Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-10-09

bass, " Lord bless my soul" and give very
heavy sigh. L remember l thought he vSi,s
frightened for his life, and told him had ne
yer asked any mau for his life, and IL we were
not so strongly armed. he would take mine
INT that he should not he huIt. a good deal
Ui tle money We took was in gold and speeds,
and III bags of buckskin. The one he sighed
fur had iS0 pieces in IL, and a good deal ot
them gold. made each man a belt and put
all the gold in three belts, made outot "a deers
hide that bought iron an lud;an tha, lived
IN the Cherokee patton when he was al home.
The whole that had 10 share from that robbie
~ came 10 ss7011.
~ lay in that mountain month, in which
time we lived on Wild meat, wild turkey. and
ecCt, and racCoOn. | VAS ia Nashville once in
That time 1 took my horse with me-, aud m,
money had where 10 man kneS.
was no great while after this, that we rob
bed another paYtyiu tine Cherokee nation two
OF tScrWeie tom st. Augustine, and one from
Chati lesion, =. {. three IN company rode in
ComtGuy with them. One evening told the
men was aSen, for the Cherokee nation, rs
they Knew no brtier, and found out all their
business. They spoke Spanish aud broken En-
shsh they had a horse with a pack-sadIie
hini With large pair of saddle bags !ashed OH
The pack saddle. One OF the men had waict
that ~ Ouid run, he told me, seven days without
win,lmgup, and asked me ii would exchange
my horse tor At. l told him No" Ely two
| men, were in ahouse five six miles froH the
CmckaSaw nation, with man that called his
name HayCuot. a half breed Indian they had
taken their horses 10 his house, which stands
| between Bear creek and Tennessee river.
| ode OH before my company 10 inform ny men
| that we n,igitt likely get something from these
| men. One of my fellows would hardly hear
| me 10 the eud, so greedy was he aiteT the pack
| saddle mentioned. We LETT the r2ighbariood
| of Bear creek, took 10 the gres road again. and
| made Us fast possible alter the company L
| had left, which was much afraid we should
| miss. About 20 miles from the house of one
| Thompson, who was known IN those parts at
! that time, l ovl rio0> the company again. This
| Thompsoni is a white man, married to a squaw
! We made oil into the woods. When cot the
| travellers IN sigl (, made benz, and III Il cane
| brake just off the road, we painted cur faces
! like the Indian when hc IS going 10 war. The
| party was pretty stall armed; rode up TO
| thenl-thcy all wertcd very ninch al seeing MS,
/ az we showed our arms and looked very thred-
| teniug. spoke 10 them in the Creek tou que
| of which knew ii few wnrdS, rs il had been
| AN Indian. They did not understand mt. One
oi my men asked ii taey could " paris IR-isis."
They stopped, aud spoke broken Eugi>h
| told them we we're Indians, that did not think
! II amy harm To take money from white people,
| and II they raised one OF their arms 10 fire on
| rs We would send them To eternity, sscry mau
! OF them. One of them said, take every thing
| we have; we have more at home, aud only
| wish sou l. be civil To oar persons. The two
| men HAD with me, stood still with their rifles
| cooked, and each had his pistols al his side,
| and dagger. l took away the arms from the
travellers, who made uolnore resistance.--On
the pack horse we found 1)0 dOubioons aud
1OI pieces of different sizes, and large guam
lily OF gold in bars, sin inches N length and
eight sguaTe-30 weight of il. W It'll the own
Crs, found "a doublooas and silver dollars,
aud 800 French saineas aud GI pieces. the va.
lue OF which could not tell till weighed
them | got II or Ii 900 dollars, altogether
from the company, all III gold.
On the 9Th day after this we reached chr
cave again. Shortly after this left the cave,
aud GA my way, met maa, OF horseback,
| with Il rifle oil lis shoulder. | joined company
with him. aud he told me he had been 10 ST.
! Louis To buy land. in Il few moments we came
- = .s..stisti SPRING, aud dsa.U.;ated To get "A
drink. file laid his rifle against d tree, AID
| asked me u taNe some brandy and water
with him. Whilst lie was STOPPING to get some
water from the spring, seized his r.ie iTosss
the Tree, and told him was highway roObes
and would take drink of water with INN after
Z mad counted what money lie had: that ne
yer drank brandy OF any kind OF spirits. as
always had spirits enough IN me, witaUut tax
!n9 brandy, and that it ne did not Instantly de
l,Y"r tOu me every cent he had, would send him
where he would get something hotter than
brandy. lie was very mitch alarmed and trem
bled worse than DO under the galiDws. He
delivered all his money 20 me. rot from hin
:?U0 dollars IN gold and small bd, of silver
hut a. | never wished 10 bring man TO power
~, gase linn back the bag OF silver and hi:
watch.
we went TO Nashville, Ten-I bou, hit .
black boy and Two horses and gi=, and attej
Il few days We started 10 Knoxville together
From there we went 20 Lexington, Ken. anC
from there 10 Louisville, al the tails of Ohio
! Here [ snapped my two horses and zig, witt
= gentleman from Georgia, for d black boy an,
gNid repeater, and my trst Uiack bow l sole
20 one of my hiGhwaymen for $50. My TIVE
robbers having sold their iterSes, we left thi
! place H. 4 Hat topped boat, aud went down th,
Ohio TO NatcheZ, ahd from there to New Or
! leans
One night we LOST so much money at tn,
gaming taue, that we saw something was /,
)s dome.-- set my black boy free in Ney
OIie.us, which place we left after purcha,jn.
.hree good horses, and started for Blt0l
Rouge. Here got passport from GOveruo
| Claiborne, and intended 20 roo on the yoa,
between BatOA Rouge and Pensacola
| We started from Baton ROug1 10 find Il &
place for our caur.-About 30 mites f,ou
| Pensacola, and near a track that led 10 III
Cold Mines, We found cleft of rocks Ihd
iOrmed IN admira blecave, winch 40 man vi,te
before, expect, since the flood. Game wa
| piputy &c.
We hunted here nine DAYS; at Tia end
that time we hogan tn want p0WJe, aud ,hc
| and thought that two of us shOuid go TO pei
sacOla TO get til was the one TO STAY q
| home. They were away nihe dIyS Onr wh
married there iheu began 10 tell me fan IA
| news he had heard at the Hotel in Pen ,acOlf
where lie had put up al. He said that he ha
seen IA Spanish gcntien,tn there, from OF
Spain, thai was going from Pens 4cola 20 l,a.o
LUZ W. tEH NaS siA,i ti"t hN hdh seen VIA
he HAD a good deal OF gOid about him. "
Immediately put osr arms in order had
/ pair Of pistols, dirk, cuilassaud ariae NJ,
two robbers had each ofthena r,fie, pair q
pistols aud dagger. GA the eighth day
saw d company pass, As | watched tic rOat
and directly " eut back 10 our cave, had on
horses caught aud saddled, ard we mounic
! them with our arms in pursuit Of them o
tbc next day we c1mc uP 10 them Ny SPANS
flking man, who had seen the oil Apdnlard u
t'RuSaC ilI said that a Wa the rieut 60 no A
tor he knew the old Spaniard by the cot a
las jlb' | rode past them tn see what arm
i'cy had, aud saw ~ passed them, that Iher
WIS five in company, aud thattuey had two pal