Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-05-16

| sion governor Harrison some ,ime since
offered considerable reward, is also busy
| IN stirring up the savageS against ths Unii-
ed States; be is a hall bioed, and receive
ed MS education in England. 5 Jmc bands
| come several hundred miles 10 confer with
him. Belts OF Wampum are passing
I through the villages on aud uear the river
Missouri and Mississippi, and in c., TIERS
exists strong apprehensions ut az inil..edi.
| ate Indian war. The band of Sankies VIVA
visited this place few days ago, stoln
1 eight horses from the settlement on Wood
river, on their return home a party of
| twenty men have gone in pursuit OF them
|-On the Sd of April, 1909, Meriwether
| Lewis, esq. governor OF u pper Louisiana. is.
SUED general orders trom ms head quarters
at 81 Lewis, wherein alter reciting that
Information has been received from sew.
eral sources, too respectable to leave q
doubt OF the fact, that there is a certain
band OF Winnebaggues alias Puants, now re.
siulng on the Limos river, aud detached id
| small parties in several places within that
| -erritory, who together with some disso,ute
bands oil thier ineighboring triDes. have asso-
Grated N :mse'ves for tae pn rpcse OF attack;
J ing ort Belle View on the Mississippi. Sc VA:
! gng war On the northern frontie. Oh the ter
ritores of Louisiana & Indiana" h order.
Ell that two ompanies OF disnaoun,ed Uotun-
teer rif-mcn. CONSISTING Ut seventy, I'm.
GLIDING officers, be immediately enrol led,
organizet; arned and equipped for ser.
, vice, liz the districts of 81. Louis add So.
Chtrle These companies are to be de.
nominated the Log;Sia3ta SafeS TO eugape
| TOR SIX months, uiless sooner ii cha rged.
10 furnish themselves, and to be received
ON the following terms, TO wit: They are
20 engage for SIX months, unl.ss sooner
d schargetl, Sc will furnish hemsev swith
the usual arms and acc0uC iemrn,s Of rife-
men they W!ii serve IS a corps OF militia,
| SUBJECT to the orders at he governor ana
! commander in chief OF the tei ritorv, and
are u perform IN V, which NAV De- bv
him deemed necessary Tor ihe defence or
protection of the frontiers OF Louisiana.
and the adjacent frontier nt indiana. While
IN actual service they will rcce We the
same pay and rttions, which .re allowed
ny law to the regular troops of the United
States, and are 10 be furnished with am.
, mutation al the public expense. Col. Au-
/ guS,e Cnouteau, of ST. Louis, and Coz, Tim.
/ otty K bly, of ST. Charles, are directed TO
dispatch the adjutants OF their respective
regiments To communicate this order to
the several Captains wlthih their districts s.
10 take such other measures as they nav
deem expedient to give II immediate * ex.
tensiVe circulation. Mai VIM. Christv is
appointed 10 command the Louisiana Spies,
stockade works TO be defended by block
! houses are TO be erected and all good eli.
uzenS are Called upon to- be active and
V'Silant M the fuiilment of their duties for
the protection of the frontier, On the
tenth OF April following Governor Lew
! rs issued further general orders. where's
IN ne states thar extreme reluctance
nad oeen manifested y the young men Of
Louisiana to volunteer their services agree
ably to his previous order of the ) j. and
OF st. LOUIS and 5; Charles, who were di.
rected by the general order of the 2Sth
november last to be organized, armed and
equipped, witnin those districts, as their
proportions of the requisit,on made by the
secretary ot war, on the territory of Lon.
ls'tna, as her quota o. one hundred thous-
ana militia, repair to their respective rem.
i"tZV"us those OF the district of St. Lou
! were TO rendezvous at the town of ST.
l. us on the 18Th OF April, and these of the
d'Strlct OF st. Charles at the town of
os. Charles, on the 10th, armed and
equlpp a, as directed Nv the order OF
the 18TH OF Nov. Iast.-Co OILS Chouteau and
h'oDy were 10 cause the o.6er o be punc.
'uaiiy and promptly executed WITHIN tn ir
respective distrlcrs The lieutenant colo.
neis' or commanding osicers of the militia.
"'thih 'heir seyerai districts of the ter,i-
tory, were without loss OF time 70 take SUCH
~ 40 NHSy mlSnI deem eXDeu. eDt.
To cause each company of militia, n their
: respective districts to be divided into six
Classes. When the companies should have
Oeen thus formed into classes, the several
captains or command ng officers thereof
were to cause a roll of the same to be mada
out, expressing the name and class Of each
Individual, and forthwith transmit the same
10 the maJor commanding them, by whom
they we're to be forwarded to the lieuten.
am colonies of the districts, who were to
require the same to be deposited in the
olhces OF regimental sdjutaats. The yolun.
teer companies are exempt from the
foregoing regulationS--Tne first aud second
Classes OF each Company, were to hold them
selves IN readiness to march az y moment.
waning. On the 9th Apr l. 1909. govern
or Lew issued the following pro,lamation
Whereas Information has been given mn
thdt Certain intrud RS are settling and
making improvements at and near Rnger,s
town, or Shawanoe village, ON the river
Merrlmacb, in the discrIt of Vt. Louis. ana
at and near the Cherokee and Delswsr-
towns on the river St. Franc s, in the die.
trict OF New Madrid on ths lands of the
". without any pretence Of right or title
| JOr so Gong: And whereas. discontcrts