Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 23, Number 33, Vincennes, Knox County, 22 September 1832 — Page 1

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made. A Mackinaw boat parsed the j lion slowly arousing from his peaceful City on Thursday on her way to the Bar- slumber, and the affrighted fc-ests ol the racks, with five men tinder the command northwest have resounded with his aof Lieut. Cross, of the Army, having j vengir.g rosr. The storm has passed with them in custody Neopope and some over them; and in their undisturbed reeix or seven o'.her warriors. J treat it is possible that they may listen to

Vc understand that Black Hawk and! the Prophet were captured by a patty of the Winncbsgoes and by them delU-ernd to their Agent at the Prairie. The.e tv?o Chiefs were not taken together, although they were delivered up to the whites at the srme time. The Winncbgo did not tend at Rock Island, the Captain having pledged him eelf to that effect to his passengers; but j we deeply regret lo be obliged to say that the boat brings very distressing lntel!ignce of sickness on the Island ainongst the United States Troops. Doctor Coleman, and Lieuts. Gale and Torrance, of the army, had fallen victims to t tie prevailing epidemic, together with a numbsr of private soldiers One other officer was dangerously ill. '1 'he disease, it is said by the passengers on the boat, was subsiding and hopes vcre entertained of its speedy disappearance. Four men, (soldiers) and a gcr vant boy, died on the passage in the boat under the command of Lieut Cross. The Captain of the boat informs us that there had been but two or three deaths at Galena, reported to be of the Cholera. There were no cases when he left port. The origin of the Cholera at Uock Island has been attributed to the United States Troops; btought to that place by General Scott; and that officer has, in consequence, been somewhM blamtrd for want of proper caution. A gentleman from Rock Island has informed us that the disease was not brought by General Scott's Troops, but was, in fact, communicated through another channel. The curiosity of distant readers may, perhaps, be gratified, bv some insight

into the characters of the chiefs who! Causes of irritation will thereby be aliave acted 6uch conspicuous pms in our j voided. wfich, after the blood) scenes of

border warfare. Black Hawk is represented to us as being sixty five or seventy years of age infirm of body, and an imbecile in mind. Neither his phystog nomy nor his actions give any indication! of talent or of tact. 'Vhe Prophet is a man of different character. He is a fine looking fellow; free and fearless in his movements and actions; ami appear formed for bold and desperate underta - kings. He was the leader ofthe party which attacked and murdered St. Vrain, their Ai'ent; and may be supposed to m hive been the prime mover in all the cn terpries against the white. He will t'rubablv, be tried for the murder ol St VrJjn ' The other prisoners are mostly fine looking men; and all of them have the same firm port and manly bearing, in their captivity which distinguished them in their native wihls. At the time of tire battle with the! ick ' "Warrior, on tbs lisii-ippi, iJUck . - ma a

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Hawk, twice approached the boat with a! M,e fhz, ,HinB i,o ,l,c for : . .k,i,nm. The nurimn .a i.i. 4. ... n '!, i i i I , . i I was nui un 'cis.wwu, ii Dcaru, ny mc

it"wu,ii oca, ny mc in-10 u,uiar j.r.u volunteer lor-; ; not th tgbt advisable to c until ue the board; and the old chief j ccs w ho must, for m:.i. ears, be kept in pursuit; ioded a stop to the lurther tire. He was not wounded; j ganison, or at least in lecdiness, to t ub fusion ot biond seemed to bt called for mied by his sens, kit tht j or cbastke the ilk Heeled imd wr.rJ.ke till it might be ascertained if the er.cn.v

; terpreici on i fled to the 6ho? i but, acr.ompani ground in the course oJ the ev cning.ii u k i iJti ki un'i ii rr u 1 1 n in a cnri. it i. If. . 1- t u t . was captured by a part) of Witmtbagot s. They had them in view forthtcc days in succession. Their object, however, seems to have been not to kill, but to take them alive. This they effected on the morning cf the thiidday, by surptistng them while asleep. They made no resistance whatever. As these ''military chieftains" are the "Lions of the da.' and much curiosity is manifested to seeihem, we state, lor public information, that they take an airing every day, fiom nine to twelve o'clock; between which hour?, only, are they visible. Visitors will seethe piopriety of not calling upon them at any other lime. From the Mtsaauri Fef:ublico.n. The Indian war having been biought to a patiBe, if not to a close, by the recent defeat of the enemy on tht Wisconsin and on the east bank of the Mississippi, and also by their starved and reduced condition, the inquiry naturally and ear"estly is made, what will the government what will the General commanding do next? From the determined and desperate character of the hostile Sacs end Foxes, evinced too clearly by their bloody deeds and persevering enmity, may we not expect the Black Hawk, after recruiting the strength of his shattered band, in their hunting grounds, west ofthe Mississippi, to pounce again upon our frontiers, and renew those scenes of savage slaughter which have so recently passed before cur eyes? Bi:t. defeated and discouraged by the gallantry tvith which our brave army has charged upon and thinned his tanks in repeated combats, is not his vindictive spirit humbled? And arc not his band convinced by the death of their warriors, the capture of tbeir miserable women and children; and the horrots of famine, that vin and fruitless are their efforts to wage an unequal contest with a great and warlike nation? They have seen the the counsels of prudence and ot peace. and seek future safety in that clemency of our iroverninent, w hich ihev have i

been induced, by the lessons and prophe- sivc character, every intelligent observsies of infatuated and vicious leaders, to j er pf passing events must leaui'.y admit construe into imbecility and fear. Their jThe long continuance of the war vidi allies hnve deserted them in the hour of ; Black Hawk, and his band, incumbered

their calamity, and with Indian faithful nes turned the tomahawk and knife upon tbeir distressed and heads. In case cf submission, the question occurs, ot great interest to the inhabitants of this region what terms shall be granted to them? It may be presumptuous for a private citizen to suggest them; but they should be such as will forever rid the nation of the evil counsels cf those efciefs ho have brought ruin up - on their people, and who, if permitted to retain their liberty, will excite new combinations of the disaffected nations., and stir them up to new acts of barbarous hostility against their natural enemies, as they consider them, the whites. As a farther expiation and compensation, in part, for the expenses of several campaigns, and as a guard and bulwark against future aggressions and invasions of the numerous and discontented tribe of north-western Indians, an unconditional cession of a belt of territory fifty miles wide on the west side of the Mississippi, extending from the reservation of the half breeds at the Desmoines Rap ids, to the boundary line separating therxJ from the Sioux, should be exacted. This, arrangement wculd produce the mcs-t beneficial results. The Indians wculd be driven back into their hunting grounds and debarred from intercourse with, or , interruption of the whites, on the river. this summc, may reasonably be appre tended. ''True reconciiiatioo never can grow, where wounds of deadly hate have unk so deen." It is a common oninion among the volunteers v ho have engaged i j in active operations against IJiack Hawk I and his band, whether well or ill foundj ed, that even those of his nation who pro - If II I I J - i less neutrality anu inenasnip :owaras me J U. S. have clandestinely aided him j with men and means to carry on the ! war. The peace and security of all the Sacs and Foxes seems, therefore, to re - 1 quire such a ccs?iuii of their tcrutory as is above indicated. j From the great and annual increasing jnun ber of Indians of different nations who range through the regions west of j the Mississippi, including those rcmo ving and to be remov ed, in pursuance of the national policy, it is extremely de? irable that settlements should be encour aged on the western banks ot the Mis - sikaippi river. The hardv settlers vho ; suuppi

would flock to this euut.iu, vr,uid lorm

e gai.,M ddt..' iu,.UM cl.' ....... I.....,- t. ' , . i ; . : " -"r m-jpucsio ine icj.uiar '.nu volunteer tor-, spirit of our i ed iK;i;hburs on auth an . : . i - . : 1 i viri.Ki'.r unn iri' i Whenever t; wt.i breaks out btt wren !

mhei, for hur.tiicds o! milts, is bgiiated 1 1 uml ci vour.dtil, his vl ole l; ss dots vilh the most violent passions." '1 hi i rot Jail short nt three hut riud Jfter tht Indiat.s feel that, in v(mt wty, it is the ! baitle on the Ouisccnsin Uos cf the cncomu.cn ceme ol ?.il the i ations of en ie s women and children, tr.u ome thtir whole lace. Fur or levengc ir.-jwho were dismounted, attempted to spire them to seek the tailitst inielii-i tnfake their escape by descet j'irg that pence of every movement id our atn ies, rivei.but judicious measures being ta and they become exposed to vhe stduc - j l;tn heie by (. apt. Loom'u and General live ii f uence of tavage chiefs, who, like j Sued, Indian Agent, thiity two women Tecumsth and Back Hawk, combine i and children and four men have btin native genius and ta'.crrs for command, j captured and some 15 nun killed b tht with baibarous ferocity. n the present ! ti. 'uchnu nt undei Lieut, liimcr.

war, the neutrality aiul friendship of the Pottawatomie, Xvii-vebauoes. Kickapoos and even of the Sinus and Chippe was, ate more than doubled. It is be-; lieved that those Indians aie lukcwaim; in our cause, and have even, in some in -' stances, taken i:p the Umahauk rainstj our people. What combinations wen-; formed and what. have ben defeated by the march o lar ge armies into their territories, time will soon disclose. Where largi -annuities iie at stake, assistance ! ae licen rendered by a part, whilst enough of the nation remained under the neutial flag to preserve "us pacif:c rela tions with the United States. In addition to the cession and settle - ment ofthe territory on the west bank of the Mississippi, the incrca&ing numbers, intelligence and audacity of the Indians require that, at least a ngiment of United Stoles mounted nun should patrol the whole western frontier from the Sinix ofthe Mississippi to the Creeks of Arkansas. Hostile combinations and movements of the Indians against the whites, or each other, equal'v f'oi bidden by the policy of our government, wi!lj tfeen be early detected and supDrcssed. The love o' war and appetite for ieveng,e frequently leads war parlies to make bug and difficult excursions for hundreds of miles against tbeir enemies; and a few scalps gripped from the inmates ol some detached luge, whilst reposing in fan cicd security, amply ccmpens-Ucs tor months of privation and hardship. That a crisis has arrived in the history oi" our Indian relations, and Indian pol icy, cannot be doubted, and that decisive measures are required to heal the wounds which have been inflicted on the bosom of our couytry, and to prevent, in future, wars of the most distressir.cr onde vnenas he ros been with women and childru,

scalping j ind in a state of privation, which no ci vi i the infatuated conduct oi the hostile pardevoted j Jized army could have endured; ihe'tyto reports piopagattd amongst them, jsums which it will cost government; the ! by vhife emissniies, inducKis? them to

j losses which the people of Illinois and;beJicve that they were tq undergo the

J the upp-T ?Iincs vulj sustain lntheaban-f S donment of their homes and fields season for planting and raising their gh a severe, will, it is ho 'crops, although j ped and bflieved, prove ?. useful and sal j utary lesson. By the aid of wise covin isels, good many be brought out of svi!, ! and this wild, though nrnnisintr and valj uable country, instead of beli, mode the haunt of savage beasts 3nd more avr-'ce men, may be filled w ilh industrious and intellieent freemen, who v-i'.l carry the arts and arms of the United States, ar cl of civilized society, to the limits of navigation on the r.ither of Rivers. S. Upper Mississippi. Aug. U, 1832. (OFFICIAL ) The 'oilotvine rfocial information has been .etched at Head Quarters Ihad Ortf. l-t J. Cr.rp.H Xorth IT .Ir.-ny. Prairie dn Chien, Aug. 2 3th. loC. 5 Sin -l have the honor to report to you that I crossed the Ouisconsin, on the 27th and 28th ult. with a select body of troops consisting of the regulars under Col. Taylor, four hundred in number, j part of Henry's, Posey's and Alexandei'sj Brigades, and Dodges bsttalicn of mount-;

ed volunteers, amounting in all to thir- j an important station on this Iadian frontecn hundred men, and immediately fell j tier, we consider it a duty alike due upon the trail of the enemy and pursued j to ourselves and the public, to state it by a forced march through a moun- some hicts io relation to the Indians; as tainous and difficult country, till the ' ue profess to know something of their

morning ofthe 2nd inst.; when we came up with his main body on the left barkj ot the Mississippi, nearly opposite the mouth of Ioway, which we attacked, de feared, and dispersed with a joss on his! j part of about one hundred and fifty men kihcd, S9 women and children pi isoners the precise Bumt)er couid not be ascer tained, as the greater pftuon wg siain after being forced into less in kit ed and woun ! ted below, is very bma.l in comparison j with the loss of the enemy, which may be attributed to the enemy's being lor-1 j ced from his positions by a rapid charge j at the commtneeintnt and throughout j J the engagement the remnant ot toe j enemy, cut up and disheartened, crosses to the oppoi'c side of the river and has; - j uea mio u.c interior wjtn a view, u is 1 supposed, of joining Ke-6-Kuck and Wapello's bends cf Scs and Foxej.

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UmB . xto.uci b, Tore n I t. J . . ' 4 5ft r.f irp fi 1 ii f J r iif.nr.c i .v.3 v.iuti si u". it not th i.gbt advisable to c until ue would not surrtrr't r ir to r that the ciemy 0?t in the ltiie cn the 1 lie day alter the battle on thi liver. I fell down with the rtgul.ir uonps, to this place by water, and the mounted men will join us to day. It is, now n purpose to direct Ke-o Kuck to demand a surrender of the remaining principal nen of the hostile paity, which fiom the large number of women andchildien we hohi as prisoners, I have evtry reason to believe will be complied with, should it not, they should be put sued and sub dued, a str-p Major General Scott will no daubt take on his anival. I cannot speak too highly of the brave conduct of the regular aivd volunteer forces engaged j in the last battle end fatiguing march that preceded i' as scon as the repmts ofthe officers of btigades and corps are handed in, they shall be submitted with fu thr remarks. 5 killed and 2 wounded 6th Jnf. - wounded 5th Inf. 1 Capt. 5 pri'ts. Dodges bat'on., mounted 1 Lieut. 6 privates, Henry's. I private wounded. Alexander's. I pi i vate Posey's. 1 have the I cnoi to be with great respect, your ob't. serv't. (Signed.) H. ATKINSON. lit. JJrrg'r. Gen' I. U S. A. Maj. Gkn'l. Macomb. Co:ndcr. in Chief ll'athingtcn City. We take the following article from the Galenian, a ptper published in the vicinity of the scene of the late conflict with the Indians. It is an ample refutation of the calumny put forth by the National Bank Gazette, imputing to the Piesidcnt the melancholy events on tbe Noith Western Frontier. In what way the Executive provoked the hostilities ofthe lndiuns, the Dank Lditox has not told the public, but contents himself with a general declaration, without proof or specification. We published, not long aioct, a talk of some of the. Chiefs o the Sacs aod Fox Tribes, in which thev ascribe most shocking utatment from the Amtr

atiheiicans. 1 his story was probebly nropa-tnow

j gated by the emissaries ot our pfeten j ded "philanthropists, and coupled with

thc intimations which they rcccm d that ; ing for life through the foiest their g-cr-they would bt protected like the Chcro-jmer's t-jrn, r.nd feet b'ecui'-ig, sftkmp; kees. by the Supreme Court, ii the j the nearest ten ement lor pi Mention.

j lands East ofthe Mississippi if they re - j covered them, notwithstanding their for mer cession. H nee they were willing to seize on any pretext to commence hostilities, and readily li3tentd lo the slo ti. s mentioned in the talk of the friendly It dian Chief, that their wives weie to be given over to negro busbawls. to give birLh to a raco of slaves. Globe. Fr'TTthe Gaitnicn. We have recently seen, with equal reI pretend astonishment, the remuiks ol j some of our Eastern cotemporarics, censurin' in bitter teims, the Government and the people of thu section of country. ! for the course they had adopted towards i the Sac acd Fox Indians. j We know the cluaracter ef the people (of New England and feel proud of their j schools, tbeir industry and enterprise; and we respect them for thtir morality and love of truth but being called to fill ; character, derived from personal observation, and the most authentic intorma - ' ticn particularly in relatioo to our pre sent dilnculties with them. It is unnecessarvt we presume, to ' prov e, as most of our readers arc alrea , dy ae quainted with t.e lacts that by ; treaties which were held at vari?us tin. esj . priox to the summer of 1830, the Sacs,!

U.c river. Our;or, more properly speaking, the British j artJ pjl.)U?1'!an:f nttions, in tchu.l ofthe ded, w hich is bta-j Wand of Sacs and Foxes, had relinquish !.cr l,.d:s.r.s., in comparison i ed to the United Ststes their rieht and! J

i ed to the United Ststes their rih title to all the lands which they owned East ofthe Mississippi. According')-, in the autumn of that year, mai of tt.e enierprizing citizem of Illinois, within who-e boundaries these ceded lands lav selected their farms lor cultivation; and, in conformity to an act of Congress, tied upon ine ranu wnn a view to purI chase, w hen it should be purveyed and 1 oftetcd Jor aalc. '

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I A ...... . . ilZ' C"'iS3' v lormers neari onnrite to, ar.il me vicinn y ci, ur niliutv pest at Rock Island. The I commerced their t'epudations upen these setliets, by killirg their poultry end hogs, and steiiing iheir horses, cattle, kc.,-until the commanding i mcer at Rock Island was calltd upon to interfere, which he did with promtitude and for some time the Indians lerr.Limd quiet; hut irt the vpting of the loilcvt'mg year, numerous complaints were n:de, both I v the whites and Indians, to the Indian agent; the Indians accusing the settlers of breaking their itmoes, Uc., and the white settlers repeating their farmer complaints, of losing thtir cattle, hogs, he. by the Indians. The Superintendent ofthe Indian Affairs at St. Louis, placed all the ciicumstances of con plaint, liom both parties, btfote tht Governor of Illinois, who caused to be instituted suits at law, in the courts of the Stale, Icr duing jililicc to tire injured party. I About this lime, and pending thce suns, the lnuiar hurst through all restraint; and going over among the settlers at noon day, crmtd, and f.amted fit ivor, set fire to, and destroyed the tenets around several plantation:; besides committing many otwcr ft, equally . vincing thtir hostile inttniions. 1 here could new be no mistake; and upon this new outrage beii g n ado known at Washington, Gen. Oair -j immediately ordered to proceed i tl c spot with a sufficient force, con pel tho Indians to ie cross the iher, ?nd n st rc peace to the frontier. The result o t is order is already known, lonhti ;th the taunts and bravado of liuck Hawk and his party. Another treaty, or solemn pdge, was, however, on that occasion, tr'eud into with the U. States, by Black Hawk and his principal men, acknowledging tho right of our Government to the lands1 now in diptne, and promising ilr.ever again to cross cvtr to them, uicn any pretext tihatcvcr, without Jlrit eAorning the icnstnt cf the Governor cf Illinois." These are facts arid ''facts .'tie stubborn things.' Did they keep their promise? Let facts again answer.War! lnd.au Vur is at this moment staring us in the face. Our paper lias been filled with accounts of Indian robberies and Indian murder.' Trade, an butiness of every kind is stipended our citizens are driven from their houses; and our settlements, exteikding aUntf a frontier cl" 400 miles arc ne?.ily mined! And alter all this, what can cur cyjnM ihitivg coteihporaiies mean? ('"an it be possible that they really belike wiat tfiey aser? Do they cemectiy fpejtk the opinions of a highly intelligent and reiign.us community , in thus taking part with our tuvare erery? We will not quote theii language for vet) shamciBut V7e ask them to accompany u 'cr a .moment tlongthis desok.tto fiortier.- . We will shew them the cestrtrd cabin t of the nor-r settler the cultivated Field', crown un wih weeds, which were j to have yi 'r'ed support to numerous ; families. The w on en and childtti fircj Whilst ! ere and there, ca'tered through the country, in small stuckae'es. rudel and hastily thrown up for i mmediate protection, arc hundreds o both men, women and children crowded together, in icavt cf trta J! Let their, go with us to yonder heap of burning ruin, and see he I t UUh work ol these "fiocr Irdian Observe these smoking heaps! This was once tho peaceful home of the 'out ard dauntlrss Daviess. There, impended fmm yonder tree, in sdl the fehr eking Ttji'-erirnt nf ravage butchery har.gs the b let dir. v; corpse ol his ?fTcctiorate wife the mother of his mnrdered chi'dicr.! And here, a little further on, lies the mangled brdy of her child, still smiling in death! Mark that gah in its side? It was tho thrust of m Indian's spear, struck oeep into the tic fiing infant as it lay ir. its cradle! And here, en this veil cen'ested, blocdsta ned spot, is the mutilated but yet manly form of the father. Ho fought like a lien, and killed with his single hand, two of the three who wero sent to despatch him, while the rest of the gang weie engaged in murdering his j wife and cbi!d;er.l But he also fell a! last, covered with wcunds, and bathed IQ his own blocd! T rt thrn .rn wbh S. Ve "2V, 2nd visit J . , cetiCS 0t c3vatre itn'.l.ter as thiv, return heme to tht n ow n wives antj c i , i t ( t e n in New Kr.glard, ard .ir;1- ir.hrrran. their It ud con i tair.ts The crcf s of Cotton and Sugar, thrrout the State, so lar as we have b.er. able toacertain, premises to be fair yielding, ar d little doubt is entertaii.ed cf an average crop L'.uiaar.a ,'ldv. Either II 'cy 'Vi: you have m-,' said a young man to a modest pirl 'Nt, John." said she, bui 5 cu n:ay have nr. I it )ou will.