Alexandria Daily Advertiser

KNOXVILLE, August 7.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman of the first respectability, now in the Chickasaw nation, to his friend in this country, dated July 25, 1805.

On the 23d inst. the commissioners of the United States concluded a treaty with this nation,-by which they have obtained a relinquishment of the Chickasaw's claim to the lands-within the following limits, viz. "Beginning on the left bank of the Ohio, where the present Indian boundary adjoins the same, thence-down the left bank of the Ohio to the Tennessee river, thence up the main channel of the Tennessee river to the mouth of Duck river, thence up the left bank of Duck river to the Columbian highway, or road leading from Nashville to Natchez, thence along the said road to the ridge dividing the waters running into Duck from those running into Buffalo, thence eastwardly along said ridge to the great ridge dividing the waters running into main Tennessee from those running into Buffalo, near the main source of Buffalo river. thence in a direct line to the Great Tennessee, near the Chickasaw Old Fields, or eastern point of the Chickasaw claim, on that river. thence northerly to the great ridge dividing the waters running into Tennessee from those running into Duck, so as to include all the waters running into Elk river. thence along the top of said ridge to the place of beginning." Reserving a tract of one mile square adjoining to and below the mouth of Duck, on Tennessee, for the use of one of the chiefs: for which the United States are to pay as soon as the treaty is ratified. $20,000 dolls. in specie, and an annuity of 100 dollars during the life of and for the use of his majesty the present king. The respectable source from which this information is received, does not admit a doubt of its authenticity.