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