Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-10-19
NJ. WATTS. Charge d'AGairs.

nears that Mr WARTS, our Charge des
Affaires at Bogots, has been shamefui-
" abused in false report OF his death.
We, too, rejoice that it is not true. IL
was most unlucky, to say no more of
that he should have had his character
libeled, and be put to death by the same
paragraph. The editor who published
the extract Of a letter on this subject,
will of course explain the meaning OF all
this.--.rat. Int.
From tie Ns7v York american u Oct z.
It gives US great pleasure to contra
dict the runor too hastily credited and
circulated. of the death by assassination
at Bogots of BEAUFORT I. WATTS, Esq.
the Charge d'Afaires of the United
States in Columbia.
We have to- day seen letter, written
by Mr.. WATTS himself, from Bogota,
dated 10th August, and have heard OF
ansther, also written by him, received
in Philadelphia, dated in the end of Au-
gust, period subsequent to that at
which he was reported to have been as
sassinated. 81
LITTLE Rock, fARK.) Sept. 6.-The
Quapaw indians, This tribe of Indians,
Whose removal from the Arkansas to
Red River took place last Spring, pursu-
ant to the treaty concluded with them in
Nov. 1920 we are sorry to learn, have
recently been reduced almost to the last
extremity of wretchsdness and want,
bordering on a state of actual starvation,
in consequence OF the inundation and
total destruction of their crops of corn,
occasioned by the overfowing of Red
River, during the latter part of last
Spring and the early part of the Sum-
mer. A deputation from the tribe was
short time since despatched to this
place, for the purpose of laying their
distressed situation before the Governor,
and soliciting him to afford them some
relief This relief, we feel much salts
faction in stating, was promptly afforded.
The governor Immediately gave an or
der for the purchase and delivery to
them of fue hundred bushels o. corn; and,
to prevent the impositions which are too
often practised on these untutored sons
of the forest, he very prndently took
the precaution to direct that the corn
should be delivered to the chiefs. at the
residence of the tribe, in presence of
two magistrates, who are TO certify the
fact of its delivery.
This timely relief has no doubt saved
many of that unfortunate tribe from the
horrors Of actual starvation.- Gazette
High-handed Viltaag.--A stranger,
whose name we have not learned, made
oath to the following facts, the day be-
fore yesterday, at the Police Office:
That he is from New Hampshire, and
has Just returned from the Western part
of this State, where he had been to look
for place to locate himself; that he
put up at Nr. Kimney's tavern near the
Canal Basin, and after supper, about
. o'clock, walked out to see the Canal
While standing on the pier, he was ac-
costed by two men, who requested him
to assist than in getting boat afoat,
which they said was aground short
distance from them; that he accompa-
MED them for the purpose, and after
wading in shallow water some distance
from the shore, one of his employers
drew knife or dagger, while the other
robbed him OF all his money, consis-
ting of sos. After they had robbed
him, they compelled him to wade in
deeper water, with threat that they
would take his life if he attempted TO
come ashore. The robbers made off
with their booty, leaving the stranger in
almost a drowning condition for about
fifteen minutes, when, believing them
out OF sight, he ventured to come to the
shore. He says that the man who held
the dagger to him, was an Irishmsn:
and believes that being aware of his
having money, they devised this method
of robbins him.--.f!bany paper.
We find from paragraph in the
Cincinnati Mercantile Daily Advertiser,
that an engraving has been made, by
Mr.. William Woodruff, of that town, of
the last letter of MIR. Jefferson
The plate is IL by IS inches, and the
impressions are taken on fine paper,
with much care. The taste displayed in
the embellishments, which comprise an
excellent likeness of the venerable pat
riot, is highly spoken of; the fac simile
is said to be particul rly accurate land the
general style ofthe engraving such as to
reflect the greatest credit on the ingenu-