Litchfield enquirer., 1836-06-02


\ mast the po,ver Of description. Wives sever.
ed from their husbands and parents from their
children, al dismayed. all terror ntricken. pre-
I sented u scene which we never again desire
70 witness. An interesting looking girl. lust
blooming into wOmAnhOOd, was hrourht in
| on horseback behind q benevolent stranger.
who had found her IN the nation making her
| way, unattended Ia this place. She started
| in company with her parents, bnt before they
had proceeded far. they we're brutally shot
down before her eyes. She had frd Ia thu
wOods and escaped from her savage DursusrS
aud was found and brought To Columbus AZ
above stated. A young man arrived M this
J place. also witnessed the savage murder Of
his parents. Another young man, in the act
Of fleeing. perceived the Indians dragging n.
way his sister. He returned declaring that
he would rescue her or die in the atiempt.
and he has not since been heard of. From
this time their deeds Of savage barbarity have
been TOO numerous to Particularise. A wa.
man was brought in ON Tuesday wounded in
| the hand, " hose husband had been shot the
preceding evening at the Uchee Bridge.
Colonel A. B. Daw sons negroes, who were
taken by the Indians. aud made their escape.
: state that they saw three cOrpses on the road
near the Uchee Bridge. man, woman and
child, who had all been murdered.
Extract Of letter from the Post Master at
Columbus to the Post Master General.
COLUMBUS. (Ga.) May 16-At dark.
Sir-TwW drivers have this moment arriv-
ed. bringing the distressing intelligence that
two stages containing five heavy leather mails.
accompanied by guard Of six men, and sew
eral passengers, making in all fourteen per-
sons, were attacked this day about noon, IS
miles from this town.. by large body of In
dams and overpowered. The drivers left the
stages and have reached town. They know
nothing Of the guard or the passengers.
have employed fifty friendly Indians at an ex-
pense Of 5000 to 60 ont to night and bring in
the mails. They will start Immediately. and
by morning we shall know the fate Of the
mails. Very respectfully.
J. VAN NESS, P. NJ.
COLUMBUS, Tuesday, May 18th, noon.
The friendly Indians sent cut last night
have this moment returned. and report that
on their arrival at the place where the mails
were left, they discovered the stage in the
road, and also the mail wagan. together with
three dead men aud twp dead horses. They
state that they saw in the wagon three large
mail bags untouched, and a.qMantity Of news
papers strewed on the ground that they
commenced collecting the newspapers. when
an Indian made his appearance near them.
and on ascertaining who they were. plunged
into a cane brake near them, where these
friendly Indians supposed large party ofihe
hostile band were concealed, and that they
Immediately fed. This statement embraces
their whole story.
Every thing here is utter cOnfusiOD--D"
system-n0 organization-but pesfrct anar-
chy. Two hundred men could keep the road
open from this to Montgomery, at least until
troops are collected in the nation; but at
PRESENT all command and none obey. 1t is to
he regretted that there is not on the spot
some distinguished military officer Ofthe Gen
eral Government to assume the command
and give force and efficiency to the imperfect
arrangements making 10 secure the safety Of
the frontier for, as to the property in the
nation. that is all destroyed.
regret exceedingly that it is not in my
power to give more detailed and coherent
statements, in relation to affairs here. shall
make every effort to rescue the mails, bnt
now entertain no hope Oftheir being saved.
Very respectfully. ~-y
Another letter from the Post Master at
Columbus. dated 18th instant. states that
James Green. the driver. who left that place
the day previous, was seen by the indians who
went out to bring 10 the mails, killed and half
burnt-the stage was also burned. The
steamer Hyperion was brought up with all
the wounded men, and -Brockway, the engi-
neer. who was killed. was buried that day at
Is o'clock.-Nat. Intel.
TIE Georgia and Alabama Frontier.
Letter from gentleman 10 Georgia. dated
"COLUMBus, (Ga.) May l6. 1885. :
~ have troubled you before in regard to
our Indian massacres; but the half has not
been told. Roanoke was taken yesterday
morning. and its inhabitants butchrred. The
steamboat Georgian. lying there. was also at
tackled, and her crew mastered; aud yester-
day evening, about two o'clock. the Hyperi-
on, another boat, was attacked at WoOlfolk's
sand-bar. only sir miles from Columbus. the
pilot shot down. and several others killed and
wounded. The steamboat Columbus is de.
serted at Uchee shoals. All the boats have
valuable cargOes on board, and are now at the
mercy Of the Indians. An express reached
here an last night that the town of Tallassee
mot Tallahassee on the TallapOosa was de-
strOyed. The work Of murder gees ON in
Chambers county fUur white lnen and nee
gro were killed there on last Thursday morn-
ing. Two men were killed this side Of Tus-
keegee. and yesterday morning the stage hor-
| ses broke across the bridge here and ran bleed.
ing into town, two being badly shot. Two
men were killed in the stage. one made his
escape. who got in last night. after being pur-
sued by the Indians all day. The stage had
been stopped for several days; but the con-
tractors thought they would venture again.
and the result Of the rash attempt was as I
have related The nan ~ ho esea ned % ma Ona