But the bearers themselves declare that things are terrible.

The Germans have been attacked.

A Moravian settlement has been burnt to the ground, and all its inhabitants butchered.

Families are flying from the border country, naked and destitute, to get clear of the savages and their tomahawks.

Every where the people are calling aloud upon the Assembly to come to their succour." The crowd in the street was surging to and fro.