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Th • f'Hhjw.ag t .le so pleasantly satiri
ses toe i uv of arrest on mesne process we
borrow it with great pleasure from
the I'tondil .V<"o ' Hit'll y of I ist month |
—by tii way a most excellent num
ber: —
“.hice upon a time there lived at Ham
burg a certain merchant ot the name of j
Me r—lie was a good little man, chart- j
tabic to the poor, hospitable to his friends !
a.: : o rwli that he was e.urtmly re spec- j
ted, sp.te of Ins good nature Among
tlia; part of his property winch wSs ves-!
ted in other people’s hands, and called j
debts, was toe-sum of five hundred pounds
owed to him hy the captain ot an Eng
lis i vessel. Tins debt had been so long
-contiaclc 1 ihat the worthy Meyt r began
to vvirh for.. new investment of In-.; capi
ital. lie accordingly r< solved to coo a
trip to i’orisniouth hi which town Cap
tain Jones was then residing, and take
that liberty which m my opinion, should
in a free country never he permitted, viz.,
the liberty of applying for ins mon
ey.
; J.if worthy merchant one bright mor
iiio;! fouml himself at Portsmouth; he was
a stranger to that, hut not unacquainted
nH igetlu.r with the English language.
He lost no tiiii in caiipig on Captain
Jones.
And y:\lV said he to a man mlkiiii lie
asked to show hint to the Captain’s house
vn* in ‘rat is dut fine veshell yon
diiri •?’
‘She he the Royal Solly,' replied tlic
mu i, hound for Calcutta—sails to-mot row
Inii iiere’s Capt. Jones house Sir, and
1 v- li udl you all about it.’
The merchant bowed, and knocked at
the door of a red br.ck house—door green
brass • aocker. Captain Gregory Jones
was a tall man; lie wore a blue coat with
out skirts; he hud high cheek hones small
eyes, and his whole appearance was elo
qu <t of what is generally termed the
bluff honesty of the seaman.
Captain Gregory seemed somewhat
disconcerted at seeing ins friend lie beg
ged for a little further time. The mer
chant looked grave —three years had al
ready elapsed. The Captain demurred
—the merchant pressed—the Captain
blustered—ami the merchant growing
angry, besaiito threaten. All of a sudden
Captain Jones’ maimer changed—he see
med to recollect Irmself begged pardon
said he could easily procure the money,
desired the merchant to go back to his inn
and promised to cal! on him in the course
of the and >y. Mynheer Meyer went home
and ordered a i excellent dinner. Time
passed— his friend came not. Meyer
gr> w impatient, lie had just put on Ins
lint and was walking out when the waiter
tlir w open the door, and announced two
gentlemen,
“ Ah, (lore comes de monish, thought
Mynheer Meyer. The gentlemen ap
proached—the t iller <me whipped out
what seemed to Meyer a receipt. ‘Ah ver
veil, I vdl sign, ver v ill!’
‘Signing, Sir, is useless, you will be
kind enough to accompany us. This is
a warrant for debt, Sir: my house is ex
tremely comfortable- gentlemen of the
first fashion go there—quite moderate,too
only i guinea a day—find your own
wine.’
‘I lo—no—understand, Sare,’ .-aid the
merchant, smiling amiably, ‘lam ver veil
off h te—tank you— ‘
i c i .)Com'*,’ said the other gentle
man speaking for the first time, no pari i
voo Monsoo, you are our prisoner—lhis
is n warrant for the sum of £IO,OOO due
to Capt. Gregory Jones.’
The merchant started the merchant
frowned—but so if was Capt Gregory
Jonas who owed Mynheer M yer, £SOO
ha I arrested Mynheer Meyer, for £lO,-
000: for, as every one knows, any man
may arrest us who lias rouscieu ‘ j enough
to swear that we owe him mo i /. Where
was Mynheer My t. in a s Huge town
to get. bail? Mynheer w tto pr s
-011.
‘D.s be strange way f paying a
man lus monish ;’ said Mynheer Mey
er.
In order to wile away time, our mer
chant, who was wonderfully soc.al, scrap
ed acquaintance vvitii some of his fellow
prisoners. ‘Vat be you in prison for?”
said he ton stoat respectable looking man
who seemed in a violent passion—for
whit crime?’
‘l—sir, crime!’ quoth the prisoner; Sir
I was going to Liverpool to vote at the
election, whe > a friend of the opposite
candidate's had me suddenly arrested for
£2,900. Before 1 get the bail the elec
tion will be over.
‘Vat’s that you tell me? arrest you to
prevent your giving an honest vote! is that
justice?”
‘ Justice, no!’ cried our friend, ‘it is the
Law of Arrest.’
‘And vat be von in prishon for?’said
the merchant pit ying bytoa thin cadaverous
looking object, whoever and anon appli
ed a handkerchief to eyes tbut were worn
with weeping.
'An attorney offered a friend of mine to
discount a hill, if he could obtain a few
names to indorse it—l sir indorsed it.
The hill became due, the next day, the
attorney arrested all whose mines were rm
the h;ll: hi re were eight of us, the law
allow • hi. i to eh irge tw o guineas, Sir, for
tin lawyer—but I Sir—alas mv family
will starve before I shall lie released.
Sir, there area set of men called discoun- |
ting attorneys, who live upon the profit .
ol entrapping and arresting us j nor!
folk.'
‘M lie God! I Mil is that Justice/
‘Mas! no, Mt r, it is the Law of Ar
rest*
‘But,’ said the merchant, turning round
to a iuwver, whom the Devil had deser- ;
led and who was now with the victims
«>. ins jirolV'ssioti; dey tell me dat in Eng
land a man be called miiushent till he .
I «■ proved guilty; but here am I, who lie
cause von carrion of a sailor, who owesli
rue five hundred poiuits takes an oath
that 1 owe him ten thousand—here am I
on that scoundrel’s single oath clapped
up in a prishon. Is this a man’s be
ing innoshent till he is proved guilty,
| Sure?
Sir,’ said the lawyer primly, you are
i thinking of crnnnal cases; but if a man
be unfortunate enough to get into debt,i
l that is quite a different thing; we are
I harder to poverty than we are tocri
| me?”
‘But mine Got'! is that justice?’
‘Justice! pooh! it’s the law of Ar
! re<t,” said the lawyer, turning on his
j heel.
Our merchant was liberat'd; no one
appeared to prove the debt. He llew to a
! magistate; he told his case; he implored
j justice against Captain Jones.
> ‘Captain Jones!’ said the magistrate,
j taking snuff; ‘Captain Gregory Jones you
j mean?’
‘Ay mine gootSare, yesli?”
He set sail lor Calcutta yesterday,
lb- commands the Royal Sally, lie must
I evidently have sworn this debt against
you for the purpose af getting, rid of your
clam ‘and silencing \our mouth till you
| could catch him no.h - lie’s a eleven
fellow this Gregory Jones!”
‘De teufcl, Imt, Sure, isli dere no reme
dy for de poor merchant?”
‘Remedy! oil yes —indictment for per
jury.’
‘But vat use is dat? You say be lie
gout —ten thousand miles off—to Caleut
j ta!’
‘That’s certainly against yqur indict
j inent I’
‘Arid connot 1 get my monish?’
‘Not as 1 see.’
‘Audi have been arrested instead of
him!’
‘You have.’
‘Sure, i have only voa word to say—is
| dat justice?’
‘That 1 can’t say, Mynheer Meyer but
j it is certainly the l,aw of Arrest, answered
j the magistate; and he bowed the tner
i chant out if the room.
Fiom th.', Augusta Cornier.
Tiie following remarks are from Mr.
! Smith, Editor of the Washington News,
whose Toast was so badly received at the
j Hamburg Barbecue. 1 he Chronicle’s
account of his sneaking back iiito~tiie
j crowd had not been seen by him.—We
know the statement to he false, not only
from his account of bis behavior, Imt
from several who witnessed it He was on
| the point of making a sharp reply, hut
i deemed it proper to forbear, and took bis
! seat where he rose, having indignantly
. stood and braved ihe storm ol hissing till
it sunk itscll ashamed ol its blowing,
j From tin- Washington (Via.) Nows.
The r’andnirg Dinner. —Having had
the pleasure to attend t:.e cdibraied iAul
hficatrqn diinii r—given at Hamburg in
honor of Gov. Hamilton, and in as much
as it was connected with a sunjcct ol
deepest interest to Georgia, m tact, to
j tbe whole ol these l.ufcd Stales, u short
1 history o: the’ scene, and tone of its prm
! ctpal actors, may not be uninteresting to
most of our readers.
The early morn of the day had been
! welcomed by the roar of connon. Its
peal again after twelve, announced that
tilings were getting in readiness, mid that
the united guests Avoukl be received. As
we approached the river to cross in the
boats, wkiciithe hospitable Committee of
arrangem. tits had chartered, for the hon
or uud convenience of the company—our
eyes were arrested by a sight—the likeness
of which we had never seen before.—On
cither end of the roof of a capacious build
ingot, the opposite bank; waived both tin
flag ot the Tinted tetutes and :he flag
bearing the coat of arms ofSouth Caro
lina. This did not surprise us; when in
, the center between the two already men
tioned, we beheld a Hag, of which his
tory gives no account and of which no
nation affords a model. Jt was a pure
unstained sheet of white, whose outer
edges were bordeied with red, and whose
centre was stamped with an image, like
onto a star, dyed in blood. As we glided
along upon the gladsome bosom of the
rapid and beautiful Savannah we thought
upon tiie bloody symbol, with melancholy
and grief. It floated in the broad sun
light of Heaven, and heeded not tiie gaze
of hundreds, who looked upon it with
wonder. It was sui generis , no statute
! hook, as yet, had stamped the image of
its leaf. Perhaps once it might have
found its counter part and our mind im
j mediately recurred to Greece in the an
| cient days, when liberty and glory smiled
upon her youth and dropped upon her
beauty the benedictions of love. When
the harmony of almost conjugal union
reigned without a discord between beau
tiful Attica, and Lacasdetnou, and Thebes,
anil Corinth, and the otjicr .Slates, we
counted her chances for happiness. All
was fair and bright; but afterwards a
change came.— Man is restless and as
pi ring. IT: is il.vavs strugghug to arouse
the storm: hut ah! when it comes"
in its wrath, he deprecates it too
kite* The inurmer, of disaffection was
heard abroad in the dark clouds of anger
and .menace. —Jealousy began to over
hang i he land—clouds which political
iniscrein't* hud blown up hy Mack arts &
incuntatio.-i. The Amtdiictvonic council
is defied, and it sits jus» la-fore the civil
war to inert no more. <lh, even now. ’-<•
might have her,! still glorious and iiapjw
Greece—But that land upon which was)
distilled the dew of heaven-born minstrel
sy, and from which the eye of science
shot her magnificent gaze ver some ol
the fairest and hr ladest fie Ills ot nature,
is now trampled hy a tyrant more haugh
ty, if not more cruel than the proud Ot
toman himself.—We sighed: o’er these
as yet happy U. States our imi.-mg went.
Tor Greece once was happy and united
too!
Gov. Hamilton’s arrival was announc
ed hy tie cannon. He was conducted
into Hamburg by a troop of horse—a
' hand of music—and a ruuhlc of a thon-
I sand or there abouts. At 3 o’clock he
was introduced to a company of about
seven hundred who hud assembled to join
j the festivities of the day.
About a huncred and fifty gentlemen
| only attended from Augusta. AVe (J)
could hut admire the republican pride
j and delicate sensitiveness ol the citizens
( towards live proceedings of the day—lt
I is a union city—that city within whose
| maternal boson, my infancy was cradled.
After an excellent entertainment, eight
I regular toasts, eight only wen tlrank ; a-
I mong vvluch was a toast in honor to the
f Governor. He arose—all grace—ramid
the plaudits of the anxious multitude—His
figure was corpulent, but neither long
nor short—a stout man with a low brow;
pardon us reader if we are thus particular,
—we have been in the habit ol read.rig
; Governor Hamilton’s speeches on the
floor of Congress, and we love genius
wheresoever we sec it —and if your curi
i osity is great as ours was, you will not
be offended with another touch of physi
■ ognomy of tins c» Ichr.rted Nulhfn r.
I H.s kcot. grey eye, would not .11 become
I a Catania-, ins .or of nonchalance ami
portly gtacegai* li.m a military air, anti
j chivalrous appeal ...cv. He spoke elo
! quctifly tot three hours. If is manner was
j theatrical and .captivating. A snule ol
: mot insinuating complacency played up
I on ins countenance, and won into anini
• ration ull who saw him. His voice was
| clear bin, not loud. The effort vv as one of
j the finest we have ever witnessed on such
ian occasion. J fie speech was polished
I with die in.uu ot master rhetorician which
i blazed m the ve.y renuncianou ot bis arts.
The orator would not believe that the
j i o .ors of the day were intended for him ;
but tor tiie great cause oi l.btriv, ai.as.
Nullification, it wouid have t»eeri im
niodest to fiave said o herw ise. Mr. Web
ster at the great New-York dtiiner set a
good example, m met there are many
modest precedents lor Hie beginning of a
i dinner-speech in the present day.— At
1 first he was dry ; but Ins subject grudtial
-Jy opened upon lain; iie became more
j mid more animated. H.s p.Tinotic feel
. nigs, whether sincere or feigned, roused
linn into vehemence. A lie oppressions
i ot the 1 ar.fi, eitlier supposed or real, fi
red Ins indignation; all tiie common re
sraints oi prudential discretion were at
, last thrown otf, and lie stood forth the.
| bold and undaunted champion of nuilifi
j cation. It it could Oe done peaceably,
well, —if not, lie was prepared for the
worst—for revolution, and iet it come.—
He ndniled vviili the bitterest sat.re the
administration ot Gen. Jackson, and rail
ed and scoffed at, vvitii the mast unmiugled
! contempt, the iate report of the Secretary
of tiie J icusury, Mr. M’Lane, winch was
I inti mled as .i.e ground of compromise be
i ween the North ami South. lie called
;t with a contemptuous French slur the
projet, ami Gen. Jackson the old accou
che r, pi i/i in-iiiibivife.) The question
was ..ot, he said, whether the South should
pay a tax of 50 or 10 per cent, but vvhe
• titer she should pa. a tax at all. Was
the principle of taxation involved ni Mr.
McLaueV report? in said it was, and ne
ver could be compromised upon the
ground which had been taken. Carolina
never would submit, but at the point of
the bayonet, and by wading through seas
of blood—in- turned the attention of his
audience tu n.e pension bill which had
been under discussion during die last Con
gress. It was charged as an incident of
the Tariff as a counterpart of this, ns he
thought, abominable system, as a subter
fuge ol its advocates to make way wuh
the money of tiie treasury, to have still a
i pretext for till.ng it again and again with
I revenues from imports : or in other w ords,
with the taxes extorted from the South.—
It was to he squandered upon manv a
coward who had whistled in sight of the
[camp, hut who had run before the battle.
Georgia was appealed to, and flattered,
and caressed by all the honeyed words of
j a treaty-making ambassador, or of an I
talian Amateur, wooing Ins dulcinea. She
was lifted to the very stars,-a ml embraced
at every step with a kiss of love, —wheth-
er in sincerity and truth, vve will not now
pretend to determine. He complimented
Georgia as breathing the air of freedom,
and possessing the nerve to act; what
sin s .id she would do—set at defiance the i
mandate of usurped authority at the risk j
of every tiling. “'Think you.” said he, !
“that Carolina would have w itnessed tin- ;
moved, the serpent of power crush in its
massive fold, her sister? No, never, tin
til the last drop of our blood bad been
mingled with yours in a common grave,
dug in a common soil. And will you for
sake us in the hours of peril and trial ?
have you not done already, though in a
different case, what we are about to do?”
“.Some,” said he, “have contended that
there is a difference between the nullifi
ention of the tw-o States, —just as much
difference, Mr. President, as there is lie
tween a cow which nips the stubble on
the Carolina shore, & a cow that browses
clover deep on the Georgia side,” Hisi
allusion to the difference which existed
between Carolina and Giorgia, was pn g*
riant w ith real pathos,—he concluded that
they were merely personal (not political) l
differences between a few leading men,
winch separatee m feeing the two States.
J 1 e ffi prt catcd such alienations with the ;
niosi pathetic, and earnest eloquence.—
“God forbid,” said fa , “they should exist j
any lougti; may they be buried in the ;
black grave ot oblivion ; and may the souls j
of the two States mingle into one, li.-ethe
w liters of their ow n Savannah, and flow !
on in a glorious union, to the great ocean :
of republican freedom, and political hap-•
pir.ess.” He then produced a paper, as
curious for its antiquity as its purport, it
was an ancient covenant between citizens
of Carolina and Georgia, subscribed and
sealed m the year of 1?—. He held it up
and presented it as a modern pledge ot
the same faith and ns a document to the j
agent of the State who had been appoint
ed by the last Legislature, to collect ma- j
terials lor the early history ot Georgia, i
\\ e cannot enumerate all the topics which
came under discussion, much less would
l we vouch, not having taken notes, for the j
| accuracy of the account winch we have i
sketched from memory. We have en
deavored to give an impartial history,
perhaps it is too highly colored, well, if it
be, imagination lias deluded us. "Seldom
have we ever listened to a more interest
ing speech.
It lacked argument, we were sorry for
I tout—out it compensated to the ear if not
to the understanding lor that defect; by
! dial corroding caustic aim black venom
I winch sometimes burnens a gifted hut
I vindictive maid, in all that rich melody
jot diction, which genius breathes upon
pci-tic oratory, and in that splendid enun
ciation winch the Jong skilled voice of
tin tragedian warbles upon the ear of un
tiring attention, it was just sucli a speech
as to i.Mucie the multitude into every ex
j t.rava-niice, and turn every vacillating
i jenec ruler into a red hot uuihfier. 'lhe
large ssscuiblj —the sound ol music- -the ,
j flaunting ol banners—the array of mot
j tus, with which the room was decorated,
j in< - oat ol arms ot the two States stanu
i by side, and circningirated by «
u and .ssue of nullification epithets, ; ltd
sw\ . expressions which were calculated
in . i-wilder the unsettled, and delude the
weak minded, to betray ihe Georgian in
to the embrace of the tempter, and to a
rui.se into madness and deeper vice the
Carolinian who bud already been taken in
her scare. If the assumptions of the
speech from which such eloquent deduc
tions had been made, w ere true, vve would
\ have rejoiced on that occasion; but ti.i
I ground was taken without the seism ; the
[principles were assumed, which never
could have been admitted. Col. Preston,
also, spoke vehemently for about two
hours, so that with other addresses, it
was eight o’cloc at night before the vol
uiKcer toasts were dran , and ten before
the company adjourned.
W t consider the doctrines of these din
ner speeches as rash as they were dan
gerous. They were the stepping stones
to treason, the heralds of civil war, and
the consequent harbingers of coining ruin.
The nullifiers had long coteiuled, tlmt
revolution was not the necessary result of
nullification ; but now a different tone was
holdcn, and well it might he, for vve hum
lily conceive, and every man of the com
monest capacity who is not a blinded par
tizan, nor subject to fits of occasional de
rangement, ought to see, that when one
State ta es it upon herself, to set at defi
ance a law which has been solemnly en
acted hy the supreme pow er in the land,
she places herself in one of two predica
ments ; cither of a covenant which she
has .-dread) broken, of existing under a
compact which she sets at deforce, and
against which she rebells in opposition to
the other parties in this covenant, or of
withdraw mg from this covenant without
the legal consent of the parties and of
course laying her self liable to coertion for
her unconstitutional refraction ; in eitlier
of which predicaments, just as certain as
the sun now shines does the truth beam
upon our minds, that whether she forces
herself under the constitution which she
resists, or withdraws from its influence
without the consent of the government;
whether she forces herself into the mar
riage supper without the wedding gar
ment on, or refuses to prepare for it, she
is equally subject to the objurgation of o
ther Srates, and eqully entails upon the
country the principles of revolution. We
know nothing of peaceable revolutions;
some have contended that it could be ef
fected vv thout war, or without the shed
ding of blood, if so we would not give a fig
for the stability and dignity of the govern
ment of these United States. Peaceable
revolution may take place. But Oh! we
shudder at the short antithesis ir, may not.
—'l he tempting bait has been thrown
out continually hy insubordinate dema
gogues to entice the unwary, and like sib
yls of the ocean rocks, to dasli them to
destruction. Think you, reader, that loud
and furious declaimcrs—that vain politi
cal coxcombs who quiz the people with
delusions, for ambitious purposes and
rise and flutter in ihe sunshine oftheir
wonder and admiration—that are broken
fortune and bankrupt characters, renega
des who, recreant at home crusade abroad
for the wind and tempest and destruction
of war, —who care not in time of peace,
whether the poor man and his children
starve, would sympathize w ith the deluded
soldier who trudges in blood to the sound
of music, or falls inglorious upon the field
of battle, unsung and unlamciited, save
hy his family? No they would laugh at
their death groan could iliev muster them
ir regiments on the field of Mars or
drive them as horses ill tlu-ir chariots, as
did the Egyptian tyrant his loyal subjects, j
Let us beware of these doctrines and their
advocates. as set a m»rk tqiori the
man >v ho re sists tho ettpremg Taws of liis
country, and by doing it sink himself ai.,l
his country in ruin. Georgia sympathi
ses with Carolina, mid loves her, because
she is noble and and gem rous, It-arm and
and great. Her doors ure the doors of
hospitality—lur welcome, the welcome
of friendship. Her intellectual constella
tion is dluminatid With some ot the pur
est and brightest stars in the whole galaxy
of A tuericuit worth. Carolina wears ip
on her brow the rich green wreath of glory
and upon her name a garment of fine
wrought gold.
AY e are almost conquered into an ad
miration of the genius of the very prime
regent or Nullification, against whose
doefrints vve protest—because we have
seen a mind brilliant with (lie pearls and
diamonds of the scholar and the orator Yos
Carolina next to Georgia, vve love, she is
our near sister-—and often have we felt
with what a devotion wc would avenge a
single drop ol her blood shed hy a foreign
foe—vv.tii what clinging despair we would
kneel In her side to wipe from her pale
brew the Moody sweat, and cheer her is
together vve pas * I, with the whisper of
hope. But O! if she will leave, like a
wanton, our paternal roof, and lift her
heel against paternal advice and the path
of v.rtue, to seek o*her Gods & strai gi rs
love would vve follow her and defend her?
No never! in such a cause.
Indian Hostility.-- The following intel
ligence is from the Detroit Journal of the
j :23d ult.
A letter from Chicaco, dated May 18,
r 1832, rt It s that an engagement had ta -
en |< ace at Fox liner, between the hos
j tile Sacks and Foxes, and that the mili
■ tin sent out to meet them, had been de
feated—that tiie Indians were approach
ing Chicaco, and intended to ciit their way
through to Canada.
A\ e have been politely furnished with
: the following letter from Th. J V. Owen,
Indian agent at Clucaco to Colonel Hous
ton, of Niles, (St. Joseph, j
Chicaco, May 18, 1832.
Sir. —The hostile Sacks are in tbeyi
: c;nity of lliis place, committing depreda
tions oi a hostile nature on the-frontiers,
| and it is expected that they will striki at
[ ihis place, and proceed in that direction
\A iil you endeavor to procure a force of
Mm.i inagii.-Mide, and dispatch them hy
C.-.ptuiii Housteri’s vessel to our relief.
From ail accounts, the posts, and frontiers
; are in the most imminent danger. In
| haste, r.o lime to be lost.
| Thomas J. V. Owen Indian Agent.
Colonel Stewart will dispatch a mes*
j senger to Detroit, for the purpose of ur
ging the troops intended for this place, to
j proceed with all possible despatch, and to
I render tis aid if poisibie by means of the
1 Militia of Michigan. T. J. A ; . O.
A letter of similar import was received
| by General Joseph Brown, of Tecnmseh,
(brother of the late Mnjoi Gen. Jacob
Brown.)
No cause of alarm exists among the in
j habitants of this Territory. The present
j military movements in this quarter arc
made in consequence of an order from
ihe Executive to aid the frontier settle
ments in the vicinity of Chicaco, a dis
tance from this place of 300 miles.
INDIAN AVAR.
\V e received the following information
through the kindness of our respected fel
low townsman. Col. Tamar, yesterday
morning:
AVashington May 29, 1832.
The Cincinnati Gazette, received this
morning, contains the following:
The steam boat Herald, Capt Fleish
man, in seventy-four hours from Sf. Lou
is—a most extraordinary qttic 1 passage—
brings us a proclamation from the Gov
ernor of Illinois to the citizens of that
State, from which it appears, that a hloo
dv and successful attack lmsbe.cn made
by tlm Indians upon n detachment of vol
unteers.—A\ e learn hy a private letter that
fiftv-two of the volunteers were killed
among whom were Col. Crane, Col.
1 homas, Major Morgan, and Captain
Bailey.
At flip date of tig l last accounts, r en.
Atkinson, the Commamdcr-in-Cbipf of
the United Staics forces was in a most
perilous situation. IT ft had sent out sev
cral expresses for supplies and every man
had been cut off. The keel-boats, des
tined with supplies above the Bnpids, had
not been beard of, and it was supposed'
that they had been raptured and their
crews massacred. Intelligence so pain
ful has not hpen anticinated.—For a
further knowledge of the condition of mir
frontiers the render is referred to Gov.
Reynold’s proclamation.
Dixon’s Fr.nnv. on Rock Rwpr.
To the militiary of the State ofPJinont
It heroines me duty again to call on voti
for your services in the defence of vour
country.—The State is not only invaded
bv the Indians, hut mnnv of vour
citizens have been slain in battle. A de
tachment of the mounted volunteers com
manded bv Major B‘illmcn.of about 275
in mindier. were over powered bv the hos
tile l"dians on Sycamore creek, distance
mm this place thirty trulcs, and a eon Sul
able number of them killed. This is an
net of liostilitv which cannot he miscon
strued.
T am of opinion that the Dottnwatninie
and Wiunehngocfj have io ned the Sa'dis
and Foxes and nil may l*c considered
as waging war against the United Sta
te*.
0 n subdue these Indians and drive
them out of the State, it will rcoinre n
farce of at least two ikoiunnil mowufetf vol
mitcers more, in addition to the troops al
ready ill the f cjd.
f have made the necessary requisitions
on the proper officers for the tdanc nurn