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"STrHE HICHMOND COMPILE '4 fH ^-'KKUNAL Mutilated From the ; INDIAN |?VENGE. ; Mr. Mead is pwsendwby a *ti? ?VfUer, who caHed yesterday at the house of Mr. Solomon H.WMoftl, with the following narration of. fac": fflNRZ : ' , JMKw"n bclo?g'ng tr> tht Choctaw h?tion? ?n company with another Indian, got drunk at fiajte ou Sarah, about 1 4 years ago, ant they, in a fracas, had recouta! to 'eMfe* Sometime afterwariHp'rtie Indian wfl&c name it not recollect it. Hi* death being attributril by .Ihn tndiahfriebds J'to-.' 'the * wounds 1 inflicted en him b|f/IJpwK But. Chub's friends contended there' was strong presumptive evidence that his death wa* occasioned by imprudently wading in the water, the. Creeks.'&Wing from Hayov Sa Sh to Ratchet. The spring vea- . flpn being rainy, the weather was such.that no sick man Ought 10 tra vtF on, fdOt, *?ir lie on the wet pround, particularly when the m?i siei were making their appearance. Firfe oPsiif months after the In dian's death, his relatives, four Of whom, thirsting :.f<>r blood like ty Cets of the fortst, caine armed \ with thvii rifo* An^ o^er wcapou peculiar to Indians, and lay in aaj-^ bush near Chub's encampment, on the land of I? H -Esq aboue; ^KalfaiTTikiroin 'his house. ? Chub being in search of what is called to *his country, light <vood, hS^if^n the nightinyead of can - jpP^ or pine knots split info uftffl \ called fire works,* was iu the act of Splitting them, when he itteived a ball in his right hip notwith standing the wound, hegaffc ayell, or war wholbp, and ran some yards^ He .was in the attitude ~at falluig': when three Indians tired and put three balls irtfo his right br?t. Mr. Solomon H. Wisdom ( was sent, for by the neighbors, who were-tpuch alarmed both at hear ing of the death of Chub. and the re- i port ofohe guns, pegging him to I inquire how* and in what manner; qnd for what cause he had been wiled. Upon a striqt'scrutLay of! Indian Toirt his brother -Iw^law, j Bapteast, a son-in-law, OUfc vjenny ' hu wife, jjMelia, Tom and Chvb,?j their children, Celia the d^Oghtrr , of squaw Sarah, Jenny's shteiythey solemnly declared to Mr, Wisdoru ! and the two young * meri? j panying him^ of whom being well armed, #bat the Indians had ^MUed Chub. B#b a Shelas, literal* ,fy v translated, friends come see ; then they took the blanket <^E$he dead bodjr, *nd exposed the naked WQuraR^tothe view of all present. ?Thii savage scene c* miftder ejfc citeMhe most alarming* appi^HPf* 'sittof^eat the/Indians should at^ru bute his death to? the negroes .9* fibeir masters. Though these In dians hajre lived in - this vicinity twenty odd years, and cjp speak good English, whrrjL tUey^plea^ft yc^jtheir savage: dispositions are uh* changed* ',$?? he moment Chut waskilled, 4 rufwefr??jk*>ent*q the Cfw>ctlwtV^io%.to inform his bro ther diathe h*?#*0 :ikW!$? K lie came to this |>)aqOpclve. miles jron^St. FwcUkiMe,< dWd ?|lw> distanee from - the nation, is supposed to J^e. -mote tfan three fond red ?P/*be **y he travelled, to enquire of did Jen ny and her children* what kind of IMianft those we're & w ha k il f* flpl N^rother. Tney told him thaWtftev tfcpttst of b too# to the Indian who was supposed to have died of the ft# the' first ball. This rankled his breast with all his na tive ferocity to cmbruc his hands in theTHood o( Jps enemies. lie followed him to the Attuck aagk Apliglou^, Orichitaw, Nat cRrcoche&j from thence returned to . Natchez., then Came hithe t?to. tell the farrtily^his great misfortune in npt finding nor hearing of him ; ba ing resolved ?n 1 ex Talipnis, lie re turned to the Chdcktawnatiprtj un J ' "" 5 imj, the ari and half, Rjfdwtfi |L>? jU"l> '"SwiLv 5 IN acoguociie?, -Wfntner nc wepe^ flUy ] find an opportunity of wreaking his revenge and malice in the toost secret indL,ji>toody , manner.; % with the instrument of death which he carried with him, he brought him to the'g^Mind, And left him lying in gore, in the ?t*te of non animation. This tragedy ended, he retimed to Bayou Sarah to murrate the prow* s ess and adroitness of the encerprizawj anu to mingle fus felicities with hit' relations, who applauded his gen erosity for . having travelled nearly ?wo thousand miles, before he sati-' atcd his swage appetite with Mr. Wisdom Was told I of p'rne, ??l <m tire in ??*? oid lincl curt ted in ihu niKU.imo the wot*l?t tlcci itatui I'm tinning if *? a inaik Kit tl?? huwtsiWirW with expressions of exuitaiio r _ t he I)iv! achieved for die nui^s of his brother ; chat he was about re turning co the Choctaw nation, in which* he hafremained ever since. 1- ? Rfffceat tragirat *inn\rm '?* \xr-*+ Florida, Bayou Sa^5ih> 4twclve miles (rdmSt. Francisfij^ fPricUy, May alth day. 1816. r* , AUput two week* anterior to thij-date, Tom, a yowl^Jn^n pjuid one- of the Cbickast^iigarion, Leaving a Choctaw squaw^for a ' wi/e, and living here, had a quar i$p? .borh ^ere drunk. The fom mer cut the latter on his head wi^h t-corvsequence^of which le next , , their rifles. v Tom, accepted the cha^leage, their en campments being five miles apart j by agreemeritihey were cp^raeet at a certain pla?^> being The ch illertger?4rfived at the time and'place, but tKe other party did ' not appear on the ground. The fury of the old Indian increased in [ proportion" as the chances of re-' venge dimtfl^jbedi His m*ftf was bent upon Mthin^But the * most gloomy ahef horrid, ideas. ^VVith the intention of taking thciMpe of Tom* .he procured a youngMndiafc who was his friend to kill him. Fo^he said, fronl his wounds and olerage, he cotdd not live long, and that he was extremely anxious to have Tom Jffinftej$fotely fciilcd ? * His friend 0esang-froid executed ihhuman injunction, and to went to take the life of Tom. ? Who totd him thaHie was^RF ling 1 6 be stfbt, but his mother Old Jenny, said it jyasa shame that such a young likely Indian as Tori), should die fur an bid Glbictosaw Therefore she 'n his place 5 but Torn wdfiM nbt at first X-. *&'*>'>' ^Jjgree to it. ted him, and rrsolved not . After her life wajsr*,commute,., _ the old Chickasaw's, her son-in-law took his gun, after loading it, gave it to Tom, a young Indian, not a relation, but the mutual "friend of the , Duties, He held It undet hi. #n|e<, tm old Jenny capk her sublunary farewell of her enildrefi, grand children, her sister ? Sara&^fftd particularly oflfcr son Jamcsj, a bqy about thirteen yeaft t>f Hp ' ob? $aid, " James I am go |?uf, father Chub, who was also shot^but in a , private* marw^r? -Here to this grave" which pgKi dug for my%on Tom, by v my request, f consign illy body}~Do not mourn for me^-I okj and goingJUo 4frK|uib, *nd your bro Itficr'.yrho When you dic~OH4^omc; ^ see me and you^ fahy^/ It is dying request, that Tom would go and kill the young {ndiahj who, last winter, when in a stajc Of drun kenness, cut your old aunt Sarah ?.on the head with a boW?~Ift 'Tom be killed forJC^^fflK9 bfotfier Chub must kill him, that took his life. Should Tom not be kilted I bed hint to take Care of ?my two s<S#p Then with no kmd- low tune, and a slow step, she moved far ward*and backwards, for stfme rime, in a staight line. As,a to kerf forthe Indiari to fire, shesquat ?led upon her knertk The execu the muzzlc.df k to her bowftjl and be dijuSttged Iff Contents (litoJ her breast. Whatever articles sh$J ! Was in possession of, wire flung jn-N to her few- Vi U is sported /that ' they decttnpfd in the night to some l other place, for fear the whites: ^fcld prosecute them. The next] morning Tom Went to execute l?is I ? other* bloody commands.? 1 he ] Jian hearing o( Tom*s bCirtg in l pursuifof him, kilted himself. Tom says he does not wish to live sidro' 'J^m?<h<!f'S death? i^ his emttrtte* in search of htm he will also kill himself. This happetrfd' near a school house ; the seliool-mawr, I ft re woorotd. anflr the I cmuveri vixre spectator*., A*cr]t I interesting* *rtd intelligent yowg y^TQy.W ^ 1 V cirs oid, of ix<4>C&*? [ dble parent igct verbally told tr . traveler ? that she saw h tr tuiiude^ the gun toiier breast, and heard the report ofit, ;^nd saw her.fall icatj Jo thf ^ - * ^uuO'i ItV.^ /ToriVfo, 15 wi/^i [ .""' '^rog m"4 Ml Me a ti? Thr ravclfrr hap pened to be at the hoifte of Mr. S. |^)|^y!sdoiTS fiear the theatre of read, concurred rhat the stdt was cbrfiffit. Icr liberty to make up- of whatever way he might do. Iridian Jattfei tecounted [and Mrs. W valedictory ..^ddrfess, iriiip after iler execution, titjfeh? | of'the whole famity. Thej him if he was noc aqfery i death. His r ,!tis .,0 I she wanted t<i maskable saHy of tfwWHl is seei> in th^ \t!D^g Indil closed the ttrrestial exists the old Chickasaw, and old through the most endearing. Iwp warrio*f?sS|t, ftflpws ? ? " who can .3*ay the unadu blood of the brave aborigini I not *?> H: -not rcceiM|l;tc^?^<aa withwiaWpTperVlJ^L the injunction and your Chickasaw friend ? shall we express the bainfu devolving on us af$ptta?i subsequent -canau c r, wnicli \ L notlo tiiitSltjSwpfHWB * Who <rah d^you Worthy nathc j)l warrioiv^RW# yoi stained that noble character, fering the tragij^teli of man to ynfock yo?|dS? bias your judgment i Ol you think it poMirol t{ieGr< rit and the shade of your i ffiend are pleased with you duct-Ms this the lau^f reta an old" sqigfjlfr whqrf life irksome taTafr?etf?"tt-lls y< will kill herself ityou exec lon? with the dtjtpestsbrrow only hear, $ut *e you make t mutational" Being over* with grief, he retired amRg self Wisdom i /diligent man, and can talk sam ttf n/dr few-thft. fiaraai try ft ooklynrtcy'aidmltt p ftittvife wrth intent ttf mmem in the Penitent* years at hard labour*