Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-08-28

was there room in the breast of this
at such time and whilst acting a napt.sr.
a scene, for an emotion of tcomp,ss;cn, I%e -.
he was accessible to sympathy, WHY W. II
extended to the unfortunate Mrs. Mani -
was at the same time lying in bed with an !,
FAINT Of seven days old III herarms? Srana.
as this fact Is, 1t Is III strict CONFORMING IS
the Indian character. They then colIecta1 ~
the horses, placed her on one of them cro.a -,
the river in bark canoes, swimming the -.
and two OF the Indians swimming after th,s
to drive them forward. They then nrocaaJ -
in south east directions and after tr.,.o,,:
through the country OF the Cbickasag, IS
the end OF fourteen days, they arrived = IL
first village OF the Creeks, where they eyh;
bited their scalps, smoked the pipe with the;.
countrymen, held war dance, &c tn
proceeded on to two other villages where ,be.
met with the same reception, and plsved ,bs
same pranks. She says that the old men d;d
not participate in these rcocings: bur ,L.t
the young ones universally did. The ,l;rS
village appeared to be the place If thelrabcdq
for here they remained several days-Hnber'
TO she had been treated with forbcaraucr and
n. he
arms for her personal safety were aroused bv
the following circumstances The Indi.n
who bad taken her was seen to carry con.
stantly, large war club; the Indians held
long and earnest conferences amoner them.
selves; al the close Of one of these confsr
ences an Indian woman informed her l,v sion.
that she was to be knocked on the head win
the club and buried in ground, at the same
time pointing to spade which appeared to
have been recently used in digging earth. She
immediately took cup and went towards tba
spring, with the apparent intention cf procur.
Ing water--nade her escape, with all the
speed in Der power, and soon found hollow
log In which she concealed herself until night
when she resumed her flight and thus contnu.
ed secreting herself by day until the third
day, having, in all ibis time, taken no kird of
sustenance On the third day she supposed
herself Sufficiently distant from the Indians to
prosecute her journey in the day time, with
safety. Early on that day she saw an Indian
a short distance before her, who Immediately
ran up to her, made signs to her that she must
return, and frequently repeated the name Of
Walker, which was at that time unintelieible
10 her. When she obstinately refused to re-
turn the lndisn uttered yell and another In,
dian 'oon joined him, and gain another. They
then al three made a loud yell, and presently
whit man galloppedup to them This man
provedto be Walker, whose name the Indian
had so 6ien repeated. He was in the Creek
country br the purpose of purchasing cattle,
and hearing of Mrs. Crawlcy's situation, had
ransomed ler fol-, the sum Of twenty, five dol
lars, and bal employed these Indians 10 go in
quest OF herr He conducted her to fort ST.
Stephen, whe,e the ransom was reimbursed,
end from whelte she was sent under the pro.
lection of q ChSctaw to Colbert's ferry on tie
Tennessee. Mn. Craw ~ ,tates that se1erl
other parties had preyi ,Isly reached the ma
ton, With While Pei sons soaps, and that the
number of scaips amounted in all to twenty
four.
With these Facts sefcre lis, what are we to
think Of orr friends theTreeks3 and what conf.
dence are we to place iWhe assurances Of eur
agent, col Hawkins, in regard TO their friendly
disposition? What are Ne to think of those
fine tiers of his, which haze been published,
wherein identifying bimeIf with bis red
brethren) he tells US what iretty bomespun
WE. make how he has got ahundrcd Sheep,
and expects soon to get Memo Ram, and
other such stuff Inever saw his man; do
not know what may be the coloA Of his ska;
but be assured his inside is all INian. Mrs
Crawley informs US that the old meq alone (and
this no doubt from prudential conideration1
refused to rejoice with the murdcrrs oil her
children. Now, every one knows,that from
their mode of life few savaUes eyeGattain an
advanced age. 1t would be an am9R allow
ance, to admit thai one OFT of ten Of the men,
are such as can with any propriety, be ermea
old men 1t is fair then, to conclude th& nln0
tenths of the Creek nation are heartily w4lIns,
to cut our tbroats if they could. Yet coqnel
Hawkins would persuade us that these onqa'
ges on humanity, ought to be ascrIbed 10
fer ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lie has 'au.
ly written to Judge Toulmin, for the express
pur ose of publication, containing, as ne pre-