Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-07-14

| captives. A Highland SERGEANT who was
in the troops that was commanded by
General Oglethrop, happened to be TAX
en- prisoner by an ambuscade. The
savages made q triumphal entry into
one of their towns, and their prisoner
was committed to safe custody until the
preparations for his torture were COM
pleted. When he was brought out of
prison, the whole exhibition of mangling
instruments, irons TO be heated to burn
out his eyes, &c. were displayed before
him. These aggravations of the horrors
of death he wished to avoid, and desir-
ing moments pause, he addressed them,
in long GRAFTON, concluding with in
forming them that he was gifted with a
supernatural power for that one ofhis
relations presented him with never
failing charm which rendered him an
vulnerable TO every veapOn Of 1eor. :'How
else could have escaped death in the
late dreadful coaicts, wherein, call your
proves to witness, that was neither
idle nor unexposed! This secret will
| reveal in compensation ofmy forfeited
life, TO the warIike tribe whose CRATE
full slave ann The Indians listened
with eagerness to a proposal so hatter-
ing to their military turn, and after
short consultation united the arms ofthe
prisoner; who requested that his broad
sword might be delivered to one of the
stoutest and boldest of their warriors.
The Highlander afterwards barred his
neck, and with a gay countenance, and
in loud voice cried out,--ss Now be-
hold, O Americans the amazing evil
dence of my veracity and fdelity--do
you selected chieftain, exert your III
most force, which shall not only fail 10
sever my head, but will not even erase
the skin of my enchanted neck" He
then laid his head upon the block
The Indian directed forcoful blow,
with skill and strength, and the head
was iu an instant severed from the body,
for ever and for ever! The High
lander thus evaded the torture which
many of his ccuntrymen had suffered
in this inhospilable cline.
Shaker Societies IN the u. States. The
first and one OF the largest is at New
Lebanon about 2 1-2 miles south Of
Lebanon Springs, in the County Of Co
lurnbia, State of New York, 25 miles
southeast from Albany, land contains be-
tween s and 600 persons Oae at Wat
erVliet, miles northeast from Albany,
containing upwards of 200 members
one at Hancock, Berkshire county,
Mass. of three hundred members-1 ut
Tyringham inthe same county containing
100 members one at Enfield, Hartford
county, Conn. containing about two hun
dred members; one at Harvard, Wor-
cester county, Mass. containing 200
members; one at Shirley, Middlesex
county, Mass containing l50 members
one at Canterba.y, Merrmack county,
N. Hampshire, containing 200 mem-
beers one at Alfred, Maine, containing
200 members; one at New Gloucester,
Maine, containing about $50 members
one at Union village, Warren county,
Ohio, containing nearly GOO members f.;
one at Waterlic!, Montgomery county,
Ohio, containing about 100 members
one at Pleasant Hill, Mercer county,
Kent. containing between 4 and 500
members one at South Union, Logan
county Kent. containing between s and
400 members one at West Union, Knox
county, Indiana, containing upwards CT
200 members. Most OF the societies
contain number Of large families, and
each family is provided with one or
more large and convenient dwelling
house and workshops. In each Society,"
there is house for public worship, and
and an Office for the transaction Of busi-
ness. Their employments are agrcul-
ture, horticulture. and domestic manu-
features, which furnish a,.yariety OF arti-
cles for the market.
The disaster which has recently befalIcn Sir
Charles Mccarthy and his party, gives a pccu-
liar interest to the following account ol the
Ashantees, by whom his army was destroyed.
The Gold Coast is billy, and from
the. margin of the sea TO the extent Of
twelve or fifteen horizontal miles inland,
clothed with thicket, tall trees, g. fibrous
stems, which are every where blended
together in the most entangled intrica-
cy. Beyond this boundary, and on the
northern frontier of Fantee, the land is
less incurvated, but unluckily more OBJ
structed by vegetable substances, for
hereabouts commences that stupendous
front, whose objects are of the most
colossal kinds, and whose productions,
although for the NEST part unknown to
us, are valuable even ia the markets Of
Salgha, Louraboh, and Wanda. Vhsa
the forces of Ashantee take the field,