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Official Papers. EXECUTIVE DKPAH TMKNT, GeO. ? Mitledgevdle, Bth June, 1825. 5 Siu: I will thank yon to inform me if in ac- n versalion held at my request with Col Lumpko ■ you slated to him that the evidence submitted , vou did not furnish even probable cause to suspec the Indian Agent as guilty under the charges ex hibited against him in my letter ofthe 31st ultimo As 1 intend to communicate immediately with yon f government on tins subject, 1 wish you to be vei particular in the answer you may think proper 1 give, that the possibility of mistake or miaappre Pension may be avoided. Very respectfully air, . G. M. TUOUP. 0 Maj. Andrews, Special Agent, U. S. _ - 'I Mlti-EimKVii.tf., Geo. ? |j June, the Bth, 1825. > , Sia ; I am honored by the receipt of your note this evening. „ Col, Lumpkin has misapprehended my remarks t greatly, (for I feei satisfied he is incapable ot mis- ( representing them,) if he supposes I had formed any opinion as to the guilt or innocence ofthe In dian Agent, or would form one, until 1 was placed in possession, in an official manner, of all the evi dence to be obtained from every quarter, and had thoroughly examined it. The conversation 1 had the honor of holding with the Colonel, which it appears, was at the request of your Excellency was long and desultory: 1 can only at, this time re collect the result, viz. that, until I was furnished a officially with the documents and evidence refer j red to in the latter part of your Excellency’s let- ter of the 31st ultimo, I did not consider myself at y liberty to form any opinion, not even as to the j propriety of a suspension ot the Agent. t I beg the attention of your Excellency to my a letter ofthe 31slof May, by which you will per- t dive I expected to be able to furnish the Agent, s in case bis suspension was decided on, with a copy t of the charges and specifications made against him, | immediately on his being suspended, that he might be. “ enabled to defend himself before his Govern | menl with as little delay as possible :” and thai ( his suspension would also depend on the present state of excitement among the Indians. This course your Excellency will do me the justice to believe is in strict accordance with the instruc tions of my Government. I have delayed all proceedings, (even to a for mal acknowledgment of the receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo,) waiting to he furnished with the documents and evidence promised in it : so soon as I shall be honored by its receipt, (II Gen. Gaines shall have arrived,l 1 will immediately pro ceed to execute the intentions of the President as made known to yunr Excellency. I have the honor to be, with the highest respect and consideration, your Excellency’s most obedi cut servant. T. P. ANDREWS, Special Agent. To hit lixcrllencg George As. Troup, Governor of Georgia —.1 filledgeville. Executive Department, ? AfiUedgeville, Vith June, 1825. 5 Sin : In cnmnlianoe with a resolution of ihc Legislature ofthe Slate of Georgia, I place you in possession of the report of a commi tee, the reso. lotions which follow, and the evidence which supports them in the case ofthe Agent for Indian affairs, whose conduct m connection with the late disturbances in the Creek nation, has bjen cently a subject of invoetigathjn before S.n, glaliture. ", ‘ i " Very respectfully, G. M. TROUP. Maj. T. P. Andiiews, Special Agent. Executive Department, ? Afilledgevilte, Wth June, 1825. 5 '•'in: In the conversations held with yourself and General Gaines in relation to the objects of your mission, you were pleased to express a desire to receive from myself any views or suggestions which might usefully contribute to the results which were most desirable. These in passing have been hitherto frankly given. As it is determined ; that one or both of you will proceed to attend the 1 convention of the Indians about to be bidden al I Broken Arrow and the Indian Springs, it becomes i my duly to disclose to you in a special manner, the I opinions entertained of this first and moat impor I taut movement, so that if miscarriage follow, the i councils of Georgia will share in no degree the re- ( sponsibility of that miscarriage. It is known to be i one of your objects to elicii from the convention ) the truths connected witli the late and present dis t orders in the Nation, a developement which the s councils of Georgia ciunot fail to regard with very deep concern. It has been more than once asked | of you therefore if preparatory to this movement t it did not seem to you as indispensable to suspend i the Agent from his functions under the authority I vested in you by your Government. The answers t given have been received with pain and regret, r because they indicated an intention to forbear the t exercise of the power at least for the present, t whilst it is plainly foreseen that the present is the y only moment at which the exercise of it, would be i of any value to you or to us in the fulfilment ot the t objects of your mission and for this very obvious e reason. The Agent in virtue of his official power i exercising a controlling influence over one por- a tiun of die Nation lias already assembled fiat por r lion, and vou see in the morning’s paper by what f a formidable and imposing array of Chiefs he i stands exculpated and acquitted. Now sir, lup r peal to your good sense to inform me of what avail i will be the contemplated c invocation and catechis- < ing ofthe Indians, the Agent holding to his com- a mission and wielding his accustomed powers. Is ii to be believed that under like circumstances they f will reconsider their minutes and alter their ver- y diet ? Not so. In matters even of this kind they have sagacity and shrewdness and a decent regard r for the opinions of the world, Not doubting that your object is the ascertainment of truth, it is hoped that you will suffer no obstacles to impede your course to it. The most formidable of ah stands in your way. ’Tia impossible that the faint est ray ot light can reach you when it is known that iu dispite of all that has transpired of crimi nation, of investigation, of evidence, and of ex posure, the Agent is present to the Indians in his i robes of ermine, yet sustained by the Government ] ofthe United States, as if Ins purity were spotless i and his name unsullied, the same in authority as he < always has been, the same whom they behold h i prospect to be their leader through new trials, i their counsellor in evil times and tlie supreme di- i rector of their destinies in all times. Can it be presumed that under such circumstances the I i diana will speak to you without restraint The documents of incontestable authority placed in - your possession prove to you that they will not. No sir, the way to the accomplishment of the end of your mission is open. Suspend the Agent, make atonement to the friends of Mclntosh for the blood shed by the guilty instruments of white men, restore the friendly Chiefs to their political rank and power, and my word for it, you will Hod truth and enough of it fur every purpose, peace, reconciliation and union. With great respect and esteem. G. M. TROUP. Maj. T. P. Andrews, Special Agent. Executive Department,? Milledgtville, 1 8th June, 1825 5 Stß—-From the course recently pursued by the Agent, in procuring from the Chiefs ofthe Hostile idiaus, under the influence of fils office, and from ic missionaries, their attestation to nis innocence, ie Commissioners appointed under the authority d the Legislature, are directed to proceed to Jrokeu Arrow to participate in the Councils to be rtldeit there on ttie 25ih inst. so far as they have >f their objects the collection of facts and deve opement ot truths as connected with the late dis i urhances in the nation, and the charges exhibited oy this government, against the Agent ofthe U states, for Indian Affairs— I hey are instructed specially to avoid any interference’, unless solicited, •villi the political arrangements or uegociations between the United Slates and the Indians which appertain exclu.-.ivety to the relations and interests übsisting between l! ein and to which the s’ate of Georgia is no party. It is hoped and expected that this measure will meet your concurrence and approbation. With great respect, &c, G. M. TROUP. Maj . T. P. Andrews, ; Special Agent, Cheer Aoknct, Flint River, ? June 181/1, 1825. > b’iß—l have the honor to acknowledge the re ceipt of your Excellency’s letter of the 13i.1i insi accompanied by a copy ofthe evidence against the Indian Agent taken before the committee of tin- Georgia Legislature. I have not yet received an official copy of the documents promised in your letter of the 31st of May, and take the liberty ot urging your Excellency to furnish me with them as soon as possible. I avail myself ot this oppor tunity to call the attention of your Excellency, in an especial manner, to the necessity of furnishing the Agent ofthe general government, as speedi ly as possible, with any additional testimony which you may wish to offer against the Indian Agent. I hope to gel through the examination ol the evi dence offered and to be offered bv the Agent to re but that with which I have already been furnished, m about three weeks: the urgency, indeed neces sity, of having any additional testimony which may he offered against him, hy that time, or as soon thereafter as possible, will be apparent; as a fair examination must form the wish ofyour Ecellency as it does that of the President and of the Secre tary of War. 1 have to acknowledge also the receipt ofyour communication of the 14th inst. which was hand ed to me at the moment of my departure for this place from Mdledgeville : I am perhaps, uofortuu ite in entertaining different opinions of the ma ters to which it relates; and particulirly as to the mportnnce, the justice, or necessity of suspending the Agent under (lie present circumstances After an attentive examination of the testimony taken hy the committee, and some already shewn to me by the Agent, and as no specifications have been presented, 1 did not think that the suspension was demanded on the grounds contemplated in my let s'' ot the 31st of May, and by the government I did think the determination of the general go vernment, and of its agent, being, as your Exc i lency has very justly remarked, “the ascertain ment of truth,” that the presence or absence ofthe Indian Agent, at any place or under any circum stances, would be immaterial tp e fulfilment of tout determination. 1 had a -C thu> us you Excellency is seen to -'-* '‘ing language, oi all guilt in that officer ' '*' “ age of the 3d inst. being after the date ot*y’>ur charges a gain t him; that as he has been acquitted general ly ol one of the charges, by the adopted report o, tue Legislature; having still die appalling influ snee and power of the Executive and Legislative nranches of one government against him, and thai 100 on testimony avowedly e.r parte that he would not have to complain, during his trial, of any acts on the part of another which might appear to par take of oppression. Your fixed opinion as to the necessity of his suspension, and the manner in which that opinion is communicated, will compel me to that course, iu courtesy, and to convince your Excellency, and the people of Georgia, that the general government is determined nut to sui tor even a supposed difficul y to be in the way. and to leave no course untried which may elicit the free unbiassed testimony of all persons, this even towards a man who lias not been, so far as the in vestlgation has been pursued by the authorities ol Georgia, “informed of the nature and cause of the accusation,” or “confronted with the witnesses a gainst him,” or had “compulsory process for ob taining witnesses in his favor,” as required by the sacred instrument which guards the rights of all 1 observed before leaving Mdledgeville, that parts ofthe testimony taken before the committee of the Legislature, had been published in tin newspapers, and it was currently reported the balance was to be shortly made public. The In dian Agent being an officer'll the general govern ment I presume, (and from expressions in die re port adopted by the Legislature.) that the main object ofthe examination was to place the general government in p"ssession of the evidence! If such is the fact your Excellency will not, I feel assured, think it improper in me, as the Agent ofthe gov ernment, to remark, that I trust you will consider it as due in courtesy to the general government, anti in justice to the party accused, that the evi dence taken by the committee, and now in the of ficial charge of vonr Excellency, avowedly ex pane, should not be spread before die public, and public ipimou thereby forestall d before the A gen- Ins bad an opportunity of defending himself, orthe general g'vernment an opportunity of ex amuiing the evidence adduced by either party. I'he frankness winch your Excellency ha- uni formily invited emboldens me to make this sug gestiou for your consideration. With the highest respect and consideration, 1 remain, your Excellency’s most ob’t. servant. T. P. ANDREWS. Special Agent- To His Excellency George At. Troup, Governor of Georgia — AlUledgevilie. Executive Department, 5 AlilUH reville. 20 1 h June 1825, y Sir: I have this moment received your letter of the 18th inst. dated at the Creek Agency. The printing of the documents and evidence having relation to the disorders in tue Nation, and to the charges exhibited by this Government, will be completed it is understood in the course of the day, so that a copy will be forwarded for your use in the course of to morrow. The commission authorised by the Legislature to take further testimony will for that purpose proceed forthwith to the Nation and under orders to make all possible despatch. You have w dely mistaken me if you believe that any disposition exists here to withhold from the Agent »lie most ample means of justifying himsell to his Government, much less any desire for the performance of an act on your part that would savor of oppression ; on the contrary, tins government desires that the faires* opportunity -hall he afforded the accused of prnffitmg of eve ry description of testimony which may be availa- ble for his complete vindication, free from any obstacles or embarrassments which it might have the power to interpose. It was in this spirit that my instructions to the commission were drafted, and although it was known that the Agent had disclaimed the authon ty ot the Government of Georgia to interfere, ' and that therefore there was little probability ot nis seeking the benefit of a particular instruc Uon, nevertheless an instruction has been given which will admit him at his pleasure to be pre ■sent at ihe investiga'ion on our part and to exer cise the right of cross examination freely. More over I can add with great sincerity that it will (Jive me pleasure at any lime to contnbii'e aid* and facilities to his defence, Jor wbaiever 1 may believe of the guilt or innocence of the Agent, 1 trust that one and all of us for the honor ol our own human nature, would gladly see him vindi cated and (usiifis 1 1 against snen charges as have Oeen preferred by this government. Whilst how ever this assurance ia given it is nevertheles.- true that you have very much misconcieved the sentence of my rnes age, which according to your construction ot it, i nphes d mot of the guilt of the Agent. No such doubt exists. It was no 1 said that the Agent lisd committed crimes, be cause u was not intend-’d to say so*—li was en ougii that the Agent had been charged with the commission of them , aid having exhibited the charges, I pr.-snme you would not have been in sensible to the indelicacy of me accuser passing sentence upon the accused. Hut win.si tins wa purposely avoided there, 1 can very freely make known to you Here, that it ni&'ead of pa-siog upon the guilt or innocence of ihe accused, I h.iJ been staling mv belief from the evidence even now disclosed, and exparte as it may be, I won d have said wo bout hesitation, mat With respect to the one charge 1 believed him guilty of that b yond the pos-.ib.lhy of refutation, and that will; regard to the other, he was so far ,nn;.cent only as lie was not present at the time and place, in Hiding the blows with his own hands. I..king very opposite view-, ot the subject, y u seem P, i.ive yielded a reluctant and ungracious assent to the suspension of th- Agent, ami indeed to in dulge a little the language of complaint, lest in jury might by possibility result >#m it to the ac cused Be p.-ru-.ded si'-, that this act or sus >en sion is in no respect personally gratifying to rn ■, nor were feelings of any kind connected with my suggestion of the propriety of it, but those vlncli yourself must have indulged for the sue i oessful fulfilment of the objects of your m.ssi m. I repeat what, was before all ged in support of ’ 'hat suggestion, that it could not lie conceived • now it wouid be possible fop yon •„ make any ihe least advance to the attainment of truth, ..r to the pacification of the I,ul aais without it as •first and indispensable measure. The friend y ' chiefs had air a.iy given your g .vernment to m-. derstand that they would nev r consent to com mu themselves again to the pi election of the A gent, and you were almost present to witness that i by the power and influence ot his office the hos tile Chiefs had been conv. k and a declaration of thd innocence of the Ag*nt either extorted of otherwise obtained, and this too just before 'he period hid arrived at w eh Gen. Gaines and 1 yourself were to convene the same Indians for ' die purpose of obtaining fro • them fairlv ami ‘ honestly the truth, a fact, vvel km..n o the A g< nt, but which fact did not prevent him from thus forestall .g and anticipating you. When you p?rm t your,elf to sav that the Agent “has not been, --o far as the investigation , has been pursued by the authurit -s of Georgia mfirmed of the nature and cause f the accuse non,” you will suffer ms to answet that tin * Mas ■ been no omiv-ion of ours, but of yours. It w:>- ’■art of vour duty to have notified the Agent s.. soon as tiie ctiarg“s were recited of the exi tence of \tlio*e charges; and with regard to «■>.• c fications. 1 assure you Iba unless for s me ver useful purpose to the iu'eres of Georgia, I would not take the trouble to s t down to paper to inak ■ them. The Agent is charged with instigating 1 the Ind'ans to ihe com fission of the crime ol ' uurder, and with predetermined resolution to prevent the Indians fr >m making cession of th lands so lung <sa certain person was a 1 Ihe head if the G ivernmeut of Georgia, and these in ail reason are specifications enough. We are no exhibiting charges against the Agent as offending the martial law, to which a long detail of specifi cations according to custo n must he subjoined.— If your Government wants furthei specification it must seek it elsewhere, and this sir, is obvious Iv the mistaken bias under which you and your Government labor. You are willing to resolve every thing into prejudice against the Agent for his protection, whereas tt is notorious that Ihe prejudice of your G .vernment has been so far advantageous to him that it is very difficult to sub due it by any kind of evidence. With respect to “ the right of confrontation with the witnesses against him,” there is abundant time for that, when after the finding of a true bill, he shall be arraigned at the bar of justice : and with re gard to his ** not having compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, as required by the sacred instrument which guards the rights of .11,” I pledge you my word of honor that whene ver 1 shad hear of such gross injustice being done him by anv competent and authorised tribunal before which he may be cited, 1 will consider it as an injury done to myself, and if dose by a tribu nal within our jurisdiction and of course pun ishable for offences committed under our con stitution and laws, so far as depends on me, the utmost efforts will be made to bring to punish ment all or any public Agents concerned in so offending. The documents are in course of publication, by order of the Legislature ; having previously been made public by that body itselt in the mosi formal manner, it is not seen that any further pub lication of them can operate injuriously to the Agent; for it would seem to be better even on his own account, that after so much had been made known of their contents, all should be known, and that nothing should be left for infer ence or conjecture, especially too as the public, understanding the character of the evidence to be exparte, will be able to estimate it at what it may be worth. It may be proper to add that by a spe cial and positive resolution the Governor is di reeled to cause them to be distributed through all the counties as soon as they are printed, and you are already informed that the printing will be complete in the course of to-day. With great respect and consideration. G, M. TROUP. To Major T. P. Anhuews, Special Agent, U. S. — Creel. Agency, Cheek Aokxct, Flint River,') June 23d, 1825. 5 Sir :T do myself the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th inst. this day received from your Aid de-Camp, Col. Jones, from whom 1 have also received a copy of the documents which accompanied your Excellency’s ■ Message of the 23d May to the Legislature. Ymir Excellency appears to entertain an im pression that 1 had expressed a belief, in my let i ter of the 1 Sth inst. that a disposition exists on the narl of the authorities of Georgia, to withhold . irom the Agent the means of justifying himself .1 to his government; and that you bad also shewn f a wish that I should, by complying with your re -5 pealed and urgent requests, both verbally and in writing, to suspend the Agent, enter into proceed -5 ings against him, before bis trial, which might sa » vor of oppression. At the same time that 1 take advantage of the first possible moment to disclaim, , in the fullest manner, entertaining for a moment, t a belief as to any such disposition or intention ; yet your Excellency will excu e me for remarking i that although 1 could not for an instant, entertain a belief that such intentions actuated the authori • ties of Georgia, that their acts must inevitably have that u Just and oppressive operation on the i Agent. It is impossible that authorities so exal » ted, could wish to act oppressively or unjustly, / towards an humble individual under trial: But it , is equally impossible for an unprejudiced person ■ to withhold the belief that their proceedings, (in the absence of any but the fairest intentions,) * have bad those effects on the interests and feel mgs of the individual referred to. You remark “that by the power and influence ; of his office the hostile Chiefs had been convoked ■ and a declaration of the innocence of the Agent ( either exorted or otherwise obtained, and this too just before the period had arrived at which Gen. Gaines and myself were to convene the same In dians, for the purpose of obtaining from them fair . ly and honestly the truth, a /act well known to the A ’em. but which fact did not prevent him from “ thus forestalling and anticipating” us ! lam sal ; i-fied it is only neces-.ary, (to induce you to do him justice m your good opinion, in relation to that particular transaction,) to remind your Excel ; lency that those documents were procured by the Ag-nt from the Indians, before it was possible i for the .Agent 10 know that General Gaines, or an Ag-.u of the vernment, were ordered here! i I arrived at MUledgeville on the 31st of May, and Gen. Games in ihe 12th or 13th of June ; ind ttie documents referred to as procured by the Ag *nt from ihe Indians, are dated on the 14th ol May ! Indeed they were procured from iba In dians six d <y< before General Gaines’ orders were i .ued at Washington, and the same number of days before 1 was appointed Special Agent for the government! I'hey were shewn to me the day I reached Mdl-dgeville. In your retnaik that it was part of my duty to •lave no.ified the Agent so soon as the charges were received, of the existence of those charges, mr Excellency inadvertantly overlooks the fact, hat in tny letter of the 31st ot May, it was made k .own to you that it was expressly contemplated by my government that specifications and evi ience should accompany the charges, as an act of justice '« the accused, to enable him “to de fend himself before his government with as lit tle delay as possible.” It was so contemplated by the general government because of tbe intention •f having a fair and consequently, a “ speedy tri ul.” The utter impossibility ot replying to char ges of crimes not dated or located, referred to in general terms o.dy, and tbe consiquent injustice to the accused, is certainly also inadvertantly over looked by y, ur Excellency. Your Excellency is pleasedto remark in sub stance, that when, " after the finding of a true bid me Agent, shall be arraigned at “ tbe bar of justice,’ there is abundant time for confronting ■ m with ilie witnesses against him ?” You re mark also, with regard to liis not having “com misery process for obtaining witnesses in his fa vor,” as required by the sacred instrument which guard-the r.gilts o. all, .hat whenever you shah icai ot such gross injustice being done him by my competent and autnorised tribunal belore which he may be cited ‘ you will bring to pun meui all or any public agent concerned in so trending,” The multiplicity and importance of >our hig.i duties, nas caused vour Excellency f ■ i'gt t. '.ha' before even the “finding of the bill. ” v. I, conircjueutly, before tbe trial, tlxe “ punish ment,” Ins been loudly demanded of the court, dismissal of the Agent, in the report and res ‘lutions adopted by the Legislature. I did not as your Excellency seems to suppose, allude to the publication of the evidence, in the ■orin of a document or pamphlet. I was aware that the Legislature had go ordered the publication ; .ml should have considered it as highly indeco rous and improper to have asked the violation o' its injunctions. I alluded, solely, as my letter wih siiew, to the publication, (depending on the will of your Excellency,) of the evidence, admit ted by all to be exparte, in the newspapers. The suggestion however was merely submitted for your consideration. With a respectful protest against the supposed prejudices ascribed to the general government and to ns Agent, and with a free acknowledge rnent of the high minded resolutions and send ments, of an opposite tenor, interspersed through your Excellency’s letter, the latter of which only do justice to your great talents and high charac- 1 ter, 1 remain, highest respect consideration your Excellency’s most obedient servant. T. P. ANDREWS, Special Agent, To His Excellency George J\i Troup. Governor of Georgia — JMdledgevilie, , Executive Dkpahtmest, > Milledgcville, 27th June, 1825. > Sin—l have this moment received your letter of the 23d inst. It gives me great pleasure to correct without delay an error into which I had lallen, and in consequence of not adverting par ticularly to the date of the certificate obtained from the Indians by the Agent and published as part ol his defence in one of the last papers— from a comparison of dates it does appear that i that certificate was obtained before the agent knew that yourself and Gen. Gaines would pro ceed to Broken Arrow to convene a council ui institute an enquiry. Whilst the correction there lure is most cheerfully made you cannot but ad mil the utter immateriality of tt to the Agent, , for any objects or interests of his —lor the (ac ! still turns out to be that whilst the Agent in pro curing that certificate did not intend to forestall in particular, Gen. Gaines and yourself, in making a certain examination, he did well know that it would forestall Gen. Gaines or yourself, or any others whom your government might at anv time depute to make any examination there, and tin* is the fact and the only fact of any consequence to the argument. On the subje ct of specifications to which you have, again called my attentoin, I have only to re murk, that it your government pleases to forbear turther enquiry ur investigation into the conduct of the Agent, cither bee .use it derives no speci fications from me, or because those specifications are not precisely such in manner and form as arc agreeable to itself it has the power to do so—bu if your government has not found matter enough, for specifications (if indeed they be at all impor tant) in the published accredited documents, i.r . finding it there in ample abundance shall no i choose to frame them for itself, I assure you. sir, 1 would not know where to proceed t , look for it, even if I believed it (as Ido not) i to be my clu'y to furnish those specifications. When time shall have disclosed that I was mis taken in attributing prejudice to your govern. , ment in behalf of its Agent, although that belief , has not been assumed upon light ground and is so i far sustained by the occurrences of every day ; , I assure you, sir, I shall proceed without delay i t 0 render to it the fullest measure of justice which • injured honor could require from a deceived ac i cuser. G. M. TROUP. • To T. P. Andrews, Esq. Special Agent—Creek Agency. - The original from which we copy the fol • lowing is thus endorsed ; ! Phis letter having been written after the act of suspension was made known to the Special Agent, is received as unofficial, i and the publication authorised as any unofficial paper would bo to subserve the purposes of the writer. Princeton, Indian Nation , ? 4th July, 1825. 5 Sir: 1 take advantage of the first possible mo , meet from Incessant and arduous duties, to do my. self the honor ot receipting to your Excellency i jour three last letters. Your letter of the 18th June was received, from the Commissioners of Georgia, on the 25th ult,— li was my determination to afford the Commission ers of Georgia, (of whose appointment I had been : previously apprised) all the attention which my duty to the general government, and my respect for an important member of the Union, justified i and demanded. I have done so, so far as my sense of duty permitted me ; but regret to in . torm you that 1 have not had the pleasure of a greeing with the Commissioners on several : points of procedure. You may readily imagine that my impressions of your great personal honor were not at all wea kened by the receipt of the note of your Excel lency, dated the 27th ultimo, in which you so r frankly “ correct without delay »n error into which you had fallen,” on one partbular point re lating to the Indian Agent ; & regKt exceedingly that a sense of justice will not pernit me to make the admissions which you appear ii the same let ter to expect of me. Your Excekmcy may rest assured that 1 did not intend to cal on you again fur specifications, after you had expensed in your letter ot the 2Uih June j your debrinina'iun not to furnish them ; in my answer'd! ihe 23d to your letter last referred to, I adveted to the cir cumstances, merely with a view t shew why I had previously to the receipt )f your letter, 'nought 1 had a right to expect then. Your de dining to present specifications, which was a natter that you alone couid deterrme on, settled the que tion ; and I should have ken wanting in the high respect which it is my cUy to entertain, >(• and wnich 1 sincerely entertain, fr your personal character, as well as for your exaed station in so ciety, if 1 hut again requested Dfem of you. I acknowledge the receipt i your communi cation of the 28th, which has gien me pain as a man, but which causes no uneamess on rny part as an Agent nr officer of the Geftrel Government, li has given me pain as a genUman, because ( *hink 1 can perceive that you tel compelled, (I presume from a sense of public duty,) to transfer the pursuit by the autifrities of Georgia from the Indian Agent to the Special Agent of lie United States Government! it causes no un •asiness on my part, as an nficer or Agent of the Government, becau-e 1 caniot suppose for a moment that my Government will censure me for doing an act of sacred duly to Die Indian Agent, at the same tune that I performed, in suspending f h m irom his (unctions, an act of courtesy to your self and Government, which you thought neces sary to the ascertainment of unbiassed testimony. Had I entered into feelings of denunciation a gainst the Indian Agent before Us trial, or suspen ded him without doing him present justice bv„a trank expression of the reasons which actual., me in doing so, I should indeed have apprehen ded the disapprobation of my Government, (*o which alone 1 look in the discharge of my dutiiS* because that Government is administered by me" preeminent for temperate and reasonable councils and who could not be induced, by any considera .ion?, to tlu> ijuarMtnlurl to ever y cit» izen of our country, however humble, by its con stitution, and by the immutable principles of jus tice. w Your Excellency calls on me to avow or disa vow the letter to the fi dian Agent of which you appear to complain. With the exception of a few ypographical errors 1 avow it as my letter, I send you a corrected copy. It is such a letter as my sense of justice imperiously called on me lo ad dress him in performing a harsh act towards him, was approved of by my best, judgment, such as it is, is approbated by a man, who for wisdom stand* inferior to few, and in honor to none; and such an one, as I confidently trust, will receive the appro bation ot my Government. It is such a letter as, from my letters ofthe 31 at of May, Bth, 18th, and 23d June to yourself, and our frequent verbal communications, an well as those verbal and writ ten to your A id-dc-camp and iriend, Col. Lump kin, you ought in my opinion to have anticipated: and such an one as J was convinced, “for the hon or ot human nature,” (to u«e our own eloquent ex pression,) you expected. Your Excellency informs me “that if the letter is authentic” I am to consider all intercourse be tween your Government and myself as “suspen f ded.” Be it so. 1 know of no intercourse between your Government and myself which is at all neces sary, which is not on your part perfectly voluntary and agreeable. Being an officer of the General Government, I can go on to discharge mv duties, fearlessly, according to the dictates of my consci ence and to the best of my judgment; and, if I am to be added to the list of the proscribed, for inter posing the shield of my Government, to prevent the desti uction of a man doomed to be condemned without a hearing or trial, I wish that suspension not only continued, but made absolute and per manent. As your Excellency has thought it your duty to address me your letter of the'SSth June, I have felt it my right to reply to it; and to inform you, t nit I can now see, so far as the examinations have pr gre-sed, and they have been both numer ous and important, no cause for the accusations a gainst the Agent, unless in his inflexible integrity and fr mness in stemming a torrent of corrupting disgraceful, in my opinion, to the national charac ter : A sense of duty compels me o say, that in using this expression, I have' not allusion to your Excellency: for, 1 sinceiely believe, that the same persons who have caused this outcry against the Indian Agent, have abused that confidence which your Excellency was compelled to repose inconsequence of your official station. With high respect and consideration, I remain your Excell ncy’s most obd’t servant. (Signed) T. p. ANDREWS, Special Agent, To His Excellency Geo. M. Troup, Governor of Georgia, Miilerigeville. —QiO© — The Harvest. —From nearly all quarters of the country, we have accounts of a most abundant harvest of grain, and particularly in the counties in Maryland and Virginia*, which bind on the River Potomac. Though the quantity of ground cultivated, also, has been uncommonly great, the harvest is finish ed in those counties : The editor of the Genius of Liberty, printed at Leesburg, in N irginia, says, that he knows of one gentle man who cuts nine hundred acres of wheat, and who, with sixteen cradles, and thirty two rakers anil binders, has got through his harvesting. [JVa/. Int.