Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-05
INDIAN POSSIBILITIES.
Extract of a letter from an officer Of the .8rmy,
IngeJ
"PRAIRIE Du CHEN. MAY 6,

"PRAIRIE DU CHEN. May E, 1850.
"When coming down the Mississippi on the
raft of timber, a war party of Sioux came to me
and landed on the raft, but did not offer any vio-
lence. They were severity strong. and well arm
ed: and when they arrived at the Prairie, they
were iulned BY thirty Menominies, and then pro-
ceeded down the river in pursuit of the Sacks
and Foxes, who lay below. This morning they
all returned, and reported that they had killed
10 of the Foxes. and two Squaws. | saw all the
scalps, and other trophies which they had taken:
such as canoes, tomahawks. knives. guns, war
clubs, spears, sc. A paddle was raised by them
in the air, on which was strung the hand of a
squaw and the scaips. They killed the head
Chief of the Fox nation, and took from them all
the treaties which the nation had made since 49,
-. saw Them; and read such as | wished. One
Sioux killed, anu three wounded. was all the loss
of the Northern party. The Winnebagoes have
Joined with the Sious and Menominies. and the
Potawatomies have joined with the Sacks and
Foxes. We shall have a great battle in a day Or
So"
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Mss Frances Uright.-As the public may
reasonably desire to learn am - secrets worth
Knowing" concerning her movements, we alb
stract certain particulars from the Commercial
tlSNl vi HCblilG lsNi w 10 low
philanthropic expedition 10 st. Domingo. The
facts are drawn from a contract to which she was
a party.
She chartered the brig John Quincy Adams, on
the 10th ofJanuary last. TO transport thirty negroes
from New Orleans to st. Domingo. to be there
emancIpated. twenty seven of whom were already
free. She paid Captain Lawrenson $1,000 for the
brig, and he retained the right of carrying two hum
dred barrels freight, which was. by the terms of
the charterpartv. to be entered at Port au Prince
as her property, il being provided that "the said
Lawrenson aLow The said fright the reguiard d.
Ties on the said articles, as are charged in the Ia
riff of duties of that Island" The goods were en-
tered as her property, and in consideration of her
GRAND Of mercy. the authorities of the island re-
United to her the duties. amounting to nine thou
sand dollars. which sum the Captain paid to her,
agreeably to contract. President Bower present
ed Miss Wright one hundred doublOons, sufi-
cient TO pay all expenses, so that the niRs thou
sand dollars was placed in her indispensable. in
the pocket of her inexpressibles, and it will be-
come an important circumstance in the disse-
minatiou of Wright-ism. If the lady demurs at
this free disclosure, she must remember that it is
a natural consequence of her own principle of
s. Free Inquiry"
The Boston Daily Advertiser says that. in the
Bengal urkaru, published at Calcutta. are found
a column or two Of extracts from Mr.. Sprague's
Phi-Beta Poem, introduced by some. appropriate
commendatory remarks. The Daily Advertiser
adds-We should hardly have noticed this fact,
but tor the singular circumstance that the Poem,
which was published here with Mr.. Sprague's
appears to have been published anony- !
mously, with alterations, In which British names
are substituted for those of Americans wherever .
they occur in the parts of the poem extracted.-
But for these alterations the American origin of
the poem would have been apparent.