Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-11-25

awakening the savages vino were snoring a
round him, and who were connected 10 the rope
by which he was bound, he at length succeed
! ed in drawing the knife with his feet, until he
could reach it with his hand, when he cut the
cord that confined him, and was enabled to rise.
His first thought then was to run off, leaving
the Indians asleep; but upon reflection he con-
cluded that it would be impossible for him to
escape in this way; as they would probably soon
awake and rapidly pursue him. He came there
| fore to the heroic and almost desperate resoln-
ton, TO endeayor to kill the five Indians, or as
| many ofthem as he could. With the utmost
GOODNESS he proceeded TO examine their guns,
which he perceived lying together, 2rimed
Them and put them in good order for service
He then disguised himself by putting on a coat
belonging to the Indians and fixing tomahawk
and scalping knife in his belt, and placed his
own rifle at little distance off, where the saw
ages would not be likely to observe il, but where
he himself could instantly find it. All these
preparations were made at moment when five
Indians were sleeping by him, and when the
waking of either Of them would have been to
him instant death.
"Al things being ready, he proceeded to
make the assault. He took two guns, one in
each hand, and placing their nuzzles at the
breasts Of two Indians who were lying on each
side of the spot where ne had been, shot them
both at once. The others, as he expected,
being awakened by the noise, sprang up and
stared in amazement With third gun,
he instantly shot at two Of them who were
close together, killed one, as he afterwards
had reason 10 believe, and MORALLY wounded
the other. The fifth Indian seeing his COM
panions lying dead about him, and not
knowing where to find his arms, and proba-
byn the confusion Of the scene, uncertain
by how many he was assailed, precipitatc-
y fed. Mr.. Mcconnell therefore, was lefs in
quiet possession Of the field. Not feeling in
clned however, to fight any more such battles,
he took his rife and proceeded expeditiously
towards home, where, after tedious and pain
full journey, he safely arrived, TO the great JOY
of his friends, who had began to despair of ev.
er seeing him again.
Some little time afterwards, Mrs. Dunlap,
lady Of responsibility, who had been taken by
the Indians, and retained prisoner among
them on Mad River, in the state Of Ohio, made
her escape and returned home to the neighbor.
hood of Lexington. She stated that shortly at
ter the time when Mr. M 'Connell made his des-
perate and successful assault, one Indian out OF
FIVE who had made a journey towards Lexing-
ton, returned with an account that they had Ia
ken white man prisoner, and had brought
him as far as the Ohio river, when in the night,
while they were asleep, they were suddenly at
tackled by party of whites. who killed all his
companions, and probably likewise the poor
defenceIess prisoner, who was lying on his
back, tightly bound with cords"
The Witnesses in FZatbush Jail--Two seamen
have been confined in the Jail at Flatbush, for
several months, owing to their inability to give
bail TO appear as witness against Capt. Alden,
who was so honorably acquitted last week.
The court took their case into consideration, &
aw arded TO each the sum of one hundred dol.
lars as compensation for their loss of time,
sc, remarking, "tha, although the measures
which had been adopted towards them had been
required by justice, they should not be suffer-
ers by it's operation" Ne,o York Com HdU.
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