The Phoenix — Dover [N.H.], 1793-12-07 00:00:00, page 2

fafe our frontier people are in
their lives and property, unless
Tome speedy and effectual mea
sure is adopted for their pre tec
tion.
About the 27th or 28th of
last month, a party of Indians
entered the house of Mr. Cribbs,
and another of Mr. Hills, in
Green county, and ftript them
of every thing they could find.
The fame party stole ten horses
out of that neighbourhood ;
. led
Render a reliance we have to
place on the pacifick disposi
tion of the Creeks, and how un-
GEORG I A.
AUGUSTA, August 29.
AN express arrived this day
with dispatches from the Creek
nation ; from which the follow
extra& is taken :
Exhact of a Talk from the beads
of the upper and lower Creeks,
by order of the Mad Dog of the
Tuckabatebes, given out to the
Cajetab failure, at a meeting
of a number of the lower Creeks,
this 21/1 of July, 1793.
- " WEthe heads of the Creek
nation, wish to inform the heads
of Georgia, that if they ftilfhave
a wifa to fettle matters with
the red people, we hope they
will, on feeing this, immediate
ly fend off to Governor Blount,
to restrain his people, till his
Excellency Gen. Washington's
pleasure is known."
HENRY CAITHER,
Major Commandant of the
Federal troops in Georgia.
Sept. 12.—The following re-
of the people at large, whole
time is engrofled by their ffiin
ing avocations, are as dead as
he. I hope Mr. Behmen will
do my correspondent the justice
to aflign the reasons, which in
duced him to exile a brickma
ker from his yard, and compel
him against his will to be a so
journer of that country from
whole bourne, no traveller re
turns. If Mr. Behmen chooses
to commence sexton, let him
exercise hrs office impartially ;
and if he recognize a dead Law
yer at the bar, or a dead Judge
upon the bench; let the offenfive
carcasses be fhroWded and de
policed tin the grave ofobfecuri
ty along with Brown the Brick
maker.
cent depredations evince how
of exigence, than two thirds
pool. I heartily commiserate the
wrongs of this living dead man
and hope the publication of his
pathetic letter will convince the
moll incredulous that " Robin's
alive." To ronfole him I will
remark, that if he is dead, in the
sense these wits, when they use
the term, mean, he dicth not a-
lone, but that a thousand fall at
his fide, and ten thousand at his
righthand. For if eating, drink
ingand deeping are not evidence
American Intelligence.
With the deepest regret we
mention, that about half pad
ten o'clock, last evening, a most
tremendous fire broke out in
this city, in forne out-house near
the centre of the block formed by
thejundion of Market and State-
Streets, Maiden and Middle
Lane. Who owned the place
in which it originated, or in
what manner it was conveyed,
.the general confufion that ensu
ed, and the rapidity of its com
munication to the surrounding
houses, stores, &c. renders it
difficult for us at present to de
termine ; especially as reports,
conjectures, &c. are various,
I When it firft broke out but a
I light breeze blew from the north-
Iward, yet, for sometime, it spread
Iwith irresistible fury in all di
-Ireclions. Inlaid waftethat part
!of the weft fide of MarkttStreet
Ifrom the. dwelling-house andl
store of Mr. David Waters,
I northerly to the" house and store
of Maley and Cuylet, merchants
in this place were destroyed 26
dwelling-houses, a great num
ber of stores, (hops, and manu
factories, together with the prin-,
ting-office and book-bindery ofl
Messrs, Websters, in which
was three Printing-presses.
To describe the emotions ofl
the philanthropic mold, while/
Contemplating this feene of de
which was no sooner known
than Col. Melton and Capt.
Fouche, with the latter's light
horse, pursued them ; but the
waters being so very high they
returned withour effecting any
thing. Another party, consist
ing of four, on the evening of
the ift inflant penetrated as far
as Capt. Stokes's station-, at the
Long Bluff, in Washington
county, and dole two horses be
longingto his troop. Captain;
Stokes immediately pursued the;
Indians, and on the day follow-;
ing came up with thim on the'
bank of the Oakmu gee. On!
coming in view of th,ir camp,!
he ordered his men tojre, which
was returned by the* Indians |
without doing any mifehief.|
Captain Stokes then ordered -his
men to charge, by which three
of the savages were killed, one
only efeaped; The two stolen
horses were retaken, and ano
ther horse, with three rifles one
shot gun, and sundry articles
found in the camp.
Sept. 14 —A trail ofbetween
30 and 40 Indians were difeo
vered on the sth indane, by one
ofthe scouts within two miles
of Wafford's Ration; Franklin
county, leading towards the wa
fers of Broad river. Captain
Williamson with upwards of 40
of his troop took tho track as
early as possible after the dis
covery and went in pursuit. It
is to be hoped that we shall
have a good account ofthis par
ty of Indians in a short time.
ALBANY, Nov. 13.
;them less contemptible as an e-
I nemy. That they will fight
§with desperation we expert ;
land God grant that they may
have enoughof it. Weare well
difciplined, ¥ and well reconciled
to the expedition, and whatever
may be our success, I'venture
to assure you, that we shall not
fly."
A letter received by a gentle
- Iman at Stockbridge dated Onei
da, Od. 21, fays, " Accounts ar
rived in this village last even
ing from the Miami, which are
more favourable than when the
fixation, would perhaps beggar
the faculties or the most sublime
delineator. Still more gloomy
would now have been bur situa
tion had not Providence graci
ously condefended in the midst
of our calamity, to vifir us with
a heavy fall or fleet ; never were
the refreshing dews -of heaven
more.acceptable to the thirsty
earth ; than was this providen—
tialy assistance to the fuffering
citizens of Albany ; but for
which nearly our whole city
mull inevitably have been con
sumed, as the wind had consi
derably risen. It is impossible
at present to afeertain theamount
of the losses occasioned by this
dreadful calamity^ many sup
pose in the aggregate it will ex
ceed 100,0001.
INDIAN WAR.
The current report on Satur
day was, that Gen. Wayne's
army had been attacked by the
Indians, and that, after a bloody
engagement,thelndians were de
feated;, with the loss of 600 kil
led and wounded—Gen. Wayne
loling 500. In tracing this re
port to its f-orce, we find it 0-
riginated in Kentucky, and has
since appeared in the Virginia
and New-York papers. Com
ing through the fame channel as
the intelligence both of the de
feat of Generals Harmar and
St. Clair, it had some appear
ance of truth : But the Editor
has seen a letter from the Se
cretary at War, at Philadelphia
dated the 20th November—the
last intelligence from that city—
in which no mention is made of
the event; and which would
certainly have been mentioned,
had intelligence of it arrived.
We presume, therefore, the
whole to be a fabrication. We
may however, speedily expert
interesting events from that
quarter ; as, at the date of the
last accounts, the army was on
full march for Miami towns,
and the Indians were in large
numbers at the Ox Giaxe, on
the Miami ofthe lake, determi
ned to meet our army on its
rout. A letter from an officer
of the army, dated Sept. 22,
fays, " The Indians are elated
with their former fticceffes ;
they are refentful, determinate,
and laugh at the idea of our ap
proaching their towns ; these
circumstances concur to make
Early on Sunday morning the
13th inst. the Hatters' Shop of
Messrs. O. Burr, and Co. in
this town, was difeovered to be
on- fire—and had it not been
the spirited exertions of the in
habitants must have been entire
ly consumed.—Fortunately a
remain hostile ; all the others
have declared for peace or neu
traly, and request another treaty
next spring. The Commissi
oners on receiving their final
answer at the late treaty, which
put an end to the negociation,
immediately left Detroit—their
sudden departure exhibited such
spirit and determined resolution,
as made a very favourable im
preilion on the minds of the In
dians.
Norfolk, Nov. 9.
On Tuefday last arrived illj
Hampton Road the ship Lydia, j
of Portland, the Capt. of which'!
informs, that he difeovered a |
wreck in the gulph. On ap-/
proaching her, she proved to be
a schooner water logged, with|
nearly all the companion wash—
ed away. The wind being highl
they did not at firftintend board
ing her, but being short of pro
visions, they thought some might:
be saved from the wreck. The
Capt. and mate accordingly
went on board, but finding it
impossible to get at the pfovi
ons, they determined to rip up
the quarter deck, which they
had no sooner done than four
teen deMd bodies immediately
floated out, thirteen of whom
from their dress appeared to be
Frenchmen, and one as an Ame
rican, supposed to be the Capt.
Two or three trunks also floated
u P ; by papers contained in
one of them, they difeovered
her to be the schooner Betsy and
Patty, Capt Rogers, of and from
Baltimore. The other trunks
contained nothing but shirts,
drawers, and pocket-handker
chiefs, and about 2ojocs in calh.
As they perceived that the ves
sel had fettled considerably as
soon as the dead bodies came
up, they hastily left her, least she
should fink too quick and drown
them in the fudlion;
In the night of the 21st inst,
the dwelling house of Ezekiel
Markham, in Newhartford,_was
consumed-by fire. It is suppo
sed the fire was occasioned by
the husks which the family had
left in the house the preceeding
evening, and so rapid was the
progress of the fire that Mr.
Markham's three eldest sons,
one 17, another 14, and a third
nine years of age, who dept in
the chamber above where the
husks were left, were consumed
with the flames.
Commissioners left that quarter^
Only three of the Indian nations)
HARTFORD, Od, 21.
DANBURY Odober 21.