Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-09-15
INDIAN LANDS.

INDIAN LANDS.
Wilson Lnmpkin, Esq. has been APP
poiuted by the President ofthe u. States
10 run, in conjunction with suitable per-
sons TO be selected by the executive Of
Georgia, the bo ndary lines of the land
lately obtained by the Agent from the
Creek Indians, viz. a narrow strip ofterrl-
tory OIL the Ocniulger. containing about
974 700 acres-and slip lying immedi-
ately beyond the Alcoya, TO the west OF
Jasper and Morgan, and supposed TO con-
tain 100000 acres, the greater part OF
which is fertile. The governor. we under
stand, has repeatedly urged the marking
of the otherireaty lines, (Merriwe'her's IL
Jackson's}-but from The variety Of mere
important business which has recently
claimed the attention of the president,
this subecthas been overlooked. There
is reason to believe, however, that ii will
be attended TO soon.
The territory ceded by the Creek Ma
ton at the Treaty OF Fort Jackson, con-
tains above seven millions of acres. Ii is
thus described in manuscript roposra-
plical work, prepared by the late colonel
Hawkins" That extensive body of land
between Flint river and Okefaunoke, Al
famata, and The eastern boundary of The
Greek claims, is pine land, with cypress
ponds and bay gals. The small streams
are margned with dwarf evergreens, the
uplands have yellow pine, with dwarf saw
palmetto and wire grass {; the butts on ST.
Has are some part of them sandy pine
barren; The remainder, compact stiff
yellows sand or clay, with large swamps;
The growth obloily bay, gum, and small
evergreens-thc whole Of those swamps
are boys. In the rainy seas@n, winch
commences after midsummer, the ponds
fill, and then the country is great part of
1T covered with water; and ia the dry sea-
son, il is difficult 10 obtain wafer in any
direction for many miles," In the fork of
Flint and Chatalouchie, there is said TO
be some good land.
TIE ccsson from the Cherokees is es,i-
mated al million and half acres, most
ly poor and broken. Tie whole quantity
coded, falls little short of ten millions of
acres. The expense of surveying this inn
mense body Of land, in tracts of half IA
mile square, will cost, from IA rough esti-
mate, about S 100000! ID.
Death of Colonel Daniel Boon.
As he lived, so he died, with his gun in
his hand. We are informed by gentle
man direct from Boon's settlement, on
the Missouri, that early i'll last month
Col Boon rode TO "A deer lick, seated him
selfwithin blind raised to conceal him
from the game. That while setting thus
concealed with his old trusty rifle in his
hand, pointed towards the lick, the muzzle
resting OH a log, his face 10 the breech of
his gun, his rifle cooked, his finger to the
trigger, one eye shut, the other looking
along the barrel through tile sighis--in
this position, without struggle or motion,
and of course without pain. he breaihed
out his las, so gently, that when he was
found next day by his friends, although
stiff and cold, lie looked as if alive, with
his gun in his hand, just in the act of FIR
ing. 1t is not altogether certain, II buck
had come into The range of his gun, which
had been the desih of thousands, but IL
might have intuitiveIy obey ed its old en-
ployer's mind, and discharged ITSELF
This hypothesis being novel, we leave the
solution TO the curious.
ECmhcOtAs Supporter.
WASHINGTON, September Eft has
been supposed, that the determination of
the Bank OF the United States 10 refuse
10 receive IFS own notes and those oil lis
branches in payment or on deposit, eS
cept at the bank or branches from which
they issued, would have the effect to re-
dnce below par the paper of all the branch
es except IN the places at which issued.
Perhaps, however, more recent mea-
sure of the Bank (of The Branch at Wash
ington, AT LEASH may have the beneficial
effect 1T cOunieraciIng that tendency. Ii
is understood that the Bank has establish
ed tariff of premiums for which it will
give drafts on distant banks, which. Tor
this city, is reported 10 be as follows:
For drafts on baltimore. 10000 per cent.
For 40. Philadelphia. ....I
For do. Ne,u- York .......li
For do. Boston .............2
Highest for draftS on any piacr.. y
1t is presumed, that the effect of this
arrangement, which is supposed 10 be as
general as that lately announced, will be,
to give to the notes of baDi,s of the above
cities cir. ulating here, and vice versa, 10
ours circulating there, a higher value
than they would otherwise have, and thus
in degree 10 equilibria,e the value of
bank paper, along the maritime border al
least. The Premium is supposed to b.
equivalent to the cost of transp oriation of
specie from place TO place, which opera
ton, and that of importing specie, is said
TO have cost the Bank of the United
States, since IFS establishment, no less "A
sum than three hundred thousand dollars.
MAJ. Int.
BALTIMORE, September 10.-This day about
eleven O'Clock, III the prison yard, in this city,
the awful sentence of the law was executed
on JOHN ALEXANDER, and JOSEPH THOMPSON
HARE, convicted OF robbing the mail of the
United States: vast concOurse of spectators
attended on this melancholy occasion. TO wit.
ness tie fatal consequence of diSobedieuce to
inc laws. solemn lesson which, il is hoped,