Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

From the Charleston Courier, April 6.

INDIAN NEWS.

In the Savannah Museum, of the 4th instant received by the sloop Adeline, we find a number of letters, from gen. W. McIntosh, commanding the friendly Creek Indians, to the U. States' factor at Fort Mitchell, in which he details his operations against the hostile Indians. He left Fort Mitchell on the 26th Feb. and four days after he took 3 hostile Indians, who had been engaged in firing upon our boats as they descended the Flint river. He took them to the commanding officer at Fort Gaines, who refused to have anything to do with them, and they were accordingly dealt with according to the rules of Indian warfare—that is put to death. From the 2d to the 10th ult. McIntosh was reinforced by a band of the hostile Indians, who came in under the white flag, and joined him. From these Indians he obtained information of a collection of warriors under the command of the Red Ground Chief on the Chaubullee creek. On approaching their station, on the 12th ult. he says, "the creek swamp was so bad we could not pass it for the high water: my men were compelled to leave their clothes and provisions, and swim better than one half of the swamp, about 6 miles wide: we marched within about two miles of his station, and the next morning we surrounded his place: but he was gone and we could not follow him till we could get some provisions we had left behind us; myself and major Hawkins followed him and overtook his party, and he got away from us with about 50 men. We have taken 55 men and about 180 women and children prisoners, without the fire of a gun, and we killed 10 men—he broke through and made their escape. I have not lost a man since I left Fort Mitchell. He would not have got away from us, but he had some cattle on hand which he tried to drive out of our way—so I sent 100 men to take him and his cattle; when they came in sight, he and his party being well mounted on horses, they got away; we got what cattle he had with him. We are very scarce of provisions, and I have to send the women and children up into our nation—as for the men, I am going to take them to Gen. Jackson. Now there is no danger on the west side of the Chattahoochie river, as this was all the party that was on this side—we have to look for our enemy on the east side of the river now."