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Moi, August 25, 1823.
appiuhtnded Dr. V/m.
l Walsh, who is supposed to have
murdered yA#Ve,ofColninl,ia
is this state, and lor whose
•ipprehension a large reward was
offered, “as apprehended the t-d
t on board the steam boat Fire
rh- at New-York, and conveyed
to prison, by Mr. Wm. S. Miter,
of that city.
\ trailin'? and >' ullti g of
,tout i>o Americans, commanded by Gen. Ash
i ldft our frontier settlements the past
■’ nrfor the Kooky Mountains. ‘I lie boats
i i!i Hicaree towns £>n the 30tli May,
r mile” above the ( Mnnci! Bluffs.) Tt*e In
, anneared friendly. and deposed to trade
\vishtiitt to send a pait.v over land to
Yellow Stone river, bartered with the In
■ja is for 4(> or 50 horses.
On the 15th June the trade being completed
rhe nartv prepared to start the next morning.
’ y s 'hlcv accepted an invitation to visit
, chief., by whom he was treated
w-tth cverv mark of friendship. 40 of the men
‘ encamped on the beach in charge of the
LorVe-u One of there were killed during the
, i and at sunrise a heavy fire commenced
inon them ar.d the boats, along a line of o<kO
v ; ir .l so f broken ground and picketing, ’the
j orse , were attempted to be crossed over to a
sand bar in the middle of the liver, in which
at'empt several horses and men were killed.—
The men oil shore kept their ground for some
time refusing to embark in the boats sent for
them, but being unable to injure their assail
ant', (hpy were compi fkrd to escape by swim-
Iniim. The boats were gotunder way and drop
pml'ildwn the river. 14 were killed and 9
•vcup.drd. Gen. A proposed putting the boats
:. a -it nation for defence and proceedingupthe
uver, but most of the (.arty refused to. do so
without reinforcement. Me then took a sta
tion a few miles below where the attack was
made, and sent his wounded and disaffected to
the Council Bluffs. Although our government
has no connection with Ashley’s party, Col.
Leavenworth, by order of Gen. Atkinson, mar
ched from Council Bluffs on the 22d June,with
a bodv of .loops and friendly Indians,to punish
tne Ricnras. It is supposed that the attack was
instigated by the British agents or traders, who
hearing of the American expedition, and jeal
ous of American enter pise, adopted that mode
ol checking and arresting it.
The hiearas have about COO warriors, three
foui ttis of whom are armed with London fusils,
and the rest with bows and arrow s. They have
a breastwork fronting the river which would
render the passage of boats very dangerous in
case of their hostility.
Marshal Ney. —An article is go
ing the rounds in the public prints,
by which it appears that the brave
but unfortunate Marshal Nev, who
was shot at Paris on the restoration
of the Bourbons, was an American
by birth, was born near Elkton,
Maryland, and that his proper
name was Michael Rudolph. His
history is briefly this : he commen
ced his military career, and receiv
ed the first rudiments of his educa
tion in Capt. Lee’s dragoon’s of the
Maryland Line during the Revolu
tion, from which he was honourably
discharged.
He was horn in Cecil county, in
that State, and after the period of
his discharge from the army he
removed to Carolina, where he
married ; hut his matrimonial con
nexion rendered him unhappy, on
which he left his family, took a ves
sel to the West Indies, remitted
the proceeds, and declined return
ing to h;s native country : since
which, no trace could be found of
him, untill the French government
tdter the execution of Ney, took
possession of his papers and made
toe discovery. Gen. Lallemand,
when in this country, while travel
hug through Maryland from Phil
adelphia to Baltimore, confirmed
this by a reference to the circum
stance. Sav. Rep.
ihe summernt New-Haven, (says tiro Con
necticut thiis fn. lii.s lieen rcrniirknbly
healthy. It, a population of about 9000 souls,
n °t ! [ ‘lealh has the 20th Juno,
a period of thirty-nine days; and it is not known
. ui, l !, ny person in the place is seriously ill.—
! reason also promises an abundance ot the
culinary productions of the earth.
later account extends the time to fcity-six
U'U s since a death ha occurred in that place.]
Ihe pirate who was recognized
!) v a sailor in the streets of New*
1 °rk a few days since, has been
’ xamined before Judge Van Ness
ol the U. States Di strict Court and
committed for trial in Sept. next.
American Calicoes.— An estab
lishment for printing Calicoes will
shortly be put in operation at “Faun
ton Mass, which, when completed
‘•'ill be a valuable acquisition to the
Cotton Manulacturerers, in that
quarter. At Chelmsford a large
establishment of this description
was put in operation last week, says
t<ic Providence Journal.
from thcMiHidt'mllt R\ jr.hr.
Messrs. Editors: —Some time du
ring t’c last winter, having occasion
to tiavel through a consideiable por
tion of our state, among other aces
my business called me to the Court
house Village of one of our oldest set
tled counties, and it so happened
that 1 arrived there whilst the Infe
rior conn lbr the county was in ses
sion.
Having travelled a greater part of
ihe day without refreshment, and be
ing admonished by limbs benumed
and cramped with cold, 1 was induced
as soon as I arrived, to seek for some
place where I might be sheltered from
the piercing blasts of the chilling wind,
and also to obtain something to sup
port nature. I enquired accordingly,
and was pointed to what was called a
house of entertainment. Towards this
1 immediately shaped my course, and 1
on approaching nearer, I discovered
the house and piazza to be crowded
with persons, some standing, some
sitting, others walking, and all very
busy talking. 1 rode up to the door
and was saluted only with the gaze of
the multitude, who on perceiving me,!
had instantly dropped all conversation
anil the whole seemed lost in astonish-1
mentat the sight of a stranger. No!
smiling landlord hurried out to accost
and bid me a hearty welcome, I, how
ever, impelled by the cold, immediate
ly called out w ith a halloo, and without
addressing myself to any one particu
larly, enquired whether 1 could ob
tain refreshment for myself and horse,
and was answered from the farther
part of the house by a little man, w hom
I could but just discover through the
crowd to be busily engaged dealing
out the exhilerating liquid to numer
ous customers in the affirmative. I
accordingly dismounted, and with
much ado, entered the door, and here
from the unusual throng which I dis
covered in one end of the room, each
with his face turned to a given point in
the wall, and his body pressing sot
ward with all the force of his muscular
powers, I concluded there might be
something like a fire, but as for any
chance that there was for me to get
near enough to be benefitled by it, I
might as well have tried to piess
through a stone wall. Seeing matters
thus, I made my way to another part
of the room, where finding a vacant
seat, I sat myself down, and folding
my plaid around me, made myself as
comfortable as circumstances would
permit; and here I remained til! night
coming on the merry crew began to
disperse, each man having first laden
himself with as much pure grog as
would rather more than serve him for
ballast, so that from being pushed, ami
squeezed, and shoved, with toes tram
pled upon by the crowd, I was soon
left in a lanre room with a comfortable
lire, and not a soul to arrest the cur
rent of undisturbed meditation in
which I was left to indulge myself,
and which it might be supposed would
naturally arise out of the busy scene
which I had so recently been contem
plating.
Here then I enjoyed myself until
supper was announced, and after par
taking of a bit of cold hogs-head and
corn meal dumplings, w ith a mixed
preparation composed of a strong de
coction of red pepper and fermented
rye-liquor, as a substitute for coffee, I
resumed iny seat by the fire and was
pretty soon joined by the landlord, two
young attornies who were attending
the Court, and two or three other per
sons.
The company, who except myself
seemed each to be acquainted with
the others, presently engaged in the
ordinary chitchat of a winter evening’s
fireside, and the evening seemed like-
Iv to pass ott pleasantly, when sudden
ly we were aroused by the noise ap
parently of a number of voices, which
appeared to proceed from a house sit
uated at about an hundred yards dis
tance. Up starts the company, one
and all, as if by one sudden and irre
sistable impulse, and oflfthey dash, all
except myself, toward the place of the
uproar, which seemed to increase at
every moment, until presently out
rushed a number of human forms into
fbe yard which surrounded the house
all in the dark, and vociferating as
they came, in contused exclamations
of ‘ fair play* — 4 no man touch —‘ a
fair fight by G—,* &c. 6tc. In a few
minutes two or three persons, each
bearing a lighted torch, appeared, and
the bustle still increasing, 1 concluded
I would venture my person a little
nearer the scetie of action, and on ar
riving at a convenient distance, I dis
covered by bloody faces, broken noses,
tattered garments, ike. that (lie cause
of tbe uproar was what was termed
“an affray,” which had taken place
between two bullies <>J the field, but
what was the cause of the allray, tho
1 made several enquiries, I could nev r
or learn. And although the two war -
riors seemed heartily tiled of each oth
er, yet the by standers appeared not
tired of them, or at least of the fun,
for they seemed resolved that they
should have a second engagement, or
G they would mit fight, that somebody
else should ; anil they accordingly kept
up their exclamations ol “light gentle
men, light’— ‘ let's have fair play*—
* fair fight,’ &c. until they blew into a
Hame the passions of the whole com
pany, including Sheriffs, Clerks, Law
yers and even Judges of the Court,
which had been in session during the
day.—For there was one at least of
this latter description who, with his
coat stripped off, his shirt sleeves roll
ed up to his shoulders, a stout hickory
stick clenched lust in his hand, and
hi* arms throwing in the air, kept ever
and anon roaring forth in a strain
something like that which follows—
“ Gentlemen, if any of you’ll fight I’ll
be your second”—“ I’ll see anv man
fair play that’ll fight—if 1 dont d—n
me.” “ Fair play, gentlemen ;by G—
let’s have a fight any how.” At length
being goaded on by the tone of feel
ing in those around, the High Sheriff
succeeded in picking a quarrel with
some person present, *vho like himself
had been sacrificing liberally at the
shrine of Bacchus. Their friends ur
ged them on, until presently they
made a pass at each other, but each
dexterously managed to miss his aim.
“ Draw a ring” —“ draw a ring,” was
the cry of one and all, and with this
our noble Judge set himself to draw a
ring on the ground with the end of the
aforesaid hickory stick, but as his head
was turning much faster than his body
could be, which naturally inclined him
nearer and nearer to the centre, anil
lie still going until lie should, as he
thought, get to the place from whence
he had set out, he finally arrived him
self in the middle of that space, which
he had purposed as a ring for the com
batants only; hut the figure which he
had drawn resembled in shape the
mainspring of a watch more than a
ring. Again and again he made the
attempt, and the result was the same,
until at length the two hostile officers
being pacified, he was re
lieved from the necessity of making
any Further attempt by the multitude’s
retiring one by one intotbt honse from
whence they had at first issued, and 1
retired to my lodgings and to bed, not
to sle. p, but to ruminate on the degree
to which civilization has attained in
this moral, religious and enlightened
community. OBSERVER.
Loss of Tie U. S. Ei *§* Lnlerprize.
We regret to learn by the arri
vals from Curacoa, that this fine
vessel of 14 guns, was cast away
on the night of the Bth inst. at Lit
tle Curacoa. The following parti
culars, furnished by a gentleman
onboard, are published in tbe Cur
acoa Conran: of the 12th inst.
N. T. pap.
t; On the morning of the Bth inst.
we swept out of the harbour of
Pueito Cabello, and at 3 P. M. a
light breeze sprung up, at which
time we were still in sight of that
port. At 6 Tucacas hoie W.by S.
we then steered N. by W. until
8 P. M. when we steered N.N.
VV. and ran2B miles until midnight
at which time we kept away N. W.
k W. and after running on that
course about 18 miles, to the utter
astonishment of every officer on
board, we grounded on the S. E.
extremity of Little Curacoa, when
our reckoning made us from 20 to
30 miles from it. The vessel struck
about half after 3 A. M. the weath
er thick, the land not then visible,
and a heavy wind driving her on
the breakers. The sails were fur
led at once, the boats hoisted out,
the kedge, the stream and bower
anchors immediately carried out
with a long scope of cable, and let
go in deep water ; the top-gallant
and topmast housed, the yards
pointed to the wind, and for a short
time we were flattered with strong
hopes of heaving her off; but ow
ing to the increase of the wind in
squalls with a heavy surf,the stream
cable parted, when she rounded to
broadside on the breakers, and
immediately’ bilged and filled.—
The masts were then cut away to
prevent the totally capsizing, and
every effort made to save the crew,
and property public and private,
which, owing to the unexampled
exertions of the officers and crew,
to their perfect subordination,cool
ness and intrepidity, eminently
successful. Every person on board,
most of the rigging, spars, stores,
&c. have been landed, and should
the weather prove calm, the guns
and more of the provisions will be
saved.
“ It is but justice to remark, that
as soon as the accident was known
in this island, every assistance that
humanity cculd suggest, was
promptly afforded by the govern
ment, and by C. L. Parker, Ameri
can Consul.”
In addition to the above, we
may state, that accounts received
yesterday from the wreck say that
all ihe guns had been landed, and
would be brought down to this isl
and, together with the stores be.
saved, in vessels despatched for
that purpose. The officers and
crew were encamped on the
beach. NI ensures have already
been adopted for their relief, and a
brig chartered to transport them to
the United States.
His Excellency the Governor,
on being made acquainted with the
misfortune that had befallen the
Enterprize, immediately tendered
the assistance of the ship ®f war
on the station but was informed
that all efforts to save the vessel
would be unavailing.
INDIANS AND WHITES.
It appears by the following state
ment lrom the Franklin, Missouri
paper of the lTch June, that the
company which lately left that place
on a trading expedition to Santa Fe
have been robbed bv a party of Os
age Indians of nearly all their hor
ses. The lollowing are the partic
ulars of the affair.—“ On the mor
ning of the Ist June, at about dawn
while all the company were asleep
except two, who, not apprehending
danger, had retired from an advan
ced position to the camp fires, they
were alarmed by the discharge of
guns and the yells of the savages.—
Although the guns were discharg
ed towards the encampment, it is
not the belief of those from w hom
our information is received, that
they designed personal injury.—
Their object was to frighten away
the horses, in which they complete
ly succeeded. Being on horseback
they took advantage of the alarm,
and momentary confusion occasion
ed by such an unexpected attack,
and evident appearance of immedi
ate assault, to drive off the horses
unmolested, whose speed was in
creased by shooting and other ex
ertions. Four men pursued them
about ten miles, when their hor
ses failing they were obliged to
desist.
14 The Indians killed several hor
ses during the chase because they
would not keep up. This misfor
tune, by which they lo3t forty-five
horses,being all buteight,took place
over three hundred miles from this
place, on the tvaters of the Arkan
sas. Various circumstances com
bine to fix this outrage on the Osa
ges, who receive regular annuities
from the government, and have a
school among them through its be
nificence and the charity of indivi
duals. ‘1 hey have before been
guilty of similar offences, and have
long been distinguished for their
predatory habits, and are daily be
coming bolder ; and unless checked
by prompt measures, we fear they
will cause a great interruption to
western intercourse. Six men,
who returned for anew supply of
horses, are already on their way
back, so that the enterprize, altho’
subject to vexatious delay and
disappointment, will not be de
feated.
Aielancholy Circumstance —A cir
cumstance (says the Hillsboiough
Recorder) occurred on sundav
morning last, at New Hope, a tew
miles from this place, of a pecu
liarly distressing nature. Mrs.
Kirkland, the wife of Mr. James
Kirkland, with others, had made
application to be baptised,and that
morning was appointed for its ad
ministration. The ordinance was
first performed on Mrs. Kirkland ;
and it was observed by the minis
ter as well as by those on the shore,
.that as he was about laying her in
the water her head fell forward ,
after being raised she made but
one or two gasps, and expired.—
It appears that she had a fainting
fit in the morning ; but the im
mediate cause of her death cannot
be accounted for. By this sudden
dispensation of Providence, a hus
band has been bereaved of his so
lace, and two infant children of a
mother’s care. Mrs. Kirkland was
about twenty-five years of age.
From the Litchfield, Con. Eagle
Some months since, a man now
residing in the state ofNew-Vork,
but formerly in Canaan, in this
county, prosecuted the executors of
an estate in the latter place, on
notes to the amount of several hun
dred dollars against the deceased,
the giving,of which was denied by
the executor. The cause was final
ly left to arbitrators, who set in
Canaan ; several lawyers, one or
two from this village, were ~
ployed in the cause. After cons
derablc proof had been adduced,
and the cause, as is said, likely to
be decided by the arbitrators in
favor,of the claim, one of the coun
sel employed by the executors
against the demand happened’ to
take up one of the notes, and hold
ing it up to the light, discovered
the water-mark of the paper to be
“ Bradleysville, 1820,” or of some
two or three years date, after the
date of (he note. This of course,
at once settled the question that
they were forged. ‘I he plaintiff
soon made his way out of the State,
and the heirs were of course releas
ed from the unjust claim.
Now call ye the taking up of
that note —the discovery of the
date when the paper was made,
which thus led to the certain dis
covery of the forgery—call ye this
chance , the mere happening of
events? Is r.ot the finger of God,
of Divine Providence, most clear
ly to be traced in thus detecting a
villain.
If illiam Temple Franklin , grand
son of Dr. Franklin, and editor of
his works, died on the 15th of May
last, at Paris. The Paris Consti
tutional of the 18th of June con
tains an obituary notice of the de
ceased.
From Hie Reading Chronicle.
A circumstance occurred on the
4th instant that may certainly be
called a wonder, and will stagger
the sceptics, and be good food for
the credulous. Whilst a young
man of this place was sitting where
three men were at work at the
canal, near Mr. Isaac Levans’s
house, there suddenly appeared
two crows, and directly alighted
on the shoulders of one of the work-
men; and continued for a few
seconds to maintain their seats
without any apparent shyness, and
disregarded the man, although he
put up his hand to drive them off—
nor did they fly off till one of the
men attempted to catch them. The
man on whom they alighted, im
mediately’ became pensive and,
quitting his work,exclaimed/ 4 Now
1 know what I have to do,” and
left the contract, although he had
but that morning commenced work
ing there. The other men looked
upon the event as ominous that he
was guilty of some unknown crime,
and challenged him accordingly.—
He neither owned nor denied the
charge, but went off deeply affected.
This event is worth the minute in
quiry of some impartial person.
Raleigh, (N. C.) Aug. 8.
A shocking murder was commit
ted on Stony Creek, in Nash coun
ty, on the afternoon of the 25th ult.
the particulars of which, as stated
to us by a correspondent, are as
follows : Eli Vick went to the house
of Hardy G. Whitfield, for the
purpose of grinding an axe, when
a dispute arose between them, and
Vick having started on his way
home, with the axe upon his shoul
der, Whitfield discharged a gun
at him from the door ; the contents
of which striking him on the neck,
temple and head, his
existence instantly. The coroner
held a jury of inquest over the
body of the deceased, and the offi
cers of justice were immediately
despatched in pursuit of the mur
derer. Whitfield is about 38 or 40
years of age. Star.
“ Histories are wrote of brutish beasts,
“ And men bare lost their reason.”
A pamphlet has lately been published in X.
York, entitled, “An authentic History of the
celebrated American Horse, Eclipse, contain
ing an account of his pedigree and perform
ances, with some general information on tho
subject.”
A lot of ground in the city of New-York, of
about 25 by HO feet, was iateiy sold for 20,500
dollars. An acre of ground at this rate would
cost 1,189,000 dollars.
FOR SALE.
TIIE subscriber has 3500 lbs. of
prime BACON, and
11 Barrels prime PORK, which he
will sell low for cash.
R. McCOMBS.
Aug. 25. 23
NOTICE
OLOMON GROCE will attend to
the individual business of James
11. Holderness, during bis absence
from tiiis state.
GEO. H. BRYAN, will conduct
the business ot Holderness & Bryax.
Macoit, 25th dug. 1823. 23