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JOIIS A. C'UTllBERT,
St at Cm Printer*
.-Ycii.w is nulilishei! every Tuesday at THREE DOLLARS
The v >iu*V • ! MJ . rc> , )r foUR, if not paid before the end of
per awn**,' ; _ ((ll Wayne Street, opposite the Stale Rank.
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SIXTY
id Cret!i-
its, must be published SIX WEEKS.
__ tors and Administrators must »>e ad-
>, x , , JAYS before the day of sale.
fe,lis ' Viiersnu tl inoi»erty (except negroes) of testate and intes-
t f/!' t »y Executors and Administrators, must be advertised
FOlfJ'Y DA •■ p ACClItorgt Administrators and Guardians to the
C ^rT'd ordinary for leave to sell Land, must he published FOUR
H"N' n _ «... r v editors and Administrators for Letters Dls-
A ' ,,, "'mn't »-* pnhlished SIX MONTHS.
misv "^ Vi i,ir Foreclosure of Mu.lira res on real estate must
A, 7 rru u>nce a month for KOI R MONTHS,
bp i y ' . ;,v ExecutOkS. Administrator.-; and Guardi
Si%,eS "I ‘. |l ‘,b|.',cd SIXTY I) VYS before I he day of sale.—
ans. •'» '' 1 , , j,. t the court house door between the
T».«" V";!and four in the af.ernoou. No sale
hon.s " 1 n 1 ^ vj1; | so expressed in the advertisement,
frmii •> '!'■'■ lu * u.dinry. (iceompiiiled with a copy of
m i'lH*iid or a 'raenicnt) »•» make titles to land, must be advertised
^f.J^ /^.JV^arinion' regularly granted by the courts,
Sherius ' ’ ' , t | uii.'TY DAYS—undei mortgage executions
\ - . ..j peri-liable 1'ioperiy under order of Court,
h,s ' *, ; . ' . , | \ rEN DAYS before the day of sale.
,n, *j: To' , r \ ! ,".t cincnts will be punctually attended to.
• • a!| Letter* dir* , t-d t" this office, or the Editor, must be
llOOLY SHERIFF’S SALE.—On tl»e first
BP Tuesday in October next, will, within the legal hours,
l>.» gold before the court-house door in the town of Dray
ton, Dooly county,
One lot of land, number one hundred and sixty-three, in
third district of Dooly county—levied on ns the property of
George \V. Ration, to satisfy one small fi la from a justice’s
court of Tu ig»s coiiniy in favor of Samuel Pale: levy made
and returned to me by a constable. August 23, 1830.
GILFORD KENT, deputy sheriff
■jJeVKY SIlEltIFF’H SALE.—On the first
Ji Tuesday in October next, will, within the legal
ho.irs, be sold, before the court-house door ia the town of
JMactlonotitrh, Henry county,
Two hundred two and a half acres of land, known ns
hit number two hundred and nineteen in the sixih district
Henry county—levied on ns the property of William Mar-
to satisfy a fi fa issued from a justice’s court of
Ghatliam county in favor of captain Nathaniel Ray nos and
owners of schooner Thurlovv vs William Marshall: levy
niadenud returned to me by a constable. August 19, 1836.
ZADOCK SAWYER, sheriff
Abo, v ill, at the above time and place, be sold,
Two hundred two and a half acres of land, known as lot
numlier one hundred and fifty-nine in the eleventh district
vf Henry county—levied on as the profierty of Joseph Hub
bard, to satisfy a fi fa issued from the superior court ofO-
glethorpe county in "ovor of the justices of the inferior court
for the use of Britain Stamps, guardian ol Ward Hudson,
vs Joseph Hubbard.
A remnant of a stock of goods found in the hands of John
H. Roseberry—levied on as the projierty of Amublus V.
Sellers, to sati-fy two ft fas issued from I he inferior court
of Henry county in favor of the officers of court vs Arnul-
<Jus V. Sellers. August 19, 18,>6.
WILLIS FULLILOVE, deputy thenff.
ONES SHERIFF'S SALE.—On (lie first Tues
day in Oriolter next, will, within the legal hours, be
jukl, before the court-house door in the town of Clinton,
Jones county,
Ten negroes, to wit: Toney, York, Na.Lan, Windsor,
Utac, Cullee, (ieorge, Eliza, Isabella and her infant child,
and lols of land numbers forty-four, forty-five, forty-seven,
liftv-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty, sevenly-ihrce, and
the lot that is bounded on the east or northeast fiy nurnher
■ixtv, and oil ihe west or southwest by number eighty-six,
all of sum! lots lying and being in the seventh district of ori
ginally Raid win but now Jones county, on the waters of
Swift Creek, and each containing two hundred two and a
half acres more or less—(there is a saw-mill on lot number
fifiy-iiiiie or fifiy-eight, known as Carter’s upper saw-mill.)
—and the east half of lot number eighty six, in said district,
bordering on number seventy-one, and the half of lot num
ber eighty-five, in said district, situate on and bonuded by
number seventy-two, and on ll^e east aide of a direct line
drawn from north to south through ihe center of said lot
number eighty-five, and l»ordoring on Swift creek; and afi
th«t part of lot number seventy-two, lying parallel on the
fine crossing Swift creek dividing said lot from number fifiy-
nino, extending said cross-line from one extremity of seid
l 9l ij the oilier, so as to include I fie saw mid grist mills
known us Carter's middle mills oil the creek aforesaid, Ihe
line to cross immediately below the mills so as not to impair
the water privilege of ilie saw null immedia'ely below on
taid creek,—(the said pert of said lot to include die sow ami
gmt mills the dwelling lions*', kitchen and otil-liousta now
occupied by said Caner, said part of said lot in supposed to
cuiiiain fifty acres be iliesamc more or less,)—and all that
portion or balance of bit number seven'y-t wo in said dis
trict, lying Mow the line last aforesaid, supposed to con
tain one hundred fifty two mid a half acres more or less,
whereon then* is number saw mill Know n as Carter’s low
er huvv tui 1 !; and one four-wheel carnage and harness, two
carriage-horses a gray and the oilier a hay,) ivvo yoke
uicu, one wagmi ami harness «wn mules, iwb carry-logs,
twenty head of bogs more or less, (bry-five head of cutHe
morKor less, forty-two !»e.;d of goals more or less, one cu.U
in^ knife, seven covvliides, two scythes and cradles, two
l»g clw'itH, one set blacksmith's tools, one pair andirons,
nnr chick, two hrass-botirid water-tubs, four beds, heds*ends
in.I furniture, one secretary, one looking glass, two dozen
chairs, one dressing table, one raru! lesion* I, one pine table,
oncl.it pi ‘lea, dislu s ami knives and forks, one bureau, one
fiiMiuj: 'able, three pails, two tubs, one lot cooking uien-
• i Is ami one large jhji—all levied oil as Him property of Joint
Carter, u> sa isfy ihe following fi fas, to wit: one in favor
of Horn Took vs John t’ar'er and Virgil Walker, assigned
jo Janies il. George, one in favor of the execu'ors of j. D.
Weathers, d veased, vs. John Carter, assigned to James H.
George, one in favor of Ifamor'nl Johnson vs. John Carter,
John Harvey and Alfred Iverson, security, assigned to
James 11. George, one in favor of Armstead Richardson vs
John Carter, phe above issued from the superior court of
Jones county,) one that issued front the inferior court of
Bihb county in favor of Cooke Cowles vs John Carter,
aligned to James II. George, and one in favor of William
J. Howard, endorsee, vs. John Carter, princiual, and Tho
mas S. Dunbar, endorser, and which issued from ihe supe
rior court of Jones coiiniy.
Twenty acres of standing corn and eigltr acr**s of stand
ing cotton—levied on ns. the properly of Alexander B.
Greene, to satisfy a li fa, which issued from the superior
court of Jones county in favor of Alexander Cnnnii'ghani.
Lot of land number one hundred in the sixth district of
June* county, adjoining lands of Reuben Colo—levied on as
the property of iliram Mann, to satisfy a ft fa issued from
the juKiiee* of the five hundred and twentieth district of
Georgia militia in llihh county in favor of Amlrrose George
vs .said Iliram Mann, assigned lo Thomas ('boats: levy
nude ami returned to me by Isbam Ethridge, cons able.
August 25, 1836.
THOMAS S. HUMPH (IIS, deputy sheriff.
COTTON EAGGfNG.
J rST received a prime lot of real HEMP DUNDEE
RAGGING, war ranted to be a first rate article,
which will be disposed of on verv moderpte terms.
JAMES H. SHAH AN.
_ MiVedgerillr, September 6, 1836.—8t-ll
JIEDICAL NOTICE.
| AR. WILLIAM U. LITTLE has removed to
Mdh'dgeviile. Jle will practice Medicine in the va
rious branches of the profession, in this and the adjoining
counties. January 22,1836.—30
>• II. Hr. J. H. tlOlHIW has left at my
office, his Votes and Accounts for collection; those in-
dekted w ill please call and make immediate payment.
March 4, 1836. 36 W. G. L.
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA.
T HE fifth course of lecture* in this Institution will he
commenced on the third Monday (l<th)of October
next, and continue as usual SIX MONTHS. TheCoj-
lege edifice is completely finished. Many valuable addi
tions have been made to the Mn*enm and Chemical appara
tus since the last course. The Leotu'e* will he delivered by
L. A. Dluas, M. D. on Anatomy and Physiology.
L I'n.mnuham, M. D. on the Principles and Practice
A.
of Medicine.
Joseph A. Eve, M. D. on Therapeutics and Materia
Medica.
M. Antony, M. D.on Ohstctricsand dieascs of w’omcn
snd infants.
1 ai l 1-. Eve, M. D. on Principles and Practice of Sur
gery.
Lewis p. Ford, M. D. on Chemistry and Pharmacy.
In addition to the alnive each Professor will, in rotation,
,[ VVT Clinical Lectures one month,
ihe terms are—Matriculation Ticket, to be taken onee,
t'l.i ^ l l ,e full course one hundred dollars,
j icKet lor I rnctieal Anatomy, to l>e taken at least once, ten
dollars. Diploma fee, ten dollars.
, n r ~ WILN W. WILDE, President,
L. U. JrORD. Secretary. 1
Augusta, August 21), IS3G.—4t-0.
iij- .
C I ,EB ® I ‘ EE cn »* AGEXCY.
F i A™, l C 'TF > 7 " m ' rs hls *frvirra to i|, e public ns nn
If,,„l ® n ,r transactioii of business in tl»e (h utral
punk, and m selling Cherokee Lmids.
_ , IIis fees will
!or renewing each Note in Rank
»f Laud, five dollars per tract
be for Agi
one dollar; for effi cling sal
[1ATTNALL SHERIFF’S SALE.—On the
L first Tuesday in Octol)er next, will, within the usual
hours, be sold, l»efore the court-house door in. the town of
Ueid8vil)e, Tattnall county,
One hundred and ninety-five acres of swamp and pine kind
in said county, lying and l»eing on the waters of the AJataraa-
lia, and adjoining lands of Allen Johnson and others, and six
hundred and filly acres of pine land; in said county, lying
and being on the waters of Inman’s creek, and adjoining
lands belonging to Sharpe and Green, and one sorrel horse,
eight head of sheep, one pair of timber-carriage wheels,
two log-chains, one sideboard, one bureau, one table, and
one sugar-boiler—all levied on as the property of Elhanan
M’Cnll, to satisfy a fi fa in favor of the Central Bank, and
one iu favor of the administratrix of Allen Johnson, deceas
ed: property pointed out by the defendant. Conditions,
cash. August 16, 1836.
EDWARD KENNEDY Jun. f sheriff.
A CARD.
MK8. IIUSON informs her friends, that she
TjJjW is again the owner of the EAGLE HOTEL,
*—“l»in Milledgeville—this house was formerly kept by
hetself, but more recently by Mr. M‘Combs. Her patrons
are assured, that nothing, on her part, shall be wanlingto
render them comfortable. February 3,1835.-31
JACKSON IIALL.
The subscriber returns his thanks to his friends
and the public for past favors in his line of busi
ness and hopes to merit and secure a continuance
of their patronage, by strict and uudeviating attention on
the part of himself and family to the wants ami comforts of
ids guests. Ilis Houses are very extensive and commodi
ous, with upwards of fifty fire-places. It is well known
that the best the country affords he will have on his table.
SAMUEL BUFFINGTON.
Milledgeville, Ga. September 26, 1835.-13
CrLOSB HCT3L
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
IIMIE SUBSCRIBER respectfully informs her friends,
-M. and the public, that she has removed to that very con
venient stand ami commodious ESTAISLI&HM.ENT,
formerly known as the UNION HOTEL*, and which
has been occupied for some lime by Mr. Aaron Searcy.—
This establishment, including the oul-buildings, will be pul
in a stale of thorough repair, ami the subscriber is well pre
pared to accommodate BOARDERS, TRANSIENT
CUSTOMERS, and TRAVELLERS. Shesolieits
a share of public patronage, of which she will endeavo
render herself and her establishment worthy, by an ample
stock of the best supplies, and hy the most assiduous alien
tion to the wonts and comforts of her customers.
January 8. 1836.—28 NANCY J. GODWIN.
tmninnt^V ^ s ^ at ,° ros idem*e in the Cherokee country and
P^enuuuiun in the Surveyor General - * Office, pecul arly
wm for tin* agency.
JiyFrr"'""* m "" t romn no8t-nai<I,or tlicv will
IS3f, 11 e " f "’ ,n tl,c pu*l-ufl*ce. Mnicdg. ville, April 26,
JOHN BREWSTER.
CMTUAl BANK OF <S 130140iaT”
MILL EDGE VILLE.
I jt umlersignefl officers of this Bank will liercnltor at-
RENEWAL of all NOTES that may
1,01 l ai, £* ,e ' r tar, *t f ur 'he cusiomary fi« of ONE
nnd Mnn'-< < ’ ar *‘ rell0wa l- Loiters enclosing Note
lhe“C)ir url ^° fenewal of notes, post-naid, directed lo
at tlii-ii "i*! ** ,e Central Bank of Georgia,” or any one
liventiiiti^I “P r °ruplly aiteiided to. The old Note, No-
tttrlu si 1,'vi i ' ou ’’ W ’*J< in ol * t'a*c», be forwarded by tlie
-4 f lwt taiul. August 19. 1H35.
C. 6. .MILLS, Cm-4ier,
W. J. DAVIS, Teller.
8 L. U. BUCKNER, Di*cmtnt Clerk,
B. H. HE\’NOLDS, Hook-Keeper.
T „P , . acencvT
i„t, will attend tu the renewal of Notes
for carl' 1 < ' < r " ra * at the usual fee of One Dollar!
ofliecs ' r VT V:i ' - The y aim pass through Ihe several
snd rc, * urw anl gn-nts at one dollar for n single grant,
f; om y.cents each where raore than one is requested.—
du«i nJ'lrcsscil to them jointly or separately,
‘Post-paid) h,|l be p un c, ua l|y attended to.
wn , JOHN G. PARK,
ri'UedgevtU, April 15, 183S.-U 1*ETER jfAlR.
ee>
DRUGGISTS,
MACON, GA.
T Hfs SUBSCRIBERS (former partners of Ellis,
Shot well, & Co.) have resumed their business
under the above firm, at (heir old stand opposite the Brick
Tavern, and will keep a general assortment of Drugs, Me
dicines, Surgical and Medical Imtrmnents, Paints ami Oils,
of all kinds. Window Glass, assorted sizes, Glass Ware for
shop furniture, Perfumery, Fancy Articles, Brushes of
every description, Botanic and Patent Medicines, Car
penter’s preparation, also his Essays on Materia Medica.—
Dye woods and Dye stntfs, and a great variety of miscellane
ous Articles, of which they have received a large supply, and
intend keeping their slock constantly replenished, so as to
benblcat all times to supply Dealers. Physicians, Planters
and ot hers, who may favor them with their custom.
Intending to he permanently engaged in this business, the
8uhsoril>er8, from their long experience, hope to render it
worthy the patronage of old and new customers. Orders
by letter will meet the same attention as if made in ncreon.
HENRY SHOTWELL,
JACOB SHOTWELL.
N. B. GARDEN 8CEDS, assorted, warrantedJresh.
A liberal discount made to country dealers.
February 27, 1836.-eovvtf-36 II. & J. S.
coxnissioV misixEss.
T HE subst ribers have connected themselves Ibr the
purpose of transacting a general Factorage and Com-
nrssion Business in the Ciiy of Savannah, under the firm of
X. A W. 11A RDEE, ami solicit the patronage of their
friends ami the public, and hone by unremitting attention
and assiduity to meet the approbation of those who may
favor them with their business. They will make liberal
advances on cotton, goods, or oilier property placed in their
hands for sale. NOBLE A. HARDEE,*
WILLIAM R. HARDEE.
REFERENCES.
Messrs. Cowles & Ward, Milledgeville.
iUoeoia. Ouonr. rSu Ouni.r.a, >ft > uu.
Mr. John Uawles. Havvkmsviile.
Savannah. August 23, 1836i-9-6t
FI RE-PROOF WAREHOUSE:
Comm ixsioti ISnsincHs.
C5TOVAI.I,, SIMMONS A CO. lender their sin-
rere liiaiiks to their friends and the Jiuhlie, for the lib
eral l’ntlounge conferred on them, in their WARE-
IlOl'SE AN I) COMMISSION I! IS! NESS, for
Vi",rs nasi, and res|icc.fu'ly renew the oHer of their servi
ces. nroinisirtg their conliiiiied cllur.s, for the promotion of
I he interests of I heir nairons. They are prepared to afford
the usual advances on COTTON, <fce. consigned lo their
rare, as heretofore. Augusta, August 8, 1836.-91-11121-7
ROCKWELL X KENAN,
A TTORNE YS A T LA W,
MIIiLEDGEVILIiE, GEORGIA,
H AVING Iininnl their PROFESSIONAL INTE-
K ESTS, will attend to business entrusted to them
in the Counties of the Ocmu'g^e Circuit, in the County of
Hancock of the Northern, Washington of the Middle,
Twiggs on j Laurens of the Southern, and Houston, Bibb
and Momoeof the Flint Circuits; also in the Federal Court.
Their office is oil the second floor of the Masonic Hall.—
Julv 19, 1836. SAMUEL ROCKWELL,
5 M l. KENAN.
POETRY.
THE DYING FLOWER.
BY FREDERICK RUCKERT.
Ilavo hope; why shouldst thou not?—the trees
Have hope, and not in vain.
Stripped by the rough unfriendly breeze,
That spring shall come again.
Thou loo, within whose secret bud
A life has lurked unseen,
Shalt wait till spring revive thy blood,
And renovate thy greeti.
“Alas! no stalely tree am I,
No oak, no forest-king,
Whose dreams of winter prophecy
A speedy day of spring.
A daughter of an humble race,
A (lower of yearly blow.
Of what 1 was remains no trace,
Beneath ray tomb of snow.”
And if thou wert the frailest rerd,
The weakest herb that grows,
Thou needsl not fear: God gave a seed
To every thing that blows.
Although the winter’s stormy strife
A thousand limes bestrew
The sod with thee, thou chnst thy life
A thousand times renew.
“Y’eSj thousands after me will blow
As fair—more fair Ilian 1,
No end can earth’s green virtue know,
Blit each green thing must d»e.
Though they shall share in mine, no share
In their life waits for me,
Myself have cImaged—ilie t lungs that were,
Are not, no more may be.
“And when the sun shall shine on them
That shines on me so bright,
What boots their colored diadem,
To me sunk deep in n’»ghl?
That sunk, whose cold and frosty smile
Mocks at my honors brief,
Seems lie not beckoning 1 lie while
A future summer’s chief?
“Alas! why did my leaves incline
Unto thy faithless ray?
For while mine eye looked into thine,
Thou filched my life away.
Thou shall not triumph o’er my deaths
My parting leaves I close
Upon myself—receive my breath,
Not thou that caused my woes.
“Yet dost thou melt my pride away,
Cliange into tears my stone!—
Receive my fleet life of a day.
Thou endless one alone!
Yes! thou hast made my pride to pass,
Mine ire hast sunned away;
All that I am, all that 1 was,
1 owe it to thy ray.
“Each zephyr of each balmy morn
That made me b rent helper fume,
Each sportive moth on bright wing borne
That danced around my bloom,
Each shining eye that brighter shone
My ma^ic hues to see,
These purest joys I owe alone,
Eternal One, to thee!
“As with thy stars thou didst begirlli
The never fad ing blue,
So didst thou deck thy green of earth
With bright flowers ever new.
One breath 1 have not drawn in vain
For thee—be it no sigh!
One look 1 have for earth s thir plain,
One for the welkin high.
“Thou world’s warm glowing heart, be spent
My life’s last pulse on thee!
Receive me, heaven’s bright azure tent:
My green tent breaks with me.
Ilail! to thee, Spring, in glory bright!'
Mom with ihy thousand dyes!
Without regret, I sink, in night.
Though without hope to rise.’*
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mutability of Fortune.—A young lady, a na
tive of Martinique, was on a voyage to France,
with a design of being educated, there, when the
merchant vessel, on board of which she was
passenger, was captured by an Algerine crui-
zer, and taken to Algiers. The poor girl was
at first overwhelmed with affliction at the pros
pect of captivity before her; but as passion
gave way to meditation, it came to her recollec
tion that an old woman had predicted that she
would one day become one of the greatest prin
cesses in the world? “Ah!” exclaimed she, for
superstition was in this instance but the hand
maid of inclination, “it is doubtless so, 1 am to
be a princess. Well, I must not quarrel with for
tune. Who knows what may come out of
this!” So strong did this prepossession grow on
the young lady, t hatere she reached the Barbary
shore, she was as much a fatalist in point of re
signation as any devotee of Islamism could pos
sibly be. The French consul at Algiers im
mediately o fie red to ransom his countrywoman;
but no, she would not be ransomed, for fear of
offending fortune, by resorting to so vulgar a
way of recovering her liberty. So to the se
raglio of the day of Algiers the lady went; and
strange to tell, from his highness’s seraglio she
was sent as a present to the grand seignor, who
was so struck with her beauty and manners, for
in both she was excelling, that he elevated her
to the dignity ofhis favorite Sultana! Such was
the singular rise of the late Sultana Nalide, who
died in eighteen hundred and eighteen, and was
the mother of the present grand seignor.
Attempted Sale of a Wife at New York.—
The New York Sun of Monday, relates the fol
lowing incident. It is another and most melan-
cholly evidence of our obligation to England for
supplying us with paupers, and oppressing us
with the refuse ofher parishes:
On Saturday afternoon an Englishman, who
said his name was Jehiel Jones, that lie was a
mason by trade, and had arrived with his wife
and family, early the present month, made his
appearance in the vicinity of the horse market
with his wife, whom he had tied by the arm with
a handkerchief, and who walked a little in his rear,
with downcast eyes, and her hands clenched lie-
fore her. Behind them both followed three lit-
tie children, apparently of ihe ages of five, four
and three years, the middle a boy, barefooted,
and in rags. The clothing of the mother, who
was in her stockingfeet, though ragged, appear
ed cleanly; her hair was smoothly disposed of,
and her appearance was decidedly to her ad
vantage. Site might have been twenty-eight
years old, but not more; the husband was per
haps five years her senior. In this fashion
they walked about the vicinity of the market
more than an hour before they were spoken to
by any person, though the singularity of their
appearance and movements attracted the notice
of a good many. Curiosity finally prompted
several individuals to accost them, and in reply
to their queries Jones stated that he had brought
his wife there to sell, to provide means for res
cuing the children from starvation. He was
somewhat surprised when told that such things
were not tolerated here, and said it was often
done in England even against the consent of
the wife; and as Mrs. Jones had acceded to the
measure for the sake ofher starving little ones,
he appeared to think it particularly hard that it
it could not be done here. Quite a large col
lection of persons, altracted by the novelty of the
tiling, soon gathered about them, amongst whom
r conrrihiitifm, amouutiiig 10 nearly six dol
lars, was made and presented to them—which
sum they appeared to consider almost a princely
fortune. Oneof thegentlemen presentgavethis
distressed family a shelter in his barn, till some
thing better could be done for them, and they
were soon supplied by families in the vicinity
with food and covering sufficient to make them
comfortable over Sutiday.
It appeared from their statement that they
had been transported to this country by the pa-
rish authorities of Bristol, by whom they had
been maintained for several months, a white
swelling on his leg having disabled the father
from labor. He is now, however, already, re
covered from his lameness, and will soon be able
to go to work, of which he soon will have abun
dance, and good pay.
London Police.—London, under the police
system of Sir Robert Peel, is the the best go
verned city in the world, and yet the police
man has not a weapon in his hands. Polite
ness.—Address is the weapon with which he
acts. If two persons are quarreling, and a
crowd is gathering, he steps up as an uninte
rested party, and calmly asks, iflic cannot settle
the difference, with a “let me be the judge, gen
tlemen, or sir.” Knowing all the regulations of
the city, a word from him is law with the
coachman, and a sign from him, a single mo-
tion ofhis finger, will keep in order a line of
carraiges a mile long. If a stranger seeks to
find out a place, or a citizen au obscure part of
the town he accompanies him, or directs him
with pleasure. Thus the police being made po
lite and useful, becomes popular too. Theif
moral strength is double that of their physical
power.
A Dilemma.—We reached Alstettcn to
breakfast. It is a quaint, small, and old town,
at the foot of the Am Stoss, with many of
the painted houses I have described; and wide
wooden arcades in the principal streets. Here
we encountered a serious difficulty; we could
not make ourselves understood. Our German
was by no means classical: and English, Italian
and French were all Hebrew to the good peo-
pie of the inn. The coachman was from one of
the Bernese valleys, and spoke habitually as
pu re a patois as heart could wish. But even his
patois would not do; for the patois of this district
would own no fellowship with that of this lin-
gust.
In this dilemma I was thrown upon the lan
guage of nature. It was r.ot difficult to make
the hostess understand that we wished to eat.—
Cafe, as good luck will have it, like “revolu
tion,” is a word of general use in these luxuri
ant times. So far, all was well—but “wlial
would we eat?” We were sufficiently hungry
to eat any thing; but how was one to express
“any thing” by signs? It might be interpreted
so easily into “every thing!” In this crisis I be
thought me of a long-neglected art, and crowed
like a cock. The shrill scientific strain had
hardly reached the ear of the good woman be
fore it was answered by such a peal of laught
er as none but village lungs could raise.—
W , who is an admirable mimic, ran after
the convulsed party, (two or three girls who
had beeh anxiously wailing the result,) and be
gan quite successfully to cackle like a hen.—
He was answered by screams that, I think,
must have fairly ascended to the Am Stoss.—
In duo time, we had a broiled fowl, an omelette,
and boiled eggs; but, to the last moment, none of
the womenkind could look at us without hear
ty bursts of merriment. To be srue, it was
droll enough to hear hunger bursting out spon
taneously in these paroxysms of natural elo
quence.—Cooper's excursion in Switzerland.
Police Office, August 13.—Extraordinary
Case of d Female Husband.—A paragraph ap
peared in this paper on Saturday relative to a
female who was found intoxicated in the street,
on Friday night, dressed in men’s clothes.—
The aceount she gave of herself turns out to
be also false, or at least sh? has since told a
different story, in consequence of a farther and
more extraordinary discovery having been mad j
in relation to her. On Saturday morning a de
cently dressed woman called at the po!ic: office
and asked to see James Walker, (the name by
which the female called herself before her sex
was discovered,) whom she said was her hus
band.
This woman was informed of the discovery
which had been made, and was permitted to
see the person in question, to whom however
she declined speaking, and went away. In
consequence of this occurrence, James, or ra
ther Jane Walker, was again brought before
the magistrate, and underwent another exami
nation, in which site stated that she was a
native of Liverpool: that her real name 13
George Moore Wilson, and that George is a
name commonly given to females in Eng*
land: that both her parents died when she was
very young, and that when she was twelve
years o'd, in consequence of being ill-treated
by her friends, she run away from them, put
on boy’s clothes, and made her way to Scot
land, the native place of her parents. When
she arrived there, she went to work in a facto
ry, still retaining her boy’s dress, and remain
ed in it until she had nearly arrived at man
hood, when she married a Miss Eliza Cummings,
with whom she set sail for Quebec two days af
ter their marriage. A few days after her mar
riage, she imparted the secret of her sex to her
wife; hut not withstanding this, the two females
have lived together ever since as man and wife.
Fifteen years have passed since their union,
during which time it appears they experienced
a great variety of fortune, but kept the secret
of the husband’s sex so well, that it never before
transpired, and remains even unknown to the
wife’s father, who has resided for some years
will) them.
As the first account which Ihis woman gave
of herself appears to he false, this one may be
also untrue—but it stands corroborated to a cee-
tain extent by the wife having called to see her
on Saturday, and by the vexation and rage shr
evinced on hearing that her husband’s sex was
discovered; and also by a marriage certifi
cate having been found on the prisoner’s per
son, certifying that the marriage was solemniz
ed at the time and place which she stated
her examination. The Magistrate con
sidered the matter altogether so exiraordinary,
that lie has detained her until it can be more
filly inquired in'.o.—Nw York Journal oj
Commerce.
own words—“One hundred and sixty-eight pea. who seemed to be grieved at the matter
sons WPri? tnk’nn nut nf l.iiYnmhniirnr in nno nirrht i 1 1 i °
that he had been at a war dance at the
Upper Kickapoos village, not more than
five miles from this post, where there was
a great rejoicing at the success of the
Seminoles against our troops in Florida,
which was proclaimed in most animated
language between the pauses in the dance,
by the chiefs, and bravos which were en
gaged in it; and at which they boldly de
clared that the time was near at hand
when the whites would be entirely sub
dued, and the red men restored to their
country.
It is a well known fact that such dances
as the one above described, are generally
the prelude to acts of outrage and vio
lence, and at the upper village of the
Kickapoos, was the wandering band be
fore spoken of in this letter, had never
been very friendly disposed to the white
people.
1 also send you a copy of a letter from
major Brant to me, upon the of
the horse equipage of this post, from
which you will perceive the great desi
deratum is soon to be remedied, and that
we will, of course in a short time be able
t) perform any tour of duty, which we
may he ordered to perform.
I have the honor to be, with the high
est consideration of respect and esteem,
your most obedient servant.
M. DUNCAN,
Captain Dragoons,
Command trier Fort Leavenworth.
sons were taken out of Luxembourg in oae night,
and a hundred and sixty of them executed the
next day. amongst this number my uame was
included; and the manner I escaped the guillo
tine is curious, having all the appearance of ac
cident
“The room in which I was lodged, was on the
ground floor, and one of a long row of chambers
under a gallery, with tiiedoor opening outwards
flat against the wall; so that, when it was open,
the inside of the door appeared outward, and the
contrary when it was shut.
“When persous by scores and hundreds were
to be taken out of the prison for the guilotine, it
was allways done in the night; and those who
performed that office had a private mark, by
which they knew what rooms to visit and what
number to take. The doot of my room was
marked one morning unobserved by me, when
it was open and flat against tbe wall: being clos
ed in the evening, the fatal line of chalk" came
inside—and thus the destroying angel passed by.
—A few days after this Robespierre fell, and
Mr. Munroe arrived to reclaim me, and to invite
me to his house.” Extracted from letter 111. to
the Citizens of the United States.
The Whitakers.—'flic tragedy which hap
pened last spring iu New Orleans, is probably
fresh in the minds of our readers, hut the par
ticulars attendant on it, which wo give below,
have never been published, probably for the
substantial reason, (bat the lives of the editors
of that city, had they published them, might
have been the forfeit.
The Whitaker family, noted desperadoes, re
side at a considerable distance from New Or
leans, on the Mississippi, and are tbe terror of
that part of the country. Young Whitaker, the
convict and suicide, is said to have been obnox
ious to the censure of his brothers, on account
of his timidity, although he had committed
at least one murder previous to that of
which he had been convicted. The latter
was perpetrated in a bar room, on the person
of the keeper, because he did not wait on him
quick enough. Whitaker drew his knife and
stabbed him to the heart.
He was arrested, tried, convicted and son.
toned vo dooth. 'rue mmily, consisting of the
father, mother, two brothers and a sister, re
paired to New Orleans with the determination
of effecting his rescue, or putting him to death
with their own hands. Our informant states
that the eldest brother told him that he paid the
keeper of the prison $6000 to be instrumental
in his liberation. It is true that he sawed off
the bars of his prison window, and was in the
act of running off, when he was retaken and
carried back to jail, where he was more closely
confined than before. The day of execution
drawing near, and little chance being left that
he would gain his freedom, his family deter
mined that the gibbet should lose its victim.—
They therefore furnished him wllh laudanum,
which was either not taken by him, or failed in
its intended effect. lie was atferwards visited
by one of the family, who put into his hands a
knife of peculiar construction, (a pattern of
which we have seen,) such as are carried by the
assassins of that portion of the country, with an
injunction to use it on himself; and the whole
family have been seen on their knees at
prayers, invoking God that he might not die a
coward.
A short time previous to the day on which
he was ordered to be hanged, he made two at
tempts on liis left breast, with the instrument
given him, but his courage failed. He was
goaded on to the fatal deed by his brother, and
lie plunged it between his ribs seven inches in
depth, perforating his heart. This knife, cov
ered with his blood, is now held by his father
as a trophy of honor. The body was delivered
up to the family, taken home, and buried with
military honors.
To show the utter recklessness of this horri
ble crew, they have sworn that the governor,
who refused to pardon him, the jailor who con
fined him, and the judge who sentenced him,
shall die by their hands; and even the sister
declares that if these deeds are delayed, she
will train up her little boys for the purpose of
putting them to' death. This fiendish woman
had armed herself for the purpose of assassin
ating Iter brother on the way to execution, had
lie failed himself to perform the deed.
But the whole of the story is not told. The
family immediately on hearing the death of the
young man, employed a gentleman of this city
to take a cast of his face in cement, and to pro-
cure a bust to be made from it. The cast was
taken while the body was yet warm, and a
young man who accompanied him, executed
the bust, which was considered an admirable
likeness, for which they agreed to pay him a
hundred and ten dollars. After repeated ap
plications for the money, which was not paid,
the family having returned home, he left the
city, repaired to their residence, and demanded
the amount promised him. The elder brother
bade him be off) or he would kill him, and
drew his knife, but his purpose was prevented
by the interposition of his mother. The young
man mounted his horse, and was returning to
New Orleans; but was intercepted next eve
ning on the road by two of the Whitakers,
painted and disguised. They first insulted him
by asking him who l>e was, whence he came,
&c; but he, knowing their object, drew a pis
tol, and shot one of them dead on the spot.—
He fled, soon after abandoned his horse, and
took to the woods, where he secreted himself
during the day, and travelled by night. An
hour after his arrival at New Orleans, he had
been preceded by the remaining Whitaker and
another person, who inquired for him at his
lodgings. His landlord kindly informed him of
the fact, and placed him on board a ship bound
to Mobile, at which place he arrived in safety.
America Sentinel, August 13.
Remarkable Escape.—The celebrated political
writer Thomas Paine, was a member ibr Calais
in the National Assembly, after the French rev.
olution. When Robespierre came into power,
be was arrested and carried to prison, no reason
of any consequence being assigned for this Itarsh
treatment. The event is thus, recorded in his
INTERESTING LETTER FROM CAPTAIN DUN
CAN TO COLONEL KEARNEY.
Fort Leavenworth, May 16, 1836.
To Lieutenant Col. Stephen IF. Kearney.
Sir—I send an express to inform } r ou
that war has already broken out upon our
South Western boundary', in order that
you may dispose of the troops under my
command, with a full knowledge of all
the information I have received in relation
thereto.
Thomas Waterbury, one of the eight
persons who started irom Fort William,
the trading establishment of Messrs. Bent
and St. Vrain, which is about ten miles
above the mouth of ltio de las Animes,
upon the Arkansas river, and ninety miles
below where that river issues f-om the
Hockey Mountains, arrived at this post on
Saturday last, who states that twenty-
eight day's ago, the party to which he be
longed, were attacked near the Santa Fee
track, on the Arkansas river, about fifty
miles below Chouteau’s island, by a war
party of Indians about two hundred strong,
who had with them neither horses or
squaws; and were armed with guns,
bows, arrows, and spears, who killed
three of their number. The persons kill
ed were from Vascot and Stublest’s Fort
on the Platte river, one of whom was by
the name of Palmer, another Godwin; the
sir name of the other he did not know;
but his Christian name was Charles. The
Indians who committed the outrage had
their faces painted red, wore long hair
tied down their backs, which I know to
be the fashion of the Kioways, and as they
arc represented to be tall, handsome men,
I should pronounce them at once to belong
to that nation, if they had not made the
attack on foot, as the Kio ways generally'
fight on horse back. My informant did
not know the nation to whom those In
dians belonged, nor did any of his party
wl»<v J C-r *cl l.l ,1 II 1^1 I lllCV
were well acquainted with the Blackfeet,
Snakes, Arrapahocs, Chians, Arrickras,
Sioux, Cutthroats, and Gros Ventres of
the parairie- I am therefore inclined to
believe that those Indians (although they
were dismounted when they made the at
tack) were either Camanches, Pawnee
Picks, or Kioways, and Irom the descrip
tion, I should presume the latter.
Waterbury also states that a few days
before he left Fort William a war party of
Chians and Arraphroes combined, and
arrived at that place with twenty-two
scalps, which they had just taken from
the Arrikaras near the south fork of the
river Platte.
In addition to this I have just learned
from a gentleman, in whom every reliance
is to be placed, that a Delaware Indian by
the name of Cohon, who had just return
ed liom an excursion to the south, states
that he was at a council held by the
Creeks and Cherokees, to take into con
sideration a proposition which had been
made to them by the Mexican General
Santa Anna who was pushing his con
quest with unparalleled success in Texas,
which country they soon would subdue,
when it was his intention to attack Lou
isiana and continue his conquest as far
north as St. Louis, as he considered the
country' south of that place as belonging
to his government. He told the Creeks
and Cherokees that he had a very large
foot, and that he did not wish to press any
of his red brethren under it; and that if
they would join his standard, he would
give them as much land as they wanted
in Texas so soon as he had exterminated
the ungrateful intruders from that coun
try'. Cohon also stated, that the Creeks
and Cherokees treated the proposition of
the Mexican general with great contempt,
that they had trampled his letter under
foot, and sent word to him that they had
a country' of their own, which they were
able and willing to.defond, and as to his
big loot that they would take care not to
get under it. -
Cobin also states that the Camanches
and the tribes near our lines and that of
Mexico had joined general Santa Anna :
and that the Osages, the wandering hands
of Kickapoos, who are now ranging be
tween the Osage and Arkansas rivers with
several other small bands near the Neosho
and the Arkansas lines, determined to
join the standard of the Mexican geneval,
in the bloody conflict which is now carry
ing on against Texas, as well as that
which he contemplates against what he
calls upper and lower Louisiana, in our
own country.
I give this information as I get it. I
have seen Sohon—he is married to a
Shawnee woman; resides mostly with his
wife’s nation, is a successful and enter
prising trapper; but with all this, I could
not consider information derived from him
or any other Indian of sufficient impor
tance for an official communication to you,
if the statements he had made were not
confirmed in jj part by the information a-
bove refitted, as well as from the letter of
general Gaines to general Arbuckle, which
I did myself the honor to forward to you
by express a few days since.
I have also learned from the Rev. Mr.
Berryman, that he was told by the pro-
phet of the Kickapoos a few days since,
CREEK CAMPAIGN.
Lumpkin, August 25, 1S35.
Major Gcnerel John W. A. Sanford:
Sik—After your departure from Baker coun
ty, 1 continued to scour the swamp and execut
ed the order left by you, for the temoval of the
treops to the head of Spring creek. Captain
Hontz’s in obedience to your order, charging
him specially with reduction of the Indians
fought 6y me on the fifth of this month, eon-
tioued his pursuit of their trail to Flint river,
where they crossed, near Newton. lie sent
me back an express, stating the fact. In the
mean time, 1 had the same day 1 received the
express from Ilentz, before the express arrived,
gene in company with Mr. Tompkins and How.
ard of Baker county, and a considerable ntim.
ber of my own men, and pursued the trail of
the Indians from near my battle ground, to
where they crossed Spring creek, near where
it runs into Chickasahatchie; wo found the trail
so much larger than we expected, that all ex
pressed astonishment at the fact, that I should
have believed I fought only sixty or eighty In-
dians, as you recollect I verbally reported to
you at the lime. Who could have induced you
to think, general, that there were only fifleenor
twenty? I cannot imagine, or is it a matter of
any moment. I only mention the fact to cor
rect it, believing as I do, that you would be
gratified to know the truth. I requested Mr.
Tompkins, Howard and Greer, with others, to
count the principal entering places of the trail
as the Indians went into the creek, and there
were twelve different trails of at least an ave-
_1 .u_.
•Nt
ed. Convinced of the fact, that Ilentz was
pursuing a body of Indians he could not con
quer, 1 at once determined to follow him and
overtake him if possible, although he had been
gone several days. On my return to camp,
and while I was stating the facts to my officers,
his expr. ss arrived; it was near night. I issued
my order for captains Greer and Sledge, to
prepare to march early next morning. They
done so.
We set off on the tenth of this month, went
thirty-five miles that night to West’s, near
where the Indians had robbed a house on the
line of Baker and Thomas counties: here we
were joined by captain Everett and his eom-
pany from Decatur county. We could get no
.pilot. There were but few people living in the
settlement. Mr. West was so much alarmed,
he could not tell us the way to his son-in-law’s
house, two miles off, the one that was robbed.
We started on the eleventh, as early as we
could see, and found our way to the house.—
Here we took the trail of a company of horse,
men, who had gone up north, to a station, in
stead of Hentz’s trail, and went twenty miles
out of our way. Finding we were wrong, and
fearing we should not be able to right ourselves
in time to overtake Ilentz, I ordered captain
Sledge to return to camp Alford. With cap
tains Greer and Everett, and their companies,
we took the general course of the Indians, and
fortunately landed at night in half a mile of the
right trail, but unfortunately only ten miles from
where wc started; here we camped at a deep
steep creek, which I called camp Greer, in hon-
or of my officer, who had that day, when the
hope of overtaking the Indians was very faint,
still resolved to follow me, if I continued to go
ahead. Ilentz was a long ways ahead, but so
soon as the sign was right, we pursued him with
all possible speed. On the 12th, wc passed two
of the Indian camps and several large creeks,
the head waters of Oakalockney and the Oka-
pilca; joined (^day by captain Newman and his
company from Thomas county. Force in
creasing, trail warm, men ardent, all anxious
for battle. About 3 o’clock in the evening, we
saw before us, a house with many people all
seemed to he greatly excited; tit our approach,
and when we were still fur offi I mentioned to
our boys, that from the strange appearance of
things all was not right; we galloped up, and the
first to salute us was one of captain Ilentz-’s
men, badly wounded. lie informed us, that at
eleven o’clock that day, they had attacked the
enemy in a branch and had been compelled to
retreat: the battle ground was four miles off,
ana captain HSnlz, after being reinforced, had
gone back about two hours, to try it again.—
Henfz’s defeat, with the sight of his wounded
men, created a great sensation in our ranks.—
All the men and officers manifested the most ar
dent wish to retrieve the fortuncsof the day and
punish the enemy; we strained our horses to the
battle ground; the Indians had gone and Ilentz
after them; wc pursued them till night, camped
at Fulsom’s; heard of Ilentz two miles ahead.
After we camped, I procured a pilot and found
his camp—his men manifested great joy at my
arrival, and truly, general, if there was any
fight in me, 1 felt it then* Tlte cowards that
bad refused to fight that day, had all run home,
and here were a few brave fellows encamped
near the enemy, mortified at defeat, swearing
they, would whip the enemy or die in the at
tempt; the citizens who had joined them in the
day, had left them at night; it was now dark
and getting late in the night. I ordered them
to remain in the morning, until I came up, and
returned to my camp. The story of the fight
is easily told. The Indians seeing they would
be overtaken by captain Ilentz, had formed an
extended line in a small branch swamp, where
two branches ran together, making a narrow
swamp of thick bushes, nearly in the shape of a
half circle, with an open pine woods lo enter it.
The line, if straight, would (in the language of
all that gave an opinion) have been at least
five hundred yards Jong: of course, as is usual
with them, they were in open order to extend
their flanks. Their number of warriors must,
have been at least eighty strong, with the ad-_
vantage of the eovert of the branch swamp r% \
their pick of the ground an<I superior numbers*
That portion of captain Hentz’s company that ^
would fight, could not maintain their ground*-***
The brave Tinsley, (our pilot in Chick
hatchi,;,) and those that fought with him, v
compelled to retreat, after having five men barf
ly wounded. Their number was about thirty,
as well as I could learn, and I would mentiov
every name if I could do so, witlKHkleaving out
any, but I do not know them all, and therefore
had better not undertake it, least some bravo
fellow- might have his feelings wounded, by not
being known. The balance of the command
run and never came back. At three o’clock ou
the 13:h, I was on my horse, with my command;
we came up to Heniz’s t ommand before light, .
on the banks of the Withlacoochy proper, here "
called Little river, the eastern branch being
called Withlacoochy improperly, (see map of
Georgia,) I kept my command in the rear some
distance, and so soon as we could see the trail,
scut Hentz’s company in pursuit, I toping the In
dians would recognize them, and not seeing us,
.•ubiiUfigtH again—wc followed near enough to
be ready in that went to help-. The night be
fore, the enemy had cic«. se j ;he river, killed two
beeves and rccrossed and e^nped on the same
side with Hentz, in tlio river swuiivp; W e of coure
lost much time in trailing them, t*» their fox
like chase. About ten o'clock, we received
news of them going down the river on the west
side; we strained off' after them, crossed at a
bridge where they had just passed. Several-
companies had now joined us, (to wit.) captain#
Night, Pike, Grantham, Burnett and many citi
zens without officers. The people of Lowude#
and Thomas counties, are a gallant set of men,
and acted most prompt!}' indeed, submitted
themselves to my command most cheerfully,
and acted with us like good citizens ought to do,
when theircountry is invaded. Major Hall and
Strictland and colonel Blair of Lowndes county
was in the field. The pursuit was bold and im
petuous. 'fhe Indians entered the river swamp
about four miles below the bridge, where it is
wide and deep; not knowing our ground, we
followed on horseback, on the trail made by
their horses, (they had stolen three horses the
night before the battle with Ilentz, and captur
ed eight from his company in the fight.) The
Indians crossed the Withlacoochy in the swamp,
where there was no ford; so did we.
They penetrated the very thickest parts of
the swamp, in hopes to hide; we followed then*;
they crossed deep Lagoons, which by the irme
we came along, had no bottom; we floated our
horses over after them; finally our advance, an
nounced the fact that we had overtaken then*-
I ordered tbe men to dismount and charge—
when we came up, the Indians had thrown
away their clothes and provisions and abandon
ed their horses, and fled in every direction; wc
retook the horses taken from captain Hemz’a
men, as well as from the citizens, and returned
them to their owners. The soldiers done what
they pleased with the plunder. We con d not
pursue the enemy any further now: they had
scattered and run off in the swamp in every di
rection, we hunted for them in vain until night
—camped at Mr. Ticker’s. The soldiers and
citizens put up at liouses nearest the swamp;
nothing to eat today for man or horse. To-
d»y, the 14th, captain Greer and his company
rested. I pressed a fresh horse, and with my
fi-Ipiy) OfraVns K'i»o r»ovx;i liica, I WBIll bilCk to
the swamp, arranged the various companies
who had repaired to scour the swamp. Today,
captain Newman’s company came upon the
rear, or flank guard of the Indians, and in sight
of one of their warriors fired eight or ten guns
after him as he run, do not know whether he
was hit or not—could see no more of them to
day. Determined never to desist so long an
there was any hope, I issued my order for all to
lie tis near the swamp as possible, for hunger
forced them to go some where to get something
to eat, and to he at the swamp by suurise, and
all that were not there by one hour by sun, dol
to come at all—the order was promptly obeyed
anJ captain Greer’s company and all the other
companies were thereat the appointed time; we
rushed into the swamp, and after plunging for
an hour, wc heard guns fire at our horses; we
supposed at once that the Indians had made an
attack on the guard left to take care of the
horses; I ordered every man to rush to the spert,
and on arriving, an express was the occasion of
the firing, with information that the Indian*
were seen that morning four miles below, going
towards grand bay, on the eastern branch of
Withlocoochy. We pursued at the top speed
of our horses—just before we came to tbe
place where they were seen, there came upon
us a heavy thunder shower, and we could not
trail them well, i am of opinion they had se
parated to meet at grand bay, a most extensive
and impenetrable swamp, in the direction of
Oakafouokce swamp. By the aid of several
good trailers, we pursued tiieir sign with much
difficulty to the river, and saw where a few of
them had crossed, but never could trail them
any further that day. All agreed that if they
got to grand bay, wc coulJ not drive for them
successfully, and tire citizens urged upon us to
desist, and let them watch lor their inarch from
the swamp and cut them off between there and
Oakafonokce, be that when it might. I gave
up the chase and returned to Roundtree’s house,
where I was kindly treated in my most exhaust
ed and debilitated condition. My staff was with
me—captain Greer was at Hall’s, several miles
on our return march. In two nights and a
whole day, I had one cup of coffee only, my
men were but little hotter off’. General, f done
all, and-suffered all that man can doand suffer,
to crush the cruel and the cowardly savage, but
I could not make them fight. I left them on
the further bank of the distant Withlacoochy,
bending their course towards the dismal Oaka-
fanokee—where captain Night of Lowndes
county, informed me he believed all that had
succeeded in escaping had concentrated, pre
paratory to their removal to Florida; he is ■
man of good sense and great energy, and I rely
much uj>on his opinion; indeed, from all that 1
can learn, I am deliberately of opinion, that not
one Indian has gone to Florida. The squaws
I have with me, informed the people at Thom-
asville, that the Indians would stop in Oakals-
nokee two moons, and then go to Florida in *
b idy, and 1 learned in Lowndes, that the signs
around the swamp are fresh and infallible-
in anticipation of your order, I brought the
Indians prisoners with me, on my return march,
and met your express at camp. There are
thirty-one women and children. Eighteen
wore taken at the battle of Bushy creek, to
Lowndes county, where the men and officers
who fought them, distinguished themselves.-**
These were Beall’s Indians. This battle has
been reported in the newspapers, with the offi
cers who commanded. Captain Snelly from
Lowndes, with sixteen men, captured on the
Allapahaw three prisoners and killed tew In
dians. Captain Browing of a station m the up
per part of Thomas county, captured ten wo
men and children, out of the company of In
dians pursued by captain Kendrick. The war
riors of this party we could hear of, or our
march to our left, pursuing the same general
course with all the other Indians I have heard
of. These together, composed the party of
prisoners in my possession, which will he MM
on towards Fort Mitchell this evening. Oil re
turning to my camp iu Baker, 1 found that