Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-06-19
FROM COUNCIL BLUFFs.-T,s s,

ho.ls New Era of June 9th says:-
ihe steamer Independence reached this nor,
Ses'e'oa, from Council Bluffs, situated ON Tho
missouri r~er, about 300 miles above For,
aS e, She brought down 400 packs
y, iooIs' Pei'rit' and furs the largest nronor-
I TTn VI uiem Tor lie American Fur Comnanv
- ny :. eei. mere on TAG 18th of Nav, with
as e, avout 10 tons. principally corn and
ed at the Bluffs for the us, of the P a oeiiver
Iowa tribes of Indians, who were to meet COM aae
mlssioners on the part of the United States Mt
that point on the LIST inst, for the purpose of
negotiating treaty.
we learn from the officers of the Indcpcn
dencc, that after difficult and dangerous ma &
sage OF about ID days, they reached the place
oil their destination, where they found the To-
was and large number of Indians belongings
to the Otto tribe, in almost a starving coHdi
lon, having been driven i'm from the plains bv
the fawnees, who are continually committing
depredations upon the neighboring tribes, and
more particularly upon the defenceless women
and children of the cowardly Iowas. and Ottos
these attacks of the Pawnees. together with
their own Incidence and unfrugal way of liv
ing, had compelled them to come into the
Bulls to prevent starving.
Inc Pawnees are daring, reckless set of
scoundrels, rowing from place to place. having
no fixed quarter TO live in, and taking good
care never TO let pass an opportunity to depre-
date upon their more fortunate and weaker
neighbors. With the object of making them
occupy, more steady position, and TO pre-
vent, II possible, their frequent depredations
upon the weaker tribes, new treaty is to be
formed with them.
The Sioux are said TO be the only tribe i'm
that quarter that the Pawnees stand i'm fear of.
recently party of the former met eight Paw
nees on the plains short distance back of the
Iowa point; four OF whom they caught killed
and scalped, fiayed them, and stretched their
skins over hoops, which they brought into the
tort as trophies of victory. II is for the mr.
pose oil putting step TO such scenes of blood
shed as this that the United States Govern
mcnt sent Commissioners of the Bluffs To treat
with them
The commissioners are also empowered To
mold treaty with the Pottawattomies. for the
purpose OF purchasing their lands and remoy
Inc them south OF the Missouri; they are said
TO be powderful and warlike tribe, much fur
'hel advanced In civilization than most of the
northwestern tribes.
The independence reached the Bluffs ON the
18th ult., discharged her cargo, took ON large
number OF robes and furs, and started back on
the "a inst. Up TO the time of her departure,
but lew oil the commissioners had arrived at
Belieview, the place of meeting. The river
at that point had risen altogether about six feet
but was about on stand when the Indepen-
dence left; all the rise was from the main
stream.
The fur companies in that region are fast
consolidating into the powerful and extensive
association known as the American Fur Com
Pany; who have this last winter purchased,
besides the claims of the Union Fur Company,
those oil John Baptists Roy and the Coopers,
and arrangements are about to be- made be-
tween them and the companies of Pierson and
Ewing by which it is said they will obtain the
whole business in that section. The officers
OF the Independence report having met six
boats belonging to them from Fort Pierre, hea-
Willy laden with robes, and under the charge of
MIR. Whiting their agent, short distance be-
low st. Josephs descending the river; they will
perhaps reach this city in few days.