Niles' Weekly Register. (Baltimore, Md.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 6, 1836 Page: 6 of 16
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NILES’ REGISTER—AUG. 6, 1856 THE CHEROKEES.
has been too sadly verified; a party of Indians amounting pro-
bably to 200, have invaded our soil: they are doubtless seeking
a covert in the Chickasahatchee swamp.
An energetic pursuit must be immediately adopted and the
enemy must be overtaken and overcome; captains Delapaner,
Sledge and Bostick, with their companies, will immediately
proceed to the reinforcement of the detachment now at Fort
McCreary; the instructions contained in order No. 129 will be
rigidly pursued by the senior officer of the whole force, who
will take command of the detachment. In addition to the
instructions, he wiil consider himself as not being confined to
the limits ol one county, but if necessary pursue them to the
Florida line—he will remember the Indians must not escape.
Supplies of arms, ammunitions and subsistence, will be imme-
diately forwarded to Fort McCreary, and every disposition
made to check the escape of the enemy.
By order of major general Sanford,
W. S. ROCKWELL, aid-de-camp.
The troops had marched for Fort McCreary at the last advi-
ces.
The stages have resumed their regular trips, the road being well
guarded by U. States’ troops. The mail leaves Columbus eve-
ry morning at 4 o’clock, and arrives at Montgomery next morn-
ing at nine o’clock, thus connecting with the mail for Mobile.
Returning will leave Montgomery at six o’clock, P. M. so as to
connect with the mail going cast.
Montgomery, (Ala.) July 20. Fifteen hundred Tennessee
mounted men arrived here on Saturday last, and are now en-
camped upon the borders of our town. We understand that
Yoholo and Jim Boy, the two friendly chiefs who rendered
such important service in the Creek war, are becoming dissa-
tisfied with the whites and with general Jesup particularly.
It is said they petitioned Jesup for leave to keep their relatives,
who were hostile prisoners, with them, and that they might not
be carried westward with the other hostiles, nor sent to Geor-
gia for trial. This request Jesup refused, which is said to have
rendered Yoholo and Jim Boy very much dissatisfied. In con-
sequence of it, general Jesup intends keeping a large force in
the nation until the result of the chiefs’ resentment is more
fully ascertained. Some danger is apprehended also from the
deportment of the friendly Indians upon their being informed
that they were to be sent off to the west immediately with the
hostiles. They can raise 3,000 fighting men at least, and some
say more. They had lately 1,100 under arms who are all still
in the nation; and there are a large number besides residing in
Taledega, Chambers and other upper counties who took no
part in the campaign.
Since our last, another (a third) party of Creeks were
brought to our town on their march to the west They consist
of about 500 men, women and children.
Governor Schley has demanded Jim Henry of general Jesup,
to be shot in Georgia, for his numerous offences there; and Je-
sup has answered the governor by informing him that Jim has
been demanded first by governor Clay, and is therefore handed
over to the sheriff of Russel county.
From the New Orleans Bulletin, July 20.
The Greeks amounting to some 12 or 1,500, including men,
women and children, reached our city by the way of the lake
Monday last. Until the departure of the boats, which are to
convey them to their place of destination, west of the Missis-
sippi, they have made a temporary lodgment along the bank of
the new canal, below the basin at the foot of Julia street.
The excessive rains of Monday night, and which continued
nearly without intermission all of yesterday, have proved pe-
culiarly unfortunate to these poor savages in their marshy sitna-
tion, some 30 or 40 having died, as we are informed, since their
arrival.
With the aid of a few slaves and boards, some tattered can-
vass and soiled blankets, they have put up a lew rude tents,
which afford them however but feeble protection against the
driving rain. Should the present wet weather continue, and
farther delay be occasioned prior to their departure, it certainly
would be an act of humanity on the part of the city authorities
to appropriate to their use some more comfortable habitations
than those which they now have. The barracks, or new city
prison, might be used for such a purpose.
These Indians are not chained, as was reported, but are quite
at large. They do not appear to be destitute of the proper
clothing, and are without arms. We noticed among the group
some finelooking warriors, who with their well chiselled frames,
strongly developed muscles, dark hair, hazel eyes, high cheek
bones, and noses that would riyal the Greek, in precision of
outline, showed a combination of manly beauty and strength,
that we have rarely seen surpassed by the pale faces. There
are Indian damsels too, who need only the habiliments and de-
corations of a more refined state of society, to create no little
envy among even more polished dames, the observed of all
observers.
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THE CHEROKEES.
From the Miners Recorder.
DECLARATION OF PEACE, BY THE CHEROKEES OF VALLEY Town.
On Friday July 1st 1836, at Highwassee town house, dele-
gates assembled from the principal towns of Aquohee and
Jaquohee districts, in the Cherokee nation; comprising that
part of the nation lying within the chartered limits of North
Carolina, and in Union county,Georgia.
THE CREEK WAR.
From the Globe.
Fort Mitchell, Alabama, June 20, 1836.
Dear sir: We have the Florida scenes enacted over again.
This war ought to have been ended a week ago. I commence
ed operations on the Alabama side, and have succeeded ill
tranquilizing the whole, frontier. Our principal hostile chief,
Enea Mico, came in with many of his people to a camp which
I had formed for the purpose of feeding the starving Indians,
preparatory to their removal. Another, Enea Mathla, is a
prisoner in my camp, and I was in full march with a force suffi-
cient to have terminated the war in five days, when my pro-
gress was arrested by an order from general Scott. He has cen-
sured me in the most unmeasured and unwarrantable manner,
and 1 shall be compelled to have the whole subject of this
campaign investigated. There was force sufficient at Tuskee-
gee, Columbus, or this place, one week after our arrival, to
have put an end to this war, if it had been property used; but
it was thought necessary to adopt a splendid plan of campaign
upon paper, and make every thing bend to it. To have waited
the developments of that plan would have left nothing to de-
fend; bloodshed and conflagration would have pervaded entire
counties of Alabama. If not arrested by general Scott, I shall
apply to be relieved, for I disapprove entirely the course he
has thought proper to pursue, and believe that his delay has
been destructive of the best interests of the country.
Let the president see this letter; be, I am sure, will approve
the promptness with which I have acted, when he shall be
sensible that I have, by the movement I have made, tranquil-
ized the whole Alabama frontier.
With my respectful compliments to Mrs. Blair and your fa-
mily, yours, most truly, THOMAS S. JESUP.
Francis P. Blair, esq. Washington city.
Endorsement on the back of the letter.
Referred to the secretary of war, that he forthwith order ge-
neral Scott to this place, in order that an inquiry be had into
the unaccountable delay in prosecuting the Greek war, and the
failure of the campaign in Florida. Let general Jesup assume
the command. A.J.
Head quarters, army of the south, Tuskeegee, July 17, 1836.
Sir: I have the honor to report for the information of the
secretary of war, and the general in chief, that in pursuance
of my orders, major Webb of the Alabama volunteers, com-
manding a line of post in Chambers county, about thirty riffles
north of this position, has just sent in one hundred and forty-
five prisoners of Neo Mico's party, which he captured in the
last few days; this party increases the number of prisoners
taken to about two thousand eight hundred.
The war is entirely at an end, and so far as regards Indian
hostilities, the inhabitants might return to their farms in per-
fect security; but their houses have been burnt, their means of
subsistence destroyed, and their crops on the ground will yield
them nothing. It will probably be many months before the
majority of them return; for all necessary supplies must be
brought from a distance, and at an expense beyond the means
of any but the wealthy.
I shall concentrate the regular troops and marines in the
vicinity of the principal Indian force, for the purpose of pre-
venting any danger from them, when the militia and volun-
teers shall be withdrawn; and without orders from Washing-
ton, shall continue them there until the Indians emigrate. A
part of that force is now stationed on the mail road between
this place and Columbus, for the protection of the mail; but
the contractors have not yet placed stages on that route.
The discharge of the greater sart of the Georgia force has
been ordered, and I have directed the discharge of fourteen
companies of infantry, and eight mounted companies of the
Alabama volunteers and militia. The greater part of the mount-
ed force now under general Patterson was raised in the northern
counties of Alabama, and I propose to order them to move
through the Creek and Cherokee country to their homes, and
should gen. Wool require their service they will be in a situa-
tion to co-operate with him before their discharge.
The Tennessee brigade has reported, and I have directed
general Armstrong to take a position near Montgomery, with
that part of it not ordered by gen. Scott to Florida, where sub-
sistence and forage be may readily obtained, and whence he
pan join me in a single march, should the Indians manifest a
hostile disposition. I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient
servant, TH. S. JESUP.
Brig. gen. R. Jones adjt. gen. Washington city.
Notwithstanding the annunciation of general Jesup that “the
war is entirely at an end,” the Creeks and their allies do not
let an opportunity pass of encountering the whites, if they can
do so with a hope of success. The Charleston papers of the
30th ult. state that a battle was fought in Stewart county, near
Fort McCreary, on the preceding Sunday, between a party of
hostile Creeks, amounting to 250, and two companies of Georgia
troops, in all about 90 men, which resulted in the defeat of the
latter with the loss of five killed and several wounded. The
loss of the Indians is said to be thirty killed. As soon as the
news reached gen. Sanford, he issued the following order:
ORDER—No. 130
Head quarters 1st army corps, army of the south,
Columbus, July 25th, 1836.
The apprehensions of the major general that the enemy
would reassemble in force on the disbandment of the troops,
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