The Hillsborough Recorder

The Creek Indians.—Colonel John Crowell, the late agent in the Creek nation, we are authorized to say, has been directed to remove his agency west of the Mississippi, in the country allotted to the emigrating Indians. He has very lately returned from Washington City, and has, we understand, a talk from the Executive to the Creeks. The President tells them that an agency will no longer be retained in their present nation; that it is his wish they should remove, and his determination to have their lands surveyed; that inasmuch as the State of Alabama has extended her jurisdiction over them they will be thrown without the protection of the general government, and that the only course left to be pursued is for them to remove. He also informs them, that such as are disposed to remain, shall have a strip of land set apart for them, but that they will be subject to the jurisdiction of that state in which the land may lie; but that such as remove will have continued to them the protection of the government. Capt. Walker, from whom we derive this information, further informs us, that a meeting of the Indians is to be held on the 28th inst. for the purpose of deciding on the President's instructions. Capt. W. thinks they will emigrate en masse, and that they will never plant another crop in their present country. He further states, that the extension of jurisdiction over them has had a most salutary effect, and that previous to the arrival of Col. Crowell many had enlisted. Thus we are in a fair way of speedily acquiring the Indian Country, the acquisition of which promises the greatest advantages to Montgomery.