The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-01-16

DOMESTIC.
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
/ AT an clcct,on OF Officers for the American Pho
| sophcai Society, hehi at their Hail. Sd .ianuar,
lSl2-Fhe following officers were duly elected
! fresdcnt--lhom.s Jefferson.
! Vice Presidents-Caspar Wistar, nj. S. Barton,
Robert Patterson. So
! Secretarics--lhoma c. James, Thomas T. Hcw
son, Nathan Chapman, Joseph Cloud.
Counseiiors for three sears--liev Nicholas Collin
Benjamin Rush., William Thghman, Andrew Eli
colt.
Curators--John r, Smith, Zaccheus Collins, Rob,
| Hare.
Treasurer-John Vaughn.
| Within these two weeks past there has
been very heavy fall OF snow and severe
gale Of wind in the northern states, and on
asters at sea, of which we have heard, arc
very numerous. No less than thirty six YES
sells Wee seen ashore on Lang Island in one
day. We have heard of several persons
frozen to death m the storm !; some by the
mere agency of cold, and others by losing
their way inthe snow. In Connecticut, we
learn, the SNOW has been Very deep, and we
have heard CT whole droves of cattle and
f1ocks of sheep overwhelmed inthe drafting
snow, or frozen to death as they stood in the
fields Mar. mr.
FRANKFORT, (K.) Dec. 90.
Cohy Of a letter from Coz. Harrison, 1.
Coz. Scott-Communicated for hubGea-
lion.
VINcENNEs, Dec. 18th, 1911.
MY DEAR SIR,
/ had the pleasurclto receive your
-avor of the 9th ult by the mali OF Wednes-
day last and beg you to accept my sincere
thanks, for the friendly sentiments it cor
Gains.
You wish me to give you some account 81
the late acton, that you "iay be the better
enabled to do me justice, against the caviis
of ignorance and presumptbn." I would do
this with great pie sure, but the Lcgis,a-
cure OF this Territory being about to cios..
its session, and having an Unusual press %
business,i am unable to give such an account
as would be satsfactory-ihere is however
the less need OF this as my Official account to
the government, will probably reach ven
nearly as soon as this letter 1t appears IN
me from some of the hints contained in some
of your newspapers, that the charge of error,
in the planning or the execution of the late
expedition, has been more particularly aim
ed at the President, than myself. most sin
cerciy thank these gentlemen, for placing
me IN such good company: and it is hardly
necessary to inform you that the charge a
gainst the administration, is rs unfounded in
this instance as in all the ethers, which have
flowed from the same soufce.-Ihe orders
OF the government with regard to the eXpe-
dition, eyinces as much wisdom as humanity
1t was determined to protect its citizens, but
If ,aoac,i,la fb.
blood--Ihis last Object was prevented /; but
by whom! Why, ii great measure by
those very persons who are now complaining
because battle could not be won without
loss-At least in this Territory, the clamor
is confined to those yho opposed the eXpe-
tiition, to the utmost G their power, and by
whose eXertions in circulating every false
hood that malice an6 viliany could invent,
the militia were prevented from turning out
and instead OF forceof from IL to 1900 men
which expected to lave had, was obliged
to march from Fort Harrison, with less than
500; my personal eremies have united with
the British agents in representing that the
expedition was entirey useless, and the Pro-
phet as one OF the bet and most pacific ef
mortals, perfect Shaker in principle, who
shuddered at thoughts of spiliing blood. f.
very one OF ms aggressiOns upon us, was de-
MED or palliated andexcused with as much
eagerness as is the conduct of G.. b. by this
same description of people in the Atlantic
states. a party sentby the Prophet fired
upon and wounded one of our centinelsupon
our own ground--the fact was at first boldly
denied 4" the man vas shot by one of our
own people" & believe it was even asser-
ted that he sh OF himself When the whole
circumstance was brought to light, these in
defatigable gentry, shifted their ground, and
asserted, that the poor Indian fred n his
own defence, and that he was merely graft
flying an innocent curiosity, in creeping up
TO sec what was going on in our camp, and
that if he had not shot the sentry, the sentry
would haze shot him."
] regret exceedingly that the friends Of
Col. Davies, should think it necessary to his
fame, to suppose a difference OF opinion be-
tween hlm and myself, which never existed
that had sighted advice from aim which
was never given, and that to give coiour to
this they had listened to stories with regard
70 the operations of the army, that were alb
solutcly without foundation. If the utmost
cordially and friendship, did not exist be-
tween the Colonel and myself from the time
of his joining the army, until his death, /
have been very much deceived; flour mill
tary opinions were not almost alwavs in uni
sop, those which he expressed land no man
who knew him VIII accuse him Of hyDocri-
sy,) were not bis own the colone.'s mess-
mates, Maj. &. r. G. Floyd & capt. Peat,
are well acquainted with the entire conf
dcncc which subsistcd between ms they arc
acquainted with circumstances which indis-