,....vr....... writ‘ . Boston; I was then detached, at my own request .ing the ammunition wet, we raised the siege and and renewed the siege, till the arrival of General ‘IVlontgor'n'ery, when we mcditated an attack on -lery, which hurt me exceedingly, and perhaps, ' saved my life, as Ifcllfrom the gun upon the . ;-1:2.-. _1v‘rom the Pittsburgh Cfazclte-; _ _ Theft? is a melancholy pleasure in turning over old newspapers, which appear uninteligible to all but those, who are in some way connected with their aniho"rs‘; but when these 'légends contain any historical matter, they becotnc doubly inter- esting. It is a circumstance much to be regret- ted, that duringotir revolutionary struggle, so few journals were kept, that might. furnish useful I'naterialsfor future history. From want of these. memoranda, made upon the ‘spot, when the facts were fresh in the xnemory of the writers, innum- erable contradictions have crept into our accounts of this war; ‘We think that much important itnatter, ofthe most authentic nature, might still be procured if the ‘families of, all the different g-enera'l_,ofl‘icers of the revolution, were to collect the letters and other documents which, more or less‘, rnust be in their possession; The amount of matter to be gained from each separately, inight appeal‘ trifling ; but when combined from Maine to’ Georgia, the mass would assume an im- portant appearance, and we have no doubt, but that a‘ connected chain might be made out. _ In looking over some family ‘papers lately, we found the annexed scrap ; it appears to have been the commencement of some memoranda, ad- dressed, we believe, to Gen. I-lenry_Lee, of Vir- ginia, as we remember that in the year 1800, this gentleman was calling upon the ol(l oflicers to furnish him with materialsfor a work, which he has since published, under the title of a “ His- tory of the Southern Campaign.” It is written by the late ‘General DANIEL IVIORGAN, of “fin- ch'ester, in Virginia, and contains a part of the attack on Quebec, by Montgomery. It is it has- ty thing, and the production_ of a man who wield- ed the sword better than the pen. I-Ve regret that we cannot find the remainder of the letter. “DI_3Ali Sm, ' ' To give‘ you my history during the war, I rnust begin in. 1774, when I served an active and hard compaign under Lord Dunmore, against the Indians. After we had beat them, and redu- ced them to order, and were on our return home, we heard, at the mouth of Hockhocking on the Ohio, that hostilities were offered to our breth- ren, the people of Boston. i\V'e, as an army, im- mediately formed ourselves into a society,‘pledg- ing ourhonors ‘to assist the Bostonians, in case of a s_erious breach, which did take place on the l'9’th of the following April, at Lexington. I was appointed a Captain by Co rgress on the 22d of Ju'nc,il775‘, to raise a company of riflemen to march in haste to’ Boston. I recruited 96 men in a few days, set out for Boston, and reached that place in 21 days, bad weather included, nor did I leave 21 mar.‘ behind. I-Ve remained at that place inactive 16 weeks, the enemy being shut up in to‘ Quebec, ut the head of three rifle companies, viz :_;my ‘own, and two from Pennsylvania, un- der Captains Smith and Hendricks; the latter fell‘ in the attack on the garrison. I was placed under the command of Gen. Arnold, and led the ‘van’ through the woods. For a description of this march, I refer you to the journal of Col. VVm. Heth, who was a lieutenant in my company. VVe arrived in Canada, I think. on the 3d of Novem- ber,‘ in’ a most distressed situation, destitute of provisions, and - every kind of comfort. VVe marched’ to Point Levee, refreshed the troops, and on the night of we crossed the river in some small craft which we found drawn up in some guts, and some bark canoes, (which we pur- chased from the Indians,) we passed between two men of war, in point blank shot ; but we slipped through undiscovered. I led the forlorn /10/18; I marched up Gen. VVolfe’s Cove, and formed on the plains of Abraham, where I expected to be attacked. VVe, however, remained undiscovered. ‘Vt: then marched to Caldwell’s house, in which strong building, the enemy had posted a consid- erable. force. We carried‘ it sword in hand.- Here"I also commanded the forlorn ho/2:. VVe then besieged the place for some days, but find- marchecl to Point aux Tremble, 20 miles ‘from Quebcc;’_het-ehnding the powder of the rifles dry, I marched back, with my three companies, the town ; this was carried into effedt a few days after. Here I‘ was again appointed to the com- mand oftheforlom /za/ze, on the river St. Charles, under the ordcrsof Gen. Arnold. This officer being wounded in the leg, under the wall, before we got into-the town, I sent him off, with two of my men, and took his place, for although there was three field officers‘ present, tlieywould not take’ the command, alledging that I-had seen ser- vice. and they hadnot. This, I think, reflected honor on‘ their characters. I had to attack a two gtm battery, supported by Capt. M’Cleod and 50 regular troops; The first gun that was fired missed us,‘ the second flashed, when I ordered the ladder,‘ which was on too m'en’s should-etzs, to be placed’; (every two men carried a ladder.) This order was immediate]-y obeyed, and -for fear the business might n5t be .executed with spirit, I mounted myself, and was the first”-‘ man who leaped into the town, among M’Leod"s guard. who were panic struck, and after a faint resist- ance, ran into‘ alrouse that joined the battery and platform. ~ _ , , I lighted on the end of a ‘heavy piece of artil- platform, where the bavonets were not directed. Col-.« Charles Porterfield, who was then a cadet in my company, was the first man who followed me ; the rest lost not a moment, -but sprang as fast as they could find room. All this was per- formed in a few seconds. I ordered the men to fire into the house, and followed up their fire with their pikes ; (for besides .our rifles, we were fur- nished with long espontoons this was done, and the Tguard was driven‘ into the street. I went through a sallyport at the end of-the-platform, L31 *Ge7zcral Lee has made a" mistiz/re, in stating Illa! 2 met"'tliém'in'tii,e'street, and ordered tliern to lay of the 4th regt. of infantry, left fort Hawkins on "Wednesday last, for Pensacola, via fort Gaines. Weunderstand General Gaines has removed his head quarters to fort Hawkins. that all is going on well there. fort Scott, of recent date, furnish nothing new, except that a distinguished hostile chief Autosse Micco had been taken and put to death. Seminoles, we are informed, have sued for peace. Information has been received at the Creek Agen- cy, that an embassy, deputed by.-the whole tribe, would soon be up, for the purpose of endeavour- ing to effect a pacification with our government. The mischief lately done by the .Indians on the southern part of our frontier, is said to be by an outlying party belonging to Fowl-Town, who it is thought will never be friendly, and must there- t fore be extirpated before security can be given to our border inhabitants in that quarter. telligencer) that, in our paper of the 14th inst. we quoted the Mobile Gazette as authority for a re- port, that the Spaniards had complained of an in- fraction of several of the articles of capitulation, under which Pensacola was surrendered to the military force of the United States. “To are glad to copy,’ from the some paper, of a week’s later date, the following qualification of that report : stated to have been made by the Spaniards, in con- sequence of a‘ supposed inftactionof ‘the articles I of capitulation, we gave as the rumorof the day, and in the same article expressed our doubts». l we have since been informed by two gentlemen, whom we know incompetent to no infraction has taken place.". . plexity--the-proposition go-‘re-move beyond the families are dismembering-—_man and wife separ- ating——:child and parent parting, never to meet agairrili the land endeared to them by every tie to where the mouldering bones‘ of his ancestors, - went to widow Wolfe's, where a young man trav- down their arms if they expected quar_tf=I‘§_$"tl1ey took nie at my word, and every man threw':down his gull. We then made a" charge upon the bat- tery andtook it and every other thing that oppo- sed us, until 'we arrived at the barrier gate, where I was ordered to wait for Gen. Montgomery, _and afatal order it was, as it prevented me from taking the garrison, having» already madehalf the town prisoners. Thes-ally port through the barrier was standing open, the guard had left it, and the people came running in seeming platoon.-S: and gave themselves up, in order to get out‘of the way of the confusion thatjwas likely to en- sue. , C _ I went up to the edge of the upper town, with an interpreter, to observe what w as going on, as the firing had ceased. I found no person at all in arms. I returned and called a council of war, of what oflicers I had, for the greater part had missed their way, and had not got into thetown. Here I was over-ruled by hard reasoning; itwas stated that, if I went on I should break an order in the first place ; in the next place, I had more prisonersithan I had men: that if I left them ‘they might break out, retake the battery, and (cut off our retreat; that General Montgoniery was certainly coming down the“ river St. Law- rence,’ and would‘join us in a few minutes ; and that we were‘ sure of conquest if we acted with caution. To these arguments I sacrificed my own opinion, and lost the town. Gen. Mont- gomery had cut down an out picket, and was marching up to the two gun battery, when he was killed. Capt. Checseman, Major M’ Pher- son and some other officers fell with him. Col. Donald Campbell, quarter master general, un- dertook to order’ a retreat, which order was obey- ed. We were then left to shift for ourselves ; but we did not yet know our misfortune, for it was still in our power to have taken the garri- son.” _ [The remainder of the letter is lost; but the party under Morgan, when they found the Amer- ican army had retreated, took possession of a waste house, where they made a desperate resis- tance ; but were finally forced to surrender. Sir Guy, Carlton offered Capt. Morgan :1 Colone1’s. commission in the British army, which was in-' ‘ dignantly refused. He was shortly afterwards exchanged, and placed at the head of the rifle corps.] ’ ___...:o:.'.:-t):cn-——- LATEST FROM ‘THE SOUTH. IVIILLEDGEVILLE, July I4. Major Cutler, of the southern army,who pas- sed through this place a few days ago, informs that the notorious chief Ou-ta-se-mic-co, or Mic- co-de-ca-e, who has been for some time past very active in exciting the Indians to hostility against the whites, was executed at fort Gaines on the 28th ult. by a party of the U-fau-la Indians.»- No murders or depredations have been committed on the frontiers by the Indians, recently. Major Dinkins, with a detachment of about 250 soldiers -.. -' «. ». —-" 5- _.,~:.; '=.. so learn,"that no vessel, with pI'OVlSl0I‘lS’ and mo- ney for the garrison, had arrived at -Augustine, as was re cried a. few _'ilays since." ‘A schooner. with provisions from Havanabounél to.Augusiine was captured near the latter port, -by'a Patriot private-er, in May last, the provisions taken out,‘ and the vessel scuttled. There were a number ofAn‘1ericans al Augustine, on the St. John’s, and elsewhere in the Floridas, purchasing upland, under the expectation that the province would soon fall into the possession of the U: States. Wz'lmz'ng.'on, (Dclj July 18.’ Lzg/2! 272 the Soul}; .’——During the short but in- teresting conversation we have had with several gentlemen ‘arrived in the Congress frigate, two facts have been mentioned, which afford us the highest gratification. l. The people of Buenos "Ayres, especially, are directing the most dili- t_;ent attention towards the establishment of a general system" of Education. 2. They have how in a train of translations, to be disseminated igenerally, a selection of the Revolutionary and iuch other political writings of this country, as nay have a tendency to infuse the spirit of the llorth Americans into the popular mind. This is a radical beginning; it speaks volumes, and it of itself sufficient to place the successful re- S_.llt of their struggle beyond all rational doubt. ' We also learn that the people of that country lllok up to the North Americans with the liveli- l__'st admiration, and most ardent solicitude.-- That our acknowledged influence is such that 3:: could mould their character to the utmost if their susceptibility. What an irresistible call i this u/pon our energies and our magnanimity. 1 In .-our opinion, it is now next to certain, that tie report of the Commissioners must furnish he desiderata, required by our people and gov- ernment for the acknowledgement of the inde- jendence, at least of Buenos Ayres, Chili, and l"enezuela. What an interesting season, ap- jroaches for our representatives ! VVhat a dis- tnguished and splendid’ zcra of history is at hand ! llext to the glory of the Congress of ’76,in sign- ng our own Declaration of Independence, will is that of the fifteenth Congress, in embracing a jrst born sister, and lighting her path to the jappiness which we have attained ! i . SALEM, July 21. Old Jlcjzzzme, agaz'n.—-Capt. Spark, of the schr. Diary, who arrived here on ‘Thursday last, from I y Bath, states, that off Jeffrey's Ledge, he and his o“ew distinctly saw, about one hundred rods dis- tlnce from the vessel, a school of whales, eight 0' ten in number, and among them a creature an- swering the descriptions that have been given of tie Sea Serpent, excepting they did not observe, (whether owing to the distance or the state of the witer at the time,) the protuberances on his back. r Fae monster severaltimes raised his head loor I2 felt, and sometimes higher, from the surface of the water, then plunged it beneath ; and while hil head was under water, he unmercifully thrash- edthe whales with his tail. ‘crew were witnesses of this sport some consider- -able time, and the wind been fair, would have laid Capt. S. and his By late accounts from Pensacola, wclearr; Advices from The’ Our readers will recollect (saysthe National In- i “ In reference to the complaints which were deceiveus, that ‘ NAsnv1I.7LE, JUNE 94-. The Cherokee Indians are now in much per- Mississippi has; startled the stoutest of them— that binds man-to the place "of his nativity, and renowned in feats ofwar, lie entombed. Re- peatedly pressed on the subject of going, some seem to have lost all consideration, 8: a few days sinceja party, drunk and distracted, turned out to kill the first white man they could find--they elling had stopt ; as soon as she learnt their ob- ject, she saved him by a prompt concealment. - » . _., SAVANNAH, July 14. A gentleman from St. Augustine, who left there on the 4th inst. informs us that there are not more than 100' troops in the» fort ; and that ‘ theywere on half 'a‘llow'an'c'e, provisions he'mg‘v‘e-f- ry scarce. Our informant contradicts the re-‘.4’ port that preparations were ‘making to resist the; American troops should they make an attack ;—‘ on the contrary, it was openly avowed, that, if a demand‘ was made for its surrender, by Gen. Cola. Hell: and Perm;/irldjum[zc_-d o-ucrjirst. Jackson, the governor would give it up 1 _VVe_al- .4 alongside the combatants. his body to be about the size of a molasses tierce. order. yesterday morning, but it is not known whether they got ashore, or were lost overboard in the fracas. . Preston. ed the road, so as to communicate to the Barrens. Capt. S. represents New Yonx, July ‘.2 1. A disturbance occurred, on Sunday-night‘, on board the ship Niagara, then lying off Pine-street wharf, having arrived that afternoon from Green- ock with about 40 steerage passengers on board. ‘We learn that the quarrel originated among, and was wholly confined to the crew of the ship.-— The cries of ‘ murder’—‘ithrow them overboard,’ Sec. were distinctly heard on shore, and great con- fusion and riot was manifest. At a late hour, several officers were dispatched on board’ from he Police office, who succeeded in establishing Two men were missing from the ship FIRE IN THE WOODS. Halffax, July 4.—Yesterday week a fire was discovered in the soft woodlands near Porter’s Lake, and soon afterwards communicated to the Plantations belonging to Rufus Fairbanks, Esq. which it rapidly destroyed with the crops adjoin- ng.-—On'Monday it again broke out in different places, and made its course towards the Mill de- stroying one dwelling house, and greatly injuring he property in that quarter. On VVednesday and Thursday the windblew pretty fresh, and it ias since raged‘ with unabated violence through It has not as yet, we understand, cross- During the last ten days, the woods have been partially on fire in other quarters of the environs of the Peninsula, and on W'ednesday last the conflagration‘ assumed a serious appearance in the vicinity of Hammond Plains ; the wind then blowing strong from that direction, the heat was‘ greatly felt in town, and large flakes of fire were picked up in the town. are still raging, ahd the present unusual dry sea- son, reuders it a prudent measure of every friend of the community to be particularly cautious, how he exposes any combustible or dry substance, which, if communicated to, might endanger the safety of Halifax. The surrounding fires --d3--:1:--til-*- Arzot/ier horrid Cutastro/z/ze.—‘-On the morning of the 20th June last, (says the Ohio Monitor) Charles Reed, of Madison township, Pickaway county, in a sudden Fit of insanity, seized a stool, struck his‘ little son, about eight or nine years :' old, onithe head.‘ His daughter, a young woman, caught the boy in her arms. He repeated the jthlows, knocked the child out of her arms, and fractured his skull, leaving him apparently life- less ; of which he died on Monday evening.—— He then struck his wife on the head, with an iron ;,_°.,3ed'gc,’ and stunned" her :' she was rescued by his daughter and her recovery is hoped. He then cut his own throat with a knife so dull, that it would have been thought a" thing impossible, and terniirgatcd his life. 15 1 -. in .. .~ '. v .-- —.-- <.- ‘, -, 1 Poizoeriqf C'on'scious*Guz‘lr.--A cause was iaie‘-f ply .tried.before' three Justices of the Peace at‘ ‘Maryfs-lick, Kentucky, between two persons; wherein the sum in disputé was 75 cents; Theré‘ being no witnesses, the parties were permittedto‘ go‘ into a free éonreisation on the'sit.bject of theft; dealings, in which the defendant acltnotvlcdgeif 50 cents of the debt; the rcfnaintlcr of the ac’; count was" for apint of whisky, which. the defen-'-' dant lost in pitching quoits with two other per‘-' sons, and got-the sameof the plaintiff who was at tavern.-keeper; but fbe defendant insisted that" he paid for it at the time. After considerable afilfmalion On one side, and denial on the other,‘ the plaintiff told the‘ defendant, if he would swear he had paid forlthe liquor, he would strike’ it out of his_'account, and the defendant took zi solemn oath to that effect. “ Until this awful‘ period, (says the Cincinnati Inquisitor) the defenoé dant had retained his usual appearance of health: and vigour--"but alas I no sooner had he turned‘ about to inform Mr. Stout, (one of the justioes who was not present at the time he took the oatlif. of hisattempt to commit the horrid crime of perjury, than a deatlilike paleness was visible in countenance-~—-the people in the room simultane.~'.' Ously remarked with astonishment, the change so instantaneously effected in his_appearance.—-" Mr. Stout himself remarked, when relating the" circumstance to the writer, that he had the ap- pearance of a man already two days dead. Judg- ment was entered for 50 cents, and he retired from the scene of guilt. But wretched, infatu- ated mortal ! he could not retire from conscious guilt. He took neither refreshment nor--sleep , that night—-but appeared restless, (as his unfor- tunate wife relates) and rolled in bed from side to side, like one bereft of every earthly enjoy. ment. . Morning came-—but with itbrought no‘ relief to his perturbed bosom. Still taking no food, he went after breakfast to the field, where a number of reapers-had met to cut his grain... he gave them some incoherent directions relative to the harvest, and returned to his house.-’l‘h’e whole day was spent in thoughtful musing, and apparent agony of mind; and another night was spent like the preceding. In the morning, a short time alter he had left his bed, he was seen running upon all-fours through the door-yard, and ex‘: claiming——“ John Johnson (the name oftlie con. stable who attended the trial) and the Devil are after me ”-—He was picked up by some men who were about the house, and set down on the step of the door. In a few minutes, he suddenly started from his seat, and again commenced run- ning upon his hands and feet as before ; and ex"- claiming, most awfully, “ John Johnson and the Devil are after me.” In this manner he -made his way into a small field of corn which stooa open to the door-yard—and as he ran between’ the rows of corn, he tore up a number of bills by the roots—and, whilst thus engaged, and before he could be reached by his pursuers, in the act of tearing up a corn hill, he suddenly and instan. taneously expired 1 Reader 1 beware. ‘Avoid dissimtilationl-‘bug admit not a thought of perjury to meet a second’s= entertainment in your bosom. In azrash, and in; ‘considerate moment, this man cast” himself”a‘way, leaving an indelible stain on all his connections, and carrying with him to the grave, an odium which an ocean of tears can never wash from his name.‘ I Extract Qf a letter to agcrztlcman in Lynclllmrglz,‘ Vir. l1azcclPz'ltsylva7z2'a County, July 5, 1318, Horrid M'urdcr.-—It is with much concern I have to inform you of the ‘murder, ofone of my nearest neighbors, Major Nathaniel Cranshaw.-- On Friday last the 3d July, his horse was brought out as usual -about 11 o'clock for him to ride to" his plantation, ‘When he had proceeded about 200 yards from his House, as he was passing through a gate, he was attacked. A gun was fired at him the contents of which took effect on the right side, a few inches from the spine, and about six inches above the hip, a ball passing through the body, and coming out at the abdo- men. Duriug a scullle that ensued another piece loaded with small shot, was discharged, the con- tents of which was lodged in the right side and breast; these not depriving him immediately of life, his murderers struck him on the head, with some weapon in consequence of which the skull was fractured and he died on the spot. The decision of the coroner is wilful murder, and it appears that he was murdered by his own mg.- groes.—Two of them Shedrach and Squire were the principals, with several accessaries. Two of these (Moses and Ben are sent to jail) the rest are runaway.-—It is thought they had stolen a- bout $2400 from their master, and murdered him to conceal the theft. A Reward of $100 is of- fered for Squire and 200 for Shedrach. Peach Trees.-—'i'lie premature death ofthe’ p'each trees is a subject of almost general remark and regret. The cause has been traced to two more species of worms and caterpillars——the lor- lower part of the trunk. The juices of the tree exude from the wounds caused by these worms,- and the tree dies for the want of" that nntriment which it is accustomed to draw from the root.—« In older then to destroy these worms, lift the sod which is around the trunk of the true, as far" as the larg-':st roots of it, and throw common wood ashes over it, the lye of which will sink down, and, as is said, kill those pernicious worms. To destroy the caterpillar, you need only place a fresh sod (sod side up) in the largest crotch of the tree, below the nest, and in a few hours you will find their camp in confusion--in two days they will be all in a cluster at the top of the nest --the thitd day they will di.-:appear—_-tmcl the fourth day their nest will he like a honey-comb, all in shivers, and not one to be seen. - - Gr:e7zsbu7g Rcg. July 4. granaries, Estc. wherein is placed the field plant, called dog’s tongue, bruised with a hammer: 1 mer of which prey upon the bark of the root and V J Rats and mice will immediately quitbarns, ( V ‘W
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