The Kentucky Gazette

FRANKFORT, October 13.

Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated St. Vincennes, September 17, 1802.

" I have now to communicate the pleasing result of our council with the Indians. Every object for which it was holden, so far as it relates to us, is completely obtained. They listened with attention and apparent pleasure, to the means proposed for their advancement in civilization. They all promised their firmest support in carrying the measures of the president into effect. To governor Harrison's perseverance and unremitted attention, its successful issue is justly to be ascribed.

"The Indians have relinquished to the United States a beautiful, fertile country, twenty-four leagues square It extends north and south, from Point Coupee to the mouth of White river, and from a line drawn parallel to the general course of the Wabash, twelve miles to the west of this town, across towards the Ohio—It is expected it will extend to, or near the Illinois grant. They have also granted the privilege of working the great Salt Spring, on the Saline river, near the Ohio, with four miles square of land, including the spring, which will afford a plentiful supply of fuel for the salt works that will there be erected— It is unquestionably the best salt spring that is possessed by the western country. Arrangements will be shortly made by government for the disposal of this tract of country; and we may justly felicitate ourselves with the pleasing hope, that at no distant period, our wilderness that are now traversed only by savages and wild beasts, will give way to wealthy populous settlements."