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PTTT3 : TfTV 77 9 v Al7 mmmm ).!' Oi Mil if 4' 7F 'flbl. so. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 71818. i .lit. i ! i ar ' i , , r road; I stepped up to one that had holsters to them in the Creek toneue. of which I RALEIGH, (N . C.) i before him, and told him that"! hid Vwelvei knew a few words, as if I had been an Indian. piunted, weekly, by a., LuoAS. t highway- robbers under niv command. and Tbev did not. understand nie. One. of my one un i ,!. il.. i . . ii. . . . I . . i 1 j i .i m . r vWrtoMft Three dollar nervear. jtrm, v , . , to be paid in advance. no paper w oe cunuuuw bit than three months after a year's subscription be come due, and notice thereof shall have been (fiven. "mertiKmenH. nnt eTedin 14 lines re inserted 1 Ihrind for one dollar t for twenty-five cents each sub sequent insertion j and in like proportion where there ia mvatrf number of lines than fourteen. The cash nuut iccompany thoa from persons unknown to the editor. - , v (rtNo subscription can .n any esse be received without payment of at least gl 50 in advance; nd no discon tinuance without payment of arrears, unless at the option of the editor. Domestic. From the Washington City Gazette of Sept. 19. ItYIffQ CONFESBJOlr O? JoSlPHT BARE, Alias. Joseph Thompson Hare, one of the mail robbers, who was executed at .. .Bait' morc, on lbs u;A0th .jrfeptemb-r, taiS. rwnln oy mmscii. uamuioix, iuuiusuuu br Joseph Barling, 1818. (The publisher states that lie has the MS. in Hare's hand-writing. We have chosen on hi breast in sight, and a good rifle in his the first man that moved, should be tblown to hell.v-Ttse dry cane made a greaft cracking; it was so thick on that spot that a man could not be seen ten feet from the road. " It was a cloudy day, and every thing looked very black and gloomy, and the sound of the cane, though it did not frighten me, made mc feel very strange and out of the way ; my two men said we had not painted our faces, which we ought to bare done, and that we should be known, and itjsras better to murder ras-' cals, than let them live and tell tales on us. An oldish man spoke and said, For God's sake spare my life." I told him it was well thought of ; that if there should one man move till I gave leave, they would all be land ed ia ctecpity i ,ad1tli this I called Jo. one iX my companions to come up and take the money. Up stepped one, with a pair of dou bl barrelled pis'uls hanging in a belt buc kled round his body, and a dagger hanging bih:!i extracts as will rive the reader a con-; hand. I tld Liin not to fire on them, until nectal view of the principal robberies; the tfcey should make battle. We took all that minor parts, with the reflections ot the cul prit, are rnitted, on account of their length. JJo person in this country, before the publi c?thn of JhU pamphlet, could possibly have bo - veil that te UniM States contained they bad, and atter I had talked a littlo while logger with my men, we set them on their road. A day or two before this, while we were hunting in tlt Wiintiq. tt'fl r.imc nrrrKa snut sum extraordinary and daring bandit ahat seemed a very-good rctrc.it from any JliS?;!h Hare is rein-csented to be. Ifwc are!dan!;n. ,)f behl, 0VerUkcn by ,ustice, and a t, give credit to the story, (and there is but; vej. comf()rtabe home too. It was on one tixnaut h reason to believe a great portion side of a cane brake where-the cane grew it true,) ibis hero of the highway equals, if. tlick and ta aml wouW have concea. men asked if. bey could parler Anglais." They stopped, and spoke broken Jbngiisn. l told them we were Indians, that did not think it any harm to take money from white peo ple; and if they raised one of their arms to fire oimsiwe woHld send them to eternity, every man of them. One of them said, take every thing we have ; we have more at home, ana oniy wish you io oe civn io ur cimnm. The two men 1 liad with me. stood still with thdr rifles cocked, and cafdi had his pistols at his side ami a dagger. I took away the arms from the travellers, who made nbmore resis tance. On; the pack horse we found 300 doubloons and 701 pieces of different sizes, indaJarge rpiantity of jsold Jn-barS, six inctirs in length and eight square 50- weight of it. With the owners! found 74 doubloons and h silver doIlaVs, and 400 French guineas, and 67 pieces, the value of which I could not tell, till I weighed them. I got 12 or 13.000 dol lars, altogether,- from the- company, all io g;d-l. On (he fifth day after this we reached our .a . at . i a t. a i ' cave again, shortly alter mis i leu ine cave, :to'jnntil'tbey ibid delivered up their' io-:; ney to ; we wpuld stop them with pdwder and ' ball4 VI told Ibem to dismount from their' horses or we would fire and bring themtfown. Tliey hesitated at first, but seeing us resolute, with our rifles , Cocked, and presented to them, and ready to- fire, they $fot down from their horses. I then stepped Aip to them with my' dagger in my hand, and' took from them twof pair of pistols and three; daggers t my two highwaymen stood off about 1 5 'feet with their rifles cocked, a dagger in their hands, and each a pair tof1 pistols befted around them. -I would not suffer thcra to Hpealt to each otner whilst I was robbing them, as I did not under stand their lingo, tjnd was afraid of some scheme. ... We got 40 weight of o!d from this company of five, andis in 6ilter. MyBbard. of this robbery amounted to 233 doubkoons (3,723.) . We were forty milqs from our cave, and I2d from Pcnsacola. It was 4 o'clock in the af ternoon whenwc Icfttli.em, and at 43 minutes past seven we reached our cave, and found a large grey wolf in tit. lie had been drawn there by some fresh meat we liad left in the cave. He sprang 1 7 feet down from the rock, but we nut two balls in him. as he imnpt. Wo - and on my way met a man on horseback, j staid in our cave h'ik weeks before We went on with a rifle on his shoulder. I joined commute road-again. pany with him, and be told 'mo he had been at St. Louis to buy land. In a few momems we One day as I was walking near the road, I saw a gentleman pass, with a waiter behind not rivals, in periet.ration of daring felonies and aifocicous exploits,, the most notorious rubbers that ,evtr prowled the -.environs -of yEma.; Riualdo Rinaldino or Charles de lJ'r were nothing to him The only way to i arcount for the .possibility of Mare and his w obtainmffsonMir.il booty in cold 'cry ed us from the bet eyes, near the Chickasaw Bluffs- Here wc laid ourselves down to sleep, as we liad slept but little for two or three nights back. As for me, ( could not sleep, but lay looking sometimes in the fire we had km , ji.i.-a obtaining sonitieii booty in goio -, . , ; ;. " ..... ai.d silver, is, the cTistom that used to prevail ! d,cd d sometimes at the stars, and l.stm aftravellers from New-Orleans and elsewhere mgtotiie wind in among the cane brake, transporting through the wilderness (before bank notes were in such general circulation) the proceeds of their merchandise in specie. Jhc total absence of dates, however, through out the tw'f.i22i'.,2; 'brows a strong suspicion oi, many ciiTumstar.ccS; though what is rela ted .as having tak. n place hi this neighbor hood carries with it some color urprobabiIi- I v.fis born in Chester count jv in the statb of lVtinsylvania, am? when about 21,1 went t( Vlnladelphia, and sailed, with an old friend r.iy fathvr's, a fiea-captain, to Newr-Orlcans, and worked my jassag there. In New-Orleans I suffered a good deal of trouble, for I had no money but what I made by dangerous thieving .and gambling. At last I oidisted in the Governor's guard, and and at this time 1 associated im'self wi h some desperate fellows who were in the habit of knocking people down in the streets, and rob bing them. The first person we robbed in this manner was the rapt, of the ship Ocean, in company with a gentleman of the city of jtfew-Urleans. 1 took the captain's watch for "which he must have paid fifty guinea in France. As I was playing at cards some time after I having staked his watch against three others, in came a French'-Gentleman dressed in uniform, and asked me if I was not an officer belonging to the Governor's guard, as he had seen me at the Governor's dressed in uniform ; I told him I was ; he said ho had occasion for proper officers to get back some money lm had been robbed of last 'night, i t was I and my companions that had robbed him, and had gta great deal of mo ney from him. What made us atop him was our hearing his money jingle in his pockets and seeing so much powder in his hair. This was good vncouragement to us ; and as for me, I should have been loth to change my place f r a colonel's commission. But now, as we feared we should get noto rious in - New-Orleans, and saw ovrpv fn days a company start from New-Orleans on horse and were told they carried a great deal of money with them through the Choctaw and Chichesaw nations to get to Kentucky, Ten nessee, and Pittsburg ; we thought we should do better on the highway.' But before we went, we made two other robberies. One of toy men took 257 dollars from a countryman; told me,, when i came up, it was all that had ; I gave him up 10 dollars Tn silver, fhe same evening r went and stopped a Span iard, and he gave me his watch and 17 dol- ie neemeo poor,and 1 left his watch nd part of the money where he got jt again. ;ow I saw it was alow and dangerous work W to ma,te mone m9 Clty of New-Or-Jjns. So we all agreed to get some good "lies, and three first rata horses, that were wdl and genteel. .Wl left the town and vent as far as Nashville in tho state of Ten jwsee. without meeUng Vith any thing. Wfi Jked the wilderness from the Muscle Shoals m Choctaw nation.. One day, when we glrlatith hunting, (we do TO ou this for.our eating) w came across which made such amournt'til, rustling noise, that I often thought something or somebody was coming through the cane after us. So I got up, and went to see if our horses were near, which we had let loose near the brake ; and afterl fcund them, I employed mysVdf count ing the money, while my two 'companions slept on, as if nothing had happened, I had not s'ered Hie two men to open the mouths of all the bags, to see what amount was in thCm Ihere was one bag l told them they need hot open. I had heard the man say, when it was got out. of his saddle-bags, Lord bless my soul," and give a very hea vy sigh. ; I remember I thought he was frigh tened for his life, and told hi in I had never asked any man for his life and if wc were not By strongly armed, he would take mine j but that he should not be hurt A good deal of the moury we took was in gold and specie, afid in bags of buckskin. The one he sighed f'r, had ISO pieces in it, and a good deal of them gold. I made each man a belt, and put all-the gold in three belts, lhade nut of a deer's hide that I bought from an Indian that lived in tho Cherokee nation w hen he was at home. The whole that I had to my share from that robbery came to 7000 dollars. We lay in the mountain a month., in which time we lived on wild meat, wild turkey and came to a beautiful spring, and dismounted tojhim, both armed. The waiter liad a broad take a drink. He laid his rifle against a tree, i sword hung to his side, and a pair of pistols. asked me to take some brandy and water with This was a noted sign for money. We monnt him. Whilst ho was , stooping to get some ed our horses, and overtook them at 32 miles water from the spring, I seized his rifle from from our camp. The man in front asked uv the tree, and told him I was a high-way rob-, who gave us leave to carry ai ms and assault her and would take a drink of water with hiovcople on the highway ? I told him I was an after I had counted what money he hud r officer (I had a uniform on;) that war was that I never drank brandy or any kind of declared between Spain and the United States, spirits, as I always had spirits enough .in me,! and lnat he riuisrsurreudcr all his mon'y or without tnfeintr "brand v. and that if h did we WOllldiHlt Powder and ball into him. Sec. - - ' .. . 1 . not instantly deliver "to mo every cent he had, 1 would send him" where he would get some thing hotter. than brandy. He was very much ingour pistols cocked in our hands, ihey dis-' mounted and gave up their money, alter taking their saddle hasrs and portmanteau. We found alarmed find trembled worse than I dfn noW'774 pieces of sold in the tiortnlnteail. got under the gallows. He delivered up ail his fr my share 584 pieces of gold, amounting to money to mc. I got from him 2700 dollars ! 555,300. We had been in this cave altogether in gold and a small bag of silver, but as I about two months, and had made during that never, wished to bring a man to poverty, I time 26,700 dollars, Jn a few days wc started gave him back the bag of silver and his: for Pensacola, and put up at the boarding watch. house of Madame St. Va!'.)'. Our time pass We went to NashvUJc, Tenn. . I bought a; d wUh- geat pleasure, and wc staid b months. black boy, and two horses and a gig, and after' There never tvas.a week without" a ball being a few days wc started to Knoxviilc together, given by one nf tho French or Spanish gen Frora there we wept to Lexington, Ivy. and tlcmen in town. One day one of them asked from there to Louisville, at the falls of ObioTmeif 1 had heard the news. I told bim.no. Here S swopped my two borees and gig. with was al aimed, for I thought he was going to a gentleman from . Georgia, for a black boy mention the'robbery of the last Spaniaid ; but and a gold' repeater, and my first black boy it was only that J and my companions were I sold to one of my higii-wiymen for four htm-j picked out to give the next ball, on that night dred and fifty dollars! My two robbers hav-' week. I told one of my highwaymen to give iiig sold .their horses, we left this place in.'aiajial.l at myexpencc, as he could speak their flat toppctl boat, and went down the Oliio to Natches, and from there to New Orleans." " One nis-ht we lost so much nt (he caminar'a priest to bring us table, that wc saw somethinaTwas to be done.! priest was .his i-.lerpreter. I set my back boy free in New Orleans, w hiclrP) asked me if Jw.i ? from the- United Stutes. place, we left, after purchasing three good j totd him. " No,. Sir," and taking oin'jny f ... .. . . I 1 a I I. . I.: it. l .!. I norses, and starteu lor uaton nouge. nere; uduu., gave nun mv f,isi:jjiiix.wiiit. u m- language. '"Y e then left Pcnsacola, and when we arrived at Baton Rouge, the governor sent into tho garrison ; this Governor Grand- 1 got a passport from Governor Graudprec, and intended to' rob on the road between Ba ton Rouge and -IVnsacola. Wo started from Baton Rouge, to find a fit place for our camp. About 80 miles from deer and racoon. I was in Nashville once i I Pcnsacola. and near a track that led to the that time : 1 took my horse witn mc, and my money I hid where no mau knew. It was no great while after this, that wc rob bed another party in the Cherokee nation; two " TVT or four men. had'Iiaid u.irk aye their lives. VVestoniiil th.m: n, m h,d tho borscs from the sight of the of4hcm were from St. Augustine, and one from Charleston, S. C three in company. I rode in company with them. 0ie evening I told the men I was agent fur the Cherokee na tion, as they knew no better, and found out alt their business. They spoke Spanish and broken English :. they had a horse with a a pack-saddle on him, with a large pair of saddle -bags lashed on the pack-saddle. One of the men had a watch that would run, he told me, seven days without w hiding up, and ask ed me if 1 would change iriy horse for it. I told him ' no." My two men were; in a house five or six miles from the Chickasaw nation, with a man that called h$ name Hay foot, a hal! bread Indian ; they had taken their horses to his house, which stands between Bear Creek and Tennessee river, I rode on before my company to inform my men that wc might likely get something from these men. One of my-fellowTAVould hardly hear me to the end, So greedy was ho after tbc pack-sad dle I mentioned. We left the neighborhood of Bear Creek, took to the great road again, and make as fast as possible after the compa ny I had left, which I was much afraid we should miss. . About twenty miles from the house of Thomson, who was known in those parts at that time, I overtook the company a gam. This Thomson is a white man, mar- nedJo a squaw. We made off lntothe woods when we got the travellers in sight,- made a bend, and in a cane brake just off the road, we painted our faces like tho Indian when he Join5 Jjiar?l-J he Pa,;tTwa9 pretty well armed ; I rode up to them they UI started very much at seeing us, as wo showed our arms and looked very threatening. I spoko Gold Mines, we found a cleft -of rocks that formed ail admiral cave, which no man visit ed before, . I expect since the flood. Game was plenty, kr- ' We hunted here nine days' : at the end of that time we began to want powder and shot, and thought that two of us should go to Pen sacola to get it. I vr as the -"one .to stay at home. .They were away nine days. One who-married there then began to tell me of nil the news he had heard at the hotel in Pen sucola, where he had put up at. He Haiti that he had seen a Spanish gentleman there, from old Spain that was going from Pcnsacola to Baton Rouge in ten days, and that he had seen that he had : a good deal of gold about .'hi in. We immediately put our arms in, order X had a pair of pistols, a dirk, a cutlass a;d a rifle ; my two robbers had'eacli of tboiri a rl flei a pair of pistols, . and a dagger. On the eighth day, I saw a company pass, as I watch ed the road, and directly went back to our cave, had -our horses caught and saddled, and we raountedjhem, with our anus, in pursuit of them. On the next day we came up to them. My Spauisli talking man, who had seen the old Spaniard in Pensacola, said that it was the right company, for he knew the old Span iard by the cut of liisi - jiU,w "X " rode past them to see what arms they bad, and saw as I past them, there were five, in company, and that theyJiadJtwo-paii-of pistols. I turned in the woods to let them passaiyl waited un til my two robbers came tip. I had Ued.a band krchiefabblit my face,Twhen' I passed them, so that they could not know me j we all paint ed our faces red, and having primed our pieces again started after .them.- We came up to them;' and passed them, ten or fifteen paces, when we suddenly wheeled round. andDrcseht- ingjrifles told them we were high way robbers, had given me 8 months before, to pass through the Spanish dominions, fie looked very ear nestly at us, and said we hadjbeen passing through thejirovinecs to see the fortifications, and that he would rieud us t! the iniucsy unless wc could. given imre satisfactory acc iunt of ourselves. I le gave us-incbargo of an o.;7icer. until he got sonic "-word 'from' Pen'sac da. AVe x were pot int the guaid house, and (Hjr iriimcy from us. hired a man to go to Pensacola, and to get a. true account of us from the house where he hat! boarded, and to bring a letter from'sotne "Spanish apd French o.Ticers. who boarded with us in the, same house. On--the fourteenth ..day, my messenger returned, ac companied by the son of the lady at whose house we hadjbonrded. HeWiis known to the governor and had a number of letters from the French officers-' in' favor of u.s.'and he gave so good an account of us that the governor or dered ns tq be released, after it had cost us 2000 dollars. We got on jboaid of a -barge and went to Nashville, Tennessee. Finding there was a man going from Nash visit! to Georgia, wo left the tiiwn, and lay in wait for. and robbed him. We had n horses, but as ho camo, along the road I rushed from the woods, and seized his horse by the bridle. I told him ho must alight and deliver up his money. See ing that we were well armed, h dismounted very peaceably and gave tp what he had. t got 070 dollars in bank notes and silrer. We determined tnt get some cave be tween Knoxvillc and South West .'Point, as wc thought it would be a good place to rob. I therefore left my two robbers at a tavern in -Knoxville, & went to Nashville, to make sorao previous a rrageraeiUsiUpon my return, I . fell in, and joined company with a driver, on.'', bis way to Virginia, As I supposed he w:as pretty flush of money, I determined, to rob Inm- When"w e got intoFranklin county, Ya. a favorable spot pretented -itself,"about 15 milesjxonohc cjouj'tTJbiuse,i;wlu:nI, robbed- of bis horse and 350 dollars, and rode off as" ' fast as .possible; The night after I was tak- - i. -