINTED THREE TIMES A WEEK.
At Six Dollabs per annum, in advance.
From the Milledgevillc Journal Extra.
GREAT VICTORY
over the
Creek Indians.
MILLEDGEVILLE, April 2.
The following very important dis
patch from General Jackson to General
Pinckney has this moment been receiv
ed by governor Early—this last battle
decides thefate of the Creek Indians.
HEAD QUARTERS,
6th and 7th Districts,
Fort Hawkins, 2d April, 1814.
Sir—I have the honor of enclosing
to your excellency the official account
of a decisive victory over the hostile
Creek Indians, achieved by the milita
ry talents and enterprize of gen. Jack-
son, supported by the distinguished
vdor and good conduct of the gallant
troops under his command: While
the sigh of humanity will escape for
tj.i profuse effusion of human blood,
which results from the savage princi
ple of our enemy, neither to give nor
accept quarter—and while every Ame
rican will deeply lament the loss of
our meritorious fellow soldiers who
have fallen in this contest, we have
ample cause of gratitude to the Giver
of all victory for thus continuing his
protection to our women and children,
who would otherwise be exposed to
the indiscriminate havoc of die toma
hawk and all the horrors of savage war
fare. I have the honor to be, very
respectfully, your excellency's most
obedient servant.
Thomas Pincknex,
Maj, Gen. U. S. Army\
His Excellency Gov. Early.
On the battleground, in the bend (f
’ the Tallapoosie, 22th March,
1814.
Maj. fllffl. Pinckney,
Si*—I feel particularly happy in
being able to communicate to you the
fortunate eventuation of my expedi
tion to the Tallaposre. I reached the
head near Ernuc fail (called by the
whites the Horse-shoe) about ten
o’clock on the forenoon of yesterday,
where I found the strength of the
neighboring towns collected; expect
ing our approach, they had gathered
in from Oakfuskec, Oakehoga, New-
"Yaacau, Hillibees, the Fish Pond and
Eufaulee towns, to the number it is
said of 1000. It is difficult to con
ceive a situation more eligible for de
fence than the one they had chosen, or
one rendered more secure by the skill
with which they had erected, their
breastwork. It was from 5 to 8 feet
high, and extended across the point in
such a direction, as that a force ap
proaching it would be exposed to a
double fire while they lay in perfect se
curity behind. A cannon planted at
one extremity could have raked it to
no advantage-
Determining to exterminate them,
I detached general Coffee with the
mounted men and nearly the whole of
the Indian force early on the morning
of yesterday to cross the river about
two miles below their encampment,
and to surround the bend in such
manner, as that none of them should
escape by attempting to cross the river.
With the infantry I proceeded slowly
and in order along the point of land
which led to the front of their breast-
wbrk ; having planted my cannon,
[one six anil one three pounder] on
an eminence at the distance of 150 to
200 yards from it, I opened a very
brisk fire, playing upon the enemy with
the muskets and rifles whenever they
shewed themselves beyond it; this
was kept up with short interruptions
for aboutt wo hours, when a part of the
Indian foree and captain Russell’s and
lieut Bean’s companies of spies, who
had accompanied general Coffee, crost
over in Canoes to the extremity of the
bend, and set fire to a few of the build
ings which were there situated; they
wards the breastwork, and commenc
ed a spirited fire upon the enemy be
hind it. Finding that this, force, not
withstanding thwravery they display
ed, was wholly insufficient to dislodge
them, and that gen. Coflec had entirely
secured the opposite bank of the river
1 now determined to take their works
by storm. The men by whom this
was to be effected had been waiting
with impatience to receive the order
and hailed it with acclamation.
The spirit which animated them
was a sure augtlry of the success which
was to follow. The histoiy of war
fare I think furnishes few instances of
a more brilliaflc attack —the regulars
led on by their intrepid and skilful
commander, colonel Williams, and by
the gallant major Montgomery, soon
gained possession of the works in the
midst of a most tremendous fire from
behind them; ar.d the militia of the
venerable general Doherty’s brigade
accompanied thetn in the charge with
a vivacity and firmness which would
have done honor to regulars. The
enemy were completely routed. Five
hundred and fifty-seven were left dead
on the peninsula, and a great number
were killed by the horsemen in at
tempting to cross the river—it is be
lieved that not more than twenty have
escaped.
The fighting continued with some
severity about five hours, but vit con
tinued to destroy many of them who
had concealed themselves under the
banks of the river until we were pre
vented by the night. This morning
we killed 16 who had been concealed.
We took about 250 prisoners, all wo
men and children except two or three.
Our loss is 106 wounded and 25 kill
ed. Major M‘Intosh [the Cowctau]
who joined my army with a part of his
tribe, greatly distinguished himself
When 1 get an hour’s leisure I will
send you a more detailed account.
According to my original purpose,
I commenced my return march to
Fort Williams to day, and shall if I
find sufficient supplies there, hasten to
the Hickory ground. The power of
the Creeks is, I think, forever broken.
I send you a hasty sketch, taken by
the eye, of the situation on which the
enemy were encamped, and of the
manner in which I approached them.
' I have the honor to be, with great
respect, your obedient servant,
Andrew Jackson,
Major-General.
Major-general Pinckney.
Letter of the Governor cj Pensacola.
The following is a copy of a letter
from the governor of Pensacola to the
Creek Indians, found in Witherford’s
house, after the late battle fought by
general Claiborne, at the town called
Eccanachaca, [or Holy Ground] on
the Alabama, some allusion to which
was made in the general’s official let
ter to the secretary of war, published
in the papers a few days ago. “ It
shews,” says the general, “ the inter
est which the Spanish government
takes in the success of our savage
enemies ”
Pensacola, Sept. 29.
Gentlemen—I received the letter
that you wrote me in the month of
August, by which, and with great sat
isfaction, I was informed of the ad
vantages which your brave warriors
obtained over your enemies.
I represented, as I promised you,
to the captain general of the Havana,
the request [which the last time I took
you by the hand] you made me, of
arms and munitions—but until now
I cannot yet have an answer. But' I
am in hopes, that he will send me
die effects which I requested—and as
soon as I receive them, I shall in
form you.
I am very thankful for your gener
ous offer to procure me the provisions
aud warriors necessary, in order to re
take the post of Mobile—and you ask
me at the same time, if we had given
up Mobile to the Americans? To
which I answer, for the present, I can
not profit of your generous offer—not
being at war with the Americans—
who did not take Mobile by force—
since they purchased it from the mise
rable officer, destitute of honor, who
commanded there, and delivered it
without authority; By which reasons,
Americans will restore hfagttintb tis j
because no body can depose of a
thing that is not his o wit propertyr-
in consequence of which the Spaniards
have; not lost theft right to it—and I
-hope that you will not put in execu
tion the project which you tell me of,
TO BURN THE TOWN—since
those houses and property do not
long to Americans but to true Spa
niards.
Mobil*, February 7.
XiUt Bight a party came running into lown
frightened almost to dead), with ope than mor
tally wounded, who |S since dead. They told
us, thrft a very forge pkrty. of the Creek Indian*
had, on the morning of that day, visited the op
posite shore of the Bay. and when they left it
were massscrCing all the whites,' Dreadful in
deed Stas the alarm f the noisy draft and shrill
fife re-echoedthrough this village, rhe screams
of the frighted women with their tMbes iri their
arms, running halt-naked through the streets,
1 added horror to the scene. A party of vefoh.
To the bsarsrs of your letters, I «£
have ordered some small presents to tain in labor has brought firth a monte.** One
be given; Alid I remain, forever of the many binds of smoggiers had left ffcnsa-
your good hither and friend,. I
MaXIOUK. ‘ of it, pursued them, overtook, and defeated
-,r . ■ them with the lost of one mu, and Carried
BRITISH GROANS.
A Kingston (Jamaica) “paper of ye laments the late of such wretches—Mat.
February last, after giving a summary * Me *' m
account of events in Europe the past xHE UNITED STATES* BRIG ARGUS,
year, ends in the following strain res- jjoe or Inderwick** report of the killed and
pecting this country. wounded no bwd the United States* brig of
Quitting Europe, where the British vr * r A'Rus, in an action with the British sloop
arms have recently shone with so pre- on,be “ lh August, |S1S »--
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eminent a luster, and directing our
vUw to the transatlantic contest in
which ire are engaged, sorry are we to
say, that, on this theatre, we meet with
but little which is not calculated to ex
cite regret and disappointment. In
the outset of this (to Great-Britain)
humiliating contest, no preparations, it
would appear, were deemed necessary,
the Americans, and their means of an
noyance, were regarded with a ’blind
and fatal contempt, and it was thought,
that, terrified at the idea of a war with
a powerful and warlike nation, capable
by its naval power, of destroying their
commerce, annihilating their infant
navy, and of bombarding, and render
ing defenceless, their maritime cities,
they would require but little persua
sion to induce them to listen to an ac
commodation. But what has been
the result of this overweening confi
dence, and c< nsequent supineness, on
the part of the British government?
Our naval glory and reputation have
suffered by the capture of our men of
war—our commerce has sustained the
most serious and severe losses—.the
coasts of our West-India Islands, but
particularly Jamaica, have been infest
ed by swarms of privateers, who have
made numerous captures, and, with a
daring audacity, encouraged by-
knowledge of their defenceless state,
threatened and blockaded, as it were,
our very ports; our flotillas on the
lakes have been conquered, and the
province of Canada invaded and part
ly over jun. All those losses nave
not been owing to a want of prompt
ness and intrepidity in our gallant sai
lors & soldiers, but by an accountable
want of energy in the government, in
the prosecution of this war, seconded,
we are sorry to add, by the feeble, half
and indecisive operations of our naval
force on the American coasts during
the most favorable peiiods of 1813.
Norfolk, March 25.
Sanguinary Combat.—Two French
men, privates in captain Swift’s com
pany of marines, quarelled a few days
ago, and neither would be satisfied
without an appeal to arms. The
weapons they chose for the occasion
were their own bayonets, which, as is
the way among soldiers in the French
army, they unfixed from their mus
kets, and having chosen their seconds,
proceeded to a spot in an adjacent
thicket. Here these heroes, alias mon
sters, set at each other with all the for-1
mality and skill of experienced adepts, j
and continued to parry and stab, until |
one of them, pierced with repeated;
wounds, fell, exhausted, and declared
W. tf Allen, esq. captain severely wounded.
(since dead) shot in the head.
Mr. Edwards, midshipman, killed.
Deiphy, dj. do. lost both legs.
Joshua Jones, )
> Seamen do.
Geo. Gardner,)
Lieu*- Wa'son, severely wounded.
Mr. M‘Leod, boatswain, do. (since dead.)
Joshua Jo-dan, do. mate do. do.
James White, carpente-, do.
John Young, quarter-mailer, do.
Francis Eggert,
James Kelbam, I
Charle Baxter, I, .
John Nugent, ^eamsndo.
J-tn.es Hall, |
W-n. Hovington. J
The Jamaica Conran; of February I, In untie,
ing the battle oft Lake Erie, thus expresses it
self —
The general order relating to our disaster*
m He mov distant portion of Upper Canada,
will be read with interest. It esiablishes one
important t c, which before rested upon here*
sal, viz, that there were pot more than fifty
British seamen on board of our fleet on Like
Erie. The triumph which the enemy obtained
on that lake, was not therefore * triumph over
British seamen j this, at least, is some conso
lation. But >h ’he eyas of the worfd, how will
it stand f The fl-tg of England swept from an
inland sea within her dominions, white she had
a force afi/itrrenUy equal to that of the enemy I
Who will believe that at the end of the second
campaign, amotion having 150 000 seamen in
the pubip service, and free access io the scene
of action, had onU/if' v seamen in that contest,-
oo which was to depend the persons and pro
perty of thousands ci her faithful subjects. 1 *
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The National &;is of the 10th insL inform*'
us that in the town of Worcester, Mas. there
were twenty-five men enlisted within the le.t
thirty days. They are stated-to be "young
men, valiant, and of reputable families ; and
seem to have taken up arms from those high
and honorable motives which actuated the pa
triots ot the American revolution."
Horrid Murder.—It is stated in the Herki
mer Americ n. that a sailirg master and lieu
tenant, of infantry, at Sackett** Harbor, la’ely
fought each other with b- <*d swords, for shoot
fifteen minut--*, when the l*’»er we* but down
through the shoulder into the breasts and ex
pired next day
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from fiite'o Meekly Refiner.
PRIZES.
7otalfar the loot four merko —Prizes safely -
arrived or satisfactorily acc' u>-ted for, SO ves
sels estimated a- the «tiue of £3000,000.
By a statastical view cf England, published
in I8i3, it appears that there are twopi'Hinn*
six hundred thousand paupers in that country.
The subscriber
Off" re for tale, at hit stars, Qibb.nt' building,
30 cra'eaCrocke y. assorted
100 b-g-,Sbnt, assorted «izes
10 boxes Cotton Cards, No. 10
A'l which wilt be told at a reasonable price,
wholesale or retail.
Tobias Myers, fi
april 9— 43 -
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Georgia—M'Intosh County-
himself vanquished; while the other; *T ? h * rf ordinary for
having been thrice stabbed by his fal-! whraTc^rge street.of
1 ~ A * . i pliet for letter* *f admiokn’ien oo rhe erate and
len antagonist, was very willing to re- - fI . • .
ceive his submission. Both were
borne bleeding to the hospital in the These are therefore, to cite and admonish all aad
Navy Yard, where they have been pro-
perly attended, and we since learn, are «» « before the first Monday. » m>t next,
in a fair way of recovery. *therwi-e letters of idmini t ration will be graatad
SALE or WINS.
Yesterday morning, the private stock of wine
(principally Madeira) of the late Thomas
Marston, was sold at auction,-athis late resi
dence, near Hurl Gate, for the ex raordin- ry
Given under my hand and seal this 2d d jot
2014, and 38th year ot American independence-
To Rent op Lease,
3 Til.
«n
Foe a term of yean.a commodious small HOUSX,
——, . —- — in marker 1 quart, fitlrablc for .a complete dorr s,
price of about 2S dol'ars, ptT. gallon —The well as dwelling house, nut door to Mr. Gmd.tt’s
wine was very old. and was in demijohns ,.nd saddler’s shop. For tufts, apply to
bottles. A -cut 1,700 bottles, and 48 demijohs Moses Sheftall
april 7—42 ,,
were sold.—Arm York pafier.
Died, In England, the rev Mr. HparixaToa.af
' "ft Act. 8 ‘ '
the sale & delivery of that place is total. S3
lev vmtrf orerl warn If nnrl I krewc ♦fvi* f ho I . . a. * 9
the methodift feet. So anaions were many of Used. N Otice. - - *
g nt prices. A cart not worth fin bid for ffiriiTk fr’llli* res P ect5 s “y Negroes ia
then advanced with great gallantly to- ly void and null—and I hope that the j • crown, brought twenty ix gai*«s»,
Andrew Walthour.
Zibertg county, Ifat Marsh, 1$M. £—fx—42]