when the lands embraced by the treaty shall be sur-1 Department of war, July 21st, 1825. SIR-Yours of the 5th inst. has been duly received with the accompanying documents. Indian Springs, 20th June, 1825. SIR: Enclosed you will receive a copy of a letter of instructions from his excellency, the governor of Georgia, to us as commissioners in behalf of the state, for the purposes therein mentioned. It is important to the commissioners that your answer to the application of his excellency the governor, to admit the commissioners to a full and free participation of the council of the Indians, should be received as early as practicable. Very respectfully, sir, we are your obedient servants, WARREN JOURDAN, Maj. Gen. E. P. Gaines, Commissioners. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Milledgeville, 18th June, 1825. GENTLEMEN: You are required to proceed to the I am directed by the president to express his regret at the failure of your efforts to reconcile the Creeks to an acquiescence in the treaty made at the Indian Springs, as it was his sincere desire to have seen it carried into effect. But the determined opposition of the Indians to the treaty itself, on the al-Indian Springs to attend a council of the friendly Inged grounds of intrigue and treachery, on the part of the portion of the tribe negotiating the treaty, as well as the smallness of their numbers, from which they argue its invalidity, and their solemn ap peal to the justice and magnanimity of the United States, creates such an obligation that we should, at least, pause before we proceed, or permit others to do so, until these allegations can be thoroughly investigated, and their effect decided by the proper authority; the more especially, as the eighth article of the treaty gives till September of the next year, before the treaty is to be carried into effect, and guarantees them from encroachment till that time. It is in this posture of affairs gov. Troup insists that he will survey the land. A collision by overt acts, between the executive of the union and that of a state, is so against the theory of the constitution, and so repugnant to the feelings of the president, that he would determine only under a solemn sense of duty to do an act by which so serious a result would be produced. If gov. Troup should, however, persevere in his declared purpose of surveying the land, against the repeated remonstrances of this department, it will present one of the most unfortunate events which have yet occurred in our history. Its possible occurrence has induced the president to weigh with the deliberate circumspection made necessary, as well by its serious consequences as its high responsibility. His decision thereon has been made and transmitted to gov. Troup, in a letter of this date, a copy of which I inclose for your information, and by which you will learn the line of conduct which the president has prescribed to himself. dians, to be holden there on the 20th inst. As it is presumed that any concert, tendered on the part of this government, to assure a full development of the facts connected with the late disturbances in the Creek nation, and also such as may more particularly affect the guilt or innocence of the agent, under the charges exhibited against him by the governor of this state, will be gratifying to maj. gen. Gaines, you are hereby authorized and empowezed, under the authority vested in you by the legislature, to employ all lawful means for the furtherance of the objects aforesaid; avoiding, at the same time, any interference whatever with that council, in matters disconnected with the objects of your mission, and which appertain, exclusively, to interests and relations, purely political, sut sisting between the general government and the Indians. From the Indian Springs, you will proceed to attend the other council, to be holden at Broken Arrow on the 25th inst. Your presence there will be of importance, because more immediately connected with the investigation of the conduct of the agent, as arranged by the governor, at the instance of the presi dent of the United States and the legislature of the state. You will no doubt be admitted to a free participation of that council, and will be suffered to take with you, under a sufficient safe-guard, any of the friendly chiefs, whose presence there you may consider necessary to the accomplishment of the objects which the United States and this government have in view. There can be the less doubt of this, because the charges having been already made, both by the executive and legislative authority of Georgia, against the agent, and the agent having so far thought proper to It is still devoutly to be hoped that governor Troup have resource to the missionaries and hostile Indians will abstain from any act that may make it necessary in the nation, for his defence; and that defence being to have recourse to the steps suggested; yet should already before the public, at the instance of the agent, he persevere in sending persons to survey the lands in which it would seem that both being under the embraced within the treaty, you are hereby authoriz-control and influence of his office, any direction most ed to employ the military to prevent their entrance on the Indian territory, or if they should succeed in entering the country, to cause them to be arrested and turn them over to the judicial authority, to be dealt with as the law directs. I have only to add that I have transmitted to gov. Troup a copy of this communication. I have the honor, &c. (Signed) To maj. gen. E. P. Gaines. suitable to his views may have been given to their opinions and feelings, it is only an exercise of strict right on the part of the government of Georgia, that it be heard before that council, by its commissioners, who are instructed to give and receive explanations for the purpose, in common with the agents of the Unted States, of arriving at truth and doing justice to all partics. Should such participation be denied you, JAMES BARBOUR. you will enter your formal protest against that denial, and proceeed to avail yourselves, within the juris l 414 NILES' REGISTER-AUGUST 27, 1825-AFFAIRS OF THE CREEKS. tion of Georgia, of all the testimony you can obtain. G. M. TROUP. Messrs: Jourdan, Williamson, HEAD-QUARTERS, Eastern dep. GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to acknowledge the Indian Springs, June 21, 1825. receipt of your communication of yesterday's date, announcing the objects of your mission. In reply, I have to observe, that, however much I might be aided by the lights of your experience, I do not feel myself authorized, without new instructions from the department of war, to comply with your de mand to be admitted "to a full and free participation of the council of the Indians." And we have the honor to subscribe ourselves with high consideration and respect, your obedient servants, WARREN JOURDAN, SEABORN JONES, WM. H. TORRANCE, Commissioners Maj. gen. E. P. Gaines. of yesterday's date, requesting to be admitted to the HEAD QUARTERS, Eastern dep. me, and which you are pleased to attempt to correct. I am under no such mistake as that you ascribe to This council is assembled for the purpose of en-participation of the council of the Indians." Whatabling me to discharge duties of a very delicate and ever may have been your meaning, the manifest imIn your letter of the 20th, you claim "a full and free important nature, confided to me by the general go-port of the expressions employed by you could be nothing less than a demand to exereise, without con vernment. I deem it proper, therefore, that I should exercise trol, certain privileges before the council. The force the entire control of every subject to be acted on, and of this construction is strengthened, rather than diof every expression uttered to the council by any of-minished, by your instructions from his excellency, ficer or citizen permitted to address it, whether of the United States, or of any individual state or territory. Without such control, our councils would be involved in confusion, and they would be wholly useless, if not worse than useless. Very respectfully, &c. EDMUND P. GAINES. SIR: Since our arrival at this place, we have been Fort Mitchell, June 25, 1825. joined by col. Seaborn Jones, who is associated with us in the commission, by the governor of Georgia. In obedience to the instructions, (with a copy of which you have been furnished), we beg leave again to call your attention to that part of those instructions by which it was contemplated by the governor, that we would be admitted to a free participation of the council of the Indians, to be convened at Broken Arrow, as well as of that lately held at the Indian Springs. We would repeat the request on our part, that we may be admitted to that council. In your letter of the 21st inst. in answer to a similar request made at that place, you say, "I deem it proper, therefore, that I should exercise the entire control of every subject to be acted on, and of every expression uttered to the council by any officer or citizen permitted to address it, whether of the United States or of any individual state or territory. Without such control, our councils would be involved in confusion, and they would be wholly useless, if not worse than useless." the governor of Georgia, to which you refer. You say "we have been particularly instructed not to interfere with the council, in matters disconnected with the objects of our mission, and which appertain, exclusively, to interests and relations, purely political, Indians." sbusisting between the general government and the I cannot perceive or admit of the existence of any the Indians, or with any other people or nation, in such distinction. The general government can have which the state of Georgia is not concerned. But his no interests or relations, purely political, either with excellency, the governor of Georgia, deems it proper that the state should be represented at the council at the Broken Arrow; and you have been appointed for that purpose. I have advised you that the president has seen fit to confide to me the exclusive mission to this nation, on the part of the United States. I have now to add, that the duties assigned to me are substantially the same as those with which you are charged, with the exception of taking testimony as to the conduct of the agent. I have thus the honor to represent Georgia, with each other member of the United States, in the Indian council at Broken Arrow. With due deference and respect for the authorities of the state, who have had the kindness to appoint a mission to afford me aid, which the general government appears not to have been aware that I stood in need of, I cannot permit myself to recognize the mission, without the authority of the president. We call your attention to this part of your letter, for by a faithful discharge of my duty; but, if I fail thus It would afford me great satisfaction to possess the the purpose of correcting a mistake under which you to win it, I feel convinced that I shall not fail to reconfidence of the state authorities. I can win it only have fallen, with regard to our motives and the course tain what will be equally gratifying to me-the conof conduct we might pursue, in attending the council.scious persuasion that I merit that confidence. We have been particularly instructed not to interfere with the council in matters disconnected with me you will strictly adhere to your instructions, and the object of our mission, and which appertain, ex-carefully avoid any interference; and that you shall In the subsequent part of your letter, you assure clusively, to interests and relations, purely political, expect only to make suggestions to me in the council, subsisting between the general government and the and through me to obtain the information which can Indians." sooner favor me with this moderate definition of your wishes-as, in that case, no objection would have be acquired. It is to be regretted that you did not been offered by me to your request, individually and unofficially. You are entirely at liberty to attend, as any other gentlemen would be. Permit us to assure you, sir, that we shall strictly adhere to those instructions, and carefully avoid any interference, and that we shall expect only to make suggestions to yourself in the council, and through you, to obtain all the information which can be acquired. The information thus obtained will be of an official character, and will perhaps be more satisfac-every subject to be acted upon, and every expression cory than any derived from any other source. I reserve to myself, however, the right to control to be uttered to the council. It affords me pleasure to profit by the suggestions of From Mr. Kenan, our secretary, you will receive a copy of the message of the governor to the legisla-my fellow citizens, but these suggestions, to be acture, with the accompanying documents and other ceptable to me, must be free from every thing like official power or control. papers. In tendering to you my thanks for the polite offer received, (and which had been appropriated by the contained in your note of this afternoon, I have to legislature to the university of Virginia), the treasurer observe that I shall not have occasion to send de-of the state has received the further sum of $128,480 spatches before the departure of the regular mail. I renew to you, gentlemen, assurances of my spectful consideration. EDMUND P. GAINES, Major gen. commanding. Col. Warren Jourdan, col. Seaborn Jones, and Wm. H. Torrance, esq. commissioners. (Signed) A truc copy. E. G. W. BUTLER, gid-de-camp. 11 cents from the treasury of the United States, bere-ing the whole amount claimed by Virginia, for interest actually paid on money advanced by her for the United States during the late war. The sum last received will be added to the literary fund. [Eng. The lobby. The editor of the Bridgetown, (New Jersey),Whig has been sued to obtain $5,000 damages, by Garret D. Wall, esq. whom, it seems, he had charged with some improper practices as a lobbymember of the legislature of that state. We suppose The Creek agent. It has already been stated that it was about the manufacture of banks! Shall we the special agent of the government, maj. Andrews, never have done with increasing the iniquity of usehad restored the U. States' Indian agent, Mr. Crow-less corporations, that knowing-ones may make moell, to the exercise of his official duties. The follow-ney and honest persons be cheated? ing is the letter of maj. A. to the agent, withdrawing the suspension: A. Damrell, the most skilful pilot of Portsmouth, N. H. and who is also represented as a very amiaMilledgeville, Geo. Aug. 1st, 1825. ble and good man, weighs four hundred and twenty SIR: I acknowledge the receipt of your defence, pounds. He, with his boat, is sometimes hoisted on accompanied by the testimony collected to rebut the ship-board, and he often sends for a dray to take charges preferred against you by his excellency go-him home to his residence. He is about 33 years vernor Troup, as well as the testimony taken against old. It is only about five years since he began to get you by a committee of the legislature of Georgia, and fat. Mr. Israel Tibbetts, of Dover, in the same state, that interspersed throughout the volume of docu-weighs four hundred and thirty-five pounds. "The old serpent." An animal, supposed to be a ments furnished me by the governor of Georgia. After a diligent examination of all the testimony sea-serpent, not less than sixty feet long, is said to taken, on both sides, during the investigation, and have exhibited himself in Halifax harbor, to the graticoming before me, I feel it incumbent on me to say,fication of many spectators. The time given for his that I consider you, in reference to the charges made appearance was the 15th July. But yet the peoagainst you, not only an innocent but a much injured ple will not believe in the existence of "his royal" man, This result is the more honorable to you, as lengthiness of the mighty deep. you have only had it in your power to avail yourself of voluntary testimony. More benefits of canal navigation. We are informed upon good authority, that numbers of that fine species I shall make this report to the secretary of war, of fish, hitherto taken in Lake Ontario and its tributo whom you will look for the decision of the presi-tary waters, and commonly called the Oswego Bass, dent, which will confirm or reverse this opinion. In the mean time, you will consider your suspension as withdrawn. With respect, sir, your ob't serv't. T. P. ANDREWS, Special agent. To col. John Crowell, Indian agent. &c. &c. have been caught, within a few days, in the Hudson, at Stillwater. To arrive at Stillwater they must have come via the St. Lawrence, the Sorelle, Champlain, Wood Creek and the Champlain canal! [Troy Sent. Propelling force. The Newburgh Gazette, (N. Y.), mentions that captain Henry B. Myer, of that village, has invented an improved method of propelling vessels. The superiority of his plan over the common paddle wheels, says the Gazette, "has been tested by careful and fair experiment, and at the most unfavorable trial, the result was 41 to 26 in favor of his machine, the same power being applied to cach," CHRONICLE. Sailing-master Mull. It has been said that this offieer was re-instated by the president, disapproving of New York. It is stated that a finished house, withthe sentence of the court. This is not so he was dismissed, and the dismissal approved of-but he has out a tenant, is not to be found in this great city!-and received a new commission, on the representation and that well dressed familics are observed to be occu request of many worthy officers with whom he had pying houses, of which the builders do not appear to associated, and with the express understanding that have accomplished the work so far as to have fully the new appointment was not to be regarded as ex-closed them in, by doors and windows! pressive of any disapprobation of the sentence of the court. Buffalo. The census of the village of Buffalo, receatly taken, gives an increase of about 500 inhabiDied, at Lancaster, Penn. on the 11th inst. Robert tants since last winter, making the present populaHe was ation 3,000. Coleman, esq. in the 77th year of his age. About 70 of the Stockbridge Indians lately emgreat iron manufacturer, and among the most wealthy barked at Buffalo for Green Bay. They have farmindividuals of the United States. at Charleston, on the 16th inst. maj. generaling utensils, provisions, &c. and intend to join a numCharles Colesworth Pinckney-who was one of the ber of the same tribe, now at that place. most distinguished of those who remained of the revolutionary stock of heroes and patriots, and one of the best of men. His remains were interred on the 17th, with every testimonial of respect that a grateful people could bestow. The Charleston papers are all in mourning for him. —, at Albany, Roger Skinner, esq. U. S. judge for the northern district of New York.. in Franklin co. North Carolina, Mr. John Bowen, aged 73-a gallant soldier of the revolution, who left the army at the end of the war with a major's commission Claim against the United States. We are gratified to learn, that, in addition to the sum of $50,000 heretofore Two new schooners arrived at the port of Buffalo about the 1st inst.-The Commerce, of SS tons, and the Bolivar, of 50; the first built at Sandusky and the other at Erie. A few days previous, the schooner Marion arrived from Michilimackinac with 575 packages of furs, valued at $270,000-the property of the American Fur company. Genera, N. Y. has a present population of 2,330 in 1820, only 1,375. Many of the villages of New York are growing at this rapid rute. Charleston. The exports from Charleston, to for reign places, from the 1st of January, to June 30th, were 1,090 bales of Sea-l-land, and 71,063 bales of Upland cotton, and 40,3131 Serees of rice some of the districts, a complete list of the members as a statistical fact-that there are now employed, Virginia. They are digging for gold, in Amherst risburg, who bring their salt from the sea-ports, find season. Hill, "they're shooting bullets!" when one of them had North Carolina. Lemuel Sawyer bas been elected a member of congress, by a majority of nearly 800 votes over the late member, Mr. Gatlin. Mr. Edwards has been re-elected without opposition. Michigan. Mr. Biddle has been elected the dele-wealthy neighbor of his so regularly borrowed his paBad effects of long credit. Last week a gentleman gate to congress from this territory, out-polling Mr.per that he could not file it, nor "get any good of it" withdrew his subscription to this paper, because a Richard, the late delegate, and Mr. Wing. Texas. Captain Leftwich, of Russelville, Ken-year since because we sued him for thirty odd dollars tucky, in behalf of an association formed for that he owed us on subscription! that neighbor having stopped taking the paper a purpose, has obtained, from the government of Mexico, a grant of land, between six and eight millions of acres, in the province of Texas, along the line of Louisiana. One of the conditions of the grant is, that a certain number of settlers shall be obtained, with an exemption from taxation for five years. If, as we believe is the case, slaves cannot be introduced into the Mexican republic, we should not suppose that this country, fitted for the cultivation of cotton and sugar, will be rapidly populated, at pre sent. Specie movements. We understand, (says a Connecticut paper), that the five allied banks of Boston have sent about 35 to 40,000 dollars to Hartford, for specie, which was, as usual, promptly paid. The Hartford banks, by way of retaliation, on Saturday last, took from the allied banks, about 145,000 dolls. in specie. Should this warfare continue, how long would it take to transfer all the specie in the allied banks to Hartford? Buenos Ayres, that beggars take their rounds and ask killed at Barycore, in the East Indies, a short time of a Mr. Cokergec, in Georgia, is stated, in a South Carolina paper, to have been burnt alive near GreenTerrible. A negro named William, the property ville, (S. C.), for the murder of a white man named Peter Garrison. The savings bank in Portsmouth, N. H. went into da. Having quarrelled in a state of intoxication, Indian duel. A very strange and a fatal rencontre [Phil. Gaz. operation on the 20th of August, 1823. From that they determined to settle their differences by single recently took place between two Indians of Canatime to the 20th of July, 1825-one year and 11 months,-923 deposites have been made by 601 per-armed with forty stones each, which they were to sons-amounting together, to $55,109 90. combat. They were to stand at a certain distance, with her in tow, made ten miles an hour. A safely-barge, towed by the steam boat Congress, is should fall, or the stock of ammunition be expended. plying on the Delaware, between Philadelphia and The combat had just commenced, when a young lad, continue throwing at one another until either or both Trenton. She is called "Cherry and Fair Star," the son of the elder Indian, perceiving his father's fitted up splendidly, and has room to accommodate danger, and regardless of his own, attempted to take eighty persons at dinner at the same time. little impedes the progress of the steam boat, which, a stone which struck the high spirited and affectionShe very him away. At this moment, the nephew discharged Another safety barge, called the "Lady Van Rensse-ate youth in the forehead, and stretched him lifelaer," built on the model of the "Lady Clinton," is carrying passengers on the Hudson. These barges less on the ground. will now leave New York on five days in every week. Deaf and dumb. The Democratic Press speaks of a pupil of the deaf and dumb institution in that city being bound an apprentice to the printing business. There is a young man at Hartford, who is a quick and excellent printer. Deaf and dumb boys, if educated, would, generally, make good printers. Nothing disturbs a compositor so much as conversation in a printing office; and from the evils of this, the deaf and dumb would be exempt. [Com. Ad. St. Joseph's college, at Bardstown, Ky. under charge of the right rev. bishop Flagett, (of the Roman catholie church), is reported to be in a very flourishing condition, having already about two hundred pupils. A new building of brick, four stories high and 120 feet long, is nearly finished for their better accommodation. the 5th inst. in Kingwood, N. J. a sunfish, four inches long, fell into the yard of Nathaniel Atchley, and Trenton, July 30. During a violent storm of rain on was immediately taken up alive by him and placed in a tub of water where it swam about, right giad, appsrently, to get into its native element. How this fish came there, we are at a loss to divine, as the place where it fell was more than a mile from any stream of water, and no person was near, save those who saw it as soon as it reached the earth, and who are willing rence. to attest the truth of the foregoing singular occur Raleigh, N. C. July 29. In consequence of the great scarcity of flour, which has existed for some weeks, in our market, several loads of that article have been disposed of, during the present week, in our city, for eight dollars per barrel. [The price in Baltimore was $4 75.] END OF VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT, |
