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"Capt. Parry’s great cabin contains a library
of a considerable number of miscellaneous
works; and besides the usual conveniences
a large assortment of clothing furs and other
equipments, calculated for the climate he pur
poses to revisit. I' ur jackets, coats, or rather
tunics, of Esquimaux manufacture, trousers
and fur boots, in great variety, some lined with
seal skins, others with wolf, racoon, or beaver
skins, some for wear in the‘day time, others
to sleep in on the ice, with caps attached to
them ; some lined with skins of the black and
red-footed diver, others with those of eider
ducks, extremely soft, warm, and beautiful;
some sewed with sinews by Esquimaux ladies,
others by London furriers ; snowshoes (Cana
dian) four feet long, with net-work of cat-gut;
extremely light and appropriate for the object;
eye preservers of gauze wire, shaped like
spectacles, but convex and, some two inches
broad, to go round the temples and cheek
bones, but leaving the nostrils and mouth un
covered, as the breath if confined, would be
soon condensed to one mass of ice.’'
“The small clothes and pantaloons are pro
vided with straps and buckles in heu of but
tons.”
“ On the starboard side of the cabin hangs
an engraving of Lord Radstock, and another
of Captain Franklin. On the larboard side,
that of his Majesty.' In Captain Parry’s
bed-room hangs a picture of his lady, and a
likeness of his mother is suspended immediat
]y under the portrait of Mrs. Parry.”
“ The gun-room and officers cabins are fit
ted up with every convenience the size of the
ship admits of, which, owing to the prepara
tion for departure, and consequent bustle,
cannot be seen to advantage.”
“The ice anchors differ materially from the
common anchor, having but one flook, or ra
ther only a hook, the other at the top being
compressed somewhat like a Roman S.”
“The iceboats themselves are provided
with large wheels of the same circumference
as coach-wheels at the stern, and a pole
projecting four feet ahead, to be drawn by
rain-deer, or in default thereof, by the crew,
when on the ice, and when in tne water are
rowed by ten or twelve oars ; the iron keels,
ornamented below, are perforated with holes,
to admit ropes, for their being hauled off eittier
wav ; the bottom is painted black a white
streak on each side, and the inner part green.
They are of considerable length.
“ The Hecla herself is abundantly found
in every thing necessary, has two sets oi sails
spars and yards, cordage, ropes, tackle, ap
parel and furniture of every kind and descrip
tion; instruments, both astronomical, optical
anil nautical, time-pieces, but neither her
construction nor additional strengthening*
can make her sail well, for her greatest ve
locity never exceeded eight knots, under the
most favorable circumstances, during their last
voyage.
FOREIGN.
[Hy the Ship Henri IV.]
New-YoRK, May 16
ONE DAY LATER FROM ENGLAND.
London papers oi the 16th tilt. and Liver
pool ofthe 17th, were last evening received
by the Florida, rapt. Tinkham.
American Stocks, Saturday, April 14.
Four ami hall per Cents, 87 1-2 ; fives, 96.
Rank St- < k, not quoted.
Nothing certain was known in regard to the
formation of a new mini Ury, but the Time* o:
the 16th, states that 1 lie following arrange
ments are in contemplation :
Sir John Coprly to he Lord Chancellor.
Lor.l Gia:.vdlc Foreign Secretaiy.
Mi Robinson, (with a Peerage,) Colonial
Secretary
Mr lluskisson, Home Secretary, (this is not
certain.)
Lords Dudley and Ward, Privy Seal
Lor>i Carlisle, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Duke of Devonshire, Lord Chamberlain,
(not certair.)
Marquis of Anglesea, Master oi the Ord
nance.
Lord Bexley is allowed to come back to the
Cabinet.
The new title of Mi. Robinson is Lord Stat
hearn.
'l'he Marquis of Londonderry resigned his
embassy to Vienna oir hearing of Mr. Can
ning’s appointin' nt. It is rumi ured that the
Marquis has written a very insolent letter to
the king. Other resignations have taker,
place —among them, it is reported, is the
Attorney General.
One paper says it is believed the Duke/o'
Cambride wih hr appointed Commander-in-
Chiei- —Another states that the Marquis oi
Angh sea has been offered the post.
The Duke ol Clarence has been .appointed
Lord ILgh Admiral, and will be assisted by
the whole Boardot Admiralty, with the excep
tion of Lor i Melville. We look at the ap
pointment as a prompt and decisive ev
donee "f the course which his majesty is de
termined to pursue in the present crisis,& as an
evidence that lie will not permit the interests
of the country- to suffer from the attempt which
has been made to thwart and embarrass his
government.— Times.
On Saturday, the Duke of Wellington re
signed as commander in chief, and as master
of t he ordnance.
\ iscount Granville, Mr. lluskisson, Sir
Charles Stewart, \ iscount Palmerton. X. Lord
Seaford had interviews with Mr Canning on
Saturday. Earl Bathurst withdrew a number
of papers from the Colonial Office.
11 is said his majesty received the resigna
tion of the seceders with a tone and manner
SO decisive, that more than one repented he
had not doubted betore tendering so fatal ai.
off. r Lord Bexley is said to have recalled
his, and Mr Peel it was rumored, would proba
bly be open to explanation.
The king, according to our be*t advices,
apperstohave been justly indignant at the
moral conspiracy among those he trusted, and
to have resolutely resolved that no difficulty
should make him again take to his confidence
men who, from personal hale to a highly
gifted individual, could take steps by winch
the governm nt of the country, himself, and
his really steadfast servant.* were embarrassed,
and the affairs ofthe kingdom thrown into con
fusion. 1 aitber, as regards the list oi Mr.
Canning, nothing is yet known: but the pub
lic mind is decidedly in favor of the measures
adopted by the sovereign.
We regret, says the Times, to hear that a
negociation which had been commenced by
Mr. Canning with Lord Lansdown, has broken
oft’with the impossibility of ernaneywation be
ing made a Cabinet question againsfa declar
ed Royal wish ; and further Ireland is still to
reap a few ofthe comforts of a divided gov
ernvent. If, however, Mr. Plunkett be imme
diately named Lord Chancellor of that coun
try, one positive good will have been fixed be
yond the reach of fortune.
The same paper says, Lord Manners is re
ported to have sent in his resignation some
short time ago—more lately still has the Rt.
Hon. Secretary made the same amende to Ire
land. Now r , if Mr. Canning be anxious to
satisfy the Irish nation that their good
fortune is not a dream—that they have really
shaken off the Orange nightmare, that law be
tween rich& poor,Protestant & Catholic.is nev
er gain to become a mercenary & remorseless
ally of the strong against the weak, the minis
ter will in the very first gazette announce the
appointment of a new Lord Chancellor, and of
a Secretary in whose disposition to govern
fairly, a suspicious & irritable, because an ill
used people, may confide. Although a
change in the person of the Lord Lieuten
ant cannot be required on similar grounds
to those which have‘rendered Mr. Goulburn’s
dismissal unavoi lable, it is, we are told, re
ported, and we should not be sorry to find it
true, that the Marquis Wellesley will be re
called from Ireland, and that Lord Carlisle
will succeed him.
Corn Hill. — It appears that the warehous
ing of corn is to be permitted under the new
Act, and that the duty is to be levied accord
ing to the price in the home market, not at
the date of importation, but at the time when
the corn is taken out for consumption. This
arrangement was strongly objected to by the
agriculturalists; but it was justly observed by
th- Chancellor ofthe Exchequer, that if a dif
ferent rule were adopted, the effect would be
to transfer the freighting and warehousing to
the Dutch in whose hands the corn would still
Jae within 1 or 2 davs sail of our own market
(Bfclause was proposed by Mr. Grant, and a
greed to, giving the Privy Council the privi
lege of prohibiting the importatir n of grain
from foreign countries, which impose heavier
duties on our shipping than the ships of the
countries in question are subject to in British
ports. This, we imagine; was meant as a boon
iu the shipping interests.
A letter from Paris states that Spain still
persists in her folly with regard t» pro
jects for invading South America, and it is as
sorted that the Envoy Extraordinary has been
commanded to make known to the British and
French governments that it is the intention oi
the cabinet of Madrid to send an expedition
aginst Mexico, to establish the infant Francis
co de Paula as sovereign. It was justly doubt
ed whether the English and French cabinets
would concur in the measure.
It is now doubted whether the Portuguese
Chefs have ever been sent o. he frontier, and
ii is certain that they had nut passed it on the
3d inst It is even reported that Silvana and
Chaves have re-ent. red Portugal, but by dif
ferent routes, and it the accounts are to be be
lieved a new attempt will be made on Alen
t<ju.
Extract of a letter to a in Philadelphia, dated
Montevideo, March 21st, 1827.
Here is no produce of any kind. The su
percargo of the Moss, Mr. Milnor, has purchas
ed all the hides and horns in the market—Ox
ides al 22 11(>0; Horse hides, 87 1-2 per ps.
Horns $75 per M The currency is 25 per ct
below par. For Spanish dollars, and hills
on the Secretary ofthe Navy, are at the same
premiums. Ol couise my prospect is gloom)
indeed.
There is likewise no prospect that this war
will soon be at an end. The Emp ror is re
presented as <i very head strong man, and is
not inclined to make peace without he is forc
ed to it.
A few days before my arrival, an important
victory was gaiiied in the vicinity of Rio
Grande by the iWenos Ayrean army, and to
day there is a report in circulati >n that the
province of Rio Grande has declared in favor
of the patriots. Com Brown has gained a
victory—he has taken and destroyed 23 small
x essels belonging to the blockading squadrun.
Perhaps those victories, and the intercession
ofthe Br tish Minister may have some effect
>n the brute—he is represented as such.
In hopes that my next letter may be more
favorable, I remain with esteem.
From the .Vew-York American.
COLOMBIA.
We received yesterday, by the way of Phil
adelphia. letters irom La Guavra of the 1 Ith
ult. and it may, perhaps, he taken as no equiv
ocal indication ot the alarm prevalent in that
country, that our correspondents no longer
Mgntlieir letters, irom an appi ehetision, that
any tree expression of opinion concerning the
fla.rs ot Colonlbia, it traced to them, might
be attended with danger to the writers. The
handwriting. however, we know, and as the
information derived from the same source on
previous occasions, has uniformly proved au
thentic we confide as entirely in th.it now an
onvmouslv common cated, as though it were
vouched with a name —ami it is, we are serf)
to say very discouraging. At Bogota there
is said to have occurred —if not a revolution—
some most decided manifestations of opposi
tion to the measures ol Simon 1., as one of our
correspondents calls Bolivar. Meantime very
strict measures are taken by 80l var, to pre
vent insubordination in Columbia. A procla
mation was received on the 14th April in La
Guavra. requiring all foreigners arriving in
that country, to behave themselves and in
case of any infraction of the laws, authorising
the Governor of the Province where the)
landed, to order them k rthwith out of th.
I country Another order proclaims death ’. to
I any one who may sp.ak ill of the existing go-
I vernment.
1 he*e indications ot apprehensive and sus
picious despotism, when connected it h pre
vious accounts, and with that which we this
J GEORGIA STATESMAN, MONDAY JUNE 4, 1827.
day republish from the Philadelphia National
Gazette, of the revolutions in Peru, and the
overthrow of the Bolivian constitution, can
not but awaken the liveliest solicitude ofthe
lovers of freedom, for the fate ofthe new re
publics of the South.
La Plata—We have received from our
correspondent at the Merchant’s Coffee House
of Philadelphia, a brief account of the news
brought by the ship Moss, which has arrived
at that port, with a passage of 51 days from
Montevideo.
A passenger in that vessel states, that a bat
tle had been fought at Iturzaingo, about 500
miles northeast of Montevideo, in which the
patriots had gained a great victory; killing
1500 Brazillians, capturing about an equal
number, put the remainder to route, and tak
ing camp, equpage, tec. This we suspect to
be another account of the battle of the Ta
cuor mbo, at which the Brazillians pretended
to the victory.
Another advantage has been grained by
Com Brown, as mentioned in the Buenos
Ayres papers On the 9th and 10th Februa
ry he attacked the Brazilian squadron, off the
Island of Martin Garcia, near the mouth of
the Uruguay and took and destroy d nineteen
sail, one only escaped to Monteviedo. The
blockading squadron, consisting in all of nine
sail were anchored at Ensenada. A Buenos
Ayrean privateer, called the Mancella, com
manded bv capt. Beasely, had captured seven
prizes off Rio, estimated to be worth three
hundred & fifty thousand dols. Our previous
news from Brown was the Bth Feb. when be
had taken several gun-boats 'l’he squadron
he attacked or. the 9th and 10th was doubtless
the r maining gun-boats up the river
[Daily Advertiser.
LATEST FROM LA PLATA.
Baltimore, May 17.
The ship Moss, Fennell, has arrived in the
Delaware, in a passage ot 54 days fr< m Monte
Video, whence she sailed on the 23d March.
Among the passengers is capt Odom, (lateol
rhe schooner Beauty, sold at Buenos Ayres,)
who landed at New Castlo and reached this
city yesterday morning. To the politeness of
capt. O. the < ditors of the American are in
debted for the following intere*tinn informa
tion —Admiral Brown had succeeded in cap
taring the who e of the Brazilian squadron
in the river Uruguay. He then descended with
his vessels to Buenos Ayres and immediate
ly made an attack upon the Brazilian blocka
ding squadron in the Outer Roads, which he
forced to retire and seek protection from one
ofthe frigates, lying some distance below. A
Brazilian brig of 12 guns, was blown up, and
every soul on board perished. The latest
dates from Buenos Ayres were to the 15th
March, at winch time Brown was engaged in
fitting out his vessels with the greatest activi
ty with the intention, it was generally bel ev
cd, of making an attack on the blockading
squadron. The g neral battle which took
place in the province ot Rio Grand , in Febru
ary, between the Buenos Ayrean and Brazilian
armies, resulted in the achievement of a
complete victory ov r the latter. Nine
Brazilian standards had been transmitted to
Buenos Ayres by General Alvear. as the tro
phies of his victory—a large number of prison
ers were taken, and twelve hundred o the Bra
zilian army were left on the field. In the
course ofthe action, the Buenos Ayrean caval
y made two ineffectual charges upon the Bra
zilian infantry; but being harangued by their
commander, an officer ot great gallantry, they
succeeded at th third charge in penetrating
the imperial line, and decided the fate of the
day It was said that the Buenos Ayrean gen
eral was pushing his success so vigorously, as
to induce the belief that the entire province
•f Rio Grande would soon be in his posses
sion. It was further reported, among the most
intelligent classes at Buenos Ayres, that ti.<
government continued to offer to the emperor
the same terms to effect a peace which Lad
been presented betore the battle.
The United States trigate Macedonian,
commodore Biddle, was lying at Monte Video,
rendering every possible aid and protec
tion to American commerce, ('apt. (). speak*
in the warmest terms of the able and efficient
manner in which the commodore discharged
his duties. The pett.auger privatet r, com
manded by captain Beasley, and another
-mall privateer, had each succeeded in
capturing 4-sending into the river Solado, Bra
zilian property to the amount of *IIOO.OOO.
The La sin par (formerly the Beauty of Balti
m re,) had got to sea from Buenos Ayres,
(’apt. Lew is, (ot the ship Corsair of N York,
sold some months ago at B A.) still remained
there, not being able to remit his funds to ad
vantage.
London, Feb. 23
We have received th following intelligence
Irom Oporto this morning, contained in pri
vate letters, dated the 4th Feb.
“The rebels have retired from Brag*,
which is occupied by our troop*, now between
them and us Little chance of the capture
ot the fugitive. This is official, and we are
quite *afe tor the moment, and for the moment
only, if British troops do not move up. They
alone can secure us permanent safety, and
*urely the government ought to know this un
doubted fact, and the importance, in a military
and moral point of view of this city.”
* The confusion at Oporto has been bevond
all description. Men, women, and children,
baggage, money, good* in one mass cros-ing
the river to the Lisbon side, called Villa Nuo
va de Guia The streets unpaved, and trench
es dug in them ; the lines undefended; the
English ships of war moored in the Duoro, re
ceiving money fimiies and children, were to
have been defended till the last moment, and
if necessary, abandoned and blown up. The
rebels, however, showed, a total want ofener
£V, and hesitated to attack Oporto, even when
without a garrison, though their force is said to
have consisted of 1.500 ot the line, and 400
cavalry, with 2.000 militia guerillias.”
“ 1 send vou a Proclamation ju-t issued
You will be rejoiced to hear that I have good
reason to believe that a British lorce is ap
proaching us, bv the Coimbra Road, and must
already be at or beyond Leyra. i cau assure
you that we have had a most narrow escape.
PROCLAMATION.
“ Portonians !— lt is time to repose from
your glorious fatigues. The rebels, trembling
at the fate which awaited them, if they should
dare attack us, have retired. Our United
Army tracks their steps, and this is, perhaps,
the moment for chastising their criminal auda
city.
“ The complete route of Colonel Zagallo is
fully confirmed. He arrived alone Oporto,
after fighting as long as he could, but was over
wh* Imed by very superior numbers.
Portonians! hitherto certain of your patri
otism and loyalty afforded me particular satis
faction to be yoirr Governor, my happiness is
augmented by the following expressions of her
Serene Highness, the Infanta Regent :
“ Her Highness, orders that Lieut. General
Stubbs be informed that no exertion shall be
spared for the succour of Oporto ; and that
she places the greatest confidence in his ener
gy, and valour, and in the loyalty of that city.”
“Such Portonians, are the flattering expres
sions of her Highness towards you. —Continue
then to merit such an honourable opinion,
while I, for my part, will take such measures as
shall enable you to give free effusions to your
joy, joining with me in ’he cry of Long live our
King, Don Pedro, IV! Long live our Queen,
Donna Maria II ! Flourish the Constitutional
Charters ; and Long live the Infanta Kegentl
(Signed) “THOS. W STUBBS
‘ Lieut. Gen. & Governor
“ Head Quarters. Oporto, Feb. 4
“ P S. I must add that the exertions and
spirit of Sir T. Stubb* exceed all praise.—He
saved the city —Courier.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED,
Tampico, April 25.
‘ Yesterday arrived off this port the Colom
bian privateer sloop Bolivar, having in com
pany as her prize, the American schr. Antoi
nette, Capt. Bateman, from Mobile, bound to
this port. The captain of the privateer ha
sent in a note to the consign l e, Mr J Har
mony, of New York, giving him 36 hours to
ransom the vessel Capt Bateman states be
has been cruelly treated, and was threatened
several times to be hung Mr Robertson, the
American Consul, has addressed a letter to
him, of which I herewith send you a copy, and
it is to be hoped that our government will
again put a stop to such unlawful acts of the
Colombian cruizers ”
From a London Paper.
Cligraphy of Dr. Chalmers, and Mr
Jeffrey.— ‘ Pray, did you ever see J> ffrey’s
scrawl, or the pothooks of Dr Chalmers, of
Glasgow “ Never.” Then you are no
judge of the beauties or varieties of human
writing I’ve had a note of the latter lying bv
me these three years, and I’ve never been
able to decypher it yet, nor have I ever met
with a being who could.—l showed it to Pro
fessor Lee, as Arabic, written to me by the
celebrated Mirza Seid Moorshedabad of Ispa
han ! 11 said at once, “ I can make neither
head nor tail of it. But pray madam pre
serve it ; I’ts a very great curiosity.” As to
little Jeffery's caligraphy, you shall hear what
Mr. Wilson, of Edinburgh, said to me respect
ing it. “Did you ever see his writing ? Os
all the pothooks—Lord save us a cookmaid
would have written better with a skewer He’s
often sent me sheets which were actually ille
gible—a mass of mere up and down strokes—
I could have wept to look at them. Perhap
I could make out the first letter; say it was a
P—Well, then, all the rest was a matter of
guess work ; and wh> tlier it was particular or
praiseworthy, or professional, or party spirit,
or periwinkle, 1 bad to conjecture from the
context. Surely never man made such ag, I
and p, as he does! and then the cantrips
which his highness Would occasionally play up !
Often when I had got a whole number in type
he would come down, cancel three or four ar
ticles and leave me as many fresh ones in their
place And times beyond number he has pre
sented himself to me, seen thftjfroof of a l< ng
and difficult aiticle, ami alterflmpd remoddcl
ed every line of it ! —And we made a
mistake or two more than ordinary, he would
fume, and rage, and fret, and talk of bis time
and our stupidity as if his writing was cop
perplate ! I ve often said to Mr. Constable,
J< ff ry will drive me demented at last ; and
if ever I in put into a rradhouse, sec that he
pays the charge o’lt
INTERESTING A R RIVAL.
Boston, May 1.
Three men, Gregory, Nichols, and another
w hose name we have not learned, former resi
dents of this city, arrived in town last week ai
ter a fifteen years captivity among the Indians
Early in the late war, William Gregory, then
at the age of only eleven years, enlisted in the
U S service, under Capt. Watson of the city;
and the others entering the army about th«
same time, they were all ordered to the west
ern or Canada lines together. They had not
remained long on tha’ station before they were
compelled to engage in several skirmishes
with the Indians, in on of which these three
with sixty one others were captured After
changing masters several times, they at last
found themselves in the power of the tribe
called Flat Head*, by whom they were taken
to the Rocky Mountains, and taught the red
man* art of hunting and fishing.
During the long lingering years of their ser
vitude, Gr gory with the other two made four
several attempts to escape, but w ere as many
times rc-taken , and as a punishment for their
bold endeavor, they were subjected to
the most cruel and excruciating torture
which the untutored mind could devise or sa
vage barbarity execute. At one time they
were made fast to a tree or post and their
,-calps taken off ; after which, the little re
maining fle'h on the top of their heads was
violently removed, and the bleeding scalps re
placed, and permitted to remain, and adhere.
The flesh thus cut from their heads was roast
ed and forced down their throats to sustain
exhausted nature. At another time a piece
was dessected from the fleshy part of the
thigh, which was also cooked and given them
to eat. No resistance in this case would avail,
and they submitted without opposition to the
cruelties oi their barbarous oppressor*. Gre-
gory however became so exasperated 'With
pain that in a state oi wildness approaching
insanity, he rose u P° n his tormentors and ac
tually succeeded in bringing several of them to
the ground-
Upon this some ofthe Indians in their lan
guage exclaimed, “ he is a good soldier
but for his reward, his right arm which
done the deed, was stript, and on the inside a
gash cut from the wrist to the shoulder, into
which was introduced a hot walnut rod*
and the flesh again closed. As if this was not
sufficient entirely to disable this member, they
immediately shot several bullets through his
arm m diffierent places, and then left him to
groan and sigh that his hours of existence
might be few and his lingering torments soon
overpower the pulsations of life.
At another time their tongues were cut out;
Gregory’s about one third, and the others en
tirely to th" roots. Consequently Gregory is
the only one who can utter a word, and he in
distinctly and from him the principal informa- r
tion is'derived. They finally succeeded in ef
fecting their escape by the assistance of tt
squaw, who in kindness accompanied them
through the forest, a distance of 45 miles, and
placed them on a track by which they suc
ceeded in reaching the white settlements. At
the time they made the last attempt to freo
themselves, they were three hundred miles
from any white habitation. Many more of
their sufferings and hardships could b*e told,
but what we have already related is sufficient
to shock teelings of humanity, and to ex
cite the warmest sympathy for these miserable
fellow beings; who at this late day, so long af
ter the execution of the heartless deeds, bear
about them but the too visible proofs of the
trut iof their story Nichols and the third
we understand left wive? and families in this
city, and Gregory a -mother, who had long
since numbered them with the dead.
[Traveller.
We should have inserted the above article
in our last, were it not that we thought the
statement, too horrid for belief. It is however
confirmed in the last Traveller, the editor of
that paper having had an interview with Mr-
Gregory and we are no longer at liberty to
doubt the truth of his tale Mr. Gregory’s
narrativ is said to differ in no very essential
point from the above statement. “He enter
ed the service as a waiter or musician at elev
en years of age—was in the army of Gen. Hull
when he surrendered at Detroit—-and with 65
others was seized and carried off by the In
dians. All of this number but 17, who were
spared on account ot their youthfulness, after
being taken in the dense wilderness, were tied
to posts and trees, their clothes stripped off - ,
and their bodies thickly perforated with pi >e
torches. In this condition the splinters were*
lighted and they were litterally roasted alive :
and then left to linger out their painful exist
ence. Fourteen ofthe others were alive when
Gregory and his comrades made their escape.
It was some of his fellows, but not Gregory,
who had been scalped as is stated. Ont was a.
worthy Lieutenant, whose name if we rightly
understand the broken accent of our inform
ant, is McCrea. This officer made three at- I
tempts with the others to liberate himself, but
the savages were so severe and horrid in their
punishments of scalping and mangling him
that he durst not again take an unforbidden
step. He is believed to be alive with the
Flat 11 ads at the present time. Though
Gregory was not actually scalped, a gash was
rut from his forehead across his skull nearly
to his neck and another across from ear to oar.
The skin was torn back in the region of the
neck so far that a piece of the muscle could
be dissected, which wa* roasted and eaten by >
the Indians or their captives
The flesh has been cut from his thigh and
other parts in larger quantities than is above
mentioned. His arm hangs by his side a mas*,
of senseless, as well as useless matter. Tho
rod made use of to stiff n it. was not of wood,
but a common ramrod : ard was forced thro*
the flesh from the shoulder down The nerve
<4 the arm call, d by anatomists the musculo
cutaneous nerve was also severed, and hence
the skin and muscles on the back of the arm
and hand arc entirely without feeling, and in a
state of violent contraction. Several scars of
bullet wounds are visible on different parts of
the arm, which ih size is much larger than that
on the left side
I he remaining particulars are as we before
stated them—and they were indebted to the
kindness of the chef squaw, for their final re
lease ; who procured ponies for each of them,
and mooted on one herself, guiding them
t hro the pat bless forest to the distance of more
than 40 miles; where she placed them in a
track by which they arrived at last at the
white settlements. They roomed by the way
ot Green Bay, Detroit and Washington. At
the latter place, they made known their case
to the President, who in person or by his order
furnished them with money sufficient to enablo
them to r ach their friends in Boston ; and
assured them that they were entitled to a pen
sion, and on application to their captain still a
resident in Boston, they would receive the ne
cessary requisites to obtain it according to
law. —A". //. Chronicle
DEATH.
The annexed paragraph is an elegant delin
eation of what all can feel, but what few can so
faithfully describe. It is from the novel en
titled Marriage”—a work written with un
common power and ability.—A'. Galaxy.
1 here is, perhaps, no feeling of our nature
so vague, so complicated, so mysterious, as
that which we look upon the cold remains of
our fellow mortals. The dignity with which
death invests even the meanest of its victims,
i> spires us with an awe no living thing can ere- /
ale. The monarch on his throne is less aw- *
tul than ’he beggar in bin shroud.—
Hie marble features—the powerless hand—
the stiffened limbs—oh! who can contem
plate these with feelings that can be de
fined ? I hese are the mockery of all our
hopes and fears our fondest love, our fellest
hate. Can it be: that we now shrink with
horror from the touch of that hand, which but
yesterday was fondly clasped in our own ? Is
that tongue whose accents even now dwell in
our ear, forever chained in the silence of
death ? These black and heavy eye lids, are
’hey forever to seal up in darkness the
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