The Arkansas advocate., 1834-10-31

we approached the village of the PaWnee Picks, they met US with considerable dis play and evident distrust. and when VIC ar- rived, the old chiefimplored Colonel Dodge not to fire on the village.
 Here a negro fellow who had run away from this neighborhood and been taken up hy the caa,anches, confirmed the ihfotrna- ton which we had previously received from that tribe, of their being white boy who could speak English at the village of the Pawnee Picks. On the. second day after our arrival, Colonel Dodge, with all the officers under his command, with the exception of myself, who as officer of the day remained in command of our encamp- ment, and Lieut.. Northrop, who was officer of the guard, repaired to the council house in the village for the purpose of holding council with the tribe.
 The accidental firing of pistol in the hands of enc of the Cherokee Indians, who accompanied us on this campaign, created great confusion at this council, and was near having serious termination. The warriors fled precipitately from the council house to their lodges for their arms, and the women and children to the rocky moun- tains, under which their village is built, for safety. But the brave Colonel Dodge. with his usual firmness and good management, soon restored peace and order. After as- surfing them of his disposition to be at peace with them, he told them what he had heard about the white boy, and informed them that he would say nothing more Ill council until that boy was produced. Con- fusion marked the countenances of the chiefs, but as there was no other alternative, the boy was sent for, and given up to Colonel Dodge in exchange for the Pawnee Pick girl. This little naked urchin we have still with us, and who proved to be the son of Judge Martin, who was killed near Fort Washita, was delighted and astonished at hearing his own language spoken, and ask ed emphaticaliy if these were all white peo- pie around him; and when asked by Colo nel Dodge, his name, he answered without hesitation, sMatthew Wright Martin.o - He told the Colonel that his father was still allve-that he saw the Indians shoot him in the back with their arrows, but that he ran off and Jeff them, and that they had drawn the gigs (spears) upon him, but that his life had been saved by the warriors with whom he then lived On the next day af- ter this council, the chiefs of the Canaan ches, Kioways, and Wacos, arrived at our encampment, with whom council was ap- pointed 10 be held on the day following. This council was held in our encampment, and was attended by near three thousand warriors. So great was the concourse around me, that could scarcely see be- yond the limits of my own company, who stood by their arms in readiness to act at a moments warming and 1 know it will be gratifying to your feelings to hear that this Lss..a of brave Kentuckians would have dono their duty, if fighting had become necessa- ry. But the excellent management of Colonel Dodge upon this occasion super- ceded the necessity, and terminated the af- fair honorably to himself and to his com- mand, as we'll as advantageous to his eoun- try. The gratitude of the Kioways was un- bounded when Colonel Dodge gave up to her nation our Kioway prisoner. Her un- cle, who was chief, made most animated address to his people upon the occasion; :; he told them that the man who had travel led so far to restore to them their lost daughter, must be a very great and very good man and that he ionged to embrace him with the arms of friendship and love.
 Twenty men of the different tribes, most of whom are great men among their na- tions, are now with us. They are aston- ished and delighted at all they see and hear, and are much gratified at the presents we have given them. Colonel Dodge is, I be- lieve, anxious to send them to the Hermit age to see General Jackson, but the h. dians themselves would rather return home at present to display the presents they have already received, and visit us upon another withmore oftheir people. Although there has been no blood shed upon this cam paign, look upon its termination as add ing, in high degree, to the military fame of Colonel Dodge, who displayed degree of perseverance in marching us without food in an enemy's country to their very villages,
 and obtaining from them a supply of pro-
 visions to last us to the buffalo country forming with them treaties of peace and friendship, and obtaining from them one of
 our people, whom they had in bondage, and
 supporting that part of his regiment which
 was under his immediate command, without
 any provisions from Government for near
 sixty days, and that too in an enemy's coun- l try, upon their own resources and Ter hun- ters. In addition to all this, he has visited tribes
 of Indians who have never before been
 overtaken by any armed force whatever,