Rhode Island Republican

BARDSTOWN, (Ken.) May 25.

We have been politely favored with the following copy of a letter to a gentleman in this neighborhood.

Eddyville, May 1, 1804.

SIR,

I hasten to inform you of the news which prevails, which is in itself alarming and in this particular instance distressing to myself, as well as you.

A young gentleman of this place of the strictest veracity, just arrived from N. Madrid, states that Stephen Briscoe, of Nelson county, Kentucky, with two other men, whose names are unknown to him, were trading down the river; he believes the chief of their cargo was Saddles. And about 26 miles below the mouth of the Ohio, on the Mississippi, as they were lying at shore, several Indians of the Creek nation, without being previously discovered by the whites, crept on them and killed Briscoe and another man, the third made his escape.

This savage like attack of those Indians is not generally thought to have proceeded so much from a disposition to violate the faith of treaties, as from the gratification of revenge, which is said to have been excited amongst that same party of Indians, some time lately by a party of white men near Kaskaskias, having massacred five or six of them in a most cruel and barbarous manner. I am, Sir with respect, your friend, &c.

JOHN GRAY.