Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1812-04-24
ST. LOUIS, (U. ID March 81.
INDIAN MURDERS. &c.


INDIAN MURDERS, &c.
Since Christmas last, the follo wing MUIR
ders have been committed by the indians
IN this country : tuUo persons near the mines
on the Mississippi, nine in the district Of
st. Charles, within the settlements, sup.
posed to be killed by the Kickapoos, one
man at Fort Madison, on the I'D instant,
by the Winebagoes. There we're several
men who left Fort Madison for this part Of
the territory about the 18th inst. who are
supposed to have fallen into the hands of
the enemy, as they have not been heard
of.
Main Poe, the Potsowatimie, is prepsr-
ing a war party to proceed against the Osa.
ges this fellow has been until lately at
Fort Maiden, and it is thought at the Peo-
rias, that he intends to strike at the whites
We received a few days ago, some &C.
count of Governor Harrison's treating with
some of the chiefs, who were in the late ac-
ton On the Wabash. This news may be
correct ; but we know from the most au-
the ntie channels, that those are ONLY squads
OF bands. who either are amusing Gov.
Harrison, to avert a merited retaliation, or
wish to secure their individual families
from an expected attack this spring. The
officers of the %garrisens of Chickago and
Fort Madison, Uaited States agents on
the Mississippi, and Illinois traders, ira.
~vellers 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 vlllsges,
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 a general combination
is ripening fast. We should be sorry tina,
Gov. Harrison should be the dupe of few
%rascals, or that he should call our frontier
people to a fatal security, by giving them a
sopofihc from Vincennes. We know that
We have a better opportunity of acquiring a
knowledge of Indian movements than can
possibly be attained on the Wabash, and
therefore will sound the alarm when danger
is apprehended.
1t is a well known fact, that most, If not
all the Indians east of the Mississippi, have
divided into smaller bands ; some are for
peace, while a band of the same nation are
determined on wal with the United States !;
thus, one party of each of the Pot,owati.
mics, K~ickapoos, Puanss, Sc. are treating
with Gov. Harrison--the others are butch.
ering our frontier people ; yet the pacific
party will NOT scruple to engage for the
whole nation, whom they know it is i'm.
possible to restrain as long as there is a
British subject suffered to trade within the
lines OF our territories, or receive presents
at Maiden.
10 conse quence of various and ground.
less rumors Ut the disafection of the Lou.
isiana .Delawares and Shawanees, their
chiefs lately addressed a letter to Gen.
Clarke, expressive OF the most acute NOR.
tihcation, in that their fidelity could be
doubted, and demanding that subject
should be brought before coort, in order
to confront and punish their calumniators.
We are sorry that the idle, the picjous aud
the taikafiue could not find some other to-
pic to indulge their genius.
The new company of rangers, now do.
ing duty in the district of Saint Charles,
are, perhaps, as fine a body ofhardy woods,
men as ever took the field /; they cover, by
constant and rapid movements, that tract
of country from Salt River, on the Missis.
sippi, to the Missouri, near Loutre.
The Cherokses, who we're exploring