Kentucky Gazette

WASHINGTON CITY, OCT. 18.

We understand that a treaty was signed at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie on the 29th Sept by Gov. Cass and General M'Arthur, Commissioners appointed by the president of the United States, and the Chiefs of the Wyandot, Delaware, Shawanoes, Seneca, Ottoway, Chippewa, and Potowatamy tribes of Indians ; by which these tribes have ceded to the United States all the lands which they claimed within the limits of the state of Ohio.

It is understood that the Indians now reserve a number of separate tracts of land, amounting altogether to about three hundred thousand acres, which is to be held by them in fee-simple, under a patent from the president of the United States, and subject to be alienated with his approbation, but to be exempted from taxation, so long as it remains Indian property.

This Treaty, whether considered in its fiscal, political, or moral effects, may be considered as one of the most important which has ever been entered into with our red brethren. The quantity of land acquired is between seven and eight millions of acres, equal in quality and situation to any other tract of land of similar extent in the United States, and which will, from the facility afforded to emigrants from the New-England states, and that of New-York, by means of the lake navigation, be settled with an unexampled rapidity, and will bind together and strengthen the whole extent of our North West Frontier, in such a manner as to make the acquisition, in a military point of view, invaluable.

The Treaty lately concluded with the Cherokees, and that now alluded to, form the commencement of a system by which the white and red population of our country will be amalgamated by a gradual but sure process; the foundation of which was laid by Mr. Jefferson, when he introduced his system for the promotion of civilization among the Indians; a system that has diffused among them a knowledge of the value of property, created a corresponding desire to appropriate it specifically, and impressed them with the necessity of adequate laws for its protection.

These Treaties were entered into under instructions, issued through the Department of War, and will evince to the citizens of the western states that their essential interests are understood and attended to by the government.