The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-02-14

Indian Mwders, and Murders Of Indians
I'VE have New Orleans papers to the
: 18th of January inst. containing the fol-
. lowing extracts from the Texas Gazette
of Dec. 9th:
"Mr. Rowis arrived here last night
from San Saba, having had fight with
l6O Indians on the 2Ist November.---A-
mong them were 40 Cadoes. He fought
from 8 o'clock in the morning with only
five men, flour others being wounded at
1.-THE beginning, one having died, ill half
past six o'clock, p. M.-saw fall 81 In
ldians, mostly Cadoes; fortified themselves
at night; and remained 8 days after the
battle at the fortifcation.
"We have been informed, from anun-
doubted source that the party Of troops
that went from Bexar, to attack the
Taucacana Indians IL their towns when
on their return to Bexar, fell in with a
party 81 Indians, and Killed % Of the
number: A only escaped"
Expedition against the Iakuakanos In
dians. having been granted
by the Political Authorities of the coun-
TRY, to Mr.. James Rowie to make an ex-
lpedition against this horde oftMeyes, and
marauders, of our frontier, Volunteer
corps to be commanded by officers of
their own election, will 60 out in the
coming month ofJanuary. The present
is believed to be favorable moment TO
strike final and fatal blow to those dis
turbers of our peace; as they have lately
been considerably damaged by an expe-
dition from Bexar, in which they lost
two hundred and fifty horses, and after
wards in desperate fight with Mr.. James
Bowie. 1t is stated that they have still
2, 1000 horses in their possession which
may be taken. Information has been
received that the Tahuakanos intend to
make a campaign against De Wits
Colony, for the purpose of destroying it;
lif this be the case, their next blow will
be directed against this coIony.--All that
feel disposed to go and chastise these
murderers Of our wives and children; and
plunderers of our property, are invited
to meet at Gonzales on the Goth of next
month, the time and place appointed for
general rendezvous, whence they will
proceed on the campaign.-Cor. 8' Eng.
BURKING. The late London papers
are full of the trials for Burking, a new
and unheard Of crime, or, as Cicero has
it, crimen novum atque inouditum. There
seems to be more depravity and hardness
of heart necessary to the commission of
this horrid crime, than to any other kind
|of murder. The robber expects con-
siderable prize, the assassin considers
himself to be worthy of his hire, and will
not slay for a moderate price; he who
murders in anger has other pallia-
tions, but the Burker despnils the VIC
tim of life for the paltry fee given by the
surgeons for the carcass. 1t is to be
feared that surgery has had many VIC
tins both in the study and the practice.
One would suppose that the graves were
always sufficient, about London, for all
the demands of science, and that these
human goules might find enough prey a.
mong them. But this would require more
labor, than to walk forth and invite the
the intended and unconscious victim to
take glass of gin drugged with lauda-
mum. Two wretches have been execu-
ted in London for the murder of two
persons, that they might sell their bodies
to the surgeons for ten guineas each.
Their confessions show that one was a
youth, and the other q young woman
who had left little child at home.
Both were at separate times invited by
the murderers to their lodgings; when
they were left insensible from Iaudanum,
the comrades went forth to drink at a
tavern, and when they returned, des-
patched their victims by suspending them
from a rope in well. The trial was at
tended by crowds, both of ladies and pub
lie officers and dignitaries, and the ver-
dict was received with huxzas by the
countless multitude without. The MUIR
derers were sufficiently hardened at the
trial, but at the execution they showed
in great degree the cowardice ofguilt.
The crowd, which was immense, receiv-
ed them with groans, and the hangman's
last duty was performed amidst tremen-
dous cheers. Their bodies were forth
with carried to the surgeons, so that the
murderers may be said to have followed
their vocation after death. One of them
stated that in the course Of his "body
snatching'' he had disinterrred about q
Thousand of the dead, but that he had
never committed but the two murders
for which he suffered. Nothing, howevs
Ter, is more common than for murderer
to die with a lie on his tongue. il is abb |
solutely astounding that some ofthe Lon
don papers announce that these murder
ers had "made their peace with God"
II is to be hoped that they died penitent;