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fW2 PER ANNUM. (Ve c!ef?v<* to truth Whvrc'crv nIk* IoimIs the way. IN ADVANCE NEUTRAL IN POLITICS?DEVOTED TO L1TERARV, COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, GENERAL AND LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Volume hi. Lancaster. c. ft, south Carolina. Wednesday morning,november i, num beu j7 mnnm fPit Tn Ul [VoWc-tla itUil from ono of my com rath'* I ectly in front of lAiW itten VtaiA tori n- 1 their guns ejinrkling ??tl KlitU'riny in ili? I nlminr il,?? ..r - ??? iHil 1 I 1 W I iP?l\ HliOUt R foot too Inmr s.n?t ..?I I ? -* ?? 1 ? UUJJLJV/ 1 1 XILIUU. From the Afoul ornery Mail. KEY'S RACE WITH 1HE INDIANS Narrative of the Creek War of 1830. BY JAMFS C. KKVi (The hero of IW i.urrutiie which follows Mr. James (J. Key, now of Rine?cli coiini> I in thin State, ik well known i<> the ditoi> of thin paper. His standing in such a* ti entitle liiui to the fullest credit Wo hn\? long known something of Ii'ib Adventures r.nd n few week* ago, meeting hiin mil I t got u promise from liiin to furnish us f< i publication the narrative of his perils nud escape. This ho has done.] It was in the year 1 830 tlint my father sent tile to the ni:iiit?sl-l.il?or ki-IwmiI in IdwionuU county, Geoigin, I was the sixth child an<i first son, consequently ;i jiettcd and spoilt youth, uiiil couhl not A War the restraints imposed upon tno by such n school. 'Hie steward of the school, to my youtlit'ul imagination, was very de sjaiti^. He ordered tue about several lilite* in a way lliat no youth that had la-en petted and humored as I had, would yield to, and at last I decidedly refused to obey him. One or the other had to sue cumb, and in all probability it would have elided in tny being ex{?ellcd from sch< ol. Hut about this time volunteer* were enrolling all over the Statu to tight the Indians in Alabama and the western portion of Georgia. A company of volunteers was formed in our little village. I became very mueli excited. A "soldier's life"and a "soldier's glory" for me. And my feelings, too, wu u interested for the settlers, whom the Indians were slaying indiscriminately ; gray-haired men, matrons, young girls, just blooming into womanhood, sucking infants. Hut thoughts of my dear parents' anxiety and grief prevented ine t'roin joining. Hut when ou the second tlino they beat for recruits, I could not resist, and four of my companions and myself were enrolled us volunteers. In the course of a week our company was oignuued. Mr. Garinauy was elected our captain, and other officers were chosen and appointed. During this week ... . I .? L / - -a -? in} niuiiKT ? griei was urn10.11 more man she could bear, and il mo worked on my father'* feelings thai he procured me a substitute, heeding not my ro noiistraiice*, listening not to my words, that go 1 must. Sutlicu it to say, that when the volunteer* left, 1 went with them?my sulwtitule staying at home. When my mother found thnl I was resolved to go,against all |H*rsuasioi a?for my parents would not e?ert their authority and use force?they yielded; and my mother, like n brave, true-hearted woman us she still is, gave me her blessing, bade me not to falter, but do my duty, "llalhcr," said she, "would 1 mourn a fallen hero than clasp a coward in my embrace." As near as my recollection serves me, ?u the 28lh of May our company started for tbe Creek nation. That was a happy day tor uiv, with music Hunting on tin* bioezc. Hags waving, horses prancing, officers riding to Mint fro, their uniform glittering ami spaikiing in the sun's rays.? llo.v glorious everything seemed; and did 1 not peal forth note after note from that 'dear old bugle ?' 1 think I must have grown several inches thaldav, if m? .... a..i'i VX g," WVIV ???J VIHVMUIIi It U I IIIU^I. pay u uu.iue iu ilio citizen* of Decatur. Tin-} r?eh?tl uit null oj.cn arm-, lo.lg.-.l . lit] Ic'il u> ill a i nigiil al their i'ijhiim*, ami purled wuli u* next morning wit It many kind wimici that we ni.ghl niffl with uiaiii avlvoii.urea, oe itio coiitiueren in w.l, iiiiU n Sale ami happy return to our "* hotnes. On tlie 3a ol June we arrive.l at Col uirbus, croraeii lite nwr ami were annul Willi muskets, ami muster- d into wrvitt* the name day. The next nr-rning <v? reeinoaeil the rncr, our cujw .i.i remarking lie "came to tiuU uml light lmli.ni We Jnarehixi as low down us the Oowigees? there w e i-ainped for one night. The naut itioruiiig an ninrm was given, hy one oi the seiilioeis linug on u partv oft four or tire geiuletuen going from lrw'ihtown to tbo plantations. Our guard thought they were Indians, from la-ii.g oil the opposite side of the river, lljs shot took etloet on one of llto gentlemen, wounding severely, but not mortally. This alarm made us u little more cautious. We thought Ilia neit alarm should not find us so unprepared, whuiher true or false?but still nil was ft AM efi'ilamAnl I .1.... It .? . 1.^ ? ? fy -^ mm uvm ? '? nn m* thing leant thought of hy inonl of oa. lit ilia allernoon wo *Urled hack fol 8!iv)h hcrd'n plnriwlioii, between lto:oioko and Fort MtCrarv, hut dnl not arrive until the afternoon of the next day. Here we tMUiipwl for an indefinite |teriod. On the following day nn order was rend to Oajit. Harmony for mm to of our incu to help guard the Fort. Our captain picked twenty of our Ixnl men and neiit them? nearly hnlf. Early next morning Captain Jertiigau umJe iwn nliort viell while out on a retailing expedition ; nnd while there he and C*|it. Harmony pledged themm>Iv?m 10 each other, that if eitln r got into huttie ona would go to the other* ha*?tnnre, if that ?tn? |MM*ihlo. When wu left < olwmb'i* I left all my iMli'wj in that ritj, s?t?d today had lor - - ? ?e>? _ "~v ""S1! " had ? ashed mul hung mine uut In dr hihI was engaged in conking dinner f myself and mess, who were Hitting in tl . hack of tlio hut, for we were in one of ll negro cabins. They were in high gh laughing and talking and were just in tl act of belting on some frivoliuus thin when "bang! bang!" went guns close l> A moment we were still and mute, wo dering What woUld be next. The tie ? tlnng we heard was our Captain's v ?i with the Word' : "Parade, parade, hoys Out we ran. The men were running fro , all directions towards our Captain. In . minute or so we had started, hut I s<k found that I had left my ammunition !> * hind, and back I had to go, lait I sot I overtook them. We marched for ahoi a half a mile in the direction we hem the tiring from, when suddenly some t! teen er twenty Indians rose right tip l> fore us from amongst the tall lank gras tired on us and then ran back. We lis not gone many yards farther before sou forty or fifty rose up from their eonc-en nient and fired at us ; and then in a ini meut's time it seemed to me the who woods were alive with a legion of devil for never before or since have I heard sue whoops or screams, ami the balls fell til hail around US. Our little company was completely Utl en by surprise, Tor we hud expected l have met with Captain Jernigan's coinpi ny and acted in concert with tliem ag in our foes; but here was only a band < thirty-nine to stand against some three c four hundred Indians, who fought notlik men, but incarnate fiends. Hut son above all this pandemodian din rose ot Captain's voice : "Hoys, each to a tret fight them, but fight them in their o\v style." We each gained a tree?the came that voice again: "Hoys, each or pick his foe to fire at, and load and fii as fast as you can, and give them hnc yell for yell." We fought until our r. fleers thought there was more bravery i retreating than in rashly hazarding ot lives; but the order came not for retrea ing until most of the men had loaded ati fired some fifteen or sixteen times. Hut how shall I describe my feeling as I a total behind that pine tieel Win 1 heard the Captain say, "each to a tree I gave up all for lost. I only had pre once of mind enough to gain a tree ati load, present my gun in the direction would least see and hear an Indian, git a whoop, fire and fall hack; but ns tl men commenced yelling and I lotind tin I had still a voice, my hidings rose n and I almost exulted in iny perilous situ lion. 1 could now load calmly, put m ail arm and an eye and take delibera aim, though llio bullets were passing til tree behind which I stood every secoin and fairly m iking music as they cut tti air in passing. Kverv incident that happened to mys< s vividly impressed on mv mind. I w mention two. Once in loading I dropjM my ramrod. L aimed to catch it on u knee?it s'ruck my knee, but I miss* catching it with my hand?it flew sou four o live feet, llaio it 1 must, so < sprung as far as I could, ami fell flat < j my 1'ftcc. As I did so, there must lir i been tweiilv balls niLani ?v?r ? I...... ! l?ut I got my rod, itiul gained the rail : tree l?y crawling as tint as I could. Again : I had been firing directly i I front of I lie,-not thinking of danger fro I b hind, when In! on turning mv head uw a tall, grim, old-looking warrior rt | and |>oinl Ins gun directly at ine. I a gone now, I thought, for 1 had often Ilea what good marksmen Indians were, drew myself straight up and turneil in | >eif to 111m in an instant?a fair targ i for Iiiiii ; but bo was a poor oarvimie ; for I beard the bull as it went whistlit i by and left me unharmed. Just about the lime we commenced r treating I heard Allen, oiiu of my acli-a mates, say, "Captain, 1 arn wounded."| I'he broken accents instead of tlie ?or ! < in*,*! me to turn mv head. Never aim j I forget bis countenance?sucii agony ? I it portrayed. Every feature was stamp* . with iho hue of death. 1 thought lie li; but a few minutes to live, but four or fi' j daya afterwards he was found some tv mile further, on his hands and knees, if prayer was his last net in tbia life. When the order camu for relreatin one fifteen of the men with myself in understood it. The order was. retreat | tho lot at iho camp, and there make stand. Our understanding was to retre to n fetfee that lay to the east of us. V gained this fence, and instead of climlai i or leiping over I full over, and on lookii down the line of fence, I saw that moat the men had got over in pretty much tl same maimer. 1 could not but laugh, i men do at times in the greatest danger. i And danger wan here, for the ball* th thick over and around u*, and aonte h . ting their mark, but ao far apent ?* ?.ot do any material injury, at leant moat them. After I got over the funqg 1 atn |M?d, mm it wna here I thought we were i make a atnnd ; hut in a moment, aeeii tliu men keeping on, I alerted too to (*ri r for my life." My momentary delay ne* ly proved fatal to me. 1 now thought > would run in tiro direction of the earn >? hnt on turning tnv bead I aaw that tl Indiana were aa thick in Uiat direction la-hind ne, ao I kept in the coorae tiro to hud taken. * There was a am all pot id di u ivuiiu it, inn i ran rigiu lliro'igii, anu by v, tliin means overtook most of my comrades, or There was a man in our company some lie seven feet high; 1 saw him turn and look lie hack, then away he darted like a bird on re, wings. It seemed 10 me theti that it was le nothing hut play for him. ilow beautig, fully he ran?his feet touching tho ground y so lightly! Ah, what would I not have n- given to have been able to have coped xt with him in fleetuess! And I thought, ee too, in a few days afterwards that delicui.'* ev of constitution was something to be m envied, for in a few minutes after starting a one of tuy comrades gave out. lie fell >n over a log and lay perfectly motionless, as e- though he was dead, and they made no m stop lo kill ami sculp him ; but as soon as at the Indians were out of sight he got up rd ami made his escape; and when we mot a if few days after, he told ine that he saw e Ensign Lacy wounded, hut turn, like a ,s, wiid beast thnt had lieen hunted to his id lair, and fiulit his foes until death nnl?;<wt je his hands ami closed his eyes forever.? tl- Directly as we ran through the pond I o- ?nw the younger Holland (for there were le two brothers by the name of Holland) I's shot not ten paces from me. And w hy h there were not more of us killed along co there I can't imagine, for the bullets were whizzing thick around us. A constant tiio was kept upon us by tho Indians as lo We ran, for there a cre enough of them for some to load while others fired. Weaoon st came to a field in our headlong flight? jf over the fence we went. Here T ran side >r by side with Dunlap a short distance, or tv until a hall came w hizzing between us and >i) tore to pieces nn old slump uot three yards ir before us. lie ran off to the right and I j; to the left. He said the Indians did not ii follow hiin ; hut it scorned to me if possin l?l s that fresh numbers gathered ou my ie trail, for the green blades of corn were e Japping and flying about in the air in nil k directions, and the loose dirt making a f perfect storm of oust as the balls would n strike the ground. I soon got to a fodder* ir stack, and stopped behind it, thinking that t- I would conceal myself, for I was getting id pretty tired hy this lime; hut a moment's reflection showed me the folly of such ft a, thought, that I could hide in such a place n from the lynx eyed savage*; and it was well for me that reflection made me wis8 er, for here the elder llollaud stopped, was id found and murdered. I My c'.o.hcs were wet and heavy, and re impeded my riiuuiug. My shoes, bayoie net and cartridge box were gone, and now at I commenced loosening my panta, and p, soon bad them oti' and threw them away, a- My shirt soon followed suit?and now I it only had my musket and some two liutite drcd dollars in money. My musket I ie kept, hut the money i hid at the foot of J, an old tree, for I thought I would give the ie savages as little cause for exultation as possible. Throwing my clothes away re;lf lieved me some little, and I soon overill took my coin pa nious, who were leaving d nio behtud ; and the Indians wero still i v fun her back?we wero outrunning litem. uI Fear was a greater inceulive lo actions ie than even the thirst for blood. I was beI coming exhausted, when I enure to a lit mi t'e dirty puddle of water. Have it I must vc ?so 1 sec ped it up iu my hands aud I; drank. My God, aucb water! so tweet ie and delicious! It was far better tome than the ambrosial nectar of the gods ; n for it revived me, restored my wasting m enetgies, and 1 started again on the race, I I which if I won, was lite, if I lo?t was at- ( death. 1 now soon came up with the in 1 must of my friends whom 1 had not outrd i run. We run nearly a quarter on levol 1 | ground, when we came to the foot of a V- j Urge gradual shiut. I had got about '?*t I ball way up this rise when 1 again belt, ' caine exhausted. i slopped, turned ig round, and ould see no Indians, though i could still faintly hear their whoops and e- yells. Some live or six yards to my left >1- i saw a small clump of black-gum bush ? es. i concealed myself in them, but Is soon getting uneasy, 1 started again on ill the race for life or death. In that patch ?-> of bushes Jamea Martin stopped, and in id a few days afterwards, when we went id to look for and bury our dead, we foitud ve bun pinned to the ground with bis own ro bayonet. as Just as I gained the top of the bill J fell perfectly prostrate?calling on my g, comrades not to desert tne. Iu vaiu ! iu is- vain ! Tliey were heedlers to my agoto lining try. 1 gave up there to die.? a Every s<euoof my life was enacted again at before my eyes. I thought of my pafe rent's grief?my mother's cry for her hist ig son?my sister's wild lamentation ; every ig scene of my happy boylioo-l. Ah, the of frwisds tb?*. ouce knew mo would soon lie know ino no more. A toft sleepy |Mnhi g?ur seemed to Iw stealing over me, wUeu ? hark! again I lieur those savage cries iw and yells as if all the ?j>iriu of the lower it- world were suddenly turned loose on this to fair world of ours, to devastate and deof stroy at their own pleasure. Those cries p- infused new life into me, and sent iny to sluggish blood leaping and coursing again ig through my reins. Hut, ah I poor Sims, jii thou wast loo far gone ?thou waet ah ir- ready on the xmdoe* of this world?and 11 our good (lod is too kind and merciful to ip, have let those demon yells disturb you as he you Isy panting your life away. 1 stagaa gered to my foot, looked around and saw sn the Indians not over four hundred yards ir- behind, brandishing their war-dubs, and sun's rays. I turn**! and looked forward, | the but with a faint hope. 1 saw, at the foot juin of the hill oil which I stood, but rather to soni tho left, a small piney-woods swamp. I lean mude tny calculation to run as far to the sligl lell Ks this sWamp reached, and conceal neai myself in it before the Indians gained the that lop of the hill. I succeeded in gaining it, ho t and hid myself its effectually as possible ; in I but in a few moments I became uneasy Wh and went out of the swamp in thcoppo- clo* site direction from which 1 had cuteicd it con but there was only an open piney-woods J broi country in that direction, and the Indians I stra were so ne ir I saw that would not do.? and in this perplexity I saw a still smaller kill swamp making into the one I had just life, left. So 1 concluded I would try tny fur else, tune in that oue, for something must be my done, and that in u few minutes, or I was the lost. 1 ran into it and buried myself in Alu tho mud, all but my head and beloved neui musket; to this I clung during my three was mile race. Although it impeded my run- tion uing, I could not give it up. I was de- chisj tcriiiin d if I was wounded so I could not one run, I would carry at least one of these 11 dusky forms with roe iuto that uukiiow n coul world. a w Hardly had I esconccd inyseli in the stab mud before I heard a single gun tire? told then yells of savage delight. 1 knew not yet then that that lone shut sent poor IVy- that dou to his long home. My feelings were can' awful. I had uot the excitement of run- his I ning. My comrades were scattered in ced G'.ornitv- H?ru 1 .l?.? I..?:? i ? - J. " n? otvuv, uurnti up IO uru[ my neck >u tuuil, niul in a strange coun- be i try. The savages were stalking to and said fro, silent and still as death. No more saw whoops and screams, but only their I tierce gesticulations and low, deep gutu- in tl rals, expressing their disappointment at I ha not timJing any more of the "pale faces," the on whom to slake their thirst for hlood.? vow At times they were not more than fifteen fie d aleps from me. Every moment I ex- mil? peeled they would find me. All, what Aftc would I not have giveu to have been out swa in the open woods with them again, with and only two or three hundred yards between saw us. During my hard ruu I thought I did laid not get aloag at all, my leg* nud feel test seeiued to he mad* of irou, though my was breath did not fail hut now I thought if up. I was in an open plain ; could use them pocl a little. My ease was now getting tic*- and |>erate. liuried to the neck in mud, even my if the savages did not find mo, life with said me would soon be o'er, hope was almost not extinct, death seemed inevitable ; when, caja bark ! listen to that volley of musketry ! V Yes, look at the Indians, their heads mug thrown forward, nostrils distended. A the moment lliey listen, when oil" they start, rate whooping and screaming, reminding me diau of a hungry pack of wolves. After this all 1 1 learned what then seemed to me the ueai interposition of lieaven, that Capt. Jcr- the> uigaii. true to his promise, had turned to . said the relief of his friend. Capt. Uarmauy ; pas* but he, too, with only his twenty men, the was forced to retreat, leaving four of his the) men behind not only wounded, hut dead ; at ll and ubotit this lime, too, up came our 1 s? twenty-five men that Capt. Garmauy had tend sent to guard Fort McCrary. They had the heard our firing, and like true, brave brol hearted men, had saddled their steeds utid mot started to our relief. Though tbey came ter too late to help us, they inude goo<l Capt. nnol Jcruignn'a escape. just Alter the Indians had left, I made my and WHY Ollt of lIlA owniiw. will. /?? > >? ...... V |'? S't"1' V.iu- iny lion, anil succeeded in gaining an uut field Hoe, undiscovered; and lay there until night that lit row hia sablo mantle over both friend said , and foe. 1 lay coucealed, indeed, and thai chilled and exhausted, but with a linn or I resolve not to give over my attempt at f.,r I escajH-, until the last spark 01 life was that gone ; and to trust still in that God who patl had shielded me thus far, and could pro- alibi teet iiiu to the end. How lonely and still son I everything seemed ! and the moon seem will ed to look down with sadness on man, for v that he, the lasto* God's works, should wild thus war one ou another. [ think that it true must have been about an hour in the at < night w hen 1 resolved to make my way lo that Lumpkin, it possible, believing that the ?S Indians had killed nearly all of my com- life, rades ; for out of fifteen or sixteen who V had started with me, I only knew of ( do alioul lour who had outrun ine, and Cap- We taiu Gariuany and the meu who IiacI fol- houi lowest him. I thought surety they were it te ull m'iuii>rul til" ll>? In<li.m? '? n .... *?<w | ?v. ??i% nimiia r-vruitu IV bo thicker in that direction than any we i other. They retreated to the lot at llio tliou camp, and there Captain (iarmany fought that haml to hand with hia foes, until he wan trail brougir. to his kneca by n shot froin one t-rec of the 1 iitliMVia ; ami tiien as ho saw the 1M. ? savage whirl his tomahawk above his on tl head for tho fatal blow, he raised his gun We ami the savage bit the dust with his death out wouud. A panic seemed to take [tosses thin sion of the men, as one of their number w]ie cried out, "our Captain is killed." No ! f,?rd no! he cried, "uot killed,only wouuded.n |iov< ' 8iand finn" he cried, "and assist mo to to si my horse, and we will try and make an be n escape." And though bo was weak and no faint from loss of blood, and one of his 8tsr legs hung useless and painful, yet ho sue- saw reeded in guiding and making an effee* aga live escape with his men to Fort Jones. wo I Soon after I bad left tho oat patch 1 we j came to a cornfield. I got over the fence retu and followed the rows of corn until I came any to the opposite string of the fence. I just got on tho fence and saw that it rnn the 0 .uv UI n ntVHIU|>. >> 11110 Oil I fence 1 saw several small fires. 1 I ped down and ran back into the field ! i? two or three hundred yards and i led against an old tree, alive to the : litest noise, t believed that I was . ? t the Indian encampment, and feared ] I 1 I had been seen. And must I now i I Uncovered, after escaping from them >road day-light \ Heaven forbid !? j t ile leaning against the tree and drawn J 1 e up to it, I heard a rustling in the i i, and soon saw a man with a gun I < ight forward in his hand, advancing f ight to nie. I silently raised, pointed cocked my gun, determined I would * him if I could, then run again for my y My good angel, I know not what I ,caused me to hail him. Judge of t joy, my astonishment, at hearing in : English voice, the word, "afiiend!" 1 lost doubting i.iy senses I said, "come s rcr and give me your name.'' "Ship," his answer. All doubt and hesita- I was gone, as I sprang forward and < ped his hand, for I recognized him as s of our company. i Wu he was perfectly bewildered, and 5 d not hardly believe that I was even 1 h te man, muddy as I was, and in a i 2 of complete nudity. After I had ? him again and again tny name, he i seemed to doubt. Yes, yes! I know ? you are white, but surely your name ? l be ? for I saw him lying with < liead split open. After I ha J convin- I him that it was no one but myself, he ?ped his head forward and seemed to n deep thought, then looking up he I sadly, "Ah! it was poor Tate, then, I I * i now told him of the fires I had seen 1 le swamp, and he thought of them as ' d done, that they were the fires of I Indian encampment. After we had ed to live or die together, we left the i and entered the swamp some half i i lower than wo had seen the lights, ir wo had gono some distance in the I tnp, we came to a small, dry hillock. I concluded we would rest awhile. I < a pool of muddy, stagnant water, i down and strained it through my I It. llow cooling and refreshing it < to inv parched tongue when I got ' Ship gave me his drawers, tied his ket handkerchief over my blistered i sore shoulders, and put bis socks 011 I worn and bleeding feet. Now, ho I, lie down and sleep. No, I replied, < until you have to'.d me of your es- | j. 1 Veil, I will tell it to you, then you I t sleep. Soon after w? had got over I fence, on our first starting. I gotsepad from you all. At fir-t, several lu- 1 is started after me, hut very soou they I ell me with the exception ol the two 1 e>t ones. They got pretty close, when I r both tired at me; and see here, he 1 , in iiv sleeve, where the bullet of one I ed through, and here in my pants, I hall of the other one. As soon as I r had fired, I raised my gun and fired ? Item, and as the smoke elcare I away I w that I had ouo foe the less to conI with. Hut iny hopes fell, too, as fiint of my gun fell to the ground l ;en. Hut never give up, shall be my to, I said ; and ran into a small clus 1 of bushes and succeeded in getting I ,1 . e ... iiit-r mill irom my csrtrnlgo box, and loaded as the other Indian ran up tired on inc. I now qaieklv raised gun and tired, for he was turning to sad succeeded in wounding hitv. so i he could follow no further. Ah, he , I n.ver exacted to escape; but i ik God, I am alive and not wounded itirl as vet. Now I have finished ; [ was wandering first this way and , until Providence threw you in my , i. You must sleep now, for I cannot rd to lose you after meeting thus. I that you cannot travel as you are. I watch for Indians and wild brutes, re had heard the growling of soUlu animal and judged it to be n hear, < king as by the blood left by my-feet every step I took. How sweet was sleep to me ! Put soon?too soon hip awoke mo to the stern realities of V? must leave this place, lie said, for i rot like the signs I see about here. wandered nbout*in the swamp an r or so before we found an outlet, tbo* etned to ine wo were in there an age. i oon after we got out of the swamp, i ituinhlod on a small trail, which we ight would lead u* to Fort Joner? place wsi then our dos'ination. The * 1...1 ... - ?.- C -.1 ? I nwII n:g US IU IMC lv^rU Ol H *111.111 k. We thought now wo would soon t the fort, confident that it lay ' lie same side of the creek wo were on. took a half beaten road, but soon got of it and wandered atiout some time, king we were in the right direction, n lol we found ourselves at the same I and creek again. Wo almost heal ourselves lost, but it would not do < it down with folded hands ? we must 1 ip and going if we ever expected lo our frienda and homes again. We tod, hailing every black stump we Our tramping did us no good?for in we found ourselves at the same place had before started from. This time jave up?we wore 'loomed never to m to the happy scenes nf our youth moro ; but as the darkest hour is before day, so it was with ns ; for in mid?.t of our deepest despair, wc I A Heard thevoiccof chanticleer proclaiming Lo man that ay was breaking. How that voice cheered us ! We soon started J in the direction that we heard it from, j tnd tlds time went right, for soon we ! lame to a plantation and houses deserted ' i?y the owners. Everything was in con- j 'usiou, as thotigh the family had escaped with only tlieir lives. We went in r.t he open door of the largest house, and j Imaging on the [Mists of a bedstead [ saw i large shirt. 1 took it dow n and put it ' >ti. It suited me exactly, for it was large, tnd long enough for shirt and pants too. j It was now day. I lay down and slept, j ship standing sentinel again. When ho j ivaked inc up, the sun was shining brighty ; but oh! how lonely and sad every.liing seemed ! We were in a lone and tlmost uninhabited country?knew not which way to go to Hud our friends or to ivoid meeting our foes. There was a rough road that ran paralel with th> house. We took the north ?nd of thin road, and had only gone a j diort distance, when we came in sight of j t large smoke, which w as the burning of j Shepnad's plantation. Then 1 thought it ivas the Fort, and in the joy of the niuneut fired olf my gun, and expected ;very moment to hail some of mv com rades and be in a place of safety and rest, lust at that moment I looked down and >aw in the road, almost under my feet, a :ap with a handkerchief and a lock of liatr, all matted and gory with blood.? While look ng at, and conjecturing to which of our unfortunate companions ir L>elonged, wo heard horses running round ihe bottom of the hill on whi.dk we stood, iind apparently coming towards us. We ran back to the lone farm house, and as w? came in sight of it, we saw that the lioises were going in the same direction. ] he lot gate was open and they ran into it. They proved to be one noble sorrel itid two or three colts. I said to Ship that we must have that iiorse. Yes, we must have him and a bridle, too, he said. Well, may be we ;an find one here, I replied. 1 ran to a unall out-house, and there found an old head-stall with a pair of old-fiishioned curb bits. We then went to the lot, and the horse seemed anxious tor us to catch him, for he came prnnciug towards tis a-? if to claim our protection. We knew him for he belonged to one of our comrades. We put the head-stall on hiin, but it could only come over one ear. We were not particular?this would do if we only bad reins. The reins, too, were soon applied, for Ship took otf his musket strap and formed thai into reins. I got up before, to guide and manage the horse. Ship rode behind to look out for the Indians, as lie was a good deal taller than I was. We were now almost l.appy. With a noble horse under us, what cared wo for blanket or saddle ?? Indeed, the horse was a God send to us ; for bad we been seen and chased by the Indians with nothing to depend on but uur own feet, our chance for escape would have been but small, tired and worn out us wo were. V> c crossed over the road that ran by the bouse and took the woods. When we got into the woods we went by my direction awhile?then by Ship's. We had gone about in this style some two or three hours, when we came to a large broad road. This we took and followed some distance, when we came to a lane ucaily a quarter of a mile long.? We had gone nearly through the lane when Ship pressed hard on inv arm and said stop. I took u > the horse instantly, and asked, what is it I "Indians," was his reply, ?ud pointed to the right. 1 looked, and saw four Indians, with their guns gleaming brightly, standing just at the end of the lane, ready to tiro upon us as we passed. I wheeled the horse round instantly, and went back on a full run, expecting every moment to be shot by a hidden foe ; for we could not now console ourselves, as we did when we ran back from tho burning of Hhepard's plantation, that we were an advanced guard, sent to decoy them out. No! 110! by this time they bad learned that we were only two poor fugitives running froin lhem. Ltut this rejection only urged us to fresh speed. Our horso was Is ginning to show signs of fatigue, when tho first place that we came to that we knew, was si. _ * a ? i 1 1 ..... me loru suu me crees mat we bail visited so often the night before. This time we stopped not to deliberate which way was beat, but crossed over.? On ! on ! wo went?our noble horse at his best speed. No whip or spur had we used, for ho seemed to know that he carried human freight, and instinct taught liiin when danger was near. Very soon wo came in sight of men and horses ; and Ship aai 1 draw up and let us see a little hotter whether they are friends or foes. We have Ixkmi in too many close places to run heedlessly into a new danger. And though they s.-emod I to be white men, and parading, we stHI watched them wearily. Hut soon I espied our Captain's Old Grry, and cried out to Ship, "ah '. wo can risk that crowd." In a few minutes we were in the midst of them, clasping the hands of many of onr friends, who were gelling ready to hunt up all thoee who were alive, but wounded or lost. Never hare I experienced such intense ry. Never have I felt more secure, than did when snrrnunded l?y my comrade* I and tiiend*, who were rejoicing at our escape, as though we were brothers. Some of them thronged around us with exclamations of joy and ?|ue?uuus of our escape, w hile others clasped our hands with a mute pressure, speaking volumes from their eyes, but no words fell from their lips. Others again were all attention to our noble and powerful horse, who stood proudly creet, as if conscious that he wa& getting his meed of praise. Soon they led us to the tent of the wounded, where lav our noble n??.l l? loved Cnptaiu and several of my comrades, on beds of paiu. But tliey forgot their wounds to listen and rejoice at our escape. Soon f was prostrated on a bed of paitl ?the most excruciating I have ever felt. My legs were drawn into perfect knots, and my feet looked as though they had ben hackled with a saw and every too sawed apart into my feet. But such kind attentions as my inugh looking, but noble hearted comrades rendered tome! Woman's hands could not have been morn gentle, or woman's voice more soothing. It may seem strange to many that our escape should cause such joy ; but they must remember that many of us were rel?li\es, ami that many had been friends of long standing and intimately associated! and that o'.'r company was not picked up, even in different parts of the State, but we all came from Gwinnett county I Header, I have finished! I hope I have made an hour pass pleasantly by, in the perusal of these facts?not fiction. No, not finished vet. If you will cast your eyes below, you will see a piece of poetry that I read and preserved from an old newspaper, many years ago, relating to this subject : While Southern climes are wrapt in peace, And (Georgia's sons nil sat at ease ; I.o! savage yells art! heard around, With infant cries, a mingled sound; Our Gwinnett bund unconscious strolled. Where Chuttuhoochc's currcut rolls; While Uchec's tribe in hostile pomp, Came rushing from a neighboring swamp. Hold Gartnouy onward led the traiti| To meet the hostile* on the plain, Unconscious of the dangers near, For Uchee's strength lay in the rear Devoted band, your doom to hear? To hear the din of battlo roitr | The bloody scenes of savage war, The pride of Gwinnett wclt'ring there. - Ah ! far from homo bruvc Martin falls, 'Midst clash of urms and savage yells ; Yes! I.aeey, too, in weltering gore? He sleeps to see his friends no more. Aud Allen, too, he fulls among the slain, And finds u giavc upon the plain ; Both Sims and Tate upon the ground, aiiu reyaon, lo : with them is found; And Uarmouy, brave, receives a wound, Which briugs him to his knees, lint luvs four Indians on the ground, lie fore he tied the savage baud. Stewart's bravo sons, the savage meet, Thou little force, you must retreat; Outnumbered by the Indian band, You're forced to yield your favorite aland. 1>IDM't take THE NEWSPAPER. 9oUl? tiiitu ago a lady noticing that a neighbor wasn't in her seat at church oue Sabbath, called on her retu.ning to inquire what could have happened to detain so punctual an attendant, bin entering the house she found the family busy at work. Shu was surprised when Iter friend addressed Iter. 4 Why, la ! where have vou boon to-day dressed in your Sunday clothes ?' 4To meeting.' 4Whv, what day is it J' 'Sabbath day.' 4Sal, stop washing in a minute 1 S)d?bnth day ! 'Well I didn't know, for my hifcbund has got so plaguey stingy that be won't take the papers now, and we don't knownothing?well, who preached T Mr. . 'What did he pronch about? 'It w>ts on the death of our Saviour.' ' Why in he dead f I didn't know he wan nick P 4 Well all lioaton might be dead, and wo know nothing about it ! It won't do, must have the newspaper again, for everything goes wrong wuhout the paper' ? Hill has almost lost his reading, and l'olI v has got no pootry to read. If we have to t ike a cart load of potutoes and onions to market, I must have a newspaper. Choice op a Wipe.?It is incumbent on every man, as he regards his own weU farw in this lifts, to make the moat anxious scrutiny into the character and disposition of the woman he wishes to call his own. It is also requisite that he should study hi* own dieposilion, that ho mny not find, when too late, that marriage, with all its joys, in consequence of his unhappy tentperv has no happiness in store for him.? llere, whore thousands errand tens of thousands make themseles miserable for life, let bitn pause and consider. Marriage is the moat important step this side the grave; it tinges the stream of life through all its wanderings, with happiness or misery, until it ceases to flow forever. ^ Marriage m with too many ? matter of iiMWi tMPiiUtina 1 titude of faults and failing*, and the heiress of rich and cultivated acre* will be nought with avidity, though her mind be a poor and barren waste.?StarS/vngUd Hummer. ygK 1