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-^SsFSkir**#* : 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