Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-04-17
ST. LOUIS, (U. IL March q.
INDIAN MURDERS, &c.

COuDtrYs EWo pSESoio ticesA Liz iiiiea w ~
Mississippi, nine in the district OF ST Charles,
within the settlements, supposed to be Killed
by the Kickapoos, ore man at Fort Madison,
on the Sd instant, by the Winebagoes there
were several men who LETT Fort Madison Tor
this part of the territory about the 18th inst.
whe are supposed to have fallen into the hands
Of the enemy, as they have not been heard,
Of
Main Poe, the Pottowatimie, is preparing
war party to proceed against the Osages
this fellow has been until lately at Fort NAL
den, and it is thought at the Peorlas, that he
intends to strike at the whites.
| We received few days ago, some account
of Governor Harrison's treating with some OF
/ the chiefs, who were in the late action on the
| Wabash. This news may be correct; but we
know from the most authentic channels, that
/ those are only squads of bands, who either are
/ amusing Gov Harrison, to avert a merlted
retaliation, or wish to secure their individual
| families from an expected attack this spring.
The officers of the garrisons of Chickago and
| Fort Madison, United States agents on the
Mississippi, and Illinois traders, travellers and
spies. all concur in the same story, that the
| Indians have no idea of making peace with us;
that red wampum is passing through all the
upper villages, from the Sioux of St. Peters,
to the head of the Wabash that at every
council fire, the Americans are devoted and
prescribed; and, in short, that general COM
bination is ripening fast. We should be sor-
1 ry that Gov. Harrison should be the dupe OF
few rascals, or that he should call our IRON
| tier people to fatal security, by giving them
a soporfic from Vincennes. We know that
we have better opportunity of acquiring
| knowledge of Indian movements than Car
possibly be attained on the Wabash, & there,
| fore will sound the alarm when danger is APP
pretended.
It is a we'll known fact, that most, IT not all
| the Indians east of the Mississippi, have di-
| vided into smaller bands some are for peace,
| while band of the same nation are determin-
ed on war with the United States thus, one
party Of each of the Pattowatomies, Kickapoos,
puants, SIC. are treating with Gov. Harrison
the others are butehering our frontier peo-
| pie; yet the pacific party will not scruple to
| engage for the whole nation, whom they know
it is impossible to restrain as long as there is
British subject suffered to trade within the
lines of our territories, or receive presents at
Maiden.
In consequence of various and groundless
rumors of the disatfection OF the Louisiana
Delawares and Shawanoes, their chiefs late
addressed letter to Gen Clarke, expressive
of the most acute modification, in that their
fidelity could be doubted, and demanding that
subject should be brought before court, in or
der to confront and punish their calumnlators.
We are sorry that the idle, the Uicious and the
talkative could not find some other topic to
indulge their genius.
The new company Of rangers. now doing
duty in the district of Saint Charles, are, per-
haps, as fine body of hardy woodsmen as
ever took the field they cover, by constant
and rapid movements, that tract of country
from Salt River on the Mississippi, to the
Missouri, near Loutre
The Cherokees, who were exploring that
tract of country between the Arkansas and
White river, have returned home, terrified by
the repeated & violent shocks of earthquakes.
We understand they intended to exchange
with the United States, their country on the
east of the Mississippi, for like quantity on
the Arkansas.
The tremendous effects Of Earthquake in
this territory has revived, an almost obsolete
Indian rite, in the mode of imploring the Del
ty, and to avert the Divine displeasure-
Temples are erecting in the Indian villages,
to make offerings to the Great Shirt. The
Shawanees of the Maramec, 40 miles from
this place have finished their religious deyo-
tons. The following authentic account of it
may be interesting to our readers.
The Indian mode of worship. as happened
in consequence of the late earthquake.
This alarming phenomenon of nature struck
with such CONSERVATION and dismay those
tribes of Indians that live within and eontigu-
Gus to that tract of country, on the Mississip-
pi where the severity of the earthquake APP
pears to have been greatest, that they were
inducedto convene together inorderto consult
upon the necessity ofhaying recourse to some