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it -' » J 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 »-- 4 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 * i 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 I 1 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 - J 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]