large tract of laud, eleared off their debts with the suum paid for it, and observed its stipulations faithfully for several years, un- again destroycd, this time by no fault of the In- til peuce was dians, in consequence of the revolt of the American Colonies against Great Britain. The English loyalists in Georgia availed themselvcs of the Indians' old habit of allegiance Crown. One of their leading agents took a Cherokee woman as his mistress, placed her at the head of his table, gave her the richest dress aund equipage that the country could afford, and distributed through her lavish gifts to all the Indians he could reach into the fastnesses of the Cherokee nation, where he swayed them at his will Attempts the Cherokees with ferocity. Prisoners taken by them at this time were tortured with great cruclty; one instance is recorded (in a journal kept by another prisoner, who escaped alive) of a boy about twelve years of age who was suspended by tho arms between two posts, and raised about three feet from the ground. "The mode of inflicting the torture was by light-wood splints of about cightcen inches long, made sharp at one end and fractured at the other, so that the torch might not be cxtin gnished by throwing it. After these weapons of death were prepared, and a fire made for the purpose of lighting them, the scene of horror commenced. It was dcemed a mark of dexter- now to the When war actually broke out he retreated with her to captare him were repelled by ity, and accompanied by shhouts of applanse, when an Indian threw one of these torches so as to make the sharp end stick into the body of the suffering youth withont extingnishing the torch. This deseription of torture was continued for two hours before the innocent victim was relieved by death."

These are sickening details, and no doubt will be instinctivc proof of innate cruelty peculiar to the Indian race. Let us, therefore, set side by side with them the record that in this same war white men (British of- ly set down by most readers as ficers) confined white men ("rebels") in prison-ships, starved,