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NEW-YORK, November 2.
INTELLIGENCE from the WESTERN COUNTRY.
Extraft of a letter from Captain T. Hutchins, dated camp,
at the .ji.ntlion of Wheeling rivulet and the Ohio, October
12, 1786, to His Excellency the Frcfident of Congress.
“ The last letter I had the honor of writing to your Ex
cellency was dated the 13th of Sept. 11 o’clock at night. I
now to iufonn yotir Excellency that in the afternoon of
th.c 18th of the fame month, when I had progrefted almost
43 miles, as I was superintending ftirveying the eighth range*
I leceivcd from Major Hamtramck, by express, the intel
ligence refpefting the holtile intentions of the Indians, con
tained in the enclosed papers, Nd. 1, and i.
(No. ic)
IVrfimcreland County, ff.
The deposition of George Brickell, of the county aforefaid,
taken on the 13th of September, 1786. —Depofeth and said,
that he {left Ottaway river, about 50 miles below the lower
Sandu/ky, the sth of Sept. inst. that there were 1700 Indian
warriors adembled at the Shawanoes towns, and that their
number in a fliort time would be 2000 ; that their intentions
Were to strike fit ft the Wheeling fcttlement, and lower down
the Ohio ; that all th.c nations were joined and held a treaty
on the sth at Lower Sandufkv, which began early in the
morning and lafled till after dark; that they had lately brought
into the Shawanoes towns 13 or 14 fealps, and 4 priloners,
two of which were women, whom the Indians burnt before
fiie men’s faces, the men were to thare the fame fate in a
few days; that the women’s Haines were Moore, one the
wife of a Captain Moore, the other her daughter; that Sa
muel Bcalcr, who had this ft.turner removed to the Indian
country from Wheeling fettlenient, an.i his family were all
killed ; that a Captain Caldwell read his papers among the
Indians, particularly land warrants as he told this deponent;
that thii deponent believes from these and otlxr circuinfiances,
and from the information given him by every peiTon in that
country, the whole of the Indian nations arc determined to
strike in the fall, when they get their corn secured, except
ing the Cornplanter who has tefufed to join them as yet; that
there has been a reiufoi cement of troops at Detroit this fall)
in three vefl'cls, but does not know the number; that one
Williams, a half blooded Indian, told this deponent and the
others with him, that if the Indians knew they weie informed
of what was going on, they would be killed before they got
home, and further this deponent faith not*
(Signed) G. BRICKELL,
SWotn and Aifcfcribed before
GEORGE WALLACE.
Thomas Girty, of Pitt townfliip, who was in company
with the before-mentioned George Brickell, depofeth and
said, that the beforementioned Williams told him that the
Indians were going to war ; that Williams had this infor
mation from one Abraham Kuhn, a white man, who is
married to an Indian woman, by w hich means he is made a
Wvandott Chief ; that this deponent went into the Council
House on the 3d inst. and saw the Indians fitting in council,
ahd upon being informed who this deponent was, they were
lilent; that this deponent was alked frequently if Hutchins
was gone to run the line, which he denied, and was told at
the fame time, that the Indians meant to cut him otf and all
his men ; that the Clicrokccs and Shawanees chafed Cayafuta,
when he went to Mingoe town with a fpccch to the Indians,
liefiring them not to go to War agaiuft the Americans, and
Wwrfd .Hiyir-liined them had he not made his escape, and
further this deponent faith not. his
(Signed) THOMAS GIRTY.
mark.
Sworn and fubfenbed before
GEORGE WALLACE.
Published by order of Congress ,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
[The paper No. 2, containing further intelligence, and
the Rcfolves of Congrels in conference thereof, ate unavoid
able poftpor.ed till our next.]
CHARLESTON, November 6.
Advice is certainly received that the King of Prufiia is dead.
A letter from an Officer at the Rapids of Ohio, to a gentle
man in Philadelphia, dated Camp, near the Rapids of Ohio,
Auguft2s, fays, “I have the pleasure to inform you, our
troops from the Miami arrived at this place on the 15th instant,
and yeflerday we began to hut —in about one mouth Iprofume
w-c will complete our buildings and finilh a ltockade. —A few
days since, some horses were ftolcu from the neighbouring
inhabitants, but whither by Indians, or a party of Negroes
who ran away about that time, is not afeertained ; the former
however, bear the blame. On the 10th of next month Gene
ral Clarke marches into the Indian country with a powerful
army : he proceeds immediately to their towns, which he
intends to lay in allies, destroy their corn, kill and scalp as
many as he may conquer.—This scourge they justly deserve,
for immediately after and at the time of the treaty held at tbe
Miami, they killed and plundered the inhabitants. JThe feeders
at Kentucky have loft upwards of five hundred horses during
the furnmer. —Should this expedition be crowned with fucceft,
it will give peace to our frontiers for this year atleaft, and
put a total flop to treaties hereafter, which, it seems, have
answered no other purpose thah that of spending public money,
and serving the private purposes of‘a lew dlefigning men.”
A Baltimore Paper of Tuefday the 10th ult. contains the fol
lowing account of the late storm :
“ On Wedncfday night last we were visited with one of thfc
severest equinoxial florms that has happeued here within the
remembrance of the oldest inhabitants—ft continued till
Thursday evening without intermission, attended at times
with thunder and lightning, and the most violent ihceftant
torrents of rain. About nine o’clock the storm Abated, when
a more alarfning terrifying feene of distress and horror began
to appear. The waters in fones*s Falls, being risen to a very
unusual height, rushed down with great violence, spreading
high above their hanks, and “ sweeping the heidsand flocks’*
All the mill works, and fences along, its margin—several
hou cs—and all the bridges, in a few minutes were carried
away. The new Dutch Prelbytcrian meeting-house, an ele
gant valuable building, nearly finilbed, which flood at tha
east end of Mai ket-flreet, on the bank of the Falls, was near
ly destroyed, the waters having swelled so high as to sap the
foundation, which cauled one half of the building, fronting
the water, to tumble down; it has a mfclancholy appearance,
A large britk house building, On the weft Tide of the marih,
between the upperand middle bridges, was almost destroyed.
A handfotne twoftory dwelliug-houfe, at one corner of Gay
flrect bridge, was completely buoyed up, carried across th 4
flreet, and finally into the falls, where it was crulhed to
pieces, and floated aWiy. Another house near the fame
bridge was removed a few yards, but fortunately afterwards *
made a ftahd, and repelled the flood. A house neat the fame,
wherein was a quantity of fait,' was entirely deltroyfed ; and ,
a number of others built on the marih, were in the utmost
dancer. In lhort, all the dwcllihg and store-houses within
its reach, together with that pail Os Market-street newly
paved, liiflered amazingly. Some families finding rhemfelves
in danger were removed with great difficulty. Several human
bodies have been found, and others are still miffing.”
The loss fuffered by the inhabitants of Baltimore town, and
the adjacent country 25 miles round, by tbe late storm, is
calculated at ioo,oool.
DIED.] Last Thursday morning, of the wouflds he receiv
ed in duel, Doftor Josi ph Brown Ladd, the celebrated and
highly esteemed author of those productions of geniu3 which
lately appeared under the signature of Arouet.
A melting goodness of heart, sensibility to the extreme, arid
an open unfufpeting foul, were the outlines of DotOr Ladd’s
character : hence he was liable to fall into snares which many
a bad loan might escape—He Was not happy; the story of
Arouet and Amanda was no poetic fition ; and by His at
tempts to fly from a load of mental uneasiness; against which
all his philolbphy cOuld not support him, we account for a
few late afleted levities which were Well known (to those
who knew him) to be contrary to his natural disposition
His friends were many—his eilemies few—-and the enmity
of the latter could do him little dilbonor, although ulti
mately the cause of his untimely and unfortunate death.
During his ilinefs, admidft the most excruciating torture,
he displayed an amazing fortitude : and when all hopes of re
covery were extinguiflied, his resignation was truly chriftian.
This the worthy Clergyman who attended him, declared from
the pulpit ; and that in his latest moments (for he retaided
his perfect senses until the instant of his diftolution) he bore
teftimouy against the Barbarous cdftom of duelling.— Un
happy youth ! Peace was not thy lot in this world ; may eter
nal peace be thine in the world of spirits ? The friends who
loved thee will long mourn thy fate ; and when they approach
thy tomb,
“ Will (lied a tear in pity as they pass,
And still remember that their Arouet was.”
His remains were interred in the burial ground of the Inde
pendent church, attended by the Society of the Cincinnati,
; and a train of refpcriable citizens.