The Adams Sentinel from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania • Page 2

74 1 fee partkolaily denominated the piraves of the Miftburi. river of the Miftburi. Deriving their goods St. Peter's they are in- i to the free navigation, cf MilTbufi, and will a tli2, United States from completely erjoy- the benefits of that river, i they are reduced to order by coercive meufures ad. That it Vs in inhabited hy tbefe a hands a ie ilburi, tietives molt of its coloring a the earrh-beinjr "Urcwigly -impregnated i a fait, a i copperas, and ful- phur, and ura ted v.ith a inv.neufe bodies oT hills i i a thewifelves'intwtiie rwer, aixi mingle i its waters." That Of thtffe tribes, the Blackfoot Indians and the Flatheads refloe beyond the Rocky Mountains, which feperaie the rivers i The Pacific, from thofe wjiich empty into the A a i The Al latans or Snake Indians refide for the moft a among the rockv mountains.

That the a pox hasmade.great ravages among fome of ihefe tribes. Could oar.government then contrihute more effectually to their profperity, or to its own than by introducing amon-g them the ineftimable art of vaccination 5th. That the benefit to derived -from the for trade, i already great, and may be extended, by our encouraging commercial eftablifhir.ents upon the Miflouri, and taking them out of the hands of the Welters company. Iliftorical of the feveral Indian tribes, between the fouth of the Ark- anfa river, and between ttie Miffiffippi and river a Dr. Sibley's account of thefe tribes is minute and curious.

It is impoinble however, for us to extraft any more than their names and very few jnterefting particulars. Caddoques live about 35 miles weft of the main branch of the Red River on a bavau or creek, about 1-20 miles fromNatchitocks. They have lived where they do now only 5years, The firft year the fmall pox got aoiong them, and deftroyed nearly one half "of them it was in the winter feafon, and they praclifed plunging into the creek, on the'firft appearance of "the i and died, i i a few hours. They have a traditionary tale, which half a dozen other frnaller nations believe in, who claim the honor of being defcendams of the fame ifamily they fay when all the world was drowned by a flood that i a the whole the great fpirit placed on an erainen.ce, one family of who alone were favcd from that family all the Indians originated. The number i warriors is reduced to about one hus YettaUees-li-ve a 50 -Natchitocbcs.

The Span'Mli prefent, essrcite i i i ver this iettlement, wnere-they keop a of a non camriii-loptd Mliuer ard 8 fokners. A a meiuhs sgo, ti.e Caddo chief i a few of i i wre to place to trecie, and ccme which is the i a a a cfricer of guard ihreajejnr.fl to ircm a i i the Americans, told the chief a if he a way with the goods he fiiould take them itom The chief and his a i were very argry threatened to kill the whole a and toid a road had been theits, and if the Sprniards attempted to their tiling it as their ancedois had always done, he would Coon make it a bloody road. He carnehere, purchafed the goods, and have-returned another a a i the Spanifh guard, and was advifed to do fo but he faid he would pafs by them, and let them attempt to ft op him if they a The guard faid nothing to him as he returned. Kandakoes Adaize Alieke Keyes Inies Nabedaches Bedies Accoke- Mayes Carankonas Kances Tankawas Tawekenoes Panis, rove in part of Orleans. Hietsnu, to whom feveral curious cofloms are.sfcribed.

They are Ilrong and athletic, and the elderly men as fat as if they had lived up- on'Englifh beef and porter. It is faid the man who kills abuffaloe, catches the blood drinks it while warm, they likewife eat the liver raw, before it is cold, and ufe the gaul by way of fauce. They are, forfavages, uncommonly clean in their perions the drefs of the women is a long loofe robe, that reaches hem the chin to the ground, tied round i a fancy fafh or girdle all a of a dreffid feathers on which they paint figures of different colors and fignifkatiops the drefs of the men is clofe-leather pantaloons, and a i frnrt, or frock of the fome. They never a i enough in the fame place to plant any thing, the fmall Cayenne pepper grows fpontareovf Iv in ike with and fome wild herbs and fruits, a i a a bean that grows in i a plenty on a fmail tree refembling a willow, called ma fix-to, the women cook th-eir buffalo? beef in a man per that would be grateful to an fquire. The CENTINEL.

i with Truth's fair fiidd ward the blew, And turn the wcap-on back'Upon the foe." GL1TYLURG, A 6. 'IVe laft week catted (o ftate, in the ShenfTs that there be i.eld a court cf quarter i of the rrsce, of common as well as a court of over and terminer general jai del'n eiy.itf tocc-tn- Dience the 1 8th infianr, aad for two I I COL-RT OF U. STATES. KEW- TORKDISTRICT. I A vs.

1VIU.IAM S. SMITH. TENTH The court met at 10 o'clock, ptsrfuan-t to a Prrfent Judge Talmadge. rddre'H'ed the for about two hours, which clofed the defence. Tiie a general rofe about o'clock, in behajf of the profecution, he was followed bv Mr.

Edwards on the fame 1 Judge Talmadge then fummed up the e- virience the jury i i ncsr 5 o'clock, and retvirned a half pad 7, i a er- of NOT GUILTY. TRIAL 'OF COL. SMITH. i This i a caufe, which excited an uncommon decided I a ft evening, by an honed and i jury, who returned a verdici of not gtnlty Mr. Emmett, regret a bufinefs was ever broupjn before a court, and wifh a its memorial couid be expunged from the records court." Extract of a letter from New York, dated I 27.

CTr OG-DCN'S Sa'U'-f'av, at 10 i 'he i i Court rf the U. States a to arfjoornrnenr. Pre- 'enr iv fTroan Emrrer, es'h ipnUe ah, ut ar hour in fsvcur of the a 1 A' crriev a de- t'on. Mr. -n 'he fzme fi'Je, delivered a ftioit fpecch--when the 1EWSP4PERS.