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a teller from 0en. Hushes,
Sub Indian Agent, to Gen. Atkin-
ton, dated Rock bland, 13th April,
1832.
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(t Mj opinion is, that the squaws
od old men have gone te the Proph-
j ’ 8 Town, on Rock River—and the
arriors are now only a few miles be
vy the meutlt of Rock River, within
« limits of the State of Illinois. That
oiu Indians are hostile to the whites,
ere is no doubt; that they have in-
] the State of Illinois, to tho
injury of our citizens, is true;
ence it is that the public good re-
uiresthat strong as well as speedy
easures should be taken against
lack Hawk and his followers.
Respectfully,
lUave ihe honor to be,
Your obedient servant,
AND S. HUGHES.
Brig. Gen. Atkinson,
United States’ Army.”
tract *j a letter from George Daven
port, Esq- to Brig. Gen. Atkinson,
dated Rock Island, 18th April,
1832.
“Dear Sir: In reply to your inqui-
s of this morning respecting the
ians, I have to state that I have
en informed by the man I have had
intering with the Indians, that the
itish band of Sac Indians is deter
ged to make war upon the frontier
ttiements.”
0 0 0*0
“The British band of Sac Indians
rendezvous at old Fort Madison,
iudueed a great many of the young
n to join them at their arrival at
Yellow Banks. TKey crossed a-
t 500 horses s«jto the State of llli-
i, and sent about seventy liorsos
ou®h the country lovvards Rock
r; the remainder, suae on hoTse-
•k, the others in canoes, in fighting
nr, advanced up the Mississippi, 1
were encamped yesterday, live
six miles below Rock River, and
ao doubt endeavor to reach their
osg held in the Rock River swamps
hey are not interrupted. From
ry information that I have receiv-
I am of opinion that the intentions
British baud of Sac Indians is
commit depredations ou the luhab-
of the froutiora.”
espeetfully.
Your obedient servant,
GEO. DAVENPORT.
Brig. Gen. Atkinson.
to apply force, only when absolutely
necessary, and after having f I|. ex
plained to the parties, their own du
ties, the rights of the Indians, tlw ob
ligations of th>* government, & the in
structions he has received. Should it
become necessary, the Commanding
Officer at Fort Mitchell is directed
to aid (he Marshall with the milii <ry
force under his command in (he ex
ecution of his duties - -Register.
vap.tet*-.
Hurricane.-On Monday afternoon
last, we were visited with the mist-
tremendous storm o>' wind and rain
that has been experienced in ibis
Country for many, years. W« Jnve
hot heard of any lives lost, Wul^the
destruction in timber, fences. &c. is
great. We are informed by a gen
tleman from Washington, Rhea coiu-
ty, that the new brick -court liouie,
(not finished) was unroofed, and tiie
second story much injured. The
Methodist Church, (brick) dwelling
Isouses, kitchens, stables, &c. blovto
down.
Mr. Williams (Carpenter) f||Nal
work in the upper story of the court
house, jumped out of the window and
was badly hur'» but supposed not
dangerously; several others were
slightly injured* Several horses
were killed, and the roads in the
neighborhood were completely block
ed ug with fallen timber.—Hiwasse-
an.
possession of the foregoing facts
information, I hesitated not as to
vours* I should pursue No cit-
i) ought to rsisaia quiet when Ins
untry is invaded, and the helpless
ri of the community is in danger.
I have called out a stroug ilalach-
nt of the militia, to rendftzvo'us at
irdstoivn on the 22d iust. Provis-
s for the men, and corn foi the
rses, will be furnished in abuncl-
ce.
I hope my countrymen will realize
expectations, and offer their ser-
oi as heretofore, with promptitude
cheerfulness, in deforce of their
uatry.
JOHN REYNOLD
Commander in Chief
til 17, 1889.
GENERAL ORDERS.
Col. Buekmaster:
You are hereby commanded to
use your Regiment qf Militia to
nvene at some central' point in the
igiment, and if one hundred men
not volunteer to be mounted, you
draft that number; said militia
formed into companies of fifty
ch, and to oledt their own officers
meet without fail at Beards-
, on tho 221 inst. to ropel an
lion of the Indians.
JOHN REYNOLDS,
Com. in Chief.
«l 16, 1882.
Moar.E, April 20.—-Intereeting to
lert in "the Creek Nation:—The
ershal of this district has received
troctions from the Secretary <>f
*r, to repair to the district ceded
tito late treaty, and give notice to
1 persons, except those allowed by
e treaty to reinaih till their drops
• gathered, to remove within as
S a period as practicable, having
regard to their loeal positioe and
ir circumstances. The Marshal
instructed to fix this period, and
a it publicly known,
the execution of this deiieate
,| ' Marshal! is directed to bo
v • -w as (hay be compatible
A TALE OF BLOOD.
The Canadian emigrant states that
on lie 17tn ult, in the evening, an
insane man named Proillaril came to
the house of Mr. Reynolds, near the
township of S-mibra (U C.) He there
stated lie wag crazy, and wished to
be bound. This was done, when, on
fayin' the fi' had left him. iite*was
Unbound. This ivas repoa.ed three
tioiK.9. After being loosed the third
time, Iik‘ s*iz d a scalping-knife from
the fire plhv'e, and stabbed Reynolds
three tiin^s Reynolds wife, who
had gone to bed, being awakened by
the noisa, got up, and entering the
room, found her husband ou the floor,
and Drmllard over him, holding
bimby the hair with oue hwjd,
and shaving the knife in the oth
er. *She instantly seized D. by one
aim while her husband wrenched the
knife from him uud threw it out of
1ms roach. D. then threw R. to a
corner of the house, <diere ‘.here was
an axe. which he and Mrs R seized
hold of at the same lime Not being
able to get it away from her, I). then
grasped her husband by the throat
with oue hand holding him by the
hair with his teeth. R. called to
one of his child en to band nim the
knife, he cut D’s throat, who iustant-
xpired Reynolds died the next
day. Both of these unfortunate men,
loft large families. - Ver Watchman.
Fi e and toss of life.—The Reading
Chronicle states, that a uiosi dis
tressing ccident happened near Hope-
well Furnace, Bucks county, Pa.
the week before last, which adds an
other to the many warnings to mo
thers. A house occupied oy a col-
man in
ting, fn onr humble opinion, a great
er piece of folly was never conceiv
ed. — Cincinnati Mirror
A CONTRAST.
A friend receptly gave us a bopk
that lie procured iu Europe, which is
as fine a specimen of the art of prin
ting as can be found iu the world.
The little volume is from the well
known press of Didot,'* at Paris,
France, is about three inches in length
and 1 inch and a half in width. The
types with which it is printed, are
called microscopic characters, and
the wkolo ivofk which is not half an
inch in thickness, .contains as many
of La Rochefoucault’s maxims, as
would fill, in conspicuous characters,
a. volume of the size of one of those
composing Harper’s Family Library.
The name of the publisher, which
occurs frequently at the bottom of a
page, cannot be real save though a
magnifying glass? and yet the words
and le'ters are perfect iu their for
mation and arrangement. The tome
is truly unique, and though a Lillipu
tian affair, is certainly a great curi
osity. Didot is said to have express
ed bin determination to publish the
works of Horace in a volume so
small that it might be enclosed in a
square locket, or iu a breast pin,
without being perceived.—Phiadel-
phia Gaz.
A Whale! A' Whale!—Early yes
terday morning a Whale of the right-
whale species was harpooned about
15 miles S. S. L. of the Hook, by
^fsme whaleman from New London,
on board the fishing-smack Fair La
dy of that port, capt James Chap
man, who had ’fYited our waters foi
this express purpose. Me was tow
ed u|¥ to town in the course of the
day, «r rather to Brooklyn, where ho
arrived just at dusk. We there took
a look at him; but he was so much
under water 1 and withal it was so
dark, that we could not judge accu
rately of his merits. We were how
ever informed bv the whalemen, that
he was 55 to 00 feet in length; 8 or
10 feet through, in the largest place'
and would yield from 45 to 50 bbls.
of oil. They considered him worth
about $500, a part from the acciden
tal value which he derived from be
ing a stranger in a strange city, it
is most likely he will be exhibited for
a day or two as a “show.” Several
other whales were seen from the
same vessel in the r&gior. of the Hook,
and it is net improbable some further
captures will be made. The whale
men who made this prize were about
10 in number, most of them recently
from a voyage to the Pacific.—•A'*. Y.
Jour, of Com.
As in^breece there is not a re
markable hill without a fable, so in
Palestine there is not a cave nor a
stone without some historical anec
goes on to say that he waft a ftoldier
in the battle of Platlsburgb, Sopt. 11,
A. D. 1814, and then weighed 135
pounds, and measured five feet six
indies high—a circumstance, partic
ularly the latter, which always
carefully attended to, iu (inflating
sailois or soldiers:—That alter this
battle, having been kept awake for
two nights, belaid down on the ground
and slept soundly:—That from this
time, having taken cold, he began to
pine away, but continued his business
as usual, till about three years since,
when he gave up attempting to labor:
-That he continues to lose flesh, and
now weighs only 56 pounds, and
measures only live feel and three
inches high, having diminished three
inches iu statute:—That he is free
from pain, and that his appetite is
good; and that he eats and drinks as
others do, and as he ever did, of any
thing that is usually put upon the ta
ble to be eaten or drunk, & as much
as most persons do, or ought to do,
who toko but little exercise. He
says he can ride on horseback, and
walk some, t(u>ugh the bones of his
feet are bare in some places.
His eye-sight is almost gone, and
for some wcoks past, hu has been
troubled with a cold, or ifluonza; but
previous to the present lima, his lungs
have neve appeared to be effected.
He has been to England nod f ranco,
in hopes that tho voyage and the ox-
ercisc would restore tho proper tone
to his system; but they have not dona
so. A few ot^ljipflses, nearly par
allel to his—France, and a-
nother iu England—have taken place;
but neither of these individuals ate as
much as he does. ^ No physician, as
he understands, pretends to point out
the precise difficulty in this case; but
the most that any one doos is general
ly to say, that the fluids of his system
are obstructed. It is a kind of con
sumption, but not tho pulmoui—
though equally incurable, no doubt,
as though it were so.
This, to conclude, is one of these
numberless cases where we can look
at the effect, without being ablo to
trace the cause. But, although wo
are assured that none <■.by searching
can find out the Almighty to perfec
tion, still wo may be constantly learn
ing something worth our attention, to
all etenftly. Fie has considerable
strength. He lifts' 180 pounds with
out much difficulty, and (Links he
could lift 200 by great exertions.
Fromlhe Cincinnatli. Mirror.
'1 HE CITY JERUSALEM.
According to Josephus. Jerusalem
was built in the year 2023 trom the
Creation, iu a rooky and barren soil,
by Melchizedeck. and was know
anciently t>y several names. Its
site occupied Mounts Morivh and
Acra, and it was Surrounded with
mountains. Its territory and envi
ored man in the service of Mr. 1 The pool ol Bnersheba and David’s
Brooks, of Hopewell, was destroyed j Tower*are siill pointed out tertbe
■ " ■* - 1 l: - believing pilgrims.
The population of Jerusalem has
been variously estimated at from 14,-
0000 to 30.000. The inhabitants de
rive their principal support from the
visits of pilgrims, who, it is said,
leave bebiud them 60,000 pounds an
nually.
dote from the Nfew Testament. The* runs were watered by the spriugs of
generality of Pilgrims to Jerusalem
are Greeks; and they bring accepta-
ble^fferings. They „re probably un-'
able to read, and therefore tha meth
od used to make them acquainted
with the life of our Saviour i3 com
mendable; even the Old Testament
is not forgotten, though Titus is.—
by fir*, together with three oj his
children! It appears that the mother
having occasion to visit some of her
neighbors locked up the children in
the house, and when she returned
the house was a pile, of ruins and the
children victims of the devouring ele
ment. The cries of the children
were heard soon after the mother had
loft the house, the flames having not
yet burst out, their cries weie un
heeded.
A
Anew mode oj Execution.—By a pa
per of December last, printed
Canton, (China) we observe that a
young man, who was* convicted of
murdering his father, and several
others of the family, was put to
death, by being cut to pitus by 36
knivest-Adame Sentinel*
COMMUNICATED.
Calvin Eoson is now to be seen,
at evening, in Peale’s Museum, in
this city, and I find many of the visit
ors there requesting him to favor
them with some of
cidents of his life.
1
prominent in-
says he was
THE BOOK OF BOOKS.
A book rs announced to appear in
London in the course of the next year,
©very page of which is to be 24 feet
high by 12 broad.' The letters aro
to be half a foot long. It is to be
entitled “Pantheon of English He
roes:’ and only one hundred copies,
intended ah ornaments for the princi
pal iSrglisb Libraries, are to be
stricken off. Gold Varnish, instead
of black ink, U to homed in the prim
born in Stafford, Connecticut, March
4. 1788, which brings him of course
to the age of 44 years: That be now
resides in Randolph. Vermont, where
be has a wife and three children, the
youngest being about three years old:
—That when about twenty-one years
of age, he weighed 142 pounds, and
possessed very great muscular activi
ty:—That he could stand in a circle,
fifteen inches in diameter, and touch
the floor eight feet above, with both
feet, and turniag a summerset, place
his feet in the same circle again-a
feat which He has never seen done
by any other individual, except one-
abd that one, a soldier ii the late war,
could jump higher than he C ould. He
Gehon and Siloatu, and by the torrent
or brook of Kedron. David built a
new cily, Mount Zion, opposite to the or field of bio d
ancient oue^jjeiug separated from it ‘ ’
by the VafPy of Milispfie also aug
mented and embellished tbe old city;
but Solomon, from the number and
stateliueis of the works which
lie erected, rendered Jurusalem one
of the most beautiful cities of the
East.
It was during tbe reign of Tiberi
us, that Jerusalem was rfiodertd
memorable to all succeeding ages by
the (Uotb and resurrection of our*
Lord and Saviour Je»us Christ, who
was crucified on F:i.Jay, April 2d, at
8 o'clock in the afturnoou, at (he age
of 33,011 Mount Calvary, a bill which
was then without the walls on tho
North side of Hie city.
Jerusalem was taken and destroy
ed by Titus, A. D. 70. At the seige,
according to Josephus, 97,000 prison
ers fell into the hands of the conquer
or, 11,000 perished with hunger, and
tbe evhole number slaiu and taken
prisoners during the war was 1,460,-
000. In the year 130, Adrian under
took to'rebuild the city, and gave lo
it the' name of iElia Capotalina,
which name it bore until tho time of
CoDstantine. It was taken in 614 by
the Persians, in'636 by tbe Saracens,
and in 1099 hy the Crusaders, who
funded a kingdom which lasted till
1187, when it was taken down by
^aldin, king of Egypt. In 1517, it
was taken By the Turks, who have
kept possession of it ever *' BC0
The modern cily bt Jerusalem is
bail! on Mow* ’donah. The ascent
on evci r jg gteep te the north,
almost surrounded by valleys,
encompassed by inouutetus, so tbai
it seems to be situated in the middle
of an amphitheatre. Tbe walls aro
about three miles in circumference*
Dr. Clarke, spoaking of (be appear
ance of (be city, says, “IVe wer not
prepared for the grandeur of the spec
tacle which it exhibited. Instead of
a wretched and ruined town, by some
described as the desolate remnant of
Jerusalem, we beheld as it* were a
flourishing and stately metropolis,
presenting a maguificicut assemblage
of domes, towers, palaces, churelma,
monasteries; all of which plUteiing
in Hie sun’s rays; shone with inconceiv
able splendor.” A more recent liv
elier, Sir Frederick Henniker, giv < s
the following account of Jerusa
lem:
The town is about a mile in length
and half a mile in width. TI:o best
view of it is from the mount of Ol
ives. It commands the exact shape,
and nearly every particular, vjz: the
church of tho bdy sepulchre, Ihe
Armenian convent, the mosque of
Omar, St. Stephen’s Gate, the round
topped houses, and barren vacancies
of (he city. Without the walls are
a Turkisn burial ground, the tombs
of David, a small grove near the
tombs of the kings, and all the rest is
a surface of rock, on which are a
few numbered Hrees. Tbe mosque
of Omar is the Saint Peter’s of Tur
key, and the respective saints are
held respectively by their own faith
ful, in equal v eneration. The build
ing itself has a light pagoda appear
ance, the gaulen in which it stands,
occupies a considerable part of the
city; and contras d with the surroun
ding desert, is beautiful; but it is
fnrhiilce.ii ground, and jjew or Clnis-
tian entering it must fmleit cither his
religion or hi3 life. Lately ns a trav
eller was entering the city, a man
snatched part of his Iugg8ge from the
camel, and fled here for shelter A
few days since a Greek Christian
entered the,nun-quo; he was a Turk|
ish subject, and servant to a Turk,:
he was invited to change his religion,
but refused, aid was immediately'
murdered bv the mob. His bnd* re-'-
maineri exdrsurf iu the street, ai d a
passing Musseltnin, kicked up ilie :
head & exciaint« d-‘ 'I'hatlis the way :
I would serve all Chris' : ans.”
The fountain of Sih.nrn is so id~
,considerable, and water altcgether
so scarce, that when my friend, Mr.
Grey, inquired the wav to ii, (he.
person refused lo rel| him. girhig
him as a reason,—“You will write
it in your book, and I vow 'hr.t wo-
shall have no water uexi y:*nr.”
The tomb oi David is held in groat
respect by the Turks, and to swear
by it is one of their most sacred oaths.
Ihe tomb ot l!ie kines is an incoii»id»-
crable excavation in the rock; thiee
small chainheir. in iihich are the
receptacles f'm i'-te coffins; it.e lid of
a sarcophagus of tolerable work
manship. remains vet unbroken, ns*
also a sIoih 1 door In the A eldamo,
s a squ« e hnildjjg,
into which are thro-vn ilu bones of
strangers who may happen to die
there. This side of the moufltsin if-
pock-marked with aepnlehml eaves,
like the lulls at Tholes com truing
these. Dr. Clarke ha* m me men*n o,
The burial-place of (lx J*-ai u ,v*r
the valley of Kedrou, and tbe fees for
breaking the soil uffoid a oonsidc.'jthle
revenue for the Governor. The n mb*
of Jchosapiibt it respected; Hit at
the tomb of Absalom everv J»ew. as
he passes, throw s u stone not like ti n
Arab custom in so doing to , eiprtu*
ate a memory, but to ovei.-wbel.i j(
with reproach; among the tomb* n an
Egyptian torus and uor'/iee, aid a-
notbei surmounted liy * pyramid on
a Groeian base, as if tjfifl geniuses of
the two countries had men half
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