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two children were - lined out among the prisoners. They had been with us to attend a sacramental meeting on the third sabbath of May, and as they had a son with us, at school, they spent one week with him, and on the 28th of May, left to return home near a hundred miles distant. On that day they travelled about twenty miles, where they spent the night, and on hearing that the Soldiers were taking all the people prisoners in Georgia, they started the next morning to return to us. The wife and children were riding one horse, and Epenetus was walking. They had not proceeded far, however, before they were taken by a company of soldiers, and driven to a fort, near Lafayette court house. There they were kept, with about five hundred others, for ten days, and then all were driven to the caps. His wife, our dear sister Alice, had been so overcome by such scenes of distress as to be rendered unable to do any thing. Br. Epenetus has long been a member in the Presbyterian church, and is now a ruling elder. Which at the fort the whole company of five hundred, had resolved to have nothing to do with the treaty money, and chose Epenetus to be their speaker, to make this resolution known to the commissioners, who were waiting with money to pay them. Epenetus, therefore, when occasion called for it to the commissioners that they did not come to that place voluntarily, but as prisoners, -- that they had made no treaty, -- neither had the lawful authorities of the nations, and that they should have nothing to do with the treaty money, 00 that as prisoners, they must receive their food, but would take nothing else. Epenetus, having been put forward in
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