Berkeley And Jefferson Intelligencer

By a gentleman from the lower part of Kentucky, intelligence has been received, that a war council, consisting of about 500 Indians, has lately been held at the mouth of the Wabash river. This convocation is said to consist of deputies from all the North Western tribes. The object of their meeting is, to deliberate on the subject of going to war against the Osage Indians up the Missouri, a nation with whom they have long been at enmity. It was remarked by a gentleman present at the convocation; to a chief, that as Mr. Jefferson was of a pacific temper, and averse to the effusion of blood, he very probably would use his exertions to prevent hostilities—but the Indians appear to think, that the president had no right to interfere in a matter that particularly related to their own sovereignty. When the gentleman who brought this intelligence, here, left the Ohio, he had not learned the result of their deliberations.

[Kent. Gaz.]