The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1827-05-29

has BEEN doubted and ridiened BY several al
the pnoiie papers. In Consequence of which
the editor Of the Boston Traveller, IN whose pa
per 'he account hfss appeared, has taken some
pans TO aseertsin the fact correctly, and pub.
I,shes The follppsng the result of MS Inv esiga
ton
"egory was 50 obligine as to call at ou'
counting roam yesterday and relate his sioIy
10 se'eia. respectable gentlemen who were pre-
SUI ana also, a. our request. TO submit TO an
eAsh'fn""onby the Quarantine Physician for thu
pof who very kindly gave His opinion concern.
ING this cicsirixed and disabled limbs.
! The narrative of the sufferer differs in no We
| ~ essential points from our statement hereto
fore made He entered the service as a waiter
or musician at eleven years of age--was IN tbs
/ army OF Gen. fiullgwhen he surrendered at DE
troit--and with 63sfhers was seized and car
RED Off by the indians All of this number but
| ", who were spared ON account of their youth
fhlness, after being taken into the dense wilder
ness, we're tied TO posts and trees, their clothes
stripped of, their bodies thicklyperforated with
pine torches. In this condition the splinters
were lghiedand they were literally roasted a.
live and then left TO linger out their painful eI
| istence- Fourteen of the others were alive when
| gregory and his companion made their escape.
| II was some ofhis fellows, but not Gregory,
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a worthy Lieutenant, whose name If we rightly
| understand the broken accents of our inform
ant, Is NJ CTed. This officer made three AT
| tempts with the others TO liberate himself but
| the sayages were so severe and horrd in their
punishment Of scapng and managing him that
| he burst not again take an unforbidden step
| lie Is believed 10 be alive with the Flat Heads
at the presen, time Though Gregory as not
| actually scalped cash was cut from his fore.
head across his skull nearly to his neck and ano-
| Their across from ear TO ear. The skin was torn
back from the region ofthe neck, so far, that a
| piece of the muscle could be dissected, which
was roasted and eaten by the Indians or their
| captives.
The flesh has been cut from his thigh and 9th.
| or parts we before stated, but in arger guam.
titles than we had imagined. His arm hangs
| by his side mass ofsenseless as well as usec,s
| matter. The rod made of to stifen it was a
common ramrod and was forced through the
| flesh from the shoulder down The nerve OF
the arm called by anatomsts the musculo cufa-
| neous nerve was also severed, and hence the
| skin and muscles on the back of the arm and
hand entirely without feeling, and in a state
of violent contraction. Several scars of bull
let wounds are visible on different parts of the
| arm, which IA size are much larger than that on
| the left side.
| The remaining particulars are as we before
stated them-and they were indebted to the
kindness Of the Chief Squaw, for then final re.
| lease who procured ponies for each of them.
and mounted on one herself guided them thro'
the painless forest TO the distance of more than
| forty miles where she placed them in a track
bV which they arrived at last AT the white settle
ments. They returned by the way of Green
/ Bay, Detroit, aud Washington. At the latter
| place, they made known their case to the Pres
dent, who in person or by his order. furnished
them with money sufficient to enable them tt
reach THEN friends in Boston and assured then
they we're entitled to Pension, and that on ap
plication TO their Captain, still a resident il
Boston, that they would receive the necessar,
requisites to obtanit according TO law.
Halt GmiHSon lost objectionable psopie
ltoss.-During the last session of congress a b,
passed the house ofzann2esentatv authoriains
the treasury depa 70 borrow l6 millionso
dollars at an into 'ot exceeding 6per cent
to pay off an eqdaI tbnt OF public debt whic.
draws an interest of6 percent 1t was ascer
tanned the money could beborroweda at thatvate
and by the simple operation Of exchanging th
stock, the saving to the country would hay.
XCEEDED HALF A MILLION OF DOL
LARS. The senate, understanding this to be ar
administration measure, opposed 4 defeated tht
bill, and by this one act of the opposition, III,
people have lost uppards offUe hundred thousand
doHdrs While ambitious and aspiring leaders
under the pretence Of supporting gen. Jackson
for president, combine 10 oppose the administra
ton, right or wrong, il seems zoe the people hare
topay The piper, lSteubenpiHe (Ohio) Her.
The jackson Convention assembled in BaIt
more on Monday last, at 10 O'Clock The mem.
bers we're generally at their posts, and affected
| 20 be very confident ofthe success of their Mas.
ter forgetting, il seems, that nne-ienthS of the
Delegates sent by less than tlCentV constitu.
ents each. General THOMAS NJ. FOREMAN, of
Cecil county, was called to the Chair; and a
Committee, consisting ola Delegate from each
Electoral District was appointed to prepare an
Address to the people of Maryland.
1.-The King ofFraace and twenty thousand men
MaTch'd up the hill, &-then march'd down again"
Resources of Mssoufi.-There is perhaps no
section of the western country possessing more
natural wealth, and holding out stronger induce
ments To emigration, than the State ofMissouri
! Her climate is saubrious her valleys, her plains
and wide extended bottoms, in point of fertility
are equal 10 those ofthe Nile her high hills are
ineXhau5tible treasures of mineral, and her very
fountains are SO many streams OF wealth all OF
which must ere long be developed, by an enter.
prising people, seeking their own happiness, il
their own way.
From our lead ore. individual capital is dai '
increasing while with our iron ore and sail
springs, may be considered as in he full It'd,
Unsuccessful experiment and sufficiently graft
flying those things are, scarcely season pas
seS over, that we do not receive some new i'm
pulse to our hopes, by the discovery of som,
new source of wealth Ii was but The early pan
of last winter, we noticed the discovery on tho
Usage river, of an immense quantity of Bur,
mill stone, pronounced by the best judges, to be
equal to those of France /; and few DAYS since
we were presentedtwo pieces OF the genuine Gyp
sum, or Plaster of Paris, found on the Femme
Usage Creek, in St. Charles county, about fifty
miles west oil this place. Thus the secret wealth
and great importance of Missouri may be SAID
TO be daily disclosing itself. and holding oui the
strongest allurements TO migration.
] THIS State, as has been well said, is " emphati
cally the land OF mineral" and the day may moi
be distant, when We, too, may have our silver
and rold mines coual 10 those OF Perm and Mex