Collins, Agent for the Slave-dealer, reaches Fort Pike--Prisoners gone--He repairs to New Orleans--reaches that City one day after the Exiles and Indians had left--He follows them up the River--Whole number of Prisoners on the two boats--They stop a few hours at Vicksburg--Collins overtakes them--Hands his Order to Reynolds--They consult together--Difficulty in separating Indians from Negroes--They all proceed together--Reynolds and Collins endeavor to persuade Indians to deliver over Negroes--They refuse--They reach Little Rock--Call on Governor Roane for military aid--His emphatic Answer--They proceed to Fort Gibson--Call on General Arbuckle to separate them--He refuses--Collins gives up all as lost--His Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Collins, the agent of Watson, left the City of Washington on the tenth of May with full powers to act for the Creek chiefs as well as for his principal; fully provided, also, with orders from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, directing all officers of the United States, in whose custody the Exiles might be, to deliver them to this agent of the slave-dealer. Expecting to find his victims at Fort Pike, he repaired to that place; but on his arrival found they had left for New Orleans some days previously. He forthwith followed them, and reached that city on the twenty-second of June, being one day after Reynolds and his prisoners had left that city for Fort Gibson. Thus it will be seen, that the efforts of General Gaines, and the active vigilance of Major Clarke and Lieutenant Reynolds, had barely succeeded in getting these people under way for their western homes, when the authority for their reënslavement arrived. Vexed and mortified at this disappointment, Collins took passage on the first packet bound up the river, determined to secure the victims of Watson's cupidity wherever he should find them.