The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1840.

and several chiefs, with Abrm, the internreter, it is said,
will be present.
EARTHQUAKE.—The Philadelphia Inquirer of Monday
says that shortly after nine o'clock on Saturday evening,
the buildings in various parts of that city trembled and
shook for several seconds, as if through the agency of an
earthquake. Many of the citizens were alarmed, and the
panic which immediately succeeded the shock, especially
to those who were in situations of quiet and repose, calcu-
lated fully to experience the terrible sensation—was
marked by a feeling of awe and solemnity. The waters of
the Delaware were agitated by a heavy and unusual swell
at the same time.

INCENDIARISM.—We learn, says the Kennebec Journal,
that on Saturday night a dwelling-house and three barns
belonging to Mr. John Robins of Norridgewock were con-
sumed by fire and all their contents, except a little furni-
ture. Loss estimated at 13,000. The fire being clearly
the work of an incendiary, suspicions fell upon John Hill,
a tramping tailor, of this place, who had sworn to have
revenge on Mr. Robins for some supposed injury. He was
arrested at Augusta on Wednesday, and taken to Norridgc-
, vvock for trial.

TWELVE INDIANS CAPTURED.—The following is the
Istea intelligence we have received from the theatre of
war in Florida. The capture of twelve real live Indians is
a great triumph in these times, even though they consist of
women and children whom the Government a ill have to
feed and cloti?e, until they run into the woods again.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Nov. B.—lnformation has la,-,en received
in this city from Fort Reid, on the St. John's, that Colonel
W. S. Harney, 2d Dragoons, had captured twelve Indians,
consisting of women and children, last week, in that neigh-
bourhood. He took from them fifty blankets, some per-
fectly new, and a number of pieces of calico, homespun,
This plunder is no doubt some that was taken when
Indian Key was destroyed by the wretches. Wild Cat and
his party are still in the neighbourhood, and committing
depredations daily.
CAPTIVES RESCUED, —Mr. Richard Blanton, in a letter
dated Conway, Lafayette county, Arkansas, says he had
just returned from among the Chickasaw Indians, having
ransomed his sister, Mrs. Tidwell, and her two children,
who were taken captives by a party of eighteen Kichie In-
dians, on the 2d of July last, from the Shroud Smtlement,
on the Brasses River in Texas. Her husband, Mr. Milton
Tidwell, was murdered and scalped in her presence, and
alter robbing the house of all its contents, they took her and
her three small children, one an infant five weeks old,
and compelled them to travel day and night, until they were
out of the reach of the Texans ; after seven days of hard
travelling, they arrived at the Kichie town, somewhere,
she thinks, on the Trinity river. She was then separated
from her elder children and not allowed to be with them

any more. While in this awful state of distress, her infant
sickened and perished in her arms. She was then taken
out to be put to death, when a Delaware trader saw her and
hen& and brought her to the Chickasaw Nation,
where she found an opportunity of writing to him, and he
was with her in a few days after, and, by furnishing the
same Delaware trader with goods suitable for that trade he
was enabled to get her two surviving children out safe, but
at a heavy oxpense. While she was among the Kichics she
saw a white boy, about Sor 10 years old. He could nut
speak a word of English, and she could not find out where
they had taken him from. He is a good looking boy with
blue eyes and light hair, There is also a buy by the name
of Thomas Pierce, about seven or eight years old, in the
nei hbourhood of the Chickasaw Nation. He was bought
from the Caldoes by a Chickasaw, by the name of Is-ti-u-
Cattuby, who will give him up to his relations by refunding
what he cost him. He is evidentiy a so❑ of the unfortu-
nat•e Picroe, who, with the balance of his family, was
murdered or, the Trammel trace, two or three years ago,
as lie gives a pretty corree: account where his parents were
murdered and where they were from. Ha is a smart boy,
and if he has any relatives they would do well to get him
away immediately. There are also a great many runaway
slaves on the frontier of the Chickasaw Nation.