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SOUTHERN RECORDER. so ft VOL. II. MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1821. No. 31 PUBLISHED WEEKLY, (OH TDESDAVS) MY S. GRA.YTLAJYD Sf R. M. ORME, •AT THREE DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE, OR FOUR DOLLARS AT THE EXPIRATION 0/ THE Tear. ttJ* Advertisements conspicuously inserted M the customary rates. GEN. JACKSON’S ADDRESS TO THE ARMY. T liis address will find its way directly to the bosoms of those to whom it is made. It breathes the strong feelings of a soldier, taking an affectionate fare well of his companions in arms—those with whom he had passed “ days of toil and nights of vigilance”—those to whom he was bound by the lasting ties of mutu al peril and privation, in the service of a beloved country. It is a tribute of justice and feeling alike honorable to the General and Ins gallant associates of the army. [jYew Orleans Adv.] HEADQUARTERS. > DIVISION OF THE SOUTH. $ Montpelier, 31*1. nap, tail. This day, officers and soldiers, closes my military functions, and consequently, dissolves the military connection, which has hitherto existed between yon and invself as the commander of the South ern Division of the Army of the United States. Many of us have passed to gether days of toil and nights of vigi- lence. Together we have seen the ter mination of one British, and two Indi an wars, in which, we have encountered fatigues, privations and dangers. At tachments and friendships, formed by as sociations of this kind, are the most du rable, and my feelings will not permit me, in retiring from roy military com mand, to take a silent leave of my com panions in arms. Justice, to you and to my own feelings, requires that 1 should place before our common country, the testimony of my approbation of your military conduct, and the expression of my individual re gard. Under the present organization fur the reduction of the army, agreeably to the net of congress, many valuable officers, who have served with me, have been suddenly deprived of the profession which they had embraced, and thrown upon the world. But let this he your consolation, that the gratitude of your country still cherishes you as her defen ders and deliverer*, while wisdom con demns the hasty and ill-timed policy which has occasioned your disbandment, and that too, while security was yet to be given to our extensive frontier by the erection of the necessary fortifications for its defence, greatly extended as that frontier has been by the recent acquisi tion of the Floridas. But you, fellow- soldiers, have that which cannot he ta ken from you, the consciousness ofhav ing done your duty, and with your bro ther officers who are retained, of having defended the American Eagle wherever it was endangered. To you, my brother officers, who are retained in the service ofyour country, permit me to recommend the cultivation of that harmony and friendship towards each ether, which will render you a band of brothers. It is your duty so to con duct yourselves on all occasions, as that vour enemies shall have no just cause far censure. It ought to be borne in mind, that every captain should be to his company, ns a father, and should treat it ns his family, as his children. Conti nue, then, as heretofore, when under my command, to watch over it with a fa ther’s tenderness, and care. Treat them like children, admonish them, and if unhappily, admonition will not have the desired effect—coercion must. The want of discipline and order, will inevi tably produce a spirit of insubordination, ,-is destructive to an army as cowardice, and will as certainly lead to disaster and disgrace in the hour of battle : this, as \ou regard your military reputation and vour country’s good, you must prevent. Imploring from Heaven a blessing on you -11 1 bid vou an affectionate adieu. ’ ANDREW JACKSON, Major-General, Commanding the Division of the South. Mote.—My official duties having pre vented the promulgation of this order until this time, an opportunity has been afforded of seeing the “ General Order’’ dated “ Head-Quarters of the Annv of the Uaited States, Washington City June 1st, 1821,’’signed “Jacob Brown.’ Justice to the officers of the Southern Division, as well as to myself, conroc i me to offer some remarks upon the fol lowing extract from that order. <i The prevalence of desertion has been an evil of serious magnitude and £ doe* not appear to be just.hed by a view of the past condition of the milita ry establishment. All research in this field for its causes has been unsatisfacto ry The character of the military pro- fession is honorable ; the soldier .s as well provided with comforts as the citi zen. in common life, and bis occupation is neither more offensive nor more labo rious. There arc restless, discontented ajnriti ia evepr iphercofkfc* "b» ch 00 indulgence nor ki .alness can bind to sta bility ; but these examples do not exist in sufficient number to justify the range desertion has taken in the army. The evil must he referred in a degree to an undue severity, or to the absence ofsys tem in the conduct of officers towards their men. The officer is the deposito ry of the rights of the soldier, nnd the obligation of his office, as well as the laws of honor nnd humanity, claim a fiithful execution of the trust. When the soldier ceases to regard the officer as his protector, the authority with which the laws invest the latter, lose its effica cy in his estimation. The surest remedy for the evil of desertion is contained in a rigid and steady discipline. To be salu tary, it must possess both these qualities, but no violation of law can be deemed essential to its enforcement. Its effect upon the soldier becomes impaired the moment he feels that the system which governs him is fluctuating in its course, or that it violates the principles upon which it is founded. The certainty of laws constitutes their principal efficacy, and, however severe restrictions may be, they are obeyed so long as they are dispensed by the hand ofjustice, and not of oppression.” This censure is too general to be just. The time at which it is made, ahd the source whence it comes, have astonished every generous soldier. The part which attributes, “in a de gree to an undue severity, or to the ab sence of system, in the conduct of offi cers towards their men,” the unexam pled prevalence of desertion in our ar my, so far as relates to the Division of (he South, I do unhesitatingly say, is not founded in fact. It ia due to candor and truth, to attribute this reason to its re d cause. This will be found to exist in the want of adequate punishment for the crime of desertion. That, prescribed by law, in a state of peace, transcend* the offence, and no other certain punish ment is authorised. While this is the case, desertion will encrease, let the conduct of the officers towards their men, be ever so lenient. It is a well known fact, that more desertions have taken place at recruiting rendezvous, than have occurred in the regiments ; and at no recruiting rendezvous in the division of the south, has there been, a far as 1 have been informed, any p in ishment inflicted upon soldiers, except ing by the civil authority. It is well known that in many instances, the soldier has found it a source of speculation to go from rendezvous to rendezvous, enlist ing, receiving (lie bounty, ami deserting. In some ’-lstances, this has been prac tised from Boston to New Orleans. The punishment at present inflicted for desertion, is hard labor with the ball and Chain ; but this hears more heavily upon the faithful soldier, who is compel led to guard the convict under a hot sun, with all his accoutrements on, than it does upon him whom it is intended to punish. Every desertion, therefore, but adds to the duties, and increases the fatigues of the faithful and trusty soldier. And suppose the convict will not labor, by what means is he to he corrected ? Stripes and lashes are prohibited ; there are no dungeons guard; houses are plea sant places for the lazy, worthless soldi er, who sleeps and snores, while the faithful centinel is at his post, on his nightly watch, guarding him. Is not this, with the general pardons so fre quently extended by the orders of the President, calculated to cause (lie best soldiers, who are oppressed with dou l»le duty in guarding the worst, to me ditate desertion also ? The government must annex an ade quate and certain punishment for the crime of desertion ; nnd, experience compels inc to say it, although at vari ance with the more refined and sensitive feeling of the day ; must restore corpo ral punishment in the regulations tor the government of the army, as it formerly existed, and as it now exists in the navy, or desertion and insubordination will still increase. But it is said to be dis honorable. Why should it be more so in the army, than in the navy ? Is it more dishonorable to receive twenty- five stripes and be ordered to immediate duty, than to he inarched with chains for months and years, an object of disgust to every freeman who sees him, more pro perly an appendage of ancient despotism, than any tiling belonging to republican institutions? Let the deserter in time of peace, for the first offence, receive thirty-nine stripes ; for the second dou hlc that number ; and for the third let him receive the highest penalty ot the law. I will venture to say, that a few examples will put an end to that extraor dinary frequency of desertion which at present prevails, and the cause of which has been so unjustly imputed “ to an undue severity, or to tbe absence of sys tem in the conduct of officers towards their men. I sincerely regret the cause which has given rise to these remarks but the reputation of those officers, ir common with whom I have encountered so many toils and dangers, is dear to me and 1 cannot remain silent when 1 per ceive an unjust attempt to tarnish their well-earned fame, let the motives which dictated the objectionable passage in the order be what they may. These re marks, my brother officers, flow from a pure source of justice to you. Popula rity I have never sought. I have pur sued the course which I deemed right, and have done justice to all according to my best judgment: this, I trust, I have rendered to you all, during the time I had the honor to command you—and that happiness may attend you all, and that your country may duly appreciate your worth, as her citizen-soldiers, shall be my last and most sincere praye.r. ANDREW JACKSON. 21st July, 1821. from hijmbolut's travels. MATERNAL ATTACHMENT. In 1797, the missionary of San Fer nando had led his Indians to the Banks of the-Rio Guaviare, on one of those hos tile incursions, which are prohibited, alike by religion and the Spanish laws. They found in an Italian hut, a Uua- liibi mother with three children, two of whom were still infants. They were occupied in preparing the flour of Cassa- Resistance was impossible ; the fa ther was gone to fish, and the mother tried in vain to flee with her children. Scarcely had she reached the savannah, when she was seized by the Indians of the mission, who go to hunt men, like the whites and the negroes in Africa. The mother and her children were bound nnd dragged to the banks of the river. The monk seated in his boat, waited the issue of an expedition, of which lie partook not the danger. Had the mother made too violent a resistance, the Indians would have killed her, for every thing is permitted when they go to the con quest of souls (a la eonquista espiritual,) and it is children in particular they seek to capture, in order to treat them, in the mission, ns poitos, or claves of the Chris tians. The prisoners were carried to San Fernando in the hope, that (lie mo ther would be unable to find ber way back to ber home, by land. Far from those children who had accompanied their fattier on the day in which she had been carried off, this unhappy woman showed signs of the deepest despair.— She attempted to take back to her family the children who had been snatched a- way by the missionary, and fled with them repeatedly from the village of San Fernando, but the Indians never failed to seize her anew ; and the missionary, □tier having caused her to be mercilessly beaten, took the cruel resolution of se parating the mother from the two chil dren who had been carried off with her. She was conveyed alone towards the missions of the Rio Negro, going up the Atabapo. Slightly bouiid, she was sea ted at the bow of the boat, ignorant of the fate that awaited her ; but she judg ed, by the direction of tbe sun, that she was removed farther and farther from her hut and her native country. She succeeded in breaking her bonds, threw herself into the water, and swam to the left bank of the Atabapo* The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She landed, and took shelter in the woods, but the president of the missions ordered the In dians to row to the shore, and follow the trace of the Guahibi. In the evening she was brought back. Stretched upon the rock (la Ficdra de la Madre) a cru cl punishment was inflicted on her with those straps of manatee leather, which serve for whips in that country, and with which the alcadcs arc always furnished This unhappy woman, her hand* lied behind her hack with strong stalk? of mavacurc, was then dragged to the mis sion of Javita. “ She was there thrown into one of the cararanseras that are called Casa nri nnv. It was the rainy season, and the night was profoundly dark. Forests, till then believed to be impenetra ble, seperated tbe mission of Javita from that of San Fernando, which was twenty-five leagues distant in a straight line. No other part is known than that of the rivers ; no man ever attempted to go by land from one village to another, were they only a few leagues apart.— But such difficulties do not stop a mo ther w ho is seperated from her children. Her children are at San Fernando de Atabapo, she must find them again, she must execute ber project of delivering them from the hands of cliristians, of bringing them back to her father on the hanks of the Guaviare. The Guahibi was c .ridessly guarded in the caravan- *era. Her arms being wounded, the Indians of Javita had loosened her bonds, unknown to the missionary nnd the nl- rades. She succeeded, by the help of her teeth, in breaking them entirely, dis appeared during the night, and at the fourth rising sun was seen at the mission of San Fernando, hovering around the but where her chiIJren were confined. “ What that woman performed,” added the missionary who gave us this sad nar rative, “ the most robust Indian would not have ventured to undertake. She traversed the woods at a season when the sky is constantly covered with clouds, and the euiq during whole days, appears but a few minutes. Did the course of the waters direct her way ? The inun dations of the river forced her to go far from the Banks of the main stream, through the midst of woods where the movement of the waters is almost imperceptible. How often must she have been stopped by the thorny linias, that form a net work around the trunks they entwine ? how offen must she have swam across the rivulets that run into the Atabapo ? This unfortunate woman was asked how she had sustained herself du ring the four days. She said, that ex hausted with fatigue, she could fiad no other nourishment than those great black ants called vachacos, which climb the trees in long bands to suspend on them their resinous nests. We pressed the missionary to tell us whether the Guahi bi had peacefully enjoyed the happiness of her children, and if any repentance had followed the excess of cruelty. He would not satisfy our curiosity ; hut at our return from the Rio Negro, we learn ed that the Indian mother was not allow ed time to cure her .wounds, but was a- gain separated from her children, nnd sent to one of the missions of the Upper Oronoko. There she died, refusing all kind of nourishment, as the savages do in great calamities. HENRY M. DE LA TUDE. FROM THE LITERARY GAZETTE. In the year 1749, Henry M. de la Til de, son of a knight of the order of St. Louis, was sent to the Bastile, for the grave offence of having sported with the feelings of Madame Pompadour, the ce lebrated mistress of Louis XIV. With the thoughtless warm enthusiasm of a young man, he had it seems attached himself to the cause ofthis woman in de fence of her character, against the fana tics of the day. He wished to do her some ostensibly good office, and sighed to render himself of consequence in her esteem. Having heard that she was un happy from the apprehension of poison, La Tude waited on Madame Pompadour, it Versailles, to acquaint her that he had seen a parcel put into the post office ad dressed to her ; & at the same time ex pressed his suspicions relative to the contents of it, nnd cautioned the marchi oness to beware. The parcel arrived of course, La Tude himself haring put it into the Post office ; but the powder proved ou chemical experiment to be perfectly innocent. The result gave lh£ marchioness an insight into Lu Tude’s design ; and, offended at his presump tion, she had him sent to the Bastile as an impostor. La Tude with great ingenuity effected his escape from prison ; and feeling un conscious of any crime demanding se verity of punishment, he went and vol untarily surrendered himself to the King. Unhappy man ! Victim of the caprice & cruelty of a woman! The unfeeling marchioness, piqued at his placing more confidence in the king than herself, made such representations to his majesty, that he ordered La Tude back to the same prison, and to be immured in one of its most dreary chambers—a dungeon ! where another prisoner of the name of Delegree, was also confined by order of the marchioness. Yet even from this imprcgnabla for tress of barbarity, where no wealth could bribe—where no instrument of any kind was allowed, did La Tude and his com panion, without money and unaided, ef fect their escape. They had neither scissors, knives, nor any edged instrument; and for uu hun dred guineas, the turnkey would not supyly them with an ounce of thread. Upon making the calculation of the dif ficulties to be encountered, they found that they required fourteen hundred feet of cordage ; tow bidders of wood and rope* from twenty to twenty-five feet long* and another of a hundred and eizht feet in length. It was necessary to dis place several iron grates from the chim ney ; and in one night to make a hole in the wall several foet thick at the dis tance of only fifteen feet from a sentinel. The wooden ladder and that of rope, when made, must be concealed ; and the officers, accompanied by the turnkeys, came to visit uud search them several times a week. They had to make and do all these tilings lo accomplish their design ; and they had nothing but their hands to effect it with. The hand, to those who know its use, i? the instrument ofall instruments. The iron hinge of the table was, by whotting on a tiled floor, converted into a knife.— With this, liars were removed and a saw constructed ; wood was concealed from the daily fuel to construct the ladders. La Tude’s portinantna contained twelve dozen of shirts, and other articles of ap parel, out of which they made the 1400 feet of rope. The bars in the chimney took six months to displace ; and the whole of these preparations cost eighteen months’ work, day and night. The moment of attempting their dan gerous enterprise now arrived ; one night after supper, La Tude first as cended the chimney, and drew the ropes, iron bars, &c. up after him, leaving a sufficient quantity of the ladder in the chimney to enable his companion to as cend with less difficulty.-—Being now on the top, they drew up the rest of the ladder ; and then descended at once on the platform serving as a counterpoise to each other. They next fixed their lad der to a piece of cannon, and let it gently into the fosse ; by which means they de scended with their iron bars, wooden ladder and all their equipage. During all this time, the sentinel was not more than ten fathoms from them, walking up on the corridor. This prevented them from getting up to it, to go into the garden, as they first intended ; they therefore were under the necessity of making use of their iron bars. They proceeded straight to the wall which seperutes the fosse of the Bastile from that of the garden St. An toine, between the gnrden and the go vernor’s house. In this place there for merly had keen a little fosse, a fathom wide, one or two feet deep, but now the water was up to their arm pits. The moment La Tude began to make a hole between two stones to introduce their iron bars hs levers, the round ma jor passed by with his great lantern, at the distance of ten or twelve feet over their heads. To prevent their being discovered, they sunk up to their chins in the water ; this ceremoney they were obliged to repeat every halfhour when the round came by. At length one large stone was removed from the wall ; they attacked a second and afterwards a third, with equal success ; so that before mid night they hud displaced several cart loads ofstones ; and in less than six hours had entirely pierced the wall, which was more than four feet and a half thick.— They drew the portmanlua through the hole ; abandoning every \hing else with out regret. They then descended into the deep fosse of the gate St. Antoine ; whence, after a narrow escape from per ishing, they got upon dry ground, and took refuge at the abbey of St. Germain des Prez. La Tude fled to Holland ; but on the demand of the king of France, he was delivered up, returned to the Bastile, and more closely confined than ever. On the death of Madame Porppadour, La Tude was informed of it by a writing placed up at a wnidow in the street, in consequence of some papers he had thrown from the Bastile tower. Most of the prisoners in the Bastile were on this occasion liberated. The minister, Sartine, however refused to set la Tude free, except on a condition which the unfortunate man, thinking de rogatory to his honour, would not accede to, and he was still doomed by the re morseless revenge of that monster of in humanity, to remain a prisoner ten feet under ground, clad in tatters, with a beard reaching to his feet, no bed but straw, no provision but bread and water, over-run with vermin ! Such, alas! con tinued for many years the wretched si tuation of the unfortunate La Tude ; whose only crime was having offended the favorite of his sovereign 1 The ultimate liberation of La Tude is not the least wonderful part of his story A woman named La Gros, walking a* broad in June, 1781, saw lying in a cor ner a packet of papers, that had the ap pearance of having been tumbled in the dirt. She took it up, & returning home, read the contents. It proved to be a memorial, stating part of the misfortunes of the Sicur La Tude, prisoner in a dun geon ten feet under ground, on an allow ance of bread and water, for thirty-four years ! The good woman was moved with compassion at the recital of such cruel suffering, and was incessant in her ap plications on his behalf to persons of rank ; till at last she obtained his libera tion on the 18th of March, 1704, through the inilocnce of Baron Breteuil, who ac companied the glad tidings with a grant to La Tude of a pension of four hundred livres. Norfole, August Id. The Rev’d Mr. Ephraim Baton, who went out as one of the Government Agents to the American Colony of free Blacks, forming on the Coast of Africa, with his lady, and Nath’l Peck, one of the Colonists who went from Baltimore, witli the first expedi tion to Shvrbro’, arrived here yesterday in the schr. Emeline, capt. Pennington, from Martinique. They left Sierra Leant- 18th June, in an English vessel, bound to Bar* badoes, whence they proceeded to Martin ique, and sailed thence about 15th July for Hampton Roads. Mr. Bacon returned homo in consequence of the health of himself and lady being much impaired previous to thsir sailing; we are pleased to state, however, that they are much recovered by the voy- age. By the arrival of Mr. Bacon we have the. agreeable intelligence ,D..t the Agents had effected Hip purchase of a tract of land ii"in the natives, estimated at between 30 end 40 miles square, situated on the river Sit. Jolt <s, between 5 and 0 deg. N. lat. and about 300 mites distant from Siera Leone. Il is re presented as remarkably healthy and fertile, lays high, uud produces Rice of an excellent quality, Corn and all kinds of tropical grain and fruits; the water also is very good, and the river furnishes the best fish and oysters in abundance—Coffee, Cotton, and Tobac co, of very good quality grow spontaneously, the first of which is sold at 4<1 to 6d per pound. Wo understand t at the purchase lias been effected upon the most advanta geous terms, vie: lor an annual supply of Ruin, Manufactured Tobacco, Pipes, knives, and a few other articles, the tolal cost of which, in this country, would not exceed three hundred dollars per annum. Mr. Wilt- berger, the other Agent for Government, Rev’d Mr, Andrus, Agent for the Coloniza tion Society, ami Mr. and Mrs. Winn, with all the colonists, enjoyed very good health, and no siekness of a serious nature had oc curred among them from tile time of their arrival until the departure of Mr. Bacon. Tile prospects of the Colony were consider ed ns very promising and afford the highest gratification to the Agents ami Colonists. We further learn from Mr. Bacon that there is very good ancliurago off the stile fixed on for the new settle pent, for vessel:! of 100 tons, nnd that a ship of the line could ride, in safety within a few miles of it. The natives he found very inoffensive and kindly disposed. We are indebted to the politeness of Mr. Bacon, for tile loan of Sierra Leout Gazettes to Hill June, from which vve make same, very interesting extracts respecting the Colonists. Richmond, Aug. 17. Most Daring Outrage.—Yesterday 14th ill. about 12 o’clock a negro tuan about two miles from the town of Cartersviile, with n gun in his hand, laid violent hands on a very respectable married woman ; threw her down, and attempted a rape. Summoning all her strength, she rose with him, after a. strong contest, finding Ids efforts unavailing, lie presented the gun, she seized the muzzle, and averted it, till her mother whose house was near, could approach to aid her. She escaped from him, and as she ran off, he dis charged the gun at her, but missed bis aim.— Within an hour after, he appeared at the house of another very respectable inurried woman, about 3-4 of a mile distant. She was gone to the spring : lie waited for her return ; and immediately, in the. yard, at tempted to ravish her. Unable to vanquish her, he drew a knife which she wrested from him, seeing another suspended at tils side she grasped that also, and got possession of it He then sprang at his gun, whic . stood not far off, hut before he could fire at her, she had attained the distance of 30 or 40 yards. He put 20 shot into the back of her neck and head. Not disabled however, she. succeeded in escaping with hertwo little chil dren, while he threatened to kill all the white, women he might meet with. They both accord in describing him to be a negro of light complexion, moderate stature, slender form, and thin visage; clothed in mixed homespun, a white hut, with black crape ur ribbon band. One of them thinks he has scur in his forehead. Tile citizens of Cur- tersville and its vicinity, will pay a reward of $100 to any one who shall apprehend tin: rascal, so that he be brought to condign pun ishment.—Richmond Enquirer. Consumption.—A writer in tbe New- York Commercial Advertiser has tbe follow ing pertinent remarks on the causes of this fatal disease: Taking cold is a check of perspiration, or discharge through the surface of the body, by which means so many useless humours are to pass tiff from the system. This dis charge is liable to be obstructed many ways. Tile following are tbe.innst common ones in ordinary life: Changing thick clothes for thin ones; going from warm dry rooms, to sit in damp and cold ones : going when in a state of perspiration, into the cold air: sleep ing in damp rooms or beds ; walking or sit ting in the damp air of the evening, altt.jugh not unpleasantly cool; and numerous other ways. If you have committed any of the above errors, lose no time in opening the pores—bring on a perspiration if possible— put your feet into warm water—sip a pint of water sweetened with molasses, as warm as you can bear it, going to bed. But if you fail in the attempt, lose no time in calling on your family physician, while it is in his pow er to be useful to you. If you call too late, it will not be his fault, for he has not time lo call in every day, and lecture on the pres ervation of your health. But if you suffer those humors to remain locked up in the system, they will find their way to your lungs, and produce a cough, from that infla- mation, and in a short time all chance of re covery Is gone by. DARING OUTRAGE. Lvxchburo, (Va.) Aug. 24. On the evening of the 18th lust, a mur der of the most atrocious character was committed in the lower end of the coun ty of Campbell. A Mrs. Gregory, and a Mrs. Cramp, in returning from a \isit in the neighbourhood, about the hour of twilight, were set upon by two negro men, who issued from an adjoining thick et, and without the power of resistance, or hope of escape, were dragged from the horse, which they were riding. Mrs. Gregory was killed on tbe spot, by repeat ed blows with an axe, and Mrs. Crump, who hsfd gained a few yards in attempting to escape, was overtaken, dreadfully bea ten, her scull fractured with the edge of the axe, and left for dead by" these dar ing assassins. The husband of Mrs. Gre gory who was in an adjoining field, being alarmed by the shrieks which proceeded from this scene of carnuge, and appre hending that the horse on which his wife and Mrs. Crump rode had run away, re paired to the spot, where he discovered the mangled corpse of his wife, in wbojie arms the murderers bad enclosed her in fant child unhurt, and thif body of Mrs. Crump, who still breathed. Whilst tak ing tbe necessary steps for the removal oi their bodies, his house was set on fire by the villains, or their accomplices, and burnt to the ground, the greater part of its contents, being fortunately saved.—> One of the men who had assisted in the murder, catne up during the buroir the lioase, and pretended to assist'