Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-08-02
CHEROkEES.

last on DOdfu Ile Sledlll uoo'" - =,
Meridian, for their destined hoInHs across tiie
Mississippi, under charge OF Lieut.. Harry OF 'he
United States Army.
Previous to the departure OF the INDIANS from
this place some days since, many serious DIS
turbanccs occurred. Upon the req llsltlon OF
the Governor of Georgia-preparat'ons were
making to so chain and tetter some II or 10
ofthese deludcd wretchcs that there could be
no escape, when one by sudden and ener-
retic effort, succeeded in getting from the grasp
Of those III whose possession he Was-ralsed a
hammer and inflicted very severe blow upon
the head of one of the guards-gave the war
whoop and then took to flight-he was immc-
liatcy shot dead by Mobile Volunteer, and
another bayonctted and died in few hours.
On the same evening three succeeded III esca-
ping from the guard--one was on Thursday
brourht into town under arreSt-and While
proceeding through the street IN awagon, took
a large knife and cut his throat and instantly
expired. Such is the desperation of these be-
ings.
81. .ingustiae JHly %.
Another .Action at Micanopy.-From the
extreme unhealthiness of the position, the Com
mander-in- Chief has ordered the abandonment
of Fort Drare The removal of the sick a2c
stores to Micanopy commenced on the l9fh
inst. \ letter from an officer at the latter post
received by the commanding officer here on
the 2lst states that the first train was attack
ed on that evening within a quarter of mile
of Micanopv, hS~thrce hundred lndlans-thc
action lasted more, than an hour, twelve men
were badly wonnded-lnany horses killed.
Capt. Ashbv of the<2d L. s. Dragons, severe
" wounded through the ncck-and Assistant
Surgeon Weightman badly wounded through
the thigh. On hearing the firing, all the dis
possible force within the work, at Micanopv
moved oatSo the support of the escort. Other
results Oh TIC loss OF the enemy is not stated:
There were 80 sick at the two posts and
many of those reported ''lor duty were IN a
feeble and deblitatcd state.
Since writing the above, accounts have been
received that the Indiant torce was 200 hundred
that the escort consisted of 50 men, under
command of Capt. Ashby, of the U. 5. ORA
goons. having a howitzer, and that the Indians
were defeatcd-scvcral of our men arc NOR
tally wounded.
4 letter dated st. Johns July 90, states that
New Switzerland in that ncighbourhood had
been DESTROYED by the Indians. They told
negro who made his escape from them that OS-
cola was still in the nation unhurt. Much prop
crty has been destroyed in that neighborhood.
From the Globe.
"Official dispatches from General GAINES,
dated Camp Sabine, June %, 1886, colnmuni-
'cate the intelligence that the Mexican army at
Metamoras, under General Urea, had been
reinforced to the number Of 1000 men, and
was, on the 18th of June, OH its march rapid
'ly advancing towards Guadaloupe Vittoria,
'and the head quarters of the Texian army.
'The motto to which the Mexican army were
'sworn, was determination to the Sabine, or
death
"Beiore receiving this intelligence, Major
STERLING G.. ROBERTSON had reported to
General GAINES that two men had been re-
Gently killed, and another wounded, on the
waters ofthe Navasota, in RobertSon's colony
about twenty miles west of Nacogdoches, by
'the Indians of several different tribes, (Cad-
does, Kitches, and others,) who had taken
and carried away severalwomen and children
of the families OF the men killed.
General GAINES, considering that these
recent acts ofhostility on the part of the In
'dians were prompted by their having been
advised of the large force approaching Meta
'moras, and by the expectation that the Tex
'ians would be driven of, and the country CIV
zen up to them, has called upon the Governors
'of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and
Louisiana, each for regiment of mounted
'gunmen to cooperate with the regular force
under his command, including the four compa-
mics of dragons from Fort Leavenworth.
"Itw his intention, if he did not in the in
'teriln receive satisfactory assurances that the
Indians upon our borders had no hand in the
: late murders on the Navasota, to march to
'Nacogdoches as soon as he obtained the in
mediate cooperation OF the three companies
Outrageous and six companies Of the 9TH III
'fantry at Fort Towson."