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The following reply to in the Georgia State Gazette of the 4th of November last, was received the day following; but, at the particular request of Mr. Blown, (Mr. Connell then being absent) has been omitted fin^e. Mr. PRINTER, 0 AVERY extraordinary observation has Lreen made in your last Paper, by, I think, a very extraordinary cor respondent, viz. “ That Meflrs, CONNELL, BROWN & Co. in what they generously declare they would take the Pa per Medium of Georgia equal to gold and silver ye long as the Planters did not raise their tobacco;’* "adds, “ Quere. Did the Merchants at their meeting make a Resolve to regu late the price of tobacco ? If they did—Wli'ethelr such an Ad vertisement indicates ignorance or insanity ?” And byway of completing his rhetoric, fays, “No Quere. One of the laid House has rcfufed the Paper Medium fmee their Adver tifenient." lam convinced the writer of the above strange paragraph thinks himfelfa clever fellow, perhaps the world may differ with him in opinibn. However that may be, I laugh at unjust censure. A meeting of the Augufla Merchants was mod certainly held—They refolvcd to take this medium while the Planters received it as gold and silver; and I can by no means agree with your witty corre/pondent that it was improper making our refoiution public ; I neither can agree with the honorable gentleman, (for he must be a man of some little consequence, as he can write) faying, that there was cither ignorance or tnjar.ity in publishing to the world the refolutious of so rc fjpe&ablc a body as the Merchants of Augusta. I preiume your very witty and facetious correspondent fees deeper into things than his neighbours. And ns a friend, and Icing one of those who despise unjust irony, would really, out cf friendftiip, recommend to your gentleman to weigh things in general more judiciously, before he presumes to trouble the public. As to the Medium being refufed, plcafe let this judicious gentleman know, that Connell, Brown Sc Co. have fold their most faleable articles to the public for the medium, and continued till every Planter they applied to, cut of/even, refuted it under some frivolous pretence —And this eriticifed Advertifemeut only agreed to receive it while it parted as gold and silver. THOMAS CONNELL* * Mgujht, Nov, 4, 1786. ' N E W -YORK, November 2. •s, * ■ Furthcr Intell'gcnce from the Weflcrn country . [ Concludedfrom our At/?.] (Np. 2.) Fort Pitt, September 14, ipS6. A man, who for many rcafons Withes his name not to be known, makes the following Report s THAT he was made prisoner fix years ago by the Britilh and Indians, and lias lince generally resided in the Indian country; that he left Lower Sanduiky the s th instant; that in the com *s of last O'ring the nations o:i the waters of the fouth fide of lake Erie, on the Miamis and Wabaib, held frequent councils amongst themselves; that afterwards some from each of the nations went to the northward to hold a council with the Six Nations, that a great number of chiefs r;:Vn C ? UCII * c ° nfid ? rablc * s »ne, at a place to theTioith of lake Ontario; that no interpreter or person who understood or was not called to this council, was admitted; that the VVyandot chiefs were there when Mr. Springer, a messenger froth Capt. Hutchins, arrived at the Lower S?n dufky, and returned to Lower Sanduiky the day or the dav before that Mr. Springer set off from Upper Sanduiky, u> go lack to Captain Hutchins (Upper Sanduiky is dilla.it from the Lower Unity miles) That leventy wariiors of rhe Six Na no.is were expected foou after, who with Ihe Chiefs of the Wyanuots, Delawares, & c . were to go to Shawanoea town, wheic a large body of Indians were already colieflcd with hofii.e intentions, the reafbn of their being already artembied is their b avmg received information that their country is to be h.rveyed, which they are determined to oppose at all events --I his isuotonly the fen ti men t of those already artembied b . U V t , 1 C y k OUUg , men of the Im Uan nations, who fay that they *ill put their old men, women, and children behind them, and will defend their country to the last extremity • if they are beaten they will deftrov what they cannot carfy’o and will remove to the letting of the fu«-They will give up ; all withiA the Pennsylvania lice, for that they * av£ promftel but no more. They arc determined that the line now cutting by Pennsylvania, lhall bound them to the fun-riling, and the Ohio lhall be the boundary between them and the Big Knives. They frequently enquired if Captain Hutchins was out, and fay that the moment they hear of his beginning to survey, five hundred men will march from the Shawanoes towns to cut Inm off—that this will be the case, the informant verily believes, for they all seem greatly exasperated, and they arr\ more united and better prepared in all refpeds for war, than' ever they were during the time of his refidehce amongst them —he adds, that just before he left Lower Sanduiky, he was infortned that some of the young men intended to kill Mr. Springer, who was then at Upper Sanduiky, that he imme diately dispatched a man and horfc to bring him to where he was, but Springer was gone before the arrival of the man at upper Sai d.ilky; that he was told, that when the purport of.Springer’s message was known at the Shawanoe towns* the young men were so angry at it, that they would not fuffir their chiefs to hold a council, which is cuilomary when they receive • any news of consequence ; he further fays, that thirteen fealps aud four priloners were brought into the Shawanoe towns ; thAr iWo of the prisoners, Women, were burnt, they were mother and daughter, of the name of Moore, their names were known by papers found with them.” I do certify that the above is a true copy of the intelligence delivered by the above-mentioned perl'on to me. (tinned) WILLIAM FERGUSON, Captain of Artillery* Pullijhed by order cf Congre/s, CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary. By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS affcmblcd, Ofiober 20, 1786. The committee, con filling of Mr; Pettit* Mr. Lee, Mra Pinckney, Mr, Henry, and Mr. Smith, to whom was refer red the letter from the War Office with the paper enclosed, containing intelligence of the hofiile intentions of the Indians, in the weflern country, having reported : That the uniform tenor of the intelligence from the Weft ern country, plainly indicates the hostile disposition of a number of hostile Indian nations, particularly the Puteotamis, Chlppewas, Tawas, and Twightwecs. That these nations are now assembling in the Shawanefe towns, and are joined by a banditti of desperadoes, under the name of Mingoe9 and Cherokees, who are outcasts from other nations, and who hive associated and fettled in that country for the purpole of war and plunder. That they are labouring to draw in other nations to unite with them in a war with the Americans; that it is expeded, one thousand warriors will soon be collected in the Shawanefe towns, from whence they have already difpatcherl parties to commence hoftilities*. That from the motions 0: the Indians to the fjuthward as well as the northward, and the exertions mado in cifferent rjuartets to stimulate the various nations against the Americans, there is the strongest reafmi to believe* that uniefs the speediest measures are taken effedually to counter act and defeat their- plans, the war will become general* and may be attended with the raoft dangerous and laftiug conse quences: That the Committee therefore deem it highly necessary, that the troops in the service of the United State* be imme diately augmented, not only for the protection and support of the frontiers of the states bordering on tfie weftern territory, and the valuable fettlemeuts on and near the margin of the Miffilippi, bit to eftablith the possession, facilitate the survey ing and felling of those intermediate lands;, which have been so much rel.ed on for the redutiion of the debts of the United States ; whereupon Re o'.-vedy That the number of one thousand three hundred and forty non-comtniffioned officers and privates, be raised for the term of three years, uniefs sooner difeharged, and that they, together with the troops now in service, be form ea into a legionary corps, to consist of 2040 non-commission ed officers and privates. That the additional troops be raised by the following states in the following proportions, to wit: New-Hampfiiire 260 T • Mafl'achufetts 660 t c , ... ' " Rhode-Ifland , s 0 f Infant^ artUlet, 112* Connefticut 180 Virginia and Maryland each 60 cavalry, making 123 1340 That the Secretary at War inform the Executive authori ties of the refpctiivc states in which the troops ari to be