Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-03-13

The disaster which Mai. Montgomery
is said 10 have sustained we hope and be-
lieve 10 be entirely unfounded Hadsu
AN unfortunate event occurred, it should
have reached us at an earlier period, and
through u more authentic channel.
lChrOniCic.
Ertractof a letter from a gentleman at High
wassee garrison, to lbs friend im his piace,
dated 5th FEB. 1918.
Our little iioiilla is just ready to sail
Il consists of thirteen Hat bottomed boats
and ;our keels. with "a warriors, all arm
ed with excellent new rifles, &c. amount
ing iii men, women, and children, 10 very
near 3o0-inany more are preparing
to move on the rise of grass; and the
general expectation entertained here is,
That total abandonment of Cherokee
claims willtake place within II months,
reservations only excepted.
hnorrifie Register.
From the Tennessee Volunteers, to tire Etlito,.
ofthe Clarion.
CAMP BLoUNT, Feb. 20.
We shall start from here OH Sunday
or Monday next on our route by Hunts
VILE and Fort Jackson, To Fort Scott,
and from thence to active operations a
galnst the enemy, who suspect will have
good reason 10 look demure at our APP
proach. Before we get 10 Tennessee ri
yer, there is no doubt we shall exceed
Two thousand men, as squads are hourly
coming in"
A large keel boat freighied from Nash
vile viii. tobacco, cotton, -four, pork
and whiskey, was lost on the Ohio river,
and the lives of the passengers, general
Carroll and family among the number,
were saved with difficulty. The wind
blowing strong up the river, the boat is
said to have drlited atliwart the stream,
when il struck about the middle against
a sawyer, which i'll few minutes cut The
boat in two pieces. The loading and bag
gage were entirely lost.
We have nothing since our last from
General Gaines. The report OF the TAX
ing of Fort Crawford we hope will not be
confirmed. ID.
Eatract Of letter from Doctor John SID
leg to Doctor join FL. Robinson, of This
city, dated Natchitoehes, January 20ih,
1918.
have nothing new 10 communicate
from this quarter, except that some let
tiers have been received from st. Antonio,
mentioning the defeat of the patriot gen
eral Nina, and himself taken-ths inior-
NATION having also come through another
channel, fear il is true.
Some traders lately auived here from
the Hieian Indians, and say, that about
three months ago, a party of these Indi-
ans, with their great Chief CHEwAwA,
tell in with some Spanlards not far from
ST. Antonio they fought, and Chewawa
was Killed and as these traders left the
nation, tess than month ago) 1000 war
riors we've assembled, 10 go against ST.
Antonio, and said they would revenge
tie death of their chief, or all perish :;
that they would not leave soul alive, or
= house standing at ST. Antonio, or on
country which was once prairie should
be again prairie. NdtcheS GGS.
1t appears from the communication
transmitted by the Governor OF South
Carolina to the President, and by him
laid before the House of Representatives,
that an amendment 10 the Constitution.
passed by two-ihirds of both Houses of
Congress, and it was supposed concurred
III by the requisite majority Of the states,
was not IN fact concurred in, but was re-
jected by the State of South Carolina, who
had been supposed TO have ratified il.
and that, without her vote, the proposti-
OF did moi receive the sanction OF two
thirds of the states. The amendment re-
frrred TO has been printed with the late
editions, rs part ofthe Constitution, and
is in The following words:
9 ReS0lred, by The Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, two
thirds Of both Houses concurring, that
The following section be submitted to the
eglsIatllre of the several states, which
when ratified by the legislatures of three
fonrthS OF the STATES, shall be valid and
binding as part OF The constitution OF
The United States-if any citizen of the
United States sbaIlaccept, claim, receive,
or retain any title of nobility or honor, or
shall, without the consent Of Congress.
acerpt and retain any present, pension,
Office, or emolument, of any kind what
ever, from any emperor, king, prince, or
foreign power, such person shall cease
to be citizen of the United States, and
shall be incapable of holding any office
of trust or profit under them or either of
them"
II ought to be generally known, as il is
now ascertained, that this amendment was
moi ratified by tIiree-fourths Of the States,
and therefore is not part of The Consii-
tuition. Nat. Int.
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