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- r > > * In COUNCIL, Novembfr 11, 1786. A Communication from the Commiffoners appointed to treat with the Creek Indians, of the icth inst. with sundry ciiclofuics, was received and read : Whereupon Ordered, That the warrant ordered to be drawn on the Treasurer by virtue of a Communication of the Board of the Eth instant, be repealed, and that his Honor the Governor draw a warrant on the Treafuter in favor of John Haber- Iham, Esq. Chairman, for the sum of eleven hundred and seventy-two pounds nine fl.illings and two-pence, the said Board to be accountable. That the Chaiiman be informed that the minutes of their Board, and such papers as belong to the department, will be received by the Secretary of the Executive. That his Honor the Governor draw a warrant on the Trea surer in favor of John Habeidiam, Esq. Chairman, for the balance, four hundred and nine pounds twelve drillings and four-pence, to enable him to pay the Commiflioners and Clerk of the Board, to be charged to the Indian department. That the accounts and vouchers of the expenditures incur red by the Commiflioners be transmitted to the Auditor, to examine and report thereon. Extract from the Minutes, JAMES MERIWETHER, S. E. C. In COUNCIL, November 20, 1786. A Communication from the States Secretary of this day was laid before the Board, which is as follows, viz. Agreeably to diredions from your Honourable Board of the 30th day of March lad, I proceeded to Savannah, and have received the Books belonging tb my Office that were detained in the county of Chatham ; they were yefteiday to be lodged in Waynlborough, at a place I direded, and I havefent this day one of my Clerks with a caravan, to remove them to their proper depofite. J. MILTON, Secretary of the State of Georgia. WHEREAS the objeds contained in a communication from the aforefaid Officer of the 13th day of March lalt pad. are now attained by a surrender and delivery of the Records, mentioned in the said communication, to the proper Officer : In consideration of the Law, and Resolve of the Legislature made and provided in that case, being now complyed with, the Executive feel a difpofltion to remove every order and process direded in consequence thereof, and Order, That the Attorney General be served with a copy of the before re cited communication, and recommendation taken thereon. Ordered, That the fame be published. Extrad from the Minutes, JAMES MERIWETHER, S. E. C. By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS aflembled, Oftober 6, 1786. Refolded, That Congress now proceed to the eledion of a Superintendant for the southern diftrid agreeably to the ordi nance for the regulation of Indian Affairs; and that he be direded immediately to proceed to the states of North-Caro lina, South.Carolina, and Georgia, for the purposes men tioned in the said ordinance. Congress proceeded to an eledion, and the ballots being taken, Mr. James White, of North-Carolina, was appointed. CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary. By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS aflembled, Q&ober io, 1786. On the report of a Committee to whom were referred a letter from the Superintendant of Indian affairs for the North ern diflrid, and a motion from the Hate of Georgia, • Refilled, That the SupcrinteDdaut of Indian Affairs for the Southern diffrid be and he is hereby direded to repair to the Hates of North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, agree ably to the Resolve of Congress of the 6th of the present month ; and as there is reason to believe there are animosi ties existing between the Indian nations and the inhabitants of the frontiers of North-Carolina and Georgia, the said Super intendant is hereby direded to investigate the causes of the uneaflnefles, and report the fame to Congress with all conve nient dispatch, in order that such measures may be adopted, as may be moll conliflent with the interefls of the United States, and the fafety of their citizens. That the said Superintendant be and he is hereby direded rn the course of his examination, and in the execution of the duties of his office, to confer and consult with the Executives of the Hates of North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, and that it be and it is hereby recommended to them, to at- . v/ V V'V* s ford him all the aid and protection in their power for the above-mentioned. * Rtfolvedy That if upon due examination it (hall be dis covered that the Indians thould refufe reasonable terms of pa cification, and evince a difpolition to commit or continue ho stilities upon the citizens of the said slates, that the Execu tives of the dates whose inhabitants arefubjeds to the effcds of such hostility, be informed, that Congress are determined always to afford the mod ample protcdion in their power te tire citizens of the United States. CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary. RICHMOND, November 8. < - A letter, dated Kentucky, Odober 3, 175 6, fays, suppose you have frequently heard of the depredations com mitted by the Indians in some parts of this didrid ; they resemble your didredes in 1776. We are greatly flattered with the conqueds our two armies may make in reducing the savages to a proper sense of their duty. “ The army under Gen. Clarke was supposed to confid of about 1200 men, including officers ; that under Col. Ben jamin Logan, poo. Clarke wasdedined as far as the Wia town on the Wabash; Logan to M‘Kee’s town on the Miami.” Another letter from Kentucky, dated Odober 8, fays, “ From the wilderness we have an account of a mod melan choly difader that happened between Laurel River and Racoon Creek on the 3d inftaut: About 25 Indians ruthed on a camp of travellers, killed 16 persons on the spot, and wounded several more, who are not yet heard of ; took 5 young women prisoners, and carried away ail the horses, cattle, and mod] cf the dry goods j 50 men,' well armed, from this didrid, are inpurfuit of the Indians. “ By a young man who remained hard by we learn, that they are Chickamoggas ; he was so near them as to hear them speak didindly, and having been formerly a prisoner among them for several years mult be a competent judge.—Will government pal's over this cruel ad in silence ? “ The settlement at the lower Blue Lick, on Licking River, is breaking up j great signs of Indians in that quarter} if they are Shawanefe, it will give Col. Logan a fair oppoer tunity to demolilh them, as they are not appriled of his gojug against them. “ Gen. Clarke, with the troops, arrived fafe at Pod St, Vincent, was reinforced with 53 Americans and 150 French inhabitants of that place i he took about 60 cf the Piankefhaw tribe prisoners, who were at that pod ; hath detached Col. Legreau with 250 men to cut off the Indians in a village adjacent; left a garrison in the town ; and hath marched with 600 men towards the Wia town on the Wabalh.” A report is now current, that Gen. Clarke had gone on an expedition againdthe Indians, who, having intimation of his delign, removed their corn and other property, together with their women and squaws, to foine of the Chippewa towns ; but that Col. Logan was dispatched to destroy their dores, while Gen. Clarke was to attack the Indians in the front: in both these enterprises our arms were fuccelsful. Col. Logan burnt their towns and above 4000 bufliels of corn, and took some priioners, and Gen. Clarke routed the party which he attacked, after a fliort engagement, making great daughter ainongd them, and capturing 60 prisoners. N E W-Y OR K, November 6 . Saturday morning the Roman Catholic Church in this city was privately confecratedto the service ofthe Almighty God, by the Rev. Mr. Nugent, Redor of said church; when further progress is made in the building it will then be dedi cated with the usual solemnities. There were present at the consecration, his Excellency Don Gardoqui and son, his Excellency’s Secretary, and l'everal other gentlemen of di« ftindion. By last evening’s mail (which arrived at too late an hour for large extrads) we learn, that the ship Triumph arrived at Quebeckon the 7th of September from Gravefend, with a number of Royal Officers, and the thip M‘Donald from Glas gow with several others, and 52o*kerage passengers, said to be the whole of a parith in the north of Scotland : That* on the 18th of September, the transport fliip Sally arrived there from St. Christopher with four companies of the royal regi ment of artillery, &c. A letter from Halifax, dated Odober 10, fays, «< The information I have given ought to be kept secret for my fake; and I communicate it in the greatest confidence that it willnot be divulged ; but depend upon it troops are pouring inte