Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1818-10-14

We do not know that we can better
occupy our editorial head, than byl
to our readers the follow
ing articies. the one exhibiting in al
most interesting light the vastness oil
the yet unexplored regions Of the wes-
terra world, aud the other the richness
of the fund which the U. States pos
sess in their millions OF acres OF I'M
appropriated territory.
Nat. Int.
EXPEDITION TO THE YELLOW
STONE.
st. Louis. September j..
On Sunday the 50th inst. battai
lion of the rifle regiment, 500 strong,
embarked at Belle Foniaine to ascend
the missouri river to the mouth Of the
Yelio1c Stone. The expedition is com
nanded by Lieut.. Col. Taihot.Cham
bers. The captains Martin, Nsagee
and Riley the lIeutenants Shade,
Clark, kavenaugii, Fields. and Fran
cis Saith, go out With their respective
accompanies. Ii is intended that the
expcdiiiop shall eHoausp during the
winter at the mouth of the Kansas /;
and, continuing its voyage in the
spring, shall reach its point Of desti-
nation in the course Of next Summer,
The Teiiozo Stone enters the Mis-
souri, in latituhe rs degrees north b,
10 longitude Il degrees west from
Washington city. The intended post
will be al lis mouth. The U. States
Twill then have a military establish
Iment one thousand eight hundred
In,iies west Of Line Mississippi. and
nearly one hundred miles furthes
north than the city Of Q,ebec. The
lotGcers carry with them the seeds
|anG grains which are expected to
Thrive IN that eliuaie. that the post
ln.ay have within ITSELF some resource
against the failure OF contractors.
"icat, rye, barley. oats, are cxper tc,
10 do we'll there. They attain perEec
iLiGn even at the ear of 5elkirk's es
Establishment on lake .aSstniboin, ti,re'
ldcgrees turt,er north. The mandai
ls:0ru will find itself ia its own climat,
Iat the meu,.l Of thu yellow St0ne. Il
fact all TAG ggaias. plants and sege;;s
bies ~liielt flourish at &uebec or .hess
: reai may be expected 80 be raiset
ltbcre, as The climate in that interior
IrtgsaD al the North Aneriran eontih
Exeni is &aown TO be near ten degree
'tai!dcr than in tic same parable! OF
ie Atlantic coast.
! Our follow citixen, yNanuel Lisa
ST. we'll knows Ear l,is cuscr,wix", vii
I;,ocede sle expedition. to prepa,
EiAe Indians tar is reception. lie vi.
Ipaiet their approximations Ivy shcu;N
i,i!e benevolent aud i,uuane istention
'Iof the American government ant
Twill siiencn tie ,sritisi, e,nissavies wi,
shah represent the expedition as Al
act OF var against the Indian nation.
/ Tllc establishments of this posi- vii
, be an era in the history III The west
If will go tn-he sourre and roo, o
1.-The fatal British, iufluence which TIA
\! Tor so tRaBy years armed the India,
! laations against our western fr0htiers
tt carries the arms and power of tn
/, United States to the ground wiici
Ibas heretofore been exclusively eccu
Ipiesl by the British NORTH West an.
Hudsoa''s Bay companies, and whic!
has been the Irue seat OF she Britisi
power liver the Indian mind. Nov
the american arms aud the America,
Peiiey will be displayed apon the sau
thcatre. The North West and Hud
sons Bay companies will be shat GU
from the coa,meree oil the Missouri
land Mississippi Indians; the Ameri
lean traders will penetrate in xalet
Ithe recesses Of the rocky mountain
lin search OF its rich Gur a conlunerc
lyiei,ilng IA miIiion per annum will dc
scend the Missouri and the Indian
finding their wants supplied by Amer
ican traders, their domestic war
Irestraiued by Anerican policy, wi
|lparn TO Fespeet the American nams
The name of the yellow stone riut
Twill hereafter be familiar to the Amer
lean car. That stream Of its magnitut
! shoHid heretofore have been sn iitt