Independent Journal, Or, The General Advertiser

New-York, October 17.

We are informed, that the insurgents of Tioga have transmitted a memorial to the Executive Council, in which they state, that they were ignorant of the warrant that had issued for apprehending John Franklin, and that they are sincerely sorry for the rash measures which they pursued in consequence of that event. We are happy to hear likewise, that they have liberated Col. Pickering's family, and have offered to take the oath of allegiance to the commonwealth, without soliciting any thing in favor of their leader. It is earnestly to be hoped, that such advantage will be taken of this disposition, as may effectually establish order and tranquility in the county of Luzerne.

Franklin behaves with great decorum in the gaol, and manifests a disposition to reconcile his friends at Tioga to the proceedings which have been instituted against him. Before the arrival of the memorial mentioned in the preceding article, he had offered through his counsel, to send a letter to them for that purpose; and we presume that he now entertains so just a sense of his situation, as will induce him to endeavor to make every atonement in his power for the injuries, he has done his country. The late repeal of that part of an act of assembly, which empowered council to direct offences to be tried out of the county where they were committed, will render it necessary to remove Franklin to Luzerne, in order to take his trial at the next sessions of Oyer and Terminer held in and for that county.