Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1805-06-15 00:00:00

Gerald of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 37, of Vol. XIII.]
SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1805.
[Whole No. 661.]
New & seasonable GOODS.
JOHN CROADE,
Takes the earliest opportunity of notifying his Customers and the Public,
THAT he has just received and now opening at his Store, a general Assortment and extensive Variety of
SUMMER GOODS,
of the latest Importations, which he is enabled to sell at a lower Rate than usual.
Among his goods, are
1st and 2d Quality SUPERFINE BROADCLOTHS, of the most fashionable Colors.
Middling & common, Ditto.
Superfine and common CASSIMERES.
Ribb'd and plain Ditto.
MOREENS, JOANS, SHARLOONS, DURANTS & DUROYS—all Colors.
Black & blue, ribbed & plain RUSSELLS.
Black FLORENTINES.
3 1/2 & 4 1/2 black and colored Sarat CAMBRICS for Ladies' Gowns.
3 1/2 & 4 1/2 embossed, Ditto.
3 1/2 & 4 1/2 white glazed & unglazed, do.
Fashionable laced, Ditto.
JACONET, Ditto.
Figured black & white Cambric MUSLIN, for Ditto.
A large Assortment and extensive Variety of the most fashionable and elegant, superfine and common CHINTSES and CALICOES.
CHINTS FURNITURES—a Variety.
Red and white, purple and white, and blue and white COPPERPLATE. Do.
3 1/2 and 4 1/2 Dutch and Irish LINENS.
Brown, Ditto.
BRITANNIAS and PLATILLAS.
3 1/2 to 4 1/2 DIAPERS, for Table CLOTHS, and other Purposes.
Russia SHEETING and DOWLAS.
A great Variety of INDIA COTTONS, from stout SHEETING, to fine SHIRTING, by the Piece or otherwise—unusually low—3 1/2 to 4 1/2, wide.
Black, blue and brown, Ditto.
India blue STRIPES.
Ditto CALICOES.
Cotton and Linen CHECKS.
Cotton, Ditto.
DIMITIES and MUSLINETS a general Assortment.
3 1/2 BOOK MUSSLINS—an Assortment.
Linen CAMBRICS.
Plain and check'd CHAMBRAYS, for Gowns.
Book and Jaconet MUSLIN HANDKERCHIEFS.
ITALIAN SHAWLS. 3 1/2, figured, do.
Silk and Camel Hair SHAWLS.
Black, white and fluted fringed, and figured Cotton CAMBRIC, Ditto.
Needle-wrought and clouded, Do.
A Variety of fashionable colored and black fringed SILK HANDKERCHIEFS.
Blue and red China check'd, Do.
Red, blue and yellow Baudoos, Do.
Mess' Muslin CRAVATS.
A Variety of Linen and Cotton POCKET HANDKERCHIEFS.
Black and white Rutland GAUZES.
3 1/2 black CRAPE.
Plain and crape, black Ditto.
Lace, Ditto.
Black and white MILLINETS.
A Variety of fashionable India, French and Italian black and color'd SILKS for Gowns.
1/2 chop of color'd SATIN for Cloaks.
Black India SATINS, 1/2, & 3/4. Quality.
English and Italian stout plain and ribb'd Do. suitable for Gentlemen's Vests and small Cloaths.
A Variety of fashionable figured SILK VELVETS for Gentlemen's Vests.
Plain and figured MUSLINET, JANE and MARSEILLES, for Ditto.
Black and olive, plain and ribbed twilled VELVETS—a great Choice.
Genoa CORDS, THICKSETS & CORDUROY.
India blue and yellow NANKEENS.
English blue, black and figured, Ditto.
Striped NANKEENS.
Blue and black Silk, Ditto.
Black, blue, olive and mixed Cotton CASSIMERES.
JEANS, FUSTIANS, & WEAVERETS.
Black and colored SATINS for Ladies' Bonnets.
MODES, SARSNETS & PERSIANS.
A great Variety of fashionable RIBBONS, TASTES, EDGINGS and LACES.
Black LACES—an Assortment.
Black and colored GALOONS.
Velvet Collariag, and black and Color'd Silk VELVET for Caps.
Scotch THREADS. Color'd Ditto.
TAPES and BOBBINS.
SILK, TWIST, and BUTTONS.
QUALITY & SHOE BINDINGS—all Colors.
Ladies' black & color'd extra long French and English Silk GLOVES—a great Choice.
Black and color'd Cotton MITTS and GLOVES.
Long Kid Ditto.
Silk and Cotton BRACES.
Glove TITES.
Gentlemen's black, white and color'd Silk and Cotton GLOVES.
Common and best Beaver, Ditto.
Kid and Morocco SLIPPERS.
Black FLORENTINE, Ditto.
SILK, SILK and COTTON, plain and ribbed black, white and colored COTTON HOSE.
Vandyke and Hemp, Ditto.
Ladies' black and white Cotton Ditto, with Clocks.
A Variety of Ivory, Bone and other Wood-Stick FANS.
India fan, and common size Ditto.
OIL CLOTHS, &c. &c.
English and Dutch LOOKING-GLASSES, a handsome Assortment.
A few Articles in the STATIONARY Line, such as Quarto and Common Bibles, Testaments, Rippon's Hymns, Watt's Psalms and Hymns, Spelling Books, Alden's 1st and 2d Vols. and Reading Books, Preceptors, Geographies, Dictionaries, Arithmetics, Blant's Practical Navigators, Moor's Daily Assistant, Rumsford's Essays, Writing-Paper, Red and Black Morocco Pocket-Books, Walkden's Ink Powder, Ink Stands, Sand-Boxes, Dutch Quills, Slates, &c. &c.
HARD-WARE; among which are, Shovels, Flat Irons, Warming-Pans, Shovels and Tongs, Knives and Forks, Pen and Jack Knives, Nail and Shoe Hammers, Candlesticks, Desk and Draw Trimmings, Door, Chest, Cupboard, Stock, and Trunk Locks, single and double warded pad Ditto, Coffee Mills, Hinges, Door & Table Batts, Saws, Files, Chisels, Plane-Irons, Table and Tea Spoons, Block-Tin Tea-Pots, House, Hearth, Clothes and Shoe Brushes, Washers, Snuffers and Snuffer Trays.
An Assortment of Nails & Brads.—German, Heart and Club, Crowly and Halback, English and Philadelphia Steel, &c.
London PEWTER.
Platters, Plates, Basons, Porringers, Piat and Quart-Pots.
An Assortment of TIN-WARE.
Boston and New-York SNUFF per Bladder.
West-India GOODS, and CROSERIES, among which are—West-India Rum, French Brandy, Holland Gin, Sherry, Malaga, and Port Wines, Mylton, Souchong and Bohea, Teas, Loaf and Brown Sugars, Molasses, Flour, Rice, Raisins, Pimento, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs, Ginger, Coffee, Bar-Soap, &c. &c. &c.
Leather and Hair TRUNKS.
Warren, May 18, 1805.
Legislature of Massachusetts.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1805.
The following gentlemen, appointed Counsellors, viz. Hon. NATHAN CUSHING, STEPHEN BULLOCK, SAMUEL DEXTER, jun. HENRY KNOX, DAVID COBB, and BENJAMIN PICKMAN, jun. Esqrs. were qualified agreeably to the Constitution.
Governor's Speech.
Agreeably to assignment, at twelve o'clock—the two houses met in Convention, when His Excellency the Governor, preceded by the Sheriff of Suffolk, and attended by the Lieutenant-Governor, and Council, came in, and delivered the following
SPEECH:—
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives.
I EMBRACE with pleasure the opportunity of congratulating you on the return of the anniversary, established by our Constitution, and the proof which your fellow-citizens have given you of their confidence. Accept the assurances of my regard with sentiments correspondent to those by which they are dictated.
Our obligations to the public are expressed in the oaths we have taken to support the Constitution of the United States, and to defend this Commonwealth, and faithfully and impartially to perform the duties of our respective offices. It is incumbent on us, therefore, on all occasions, to support the constitutional measures of the General Government; in this our interest and duty coincide; for if that government is not well established; if it has not energy sufficient to suppress insurrections at home, and resist invasion from abroad, our security will be lost in perpetual revolutions, and we shall be at the mercy of every lawless invader.
But as the National Constitution defines and guarantees the rights, as well of the States as of the citizens, it is the duty of the State Governments to watch over those rights, and if they should be infringed, to make such representations as would tend to procure redress; thus it is probable a remedy may be obtained for any evils of this kind to which a State or part of its citizens may be exposed, in a manner perfectly consistent with public order and tranquility.
A disposition to censure and criminate the measures of government is extremely prejudicial;—if they are good in themselves, we ought not to ascribe them to improper motives; and if doubtful, candor should incline us to view them in the most favorable light.
But it was not the design of the Constitution that the Legislatures of the several States should become blindly subservient to the will of the General Government; this would be to lose the whole benefit of the federative principle, and would subject us to all the mischiefs of a complete consolidation of the States: Indeed such a construction might soon destroy the most essential articles of the Constitution;—for if an aspiring man should gain a controuling influence in the National Legislature, and should find that some parts of that instrument obstructed his views, he would propose, and be sure to effect such alterations as he should term necessary.
The system of National Government appears to be well calculated to preserve itself and perpetrate the rights of the People. The arrangement and independence of the Legislative, Judicial and Executive powers, form the best security that could be devised against the encroachments of either; and as long as the Constitution is unimpaired, and the legislative body, is actuated by a spirit of integrity and moderation;—as long as it shall leave to the Executive and Judicial Departments the authority vested in them respectively by the Constitution, and shall patiently acquiesce in the exercise of that authority; so long we may hope that the National Government and the rights of the citizens will be preserved.
But the experience of other nations will convince us, that whenever the Legislature assumes to itself the other powers of government, liberty is subverted. This assumption can be more easily effected by that body, if unrestrained by principle, than by either of the other branches: The Legislature is the supreme power;—the members are from every part of the territory; their number and influence will enable them, on frequent occasions, to excite popular envy and resentment against the Executive and Judicial powers; almost every man from a connection with some member of the the Legislature, feels a peculiar interest in that branch of Government, and a strong prejudice in its favor. But instead of being influenced by these prepossessions, we ought to reflect, that in free States a change in the frame of Government is attended with hazard, and that our only safety consists in a firm and inflexible adherence to the principles of the Constitution.
The Declaration of Rights in this State prohibits an interference of the several departments; it provides that neither of them shall ever exercise the powers of the other. And here too an efficient authority is requisite for the protection and safety of the people;—for if the State Government has not strength enough to restrain injustice and violence, or to punish offenders, our liberty will degenerate to licentiousness, and we shall fall into a state
of anarchy not less debasing than a settled and absolute despotism.
In civil causes, the sheriff or constable is supposed to be authorized, by writs of attachment or execution; to take the goods of the debtor without any exception. The humanity of creditors has, for the most part, prevented an undue use of this authority, in collecting their demands from their indigent debtors; but I am informed by a number of respectable persons, that instances have frequently occurred, in which officers, with unfeeling severity, have taken the most necessary articles of apparel and furniture, and exposed the debtor and his family to immediate suffering. If such cases have happened within your knowledge, you will probably think it reasonable to exempt from seizure certain articles which are necessary for upholding life.
COMMISSIONERS have, on several occasions been appointed, at the request of the Legislature, and with the consent of the parties interested, for the purpose of quieting settlers on lands in the Eastern parts of the State; in most of the cases to which their commissions referred, they have been able to effect an amicable agreement; but divers disputes of this kind still remain unsettled. The tranquillity of that part of the Commonwealth, and the happiness of many individuals, would be greatly promoted by a speedy accommodation of those disputes; and I shall be happy to concur with you, Gentlemen, in any measures, consistent with the rights of the parties, which shall be calculated to effect this desirable object.
THE operations of banking, while under suitable restraints, may undoubtedly be useful to the State, by rendering its capital more active than it would be otherwise. Petitions, have for several years been presented, at almost every session of the Legislature, for the incorporation of Banks. If such applications are repeated, it will be a question of importance, whether an addition to the present number would be a public benefit. Many of the bills of other State Banks, with whose circumstances and management we are wholly unacquainted, circulate here; and the capital stock of the Branch Bank is seven hundred thousand dollars. We have besides in this State, twenty-one banks, which are allowed by law to issue thirteen million dollars; by their last returns it appears, that the whole of the debts due to them did not amount to eight millions. If the existing Banks are authorized to loan a greater sum than the circulation can employ; the aggregate profits of banking would not be increased, nor would any additional assistance be given to trade should a number of other banks be instituted; they might indeed emit an additional quantity of paper; but the surplus would soon be returned to the several Banks, and exchanged for gold and silver to be exported. New-Banks would not increase the quantity of specie, they would only cause a subdivision of it; and if they should be induced, from the desire of gain, or a disposition to afford extraordinary accommodations, to discount too liberally, the Banks themselves would be endangered, and the directors might be compelled to diminish their discounts so as to occasion very serious and extensive commercial embarrassments.
It has been said, heretofore, that the Bank dividends were higher than the legal rate of interest, and, therefore, unless petitioners were indulged with new incorporations, the law which forbids usury should be repealed. A measure of this kind might be more

injurious than any proposed addition to the number of Banks. If money was borrowed only on a calculation of profit from commercial enterprises, the borrower might be safely trusted to make his bargain with the lender; but a great part of the loans in the country are to persons embarrassed upon misfortune or indiscretion; by a repeal of the law against usury they would be left to the mercy of their creditors, and avarice would prey without controul upon ignorance and distress.
I HAVE received a letter from the Governor of Pennsylvania, inclosing a copy of a Resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of that Commonwealth, approving an amendment to the Constitution, which was recommended by the State of Kentucky, and by which it is proposed to exclude from the Judicial Power of the United States, controversies between citizens of different States—between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants from different States—and between citizens of a State and citizens or subjects of a foreign State.
TOGETHER with those papers, the Secretary will deliver to you a letter from the Major-General of the Third Division, requesting that he might be discharged from his office in the militia.—His request has been granted.
IN the present state of political disagreement, you can hardly expect, by the most upright and impartial discharge of your duty, to escape censure. But whatever reflections may be circulated upon the measures of Government, or the conduct of its members, I hope and trust, they will have no effect to weaken your attachment to the public good, or abate your zeal to promote the public interest. In many cases, you may be compelled from a sense of duty to disappoint the wishes of your friends, and in some, perhaps, to expose yourselves to the temporary displeasure of a respectable part of the community. But if the measures you adopt are just and useful, they will at length appear to be so; and you will then receive the best compensation for public service, the testimony of your fellow-citizens to your merit and virtue.
CALEB STRONG.
June 7, 1805.
TUESDAY, JUNE 11.
Yesterday the respective Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives of this Commonwealth, waited on His Excellency the Governor, and presented the following Answers to His Excellency's Speech delivered to the Legislature on Friday last.
ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,
THE return of the anniversary established by the Constitution, affords to the Senate peculiar gratification, as it is accompanied by a new proof of the wisdom and discernment of their fellow citizens in again placing your Excellency at the head of the government.—The uniform display of integrity, intelligence and patriotism, hitherto exhibited by your Excellency, has acquired, and we believe will long preserve, the esteem and confidence of every enlightened and virtuous citizen.
OUR firm persuasion of the excellence and importance of the Constitution of the United States, as well as the sacred obligations resulting from our oaths, will induce us, on all occasions, to support those measures of the General Government, which comport with the provisions of that valuable Instrument. At the same time we feel it to be our duty to watch over and defend all the rights of the State and of its citizens, as defined and guaranteed by the National Constitution.
WE have never conceived that it was intended the legislatures of the several States should become blindly subservient to the will of the General Government. Effects the most pernicious and destructive would be produced by a doctrine so absurd and unfounded. Should such an opinion be generally adopted, one of the strongest barriers against the designs of aspiring, unprincipled men would be destroyed.
THE arrangement and independence of the Legislative, Judicial and
Executive powers, as provided for in the Constitution, is undoubtedly the duty and interest of every citizen to support and defend. By the National System of Government political power is so wisely distributed, as to afford the best security, against the designs of the crafty and ambitious, and the great hazard arising from the levity and versatile humour of the ignorant and inexperienced. As long, therefore, as the several branches of the Government shall continue to be the firm guarantees of each others rightful and legitimate authority, so long they will preserve and render stable our Confederation. But if either of those powers are disposed or enabled to usurp and exercise the authority vested in the others, a speedy destruction of the Government must inevitably ensue. We agree with your Excellency that the assumption of unconstitutional power, can be more easily effected by the legislative than by either of the other branches of the Government. The first efforts, therefore, made by any inconsiderate or depraved member of the popular branch to encroach upon the privileges, secured to either of the other powers, must excite an high degree of indignation, and should call forth the most diligent exertions to avert the mischief, which such attempts are calculated to produce.
SEVERAL important subjects for legislation, have been suggested by your Excellency. They claim and will receive our serious consideration.
THE resolution received from Pennsylvania, approving an amendment to the Constitution of the United States recommended by the State of Kentucky, however doubtful we may be of its expediency , will receive that respectful and deliberate attention to which every communication from a Sister State is entitled.
CENSURE from political opponents we are fully sensible, cannot be prevented by the most upright and impartial conduct. But this apprehension we believe will not abate our zeal to promote the public welfare. More fortitude will be required to support us under the displeasure of our friends, if compelled by a sense of duty to disappoint their expectations. Should the measures we adopt, be just, we trust esteem may still be retained, but if their attachment should be forfeited, an approving conscience will afford to us ample and unfeigned consolation.
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,
THE House of Representatives, with pleasure, offer their congratulations to your Excellency, upon this anniversary, established by the Constitution, and upon the additional proof which your fellow citizens have given you of their high confidence, in again electing you to the office of Chief Magistrate of this Commonwealth.
To support the Constitution of the United States, to defend this Commonwealth, and faithfully and impartially to perform the duties of our respective officers, are obligations so important, as to be deemed by us, at all times, indispensable. We consider it an incumbent duty to support the constitutional measures of the general government. Without an energetic government, careful and prompt to attend to our best interests, the attempt to suppress domestic insurrections, or duly to oppose foreign aggressions, would be altogether futile, and in the end security would be lost, and revolutions succeeded destructive to our peace and happiness, and we should be exposed to the mercy of every lawless invader. As a spirit of insubordination, is the usual harbinger of tyranny, an energetic government alone, under divine Providence can shield us from such a calamity.
WE view with greatest solicitude our federal compact. These sages from whose labours it sprang, those who adopted and made it the bond of our union and security, and those who moulded and fashioned the government, which has produced to us the greatest national prosperity, must ever be dear to the citizens of Massachusetts. We concur with your Excellency that it is the duty of the State
Governments to watch over the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution; it is especially their duty to guard with jealous vigilance, the preservation of the union, upon just and equal principles; and to repel every measure calculated to consolidate the States, under the dominion of a single State. The mutilation of the Constitution must be followed by its destruction—its destruction by the establishment of despotic power upon the ruins of our honour and freedom. We cannot, therefore, but consider the recent proposals made in the House of Representatives of the United States, to make the Judiciary dependent on the will of the Executive, and to annihilate the utility of the Senate, as subjects of serious alarm. If such influence can be obtained in the National Councils by aspiring men, as to enable them to change this sacred instrument at their pleasure, if alterations should be the result of systematic efforts to destroy, our country is destined to behold the end of Republican Government;—it is destined to prove that men are incapable of governing themselves, and that Rational Liberty can durably exist only in name.
IN the melancholy history of the ruin of Republics, we may find impressive lessons, applicable to our own country. We are fully sensible, that the experience of ages teaches that Liberty has been destroyed by the assumption of power obtained in the most numerous branch of the Government. The encroachment therefore of the Legislative, upon the other branches, is the first and strongest indication of the dissolution of Republican Systems.
THE communication from the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, coming from so respectable a quarter, demands serious considerations. Yet we cannot but sincerely regret, the existence of motives, productive of the resolution to which your Excellency alludes.
THE several objects of Legislation, recommended by your Excellency, shall receive our most prompt and careful investigation, and while we return you our grateful thanks for the general information communicated in your address, we assure your Excellency we shall most readily co-operate with you in the adoption of such measures as may be deemed conducive to the public welfare.
THE present state of political disagreement; will not prevent the most impartial discharge of our relative duties. Censure and calumny, too often usurp the place of praise and commendation; but a conviction of having fully discharged our duty, will ever afford a sufficient consolation for the injuries they occasion. In the short period of time which has elapsed since the establishment of our independence, we have witnessed many and rapid changes of political sentiment as to men and measures. Such instability would be regarded as unfriendly to the preservation of freedom, if we had not uniformly found that good sense and just conceptions finally gain their due ascendancy.—Relying on this feature in the character of our fellow citizens, we feel the most unchangeable assurance that we shall retain and transmit to our posterity, the political felicity by which our country is distinguished.
Foreign Intelligence.
SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH 22.
ADMIRAL Gravina is to hoist his flag without delay on board the numerous squadrons equipped under his direction at Cadiz. This squadron will soon sail, in order to relieve the port of Ferrol from the blockade, and form a junction with the force in that harbor. In case of such a junction, the two squadrons will form a respectable fleet, competent to undertake some important enterprise. Gun boats, bomb-brigs, and other vessels of that description are preparing with more activity than ever in the bay of Algiers.
PORTUGAL. LISBON, MAY 2. "Since our last of the 16th ult. we have had the arrival of several more
cargoes of wheat from France and some from America, the greater part of which would probably have been re-exported to Spain in our small coasters; but this trade for a moment is checked by the appearance of an Algerine squadron, who have made some captures near Cape St. Vincents; a Portuguese squadron is fitting out to oppose them. In the interior, sales for exportation are suspended, and for the consumption of the country they are not now so brisk as they have been.
"The appearance of our harvest is very favorable, and should it continue so, prices will be no doubt lower during the summer—which we think it our duty to communicate to you, and hope the information may be useful.—Flour 20 dollars 50 cents.
FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 21. On the 16th, at seven o'clock in the morning, their Imperial Majesties departed from Lyons, amidst an immense crowd, who rent the air with the cry of "Long live the Emperor! Long live the Empress!" On the same evening they arrived at Chambery, where they had been so long expected by the inhabitants.
ENGLAND. LONDON, APRIL 12. Letters from Vienna of the 16th inst. mention that the plague has made great ravages at Constantinople; and that the insurrection in Servia creates the most lively apprehensions on the part of the Porte. Belgrade is closely blockaded by the Servians; and their chief Czerney George, has given orders to murder every Turkish inhabitant that attempts to make his escape.
MAY 1. We are at length enabled to lay before our readers authentic information respecting the French fleet which escaped from Toulon. It consisted, as we before stated, of 11 sail of the line, 7 frigates and 2 corvettes; they passed the Straights of Gibraltar on the 9th ult. and immediately bore up for Cadiz, before which Sir John Orde was cruising. When Sir John first received intelligence of their approach his squadron was busy in overhauling their rigging, and had their top-masts struck, and their yards down to have it all new set; but such was the dispatch used to put the squadron in a state to meet the enemy, that in four hours it was in perfect order. The French Admiral did not, however, think it advisable to attack Sir John, notwithstanding his great superiority of force, for the British Squadron only consisted of six sail of the line and two frigates, and had also the disadvantage of being encumbered with transports. The French fleet stood directly into Cadiz, where it remained when the last dispatches were sent off. It will be seen by our Plymouth letter, that the Sirius frigate, Capt. Prowse, which had arrived at that port from Sir John Orde brought intelligence of Lord Nelson having passed the Straights in pursuit of the French fleet, and of his having arrived before Cadiz. Although we have no authority to confirm this report, yet we think it very probable; there can be little doubt but Lord Nelson was very soon informed of the sailing of the French fleet and we have very strong reason to believe that they had not above two or three days start of him. If it be true that Lord Nelson has arrived before Cadiz, and that the blockade of that port has been renewed by the united British Squadrons, the enemy will be placed in a most distressing situation; for the scarcity of provisions, particularly bread, has been very great at Cadiz, and the arrival of so large a fleet, with a numerous body of troops on board, will of course greatly increase the calamity.
Domestic Occurrences.
OHIO. MARIETTA, MAY 17. Extract of a letter from a gentleman of respectability residing at Kaskaskias, to his correspondent in this place—dated April 7th.
THE Osages are likely to be cut up root and branch, by a confederacy of almost all the Indian nations of the West; already blood has been spilt, and large bodies of men are in motion to attack their country. Mr. Van-