Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-24


past, that the late freshet has been very des-
tructive; that nearly all the houses, boats, and
other property belonging to them, have been
washed away, and the men, in many instances,
barely escaped with their lives. Bali. Gdz.
"At.the Mandan villages, the water rose Sc
venteen feet, perpendicularly, in few hours,
and at the Arrickara towns, fifteen feet in two
hours, only. Such was its rapidity, that every
thing on the low banks was either swept away
or entirely inundated.
GA band of the Sioux were encamped some
distance from he Arrickaras, when the waters
suddenly coming upon them, between sixty and
seventy of their number, men, women and chill
dren, persisted in Its bosom. The scene, as
described to US, was truly appalling: some Of
the suffers were seen, in the attempt TO swim,
dashed down by the resistless current, and
crushed to death among the drifting ice and
timber Others hung 10 the branches OF trees,
until they became benumbed with the cold, gra-
dualy slackehed their grasp, and were borne
down the stream---Severai Of the men succeed
ed in climbing trees, where they remained
considerable time in hopes of rescue-:but their
inevitable fate was only for short time pro-
tracted. A sudden change IN the atmosphere,
accompanied by heavy sleet, deprived them
Of all feeling, and they dropped senseless into
the water below.
"Jhe rise is attributed to the melting Of the
snow and ice al the heads Of the Yellow Stone
and Chayenne Rivers. These streams flow
from the south, and are generally the first in
the spring to pay their annual tribute TO the
Missouri. AT the commencement of the pre-
sent freshet, the ice had not broken up in the
Missouri, nor for many miles up the other riv-
ers; but, as the water rose, it forced its way
down, bearing every thing before it, and break
ing loose, with tremendous crashing, the thick
ribbed ice of the Missouri.
GA great many packs of Buffalo Robes were
lost by the different traders, and some Of these
enterprising men, we are sorry to say, have lost
every thing they possessed"
We learn from the Arkansas Gazette Of May
23d; that, of a party Of ten or twelve, that were
engaged in catching wild horses, on The Foe
Washita, a branch ofthe Red River FIVE were
killed by party of Indians, believed to be Pau
nees.
Some difficulties have arisen between the
Cherokees and Osages in Arkansas. A council
has been held at Cantonment Gibson, where the
Cherokees demanded of the Osages satisfaction
for the murder of some of their people, and res
titution for several horses which had been sIo-
len by the latter nation. The council broke up
without an accommodation Of their differences.
The Osages objected TO treating, in conse-
quence of the recent death of their agent, Col.
McNair, and positively refused to make the
satisfaction required by the other party, until a.
mother agent should be appointed. The conse-
quence of their refusal was an immediate decla-
ration ofwar against them by the Cherokees-
but through the intercession of Col. ARBucKLE,
they have consented 10 suspend hostililies for
the space of three months, for the purpose Of
giving the Osages farther time to deliberate
upon the matter, and for the appointment Of an
Agent, and receipt of instructions from this
City, which, it is hoped, may have tendency
to prevent an effusion Of blood between the par
ties. Nat. htelkgencer.