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cut their flipping upon the lakes, one of which,
a tliip of conliac: able force, was actually fitted
out, Sec.
AUGUSTS, Angufl 4.
The following Talk from the Cowetas and Cu
fetas (Creek Indians) was received by the Execu
tive of this State ihortly after the people on the
frontiers retaliated on the Indians for the murders
they committed in June Uft.
Cu/etas, June n, 1787.
THE "beloved man from Congress having been
hear, we had a talk with him, and what we agreed
upon there did not answer; but Mr. M'Gilli
vray coming over, matters were fettled. Mr.
White and Mr. M'Gillivray came upon terms to
which we were agreeable, till such time as Col.
White would fend back an answer, and imagin
ing then that matters were fully adjusted, we at
tended our business, and Mr. M'Gillivray pro
mised to inform the Upper Towns of this, in or
der that they might lay (till. We then expected
that Mr. White would inform the state of Geor
gia of this, and tell them that we were their
friends, and minded nothing but hunting; we al
ways talk’d together, always agreed, and pro
mised that if any thing happened, we lhould not
go on ralhly, but let one another know our griev
ances. You have promised that the innocent
ftiould not fuffer for the guilty;—you certainly
knew us \ —we are always among the houses ;
we did not know of the Upper Towns doing any
mifehief —nor did we think that our own friends
would have killed us, for what uther bad people
had been guilty of: You could not, therefore
think that it was any of the Lower Towns that did
you such mifehief, when we were at your houses,
aud living with you in a manner that you might
have been sure it was not us. Had we been sen
sible that those people were gone out with an in
tention of committing such horrid and inhuman
actions, we would have sent a previous notice,
and we cannot but thiuk that you niuft have known
we were your friends, or we ihould not have been
hunting among you; and we hope that you will
fend us an an) wer, and let us know your reasons for
killing your friends for what other people had
done. It is not the rule with Indians to acquaiut
you of this, but to take a fatisfa&ory revenge;
however, as we have been hitherto your friends,
we will not take ralh steps, unless you will throw
us away, and disown us as such; and although we
have 101 l nine of our men, innocently, we have
no holtile intention towards you. We mult have
a direfl answer, that we may know what to do,
hoping you will confider us the Lower Towns to
be your friends; we look upou all white people as
one, and fuppole you do so upon all Indians, is
the reason you killed our friends, though we as
sisted you in the last war. We had a meeting
lately with the Northward Indians, when Mr.
M'Gillivray and ourselves told them we had fet
tled matters with the Virginians, and could not
go to war. The Okegoys went unknown to
the rest of the towns, and killed foine of your
people, but not as many as you killed of your
friends, No person need be afraid of coming up,
and whoever brings an answer, shall bring a white
flag upon a pole. The talk you sent to Air. Bar
nard by John Galphin,was delivered soon after his
arrival, but have not heard it as yet, as he never
comes to the towns to tell us the talk. The sooner
you fend an answer the better, that we may take
one another by the hand again, and fee one ano
ther in friendlhip as we have always been.
By Order of the Lower Creeks, two Chiefs , tie
Hollowing King of the Cowetas , aud the Fat
Ktn% of the Cufeias ,
JOHN GALPHIN,
JAMES DUROUZEAUX, Interpreter.
ANSWER.
To the Kings, Headmen, and Warriors of the
Lower Towns of the Creek nation.
Friends and Brothers p
YOUR friendly Talk we have just received by
our CommilTary Mr. Barnard, and are very sorry
to be informed that some of your people, our
friends, thould have been killed through mistake by
our warriors, to revenge the murder of some of
our peaceable inhabitants. Yourselves mull be
fully convinced that our people have not been the
aggrclTors in this instance ; as soon as the murders
were committed by the Indians, our warriors cros
sed the river, and unfortunately fell in with your
people,—it was impossible then to diftiuguilh whe
ther you were our friends or enemies. We never
knew until we received your Talk by whom our
people were killed, whether by Upper or whether
by Lower Creeks. We have repeatedly allured
you it was our desire to be at peace with the whole
of your nation, we flill have the fame wilh not
withilauding what ha 3 pafief}*
B>tthirsy
Remember the caution we now give > ou s Should
any afts of boftilities be in future committed against
our people, or Ihould any property be taken from
them, be allured it will be impossible to prevent
our warriors doing themselves justice. ‘Our Grand
Council are to meet in a day or two, previous to
which had we not received your Talk, a large
army would have been sent into your nation » what
consequences would have attended this, you are
* capable of judging* We have sent orders to our
warriors not on any pretence to cross the Oconee
river *, we wilh you to give your people the fame
inftniftions, this will be a means of preventing
any disputes in future.
Brothers.,
Should the conduct of the Upper Creeks render
it nccelTary to march an army into the nation, be
allured we will confider your towns as friends and
brothers, and treat you as fitch.
Brotherly
If you have the friendfliip for us you egprefs, it
is your duty to keep a watchful eye on the conduct
of those who you may suppose have a with or defiie
to disturb our friendfhip. Mr. Barnard or Mr.
Galphin are always among you, if you hear of any
milchief intended against our settlements, it is
your duty to inform one or both of them of it im
mediately ; this you aTe particularly bound to ob
serve, by an artiile of the last treaty entered into
with our Co mini Turners at Shoulder-Bone.
You acknowledge that the Beloved Man of the
Upper Creeks, Mr. M'Gillivray, made a promise
to our Beloved Man who was sent from the White
town, that no mifehief whatever Ihould be done ;
after having this aTurance our people considered
themselves fafe, and looked upon all the Indians
of your nation as friends and brothers. Have yon
not often entered.into the most solemn engagements
with us ? And have you not as often violated
them ? What had our people to exped, when they
saw their peaceable countrymen murdered? They
determined to take fatisfaftion for the repeated in
juries they had received, and it was with great
difficulty that we, the Grand Council, could pre
vent our young warriors from marching in a body
into the heart of your nation. From your late con
duel, and the assurance you have given us in your
Talk, rest latisfiedthat we confider you the Lower
Towns, as our best friends and brothers, and if
you do not long continue to hold fall the chain of
our frienddiip, it will jiot be the fault of the White
people.
You express a with in your Talk to "have one of
your people, who has been sometime at Mr. Gal
phui’s, sent to you ; we have enquired for him,
and find he has been gone several days, and hope
he is now fafe .among you. Mr. Barnard who is
always with you, will carefully attend to all Talks
that we may fend, and deliver them out to you as
soon as they may arrive among you.
Brotherly
We really regret the lofis of your innocent peo
ple, who have lately been killed ; it is your duty
as men and warriors to do yourselves justice by
taking fatistaflion of the persons who were the
cause of it ; in doing this we lhall be fully con
vinced of your brotherly love and friendlhip to
wards us.
Brotherly
It is our with to fee you and the Upper Creeks
one people ; but ihould they continue to create
differences between you and us, and you ihould
think yourselves unable to (ake fatisfartion, we
will, as all friends and brothers ought to do, be
ever ready to give any assistance you may require.
Bj a gentlemanfrom Cumberland, vie have thefl
loviing Intelligence .
That in confequcnce of Mr. Robinson being
killed and fealped close to his own houl'e, in June
last, by a party of the Chickemagaw Indians, his
brother, Col. Robinson, with 130 men, closely
pursued the (aid Indians, and having come up to
them at the mouth of thick river, attacked and
killed forty, exclusive of four Spanilh traders, ahd
one woman. The rest of the party having desert
ed, Mr. Robinson’s scalp and riffle were found
with the following articles, viz.
Seven trunks of dry goods, 50 riffles, 2 or 300
weight of powder, 4 or 500 weight of lead, 17
horses, «ioowt. beaver fur, 60S0 deer skins, one
buftiel of dollars, and a large quantity of gold.
By the fame gentleman we are informed, that
the state of Franklin has sent, or is to fend, two
deputies to Kentuckey, to meet a Convention of all
the Weftern settlements, for the purpose of con
sulting on proper measures refpcCling the naviga
tion of the river Mississippi. -
We hear a Spanish schooner from th<* Havannah
is arrived at Norfolk, bound to Baltimore, having
on board 60,000 dollars, t« purchase velTels and
cargoes of Hour.
txlraSl of a letter fr cm a gentlemen in
IV\lkts county , to his friend in this towny dejcril «
ing the Chalybeate Spring.
Since my last, I have been several times to vi
sit the Chalybeate Spring, about a mile from this
place. The celebrated waters of iJath, in Eng.
land, of the German Spa, of the Virginia springs,
and some others famous throughout America, arc
recommended by physicians of all deferiptions, as
a Catholicon: The Waffiington spring is inferior
to none of them; —nay, gentlemen who have tried
all the above-mentioned waters, unanimously de
clare that this contains by far the greatest quantity
of fulphur ; and it appears by attual experiment,
to be free from any mixture of copper, or other
noxious quality too often found in mineral waters.
The experience of thousands has fufficiently
proved the efficacy of chalybeate springs, in to
tally removing all cutaneous disorders, and many
others when not too deeply rooted , in purifying
the blood and other fluids of the body; of con
sequence in preventing almost evety disease, and
establishing the faireft foundation for health and
longevity.
The Waffiington spring has been but very lately
known, yet it has effected several cures that had
baffled the healing art, and has now become a
place of considerable resort. The situation of this
part of the country, is not exceeded even by
Montpelier itfelf for healthiness, and, as you well
know, its high cultivation and agreeable focie&y,
afford every accommodation for visitants.
All these advantages will doubtless induce our
neighbours, the Carolinians, and others to par
take of its virtues ; and I expett at a future day
to fee the YVafliington spring ranked with Bath,
the Spa, the Virginia springs, he. and lliould the
mtifes deign to visit it, it will become an object of
invocation for poets, when even Helicon itfeif,
and all the pretty springs of antiquity ffiall link in
oblivion.
By particular Defirey
ON Tuefday evening next will be performed,
at Mr. ITamberfe' s, a CONCERT of vo
cal and instrumental tnufic; in the course of whiclj,
the fubferiber will play a few Solos on the piano
forte ; and some gentlemen who have lately eome
to town, will favor the company with some favo
rite Songs and Solos on the flute, after which, the
music will'be furnifhed if the company chose to
dance. The Concert to begin precife.y at 8 o’clock.
Tickets at one dollar each, to be had at the Print
ing-Office, and of the fubferiber. The managers
are Colonel Milton, and Capt. Martin.
_ CLAUDE SIMON.
IVill be Sold at public al ,
On Tue day next, for ready calh, (specie)
At Mr. Barclay’s door, on the Bay, at ro o’clock,
One Hog foe ad We{l-India Rum, a Cajk
of Porter , and 3 Cases of Gin .
In order to pay freight of goojs, due by A. Shear
er to William Head.
A Bargain.
AS I intend fettling in the country this next
fall, I will therefore dispose of my valuable
Houses and Lot,
Fronting Broad and Elliot llreets, in the town of
Augusta, for which the paper medium, and good
• field slaves will be received in payment.
ALSO,
Three hundred and fifty acres of Land in Wilkes
county, about fix miles from Waffiington Court-
House ; five bundle! and feventy-five acres in the.
county of Franklm, all said to be good corn, wheat,
and tobacco lands, for which paper medium, or
audited accounts will be taken in payment.
N. WADE.
GEOR GI A. By Lenvis Gardner , Esq,
S.) > Regifier of Probats for
LEWIS GARDNER, j the county ofßichmond
WHEREAS William Bngg, and Margaret
Bugg, have applied to me for letters of
adrainiftration on the estate and effetfs of James
Parris,, deceased : Thele are therefore to cite and
admoniffi all and singular the kindred and creditors
of the said deceased, to be and appear before me
at my Office, on the iff day of September next, to
ffiew cause, if any they have, why letters of aa
miniftration ffiould not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, at my Office,
the iff day of Augnft, in the year of our
Lord 1787, and in the 12th year of the In
dependence of the United States ui Ame
rica.