Oseola

Lo! The Poor Indian!-Oseola, Old Micanopy, Philip, Cloud, Tigertail, and Bowlegs, with 116 warriors and 32 women, have been sent round to Charleston in the steamer Poinsett from St. Augustine. They reached there last Monday, and are confined in Fort Moultrie. By this movement it seems that Mr. Van Buren[1] intends to send Oseola through the country for exhibition. Good, Mr. Van Buren! A most magnificent idea, and worthy of the illustrious Kinderhook cabbage-seller! For by caging him up and admitting visitors at so much per head, there will be money enough taken to pay at least the interest of the money expended in catching him. Again, we understand that this is to perform for a limited number of nights at all our theatres! Flynn, Hamblin, and the rest, have sent agents to the White House, offering high terms-half the house and a free benefit. Capital thing, this! Oseola will introduce an entirely new school of acting and throw Forrest’s Metamora[2] into the shade. Oseola, we learn, is to make his first appearance at the Park, in Thomas’s new tragedy of “Oseola,” in which, of course, he plays the principal character. New York Daily Herald, January 10, 1838

BLTIMORE MUSEM

  To the politeness of Dr. Weldon of the U.S. Army the proprietor is indebted for the following interesting articles, forwarded from Fort Moultrie, S.C. and which are place in the Museum: a PLUME worn by OSEOLA, when he fought Gen. Clinch, at Withlacooche-and LEGGINGS which the same Chief wore, at the battle of Wahoo Swamp. These articles were presented by Oseola, to Dr. F. Weldon, when sick, at Fort Marion, St. Augustine

The Baltimore Sun, January 12, 1838