Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

NEW-YORK, February 11.

Extract of a letter from an Officer at Fort Harmer, (Muskingum) to his Brother in this City, dated December 20, 1785.

"A war with the Indians will inevitably commence next Spring. At a Grand Council held at the Head Waters of the Miami in September last at a place called Cushahin, at which were present a numerous number of the Chiefs from different nations, the Western Indians determined for war, and were sending Belts to those nations who were not present to make it a common interest; this may be depended on, as it is from one of their Chiefs to a gentleman whose name we are not permitted to mention. A General Parsons, when on his route for the Miami, last month, was when in a boat, fired on by a party of the Indians, about twenty miles above Red Stone, and the boat which now waits for our letters, met the same fate a few days since, at the same place, when on her passage up; fortunately no lives were lost. Recent Accounts from the Miami mention, there is but little appearance of the treaty taking place; few Indians have yet met, and little expectations from others; the messengers who were sent to invite them in, have been very ill treated; the Wabash Indians returned for answer to the Commissioners, that they knew of no treaty, neither did they want any; that they had then fifteen parties out in the settlement of Kentucky, collecting hay, &c. and as soon as they had returned, and collected their forage, they should send out double the number; so that from every appearance I think in the Spring we may look out."