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gathering the Indians, she and her husband hid in the woods, while her aged parents were taken at different times, and from different plans to the camps. On visiting them there, her mother between eighty and a hundred years old, came to me, and wept like a child, supposing that her sick daughter was in the woods, where she was in danger of starving, or of being destroyed by beasts. I stated her care to an interpreter, and he to one of the agents, requesting that some Cherokee might be sent for this suffering woman. But the only reply was that none should go. Too many were out already. This daughter, however, and her husband returned to their house, from whence they were taken by soldiers to the fort, and then driven to the camps, where they had the painful happiness of meeting their dear parents. These latter obtained permission to come and camp near us, where they were permitted to close the eyes of this beloved child, for whom they had wept so much. Fri.

We understand that orders have come from the secretary of war, to hasten the work of collecting the Indians, in the limits of the other states, as soon as possible.

June 22. The news is confirmed that general Scott has agreed to defer the removing of the remainder of the Indians till the first of September. Supposing it would be almost certain death to the nation, to be hurried off to the Arkansas this hot season of the year, a number of chiefs assembled and prepared a petition to general Scott, pleading simply for their lives, and the lives of their people. At length the general, being overcome by their entreaties returned 83