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of the barbarous affair having reached the city a great number of the citizens assembled and coming down to the Indian encampment demanded that the other prissoner should be given up to them. they gave her up immediately, the gratitude and delight of the poor creature must be imagined. Delivered so unexpectedly from most horrible tortures and death she had made up her mind that there was no escape from her unrelenting captors. that night she was secretly conveyed by a commitee of three appointed by the citizens to to her tribe about fifteen miles distant. After this arrangement was made they commenced striking their tents and prepering to move down the river according to the terms of the treaty intered into on the day before. By noon not a vistage of them remained the place looked as silent as the grave they were got away without any trouble to the immense relief of the inhabitants of the city. It was now the latter end of June and immigration was at its hight The city was thronged with people and the roads leading into and from the city were covered with a continous string of teams. it looked as if all the people of the States had got demented and started off without making any preperation fearing they might be too late to lift the heaps of gold from the bowels of the earth. All were now full of high hope they would not listen to a disparaging word said about the mines of the country. I can imagine how some of those same sanguine people felt about one month later, half starved broken down in spirit and pocket. they turn their face sorrowfully back towards "America" perhaps as I have known some of them that lost everything and undertook a weary journey of about eight hundred miles not having a morsel to eat depending on charity for their subsistance and their bare feet leaving its imprint in blood.